What's up with that rock? China's moon rover finds something strange on the far side.

By Andrew Jones 

Rock fragments, including one specimen (circled) targeted for analysis, discovered by the Yutu-2 rover.

(Image: © CNSA/CLEP/Our Space)

China's Yutu-2 lunar rover has discovered what appear to be relatively young rocks during its recent exploration activities on the lunar far side.

The Chang'e-4 mission's rover imaged the scattered, apparently lighter-colored rocks during lunar day 13 of the mission, in December 2019, according to the Chinese-language 'Our Space' science outreach blog. 

The specimens, which are quite different from those already studied by the rover, could round out the team's insights into the geologic history and evolution of the area, called Von Kármán crater.

• Related: China releases huge batch of amazing Chang'e-4 images from moon's far side

Closer inspection of the rocks by the rover team revealed little erosion, which on the moon is caused by micrometeorites and the huge changes in temperature across long lunar days and nights. That anomaly suggests that the fragments are relatively young. Over time, rocks tend to erode into soils.

The relative brightness of the rocks also indicated they may have originated in an area very different to the one Yutu-2 is exploring. 

Chang'e-4 made a historic, first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon in January 2019. Von Kármán, a roughly 110-mile-wide (180 kilometers) crater, is around 3.6 billion years old. Lava has flooded it multiple times since its formation, leaving it relatively smooth and dark. The crater itself lies within the South Pole-Aitken Basin, an even more massive and more ancient impact crater.

Dan Moriarty, NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, said the size, shape and color of the rocks provide clues to their origin.

"Because [the rocks] all look fairly similar in size and shape, it is reasonable to guess that they might all be related," he told Space.com. "Chang'e-4 landed on a volcanic mare, [a] basalt patch, and those volcanic materials are much darker than normal lunar highlands crust. If these rocks are indeed brighter than the soil, it could mean that they are made up of a higher component of bright, highlands crust materials than the surrounding volcanic-rich soils."

Moriarty noted that higher-resolution images of the rock would provide more information. "If the rock has the appearance of many heterogeneous fragments 'welded' together, this would indicate a regolith breccia," which are formed by the immense heat of a meteorite impact, he said. "If the rock appears more coherent, then it might be a primary crustal rock excavated by the impact."

China recently published a huge batch of data and amazing images from the Chang'e-4 lander and Yutu-2 rover. However, the release did not include data from day 13, meaning high-resolution images of these intriguing specimens are not yet public.

Regarding the age of the rocks, Moriarty said that "fresh" is a relative term: In this case, it means that the rocks formed after the major resurfacing events in Von Kármán crater. "So that could be 10-100 million years [ago] or 1-2 billion years. It's really hard to say definitively." 

To learn more, the Yutu-2 team navigated the rover in order to analyze one of the specimens with its Visible and Near-infrared Imaging Spectrometer (VNIS) instrument, which detects light that is scattered or reflected off materials to reveal their makeup.

Because the fragments are small and the lunar terrain is very challenging, the team made careful calculations and fine adjustments in order to get the rocks into the VNIS field of view, according to Our Space. This may account for the relatively short distance Yutu-2 traveled during lunar day 13: 41.3 feet (12.6 meters). Overall, Yutu-2 has driven 1,170 feet (357 m) since arriving in Von Kármán crater.

Earlier in 2019, Yutu-2 made numerous approaches to an unidentified rock sample, which Our Space described as "gel-like."

The Chang'e-4 lander and Yutu-2 completed their 14th lunar day of science and exploration on Jan. 31, ahead of sunset over the landing area in Von Kármán crater. Day 15 began on Feb. 17, with Yutu-2 due to head to the northwest and then southwest to reach a designated target point.

China plans to launch Chang'e-5, a sample-return mission, in the second half of this year. It will collect around 4 lbs. (2 kilograms) of samples from Oceanus Procellarum on the moon's near side before returning to Earth. If this is successful, the backup Chang'e-6 mission could attempt to retrieve samples from the South Pole-Aitken Basin or the lunar south pole around 2023.

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22-02-2020 om 17:06 geschreven door peter  

The Nimitz UFO encounter in November 2004 is one of the most famous sightings in history. Now, a previously-unknown witness has come forward to say he saw it "form" in front of his Navy craft

By Simon Green - Video News Editor

A third US Navy craft witnessed the infamous tic-tac UFO in 2004 “form” in front of them, but the crew on board were ordered to “never talk” about what they saw.

It is widely believed two F/8-18E Super Hornets from the USS Nimitz were the first to witness the infamous UFO off the coast of San Diego on November 14, 2004, before a second team were sent out later and caught the object on camera.

Commander David Fravor, piloting one of the Super Hornets, has gained worldwide fame after his testimony was included in a bombshell New York Times article exposing the encounter in 2017.

But there are now claims a third aircraft was in the area at the time of the original sighting, with those onboard supposedly witnessing the craft “form in front of them”.

Dave Beaty – who has interviewed several pilots and witnesses of the UFO as part of his Nimitz Encounters documentary – told Jim Breslo on The Hidden Truth Show that the crew were on the surveillance plane E-2 Hawkeye.

“The gentlemen I spoke to, I checked his background and he did fly in the Hawkeye,” he explained.

