Residents of Ontario, Canada had a rare and spectacular view of a very odd-looking upside down rainbow. Technically called a circumzenithal arc, it is caused by ice crystals in the upper atmosphere that act as a prism which refracts light and creates an upside down rainbow.

Although they look identical to a rainbow (with the exception of being upside down), they’re not technically rainbows. Rainbows are formed when light reflects off of water drops such as rain or fog, while a circumzenithal arc is the result of light refracting off ice crystals in the upper atmosphere and are related to the very commonly seen halos that appear around the sun and moon. In addition, the weather has to be calm and cold, which is definitely not a problem with it being winter in Canada. Circumzenithal arcs normally appear when little to no clouds are in the sky.

The center of the bow is always towards the sun with the red color on the outside closest to the ground and purple at the top. They only happen when the sun is at a height of less than 32 degrees in the sky.

Canadian residents witnessed another beautiful phenomenon recently called “sundogs” which is when mini-suns appear hovering close on each side of our actual sun. The technical name is parhelion and the spots on each side of the sun are usually white but can sometimes appear as a reddish color located on the inside and blue on the outside.

Sundogs are created when the sun shines through a cirrus cloud that’s made up of hexagonal ice crystals that are falling with their axes located vertically. When the axes are arranged perpendicularly to the sun’s rays, they instead create the halo phenomenon. Sundogs appear at 22 degrees on either side of the sun and are also at the exact same height as our sun.

These sundogs can even be seen in tropical countries because the cloud layer is “cold no matter where you are,” according to British physicist Les Cowley.

• Click here to see pictures of the upside down rainbow and the sundogs.

An upside-down rainbow is called a circumzenithal arc.

(Submitted by Christy Litster)

The weather phenomena of a sun dog is caused by ice crystals in the sky.

(Submitted by Andy Breschuk)

The spots on either side of the sun can be reddish but are most often white.

(Submitted by Bonnie Stefishen)

So next time you’re outside on a bright sunny day, you may want to look up at the sky and you may catch a glimpse of a rare, but spectacular weather phenomenon.

{ https://mysteriousuniverse.org/ }

11-01-2019 om 11:41 geschreven door peter  

Bob Lazar Area 51 UFO Debate: Stanton Friedman and Jeremy Corbell

This video is a clip from a UFO whistleblowers panel at the 2015 International UFO Congress. In this clip Stanton Friedman and Jeremy Corbell debate Bob Lazar’s claims of having back-engineered alien spacecraft at an underground lab near Area 51. The emcee is Alejandro Rojas and the other panelists are Ruben Uriarte and Mark Pilkington.

{ http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

11-01-2019 om 11:23 geschreven door peter  

Triangle Flying Low Over Kansas

Kansas witness saw a TR3B a-like triangle UFO. MUFON closed the case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

{ http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

11-01-2019 om 11:20 geschreven door peter  

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11-01-2019 om 01:40 geschreven door peter  

These 7 Expeditions Could Reveal Some of Earth's Biggest Secrets in 2019

11-01-2019 om 00:48 geschreven door peter  

4 Things Most UFO Sightings Have in Common

Theorists who believe we've been contacted by aliens tend to lean on these details.

By Emily Gaudette

You’re driving alone down a dirt road, and you’re falling asleep at the wheel. Suddenly, a burst of light streaks across the sky — there’s a floating, flat shape in the air right in front of your truck, and though it soared quickly into view, it seems to have stopped completely. A beam of light shoots out from underneath the craft, and a little man with huge eyes, an enormous head, and a tiny body appears in the middle of the road. He doesn’t want to hurt you; he just wants to stick a probe in your nasal cavity.

Why does this alien encounter story feel predictable and familiar? If humans have never encountered extraterrestrial life, then how did we decide across cultures that aliens have an instantly recognizable shape? If you visit the UFO Festival in Roswell, New Mexico, it becomes immediately clear that humans have decided on a visual shorthand for alien life: the flying saucers, the little green men with huge black eyes, three fingers, and medical probes. But where did these cliches come from?

