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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
10-02-2020
Bizarre Green Balls of Fire over the American Southwest
Bizarre Green Balls of Fire over the American Southwest
The UFO phenomenon has many aspects that are all increasingly weirder than the last. It is often difficult to ascertain just what we are dealing with, and such accounts can really run the range from the merely odd to the downright absurd. Among all of these reports one can find certain strings of reports that don’t seem to really fit into any particular mold, and definitely one of these was a strange flap of anomalous green fireballs that appeared over a period of a couple of years over New Mexico, in the United States, which are mostly an obscure oddity but which still have never been solved.
The strange phenomena known as the “green fireballs” can best be tracked back to December 5, 1948, when a USAF C-47 transport plane crew was on their way from Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado, to Williams Air Force Base in Chandler, Arizona. It had been a fairly routine flight until they got near Las Vegas and observed an eerie green light described as a “green ball of fire” illuminating the sky to the west of the city, followed by another not long after. At around the same time, another plane in the vicinity reported the same thing, describing it as pale green with a pale green trail, and saying that the light seemed to be coming towards them, fast enough that they took evasive maneuvers to avoid a collision. The crew at first thought it might be a meteorite but they dismissed this due to the fact that the object was too low to the ground and not moving fast enough. One pilot would say of the object:
Take a soft ball and paint it with some kind of fluorescent paint that will glow a bright green in the dark… Then have someone take the ball out about 100 feet in front of you and about 10 feet above you. Have him throw the ball right at your face, as hard as he can throw it. That’s what a green fireball looks like.
Image by Steve Baxter
Interestingly, while it was mostly thought that this was clearly a meteorite, when a Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, head of the University of New Mexico’s Institute of Meteoritics was sent to the area where it was believed the object should have fell based on its reported flight path there was no sign of any impact and no trace of a meteorite. On December 8, 1948, sightings of these strange green lights would continue, when a Beech T-7 on its way from Kirkland AFB to Las Vegas when the pilot and co-pilot saw a brilliant green light about 2,000 ft above them, which was headed their way at high speed and with a trajectory described as “flat and parallel to the ground.” The researcher LaPaz would once again step in to investigate and learn that there had been several other sightings of these green balls of light, all of them near the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and Sandia atomic-weapons laboratory, as well as at other key military and sensitive installations in the region such as radar stations, nuclear reactors, and fighter-interceptor bases around the country. Why? No one knows.
Making it all rather intriguing was that most of these sightings were being made by trained observers and reliable witnesses such as pilots, weather observers, scientists, intelligence officers and other military personnel, who were unlikely to be making this all up or making mistakes as to what they were seeing. During his investigation LaPaz was also unable to uncover any evidence of meteorite activity, nor that there had been ever any rocket or flare tests in the areas where these sightings were taking place during those time frames. He also was beginning to doubt the meteorite theory by this point, because of the horizontal trajectories of the objects and the fact that green was not considered to be a usual color for meteorites, with him saying of the strange phenomenon:
The fireballs are Kelly green, whereas meteors are red, yellow, blue, or white. A green color could be caused by large amounts of copper, but this element is rarely found in ordinary fireballs. It could also originate from certain man-made atomic fuels. They make no noise. None of the observers of green fireballs, nor persons in the area of the balls, have report any sound whatsoever. Also the fact that they disappear and no fragments have been found on the earth, may be evidence that their flight is controlled.
Sightings of the strange green balls of fire would continue coming in over the coming month, with LaPaz himself seeing one of them on December 12th near Santa Fe that due to its perfectly horizontal trajectory, color, speed, and the way it wobbled convinced him this was no meteor. He would later ascertain that the object had passed directly over the Los Alamos laboratory and had been seen by several other witnesses in the area. A particularly spectacular sighting was made on December 20, when a patrol at Los Alamos observed several luminescent green lights descend rapidly at an angle of 45 degrees, only to then level off and continue on a horizontal pathway out of sight. On this occasion there was even mention made of what looked like an exhaust trail, similar to that of a rocket. Making it more curious is that when these sightings were reported the Air Force was quick to keep it all under wraps, even going as far as to halt the press release on the incident because of “pressure from other agencies also investigating this occurrence.” The story still managed to get out, and in a Feb 29, 1949 edition of the local newspaper Skyliner it was written of the secrecy:
A call to El Paso, Tex., brought official denial from D. K. Brown, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation district that embraces Los Alamos, that his agency had not been called to deal with the matter. At the information or thought-control office officials indicated that they knew about the recurring green flame in the sky but indicated that it wouldn’t be wise to write about it. Capt. Carroll Tyler, project manager, said simply that all he knew about the lights was rumor — the same rumors that everyone is hearing.
Why was there so much official denial over these sightings? Who knows? Sightings would continue into the next year, when there were more reports into January. One notable account occurred on January 30, 1949, when an extremely bright green fireball was observed over New Mexico by over one hundred witnesses, including trained military personnel, oil workers, aircrew, control tower personnel, all of who described the same thing and noted that the object was completely silent. Sightings would keep on coming in right on into the following year, when pilot Captain A. Harvey and co-pilot Merrick C. Marshall saw a green fireball as they were approaching Albuquerque from Gallup, New Mexico. The Dec. 18, 1950 edition of the Albuquerque Journal would say of the encounter:
The two flyers reported that the light first appeared in the northeast, approximately over Las Vegas. They watched the light for ten minutes, they said, as it moved in the direction of Las Alamos. During that time the “greenish fireball” seemed to circle Los Alamos and then head directly toward Albuquerque. In turning, the light changed from green to a very bright white and passed over and to the rear of their plane — then near Albuquerque — at an estimated speed of over “700 miles an hour.” The time when the light was first sighted was at exactly 11:25 p.m. It remained in view until 11:35. Both pilots are experienced airmen and said it could not possibly have been another plane.
After this the sightings of the green fireballs sort of peter out and we are left to search for answers. Theories have abounded as to what could have caused the 1948-1950 green fireball flap of the Southwest. The meteor theory was largely put to rest by LaPaz, who could find no evidence whatsoever that meteorites were to blame and also pointed out time and time again that the objects displayed very uncharacteristic features for meteorites. Another idea is that it was caused by the phenomenon called ball lightning, which is in itself little understood and entails hovering orbs of electricity that appear and then blink out of existence. Still other ideas are that this was evidence of top secret aircraft or rocket tests, fallout-debris clouds associated with top-secret atomic testing, or Soviet spy technology, which might explain why they were always seen near these government installations. Of course there is also the idea that these were UFOs or even probes dropped from larger alien spacecraft. What was at the heart of the deluge of green fireball accounts reported by so many during this time span? Was this meteors, atmospheric phenomena, or visitors from another world? We didn’t know then, and we don’t know now. It remains a mystery.
ESA’s sun-exploring Solar Orbiter will be the first spacecraft ever to fly over the sun’s poles. It’ll study the origin of the solar wind, which has the potential to affect earthly technologies.
