Rosetta studies Comet 67P at perihelion

This series of images of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko was captured by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 12 August 2015, just a few hours before the comet reached the closest point to the Sun, or perihelion, along its 6.5-year orbit. The images were taken from a distance of about 330 kilometres from the comet. The comet’s activity at its peak intensity around perihelion is clearly visible in this spectacular animation. (Click image for a full-size version on the ESA website.) Image credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA.

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft witnessed Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko making its closest approach to the Sun yesterday. The exact moment of perihelion occurred at 3:03am BST on 13 August when the comet came within 186 million kilometres (116 million miles) of the Sun.

In the year that has passed since Rosetta arrived, the comet has travelled some 750 million kilometres along its orbit towards the Sun, the increasing solar radiation heating up the nucleus and causing its frozen ices to escape as gas and stream out into space at an ever greater rate. These gases, and the dust particles that they drag along, build up the comet’s atmosphere – coma – and tail.

The activity reaches its peak intensity around perihelion and in the weeks that follow – and is clearly visible in the spectacular images returned by the spacecraft in the last months. One image taken by Rosetta’s navigation camera was acquired at 2:04am GMT, just an hour before the moment of perihelion, from a distance of around 327 kilometres (203 miles).

The scientific camera is also taking images yesterday – the most recent available image was taken at 12:31am BST on 13 August, just a few hours before perihelion. The comet’s activity is clearly seen in the images, with a multitude of jets stemming from the nucleus, including one outburst captured in an image taken at 6:35pm BST on 12 August.

This image of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko was captured by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 12 August 2015 at 17:35 GMT, just a few hours before the comet reached perihelion. Image credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA.

“Activity will remain high like this for many weeks, and we’re certainly looking forward to seeing how many more jets and outburst events we catch in the act, as we have already witnessed in the last few weeks,” says Nicolas Altobelli, acting Rosetta project scientist.

Rosetta’s measurements suggest the comet is spewing up to 300kg of water vapour – roughly the equivalent of two bathtubs – every second. This is a thousand times more than was observed this time last year when Rosetta first approached the comet. Then, it recorded an outflow rate of just 300g per second, equivalent to two small glasses of water.

Along with gas, the nucleus is also estimated to be shedding up to 1000kg of dust per second, creating dangerous working conditions for Rosetta.

“In recent days, we have been forced to move even further away from the comet. We’re currently at a distance of between 325 and 340 kilometres this week, in a region where Rosetta’s startrackers can operate without being confused by excessive dust levels – without them working properly, Rosetta can’t position itself in space,” comments Sylvain Lodiot, ESA’s spacecraft operations manager.

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18-08-2015 om 00:40 geschreven door peter  

Former Canadian Minister of Defense Says: we have to be careful when dealing with Alien beings, we Could trigger An Internstellar war

According to former Canadian Minister of Defense, we have to be careful when dealing with Alien beings, we could trigger an Interstellar war.

It looks like we need to watch what we are doing on Planet Earth. Former Canadian minister of defense Paul Hellyer has explicitly warned our military units to avoid shooting at UFOs.

As Minister of Defence, he oversaw the drastic and controversial integration and unification of the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and the Royal Canadian Air Force into a single organization, the Canadian Forces. His position gave him access to several classified documents among which were those about Extraterrestrial life and UFOs.

Hellyer firmly believes that we are not the only intelligent species in the cosmos and believes that Earth has been visited by Extraterrestrial beings for thousands of years. Hellyer, a former politician, writer and commentator believes that alien beings still walk among us today.

During one of his interviews where he spoke about alien life and UFOs, Hellyer stated:

“[…]there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying south from Russia across Europe, and Supreme Allied Command was very concerned and about ready to push the ‘Panic’ button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole.”

“They decided to do an investigation and they investigated for 3 years and they decided that, with absolute certainty, four species – at least – had been visiting our planet for thousands of years.”

Just like Edgar Mitchell, the former defense minister believes that alien beings are very interested in our weapons of mass destruction, such as the nuclear bomb. Hellyer believes that UFO activity on Earth has drastically increased ever since we first tested the “Atomic bomb.” The first nuclear device ever detonated was an implosion-type bomb at the Trinity test, conducted at New Mexico’s Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range on 16 July 1945.

Hellyer believes that the testing and use of weapons of mass destruction has caught the attention of extraterrestrial civilizations across the cosmos.

“They are very much afraid that we might be stupid enough to start using atomic weapons again, and this would be very bad for us and for them as well.”

The former defense minister believes that there are many species that inhabit the cosmos:
“There are about 80 different species and some of them look just like us and they could walk down the street and you wouldn’t know if you walked past one. They are what we call ‘Nordic blondes’ and also the Tall Whites who were actually working with the US Air Force in Nevada.”

“Then there’s the Short Greys as they are called, and they are the ones you see in most of the cartoons, they have very-very slim arms and legs, they are very short, just a little over 5 feet, and they have a great big head and great big brown eyes.”

Each species is, according to Hellyer, unique having its own agenda. Some of them look like us, while other species are totally different. Each one of them thinks differently.

But Hellyer also believes that the majority of extraterrestrial species that has visited Earth are benign and that these species are here to help us develop as a civilization.

“I would say that nearly all are benign and benevolent and they do want to help us, there may be one or two species which do not. That’s one of the things I’m investigating at the moment, to see who they are, what they are up to and what their agendas really are.”

We cannot forget that our inferior technology is something to think about when approaching aliens. If these beings have the ability of interstellar travel, huge spaceships that defy known physics, then they certainly must have extremely advanced weaponry. We should exercise caution when dealing with aliens. But just how cautious do we have to be? Is an “Alien invasion” upon us?

“I think it’s a possibility,” says Hellyer. “But it’s a possibility especially if we shoot down every UFO that comes into our airspace without asking who they are and what they want. Right from the beginning we started scrambling planes, trying to shoot them down, but their technology was superior enough that we weren’t able to get away with it, certainly not for a long while.”

“During that period of time they could have taken us over without any trouble if they wanted to, so I think, rather than developing our own Star Wars to protect ourselves against them, we should work with the benign species that are of a vast majority and work together, and rely largely on them, of course, and cooperate, so that we would be contributing something at the same time; I don’t think there’s any point in us developing a galactic force that would tempt us to ride on our own and get into mischief, which is one of the things that some of them are concerned about.”

Hellyer believes that different Alien species are interacting between them, and even though most of them have their own interest, they share a similar goal.

“they may be interacting between themselves – I suspect that they are because there is what is called a ‘Federation’ of these people and they have rules. For example, one of the rules is that they don’t interfere with our affairs unless they are invited to – and that’s one of the reasons, probably, that we haven’t seem more of them until very recently…”

According to Hellyer, Extraterrestrial beings are very concerned about the future of mankind:

“They don’t want to tell us how to run our affairs, they have accepted the fact that this is our planet, and that we have the right to run it, but they are very concerned: they don’t think we are good stewards of our planet, we’re clear cutting our forests, we’re polluting our rivers and our lakes, and we’re dumping sewage in the oceans, and we’re doing all sorts of things which are not what good stewards of their homes should be doing.”

But we have been given a chance, a chance to do better, a chance to learn from our mistakes and a chance to take care of our planet which is very unique. Hellyer added:

“The Cosmos is based on free choice. We’re given the option of making mistakes, of making wrong choices, and I guess, what bothers some of us, is that we’ve made too many wrong choices, and not enough right choices.”

“So we’re going to have to start switching our priorities and stop spending so much time and effort on weapons to kill each other, or to dominate each other, and spend a lot more time on how to help each other to have a better life and a more just society, and life which is healthier.”

“Our future as a species, and here I mean all of the species in the world, is potentially at risk if we don’t figure what’s going on and work together and try to make life more amenable for all of us, and to work with our neighbors from other planets as well.”