“The reason he didn’t want to come forward was because he had to sign a document right after the incident saying to not talk about.

“Even going out on a limb and speaking to me was sketchy for him.”

Dave explained that the Hawkeye crew heard the radio calls from Princeton … Kevin Day instructing Fravor to intercept the tic-tac.

“At that time, the entire air crew noticed one of these objects form up on their plane before taking off,” he continued.

“All five aircrew would have seen that object.”

But when the crew landed, things took a weird turn. The director says they were led to a secure briefing room different to the normal one after training exercises.

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22-02-2020 om 16:30 geschreven door peter  

Third Navy crew ‘ordered to stay quiet’ about 2004 USS Nimitz UFO incident

There is possibly a third aircraft to have witnessed one of the most infamous UFO sightings in recent history, according to a person familiar with the matter.

As part of his Nimitz Encounters documentary, Dave Beaty told Jim Breslo on The Hidden Truth Show on Feb. 10, that he interviewed witnesses of the UFO that were “ordered to stay quiet” and signed non-disclosure type agreements immediately after the incident occurred on Nov. 14, 2004, off the coast of San Diego.

See the full interview below:

“The gentlemen I spoke to, I checked his background and he did fly in the [surveillance plane E-2 Hawkeye],” Beaty said.

The Hawkeye would be the third aircraft to have been in the area to witness the event, with the other two being the F/8-18E Super Hornets, one of which Commander David Fravor piloted, as the Daily Star reported.

Fravor brought the incident to the public’s attention in 2017 in a New York Times report that detailed his experience in the encounter.

Since Fravor’s report, others have come forward as witnesses of the incident on that day.

Beaty said that the individual he interviewed didn’t want to come forward because he signed a document that compelled him to stay quiet.

“Even going out on a limb and speaking to me was sketchy for him,” Beaty explained.  “It wasn’t really a volunteer process, it was more a ‘sign this and don’t ever talk about what you saw.’”

In what is possibly the most credible UFO sighting in human history, five other former sailors have also come forward as witnesses to the “Tic Tac” occurrence.

These five witnesses, Gary Voorhis, Jason Turner, Patrick Hughes, Ryan Weigelt and Kevin Day, say more evidence beyond the publicly available footage was destroyed by unknown officials.

The only footage available is a grainy black and white video that shows the “Tic Tac” shaped object moving in a way that defies known physics.

As Commander Fravor put it, the strange object he saw was “something not from this world.”

“A white Tic Tac, about the same size as a Hornet, 40 feet long with no wings,” Fravor described, according to The Washington Post. “Just hanging close to the water.”

“As I get closer, as my nose is starting to pull back up, it accelerates and it’s gone,” he said. “Faster than I’d ever seen anything in my life. We turn around, say let’s go see what’s in the water and there’s nothing. Just blue water.”

While Fravor doubts the story of the five sailors, Hughes and the others were ordered to turn over data they collected while performing routine tasks.

Hughes stored hard drives that had the extra footage, but claimed that his commanding officer and two unknown individuals asked him to turn over the data.

“They were not on the ship earlier, and I didn’t see them come on. I’m not sure how they got there,” said Hughes of the two men.

Voorhis said he had a similar encounter, but he was also asked to wipe the tapes clean.

“These two guys show up on a helicopter, which wasn’t uncommon, but shortly after they arrived, maybe 20 minutes, I was told by my chain of command to turn over all the data recordings for the AEGIS system,” he said. “They even told me to erase everything that’s in the shop—even the blank tapes.”

Although Fravor has been ridiculed for his theories, and was even asked by people close to him to not tell it because of the perception and backlash that it would create, the U.S. Navy has admitted that a series of UFO videos are real, WDTV reported.

Fravor has been witness to another, less well-known incident. Speaking on Joe Rogan’s popular podcast on Oct. 5, Fravor described a mystery “dark mass” that emerged from the ocean depths and swallowed a torpedo whole when a sailor was diving in the water to inspect a torpedo.

“This big object, kind of circular, is coming up from the depths and [a sailor] starts screaming through the intercom system to tell them to pull the diver up, and the diver’s only a few feet from the water,” he said.

“They reverse the winch and the diver’s thinking: ‘What the hell is going on?’ And all of a sudden he said the torpedo just got sucked down underwater, and the object just descended back down into the depths.”

The torpedo “didn’t sink,” it “literally looked like it got sucked down,” Fravor said a witness claimed.

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22-02-2020 om 16:09 geschreven door peter  

UFO At Space Station 22 Mins! Shoots Out Into Space, UFO Sighting News. Amazing Footage!

Date of sighting: Feb 22, 2020

Location of sighting: Earths orbit, space station

Source: NASA Live Cam

 

I was watching the NASA live space station cam when I noticed the camera zooming in on a strange object coming from below the space station. At first I thought it was a capsule or satellite, but its speed increased and after 22 minutes it shot up and into deep space. I believed if it was a capsule it would have gone into low earth orbit then lower to land. But when this object shot upward into deep space, it literally blew my mind. This could be USAF top secret alien tech fused craft, but I don't think so, the person on the camera seemed dismayed and unprepared for its sudden appearance. 