In the “believer” community, common threads that connect the stories of “close encounters” include certain types of aliens, spacecraft, and the phenomenon of lost or frozen time. Inverse reviewed first-hand accounts of encounters with alien life to find commonalities, and these were the four most popular descriptors we came across.

4. The Gray Aliens

Non-believers often call extraterrestrials “little green men,” which is a reference to the commercialized, cartoon version of aliens. Truthfully, most people who profess to having had close encounters of the “third kind,” meaning contact with another living organism not from Earth, say the alien they met was gray.

Gray aliens — who are otherwise exactly as you’re imagining them, with big foreheads, tiny chins, bodies, and large black eyes — are understood among believers to be the most common. Or, at least, they’re the ones most likely to visit us here on Earth.

In fact, according to research compiled by author C.D.B. Bryan in his 1995 book Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: A Reporter’s Notebook on Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at M.I.T., 43 percent of reported encounters with aliens describe the figure the same way. People have described the grays as having a host of different personalities, temperaments, and objectives, but among this subsection of encounters, a few things hold true. The grays are always silent, they are always intelligent, and they almost always appear in groups.

Of course, there’s the enduring question of who beat whom to the “grays” archetype: believers or pop culture. If we consider science fiction literature as the origin point of these “grays,” then H.G. Wells is the inventor. In 1893, Wells described alien beings in a short story as “gray-skinned beings who were perhaps one meter tall, with big heads and large, oval-shaped pitch-black eyes.” In a serialized novel he wrote in 1901, Wells used this same description for his invented inhabitants on the moon.

The next time this specific type of alien appeared in pop culture, it was in the collected accounts of witnesses to what’s now called the 1947 Roswell Incident. Despite not being acquainted with each other before the incident, most of the people who reported seeing aliens in Roswell after the crash described them almost exactly the way Wells had.

Despite having originated in a science fiction story, the grays are collectively considered a definitive part of the conversation about alien life. At the UFO Festival in 2016, speakers on panels repeatedly referred to “the grays” as the most agreeable and least aggressive “type” of extraterrestrial that appears in witness reports.

3. The Study of Humans by Aliens

It’s very rare for a witness who professes they’ve made contact with alien life to say they were outright attacked. Perhaps because violent encounters would yield physical evidence — bruises, broken bones, signs of forced entry into one’s home — most people who say they were abducted or contacted by extraterrestrials describe aliens carrying out a calm, medicinal, and sometimes invasive form of study.

That means humans tend to agree on the narrative that aliens might have visited the Earth simply to study our bodies and culture. Of course, several times throughout his life, Stephen Hawking expressed his worry that extraterrestrial contact would cast the inhabitants of the Earth as vulnerable. After all, if an alien civilization were able to find Earth and travel to us, that means their technology would already outpace ours. “One day, we might receive a signal from a planet like this,” Hawking said in 2016, referring to a potentially habitable planet known as Gliese 832c. “But we should be wary of answering back. Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn’t turn out so well.”

2. The Government Knows About These Aliens

Ever since the local government blamed the Roswell incident on a weather balloon, believers had maintained that the United States is fully aware of past run-ins with extraterrestrials. Most imagine a situation much like the one that plays out in 1996’s Independence Day, in which the president (Bill Pullman) is only told about the nation’s history of third-kind encounters when tensions between humans and aliens become untenable.

In 2014, Foreign Policy reported the US government had a contingency plan in place just in case a zombie apocalypse were to erupt, and paranormal theorists took that opportunity to investigate the government’s policy for alien life.

While the governments of the world have reportedly played around with loose post-detection policies for extraterrestrial life — tell the United Nations, share all available data, and maintain full transparency with the rest of the world — none have gone public with their plans.

