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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...
12-02-2023
Mysterious Lights over Wilcox, Pennsylvania Feb 10, 2023 UFO Sighting News.
Mysterious Lights over Wilcox, Pennsylvania Feb 10, 2023 UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 10, 2023
Location of sighting: Wilcox, Pennsylvania, USA
When I watch this recent eyewitness video, I can't help but feel very excited by it. This is excellent proof that UFOs exist. The objects suddenly glow in the sky as big as a city bus and as bright as the sun. But as it grew I noticed it changed shape from one orb, to two, then three and then four orbs, each touching the others edges. I have heard about such UFO reports from Majestic 12 top secret documents, but this is the first time in 20 years I have ever seen a video of such a rare event where a single orb divides into four. And compounded by the fact that the eyewitnesses said two fighter jets soon appeared when the orbs were gone is proof they were seen on US military radar!
Never seen anything like this before, there was fighter jets with full afterburner shortly after plus 2 other unknown lights that I do have on video. Was around 6:30 pm and I was just finishing up working on a vehicle for a customer and I was outside walking back towards my shop and I saw a strange light, so I hurried to get my phone because I thought it was a drone and by the time I put my camera on it was gone, so I stayed there for about 10 min and then that when it appeared and I was able to capture it on video, it's kinda hard to believe.
Guys this is one very interesting catch. A security cam caught this and you could not have seen it with the human eye. How do I know? Because this is inferred night vision and the cam can see IR where the human eye cannot. This is a UFO. Todays tech is growing and evidence of aliens visiting Earth are increasing with technological innovation. A few years more and we will have undeniable proof that aliens visit Earth. Please follow my Youtube channel for more great catches.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
A white orb appeared out of nowhere on my security camera outside my apartment. It looks like it flies right thru one of the vehicles parked in the parking lot & comes out the other side. I was sleeping when it happened & noticed it when I checked the camera the next day. Whatever that was it sure was bizarre.
A Montana congressman said on Saturday night that he had been told an unidentified object was spotted over his district, forcing the temporary closure of airspace - and the search for it would resume at daylight.
Matt Rosendale, a Republican elected in 2020, said he had been briefed by the Department of Defense, while he was at a Lincoln Reagan dinner.
Fighter jets were scrambled and airspace above Havre, a town of 10,000 people, 30 miles south of the Canadian border, was shut at 7:50pm before being reopened about 50 minutes later.
'I'm at an event, a Lincoln Reagan dinner in Columbus, Montana right now,' Rosendale told Fox News.
'And DOD called me as I have been sitting here and started giving me briefings to tell me what was going on.
'I clarified with them that this is actually the fourth balloon, OK.'
Matt Rosendale, a Montana congressman whose district includes Havre, said on Saturday night he had been told the U.S. military was 'going to track the object until it gets light again'
Earlier on Saturday, Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, confirmed an object had been shot down by U.S. F-22s in Yukon, as part of a joint Canadian-U.S. operation.
Rosendale continued: 'The first we shot down over the Atlantic. One was shot down before it entered into Alaska's airspace. A third was shot down, Trudeau ordered over Canada. So now we're talking about a fourth incident.'
He said he was told the Pentagon would follow the object, but were unable to shoot it down because it was dark.
'DOD told me that they are going to be tracking the object - they can't even say exactly what it is - they are going to track the object until it gets light again,' he said.
'They don't have the ability to put any more eyes on it with aircraft until it's light again.
'And then tomorrow morning we'll be dealing with it.'
NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, issued a statement shortly after Rosendale's interview and confirmed it was a false alarm.
'With the cooperation of the Federal Aviation Administration, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) implemented a temporary flight restriction airspace in central Montana on Feb. 11, 2023, to ensure the safety of air traffic in the area during NORAD operations,' the statement said.
'The restriction has been lifted,' it continued. 'NORAD detected a radar anomaly and sent fighter aircraft to investigate. Those aircraft did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits. NORAD will continue to monitor the situation.'
NORAD said a 'radar anomaly' was seen, but jets 'did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits.'
Greg Gianforte, the governor of Montana, tweeted that he had been briefed at the White House.
'I received a briefing tonight at the White House about an object in Montana airspace,' he tweeted.
'I will continue to receive regular updates.
'With questions about the Chinese spy balloon still unanswered, the Biden administration must be fully forthcoming with Montanans and all Americans.'
Rosendale's assertion that the object could not be shot down because it was dark was greeted with much mockery online.
One man joked: 'NORCOM to pilots: "Well guys, we're all getting pretty tired here and it's close to quitting time. Let's all just go home, get some shut-eye, and continue this at, let's say, nine-ish."'
Another added: 'We have flashlights maybe.'
'What hours is our military open?' another asked.
'That Montana law that says no objects can be shot down after 5pm really needs to be changed,' said another.
And another remarked: 'Gee I hope no-one ever bombs us at nighttime.'
Trudeauannounced earlier on Saturday that he had requested U.S. and Canadian forces scramble to intercept 'an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace', and a U.S. F-22 shot it down at 3:41pm Eastern Standard Time.
Canada's defense minister said it was a 'a small cylindrical object' that was not as big as the South Carolina spy balloon.
A NORAD spokesman, Maj. Olivier Gallant, said on Saturday evening the military had determined what it was but would not reveal details.
Two F-22s were dispatched from the U.S. from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska; and two F-18s from Cold Lake Air Base in Alberta, Canada.
Instructions were given that whoever had the first clear shot should shoot it down.
It was shot down with an AIM-9X missile at 3:41pm Eastern Standard Time, and was flying at about 40,000 feet. The missile is described by the manufacturer as 'the most advanced infrared-tracking, short-range, air-to-air and surface-to-air missile in the world.'
The incident came a day after Joe Biden ordered another 'unidentified object' be shot down over Alaska, and a week after a spy balloon which crossed the U.S. was shot down off South Carolina.
Havre, home to 10,000 people in northern Montana, is 30 miles south of the Canadian border
Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, is seen on Tuesday. On Saturday he announced an 'unidentified object' had been shot down over the Yukon
The airport in the tiny village of Mayo, home to 200 people in remote Yukon wilderness, was closed while the operation was taking place.
A senior government source told CBC News that the object crossed into Canadian territory on Saturday morning.
Trudeau tweeted that Canadian teams were now working to recover the debris. The debris was being monitored from a CP-140.
'I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace,' he tweeted on Saturday.
'@NORADCommand shot down the object over the Yukon. Canadian and U.S. aircraft were scrambled, and a U.S. F-22 successfully fired at the object.
Trudeau said that he had been in contact with Biden about the intrusion.
He thanked NORAD - the North American Aerospace Defense Command, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado - for their work with his forces.
'I spoke with President Biden this afternoon. Canadian Forces will now recover and analyze the wreckage of the object,' Trudeau said.
'Thank you to NORAD for keeping the watch over North America.'
The involvement of U.S. jets raised eyebrows among some Canadians, with questions asked as to why Canada itself wasn't able to deal with the situation.
'So it's just confirmed that this 'object' over Canadian airspace was taken out by a U.S. F-22 jet,' tweeted Michael Chong, the shadow foreign minister.
'We do not have the capacity to defend ourselves and our sovereignty. Hard questions need to be asked about the state of the Canadian armed forces.'
Canada's defense minister, Anita Anand, praised the joint operation.