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17-08-2015 om 23:57 geschreven door peter  

Vétéran de la NASA: les OVNIs ont sauvé la Terre de la guerre nucléaire

Plusieurs OVNIs ont été vus au-dessus du polygone White Sands lors du premier essai de la bombe nucléaire en 1945. Désormais, l'intelligence extraterrestre veillait sur le polygone et devenait plus active lors des confrontations entre les USA et l'URSS, affirme le vétéran de l’aérospatiale Edgar Mitchell.

L'astronaute américain affirme se référer aux données des officiers haut placés du ministère américain de la Défense, rapporté le NASA Mirror. D'après lui, les visites récurrentes des extraterrestres sont dues à leur mission d'avertir, les autorités des pays prenant part à la guerre froide, des opérations militaires où l'arme fatale pourrait être utilisée.

Pour justifier sa théorie, l'astronaute cite des cas d'indisponibilité du système d'arme nucléaire.

Il affirme également avoir parlé aux officiers des forces aériennes qui auraient vu des objets non-identifiés et "à ces moments-là, les lance-missiles étaient hors service sans aucune raison". Plusieurs autres officiers auraient confié à l'explorateur de l'espace que leurs missiles auraient été neutralisés par des véhicules spatiaux étranges.

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NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell: Aliens Came Here to Prevent Nuclear War http://goo.gl/j6IGcK  #NASA #UFO #Aliens #ATS

15:35 - 14 Août 2015

Depuis les années 1990, Edgar Mitchell est convaincu que notre planète est visitée par des extraterrestres et il dénonce le gouvernement américain qui, selon lui, connaît leur existence, mais cache la vérité au grand public.

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"We all know...." Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell

12:28 - 8 Août 2015

Pourtant, Nick Pope, ex enquêteur sur les observations d'OVNIs du service américain des OVNIs bien que persuadé que M. Mitchell soit l'un des hommes les plus honnêtes dans le monde, est sceptique vis-à-vis de sa théorie, avoue-t-il dans son commentaire pour le NASA Mirror. Dans sa logique, il se réfère à d'autres gens dont on ne sait pas au juste s'ils avaient accès à une information secrète.

Nick Pope, quant à lui, propose sa version de l'apparition des OVNIs. Leurs apparitions fréquentes non loin de bases militaires seraient dues aux essais des engins aériens secrets.

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17-08-2015 om 23:38 geschreven door peter  

'Sacred sinkhole' discovered under 1,000-year-old Mayan temple... and it may eventually destroy the pyramid

• The cenote, or natural sinkhole, stretches 114ft long and is up to 65ft deep
• It is capped by 13ft of limestone which is gradually being washed away
• Experts have found it is connected to other caverns and lakes in the area
• They say it may have had deep religious significance to the Mayan culture 

By RICHARD GRAY FOR MAILONLINE

It is a towering testament to a long dead civilisation and has fascinated archaeologists for more than 150 years, but one of the most famous Mayan pyramids has been hiding a secret beneath its mighty steps.

Researchers have discovered an enormous sinkhole beneath the 1,000-year-old Temple of Kukulkan, also known as El Castillo, which dominates the Mayan city of Chichen Itza in the northern Yucatan Peninusula of Mexico.

And they fear the underground cavern, or cenote, which has a river running through it, may eventually cause the entire pyramid to collapse if its roof gives way.

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Archaeologists have discovered the Temple of Kukulkan, which was built by the Maya around 1,000 years ago to worship a snake god, has a huge cenote, or sinkhole, beneath it. They believe it may have been built on top of the cavern deliberately as it may have had deep religious significance to the ancient civilisation

Experts believe the huge chamber may have had special significance for the Mayans, who worshipped at the pyramid, as it is thought to be connected to other sinkhole lakes that surround the pyramid by underground rivers.

It may also be linked to another location known as the High Priest's Grave, or the Ossuary, a smaller pyramid with a sanctuary in the centre which was used as a communal graveyard.

Andrés Tejero-Andrade, one of the archaeologists at Mexico’s National Autonomous University who have been leading the research, said the Mayans may have built the Temple of Kukulkan around 900 to 1,100 years ago on top of the cavern as part of their religious beliefs.

Kukulkan is a Mayan snake deity, or a feathered serpent, who grew up inside and cave before emerging in an earthquake.

Dr Tejero-Andrade said the pyramid may have been built to symbolise the underworld, creation and water.

He said: ‘It appears that El Castillo is dedicated to that element and talk of a water Kukulcan, a snake moving in the water.’

The forming sinkhole beneath the temple is around 82 feet (25 metres) by 114 feet (35 metres) and up to 65 feet deep (20 metres).

The water filling the cavern is thought to run from north to south.

The researchers, who are due to present their findings at an international geophysics conference in Turin in Italy next month, made the discovery using a technique known as an electrical resistance survey.

This uses metal probes inserted into the ground to get a reading for resistance of electrical flow though the ground. Where there is water the resistance changes compared to the rock.

Empty air has a very high resistance reading as the current cannot pass through the air while it is easily transmitted through water.

The researchers say they found there is a layer of limestone about 16ft (5 metres) thick at the top of the cenote, which the pyramid is currently sitting on.

Dr Rene Chavez Segura, a geologist with the National Autonomous University in Mexico, said the high humidity in the cavern and running water could eventually undermine the pyramid.

He said: "Such structures change over time, because the water washed off the walls and the cavity may be increasing.

‘At some point, if the thickness of the rock below the pyramid is thinned, there could be a problem of stability and El Castilla will collapse.’

However, he added this may not happen within his lifetime or even for many generations to come.

Scientists discover sacred sinkhole cave under Mayan pyramid

The researchers used a technique known as an electrical resistance survey to measure the ground beneath the Temple of Kukulkan. They found a large 65 feet deep cavern beneath the pyramid which has water running through it, as shown in the graphic above. Experts fear it may eventually collapse and destroy the structure

The Maya who built Chichen Itza came to dominate  the Yucatan Peninsula in southeast Mexico, shown above

The researchers also found the cenote under the pyramid is also connected to underground caverns and sinkhole lakes to the north, west and east of the pyramid.

Dr Chavez Segura said: "This is not uncommon in a karst soil and the Yucatan.

‘Usually, at depth, the cenotes are interconnected and form a network of tunnels where the water runs free. This forms the natural water network on the peninsula.’

In some areas of Mexico cenotes were used as natural wells or water supplies for ancient civilisations.

The name Chichen Itza also means "at the mouth of the well of the Itza' - the Mayan ethnic group that ruled the area..

Archaeologist Guillermo de Anda, who was not involved in the study, said the underground network of tunnels and caverns may have been symbolic to the Mayans.

Experts say the underground cavern is also connected to other sinkholes and caverns to the north, east and west of the Kukulkan pyramid, including the High Priest's grave, marked El Osario in the map above

The Temple of Kukulcan at Chichen Itza is thought to have been built for the worship of the Mayan snake deity. As a result the water and underground cavern may have been significant in its construction, say experts

He said the cenotes that surround the pyramid could represent the four points of the compass.

The river at the center might represent the center of the Maya's universe, which they thought of as a tree with roots reaching below ground.

The National Institute of Anthropology and History also said research at another Mayan site, Uxmal, found an usually high number of medicinal plants growing nearing the structure known as the governor's palace.

Uxmal site director Jose Huchim Herrera said the concentration of such plants was so much higher in the sacred area than in surrounding fields, that it indicates the Mayas planted them there intentionally as a sort of medicinal garden. The site has about 150 species used to treat snake bites, stomach infections and fevers.

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17-08-2015 om 23:27 geschreven door peter  

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17-08-2015 om 23:14 geschreven door peter  

Russia Don’t Hide It… Russian TV Explains NIBIRU PLANET X

Wow… it is refreshing to have this information finally going more mainstream. Coming from the western media has been mostly subliminal… and bits and pieces…. the Russians are much more forthright on this matter that affects the entire world… in the west, those in the know are preparing to use the Nibiru event, to take over the world… but they won’t and cannot succeed.