 

The objects shape is more like an ice cream cone...pointy in the back and rounded in the front. It matches perfect speed with the space station for over 22 min. Also, on the next video I release it the full 22 minutes and I hear them talking about replacing the battery but I don't hear them say a single thing about the UFO floating outside the station. 

 

Also...this coronavirus is spreading like a wildfire out of control, its possible that aliens know what going to happen and they decided abandon the earth. The virus may be very dangerous to aliens too. If this is true, expect to see a big rise in UFO sightings as they appear from underground bases and leave earths atmosphere. 

Scott C. Waring

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22-02-2020 om 14:34 geschreven door peter  

UFO Lands in Cherry Creek, NY

22-02-2020 om 13:07 geschreven door peter  

The Unexplained Cherry Creek UFO Landing Incident in 1965

In the summer of 1965, an apparent landing of a UFO would unfold in Cherry Creek, New York, witnessed at first by a teenage son, Harold Butcher, of the farm’s owners, and then, when it reappeared, by the entire family. What’s more, the incident was investigated by the New York police, the United States Air Force, and the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon (NICAP). At around 8:20pm on the evening of August 19th 1965, 16-year-old Harold Butcher had been in a barn milking cows when he spotted a silver saucer-shaped object in the sky outside. Describing it as a “football-shaped object hovering just above tree-level”, Butcher watched as the craft descended slowly emitting a red vapor downward from around the edges. He later described it as having a pair of vertical seams running up and down the side, said retired transportation safety researcher Robert Galganski who has extensively analyzed the case.

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22-02-2020 om 12:43 geschreven door peter  

22-02-2020 om 01:38 geschreven door peter  

Our solar system could have hosted ancient alien civilizations

Written by Luca Praderio

Is it possible that our solar system hosted other developed civilizations and if so when would it happen and what would happen to them?

To wonder if there is the possibility that the solar system has hosted another developed civilization, from which the human race may have originated, was the astronomer Jason Wright, of the Penn State University.

In a paper the astronomer exposed his theory: advanced civilizations could have lived in our solar system well before the appearance of man on earth.

INDIGENOUS TECHNOLOGICAL SPECIES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Wright called these civilizations “indigenous technological species” underlining that if these civilizations really existed they would have to leave “technosignatures”, i.e. remains of their ancient technology that can withstand deterioration far more than organic materials.

These “technosignatures” would be over millions of years buried under the surface of the earth or other planets like Mars or Venus. The “indigenous technological species” should have developed during the Cambrian period.

At times on earth complex life forms spread in a sort of acceleration of the evolution that could be the answer to some cosmic cataclysm that destroyed the previous forms of life, obliging the terrestrial biosphere to generate new forms of living organisms.

TECHNOSIGNATURES HID FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS

We know moreover, notes Wright, that on Mars millions of years ago there were oceans of water in the liquid state and maybe even Venus presented conditions suitable for the development of life, before seeing temperatures rise and become that hell that is today.

Although there is no evidence to support Wright's theory, one can not but admit the appeal of his hypothesis.

According to Wright, it is also possible that we have already come into contact with the remains of some “technosignatures”, but that we have not been able to recognize them for such.

Or that some evidence is still traceable on some rocky satellites around Saturn or Jupiter as Encedalus or Europe, under the frozen surface of which oceans of water are kept in the liquid state.

Who knows, then, if we will find evidence in the next few years or decades of any “ancient aliens” that preceded the man in the colonization of the solar system and, maybe, have had a direct or indirect role in the origin of our species. Any reference to myths and legends could be not purely coincidental.

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22-02-2020 om 01:23 geschreven door peter  

DEFORMED OBJECT IN THE KUIPER BELT DEFIES PLANETARY FORMATION THEORY

As it flew by Pluto in 2015, NASA’s New Horizons mission spotted something weird: An ancient, deformed planetary body the size of Seattle swam into view, perplexing scientists here on Earth.

This strange encounter turned out to be a scientific boon. Data from the object reveals new details about how planetary bodies, including our own Earth, formed in the early Universe, offering rare insight into the ancient cosmos.

Dubbed Arrokoth, this weird rock is the furthest, most primitive object ever visited by a spacecraft.

Located some billion miles from Pluto, the object lies in the Kuiper Belt, a region beyond the Solar System. The Belt is believed to contain the leftover remains of the Solar System's early formation.

On New Year’s Day, 2019, New Horizons approached Arrokoth at a distance of 2,200 miles, flying directly past it. For reference, New Horizons was four billion miles away from Earth at this point.

NASA's data from the close encounter were published Thursday in three studies in the journal Science. Together, the research supports an unlikely theory of how planetary bodies formed in the early universe.

CLOSE ENCOUNTER

Arrokoth is around 22 miles wide, and is a binary object made up of two lobes that sort of looks like a misshaped, red snowman. It is classified as a "planetesimal" — an object believed to have formed around 3.8 billion years ago, during the Solar System's infancy.

Arrokoth is not the only object that dates to the time. Ancient comets and asteroids which also date from this febrile time have come closer to Earth, but because their orbits bring them near the Sun, they have also been affected by the star's radiation. As a result, they have been severely altered, obscuring some of the data scientists might gain on how they formed. But the Kuiper Belt is cold, and far from the Sun's harmful rays. It also contains some of the first planetary bodies ever formed in the Solar System, making it a potential astrophysics goldmine.