Anita Anand, Canada's defense minister, is seen on Saturday evening at a press conference
She said that she had discussed the incident with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin 'and reaffirmed that we'll always defend our sovereignty together.'
Anand, asked during a press conference on Saturday evening why a Canadian jet did not shoot it down, said this was 'NORAD doing what it was supposed to do.'
She added: 'We wanted to ensure we had enough assets in the air to ensure a successful mission.'
Asked whether it was from China, she said: 'It would not be prudent to speculate on the origins of this object at this time.
'It's a cylindrical object we are working to analyze the debris to identify the specifics.
'But it appears to be smaller in size than the one that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina.'
She said they are working to confirm further details.
'At this point we can say that it appears to be a cylindrical object, smaller in size than the one shot down over the coast of North Carolina, and further details will be available as we have them.'
A White House source told NBC News on Saturday that the object was closely tracked over last 24 hours, and Biden was continually briefed. He authorized the F-22 activity.
NORAD earlier on Saturday said they were monitoring the balloon.
'We have positively identified a high-altitude airborne object over Northern Canada,' said Major Olivier Gallant, a NORAD spokesperson, in a statement.
'While we cannot discuss specifics related to these activities at this time, please note that NORAD conducts sustained, dispersed operations in the defense of North America through one or all three NORAD regions.'
Earlier Saturday, Canada's Global News has reported that security sources were monitoring 'one or two more objects' that they thought could be spy balloons.
A source told Fox News the earlier unidentified object was discovered 'over Alaska not far from the northern coast'. The object was first spotted north of Anchorage, Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson tweeted.
It comes after sources told CNN the military had developed a method to track spy balloons last year - despite the object, which is said to be the size of a small car, not being picked up on radar until after it was over Alaska.
Officials said it was traveling at an altitude that was potentially harmful for civilian aircrafts, The New York Times reported.
The object was taken down by an F-22 using an A9X missile out of Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson in Anchorage.
Several officials also said the object shattered into pieces after being struck by the missile, adding to the mystery of what the object truly is.
A US official revealed the pilots who intercepted the object said it had a cylindrical shape and no observable surveillance equipment attached.
The Pentagon has now launched a recovery operation to collect the debris from the surface of the frozen waters off Alaska.
A flight radar shows military aircraft scrambled off the northeast coast of Alaska to search for the debris from the second unidentified object. This comes after the US reportedly developed a system in 2022 to detect spy balloons on a radar
The US began developing a system to detect spy balloons shortly after Biden took office in 2021, after a Chinese spy balloon briefly flew over the US.
They used the balloon's signals to run test to see where other balloons might have popped up in the past.
What they found allowed them to create a consistent technical method to track balloons around the world.
The Chinese 'spy balloon' is pictured being shot down last weekend
They began using the method in 2022 and has not revealed how it was ultimately developed or how signals are detected, according to CNN.
Biden called the second Alaska operation a 'success' when asked by reporters at the White House - but Republicans were quick to ask why the US didn't shoot down the Beijing surveillance balloon earlier.
'So we can shoot down suspicious objects BEFORE they get over our border… Just as I suggested,' Kansas Republican Senator Roger Marshall tweeted Friday afternoon.
Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan, a Republican, said in a Friday press release that he 'appreciated the senior Defense Department officials who briefed me this morning on the sighting of this latest object.
'As I've been doing for the past week, including in a classified briefing with senior Pentagon officials yesterday, I strongly encouraged the NORTHCOM Commander this morning to shoot down this latest unidentified intrusion into Alaska air space,' Sullivan said.
'I commend them for doing so today.
'As I reiterated with senior Defense Department officials yesterday, we need to reestablish deterrence with regard to Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party, which believes they can willfully infiltrate American airspace whenever they want.
'That has to stop. The best way to do this is through the type of actions that we've taken today in Alaska and to publicly reiterate that we will be shooting down any and all unknown aircraft that violate our airspace.
'We also need to appropriately equip our military in Alaska with the sensors and aircraft needed to detect and, if necessary, destroy everything from slow-moving balloons to hypersonic missiles.
'Alaska is the frontline of defense for our nation. The past few weeks have made this even more evident.'
The Pentagon said on Wednesday that four previous Chinese spy balloon flights over the United States passed over sites that would be 'of interest to the Chinese'.
Officials did not elaborate on the paths the balloons took or whether the US sites were military ones.
Brig. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder, Pentagon spokesman, said the United States was aware of the four past flights before it detected the latest Chinese balloon prior to its arrival over Alaska on January 28.
The fighter jets were scrambled from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson near Anchorage on Friday morning to intercept the object near Deadhorse Bay (above) on the northeast coast
A US military fighter jet shot down that balloon off the South Carolina coast, triggering condemnation from China, which claimed it was a civilian air vessel.
China insisted the flyover was an accident involving a civilian aircraft and threatened repercussions.
Biden issued the order but had wanted the balloon downed even earlier, on Wednesday.
He was advised that the best time for the operation would be when it was over water, US officials said.
Military officials determined that bringing it down over land from an altitude of 60,000 feet would pose an undue risk to people on the ground from falling debris.
China responded that it reserved the right to 'take further actions' and criticized the US for 'an obvious overreaction and a serious violation of international practice.'
Another UAP shot down over Canada and unknown object detected on radar flying over Montana
Another UAP shot down over Canada and unknown object detected on radar flying over Montana
Yesterday we reported that a U.S. F-22 fighter jet shot down an unidentified object flying high over Alaska on Friday, February 10, 2023. The object was described as cylindrical, silver gray and no visible propulsion and was reportedly about the size of a small car.
Now one day later, on Saturday another unidentified flying object was detected over northern Canada and confirmed by the North American Aerospace Defense Command after which US and Canadian fighter jets were scrambled and a US F-22 fighter jet shot it down with an AIM 9X missile. The object’s origin and identity is unclear.
Then on Saturday night once again fighter jets were scrambled due to a 'radar anomaly' but the fighter jets failed to locate the new unidentified flying object detected over Montana after military shut down airspace over the 'radar anomaly'.
This means that in 1 week time three high altitude airborne objects were shot down and they failed to locate another unidentified flying object detected on radar.
02-04-2023: Chinese Spy Balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina
02-10-2023: Airborne object shot down over Alaska, Dead Horse
02-11-2023: Airborne object shot down over Northern Canada near Mayo, Yukon
02-11-2023: Airborne object detected on radar over Montana
As for the airborne objects, till now they refuse to give further information about the origin of the objects. As for the object over Montana, it is quite possible that the object was equipped with a cloaking device.
It will not surprise us that more similar strange incidents will take place in the near future. Are these flying objects a wake-up call for an impending space war?
Canadian North crew reports 2 lights dancing in the sky over Yellowknife
Canadian North crew reports 2 lights dancing in the sky over Yellowknife
“2 UFOs dancing in the sky”
The incident, which occurred on January 29, 2023, has raised questions about the flight ATR 42-500 charter crew’s view of the sky. According to their report, they saw two lights in the sky as they flew over Yellowknife. The incident occurred at around 11:15 pm.
“We’re looking at two lights dancing around here.”
In the audio recording, the crew can be heard telling the Yellowknife air traffic control tower that they were observing two lights “dancing around” in the sky. As they approached the airport, the lights appeared to shift from the east to the northwest of the city. However, the air traffic controller on the ground reported seeing nothing on radar and had no sign of any other objects in the sky.