Humans have been jumping timelines through this process… so predicted timings may be off... but the fireballs, the bending magnetosphere, the weird sun activity, even RED RAIN etc… all are continuing... caused from a source, often unacknowledged… we honor the Russians for helping the world out on this matter.

The video below was shot on August 13, 2015

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17-08-2015 om 23:00 geschreven door peter  

US government films UFO over Puerto Rico

17-08-2015 om 22:49 geschreven door peter  

La Planète X pourrait-elle être la 5ème planète géante ?

image: http://www.sciences-fictions-histoires.com/medias/images/planetexx-mini.jpg

Toujours à la recherche de la planète X, des chercheurs ont calculé que notre système solaire aurait pu avoir une cinquième "géante de gaz", qui a disparu après une collision avec Neptune, ou une éjection par les forces gravitationnelles.

Selon ces experts, notre voisinage planétaire pourrait avoir eu un «membre» supplémentaire, qui a été expulsé de son orbite à cause d'une collision avec Neptune. Cette planète aurait pu être une cinquième géante de gaz et, selon une nouvelle théorie, la preuve de sa présence passée existe encore dans tous les corps retrouvés aux limites du système solaire.

David Nesvorny, un astronome réputé au Southwest Research Institute à Boulder, Colorado, pense que les quatre géantes de gaz que nous connaissons aujourd'hui, Jupiter, Saturne, Neptune et Uranus ont perdu un membre de leur groupe, qui a disparu lorsque le système solaire était très jeune. Sa théorie va être publiée dans le numéro de Septembre de l'Astronomical Journal. Selon la théorie, l'orbite d'un amas de corps glacés dans la ceinture de Kuiper, connu comme le «noyau», suggère que Neptune a été forcée de quitter son orbite initiale en raison d'un impact ou d'une interaction significatifs avec un grand corps. " La ceinture de Kuiper est la clé ", a déclaré Nesvorny à Science. " Vous voyez les structures là-bas et essayez de comprendre quel type d'évolution les a affecté "

Les chercheurs affirment que le "noyau" de corps glacés a été une énigme pendant une longue période, parce que, contrairement aux autres objets de la ceinture de Kuiper, ils tournent autour du soleil de la même manière que les planètes intérieures, ne gardant qu'une distance étroite  entre les uns et les autres.

image: http://www.sciences-fictions-histoires.com/medias/images/ceinture-kuiper-southwest-research-institute.jpg?fx=r_720_407

Une vue de la ceinture de Kuiper avec quelques unes de ses planètes naines ainsi que la trajectoire de la sonde New Horizons, qui est en train de la visiter après son passage près de Pluton. Le robot se dirige actuellement vers l'un des corps de la ceinture, mesurant entre 25 et 55 kilomètres de diamètre, qu'il atteindrait vers 2019... le "noyau" de concentration de corps décrit dans cet article ne figure pas dans ce dessin. © Nasa, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute, Alex Parker

Nesvorny a utilisé des simulations informatiques pour faire reculer le temps de 4000 millions d'années (ou 4 milliards) afin de découvrir comment ces petits objets sont parvenus à être dans cette orbite inhabituelle. En effet, la ceinture de Kuiper est à peu près comme la ceinture d’astéroïdes entre Mars et Jupiter, sauf qu'elle est derrière la dernière grosse planète connue, est 20 fois plus large et beaucoup plus massive. Les résultats de cette dernière simulation ont montré que les corps glacés qui composent le noyau ont été une fois capturés par la gravité de Neptune, qu'ils étaient ses satellites à un moment donné.

Ce n'est pas la première fois que l'astronome parle de sa cinquième planète, puisqu'il a déjà publié des premiers calculs il y a quelques années, et avait même affirmé que, sans une cinquième géante de gaz, Vénus et Mars auraient été détruites, mais sa dernière publication a venir, ses calculs et ses nouvelles modélisations semblent très solides et correspondent aussi a toute une série de données liées concernant le Système Solaire. En effet, afin d’expliquer plusieurs caractéristiques de notre Système Solaire, les astro-physiciens en sont venus à proposer deux scénarios faisant la part belle à ce qu'ils ont appelé des migrations planétaires : le modèle de Nice et le Grand Tack. Ce deuxième scénario conduit même à penser que notre Soleil aurait avalé plusieurs super-Terres peu de temps après sa naissance...

image: http://www.sciences-fictions-histoires.com/medias/images/sn-neptune-embed.jpg

Migrations : Comme les orbites de Jupiter (vert), Saturne (orange), Neptune (bleu foncé), et Uranus (bleu clair) ont changé, les interactions gravitationnelles ont rejeté les corps glacés dans la région connue comme la ceinture de Kuiper. Southwest Research Institute

Selon les calculs de Nesvorny, Il y a environ 4 milliards d'années, lorsque Neptune a été positionnée à près de 4.200 millions de kilomètres du soleil, en se déplaçant vers sa position actuelle (env. 4.500 millions de km), son orbite a eu un changement soudain et radical, l'éloignant de 7.5 millions de kilomètres du soleil brusquement. Ce «saut» a causé l'effet que plusieurs satellites de Neptune ont été libérés, passant la frontière du système solaire, et enfin formant le "noyau" de corps glacés dans la ceinture de Kuiper. Selon Nesvorny, une seule chose pourrait provoquer un tel changement drastique, libérant ses satellites piégés en orbite, c'est un autre champ gravitationnel massif, celui d'une planète géante...

Depuis, les géantes de gaz qui se trouvent dans notre système solaire n'ont jamais "interagi" avec l'orbite de Neptune, une autre planète doit donc avoir existé dans le système solaire il y a des millions d'années, responsable de la variation anormale de l'orbite de Neptune. Nesvorny pense que c'est la soi-disante «Planète X».

Il est encore difficile de savoir exactement ce qui est arrivé à cette «cinquième géante de gaz» ou planète X, mais si les calculs de Nesvorny sont exacts, il est très probable que cette planète ait été expulsée de la famille du système solaire, hors du système ou a de grandes distances...

Sources: Southwest Research Intitute,  www.ewao.com, http://www.ufodisclosure.net, Futura-sciences

Yves Herbo : Après réflexion et questionnement interne pour savoir pourquoi mon attention a été attirée par cette information (car tous mes articles font principalement appel à l'instinct et une attirance non préméditée à l'avance sur son sujet), je me suis rappelé d'un vieil article de 2012 dont la correspondance et le lien ici me paraît sinon évident, toutefois possible compte tenu du temps écoulé depuis cet événement. Certains ont réagi en pensant immédiatement à "Nibiru" ou autre planète mythologique qui reviendrait par cycles perturber notre système solaire, ou que cet article scientifique commençait effectivement " à préparer le public au fait que "Nibiru" existait bel et bien et avait été découverte "... mais la période modélisée (et les migrations planétaires se déroulant très tôt en principe dans la vie d'un système stellaire), j'ai plutôt pensé à cette planète repérée donc fin 2012. Une planète géante errante (en apparence), située (environ car elle doit se déplacer aussi) à 100 années-lumière du Soleil et ne possédant apparemment pas d'étoile pour tourner autour. Notre cinquième planète géante éjectée de notre système solaire il y a 4 milliards d'années pourrait-elle être cette planète isolée, précisément ? Il est possible que de futurs calculs puissent en faire la preuve... c'est en tout cas une idée comme une autre... mais, après tout, cette 5ème planète est peut-être aussi toujours aux confins de notre système solaire, cachée dans ou par le fameux nuage de comètes de Oorth ou même entre notre système sollaire et notre plus proche voisine... : 

http://www.sciences-fictions-histoires.com/blog/astronomie-espace/une-exoplanete-errante-reperee-a-100-annees-lumiere-de-la-terre.html

Autres articles sur la "planète X" : http://www.sciences-fictions-histoires.com/blog/astronomie-espace/un-autre-astrophysicien-dit-avoir-decouvert-la-planete-x.html

http://www.sciences-fictions-histoires.com/blog/astronomie-espace/decouverte-d-une-planete-naine-dans-notre-systeme-solaire-et-d-un-asteroide-a-deux-anneaux.html

http://www.sciences-fictions-histoires.com/blog/astronomie-espace/les-planetes-x-expliquees-par-la-matiere-noire.html

http://www.sciences-fictions-histoires.com/blog/astronomie-espace/une-nouvelle-naine-brune-decouverte-dans-la-banlieue-du-soleil.html

http://www.sciences-fictions-histoires.com/blog/environnement-planete-terre/les-mauvaises-interpretations-des-medias-suite-au-rapport-wise-nasa.html

Yves Herbo traductions, Sciences, Fictions, Histoires, 17-08-2015

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17-08-2015 om 22:43 geschreven door peter  

Invasion Over Arizona – The Phoenix Lights Incident

The Arizona skies are like a black ocean flipped upward, leaving much to the imagination as day turns to night. And when the sun sets, the stars begin to outweigh the blackness ten fold. But on March 13^th, something unusual stretched beyond imagination and would be witnessed not by just a few chance glancers, but thousands of residence throughout the Phoenix area and beyond. The Phoenix Lights is broken down in to what many consider two different incidents, as you will soon see why. 

