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...
01-06-2021
Steve Quayle on UFO Disclosure with Paul Begley
Steve Quayle on UFO Disclosure with Paul Begley
Steve Quayle on Alien Disclosure with Paul Begley
Steve Quayle is a researcher and author of over a dozen books dealing with advanced ancient technology and civilizations. His documentary film production company Gensix Productions films the “True Legends The Series” all over the world in search of the Lost Cities and the giants of history who were the builders of the great megalithic structures of the ancient world.
Steve is a former talk radio show host who has been warning against genetic armageddon and the end of the human race for decades. He claims transhumanism and the hybrid age is the most dangerous advancement in the technological war against humanity in history.
Bright object appears to the right of a helicopter moving in the same direction.
Furthermore, an unknown object suddenly appeared, flew west to east and disappeared about 500 feet above ocean and a spherical object drops from the sky during a thunderstorm. Source: www.mufon.com
This was filmed over Stockholm, Sweden on 29th May 2021.
Witness report:
I always have an eye in the sky, this is one of the things i caught on cam, this is the whole footage, it flies in different degrees, 45, straight and 30
A long-awaited report by Congress’ Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force is set to be released next month — the culmination of years of inquiries by lawmakers and decades of reports of unexplained sightings made by military pilots.
In a Washington Post opinion piece, planetary scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Ravi Kopparapu argues that rather than starting with the “what” question about UFOs, it would be more effective to start by “asking how we can figure out what they are.”
“This is where scientists, notably absent from the current UAP conversation, come in,” Kopparapu argues. For too long, he says, the topic of UFOs been disregarded as baseless conspiracy, driven by a “vacuum of knowledge that is being filled by unscientific claims thanks to a lack of scientific investigation.”
The news comes after several military pilots have discussed strange objects that appeared to defy the laws of physics, traveling without visible means of propulsion at many times the speed of sound.
“It’s a technology that outstrips our arsenal by at least 100 to 1,000 years at the moment,” retired US Navy Chief Master-at-Arms Sean Cahill told CNN in a televised interview earlier this month.
That means, if they are indeed adversaries within US borders, that would be bad news.
“We had a massive intelligence failure, and we have an unknown threat that we need to figure out,” Christopher Mellon, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence, told CNN during the same interview.
But rather than arming ourselves against a largely invisible threat, according to Kopparapu, we should first figure out how to get a better understanding of what the pilots saw.
He says that we should be treating the UAP reports with the same seriousness as exploring the surface of Mars for signs of life.
“The research has been complex, evidence-based and demanding, pulling in scientists from across disciplines and all around the globe,” he writes in his opinion piece. “The same should be true for the exploration of UAP sightings.”
To Kopparapu, we simply need more data, from visual, infrared, radar, and other observations with the help of scientists from across the various disciplines. Such a scientific approach could eventually “go a long way toward lifting the taboo in mainstream science.”
“Ultimately, understanding UAP is a science problem,” he concludes. “We should treat it that way.”
Nuclear Physicist Says US Government Covered Up UFO Incidents
Nuclear Physicist Says US Government Covered Up UFO Incidents
Respected nuclear physicist and UFOlogist Stanton Friedman maintains that the United States government hides the truth about UFO incidents from the public.
Stanton Friedman has investigated UFOs for over fifty years, searching for scientific proof of their existence. He’s a retired nuclear physicist who has worked on highly classified projects involving fusion and fission rockets and nuclear aircraft for state-of-the-art companies including General Electric, Westinghouse, McDonnell Douglas, General Motors and Aerojet General Nucleonics.
In 1958, he became interested in UFOs and began doing research.
Since 1967, Friedman has been giving lectures — he has lectured at over seven hundred colleges and professional organizations in all 50 states and abroad — about extraterrestrial spacecraft. He calls the cover ups a “cosmic Watergate.”
Physicist Researches Roswell 1947 UFO Episode
In July, an unknown object crashed into a field near the town that, according to the initial official report, was a flying saucer. The US Air Force quickly changed the story, claiming it was a weather balloon.
Three decades after the Roswell incident, Friedman met with key military personnel who were involved in the investigation. He was told about witnesses who saw the object crash and he learned that pieces of an unknown metal and bodies were recovered. He is now convinced there was a Roswell cover up.
Physicist Blasts SETI Institute’s Handling of UFO Incidents
Friedman is angered by the attitude of scientists who use radio and optical telescopes to search for extraterrestrial existence, including people at the SETI Institute in California.
SETI is an acronym for Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. The private nonprofit organization’s members claim their purpose is to scientifically discover the beginning, character and frequency of life in the universe.
Friedman is disturbed by the fact that they don’t reference any evidence to support the existence of UFOs.
UFO Incidents were Covered Up According to Physicist
Friedman is convinced that the government has known about UFOs since 1947. He believes that some are spacecrafts piloted by intelligent extraterrestrials and there has been an extensive government cover up, although a few select officials are privy to top secret UFO information.
Friedman cites two similar cases and the debunkers’ explanation. In 1958, the crew and scientists aboard the Brazilian ship Almirante Saldanha saw and photographed a Saturn-shaped object that approached land and made a steep turn before rapidly flying away.
At the time, Brazil’s President Juscelino Kubitschek confirmed the authenticity of the photographs. A 747 over Alaska encountered an object twice the size of an aircraft carrier that circled the jet.
Both the UFO and the 747 were picked up by radar. The debunkers claimed the radar detected the planet Jupiter!
Physicist’s Thoughts about the Government’s Cover Up
Other scientists have suggested earth has been visited by extraterrestrials. Friedman is the most vociferous. Why would the government cover up UFO incidents when there is evidence, primarily witnesses and photographs, that they exist?
During Project Blue Book’s era, the time of the Cold War, the reason for cover ups was national security. This entity was the branch of the USAF that investigated UFOs.
Government officials thought that knowledge of UFOs’ existence and extraterrestrials would cause people to panic like they did during Orson Wells’ 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds about a fictional Martian attack.