ESA’s new sun-exploring mission Solar Orbiter blasted to space this morning aboard a U.S. Atlas V 411 rocket from NASA’s spaceport in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Liftoff took place as expected at 04:03 UTC on Monday, February 10, 2020 (11:03 p.m. EST Sunday, February 9).
Solar Orbiter carries a set of 10 instruments for imaging the surface of the sun and studying its environment. It’ll get as close to the sun as 25 million miles (42 million km); that’s about a quarter of the distance between the sun and Earth. Solar Orbiter will be the first spacecraft to fly over the sun’s poles. It’s expected to shed new light on what gives rise to solar wind, which can affect earthly technologies including electric grids and communications satellites.
Solar Orbiter … will provide the first-ever images of the sun’s poles and the never-before-observed magnetic environment there, which helps drive the sun’s 11-year solar cycle and its periodic outpouring of solar storms.
Solar Orbiter will take the first direct images of the sun’s poles, but getting into the right orbit to do this means taking a loopy path through the inner solar system, borrowing thrust from the powerful gravitational fields of Earth and Venus.
The animation below,from ESA, shows the trajectory of Solar Orbiter around the sun, highlighting the gravity assist maneuvers that will enable the spacecraft to change inclination to observe the sun from different perspectives.
Bottom line: ESA’s sun-exploring Solar Orbiter mission lifted off successfully from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on February 10, 2020.
Something in Deep Space Is Sending Signals to Earth in Steady 16-Day Cycles
Something in Deep Space Is Sending Signals to Earth in Steady 16-Day Cycles
Scientists have discovered the first fast radio burst that beats at a steady rhythm, and the mysterious repeating signal is coming from the outskirts of another galaxy.
A mysterious radio source located in a galaxy 500 million light years from Earth is pulsing on a 16-day cycle, like clockwork, according to a new study. This marks the first time that scientists have ever detected periodicity in these signals, which are known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), and is a major step toward unmasking their sources.
FRBs are one of the most tantalizing puzzles that the universe has thrown at scientists in recent years. First spotted in 2007, these powerful radio bursts are produced by energetic sources, though nobody is sure what those might be. FRBs are also mystifying because they can be either one-offs or “repeaters,” meaning some bursts appear only once in a certain part of the sky, while others emit multiple flashes to Earth.
Pulses from these repeat bursts have, so far, seemed somewhat random and discordant in their timing. But that changed last year, when the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst Project (CHIME/FRB), a group dedicated to observing and studying FRBs, discovered that a repeater called FRB 180916.J0158+65 had a regular cadence.
The CHIME/FRB team kept tabs on the repeating burst between September 2018 and October 2019 using the CHIME radio telescope in British Columbia. During that period, the bursts were clustered into a period of four days, and then seemed to switch off for the next 12 days, for a total cycle of about 16 days. Some cycles did not produce any visible bursts, but those that did were all synced up to the same 16-day intervals.
An animation shows the random appearance of fast radio bursts (FRBs) across the sky.
(Credit: NRAO Outreach/T. Jarrett (IPAC/Caltech); B. Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF)
“We conclude that this is the first detected periodicity of any kind in an FRB source,” the team said in a paper published on the preprint server arXiv in late January. “The discovery of a 16.35-day periodicity in a repeating FRB source is an important clue to the nature of this object.”
Scientists recently tracked down this particular FRB to a galaxy called SDSS J015800.28+654253.0, which is a half a billion light years from Earth. That may seem like a huge distance, but FRB 180916.J0158+65 is actually the closest FRB ever detected.
But while we know where it is, we still don’t know what it is. To that point, the beat of the FRB suggests that it might be modulated by its surroundings. If the source of the FRB is orbiting a compact object, such as a black hole, then it might only flash its signals toward Earth at a certain point in its orbital period. That scenario could potentially match this recognizable 16-day cycle
It’s also possible that we are witnessing a binary system containing a massive star and a super-dense stellar core known as a neutron star, according to a study published on arXiv on Wednesday by a separate team that looked at the same data. In that model, the neutron star would emit radio bursts, but those signals would be periodically eclipsed by opaque outflowing winds from its giant companion.
Another scenario is that the FRB rhythm isn’t tempered by another object, and is sending out the pulses directly from the source. Scientists have previously suggested that flares from highly magnetized neutron stars, called magnetars, might be the source of some FRBs. But since magnetars tend to rotate every few seconds, a 16-day cycle does not match the expected profile of a magnetar-based FRB.
Ultimately, the CHIME/FRB team hopes to find similar patterns in the handful of known repeating bursts to see if these cycles are common. The researchers also plan to keep a careful eye on FRB 180916.J0158+6 while it is active in order to spot any other details that might point to its identity.
FRBs have baffled scientists for more than a decade, but new facilities such as CHIME are revealing new details about these weird events every year. While we still don’t know what is blasting out these bizarre signals, the discovery of a clear tempo from one of these sources provides a significant lead for scientists to follow.
Iets of iemand stuurt vanuit de ruimte signalen naar de aarde, en wetenschappers weten niet waarom
Iets of iemand stuurt vanuit de ruimte signalen naar de aarde, en wetenschappers weten niet waarom
Astronomen hebben een mysterieuze radiobron ontdekt in een sterrenstelsel op 500 miljoen lichtjaar van ons zonnestelsel die periodiek signalen uitzendt.
Vier dagen lang produceert de bron ieder uur één tot twee zogeheten snelle radioflitsen. Vervolgens blijft het 12 dagen stil en daarna begint de cyclus weer opnieuw.
Sterrenkundigen hebben in de afgelopen 15 jaar al zo’n 150 radioflitsen ontdekt. Slechts 10 daarvan blijken zich te herhalen.
Patroon
In een enkel geval is ook de bron van de radioflits vastgesteld.
Het mysterieuze signaal, FRB 180916.J0158+65, is al in 2017 ontdekt, maar blijft zich nog altijd herhalen.
Wetenschappers hebben nu 28 flitsen bestudeerd die zijn waargenomen tussen september 2018 en oktober 2019.
Ze slaagden erin om een patroon te ontwaren, wat nog niet eerder is gelukt bij snelle radioflitsen.
Object
De flitsen zijn afkomstig uit SDSS J015800.28+264253.0, een sterrenstelsel op zo’n 500 miljoen lichtjaar van de aarde.
Er zijn verschillende mogelijke verklaringen voor het fenomeen.
Eén mogelijkheid is dat het gaat om een object dat rond een ster draait en dat af en toe signalen uitzendt.
Buitenaardse wezens
Het kan ook een signaal zijn van een neutronenster.
Daarnaast bestaat de mogelijkheid dat de signalen afkomstig zijn van buitenaardse wezens die proberen contact te maken met andere levensvormen.
De onderzoekers blijven het object nu in de gaten houden in de hoop meer te weten te komen over de bron van de signalen.
David Wilcock: Mystifying UFO Disclosure Cases via The Unknown
David Wilcock: Mystifying UFO Disclosure Cases via The Unknown
David Wilcock is a professional intuitive consultant who, since reading Richard C. Hoagland’s “The Monuments of Mars” in 1993, has intensively researched ufology, ancient civilizations, consciousness science, and new paradigms of matter and energy.
