Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
23-05-2015
Record-Breaking Energy Unleashed in Largest Atom Smasher
Record-Breaking Energy Unleashed in Largest Atom Smasher
Protons collide at 13 tera-electronvolts, sending showers of particles through the CMS detector inside the Large Hadron Collider
The world's largest atom smasher is really cranking now: Protons zipped around the giant underground ring at near light-speed and collided head on, releasing record-breaking energies.
The beauty of the fallout from these powerful particle smash-ups can be seen in images released yesterday (May 21) by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which oversees the 17-mile-long (27 kilometers) Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The underground particle collider in Switzerland awoke in April after a two-year snooze for repairs and upgrades.
"It doesn't sound like very much, but if you have a mosquito buzzing around, the amount of energy it takes to keep that mosquito floating is about the energy of one of these collisions — except that you have this energy compressed down into the size that's a million times smaller than the width of a human hair," Greg Rakness, run coordinator for one of the experiments called CMS at the collider, told Live Science.
Physicists used these test collisions to set up systems called collimators that would protect the LHC's magnets and detectors from stray particles.
When 100 billion to 1,000 billion protons are sped up in a ring, some of them are inevitably going to be "off spec," having slightly different energies than the other particles, Rakness said. "If they don't have the right energy, they float outside [the main beam, and] they go around in a little bit bigger circle. And when they do this, the problem is these protons can hit equipment" inside the LHC, Raknesssaid.
To capture these "out of whack" protons, Rakness said, physicists rely on the collimators, which are essentially blocks of metal. During the test run, the teams figured out where to place the collimators to capture the stray protons and protect the machine's equipment. The test run was successful, he added.
Also, the nearly 9,600 magnets that move the protons around in a circle are working properly, he said.
The LHC is scheduled to begin runs at 13 TeV in early June. At that time, the various experiments, such as ALICE, ATLAS and CMS, can begin producing data. The LHC's claim to fame right now is the Higgs boson, a particle thought to explain how other particles get their mass and which was discovered in 2012 inside the underground ring.
With higher energies, the collisions could produce even heavier exotic particles that have not yet been discovered. And physicists are excited about what's in store, hoping that the particle crashes will reveal unknowns about the universe, from extra dimensions to twins of the Higgs boson, the scientists have told Live Science.
The new run of the LHC could also give physicists evidence of supersymmetry, the idea that all the known subatomic particles have superpartners that are yet to be discovered.
SpaceX confirmed yesterday that their Dragon capsule successfully departed the International Space Station and successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean both on time and on target.
SpaceX said in a tweet: "Splashdown confirmed of Dragon in the Pacific Ocean at 12:42 pm ET, about 155 miles SW of Long Beach, CA."
The capsule successfully left the International Space Station after being released by its robotic arm operated by astronaut Scott Kelly. According to NASA, the capsule then "began a series of departure burns and maneuvers to move beyond the 656-foot (200-meter) 'keep out sphere' around the station and begin its return trip to Earth."
The capsule was carrying over 3,100 pounds of cargo and science samples including human research, biology and biotechnology studies, educational activities, and other physical science investigations. The Drago capsule originally blasted off from Cape Canaveral on April 14, and arrived at the ISS three days later carrying 4,300 pounds of food, supplies, and equipment for the six astronauts currently stationed 260 miles above the Earth.
The science experiments included a worm farm that astronauts grew to see how the lack of gravity helps or hinders development, the results of which will impact calculations on how humans will survive in space.
"Spaceflight-induced health changes, such as decreases in muscle and bone mass, are a major challenge facing our astronauts," said Julie Robinson, NASA's chief scientist for the International Space Station Program Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
"We investigate solutions on the station not only to keep astronauts healthy as the agency considers longer space exploration missions but also to help those on Earth who have limited activity as a result of aging or illness."
This is the sixth of 12 scheduled missions as part of NASA's $1.6 billion contract with SpaceX. Currently, SpaceX is the only active private space company working with NASA for these missions. While the Orbital Sciences Corporation also has a contract with the space agency, currently it is out of the running for these missions after an unmanned Antares rocket explosion shortly after liftoff in October destroyed the company's Cygnus raft and 5,000 pounds of cargo and science experiments.
Earlier this month, Space successfully ran a pad abort test for its next generation Dragon V2 craft, which will eventually support manned missions beginning in 2017. In September, NASA awarded commercial spacecraft contracts totaling $6.8 billion to both Boeing and SpaceX to help them resume manned missions after the mothballing of the Space Shuttle fleet in 2011. Both companies will complete their spacecraft designs and are set to for six launches.
The next Dragon scheduled to head to the International Space Station is designated CRS-7 and is currently slated to blast off on June 26.
Something Launched into space in Russia, UFO or Russian Shuttle ? UFO Caught On Camera In Russia?
Something Launched into space in Russia, UFO or Russian Shuttle ? UFO Caught On Camera In Russia?
Gepubliceerd op 21 mei 2015
UFO Taking Off Into Space In Perm Region? UFO Launching Into Space In Russia ? Unidentified Launch In Perm Region, Russia | Something Launched into space in Russia, UFO or Russian Shuttle ? UFO Caught On Camera In Russia?
MessageToEagle.com – A deeper examination of statues, artifacts and stone structures in Colombia reveals that the country’s ancient past is shrouded in mystery. Following the traces of the sky gods we encounter a number of oddities along the way.
Our search for traces of prehistoric alien visitations begins with a look into ancient mythology and legends that are still alive among the Colombian Indians.
Ancient people in Colombia worshipped a man named Bochica who came to their land and showed the natives how to plant crops, make clothing, and build houses.
Bochia was also called Nemqueteva, Sadigua or Xué, which means the Sun.
There are so many similarities between Bochia and the serpent god Quetzalcoatl worshipped by the Aztecs that we can only assume this was the same individual who was known under various names in a number of countries in South America.
Just like Quetzalcoatl, Bochia had white skin, white hair, and a long white beard.
He came riding to the country on an unknown animal and taught moral values and religious traditions.
The Fortean Slip News 63 This week Chris and Steve look at bigfoot belief in relation to other beliefs in Washington state, a UFO scare in Mexico, spiders raining down on Australia and a bonus. This webcast is uncensored. Check out our other content here http://theforteanslip.blogspot.com/
Deze week waren er twee voorvallen waarbij UFO’s werden waargenomen bij regenbogen.
Het gebeurde in Engeland en in Polen. Toeval? Of zit daar iets meer achter?
Het eerste geval doet zich voor enkele dagen geleden in het Engelse Birmingham, waar een imitator van zanger Marvin Gay een UFO-vloot op beeld vastlegt.
De man die eruit ziet als Marvin Gay, maar in werkelijkheid Mike Bedward heet, heeft eigenlijk per ongeluk de beelden van de UFO’s opgenomen.
