A solar superstorm might knock out the Internet sometime soon so hurry up and read this before that happens

 Daniel Payne

The lesson here—aside from the fact that we are utterly powerless before the terrible might of Sol—is that you need to start buffering all of those YouTube videos pronto to make sure you have enough stuff to watch during the inevitable blackout.

P.S. Now check out our latest video about how Jeff Bezos wants to live forever and actually can 👇

How would life change if the Internet was knocked out worldwide? According to scientists, that scenario could become reality if an enormous solar superstorm should occur. According to a report by CTV News, if adequate preparation is not made for future instances when “the sun spits a wave of magnetized plasma at us,” astrophysicists estimate there is a 1.6—12% “likelihood of a solar storm of sufficient strength to cause catastrophic disruption occurring within the next decade,” according to a new study.

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15-09-2021 om 17:45 geschreven door peter  

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15-09-2021 om 16:57 geschreven door peter  

Elon Musk sparks a Twitter frenzy with claim 'there are UFOs' — as US Congress moves to set up a unit to probe alien crafts detected by the military

• 'I'm not saying there are UFOs … but there are UFOs', the SpaceX CEO tweeted

• This comment came in a thread about the updated Tesla full self-driving system

• The software could even detect and avoid UFO debris, the entrepreneur said

• His comments led to assorted reactions, memes and stories of UFO encounters

• Early this year, US Congress published a report into UFO sightings since 2004

• Investigators were unable to either prove or rule out extraterrestrial origins 

By IAN RANDALL FOR MAILONLINE

Is there life, Elon, but not as we know it? This is the question on Twitter's lips in the wake of a post by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk about the existence of alien spacecraft.

'I'm not saying there are UFOs … but there are UFOs,' the entrepreneur tweeted yesterday, provoking a frenzy of responses and memes from his followers.

'Elon, phone home — Mars!' one commenter wrote, while others welcomed Mr Musk to #ufotwitter and shared pictures of clouds with allegedly extraterrestrial origins.

Some social media users wanted to know if the SpaceX program had captured its own evidence of alien intelligences — and if they would release 'the secrets'.

Mr Musk's comments come in the wake of plans by the US Congress to establish a dedicated governmental office to investigate sightings of UFOs by the military. 

Back in March this year, the Pentagon released a report investigating 144 sightings of 'unidentified aerial phenomenon' between 2004 and 2021.

While investigators said that they were convinced that the sightings were indeed of physical objects, they were unable to prove or rule out extraterrestrial origins.

Is there life, Elon, but not as we know it? This is the question on Twitter's lips in the wake of a post by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (pictured) about the existence of alien spacecraft

'I’m not saying there are UFOs … but there are UFOs,' the entrepreneur tweeted yesterday — as pictured — provoking a frenzy of responses and memes from his followers

Some social media users wanted to know if the SpaceX program had captured its own evidence of alien intelligences — and if they would release 'the secrets'

'Elon, phone home — Mars!' one commenter wrote, while others welcomed Mr Musk to #ufotwitter and shared pictures of clouds with allegedly extraterrestrial origins 

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Mr Musk's comment came in response to a thread about the recently-released version ten of Tesla's full self-driving (FSD) system and its capacity to handle an existing problem — recognising the concrete struts of the Seattle monorail line.

'FSD 10 predicts height from video pixels directly, without needing to classify groups of pixels into objects,' Mr Musk wrote, explaining the software upgrade's success.

'In principle, even if a UFO crashed on the road right in front of you, it would still avoid the debris,' he continued — going on to quip that they did exist.

'I know you are an alien Elon!!' responded thread creator 'Gali' (@Gfilche), who had posted a video of himself driving through the monorail pylons while testing the latest version of the FSD system.

'Aliens exist, they are hidden in plain sight,' posted Twitter user Optimus (@TeslaAIBot) in response to Mr Musk's comment.

'Don't take this lightly, humans,' they added.

'Yet another person involved in the highest levels of military confirming UFOs,' tweeted Ethan Orlander. 

He added: 'Why can't Pentagon confirm @elonmusk? Genuinely asking.'

'I have amassed quite a few photos of ETs and UFOs over the past few years, if anyone's interested,' proffered @michelecoralynx.

'At first, everyone was like: iT's JuSt ThE cLoUdS, but they're coming in clearer lately!' she added. 

Pictured: Twitter users asked the SpaceX CEO if he had seen evidence of UFOs 

Mr Musk's comments come in the wake of plans by the US Congress to establish a dedicated governmental office to investigate sightings of UFOs by the military. Pictured: a meme posted in response to Mr Musk's tweet

 Back in March this year, the Pentagon released a report investigating 144 sightings of 'unidentified aerial phenomenon' between 2004 and 2021. Pictured: Twitter user @michelecoralynx offered her own pictures of UFOs and aliens

While US government investigators said that they were convinced that the sightings were indeed of physical objects, they were unable to prove or rule out extraterrestrial origins. Pictured: one of the meme's posted to Twitter in response to Mr Musk's comments

Yesterday's tweet was not Mr Musk's first comment on the potential for the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Pictured: Twitter users posted weird pictures of clouds

Yesterday's tweet was not Mr Musk's first comment on the potential for the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrial life. 

In March this year, he posted a pair of graphs which he labelled the 'strongest argument against aliens'.

These illustrated that while cameras have enjoyed an almost exponential increase in resolution since the 19th century, pictures of UFOs remain just as fuzzy as ever. 

And earlier this year, Mr Musk said that while had not personally seen any evidence for the existence of aliens, there could be 'dead civilisations' out in space.

In March this year, Mr Musk posted a pair of graphs which he labelled the 'strongest argument against aliens'. These illustrated that while cameras have enjoyed an almost exponential increase in resolution since the 19th century, pictures of UFOs remain just as fuzzy as ever

Earlier this year, Mr Musk said that while had not personally seen any evidence for the existence of aliens, there could be 'dead civilisations' out in space

'Aliens exist, they are hidden in plain sight,' posted Twitter user Optimus (@TeslaAIBot) in response to Mr Musk's comment. 'Don't take this lightly, humans,' they added

The US Congress' plans for a dedicated office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense to investigate UFO sightings comes in the form of a bill to authorize Department of Defense appropriations for the 2022 fiscal year. Pictured: a meme posted after Mr Musk's tweet

The US Congress' plans for a dedicated office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense to investigate UFO sightings comes in the form of a bill to authorize appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 2022 fiscal year.

