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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...
13-02-2023
Mystery Object Shot Down Over Lake Huron
Mystery Object Shot Down Over Lake Huron
UFO over Lake Michigan
There has been a spike in reported sightings of unidentified flying objects in North American skies. The most recent instance was on Sunday, when a US fighter jet shot down an unidentified object that was flying over Lake Michigan. This is the third time in a row that an aircraft has been forced to shoot down an unidentified object in the region.
Brig. General Pat Ryder, a spokesperson for the Pentagon, stated that the object was not considered a threat, but it was regarded as a flight hazard due to its capabilities. The military is currently working to recover it.
Lakes Huron and Michigan
Melissa Dalton, the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense, said that the objects were taken down due to the recent incident involving a Chinese surveillance balloon. She also noted that these types of objects can be used for legitimate research.
The object was reportedly spotted on radar in Montana on Saturday. It was flying at an altitude of 20,000 feet and was described as an “octagonal” object with strings that were hanging off. Although it was not considered a military threat, it was believed that it could have posed a flight hazard to civilians.
Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer have both released statements about the incident. Slotkin praised the work of the US Air Force and National Guard pilots who carried out the mission, while Whitmer emphasized the importance of national security and safety, and confirmed that the National Guard was ready to respond.
Elon Musk also posted a Tweet about this in his own style.
The recent surge in UFO sightings and incidents has sparked a renewed interest in the mystery surrounding unidentified flying objects. As the Pentagon continues to recover and analyze the objects shot down in recent days, it will be interesting to see what more is learned about these mysterious objects.
UFO filmed over Lake Michigan yesterday!
This object over Lake Michigan was filmed yesterday around noon (12th February) from Grant Park in Chicago. Is this the object that was shoot down over Lake Huron? Leave me your opinions in the comment section below!
Breaking News: Canada Shoots Down Its Own UFO in the Sky!
Breaking News: Canada Shoots Down Its Own UFO in the Sky!
Canada Shoots Down Its Own UFO
On February 11th, 2023, the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, announced that the Canadian Forces shot down an unidentified flying object (UFO) over the Yukon Canadian territory. The object was described as high-altitude and the Prime Minister stated that he had spoken with President Biden and that the Canadian Forces would be analyzing the wreckage. The exact nature of the object remains unknown, with the White House referring to it as a “high-altitude object” and National Security Council spokesman John Kirby describing it as the size of a small car. However, unnamed national security sources have described it as cylindrical and silverish-grey, unmanned, and floating, not appearing to be powered by any recognizable aviation systems.
This mysterious event comes shortly after the United States shot down a UFO just outside of Alaska, with President Biden ordering the downing of the object after it was detected and surveilled by U.S. intelligence and military. The object was described as being the size of a small car and floating in the sky.
With UFO sightings on the rise and US Congress taking the matter seriously, this event has sparked the interest of many and the internet is buzzing with conspiracy theories. It’s not surprising that the Roswell incident from 1947, in which a UFO crash was covered up as a weather balloon, has come to mind.
Only time will tell if the government will provide more information about what these objects actually were, but it’s definitely an exciting and mysterious topic to keep an eye on.
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A 1-meter (3.28 foot) asteroid, designated Sar2667, will impact "Earth's atmosphere over northern France between 3:50-4:03 CET," on Feb. 13, 2023 (9:50pm - 10:05pm EST on Feb. 12), according to the European Space Agency. It is expected to safely burn up in the atmosphere but could be visible between London and Northern France.
Wow! Asteroid Sar2667's Earth impact seen over France and Germany
Small asteroid Sar2667 impacted Earth hours after being discovered by Kristian Sarnecki using the Konkoly Observatory's Piszkéstető Station in Hungary. It safely burned up in the atmosphere, providing fireworks to skywatchers in France and Germany.
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What we know about the unidentified object shot down over Lake Huron on Sunday
The U.S. military shot down what it's calling a "high altitude object" on Sunday over Lake Huron, just hours after airspace was closed over Lake Michigan. On Sunday night, Department of Defense officials held a briefing to speak about their decision to shoot down the object over the lake. It's the latest in a string of similar sightings and take-downs. The first happened two weeks ago when officials say a suspected Chinese spy balloon crossed into U.S. airspace and was later downed by a U.S. fighter jet.
Hear what pilots said about mysterious object shot down near Alaska
An unidentified object was shot down 10 miles off the frozen coast of Alaska on Friday afternoon, US officials announced, but details about the object are scarce.
US shoots down 4 UFOs, military officials won't rule out aliens
A U.S. fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” over Lake Huron on Sunday on orders from President Joe Biden. It was the fourth such downing in eight days and the latest military strike in an extraordinary chain of events over U.S. airspace that Pentagon officials believe has no peacetime precedent.