The incident was reported using the CIRVIS protocols (Communication Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings), which are used by pilots to report sightings of unidentified flying objects or hostile aircraft. According to the incident report, the crew members did not explain why they saw the lights.
The incident took place around the same time a Chinese spy balloon was reportedly drifting across Canada, but it is unclear if the two events are related. The Canadian North incident was tagged in the CADORS database with the labels “weather balloon, meteor, rocket, Cirvus/UFO.” An Air Canada flight over British Columbia filed a similar report just two days later, describing a large balloon with something hanging from it.
Although there is no clear explanation for what the Canadian North crew saw, the report and audio recording have added fuel to the ongoing debate about UFO sightings and their authenticity. Whether it was a weather balloon, meteor, rocket, or UFO, the incident has sparked curiosity and interest among the general public.Full transcript between Canadian North flight 5071 and Yellowknife air traffic control is available in the video below!
Archaeologists Discover 3 Million-Year-Old Tools From an Unexpected Human Relative
Archaeologists Discover 3 Million-Year-Old Tools From an Unexpected Human Relative
Paul Seaburn
When asked what one thing sets humans apart from even the smartest and most advanced animals, most people (leaving a religious argument aside) would say that our use of tools best shows our advantage over animals. While there are a few examples of chimps and birds using rudimentary tools for simple tasks, our ability is so advanced, we even fashion clothing to wear our tools wherever we go – flouting our intelligence and manual dexterity to passing creatures. Unfortunately, our tool-based dominion over all other creatures has been called into question … and it looks like we were not the only species to learn how to use tools. In fact, we probably weren’t the first either.
Archaeologists in Kenya have uncovered stone tools dating back around 2.9 million years … and the users of those tools were not ancestors of Homo sapiens. Even more ego-deflating – the tools were found in a primitive tool-making factory where these hominids used tools to make better tools for others. Does this change everything? Are the animals gloating?
“Oldowan tools, consisting of stones with one to a few flakes removed, are the oldest widespread and temporally persistent hominin tools. The oldest of these were previously known from around 2.6 million years ago in Ethiopia, and by 2 million years ago, they were found to be quite widespread.”
In a new paper published in the journal Science, Tom Plummer, a paleoanthropologist at Queens College and lead author, explains how Oldowan tools – named for the site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, where in the 1930s archaeologist Louis Leakey found the first of these tools – have been thought to date back 2.6 million years and were linked to early hominins of the Homo genus that are related to or are direct ancestors of modern homo sapiens. The earliest known stone tools date to 3.3 million years old and were found at site Lomekwi 3 in Kenya, but those were primitive compared to Oldowan tools. However, they were also attribute to human ancestors. While how tools developed is a mystery, the idea that ancient humans of the homo genus invented them has remained a constant.
Carved Oldowan tool
That is, until paleoanthropologist Emma Finestone, from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, helped excavate an ancient hippo skeleton at a dig site in Nyayanga, Kenya. The skeleton and other bones at the site showed signs of butchering - cutmarks from tools – and the diggers soon found stone blades used to cut meat and plants. Since the site was dated to about 2.8 million years ago, the archeologists expected to find remains of the butchers – and they did. However, these were not the butchers they were looking for.
“When we found the Paranthropus molar, it got really, really exciting.”
What Firestone and the team uncovered was the tooth of a member of the extinct hominin genus Paranthropus, which is believed to contain two species: P. robustus and P. boisei. (Photos of the tooth and the tools can be seen here.)
Fossil hippo skeleton and stone tools are shown in July 2016 at the Nyayanga site in Kenya.
Paranthropus skulls found before were large, with gorilla-like features in the jaw area suggesting they had strong chewing muscles, and wide teeth which were used for grinding. Also, other characteristics indicated Paranthropus like soft foods, so paleontologists assumed they didn’t need tools for killing, butchering or eating animals. That was supported by the assumption that Paranthropus was more apelike than human and did not possess the mental ability to make and use stone tools. That molar under the hippo skeleton upended all of those previous assumptions.
“They are not newbies—they have bashed rocks together before. This hints at an earlier stem to the Oldowan.”
Peter Ditchfield, a geologist at the University of Oxford who helped date the fossils, says in the press release that there is more to find … this site shows that the owner of the molar was already skilled at knapping – using one stone to chip off flakes from another to make it sharp for cutting and stabbing. The earliest known human ancestor with this ability to make Oldowan tools is Homo habilis. Make that “was.”
“Typically, it’s thought that the smaller-toothed Homo would have benefited from making stone tools that assisted in processing food outside of the mouth, whereas Paranthropus was typified by processing its food entirely with its teeth, using its large chewing muscles. When our team determined the age of the Nyayanga evidence, the perpetrator of the tools became a ‘whodunnit’ in my mind. There are several possibilities, and except for fossilized hand bones wrapped around a stone tool, the originator of the early Oldowan may be an unknown for a long time.”
Study coauthor Rick Potts, a paleoanthropologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, tells CNN that the first ancient hominin to invent tools is a mystery once more. He also marvels and the sophisticated ability of the Paranthropus based on the remains and artifacts found at Nyayanga. He compared the sharp stone flakes to lion’s teeth, and the large hammerstones to the grinding molars of elephants. This indicates these Paranthropus members could obtain a variety of plants and animals to eat, and the tools showed that they were skilled in preparing them.
“(The tool kit was) the first simple food-processor.”
While the stone tools showed that Paranthropus were experienced chefs, the tools would have been ineffective for hunting. Since none of the bones showed signs of hunting, the paleontologists conclude that these ancient human relatives butchered hippos that were already dead. That still would have made them alpha hominins of their time – those large amounts of protein and fat gave them stronger bodies and fed the development of bigger brains.
If Paranthropus were so smart, why didn’t they become the dominant species instead of Homo? The evolution of Paranthropus is still not scientifically agreed upon. Some researchers think P. aethiopicus appeared 3.3 million years ago on the Kenyan floodplains of the time. Other debate whether Paranthropus and Homo split as they evolved from Australopithecus. If that happened, it is possible that climate change - a drying period 2.8–2.5 million years ago in the Great Rift Valley – caused Homo to move to the open savanna areas while Paranthropus went to the forests, which were dying off from the drought. Even with their tools for providing a variety of foods, the drought made them unavailable and Paranthropus went extinct. While that makes sense, it is not accepted by all scientists.
A depiction of Australopithecus
Archaeologist Sonia Harmand of Stony Brook University, who was not part of the study, proposes one more controversial theory:
“We’re starting to see … lots of different species around that could have been able to make stone tools. I like the idea that they might have learned directly from each other.”
Could Paranthropus have learned how to make and use tools from the species of Homo and Australopithecus which lived in Kenya at the same time? If ancients human could learn to share and play well together, why can’t we?
Arctic Ocean recovery begins for cylindrical 'high-altitude' unidentified object 'with no observable surveillance equipment' shot down over Alaska by Sidewinder missile: Pentagon admits it doesn't know who the mystery object the size of a car belongs to
Arctic Ocean recovery begins for cylindrical 'high-altitude' unidentified object 'with no observable surveillance equipment' shot down over Alaska by Sidewinder missile: Pentagon admits it doesn't know who the mystery object the size of a car belongs to
Biden ordered the Pentagon to shoot down the unidentified object on Friday
Sidewinder missiles fired from an F-22 downed object near Deadhorse, Alaska
Military 'successfully shot down the object over US territorial waters,' which are currently frozen
The Pentagon and White House have admitted they don't know who owns or operates the unidentified object that was shot down off the coast of Alaska by an F-22 on Friday - just a week after the Chinese spy balloon was taken out.