“These Kuiper Belt objects are a much better preserved sample or window back into the formation stage of planets, or planetesimals,” Alan Stern, principal investigator of New Horizons, said during a press conference to announce the findings on Thursday.

Arrokoth not only reveals some of the secrets of this process, but the data also defy the conventional theory of how planets form.

SLOW AND STEADY

The argument over how planets form has various competing theories, but the two at the center of this new research are the theory of hierarchical accretion and the cloud collapse hypothesis. Hierarchical accretion is a process whereby planetary bodies formed through high speed collisions of small rocks and grains. Cloud collapse, by contrast, is an altogether more gentle process.

Cloud collapse suggests that particles were gradually drawn to each other, until they suddenly collapsed under their gravitational pull, forming massive bodies over time.

According to the new data dump, the science supports the second theory. Arrokoth's two lobes were formed from the same cloud of material — as separate entities, they orbited around each other before they fused together to form the binary shape, the scientists reveal.

To make the conclusion, the researchers looked at different numerical simulations of interacting bodies at different speeds and angles. The models suggest that an object of this size most likely came together at a low speed — consistent with cloud collapse theory, and not hierarchical accretion.

Other data collected during the flyby jibes with this result: Arrokoth has no signs of a violent origin, and no large craters or fractures — suggesting that it had a rather gentle birth.

“The only way to account for this body is the merger speed was very low,” William McKinnon, NASA's deputy leader of the Geology and Geophysics Investigation team for New Horizons, said Thursday.

“The shape is simply inconsistent with higher velocity accretion, but it does match what we expect to see in the low velocity merger.”

New Horizons launched in January, 2006. The spacecraft was designed to peer into the outskirts of the Solar System by flying by Pluto and venturing on into the Kuiper Belt. Arrokoth was not on the original agenda for the mission, but in this one flyby, the misshapen object ca now be added to its magnificent scientific legacy.

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22-02-2020 om 01:01 geschreven door peter  

NASA'S JUNO CORRECTS A 25-YEAR-OLD MISCONCEPTION ABOUT JUPITER

Some 4.5 billion years ago, gravity pulled swirling gas and dust together to form a giant planet more than twice as massive as all other planets in the Solar System — Jupiter.

And, unlike the other planets, Jupiter formed from the leftover material that created the Sun. Shrouded in its gaseous layers are secrets of the Solar System's earliest years. Now, new data from NASA's Juno mission to study the planet reveal just how little we really know about this iconic giant. Turns out that on one crucial point — whether Jupiter's atmosphere contains water — we have been dead wrong for decades.

Cracking the mystery of how much water truly exists in Jupiter’s atmosphere could provide a rare glimpse at the conditions in the Solar System during its earliest years.

WATER WORLD

As it orbits Jupiter, Juno looks for water in the planet’s atmosphere by tracing oxygen and hydrogen molecules. Based on Juno's data, water makes up around 0.25 percent of the molecules in Jupiter’s atmosphere. That is almost three times the amount of water in the Sun’s atmosphere.

The data clear up a conundrum in Jupiter's origin story: Earlier measurements suggested that water was largely missing from Jupiter's atmosphere — which ran contrary to theories about how the planet formed.

Hydrogen and helium are the most common elements in Jupiter, followed by oxygen. Scientists believe that oxygen may have been the primary evaporating gas of the protoplanetary disk, which is a rotating disk of gas and dust that surrounds a newly formed star. As a result, Jupiter should have at least some water in its atmosphere.

But in 1995, data from NASA’s Galileo mission to Jupiter suggested the planet's atmosphere contained 10 times less water than expected.

STORMY PLANET

This wasn't the only problem with the old data — the amount of water in Jupiter's atmosphere also controls its weather.

In March, 1979, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft flew by Jupiter, detecting a strange, Earth-like phenomenon — lightning.

For there to be lightning on a planet, there needs to be an abundance of water in its atmosphere. Other key characteristics of Jupiter’s meteorology also rely on water, such as its powerful storms.

Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot is the largest storm of its kind in the entire Solar System. It has been raging on for years. The winds on Jupiter can reach up to 335 miles per hour, according to NASA.

In addition, the lines that seem to swirl around the giant planet are thought to be cold, windy clouds of ammonia and water.

ENTER, JUNO

Juno launched in 2011. One of the mission’s main objectives is to determine how much water is in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Doing so will give scientists a better understanding of how planets formed early on in the Solar System.

The spacecraft orbits Jupiter every 53 days, using its Microwave Radiometer instrument to observe the planet from above. The tool features six antennas that measure atmospheric temperature at multiple depths simultaneously. Because both water and ammonia absorb microwave radiation, these temperature measurements show their abundance in Jupiter’s atmosphere.

These most-recent — and revealing — measurements were conducted at Jupiter’s equator. It is a unique region to the planet that may have its own distinct weather and atmospheric features, so further measurements are needed in order to determine whether they apply to the planet as a whole.

Juno has been a game-changer for astronomers studying the giant planet. Among its recent findings have been the first views of Jupiter's moon Ganymede's north pole, and documenting a particularly chaotic region of the planet's storms, suggesting that wind systems similar to those found on Earth run deeper and last longer on Jupiter than they do on our own planet.

