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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
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België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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05-11-2015
A UFO With An Alien On Board Lands On An Indian Village and Takes Photographs
A UFO With An Alien On Board Lands On An Indian Village and Takes Photographs
Indian people claim they have spotted a UFO making landing in their village with a humanoid figure emerging from what they described as a red spacecraft.
The UFO reportedly landed in the village of Kanagal, Periyapatna in the Indian district of Mysore. Agricultural workers in a field near the village claimed they noticed the UFO at around 2 p.m.
The workers apparently saw a red spacecraft that emerged from the clouds, landed shortly, and took off again quickly with flashes and sparks.
Sightings of flying humanoid or people are common. In fact, such sightings have happened long before the interest of aliens or flying saucers.
After the details of the sighting had been reported, alien and UFO enthusiasts flocked to the village to interview locals who claim to have spotted the spacecraft and the humanoid figure.
Women villagers claimed the UFO descended about 500 feet from them, and they could see a humanoid figure. The sighting occurred on October 1, 2015.
Another group of women who worked in paddy fields reported having seen an alien humanoid figure dressed in orange emerging from a red spacecraft with flashes and sparks around it. The humanoid figure took multiple pictures before going back to the craft and taking off quickly.
UFOs Observed by U.S. Air Force Security Guards During French Atomic Testing in Algeria
UFOs Observed by U.S. Air Force Security Guards During French Atomic Testing in Algeria
UFOs Observed by U.S. Air Force Security Guards During French Atomic Testing in Algeria
On January 30, 2013, I issued my latest press release, titled “Researcher Urges U.S. Military Veterans to Divulge Their UFO Sightings at Nuclear Weapons Sites”. My hope was/is that persons who had not yet gone on-the-record about their UFO experiences would contact me at ufohastings@aol.com.
The first to do so, Larry Rogers, has provided an unexpected glimpse into UFO activity during the period of French atomic testing in the Sahara desert in the early 1960s. I have twice interviewed Mr. Rogers on the telephone and he has provided his DD214 military service record, which verifies his presence at a U.S. Air Force base in North Africa during that era.
In 1960, Airman 3rd Class Larry W. Rogers was assigned to the USAF’s 3926th Air Police Squadron K-9, and stationed at Ben Guerir Air Base, in Morocco. At the time, France had begun to detonate its first atomic devices in neighboring Algeria, then a colony. The detonations took place at the Reggane test site, some 600 miles southeast of the American airbase.
Rogers told me, “I personally never saw the bright flash from any of the tests. What we could see was a sky that was brilliantly colored at sunrise and at sunset, as a result of the sand and other debris that was thrown into the atmosphere. In fact, it seemed like the whole dome of the sky was filled with color for days after each of those tests.”
One night, shortly after such a detonation, Rogers and five other members of his squadron were on guard at the north end of the base runway, accompanied by their German Shepard companions. “I cannot even guess the time-frame,” he said, “There are no seasons in the Sahara desert and so there was no distinctive weather that I could associate with the event. I’m afraid the date will remain unknown.
” At some point, Rogers and the others began to notice a group of small glowing objects hovering in the sky, seemingly above the Atlas Mountains, some 90 miles away on the southeastern horizon. “There were maybe half-a-dozen of them. They were really bright but I don’t know if they were lit up themselves or just reflecting the sun. They were high enough in the sky that, even though it was already dark, the sun below the horizon may have caught them in its glare.
” Rogers continued, “The objects may have been directly above the mountains, or beyond them, or in front of them. You couldn’t tell because of the distance and the darkness. Anyway, they looked strange to us so we called that in to the squadron’s command post. A little while later, we saw four or five jet fighters streaking toward the lights. They had been launched from Zaragoza Air Force Base, in Spain, and flew almost directly over our position. They were really loud and you could see the blue-flame of their afterburners.
” The guards watched the jets recede into the distance. A few minutes later, Rogers and the others saw them apparently interacting with the mysterious aerial lights. “We could tell when the fighters arrived, or we thought we could, because the UFOs suddenly began moving around really quickly and erratically. They had been nearly motionless earlier but now they zoomed one way or another, with sharp-angled turns, like they were playing tag with the jets. Some of the lights did full circles, like maybe they were flying completely around them. We couldn’t believe what we were seeing. It was just amazing.” Then he added, “My guess is that the UFOs were not there to observe an atomic test, but were there as a result of a test.
” The aerial encounter lasted for perhaps 45 minutes. At that point, the fighters left the area, probably running low on fuel. Presumably, they flew back to their base in Spain. Rogers and his companions, after returning their dogs to the kennels and their weapons to the armory, were unexpectedly told to get into an Air Force sedan. They were then driven to the headquarters building, separated, put into different rooms, and debriefed by two officers in uniform.
“They were playing Good Cop, Bad Cop,” Rogers told me. “One of them was calm when he asked me questions, but the other one put the fear of God in me, saying that if I talked about what I saw, I would deeply regret it. I suspect that they were OSI agents but I don’t know for sure. I was shown a UFO regulation—I distinctly remember reading ‘AFR 200-2’ at the top—and ordered to sign a non-disclosure statement. I guess the other guys were as scared as I was because we never talked about the incident among ourselves again.
” France conducted 210 nuclear tests between February 13, 1960 and January 27, 1996, either at the remote Algerian site mentioned by Rogers, or in French Polynesia. Four “shots” occurred in the Sahara desert during the period that he was stationed at Ben Guerir Air Base, in neighboring Morocco, including the first French A-bomb, code-named “Gerboise Bleue“, on February 13, 1960.
Rogers’ sighting occurred shortly after one of those tests, and the UFOs’ presence was probably linked to it somehow, even though the unidentified aerial objects were at a rather great distance from the actual detonation site when they were observed by the Air Policemen. Had they been much closer to ground zero only minutes earlier? Or were those presumably aboard the craft monitoring drifting radiation clouds in the region of the Atlas Mountains? All of this is speculation, of course, and we will probably never know the answers.
A fuller discussion of UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites—including sightings by U.S. military personnel at bomb test areas in Nevada and the Pacific in the 1950s—may be found in my 600-page book, UFOs and Nukes, which is available at this site’s Book page for $23.95. Beware, scalpers sell it at Amazon for $85 and up.
However, I chose the pronoun, "he", to make this vividly recalled abduction, more easily acceptable to the uninitiated reader.
ABDUCTION RECOLLECTION:
He is flying high over a lush green tree landscape, over rolling tree lined hills and though he knows that it must be night, within the tractor light-beam, under a moving craft, the fields and countryside below are lit up as though it were day, but he knows it's night, because he is told that he is dreaming.
For a few brief seconds, until he is drawn into the craft, he sees the green granular nature of the trees below, and feels the visual exhilaration of flying, but rather than fear, he is filled with a combined sense of peace and joyous happiness.
He marvels at the texture and color of his neighborhood, and his movement above it. He is dreaming, but he is awake. The smaller craft lands near a much larger ship, hiding in plain sight, in a field.
He is told by a small, dark, grey alien, always just out of sight, that he is to wait on line, for a tour of a country estate.
He is numb and is surreal vividly dreaming, but he feels that he is awake. He moves forward, people in front of him and in back of him, on a narrow path surrounded by a false screen memory of a flat, unidimensional static scene, a photograph of an English garden.
It is hot and humid with the rank smell of soil. People clutch what looks like brochures and move slowly in a single line, towards the country estate, bored, and only mildly interested. He approaches the door of the large alien craft. A ticket taker sits at the entrance way, on a stool behind a lectern, observing the entering crowd, a doorway official seen as a slim teenager.
He thinks it odd, that such a young caretaker should seemingly be in charge, and as he lifts his eyes to meet the teen's gaze, the young boy turns into a kindly old man.
"It's mind control, not shape-shifting", he is told, by a sonorous tour-guide's voice, in answer to his unasked thought.
Everyone is awake but also dreaming. Inside is a waiting room, dirty, dull and round, a white room with no adornments and a black floor.
He awakens, dreaming and feels that the room is in flight. It is a dream within a dream. Awake again, briefly, he is dreaming while standing upright, walking in his sleep, climbing a steep metal stairway ladder path-bridge, that leads to a very large room at the top of the stairs. Someone in front of him dreams, andwakes up dreaming.
He looks to his right, as he climbs, to see an enormous domed -curved window which makes up the staircase's whole upper wall of the alien craft, and as he climbs, feeling very numb, he pauses, and stops the line of mass abducted people.