President Biden ordered the Pentagon to down the unmanned airship, which was 40,000ft over the Arctic Ocean, in the second major military operation in less than seven days.
The fighter jets were scrambled from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson near Anchorage on Friday morning to intercept the object - which was the 'size of a small car' - near Deadhorse Bay on the northeast coast.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said it posed a threat to civilian aircraft, but conceded the military was still investigating where it came from and who it belonged to.
A U.S official revealed the pilots who intercepted the object said it had a cylindrical shape and no observable surveillance equipment attached.
The Pentagon has now launched a recovery operation to collect the debris from the surface of the frozen waters off Alaska.
Biden called the second operation a 'success' when asked by reporters at the White House - but Republicans were quick to ask why the US didn't shoot down the Beijing surveillance balloon earlier.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby confirmed Friday that there was an object flying over Alaska airspace and President Joe Biden ordered it shot down
President Biden ordered the Pentagon to down the unmanned airship that was 40,000ft over the Arctic Ocean in the second major military operation in less than seven days
'So we can shoot down suspicious objects BEFORE they get over our border… Just as I suggested,' Kansas Republican Senator Roger Marshall tweeted Friday afternoon.
Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan, a Republican, said in a Friday press release that he 'appreciated the senior Defense Department officials who briefed me this morning on the sighting of this latest object.
'As I've been doing for the past week, including in a classified briefing with senior Pentagon officials yesterday, I strongly encouraged the NORTHCOM Commander this morning to shoot down this latest unidentified intrusion into Alaska air space,' Sullivan said. 'I commend them for doing so today.
'As I reiterated with senior Defense Department officials yesterday, we need to reestablish deterrence with regard to Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party, which believes they can willfully infiltrate American airspace whenever they want.
'That has to stop. The best way to do this is through the type of actions that we've taken today in Alaska and to publicly reiterate that we will be shooting down any and all unknown aircraft that violate our airspace.
'We also need to appropriately equip our military in Alaska with the sensors and aircraft needed to detect and, if necessary, destroy everything from slow-moving balloons to hypersonic missiles.
'Alaska is the frontline of defense for our nation. The past few weeks have made this even more evident.'
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said at Friday's briefing: 'So, I can confirm that the Department of Defense was tracking a high-altitude object over Alaska airspace in the last 24 hours.
'The object was flying at 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight.'
A flight radar shows military aircraft scrambled off the northeast coast of Alaska to search for the debris from the second unidentified object
Kirby said that 'out of an abundance of caution and at the recommendation of the Pentagon, President Biden ordered the military to down the object and they did, and it came inside our territorial waters.'
He said US authorities do not know if the object was 'state-owned' and described it as 'much, much smaller' than the Chinese spy balloon shot down Saturday.
Kirby said it was 'roughly the size of a small car' and had no significant payload.
'I am not classifying it as a balloon right now,' he also said.
Originally discovered on Thursday, Biden ordered to shoot it down on Friday morning, after military pilots determined the object was unmanned.
A pair of F-22 fighter jets were sent to monitor the object near the northeastern corner of Alaska, close to the Canadian border and over the Beaufort Sea. One of the pilots launched a single AIM-9X Sidewinder missile, which brought the object down to the frozen waters of the Arctic Ocean but inside US territory.
The Federal Aviation Administration put in place temporary flight restrictions near the town of Deadhorse, Alaska.
The latest military action comes after much of last week was devoted to Biden's handling of a Chinese spy balloon, which was spotted in Montana and then drifted all the way to South Carolina's coastline, before the Air Force sent an F-22 to take it down on Saturday.
The fighter jets were scrambled from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson near Anchorage on Friday morning to intercept the object near Deadhorse Bay (above) on the northeast coast
An AIM-9M Sidewinder was used to bring down the Chinese spy balloon off the coast of North Carolina as well as the 'unidentified object' over Alaska on Friday (file photo)
Biden insisted that he gave the order to shoot down the balloon on Wednesday, but listened to Defense Department officials' advice to wait until it was over water, because it was so large.
The Pentagon described that balloon as being 200 feet tall, weighing thousands of pounds and with a payload the size of a jetliner.
The delay opened him up to political attacks from Republicans, who demanded that the Chinese spy balloon be shot down immediately.
The president, speaking to Noticias Telemundo's Julio Vaqueiro Thursday in Tampa, said it was 'not a major breach' for the balloon to fly almost the entire length of the US.
The State Department determined that the balloon was part of Beijing's vast surveillance network.
It had multiple antennas that were likely capable of collecting and geo-locating communications.
It flew over military bases housing U.S. missiles.
'It's totally... it's a violation of international law. It's our airspace. And once it comes into our space, we can do what we want with it,' Biden said in the same interview.
Just happened: US shot down cylindrical UFO off Alaska Coast
Just happened: US shot down cylindrical UFO off Alaska Coast
According to reports, a U.S. F-22 fighter jet shot down an unidentified object flying high over Alaska on February 10th, 2023. The object was described as cylindrical, silver gray and no propulsion and was reportedly about the size of a small car. It was flying at approximately 40,000 feet and was determined to be unoccupied.
The Pentagon and the White House declined to give a detailed description of the object and U.S. officials declined to speculate about its origin. A significant amount of debris was recovered and is being taken to labs for analysis.
In the video below, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder talks about the "'high-altitude airborne object'" shot down by the US military off the coast of Alaska on Feb. 10. 2023. Ryder said: " The object above Alaska wasn't an aircraft per se."
Well, there we go again, they shot down a unidentified flying object the size of a car by well trained pilots who clearly observed the object and determined that it was unoccupied, they recovered a significant amount of debris debris of the object in no time, but they refuse to give a detailed description of the object, only that it wasn't an aircraft.
This unidentified flying object has all the hallmarks of a UFO. The fact that no further information on the object's identity or origin has been made publicly available points to a cover-up.
UFO Sightings Video: UAP’s Harnessing Energy from Electrical Storms over Austin, Texas
UFO Sightings Video: UAP’s Harnessing Energy from Electrical Storms over Austin, Texas
UFO sighting over Austin, Texas
A recent UFO sighting in Austin, Texas on May 5th, 2022, has sparked new theories about extraterrestrial life and their interaction with Earth’s natural phenomena. A witness captured two UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) on video while filming a time-lapse of a storm over the Austin airport. The witness noticed two objects on the video that were not visible to the naked eye at the time of filming, leading to the theory that they were cloaked.
One of the objects was flying directly into the electrical storm, and it was only visible on the video, which the witness assumes was due to the object being cloaked. The other object was stationary and pulsated to the rhythm of the lightning storm, increasing its brightness as if it was harnessing the energy from the lightning. The witness ended the video with the other object flying towards the stationary object.
UFO sighting witness report
This sighting has sparked new theories about UAPs and their relationship with Earth’s natural phenomena. Some UFO experts believe that UAPs are using the energy from natural events, such as lightning storms, to fuel their ships. The witness’s video shows a picture of a lightning strike on one of the objects, which could indicate that the object has a force field, further strengthening the theory that UAPs are technologically advanced beings.