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22-02-2020 om 00:21 geschreven door peter  

Wetenschappers ontdekken exoplaneet die in recordtempo rond haar zon draait: ‘jaar’ duurt er 18 uur - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Wetenschappers hebben een exoplaneet ontdekt die wel heel snel rond haar moederster draait. Dat staat te lezen in het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Een ‘jaar’ op NGTS-10b - dat is de tijd die nodig is om één keer rond de zon te draaien - duurt er maar achttien uur. 

NGTS-10b bevindt zich op zowat 1.000 lichtjaar (ongeveer 9,5 biljoen kilometer) van ons. De ontdekking werd gedaan met de transitmethode, die gebaseerd is op het feit dat de helderheid van een ster afneemt als er een object of planeet voor passeert. 

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Helderheid

Het oog van wetenschappers van de universiteit van Warwick viel nu op een ster waarvan de helderheid heel frequent even afnam. Ze kwamen tot de vaststelling dat dit veroorzaakt wordt door een planeet die zeer dicht rond haar moederster draait. NGTS-10b zou maar zo’n 2 miljoen kilometer van haar ster verwijderd zijn. Ter vergelijking: Mercurius, de planeet die in óns zonnestelsel het dichtste bij de zon staat, is er wel 58 miljoen kilometer van verwijderd. En de Aarde bevindt maar liefst bijna 148 miljoen kilometer van de zon.

Het gevolg is dat NGTS-10b maar achttien uur nodig heeft voor een omloop rond haar zon en dat is een nieuw record. Ons ‘jaar’ duurt een pak langer: 365 dagen, 6 uren,  9 minuten en 10 seconden.

De planeet zou twintig procent groter zijn dan ‘onze’ Jupiter en ongeveer twee keer zoveel massa hebben. Eén kant van NGTS-10b is wellicht de hele tijd naar de ster gericht en dus de hele tijd heet. De temperatuur bedraagt er waarschijnlijk meer dan 1.000 graden.

Toekomst

Doordat NGTS-10b zo dicht bij haar zon staat, is het mogelijk dat de zwaartekracht van de ster de planeet op termijn uiteen rukt. De wetenschappers willen de exoplaneet de komende jaren in de gaten blijven houden om te zien of ze verzwolgen wordt door haar ster dan wel of hij erin slaagt alsnog rondjes te blijven draaien.

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• Belgisch getinte ruimtevaartmissie naar kant van de zon die we nog nooit zagen

BEKIJK OOK: Tiener ontdekt nieuwe planeet op derde stagedag

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21-02-2020 om 23:26 geschreven door peter  

Vlaanderen ziet ze vliegen: ’UFO-treintje’ blijken satellieten van Elon Musk - HLN.be

“De weersomstandigheden waren natuurlijk ideaal, er was geen wolkje aan de lucht”, zegt Frederick Delaere, coördinator van het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt. “Aan de beschrijving te horen, was mij meteen duidelijk wat al die mensen tijdens de vroege ochtendspits hadden waargenomen: op Cape Canaveral in Florida heeft SpaceX met een Falcon raket opnieuw 60 satellieten gelanceerd en die konden we nu toevallig zien vanuit Vlaanderen. Het is al de vijfde lancering, er draaien er dus al 300 rond de aarde. Wat we zien is de reflectie van de zon op de satellieten van 260 kilogram per stuk.”

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Amerikaans leger verontschuldigt zich voor Area 51-dreigtweet

Volgens de website Heavens Above is de kans groot - als de weersomstandigheden meezitten - dat we nog wel vaker dat treintje aan het Vlaamse firmament zien passeren. “Starlink wil in totaal12.000 satellieten op enkele honderden kilometer boven de aarde rondjes laten draaien want Musk wil dat snel internet in 2024 voor iedereen in de wereld bereikbaar wordt”, zegt Delaere. Musk krijgt behoorlijk wat tegenwind van wetenschappers van onder meer NASA omdat er al zoveel satellieten en ruimtetuigen in een baan rond de aarde draaien en de kans op botsingen daardoor alleen maar groter wordt.

video's - peter2011

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21-02-2020 om 23:13 geschreven door peter  

Noah’s Ark Found? A Researcher's Journey to Mount Ararat, Turkey

videos - peter2011

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21-02-2020 om 22:44 geschreven door peter  

Radio 2

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21-02-2020 om 21:34 geschreven door peter  

UFO Recorded Flying Over Car In Santa Clara, California, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Feb 16, 2020
Location of sighting: Santa Clara, California, USA
Source: MUFON #106274

Here is an interesting video just into MUFON a few hours ago. Someone was recording themselves in the car and accidentally caught something white moving above him. The object shoot across the sky and has a white cloud like color, although its shape and speed is nothing like a cloud. The long shape and the reflective white surface of the craft reflects the details of many past UFO reports. 

Also compounded with the fact that Santa Clara is connected to the ocean, its highly probable that this UFO came from an under water base not far away. There is a very high probability that this is a real UFO. 
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

other ufosightings in Santa - Clara- peter2011

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21-02-2020 om 20:45 geschreven door peter  

Strange things going on in space lately.

The following video recorded from the ISS live feed cam shows multiple flashes of light in space on which several unidentified flying objects seem to appear out of these flashes.