Hij zag ze ook pas toen hij de foto’s die hij van een regenboog had genomen, later terugkeek.
Hij is ervan overtuigd is dat UFO’s worden aangetrokken door mooie dingen zoals een prachtige zonsopkomst of een dubbele regenboog.
Het tweede voorval deze week vond plaats in het Poolse Szczecin. (Gelukkig hoeven we dit niet uit te spreken).
De maker van de foto’s, Marcus Warzymice, nam een aantal opnames van een prachtige lucht met een even zo mooie regenboog.
Tot zijn grote verbazing verscheen op enkele daarvan enkele UFO’s.
Volgens ufoloog Scott Waring zijn het inderdaad solide objecten en geen reflecties of iets dergelijks.
Het schijnt inderdaad vaker voor te komen. Zo werden de onderstaande opnames, afkomstig van Mufon, gemaakt in Griekenland in 2012.
Mochten er lezers zijn die een ervaring hebben met regenbogen en UFO’s dan horen wij dit graag.
Most Bizarre UFO reports in Soviet Russian history [FULL DOCUMENTARY]
Most Bizarre UFO reports in Soviet Russian history [FULL DOCUMENTARY]
Gepubliceerd op 13 dec. 2013
A country with a particularly exciting number of UFO sightings is Russia, and the territories encompassed by the former Soviet Union. Even in the old communist days there was a suprising wealth of interest in the subject, though the official party line always continued to be dismissive on the matter.
The fact is that in 1968, as Professor L.A Artsimovich of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was publicly branding the UFO phenomenon as "unscientific", and a fantasy with "no scientific basis", there existed a determined and long term commitment on the part of the KGB, towards unraveling the enigma. This investigation, a serious long term endeavour was naturally cloaked in secrecy, and the findings can only be guessed at.
In Moscow in 1958 a "flying saucer" seen on the ground suddenly spiralled up to the sky, and in the same year a radar alert led to planes being scrambled, but the targets proved impossible to find. Several sightings over the Kremlin itself have been claimed by police on guard, describing strange objects that have hovered over the famous Sparski Tower. In 1978 a bright yellow ball was seen over the bell tower of the cathedral in the Kremlin. Apparently it entered through an open door before vanishing with a loud crackling sound!
One of the most amazing Soviet encounters occurred in the summer of 1961. This was reported by the Italian science writer Alberto Fenoglio, who claimed that a massive UFO purposely stalked a secret Russian missile site! According to Fenoglio a vast "mother ship" together with a formation of smaller craft suddenly appeared overhead at a sensitive moment during the construction of a new rocket emplacement. This comprised part of Moscow's defence network and the worrying appearance of the UFO's caused considerable alarm. The order was given to open fire on the UFO's, but the missiles all exploded well short of their target! Successive salvoes proved equally ineffective, and even these were brought to an abrupt halt as the entire base was crippled by an electrical blackout, that rendered the missile systems completely inoperative.
Hill 611.
An event described as the "Russian Roswell", occurred in the extreme east of the country in the Vladivostock area in 1986. This involved a "flying sphere", that was seen to crash into a mountain known as hill 611, close to the village of Dalnegorsk. Like the Roswell incident of four decades earlier strange debris found at the crash site invited intense speculation! In his book "UFO's: Fact or Fiction writer Nigel Blundell comments: "The object disintegrated upon impact but investigators from the Academy of Sciences did find some debris, including a strange mesh material and a previously unknown aluminium alloy. Was it a rogue space probe as some have suggested, or something more sinister?"
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UFO Did Crash In Roswell And Aliens Were Found: Confirms Man Who Walked On The Moon
UFO Did Crash In Roswell And Aliens Were Found: Confirms Man Who Walked On The Moon
NASA astronaut who once walked on the Moon says he STILL believes a UFO with aliens DID crash in a US desert before the government covered it up and wants the world to know the TRUTH!
Former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell was one of six key people involved in the release of a new ‘smoking gun’ image said to show one of the aliens that died in the crash near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.
The picture is now widely believed to have been false or a hoax….
But despite the mess that was the ‘Roswell Slides’ event last week not changing history at all in the quest for extra terrestrial life as it had suggested it would, Edgar STILL remains adamant that more than one alien landed at Roswell nearly 70 years ago – and some of them were captured alive and could still be alive somewhere to this day.
“The truth about it is that it was real. I was there when the Roswell incident took place. I was on my way to college and had just graduated high school.
“One day, it was in the Roswell Daily Record, which was a newspaper in Roswell, about an alien spacecraft that had crashed, and the next day that it had been denied by the Air Force, saying that it was a weather balloon.
“I believed that and went off to college.
“Many years later, after I had been to the moon and came back, I went out to Roswell to give lectures, talk and meet people I knew since I was a kid.
“Many of the people I knew, along with descendants of the people who had been involved in the Roswell incident, told me their stories.” He said.
The ‘Mess’ that was the Roswell Slides
Edgar confirmed that the descendants included the son of an undertaker who provided “coffins for the alien bodies” and the son of a sheriff who “kept traffic away from the crash site” and helped keep the area secure from prying eyes!
Mr Mitchell who actually was meant to attend the 6,000-audience conference in Mexico for the recent Roswell Slides” event but actually appeared via video link, saying at 84 he was far too old to travel that far (perhaps a change of heart!?).
Edgar recently spoke of why the authorities have kept “alien visitations above top secret” during an interview with HighCountry News ahead of another UFO conference this month.
Speaking about the now panned and completely debunked ‘alien’ image, Mr Mitchell added:
“They’re certainly not human – looks like what the little greys look like.”
Mr Mitchell stated a very wise comment and also said that we do not know what beings are in the Universe because our planet is like a grain of sand on a huge beach.
Mr Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.
Edgar Mitchell exploring the Moon in 1971
Mr Mitchell also added:
“A family friend who was a major in the United States Air Force told me it was all real.
“I got the stories from all of these various people into my head when I came back from the moon, and I then went to the Pentagon and told them my story about that and said, give me your opinion.
“The admiral who I spoke to said, ‘I don’t know anything about it, but I’m going to find out.’
“He went out to New Mexico and checked all around, came back and told me, ‘Your stories are quite correct and all real.’”
Edgar was also keen to confirm that the US government found dead and live aliens on board the crashed craft at Roswell!
Apparently, the US Government covered up the Roswell incident because they did not know if the ‘visits’ were hostile and also did not want Soviet Russia discovering about it….and possibly stealing any potential knowledge or technology!
Apparently the US Government were nervous about a potential hostile situation with Aliens after the Roswell event!
Edgar told how governmental agencies in the US did not know at all what to do with the alien crashed saucer and its “superior technology” for fear of it getting into Soviet hands and being used against them one day!