However, despite the compelling evidence, many people remain skeptical of the witness’s claims. Skeptics argue that the video could be fake, or that the objects captured in the video are some sort of natural phenomenon.
In conclusion, the recent UFO sighting in Austin, Texas, has sparked new debates and theories about UAPs and their interaction with Earth’s natural phenomena. Although the evidence is compelling, more research is needed to determine the truth behind this and other UFO sightings.
Mystery Object Shot Down Over Alaska: US Military Confirms Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon
Mystery Object Shot Down Over Alaska: US Military Confirms Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon
F22 shots down UAP
According to a statement released by the White House, the US military was able to take down an unidentified object flying over Alaska. The object, which was the size of a small car, was targeted by an F-22 Raptor fighter jet It was brought down using a missile. Although the exact nature of the object and its origin are not known, a salvage effort is currently under way to retrieve its debris.
The US military was alerted to a possible threat to air traffic after a small plane was spotted flying at an altitude of around 40,000 feet, which is about the same as that of a commercial airliner. The object, which was described as a silver-colored orcylindrical plane, did not seem to have propulsion.
This recent UFO sighting and subsequent action by the US military follows the recent shooting down of a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina. The US has blacklisted six Chinese companies for their involvement in Beijing’s military modernization efforts and aerospace programs, stating that China’s use of high-altitude balloons poses a threat to US national security.
The downing of these two unidentified objects has raised questions about the militarization of space and the threat of new conflicts in the edge of space. As countries scramble to maintain a strategic advantage in this new frontier, it is important to understand the nature and origin of these objects, as well as the motivations behind their presence. The recent salvage efforts, particularly of the Chinese balloon, will provide valuable information in helping to answer these questions.
REVEALED: Dramatic Top-Secret UFO Sightings That Are Classified
For all the skeptics out there, the NASA, just announced 16 people who will study UFO’s to see what’s natural and what isn’t. Using unclassified data, the team will "lay the groundwork for future study" of UFOs by examining how the data is gathered by the public, local government and other sources. remember the famous tic-tac UFO that the United States government released in 2020? Well, it’s time to move over it, because we have a, wait for it, rubber duck UFO.
The Biggest Military UFO Cover-Up Exposed | Aliens Are Living Amongst Us
The Biggest Military UFO Cover-Up Exposed | Aliens Are Living Amongst Us. A rancher named William Brazel, woke up for a normal day's work in New Mexico, 75 miles north of Roswell, when he made a shocking discovery. There has been another Roswell incident that has been successfully buried by the government before the media could blow it up. And this incident does not just concern a UFO, but also an alien, that tried to run away. Aliens Are Living Amongst Us and The Military UFO Cover-Up That Involved An Entire Town.
UFO Chronicles - What The President Doesn't Know about Aliens and UFOs
Top 4 UFO Sightings AROUND THE WORLD! | The Proof Is Out There
These 4 UFO Sightings will blow your mind, in this compilation from The Proof Is Out There.
Exploring the Mysteries of the Welsh Skies: Collection of 400+ UFO Newspaper Articles
Exploring the Mysteries of the Welsh Skies: Collection of 400+ UFO Newspaper Articles
1977 West Wales UFO Landing
For many years now, the topic of UFO encounters and sightings has been a controversial one. Following the Roswell incident, various theories and speculations have been presented regarding the nature of the object. Isaac Koi has been digitalizing and collecting old newspapers articles and maganizes about this subject for many years and is dedicated to reporting on all of these occurrences in his blog (link).
Isaac has collected newspaper articles about UFOs from Wales from 1954 to 2013. He has meticulously gathered more than 400 cuttings from Welsh newspapers, preserving them for future generations to study and analyze. This is a remarkable feat, and it speaks to Isaac’s passion for the subject and his commitment to documenting the history of UFO sightings and encounters.
Flying Cigar UFO sighting, 1963
The collection of Welsh UFO articles is available for anyone to view as a pdf at this link, provided by Isaac. This is a valuable resource for researchers, journalists, and anyone interested in the history of UFO sightings in Wales. The articles range from reported sightings and encounters to discussions of government policies on the subject, providing a unique and fascinating look into the public’s perception of UFO sightings over the years.
Isaac’s collection of Welsh UFO articles is not only a testament to his passion and dedication but also a valuable resource for anyone interested in the subject. It provides a glimpse into the history of UFO sightings in Wales and offers insights into how the public has perceived and responded to these events over the years. So if you’re interested in learning more about the history of UFO sightings and encounters, be sure to check out Isaac’s collection of Welsh UFO articles.
Wavelengths of light from three space observatories are overlapped to provide a unique view of the Sun in the image at left. The high-energy X-ray light detected by one of those observatories, NASA’s NuSTAR, is seen isolated at right; a grid was added to indicate the Sun’s surface.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JAXA
Some of the hottest spots in the Sun’s atmosphere appear in the telescope’s X-ray view.
Even on a sunny day, human eyes can’t see all the light our nearest star gives off. A new image displays some of this hidden light, including the high-energy X-rays emitted by the hottest material in the Sun’s atmosphere, as observed by NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). While the observatory typically studies objects outside our solar system – like massive black holes and collapsed stars – it has also provided astronomers with insights about ourSun.
In the composite image above (left), NuSTAR data is represented as blue and is overlaid with observations by the X-ray Telescope (XRT) on the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hinode mission, represented as green, and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), represented as red. NuSTAR’s relatively small field of view means it can’t see the entire Sun from its position in Earth orbit, so the observatory’s view of the Sun is actually a mosaic of 25 images, taken in June 2022.
The high-energy X-rays observed by NuSTAR appear at only a few locations in the Sun’s atmosphere. By contrast, Hinode’s XRT detects low-energy X-rays, and SDO’s AIA detects ultraviolet light – wavelengths that are emitted across the entire face of the Sun.
The Sun appears different depending on who’s looking. From left, NASA’s NuSTAR sees high-energy X-rays; the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hinode mission sees lower energy X-rays; and NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory sees ultraviolet light.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JAXA
NuSTAR’s view could help scientists solve one of the biggest mysteries about our nearest star: why the Sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona, reaches more than a million degrees – at least 100 times hotter than its surface. This has puzzled scientists because the Sun’s heat originates in its core and travels outward. It’s as if the air around a fire were 100 times hotter than the flames.
The source of the corona’s heat could be small eruptions in the Sun’s atmosphere called nanoflares. Flares are large outbursts of heat, light, and particles visible to a wide range of solar observatories. Nanoflares are much smaller events, but both types produce material even hotter than the average temperature of the corona. Regular flares don’t happen often enough to keep the corona at the high temperatures scientists observe, but nanoflares may occur much more frequently – perhaps often enough that they collectively heat the corona.
Although individual nanoflares are too faint to observe amid the Sun’s blazing light, NuSTAR can detect light from the high-temperature material thought to be produced when a large number of nanoflares occur close to one another. This ability enables physicists to investigate how frequently nanoflares occur and how they release energy.
The observations used in these images coincided with the 12th close approach to the Sun, or perihelion, by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which is flying closer to the our star than any other spacecraft in history. Taking observations with NuSTAR during one of Parker’s perihelion passes enables scientists to link activity observed remotely in the Sun’s atmosphere with the direct samples of the solar environment taken by the probe.