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It was about 8pm when local authorities began receiving call after call about an object hovering above surrounding. At approximately 9:30pm, the second incident, or what most would consider the main event, took center stage over the entire city of Phoenix. A brilliant semi-circle formation of lights were now hovering effortlessly in the sky. Unlike the sporadic reporting of the V-shaped craft earlier, literally thousands of residents began phoning the local authorities. Being unable to handle the barrage of reports, the calls began to be rerouted to the local air force installation, Luke Air Force Base, and also to the National UFO Reporting Center, a national repository for the FAA and other aviation agencies to report such incidents to. With phone lines across the state jammed, more and more people flooded the streets to witness the spectacular event. With photos and video capturing everything, this was turning out to be one of the most well recorded UFO sightings in history.

At approximately 9:30pm, the second incident, or what most would consider the main event, took center stage over the entire city of Phoenix. A brilliant semi-circle formation of lights were now hovering effortlessly in the sky. Unlike the sporadic reporting of the V-shaped craft earlier, literally thousands of residents began phoning the local authorities. Being unable to handle the barrage of reports, the calls began to be rerouted to the local air force installation, Luke Air Force Base, and also to the National UFO Reporting Center, a national repository for the FAA and other aviation agencies to report such incidents to. With phone lines across the state jammed, more and more people flooded the streets to witness the spectacular event. With photos and video capturing everything, this was turning out to be one of the most well recorded UFO sightings in history.

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Ironically, the media didn’t really pick up on the event until several months later. Like a hose being clogged and then flushed, the floodgates opened and the people of Phoenix demanded a proper investigation into just exactly what was happening over their city. Francis Barwood, a City Council member, called for an official investigation. Conveniently, she was ousted from her position shortly after, some theorizing that it was because of the ridicule that came with the UFO investigation. But the public continued to press on, and eventually a press conference was held by Arizona Governor, Fife Symington. Playing the entire event as a joke, an individual was led to the podium wearing a silver-suited alien costume. Symington warned the public that they were “taking this way too seriously.”

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It would later be announced that Luke Air Force Base had launched A-10 warthog jets that night to drop flares as part of a test mission. Now, the air force was taking responsibility for the second event and that what the people had seen was simply the fading of flares that just so happened to be launched, floated, and descended in perfect unison (Highly unlikely but no improbable.) But, even if this were true, it would not explain the V-shaped craft that had been reported earlier in the evening, and many also believe that the flare story, if true, was only set in to motion to dismiss the earlier event, thus confusing and distorting any previous reports. If the mass sighting could be contributed to flares, than the enormous V-shaped craft could be grouped in with this, and fade away in debunking fashion. Either way, something strange occurred that night over the city of Phoenix, and those involved adamantly claim that they know what they saw. They also continue to argue that a clear cover-up was set in to motion. Perhaps this all could have been solved and/or thoroughly researched if, in the words of UFO historian, Richard Dolan, “the entire event had occurred a few hours earlier, when daylight would have left the matter in no doubt.”

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17-08-2015 om 22:30 geschreven door peter  

The Ancient Giants of Nevada and the Mystery of Lovelock Cave.

Could the giants of Peru and the Si-Te-Cah have been survivors of a massive cataclysm who took refuge on the American continent?

 

Legend tells that the Si-Te-Cah waged war on the Paiute and all other neighboring tribes, spreading terror and devastation. Finally, after years of conflict, the tribes united against the common enemy and began to decimate them. The last remaining red-haired giants were chased off and sought shelter inside a cave. The tribes started a fire at the cave entrance, suffocating and burning alive the Si-Te-Cah. Those driven out by the smoke were also killed.

 

 

The tribes then sealed off the mouth of the cave so that no one might set eyes on those who had once plagued their land. They were all but forgotten until a random event brought them back to light.

 

In 1886, a mining engineer named John T. Reid happened to hear the legend from a group of Paiutes while prospecting near Lovelock, Nevada. The Indians told him that the legend was real and the cave was located nearby. When he saw the cave for himself, Reid knew he was onto something.

 

Reid was unable to begin digging himself but news spread and soon, Lovelock cave was attracting attention. Unfortunately, the attention was profit-driven as guano deposits were discovered inside. A company started by miners David Pugh and James Hart began excavating the precious resource in 1911 and had soon shipped more than 250 tons to a fertilizer company in San Francisco. Any artifacts that might have been discovered were probably neglected or lost.

 

After the surface layer of guano had been mined, strange objects started to surface. This led to an official excavation being performed in 1912 by the University of California and another one took place in 1924. Reports told about thousands of artifacts being recovered, some of them being truly unusual.

 

 

Although their claims have not been verified (it comes as no surprise), sources said the mummified remains of several red-haired ancient giants were found buried in the cave. Measuring between 8 to 10 feet in height, these mummies have since been referred to as the Lovelock Giants.

 

 

Another intriguing find was a pair of 15 inch-long sandals that showed signs of having been worn. Allegedly, other unusually large items were recovered but have since been locked away in museum warehouses and private collection.

 

A piece of evidence that remains on-site until this day is a giant hand print, embedded on a boulder inside Lovelock Cave. We won’t go into further debate pertaining to this aspect and its implications.

Needless to say, this discovery has led many into believing the Paiute legend of the Si-Te-Cah might be more than just folklore.

 

 

Around the same time as the second Lovelock Cave excavation, another dig revealed a set of equally-disturbing finds. According to a 1931 article published in the Nevada Review-Miner, two giant skeletons had been found buried in a dry lake bed close to Lovelock, Nevada. The over-sized remains measured 8.5, respectively 10 feet in height and were mummified in a manner similar to the one employed by ancient Egyptians.

 

 

Another common trait between these mummified giant remains and the ones discovered as far south as Lake Titicaca is the presence of red hair. While some scientists believe the reddish color is a result of the interaction with the environment in which they were buried, the mummies verify the legends, which described the Si-Te-Cah and their kin as red-haired giants.

 

Proponents of alternative history believe these violent giants were none other than the biblical Nephilim, the forsworn offspring of the ‘Sons of God’ with the ‘daughters of men.’

 

If this is true, there’s little chance we might get to see any of the giant mummies. Those interested in keeping history secret will never disclose their location

 

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17-08-2015 om 21:33 geschreven door peter  

17-08-2015 om 21:19 geschreven door peter  

Roswell’s Unanswered UFO Questions

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Something crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, 68 years ago. The first military authorized press release stated, “RAAF (Roswell Army Air Field) Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch In Roswell Region.” That’s right, the military was the first to indicate it was a flying saucer.

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Then, they quickly said that was a mistake. It was just a weather balloon. But UFO researchers were never satisfied with that answer, even decades later, and the controversy only grew.

The military later revealed that this wasn’t a simple weather balloon, but an aircraft used for clandestine purposes — part of the Army’s top secret “Project Mogul”– to monitor atomic weapon testing in the old Soviet Union. The military also claimed that crash test dummies may have been mistaken for ETs. But that explanation only stirred the controversy.