He is the author of a critically acclaimed trilogy of scientific research works, known as the Convergence series, which gives definitive support to the idea that a change in matter, energy and consciousness is now occurring on the Earth and throughout the solar system.
Wilcock has appeared on broadcast television, lectured throughout the United States and Japan, published a variety of magazine articles and appeared on numerous radio talk shows. He is the co-author of the book “The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce,” now available in bookstores nationwide, and a summary of his latest scientific work appears therein, where a breakthrough case for mass, spontaneous DNA evolution on Earth is unveiled. David is also an accomplished musician and composer within a variety of styles, including jazz-fusion, meditative and world music.
This is a flying saucer hidden in a cloud over Nevada?
This is a flying saucer hidden in a cloud over Nevada?
This footage was taken in Nevada on January 29, 2020 on the break of dawn.The witness noticed a huge flying saucer shaped cloud which looks like a huge craft hiding in a cloud.
Lenticular clouds are often comparable in appearance to a flying saucer and probably it is just a regular cloud.
But I have my suspicions since there are undoubtedly man-made or extraterrestrial flying objects with cloaking capabilities that are kept secret from the public.
UFOs flying over Desert Hot Springs, California 7-Feb-2020
UFOs flying over Desert Hot Springs, California 7-Feb-2020
New footage of a bright unidentified flying objects in the sky above Desert Hot Springs, also known as DHS, a city in Riverside County, California, United States. This happened on 7th February 2020.
Witness report:
My wife and visiting desert hot springs for the mineral waters that we do every year this time of year. We where headed towards yucca valley to visit. On Indian Canyon road going west towards highway 62 that take you to yucca valley. My wife is a birdwatcher for decades. She spotted the string of lights that she first thought they where white pelicans. Based on the flight pattern and how the lights changed shape and direct we knew it wasn’t birds. The sighting flew over head while we where driving and passed us fast going northwest towards the mountains. I pulled over to get video and photos off my iPhone. The lights or more like different shaped orbs numbers changed from 20 to 35 objects every time it changed directions.
Listen to the eerie magnetic 'song' Earth sings during a solar storm
Listen to the eerie magnetic 'song' Earth sings during a solar storm
Scott Sutherland Meteorologist/Science Writer
Monday, November 18th 2019, 5:40 pm - As if auroras weren't eerie enough, satellites have recorded bizarre 'sci-fi music' as solar storms passed by Earth
Solar storms can result in some spectacular and bizarre effects here at Earth. Brilliant auroras splash colours across the sky, we can experience fluctuations in our power grids, and satellites can record amazing effects in space.
In a new paper, published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, a team of scientists looking through old data collected by the European Space Agency's Cluster mission, discovered something remarkable.
Earth's magnetic field emits waves in response to space weather, and these waves become far more complex and energetic when a solar storm sweeps past the planet.
Converting the magnetic data from two of these solar storms to audio, the researchers are treating us to the 'eerie sci-fi music' that Earth 'sang' during these events.
The Cluster mission's four satellites were designed to orbit through Earth's magnetic field, taking readings to show how the field reacts to the solar wind and the passage of solar storms.
This artist's rendition of the ESA's Cluster mission shows the four satellites in formation as they orbit the Earth, observing how the planet's magnetic field reacts to space weather.
Credit: ESA
Combing through years of data from the mission, the researchers discovered six times when the satellites recorded a solar storm impacting on the foreshock region - the part of Earth's magnetic field that faces towards the Sun and the first region affected by a solar storm.
According to the researchers, as the constant flow of charged particles in the solar wind streams past Earth, it causes the foreshock to emit simple waves that can be likened to a low, single musical note.
When a solar storm passes by Earth, however, the impact of it hitting the magnetic field's foreshock causes that 'music' to rise in pitch and become far more complex.
"It's like the storm is changing the tuning of the foreshock," Lucile Turc, a space physicist at the University of Helsinki and lead researcher of this new paper, said in an ESA press release.
This simulation, produced by the Vlasiator computer model developed at the University of Helsinki, shows the complex waves produced between the foreshock and bow shock of Earth's magnetic field during a solar storm.
Credit: Vlasiator team, University of Helsinki
As shown in the image above, as a solar storm impacts (from the right), waves produced by the foreshock propogate in a complex pattern downwards (to the left) until they hit the bow shock.
According to the ESA:
"The collision of the magnetic waves modifies the behavior of the bow shock, possibly changing the way it processes the energy of the incoming solar storm. Behind the bow shock, the magnetic fields of Earth start to resonate at the frequency of the waves and this contributes to the transmission of the magnetic disturbance all the way to the ground. It is a fast process, taking around 10 minutes from the wave being generated at the foreshock to its energy reaching the ground."
Magnetic disturbances from the solar wind and solar storms manifest as a type of space weather known as a geomagnetic storm.
Geomagnetic storms often result in displays of auroras - the northern and southern lights - as solar particles become trapped along the magnetic field lines, and stream down into the upper atmosphere near the poles. While these are spectacular to behold, there can also be negative impacts from strong geomagnetic storms, such as power blackouts.
With this research adding to our knowledge of space weather, it may provide more clues that could help us avoid the worse impacts of geomagnetic storms, and possibly make better predictions of their effects.
As we wait in anticipation for future life-seeking missions to Mars, asteroids and other space bodies in our solar system, speculation that these probes will find life forms is increasing, but most scientists agree that it will be bacteria or other microorganisms. One who doesn’t is leading British space scientist Professor Monica Grady.
“If there is something on Mars, it’s likely to be very small—bacteria. But I think we’ve got a better chance of having slightly higher forms of life on Europa, perhaps similar to the intelligence of an octopus.”
In a recent speech at Liverpool Hope University (covered by Phys.org), her first as the school’s new Chancellor, Grady explained that she’s confident Europa is home to higher-level life forms, but they’re in lower-level realms than on the surface. It’s slightly smaller than Earth’s moon but covered with a 15-mile thick layer of ice. That ice would protect creatures living underneath it from deadly solar radiation and asteroids – Europa’s atmosphere is too thin to protect it or support life. On the other hand, it’s likely that underneath all of the ice is liquid water of the salty kind, and hydrothermal vents that could spark the creation of life and then provide an environment to support it. If this sounds like Earth, Grady agrees.
“”But I think it’s highly likely there will be life elsewhere—and I think it’s highly likely they’ll be made of the same elements. Humans evolved from little furry mammals that got the opportunity to evolve because the dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact. That is probably not going to happen on every planet—but it’s at least possible based purely on a statistical argument.”
But octopuses?
“I’m fairly specified we’re all there is at our amount of intelligence in this planetary method. And even if there are octopuses on Europa, that does not give us a cause to damage our planet.”
Europa
Describing the chances for finding intelligent life at our level (we can debate the notion that we’re not so intelligent at another time) in the Milky Way as highly unlikely, Grady sees us as galactic environmentalists – protecting both our planet and any space body we set foot or probe on. Her choice of “octopus” to describe the highest level of life we might encounter may just be a backhanded reference to the movie ‘Europa Report’ in which the first mission to Europa discovers a tentacled, bioluminescent creature described as a cross between an octopus and a squid. On the other hand, many people believe that the mammal-like intelligence of octopuses is because they’re aliens on Earth. Could they be from Europa?