More About the Mission
NuSTAR launched on June 13, 2012. A Small Explorer mission led by Caltech in Pasadena, California, and managed by JPL for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, it was developed in partnership with the Danish Technical University (DTU) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The telescope optics were built by Columbia University, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and DTU. The spacecraft was built by Orbital Sciences Corp. in Dulles, Virginia. NuSTAR’s mission operations center is at the University of California, Berkeley, and the official data archive is at NASA’s High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center. ASI provides the mission’s ground station and a mirror data archive. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.
NASA’s Curiosity Finds Surprise Clues to Mars’ Watery Past
NASA’s Curiosity Finds Surprise Clues to Mars’ Watery Past
NASA’s Curiosity used its Mastcam to capture this 360-degree panorama of “Marker Band Valley” on Dec. 16, 2022, the 3,684th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Rippled rock textures found in this area are the clearest evidence the rover has seen of water and waves from Mars’ ancient past.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Among other discoveries made by the rover, rippled rock textures suggest lakes existed in a region of ancient Mars that scientists expected to be drier.
When NASA’s Curiosity rover arrived at the “sulfate-bearing unit” last fall, scientists thought they’d seen the last evidence that lakes once covered this region of Mars. That’s because the rock layers here formed in drier settings than regions explored earlier in the mission. The area’s sulfates – salty minerals – are thought to have been left behind when water was drying to a trickle.
So Curiosity’s team was surprised to discover the mission’s clearest evidence yet of ancient water ripples that formed within lakes. Billions of years ago, waves on the surface of a shallow lake stirred up sediment at the lake bottom, over time creating rippled textures left in rock
NASA’s Curiosity rover recently found surprising clues to Mars’ watery past, including while exploring a region called the “Marker Band.”
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
“This is the best evidence of water and waves that we’ve seen in the entire mission,” said Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity’s project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “We climbed through thousands of feet of lake deposits and never saw evidence like this – and now we found it in a place we expected to be dry.”
Layers of History
Since 2014, the rover has been ascending the foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain that was once laced with lakes and streams that would have provided a rich environment for microbial life, if any ever formed on the Red Planet.
Billions of years ago, waves on the surface of a shallow lake stirred up sediment at the lake bottom. Over time, the sediment formed into rocks with rippled textures that are the clearest evidence of waves and water that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has ever found.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Mount Sharp is made up of layers, with the oldest at the bottom of the mountain and the youngest at the top. As the rover ascends, it progresses along a Martian timeline, allowing scientists to study how Mars evolved from a planet that was more Earth-like in its ancient past, with a warmer climate and plentiful water, to the freezing desert it is today.
Having climbed nearly a half-mile above the mountain’s base, Curiosity has found these rippled rock textures preserved in what’s nicknamed the “Marker Band” – a thin layer of dark rock that stands out from the rest of Mount Sharp. This rock layer is so hard that Curiosity hasn’t been able to drill a sample from it despite several attempts. It’s not the first time Mars has been unwilling to share a sample: Lower down the mountain, on “Vera Rubin Ridge,” Curiosity had to try three times before finding a spot soft enough to drill.
Scientists will be looking for softer rock in the week ahead. But even if they never get a sample from this unusual strip of rock, there are other sites they’re eager to explore.
At the bottom of this valley, called Gediz Vallis, is a mound of boulders and debris that are believed to have been swept there by wet landslides billions of years ago. The rover team hopes to get a closer look at this evidence for flowing water, which is likely the youngest Curiosity will ever find. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Martian Clues
Far ahead of the Marker Band, scientists can see another clue to the history of Mars’ ancient water in a valley named Gediz Vallis. Wind carved the valley, but a channel running through it that starts higher up on Mount Sharp is thought to have been eroded by a small river. Scientists suspect wet landslides also occurred here, sending car-size boulders and debris to the bottom of the valley.
Because the resulting debris pile sits on top of all the other layers in the valley, it’s clearly one of the youngest features on Mount Sharp. Curiosity got a glimpse of this debris at Gediz Vallis Ridge twice last year but could only survey it from a distance. The rover team hopes to have another chance to view it later this year.
One more clue within the Marker Band that has fascinated the team is an unusual rock texture likely caused by some sort of regular cycle in the weather or climate, such as dust storms. Not far from the rippled textures are rocks made of layers that are regular in their spacing and thickness. This kind of rhythmic pattern in rock layers on Earth often stems from atmospheric events happening at periodic intervals. It’s possible the rhythmic patterns in these Martian rocks resulted from similar events, hinting at changes in the Red Planet’s ancient climate.
“The wave ripples, debris flows, and rhythmic layers all tell us that the story of wet-to-dry on Mars wasn’t simple,” Vasavada said. “Mars’ ancient climate had a wonderful complexity to it, much like Earth’s.”
Curiosity used its ChemCam instrument to view Gediz Vallis Ridge, spotting boulders that are thought to have been washed down in an ancient debris flow. One reason scientists are interested in this ridge is because it includes boulders like these, which originated much higher up on Mount Sharp, where Curiosity won’t be able to reach. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS/IRAP/IAS/LPG
More About the Mission
The Curiosity mission is led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California. JPL leads the mission on behalf of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego built and operates Mastcam.
The mystery object was about the size of a small car, U.S. officials said.
An F-22 fighter jet in flight off the coast of Virginia in December 2022. A fighter jet took out a small, mysterious object off the coast of Alaska on Feb. 10, 2023, according to Pentagon officials.
(Image credit: U.S. Department of Defense)
For the second time in less than a week, the U.S. military has blasted an intruder out of the nation's skies.
A fighter jet took out a mysterious object just off the coast of northern Alaska at 1:45 p.m. EST (1845 GMT) on Friday (Feb. 10), Department of Defense officials said.
"The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet [12,000 meters] and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight," Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said during a press briefing on Friday.
Friday's high-altitude action comes just six days after an F-22 fighter jet shot down a Chinese spy balloon with a Sidewinder missile off the South Carolina coast. But there may not be a connection between the two downed objects.
The Chinese spy balloon was huge; its inflated envelope was about 200 feet (60 meters) tall, and the (presumably instrument-studded) truss structure that hung beneath it was the size of several school buses.
The object that was shot down over Alaska on Friday was "about the size of a small car, so, not similar in size or shape to the high-altitude surveillance balloon that was taken down off the coast of South Carolina on February 4," Ryder said.
Ground-based radar detected the Alaska intruder on Thursday (Feb. 9), he added. Fighter jets subsequently investigated, confirming the object's presence and altitude. U.S. President Joe Biden ordered the object to be taken out, and the military did so quickly.
"We have no further details about the object at this time, including a description of its capabilities, purpose or origin," Ryder said.
Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Feb. 5, 2023. £(Image credit: U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tyler Thompson)
Teams have already begun searching for pieces of the destroyed Alaska object, Ryder added. He also gave an update about similar efforts with the Chinese balloon debris, which landed just 6 miles (10 kilometers) offshore in water about 47 feet (14 m) deep.
"Recovery teams have mapped the debris field and are in the process of searching for and identifying debris on the ocean floor," Ryder said, referring to pieces of the Chinese balloon. "Debris that's been recovered so far is being loaded onto vessels, taken ashore, cataloged and then moved onwards to labs for subsequent analysis."