When it comes to the theory that the American government knows about extraterrestrial life, hasn’t told its citizens, and is currently hiding proof, the nucleus of the conspiracy is Area 51 in Nevada. Many have claimed to have spotted evidence of alien life on the desert government property, but as far as we know, it’s only been used for experimental weapons development. That’s a creepy enough fact on its own.

1. A Flat Saucer Making Hair-Pin Turns Is Something That Happens

According to the world’s largest network of alien “believers,” the Mutual Unidentified Flying Object Network (MUFON), reports of alien encounters have made it clear that any visitors to Earth possess technology far more advanced than our own. Admittedly, if one were to search through MUFON members’ uploaded, original drawings, which they commission from those who say they’ve met aliens, there are noticeable similarities.

For whatever reason, believers don’t tend to say that alien spacecraft look like the rockets humans habitually send into the atmosphere. They’re never sitting in cars, either.

According to most eyewitness accounts, they look more like stealth drones, ranging in size from an entire football field to a single kayak. If they’re not completely smooth and saucer-shaped, they’re usually triangular in shape, and they almost always bear flashing lights.

Find out how The CW imagines alien life in the series premiere of Roswell, New Mexico on January 15th – Tuesday at 9/8c.

{ https://www.inverse.com/ }

11-01-2019 om 00:28 geschreven door peter  

11-01-2019 om 00:05 geschreven door peter  

When a U.S. Fighter Pilot Got into a Dogfight with a UFO

10-01-2019 om 23:56 geschreven door peter  

Did Interstellar get it right? Researchers say rotating black holes COULD be used as portals for hyperspace travel

• Researchers found all black holes are not created equal
• If the black hole  is large and rotating, 'gentle' travel could be possible

By GAURAV KHANNA FOR THE CONVERSATION

One of the most cherished science fiction scenarios is using a black hole as a portal to another dimension or time or universe. 

That fantasy may be closer to reality than previously imagined.

Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in the universe. 

A University of Massachusetts study found that black holes that are large and rotating enough could allow 'gentle' hyperspace travel.

They are the consequence of gravity crushing a dying star without limit, leading to the formation of a true singularity – which happens when an entire star gets compressed down to a single point yielding an object with infinite density. 

This dense and hot singularity punches a hole in the fabric of spacetime itself, possibly opening up an opportunity for hyperspace travel. 

That is, a short cut through spacetime allowing for travel over cosmic scale distances in a short period.

Researchers previously thought that any spacecraft attempting to use a black hole as a portal of this type would have to reckon with nature at its worst. 

The hot and dense singularity would cause the spacecraft to endure a sequence of increasingly uncomfortable tidal stretching and squeezing before being completely vaporized.

My team at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a colleague at Georgia Gwinnett College have shown that all black holes are not created equal. 

If the black hole like Sagittarius A*, located at the center of our own galaxy, is large and rotating, then the outlook for a spacecraft changes dramatically. 

That's because the singularity that a spacecraft would have to contend with is very gentle and could allow for a very peaceful passage.

'Interstellar' was based on a book written by Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Kip Thorne and Gargantua's physical properties are central to the plot of this Hollywood movie.

The reason that this is possible is that the relevant singularity inside a rotating black hole is technically 'weak,' and thus does not damage objects that interact with it. 

At first, this fact may seem counter intuitive. 

But one can think of it as analogous to the common experience of quickly passing one's finger through a candle's near 2,000-degree flame, without getting burned.

My colleague Lior Burko and I have been investigating the physics of black holes for over two decades. 

This graph depicts the physical strain on the spacecraft’s steel frame as it plummets into a rotating black hole. The inset shows a detailed zoom-in for very late times. The important thing to note is that the strain increases dramatically close to the black hole, but does not grow indefinitely. Therefore, the spacecraft and its inhabitants may survive the journey.