“The best course of action was to just lie about it, and keep it to themselves. They labeled it ‘above top-secret,’ and that created the long running iron curtain separating a secret group within the government, and the American public.” He said.
Mr Mitchell also made a shocking statement that he had been made aware of “many UFO visits to Earth during his career with NASA” with each and every one covered up!
Please check out an intriguing video with Edgar below:
U.I.P Summary
Edgar Mitchell no matter what deserves a lot of respect as believe it or not but he did once upon a time walk on the moon, even though a lot of people think that this was faked. Mr Mitchell is a brave man, not just for his work as an Astronaut for NASA, but also for putting his reputation at stake by declaring his belief in Aliens and the events that happened at Roswell!
Yes Edgar was part of the fiasco that was the Roswell Slides recently, however you get the impression by his sudden non arrival at the event that he smelt a rat about the whole slides thing so perhaps had a change of heart! But when a man who used to work for NASA as an Astronaut declares that Aliens exist, then there is no denying the fact that the world has to LISTEN UP to what he is telling us all….
The Cave Paintings of Tassili n’Ajjer: Proof of Ancient Astronauts?
The Cave Paintings of Tassili n’Ajjer: Proof of Ancient Astronauts?
The Cave Paintings of Tassili n’Ajjer depict mysterious creatures with helmets gloves and strange suits
According to many researchers and the ancient astronaut theory, the mysterious cave paintings of Tassili, could prove to be the best evidence of extraterrestrial beings present on Earth in the distant past. The incredible cave paintings are found in the Tassili Plateau, southern Algeria in the arid desert of the Sahara. Tassili n’Ajjer means ” Plateau of the Rivers”.
Around 8000 BC, ancient people of Africa represented their everyday lives through the cave paintings, among animals, plants, the ancient people also depicted strange beings that are unlike anything in the region. Researchers have catalogued over 5000 cave paintings, even though they believe that there were many more in the past.
Through these paintings, researchers speculate that the Sahara region was completely different 4000-6000 yeas ago; it was a region overflowed with life.
According to researchers, the cave paintings of Tassili, are one of the most important ancient collections of rock art known today; regrettably, only 20% of them remain visible as the majority of these incredible cave paintings have been destroyed by erosion. Experts believe the cave paintings to be between 10,000 and 15,000 years old. Experts suggest that cave paintings of that time were usually done with a single shade of color, the Tassili cave paintings however used several colors which makes them even more special to history. There are countless species depicted in the caves; among them are giraffes, ostriches, elephants, oxen, alligators and even hippos; demonstrating that the Sahara region was full of life in the distant past.
There are many interesting details about the cave paintings of Tassili, nomadic people assert that these caves are an ideal living environment even today. According to the depictions, rivers, jungles, animals and numbers plants were not foreign to the area, experts suggest that they might have been located in the vicinity of the caves. The painting also seem to reflect a pattern of occupation in the caves with different activities performed by the ancients in specific historical periods. Hunting and Fishing around 7000 BC, animal husbandry around 4,000 BC and horse domestication around 1.500 BC.
There are numerous mysterious surrounding the ancient inhabitants of the Tassili caves. Archaeologists have not been able to find burial sites in the area, but the most incredible feature are perhaps the mysterious depictions of strange beings with helmets and suits, resembling modern-day astronauts according to many researchers.
These mysterious depictions have fueled debate among researchers. Why would they depict ; rivers, jungles and animals native to the region in the past, and then depict something that they did not see (according to mainstream archaeology): the strange humanoid figures with helmets and suits? The ancient people of the Tassili caves portrayed their everyday life and their experiences, they did not invent these humanoid figures, which in some cases, are even depicted with mysterious antennas on their helmets.
Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, that the natives of the Tassili caves actually depicted the ancient astronaut that visited them in the past 10,000 years ago? According to many researchers, it is a possibility.
In 1976, a Spanish expedition traveled to the Sahara to investigate the mysterious cave paintings of Tassili. After analyzing the numerous cave paintings, the Spanish researchers concluded that Extraterrestrial beings regularly visited Earth in the distant past, and that extraterrestrial beings had regular contact with the ancient inhabitants of the region. According to them, one of the cave paintings illustrates several women being taken to a mysterious looking craft.
Next to some of the symbols, researchers have identified a set of symbols which has led experts to speculate that some sort of writing system existed in the area 5000 years ago. This was something mainstream archaeology has a hard time accepting since it changes their official thesis suggesting that Mesopotamia is the cradle of civilization and writing.
The mysterious beings with gloves, boots, and helmets are also seen in the Azyefú, Ti-n-Tazarif and Sefar region.
Many believe that the cave paintings of Tassili are evidence of beings who visited making in the distant past. Sky beings who came to earth thousands of years ago and left their mark in history through the stories and decisions of ancient civilizations worldwide.
In his latest bizarre 'discovery', a former United Nations worker claims to have uncovered proof of aliens and bio-robots on Mars.
Andre Gignac, a prolific UFO hunter, says he spotted what he believes to be a dead alien in a Nasa photograph of Mount Sharp.
In the same image, he claims to have found a carving with 'alien' faces, a four-legged robot and another 'female robot with breasts'.
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In his latest bizarre 'discovery', a former United Nations worker claims he has uncovered proof of aliens and bio-robots on Mars. Pictured is an image of what Andre Gignac believes to be a four-legged robot
Gignac told Cryptozoology News that he is still working on analysing the photo, but that he believes there is definitely a biological presence on the red planet.
'No one will dare deny this one,' Gignac said. 'The image of the dead alien is kind of shocking, but how about the robot?'
'It has four legs, but no apparent head,' Gigna added.
The conspiracy theorists says he made 12 screen grabs from the large Nasa image, and analysed each one by zooming in on various areas.
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Andre Gignac, a prolific UFO hunter, believes this shadowy image appears to be a 'female robot' with 'breasts'
Gignac told Cryptozoology News that he is still working on analysing the photo, but that he believes there is definitely a biological presence on the red planet. Pictured is what he believes to be a dead alien
'Did Nasa send this robot to Mars? I think not. Aliens are on Mars,' he said. 'I have made discoveries that are absolutely breathtaking.'
This isn't the first time Gignac has made radical claims about sightings on Mars.
Last month, the 58-year-old Canadian said he became suspicious about a 'dark spot' on the rim of the Endeavour crater he had found in the original image, and so took a closer look.
'I was stunned. It was a massive panoramic window built in the inside wall of the crater,' Gignac told Cryptozoology News.
'You can see a person behind the bunker's window,' he added.
He claims that the 'bunker' 'could also be a corridor leading to a bigger bunker'. 'Also, not far from this bunker are missiles, rockets and structures deployed in a circle,' he says.