He looks out of the window and sees the Earth and the Moon, opposite each other, hanging in the blackness of space. He places his arms on the curved railing where the staircase meets the bottom of the window and cups his chin in his hands, to understand the raw beauty of what he sees:
Outside is blackness...
The Earth, in the far right portion of the glass window, hangs suspended in a black nothingness, a planet swimming in blue-white haze, with a large red area, perhaps, the desert of North Africa, or the Arabian peninsula.
Silver and bright, the Moon, far to the left portion of the glass, also hangs suspended in a black nothingness. Far away, violet splashes of nebulae, and points of red pinpoint starlight, intersperse with millions of white stars. Chin in his hands, he leans over and says in a wistful, admiring tone,
"These people who live at THIS estate have some view; what a view!"
The small, dark, grey alien tour guide became startled and all at once, the window's 3-D space scene, becomes a painted uni-dimensional flat portrait, of an English garden landscape.
Chin in hands, still looking out of the window, but now at the expanse of poster-like green lawn, of a garden landscape, he dully repeats,
"They DO have a nice view!"
The tour guide, startled to hear him repeat this praise, seemingly unaware that the scene of the garden had already worked to distract him, knee-jerk- reflex -overreacted; he is slammed with a mind control jolt.
The alien creature tightens and magnifies its short psychic leash of control to throw him into a vivid emotional ecstasy, and he feels compelled to look down at his feet, and away from the window's view.
The simple metallic ladder- path underfoot, transforms into carved inlaid wood one, delicately patterned and dazzlingly ornate, an inlaid ebony and maple wood design, cryptic and deeply beautiful in motif and complexity.
He is forced to kneel to examine it, his eyes now fully away from the stars, Earth and moon, seen outside the enormous, curved window .
Powerful awe, love, and wood -admiration, a godlike reverence of wood, flashes through his mind at the mirage of the intricate wood designed staircase, suspended in air. Complex, gorgeous and lushly constructed, a staircase in multicolored woods, forces an almost religious awe, which courses through his brain, to thrill him, a tsunami of reverent awe for the dazzling wood patterns, and for the unknown artist-architect, overwhelms and distracts him, a gifted attempt to get him to forget what he has seen outside of the craft's window.
The sleeping line of climbing people is now fully stopped by his fawning and repeated examinations, of the simple metal staircase, as he repeatedly retraces his steps to examine it, in a rapture.
.
The tour guide, just out of sight, presumes that the delusion is strong enough to have worked and he hears a resonant, deep, paternal, impatient voice, now within his head, "Just keep going; it will be there, for you to see, when you get back."
"But, things change so quickly, in dreams", he thinks, "and this gorgeous wood stairway, will likely not be there, when I return."
He lingers, enthralled.
The alien ' guide', who tethers him and all the others, within a snug cocoon of illusions, had deftly made a simple, metal staircase, the un-rightful recipient of that stolen awe, of the magnificent scene viewed outside the craft's window. But when he awakens, he DOES remember the staircase and his monumental awe of the spectacular space scene, outside the curved window, of the alien craft;
He dully thinks, when he awakens exhausted, with a dull headache and a copious nose bleed, more tired getting up, than he had been, going to bed. And 'dreams', in a gnawing realization, could no longer ever again, be trusted to merely be, .. 'dreams'...
BIO:
Abductions and their remnant elusive memories have opened all this for me, a confirmed atheist, UNTIL I saw aliens float me out of my body, in my bed, at night. Then, I knew that they were more interested in an essence, that I never suspected I had: -> a Soul.
Rather than a fear-based approach to Dark Force Entity safety and caution, I prescribe a required spiritual "shift" towards the equally unseen goodness of the spirit world, and away from fear.
Unlearning fear is a step-by-step acceptance and assertion, of one's spiritual'Self', a distance far and away from fearful defenses mustered by one's materialphysical self.
One's longitudinal approach to any self-defense must be a spiritual one, and not a physical one.
For defenses to flare, one must recognize that one is not a person having troubled spiritual problems, but instead an eternal soul having troubling human experiences. From the stance of self-recognition as an eternal spirit, one can then insist on "one's own space' as spiritual fruition.
Avoid church-based or organized religions and put the Bible on the same shelf as "The Tooth Fairy," forGod is real, but He's to be found down a long hall, andsomewhere else...
UFO Hunters ‘Discover’ Crashed Alien UFO Drone In NASA Mars Rover Photo
Enhanced Image Of Alleged Crashed UFO Drone On Mars (Image via Paranormal Crucible/YouTube)
UFO Hunters ‘Discover’ Crashed Alien UFO Drone In NASA Mars Rover Photo
Online alien and UFO hunters claim they have sighted a UFO drone in a photo of the Gale Crater region of Mars captured by a NASA Mars rover. According to the YouTube UFO hunter Paranormal Crucible, a photo of the Martian terrain snapped by a Mars rover — presumably Curiosity — on Sol 64 shows an object that looks like a metallic chunk of machinery dumped on the Martian surface. Paranormal Crucible notes that the discovery was first made a few years back. But in a new set of photos uploaded to YouTube on November 1, 2015, the UFO hunter revisits the remarkable discovery that set the entire online UFO community buzzing with excitement when it was first discovered. This time around, Paranormal Crucible attempts to “clean up the photo” by enhancing features of the alleged metallic object that could help UFO researchers gain fresh insights and “shed new light” into its nature and construction. UFO Sightings Daily editor Scott Waring points out that the “cleaned up photo” gives a “new perspective” by enhancing features that give clues about what the object looked like when it was made, and what it was probably used for.
“I really like his cleaned up photo of the object and his new perspective. It gives us a chance to look at it as it was when it was made, and how it might have been used.”
Scott Waring agrees with Paranormal Crucible that the photographic evidence suggests an object of “intelligent design,” photographed presumably by Curiosity rover, in the Gale Crater region.
According to Paranormal Crucible, “In my opinion this object is an extraterrestrial drone possibly built by the indigenous Martian populace or perhaps it was deployed by an off world alien species who were exploring the Martian surface.”
However, other UFO enthusiasts who have studied the image claim that the object could be part of a bigger spacecraft, such as a component of a spacecraft’s engine or propulsion system.
Is This A UFO Drone Crashed On Mars? (Image via NASA)
Regardless, UFO and Mars anomaly hunters are unanimous that millions of years ago, Mars was home to indigenous alien races with advanced culture and civilization. While some Mars anomaly hunters believe that the ancient civilizations reached sufficient levels of scientific and technological development to build flying machines and possibly space ships, others insist that ancient Mars civilizations attained only modest standards of scientific and technological development.
UFO Bloggers: Alien UFO Drone Found Crashed On Mars (Image via Scott Waring/UFO Sightings Daily)
But all anomaly hunters agree that ancient Martians created a young bustling civilization that generated sufficient “noise” to attract the attention of hostile aliens possessing advanced nuclear technological culture. The hostile aliens wiped out the bustling Mars civilizations by detonating a series of powerful thermonuclear devices.
Enhanced Image Of Alleged Crashed UFO Drone On Mars (Image via Paranormal Crucible/YouTube)
These startling claims about Mars civilization were first made by a U.S. physicist, Dr. John Brandenburg, who obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis.
In a paper, titled “Evidence of Massive Thermonuclear Explosions in Mars Past, The Cydonian Hypothesis and Fermi’s Paradox,” presented at the 2014 Annual Fall meeting of the American Physical Society Prairie Section in Monmouth, Illinois, Brandenburg argued that data from gamma ray spectrometry conducted by NASA orbiters show evidence of radiation fallout consistent with two massive nuclear explosions on Mars. The explosions occurred on two sites on Mars where two civilizations — the Cydonian and Utopian — flourished millions of years ago, according to Brandenburg.
“Taken together, the data requires that the hypothesis of Mars as the site of an ancient planetary nuclear massacre must now be considered. Fermi’s Paradox, the unexpected silence of the stars, may be solved at Mars. Providentially, we are forewarned of this possible aspect of the cosmos.”
Mars anomaly hunters claim that evidence of eroded archaeological remains on Mars — including technological artifacts — support Brandenburg’s claim that Mars was the site of bustling ancient civilizations and culture.
UFO hunters have reported discovering remains of crashed UFOs on different sites on Mars.
In March, Mars anomaly hunters Mars Moon Space Photo Zoom Club (MMSPZC) reported sighting a flying saucer UFO abandoned on rugged Martian terrain in the Aram Chaos region of the planet.