People thought the invasion was real because there were simulated news bulletins. Friedman believes this has changed and that, from a national security perspective, some people would want to capture a UFO, find out how it works and use it against the enemy. How does one acquire a UFO? His answer was to wait until one crashes.
Government Still Covers Up UFO Incidents
In 1965, a UFO crashed in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania that was dubbed the Roswell of the East because of the similarities. There have been sightings, photographs and, later, videos of unknown objects flying through the sky since 1947.
There were a multitude of surveys and polls that have shown many people are interested in and some are concerned about UFOs during the past fifty years.
A recent poll indicated that that nearly three-quarters of Americans thought the government isn’t revealing all it knows about UFOs and over two-thirds of the respondents thought the government knows more about extraterrestrial life than it releases.
In recent years, hundreds of planets circling other suns have been discovered. It’s believed planets that can sustain intelligent life similar to earth is ten to the tenth power. In 2008, the Pope’s chief astronomer, the Reverend Gabriel Funes, stated that intelligent beings created by God could exist in the universe.
All of this makes Friedman optimistic that there will be some proof, albeit partial, that earth isn’t the only planet having intelligent life in the universe, during his lifetime.
‘Fire in The Sky’ is the Scariest and Most Realistic Alien Abduction Scene Ever – Based on Real Life Experience (video)
‘Fire in The Sky’ is the Scariest and Most Realistic Alien Abduction Scene Ever – Based on Real Life Experience (video)
‘Fire in the Sky’ was originally released in theaters 27 years ago in 1993 as a homage to the real abduction story of Travis Walton.
His story is rather famous as he speaks of having been kidnapped for five whole days and kept inside of the alien ship where the aliens did experiments on him. His coworkers all saw the abduction happen and reported on it right as it happened.
The movie in itself is amazing, as the practical effects here are amongst the greatest that we’ve ever seen to be fair.
But, sadly enough the movie couldn’t compete with some of the greatest movies of all time, Jurassic Park and the Nightmare Before Christmas, as it barely made its money back at the time.
The movie in itself is based around the book that Walton released soon after his abduction was made public titled The Walton Experience.
Although the main character is still Walton the movie in itself revolves around his coworkers that saw it all happen and now have to deal with being scrutinized for even reporting the existence of an alien, to begin with.
The most popular scene however is by far the scariest one of all time too as you can see the whole process of Travis being captured, put on a table, and being experimented on.
Check out the scene yourself if you want to or if you prefer it, we suggest you watch the whole thing. It is honestly worth every minute as it is one of the greatest alien movies of all time.
If one follows the waters of Loch Ness as they flow into River Ness, they next move into Beauly Firth (an inlet), then Moray Firth before entering the North Sea. Along the way, they pass the ancient fishing town and current seaside resort of Nairn. While it doesn’t have a loch monster, Nairn has a monstrosity of its own that has been plaguing residents for decades without an explanation or resolution – a mysterious hum similar to those plaguing people in other towns around the world. The Nairn Hum is back in the news again – will this time be any different or are Nairners doomed to continue to suffer from a monster that doesn’t help tourism or their nerves at all?
“It’s an absolute nightmare. We are getting tortured in our own house. It’s a low frequency pulsing noise and it’s incessant. My husband thinks it could come from an electricity substation and it’s also been suggested it could be coming from as far away as Invergordon. We just don’t know. One of our neighbours a couple of fields away hears a droning pulsating noise all the time too. We can’t even go into our caravan at the bottom of the garden because of the noise.”
Blan Bremner and her husband Robert told The Inverness Courier this past week about the “incessant” droning Nairn hum which tortures and puzzles them and their neighbors. Robert claims it has given the couple headaches and “I have nose bleeds,” yet the hum has not gone away nor been explained since they first reported it, according to an archived article in the Scottish Daily Mail in 2018.
“We started hearing the noise on February 9 when we moved into our home. Then when our new chimney was put up it seemed to act like an amplifier for the noise. It’s everywhere around Ardersier and Nairn.”
For decades, some residents of Largs on the Firth of Clyde have reported being plagued by a low, unexplained droning sound which has been dubbed the "Largs Hum".
PIC: Dave Souza/Wikipedia/Creative Commons.
That article reports that environmental health officials were called and they were unable to link the noise to any physical cause like the local airport, electricity substations, ferries or wind farms. A Highland Council spokesperson said they’ve received only one report and an inspector heard nothing. However, the hum report sounds similar to many in Largs, North Ayrshire – another seaside town about 170 miles south – which date back to the 1980s and have never been explained to frustrated residents.
“As a member for these areas I have investigated fully, but frankly it remains a mystery. I can only surmise that it must be something to do with recent developments in the area. I have visited homes myself and these are very real complaints. I’ve heard it for myself. As a council we have carried out tests by our environmental health department but we can’t pin down where it’s coming from. I’ve done everything I can. We’ve had our staff at the council and SEPA (Scottish Environment Protection Agency) investigating, but I just don’t know how some of these poor souls live with this. You can’t avoid the noise and it’s having a terrible impact on their wellbeing.”
That frustration is felt by Culloden and Ardersier councillor Glynis Campbell-Sinclair, who represents Nairn. She tells The Inverness Courier that factory expansions and new sewer works have been ruled out, and she’s obviously at a loss to comfort or help her constituents.
Where’s Saint Ninian – patron of Nairn?
If it’s not physical, is the Nairn hum something paranormal – perhaps linked to its close proximity to Loch Ness, where paranormal activities have been proposed to explain the mysterious appearances and disappearances of its famous monster?
Blan and Robert Bremner and their neighbors probably don’t care what it is – even if it’s a paranormal cause that could help local tourism – they just want the Nairn hum gone.