Part of the reason for the repeated shootdowns is a “heightened alert” following a spy balloon from China that emerged over U.S. airspace in late January, Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of NORAD and U.S. Northern Command, said in a briefing with reporters.
Since then, fighter jets last week also shot down objects over Canada and Alaska. Pentagon officials said they posed no security threats, but so little was known about them that Pentagon officials were ruling nothing out — not even UFOs.
“We have been more closely scrutinizing our airspace at these altitudes, including enhancing our radar, which may at least partly explain the increase,” said Melissa Dalton, assistant defense secretary for homeland defense.#WakeUpCLT#UFO#Politics
What were the flying objects shot down by US military? - BBC News
The US military is 'still unsure' what the flying objects it shot out of the skies over North America were - and how they were able to stay aloft.
President Joe Biden ordered another object - the fourth in total this month - to be downed on Sunday.
As it was traveling at 20,000ft (6,100m), it could have interfered with commercial air traffic, the US said.
A military commander said it could be a "gaseous type of balloon" or "some type of a propulsion system". He added he could not rule out that the objects were extra-terrestrials
Pentagon briefing on unusual flying objects shot down across America | General Glen VanHerck
The U.S. Air Force general overseeing North American airspace said on Sunday (February 12) after a series of shoot-downs of unidentified objects that he would not rule out aliens or any other explanation yet, deferring to U.S. intelligence experts.
Asked during a Pentagon briefing whether he had ruled out an extraterrestrial origin for three airborne objects shot down by U.S. warplanes in as many days, General Glen VanHerck said: "I'll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out. I haven't ruled out anything."
China sends defiant message as US jet shoots down fourth flying object
Sky's Beijing correspondent Helen-Ann Smith reports from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs where a spokesperson has not confirmed nor denied involvement with the recent flying objects shot down by the US.
The latest take down is the fourth in just over a week and the third in as many days after objects were shot down in Alaska and Canada.
Mystery object shot down by US jets - but not a spy balloon
US fighter jets have shot down an unidentified object in the skies over Alaska, although authorities say they don't believe it was a spy balloon.
The object, which was the size of a car, and reportedly described by one official as silver coloured and cylindrical, was first spotted on Thursday, flying at around the same altitude as commercial airliners.
It comes just a week after a Chinese surveillance balloon was shot down over South Carolina.
US Air Force shoots down unidentified object over Lake Huron - the third take down in three days over skies of North America - as White House contradicts Schumer over 'balloon' origin of craft
US Air Force shoots down unidentified object over Lake Huron - the third take down in three days over skies of North America - as White House contradicts Schumer over 'balloon' origin of craft
A third unknown aerial object was shot down over the Great Lakes on Sunday
The Pentagon has shot down another unknown aerial object over the Great Lakes after previously destroying two other crafts over Alaska and Canada.
Rep. Jack Bergman, of Michigan, tweeted Sunday afternoon that he had been in contact with his colleagues at the Department of Defense following reports of an unidentified air craft making its way across the Great Lakes.
Around 3.30pm, he revealed: 'The US military has decommissioned another "object" over Lake Huron.'
The announcement marks the third balloon shot down by the American military in just one weekend, after an unidentified object was shot down over Alaska on Friday and another was shot down in Canada on Saturday.
United States Rep. Elise Slotkin also confirmed that the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena was struck down over Lake Huron.
'The object has been downed by pilots from the US [Air Force] and National Guard,' she tweeted. 'Great work by all who carried out this mission both in the air and back at headquarters.
'We're all interested in exactly what this object was and its purpose. she continued. 'As long as these things keep traversing the US and Canada, I'll continue to ask for Congress to get a full briefing based on our exploration from the wreckage.
The Democrat had earlier tweeted that 'our military has an extremely close eye on the object above Lake Huron.
'We'll know more about what this was in the coming days, but for now, be assured that all parties have been laser-focused on it from the moment it traversed our waters.'
Only a few hours earlier, the Federal Aviation Administration abruptly closed 'national defense airspace' over part of Lake Michigan.
The agency announced that it closed down the area to examine a 'potential contact'. It was lifted less than an hour later.
GOP Rep. Matt Rosendale revealed on Saturday that he was informed of such a developing incident, though officials at the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) later indicated that was a false alarm.
But according to the Montana conservative's latest update - the situation may have been more serious than it seemed.
'I am in constant communication with NORCOM and they have just advised me that they have confidence there IS an object and it WAS NOT an anomaly,' Rosendale wrote on Twitter.
'I am waiting now to receive visual confirmation. Our nation’s security is my priority.'