'Bunkers have been spotted in previous Nasa pictures, some might be caused by shadows or lack of resolution that doesn't give enough detail to clearly see if the structure is a bunker or not,' Nigel Watson, author of the UFO investigations Manual, told Dailymail.com
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He also believes to have found a carving with 'alien' faces in a similar style to those on Mount Rushmore
The conspiracy theorists says he made 12 screen grabs from the large Nasa image , and analysed each one by zooming in on various areas
'Others have claimed that bunker pictures were taken by the European Space Agency, Mars Express orbital vehicle.
'These were explained as being of erosional features or caused by the way the pictures were stitched together.
'Whatever the 'mundane' explanation I think we are more fascinated by the idea that there are people secretly living beneath the surface of Mars and they are part of some secret space program.
'Such a project would need vast resources and would be very hard to keep covered up, yet many think this is what is happening and that these activities are being carried out in conjunction with one or more alien species.'
The latest discovery follows a spate of supposed 'sightings' of Martian civilisation.
Last year, a Maryland-based UFO hunter spotted what he believed to be a 'decorative' box on the red planet.
Scientists believe sightings such as this are down to a psychological phenomenon called Pareidolia.
This describes the brain's response to seeing faces and other significant objects in random places.
It has evolved so that human eyes can spot faces within their environment, and to help them recognise friends in a crowd.
Scientists claim we also tend to use this ability to 'enrich our imagination' and recognise meaningful shapes, even when they're not there.
'I stand ready to be convinced that I have possibly hallucinated. I won't mind being told that I'm wrong,' Cignac says.
IS THIS A CASE OF PAREIDOLIA?
Many scientists believe that seeing strange objects, such as a 'coffin' on Mars, is simple a case of pareidolia.
This is a psychological response to seeing faces and other significant and everyday items in random places.
It is a form of apophenia, which is when people see patterns or connections in unconnected data.
There have been multiple occasions when people have claimed to see religious images and themes in unexpected places, especially the faces of religious figures.
Many involve images of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and the word Allah.
For example, in September 2007 a callus on a tree resembled a monkey, leading believers in Singapore to pay homage to the Monkey god.
Another famous instance was when Mary's face was a grilled cheese sandwich.
Images of Jesus have even been spotted inside the lid of a jar of Marmite and in a potato.
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Earlier this month, Gignac claimed to have spotted what he believes to be a bunker on the red planet, with armed people peering out of its windows (shown by the dotted red line)
NASA's WISE Spacecraft Discovers Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe
NASA's WISE Spacecraft Discovers Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe
This artist's concept depicts the current record holder for the most luminous galaxy in the universe. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech › Full image and caption
A remote galaxy shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The galaxy is the most luminous galaxy found to date and belongs to a new class of objects recently discovered by WISE -- extremely luminous infrared galaxies, or ELIRGs.
"We are looking at a very intense phase of galaxy evolution," said Chao-Wei Tsai of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, lead author of a new report appearing in the May 22 issue of The Astrophysical Journal. "This dazzling light may be from the main growth spurt of the galaxy's black hole."
The brilliant galaxy, known as WISE J224607.57-052635.0, may have a behemoth black hole at its belly, gorging itself on gas. Supermassive black holes draw gas and matter into a disk around them, heating the disk to roaring temperatures of millions of degrees and blasting out high-energy, visible, ultraviolet and X-ray light. The light is blocked by surrounding cocoons of dust. As the dust heats up, it radiates infrared light.
Immense black holes are common at the cores of galaxies, but finding one this big so "far back" in the cosmos is rare. Because light from the galaxy hosting the black hole has traveled 12.5 billion years to reach us, astronomers are seeing the object as it was in the distant past. The black hole was already billions of times the mass of our sun when our universe was only a tenth of its present age of 13.8 billion years.
The new study outlines three reasons why the black holes in the ELIRGs could have grown so massive. First, they may have been born big. In other words, the "seeds," or embryonic black holes, might be bigger than thought possible.
"How do you get an elephant?" asked Peter Eisenhardt, project scientist for WISE at JPL and a co-author on the paper. "One way is start with a baby elephant."
The other two explanations involve either breaking or bending the theoretical limit of black hole feeding, called the Eddington limit. When a black hole feeds, gas falls in and heats up, blasting out light. The pressure of the light actually pushes the gas away, creating a limit to how fast the black hole can continuously scarf down matter. If a black hole broke this limit, it could theoretically balloon in size at a breakneck pace. Black holes have previously been observed breaking this limit; however, the black hole in the study would have had to repeatedly break the limit to grow this large.
Alternatively, the black holes might just be bending this limit.
"Another way for a black hole to grow this big is for it to have gone on a sustained binge, consuming food faster than typically thought possible," said Tsai. "This can happen if the black hole isn't spinning that fast."
If a black hole spins slowly enough, it won't repel its meal as much. In the end, a slow-spinning black hole can gobble up more matter than a fast spinner.
"The massive black holes in ELIRGs could be gorging themselves on more matter for a longer period of time," said Andrew Blain of University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, a co-author of this report. "It's like winning a hot-dog-eating contest lasting hundreds of millions of years."
More research is needed to solve this puzzle of these dazzlingly luminous galaxies. The team has plans to better determine the masses of the central black holes. Knowing these objects' true hefts will help reveal their history, as well as that of other galaxies, in this very crucial and frenzied chapter of our cosmos.
WISE has been finding more of these oddball galaxies in infrared images of the entire sky captured in 2010. By viewing the whole sky with more sensitivity than ever before, WISE has been able to catch rare cosmic specimens that might have been missed otherwise.
The new study reports a total of 20 new ELIRGs, including the most luminous galaxy found to date. These galaxies were not found earlier because of their distance, and because dust converts their powerful visible light into an incredible outpouring of infrared light.
"We found in a related study with WISE that as many as half of the most luminous galaxies only show up well in infrared light," said Tsai.
JPL manages and operates WISE for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The spacecraft was put into hibernation mode in 2011, after it scanned the entire sky twice, thereby completing its main objectives. In September 2013, WISE was reactivated, renamed NEOWISE and assigned a new mission to assist NASA's efforts to identify potentially hazardous near-Earth objects.
Now THAT is a super moon! Images made of 32,000 photographs shows lunar surface in brilliant detail
Now THAT is a super moon! Images made of 32,000 photographs shows lunar surface in brilliant detail
May 22, 2015 - Last week, amateur Polish photographer Bartosz Wojczyński combined an amazing 32,000 images to create a super high-resolution picture of the moon. It took only 28 minutes to take the photos from his balcony in Piekary Śląskie, but the total file size for the photos was a whopping 73.5 gigabytes. Wojczyński spent 5-6 hours combining the images.
Moon photography is an old art. John William Draper was the first person to take a picture of the full moon, 175 years ago. While Wojczyński spent $3500 on his equipment, Draper used a simple daguerreotype camera to capture his subject. You can compare Draper’s photo with Wojczyński’s photo to see how far we’ve come.