In August, 2015, Waring reported that he sighted in a photo of the Martian terrain, snapped by NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover, a black object that looked like a space shuttle.
Some UFO enthusiasts compared the alleged spacecraft to a Star Destroyer from the Star Wars movie franchise.
The investigations of renowned Spanish architect Miguel Pérez-Sánchez that lasted over ten years, allowed him to rebuild via computer models and with great accuracy, the pyramid of Cheops and determine that it was “crowned” by a sphere of 2 meters in diameter.
Pérez Sánchez announced his discovery in a publication of the book containing his doctoral thesis where he explained that “the pyramid of Cheops, according to analysis, demonstrates that it was an encyclopedia of knowledge.”
The Great Pyramid is the most important building of the Old Kingdom, it is one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, the only one that remains standing today. Devoid of its original coating blocks of white limestone, the great Pyramid lacks its summit which gave the pyramid another 9 meters in height. Now, researchers know the exact shape of the object that was placed on top of the pyramid.
As proposed by Pérez-Sánchez, the sphere that the ancient Egyptians placed at the top of the pyramid symbolized the Eye of Horus and had a diameter of 2,718 royal cubits (2.7 meters), which is the accurate measure of the number e. The sphere located on the Pyramid was placed as a worship to the Sun and Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, which was associated with Isis.
Pérez-Sánchez had the support of a multidisciplinary team in his investigation, allowing him to construct a computer replica of the Great Pyramid like never before.
The three-dimensional drawing of the Great Pyramid has revealed its original measurements, analyzing it, allowed researchers to understand the historical significance of the monument. In addition of the sphere located on top of the pyramid, missing today, analysis enabled researchers to find out the inclination angle of 51,84º, the platform that supported the sphere with a pi perimeter of royal cubits; and the height of the pyramidal vertex of 277 778 cubits, equal to the quotient of dividing 1,000,000 between 3,600. According to Pérez-Sánchez, the discovery of the original shape and dimensions of the Great Pyramid, its reconstruction and analysis revealed an architecture made of pure mathematics, geometry, geodesy and astronomy.
The original surface of the pyramid, now in ruins, was 100,000 times the number pi (π) 3000 years ahead of the understanding of π.
The ancient Egyptians that planned the Pyramid had an incredible scientific knowledge, understanding the Pythagorean Theorem two millennium ahead of time, a precision in the definition of pi with 6 decimals 3 millennia ahead of its time, including the knowledge of the number e, and the accurate measures of the Earth, Sun and Sirius anticipated over 4 millennia.
The geodesic dependence of the Great Pyramid has been confirmed by scaling relations based on the sexagesimal system. The weight of the pyramid is estimated at 5,955,000 tons. Multiplied by 10^8 gives a reasonable estimate of the earth’s mass. It also represents the Sun’s Radius: Twice the perimeter of the bottom of the granite coffer times 10^8 is the sun’s mean radius. [270.45378502 Pyramid Inches* 10^8 = 427,316 miles]
Thanks to the astronomical data provided by Plutarch, researchers managed to place the incredible monument in its historical context understanding why Pharaoh Khufu had commissioned these incredible projects.
This is believed to be the reason why, Snefru, father of Khufu, built during his reign, three pyramids in search for the“perfect pyramid” which explains the efforts of the architects of the Pyramid, to include within the Great Pyramid, their knowledge of the past.
More importantly, Pérez-Sánchez mentions the great Sphinx in his work, stating that “the Great Sphinx is not contemporary with the pyramids that surround it, but it is the product of a much earlier civilization that shaped and carved it around the eight millennium BC.
Are Humans Truly Intelligent In The Grand Scheme Of The Universe
Are Humans Truly Intelligent In The Grand Scheme Of The Universe
We humans are an arrogant lot. We trundle throughout our days thinking we are intelligent. We (well most of us) value our perceived intelligence. We look around at our fellow Earthicans and can readily see that we humans are the smartest creatures around.
But really who are we to say that we are intelligent.
We define ourselves to be intelligent in ways no other Earth creature can rival. What do we credit that intelligence too? You look at the genome, and take the chimpanzee which is a really close relative of ours. We have 98.5% identical indistinguishable DNA which both humans and chimps have in common. The chimp does not build the Hubble telescope, does not compose symphonies, and does not create iPhones for example. So we must then declare that everything we say about us that is intelligent is found in the 1.5% difference in DNA.
Now lets invert that question, if the genetic difference between human and chimps is that small, maybe the difference in our intelligence is also that small. Maybe the difference between stacking boxes and reaching for a banana, putting up an umbrella when it rains, or whatever else rudimentary things that a chimp does; that the primatologist rolls them forward and boasts about. Which of course our human toddlers can do. Maybe the difference between that and the Hubble telescope is as small as that difference in DNA.
I pose the question, suppose an alien intelligence that in that same type of vector of 1.5 % difference as we are to chimps, suppose they were 1.5% different from us.
They would then roll the smartest of us out in front of their humantologists. They roll out Professor Steven Hawking which is our greatest mind at this time. They would say that this one is slightly smarter then the rest of them because he can perform astrophysics calculations in his head, like little Gorignac over there.
I wonder if we are just blithering idiots in the presence of even a trivially smarter species then us? So therefore who are we even to assert that we are intelligent. We look for others at least as intelligent as us in the Universe for us to talk to. There is no other species on earth that we can talk to. Can we have a conversation with a chimp? Even though we share nearly identical DNA? We can’t ask them to go see a movie or go grab some Tapas. Yet somehow we believe, we want to believe that an alien on a another planet that is not even based on DNA (and even if it is it is nothing like us) that we could communicate with it.
We all have walked passed an earthworm that has just come to the surface, have you ever though about what the worm was thinking? Of course not , we are so more advanced that it would be a non-sequitur. Any alien race that can traverse the endless void of space and time and travels here may not have any interest in communicating with us. May not even perceive us as a life form at all. We may not even be able to perceive them as intelligent as well.
I propose it could be no other way.
Any life that advanced to get here will see us no more advanced as we think of earthworms, or even less. The human created fantasy that they are infiltrating our politics, are shape shifting reptilian humanoids bent on our planetary subjugation is completely laughable. Or at least it would be if not so many people believed it. That is a product of unimaginative humans anthropomorphizing their narrow view of the Universe. The slice of Universal life that we meet will be more wondrous and indifferent to us then we can imagine.
We humans are truly in the special Olympics category of intergalactic intelligence’s. We are just hairless apes dreaming of superiority. We are no where near the top of the intelligentsia food chain. We have not yet begun to climb the rungs of intelligence.
I will never ask you dear reader to believe anything, it will only ever be about how compelling the evidence is to you.
This article is the literary equivalent of heresy. Heresy to the true believers of UFOlogy. It is not my intention to offend any true believers, but to highlight an obvious fault in the vast majority of UFO canon. I have always strived to know the truth about the UFO enigma. I know the vast majority of my readers are of like mind and want to cut the shit that permeates the current incarnation of UFOlogy.
If you are a UFO true believer and believe all that you read and watch….prepare to be offended.
Sitting on my shelf next to my computer is an array of dog-eared books and white papers, that I had as a kid on space, robots and UFO’s—nostalgic reminders of the exciting ideas that whisked my mind away to other places and other possibilities. As I became more educated and experienced in our little sliver of the Universe I realized that a grave injustice is being waged in UFOlogy.
Human beings are obsessed with the possibility of life on other planets. Countless movies, books, and television shows are centered around alien civilizations, and there is an entire subculture of people devoted to the idea that aliens not only exist, but have already visited our planet for the inexplicable purpose of livestock mutilation and the molestation of the barely-literate. Up to 90% of all UFO/Alien cases can immediately be thrown out due to the extreme improbability that they could and would never happen. Take for example the fact that almost all UFO cases that are reported involve humanoid aliens.
Three things are generally intrinsic about human beings:
3. We need things to be about us in order to care.
Thus, in most of our stories about aliens, the aliens come because of us (be it to kill, enslave, or steal our women) or to take resources that are dear to us. Never mind the gaunt, nearly skeletal figure with the long talons and the scorpion-like tail and the mouth full of razor teeth. Never mind the little green or gray men with oversize craniums and oversize eyes and tiny mouths. Never mind the cat-men or lizard-men or dog-men or people with blue skin and strange, tattoo-like markings or odd brow ridges or pointier ears. Why would an alien look that similar to us?
I blame movies and TV for such unimaginative insights into what is possible in the Universe. I also blame the sorry state of education in science. In science fiction movies and TV shows, intelligent aliens are usually the same basic shape as humans: two arms, two legs and a head. But why would creatures that evolved on a completely different planet look so similar to us?
