Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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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...
01-09-2020
It’s Not Just the M.I.B. Who Are Weird: Their Cars Are Too
It’s Not Just the M.I.B. Who Are Weird: Their Cars Are Too
There’s one thing you can say for sure about the Men in Black: they’re very weird. Witnesses to the M.I.B. describe them as looking pale and gaunt. Their skin sometimes appears plastic-like, and completely free of lines. Sometimes they wear wigs. On other occasions they sport large, wrap-around sunglasses. And, perhaps strangest of all, they seem to not understand what food is. If it is offered to them, they simply stare at it. There’s another aspect to the M.I.B. weirdness. It’s the matter of their vehicles. They are just as weird as the M.I.B. themselves. I guess it’s something we should expect. With that said, let’s now take a look at some of the stranger, car-based cases that have a tie to the Men in Black. We’ll begin with a friend of mine, Tracie Austin, author and radio-host. Like me, Tracie is originally from the U.K., but now lives in the United States. She told me of a very strange experience she had late one night back in the U.K. in the 1990s.
As she drove along the road, Tracie said: “…I noticed there was an old, black Lincoln car coming towards us in the opposite direction. Although it was old, it looked new, but it was an old style, and it was totally out of place. And, coming from England, in Cheshire, that’s just not the kind of car you see: an American Lincoln. That’s what I thought: what’s an American car doing here? As the car approached us – coming the other way – I tried to see who the driver was, but I couldn’t see anybody. I’m not saying the car was driving itself, but I just couldn’t make out anyone. No-one. I could see it had really shiny bumpers and there was no [license] plate, at all. And I noticed that with every car behind that Lincoln, it was like it was the leader of the pack. I could see the drivers of the cars behind were all kind of ‘switched off.’ It looked like an automatic mode. Like they were in a daze. It was very, very odd. We got down the road and my friend said: ‘Did you see the way that vehicle was moving?’ I said, ‘No, what do you mean?’ He said: ‘The wheels were going around, but they weren’t touching the ground.’ It was just like it was hovering, but not high, or I would have known. I was too busy trying to see the driver. I just said: ‘Oh, my God.'” Moving on to another case…
Nick Redfern and a sinister (but cool) car…
As bizarre as it might sound, there are a number of reports on record of black cars (A) entering and exiting UFOs late at night; and (B) of apparent aliens exiting UFOs and getting in cars. Yep, I know: it’s really weird. Back in 2009, longtime Ufologist Tim Beckley shared just such a story with me. Tim said: “I remember one incident where I was lecturing and a gentleman – a professor at the college where I was lecturing – came up to me and told this story about how he was driving outside of a town in Michigan. It was rather late at night, and he saw these lights in the woods. He pulled over, and there was no other traffic coming in either direction, but there was already another car parked at the edge of the road.” Tim continued: “He described seeing some sort of ship in the distance – a UFO. A group of human-like aliens got out of the UFO, walked to the car – which was a Cadillac, or something like that. He watched them and could see they looked human. They just got in the car and drove off. But then, a couple of weeks later, he sees one of the same guys in a supermarket. These reports sound farfetched, but there’s so many of them of what seem to be aliens being able to move among us.”
Dr. Josef Allen Hynek was provided with the details of a fantastically-strange MIB encounter, that occurred in a small Minnesota town in late 1975, and that falls firmly into just such a category. Ironically, no UFO was seen on this particular occasion, but the chief witness was harassed by the driver of a large, black Cadillac on a particular stretch of highway, and who nearly forced the man into an adjacent ditch. The irate man quickly righted his vehicle and headed off in hot-pursuit, only to see the black Cadillac lift into the air and, quite literally, disappear in the blink of any eye!
For Robert Easley, a resident of Defiance, Ohio, the weirdness began in the early hours of July 11, 1967. He was woken up by the sound of his phone ringing. Easley quickly answered it – perhaps fearing it was someone with bad news. It was actually a woman who wanted to report a sighting of two UFOs over the town – a sighting that was still going on. Easley jumped into his car and sped off into the night. It turns out that Easley was shadowed all the way by a black Cadillac, very often the preferred mode of transport for the MIB. The car had no license plates, which is typical, too. As for the driver, who kept very close to Easley’s vehicle, his upper body and head were silhouetted and dark. That was not good news. The MIB soon vanished, however, taking another road and leaving Easley worried and slightly paranoid. On the night of July 15, the MIB returned, yet again in his black Cadillac, following Easley for a number of nail-biting miles. Tim Beckley tells the story of what happened next: “When [Easley] pulled into his driveway, the unknown car sped off. Later that evening as he sat talking with his girlfriend on the front porch, the car came down the road and stopped right in front of the house, as soon as the topic of UFOs entered their conversation. Easley could feel the man looking at them. When they got off the subject the car left, but when they got back on it about an hour later, the same car came back again. It was as if the driver could hear what they were saying or read their minds.”
If you thought it was strange that the huge Arecibo Observatory telescope in Puerto Rico was damaged and shut down by a single cable accident, you’re not alone. If you were suspicious about the asteroid that passed by Earth recently so close that it set a record yet no one seemed to have seen in coming, you’re not alone either. If you think those two event might be related, you’re part of a growing group that wonders if the telescope was sabotaged to prevent it from detecting that the asteroid was actually a UFO. Was it?
“One of the auxiliary cables that helps support a metal platform in place above the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, broke on Monday (Aug. 10) causing a 100-foot-long gash on the telescope’s reflector dish. Operations at the UCF-managed observatory are stopped until repairs can be made.”
The University of Central Florida (UCF) manages the massive telescope (second in size only to China’s newly-opened Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST)), which has survived hurricanes (including Maria in 2017), tropical storms and earthquakes since it went operational in 1963. The single 3-inch-diameter cable causing the shutdown was said to have snapped for no apparent reason – on a telescope that is constantly monitored and maintained and has never had an accident of this kind, even during high storm winds. Suspicious yet?
The Arecibo Observatory
“The asteroid approached undetected from the direction of the sun. We didn’t see it coming. [Sunday’s] close approach is [the] closest on record. If you discount a few known asteroids that have actually impacted our planet.”
Paul Chodas, who is the director of NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, didn’t see asteroid ZTF0DxQ or 2020 QG coming on August 16th. The Palomar Observatory in California, didn’t detect it until around six hours after it passed by. NASA’s announcement used the excuse that the SUV-sized asteroid was “tiny.” Suspicious yet?
“The Arecibo radio telescope was knocked out of commission just a few days before, lands the possibility that this was a coordinated effort, so they could not see that this asteroid coming in, or what it actually was, a cigar-shaped UFO.”