In 2016, my Ph.D. student, Caroline Mallary, inspired by Christopher Nolan's blockbuster film 'Interstellar,' set out to test if Cooper (Matthew McConaughey's character), could survive his fall deep into Gargantua – a fictional, supermassive, rapidly rotating black hole some 100 million times the mass of our sun. 

'Interstellar' was based on a book written by Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Kip Thorne and Gargantua's physical properties are central to the plot of this Hollywood movie.

Building on work done by physicist Amos Ori two decades prior, and armed with her strong computational skills, Mallary built a computer model that would capture most of the essential physical effects on a spacecraft, or any large object, falling into a large, rotating black hole like Sagittarius A*.

What she discovered is that under all conditions an object falling into a rotating black hole would not experience infinitely large effects upon passage through the hole's so-called inner horizon singularity. 

This is the singularity that an object entering a rotating black hole cannot maneuver around or avoid. 

Singularity of massive black hole or wormhole. Researchers previously thought that any spacecraft attempting to use a black hole as a portal of this type would have to reckon with nature at its worst.

Not only that, under the right circumstances, these effects may be negligibly small, allowing for a rather comfortable passage through the singularity. 

In fact, there may no noticeable effects on the falling object at all. This increases the feasibility of using large, rotating black holes as portals for hyperspace travel.

Mallary also discovered a feature that was not fully appreciated before: the fact that the effects of the singularity in the context of a rotating black hole would result in rapidly increasing cycles of stretching and squeezing on the spacecraft. 

But for very large black holes like Gargantua, the strength of this effect would be very small. So, the spacecraft and any individuals on board would not detect it.

The crucial point is that these effects do not increase without bound; in fact, they stay finite, even though the stresses on the spacecraft tend to grow indefinitely as it approaches the black hole.

WHAT ARE BLACK HOLES?

Black holes are so dense and their gravitational pull is so strong that no form of radiation can escape them - not even light.

They act as intense sources of gravity which hoover up dust and gas around them.

Their intense gravitational pull is thought to be what stars in galaxies orbit around.

How they are formed is still poorly understood.

Supermassive black holes are incredibly dense areas in the centre of galaxies with masses that can be billions of times that of the sun. They cause dips in space-time (artist's impression) and even light cannot escape their gravitational pull

Astronomers believe they may form when a large cloud of gas up to 100,000 times bigger than the sun, collapses into a black hole.

Many of these black hole seeds then merge to form much larger supermassive black holes, which are found at the centre of every known massive galaxy.

Alternatively, a supermassive black hole seed could come from a giant star, about 100 times the sun's mass, that ultimately forms into a black hole after it runs out of fuel and collapses.

When these giant stars die, they also go 'supernova', a huge explosion that expels the matter from the outer layers of the star into deep space. 

There are a few important simplifying assumptions and resulting caveats in the context of Mallary's model. 

The main assumption is that the black hole under consideration is completely isolated and thus not subject to constant disturbances by a source such as another star in its vicinity or even any falling radiation. 

While this assumption allows important simplifications, it is worth noting that most black holes are surrounded by cosmic material – dust, gas, radiation.

Therefore, a natural extension of Mallary's work would be to perform a similar study in the context of a more realistic astrophysical black hole.

Mallary's approach of using a computer simulation to examine the effects of a black hole on an object is very common in the field of black hole physics. 

Needless to say, we do not have the capability of performing real experiments in or near black holes yet, so scientists resort to theory and simulations to develop an understanding, by making predictions and new discoveries.

{ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ }

10-01-2019 om 23:07 geschreven door peter  

Feel like traveling to another dimension? Better choose your black hole wisely. 

Vadim Sadovski/Shutterstock.com

Rotating black holes may serve as gentle portals for hyperspace travel

One of the most cherished science fiction scenarios is using a black hole as a portal to another dimension or time or universe. That fantasy may be closer to reality than previously imagined.

Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in the universe. They are the consequence of gravity crushing a dying star without limit, leading to the formation of a true singularity – which happens when an entire star gets compressed down to a single point yielding an object with infinite density. This dense and hot singularity punches a hole in the fabric of spacetime itself, possibly opening up an opportunity for hyperspace travel. That is, a short cut through spacetime allowing for travel over cosmic scale distances in a short period.

Researchers previously thought that any spacecraft attempting to use a black hole as a portal of this type would have to reckon with nature at its worst. The hot and dense singularity would cause the spacecraft to endure a sequence of increasingly uncomfortable tidal stretching and squeezing before being completely vaporized.

Flying through a black hole

My team at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a colleague at Georgia Gwinnett College have shown that all black holes are not created equal. If the black hole like Sagittarius A*, located at the center of our own galaxy, is large and rotating, then the outlook for a spacecraft changes dramatically. That’s because the singularity that a spacecraft would have to contend with is very gentle and could allow for a very peaceful passage.

The reason that this is possible is that the relevant singularity inside a rotating black hole is technically “weak,” and thus does not damage objects that interact with it. At first, this fact may seem counter intuitive. But one can think of it as analogous to the common experience of quickly passing one’s finger through a candle’s near 2,000-degree flame, without getting burned.

My colleague Lior Burko and I have been investigating the physics of black holes for over two decades. In 2016, my Ph.D. student, Caroline Mallary, inspired by Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film “Interstellar,” set out to test if Cooper (Matthew McConaughey’s character), could survive his fall deep into Gargantua – a fictional, supermassive, rapidly rotating black hole some 100 million times the mass of our sun. “Interstellar” was based on a book written by Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Kip Thorne and Gargantua’s physical properties are central to the plot of this Hollywood movie.

Building on work done by physicist Amos Ori two decades prior, and armed with her strong computational skills, Mallary built a computer model that would capture most of the essential physical effects on a spacecraft, or any large object, falling into a large, rotating black hole like Sagittarius A*.

Not even a bumpy ride?

What she discovered is that under all conditions an object falling into a rotating black hole would not experience infinitely large effects upon passage through the hole’s so-called inner horizon singularity. This is the singularity that an object entering a rotating black hole cannot maneuver around or avoid. Not only that, under the right circumstances, these effects may be negligibly small, allowing for a rather comfortable passage through the singularity. In fact, there may no noticeable effects on the falling object at all. This increases the feasibility of using large, rotating black holes as portals for hyperspace travel.

Mallary also discovered a feature that was not fully appreciated before: the fact that the effects of the singularity in the context of a rotating black hole would result in rapidly increasing cycles of stretching and squeezing on the spacecraft. But for very large black holes like Gargantua, the strength of this effect would be very small. So, the spacecraft and any individuals on board would not detect it.

The crucial point is that these effects do not increase without bound; in fact, they stay finite, even though the stresses on the spacecraft tend to grow indefinitely as it approaches the black hole.

There are a few important simplifying assumptions and resulting caveats in the context of Mallary’s model. The main assumption is that the black hole under consideration is completely isolated and thus not subject to constant disturbances by a source such as another star in its vicinity or even any falling radiation. While this assumption allows important simplifications, it is worth noting that most black holes are surrounded by cosmic material – dust, gas, radiation.

Therefore, a natural extension of Mallary’s work would be to perform a similar study in the context of a more realistic astrophysical black hole.

Mallary’s approach of using a computer simulation to examine the effects of a black hole on an object is very common in the field of black hole physics. Needless to say, we do not have the capability of performing real experiments in or near black holes yet, so scientists resort to theory and simulations to develop an understanding, by making predictions and new discoveries.