The duties of the new office — which will take over from the Unidentified Aerial — Phenomenon Task Force will include developing standardised procedures to collect and analyse reported of UFOs across the Department of Defense.

Staff will also evaluate 'links between unidentified aerial phenomena and adversarial foreign governments, other foreign governments, or nonstate actors.' along with 'evaluating the threat that such incidents present to the United States.'

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15-09-2021 om 16:46 geschreven door peter  

The billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX has sparked a frenzy on Twitter after making claims about the existence of UFOs ahead of SpaceX's first all-civilian spaceflight on Wednesday

By Ciaran Daly

The billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk has claimed that "there are UFOs" in his latest Twitter outburst.

Responding to a Tesla owner's video test of the car's 'full self-driving' functionality, Elon Musk explained that his cars can avoid any obstacles from up above - even UFOs.

"In principle, even if a UFO crashed on the road right in front of you, it would still avoid the debris," Musk wrote.

He continued: "I'm not saying there are UFOs... but there are UFOs."

Musk's comments sparked a frenzy on Twitter, with many people using it as an opportunity to share UFO memes and quiz Musk on his previous claims about being an alien extraterrestrial.

Elon Musk has previously claimed he is an alien 

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One user, Feni_Sam, said "Does anyone else feel like they could just talk to Elon about some of his tweets. Sometimes I feel like his tweets just create way more questions than I have answers for."

Other users saw Musk's comments as confirmation of what they already suspected: that the truth is out there.

One said: "Yes, there are [UFOs]. Saw some in 1993. About 15 to 20 of them. We aren't alone.

"No one can convince me other wise because I've known since I was 4 and you don't forget things like I've experienced. You do get shunned but whatever."

Earlier this year, Musk sent fans into a meltdown by claiming he is an alien. In a video, Musk said that the existence of aliens "is one of the great questions in physics and philosophy".

When asked on Twitter if he himself is an alien, Musk then wrote: "Of course". However, he later said that there are "no signs" of other life.

Musk's self-described greatest ambition is to "make life multiplanetary", and has previously vowed to sell off all of his possessions and houses in order to found a Mars colony with his company SpaceX by 2050.

He could get humans there sooner than that, however. Later today, the first all-civilian spaceflight will be taking place on a SpaceX rocket - you can watch it live at 20:45PM on SpaceX's YouTube.

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15-09-2021 om 16:24 geschreven door peter  

Daytime UFO over Santa Fe, New Mexico YESTERDAY

This daytime UFO video was filmed in the sky above Santa Fe in New Mexico on 14th October 2021.

Witness report: 

First observed object from passenger seat directly behind drivers seat. Pulled over into a bus terminal and exited vehicle to observe object. Recorded object in sky until it moved behind cloud cover

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15-09-2021 om 15:29 geschreven door peter  

New spacesuits, familiar test: NASA back in C.O. to prep for Mars exploration, return to moon

Much as the earlier, original 'moon suits' were tested here in the 1960s

• (Update: adding video, comments from NASA director)

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- NASA recently tested new spacesuits designed for a return to the moon and future Mars exploration at a number of natural sites in special spots around Central Oregon and nearby.

Dr. Pascal Lee, director of NASA's Haughton-Mars project, led the testing effort in Oregon late last month. 

"We thought this was really fitting, because we do have a spacesuit to test, and we are going back to the moon, so we came to Oregon,” Lee said Monday. 

Came back, that is.

Apollo astronauts trained and tested their spacesuits in Oregon during the 1960s because the natural volcanic landscape closely resembles the moon.

He said they haven't been back to Oregon to see how helpful it really was, until now.

"We were blown away by the quality of all of them,” Lee said. 

A crew of about 10 people came to Oregon to test the new suits at some of those same sites, which includes Lava Butte, the Big Obsidian Lava Flow, Fort Rock, Hole in the Ground and the Yapoah Lava Flow at McKenzie Pass.

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They also visited a number of new sites to prepare for NASA’'s next mission to the moon's south polar highlands -- and eventually Mars.

The new sites included Pumice Slope at Crater Lake National Park, the Painted Hills at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Skylight Cave and Little Nash Crater.

"In case you didn't know, Oregon has really beautiful analog sites for the moon, and also for Mars,” Lee said. 

The reason they're testing new sites like Starlight Cave is because for the first time ever, they're testing spacesuits designed specifically for caves.

Spacesuit engineer Ashley Himmelmann in the Collins Aerospace spacesuit examines a rock sample via integrated Information Technologies and Informatics Subsystem (IT IS) at the test site in Lava Butte, Oregon.

(NASA Haughton-Mars Project / Pascal Lee)

Spacesuit engineer Jake Rohrig in the Collins Aerospace spacesuit with its integrated Information Technologies and Informatics Subsystem (IT IS) at Little Nash Crater, Oregon.

(NASA Haughton-Mars Project / Pascal Lee)

The Collins Aerospace spacesuit with integrated Information Technologies and Informatics Subsystem (IT IS) is field tested during training for cave exploration on the moon and Mars.

(NASA Haughton-Mars  Project, Pascal Lee)

Lee said they are defining requirements for what future spacesuits may need for cave exploration.

"We want -- there's a few other things I can't really talk about, but it was good,” Lee said with a big grin.

Another change being tested in the new suits is the addition of electronics.

The suits are being designed to display GPS maps, show heart rates, respond to voice commands and assist with detailed image sampling. Just what you'd expect from a 21st century spacesuit.

"Things that will make doing spacewalks on the moon and on Mars safer down the road,” Lee said. “This type of tech has to be tested in an actual realistic field environment, so that's why we came to Oregon."

Lee hopes the suits will be used on the moon within the next decade, and said this was a promising first step.

"The details are going to be written up in technical papers and journals, but the upshot is that it works really well, it works beautifully.” Lee said.

Lee said he could see astronauts exploring Mars by the mid 2030s, and hopes to do some more testing in Oregon before then.

"If you could only take astronauts to train them in five places on earth, Oregon, in my view, would be in the top five,” Lee said. 

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15-09-2021 om 10:49 geschreven door peter  

NASA's Hubble Telescope spots rare object that looks like a space lightsaber

That's no lightsaber. It's a Herbig–Haro object.

 Amanda Kooser 

Paging Luke Skywalker. A newly released Hubble Space Telescope view of a slash of glowing gas against the star-studded darkness of space has me in a very Star Wars mood. The European Space Agency described the object as a "relatively rare celestial phenomenon" in a statement Monday. 