We’ll have to wait for the anticipated Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer, Europa Clipper or Europa Lander missions to find out.
Or, we could figure out a way to talk to an octopus.
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1KM Long UFO Seen Over Mountain Range Heading Towards Nellis AFB, Video, UFO Sighting News.
1KM Long UFO Seen Over Mountain Range Heading Towards Nellis AFB, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 29, 2020
Location of sighting: 45 Miles From Baker, Nevada
This video was taken on the extraterrestrial highway. An area famous for its UFO sightings in the middle of nowhere. This video is an awesome capture of an actual alien craft in the Nevada area. This object is 40 miles from Baker city and 132 miles from Las Vegas, Nevada...which is easy to find out by looking at the road sign at the 14 second mark in the video. Las Vegas has Nellis AFB which has given some land behind the old firing range to the Tall White Species, in exchange for friendship and technology. But this is also not far from Area 51. This UFO is about 1km across using the mountains to determine its size. Thats a mothership...and its following the mountain range...and guess what? The mountain range leads directly to behind Nellis AFB...the Tall White location. This is 100% proof that alien activity is still happening in Nevada. I love the detail on this one. It has an open payload door area at its top, lower center has a white shiny half dome...classic disk shape.
Commercial pilot César Murillo Pérez, who flies for Colombian airline company Viva Air, recorded a video of what appears to be a metallic, roughly spherical object while in the air over Medellín, the capital of Colombia’s Antioquia province. He immediately posted the video to Tiktok site and it began to go viral with over 820,000 views. The object is clearly not a balloon since its sides are not round but actually more cube with protruding edges. This UFO looks very similar to the UFO that was released by accident by the government in infrared. Also the person really is a pilot who has posted other videos of aircraft, and sunsets above places around the globe. He flies from South America to Europe. This is absolutly a UFO and its the most legitimate and close up focused view of a UFO of 2020 so far. Scott C. Waring
A “beating heart” of frozen nitrogen controls Pluto’s winds and may give rise to features on its surface, according to a new study.
Only one earthly spacecraft has ever visited Pluto. New Horizons gathered the data to create this composite image in 2015. The heart-shaped feature is now called Tombaugh Regio. It’s a large, bright plain – largest feature on the planet – named for Pluto’s discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh. New research has revealed that this heart of Pluto’s makes the planet’s winds blow.
Wasn’t it wonderful when – after all the disappointment surrounding Pluto’s loss of major planet status in 2006 – the New Horizons spacecraft made its historic sweep past the planet in 2015 and discovered a big heart on its surface? Last week (February 4, 2020), scientists announced something new and interesting about Pluto’s heart, which is called Tombaugh Regio, and which is a vast plain on the planet covered with nitrogen ice. The new research shows that Pluto’s renowned nitrogen heart rules its atmospheric circulation. It causes Pluto’s winds to blow.
This new research was published February 4 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. This journal is published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). A statement from AGU explained:
During the day, a thin layer of [the nitrogen ice covering Tombaugh Regio] warms and turns into vapor. At night, the vapor condenses and once again forms ice. Each sequence is like a heartbeat, pumping nitrogen winds around the dwarf planet.
The new work suggests that this cycle pushes Pluto’s atmosphere to circulate in the opposite direction of its spin – a unique phenomenon called retro-rotation. As air whips close to the surface, it transports heat, grains of ice and haze particles to create dark wind streaks and plains across the north and northwestern regions of Tombaugh Regio. According to the study’s lead author, astrophysicist and planetary scientist Tanguy Bertrand of NASA’s Ames Research Center in California:
This highlights the fact that Pluto’s atmosphere and winds – even if the density of the atmosphere is very low – can impact the surface.
Before New Horizons visited Pluto, the Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the distant planet in 2010. Pluto’s heart hadn’t been revealed then, but it’s somewhat discernible in this image.
Pluto once was considered the outpost planet in our solar system, but no more. Now we know it’s one of many small bodies in the solar system’s frozen outer reaches, a realm now known as the Kuiper Belt. Pluto is located billions of miles from our planet Earth. It took New Horizons – one of the fastest spacecraft yet built by earthlings – nine years to get there. Once it did arrive, the information gathered by New Horizons required 4.5 hours to travel back to Earth, moving at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second).
In that distant realm of our solar system, nitrogen gas – the major component of Earth’s atmosphere – composes most of Pluto’s thin atmosphere, too. Most of the nitrogen ice on Pluto’s surface is confined to Tombaugh Regio, these scienists said. Describing Pluto’s heart, they said:
Its left ‘lobe’ is a 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) ice sheet located in a 3-kilometer (1.9-mile) deep basin named Sputnik Planitia – an area that holds most of the dwarf planet’s nitrogen ice because of its low elevation. The heart’s right ‘lobe’ is comprised of highlands and nitrogen-rich glaciers that extend into the basin.
This close-up image from New Horizons shows the center left of Pluto’s heart. It’s a vast, craterless plain, covered with nitrogen ice. It may be no more than 100 million years old and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes. This frozen region has been named Sputnik Planitia (Sputnik Plain), after Earth’s first artificial satellite. The surface appears to be divided into irregularly-shaped segments that are ringed by narrow troughs. Features that appear to be groups of mounds and fields of small pits are also visible. Image acquired July 14, 2015. Features as small as 1/2 mile (1 km) across are visible.
Before New Horizons, everyone thought Pluto was going to be a netball – completely flat, almost no diversity. But it’s completely different. It has a lot of different landscapes and we are trying to understand what’s going on there.
To accomplish this, Bertrand and his team pulled from New Horizons’ data and then simulated Pluto’s nitrogen cycle with a weather forecast model. They then assessed how winds blew across Pluto’s surface. Their statement explained:
The group discovered that Pluto’s winds above 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) blow to the west – the opposite direction from the dwarf planet’s eastern spin – in a retro-rotation during most of its year. As nitrogen within Tombaugh Regio vaporizes in the north and becomes ice in the south, its movement triggers westward winds, according to the new study. No other place in the solar system has such an atmosphere, except perhaps Neptune’s moon Triton.
The researchers also found a strong current of fast-moving, near-surface air along the western boundary of the Sputnik Planitia basin. The airflow is like wind patterns on Earth, such as the Kuroshio along the eastern edge of Asia. Atmospheric nitrogen condensing into ice drives this wind pattern, according to the new findings. Sputnik Planitia’s high cliffs trap the cold air inside the basin, where it circulates and becomes stronger as it passes through the western region.
The intense western boundary current’s existence excited Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, a planetary scientist with the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, who wasn’t involved with the new study. She said:
It’s very much the kind of thing that’s due to the topography or specifics of the setting. I’m impressed that Pluto’s models have advanced to the point that you can talk about regional weather.
On the broader scale, Hansen-Koharcheck thought the new study was intriguing. She added:
This whole concept of Pluto’s beating heart is a wonderful way of thinking about it.