And while Draper’s photo was black and white, Wojczyński used advanced image acquisition and processing techniques to color the photo. He told PetaPixel that he had to map violet and infrared images of the moon to blue and red channels in the final shot.
Remote galaxy discovered shining with light equal to 300 TRILLION suns
Remote galaxy discovered shining with light equal to 300 TRILLION suns
May 22, 2015 - A remote galaxy shining brightly with infrared light equal to more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The galaxy, which belongs to a new class of objects recently discovered by WISE -- nicknamed extremely luminous infrared galaxies, or ELIRGs -- is the most luminous galaxy found to date.
"We are looking at a very intense phase of galaxy evolution," said Chao-Wei Tsai of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, lead author of a new report appearing in the 22 May issue of The Astrophysical Journal. "This dazzling light may be from the main growth spurt in the size of the galaxy's black hole"
Professor Andrew Blain, from the University of Leicester's Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been involved with WISE since its inception in 2001, and has been responsible for examining and validating the data from the WISE telescope. He is a co-author of the new report into this discovery.
The galaxy, known as WISE J224607.57-052635.0, may have a behemoth black hole at its belly, gorging itself on gas.
Supermassive black holes grow by drawing gas and matter into a disk around them. The disk heats up to beyond-sizzling temperatures of millions of degrees, blasting out high-energy, visible, ultraviolet, and X-ray light. The light is blocked by surrounding cocoons of dust. As the dust heats up, it radiates infrared light.
Immense black holes are common at the cores of galaxies, but finding one this big so far back in the cosmos is rare. Because light from the galaxy hosting the black hole has traveled 12.5 billion years to reach us, astronomers are seeing the object as it was in the past.The black hole was already billions of times the mass of our sun when our universe was only a tenth of its present age of 13.8 billion years.
"The massive black holes in ELIRGs could be gorging themselves on more matter for a longer period of time," said Professor Blain. "It's like winning a hot-dog-eating contest lasting hundreds of millions of years."
More research is needed to solve this puzzle of these dazzlingly luminous galaxies. The team has plans to better determine the masses of the central black holes. Knowing these objects' true hefts will help reveal their history, as well as that of other galaxies in this very crucial and frenzied chapter of our cosmos.
WISE has been finding hundreds of other, similar oddball galaxies from infrared images of the entire sky it took in 2010. By viewing the whole sky with more sensitivity than ever before, WISE has been able to catch rare cosmic specimens that might have been missed otherwise.
The new study reports a total of 20 new ELIRGs, including the most luminous galaxy found to date. These galaxies, which are even more luminous than the ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) reported before, were not found earlier because of their distance, and because dust converts their powerful visible light into an incredible outpouring of infrared light.
"We found in a related study with WISE that as many as half of the most luminous galaxies only show up well in infrared light," said Tsai.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, manages, and operates, WISE for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The spacecraft was put into hibernation mode in 2011 after it scanned the entire sky twice, completing its main objectives. In September 2013, WISE was reactivated, renamed NEOWISE and assigned a new mission to assist NASA's efforts to identify potentially hazardous near-Earth objects.
Scientists to thrash out rules on genetically modified humans
Scientists to thrash out rules on genetically modified humans
May 22, 2015- Scientists in America will collaborate to draw up a set of ethical guidelines around the rights and wrongs of editing the human genome.
The move comes after the shock discovery in April that researchers in China had successfully edited genes within human embryos.
Despite the fact that these embryos were reportedly ‘non-viable’, the work has spurred the US National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine to create a rulebook of what the scientific community considers to be acceptable use of the gene-editing system called CRISPR-Cas9 which allows mutated sequences of DNA to be removed from a fertilized ovum.
Of course, whether or not the world at large agrees to stick by those guidelines is another issue and the intention of the summit is to be open to all in the international community. DNA editing of human embryos is currently illegal in the UK
No date has been set for the moment, but an important suggestion from Marcy Darnovsky, director of the Center for Genetics and Society in Berkeley, California, is to take the conversation beyond just those with the technical and specific knowledge of genetics.
Edward Snowden, reported on the facts known to it concerning UFOs. According to the documents, which Snowden copied to the CIA, the U.S. government has long known that UFOs exist and are managed species more advanced than humanity. These species are not alien, and our earth, only more advanced. They live here for billions of years, and far ahead of us in development.
The CIA stores data tracking systems and deep-sea sonar, but they have the status of state secrets, and even the scientists do not have access to this data about these objects. This kind of intelligent Homo sapiens and lived in the Earth’s mantle. This is the only place where conditions were more or less stable for billions of years. Extremophiles can live at different temperatures, they have been able to flourish and develop intelligence at an accelerated pace. Homo sapaens and they have evolved at the same rate, but their living conditions in the Earth’s mantle defended their civilization from the many disasters that have occurred on the surface of the earth. .
The general consensus is that we’re just ants from their point of view and there is a small chance that they will not continue to pay attention to us. But the military and are considering the possibility of aggression and the current plan of action in emergencies includes a plan – detonate a nuclear weapon in the deep caves to “seal” the enemy in the hope of destroying their communications that will prevent further attacks from the bowels of the earth. “
Mysterious Unidentified Object At CERN Delays Experiments
Scientists at CERN have been delayed in conducting a number of experiments using the Hadron Collider due to an “unidentified lying object” in the beam pipe of LHC’s 17-mile underground tunnel.
Scientists, as yet, have no idea what this object is or how it got there.
Physicist Albert De Roeck, one of the scientists working at CERN doesn’t seem too concerned about the mysterious object, saying, “The unidentified lying object turns out not to be a problem for the operation, it’s just something to keep an eye on”.
The world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider made headlines when its global collaboration of thousands of scientists in 2012 observed a new fundamental particle, the Higgs boson. After that, the collider was paused for the extensive upgrade. Much more powerful than before, as part of Run 2 physicists on the Large Hadron Collider’s experiments are analyzing new proton collision data to unravel the structure of the Higgs.
The Large Hadron Collider straddles the border between France and Switzerland. Its first run began in 2009, led by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, through an international consortium of thousands of scientists.
Particle discoveries unlock mysteries of cosmos, pave way for new technology
The workshop in Dallas, the “2015 International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering,” draws the world’s leading scientists each year to an international city for nuts and bolts talks that drive the world’s leading-edge physics experiments, such as the Large Hadron Collider.
Going into the second run, De Roeck said physicists will continue to look for anomalies, unexpected decay modes or couplings, multi-Higgs production, or larger decay rates than expected, among other things.
Particle discoveries by physicists resolve mysteries, such as questions surrounding Dark Matter and Dark Energy, and the earliest moments of the Big Bang. But particle discoveries also are ultimately applied to other fields to improve everyday life, such as medical technologies like MRIs and PET scans, which diagnose and treat cancer.