What we're seeing in the image is a Herbig–Haro object (named for astronomers George Herbig and Guillermo Haro) called HH111. The setting is a star-forming region in the constellation of Orion. The jet of gas looks like it's cosplaying as a blue lightsaber.

Herbig-Haro objects have dramatic origin stories. "Newly formed stars are often very active, and in some cases they expel very narrow jets of rapidly moving ionized gas — gas that is so hot that its molecules and atoms have lost their electrons, making the gas highly charged," said ESA. "The streams of ionized gas then collide with the clouds of gas and dust surrounding newly formed stars at speeds of hundreds of kilometers per second."

NASA is the agency that first clued me into how Herbig–Haro objects can look like lightsabers in space. In 2015, NASA shared a Hubble view of Herbig-Haro Jet HH24 just ahead of the opening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, calling it a "double-bladed lightsaber" with a "Jedi-like cloak of dust."

Herbig–Haro object named HH111, captured by Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Nisini

The spectacular view of HH111 comes from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, which sees in both optical (close to what our human eyes see) and infrared. The ability to make observations in infrared gives Hubble the clarity to peer through the gas and dust to get a good look at objects like this one.

Hubble is a joint project from NASA and ESA. It has now spent over 31 years looking out into the universe. It has weathered many technical difficulties, including a serious computer glitch earlier this year. 

Hubble won't live forever, but it could still last for years, giving us more images that tempt me to whisper "may the Force be with you" at my computer screen.

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15-09-2021 om 10:25 geschreven door peter  

Is this the Face of Krijn, the First Neanderthal of The Netherlands?

The first-ever Neanderthal found in The Netherlands, who scientists call Krijn, has now been brought more fully to life . A pair of “paleo-artists” who specialize in making life-like reconstructions of fossilized specimens have provided the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities ( Rijksmuseum van Oudheden ) with a sculpted version of this young Neanderthal’s face. The Kennis Brothers, who are based in Arnhem in the Netherlands, have chosen to portray Krijn with a big smile, which counteracts the usual dour image of our long-extinct evolutionary cousins.

One of the phases in the construction of the face

(© Kennis & Kennis Reconstructions / Rijksmuseum)

Who Was Krijn the Neanderthal?

Krijn’s skull fragment was originally buried on the bottom of the North Sea. It was dug up and washed ashore during a dredging operation off the western Dutch coast, where it was discovered by amateur paleontologist, Luc Anthonis, in 2009. Anthonis passed the skull fragment on to the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, where it was identified as the bone of an eyebrow ridge that belonged to a Neanderthal who lived sometime between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago.

This was a remarkable discovery, because it was the first evidence ever found that showed a Neanderthal presence in The Netherlands.

A deeper examination by the Leiden University and the Max Planck Institute scientists revealed even more details about the skull fragment and its prehistorical owner. They determined the fragment had come from a young man of stocky build. A study of the isotopes locked up in the bone showed the young man’s diet consisted primarily of meat, which would be expected for someone who lived in a Neanderthal hunter-gatherer society in the ancient past.

Inside the eyebrow ridge bone, the scientists found an unusual hollowed-out area they concluded had been occupied by some type of tumor. This tumor was entirely benign, and except for its effect on Krijn’s appearance (it would have caused a swollen bump over his eye) it had no impact on his health.

Such a tumor has never been seen before in any other Neanderthal specimen, and its presence helped the Kennis Brothers create a facial reconstruction that is entirely unique among Neanderthal sculptures.

• All About Neanderthals – The Surprising Facts
• Jawbone shows Modern Human 40,000 years ago had Neanderthal Great-Great-Grandfather

Note the lump over Krijn’s right eye, representing the tumor that was evident from the skull fragment. 

(© Servaas Neijens / Rijksmuseum)

Neanderthal Adventures in Doggerland

While the skeletal remains were technically found on Dutch soil, it should be noted that they originally came from off the Dutch coast. Krijn’s remains were buried at the bottom of the North Sea, which revealed something quite significant about his past.

Over the course of the Last Glacial Period, or Ice Age , sea levels rose and fell with the alternating advance and retreat of the earth’s glacial cover. When Krijn lived, sea levels in the northern hemisphere were relatively low, and in the North Sea they were 165 feet (50 meters) lower than they are today. The North Sea was much smaller at that time, and in what is now its southern and western parts the lowering of sea levels exposed a land bridge that connected the islands of the United Kingdom with continental Europe.

This land bridge is known as Doggerland, and it was located directly to the west of what is now the Dutch seacoast province of Zeeland. So while Krijn and his people might have traveled through Dutch territory, when he died, he died in Doggerland, where presumably he resided with his people most of the time.

During the last Ice Age, Doggerland stayed above sea level for tens of thousands of years. It even remained above water for a while after the Ice Age ended, in 9,700 BC. The last of its land area was submerged under the surface of the North Sea in approximately 5,800 BC, or a few thousand years after the Bering Strait land bridge that connected Asia with the Americas disappeared beneath the rising waters of the Pacific.

Over the course of its long history, a thriving and diverse ecosystem developed on Doggerland . Neanderthals existed alongside mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses , reindeer, wild horses, and many other large land animals that roamed far and wide in the northern hemisphere in prehistoric times. Modern humans eventually arrived on Doggerland as well, and remained there living as hunter-gatherers right to the end.

Neanderthals would have lived on Doggerland with modern humans for a time. But Neanderthals went extinct long before Doggerland did, so Krijn’s people were not around to see the final demise of their homeland.

Dutch archaeologists and paleontologists know that Doggerland has many secrets to reveal. Unfortunately, underwater exploration is expensive and difficult in the North Sea, given the murkiness of its waters and the depth at which Doggerland’s most fascinating treasures are buried. For now, the underwater remains of Doggerland remain largely inaccessible, forcing scientists to rely on dredging and fishing operations to pull up the occasional exciting specimen or artifact.    

• Top image: The reconstructed face of Krijn thr Neanderthal from Doggerland.     Source: © Servaas Neijens / Rijksmuseum

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15-09-2021 om 00:38 geschreven door peter  

The Legendary Hyperborea and the Ancient Greeks: Who Really Discovered America?

In his story of Atlantis, written at around 360 BC, Plato mentioned a grand island or continent across the Atlantic, one larger than Libya and Asia combined. This continent was so enormous, he said, “it encompassed (wrapped around) that veritable ocean”. Is it possible that Plato was talking about the American continent and not that of Atlantis, as many automatically assume when they read that story for the first time?