Those teams, he added, "have located a significant amount of debris so far that will prove helpful to our further understanding of this balloon and its surveillance capabilities."
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Amper enkele dagen na de Chinese "spionageballon": Verenigde Staten schieten boven Alaska opnieuw "hoogvliegend voorwerp" neer
Amper enkele dagen na de Chinese "spionageballon": Verenigde Staten schieten boven Alaska opnieuw "hoogvliegend voorwerp" neer
De Verenigde Staten hebben boven de westelijke staat Alaska een "hoogvliegend voorwerp" neergeschoten. Dat laat het Witte Huis weten. Volgens woordvoerder John Kirby had het voorwerp de grootte van "een kleine auto", en vloog het over dunbevolkt gebied.
Rik Arnoudt, Belga
President Joe Biden besliste het voorwerp, waarvan de oorsprong onbekend is, neer te laten schieten.
Nog maar enkele dagen geleden schoot Washington een Chinese ballon neer die, volgens de VS, gebruikt werd om te spioneren.
Volgens John Kirby is de oppervlakte waar de brokstukken van het object zijn gevallen veel kleiner dan die van de Chinese ballon die de Amerikanen vorige week hebben neergehaald. Een gevechtspiloot heeft vastgesteld dat het vliegend object niet bemand was, vóór hij het heeft neergeschoten.
Voorlopig is het nog onduidelijk over welk soort vliegend object het gaat en of het toestel bedoeld was om te spioneren. Anders dan de vorige week neergeschoten ballon lijkt dit voorwerp geen aandrijving of besturing te hebben. Volgens het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie dreef het af in noordoostelijke richting.
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Woordvoerder John Kirby: "Het voorwerp vormde een gevaar voor de veiligheid van de burgerluchtvaart":
Metal robot can melt its way out of tight spaces to escape
Metal robot can melt its way out of tight spaces to escape
A millimetre-sized robot made from a mix of liquid metal and microscopic magnetic pieces can stretch, move or melt. It could be used to fix electronics or remove objects from the body
A miniature, shape-shifting robot can liquefy itself and reform, allowing it to complete tasks in hard-to-access places and even escape cages. It could eventually be used as a hands-free soldering machine or a tool for extracting swallowed toxic items.
Robots that are soft and malleable enough to work in narrow, delicate spaces like those in the human body already exist, but they can’t make themselves sturdier and stronger when under pressure or when they must carry something heavier than themselves. Carmel Majidi at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania and his colleagues created a robot that can not only shape-shift but also become stronger or weaker by alternating between being a liquid and a solid.
They made the millimetre-sized robot from a mix of the liquid metal gallium and microscopic pieces of a magnetic material made of neodymium, iron and boron. When solid, the material was strong enough to support an object 30 times its own mass. To make it soften, stretch, move or melt into a crawling puddle as needed for different tasks, the researchers put it near magnets. The magnets’ customised magnetic fields exerted forces on the tiny magnetic pieces in the robot, moving them and deforming the surrounding metal in different directions.
For instance, the team stretched a robot by applying a magnetic field that pulled these granules in multiple directions. The researchers also used a stronger field to yank the particles upwards, making the robot jump. When Majidi and his colleagues used an alternating magnetic field – one whose shape changes predictably over time – electrons in the robot’s liquid metal formed electric currents. The coursing of these currents through the robot’s body heated it up and eventually made it melt.
“No other material I know of is this good at changing its stiffness this much,” says Majidi.
Wang and Pan et al.
Exploiting this flexibility, the team made two robots carry and solder a small light bulb onto a circuit board. When they reached their target, the robots simply melted over the light bulb’s edges to fuse it to the board. Electricity could then run through their liquid metal bodies and light the light bulb.
In an experiment inside an artificial stomach, the researchers applied another set of magnetic fields to make the robot approach an object, melt over it and drag it out. Finally, they shaped the robot like a Lego minifigure, then helped it escape from a cage by liquefying it and making it flow out between the bars. Once the robot puddle dribbled into a mould, it set back into its original, solid shape.
Wang and Pan et al.
These melty robots could be used for emergency fixes in situations where human or traditional robotic hands become impractical, says Li Zhang at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. For example, a liquefied robot might replace a lost screw on a spacecraft by flowing into its place and then solidifying, he says. However, to use them inside living stomachs, researchers must first develop methods for precisely tracking the position of the robot at every step of the procedure to ensure the safety of the patient, says Zhang.
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Metal robot can melt its way out of tight spaces to escape
Metal robot can melt its way out of tight spaces to escape
A millimetre-sized robot made from a mix of liquid metal and microscopic magnetic pieces can stretch, move or melt. It could be used to fix electronics or remove objects from the body
A miniature, shape-shifting robot can liquefy itself and reform, allowing it to complete tasks in hard-to-access places and even escape cages. It could eventually be used as a hands-free soldering machine or a tool for extracting swallowed toxic items.
Robots that are soft and malleable enough to work in narrow, delicate spaces like those in the human body already exist, but they can’t make themselves sturdier and stronger when under pressure or when they must carry something heavier than themselves. Carmel Majidi at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania and his colleagues created a robot that can not only shape-shift but also become stronger or weaker by alternating between being a liquid and a solid.
They made the millimetre-sized robot from a mix of the liquid metal gallium and microscopic pieces of a magnetic material made of neodymium, iron and boron. When solid, the material was strong enough to support an object 30 times its own mass. To make it soften, stretch, move or melt into a crawling puddle as needed for different tasks, the researchers put it near magnets. The magnets’ customised magnetic fields exerted forces on the tiny magnetic pieces in the robot, moving them and deforming the surrounding metal in different directions.
For instance, the team stretched a robot by applying a magnetic field that pulled these granules in multiple directions. The researchers also used a stronger field to yank the particles upwards, making the robot jump. When Majidi and his colleagues used an alternating magnetic field – one whose shape changes predictably over time – electrons in the robot’s liquid metal formed electric currents. The coursing of these currents through the robot’s body heated it up and eventually made it melt.
“No other material I know of is this good at changing its stiffness this much,” says Majidi.
Wang and Pan et al.
Exploiting this flexibility, the team made two robots carry and solder a small light bulb onto a circuit board. When they reached their target, the robots simply melted over the light bulb’s edges to fuse it to the board. Electricity could then run through their liquid metal bodies and light the light bulb.
In an experiment inside an artificial stomach, the researchers applied another set of magnetic fields to make the robot approach an object, melt over it and drag it out. Finally, they shaped the robot like a Lego minifigure, then helped it escape from a cage by liquefying it and making it flow out between the bars. Once the robot puddle dribbled into a mould, it set back into its original, solid shape.
Wang and Pan et al.
These melty robots could be used for emergency fixes in situations where human or traditional robotic hands become impractical, says Li Zhang at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. For example, a liquefied robot might replace a lost screw on a spacecraft by flowing into its place and then solidifying, he says. However, to use them inside living stomachs, researchers must first develop methods for precisely tracking the position of the robot at every step of the procedure to ensure the safety of the patient, says Zhang.
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James Webb pierces the cold heart of the Chameleon
James Webb pierces the cold heart of the Chameleon
By observing distant stars through a star-forming cloud of gas and dust, Webb is helping astronomers map out the complex chemicals that could form life.