For example, proton therapy is the newest non-invasive, precision scalpel in the fight against cancer, with new centers opening all over the world.
POLICE OFFICERS VERY CLOSE ALIEN ENCOUNTER AUGUST 13, 1970 ……. CHRISTIANSFELD DENMARK
On August 13, 1970, Danish senior police officer Evald Maarup was driving back to his home in Knud, using the patrol vehicle at about 10:30 P.M., on a country road connecting Kabdrup and Flestrup, not far from the border enters Denmark and Germany, when something out of the ordinary happened to him. At about ten kilometers in the north of the town of Hadersley, the car became bathed in a very powerful bluish light, and the car engine stopped suddenly. The officer tried to communicate with his police station by means of the car’s radio, but it did not function at all. It was if if all the electricity had disappeared of the patrol car. Officer Maarup then realized that the temperature inside the vehicle had increased, and that it continued to increase quickly. In his report, he stated that he had the feeling that one would have during a hot summer sun when it hits a car’s windshield.
A short moment later, it was obvious to him that the bluish light seemed to be withdrawing. Maarup realized that the light actually surrounded a flying machine of elliptical shape, metallic appearance, and of a diameter of approximately 10 meters, which was now rising in the sky. Maarup noticed that actually, the rise of the craft was not the only cause of the withdrawal of the light which surrounded it. He realized that the extent of the light around the craft decreased as if the craft was swallowing the light into its body, from a defined point located at the center of the bottom side of the craft, in which the light was engulfed as if it had been sucked into there. This part of the craft appeared clearly delimited to him, by a dark part of a diameter he estimated at one meter. He also saw some protrusion on the underside of the objects.
At this time, he remembered that he had a Fujaxa camera at disposal, as he is the rule, in the police car. He used it, and managed to take three snapshots of the object. Those, developed the following day, did not show much more than a gleam of light, without revealing any details.
After the series of events which Maarup estimated the duration of about five minutes, the craft then flew away at high speed in the sky. During all the events, the craft was totally noiseless. As soon as the object flew away, the car’s engine started again spontaneously, the power went back, so that the lights went back, and the radio functioned again. Maarup then went out of the patrol car, to look for clues or evidence of the event in the surroundings. He found none, but when he touched the car, he noticed that it had become heated.
Very remarkably, Maarup had a second sighting almost three years to the day after this first encounter. On July 14, 1973, in the same area and at roughly the same time, he saw a similar shaped UFO above the countryside as it passed over the landscape. Once again he was able to take pictures of the object but once again, all the six pictures were disappointing, showing only an indistinct spot of light. He also saw several dome like protrusions on the underside of the object.
In 1977, scientists working for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence detected the most compelling evidence for alien civilizations yet: a powerful, focussed and regular radio transmission from Betelgeuse. But the signal has never been detected since. What was behind this signal, and what are the chances it was contact from an alien race?
In 1977, scientists working for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence detected the most compelling evidence for alien civilizations yet: a powerful, focussed and regular radio transmission from Betelgeuse. But the signal has never been detected since. What was behind this signal, and what are the chances it was contact from an alien race?
It was August 15, 1977, when astronomer Jerry Ehman was examining data coming from Ohio State University’s radio telescope, which was engaged in listening for signals from deep space, hoping to find something of intelligent origin. In a moment that’s since become one of the most famous events in astronomy, he saw a sequence of six characters on the printout — 6EQUJ5 — which caught his attention. So much so, in fact, that he circled the text, and wrote “Wow!” in the margin.
It was, apparently, a signal from outer space. It came from the direction of Sagittarius. The strength of the signal was represented by the digits 0-9 and the letters A-Z, a scale of 36 levels of intensity, rising with 6EQ and falling with UJ5, a near-perfect bell curve of signal strength spread over 72 seconds. All speculation and hype aside, Wow! remains the strongest candidate ever detected for an alien radio transmission.
SETI stands for the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, but there is no single SETI group. For a long time, many different organizations have engaged in their own searches, but there’s no central authoritative project. Virtually every radio telescope is used at least part time by some group scanning the skies looking for signals that might come from some interstellar source. The longest single search project was carried out by Ohio State University, from 1972 to 1997.
When you hear about the Wow! signal, one of the most important and obvious questions to ask is where it came from, and what’s there. To understand where the signal came from, and (at least as importantly) how we know where it came from, it’s necessary to understand the workings of the interesting radio telescope that received it.
Ohio State’s “Big Ear” radio telescope was, well, big. The telescope no longer exists, having been disassembled in 1998 and its acreage used to expand a neighboring golf course. Its main feature was a vast aluminum ground plane, 150 meters by 85 meters, about three times the area of an average professional soccer pitch, and aligned north-south. Near the middle of its north end were a pair of receiving horns, looking like giant foghorns, pointing south. They were at the focus of a great paraboloidal reflector, 110 meters by 21 meters, standing across the southern end like a giant curved movie screen. This reflector received the signal bouncing off a tiltable flat reflector spanning the north end, just beyond the receiving horns, 104 meters by 30 meters. As the Earth rotated, the Big Ear swept the sky in a single line. After a few days of data gathering, the flat reflector could be tilted a tiny bit, moving that line of study up or down across the sky. It had a total tilting range of 50°. The Big Ear’s design was called a Kraus telescope, after Ohio State’s Dr. John Kraus who designed it and came up with its $250,000 cost, including a $71,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. It was built by the students.
In 1980, a feature was added to the Big Ear that could have come in very handy when the Wow! signal was detected; and that was a set of tracks upon which the receiving horns could move east or west across the face of the flat reflector. This allowed the telescope to fix its view on the sky at any given point when an interesting signal was detected, compensating for the movement of the Earth’s rotation, and allowing a single spot to be studied for a time. Crucially, this feature was not yet installed in 1977; so the telescope swept across the Wow! signal for the duration of its detection. It took 72 seconds for the Earth’s rotation to move any given point in the sky across the Big Ear’s reflectors, and that’s why the recorded portion of the Wow! signal was 72 seconds long.
In 1977, there was no automated computer analysis of the Big Ear’s recordings. Its data was printed out on paper, and volunteers looked it over manually. This is what Jerry Ehman was doing when he saw the data, circled it, and wrote “Wow!”
The Big Ear would alternate recording between the two receiving horns. Subtracting the signal from one horn from that of the other was a way to identify and reduce noise in the signal. This cleaned-up signal is what got recorded. The horns were physically right beside each other, so each was focused on a slightly different position in the sky — about two minutes apart, by the speed at which the sky rotates past. It’s known that the Wow! signal was audible to only one of the two horns, but there was no way to tell which one because of the way the signal was recorded. The Wow! source either started or stopped inside the time gap between the two horns, and lasted less than 24 hours, since it was not detected at that same declination either the day before or the day after. So it’s not known how long the actual signal lasted; somewhere between 72 seconds and 24 hours. When you look at a star map showing the location of Wow!’s origin, you see two little line segments, one from where each horn was recording at the time.