Let's not ignore that many scholars and researchers also show that proper translation of Plato's text places Atlantis in the Mediterranean and not in the Atlantic, or some other exotic location. Aside from those claims though, is it conceivable to accept that the ancient Greeks, around the 4th century BC, knew of the American continent across the Atlantic? Interestingly, several clues suggest that this may not be such an outlandish assumption after all.

Roughly twenty years ago, in 1996, Mark McMenamin, a professor of geology at Mount Holyoke College in the United States, discovered and interpreted a series of enigmatic markings on the reverse side of a Carthaginian gold coin, minted circa 350 BC, as an ancient map of the world. In the center of this world map there is a clear depiction of the Mediterranean basin. An image to the right of it is interpreted to represent Asia, while the image to the left is interpreted to represent the American continent. Professor McMenamin also found that all known specimens of this type of coin formed the same type of “world” map. This was an interesting discovery, no doubt; however, what is most interesting about this find, is that this particular Carthaginian coin was minted within the same decade when Plato unveiled the story of Atlantis and revealed that there was a large continent across from the Pillars of Hercules.

Carthaginian coins from circa 310–290 BC. Representational image only.

(Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com / CC BY-SA 2.5 )

The Piri Reis Map

The Piri Reis world map, named after its maker, a Turkish admiral and renowned cartographer (1465-1553), drawn in 1513, merely two decades after the ‘discovery’ of America by Christopher Columbus, depicts the west coast of Africa, Europe, as well as the entire American continent on the Atlantic side. According to Piri Reis, however, his controversial map was based on several other charts, many dating as early as the 4th century BC!

Map of the world by Ottoman admiral Piri Reis, drawn in 1513.

( Public Domain )

While by any means the famous map does not come close to a satellite image, it still properly depicts the continents on both sides of the Atlantic, although with one major flaw. It shows the horn of South America turning sharply eastwards, almost at a 90-degree angle, as if South America "wraps around" the Atlantic at the bottom of the map. Of course, some go on to speculate that the horizontal body of that land could be that of Antarctica, thus the controversy, since Antarctica was not discovered until 300 years later.

• Atlantis Revealed: Plato's Cautionary Tale Was Based On A Real Setting
• Evidence for Pre-Clovis Inhabitants of Americas Emerges from Sea Floor
• Did first Americans make a 10,000-Year Pit Stop on Beringian land bridge?

Although the controversy in Piri Reis' map significantly diminishes without Antarctica in it, the existence of this map still helps reinforce a couple of assumptions made earlier. If truly Piri Reis borrowed from other ancient maps dating back to the 4th century BC, then unquestionably this reinforces the suggestion that Plato, at 360 BC, could have been aware of the American continent in order to include it in his story.

Moreover, is it possible that the apparent flaw on Piri Reis' map, which most likely also appeared on the much older originals, explains why Plato was under the false impression that the immense continent across from the Pillars of Hercules “encompassed” (wrapped around) the Atlantic Ocean. Just as in the northern hemisphere, where North America, along with Greenland, Iceland and few other islands seem to encompass the North Atlantic.

Map by Abraham Ortelius, Amsterdam 1572: at the top left Oceanvs Hyperborevs separates Iceland from Greenland.

( Public Domain )

Legendary Hyperborea

Additional clues, though, not only suggest that the ancient Greeks knew of North America across the Atlantic, but as it appears, they were also familiar with the region around the Arctic Circle—in essence the broken bridge that connects northern Europe to North America. They called this land Hyperborea (a Greek word that means "Extremely North".)

Arctic continent on the Gerardus Mercator map of 1595.

( Public Domain )

Is this possible? While undoubtedly skeptics would dismiss this suggestion, interestingly, the Greeks believed that Hyperborea was an unspoiled territory so far north from Greece, the sun there never sets. Of course, the only place due north where the sun continuously shines, at least six months out of a year, is the region above the Arctic circle, a territory obviously not easily accessible, especially during the winter months. ‘Coincidentally’, the poet Pindar (522 BC – 443 BC) wrote that “neither by ship nor on foot would you find the marvelous road to the assembly of the Hyperboreans,” a statement that further corroborates the inaccessibility of this region.

So, when bearing in mind this place's location (somewhere “extremely north”,) the fact that is somewhere where the sun never sets, and this is a region inaccessible by foot or boat (most likely due to a frozen Arctic Ocean), where else can a place like this be? Can Hyperborea have been the figment of vivid imagination, or is it possible that there was some truth to this story, as in the case of other stories brought to us from ancient Greece, which involved real places wrapped in mythical elements? Such, among others, was the Palace of Knossos, which it was associated with the Minotaur (a mythical beast of half man and half bull,) the city of Troy which was connected with an epic war fought by demigods, and Mount Olympus, which was thought to be occupied by gods. What about Hyperborea though? Is it possible that the Greeks managed to navigate so far north, or was that knowledge passed down to them from others, such as the Minoans perhaps?

The road to Hyperborea and North America.

If, according to historians, the Bronze Age Minoans 4,000 years ago were often traveling as far as Scotland and the Orkney Islands to trade goods, is it inconceivable to assume that over time (going back and forth for a thousand years) they may have eventually reached Greenland (the edge of Hyperborea,) only a couple of short island stops away? And, if those ancient navigators managed to reach Greenland via island hopping, is it possible then to assume that they could have gone a bit further and ultimately reached North America, which in essence, is just around the corner?

Clues Buried Around the World

If not, where did thousands of tons of copper from the region around the Great Lakes disappear to during the Bronze Age? Most importantly, how did spices, plants and insects indigenous only to America find themselves in Santorini (a Minoan island) around the period of 1600 BC?

An excavation in the ancient city of Akrotiri, on the island of Santorini, revealed that a tobacco beetle (Lasioderma serricorne), an insect indigenous to America at the time, was found buried under the volcanic ash of the 1600 BC eruption. If tobacco was not introduced to Europeans until around 1518 AD, as history claims (nearly 3,000 years later), how else did this pest of stored tobacco got there.

Furthermore, how were the Egyptians able to obtain tobacco and other plants indigenous to America, like coca leaves, which were often used during mummification? Indeed, in 1992, German studies revealed that one third of all mummies tested, carried traces of nicotine on their hair, skin, and bones. Also, the same tobacco beetle found in Santorini was found inside the mummy of King Ramses II (1213 BC), as well as inside King Tutankhamen's tomb (1323 BC).