{ https://theconversation.com/uk }

10-01-2019 om 22:51 geschreven door peter  

Phoenix Mars Lander: The First Spacecraft to Taste Martian Water

10-01-2019 om 22:30 geschreven door peter  

The sun will turn to ROCK in 10 billion years’ time: Star will burn the last of its nuclear energy and become a 'crystal ball' 200,000 times denser than Earth when it dies

• The sun is destined to become a crystal white dwarf in around 10 billion years
• Experts found white dwarf stars form metallic oxygen and carbon crystal cores 
• Crystallisation delays cooling, stars could be billions of years older than thought 
• The oldest white dwarfs are likely to be almost fully crystal, researchers claim

By COLIN FERNANDEZ SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT FOR THE DAILY MAIL

The sun will turn into a ‘crystal ball’ - in 10 billion years’ time when it dies, scientists have found.

Astronomers identified the first direct evidence that old stars turn to rock when they run out of nuclear fuel and begin to cool down.

Scientists trained the Gaia space telescope on 15,000 white dwarf candidates within around 300 light years of Earth.

They found large numbers of the stars showing signs that indicated that they have cooled down - and showed signs they were turning to rock.

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The sun will turn into a ‘crystal ball’ (artist's impression) - in 10 billion years’ time, scientists have found. Astronomers identified the first direct evidence that old stars turn to rock when they cool down

Dr Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, from the University of Warwick’s Department of Physics, said the observations proved a 50-year-old theory.

Dr Tremblay said: ‘This is the first direct evidence that white dwarfs crystallise, or transition from liquid to solid.

‘It was predicted fifty years ago that we should observe a pile-up in the number of white dwarfs at certain luminosities and colours due to crystallisation and only now this has been observed.

‘All white dwarfs will crystallise at some point in their evolution, although more massive white dwarfs go through the process sooner.

‘This means that billions of white dwarfs in our galaxy have already completed the process and are essentially crystal spheres in the sky.

'The sun itself will become a crystal white dwarf in about 10 billion years.’

Scientists trained the Gaia space telescope on 15,000 white dwarf candidates within around 300 light years of Earth. They found large numbers of the stars showing signs that indicated that they have cooled down - and showed signs they were turning to rock (file photo)

The crystal spheres are made of carbon and oxygen under such high density their crystal structure will make them appear to be like a metal - although it is possible that diamonds may also form as the star cools.

Our sun is currently a yellow dwarf star.

Over the next five billion years it will cool down - in the process first expanding into a ‘red giant’ - then shrinking down to a white dwarf and gradually harden and solidify.

Eventually white dwarfs cool down into black dwarfs when they give off no more heat.

The full findings of the study were published in the journal Nature.

{ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ }

10-01-2019 om 22:00 geschreven door peter  

The Sun Will Turn Into a Giant Crystal Ball After It Dies

"All white dwarfs will crystallize at some point in their evolution, although more massive white dwarfs go through the process sooner," study lead author Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, a physicist at the University of Warwick in England, said in a statement. 

"This means that billions of white dwarfs in our galaxy have already completed the process and are essentially crystal spheres in the sky," Tremblay added. "The sun itself will become a crystal white dwarf in about 10 billion years."

Tremblay and his colleagues analyzed data gathered by the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft, which launched in December 2013 to help researchers construct the best-ever 3D map of the Milky Way. Gaia does this by precisely monitoring the positions of huge numbers of stars; the mission team aims to study 1 billion stars over the spacecraft's operational lifetime.

For the new study, the researchers looked at Gaia measurements of about 15,000 white dwarfs, all of which lie within 330 light-years of the sun. These data revealed an odd "pileup" — an overabundance of white dwarfs with certain colors and brightnesses that cannot be explained by the objects' ages or masses.

Modeling work suggested that the pileup was caused by crystallization of the white dwarfs' interiors, which released enough heat to slow down the white dwarfs' cooling over time.

"This is the first direct evidence that white dwarfs crystallize, or transition from liquid to solid," Tremblay said. "It was predicted 50 years ago that we should observe a pileup in the number of white dwarfs at certain luminosities and colors due to crystallization, and only now this has been observed."