These little dashes are in a part of the sky where there’s nothing of much interest. No close stars, no other radio sources, just… well, space. There’s nothing obvious there to listen for, but nevertheless, astronomers have on many, many occasions pointed telescopes at Wow!’s origin, hoping to hear it again; but nobody ever has ever heard even the slightest blip. Whatever Wow! was, it was transient. Try as we might, we’ve never been able to find it again, in over 100 different attempts.
Another question to which we might want to know the answer is what was interesting about the Wow! signal. Obviously there are many different types of radio signals bouncing around space all the time, so how do we know that there was anything special or unusual about this one? The solution to this lies in the signal’s frequency. To understand why the Wow! frequency was noteworthy, we have to know a little about the cosmic radio environment.
There are different kinds of noise in different parts of the radio spectrum. Throughout the radio spectrum, there is a background level of about 3 Kelvins representing the leftover noise from the Big Bang. So that 3 Kelvin level is the quietest window we might hope to find. Below about 1 GHz, there’s a lot of galactic noise, making it hard for an artificial signal to compete. And above about 10 GHz, something called quantum noise — in a nutshell, the uncertainty of photonic measurements — becomes too great to listen through. So we have a relatively quiet window between 1 and 10 GHz.
Not only is there noise at different frequencies, but planetary atmospheres like Earth’s block out a lot of different chunks of the spectrum; absorbing some of it, and reflecting others. There are two great windows through which our atmosphere is more or less transparent to electromagnetic radiation. First is the visible spectrum, which is why our eyes evolved to see at the frequencies they do. Second is, coincidentally, that very same 1 to 10 GHz gap.
So, if you’re an intelligent alien, and you want to attract the attention of another intelligent alien, you’re going to try to do it on a frequency which, for one, is likely to be heard; and for another, is likely to be easily identifiable as artificial. So you’re probably going to want to send your signal on a frequency that makes it through an atmosphere, and where there’s a minimum of competing background noise, and — for extra measure — is right near the most universally recognized frequency of all: that of hydrogen, the universe’s most abundant element.
Interstellar hydrogen precesses at 1.42 GHz. Precession can be thought of as the way a proton wobbles as it spins. The unfathomably massive quantities of interstellar hydrogen out there means that all that precession can actually be heard by sensitive radio receivers tuned to 1.42 GHz. Nearby on the spectrum is the frequency of interstellar hydroxyl, precessing at 1.66 GHz. We can see these two spikes when we look at the signal received by a radio transmitter pointed at any quiet region of space; in fact, any radio telescope anywhere in the galaxy will see exactly the same thing.
Astronomers call this frequency band the waterhole, for two very good reasons. First, hydrogen and hydroxyl are the disassociation products of water, the best environment for life. Second, these signposts are universal, and would be recognized by any civilization anywhere; and so, like the watercooler at the office that draws a crowd, the waterhole is nature’s gathering point on the radio spectrum, a blatantly obvious place for interstellar communities to meet and greet.
The Wow! signal was squarely in the middle of the waterhole, at 1.42 GHz. It was the perfect storm of intelligent interstellar radio signals. If we ever do receive a deliberate alien transmission, Wow! was exactly what we’d hope and expect to find.
Wow! has tantalized by evading almost every suggestion put forth to explain it. For one reason, that frequency range is protected; nobody on Earth is allowed to transmit on that frequency. We know the signal did not come from an aircraft or spacecraft passing overhead, because the signal was consistent with a point in the sky that was not moving. No known planets or asteroids were in a position that they could have reflected the signal toward Earth. Any space debris would have had to be absolutely still in space relative to the Big Ear, which is unlikely, and not tumbling, which is also unlikely. Even complicated astronomical effects like gravitational lensing and interstellar scintillation (basically twinkling like that which we observe stars doing visually) have technical reasons that make them very poor candidates to explain Wow!
A radio transmission from a point in space in the direction of Sagittarius still remains the best technical explanation for Wow! Jerry Ehman, the astronomer who found the signal, has written that he chooses not to draw “vast conclusions from half-vast data”.
In conclusion, yes, an alien intelligence is still a candidate explanation for the Wow! signal. But there’s no evidence for this. A stronger candidate is the significantly more vague explanation of an interstellar radio source of unknown origin.
Meanwhile, Jerry Ehman’s famous scrap of printout with his famous handwriting rests in the archives of the Ohio Historical Society. In these days of manufactured mysteries and sensationalized nonsense, Wow! remains the genuine article: a true mystery, with potential implications unlike anything else in history. It’s quite possibly one of the most exciting unsolved mysteries that we have, and it lies quietly in the North American Astrophysical Observatory Records, with call number MSS 1151. Someday, someone will probably solve it. That’s a treasure hunt worth waiting for.
UFO crash in Bolivia witnessed by thousands of people
Date: May 6, 1978
Location: El Taire Mountain, Bolivia
On May 6, 1978, at about 4:15 p.m., something crashed into a mountain near El Taire on the Bermejo River, the border between the Bolivian province of Tarija and Argentina. Thousands of people saw this happening and later described the object as being cylindrical in shape with a flaming tail. It had caused a supersonic bang that was heard up to 150 miles away.
Photograph of El Taire mountain.The crash site is marked with an arrow. (credit: Hesemann)
The UFO crash in Bolivia. Sketch according to eyewitness reports. (credit: Hesemann)
Source: Michael Hesemann, 1998
On May 6, 1978, at about 4:15 p.m., something crashed into a mountain near El Taire on the Bermejo River, the border between the Bolivian province of Tarija and Argentina. Thousands of people saw this happening and later described the object as being cylindrical in shape with a flaming tail. It had caused a supersonic bang that was heard up to 150 miles away and that cracked windowpanes as far away as 30 miles in every direction. The next day, the papers were speculating on what had come down in that godforsaken place. The explanations ranged from meteorites to UFOs and belated reentry of some Apollo capsule. All of them referred to statements of eye witnesses.