A map of the Tombaugh Regio area on Pluto, which includes the heart-shaped surface feature.
Bottom line: A heart-shaped feature on Pluto is partly covered in frozen nitrogen. During the day, nitrogen ice evaporates in the north, then condenses back to ice at night in the south. According to a new study, this process sets off winds in a westerly direction for most of the Plutonian year, which is opposite to the dwarf planet’s eastward spin. They also found fast and powerful near-surface winds along the western boundary of the Sputnik Planitia basin.
In the most extreme regions of the universe, galaxies are being killed. Their star formation is being shut down and astronomers want to know why.
The first ever Canadian-led large project on one of the world’s leading telescopes is hoping to do just that. The new program, called the Virgo Environment Traced in Carbon Monoxide survey (VERTICO), is investigating, in brilliant detail, how galaxies are killed by their environment.
Commissioned in 2013 at a cost of US$1.4 billion, ALMA is an array of connected radio dishes at an altitude of 5,000 metres in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. It is an international partnership between Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Chile. The largest ground-based astronomical project in existence, ALMA is the most advanced millimetre wavelength telescope ever built and ideal for studying the clouds of dense cold gas from which new stars form, which cannot be seen using visible light.
Large ALMA research programs such as VERTICO are designed to address strategic scientific issues that will lead to a major advance or breakthrough in the field.
Galaxy clusters
Where galaxies live in the universe and how they interact with their surroundings (the intergalactic medium that surrounds them) and each other are major influences on their ability to form stars. But precisely how this so-called environment dictates the life and death of galaxies remains a mystery.
Galaxy clusters are the most massive and most extreme environments in the universe, containing many hundreds or even thousands of galaxies. Where you have mass, you also have gravity and the huge gravitational forces present in clusters accelerates galaxies to great speeds, often thousands of kilometres-per-second, and superheats the plasma in between galaxies to temperatures so high that it glows with X-ray light.
In the dense, inhospitable interiors of these clusters, galaxies interact strongly with their surroundings and with each other. It is these interactions that can kill off — or quench — their star formation.
Understanding which quenching mechanisms shut off star formation and how they do it is main the focus of the VERTICO collaboration’s research.
The life cycle of interstellar matter stems from the hot diffuse gas that permeates much of the volume of the Galaxy (top of cycle). Through thermal instability, it can cool to form denser "clouds" of atomic gas that may be the building blocks of the still colder and denser molecular clouds that follow. As far as we know, all stars are formed from molecular clouds. Either through their formation or their eventual death, stars frequently destroy their natal or neighboring clouds (mechanically, or through their radiation), dispersing it back into the diffuse phase again, this time enriched with the heavy elements fused by the star during its lifetime.
The life cycle of galaxies
As galaxies fall through clusters, the intergalactic plasma can rapidly remove their gas in a violent process called ram pressure stripping. When you remove the fuel for star formation, you effectively kill the galaxy, turning it into a dead object in which no new stars are formed.
In addition, the high temperature of clusters can stop hot gas cooling and condensing onto galaxies. In this case, the gas in the galaxy isn’t actively removed by the environment but is consumed as it forms stars. This process leads to a slow, inexorable shut down in star formation known, somewhat morbidly, as starvation or strangulation.
While these processes vary considerably, each leaves a unique, identifiable imprint on the galaxy’s star-forming gas. Piecing these imprints together to form a picture of how clusters drive changes in galaxies is a major focus of the VERTICO collaboration. Building on decades of work to provide insight into how environment drives galaxy evolution, we aim to add a critical new piece of the puzzle.
An ideal case study
The Virgo Cluster is an ideal location for such a detailed study of environment. It is our nearest massive galaxy cluster and is in the process of forming, which means that we can get a snapshot of galaxies in different stages of their life cycles. This allows us to build up a detailed picture of how star formation is shut off in cluster galaxies.
Galaxies in the Virgo cluster have been observed at almost every wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum (for example, radio, optical and ultra-violet light), but observations of star-forming gas (made at millimetre wavelengths) with the required sensitivity and resolution do not exist yet. As one of the largest galaxy surveys on ALMA to date, VERTICO will provide high resolution maps of molecular hydrogen gas — the raw fuel for star formation — for 51 galaxies.
With ALMA data for this large sample of galaxies, it will be possible to reveal exactly which quenching mechanisms, ram pressure stripping or starvation, are killing galaxies in extreme environments and how.
By mapping the star-forming gas in galaxies that are the smoking gun examples of environment-driven quenching, VERTICO will advance our current understanding of how galaxies evolve in the densest regions of the Universe.
Astronomers Find Huge Amount of Oxygen in Ancient Dwarf Star
Astronomers Find Huge Amount of Oxygen in Ancient Dwarf Star
Using high-resolution spectroscopic observations from the High-Resolution Echelle Spectrometer(HIRES) on the 10-m Keck I telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory, an international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has detected large amount of oxygen in the atmosphere of SDSS J081554.26+472947.5 (J0815+4729 for short), an ancient dwarf star located 5,000 light-years away in the constellation of Lynx. The finding provides an important clue on how oxygen and other important elements were produced in the Universe’s first generations of stars.
This image shows the ancient dwarf star J0815+4729 (center).
Image credit: Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg / SIMBAD / SDSS.
Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the Universe after hydrogen and helium, and is essential for all forms of life on Earth, as the chemical basis of respiration and a building block of carbohydrates. It is also the main elemental component of the Earth’s crust.
However, this element didn’t exist in the early Universe; it is created through nuclear fusion reactions that occur deep inside the most massive stars, those with masses roughly 10 times the mass of the Sun or greater.
Tracing the early production of oxygen and other elements requires studying the oldest stars still in existence.
“Stars like J0815+4729 are referred to as halo stars,” said Dr. Adam Burgasser, an astrophysicist in the Center for Astrophysics and Space Science at the University of California San Diego.
“This is due to their roughly spherical distribution around the Milky Way, as opposed to the more familiar flat disk of younger stars that include the Sun.”
Halo stars like J0815+4729 are truly ancient stars, allowing astronomers a peek into element production early in the history of the Universe.
Dr. Burgasser and colleagues measured the abundances of 16 chemical species in the atmosphere of J0815+4729, including oxygen.
“The primitive composition of the star indicates that it was formed during the first hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang, possibly from the material expelled from the first supernovae of the Milky Way,” said Dr. Jonay González Hernández, a postdoctoral researcher in the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the Universidad de La Laguna, Spain.
The HIRES data of J0815+4729 revealed a very unusual chemical composition.
While the star has relatively large amounts of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen — approximately 10, 8, and 3% of the abundances measured in the Sun — other elements like calcium and iron have abundances around one millionth that of the Sun.
“Only a few such stars are known in the halo of our Galaxy, but none have such an enormous amount of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen compared to their iron content,” said Dr. David Aguado, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge.
“Thirty years ago we started to study the presence of oxygen in the oldest stars of the Galaxy; those results had already indicated that this element was produced enormously in the first generations of supernovae,” said Dr. Rafael Rebolo, from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, the Universidad de La Laguna and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.