The truth is, aliens tend to look like us in science fiction for a couple of basic reasons: budget, and relatability. When it comes to film and TV, it’s problematic to make a race of aliens that does not resemble humans. Actors have to play these roles. What aliens look like in the real world will depend on where they evolved. An alien that evolved in interstellar space would have very different needs from an alien that evolved on an Earthlike planet.
“Most aliens in SF are humanoid because humans produce SF,” says Michael H. New, an Astrobiology Discipline Specialist at NASA. “While we are interested in the ‘other,’ our conception of otherness is often limited.”
Most if not all Exobiologists firmly agree that aliens would not look at all like humans. For example, life that evolved elsewhere would look totally different from us — and in fact, if you “reran the tape” from the beginning of life on Earth, you wouldn’t end up with humans on this planet either. The emergence of humanoids on Earth is a totally random event that was a fluke, even with the exact conditions that we arose from.
We have to contemplate the nature of a life form that has evolved on a completely separate planet. Even that statement is limiting. Life may be able to evolve on moons, nebula, or on planets that are bombarded with strange sources of radiation. They may exist and function on different time scales based on the gravity that they evolved in. Special relativity makes for very strange bedfellows. It is possible that they could be here already just beyond our perceptual ability. There truly is more things in heaven and earth then is dreamed in our collective philosophy.
It is intellectual ignorance to think the nucleotides A.G.C.T. are the only alphabet letters of life. Assuredly the letters, language, and syntax of life will be unknown to us. Truly alien. That is what would be expected by isolated evolution.
But that is not what we are seeing in UFOlogy. The overwhelming consensus of alien reports in the media and in first hand accounts predominantly highlight humanoid type aliens. Aliens that are structurally similar to our construction is what is usually reported. They may be grey, blue, green, scaled, tall or short, but a humanoid nonetheless.
Consider that on our planet our human physical form is the same one that we share with the great apes. Humans and the other great apes only account for less than a dozen different types of species. We share the humanoid form with our closest primate brothers but that is essentially it. Interestingly Mother Earth has an estimated 8.7 million species with still up to 80% still to be found, according to Nature magazine. So the percentage of life forms on Earth that are humanoid in form only accounts for 0.0000003793% of all currently known life. By any measure and consideration that is an impossibly small number. So the logical conclusion to draw is that the humanoid form is exceedingly rare even on Earth.
So what really is the odds that a alien race would evolve on a different planet then us, find us in the vastness of space, in this sliver of time, and look anything like us? It would be a probability that so infinitesimally small that it would be in the ballpark of a googolplex raised to the power of a googolplex to one. That is a number a thousand orders of magnitude larger than the total amount of elementary particles (2.5 x 10^89) in the entire Universe. Just think about that for a moment.
Now if we think of different planetary systems, the environment, chemistry and the strength of forces there might not have any resemblance to Earth at all. I would go as far as to say, we do not even have a rigorous definition of what constitutes a “living system”. But for beings with “intelligence” to understand and explore the universe, give them a few million years of evolutionary head start than humans (which is insignificant by universal time scales) and they would do all sorts of things which we cannot even start contemplating. They might not even restrict their “consciousness” to their original physical bodies and found out ways to immortalize themselves through machine entities, preserve and operate the “brain” without any bodily requirement and discovered novel ways of “reproduction”. Although not well-regarded for their wits as individuals, the remarkable “hive minds” of bees and ants could point to another manner in which alien intelligence arises — across many individuals acting collectively, rather than as discrete beings.
With the immense grandeur of the Universe still only scratched by our limited intellect makes us a very uninformed species. Life when we truly encounter it will not be a mutated version of ourselves. It will be more strange, unexpected and probably terrifying to our primate brains. If you look at all the cases in modern UFOlogy you will soon realize that almost all of them have humanoid type aliens. You can immediately discard them as wish fulfillment or down right delusional.
I understand that the ideas in this article are the equivalent to intellectual heresy in the UFO field and represent a major flaw in modern UFOlogy. This major failing can be fixed by using critical thinking when assessing a UFO report. For UFOlogy to regain respectability it must appeal and make sense to the non-true believers. We must strive to eliminate the giggle factor and drive toward sense and sensibility. A good first step in that intellectual crusade is to know humanoid aliens are nearly impossible in probablity. A reflection of the observer, not a refection on reality.
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NASA has captured something HUGE escaping a supermassive black hole
NASA has captured something HUGE escaping a supermassive black hole
Two NASA telescopes managed to capture the moment a supermassive Black Hole’s corona launched out of the cosmic devourer. The corona associated with Mrk 335 ejected from the black hole travelling at about 20 per cent the speed of light.
Just when you thought things at NASA couldn’t get more exciting bam… they capture a mysterious ‘huge’ mass of energy somehow escaping a ‘supermassive black hole’. Alien you say? Well let’s not get ahead of ourselves here, it is a possibility but it’s quite likely that it’s just another super rare cosmic phenomenon.
Fiona Harrison, principal investigator of NuSTAR at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said: ‘The nature of the energetic source of X-rays we call the corona is mysterious, but now with the ability to see dramatic changes like this we are getting clues about its size and structure.’
According to writing at NASA’s website:
Astronomers think coronas have one of two likely configurations. The “lamppost” model says they are compact sources of light, similar to light bulbs, that sit above and below the black hole, along its rotation axis. The other model proposes that the coronas are spread out more diffusely, either as a larger cloud around the black hole, or as a “sandwich” that envelops the surrounding disk of material like slices of bread. In fact, it’s possible that coronas switch between both the lamppost and sandwich configurations.
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array telescope (NuSTAR) and Swift telescope managed to capture the rare phenomenon in a black hole called Markarian 355, which is located just 324 million light years from Earth. This new observation helps astronomers understand how these flashes are formed and could aid in solving some of the mysteries about celestial bodies.
Astronomers say it is the first time that where it is possible to relate the ejection of the crown with a flare. This helps explain how black holes give energy to some of the brightest objects in the universe.
Astronomer’s stat that the mysterious emission was caused by ejection of its corona, which is a source of energetic particles.
‘This is the first time we have been able to link the launching of the corona to a flare,’ said Dan Wilkins of Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada.
‘This will help us understand how supermassive black holes power some of the brightest objects in the universe.’
Researchers state that supermassive black holes don’t give off any light by themselves.
Strangely, according to astronomers this supermassive black hole, located at the center of our galaxy was once one of the brightest X-ray sources I the galaxy but something very strange happened 8 years ago when MRL 335 faded by a factor of 30 said Luigi Gallo an astronomer and investigator ofthe project.
Het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap NASA belooft morgen een nieuwe onthulling over de atmosfeer van Mars. Enkele weken geleden kwam NASA met het nieuws dat het bewijs had gevonden van stromend water op de Rode Planeet, waarmee de hypothese werd gevoed dat er buitenaards leven mogelijk is.
Stay tuned for an exciting NASA astronaut announcement tomorrow!
Michael Meyer, hoofdwetenschapper van het Mars Exploration Program, zal de persconferentie morgen om 14 uur lokale tijd (20 uur onze tijd) leiden vanuit het hoofdkwartier van de NASA.
"Opwindende mededeling" De onthulling over Mars is niet het enige grote nieuws voor NASA deze week. Maandag vierden het ruimtevaartagentschap en diens partners de 15de verjaardag van het permanente verblijf in het ISS. De NASA-astronauten hebben hun Twitter-volgers ook verwittigd dat er morgen een "opwindende mededeling" komt, maar het is niet bekend of ook die betrekking heeft op het Mars-onderzoek.
Momenteel verblijven zes astronauten in het ISS. Die hebben maandag samen een bijzonder diner genuttigd om de 15de verjaardag te vieren. Sinds de eerste bemanning in het ruimtestation zijn intrek nam, op 2 november 2000, verbleven er 220 mensen uit 17 verschillende landen. Te allen tijde is minstens één Amerikaan en één Rus aanwezig. In al die tijd werden meer dan 26.500 maaltijden genuttigd. Het ruimtecomplex is uitgebouwd van 3 naar 13 kamers.