Then it was announced that the Argentinian authorities had sent the 20th unit of the border police to the area in question to look for wreckage on their side of the border. The search in that mountainous country could last for weeks, so swarms of reporters went to the nearest big town, Aguas Blancas, to take up quarters there and await further developments, as well as to interview eyewitnesses in the town. And in fact, there were a number of witnesses who claimed to have seen the object. Most of them described it as oval or cylindrical and metallic. The army, too, seemed to be convinced that it was a UFO. Corporal Natalio Farfan Ruiz, the commandant of a small border police unit at the little village of La Marmora (800 inhabitants), confirmed the crash to Argentinian reporters saying: “It was about 4:30 p.m. when a cylindrical object made the earth tremble. Just imagine what would have happened if the UFO had fallen on the houses!” Policeman Juan Hurtado had also seen what had happened: “It looked like a gigantic wine container emitting a trace of white smoke. I saw it clearly. It flew directly above my head. I was on duty and at that moment was talking with three engineers from the mine in La Paz, when we saw the object crashing into the El Taire mountain. The impact was so strong that it threw me to the ground. The earth trembled at that moment.”
Finally, the Bolivian Air Force sent three single-motored AT6 airplanes—a model from World War II—to the area and discovered the crash site on the southern slope of the El Taire mountain. Whereas the pilots found it impossible to land anywhere near it, the newspaper Clarin of Buenos Aires announced on May 14, that the object had been found. As proof, they quoted the police chief of Tarija: “Our men have discovered the object and inspected it, but have received no instructions for further action. It is a dull metallic cylinder twelve feet long with a few dents. No one knows what is inside it, and we are awaiting the arrival of various technical commissions. A NASA expert is also expected to arrive tomorrow morning.”
As a matter of fact, no NASA expert came at Tarija.-Instead, two U.S. Air Force officers, Col. Robert Simmons and Maj. John Heise arrived. According to a newspaper, although these officers were officially on leave, they had been instructed to take the object to the United States in a Hercules C-130 transport machine, which was waiting for them at La Paz. When other newspapers made inquiries at the American Embassy regarding this secret mission of Simmons and Heise they were met with a denial. Only two years later, 5 relevant documents were released by the U.S. State Department: they revealed that Simmons and Heise had been assigned to the military attache of the U.S. Embassy in La Paz and did, in fact, fly to Tarija accompanied by an officer of the Bolivian Air Force, in connection with Project Moon Dust.
The first of these documents was a telex sent by the U.S. Ambassador in Bolivia, Paul H. Boeker, to the State Department. In that, he quoted newspaper reports and requested the department “to ask the relevant agencies whether they could explain what this object could be,” adding “during the last week, more and more UFO reports are coming from this region.” The answer was a telex classified “secret” dated May 18 in which the U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance personally declared: “Preliminary information has been checked with appropriate government agencies. No direct correlation with known space objects that may have reentered the earth’s atmosphere near May 6 can be made. However we are continuing to examine any possibilities.”
He then referred the embassy to “State aerogram A-6343″ of July 26, 1973, classified ‘Secret,’ “which provides background information and guidance for dealing with space objects. In particular any information pertaining to the pre-impact observations, direction of trajectory, number of objects observed, time of impact and detailed description, including any markings would be helpful.” The next document was a “Moon Dust Message” of the office of the U.S. military attache, dated May 24, addressed to the Division for Foreign Technologies at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base and the headquarters of the U.S. Air Force at the Pentagon, classified as “confidential NOFORN (No Forwarding To Foreign Nationals).” Under reference Moon Dust, the military attache at La Paz reported that “they had taken pains to verify the press reports. ” In addition to that, they had asked the general staff of the Bolivian Air Force and the chiefs of the Bolivian Army who had declared—apparently after a first unsuccessful attempt— “we have sent search troops to the area in question but have found nothing. ” The army came to the conclusion that there could have been an object there, or maybe not, but to date they had found nothing. The attache added that he would send two officials to Tarija and promised, “We will keep you informed if anything turns up. ” These “two officials,” we can assume, were Simmons and Heise.
Regrettably, no further reports concerning the Simmons-Heise expedition were released and, to get a picture of what happened, we are forced to rely on reports in the Argentinian press. Apparently, however, nobody came to the conclusion that a meteorite had hit the earth. At the world-famous Smithsonian Institution there is a data bank of scientific occurrences, or an “alarm network,” that keeps track of every volcanic eruption, every earthquake and every meteorite collision since 1973 with painstaking accuracy. The data bank reveals no mention of a meteorite falling during May 1978 at the Bolivian-Argentinian border. The Air Force documents reveal that the 1127th field activities group, which coordinated Project Moon Dust, was interested in another task besides the recoveiy of UFO wrecks and other space objects, represented by the code name HUMINT. This code name, short for Human Intelligence, means the collection of information from human sources through clandestine undercover methods—in contrast to interrogations, reading through files and correspondence, etc. In other words, it meant the collection of information about UFOs from reliable sources through a game of deceit. The method which was chosen to achieve HUMINTs goals was so bizarre that nobody outside the UFO community would believe it. It was the birth of the “Men In Black,” subject of a Hollywood blockbuster movie in 1997.
Grant tells us that it’s taken him 15 years to work up the nerve to share his UFO account. It was about 2am on an August 10th 1993. Grant, a military policeman, was on duty with two other M.P.s at West Point Military Academy. Grant is quick to say that M.P. duty at West Point is actually rather dull, “…as nothing much ever really happened.”
On this particular clear moon lit night the three M.P.s were parked next to the main parade field and out of their vehicles, just talking amongst themselves. While they were talking Grant noticed that one of the other M.P.’s was distracted, he was looking over my shoulder. The other M.P. loudly asked, “Hey what the hell is that?”
Grant thought the other M.P. was messing around but he repeated, “Hey what’s that?” Grant turned around, and that is when he first saw the object. What stunned him was the sheer size of it.
“This thing was a huge UFO! It looked like a six story building lying on its side, and it was at least two stories high. It appeared black in the moon light and was totally silent. It had three huge square lights on the first story, the second story had three square lights on bottom as well.
The three M.P.’s were mesmerized by what they were looking at. Grant tells us that they watched the craft for perhaps three or four minutes.
“We were trying to figure out amongst us what we were looking it, and whether or not we should report it. None of us had a clue what to report. I can tell you for certain that it wasn’t a plane, blimp, or a helicopter.”
Grant explains that while they were watching the huge UFO, all of a sudden the craft flashed a light like a camera flash in rapid sequence three times. He says the flash lit up the entire side of mountain.
“At this time we were very alarmed. We jumped into our vehicles and started toward the object. As we made our way toward the object, it started moving slowly to our left, then it stopped for about perhaps three seconds. Moments later the thing darted to the right at an incredible speed and was gone. It vanished in the blink of an eye.”
The three stunned military M.P.s discussed what they saw. They knew the military tended to frown on reporting this type of thing, so the three decided to not report it. Grant admits that he was really rattled, “I was so shaken, that at the end of my shift I had to call my father and reluctantly told him what happened, I had to tell someone.”
It was during the father and son conversation that another account was shared. The father related a sighting of his own while flying on a mission in Vietnam. In Vietnam, UFOs were routinely reported simply as enemy helicopters because the North Vietnamese didn’t have helicopters.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
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