Following the Genetic Trail

If our early Mediterranean ancestors did not know of North America 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, how then did Haplogroup X, a Mediterranean gene, find itself in North America around that timeframe and as Plato claimed?

For those not familiar with genetics, each race around the planet is categorized by scientists according to their particular DNA haplogroup. For example, all American Indians contain haplogroups A, B, C, and D. As haplogroups A, C, and D are also found primarily in Asia, and B mainly in China and Japan, it is highly speculated by anthropologists that these four haplogroups traveled to North America during a glacier period when continents were once connected by ice.

• More Evidence that Ancient Romans May Have Made It to Oak Island, Canada
• Years Before Columbus: Leif Erikson, His Life and His Voyage of Adventure to the New World
• The precious remains of Akrotiri, an ancient city obliterated in the great eruption of Thera

A more recent study, though, on certain Native American tribes, especially those around the Great Lakes, revealed that in addition to the above haplogroups they were also found to carry haplogroup X. If Middle Easterners somehow made it to America 10,000 years ago, why do only tribes around the Great Lakes carry this particular gene? And, most importantly, how did Mediterranean people travel to North America?

If this was some random transfer, as some scientists maintain (see Solutrean Hypothesis), why then did no other haplogroup from at least a dozen in Europe at the time not follow X, as the four Asian haplogroups on the opposite side of the map ultimately followed each other via the Bering Strait? Is it possible that haplogroup X navigated to North America in a contained environment as Plato claimed? Or, is it possible, as the majority of anthropologists suggest, 10,000 years ago Mediterranean people walked to America while ice still connected the Asian and American continents at the Bering Strait?

A huge problem with the scientific claim, though, is that en route from the Middle East to America, the furthest region east of the Mediterranean to carry small traces of haplogroup X is that of the Altai Republic in southern Russia. No traces of haplogroup X (a variation of X, or another European haplogroup) exist further east of that region. We must also not ignore that mtDNA maps show that the highest concentrations of haplogroup X exist on the Atlantic side, around the Great Lakes, and not in Alaska or alongside the west coast, where, according to anthropologists, haplogroup X infiltrated America.

And last but not least, we must not ignore that high traces of haplogroup X strangely exist in Scotland, Orkney Islands, Faroe Islands and Iceland, essentially all the island stops from Europe to North America.

mtDNA Map of Haplogroup X.

Christos A. Djonis is author of the book “ Uchronia? Atlantis Revealed ”.

• Top Image: Is it possible the ancient Greeks knew of the New World thousands of years ago? Courtesy Christos A. Djonis
• Unless otherwise noted, images are the Copyrighted Material of Christos A. Djonis and have been used with permission.

By: Christos A. Djonis

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14-09-2021 om 23:51 geschreven door peter  

The disturbing “secret military base” under the Denver airport

Perhaps one of the most studied alleged military bases in the world is the one said to lie beneath the new Denver International Airport (DIA).

The new complex was the subject of numerous conspiracy theories before a plane left one of its runways, and it’s easy to see why.

The project was initially estimated to cost $ 1.7 billion.

By the time it was completed, after considerable delays no less, the cost had risen to just below the $ 5 billion mark.

When revealed to the public on February 28, 1995, the layout took up much more ground than originally suggested, and the tracks themselves appeared to represent a Nazi swastika when viewed from above.

Even DIA’s mascot Mustang the fiberglass horse, standing proudly outside, with glowing red eyes, has been responsible for at least one death.

Could it be a secret organization?

The abundance of Freemason symbols found throughout the airport does nothing to stifle these kinds of claims.

Perhaps what most fanned the flames of the DIA conspiracy was the discovery of plans for a “first attempt” to build the new airport.

These plans revealed a total of five known buildings that were completed and then apparently abandoned due to incorrect positioning.

It was later decided that instead of tearing down the buildings and using the materials elsewhere, it would be preferable to bury them, complete and intact.

Some believe that these buildings, however, were not simply buried and abandoned, but are part of the underground complex that is buried and operational below DIA.

Various theories have been put forward as to what these underground facilities might be, from FEMA detention units to “hideout” bases for the global elite.

When numerous construction workers began claiming that there were five-story buildings underneath the main airport, as well as a secret network of tunnels, the conspiracy theories began to seem a little less far-fetched, at least to some.

Perhaps the fact that Denver is the seemingly chosen location for such a secret elite facility is a clue in itself.

The city is one mile above sea level, which is why it is called the Upper Town of Mile.

Does this fact make the area favorable in the event of some kind of natural or man-made catastrophe, in particular a catastrophe that may involve severe flooding and rising sea levels?

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14-09-2021 om 23:18 geschreven door peter  

Some whistleblowers know where the bodies are buried. Others know where the money is buried. Luis Elizondo knows where the UFOs and possible aliens are buried … or at least that’s what publishing company William Morrow is hoping as it announced it has won the bidding war to publish the “shocking” memoir of the former head of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). Will Elizondo identify the smoking UAP or will he be silenced like the Lone Gunmen?

“(The memoir) promises to reveal shocking never-before-shared details regarding what Elizondo has learned about UFOs and the profound implications for humanity, all of which will escalate what is already a hot topic globally.”

We want dates!

The Hollywood Reporter was the first to break the news that William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, will publish the highly anticipated exposé by the ultimate insider to the secret Pentagon investigations of unidentified aerial phenomena. The former U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent was director of AATIP from 2008 until resigning in 2017 in protest of the organization’s secrecy. Elizondo attempted to expose some of the secrets himself by joining the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences and making public (and famous) three declassified videos of the ‘Tic Tac’ UFOs taken by pilots from the USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt. Despite these revelations, plus many interviews – including a well publicized one earlier this year on “60 Minutes,” Elizondo apparently (and hopefully) has much, much more to tell.

“The American people now know a small portion of what I and my colleagues in the Pentagon have been privy to: That these UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon) are not secret U.S. technology, that they do not seem to belong to any known allies or adversaries and that our intelligence services have yet to identify a terrestrial explanation for these extraordinary vehicles. This conversation is only just beginning.”

Still image from the footage of the “tic-tac” UFO

Elizondo is referring to the brief public report by the Pentagon earlier this year which did not rule out aliens as a possible cause of UFOs seen by Navy pilots or others investigated by AATIP, along with the many more reported but not investigated. The whistleblower will face the naysayers who question the extent of his actual involvement within AATIP – an accusation strongly refuted by former senator and key driving force in the formation of AATIP, Harry Reid. Then there’s Elizondo’s “security oath” – which he has taken seriously as a reason to not reveal too much in previous interviews. Will it still be a muzzle in the memoir?