Montana Rep. Matt Rosendale said he was in communication with officials on Sunday about an unidentified object in his state's airspace
It comes after earlier updates he posted about a sighting of an unknown object on Saturday night
DailyMail.com reached out to NORAD for comment but was directed to the agency's previous public statements. A subsequent inquiry sent on Rosendale's latest post was not immediately returned.
The Pentagon said it had nothing further to add other than NORAD's Saturday night statement.
Montana's Democratic Sen. Jon Tester said on Sunday that he was in touch with Defense officials regarding the developments from Saturday night, but offered no new updates himself.
'I’m continuing to receive regular updates from the Pentagon and our intelligence community as we closely monitor American airspace in light of last night’s development. I will keep holding them accountable so the public gets the answers they deserve,' Tester said.
The moderate senator indicated earlier on CBS News' Face The Nation that he was still aware of something developing in Montana's airspace.
'I think the investigation is still going on as we speak,' Tester said.
'The truth is, is that there was an anomaly, and they've investigated. I think it got dark last night, so they couldn't fully check it out. I'm sure, as we speak, it's being checked out right now.'
He summarized the uncertainty, 'There may still be something out there. It may be a false alarm.'
If there is indeed an unknown or malign object in Montana's airspace, Tester guessed 'it'll get shot down' by the military.
It's not immediately clear what the object is, or where it's from, but Americans have been on high alert ever since the Chinese spy balloon shot down last weekend led to a host of revelations about Beijing's vast global surveillance program.
Defense officials said they were able to gain valuable insight into China's spy balloon program by studying the device as it drifted across the country, while avoiding shooting it down over the continental US and risking injuries for Americans on the ground.
A flight radar shows military aircraft scrambled off the northeast coast of Alaska to search for the debris from the unidentified object. This comes after the US reportedly developed a system in 2022 to detect spy balloons on a radar
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
White House: 'Not yet cl
The sighting on Sunday marks the third unidentified aerial object found flying over American soil in just one weekend.
On Thursday, officials said, a UAP — or unidentified aerial phenomena — was picked up on United States radar when it was crossing over Alaska.
Crews then conducted a fly-by that night, with a second on Friday morning.
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.
Authorities have only said it was traveling at an altitude that was potentially harmful for civilian aircrafts, The New York Times reported.
The Pentagon has now launched a recovery operation to collect the debris from the surface of the frozen waters off Alaska.
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 next day, another UAP was spotted flying over Canada.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Saturday that he had requested US 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.
A senior government source explained to CBC News that the object crossed into Canadian territory on Saturday morning. It was described as being smaller than the Chinese spy balloon that made its way across the US earlier this month.
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 to shoot down the object over Canada.
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.'
In the aftermath, Trudeau said Canadian teams were now working to recover the debris.
'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.'
Canada's defense minister, Anita Anand, also praised the joint operation.
She said that she had discussed the incident with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin 'and reaffirmed that we'll always defend our sovereignty together.'
The origins of these aircrafts remains unclear, with the Biden administration contradicting Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's assertation that they balloons.
Officials have said they would not definitively characterize these aircrafts as 'balloons' until the debris is recovered.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer received a briefing on the two recently downed objects on Saturday night
Schumer said the objects were 'much smaller' than the balloon downed earlier this month, which was confirmed by US Defense officials to be a spying device from Beijing.
He did not say where those objects originated or whether he learned of their purpose, nor did he give any indication they were related to China's surveillance program.
Republicans had heaped criticism on the Biden administration for only shooting it down after it traversed several US states at a low enough altitude to be seen by the naked eye - unnerving millions of Americans. .
By contrast, the objects shot down over Alaska on Friday and Canada on Saturday were taken down in remote wilderness shortly after detection.
But on Sunday, Schumer defended the Pentagon's response to the initial balloon and praised how the latest two incidents were handled.
'Both of those, one over Canada, one over Alaska were at 40,000 feet. Immediately it was determined that that's a danger to commercial aircraft which also fly at 40,000 feet,' Schumer said.
'The first balloon, there was a much different rationale which I think was the appropriate rationale. We got enormous intelligence information from surveilling the balloon as it went over the United States.'
The New York Democrat did not say whether the latter two also came from China or if they were used for surveillance.
Since then the Pentagon has revealed it detected one other balloon in US airspace under the Biden administration, as well as three across Donald Trump's White House term - something the Republican administration's officials have denied.
Defense officials believe they are part of a massive surveillance effort spanning 40 different countries - but one that the US did not detect until President Biden took office.
'It is wild that we didn't know,' Schumer conceded during his television interview.