Podcaster Daniel Liszt, aka Dark Journalist, brings the two suspicious events together and wonders if ZTF0DxQ was actually an SUV-sized UFO. His YouTube video generated many responses agree with him, as did a similar shorter video by UFO Sightings Hotspot.
With 2020 being such a strange year and the Pentagon and the mainstream media being more open than ever about UFOs, it’s no surprise that the options were considered, the connections were made and people were suspicious. But … is it really possible?
2020 QG detected by NASA’s Zwicky Transient Facility (or was it something else?)
Let’s start with the cable. Who would sabotage a valuable telescope just to keep it from seeing a single unusual space object? Why only this one? Could it really have been the only telescope in the world that could see ZTF0DxQ – whatever it was? While it was the closest, ZTF0DxQ was one of many asteroids that have flown by without NASA or anyone else seeing them. Was this one so unusual that it had to be kept hidden from the public? If any amateur astronomers (who have been observing a lot more events lately since the pandemic shutdown) recorded it, should they keep it to themselves? To get fully conspiratorial, could this be a coordinated smokescreen to distract the public’s attention from something else? After all, this IS 2020!
What do you think? At this point, a connection between Arecibo and ZTF0DxQ seems creative but coincidental, not conspiratorial. However, all that could change if more information is uncovered.
Now and again, we all have a strange coincidence. Some people view them as simply that and nothing else at all. Then, there are those like me who believe in the phenomenon of synchronicities. It’s a phenomenon defined like this by Psychology Today: “Synchronicities are events connected to one another not by strict cause-and-effect, but by what in classical times were known as sympathies, by the belief that an a causal relationship exists between events on the inside and the outside of ourselves, a crosstalk between mind and matter—which is governed by a certain species of attraction. Jung believed that synchronicities mirror deep psychological processes, carry messages the way dreams do, and take on meaning and provide guidance to the degree they correspond to emotional states and inner experiences.”
Carl Jung
At the Psychreg site we learn the following: “Contrary to popular belief, the notion of synchronicity is not inconsistent with a scientific mindset. Indeed, Carl Jung developed his ideas on synchronicity in part through discussions with Albert Einstein. He wrote about synchronicity only after Wolfgang Pauli, another father of quantum mechanics, convinced him to do so. Synchronicity has some features in common with the physical phenomenon of entanglement, whereby physical particles at vast distances from each other have been found to interact instantaneously.”
All of this brings me to my own synchronicities. Or, in this case, one specific event. It all went down in late 2005. That was when I was due to fly to Puerto Rico for a week with Redstar Films of Canada. It’s a company run by a good friend of mine, Paul Kimball. The plan was to make a documentary on the Chupacabra and other mysterious phenomena on the island. It all went well. What I’m going to share with you now, however, is what happened just before my plane took to the skies. It goes as follows: As I sat on the tarmac, waiting for the Puerto Rico-bound plane to take off from Chicago’s airport, I got chatting with the guy who was sitting next to me. It transpired that he served with the U.S. Army, and had a fiancé who lived on the island, who he was going to visit. They were due to marry in 2006. Bob was his name and, after I told him of my reasons for traveling to Puerto Rico, we got into a brief, but deep and entertaining, discussion about all things paranormal and mysterious. Bob told me that he had heard all sorts of odd stories on the island about the Chupacabra, about aliens, and about underground bases. He then asked me about my opinions on Roswell. His question was close to something like this: “Wasn’t there a secret group that supposedly hid the Roswell story? And didn’t some files supposedly surface from them a few years back?”
“Yeah,” I replied, adding words like these: “It was called MJ12, which was supposed to be this group of high-fliers in the government and the military who were keeping it all under wraps. But, I think that the files were disinformation to hide the real truth.” Namely, a dark and disturbing human experiment angle. I added: “The MJ12 researchers have got it all back to front.” At the exact moment that I uttered those words, an aircraft passed us slowly on an adjoining runway; and, out of the window, I could see that its tail-numbers ended: 12MJ. I stared, utterly startled. MJ12 back-to-front. The gods of synchronicity were certainly playing strange mind-games with me that day. What it all meant, I don’t know. But, it was a suitably weird start to an even more weirder week of creature-seeking!
The Alpha-Draconians: Reptilian Alien Race - Humanoid Robots - WhatWeKnow
The Alpha-Draconians: Reptilian Alien Race - Humanoid Robots - WhatWeKnow
The alpha draconians predate Humans well over hundreds of millions of years. They are sapient reptoids who were “seeded” here, by another unknown and vastly superior reptilian who are loosely identified as Tiamatians. They appeared into our reality from another dimension, somewhere from what the Hindu Sanskrittexts refer to as Lokas and Talas. The points of entry into our known universe is suspected to be through a gateway at Thuban or Alwaid.
The propagation on Earth initially began with the seeding of dinosaurs. As sauria blooded dinosaurs evolved into Iguanodontia, dinosaur intelligence became more sapient. Eventually, they became upright and walked as bipedals, known as Saurians. As they became more sapient, they also developed telepathy. Over the course of millions of years their societies became highly advanced to the point that the Saurians developed a space program even more sophisticated than what we know to be as NASA.
The Saurians may have been aware of their history, and identified or perhaps longed to find the Alpha Draconian stargate that their progenitors came from. In time, these advanced saurians became known as the Cekahrr who developed what ufologists know today as, the Alpha Draconian Empire.
I was looking around a photo for some ancient artifacts when I came across this huge jar and skull. They sit side by side and I wonder did the skull once rest on this round jar like pedestal? Now if this skull is a fossil...then at 1 meter by 1.5 meters...that would be one tall alien! There is no way to know for sure 100% without actually examining the skull in person, but I do believe it is an artistic rendition enlarged and probably once had colored stone eyes and objects decorating it. It would be something to see in pristine condition. It should be abundantly clear that NASA has been lying to the public all along. If I had control of the rovers and satellite HD close ups...I could confirm or dismiss these objects in minutes. But if NASA is not using the rovers to do this...then we all know why...because these are ancient alien artifacts. The USA always hides such things that may be an advantage for the US to know about...they call it a matter of national security. Such knowledge must be shared, its a crime against humanity to hide it. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
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Glowing Orbs Seen Over Beach On Island In Florida, July 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Orbs Seen Over Beach On Island In Florida, July 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 2020 Location of sighing: Okaloosa Island, Florida, USA An eyewitness on an island in Florida caught sight of several glowing orbs flying around the sky and hen the orbs unite and fly together. Strange how they move around the sky over the beach as if they want to be seen. Drones cannot be ruled out, since such tech does exist today, however the UFOs seem to want to be seen. Perhaps aliens are taking a more serious stance toward revealing their existence to the world. There is also lightning in the background flashing...which UFOs are known to cause. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Very interested in what other people think these lights may be! I only saw the lights in the sky - they did not come from the sea that I know of. One guy to my right not seen in the footage was also looking but I checked around and I couldn't find any other people who seemed to notice the sky.... makes you wonder how often we are missing something !! I'm actually an Arkansan haha ... was on vacation:) yes I was so perplexed to see these ... I know people say drones but my husband was in the USAF and he does not think those are drones so.