Like Fox Mulder and the Lone Gunmen, so many people want to believe. Let’s hope Luis Elizondo’s memoir is the bible they’ve been waiting for.

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14-09-2021 om 22:40 geschreven door peter  

If you haven’t found Planet Nine yet – and we’re assuming we would have heard about it if you did – then perhaps the map released a few weeks ago isn’t up to Google snuff. Fortunately, another guide has just been announced and it follows a trail of newly discovered trans-Neptunian objects so far away, their solar orbits are described as extremely extreme. Something is affecting them more than the gravitational pull of Neptune. Will they lead to Planet Nine?

“This catalog has 817 confirmed objects (461 first discovered in this work). This is the second largest TNO catalog from a single survey to date, as well as the largest catalog with multi-band photometry.”

It had better be good – this new catalog of Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNO) used six years of data from the Dark Energy Survey – an astronomical survey using the Dark Energy Camera which was designed to take images in the near-ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared spectrums to measure the expansion of the Universe, taking advantage of a wide field of view and high sensitivity. The DES ran from 2013 to 2019 and its data was found to contain far more than needed for its initial purpose. In this case, a large team of researchers led by lead authors of the paper (preprint at arXiv), University of Pennsylvania cosmologist Gary Bernstein and University of Washington postdoctoral scholar Pedro Bernardinelli, found 815 TNOs and added 461 to the list of over 3,000 identified so far.

Good old Pluto – our favorite TNA

According to Science Alert, all of the new TNOs are at least 30 AU away (AU = 93 million miles or the distance from the Earth to the sun). Some are in the Kuiper Belt with dwarf planets Pluto and Eris at about 30 AUs and 50 AUs. However, the capability of the Dark Energy Camera was shown with the discovery of nine known as extreme trans-Neptunian objects that are at least 150 AUs from the sun. Of those, four are extremely extreme TNOs at 230 AUs. Those four are the ones showing behavior that suggests they’re being pulled by Planet Nine. Since the data from the Dark Energy Survey they used contains 20% of all currently-known TNOs and covers only one-eight of the sky, that identifies a clear path to Planet Nine.

Or not.

Skeptics say the strange orbits of the four extremely extreme TNOs are nothing more than statistical anomalies, while another group of astronomers has previously proposed that the gravitational pull is coming from a massive amount of tiny objects, possibly from one destroyed planet (could be Nine but there’s no proof), working together.

There’s only one way to find out – follow the extremely extremes. Fortunately, the researchers are making their data available.

“These will be valuable for further detailed statistical tests of formation models for the trans-Neptunian region.”

What are you waiting for – go find Planet Nine!

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14-09-2021 om 22:24 geschreven door peter  

The remains of a specific type of pterosaur or “winged lizard” has been found for the first time ever in the Southern Hemisphere. The fossil belonged to a rhamphorhynchine pterosaur that lived about 160 million years ago during the Jurassic Period in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

The fossil was unearthed back in 2009 by Osvaldo Rojas, the director of the Atacama Desert Museum of Natural History and Culture. However, it has only recently been identified by scientists at the University of Chile and confirmed as being the first of its kind to have ever been discovered in the prehistoric supercontinent of Gondwana.

The fact that this species was only previously discovered in the north seems to indicate that it migrated between the hemispheres. “There are pterosaurs of this group also in Cuba, which apparently were coastal animals, so most likely they have migrated between the North and the South or maybe they came once and stayed, we don’t know,” explained Jhonatan Alarcon from the University of Chile, adding, “We show that the distribution of animals in this group was wider than known to date.”

Pterosaur

The rhamphorhynchine pterosaur had a 2-meter-wide wingspan (6.6 feet); a pointed snout; sharp teeth that pointed outwards; and a long pointy tail.

In addition to being the first rhamphorhynchine pterosaur that’s ever been found in the Southern Hemisphere, it is also “the oldest known pterosaur found in Chile” as described by the scientists in their study that was published in the scientific journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.

A picture of the rhamphorhynchine fossil can be seen here.

Restoration of H. sp. preying on the iguanodont Zalmoxes.

Credit: Mark Witton/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 4.0

Pterosaurs were pretty interesting creatures. While they are not considered a dinosaur, they were closely related. During their 150-million-year journey on Earth, there were over 150 different pterosaur species flying around.

Pterosaur

While there are different theories as to how pterosaurs moved from land to the sky, one computer model by Michael Habib from Chatham University seems quite possible as he theorized that the reptiles took off “…with an explosive jump into the air” and “Then, they put out their wings and could generate enough lift with one downstroke to take off,” as explained by Mark A. Norell, chair of the American Museum of Natural History’s division of paleontology. And while they were on land, it is believed that they walked on four legs.

Pterosaurs are known to be huge flying reptiles such as the Quetzalcoatlus northropi which had a wingspan of 33 feet (10 meters); however, they weren’t all large as many of their wingspans measured approximately 6 feet across (1.8 meters). And there were tiny pterosaurs like the Nemicolopterus crypticus which had a wingspan of just 10 inches.

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14-09-2021 om 22:13 geschreven door peter  

The first rock samples that were collected on Mars by NASA’s Perseverance Rover have revealed very interesting results. The first sample, which has been named “Montdenier”, was collected on September 6^th, followed by a second sample named “Montagnac” on September 8^th.

Experts are hoping that by collecting the rock samples, they will be able to get a better understanding of the planet’s history and so far so good as indicated by Caltech’s Ken Farley who is a project scientist for the mission that is led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, “It looks like our first rocks reveal a potentially habitable sustained environment,” adding, “It’s a big deal that the water was there a long time.”

The rocks from the first sample are composed of basalt which may have been a result of lava flows. And since volcanic rocks contain crystalline minerals that can be radiometric dated, experts may be able to pinpoint the date of when the lava flows occurred. The information provided in the rocks may also answer many other important questions regarding the area in which it was collected, such as when the Jezero Crater was formed, when its lake appeared and then disappeared, and what type of changes the climate endured over time.

An artist’s concept of a lake inside Jezero Crater (via Wikipedia)

Scientists do know that a lake once filled the crater, but they’re still unsure as to how long it lasted. The samples that they have collected so far seem to indicate that groundwater was there for a significant amount of time – but the question of whether it was there for thousands of years or even millions of years remains unanswered, at least for now. The longer the water was there would have provided a better opportunity for microscopic life to have survived if there was any.

