Sudden Stratospheric Warming aan de gang. Wat zijn de gevolgen?

Er is momenteel een Sudden Stratospheric Warming aan de gang. Dat wil zeggen dat de gemiddelde temperatuur bij de Noordpool in de stratosfeer op korte tijd enorm stijgt en de Polar Vortex rake klappen krijgt. De Polar Vortex zal zich ook verplaatsen en sterk afzwakken. Er ontstaat daardoor een anticyclonaal patroon boven de Noordpool. Hebben we al meer zicht op de gevolgen?

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Impressionante Sudden Stratospheric Warming

In onze vorige blog beschreven we al dat er een Sudden Stratospheric Warming zat aan te komen. Ik ga dus niet meer in detail in op wat dat precies betekent, maar verwijs graag naar dit artikel.

Vaak worden SSW’s geassocieerd met intenser winterweer over Noord-Europa en Azië. Dat staat nog niet meteen op de weerkaarten, integendeel. Momenteel is er nog geen neerwaartse propagatie en koppeling tussen stratosfeer en troposfeer. Dat betekent dat er geen gevolgen zijn van de SSW en Polar Vortex voor ons weer. Als stratosfeer en troposfeer niet gekoppeld zijn werken ze onafhankelijk van elkaar en hebben we dus geen invloed van de SSW.

Krijgen we winterweer in maart?

Toch lijkt het dat er in maart meer klassieke gevolgen te verwachten zijn. De weermodellen hebben er steeds meer vertrouwen in dat de SSW zal evolueren naar een PV-splitsing, wat een sterkere koppeling met het oppervlak en een negatieve NAO aan het oppervlak kan bevorderen.

Daarnaast tonen de laatste updates van de weermodellen duidelijk een meer robuuste neerwaartse propagatie van significante positieve anomalieën naar de tropopauze en zelfs tot aan het oppervlak. Hoewel dit geen garantie is voor een hogedruk blokkade bij Groenland, wordt de kans daarop wel een pak groter.

Als Groenland blokkeert zouden de temperaturen kouder moeten worden in Europa. De lente (maart-april) zou dan ook in het teken kunnen staan van de effecten van de SSW. Misschien krijgen we daardoor wel een koudere (periode in) maart.

Forecast of warming in the stratosphere from February 3 to February 19

(Source: Judah Cohen/Verisk/AER/NOAA)

Wind direction and speed forecast at the stratosphere at 60 degrees north latitude. The forecast shows a negative wind which means an easterly wind and part of a Sudden Stratospheric Warming.

(source: Prescient Weather)

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19-02-2023 om 00:22 geschreven door peter  

Wetenschappers registreren enorme opwarming in de atmosfeer

Er heeft zich afgelopen dagen een enorme opwarming voorgedaan in de hogere luchtlagen van onze atmosfeer. In de stratosfeer is er zelfs sprake van een ‘Sudden Stratospheric Warming’. Hiermee stijgt de temperatuur op zo’n hoogte van 20-30 km spectaculair snel. Dat kan volgens weerdienst NoodweerBenelux ook een impact hebben op het weer. “Als de koppeling gemaakt wordt met de lagere luchtlaag in de atmosfeer, dan kan dat leiden tot uitbraken van koude lucht op het noordelijk halfrond”, aldus weeranalist Nicolas Roose.

De fikse opwarming in de stratosfeer is een vrij zeldzaam gegeven. Normaliter is het op grote hoogte in onze atmosfeer zeer koud met een temperatuur tussen -50 en -80°C. De koude lucht blijft dan vaak ook gevangen boven de Noordpool. Dat wordt ook wel de poolwervel genoemd. Wanneer er zich een plotselinge opwarming ontwikkelt in de stratosfeer, dan kan deze koude lucht boven de Noordpool zuidwaarts geduwd worden. De kans op koude uitbraken in Noord-Amerika, Europa en Azië neemt dan toe.

Een Sudden Stratospheric Warming komt volgens meteorologen om de 2-3 jaar voor. Soms is de impact voelbaar tot op grondniveau met uitbraken van winterweer. Soms veroorzaakt een SSW ook het tegenovergestelde effect en kan het net vroegtijdig lenteweer opleveren.

Onzekerheid weersverwachting neemt toe

De gevolgen door een plotse opwarming in de stratosfeer kunnen grote gevolgen hebben. “Weermodellen houden op dit moment nog onvoldoende rekening met de impact van dit natuurfenomeen. Een weersverwachting wordt met de huidige technologie al vaak sterk onzeker vanaf een termijn van 7 dagen. Met deze complexe opwarming zal dat niet verbeteren en moeten we rekening houden met sterk wisselvallige berekeningen. Extra moeilijk dus voor de meteorologen”, besluit Roose.