Erich von Daniken: Ancient Flying Machines of the Sky Gods Described in the Holy Hymns of Sumer
Erich von Daniken: Ancient Flying Machines of the Sky Gods Described in the Holy Hymns of Sumer
Erich von Daniken: Ancient Flying Machines of the Sky Gods Described in the Holy Hymns of Sumer
Researcher and prolific author Erich von Daniken reveals some startling discoveries within the cuneiform tablets of ancient Sumer known as the Holy Hymns where ancient flying machines are written along with space stations that orbit our planet. Mr. von Daniken takes us a on a journey around the world, pinpointing significant sites, records of which can be found in many of world’s holy texts and artefacts.
UFO Sighted Over North Carolina to Mexico City ( April 13, 2021 )
UFO sighted over North Carolina to Mexico City on April 13, 2021
STATEMENT :April 13, 2021 / North Carolina to Mexico City
credit : Edward Castro
VIDEO 2 :Captured over France to United Kingdom : March 29, 2021
credit @13ktn
UFO Sighted Over Belo Jardim, Pernambuco, Brazil ( May 29, 2021 )
STATEMENT : It happened yesterday, May 29, 2021, at 17: 22h in my city that is in the interior of Pernambuco, Belo Jardim. So far I haven't found anything about the alleged plane crash. ORIGINAL :Ocorreu ontem, 29 de maio de 2021, as 17:22h na minha cidade que fica no interior de Pernambuco, Belo Jardim. Até agora não encontrei nada a respeito da suposta queda de avião.
credit : Getúlio Alves
UFOs Sighted Over Rotterdam, Netherlands( March 11, 2021 )
Amazing UFOs were Sighted over Rotterdam, a major port city in the Dutch province of South Holland, Netherlands on March 11, 2021
credit : UFOs e OVNIs
UFO Sighted Over Moscow, Russia ( May 30, 2021 )
Amazing UFO sighting over Moscow, Russia, on May 30, 2021 : Captured near the boarder of Moscow by the Automobile Ring Road
MUFON CASE : 115869 Madeira Beach, Florida ( May 30, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Object flew west to east and disappeared about 500 feet above ocean Long Description of Sighting Report Object suddenly appeared flew by for a couple minutes and then disappear
Date Submitted : 2021-05-30 Date of Event : 2021-05-23 / 6:30PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : 20210523203105.mp4
Three Lights Over Yakima, Washington May 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Three Lights Over Yakima, Washington May 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 2021
Location of sighting: Yakima, Washington, USA
Source: MUFON
As a person was driving one night toward Yakima, WA they noticed three glowing lights in the sky approaching them. The lights were in a giant triangle formation and seem to be a single craft. The lights are too close to be planes and the lights do not match aircraft. The lights also don't match the orange hue from Chinese lanterns. UFOs have been seen over Yakima in the past, but this one compares to the famous Phoenix Lights incident. This UFO is so large, it would cover three football fields...being about 300 meters across! Any craft that size in the air is not man made, but alien made.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I was on my way home from work, then I noticed those 3 lights with a good view of the city. So I figured even if they're planes or helicopter it would be a great video. Then I notice them come towards me before they disappeared. My reaction was to look out the window. I Thought I saw the bottom of the craft. Once I felt like I saw the bottom of the craft it caused me to panic and throw my phone to the passenger seat. I felt like I was gonna get abducted lol. It was a crazy experience.
RADAR footage shows that US Navy warships were swarmed by UFOs
RADAR footage shows that US Navy warships were swarmed by UFOs
This footage was filmed in the CIC (Combat Information Center) of the USS Omaha on July 15th 2019 in a warning area off San Diego by Visual Intelligence Personnel (VIPER team).
This RADAR data release shows four clips; multiple unknown targets (and one civilian vessel). Some of the unknown targets drop off RADAR in this footage.
This happened numerous times throughout the UFO encounter series. At the height of the contacts - there were at least fourteen unknowns observed at one time. The event series reached a crescendo with one of the unknown targets entering the water at 11pm. No wreckage found. None of the unidentified craft were recovered.
Transcription
:01 “OOD if you can write a general LAT/LONG of where we’re at.”
:03 [faint voice] “We do have some X-band RADAR tracks…”
:05 “Yes Sir.” :06 “And then… the number of contacts you’ve got. Get the course and speed meters off 'em.”
:09 “Copy.”
:10 “You know what I mean? In relative position to us. And bearings. Might be helpful too.”
:15 “Eyes up.”
:16 “Eyes down.”
:18 [intercom] “CSM TAO, maintain track, maintain track as best you can.”
:24 “Track 781 just sped up to 46 knots. 50 knots. Closing in.”
:36 “That one’s pretty much perfectly zero zero zero relative, right?”
:39 “Yeah.”
:40 “263 at 3 miles. 55 knots, speed.”
*OOD (Officer of the deck) / CSM (Combat System Manager) / TAO (Tactical Action Officer)
“The most impressive evidence we witnessed was their endurance. The event lasted over an hour with all contacts just disappearing. We were never able to discern where they departed to.” - Crewman, USS Omaha.
A team of UFO hunters could be relaunched by the Government to monitor the skies over Britain in the wake of a report by the US into extra-terrestrial life, a source has said.
The now-defunct Ministry of Defence division, which was axed in 2009 after nearly 60 years of official research and investigations, could once again relaunch depending on the findings of a looming Pentagon report into UFOs.
The report from the Director of National Intelligence will be sent to the US Congress next month, with an unclassified version being made available to the public.
Pentagon officials have made clear that their real interest is in whether UFOs, or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), could represent actual threats here on earth.
The release of the report could now pave the way for the Ministry of Defence's UFO desk to be revived.
A UFO team could be relaunched by the Government in the wake of a report by the Pentagon into alien life. Pictured: A doughnut-shaped phenomenon was photographed by a retired RAF officer in Sri Lanka in 2004
A colour sketch of a 'spaceship' creating crop circles was sent to the Ministry of Defence in 1998
A UFO sighting was reported to the Ministry of Defence above Stonehenge in Wiltshire in January 2009
A source told The Telegraph: 'I think that if there was enough evidence to suggest that there was something, and that we needed to do it as well as the US, then of course we'd think about it. We'd look at it.