“However, we could not imagine that we would find a case of enrichment as spectacular as that of this star.”
The discovery is reported in a paper in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Jonay I. González Hernández et al. 2020. The Extreme CNO-enhanced Composition of the Primitive Iron-poor Dwarf Star J0815+4729. ApJL 889, L13; doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab62ae
Science fiction media has approached this question for decades. For those who die aboard spacecraft on the journey to Mars or some other cosmic destination (e.g., Spock'sdeath in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" and events in the recent film "Ad Astra"), the solution is always the same: toss 'em out of the airlock.
But what about burial? Burying people once we get to Mars seems like a decent option. But, if bodies were left out on the surface or buried on Mars, it's likely that they would only mummify over time, as the planet hosts no known bacteria that would decompose the body, and face the effects of radiation.
So, instead of throwing beloved crewmates out to freeze, float and eventually break apart in the vacuum of space or leaving friends out on Mars to mummify and get irradiated, it seems that, in real life, we might take more careful measures to mourn and dispose of our dead when off Earth.
J.J. Hastings practices dying on Mars with a Martian death garment specially designed and made by fashion designer Pia Interlandi. (Image credit: Chelsea Gohd/Space.com)
To date, three people have died in space. Following the Soviet Union's launch of the Salyut 1, the first space station, in 1971, the Soyuz 10 mission launched and returned back to Earth early following a problem in docking with the station. That crew made it back to Earth, but the next mission, Soyuz 11, faced trouble after it launched with cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev. While this crew made it to the station, too, during their descent to Earth (which was also early, due to problems), a valve opened too soon and the crew died from decompression when exposed to the vacuum of space.
With the ship already on a return mission to Earth with no surviving crewmembers onboard, there were no people to follow any procedures following the tragic deaths.
Currently, space agencies like NASA have procedures for surviving crew members to follow if someone dies in space. In his book "An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth" (Little, Brown and Co., 2013), retired Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield explained that astronauts conduct what are called "death sims." In these simulations, astronauts act as if a specific crewmember has died and work out what they should do.
They work through questions like "What are we going to do with his corpse? There are no body bags on station, so should we shove it in a spacesuit and stick it in a locker? But what about the smell? Should we send it back to Earth on a resupply ship and let it burn up with the rest of the garbage on reentry? Jettison it during a spacewalk and let it float away into space?" Hadfield wrote in the book.
But as it becomes more likely that humans will spend more time on off-Earth locations like the moon and Mars, it's important that we continue to heavily consider and develop plans for what should happen if and when someone dies.
What to wear to die on Mars
Now, just as we likely wouldn't zip our loved ones into a bag and just toss them out of an airlock if they were to die on a spacecraft, we'll likely have respectful approaches on other planets. Once on the surface of Mars, humans will likely have rituals and protocols surrounding death like those we have on Earth.
J.J. Hastings, a bioengineer and CEO of Analogs LLC who served as commander of Sensoria I (the first analog Mars mission as part of the Sensoria program), is exploring what it would be like to die on Mars alongside fashion design researcher Pia Interlandi. The project is made up of two main parts: a ritual death garment and a "human recycler" (my nickname for it, not the actual name of the process or technology).
Now, before we get to the "human recycler" aspect of the project, let's discuss the garment.
J.J. Hastings models the "Martian death garment" designed by Pia Interlandi inside the HI-SEAS habitat right next to the airlock. (Image credit: Chelsea Gohd/Space.com)
This project aims to conceptualize the process of death and grieving on Mars in a way that aligns with our human sensibilities, both Hastings and Interlandi explained to Space.com. Here on Earth, we have funerals, memorials, wakes, cremation, burial services and more. We have a litany of rituals surrounding death that give us an opportunity to say goodbye to our dead.
To create such a ritual for Mars, Hastings worked with Interlandi, who, along with her research, creates custom death garments on Earth for her work with "Garments for the Grave" and has exhibited her work all around the world at renowned institutions including the Museum of Modern Art. For this "Martian death project," Interlandi created a ritual death garment, which Hastings showed to Space.com at the HI-SEAS habitat during the Sensoria I mission. Throughout the mission, Hastings slept on a pillowcase with "Upon my death, here is everything you need" written on it. Inside the pillowcase were all of the pieces of the death garment.
Sleeping on the clothes they would wear after they die, the concept goes, would not only remind astronauts of their mortality, but also allow them to reflect in a unique way. The pillowcase would also provide a space-saving method for transporting the garment. It "needs to be transportable. It can't be interrupting things. It needs to be something that fits within your packing," Interlandi told Space.com.
The garment has four layers and is 100% biodegradable, so the body can decompose more easily without creating additional, synthetic waste. Interlandi's pieces are designed to be easy to put on a stiff corpse, she told Space.com. She further explained that the Martian garment, specifically, consists entirely of different types of silk (different weights and textures).
The project used silk because not only does it looks and feels nice, is lightweight, and is made out of protein from silkworms. That means that when the death ritual reaches the "human recycler" stage, the garment's proteins could be processed along with those from the human body. (Wool would also work for this reason, but silk was a better choice because of its feel, textures and weight, Interlandi explained).
J.J. Hastings "practices" dying on "Mars" just outside of the HI-SEAS habitat in Hawaii while wearing Pia Interlandi's "Martian death garment." (Image credit: Chelsea Gohd/Space.com)
The first layer of the garment is an undergarment, which lies directly against the body. It is a white tunic with ties on its sides.
Over this base layer is the second layer, which "is meant to be more decorative, and this would be if I was lying in the room so if there was a memorial or something else," Hastings told Space.com while wearing the flowing garment. This semi-translucent layer is made out of a light silk and features a gradual color fade from from the top to the bottom of the garment, white to dark gray.
Third, the garment features a light silk, gauzy piece that wraps around and covers the face.
J.J. Hastings practices dying on Mars, this up-close shot shows the gauze-y silk piece which covers the face as part of the "Martian death garment" designed by Pia Interlandi. (Image credit: Chelsea Gohd/Space.com)
Finally, the garment includes a large, blanket-like veil made out of a very simple silk that feels and looks almost like a large, thick web. This fourth piece wraps around the body over the other garments.
J.J. Hastings holding up the fourth and final layer of Pia Interlandi's "Martian death garment," which Hastings is wearing inside the HI-SEAS habitat. (Image credit: Chelsea Gohd/Space.com)
The pieces serve the practical purpose of covering the dead in biodegradable fabrics that are easy to put onto a stiff, dead body. But the act of dressing the dead in the different layers also creates a ritual that allows grieving parties to get close to the body. "The closing of the coffin is often too abrupt and too hard and too sudden. We need to have a process where we can slowly veil and conceal the body [so] that it's a softer, more gentle kind of fading out," Interlandi said.
At HI-SEAS, on the side of Mauna Loa in Hawaii, with Mauna Kea in the background, Hastings put on the garments. She demonstrated what a Martian death ritual might look like one day, as you can see in the video above.