I found something on a sky map that looks very similar to the first black hole photo ever recorded. In the above screenshot, you see a side by side comparison. They have the same shape, color, shadows, dark center. There can be no doubt that this object is a black hole that I found in the Taurus constellation. But the fact is, using this map I have seen other such objects...so, black holes seem to be more common that astronomers thought. But If I can find these black holes...they why haven't they? And if astronomers of the world have...why haven't they reported them? Perhaps there are so many out there that earths future may look shorter than we thought. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
I found a huge UFO near our sun today. The UFO is about 1/2 the size of our moon. When I add darkness to bring out the details (in 2 photos above) I find that the detail of the craft becomes apparent. There are two wing like arms on each side. The craft also is pointed in the front area and is wide and flat in the back area of the ship. There is a blur around the craft...which I believe to be a force field protecting the ship. I have to say I was surprised at the above screenshots details. I had not expected to find such a high quality outline of the craft and shield area. It is expelling something out the back of the craft, but I believe that it must in order to appear as a meteor or comet to force all astronomers into believing its not a UFO. But...we are smarter than than aliens think.
ISS Live Stream recorded a UFO as it leaves Earth's Atmosphere
ISS Live Stream recorded a UFO as it leaves Earth's Atmosphere
It seems as if NASA forgot to put the ISS live stream on a blue screen something which they normally do when a UFO comes into view.
During a recent NASA live stream, cameras on board the International Space Station (ISS) recorded a UFO as it leaves Earth's atmosphere.
The unknown object does not pass in front or behind earth. When analyzing and adding a close-UP screen, you can clearly see that it leaves the atmosphere to disappear into space.
Government Create A Task Force to Investigate UFOs That Might Pose A National Security Threat
Government Create A Task Force to Investigate UFOs That Might Pose A National Security Threat
The Pentagon launches a new investigative team to dig into bewildering UFO sightings and events reportedly spotted by U.S. military personnel, officials confirmed Friday.
Officially set up in early August, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) will be run by the Department of the Navy. The official Pentagon launch of a new probe unit follows increasing focus from Defense officials and Congress on puzzling UFOs spotted near restricted airspace and military bases.
In a press release published Friday, Pentagon officials wrote that they established the UAPTF to gain insight into and improve its understanding of the nature and origins of UFOs or what they officially referred to as UAPs. The task force’s mission is to detect, analyze, and catalog UFOs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.
Defense personnel did not immediately clarify what pushed the formation of the new task force. Still, the department later released three videos caught by U.S. Navy pilots that look to show airborne objects operating beyond physics. The aerial phenomena captured on videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified,’ the agency revealed. Shortly after the release, President Trump described the footage as “a hell of a video…I just wonder if it’s real.”
In May, multiple hazard reports highlighting encounters between unidentified aerial phenomena and Navy aircraft were made available to the public via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
In June, the Senate Intelligence Committee also voted to require the Defense Department to make an elaborated report for the public, synthesizing all UAP-related data collected so far.
Pentagon officials said in a statement on Friday that the safety of their personnel and the security of their operations are of paramount concern. The information added that the Defense and the military departments take the case very seriously and examine each report.
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Since the dawn of the space age in 1957, 80 countries and intergovernmental organizations have launched more than 9,000 objects into space — with nearly 800 in just the past year. While the benefits of this explosive rise in space-based ventures are many (better communications, scientific advancements and stronger national security, to name a few), there are drawbacks as well. The more congested space is, the more contested it becomes, creating challenges for both national and global security.
Here's a look at three of the biggest threats to satellites and what's being done to counter them.
Space might seem like an empty, vacuous void, but in reality, the space environment is extraordinarily dynamic. Our solar system is bathed in a continuous shower of cosmic rays and salvos of energetic particles from solar storms — all of which can penetrate a satellite, microscopically fry its electronics, and, in extreme cases, render it useless.
One solution is to predict space weather to give satellite operators the chance to temporarily shut down part or all of a spacecraft to protect it. But this is surprisingly difficult. How do you forecast a space storm?
Recent scientific innovations hold promise. For example, at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a new machine-learning computer model accurately predicts damaging radiation caused by the intensification of Earth's Van Allen radiation belts two days prior to the storm, the most advanced notice to date.
The new model predicts future events by being trained and validated with existing satellite data sets from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA, and Los Alamos sensors to learn important behavior patterns among the blobs of particles. With the expectation that similar, subtle patterns may repeat themselves in the future, the data-informed model — powered by deep-learning algorithms — makes forecasts by capturing critical indicators that are precursors to those future events. The Los Alamos team is now working to make the model better at predicting severe radiation events in near-Earth space, allowing earlier forecasts.
If an adversary wanted to disable hundreds of satellites and severely hobble a country, launching a nuclear weapon into low-Earth orbit (LEO) and detonating it could do the trick. Although nuclear explosions in space have been banned since 1963 by international treaty, we need to be able to protect our space assets from a rogue nuclear event by knowing where we can move our satellites and for how long. We would also like to know if there are ways to reduce or eliminate any artificial radiation belt created by the blast.
To move a satellite, researchers here are developing a new solid-fuel rocket that could be stopped and restarted multiple times (something that has previously been a handicap of solid fuel thrusters) so satellites in LEO could quickly maneuver to a safer orbit. Solid rocket fuel is high thrust, safe, and low cost, plus it can be stored for extremely long periods of time. Los Alamos tests have successfully and safely demonstrated the ability to stop and restart the motor.
As for eliminating an artificial radiation belt, Los Alamos is partnering with NASA to send the first linear electron accelerator into space. The accelerator will produce an electron beam that can be used as a "virtual antenna" to generate the types of electromagnetic waves that are known to scatter electrons out of the radiation belts.