'There's all sorts of things that we wouldn't rule out, and this would certainly be one of them.'
Last August, the Pentagon formed a task force 'to detect, analyse and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to US national security.'
However an official said that many UFO sightings could be everyday objects that increasingly clutter air space such as weather balloons, metallic party balloons and amateur and professional drones.
They also said that sightings could also be of the Pentagon's own highly classified experiments and prototypes.
Sue Gough, a Department of Defense spokesperson, said: 'The Department of Defense takes reports of incursions into our airspace - by any aircraft, identified or unidentified - very seriously, and investigates each one.
'As we collect additional data, we expect to close the gap between identified and unidentified and avoid strategic surprise regarding adversary technology.'
Meanwhile Luis Elizondo, the former Director of Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program at the Pentagon, said on the ABC News program 'This Week' that some of the objects that have been sighted 'can outperform anything that we have in our inventory.'
He said: 'We know that whatever it is in our skies is real. The question is, what is it? 'The bottom line is, we simply don't know.'
Mr Elizondo added that while he hoped the report would give Congress what it needed, 180 days to produce the detailed report was not enough time.
He told CNN: 'I hope the report gives Congress what it asked for and also what it deserves and that is a current assessment of the situation.
'My only concern in 180 days is not a sufficient amount of time to provide a comprehensive report.
'When I was working at the Pentagon we did this for nearly a decade and there is a lot of information to go through.
A unidentified flying object is spotted flying over the clock tower over Retford Town Hall in Nottinghamshire in 2004
An object is spotted above a a Lancaster Bomber as it flies over Withernsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, in June 2002
A sketch of a UFO seen by a MoD Police Sergeant at the Royal Ordnance Factory at Blackburn, Lancashire, in 1979 (left) and another drawing of a UFO seen near Woolwich in 2011 (right)
A drawing and description of a UFO sighting from a flight out of Heathrow in July 1993
'My fear is 180 days is not going to be long enough to provide that comprehensive report to Congress.'
This month, defence minister Baroness Goldie said the UK 'does not have a role' in the US's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force bit had been made 'aware' of the approaching report.
In 2016, Nick Pope, who headed the now-defunct Ministry of Defence division for UFOs from 1991-1994, said that of the 12,000 sightings that the programme investigated, approximately 5 per cent remained unexplained.
The former investigator said in 1980 the department were alerted to a UFO close to the Bentwaters and Woodbridge airbases.
The team later concluded that radiation levels at the site had been 'significantly higher than the average background'.
Meanwhile in 1993, multiple sightings of a UFO were reported over a period of six hours overnight in Cosford, Shropshire.
However in 2016, the team were disbanded amid a series of financial cuts and a statement released by the department explained that the MoD 'had no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extra-terrestrial life.'
A drawing and description of a UFO sighting over Smethwick in the West Midlands that was sent to the Ministry of Defence
The statement read: 'The MOD has no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extraterrestrial life. However, in over fifty years, no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom.'
Following the move, Mr Pope criticised the decision to close the department without a public consultation.
He told The Sun: 'We're leaving ourselves wide open to terrorist attack.'
The investigator added: 'There has been no announcement in Parliament and no public consultation.'
In 2019, it was revealed that NASA would scan hundreds of the nearest exoplanets in search for alien life.
The American agency announced a new partnership with SETI scientists leading the $100 million Breakthrough Listen project and said it would identify anomalies in the stellar 'light curves' and listen for 'technosignatures'.
Dr. S. Pete Worden, Executive Director of the Breakthrough Initiatives, said at the time: 'It's exciting that the world's most powerful SETI search, with our partner facilities across the globe, will be collaborating with the TESS team and our most capable planet-hunting machine.
'We're looking forward to working together as we try to answer one of the most profound questions about our place in the Universe: Are we alone?'
Team of UFO Hunters in Britain Might Officially Investigate UFO Sightings Again After US Release Pentagon Report into Alien Life
Team of UFO Hunters in Britain Might Officially Investigate UFO Sightings Again After US Release Pentagon Report into Alien Life
The government could relaunch a team of UFO hunters to monitor the skies over Britain in the wake of a US report on space alien life, a source has revealed.
The now-defunct Ministry of Defence division, shut down in 2009 after almost 60 years of official research and investigation, could once again launch depending on the findings of the upcoming Pentagon report into UFOs.
In June, the report from the Director of National Intelligence will be sent to the US Congress. Pentagon officials have reiterated that their genuine interest is in whether these unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) could represent actual threats on Earthy.
A source said that if there were sufficient proof to suggest that there was something and there was a need to do it, they would think about it and look at it.
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In 2016, Nick Pope, who led the now-defunct Ministry of Defence division for UFOs, said that of the 12,000 sightings they investigated, around 5 per cent remained unexplained.
The team later found out that radiation levels at the site had been significantly higher than the average background. However, the team was dis
banded in 2016 amid several financial cuts. The MOD released a statement saying that no UFO report has revealed any proof of a potential threat to the UK. Mr Pope criticised the decision, which was without public consultation.
In 2019, NASA would scan hundreds of the nearest exoplanets searching for ET life with SETI scientists leading the 100 million dollars Breakthrough Listen project. The American agency announced it would identify anomalies in light curves and listen for technosignatures.
Huge “highway” emerges from the Pacific Ocean: a lost civilization?
Huge “highway” emerges from the Pacific Ocean: a lost civilization?
Just a few days ago, after the tide had dropped sharply, a “huge highway” of the Pacific Ocean appeared from the seabed.
The images went viral immediately and theories about a lost civilization were not long in coming.
On the shores of the Russian island of Sakhalin a huge stone road emerged from the waters. Although it did not last long on the surface, it was enough for hundreds of photographs to be taken.
Is this an artificial work or a product of nature? Although there was no time to analyze it, everything indicates that it is a man-made construction.