CNN's Natasha Bertrand revealed over the weekend that F-35 pilots charged with taking down an unidentified flying object over Alaska did not know what it was
Fighter pilots who shot down the object over Alaska have revealed that it 'interfered with their sensors' and had 'no identifiable propulsion system.'
In an interview with host Jim Acosta on Saturday, CNN's Natasha Bertrand reported on the findings of the F-35 pilots called in to take down an unidentified flying object over Alaska on Friday.
She brought up the fact that another unidentified flying object was shot down over Alaska on Friday by Air Force pilots who 'were not able to identify what they saw.
'So when the US first detected this object over Alaska on Thursday, they sent up F-35 jets to find of look at it and see what was going on. And these pilots reported back very conflicting accounts,' she revealed.
'Some of them said that this object was actually interfering with the sensors of their aircraft and they couldn't figure out why, because there was no identifiable kind of surveillance equipment on the object.
'There was nothing that appeared readily able to interfere with that communication system,' Bertrand said.
'And then other pilots were saying that they did not see anything on the object that appeared able to propel it, that it seemed like there was no way that this was actually able to stay in the air.'
She pointed out that the pilots were flying really fast so it is 'possible that these pilots just didn't get a good look at it.'
'But that is part of why the Pentagon has been so reluctant to come out and say more about what this object actually is.'
Amerikaans leger haalt voor vierde keer in korte tijd ongeïdentificeerd object neer
UPDATE Het Amerikaans leger heeft een ongeïdentificeerd object boven het Huronmeer aan de grens met Canada uit de lucht geschoten. Het object viel in het meer en er zijn geen aanwijzingen van bijkomende schade, zo melden Amerikaanse media. Het is al de vierde keer op korte tijd dat de Amerikanen ‘vliegende voorwerpen’ in het Amerikaanse en Canadese luchtruim hebben onderschept.
“Het object is neergehaald door piloten van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht en de Nationale Garde”, schreef Elissa Slotkin, lid van het Huis van Afgevaardigden namens de staat Michigan, dat ten zuiden en ten westen van het meer ligt. Eerder zondag had de Afgevaardigde Jack Bergman verklaard dat boven het meer een object “ontmanteld” was.
In de loop van de dag was het luchtruim boven het Michiganmeer, in het noordoosten van de Verenigde Staten, al kortstondig gesloten om redenen in verband met de "nationale defensie", zo had de Amerikaanse regulator van de burgerluchtvaart (FAA) zondag bekendgemaakt.
"De FAA heeft een deel van het luchtruim boven het Michiganmeer kortstondig gesloten om de activiteiten van het ministerie van Defensie te ondersteunen. Het luchtruim is heropend", deelde de regulator mee.
Spionage
Het nieuws komt op een moment dat in een week tijd al drie keer vliegende voorwerpen boven de VS en Canada neergeschoten werden. De VS en Canada zijn de afgelopen weken zeer alert op indringers vanuit de lucht sinds de verschijning van een wit, in het oog springende ballon eerder deze maand boven het Amerikaanse luchtruim.
Het ging volgens de VS om een Chinese “spionageballon”. Het Amerikaanse leger schoot de ballon op 4 februari neer. China ontkent dat de eerste ballon werd gebruikt voor surveillance en zegt dat het een civiel onderzoeksluchtvaartuig was.
De objecten die de afgelopen dagen boven de Amerikaanse staat Alaska en Canada zijn neergehaald, leken volgens een Witte Huis-woordvoerder “niet veel” op de Chinese ballon - die eerder deze maand voor de kust van South Carolina werd neergeschoten - en waren veel kleiner. De woordvoerder zei ook dat het onderzoek naar de objecten nog loopt en dat de wrakstukken ervan nog niet zijn gevonden.
Ook van het zondag neergeschoten vliegende object is nog niet duidelijk wat het precies was en waarom het door het Canadese en Amerikaanse luchtruim vloog.
Giant Angel Entity Exists Sun On NASA Camera! UFO Sighting News.
Giant Angel Entity Exists Sun On NASA Camera! UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 9, 2023
Source of sighting: NASA/SOHO website
I was checking out the NASA SOHO video of our sun and found this, a giant angelic figure exiting our sun. The figure is about 50X the diameter of Earth. I made some screenshots at the beginning to show you the detail side by side. It seems to me something this big, if intelligent is some kind of god or a very ancient alien species that existed ten or more billion years ago and the beginning of our universe. Mind-blowing is an understatement here. I'm at a loss for words. I have always believed that intelligent life could exist in infinite sizes both big and small, this is 100% proof of that. Please help me get more subscribers by sharing this video. I hope it inspires you as much as it inspired me.
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.
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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.
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