This new understanding, and a suite of new computer simulations being developed at Los Alamos, will let researchers determine if the experiment could be scaled up to actively scatter radiation belt electrons into the atmosphere where they would be harmlessly absorbed, no longer posing a threat to commercial and military satellites. This would go a long way to reducing the threat posed by a rogue nuclear blast in space.
3. Congestion in space
Currently, almost 3,000 operational satellites orbit Earth, and that number is rising due to the proliferation of launch opportunities for small satellites, primarily into LEO. Soon, we Earthlings will likely be launching more than 1,100 satellites per year, rapidly increasing the risk of collisions. Just one small crash could result in debris of thousands of BB-sized pellets hurtling through space in different directions at thousands of miles per hour. If just a few of those BBs hit another satellite, the shredded satellite would create more orbital debris, starting a runaway chain reaction.
Researchers at Los Alamos are working to mitigate that risk by developing an optical "license plate" for satellites called ELROI (yes, after the boy on "The Jetsons"). Solar-powered and the size of a Scrabble tile, it emits a unique series of faint blinks that are imperceptible to the naked eye, but can be observed with a small telescope to quickly identify and locate the satellite. Analogous to the beacon system on commercial aircraft to monitor and control air traffic around the globe, this license plate could be affixed to every spacecraft launched into orbit to track their movements. Then, if two satellites looked like they were on a collision course, the operators could be notified so they could maneuver the satellites out of the way (perhaps with the help of the aforementioned restartable solid-fuel rocket).
ELROI could also potentially help track adversarial spacecraft that might be used for nefarious purposes. A launch is hard to hide, but once you're in space, it's easy to get lost in the crowd, which makes space an appealing place for countries with illicit motives to operate in. While these countries are unlikely to identify their secret spacecraft with a license plate, if all other spacecraft were identifiable, it would be easier to pinpoint and track the needle in the haystack.
As space becomes more congested — and contested — the importance of protecting our assets becomes more critical. By investing in scientific research, we can make sure that, for every potential threat, we have technological answers.
A submarine could explore alien seas just a few decades from now.
Researchers have been crafting a concept mission that would send a submarine to Saturn's huge moon Titan, which sports lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons on its frigid surface.
Such a mission, if approved and funded by NASA, could be ready to launch in the 2030s, potentially paving the way for even more ambitious submarine exploration down the road, the concept's developers said.
"We feel that the Titan submarine is kind of a first step before you go do a Europa or Enceladus" sub mission, Steven Oleson, of NASA's Glenn Research Center in Ohio, said last month during a presentation with the agency's Future In-Space Operations working group.
Europa and Enceladus — moons of Jupiter and Saturn, respectively — both harbor huge oceans of liquid water. But these two water bodies are buried under ice shells and would therefore be tougher to drop a sub into than Titan's surface seas.
A weird and potentially habitable world
At 3,200 miles (5,150 kilometers) wide, Titan is the second-largest moon in the solar system. The only one bigger is Jupiter's Ganymede, which has Titan beat by just 75 miles (120 km).
But size isn't all that makes Titan special. For example, the giant moon is the only world beyond Earth known to host stable bodies of liquid on its surface — those seas and lakes of liquid methane and ethane, some of which are bigger than North America's Great Lakes.
In addition, Titan's thick atmosphere likely hosts complex chemistry involving organic molecules, the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it. As a result, many astrobiologists view Titan as a promising potential abode for life, suggesting that native organisms could be swirling in the moon's air or swimming in its lakes and seas.
Those swimmers would be very different from anything that exists here on Earth, given that they'd be making a living in liquid methane or ethane rather than water. Titan's surface is far too cold for water to remain liquid, but scientists think the moon hosts a salty sea of the stuff deep underground, like Enceladus, Europa anda number of other solar system bodies.
It's therefore possible that Titan hosts two completely different and separate ecosystems — a surface world of "strange life" that overlies a realm of more familiar (to us, anyway) water-reliant organisms.
Most of what we know about Titan we've learned from the $3.2 billion Cassini-Huygens mission, which studied Saturn and its many moons up close from 2004 through 2017. The bulk of this work was done by NASA's Cassini Saturn orbiter, but significant contributions also came from the Huygens lander, a European Space Agency-Italian Space Agency probe that touched down on Titan in January 2005.
NASA is working on a Titan spacecraft of its own — an eight-rotor drone called Dragonfly, which is scheduled to launch in 2026. If all goes according to plan, Dragonfly will land on Titan in 2034, then study the moon's complex chemistry and potential habitability at a number of different locations.
A submarine could be the next step in Titan exploration. The agency has not selected the Titan sub idea as an official mission, but Oleson and his team did get two rounds of funding from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, which seeks to spur the development of potentially game-changing exploration ideas and technologies. Those two NIAC grants, worth $100,000 and $500,000, were awarded in 2014 and 2015, respectively.
The main goal of the NIAC work was to draw up a basic engineering blueprint of a potential Titan sub, Oleson said.
"Is it possible?" he said during the FISO presentation. "What kinds of technologies are needed? What's unique about that environment?"
The uniqueness is multilayered. For instance, though Titan is huge for a moon, it's much smaller than Earth, sporting just 14% of our planet's gravitational pull. That means a Titan sub wouldn't experience nearly as much pressure on its hull as a sub would at the same depth on Earth.
And the Titan sub would be cruising through a different medium than the ones here on Earth do. But that's not necessarily a negative, either. A submarine could push through liquid hydrocarbons fairly easily, Oleson said, and the stuff is transparent to radio signals, enabling communication with the craft even while it's submerged.
Those communications could reach the sub directly from Earth or be relayed via a Titan orbiter, depending on the mission architecture.
A standalone Titan submarine would need to be big — about 20 feet (6 meters) long, with a weight (on Earth) of 3,300 lbs. (1,500 kilograms) — to accommodate the requisite communications equipment, Oleson said. A sub with an orbiter companion, by contrast, could fit the same science instrumentation into a body just 6.5 feet (2 m) long, with a weight of about 1,100 lbs. (500 kg).
That science gear should include, at the bare minimum, a chemistry package that analyzes liquid samples, a surface imager, a depth sounder, a weather station and an instrument that measures the physical properties of the surrounding sea, Oleson and his team determined. Additional instruments could analyze seafloor samples and image the ocean bottom, among other tasks.
The researchers also investigated the possibility of staying on the surface with a boat, which would probe the Titanic depths intermittently with small, instrument-laden devices called dropsondes. This would be a less risky option, but the reward would be lower as well, Oleson said.
"We're losing out on science, just from the fact that we can't submerge and do a lot of these tests," he said of the boat idea.