NASA, ESA, CSA, and M. Zamani (ESA/Webb); Science: F. Sun (Steward Observatory), Z. Smith (Open University), and the Ice Age ERS Team.
Stars form when massive clouds of cold gas and dust fragment, condense, and collapse. As the density in a small part of the cloud grows high enough, the pressure skyrockets until it ignites the fusion process that forms the fiery heart of a new star.
As the nascent star grows, it becomes encircled by a protoplanetary disk made of the same material that formed the star. This disk is what eventually gives birth to the planets, asteroids, and comets around the new sun.
This gorgeous new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) features the molecular cloud Chameleon I, one of the nearest star-forming regions to Earth, located just 626 light-years away. At upper left is a young protostar called Ced 110 IRS 4, whose light illuminates the dense, bluish cloud at the infrared wavelengths Webb observes. Just visible through the cloud at center are several small, pointlike background stars, mostly obscured by the cold material. But these stars are the cornerstone of a new study, which used JWST to decode the chemical composition of ices within Chameleon I.
Here's how the study worked: As starlight from those background stars filters through the cloud, some of that light gets absorbed by ices. By splitting apart the light that makes it through the cloud — using a technique called spectroscopy — astronomers can look at which specific wavelengths are absorbed. This lets them determine which atoms are responsible for absorbing each specific wavelength.
In the case of Chameleon I, they identified ices inside the cloud such as water, carbonyl sulfide, ammonia, methane, and methanol. Researchers also found hints of even more complex molecules, such as ethanol.
Webb's new view of the Chameleon is the most comprehensive look at ices within such a dense molecular cloud to date. The observations are providing astronomers with important information about the particular molecules that are available to form new planets — and any life that might eventually evolve on them.
The results suggest that planets can essentially “inherit” already chemically complex molecules straight from molecular clouds. They also hint at the possibility that such complex molecules, which are essential to life on Earth, are widespread; they are not unique to the protostellar cloud that formed our Sun and planets.
However, the Chameleon I observations still revealed far fewer available building blocks in the ices than astronomers expected the cloud to contain. This means that in addition to being locked up in ices, elements such as carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and sulfur also likely exist as sooty or even rocky material within the cloud.
Webb alone was able to do this work, as Chameleon I is so dense and cold that most of the background starlight gets absorbed; only faint infrared wavelengths can pierce through it.
The new observations are part of the Ice Age project, which is using JWST to look for the building blocks of life to help determine how common (or rare) life might be in the universe. So stay tuned, because more surprises are sure to come.
Here's how the study worked: As starlight from those background stars filters through the cloud, some of that light gets absorbed by ices. By splitting apart the light that makes it through the cloud — using a technique called spectroscopy — astronomers can look at which specific wavelengths are absorbed. This lets them determine which atoms are responsible for absorbing each specific wavelength.
In the case of Chameleon I, they identified ices inside the cloud such as water, carbonyl sulfide, ammonia, methane, and methanol. Researchers also found hints of even more complex molecules, such as ethanol.
Webb's new view of the Chameleon is the most comprehensive look at ices within such a dense molecular cloud to date. The observations are providing astronomers with important information about the particular molecules that are available to form new planets — and any life that might eventually evolve on them.
The results suggest that planets can essentially “inherit” already chemically complex molecules straight from molecular clouds. They also hint at the possibility that such complex molecules, which are essential to life on Earth, are widespread; they are not unique to the protostellar cloud that formed our Sun and planets.
However, the Chameleon I observations still revealed far fewer available building blocks in the ices than astronomers expected the cloud to contain. This means that in addition to being locked up in ices, elements such as carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and sulfur also likely exist as sooty or even rocky material within the cloud.
Webb alone was able to do this work, as Chameleon I is so dense and cold that most of the background starlight gets absorbed; only faint infrared wavelengths can pierce through it.
The new observations are part of the Ice Age project, which is using JWST to look for the building blocks of life to help determine how common (or rare) life might be in the universe. So stay tuned, because more surprises are sure to come.
The dwarf planet Quaoar has a ring that is too big for its metaphorical fingers. While all other rings in the solar system lie within or near a mathematically determined distance of their parent bodies, Quaoar’s ring is much farther out.
“For Quaoar, for the ring to be outside this limit is very, very strange,” says astronomer Bruno Morgado of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. The finding may force a rethink of the rules governing planetary rings, Morgado and colleagues say in a study published February 8 in Nature.
Quaoar is an icy body about half the size of Pluto that’s located in the Kuiper Belt at the solar system’s edge (SN: 8/23/22). At such a great distance from Earth, it’s hard to get a clear picture of the world.
So Morgado and colleagues watched Quaoar block the light from a distant star, a phenomenon called a stellar occultation. The timing of the star winking in and out of view can reveal details about Quaoar, like its size and whether it has an atmosphere.
The researchers took data from occultations from 2018 to 2020, observed from all over the world, including Namibia, Australia and Grenada, as well as space. There was no sign that Quaoar had an atmosphere. But surprisingly, there was a ring. The finding makes Quaoar just the third dwarf planet or asteroid in the solar system known to have a ring, after the asteroid Chariklo and the dwarf planet Haumea (SN: 3/26/14; SN: 10/11/17).
Even more surprisingly, “the ring is not where we expect,” Morgado says.
Far-out ring
In this illustration, dwarf planet Haumea and asteroid Chariklo both have rings (white) that are close to their Roche limits (yellow), to the best of astronomers’ understanding. Quaoar, in contrast, has a ring that is clearly well beyond its Roche limit, an imaginary line beyond which rings aren’t thought to be stable.
Rings around three small objects in the solar system
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SOURCE: M.M. HEDMAN/NATURE 2023
Known rings around other objects lie within or near what’s called the Roche limit, an invisible line where the gravitational force of the main body peters out. Inside the limit, that force can rip a moon to shreds, turning it into a ring. Outside, the gravity between smaller particles is stronger than that from the main body, and rings will coalesce into one or several moons.
“We always think of [the Roche limit] as straightforward,” Morgado says. “One side is a moon forming, the other side is a ring stable. And now this limit is not a limit.”
For Quaoar’s far-out ring, there are a few possible explanations, Morgado says. Maybe the observers caught the ring at just the right moment, right before it turns into a moon. But that lucky timing seems unlikely, he notes.
Maybe Quaoar’s known moon, Weywot, or some other unseen moon contributes gravity that holds the ring stable somehow. Or maybe the ring’s particles are colliding in such a way that they avoid sticking together and clumping into moons.
The particles would have to be particularly bouncy for that to work, “like a ring of those bouncy balls from toy stores,” says planetary scientist David Jewitt of UCLA, who was not involved in the new work.
The observation is solid, says Jewitt, who helped discover the first objects in the Kuiper Belt in the 1990s. But there’s no way to know yet which of the explanations is correct, if any, in part because there are no theoretical predictions for such far-out rings to compare with Quaoar’s situation.
That’s par for the course when it comes to the Kuiper Belt. “Everything in the Kuiper Belt, basically, has been discovered, not predicted,” Jewitt says. “It’s the opposite of the classical model of science where people predict things and then confirm or reject them. People discover stuff by surprise, and everyone scrambles to explain it.”
More observations of Quaoar, or more discoveries of seemingly misplaced rings elsewhere in the solar system, could help reveal what’s going on.
“I have no doubt that in the near future a lot of people will start working with Quaoar to try to get this answer,” Morgado says.
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