Additionally, salts have been found in the rocks and they could have formed when there was groundwater in the area that affected the minerals in the rock or perhaps the salts were left when the water evaporated. If the salt minerals were able to trap small water bubbles, they could provide scientists with answers regarding the climate on Mars during ancient times as well as if the planet was ever habitable.

The first two samples were collected from an area which is believed to contain some of youngest rock layers in the crater. Their next location for collecting rock samples will probably be in “South Séítah” which is only about 656 feet (200 meters) away. This area, which is believed to be older than the original site, contains ridges that are covered by boulders, rock shards, and sand dunes.

Surface of Mars

Once the samples are eventually brought back to Earth, scientists will analyze them in further detail as described by Mitch Schulte from NASA Headquarters and who is the mission’s program scientist, “One day, we may be able to work out the sequence and timing of the environmental conditions that this rock’s minerals represent. This will help answer the big-picture science question of the history and stability of liquid water on Mars.”

A picture of the two drill holes in the rock can be seen here.

© Provided by CNET NASA's Perseverance rover collected its first two Martian rock cores from "Rochette," the rock near the center of the image.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

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14-09-2021 om 22:02 geschreven door peter  

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There is no confirmation of what the sighting was, but many believe that they recently saw an unidentified flying object (UFO) in Australia after spotting strange lights "ping-ponging" across the sky.

An unusual light display has lead Melbourne residents to believe they could have been witnessing unidentified flying objects. 

(Nine/Supplied)

The so-called UFO was spotted on the south coast, near the border with Victoria, Australia on Sept. 7 and the lights moved rapidly for five minutes at least, according to Daily Star.

According to the UFO Hunters, two people saw flashing light moving rapidly over the ocean, it "accelerated quickly to the left then hovered with random flashes of light getting bright." It apparently "ping-ponged back and forth up and down and then hovered while slowly fading out." The witnesses also saw white, red and blue colors when they came across the so-called UFO. After checking the flight radar, they found nothing was in the air near their location. They clearly found the sighting very interesting.

This isn't the first time that someone claimed to have spotted a mysterious object in the sky in Australia, and associated it with objects from another planet.

In April, 9News reported that mysterious lights were seen over the early morning skies in Melbourne, Australia and made residents believe they had come across a fleet of unidentified objects. One witness, Matt, said that he saw the lights in the sky and then another one came. It was followed by many more, so he wondered what was going on.

He walked out to the front of his house and he looked back to where the objects were coming from, and he found a whole string of them. To him, it seemed like someone had unraveled Christmas lights and hung them up in the sky. But going by a scientific explanation for the bright lights, it turned out to be a series of satellites returning to Earth. Disappointed, Matt said that he would have preferred them to be UFOs rather than satellites.

Observers were shocked by the display, unable to determine what they were seeing. 

(Nine/Supplied)

It’s not just in Australia where UFO believers stay. Many have claimed to have spotted such objects in different places. In fact in June, the US government published a report related to them. Though the report did not admit to the existence of aliens, it revealed that some of the objects appearing in the skies could not be explained by the Pentagon, and some pose “a safety of flight issue" and might even be a challenge to the American national security, according to The Guardian.

It was also revealed that the Pentagon has been taking UFOs seriously, and that in 2007 it set up a program, which has been collecting information on Unexplained Aerial Phenomena since then.

Representation Image Humanoid alien figure Pawel86 / Pixabay

NOTE PETER2011: Personally, I think of the Space x Starlink, a series of satellites that follow the same line pattern at launch. I have personally observed them as well and the resemblance is striking.

Each of the satellites is about the size of a table.

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14-09-2021 om 21:47 geschreven door peter  

Here’s Our Best View Yet of Asteroid Kleopatra

The European Southern Observatory returns intriguing views of enigmatic asteroid 216 Kleopatra.

It’s not every day we get a new look at a distant world, let alone a strange misshapen asteroid. But that just what happened last week, when the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile released new images of asteroid 216 Kleopatra.

Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), a team of astronomers have obtained the sharpest and most detailed images yet of the asteroid Kleopatra. The observations have allowed the team to constrain the 3D shape and mass of this peculiar asteroid, which resembles a dog bone, to a higher accuracy than ever before. Their research provides clues as to how this asteroid and the two moons that orbit it formed.

The images were obtained courtesy of SPHERE, the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument, attached to the 8.2 metre VLT Unit Telescope 3. Though SPHERE is designed for direct visual observations of planets around other stars, it does a pretty solid job at resolving objects in our own solar system, including asteroids.

What you’re seeing in the image sequence is twin-lobed, dog-boned shaped asteroid 216 Kleoptra. Discovered on the night of April 10^th, 1880 by astronomer Johann Polisa from the Austrian Naval Pola Observatory, the asteroid ranges on a 4.7 year orbit, from a perihelion 2.1 Astronomical Units (AU) from the Sun, to a distant aphelion of 3.5 AU. SPHERE uses an adaptive optics system which cancels out atmospheric distortions to nab fine detail.

“Kleopatra is truly a unique body in our Solar System,” says astronomer Frank Marchis (SETI-Institute) in a recent press release. “Science makes a lot of progress thanks to the study of weird outliers. I think Kleopatra is one of those and understanding this complex, multiple asteroid system can help us learn more about our solar system.”

The strange world of 216 Kleopatra is 276 kilometers along its longest axis. The asteroid is named after the famous 1st century BC queen of Egypt. To understand what an amazing feat it is to resolve detail on such a tiny distant object even in our own solar system with SPHERE, consider the viewing geometry: at 449 million kilometers (279 million miles) away, an object 276 kilometers across appears just over 0.1” (a tenth of an arcsecond) in apparent size… that’s around 250 times smaller than Mars at its very closest to Earth.

Kleopatra spins on its axis once every 5.4 hours, and the late Arecibo observatory nabbed its contact binary nature during radar observations in 2000. Observations from Keck Observatory in 2008 also revealed the presence of two tiny (7-9 kilometer-sized) moonlets in orbit around 216 Kleopatra: Alexhelios and Cleoselene, named after the children of Cleopatra.

Discovery of the moons is a lucky break for astronomers, as it allows them to peg the overall density and mass of 216 Kleopatra. But it also presented a mystery, as positions noted in the recent SPHERE observations of the moonlets did not match up with estimates from early observations.

“This had to be resolved,” says Miroslav Bro¸ (Charles University, Prague) in a recent press release. “Because if the moons’ orbits were wrong, everything was wrong, including the mass of Kleopatra.”