The central figure surrounding the events of the 1947 Roswell UFO issue was Maj. Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer for the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field. He was assigned the initial task of going out to the debris field to collect some of the material, described as shiny wreckage, including pieces of rubber, super-resistant tinfoil, wooden sticks and metallic-looking I-beams.

Here’s an excerpt from a 35-year-old interview conducted by this writer with Marcel, when he finally felt comfortable talking about the Roswell case more than 30 years after it happened:

We went out to the scene of where the crash was and started picking up the debris. It’s almost indescribable. It’s not the kind of material I’d ever seen in my life, nor have I seen it since. There were various types of materials which I couldn’t identify. There were little members that looked like they were made of wood, but it wasn’t wood and it had some kind of writing or hieroglyphics that I couldn’t decipher and nobody else could. It was flexible, but you couldn’t break it and you couldn’t burn it.
Also, I found a piece of metal which was about the thickness of the foil in a pack of cigarettes. But the amazing part about it was you could put it on the ground, hit it with a sledge hammer and you couldn’t even put a dent in it. That astounded me and I knew it was nothing from here. I was convinced it was not from anywhere on Earth and I’m still convinced of that.

I had brought a counterintelligence man with me in a staff car plus a pickup truck. We got everything we could into that and I sent the agent back to the base. Then I filled up my car with stuff. By the time I got back home, my wife said, ‘What happened to you? There’s been a bunch of news reporters out here, wanting a picture of you.’ And I said, ‘For what?’ And there had been a public relations officer with them. He said, ‘From what happened, your husband will be very popular by tomorrow morning.’ So that’s how it all started.

What amazed me most of all was the weightlessness of all this material — it weighed nothing. I found one piece of metal — supposedly metal — which was about a foot wide and about two-and-a-half feet long. When I got back to the base, we [Marcel and several enlisted men] brought it all into a briefing room and set up a whole lot of tables there. One of the men said, ‘Let me see if I can put some of those parts together, to see what the thing might have looked like.’ He came back later and said [he tried but couldn't do it].

I consulted my CO [commanding officer], who said, ‘You better fly the thing to Wright-Patterson Air Field [Ohio]. So, we loaded up the whole thing — which was not a whole lot of material — onto a B-29. We had only picked up one small fraction of what was out there. It was scattered over such an area about three-quarters of a mile long and several hundred feet wide. We’d been there all day, picking up the fragments.

I asked my CO if it was a better idea to stop at Carswell [Air Force Base] at Fort Worth and consult General Ramey and he said, ‘Yes, you better do that.’ When I got to Fort Worth, I talked it over with the general, and he told me, ‘Don’t open your mouth to the press. Put some stuff on the floor and let them take a picture of it.’ But I was careful not to put out anything with detail on it. So they took pictures, and one picture appeared in the papers.

Gen. Ramey told news reporters this was nothing but a crashed weather balloon, but I do know this: later on, Ramey wanted to cover his statement up, because he didn’t know, himself, what it was. I went back to Roswell to resume my duties, but what they did at Carswell was to make a mock display with a battered weather balloon and they let the press take pictures of that. The whole thing was a cover-up to begin with and that was the last I heard of it.

I know it was not a weather balloon and I’d swear it on the biggest bible. It wasn’t a missile or any part of an aircraft that we know of.

Crash Debris

To mark the crash anniversary, Michael Donovan of OuterPlaces.com joined us on the HuffPost Weird News Podcast to discuss Roswell’s unanswered questions.

Two years ago, Donovan was standing in the Roswell crash debris field along with Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr., a highly decorated military flight surgeon.

“It was a moving experience because we’re out on the site and this large thunderstorm was moving toward us — you could see lightning flashing — and he’s standing there with his Iraq war veteran hat on and said, ‘This is amazing. Sixty-six years ago, my father was standing on this very site,’” said Donovan.

“His father had loaded debris into his car, drove back to Roswell, stopping at his house, and showed his wife and son, Jesse Jr., the material after spreading it out on the kitchen floor,” said Donovan. “Here’s a guy — a doctor, a flight surgeon — why would he make up an experience he had in the middle of the night when he was 11 years old? So, when we were standing there at the crash site, I asked him, ‘When they loaded that plane up and flew it to Fort Worth, what happened to it?’ And he said, ‘You know what? I don’t know.’ But he said the base commander’s secretary, a few years ago before she retired, showed somebody a box of stretchy stuff that, if you crushed it, it would pop open. Jesse Jr. said to me, ‘I think that stuff must still be somewhere around, in the military’s possession.’”

Donovan says his belief in UFOs and a possible cover-up surrounding the Roswell UFO incident never gets in the way of his work — which includes co-designing the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

“No, not at all. It goes back to the idea of being on a quest, being a problem-solver, and that’s what designers do. We solve problems. In the reading of science fiction, you begin on a path to discovery. That’s what we do every day and it’s really that kind of interest — learning new things — that put me on the path that I’m now on, relative to OuterPlaces.com.

“In my own mind, I keep trying to create some kind of balance between what I think is a certain appropriate level of secrecy. We’re adults in this country, by and large, and I think the government owes us as much information and let us make up our own minds.”

Here are some unanswered questions that continue to surround the 1947 Roswell UFO crash incident:

What exactly crashed there in 1947? Was it a weather balloon, high altitude spy device, extraterrestrial craft?
Did the military switch materials that Maj. Marcel brought back from the debris field and, instead, allow the press to take pictures of an actual battered weather balloon?
If the crash site debris wasn’t really a weather balloon, where did the real stuff end up?
Why would the military decide to even issue a press release about a captured flying saucer?
Related to the above question, why would the military suddenly change the story from flying saucer to weather balloon?li
Why did the military hire a local Roswell mortician to make child-sized caskets following the UFO debris retrieval?
Why did Jesse Marcel Sr. wait more than 30 years before finally revealing his part in the Roswell UFO events?
If true, why would the U.S. government want to cover up such a monumental event as the crash of an alien ship?
This weekend’s 20th Roswell UFO festival takes off full blast today with speakers giving their presentations at different locations simultaneously. If lectures don’t fit your fancy, there’s always the alien pet and alien costume contests and a UFO festival light parade to check out.

It’s fair to say that something happened outside Roswell in 1947 that literally put the town on the map. The debris is long gone, but the reverberations have never stopped.

Whatever it was, after almost 70 years, it still depends on whom you ask or what you read, and whether you believe them.

A 1997 CNN-Time poll showed that 80 percent of Americans think the government is hiding information about the existence of alien life forms, and nearly two-thirds of the poll respondents believed that a UFO crashed outside Roswell in 1947.

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17-08-2015 om 21:08 geschreven door peter  

Vietnam Era UFO Encounters

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The public rarely hears about interactions between military personnel and unexplained aircraft — especially during wartime.

As time goes on, however, UFO stories stuck behind red tape begin to see the light of day. The Vietnam War saw its share of UFO activity in the 1960s.

One close encounter, in 1968, involved the crew of an American patrol boat that reported two glowing circular craft following them in the demilitarized zone that separated North and South Vietnam (see depiction below).

The crew aboard a second patrol boat later reported seeing the UFOs over the first boat and a flash of light, followed by an explosion that completely destroyed the boat. These Vietnam reports included close observation of the unknown aerial craft which appeared to house pilots (see recreation image at the top of this story).

Wartime UFO stories are recreated in the premiere episode of the second season of History’s “Hangar 1: The UFO Files.” The accounts are drawn from tens of thousands of UFO cases in the archives of the Mutual UFO Network, the world’s largest UFO investigation group.

“The military was interested in [UFOs] because they had capabilities far above anything that we had, and they wanted to find out what the technology was and, frankly, who they belonged to,” according to former Air Force intelligence officer, Capt. George Filer.

While in Vietnam, Filer — who had a top secret clearance — gave daily briefings to Gen. George S. Brown, deputy commander for air operations in Vietnam.