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NASA’s revolutionary ‘propulsion system’ can get Astronauts to Mars in 39 days
NASA’s revolutionary ‘propulsion system’ can get Astronauts to Mars in 39 days
According to reports, a company from Texas has been selected by NASA to develop a revolutionary engine that could send mankind to Mars in less than 40 days. Ad Astra's Vasimr engine is apparently capable of getting a spacecraft to Mars in 39 days. This project is just one of the twelve projects currently funded by NASA. Among the revolutionary propulsion system, there are other technologies currently in development, among them are improved habits for humans and smaller satellites that could explore space more efficiently.
According to reports, a company from Texas has been selected by NASA to develop a revolutionary engine that could send mankind to Mars in less than 40 days. Ad Astra's Vasimr engine is apparently capable of getting a spacecraft to Mars in 39 days. This project is just one of the twelve projects currently funded by NASA. Among the revolutionary propulsion system, there are other technologies currently in development, among them are improved habits for humans and smaller satellites that could explore space more efficiently.
Vasimr is short for Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket.
Remember, there is a long way to go here since Ad Astra’s Vasimr engine is just one part of the entire spacecraft that could eventually take astronauts to Mars. Scientists still need to figure out the type of spacecraft astronauts would travel in.
The Revolutionary Vasimr Engine during testing
The revolutionary engine uses plasma as a propellant and is developed by Texas based company Ad Astra. The engine hit the headlines a couple of years ago when sources revealed that this revolutionary engine could reduce the trip to Mars from months to weeks. The only downside if there is one is that the engine requires a Nuclear power source.
In 2013, the company completed the testing of the first prototype.
‘We are thrilled by this announcement and proud to be joining forces with NASA in the final steps of the technology maturation,’ said Dr Franklin Chang Diaz, Ad Astra’s Chairman and CEO, in a statement.
‘We look forward to a very successful partnership as we jointly advance the technology to flight readiness.’
This is just one of the many technologies currently in development that will allow NASA to explore and colonize space in a much more efficient manner.
It seems that all of a sudden, Mars isn't that far away... is it?
‘Commercial partners were selected for their technical ability to mature key technologies and their commitment to the potential applications both for government and private sector uses,’ said William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations at NASA Headquarters.
‘This work ultimately will inform the strategy to move human presence further into the solar system.’
Vorige week was het een ijsbeer, enkele maanden geleden een boeddhabeeld. Net toen je dacht dat het niet veel gekker kon, menen UFO-spotters dat ze op Mars een neergestorte drone te kunnen ontwaren.
De believers achter de site UFO Sightings Daily geven ridderlijk toe dat het beeld hierboven sterk bewerkt is. Lees: op de originele foto van NASA lijkt het ding meer op een ordinaire rots.
YouTuber Paranormal Crucible stelt dat "de anomalie, die het resultaat van intelligent ontwerp lijkt, door de Marsverkenner werd gefotografeerd in de buurt van de krater Gale".
"Volgens mij is dit voorwerp een buitenaardse drone, mogelijks gebouwd door de inboorlingen van Mars. Of misschien werd de drone ingezet door andere buitenaardsen die Mars verkenden".
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Unexplainable UFO Phenomena To Be Scientifically Analyzed In New Project
Unexplainable UFO Phenomena To Be Scientifically Analyzed In New Project
photo credit: Possible ball lightning in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Joe Thomissen via Wikimedia Commons.
An international team is trying to create a systematic and rigorous approach to studying unexplained aerial phenomena, commonly known as UFOs.
The non-profit organization is called UFO Detection and Tracking, (UFODATA) and it seeks to construct a large network of surveillance stations to monitor the skies 24/7 using optical and infrared cameras, sound and ultrasound detectors, weather stations, Geiger counters, and magnetometers.
"[…] we are going to use astrophysical methodology in order to carry out research on light anomalies appearing in our atmosphere, where we expect to obtain an optimum signal-to-noise ratio due to the predictably high luminosity of the phenomenon and its relative closeness to the observer," Astrophysicist Massimo Teodorani, a member of the UFODATA science team, said in a statement. "In such a way – with precise numbers in our hands – we are in a condition to select very carefully truly anomalous cases from cases that can be explained by prosaic causes."
Aerial anomalies almost always have a very mundane explanation behind them: planets, stars, meteors, weather balloons, planes, and atmospheric events are often responsible for what might appear mysterious at first. However, the team plan to focus on those events that are less easy to scientifically explain, and show what they could be.
A scientific approach of this type would provide a rational answer to various UFO phenomena, as well as potentially delivering a large amount of data regarding our atmosphere. It could also provide data on rare and unusual atmospheric episodes such as ball lightning.
The last few years have seen a dramatic change in how UFOs are reported. The availability of smartphones and image manipulation software has seemingly increased the number of fake reports from fame-seekers, with many videos purporting to show extraterrestrial phenomena easily dismissed as fabricated on closer inspection.
"It has become clear that any breakthrough in our understanding of the UFO phenomenon will require a break from the past," added Mark Rodeghier, leader of the project. "Witness testimony, photos and videos, and government documents have taken us only so far; instead, we need to record and study UFOs directly, as other sciences do with their own specific objects. Of course, this is a daunting task, but it is made conceivable by advances in technology, software, communication capabilities, and power sources."
More information regarding the project can be found on the UFODATA website.
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VIDEO: Camera ruimtestation ISS op zwart nadat wordt ingezoomd op mysterieuze lichtbol
VIDEO: Camera ruimtestation ISS op zwart nadat wordt ingezoomd op mysterieuze lichtbol
Bij het internationale ruimtestation ISS is een ‘UFO’ vastgelegd op camera. De camera, die inzoomde op de mysterieuze lichtbol, ging daarop plotseling op zwart. Dat meldt de Britse Daily Express.
Het ongeïdentificeerde vliegende object was te zien tussen het ISS en de aarde. Scott C. Waring van UFO Sightings Daily keek naar de livebeelden en zag hoe de camera werd gericht op een wit ovaalvormig object achter het ruimtestation.
“De camera bleef inzoomen, maar we konden alleen maar een witte ovaalvormige lichtbol zien,” zei hij. “Het licht van de UFO was zo fel dat zelfs de nieuwe peperdure HD-camera’s van de NASA moeite hadden om het object scherp in beeld te krijgen.”
Waring heeft de NASA gevraagd om meer informatie te geven over het object dat werd opgepikt door de camera. “Ze proberen het goed in beeld te krijgen, maar het is duidelijk veel te fel,” ging hij verder. “Waarom richt NASA haar camera’s hierop? Waarom wilde NASA het van dichtbij bekijken? Het is duidelijk een UFO en een oplichtend object.”
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie was niet gelijk bereikbaar voor commentaar.
Het beste bewijs van leven op Mars komt van NASA, al zullen zij de laatste zijn om dit toe te geven.
Weer heeft de Curiosity Rover een foto gemaakt van een object dat simpelweg niet voor kan komen op Mars in het geval het onbewoond zou zijn (geweest).
Wanneer je naar de originele NASA foto gaat dan zie een desolaat Marslandschap in de buurt van de Gale krater.
Dan ineens, midden in dat landschap, ligt daar een object dat eenvoudigweg niet natuurlijk zijn kan.
Wat het ook moge zijn, duidelijk is dat dit is gemaakt door intelligent leven.
Wanneer we het er met z'n allen over eens zijn dat het object hierboven niet natuurlijk is dan volgt hieruit dat het gemaakt moet zijn door intelligent leven. Leven dat zich dan voordeed buiten onze planeet en daarom buitenaards is.
Waarmee je dan mag stellen dat alleen al op basis van dit gevonden object bewezen is dat er buitenaards leven bestaat simpelweg omdat anders het object daar niet kan liggen.
Ook al zou later blijken dat het geen drone is zoals de onderstaande videomaker denkt, maar een voorwerp achtergelaten door de menselijke bemanning van de geheime ruimtevloot dan nog bestaat er dan leven buiten deze aarde. Menselijk leven dan misschien, maar wel degelijk buitenaards.
Strange UFO video filmed in Tlaquepaque, Mexico 1-Nov-2015
Strange UFO video filmed in Tlaquepaque, Mexico 1-Nov-2015
Here’s one interesting daytime footage of a bright unidentified flying object flying across the sky above Tlaquepaque in Mexico. This was taken on Sunday, 1st November 2015 at 11 am.
If the extraterrestrial hypothesis is controversial, then abductions of humans by alien beings is controversial squared, if not cubed. There’s intense polarization on the issue, not just between UFO skeptics and believers, but between the believers themselves. Is there a person who can share reality story of alien abductions? Famous abduction cases, such as the Travis Waltonsituation, have been popularized in books and movies, along with the occurrence been validated using polygraph tests administered to all parties involved. While this may not be proof positive that aliens are abducting humans and performing experiments and surgical procedures on them, it does raise questions.