A human recycler
Interlandi's thoughtful death designs serve as the first half of this "Martian death project." The garment facilitates a ritual. But following the ritual, humans living on Mars would need to dispose of deceased humans thoughtfully. And that's where the "human recycler" would come into play.
As an alternative, Hastings explained that this human recycler idea would work by composting the body and turning it back into its raw materials. These could then be repurposed and used on Mars.
When you're living off-Earth, whether on an orbiting space station, the moon, Mars or beyond, resources are everything. From food to water, energy and so much more, these resources are infinitely precious.
So, as Hastings explained, when people die in a location like Mars, the resources that are a part of their body cannot go to waste. From salt and other minerals to carbon, water and so much more, the human body is made up of an enormously long list of raw materials that could be valuable resources for living crewmembers.
Hastings said that the project can't yet reveal the specific details of this "human recycler." However, as Interlandi explained, the project members are exploring different options using existing technologies.
One such option would be compatible with the protein fabrics (silk) of the death garments. This method, alkaline hydrolysis, sometimes referred to as "green cremation," is an alternative to burial and cremation here on Earth that "has been used by the medical field and agricultural fields for the disposal of animals," Interlandi said. It works by essentially dissolving the proteins of the human body and leaving behind only liquid and bone.
As Interlandi suggested, the liquid could be used to, for example, provide nutrients to growing plants on Mars. She added that she and Hastings plan to conduct experiments in which they dissolve the fabrics used in the Martian death garments in this process, to see if there is any residue left over or if it poses any problems.
Solving for space solves for Earth
It might seem strange and even horrifying to some to simply dissolve their dead friends and family members. But, as both Hastings and Interlandi expressed, this work is yet another example of "solving for space solves for Earth."
Alkaline hydrolysis could be a suitable way to dispose of the dead on a place like Mars where sending the dead home may not be reasonable or even possible. And exploring how this disposal process would work under these extreme circumstances could inform us about whether it could be a useful and sustainable burial solution on Earth.
So, while it might seem like a far-out or even morbid topic, figuring out how to die on Mars could make life a little more sustainable here at home.
Professor Monica Grady from the Liverpool Hope University
(Image: Twitter)
A British space scientist says she believes it is “almost certain” that Europa - one of Jupiter’s moons - is home to octopus-like alien creatures.
Professor of Planetary and Space Science at Liverpool Hope University Monica Grady claims ice beneath the moon’s surface may have life forms that have a similar level of intelligence to octopuses.
Professor Grady also thinks deep caves on the surface of Mars could also contain alien life.
She said: “When it comes to the prospects of life beyond Earth, it’s almost a racing certainty that there’s life beneath the ice on Europa.
Europa could host aliens in its icy seas
(Image: The New Day)
“Elsewhere, if there’s going to be life on Mars, it’s going to be under the surface of the planet.
“There you’re protected from solar radiation. And that means there’s possibility of ice remain in the pores of the rocks, which could act as a source of water.
“If there is something on Mars, it’s likely to be very small bacteria.
“But I think we’ve got a better chance of having slightly higher forms of life on Europa, perhaps similar to the intelligence of an octopus.”
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found evidence of sodium chloride, known to us as salt, on the planet’s surface last year.
Professor Grady believes that any life on Mars is likely to be very small bacteria
(Image: NASA / SWNS)
This suggests that there is likely to be a giant sea containing salty water underneath Europa’s icy surface.
Europa is thought to be one of the moon's closest to Earth as it is understood to also have a surface ocean of salty water.
Speaking of what could lie beyond the Milky Way, Professor Grady said conditions that led to the creation of life on Earth are “highly likely” to exist elsewhere.
She explained: “Our solar system is not a particularly special planetary system, as far as we know, and we still haven’t explored all the stars in the galaxy.
“But I think it’s highly likely there will be life elsewhere - and I think it’s highly likely they’ll be made of the same elements.
She also said she believes it's "highly likely" that there will be life elsewhere outside of our galaxy(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
“Humans evolved from little furry mammals that got the opportunity to evolve because the dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact.
“Whether we will ever be able to contact extraterrestrial life is anyone’s guess, purely because the distances are just too huge.
“And as for so-called alien ‘signals’ received from space, there’s been nothing real or credible I’m afraid.”
This year will see three separate missions to Mars in an effort to search for intelligent life.
Professor Monica Grady from the Liverpool Hope University
(Image: Twitter)
A British space scientist says she believes it is “almost certain” that Europa - one of Jupiter’s moons - is home to octopus-like alien creatures.
Professor of Planetary and Space Science at Liverpool Hope University Monica Grady claims ice beneath the moon’s surface may have life forms that have a similar level of intelligence to octopuses.
Professor Grady also thinks deep caves on the surface of Mars could also contain alien life.
She said: “When it comes to the prospects of life beyond Earth, it’s almost a racing certainty that there’s life beneath the ice on Europa.
Europa could host aliens in its icy seas
(Image: The New Day)
“Elsewhere, if there’s going to be life on Mars, it’s going to be under the surface of the planet.
“There you’re protected from solar radiation. And that means there’s possibility of ice remain in the pores of the rocks, which could act as a source of water.
“If there is something on Mars, it’s likely to be very small bacteria.
“But I think we’ve got a better chance of having slightly higher forms of life on Europa, perhaps similar to the intelligence of an octopus.”
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found evidence of sodium chloride, known to us as salt, on the planet’s surface last year.
Professor Grady believes that any life on Mars is likely to be very small bacteria
(Image: NASA / SWNS)
This suggests that there is likely to be a giant sea containing salty water underneath Europa’s icy surface.
Europa is thought to be one of the moon's closest to Earth as it is understood to also have a surface ocean of salty water.
Speaking of what could lie beyond the Milky Way, Professor Grady said conditions that led to the creation of life on Earth are “highly likely” to exist elsewhere.
She explained: “Our solar system is not a particularly special planetary system, as far as we know, and we still haven’t explored all the stars in the galaxy.
“But I think it’s highly likely there will be life elsewhere - and I think it’s highly likely they’ll be made of the same elements.
She also said she believes it's "highly likely" that there will be life elsewhere outside of our galaxy(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
“Humans evolved from little furry mammals that got the opportunity to evolve because the dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact.
“Whether we will ever be able to contact extraterrestrial life is anyone’s guess, purely because the distances are just too huge.
“And as for so-called alien ‘signals’ received from space, there’s been nothing real or credible I’m afraid.”
This year will see three separate missions to Mars in an effort to search for intelligent life.
Siberia’s Lake Baikal holds a number of world records for lakes – oldest lake, deepest, largest freshwater lake by volume, and subjectively, the world’s clearest lake. Its remoteness and close proximity to China has given it many myths and legends – a dragon’s tail cracked the earth and its fire melted the snows to fill it; a dragon turned into a beautiful woman and became the mother of the local Buryat people; a dragon still lives in the lake. There are tales from both World War I and II of lost gold in the lake and many sightings of UFOs above it and alien encounters around it and even underwater. While those myths and legends remain unsolved, a more recent one involving giant ice circles visible only by air may have finally been solved. UFO ice-fishing platforms? Dragon skating rinks? Mysterious lost treasure indicators?