“Frequently, the Vietcong or North Vietnamese would be attacking an outpost and I would explain that, and we would have ground-air support, particularly at night where we’d go in there with these gun ships, and I would give briefings on all of that,” Filer told The Huffington Post. “Some of the time, there would be unidentified craft over the DMZ.”

Filer described a typical report that he’d receive and which he included in his briefings to Brown:

“You’d have an aircraft flying along, doing around 500 knots and a UFO comes alongside and does some barrel rolls around the aircraft and then flies off at three times the speed of one of the fastest jets we have in the Air Force. So, obviously, it has a technology far in advance of anything we have.

“I would be told this unofficially. People tell you a lot of things that they don’t put in writing or sign their name to. There was always this part of UFOs that, if you got too interested, it could mess up your career. And this is true today even with commercial pilots. I’ve also heard from people serving in Afghanistan saying they’ve seen UFOs, and the Iranian news carries UFO reports pretty regularly.”

During a 1973 press conference, five years after the patrol boat UFO encounters, Brown — as USAF chief of staff — was asked about the Air Force’s position on UFOs:

I don’t know whether this story has ever been told or not. They weren’t called UFOs. The were called enemy helicopters. And they were only seen at night and they were only seen in certain places. They were seen up around the DMZ in the early summer of ’68. And this resulted in quite a little battle.

And in the course of this, an Australian destroyer took a hit and we never found any enemy, we only found ourselves when this had all been sorted out. And this caused some shooting there, and there was no enemy at all involved, but we always reacted.

Always after dark, the same thing happened up at Pleiku at the Highlands in ’69.

Many stories about battling UFOs have emerged throughout history.

One early account of UFO warfare was supposedly seen by the citizens of Nuremberg, Germany, in 1561. On a morning in April, the Nuremberg Gazette reportedly described an aerial battle between large “cylindrical shapes from which emerged black, red, orange and blue-white spheres that darted about… All these elements started to fight one against the other.” An artist, Hans Glaser, created a woodcut of the spectacle, seen below:

During World War II, also in Germany, Allied aircraft pilots often reported mysterious glowing, fast-moving, circular lights, which were dubbed Foo Fighters. The New York Times reported it as “military slang for flying saucers.”

Filer — who documents his sightings and other UFO news at the National UFO Center site — was one of several military eyewitnesses to something extraordinary in the sky over England. It was 1962, and he was the navigator on a refueling tanker.

“We were out over the North Sea when London Control called and asked if we would be willing to intercept an unidentified that was over Oxford and the Stonehenge area. We had just finished up our refueling mission, so we said sure, and they cleared all the traffic around us and gave us top priority as we descended towards the UFO. All they really had was a very large radar return, but it was much bigger than a normal aircraft.”

Filer (pictured above) recalled how his radar scope indicated the UFO was as big as the huge Firth of Forth Bridge in Scotland that he and his crew often used as a regular navigation point.

“The ‘thing’ was at 1,000 feet and we were descending from 32,000 feet. We picked up this huge radar return while we were still about 30 miles out. It was dark out and when we got much closer to the object, we saw lights around it, outlining the shape of a cylinder, like a cruise ship. It then just quickly rose and went up into space.

“We were pretty sure we’d just seen a UFO.”

Filer also told HuffPost that he has heard from air traffic controllers who claimed they were told to “always divert aircraft away from UFOs and deny that it existed. I think they want this whole situation to go away, and I think [the policy] is coming from the National Security Council — they’re at the highest level. It sounds funny, but presidents don’t always know what their National Security Council is doing.”

Upcoming episodes of “Hangar 1″ over the next 12 weeks will focus on folks who’ve held military positions and are willing to come forward and tell their stories.

One of those (hold onto your hats) is a man who claims he was in the Marines (wait for it…) and that he was stationed on Mars for several years. That’s right: the red planet Mars. He’ll describe being part of an off-planet military force. Let’s not pass judgment…yet.

There’s also the story of a retired Army sergeant who says he was assigned to UFO crash and retrieval cases where both ships and ET bodies were supposedly recovered — some dead, some alive.

In case you were wondering, Hangar 1 is an actual hangar where MUFON, for a long time, stored all of its archives. At one point, all of the organization’s files were housed in this airport hangar somewhere in the middle of the country. The images of Hangar 1 that appear in the series are of the real hangar.

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17-08-2015 om 20:56 geschreven door peter  

Breaking News: Scientific Report Confirms UFO Caught On Tape by Homeland Security

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A group of UFO Researchers from (SCU) The Scientific Coalition of UFOlogy, with extensive backgrounds in science, have come together to analyze an alleged UFO video from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The object in the video was captured by a thermal imaging camera on a DHS aircraft, in Aguadilla Puerto Rico. According to the researchers, it exhibits characteristics that cannot be explained by any known aircraft, military device or natural phenomenon.

The video is overlaid with the type of telemetry one would expect from a military or law enforcement thermal imaging video. It shows an object moving very quickly over land and then off into the distance. It seems to be ignoring gravity as it tumbles and changes shape, moving over buildings and through trees at speeds estimated to be between 40-120mph. Then it gets even more bizarre. The object appears to dip in and out of the ocean without slowing down or causing any signs of interaction with the water, and at the end of the video it is either joined by another object or broken into two.

All of the primary witnesses have requested anonymity. However, several communications from alleged DHS employees indicate that the video caused quite a stir on the base. In our current scientific understanding, when an object travels close to the surface of water, it leaves a wake trailing it. All friction must oppose motion and generate heat, right? This is not the case here. There is no splash and there is no wake. Even when using a military grade  “stack” tool and the ImageJ Program, researchers analyzing each 0.01 frame were still unable to find any sign of heat transferring to the water. This craft was not creating friction, thus defying the laws of physics.

A still of the Leaked UFO video in which the object is flying through trees

Research on the video began when an acquaintance to the pilot of the aircraft that captured the video contacted Daina Chaviano, a famous Cuban-born fantasy and science fiction author. She is also a volunteer with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in Florida, where in her spare time she investigates UFO reports. She took the UFO case to her colleague, Morgan Beall, who runs the Florida MUFON chapter.

Chaviano and Beall were so impressed by what they saw, that they assembled a small group of skeptical researchers with backgrounds in various fields of science and technology. The pilot’s acquaintance requested strict control of the information provided and that knowledge of the investigation be limited to a very few people, so until now, the researchers have not shared any information regarding their investigation.

Yesterday, the group released a 161-page report detailing their findings.

 

The object was filmed over Rafael Hernandez Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. (Credit: Google Maps)

They are vague when it comes to the identity of Chaviano’s informant. They say this person and others who provided information wanted to remain anonymous “to ensure no issues arise with the source’s employers.”

However, the group says: “The source of this video evidence was vetted and identified.”

They say they are absolutely certain that the video is genuine and the information comes from sources on board the DHS aircraft. Their investigation also confirmed their sources told them that the UFO incident began at about 9:20 PM on the evening of April 25, 2013 at the Rafael Hernandez Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. It involved the crew of a DHC-8 Turboprop aircraft from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a division of DHS.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bombardier DHC-8Q200. (Credit: U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

The DHC-8 took off on a routine flight and soon after takeoff they noticed “a pinkish to reddish light over the ocean that was in their vicinity and approaching toward the south.”

The crew was concerned the tower had not told them about the incoming traffic, so they called it in. The tower told them they also had a visual on the object, but they were unsure of its identity.

Once the object got close to land, its lights turned off, but at this time the DHC-8 was able to begin tracking and filming the object with their onboard thermal imaging system. The DHC-8 did not approach the object, but circled the area and filmed it.

The DHC-8 did not pick up the object on radar. However, their radar was looking downward to track ships on the ocean, not objects in the sky.

According to the source, a flight was delayed by the presence of the object. The research group was able to confirm from airport records that a FedEx flight scheduled to leave at 9:10 pm was delayed until 9:26 pm.