Investigators worth mentioning sightings and abduction reports call themselves Ufologists, and now have precise scientific methods meant for investigating the reports people receive. While many of your methods and findings are usually not recognized by the scientific community overall, it does raise this question of why many people would risk their reputations and careers while in the scientific world by becoming needed for paranormal investigations such seeing that these. Logic would say you need to have something to the UFO and additionally separate question, for the property to take such risks. Of course, there’s no concrete evidence that anyone has taken by an alien spaceship. However, there are those who assert they’ve been kidnapped, and their stories are chilling.
After the Sitgreaves National Forest nearby Heber, Arizona, the occurrence began on Nov. 5, 1975. Walton and his six loggers were heading when they saw a 40 ft. shiny disc soaring in the air. According to his testimony, the disc has an enthusiastic and metallic material, making strange sounds. From the time it got close, the more it became scary to people. Fifteen years later, it was being revealed that the trees where the extraterrestrial craft hovered had been producing wood fibers thirty-six times it did 85 years before. The most curious part is that its core has thickened growth, but only in the direction where the craft had been years ago.
Germany’s about to switch on a revolutionary nuclear fusion machine
This thing is a monster.
For more than 60 years, scientists have dreamed of a clean, inexhaustible energy source in the form of nuclear fusion. And they’re still dreaming.
But thanks to the efforts of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, experts hope that might soon change. Last year, after 1.1 million construction hours, the institute completed the world’s largest nuclear fusion machine of its kind, called a stellarator.
They call this 16-metre (52-foot) wide machine the W7-X. And following more than a year of tests, engineers are finally ready to fire up the US$1.1 billion machine for the first time, and it could happen before the end of this month,Science reported.
The black horse of nuclear reactors
Known in the plasma physics community as the 'black horse' of nuclear fusion reactors, stellarators are notoriously difficult to build. This video below demonstrates the construction of W7-X, which took 19 years to complete:
Between 2003 and 2007, as the project was being built, it suffered some major construction set backs — including one of its contracted manufacturers going out of business — that nearly cancelled the whole endeavour.
Only a handful of stellarators have ever been attempted, and even fewer have been completed.
By comparison, the more popular cousin to the stellarator, called a tokamak, is in wider use. There are over three dozen operational tokamaks across the globe, and more than 200 built throughout history. These machines are easier to construct and, in the past, have proven to do the job of a nuclear reactor better than the stellarator.
But tokamaks have a major flaw that W7-X is reportedly immune to, suggesting that Germany’s latest monster machine could be a game-changer.
How a nuclear reactor works
Schematic of the average tokamak. Notice how it has fewer layers than the stellarator and the shape of the magnetic coils is different. Credit: Uploaded by Matthias W Hirsch on Wikipedia
The key to a successful nuclear reactor of any kind is to generate, confine, and control a blob of super-heated matter, called a plasma — a gas that has reached temperatures of more than 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit).
At these blazing temperatures, the electrons are ripped from their atoms, forming what are called ions. Under these extreme conditions, the repulsive forces, which normally make ions bounce off each other like bumper cars, are overcome.
Consequently when the ions collide, they fuse together, generating energy in the process, and you have what is called nuclear fusion. This is the process that has been fuelling our sun for about 4.5 billion years and will continue to do so for another estimated 4 billion years.
Once engineers have heated the gas in the reactor to the right temperature, they use super-chilled magnetic coils to generate powerful magnetic fields that contain and control the plasma.
The W7-X, for example, houses 50 5.4-tonne magnetic coils, shown in purple in the GIF below. The plasma is contained within the red coil:
The difference between tokamaks and stellarators
For years, tokamaks have been considered the most promising machine for harnessing the power of the sun because the configuration of their magnetic coils contains a plasma that is better than that of currently operational stellarators.
But there’s a problem: Tokamaks can only control the plasma in short bursts that last for no more than 7 minutes. And the energy necessary to generate that plasma is more than the energy engineers get from these periodic bursts.
Because of the stellarators’ design, experts suspect it could sustain a plasma for at least 30 minutes at a time, which is significantly longer than any tokamak. The French tokamak “Tore Supra” holds the record: 6 minutes and 30 seconds.
If W7-X succeeds, it could completely turn the nuclear fusion community on its head and launch stellarators into the lime light.
“The world is waiting to see if we get the confinement time and then hold it for a long pulse,” David Gates, the head of stellarator physics at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, told Science.
We may have just, for the first time ever, caught a tantalizing glimpse of a parallel universe bumping against our own. Scientists say that signals from the furthest reaches of space suggest that the fabric of our universe is being disrupted by another universe. The discovery could provide proof of the multiverse theory, which says that there are many alternate universes.
We may have just, for the first time ever, caught a momentous glimpse of a parallel universe bumping against our own.
Scientists say that signals from the furthest reaches of space suggest that the fabric of our universe is being disrupted by another universe. The discovery could provide proof of the multiverse theory, which says that there are many alternate universes.
Dr. Ranga-Ram Chary examined the noise and residual signals in the cosmic microwave background left over from the Big Bang and found a number of scattered bright spots which he believes may be signals of another universe bumping into our own billions of years ago
Dr. Ranga-Ram Chary, a researcher at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, examined data from the cosmic microwave background gathered by the European Space Agency’s Planck Space Telescope. Within this glow left over from the moments after the Big Bang, he discovered a number of spots where the microwave light was far brighter than it should be. He claims that theses may be signals caused by the interaction between our universe and another one a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang around 13.8 billion years ago.
The existence of multiple universes – a multiverse – has been considered scientifically plausible. If all these universes emerged from the same Big Bang, then they’re likely sitting together in a row, vibrating. According to the theory, if these universes touch one another, the resulting collision would leave some sort of evidence. According to New Scientist, which first reported the Dr. Chary’s research, this is akin to two bubbles bumping into each other. These so-called “bubble universes”, which are expanding within the multiverse, bumped into each other as they expanded after the Big Bang, leaving an imprint on each other’s outer surface.
Dr. Chary says the signals he has seen suggest the alternate universe may be very different from our own. He says it could have a ratio of subatomic particles called baryons and photons that is about ten times greater than what we see in our own universe. This would mean that the physics in this alternate universe could be quite different from our own.
Dr. Chary explained, “The fine tuning of parameters in the early universe required to reproduce our present day universe suggests that our universe may simply be a region within an eternally inflating super-region. Many other regions beyond our observable universe would exist with each such region governed by a different set of physical parameters than the ones we have measured for our universe.”
Dr. Chary came to his conclusions by using models of the cosmic microwave background and subtracting it from Planck’s pictures of the entire sky. He then removed signals from the stars, gas and dust. With all these removed, all that should have been visible in the images was noise. However, Dr. Chary reports that instead he found scattered patches that were 4,500 times brighter than they should have been. They are thought to come from an era in the universe’s evolution known as recombination, when electrons and protons first combined to create hydrogen. This era has a distinctive spectrum of color due to the limited number of atoms around, and hence has a unique appearance and anomalies can be easily spotted.
Dr. Chary wrote, “The implication is that collision of our Universe with an alternate Universe that has a higher baryon density is responsible for the enhanced recombination line signature.”
Other astronomers are very excited about his findings. Dr. Jens Chluba, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge, told New Scientist, “To explain the signals that Dr. Chary found with the cosmological recombination radiation, one needs a large enhancement in the number of (other particles) relative to photons. In the realm of alternative universes, this is entirely possible.”
The discovery of another universe would be earth-shattering. Excitingly, further study of this possible parallel universe may be possible very soon through NASA’s PIXIE, the Primordial Inflation Explorer whose instruments could more accurately observe and analyze Chary’s light signals and procure more data about cosmic inflation. Scientists at Goddard Space Flight Center are looking for funding for PIXIE, however that funding might not be awarded till the end of 2016.
Mystery bright spots could be first glimpse of another universe
Light given off by hydrogen shortly after the big bang has left some unexplained bright patches in space. Are they evidence of bumping into another universe?
THE curtain at the edge of the universe may be rippling, hinting that there’s more backstage. Data from the European Space Agency’s Planck telescope could be giving us our first glimpse of another universe, with different physics, bumping up against our own.
That’s the tentative conclusion of an analysis by Ranga-Ram Chary, a researcher at Planck’s US data centre in California. Armed with Planck’s painstaking map of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – light lingering from the hot, soupy state of the early universe – Chary revealed an eerie glow that could be due to matter from aneighbouring universe leaking into ours.