Where do these strange space vehicles come from and who are the pilots? They were teleported through time from another dimension?

And could it be that these advanced machinery have anything to do with the strange green / yellow anomalies / craft that have been seen in space in recent weeks? if so, then what could be the reason for their arrival?

Now, there are rumors that there is a big cover up underway, these green/yellow craft and the strange space vehicles are but a few of of these types of alien spacecraft. It seems there are larger spacecraft en route to Earth and the global military powers, British, USA, China, Russia, etc. are gearing up for a code red alert "Status unknown spacecraft."

The following video recorded by Jujubee's Adams last week, using the ISS live feed app, shows at first the green/yellow anomalies/craft, then (starting around the 5.45 mark till the end of the video before NASA shut down the live feed) a series of flashing lights on which several UFOs seem to appear out of these flashes.

  

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21-02-2020 om 19:51 geschreven door peter  

UFOs caught on tape over Seattle, Washington 20-Feb-2020

This footage of a multiple unidentified flying objects flying over Seattle, Washington was submitted to me through our Facebook page. This happened on 20th February 2020.

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21-02-2020 om 18:57 geschreven door peter  

USS Nimitz captain reveals Navy pilots DO have to watch out for UFOs after one of the carrier's planes captured secret unreleased video of 2004 encounters with a 'Tic Tac-shaped' mystery aircraft

• Captain Max Clark, commanding officer of the USS Nimitz, tells DailyMail.com it is important his ship and everybody on it is kept safe from UFOs
• 'From my perspective we have an obligation to make sure the airspace is clear, whether it's UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) or UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle),' he says  
• This comes just weeks after the Office of Naval Intelligence revealed the existence of a classified, unreleased video of a UFO
• The video was related to the notorious USS Nimitz carrier group's 2004 encounters with a 'Tic Tac'-shaped UFO 
• The encounters remain a mystery and the object's incredible speed and movements have led to speculation that it was extraterrestrial 

By RYAN PARRY WEST COAST EDITOR ON BOARD USS NIMITZ IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN

The commanding officer of the US Navy supercarrier, the USS Nimitz, has revealed his crew has an 'obligation' to make sure the airspace is clear of UFOs.

In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Captain Max Clark said it's important his ship and everybody on it is kept safe from Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) - the term for UFOs used by the Navy.

This comes just weeks after the Office of Naval Intelligence revealed the existence of a classified, unreleased video relating to the Nimitz carrier group's 2004 encounters with a 'Tic Tac'-shaped UFO.

The existence of the video was revealed in a response to a Freedom of Information Act request made by researcher Christian Lambright, and published by Lambright's friend Paul Dean.

The video is likely the full version of a leaked 76-second video clip that the Defense Department admitted in 2017 was authentic.

Captain Max Clark, commanding officer of the USS Nimitz, tells DailyMail.com it is important his ship and everybody on it is kept safe from UFOs after the Nimitz carrier group had an encounter with a UFO in 2004

This comes just weeks after the Office of Naval Intelligence revealed the existence of a classified, unreleased video of a UFO. The classified video is likely the full version of the leaked 76-second clip (above) which circulated online from 2007, and was confirmed as authentic in 2017 

The footage was taken by a pilot using a Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) gun-pod camera on an F/A-18 Super Hornet flying over the Pacific Ocean.

Speaking to DailyMail.com on the bridge of the Nimitz, Captain Clark said of the bizarre encounter: 'From my perspective we have an obligation to make sure the airspace is clear, whether it's UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) or UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), this is part of the air space.

Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for Britain's Ministry of Defence in the 1990s, said Captain Clark's comments come as a surprise because there are 'huge sensitivities' over the Nimitz incident

'It adds another level of... from a pilot's point of view, to see and avoid, and also our radar systems looking for things like that too, just to make sure everybody's safe.'

Philadelphia native Captain Clark, who assumed command of Nimitz on August 1, 2019, wasn't on board the Nimitz when the unusual sighting was recorded 16 years ago.

And the experienced officer wouldn't be drawn further on the video or the Navy's close encounters of the third kind.

Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs in an official capacity for Britain's Ministry of Defence in the 1990s, said Captain Clark's comments come as a surprise.

The commentator told DailyMail.com: 'These are fascinating comments and it's interesting they were made at all, because the Department of Defence recently took over responding to all UFO-related questions from the media, following some tension between them and the US Navy.

'But ship's captains are strong-willed characters who don't take kindly to being muzzled.

'That said, the captain was totally on-message, because the official line involves talking in general terms about the need to guard against unauthorized incursions into restricted military airspace, with the aim of promoting safety.

'What's being downplayed by everyone is the staggering fact that the US government still doesn't know what these objects are.

'The DOD's line is that the objects seen by naval aviators during the USS Nimitz incident remain "unidentified".'

Pope added that there are 'huge sensitivities' over the Nimitz incident and the recent admission by the US Navy that it has the secret unreleased video has put the affair back in the spotlight. And Captain Clark's comments further fuel the speculation surrounding the footage which has baffled the world.

At least six Super Hornet pilots made visual or instrument contact with the UFO on November 14, 2004.

The encounters, which are documented in numerous interviews with first-hand witnesses, remain a mystery, and the object's incredible speed and movements have led to speculation that it was extraterrestrial in origin.