Image of the flight log from the UFO reporting showing the a delayed flight at the time of the UFO event. (Credit: SCU)

The researchers also confirmed the flight time and path of the DHC-8 via radar data obtained from a Freedom of Information Act Request to the U.S. Air Force 84th Radar Evaluation Squadron (RADES) group. The radar data confirmed that the DHC-8 took off at approximately 9:16 pm and circled the airport twice before leaving the area about 10 minutes later.

Flight path of the DHC-8 according to the radar data obtained via a Freedom of Information Act Request. (Credit: SCU)

The researchers note that there was an unknown object or objects tracked on radar a few minutes prior to the DHC-8’s take off,  but it is not known for certain that this was the same object that was later caught on video. The unidentified radar strikes were just off the shore to the north and northwest of the airport and lasted about 16 minutes from 8:58 pm to 9:14 pm.

When reading the times, the radar data is presented in a different time zone than the local times. The researchers explained this on their website: “Aviation times reflect  Zulu time which corresponds to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The video displays the Zulu time April 26th at 1:22 AM at the top left of the initial frames. Converting this Zulu time to Puerto Rico’s local time gives April 25th at 9:22 PM. Puerto Rico uses Atlantic Standard Time and does not use daylight savings time.”

The research group also thoroughly analyzed the video to determine the nature of the object in the film. They consulted thermal imaging experts to determine the capabilities of the system used for the filming, and broke the film down frame by frame to determine the object’s approximate size, speed, temperature and flight path.

The video (seen at the top of the story) is just under 4 minutes long, but the unknown object was tracked for about 2 1/2 of those minutes. Although it was difficult for the group to calculate the exact location of the object on the first half of its flight, they are confident of its position in the second half.

They have determined that the object came in from the ocean, from the north or northwest of the airport’s airstrip, and then flew over the airstrip, then turned back to the north and headed back out into the ocean.

This is the estimated flight path of the unknown object. The thinner lines estimate possible paths of the object in the first part of its flight. The thicker line shows the path the researchers believe is most likely. The researchers are more confident of the location of the object during the second half of its flight. This data corresponds with what the SCU researchers found. (Credit: SCU)

As can be seen in the map created by the researchers, the DHC-8 was circling the airport as the aircraft was moving along the shore, turning to the south, and eventually disappearing into the ocean to the South.

The flight path of the DHC-8 during the filming of the unknown object posted on Reddit by an anonymous user. This path was calculated using the data in the video. It is marked “heli,” because the Reddit user believed the aircraft to be a helicopter and was unaware it was a DHC-8.

The report states: “The object was between three to five feet in length and its speed varied between approximately 40 mph to 120 mph. Its median speed was roughly 80 mph.”

The report goes on to note that an interesting characteristic at the end of the flight was when it apparently submerged into the ocean, traveled for over half a mile, and then flew back out.

According to the report: “Its speed through the water reached a high of 95 mph and average 82.8 mph.”

The unknown object making its way into the ocean.

One suggestion has been that the object was merely a balloon. However, the researchers reject this idea for several reasons. They say the wind speeds at the time were 8 to 13 mph at ground level and 12 to 18 mph at 400 to 3200 feet. This means the object was moving too fast to be carried by wind currents. It also changed directions from heading south back to the north, and it went underwater with minimal loss of speed.

Another possibility is that the object was actually a bird. The object appears dark on the screen, and for this type of thermal imaging that would mean it was warmer than the ambient air. This is how a bird would appear. However, the researchers note that the object was moving much too fast to be a bird. They note that peregrine falcons, which do occasionally visit Puerto Rico, have an average horizontal speed of 40 to 56 mph, and a maximum of 65 to 69 mph.

 

The researchers also examined the possibility that the object was a drone. Their research did discover that the Navy is working on a drone that can fly through the air and dive into the ocean and become a submarine. It is called a “Flimmer.”

They found that current Flimmer drones have not been tested underwater and have an airspeed of 68 mph. They also noted that the fastest known underwater battery powered torpedo travels at 50 mph.

The researchers do acknowledge that it could be possible that the Navy is secretly testing a Flimmer drone that is much more advanced. However, they question why the military would so recklessly test it over a civilian area and airport runways.

In conclusion they state: “There is no explanation for an object capable of traveling under water at over 90 mph with minimal impact as it enters the water, through the air at 120 mph at low altitude through a residential area without navigational lights, and finally to be capable of splitting into two separate objects. No bird, no balloon, no aircraft, and no known drones have that capability.”

A still image from the video just as we begin to see two separate objects.

They do not profess to know what the object was, and they welcome “reasonable” suggestions.

However, as to be expected, there are those who have suggested “they know” the object is extraterrestrial in nature, and at least one of those suggestions has come from an anonymous source who has intimate knowledge of this event.

An anonymous letter was sent to one of the researchers that is very similar to one that was sent to John Greenewald, owner of the website TheBlackVault.com. The only thing Greenewald knew about the video was related to a low resolution copy that was leaked to a Puerto Rican UFO researcher. Many assumed the video was taken from a helicopter.

The letter references the exact type of thermal system and aircraft that was used to capture the video. The message was accompanied by a high resolution version of the thermal video, which was then posted on YouTube by Greenewald. The anonymous letter states: “Alien technology is no doubt under the ocean near Puerto Rico!”

Is alien technology being demonstrated in this video? This careful report, which the researchers say took over 1000 man hours to complete, indicates that whatever took place, it is certainly unusual. The entire report is 161 pages long, and thoroughly explains their work, and how they came to the conclusions they did.

The report on the Puerto Rico incident can be found at ExploreSCU.org

Even if the report had come to a mundane conclusion, the effort put into the investigation is remarkable. However, the fact that they could not determine what the object was, and have determined that it displayed characteristics which cannot be explained, makes the report remarkable.

Robert Powell, a retired engineer who worked in the semiconductor industry and helped author the research paper, says although they have finally released their report, “work on this video will continue.”

Powell, Beall, Chaviano, and the rest of the researchers working on the report posted a high resolution version of the video, their report, and an animation of the radar data they obtained on a website called the Scientific Coalition for Ufology.

Powell says they have reached out to other scientific organizations that have shown an interest in the UFO phenomenon,  including 3AF Sigma2, a group that is part of the French National Aeronautical and Astronautical Association. The French scientists have agreed to review their work and provide input.

Powell says, “We hope that this report will generate ideas and thoughts from other scientists that may provide more insight into the characteristics of the object seen in the video.”

We are looking forward to getting more involved and providing additional details as soon as they are available.

To download the report, view the video, and find out more about the investigation, visit: ExploreSCU.org & OpenMinds.tv

Source: http://locklip.com/breaking-news-scientific-report-confirms-ufo-caught-on-tape-by-homeland-security-2/ 

17-08-2015 om 20:47 geschreven door peter  

The Hoia Baciu Forest: UFO Hotspot, Haunted, Or Both?

(Before It's News)

The Hoia Baciu Forest: UFO Hotspot, Haunted, Or Both?

17-08-2015 om 20:28 geschreven door peter  

Glowing UFO in Russia: Did It Cause THUNDERSTORM after Its Appearance?

Several UFO researchers present a different point of views throughout history. There are numerous myths, legends, and also testimonies regarding strange property observed in the sky or even beings that originated within to aid the human race evolve civilization. Since contemporary scholars can’t straight look into the information of these tales, it’s difficult to determine when they are correct reports associated with right activities. Many ufologists, therefore, concentrate on studying reports beginning in this millennium. But did they find something about the glowing light that allegedly caused the thunderstorm?

One resident claimed to spot a weird bright light hovering above the woodland for fifteen minutes before he filmed it from two distinct angles in the skier nearby Moscow. Of course, the video was being uploaded on the YouTube for the public to state. In the footage, one voice of a girl was heard before the object shoots off. The report has been translated from Russian reports, and the family emphasized that they watched the footage for about fifteen minutes. At first, their assumptions were different. But, when they realize something different, the object began to take off. The weather at the time of sighting was just fine. In fact, it wasn’t raining. Unfortunately, when the strange object disappeared, the rain poured immediately, and the storm began.