Huge highway in the pacific ocean
The mysterious apparition surprised the inhabitants of the island in the extreme east of Russia, very close to the Japanese archipelago.
This was announced by the Institute of Alternative History and Archeology in a publication on its website.
He also explained that, through Google Earth , many other underwater formations can be found on the same coast, a little further north.
The island of Sakhalin is the largest in the entire Russian Federation and borders the Japanese islands to the south. It is located in the Ring of Fire , known for having the most important subduction zones on the planet. This causes that, generally, it receives strong seismic and volcanic activity.
Obviously, some skeptics claim that this is most likely the natural reason for the mysterious structures. However, this would only explain its “formation”, but not its creation.
To begin with, the formations that the institute mentions are further north.
In addition, when observing the huge road it can be seen that it is very similar to those created by ancient man , but eroded by the obvious action of the sea.
Possible lost civilization
For that reason, many people have requested that a formal geological or archaeological investigation be made of this mysterious structure. Although no institute of traditional archeology has come forward.
It should be noted that, not far from that area, on the Japanese coast, are the mysterious underwater structures of Yonaguni .
According to different researchers, these sunken constructions belonged to the lost civilization of Mu .
The huge road along the Sakhalin coast also reminds the Bimini road , the possible Atlantean remains found in the Caribbean Sea.
So far not much is known about the huge road, other than that it is quite unusual and that its appearance was short-lived.
As long as one of the traditional institutions is not pronounced, speculation will continue. The only good thing is that since there are so many images taken at the moment, there is no possibility that they hide the fact or want to deceive us by changing their shape.
No longer confined to the fringe, UFO theories move into the mainstream
No longer confined to the fringe, UFO theories move into the mainstream
This video grab image obtained April 28, 2020 courtesy of the US Department of Defence shows part of an unclassified video taken by Navy pilots that have circulated for years showing interactions with "unidentified aerial phenomena".
The subject of UFOs in the US is getting serious treatment from mainstream media and heavyweight politicians. Next month Congress is set to review a report from the director of national intelligence about the government’s secret files on the subject.
UFOs are now serious business.
So serious, in fact, that they have been given a new name. No longer called UFOs, or Unidentified Flying Objects, a term often associated with people of questionable sanity, the mysterious objects that have been reported by the hundreds, are now the source of discussion in serious scientific circles and have been rebaptised with the more serious-sounding moniker Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAPs.
Last June, officials made public the existence of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, housed within the Office of Naval Intelligence. Six months later, the 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act asked the director of national intelligence work and the secretary of defence to put together a report detailing everything the government knows about UAPs.
The report, which Congress is expected to review in June, will draw on classified military files and will address decades of sightings and videos, which date back to the 1940s. That such objects exist is increasingly becoming gospel; Officials from former president Barack Obama to Senator Marco Rubio to former senate majority leader Harry Reid are publicly saying that earth has been visited by flying objects that we don’t understand.
"What is true – and I'm actually being serious here – is that there's footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what they are,” Obama told “The Late Late Show” on May 17. “We can’t explain how they move, their trajectory, they did not have an easily explainable pattern.”
Also that month, the CBS magazine show “60 Minutes” interviewed two Navy pilots from the USS Nimitz who were diverted in 2004 to investigate an peculiar radar signal. They described seeing an object shaped like a Tic Tac that was able to move straight up and down at inexplicable speeds.
In the same broadcast, Christopher Mellon, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defence for intelligence under presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, said the government had observed on radar objects capable of manouvres that could not be approximated. “There’s nothing that we can build that would be strong enough to endure that amount of force in acceleration,” he said.
In an interview with Fox News a month earlier, former intelligence director John Ratcliffe said there have been far more sightings than the public is aware of and described the phenomena like this: “We are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery, that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain, movements that are hard to replicate, that we don’t have the technology for or are traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”
Encounters of which kind?
The government has slowly been opening up about UAP sightings for more than a year. In April 2020 the Pentagon released three short videos showing such objects, and earlier this year Reid said the footage “only scratches the surface of research and materials available".
Reid called for further investigation. “The US needs to take a serious scientific look at this and any potential national security implications,” he said. “The American people deserve to be informed.”
French officials went public with stories of similar sightings decades ago. In 1999 a group of a dozen retired French generals and other experts issued a report called “UFOs and Defence: For What Must we Prepare Ourselves?”
What officials and scientists aren’t saying is that these are aliens coming from another planet to visit us. They simply don’t know what these objects are, they say. The discussion is still largely couched in distinctly concrete terms and centers around the concern that these craft may represent a threat from enemies here on earth.
At least one official has been willing to go further, though. In December 2020, Haim Eshed, the former head of the space directorate of the Israeli Defence Ministry, told the Yediot Aharonot newspaper that humans have been in contact with extraterrestrials and have signed a co-operation accord with them.
“There is an agreement between the US government and the aliens,” he told the newspaper. "They signed a contract with us to do experiments here."
Former president Donald Trump was in on the secret, he said, and had been “on the verge of revealing” it but was asked not to due to fears of “mass hysteria”.
Eshed’s assertion doesn’t seem to represent the consensus view in Israel. The chairman of the country’s Space Agency, Isaac Ben-Israel, told the Times of Israel that while the scientific community thinks the chances that there is life in outer space is “considerable, not small,” he doesn’t believe “there were any physical encounters between us and aliens".
NBC News followed up on Eshed’s statements about the agreement with aliens with the White House, Israeli officials and the Pentagon, but were unable to get a comment from any of them. A NASA spokesperson told NBC that the agency was searching for life in the universe, but had not yet found it.
Flying saucer watchers who are hoping for clear answers from the government are likely to be disappointed. While the report presented to Congress is expected to be detailed, the public will be given only the unclassified version, which is likely to be far less complete.