Chad Underwood, the former Navy aviator who shot the famous leaked video clip, broke his silence last month in an interview with New York Magazine

Underwood was flying in an F/A-18F Super Hornet as part of the USS Nimitz (above) carrier group when he encountered an 'unidentified aerial phenomena'

A map shows the rough location of the USS Nimitz carrier group during the 2004 encounter

The original FLIR video from the Nimitz encounters leaked online as early as 2007.

Witnesses say that clips of the video had been circulated widely on the Navy's intranet - used to communicate between ships in the carrier group - and an unknown sailor in the group likely first leaked it.

The clip became one of the most-touted pieces of evidence in the UFO community when the Pentagon confirmed its authenticity in 2017.

Last month, Chad Underwood, the former Navy aviator who shot the famous leaked video clip, broke his silence in an interview with New York Magazine.

He said the oblong, wingless 'Tic Tac' shaped object was spotted off the coast of Mexico over the Pacific.

He also revealed that for about two weeks, the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Princeton, part of Carrier Strike Group 11, had been tracking mysterious aircraft intermittently for two weeks on an advanced AN/SPY-1B passive radar.

The radar contacts were so inexplicable that the system was even shut down and restarted to to check for bugs - but operators continued to track the unknown aircraft.

Then on November 14, Commander David Fravor says he was flying in an F/A-18F Super Hornet when he made visual contact with the object, which seemed to dive below the water, resurface, and speed out of sight when he tried to approach it.

As Fravor landed on the deck of the Nimitz, Underwood was just gearing up to take off on his own training run.

Fravor told Underwood about the bizarre encounter, and urged Underwood to keep his eyes open.

He recalls how he suddenly saw a blip on his radar before tracking it on his FLIR camera.

'The thing that stood out to me the most was how erratic it was behaving,' Underwood told the magazine.

'And what I mean by “erratic” is that its changes in altitude, air speed, and aspect were just unlike things that I’ve ever encountered before flying against other air targets.'

The FOIA response letter above revealed that Office of Naval Intelligence has 'TOP SECRET' briefing slides and 'SECRET' video related to the 2004 USS Nimitz carrier group encounters

Underwood says the object wasn't obeying the laws of physics and dropped from 50,000 feet altitude to 100 feet in seconds, which he says, 'isn't possible'.

Underwood added that he saw no signs of an engine heat plume or any sign of propulsion.

The pilot refuses to speculate as to whether the object is an alien spacecraft or not, however.

'That’s not my job. But I saw something. And it was also seen, via eyeballs, by both my commanding officer, Dave Fravor, and the Marine Corps Hornet squadron commanding officer who was out there as well.'

DailyMail.com spoke to Nimitz commanding officer Captain Clark about the incident after being invited onboard the awesome 95,000 ton vessel earlier this month.

We joined the crew on a five day training mission in the Pacific Ocean and witnessed first hand it's awesome capabilities.

Capable of reaching more than 30 knots (35mph) the Nimitz-class supercarrier is one of ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in the US Fleet.

We observed flight operations as F/A-18 Super Hornets, EA-18G Growlers and a handful of F-35C stealth strike fighters were launched off the ship and brought in to land.

The Nimitz is the lead ship of her class, one of the largest warships in the world and the flagship of Carrier Strike Group Eleven (CSG-11) with Carrier Air Wing Seventeen (CVW-17) embarked.

Its homeport is Naval Base Kitsap in Washington and the vessel is named for legendary fleet admiral Chester W. Nimitz (1885–1966), who helped the US defeat the Japanese Navy in World War II.

{ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ }

21-02-2020 om 00:39 geschreven door peter  

Brian Koberlein Contributor 

An illustration of Lightsail 2 being tested above Earth.

JOSH SPRADLING / THE PLANETARY SOCIETY

It has long been a dream of humanity to travel among the stars. Perhaps someday, if we survive as a species, we can explore the galaxy on great starships. It's a big dream, and it would be a tremendous engineering feat.

One of the greatest challenges is how we could even reach other stars. Our solar system is vast, but it is dwarfed by stellar distance. Even light takes years to reach the nearest stars. For humans to make such a journey in a reasonable timeframe, our starships will need to travel at relativistic speeds. But this would take far more energy than we currently produce.

While engineers have envisioned powerful rockets to reach relativistic speeds, they have also looked at alternatives such as solar sails to harness the momentum of light, or ways to capture the stream of charged particles that stream through interstellar space. After all, there are powerful natural energy sources in the universe. Why not harness them?

Recently a team looked at these ideas and explored one step further. If humans someday use natural powerhouses to travel the stars, wouldn't other advanced civilizations? If they did, could we see evidence of advanced aliens sailing between the stars?

Their paper looks at two technologies: light sails, which use light to push a starship into space, and electric sails, which use an electric field to deflect charged particles in space to accelerate the starship. They found that with light sails, the maximum speed of a starship depends upon the luminosity of the light source. By harnessing the light of a star, a light sail ship could only reach a small fraction of light speed. However, harnessing the light of microquasars or supernovae could accelerate a ship up to a few percent of the speed of light. An electric sail could achieve similar speeds from a star but performs better with powerful sources. By harnessing a microquasar, for example, an electric sail could achieve more than 10% of light speed.