A standalone submarine or a sub-orbiter duo would likely be flagship missions, Oleson said. Flagships are NASA's most expensive and ambitious missions, with price tags generally in excess of $2 billion these days. Examples include Cassini-Huygens, the Mars rover Curiosity and the Mars 2020 rover Perseverance, which launched toward the Red Planet in late July.
NASA might be able to pull off a Titan boat mission via its New Frontiers program, Oleson said. New Frontiers missions, such as Dragonfly and the New Horizons Pluto probe, cost significantly less than flagships. Proposals for the latest round of New Frontiers funding, which resulted in Dragonfly's June 2019 selection, had to abide by a cost cap of $850 million (not including launch or mission-operations costs).
All versions of a Titan sea explorer would be nuclear-powered, just like Cassini and Dragonfly. Saturn lies 10 times farther from the sun than Earth does, so sunlight is spread pretty thin on Titan. (And a solar-powered submarine would probably be a bad idea even here on Earth, given that such vehicles make a living plying dark depths.
Launch in the 2030s?
Titan's high northern latitudes host almost all of the moon's lakes and seas, including the two most intriguing submarine-exploration targets, Kraken Mare and Ligeia Mare.
Both of these bodies are enormous. Kraken Mare covers about 154,000 square miles (400,000 square km) and is at least 115 feet (35 m) deep. Ligeia Mare has an area of 50,000 square miles (130,000 square km) and a maximum depth of 560 feet (170 m).
Like Saturn, Titan has seasons that last around seven Earth years apiece. It would be best to explore Kraken or Ligeia during Titan's northern summer, when a spacecraft could image shorelines in visible light and communicate directly with mission controllers on Earth, Oleson said.
A 2045 arrival at Titan would therefore be a good choice, he said. If the mission included an orbiter for communications, arriving during the northern springtime, around 2040, is also an option, Oleson added.
The journey to Saturn takes about seven years, so a Titan sub mission of any type would need to launch in the 2030s (unless we want to wait another three decades for the seasons to shift again).
That timeline "would be fine with us — to be able to get this ready in the next decade to push there," Oleson said.
Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life.
SCREENSHOT FROM A VIDEO OF THE SD-03 FLYING CAR MODEL TEST FLIGHT BY SKYDRIVE.
PHOTO: SCREENSHOT/SKYDRIVE
Looks like futuristic fantasies of flying cars zipping through the sky just became closer to reality.
Japanese company SkyDrive Inc. announced on Friday, August 28, that it had successfully conducted a public test flight for its new SD-03 flying car model—billed as the first demonstration of its kind in Japan.
The SD-03 was tested at 10,000-square-meter (approximately 2.5-acre) Toyota Test Field, one of the largest test fields in Japan, the company said in a statement.
The single-seater aircraft-car mashup was manned by a pilot who circled the field for about four minutes before landing. The company said that the pilot was backed up by technical staff at the field who monitored conditions to ensure flight stability and safety.
SkyDrive CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa said the company hopes to see its technological experiment become a reality by 2023.
“We are extremely excited to have achieved Japan’s first-ever manned flight of a flying car in the two years since we founded SkyDrive in 2018 with the goal of commercializing such an aircraft,” Fukuzawa said.
“We want to realize a society where flying cars are an accessible and convenient means of transportation in the skies and people are able to experience a safe, secure, and comfortable new way of life,” he added.
Designed to be the world’s smallest electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) model, the flying car measures two meters high by four meters wide (six feet high by 13 feet wide). It takes as much space on the ground as two parked cars.
“We believe that this vehicle will play an active role as your travel companion, a compact coupe flying in the sky,” said Takumi Yamamot, the company’s design director. “As a pioneer of a new genre, we would like to continue designing the vehicles that everyone dreams of.”
The company has not listed a price for the aircraft as of yet, though executives feel confident that sci-fi enthusiasts and busy commuters alike will take to the new mode of transportation. According to the company’s timeline, they envision the SD-03 to be operating with “full autonomy” by 2030.
“The company hopes that its aircraft will become people’s partner in the sky rather than merely a commodity and it will continue working to design a safe sky for the future,” the company said in its statement.
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Underground city in Chiapas (Mexico): Mystery in the depths of the Earth
Underground city in Chiapas (Mexico): Mystery in the depths of the Earth
Today our article is going to touch on a fascinating underground mystery , which has Chiapas , Mexico , as the axis of a legendary story centered on the Mayan mystery , and its secrets.
Many of his references seem to link with La Cueva de los Tayos , in a subject that, as I always say, is not exhausted. I invite the reader to join me in the search for an enigmatic lost city, its golden library, and hidden tunnels.
Let’s discover the Veil of Isis.
Fray Diego de Landa – Maya Bibliographic Holocaust
“These people also used certain characters or letters, with which they wrote their ancient things and their sciences in their books. And some signs in the figures, they understood their things, and they gave them to understand, and they taught. Let us find them large numbers of books of these, their letters, and because they had nothing, in which there was no superstition, and falsehoods of the devil. We burn them all ”. Manuscript of Relationship of the things of Yucatan. Diego de Landa. Century XVI.
To try to understand the events that we are now going to relate, we must center our first clue on the figure of Diego de Landa Calderón . Who would later become, one of the most controversial figures of his time, came to the world in Cifuentes , Alcarría de Guadalajara , Spain , 1524-1579.
At the age of twelve he entered the Franciscan convent of San Juan de los Reyes de Toledo . When he was 27 years old, he was sent to Yucatán to begin his evangelizing mission. In the beginning, Fray Diego de Landa, tried to carry out a protective task with the natives, whom he tried to educate in the new faith.
However, frustrated by the persistence of the still latent pagan beliefs, which made his pastoral work difficult, he decided to summon an Inquisitor Court . What happened later would be recorded forever, as one of the most atrocious acts carried out during the cruel colonizing period.
“On the night of July 12, 1562, a bonfire lit up the dark streets of Maní , Yucatán . That fire was fed with sacred objects, and above all, with the forty codices in which the entire life and history of the Mayans was explained ”.
Landa was convinced that in Yucatan there existed “a clandestine network of Mayan apostates”, practitioners of the most deeply rooted Satanism. Many indigenous Mayans, subjected to cruel torture seeking to break their silence, later ended up committing suicide.
Later Landa, marked by a great repentance, would publish the famous Relationship of the things of Yucatán , 1566, presenting his personal interpretation of the mysterious Mayan language. Despite his good will, the translation proposed by Landa , considered a reputed Mayanist, would prove useless. One of the first scholars to recognize this difficulty was the French abbot, geographer and scholar, Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bouborg , 1814-1874, who admitted his bewilderment with what Landa had done .