EEN VAN DE BESTE KANDIDATEN VOOR BUITENAARDS LEVEN HERBERGT MOGELIJK OOK ONDERZEESE VULKANEN
EEN VAN DE BESTE KANDIDATEN VOOR BUITENAARDS LEVEN HERBERGT MOGELIJK OOK ONDERZEESE VULKANEN
Vivian Lammerse
Het maakt het idee dat op de maan ooit leven ontstaan is, nog aannemelijker.
Jupiters maan Europa is een interessant exemplaar. Want áls er ergens in ons zonnestelsel leven is, zou dat volgens astronomen zomaar eens op Europa kunnen zijn. Een nieuwe studie zet die theorie nog meer kracht bij. Want uithet onderzoekblijkt dat er mogelijk heuse onderzeese vulkanen op de maan te vinden zijn.
Leven op Europa Rond de planeet Jupiter cirkelen vele manen. Maar van al deze manen, wint de ijzige Europa het op populariteit. Astronomen zijn vooral geïnteresseerd in de maan omdat dit de beste plek is – binnen ons zonnestelsel – om op zoek te gaan naar buitenaards leven. Onderzoek suggereert namelijk dat onder de ijskorst een vloeibare oceaan te vinden is. En in die oceaan zou leven kunnen ontstaan en – doordat de ijskorst het beschermt tegen de gevaarlijke straling waarmee Europa continu gebombardeerd wordt – kunnen gedijen. Het zou dus best kunnen dat er biologisch materiaal onder het oppervlak van de maan Europa te vinden is. Een bezoekje brengen aan Europa staat dan ook al op de agenda.
Wetenschappers hebben sterke vermoedens dat Europa tussen zijn ijskoude korst en rotsachtige binnenkant in, een enorme oceaan herbergt. En nu toont het nieuwe onderzoek aan dat de maan mogelijk voldoende interne warmte genereert om deze rotsachtige laag gedeeltelijk te laten smelten. Een proces dat kan leiden tot – inderdaad – het ontstaan van onderzeese vulkanen
Hitte Hoe het kan dat de rotsachtige mantel van Europa zo verzengend heet is? Dat heeft te maken met de enorme aantrekkingskracht die Jupiter op zijn manen heeft. Terwijl Europa rond de gasreus draait, wiebelt het binnenste van de ijzige maan een beetje. Door dit gewiebel ontstaat er energie in het binnenste van de maan, wat vervolgens als warmte naar buiten sijpelt. Hoe meer het binnenste van de maan wiebelt, hoe meer warmte er wordt gegenereerd. De studie modelleert in detail hoe het rotsachtige deel van Europa kan wiebelen en verhit wordt onder de sterke invloed van Jupiters zwaartekracht. Het laat zien waar warmte verdwijnt en hoe hierdoor de rotsachtige mantel smelt, waardoor er – vermoedelijk rond de polen – onderzeese vulkanen ontstaan.
De bevindingen van wetenschappers suggereren dat het binnenste van Jupiters maan Europa kan bestaan uit een ijzeren kern, omgeven door een rotsachtige mantel die in direct contact staat met een oceaan onder de ijskoude korst.
Afbeelding: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Michael Carroll
Het idee dat maan Europa mogelijk vulkanisch is, is overigens niet nieuw en al decennialang onderwerp van speculatie. Ter vergelijking: Jupiters maan Io is duidelijk vulkanisch. Honderden vulkanen spuwen lava uit, waarvan sommige vulkanisch as en stof tot wel 400 kilometer hoog de lucht in pompen. Dit is tevens het gevolg van dezelfde soort interne opwarming die wordt veroorzaakt door Jupiters zwaartekracht. Europa is echter verder dan Io van de gasreus verwijderd, waardoor wetenschappers zich al jarenlang afvragen of het effect vergelijkbaar kan zijn onder het ijzige oppervlak van maan Europa.
Leven Mocht Europa inderdaad onderzeese vulkanen herbergen, dan maakt dit het idee dat op de maan ooit leven ontstaan is, nog aannemelijker. Onderwatervulkanen kunnen namelijk hydrothermische systemen aandrijven, zoals de systemen die het leven op de bodem van aardse oceanen voeden. Op aarde, wanneer zeewater in contact komt met heet magma, resulteert die interactie in chemische energie. En het is de chemische energie van deze hydrothermale systemen die – in plaats van zonlicht – het leven diep in onze eigen oceanen ondersteunt. Het betekent dat onderzeese vulkanen op Europa mogelijk op dezelfde manier het leven in de oceanen van de maan ondersteunen. “Onze bevindingen leveren aanvullend bewijs dat Europa’s ondergrondse oceaan een omgeving is die geschikt is voor het ontstaan van leven,” zegt onderzoeker Marie Běhounková. “Europa is één van de zeldzame planetaire lichamen die gedurende miljarden jaren zijn vulkanisme heeft behouden en mogelijk de enige is – buiten de aarde – met grote waterreservoirs en een langlevende energiebron.”
De wetenschappers zullen de gelegenheid krijgen om hun nieuwe voorspellingen te testen. De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie stuurt namelijk een ruimtevaartuig naar Jupiters ijzige maan, die daar naar alle waarschijnlijkheid rond 2030 zal arriveren. De missie die Europa Clipper heet, zal tientallen scheervluchten langs Europa uitvoeren om zo meer te weten te komen over de oceaan die onder de dikke ijskorst schuilgaat. Europa Clipper zal daarnaast de zwaartekracht en het magnetische veld van de maan meten. En afwijkingen – vooral in de richting van de polen – zouden kunnen bevestigen wat door het nieuwe onderzoek wordt voorspeld. “De voorspelling van een heet, rotsachtig binnenste en onderzeese vulkanen op Europa vergroten de kans dat de uitgestrekte oceaan een bewoonbare omgeving is,” zegt onderzoeker Robert Pappalardo. “We kunnen dit testen met de geplande metingen van de zwaartekracht en de compositie van Europa Clipper. En dat is een heel opwindend vooruitzicht.”