“To fully understand the evolution of water structure and dynamics, there is a need to have better temporal resolution and larger time span. Starting from 2016, we have changed our monitoring strategy—every winter we carry out not one, but two field surveys that take place in mid‐February and (as usual) in late March. During each survey we perform (1) surface measurements of ice thickness and snow depth, as well as ice structure and roughness, (2) vertical profiles of temperature and conductivity, and (3) direct and indirect estimation of current field. We also install temperature loggers and current meters that stay in place between the February and March.”
Ice ring on Lake Baikal
Lake Baikal’s giant ice rings were first seen in 1969 and have been studied ever since without an explanation being discovered. There have been no consistent sizes nor locations nor water depths for the formations. Visible from space, the massive ice circles lasted from days to months. From 2010 to 2017, Alexei Kouraev, an assistant professor at the Laboratory for Studies in Spatial Geophysics and Oceanography (LEGOS) at the Federal University in Toulouse, France, led a new expedition using different techniques to solve the dilemma. As he explains in the journal Limnology and Oceanography, the research team drilled though as much as 700 feet of solid ice to drop temperature recorders and flow detectors that were left in place for as long as 1.5 months. What they found was surprising.
“Our hydrographic surveys beneath the ice rings in Lake Baikal in 2012–2014 and in Lake Hovsgol in 2015 have shown the presence of warm lens‐like (double‐convex form) eddies before and during the manifestation of ice rings (Kouraev et al. 2016).”
Ah-ha! The sensors showed eddies flowing clockwise beneath the ice. The temperature sensors showed that these eddies were 2 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit (1 to 2 degrees Celsius) warmer than the surrounding water. That combination forms the giant ice circles.
“We have shown that giant ice rings are a surface manifestation of these intrathermocline lens‐like eddies. These eddies exist before and during the manifestation of the ice rings. They have an isolated circular form and radial symmetry, and their position corresponds to the location of ice rings.”
Ice rings (NASA image)
The lens-shaped eddies – a shape seen in oceans but not in lakes – actually formed in the fall before the lake froze over, possibly sent into motion by winds blowing from nearby Barguzin Bay. The researchers found current speed variations within the eddies – they were weak in the center and strong at the edges – which explains why the ice in the rings is thicker in the middle and thinner around the edge.
While the mystery of the ice rings appears to have been solved, the mystery of why people still try to drive on the ice – to sometimes disastrous results – has not. Calling themselves the Fellowship of the Ice Rings, Kouraev and his fellow researchers publish detailed warnings on their website, including:
If you see a route on ice, even if there are dozens of cars that drove safely before, know that nothing guarantees that this is a safe route
If you see a crack with open water – do not approach the rim of this crack
Avoid driving when it’s snowing or when strong wind is blowing
Do not drive after consumption of alcohol. Ice is even more dangerous than asphalt
Do not trust advices of local people – in 50% of the cases they are not reliable
If you can’t trust the advice of the Fellowship of the Ice Rings, who CAN you trust?
People tend to give more credibility to UFO sightings by airplane pilots than any other sort of person. There are a few likely reasons for this. One, both pilots and UFOs are in the sky. Pilots are, objectively, more similar to UFOs than farmers. And if there’s anyone that’s supposed to know what does and doesn’t belong in the sky, it’s a pilot. This brings us to reason two: we really, really want to believe that the people at the controls of our airplanes are reasonable, rational human beings. Now, I would submit that one would have to be clinically insane to want to pilot an airplane, but that’s neither here nor there. Let’s talk about UFOs.
A Colombian commercial airline pilot recently shared footage of a UFO he claims to have filmed over Medellín, Colombia. César Murillo Pérez, a pilot for the Colombian airline Viva Air, says he filmed this bizarre black sphere floating some 30,000 feet in the air over Colombia. According to Pérez, the sighting occurred on January 1, 2020, but he only recently posted the footage to the social media site TikTok.
Andrés Clavijo Rangel✔@ClavijoAndres83
Este video fue publicado por un piloto de Medellín ¿opiniones? ¿Real (Ovni) o Fake (Montaje)?
It’s a weird one for sure. Being that the UFO in the footage looks like a simple black sphere, it would be fairly easy to write it off as a balloon. Yet Pérez says that it’s doubtful that a balloon could reach 30,000 feet. There are balloons that do reach those heights, such as weather balloons or whatever weird stuff Google is launching into the atmosphere, but all of those balloons are fitted with detection systems that allow airplanes to identify and track them. At the start of the video, Pérez pans the camera to the plane’s monitors to show that the object is not showing up. Pérez says:
“I would think it was a balloon, but the conditions do not lend itself to it. I doubt it, above all, because of the altitude and the physical characteristics.”
It’s also hard to tell exactly what shape the UFO is when it passes by so quickly.
The UFO looks very similar to other claimed sightings, including some of the sightings reported by US Navy pilots.
But some have questioned the authenticity of the video. The Colombian Civil Aeronautics agency requires all pilots to report mysterious, unidentified objects in the sky where they shouldn’t be. Usually, these reports are rogue balloons or drones. But the agency says that no such report was filed for this incident.
Pérez maintains that the video is genuine and says that he still has the raw footage on his phone. He also says that he wouldn’t be capable of faking a video like that, because he simply doesn’t know how. He says:
“I have seen that they have said that it is a very well done [fabrication], but I am a pilot, I do not know about [fabrications] or anything like that.”
So is it a UFO? Who knows. If the footage is in fact genuine, then it’s a pretty good one. Of course, it’s still hard to tell exactly what is being shown in the video. And just because it didn’t show up on the plane’s monitoring system doesn’t mean it isn’t a balloon. The ID system may have malfunctioned, or it could just be something not following the rules. Either way, if I saw that thing hanging out at 30,000 feet, I’d be a little freaked out.
Proof Ancient Civilizations Knew the Secrets of Space, Time and Our Holographic Universe
Proof Ancient Civilizations Knew the Secrets of Space, Time and Our Holographic Universe
Laird Scranton explores the intersection of Egyptian, Dogon, Kabbalah and Vedic teachings to uncover the secrets of space, time and our holographic universe. By examining the mythological representations of what we now understand through geometry and science, he is able to suss out the main message for humanity which has been hidden before us, this whole time.
Laird Scranton is the author of a series of books and other writings on ancient cosmology and language. These include articles published in the University of Chicago’s Anthropology News academic journal, Temple University’s Encyclopedia of African Religion and the Encyclopedia Britainnica. He is featured in John Anthony West’s Magical Egypt documentary series and in Carmen Boulter’s documentary The Pyramid Code.
He is also a frequent presenter at conferences whose focus is on ancient knowledge. These include Walter Cruttenden’s Conference on Precession and Ancient Knowledge (CPAK), the A.R.E.’s Ancient Mysteries Conference, Scotty Roberts and John Ward’s Paradigm Symposium, the Fringe New Jersey Conference, and James Swager’s Megalithic Odyssey Symposium, in Marlborough, England.
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