During his stay in Chiapas, Brasseur de Bouborg , who in addition to being a missionary held the position of ecclesiastical administrator, later wrote a book, Voyage sur l’Isthme de Tehuantepec dans l’état de Chiapas et la République de Guatémala , 1861, narrating his experiences in Mexico and Guatemela , appearing inserted in it, curious references about a people of enigmatic customs called the Lacandones .
According to Brasseur de Bouborg:
“From time to time a group of natives of small stature and white skin would appear in the border cities and towns of Chiapas and Western Guatemala, bartering merchandise, and they would quickly go to their great stone temple where they said they lived, already who tried to follow them, disappeared, or turned up dead ”.
This story about a tribe alien to the traditional cultures of Central America , although similar to the Mayan ethnic group in the words of some testimonies, we will see reported by several authors, although its written transmission contains slight variations. Let’s tackle the tracks.
Lacandones. People of true men
One of the oldest mentions about the Lacandones, a term that according to this tribe alludes to “the people of true men”, comes from a 15th century manuscript, Historia de la Provincia de Chiapas y Guatemala, by the Dominican friar Francisco Ximénez de Quesada (1550-1620), who was also a translator of the Popol Vulh, describes in this work, his encounter with a Lacandon prisoner.
With the arrival of the 19th and 20th centuries, rumors began to be heard about an ancient Mayan city lost in the Mexican jungle, guarded, according to what they say, by a mysterious people. One of the first to collect this story was the American writer John Lloyd Stephens , who, in Travel Incidents in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán , 1841, presents an intriguing oral testimony bequeathed by a Spanish priest:
“Four days down the highway that leads to Mexico , entering the other side of the great sierra, there is a living, large and populous city, hidden underground. According to the traditional account of the Chajul Indians , no white man has ever reached her. The inhabitants speak in the Mayan language, they know that a foreign race has conquered everything, and they kill anyone who tries to enter their territory. They have no currency or other means of calculation, they lack horses, cattle, mules or other domestic animals, only poultry that they hide underground ”.
The priest also told Lloyd Stephens that a Spanish guide told him:
“They possessed a great light that shines in the underworld, the secret of which seems to have been entrusted to them long ago, by those who have previously lived underground.”
Another author who will also echo this rumor about a lost city, will be the famous British explorer and journalist, Harold Tom Wilkins , 1891-1960, who in his book Mysteries of Ancient South America , 1945, delivers revelations about a mysterious lost race, sighted in the vicinity of Chiapas , and that Wilkins identifies as linked to the Mayans or perhaps Aztecs.
Wilkins writes :
“They only come into contact with Indians, barter some products, and they disappear as quickly as they arrived. Officials Mexicans and Guatemalans never comment on them. People traditionally place them as custodians of the entrance to an underground city, where an ancient civilized race lives that ruled Mexico before the waters. No foreign man knows the part of the jungle that they inhabit, where this tribe develops as their parents did, maintaining the same majestic buildings, stone, palaces and temples, large courtyards and elevated towers with high terraces of stairs, which mark the site. . This tribe still sculpts in stone the mysterious hieroglyphs that no modern scholar has been able to decipher in Yucatan ”.
Cueva de los Tayos, and the Mayan connection
At the beginning of my research on Cueva de los Tayos, I had access to certain reserved material, made up of certain pieces of Mayan origin. This legacy would have belonged to Julio Goyén Aguado , a close friend of the enigmatic Juan Móricz, who revealed to the world the discovery of a gold library in the Ecuadorian jungle, in addition to other finds.
The truth is that one of those plates accompanied by other objects, are of Mayan origin. Although it is not yet possible to elucidate all the questions, about what happened to the Cueva de los Tayos and its treasures, certain connections between South and Central America , may perhaps begin to be understood if we focus our attention on the issue of the underground tunnels. Up to this point.
Conclusion
Mexico has a long underground tradition, although many of its stories are lost in legend. The history of the Mayans is still in full reconstruction, as well as their legacy that we are just beginning to discover. The decoding of its complex writing still worries the experts, which, due to the destruction practiced at the time of the Conquest , prevents us from advancing in its better understanding.
Perhaps that is why it is not unreasonable to think that the ancient Mayans believed that they preserved their documents, perhaps heirs, as some think, of previous civilizations. Chiapas and its mysteries is just the tip of the iceberg. The future may bring us surprises about this enigma, it is just a matter of waiting. To be continue.
NASA'sLucy spacecraft is one step closer to getting up close and personal with a host of strange space rocks as assembly begins.
Lucy will make an ambitious journey across the asteroid belt out to Jupiter's neighborhood, studying a total of eight different space rocks over nearly a decade. But before the spacecraft can begin its trip at the launchpad, currently scheduled for October 2021, it needs to become, well, a spacecraft. And, thanks to a recent milestone permitting integration of the instruments and main vehicle, that's exactly what will happen next.
"Each phase of the mission is more exciting than the last," Hal Levison, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado and principal investigator for the Lucy mission, said in a statement. "While, of course, Lucy still has several years and a few billion miles to go before we reach our real goal — exploring the never-before-seen Trojan asteroids — seeing this spacecraft come together is just incredible."
While NASA has built plenty of asteroid missions before, the agency has never visited Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, which orbit the sun in two large clusters — one behind Jupiter and one ahead of it. (Lucy will also check out a main-belt asteroid it will pass along the way.)
Scientists hope that the mission will give them up-close looks at the main types of space rocks found in Jupiter's Trojan clusters, all of which likely hide water deep below their surface. And because Trojans formed around the same time as the solar system, they serve as individual fossils that could help scientists understand how our whole neighborhood formed.
But first, Lucy needs to finish up its agenda here on Earth. By passing a standard NASA milestone dubbed Key Decision Point-D (KDP-D) recently, Lucy engineers got the greenlight to assemble and test the spacecraft and its instruments, NASA announced on Aug. 28.
Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the spacecraft is on track to receive its instruments beginning in October, which will also see another procedural milestone called the Mission Operation Review.
By July, NASA says, the spacecraft will be ready to head to Florida for last-minute launch preparations. Lucy's launch window opens on Oct. 16, 2021, and the spacecraft will make its first asteroid flyby in April 2025.
"This team has been truly incredible," Donya Douglas-Bradshaw, Lucy's project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. "Building a spacecraft is never easy, but seeing the team persevere through all of the challenges that they have encountered is inspiring."