This sort of collision should be possible, according to modern cosmological theories that suggest the universe we see is just one bubble among many. Such a multiverse may be a consequence of cosmic inflation, the widely accepted idea that the early universe expanded exponentially in the slimmest fraction of a second after the big bang.
Since it starts, inflation never quite stops, so a multitude of universes becomes nearly inevitable. “I would say most versions of inflation in fact lead to eternal inflation, producing a number of pocket universes,” says Alan Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an architect of the theory.
Energy hidden in empty space drives inflation, and the amount that’s around could vary from place to place, so some regions would eventually settle down and stop expanding at such a manic pace. But the spots where inflation is going gangbusters would spawn inflating universes. And even areas within these new bubbles could balloon into pocket universes themselves.
Like compositions on the same theme, each universe produced this way would be likely to have its own spin on physics. The matter in some bubbles – the boring ones – would fly apart within 10-40 seconds of their creation. Others would be full of particles and rules similar to ours, or even exactly like ours. In the multiverse of eternal inflation, everything that can happen has happened – and will probably happen again.
That notion could explain why the physical constants of our universe seem to be so exquisitely tuned to allow for galaxies, stars, planets and life (see “Just right for life?“).
Sadly, if they do exist, other bubbles are nigh on impossible to learn about. With the space between them and us always expanding, light is too slow to carry any information between different regions. “They could never even know about each other’s existence,” says Matthew Johnson of York University in Toronto, Canada. “It sounds like a fun idea but it seems like there’s no way to test it.”
Bubble trouble
However, if two bubbles started out close enough that they touched before expanding space pushed them apart forever, they could leave an imprint on each other. “You need to get lucky,” Johnson says.
“If two bubbles started out close enough that they touched, they could leave an imprint on each other”
In 2007, Johnson and his PhD adviser proposed that these clashing bubbles might show up as circular bruises on the CMB. They were looking for cosmic dance partners that resembled our own universe, but with more of everything. That would make a collision appear as a bright, hot ring of photons.
By 2011, they were able to search for them in data from NASA’s WMAP probe, the precursor to Planck. But they came up empty-handed.
Now Chary thinks he may have spotted a different signature of a clash with a foreign universe.
“There are two approaches, looking for different classes of pocket universes,” Johnson says. “They’re hunting for lions, and we’re hunting for polar bears.”
Instead of looking at the CMB itself, Chary subtracted a model of the CMB from Planck’s picture of the entire sky. Then he took away everything else, too: the stars, gas and dust.
With our universe scrubbed away, nothing should be left except noise. But in a certain frequency range, scattered patches on the sky look far brighter than they should. If they check out, these anomalous clumps could be caused by cosmic fist-bumps: our universe colliding with another part of the multiverse (arxiv.org/abs/1510.00126).
These patches look like they come from the era a few hundred thousand years after the big bang when electrons and protons first joined forces to create hydrogen, which emits light in a limited range of colours. We can see signs of that era, called recombination, in the light from that early hydrogen. Studying the light from recombination could be a unique signature of the matter in our universe – and potentially distinguish signs from beyond.
“This signal is one of the fingerprints of our own universe,” says Jens Chluba of the University of Cambridge. “Other universes should leave a different mark.”
“This signal is one of the fingerprints of our own universe. Others should leave a different mark”
Since this light is normally drowned out by the glow of the cosmic microwave background, recombination should have been tough for even Planck to spot. But Chary’s analysis revealed spots that were 4500 times as bright as theory predicts.
One exciting explanation for this is if a surplus of protons and electrons – or something a lot like them – got dumped in at the point of contact with another universe, making the light from recombination a lot brighter. Chary’s patches require the universe at the other end of the collision to have roughly 1000 times as many such particles as ours.
“To explain the signals that Dr Chary found with the cosmological recombination radiation, one needs a large enhancement in the number of [other particles] relative to photons,” Chluba says. “In the realm of alternative universes, this is entirely possible.”
Of course there are caveats, and recent history provides an important reality check. In 2014, a team using the BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole announced another faint signal with earth-shaking cosmological implications. The spirals of polarised light, spotted in the cosmic background, would have provided more observational evidence for the idea of inflation and helped us understand how inflation occurred. But it turned out that signal came from dust grains within our galaxy.
Princeton University’s David Spergel, who played a major role in debunking the BICEP2 finding, thinks dust may again be clouding our cosmological insights. “I suspect that it would be worth looking into alternative possibilities,” he says. “The dust properties are more complicated than we have been assuming, and I think that this is a more plausible explanation.”
Joseph Silk of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, is even more pessimistic, calling claims of an alternate universe “completely implausible”. While he thinks the paper is a good analysis of anomalies in Planck data, Silk also believes something is getting in the way. “My view is that they are almost certainly due to foregrounds,” he says.
Chary acknowledges that his idea is as tentative as it is exciting. “Unusual claims like evidence for alternate universes require a very high burden of proof,” he writes.
He makes an effort to rule out more prosaic explanations. If it is dust, Chary argues, it would be the coldest dust we’ve ever seen. It’s probably not noise masquerading as a signal. It could be carbon monoxide moving toward us, but we don’t usually see that. It could be faraway carbon, but that emission is too weak.
“I am certain he made every effort to ensure that the analysis is solid,” says Chluba. Even so, foregrounds and poorly understood patterns could still be the source of the signals. “It will be important to carry out an independent analysis and confirm his finding,” Chluba says.
Sensitive solutions
One obstacle to checking is that we’re limited by the data itself. Planck was hyper-sensitive to the cosmic microwave background, but it wasn’t intended to measure the spectral distortions Chary is looking for. Johnson’s team also plans to use Planck to look for their own alternate universes, once the data they need is released to the public – but they estimate that Planck will only make them twice as sensitive to the bubble collisions they’re looking for as they were with WMAP.
An experiment that could help might be on its way. Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center plan to submitPIXIE, the Primordial Inflation Explorer, to be considered for funding at the end of 2016.
PIXIE’s spectral resolution could help characterise Chary’s signals if they really are there, Chluba says. But even if they aren’t, reconstructing how inflation happened could still lead us once again back to the multiverse – and tell us what kind of bubble collisions we should look for next (see diagram).
(Image: Rudi Sebastian/Plainpicture)
Just right for life?
If our universe is just one of many, that could explain why it seems so exquisitely tuned for our existence.
If dark energy, the repulsive influence hiding in empty space that speeds up the expansion of the universe, were just a little stronger, matter would be flung apart before galaxies could ever form. If it were attractive instead, the universe would collapse. But it is shockingly puny, and that’s weird, unless our universe is one of many in the multiverse.
Compared with what we might expect from quantum theory, dark energy is 120 orders of magnitude too small. So far, no compelling explanation for that discrepancy has emerged. But if the multiverse exists, and dark energy varies from bubble to bubble (see main story), that might not seem so strange.
That’s because our own universe might be an oddball compared to most bubbles. In many, dark energy would be too strong for galaxies, stars and planets to form, but not in all. “Plenty of them would have energies as small as what we observe,” says physicist Alan Guth of MIT.
That still leaves us struggling to explain why our universe is one of the special ones. Our best answer so far, Guth says, is a philosophical headache: our universe has to be special because we are alive in it. In a more average region, where dark energy is stronger, stars, planets, and life would never have evolved.
That could mean life only exists in a sliver of the multiverse, with any conscious beings convinced their own slice of space is special, too.
This article appeared in print under the headline “A brush with a universe next door”
GERMANY IS ABOUT TO SWITCH ON A NEW FUSION REACTOR THAT COULD CHANGE THE WORLD FOREVER
GERMANY IS ABOUT TO SWITCH ON A NEW FUSION REACTOR THAT COULD CHANGE THE WORLD FOREVER
A team of researchers from Germany has completed the construction of a new experimental fusion reactor, which they hope will surpass all the other models in having the longest sustained reaction, according to Science.
Nuclear fusion reactors aim to replicate the processes that go on inside stars to get electricity, fusing lighter atoms (like hydrogen or helium) together to form heavier elements. Nuclear fusion is still experimental, and it is unlikely we will have commercial power stations before 2050, but it is being pursued (including projects such as ITER) because it produces a lot of energy using a tiny amount of fuel.
It requires having the atoms in an extremely hot plasma (over 100 million kelvins), though, something that can't be done on a large scale at the moment. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, however, think they may have a solution.