A bit of a wobble! NASA's Ingenuity helicopter completes a sixth flight on Mars despite some 'unexpected motion' in the final few feet of its journey
A bit of a wobble! NASA's Ingenuity helicopter completes a sixth flight on Mars despite some 'unexpected motion' in the final few feet of its journey
Ingenuity made its sixth flight on the Red Planet on May 22, NASA confirmed
It traveled up 33ft before moving 492ft southwest at about nine miles per hour
It travelled 49ft south while capturing images of a region of interest in the west
NASA says this second leg is where the system encountered stability issues
This was caused by one missing image from the navcam that the onboard AI uses to determine where the helicopter is, how high it is and how fast it is going
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has survived its sixth flight on the Red Planet, but not everyone went to plan, with some 'unexpected motion' in the final few feet.
This motion was from an 'image processing issue' but the 4lb copter 'muscled through' the final 213ft of its 703ft flight over the Martian surface, NASA JPL tweeted.
The flight happened last week, on May 22, but NASA said it would be taking more time to review each flight before releasing data after the fifth flight was over, so information on it surviving the 'wobble' weren't released until Thursday.
Despite the issue the helicopter, currently in a new phase where it is helping Perseverance scout for locations, 'landed safely and is ready to fly again.'
The latest trip was designed to expand the flight envelope and demonstrate aerial-imaging capabilities by taking stereo images of a region of interest to the west.
Ingenuity climbed 33ft, moved 492ft southwest at 9 mph, travelled 49ft south while capturing images towards the west, before going another 164ft to its landing site.
Despite encountering an anomaly in flight, the helicopter landed within 16ft of the intended landing location and did so due to 'stability margins' within flight control.
The NASA team are now planning a seventh flight for the 18 inch tall drone, that will happen after they've fixed the 'timing vulnerability' that led to the in-air 'wobble'.
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has survived its sixth flight on the Red Planet, but not everyone went to plan, with some 'unexpected motion' in the final few feet
INGENUITY: THE SMALL ROTORCRAFT THAT TOOK TO THE MARTIAN SKY
Ingenuity was designed as a technology demonstrator rather than carrying any of its own science experiments or equipment.
It rode to Mars attached to the belly of the SUV-size Perseverance rover.
The helicopter took off from the 'Wright Brothers Field' on Monday April 19, making history as the first powered flight on another world.
For the first flight, the helicopter took off, climbed to about 10ft above the ground, hovered in the air briefly, completed a turn, and then landed.
It is built to be light and strong to survive the harsh Martian environment.
It weighs just under 4lb and is only 19 inches tall as it has to fly in the much thinner atmosphere - about 1% that of the atmosphere found on Earth.
It can fly up to 980ft, go up to 15ft in the sky and can spend about 90 seconds in the air before landing.
The rotors are 4ft in diameter and the craft includes solar panels that charge lithium-ion batteries.
It has a 30 day lifespan, with a total of five flights expected in that time.
Ingenuity arrived on Mars on February 18 strapped to the belly of the Perseverance rover, which acted as a data relay and photographer when flights first started.
The small robotic flying drone made its first flight on April 19, 2021, making history as the first powered controlled flight on another planet.
Since then it has completed sixth successful flights, the first five as part of a 'technical demonstration' to prove something could fly on Mars, then this sixth flight was part of an extended mission support role, helping Perseverance.
Telemetry from the sixth shows that the first 490ft leg of the flight went off without a hitch, but it was towards the end of that leg the first issue was detected.
Just over 50 seconds into the flight a glitch occurred in a pipeline of images used by the navigation system to predict the helicopters location, velocity and altitude.
This caused one single image out of hundreds to be lost, resulting in the navigation system operating from inaccurate information that caused the mid-flight wobble.
NASA can't see this issues happening in real time due to the delay in sending data to and from the Red Planet - currently 207 million miles away from the Earth.
Scouring through the flight data after it was sent back to mission control - three hours after the helicopter landed - Ingenuity began adjusting its velocity and titling back and forth in an oscillating pattern.
'This behaviour persisted throughout the rest of the flight,' wrote Håvard Grip, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Chief Pilot.
'Prior to landing safely, onboard sensors indicated the rotorcraft encountered roll and pitch excursions of more than 20 degrees, large control inputs, and spikes in power consumption.'
While airborne, Ingenuity keeps track of its motion using an onboard inertial measurement unit (IMU) - that tracks acceleration and rotation rates.
By integrating this information over time, it is possible to estimate where it is, how fast it is moving, and how it is oriented in space.
The onboard control system reacts to the estimated motions by adjusting control inputs rapidly - at a rate of 500 times per second.
If the navigation system relied on the IMU alone, it would not be very accurate in the long run, according to NASA JPL, who added that errors would quickly accumulate, and the helicopter would eventually lose its way.
Ingenuity uses navcam images, like this one, to calculate where it is, how fast it is going and how high above the Martian surface it is flying
The flight happened last week, on May 22, but NASA said it would be taking more time to review each flight before releasing data after the fifth flight was over, so information on it surviving the 'wobble' weren't released until Thursday
INGENUITY: FIRST FIVE FLIGHTS ON MARS
Flight one: April 19, 2021 with a vertical takeoff up to 9.8ft, stationary hover and a landing
Flight two: April 22, 2021 with a vertical takeoff up to 16ft, hover, then shift westward for 14ft before returning and landing
Flight three: April 25, 2021 with a vertical takeoff up to 16ft, hover, shift northwards for 328ft at an airspeed of 2 m/s before returning to land
Flight four: April 30, 2021 with a vertical takeoff up to 16ft, hover, shift southwards 873ft at 3.5m/s before returning to land
Flight five: May 7, 2021 with a vertical takeoff up to 33ft, hover, shift southwards 423ft at 3.5 m/s before landing at that new location
To solve this the navigation camera sends data back into the system to correct the IMU estimates on a regular basis.
'For the majority of time airborne, the downward-looking navcams takes 30 pictures a second of the Martian surface and immediately feeds them into the helicopter’s navigation system,' NASA explained.