Email Meghan Bartels at mbartels@space.com or follow her on Twitter @meghanbartels.
Wormholes – we love them in science fiction novels and movies, and we wish they existed more than just about anything else created by the fertile minds of the Bradburys and the Roddenberrys. Wormholes are especially enticing and frustrating because they offer such a nice clean way of traversing space and time while being impossible under the General Theory of Relativity. Or are they? Two physicists have proposed a loophole that would allow humans to safely pass through wormholes without destroying themselves, the universe, life and everything. Is it true or have they been in quarantine too long?
“Traversable wormholes are a staple of the science fiction literature. In classical general relativity, they are forbidden by the average null energy condition [1, 2, 3]. Interestingly, they are allowed in the quantum theory, but with one catch, the time it takes to go through the wormhole should be longer than the time it takes to travel between the two mouths on the outside.”
That opening paragraph is the last one understandable by non-theoretical physicists in the paper, “Humanly traversable wormholes,” written by Juan Maldacena, Princeton professor of theoretical physics, and Alexey Milekhin, Princeton graduate student of astrophysics. Fortunately, Universe Today breaks it down into terms this humble writer can understand. The key sentence is the one about the time it takes to travel between the two mouths on the outside – anything else would violate the General Theory of Relativity, which science fiction does all of the time. Even worse, wormholes are short-lived and volatile, so you might not make it to the other side before being crushed out of existence. Finally, this would only seem to work with matter at the particle level – no starships can fit nor shrink that small.
“The Randall-Sundrom II model was based on the realization that this five-dimensional spacetime could also be describing physics at lower energies than the ones we usually explore, but that it would have escaped detection because it couples with our matter only through gravity. In fact, its physics is similar to adding many strongly interacting massless fields to the known physics. And for this reason it can give rise to the required negative energy.”
Maldacena and Mikekhan propose using a quantum physics model with a fifth dimension (yes, we’ve entered a new Age of Aquarius) to provide the negative energy (the fifth dimension) required to keep the wormhole stable and maintain the tunnel until the body passes through the other end. They used charged massless fermions (particles like the electron but with zero mass) which exist in black holes and travel in circles. That would make the wormholes look like black holes, but all of that negative energy would require the ship to exert a sudden boost of energy to pass the midpoint in the tunnel. Finally, this wormhole would allow speeds far greater that the speed of light, allowing a ship to cross the Milky Way in ten seconds.
Oh, and one more thing (maybe two) …
“[F]or astronauts going through the wormhole it would take only 1 second of their time to travel 10,000 light-year distance (approximately 5000 billion miles or 1/10 of Milky Way size). An observer who does not go through the wormhole and stays outside sees them taking more than 10,000 years. And all this with no use of fuel, since the gravity accelerates and decelerates the spaceship.”
No fuel and no violation of the General Theory of Relativity! That’s not exactly good news – the Enterprise arrives 100,000 years too late to stop the Romulan fleet from destroying Earth. But it keeps wormholes in the realm of the possible – at least the quantumly possible. Maldacena and Milekhin admit traveling them is well beyond current technology and protection against exposure to massive amounts of cosmic radiation. But it’s something to strive for.
Quite a challenge for a species that still can’t get flying cars flying at the speed of cars.
This video is just amazing. Youtube user LMX2001 was watching the Hayle Beach live cam when he noticed a glowing light in the distance. It shoots across the water, hovers in place, powers up glowing powerfully, then shoots straight up at incredible speed. This is proof that UFOs exist off the coast of the UK and even have an alien base off of Hayle Beach, but is it an alien underwater base or a human military underwater base? I did notice that this craft does resemble the USAF TR3B craft when it glows powerfully. The TR3B would be harder to fly straight by a person...because it wobbles slightly as you see in the video. And I heard that the USAF had project Aurora testing a TR3B in the UK black in the 1990s...so...is this ours...or is this theirs? Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Tuned in to Hayle Beach Live Webcam to watch a sunset and noticed a strange small light hovering above the sea so i used a desktop screen recorder to capture it. The light then suddenly darts to the left over a distance at high speed then stops sharply where it just hovers again. Then towards the end of the video it shoots straight up through the sky very fast and is gone. Watch full screen for better clarity!!
Glowing Orb Close Up In Australia Mountain, July 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Orb Close Up In Australia Mountain, July 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 10, 2020 but released today Location of sighting: Mount Buffalo, Victoria, Australia Here is an interesting video of a bight glowing orb at night over Victoria, Australia recorded back in July but released today. The orb is moving slowly, but its evident that its moving to the left. Australia is well known for its glowing orbs and this is the closest one I have ever seen coming from Australia. It appears to be observing the person on the ground, watching the human recording them. It wants to be seen, it wants to be recorded and its watching and measuring the persons reactions. So...who's watching who? Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Guys here are some structures and ships I found on earths moon and planet mercury this last week. These were on my work computer at school that I use during lunch breaks. Just thought that some of you would really like to see what alien structures actually look like. They look nothing like human structures and nothing like the movies depict them. Thought it would be a shame to delete them without posting them first. Almost did though. I would really like to confront NASA about these structures...mostly to watch them squirm and make lies on the spot for whats seen in them.
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Crashed Alien Craft In Mexico Transported To Wright-paterson Air Force Base
Crashed Alien Craft In Mexico Transported To Wright-paterson Air Force Base
AUGUST 25, 1974 …………..COYAME MEXICO
On 25 Aug 74, at 2207 hrs, US Air Defense radar detected an unknown object approaching US airspace from the Gulf of Mexico. Originally the object was tracked at 2,200 (2,530 mph) knots on a bearing of 325 degrees and at an altitude of 75,000 feet, a course that would intercept US territory about forty miles southwest of Corpus Christi, Texas.
After approximately sixty seconds of observation, at a position 155 miles southeast of Corpus Christi, the object decelerated to approximately 1700 (1,955 mph) knots, turned to a heading of 290 degrees, and began a slow descent.
It entered Mexican airspace approximately forty miles south of Brownsville, Texas. Radar tracked it approximately 500 miles to a point near the town of Coyame, in the state of Chihuahua, not far from the US border. There the object suddenly disappeared from the radar screens.
During the flight over Mexican airspace, the object leveled off at 45,000 feet, then descended to 20,000 feet. The descent was in level steps, not a smooth curve or straight line, and each level was maintained for approximately five minutes.
The object was tracked by two different military radar installations. It would have been within range of Brownsville civilian radar, but it is assumed that no civilian radar detected the object due to a lack of any such reports. The point of disappearance from the radar screens was over a barren and sparsely populated area of Northern Mexico. At first it was assumed that the object had descended below the radar’s horizon and a watch was kept for any re-emergence of the object. None occurred.