White-dwarf crystallization is akin to water freezing from liquid to ice. But the material in this case is oxygen and carbon, and it's crystallizing at temperatures that aren't exactly chilly. The process really kicks into gear when a white-dwarf interior cools down to about 18 million degrees Fahrenheit (10 million degrees Celsius), the researchers said.

The result is likely a core composed of crystallized oxygen and a mantle dominated by carbon.

"Not only do we have evidence of heat release upon solidification, but considerably more energy release is needed to explain the observations," Tremblay said. "We believe this is due to the oxygen crystallizing first and then sinking to the core, a process similar to sedimentation on a riverbed on Earth. This will push the carbon upward, and that separation will release gravitational energy."

The new results suggest that many white dwarfs are considerably older than scientists had thought — up to 15 percent older in some cases, study team members said. Astronomers generally age these stellar corpses by taking their temperature, and crystallization slows the cooling-off process. 

The study was published online today (Jan. 9) in the journal Nature.

• Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate) is out now.
• Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. 
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• Originally published on Space.com. 

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10-01-2019 om 21:49 geschreven door peter  

Scientists Find 13 Mysterious Deep-Space Flashes, Including 2nd Known 'Repeater'

10-01-2019 om 21:21 geschreven door peter  

CIA UPLOADS MILLIONS OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS TO ITS WEBSITE, INCLUDING INFORMATION ON UFOS AND PSYCHIC POWERS

The 'STAR GATE' remote viewing programme aimed to explore whether humans could be taught to be psychic

The CIA is putting its secret history online, uploading millions of newly declassified documents.

The documents include previously unseen information about the agency's hunt for UFOs and its work on the "Star Gate" project, which tried to teach humans to become psychic and see through walls.

One document, for instance, describes that project in detail. It shows how the CIA recruited volunteers to go through a programme of training that would let people access information without any of the usual means, and which would be used as a weapon for which there is "no known defense".

The US spy agency will put up 12 million pages into its online "reading room", where people will be able to search through the documents.

The previously classified pages include private briefs given to presidents and the information that is passed between its operatives. They cover everything from the Cold War and Vietnam to relatively modern problems like terrorism.

That means that people can see its history from its formation until the early 90s, for now. None of that is selected, the agency claims, meaning that it shows some of the agency and the US government's most controversial episodes.

The CIA has to declassify records that are 25 years old, unless they are made exempt. That means that each year it releases a whole new set of documents.

But this year that has been accompanied by the first time that the documents have been made available online. Until now, the documents could only be read on four terminals inside the US National Archives, in their original format.

{ https://www.independent.co.uk/ }

10-01-2019 om 20:51 geschreven door peter  

Secret Space Program Whistleblowers Claim We Have Technology 1,000 Years Ahead of Anything You've Seen

If you are interested in learning more about is really going on out in space then you need to watch this video. Special access programs can be massive in scope and can remain hidden behind a veil of secrecy for decades.

In recent years, several credible whistleblowers have stepped forward to disclose the highly advanced technologies and the highly compartmentalized systems. Faster-than-light interstellar travel allowing humankind to reach the stars is no longer the stuff of science fiction.

Interviews with insiders including Emery Smith, Clifford Stone, William Tompkins, Niara Isley and Corey Goode confirm that specific factions of humans here on Earth do have autonomous possession of interstellar travel technology, and the existence of a superluminal space naval fleet comprising various sizes and classes of vessels employing tachyon drive has been concealed from the public for many years.

{ https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/ }

10-01-2019 om 18:21 geschreven door peter  

They Are Not Human or Alien.. They Are Both, the Hybrids Are Here!

Explores the reality that there are part-human and part-extraterrestrial beings living on this planet. This video will explain how they came to be and what the motive is behind this phenomena.

Guided by their star families and other entities, they are dedicated to personal missions, which contribute to a larger process involving the flourishing of human consciousness, and the protection and evolution of life on Earth at this critical time.