To achieve the scalding plasma, scientists typically use lasers to heat up gas and the plasma is trapped by a magnetic field. Keeping the plasma hot and confined is the main technological challenge when it comes to reactors.
The most common model of nuclear reactors is called a tokamak, a device that confines the plasma in a donut shape. To maintain the plasma in this shape, strong magnets surround the reactor, and an electrical current is induced in the plasma. This current severely limits the tokamak, as it can make the plasma break free of the magnetic confinement and seriously damage the reactor. The current can only be provided in short pulses, limiting the fusion time to only a few minutes.
The other model is called a stellarator. Stellarators were invented by American physicist Lyman Spitzer in 1950, but they fell from favor in the 1970s as the tokamaks were giving much better results. They force the plasma in a weird twisted donut, with no need for an induced electric current inside but requiring a lot more magnets and a more complicated design to keep the plasma confined.
The new machine from the Max Planck Institute, called Wendelstein 7-X (W7X), is a stellarator. It’s the largest in the world at 16 meters (52 feet) in diameter and the team behind it hopes to assess the suitability of its design for commercial fusion reactors.
Shown is the interior of the reactor in 2011.
IPP/Wolfgang Filser. The €1 billion ($1.1 billion/£715 million) German reactor took 19 years to complete; it has 425 metric tons (470 U.S. tons) of superconducting magnets, which need to be cooled down to almost absolute zero, and between those magnets there are 250 ports to supply and remove fuel, to position diagnostic instruments and to be able to heat the plasma inside using microwaves. The construction of such a complex machine could only be done using advanced 3D software. “It can only be done on computer,” Thomas Klinger, leader of the project, told Science. “You can't adapt anything on site.”
W7X should be able to operate with up to 30 minutes of plasma discharge. If the machine ends up doing so, it will become a serious contender to the technology employed in fusion reactors in the future. The current record holder is the French tokamak “Tore Supra” with six minutes and 30 seconds.
The reactor should be turned on by the end of November, and it is currently awaiting approval for the go-ahead from the German nuclear authority ( via iflscience.com ).
You can check out a time-lapse video of WX7's construction and an animation of how it works in the video below:
Justesix semaines avant la réunification de l'Allemagne, des milliers de témoins occulaires ont observé une formation de sept objets lumineux, planant pendant presque 30 minutes au-dessus de la mer baltique près de Peenemünde, à l'ancien chantier de construction de fusée nazi V-2, ces OVNI s'approchent de la centrale nucléaire Greifswald.
Parmi les témoins occulaires se trouvaient des physiciens en nucléaire russe travaillant pour cette installation.
Les chercheurs allemands d'OVNI ont pu rassembler cinq videos d'amateur de cet événement, ce qui leur ont permis de reconstruire la position de la formation par triangulation.
Les sceptiques ont rapidement refusé ce cas en disant que pour eux c'étaient de simples fusées de signal mises dans le ciel par la marine russe ou polonaise, mais ils ignorent le fait que la formation, sans aucun doute, planait au-dessus des mers allemandes, à l'ouest de la frontière polonaise.
Et n'importe quelle manoeuvre militaire avant la réunification allemande aurait été considérée comme une agression et aurait causé des protestations diplomatiques importantes.
Mais en fait toutes les deux, la navy russe et polonaise, ont toutes les deux nié cette manoeuvre aérienne alors en question.
Nous présentons ci-dessous deux images tirées des trois meilleurs videos, pris par le Dr. en nucléaire russe physicien Ludmilla Ivanova de Greifswald, Bernhard Gröchel d'Ücheritz-Bansin sur Usedom et Jürgen Luchterhand, à l'est de Greifswald.
Le 24 Août 1990, à la centrale nucléaire de Greifswald en Allemagne de l'Est. Le personnel Est-Allemand et Russe travaillant à la centrale nucléaire a enregistré ces formations d'ovnis alors qu'ils semblaient se grouper dans le ciel au-dessus de cet endroit très sensible. Les lumières sont restées dans le ciel pendant des heures ou tout au moins quasiment une demi-heure sûre, et ont été filmées depuis différents points par différentes caméras. Parfois, le groupe a été approché par d'autres lumières voyageant à travers le ciel jusqu'à ce qu'elles joignent le groupe plus grand. Ce cas et d'autres cas semblables au-dessus de centrales nucléaires et autres installations atomiques pourrait être lié à des phénomènes encore inconnus du fait de notre connaissance limitée du comportement nucléaire en général.
Quatre vidéos amateursont été tournées depuis différents points de vue: 1) Greifswald: Jürgen Luchterhand, 2) Greifswald, Mendeleyev-Str. 12: Ludmilla Ivanova M.D., 3) Greifswald, pas loin de l'adresse ci dessus: Valery Vinogradov, vidéo ci-dessous, 4) Harbour of Lauterbach (sur l'île de Ringen): Irmgard et Ingo Kaiser.
OVNI pris au dessus de la centrale nucléaire de Greifswald, en Allemagne de l'Est, le 24 août 1990.
Photo tirée du documentaire sur "TV Allemande publique ARD".
Un autre clip de Greifswald en Allemagne de l'Est en 1990, enregistré par le cameraman Valery Vinagradov. Valery déclare qu'il n'était pas le seul témoin de l'événement et déclame que des "centaines de témoins ont assisté à cet événement anormal et de nombreuses photographies ont été prises." Il a décrit les objets comme étant " des boules rougeoyantes qui étaient suspendues en formation dans le ciel. Les sphères qui ont composaient la formation semblaient tourner et planer, mais d'une façon stable et ordonnée." Il a également déclaré " ils agissaient de concert sans aucun mouvements brusques." Plus tard lors de l'observation, une autre sphère apparue et voyagea vers le groupe juste pour disparaître dès qu'elle l'atteignit. C'est pour ces raisons que Valery ne croit pas que ces choses étaient des fusées ou des engins classiques.
Sept photos des objets ont été prises, parmi lesquelles l'une depuis 20 km de là par Rainer-Michael Ladwig de Berlin. Il n'y a aucun doute sur le fait que les quatre vidéos et les sept photosmontrent les mêmes objets, il est donc improbable qu'il s'agisse d'un canular. Une analyse informatique des vidéos et photos ont montré que les objets ont manoeuvré a une altitude de 6000 mètres sous les nuages. Ils ont pu être vus depuis une distance de 125 kilomètres.
Le 10 Octobre 1993 à 20:15 le documentaire "Les OVNIS - pourtant ils existent " ("UFOs - und es gibt sie doch") par Heinz Rohde fut diffusé sur ARD, une chaîne allemande publique, avec commentaire et analyses de ces événements et documents.
OVNI pris au dessus de la centrale nucléaire de Greifswald, en Allemagne de l'Est, le 24 août 1990. Photo tirée du documentaire sur "TV Allemande publique ARD" et de la vidéo prise par Valery Vinagradov.
Voyez encore des photos ci-dessous, et remarquez que la configuration géométrique des points lumineux change, cela explique une chose simple, ces points lumineux ne pouvaient être que plusieurs engins extraterrestres en formation effectuant des figures pour le plus grand spectacle des "Hommes" se trouvant à Greifswald.
Toutes ces photos sont en fait des arrêts sur image provenant de plusieurs films faits par les témoins ce jour-là, pour ceux qui sont des septiques indécrotables, vous êtes au moins obligés de reconnaître que des OVNI existent, et là c'est impossible de répondre autre chose, impossible !
Maintenant libre à vous de croire que ce ne sont que des engins d'origine terrestre genre F-117 en pleine démonstration pour un 14 juillet ou des oies en rut éclairées par des lampions ou des lucioles !...
Au fait voyez à quoi ressemble le F-117 vu de nuit, nous avons justement une photo de lui en bas de page, rien à voir avec ces lumières ! De plus s'il avait volé à la même hauteur qu'elles, cela n'aurait été que juste un point dans le ciel ! Et de plus n'oubliez pas aussi par dessus tout cela qu'aucun bruit ne ressortait de ces lumières !
Rappelons également qu'en 1990, les lanternes asiatiques n'étaient pas encore connues ni trouvables en europe, et surtout pas dans cette région de l'Allemagne de l'Est très protégée, et qu'également, les lanternes asiatiques ne peuvent pas dépasser l'altitude de 500 mètres environs alors que là, nous parlons de 6000 mètres...
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
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Schematic of the average tokamak. Notice how it has fewer layers than the stellarator and the shape of the magnetic coils is different. Credit: Uploaded by Matthias W Hirsch on Wikipedia