At first it was assumed that the object might be a meteor because of the high speed and descending flight path. But meteors normally travel at higher speeds, and descend in a smooth arc, not in “steps.” And meteors do not normally make a thirty-five degree change in course. Shortly after detection an air defense alert was called. However, before any form of interception could be scrambled, the object turned to a course that would not immediately take it over US territory. The alert was called off within twenty minutes after the object’s disappearance from the radar screen.
Fifty-two minutes after the disappearance, civilian radio traffic indicated that a civilian aircraft had gone down in that area. But it was clear that the missing aircraft had departed El Paso International with a destination of Mexico City, and could not, therefore, have been the object tracked over the Gulf of Mexico.
It was noted, however, that they both disappeared in the same area and at the same time.
With daylight the next day, Mexican authorities began a search for the missing plane. At Approximately 10:35 hours, there came a radio report that wreckage from the missing plane had been spotted from the air. Almost immediately came a report of a second plane on the ground a few miles from the first. A few minutes later an additional report stated that the second “plane” was circular shaped and apparently in one piece although damaged. A few minutes after that the Mexican military clamped a radio silence on all search efforts.
The radio interceptions were reported through channels to the CIA. Possibly as many as two additional government agencies also received reports, but such has not been confirmed as of this date. The CIA immediately began forming a recovery team. The speed with which this team and its equipment was assembled suggests that this was either a well-rehearsed exercise or one that had been performed prior to this event.
In the meantime, requests were initiated at the highest levels between the United States and Mexican governments that the US recovery team be allowed onto Mexican territory to “assist.” These requests were met with professed ignorance and a flat refusal of any cooperation.
By 21:00 hrs, 26 Aug 1974, the recovery team had assembled and been staged at Fort Bliss. Several helicopters were flown in from some unknown source and assembled in a secured area. These helicopters were painted a neutral sand color and bore no markings. Eye witness indicates that there were three smaller craft, very probably UHl Hueys from the description. There was also a larger helicopter, possibly a Sea Stallion. Personnel from this team remained with their craft and had no contact with other Ft. Bliss personnel.
Satellite and aircraft overflight that day indicated that both the crashed disk and the civilian aircraft had been removed from the crash sites and loaded on flat bed trucks. Later flights confirmed that the convoy had departed the area heading south.
At that point the CIA had to make a choice; either to allow this unknown aircraft to stay in the hands of the Mexican government, or to launch the recovery team, supplemented by any required military support, to take the craft. There occurred, however, an event that took the choice out of their hands. High altitude overflights indicated that the convoy had stopped before reaching any inhabited areas or major roads. Recon showed no activity, and radio contact between the Mexican recovery team and its headquarters had ceased. A low altitude, high speed overflight was ordered.
The photos returned by that aircraft showed all trucks and jeeps stopped, some with open doors, and two human bodies laying on the ground beside two vehicles. The decision was immediately made to launch the recovery team, but the actual launching was held up for the arrival of additional equipment and two additional personnel. It was not until 14:38 hrs that the helicopters departed Ft. Bliss.
The four helicopters followed the border down towards Presidio then turned and entered Mexican airspace north of Candelaria. They were over the convoy site at 16:53 hrs. All convoy personnel were dead, most within the trucks. Some recovery team members, dressed in bioprotection suits, reconfigured the straps holding the object on the flatbed truck, then attached them to a cargo cable from the Sea Stallion.
By 17:14 hrs the recovered object was on its way to US territory. Before leaving the convoy site, members of the recovery team gathered together the Mexican vehicles and bodies, then destroyed all with high explosives. This included the pieces of the civilian light plane which had been involved in the mid-air collision. At 17:46 hrs the Hueys departed.
The Hueys caught up with the Sea Stallion as it reentered US airspace. The recovery team then proceeded to a point in the Davis Mountains, approximately twenty-five miles northeast of Valentine. There they landed and waited until 02:25 hrs the next morning. At that time they resumed the flight and rendezvoused with a small convoy on a road between Van Horn and Kent. The recovered disk was transferred to a truck large enough to handle it and capable of being sealed totally. Some of the personnel from the Huey’s transferred to the convoy.
All helicopters then returned to their original bases for decontamination procedures. The convoy continued non-stop, using back roads and smaller highways, and staying away from cities. The destination of the convoy reportedly was Altanta, Georgia.
Here the hard evidence thins out. One unconfirmed report says the disk was eventually transferred to Wright-Patterson AF Base. Another says that the disk was either transferred after that to another unnamed base, or was taken directly to this unknown base directly from Atlanta.
The best description of the disk was that it was sixteen feet, five inches in diameter, convex on both upper and lower surfaces to the same degree, possessing no visible doors or windows. The thickness was slightly less than five feet. The color was silver, much like polished steel. There were no visible lights nor any propulsion means.
There were no markings. There were two areas of the rim that showed damage, one showing an irregular hole approximately twelve inches in diameter with indented material around it. The other damage was described as a “dent” about two feet wide. The weight of the object was estimated as approximately one thousand, five hundred pounds, based on the effect of the weight on the carrying helicopter and those who transferred it to the truck.
There was no indication in the documentation available as to whether anything was visible in the “hole.”
It seems likely that the damage with the hole was caused by the collision with the civilian aircraft. That collision occurred while the object was traveling approximately 1700 knots (1,955 mph). Even ignoring the speed of the civilian aircraft, the impact would have been considerable at that speed.
This is in agreement with the description of the civilian aircraft as being “almost totally destroyed.” What was being taken from the crash site was pieces of the civilian aircraft.
The second damage may have resulted when the object impacted with the ground. The speed in that case should have been considerably less than that of the first impact.
No mention is made of the occupants of the civilian aircraft. It is not known if any body or bodies were recovered. Considering the destruction of the civilian light aircraft in mid-air, bodies may well not have come down near the larger pieces.
Unfortunately what caused the deaths of the Mexican recovery team is not known. Speculation ranges from a chemical released from the disk as a result of the damage, to a microbiological agent. There are no indications of death or illness by any of the recovery team.
It would not have been illogical for the recovery team to have taken one of the bodies back with them for analysis. But there is no indication of that having happened. Perhaps they did not have adequate means of transporting what might have been a biologically contaminated body.
Inquires to the FAA reveal no documents concerning the civilian aircraft crash, probably because it did not involve a US aircraft. NOTE: The above image is CGI.
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Over mijzelf
Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
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