As the image comes in the navigation system examines the timestamp to determine when it was taken and the algorithm makes predictions about what the camera should have bee seeing based on previous sets of predictions.
This includes surface features from images taken moments before and where those features actually appear in the new image.
This shift in surface features - however tiny - allows the artificial intelligence system to predict the actual location and estimate the position of the helicopter.
One single image was lost abut 54 seconds in, meaning all future images had the wrong timestamp, meaning the AI was working from inaccurate information.
'From this point on, each time the navigation algorithm performed a correction based on a navigation image, it was operating on the basis of incorrect information about when the image was taken,' Grip said.
'The resulting inconsistencies significantly degraded the information used to fly the helicopter, leading to estimates being constantly “corrected” to account for phantom errors. Large oscillations ensued.'
The NASA team are now planning a seventh flight for the 18 inch tall drone, that will happen after they've fixed the 'timing vulnerability' that led to the in-air 'wobble'
Ingenuity climbed 33ft, moved 492ft southwest at 9 mph, travelled 49ft south while capturing images towards the west, before going another 164ft to its landing site
Despite encountering this anomaly, Ingenuity was able to maintain flight and land safely on the surface within approximately 16 feet of the intended landing location.
One reason it was able to do so is the considerable effort that has gone into ensuring that the helicopter’s flight control system has ample “stability margin'.
'We designed Ingenuity to tolerate significant errors without becoming unstable, including errors in timing,' said Grip.
Despite encountering an anomaly in flight, the helicopter landed within 16ft of the intended landing location and did so due to 'stability margins' within flight control.
They didn't need the 'stability margin' in the earlier flights as it wasn't being pushed outside the realms of what the team expected for 'normal operations'.
But during flight six Ingenuity was pushed to travel faster, harder and further than in the previous five, causing the margin of error to 'come to the rescue'.
NASA also stops using navigation cameras in the final phase of a flight - during the descent and landing - in order to ensure smooth and continuous estimates.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (3.9 meters) from the rover. This image was taken by the WATSON camera on the rover's robotic arm on April 6, 2021
'That design decision also paid off during Flight Six,' said Grip, adding that 'Ingenuity ignored the camera images in the final moments of flight, stopped oscillating, levelled its attitude, and touched down at the speed as designed.'
Despite the issues the flight was a success, according to NASA, with rotor system, actuators and power systems responding well to increased demands.
'In a very real sense, Ingenuity muscled through the situation, and while the flight uncovered a timing vulnerability that will now have to be addressed, it also confirmed the robustness of the system in multiple ways,' said Grip.
NASA MARS 2020: THE MISSION WILL SEE THE PERSEVERANCE ROVER AND INGENUITY HELICOPTER SEARCH FOR LIFE
NASA's Mars 2020 mission will search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet in a bid to help scientists better understand how life evolved on Earth.
Named Perseverance, the main car-sized rover is explore an ancient river delta within the Jezero Crater, which was once filled with a 1,600ft deep lake.
It is believed that the region hosted microbial life some 3.5 to 3.9 billion years ago and the rover will examine soil samples to hunt for evidence of the life.
Nasa's Mars 2020 rover (artist's impression) is searching for signs of ancient life on Mars in a bid to help scientists better understand how life evolved on our own planet
The $2.5 billion (£1.95 billion) Mars 2020 spaceship launched on July 30 with the rover and helicopter inside - and landed successfully on February 18, 2021.
Perseverance landed inside the crater and will collect samples that will eventually be returned to Earth for further analysis.
A second mission will fly to the planet and return the samples, perhaps by the later 2020s in partnership with the European Space Agency.
This concept art shows the Mars 2020 rover landing on the red planet via NASA's 'sky-crane' system
NASA's Mars helicopter safe after navigation glitch leads it on a 'stressful' joyride
NASA's Mars helicopter safe after navigation glitch leads it on a 'stressful' joyride
Engineers say they "did not intentionally plan such a stressful flight."
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, thefirst powered and controlled aircraft to take flight on another planet, survived a "stressful" navigation glitch that sent it oscillating off-course during a cosmic flight on Mars.
The chopper, which arrived on the red planet strapped to the Perseverance Rover in February, took to the air for its sixth test flight last Saturday when an anomaly occurred that led it on an unexpected flight path, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Thursday.
Ingenuity landed safely but unexpectedly started "adjusting its velocity and tilting back and forth in an oscillating pattern" mid-flight, Havard Grip, the chief pilot for Ingenuity at JPL, said in a statement. The helicopter was at an altitude of some 33 feet when the odd behavior began, which persisted throughout the rest of the flight.
Grip said they have since identified what caused the anomaly: A "glitch" about a minute into the flight in the delivery of images by Ingenuity's navigation camera.
"This glitch caused a single image to be lost, but more importantly, it resulted in all later navigation images being delivered with inaccurate timestamps," Grip said. "From this point on, each time the navigation algorithm performed a correction based on a navigation image, it was operating on the basis of incorrect information about when the image was taken."
He estimates that the inconsistencies led the helicopter to a state of "being constantly 'corrected' to account for phantom errors," adding that "large oscillations ensued."
Despite the glitch, the helicopter was able to land safely within about 16 feet of its intended landing spot. Grip credited the landing to Ingenuity's multiple subsystems that ensure stability for kicking in when needed.
"In a very real sense, Ingenuity muscled through the situation, and while the flight uncovered a timing vulnerability that will now have to be addressed, it also confirmed the robustness of the system in multiple ways," Grip said.
"While we did not intentionally plan such a stressful flight, NASA now has flight data probing the outer reaches of the helicopter’s performance envelope," Grip added. "That data will be carefully analyzed in the time ahead, expanding our reservoir of knowledge about flying helicopters on Mars."
Ingenuity made history last month when it became the first powered, controlled aircraft to take flight on another planet. The cosmic helicopter pays homage to the Wright brothers' first flight on Earth, carrying with it a small amount of material that covered one of the wings on the brothers' history-making aircraft, according to NASA.
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