Some of the experiencers are hybrid beings, embodying a significant portion of ET DNA and differentness from the rest of us. They are giving service to humanity while living among us.

Her presentation will include testimonies given in person by a few of these hybrids and visual depictions of the beings who created them, mentor them and inspire them.

{ https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/ }

10-01-2019 om 18:16 geschreven door peter  

Crop Circles Discoveries That Show Some Cannot Possibly Be Manmade (Video)

Are they trying to tell us something? Although some crop circles can be explained as man-made art, many still defy logic, and so have fallen onto the plates of researchers.

From America, Russia, to Japan and even Canada – crop circles have appeared all over the World. In many cases, their structure tends to be elliptical rather than circular, with the crop (mostly wheat) being either bent, flattened or woven to form complex patterns.

What we should Know, and What questions should we be asking? Jennifer will review the unique characteristics found in crop circles researched here in the states.

Various theories will be presented along with the peer reviewed scientific literature on the phenomena allowing everyone to be informed enough to make their own opinion as to what could be creating these unusual formations on the ground and find their own interpretations as to what they might mean

{ https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/ }

10-01-2019 om 18:05 geschreven door peter  

Wetenschappers hebben herhaald radiosignaal opgevangen van diep in de ruimte - HLN.be

Bron: Nature, Independent, BBC

Er is al veel gespeculeerd over de uitstoot van radiosignalen in de ruimte. Ze zouden kunnen voortkomen uit een heel gamma aan bronnen, van exploderende sterren tot – jawel – ruimtewezens, maar de ware toedracht is nog altijd niet bekend. Opmerkelijk: ze duren maar een milliseconde, maar ze bevatten evenveel energie als wat de zon uitstoot in 12 maanden tijd.

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Mysterieus gaatje in capsule internationaal ruimtestation ISS blijkt van binnenuit geboord te zijn

Opwindend

Het opwindende aan de nieuwe waarneming is dat het om een herhááld radiosignaal gaat. Het kwam zes keer en leek van dezelfde plaats afkomstig. Bij de meer dan 60 snelle uitstoten van radiosignalen die al werden waargenomen, was er nog maar één van dat type.

“Dat er nu een tweede waarneming is, doet vermoeden dat er nóg meer kunnen zijn”, aldus Ingrid Stairs van het Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) in British Colombia, dat de ontdekking deed. “En hoe meer gegevens we hebben, hoe groter de kans dat we deze kosmische puzzel op een dag kunnen oplossen: waar komen ze vandaan en waardoor worden ze veroorzaakt?” (lees hieronder verder)

In totaal namen de wetenschappers 13 uitbarstingen waar in een periode van 3 weken tijd. Opvallend is dat de bron een heel breed gamma aan frequenties uitstootte. Zo werden er zeker 7 opgenomen op 400 MHz, de laagste frequentie waarop de signalen ooit werden waargenomen. Het houdt ook in dat er misschien nog meer kunnen zijn op nóg een lagere frequentie. Een frequentie die zo laag is dat de CHIME ze niet eens kan oppikken.

Bronnen

“We weten nu dat de bronnen radiosignalen kunnen produceren op een lage frequentie en dat die golven aan hun omgeving kunnen ontsnappen en niet te veel uiteenvallen voor ze de aarde bereiken en waargenomen kunnen worden. Dat zegt ons iets over de omgeving waar ze vandaan komen en de bron. Het geeft ons meer stukjes om de puzzel op te lossen”, aldus Tom Landecker van CHIME.

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The CHIME telescope in British Columbia will search our universe for phenomena such as fast radio bursts, pulsars and more. 

(CHIME, Andre Renard, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto)

This visible-light image shows the host galaxy of the fast radio burst FRB 121102. 

(Gemini Observatory/AURA/NSF/NRC)

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10-01-2019 om 17:54 geschreven door peter