Some suggested the appearance of the object near storm was ball lightening. It is an unexplained natural electrical phenomenon where the balls of the luminous light of different sizes are seen soaring in the air for a longer time than a typical lightning bolt. But Scott Waring, the alien researcher, believes the orb was noticeable for too long for it to be considered as a ball lightning. He claimed that the mysterious object had shown signs of intelligent movements. He further added that it had a second light ring around it in one image

17-08-2015 om 20:04 geschreven door peter  

Pink Strange Object Spotted Nearby ISS

The International Space Station (ISS) is an engineering marvel and a true example of what countries of the world can accomplish when working together. The International Space Station is a joint project of the USA, Russia, Japan, Canada, and several European countries. The purpose is to provide experimentation in space. The ISS has had minimal testing to date, but that is about to change with the addition of the Columbus module (with the STS-122 Shuttle launch) on December 6, 2007.

When footage of a luminous object hovering over the ISS, it warrants the presumption that aliens are keeping their eyes on humans, hence feared the latter. The footage also implies that the humans are not only monitored, but even the government officials or NASA is deliberately trying to conceal the information to humans. The image of the strange luminous object was being captured on NASA’s live stream. As per the one minute clip, it shows that as the camera pans across, the ISS appears to be a tiny pink dot that is lurking above. Apparently, the small dot has caused quite a buzz online because people were talking about the intelligent life of aliens.

One YouTube user named Streetcap1 uploaded the video stream on the Social Media, labelling the description that the odd object is a spaceship. However, NASA intentionally changed the direction of the camera to lessen its sighting.

The video has already reached 180,000 views and has been the subject of several debates over the nature of the object. According to one commenter, if you are currently searching for Aliens, you need to understand that there are possibilities of the paranormal like interdimensional travels.  According to some rumors, there are numerous alien races around Earth. But not everyone was jumping on the strange bandwagon. Other, other skeptical commenters, more rational explanations have been suggested, and it cautioned others from believing the spurious conspiracy theory.

However, interruptions of the video stream are common with NASA footage. In fact, after the video feed was interrupted, a message explained that NASA was experiencing a temporary signal or switching cameras.

17-08-2015 om 19:58 geschreven door peter  

16-08-2015 om 23:22 geschreven door peter  

Our Solar System May Have Had A Fifth 'Giant' Planet

The missing planet bumped into Neptune before disappearing into the abyss of space, according to a new study.

Artist's impression of the missing gas giant planet that may have been ejected from the early solar system.  | Southwest Research Institute

The four gas giant planets in our solar system -- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune -- may have a long-lost relative. According to a new study, our system was once home to a fifth gas giant that suddenly vanished some 4 billion years ago after a run-in with Neptune.

Indirect evidence for this lost world is seen in a strange cluster of icy objects -- called the "kernel" -- in the Kuiper Belt. That's the vast region of primordial debris that encircles the sunbeyond the orbit of Neptune.

"The Kuiper Belt is a perfect clue to understanding how the solar system evolved since its formation," study author Dr. David Nesvorny, an astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., told New Scientist.

For the study, Nesvorny created computer simulations of Neptune and the "kernel" cluster as they were 4 billion years ago in the early solar system. At the time, the cluster is believed to have been in Neptune's gravitational grasp. But then, according to the simulations, something happened to cause the cluster to escape Neptune's gravitational pull -- placing the cluster and Neptune in their present locations.

This is where the lost planet comes in: the simulations suggest that it must have been another gas giant that bumped Neptune and caused it and the "kernel" to part ways.

"The location and magnitude of Neptune's jump obtained in this model matches quite nicely the pattern that is needed for the formation of the 'kernel,'" Nesvorny told The Huffington Post in an email.

And according to the simulations, the planet couldn't have been one of the worlds currently in our solar system. The mysterious planet may have been ejected from the solar system after encountering Neptune.

In 2011, Nesvorny authored a previous study -- which involved thousands of computer simulations -- that suggested that the best way to explain the current orbits of the solar system's four giant planets was to include a missing fifth planet.

"I tend to believe that it may be very difficult to find any evidence for the fifth planet," Nesvorny said in the email. "I started looking into [the] formation of the Kuiper Belt, because I was worried that the orbital structures seen there are inconsistent with my model. Now I realized that the opposite may be true. It was certainly a surprise."

What do other scientists think of Nesvorny's new study?

"What Nesvorny's models are doing is being very self-consistent and getting multiple structures right at once, which is really quite amazing," Dr. J.J. Kavelaars, an astronomer at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia, who was not involved in the research, told Science magazine.

Wonders Of Astronomy

While it's not a "discovery," per se, it's a milestone that will no doubt lead to many new findings about the smallest and innermost planet in our solar system. 

In March, after a 6 1/2-year, 4.9 billion mile journey, NASA's Messenger spacecraft reached Mercury's orbit. 

Messenger, the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury,

Pluto's Tiny Moon

In July, NASA said that its Hubble Space Telescope discovered an eight to 21-mile-wide moon circling the dwarf planet.

Huge Mountain Discovered On Asteroid

NASA's Dawn, an ion-propelled spacecraft that traveled 1.7 billion miles before reaching the asteroid Vesta in July, sent back images in October revealing that Vesta is home to a mountain larger than any mountain on Earth. 

In December, NASA released new images that Dawn took when it was orbiting only 130 miles above the asteroid, the closest it will get to Vesta.

'Star Wars'-Like Planet

NASA's Kepler spacecraft found a planet that orbits two suns, driving fans of the "Star Wars" franchise to call it a real-life Tatooine.

Astronomers announced Kepler-16b, which is the first circumbinary planet -- meaning it orbits two stars -- in September.

Click here for more on Kepler-16b.

'Habitable Zone' Planet Found

Scientists in early December announced the discovery of Kepler-22b, a planet with a temperature of around 72 degrees that's in the so-called "Goldilocks," or habitable zone. While the temperature of the 600-light-year away planet could sustain water, it has a radius of 2.4 times that of Earth's, so it's probably too big to harbor life.

Scientists had long-thought that a large body of water existed under the surface of Europa, Jupiter's moon, but it was thought to be tens of miles below an icy crust. 

In November, though, astronomers analyzing data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft found evidence that suggests blocks of ice interact with water below the surface, which could mean that nutrients and energy are moving between the underground ocean and icy shell. 

Britney Schmidt, the lead author of the study,which appeared in the journal Nature, said that the interaction "could make Europa and its ocean more habitable for life." 

Click here to read more about water on Europa

'Bubbles' At The Edge Of Solar System

NASA's Voyager probes -- launched over 30 years ago -- found huge magnetic "bubbles" at the edge of the solar system. 

"The sun's magnetic field extends all the way to the edge of the solar system," astronomer Merav Opher of Boston University said in a NASA statement. "Because the sun spins, its magnetic field becomes twisted and wrinkled, a bit like a ballerina's skirt. Far, far away from the sun, where the Voyagers are, the folds of the skirt bunch up." 

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched in 1977. Voyager 1 is currently 11 billion miles away and may exit our solar system within the next few years.

Gypsum On Mars

In December, scientists announced that NASA'sMars Rover Opportunity may have found gypsumthat had been deposited by water. 

"This tells a slam-dunk story that water flowed through underground fractures in the rock," Steve Squyres, a planetary scientist at Cornell University and the principal investigator for Opportunity said in a NASA statement. 

Earth-Size Planets Discovered

Weeks after the announcement of Kepler-22b, scientists said that they'd discovered Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, two planets that are about the size of Earth. 

While the planets are too close to their sun-like star to harbor life as we know it, the discovery proved that the Kepler spacecraft was capable of spotting planets that are Earth-size, and brings us one step closer to finding a true Earth twin. 

The new study was published online in The Astronomical Journal on August 10, 2015.

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16-08-2015 om 23:06 geschreven door peter  

The Orion Spacecraft: One Step Closer to a Mars Mission

16-08-2015 om 22:26 geschreven door peter