SPHERE VLT observations of the shape and size of 216 Kleopatra along with the orbits of the two moons allowed astronomers to further characterize the main asteroid as a loose ‘rubble pile’ about half the density of iron, 35% lower than previously thought.

Astronomers also realized the fast rotational period of 216 Kleopatra could well explain the existence of the two moons, as material from impacts was flung off from the asteroid’s surface. Both moonlets orbit the asteroid once every 1.2 and 2.3 days respectively, and would possess a strange sky, dominated by the dumbbell-shaped primary.

Observing 216 Kleopatra

If you have a large telescope, you can spot 216 Kleoptra: Generally, it’s at +12^th magnitude, but it can reach +9^th magnitude on a favorable opposition near perihelion. This occurs next in 2027. Currently, the asteroid is located in the constellation of Ophiuchus the Serpent Bearer.

Seeing 216 Kleoptra up close is a tour de force for the power of ground-based adaptive optics. The VLT-SPHERE configuration has also taken images of 4 Vesta that rivaled those taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft when it visited the dwarf planet in 2011-2012.

Far from being ‘boring space rocks’ recent observations of NEO asteroids have revealed that 15% are binary or contact binaries, and worlds like 216 Kleopatra may hold clues to early solar system history and planetary formation.

Are all asteroids this weird?

Read the original papers, Kleopatra, a Low-Density, Critically Rotating M-type Asteroid and An Advanced Multi-Pole Model for the Kleopatra Triple System.

• Lead image: Asteroid Kleopatra from different angles. Credit: ESO/Vernazza, Marchis et al./MISTRAL/ONERA/CNRS.

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14-09-2021 om 21:46 geschreven door peter  

The Pentagon's Report Cleared Up Absolutely Nothing About UFOs

The truth, whatever it is, is still out there.

Here's What You Need to Remember: To a certain strand of believer, the Pentagon's conclusions mean that the only possible explanation for the UFOs is extraterrestrial activity—a conclusion that the Pentagon report does not support but does not explicitly rule out.

In December 2020, Congress passed the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021”, a 5,500-page omnibus bill covering a variety of housekeeping issues. The bill is better remembered for approving the second round of $600 stimulus checks, but it also included thousands of other minor requests—one of which, unusually, required the Pentagon to compile a report on unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

The term “UFO” broadly refers to any aerial phenomenon for which there is no explanation. The Pentagon was instructed to provide the report within six months; it was released on June 25, shortly before the deadline (you can read it here). However, the nine-page report does not contain much; the Pentagon has concluded that it has no definitive answers regarding UFOs. Of the 144 “unexplained aerial phenomena” it examined, it was unable to find an explanation for 143 of them and concluded that it could not rule anything out. For those who hoped that the Pentagon could shed some light on the UFO question, the report’s conclusions are most likely disappointing.

Moreover, more than simply a fount for fringe conspiracy theories, “unexplained aerial phenomena,” as the Pentagon describes them, have been described as a national security threat. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told an Ohio news station that, “If there are objects flying over military installations that could pose a security threat … [it] needs to be declassified and revealed to American public. […] If there’s something out there, let’s seek it out, and it is probably a foreign power.”

However, security experts have cast doubt on the idea that the mysterious aircraft are the work of a foreign government, noting that such aircraft would have required an enormous technological leap within a foreign country’s aerospace agencies, all of which operate with a small fraction of the capital of the U.S. defense budget. It would have also required an enormous failure on the part of U.S. intelligence agencies responsible for monitoring other nations’ aerospace programs.

To a certain strand of believer, these conclusions mean that the only possible explanation for the UFOs is extraterrestrial activity—a conclusion that the Pentagon report does not support but does not explicitly rule out. For those who do not believe in aliens, though, the UFO mystery will simply remain a mystery—and the truth, whatever it is, is still out there.

• Trevor Filseth is a current and foreign affairs writer at The National Interest.

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14-09-2021 om 18:24 geschreven door peter  

Adark reddish out of place object with a trail appears in sky over Dover, Delaware moving towards the photographer, 

Then it seems to turn away and the single trail turning into two trails, like tentacles. It finally went from reddish to black before it disappeared into a cloud formation. 

It seems impossible, but could it be a living being, a bioform that lives in free space?

source: www.mufon.com

  

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14-09-2021 om 17:51 geschreven door peter  

UFOs over Milford, Michigan 28-Aug-2021

These bright unidentified flying objects were filmed in the sky above Milford, Michigan on 28th August 2021.

Witness report: 

Noticed lights in the sky driving home, pulled over and started filming. Driving home late at night, we noticed lights in the sky. Their were 6 lights floating in the sky. Most had little movement, but a few moved a little.

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14-09-2021 om 16:55 geschreven door peter  

“Aliens annihilated the Martian civilization with nuclear bombs”

According to the theory of an American physicist, “an ancient Martian civilization was destroyed with nuclear bombs, which, he warns, could also attack the Earth.”

John E. Brandeburg, plasma physicist at the company ‘Orbital technologies’, has been arguing since 2011 that the red color of Mars is due to an explosion of thermonuclear origin.

“The surface of Mars is covered in radioactive substances such as uranium, thorium, and radioactive potassium.”

“A nuclear explosion could have left debris all over the planet,” he then told Fox News, presenting his strange theory.

Since then, the scientist has delved into his idea, according to which the explosion was caused by an intelligent extraterrestrial race, reports ‘Daily Mail’.

The conclusion of their latest report holds that “nuclear isotopes in the atmosphere of Mars resemble hydrogen bomb tests.”

Which, according to his theory, shows that we are dealing with “an example of a civilization destroyed by a nuclear attack from space.”

Their research is based on the high concentration of Xenon-129 in the Martian atmosphere and the uranium and thorium found on the surface by NASA’s Odyssey spacecraft.

According to his theory, the red planet had two ancient Martian civilizations.

According to the physicist, who even reveals their names – Cydonians and Utopians – these alien races had a level of technology similar to that of the ancient Egyptians.

For their part, scientists point out that the appearance of these elements on Mars is not surprising, since they are natural elements that are found everywhere.

The physicist maintains that before the explosion, Mars had a climate similar to that of Earth, as did plant and animal life.

This version, he claims, suggests that we too should fear an attack on our own planet.

“So a manned mission to Mars should be organized to find out what we’re up against.”

What do you think about the theory of this physicist and the destruction of a supposed Martian civilization? Watch the following video and leave us your comment below.

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14-09-2021 om 00:14 geschreven door peter