Even at these speeds, a starship would take decades or centuries to reach another star. But forward-thinking species, it could be worth doing. If aliens are using such technology, how might we detect them? The team notes that one way would be to focus on powerful astrophysical sources such as microquasars. If aliens are reflecting light with a solar sail, or deflecting streams of ionized gas with an electric sail, there could be signatures in the light spectra hinting at an artificial source. But the team also notes that the best way to see these starships would be to look for radio signals.

Finding evidence of aliens in this way is a long shot. Even a galactic fleet would be very difficult to detect. But it is interesting to speculate about what we might find. And someday we might be pleasantly surprised.

Reference: 

• Lingam, Manasvi, and Abraham Loeb. "Propulsion of Spacecrafts to Relativistic Speeds Using Natural Astrophysical Sources." arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.03247 (2020).

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21-02-2020 om 00:17 geschreven door peter  

Chris Mellon: Our Government Is “Lethargic And Risk Averse” In Assessing Possible Threat From UFOs

JAZZ SHAW

Chris Mellon was the deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence in the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. He’s also a policy advisor for To the Stars Academy. The guy has been working on military intelligence and policy for a long time from both inside and outside of the halls of the federal government. In other words, when it comes to the military, he knows a thing or two.

One thing that Mellon knows now is that he’s getting frustrated with the seeming lack of coherent response on the part of the Pentagon to the revelations of incredible craft that have been seen violating our military airspace, first revealed to the public in December of 2017. These UFOs (and we should just be calling them that because that’s what they are) are described in detail by Mellon in a new article he’s published at the website of the American Legion titled “A threat unmet.” But despite all of the available data and expert military witnesses, Mellon finds that almost everyone in the United States government and the upper echelons of our military is turning a blind eye to what he sees as a very real, potential threat to our national security. The lack of action on the part of so many agencies that should be cooperating in the collection and analysis of data has led to a condition Mellon describes as “paralysis.” (Emphasis added)

This paralysis is occurring at a time when the scientific community increasingly recognizes the possibility of humanity encountering probes from spacefaring civilizations. In fact, last year the House Committee on Space, Science and Technology directed NASA to begin looking for “technosignatures,” by which it means alien space probes. This is happening because many exobiologists now recognize probes are more efficient and effective than radio waves for purposes of space exploration or contact. As unlikely as it may seem, there is no denying the possibility that some UFO/UAPs encountered by our military are probes launched by distant civilizations.

While military personnel such as [Cmdr. David] Fravor and Lt. Ryan Graves – an F-18 pilot who said UFOs followed his Navy strike group for months – are awed by the technology they observed, they are undeterred, eager to give chase both literally and figuratively. Reflecting on his encounter, Fravor told me, “I want to fly that thing!” He naturally expects his country to figure out where these things come from, why they are here and how they work. Fravor and his colleagues at least still have the right stuff, even if the hierarchy above them is lethargic and risk-averse.

I wanted to highlight that portion of Mellon’s article in particular because you’ll notice that he’s coming out and saying what so many people have been thinking since this story first began developing. At least some of the UFO/UAPs our military has been running into may indeed be “probes launched by a distant civilization.” In other words… aliens. There. We said it.

This is something that a few of us were batting around on social media this week. Virtually nobody with a deep background in either science or the military really thinks that those things were built by the Russians or the Chinese at this point. If either of those countries had developed the technology to build aircraft that can defy gravity and fly at Mach 25 deep in the atmosphere without us catching up, they’d have attacked us by now. Or at least shown off their cool new technology to impress everyone. And the Navy and the Pentagon have already said they aren’t ours.

So if that’s not our hardware and it’s not Russia’s and it’s not China’s… then what? I don’t care if you want to say it’s aliens, time travelers from the future or humans from some parallel dimension. As Mellon says when quoting Joseph Gradisher, spokesman for the deputy chief of naval operations, “whatever they are, they are real, they aren’t ours, and they continue to violate U.S. airspace with impunity.” We have identified a technology gap between us and someone (or something) and our government has an obligation to try to close it.

For my part, I will just say that I’m not entirely convinced that the Pentagon is doing as little as Mellon says. He’s been out of the loop there for a while and there could well be things going on that he’s simply not aware of. Of course, that’s because they keep this huge veil of secrecy over everything and anything to do with the UFO topic, as we’ve discussed here repeatedly. And even when they do tell us something, they frequently contradict themselves and obfuscate when they’re not flat-out lying.

So what does Mellon want to see happening? He would like to see a coordinated effort across multiple agencies including NASA, the National Reconnaissance Office, the FBI, the NSA, the CIA, the DIA, and DHS to develop a process for collecting and integrating pertinent information about UFO/UAPs. We need to assess the level of the risk that’s presented. (The pilots who went up against the tic-tac during the Nimitz encounter told Mellon “We didn’t stand a chance against it.”) And then, with all the available data being coordinated, figure out a plan as to what we’re going to do about it.

If I can add one more item to Mellon’s wish list it would be to tell the government that the public has a right to know what’s going on and what they’re doing, particularly if they’re fairly sure it’s not the Russians or the Chinese. They should come out and tell us everything they know short of exposing sources or methods.

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20-02-2020 om 23:46 geschreven door peter