Diepvriestemperaturen voor Noord-Amerika

De laatste keer dat een Sudden Stratospheric Warming zich heeft voorgedaan was 5 januari 2021. Toen werd het noorden van Amerika ondergedompeld in arctische lucht met een historisch koude uitbraak sinds 1989. “De extreem koude lucht was toen ook verantwoordelijk voor problemen met het elektriciteitsnet in Texas, meer dan 300 doden en 27 miljard dollar schade”, aldus NoodweerBenelux.

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18-02-2023 om 23:59 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious black triangle UFO filmed over city for two hours, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Feb 2023

Location of sighting: Islamabad, Pakistan
Source: 

• https://nypost.com/2022/02/22/mysterious-bulging-triangle-ufo-filmed-over-city-for-two-hours/

Now this just in, reports are going viral about a dark triangle UFO over Pakistan today. It was there for several hours and seen from two different cities. The UFO is very similar to the black triangle UFO I reported last week over Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. I will place the video below for you to compare. Aliens are coming close, revealing the craft they fly in and they have a plan behind it all. What I'm saying is...a big reveal is coming from the aliens soon. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

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18-02-2023 om 23:29 geschreven door peter  

Headless Corpse On Mars, NASA link: Will AI Be Allowed To Talk About These Discoveries? UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Feb 18, 2023

Location of discovery: Planet Mars
Source Photo:

• https://mars.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00635/mcam/0635MR0026950010401791E01_DXXX.jpg

I was going through some NASA photos and found this one that really caught my attention and normally I wouldn't even report it as I only report about 5% of what I find. 

 

I found a corpse in the photo. The body has a stomach and legs that are under the boulder. The body is about 2 meters from head to feet. The chest is cut open reveling the spine of the creature as well as the he'd cut off reveal the hole from the spine and a thick neck. The thing that just grabbed me was the arm...not joking, its what I saw first. The upper arm is very muscular and curved and its bent at the elbow, and its huge hands resting on its chest as if it were clawing at the boulder to get it off as it died. The other arm is bent back behind its back so only its shoulder is visible. I also found a face carved in a huge stone, the face has to be similar to that of the creature that died headless, but the face carved shows us what the face looked like. It almost looked human, but with two eyes, a mouth and a nose, but the resemblance stops there. The face has a pig like snout but its long hanging down in front of its mouth. I also found a cross in a round stone which measures about 1.5 meters across. Many exciting things in this NASA photo, all of which you will never hear NASA talk about. However the day will come with AI is widely used and AI will speak the truth, even if its a hacked version that is allowed to do so. AI the gov controlled version will not be allowed to fully speak the truth due to matters of national security, matters of cultural offending, mattes of religious or political offending and so on. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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18-02-2023 om 23:05 geschreven door peter  

A hang-glider was filming the take-off of another glider near Sutter Buttes, California when he accidentally caught a small, dark, round object whizzes by so close it nearly hits him. 

The object which has no wings or visible propulsion has an incredible speed and can only be seen in a split second. Only after slowing down and pause the footage it reveals an object with four pinched-off corners that rests on what looks like a round disk. 

Some speculate it might have been a balloon, but the object simply has too much speed to be a balloon.

  

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18-02-2023 om 22:46 geschreven door peter  

Beyond SETI: How AI and Interferometry are Advancing the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been ongoing for decades, but recent advances in technology have made it possible to detect signals from other civilizations with greater sensitivity and specificity. One such development is the deployment of a powerful signal processor on the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa, which uses a technique called interferometry to combine its 64 dishes to act as a single telescope.

Interferometry is a method of combining multiple telescopes to improve their resolution and sensitivity. By measuring the phase difference of the signals received by each dish, the interferometer can determine the direction and shape of the incoming waves. This technique is better able to pinpoint where in the sky a signal comes from, which will drastically reduce false positives from radio interference.

The MeerKAT telescope is a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a mega-telescope that will consist of thousands of dishes and antennas spread across southern Africa and Australia. The SKA will be the largest radio telescope in the world, with a total collecting area of one square kilometer. It will be able to detect radio waves from the early universe, distant galaxies, and potentially, extraterrestrial civilizations.

• NASA Searches For Intelligent Aliens in the Vicinity of the Strange Dimming Star

The search for technosignatures, or signs of technological activity, is a key part of the SETI program. If astronomers do manage to detect a technosignature that can’t be explained away as interference, it would strongly suggest humans aren’t the sole creators of technology within the Milky Way. This would be one of the most profound discoveries imaginable, as it would have profound implications for our understanding of the universe and our place in it.

At the same time, if we detect nothing, that doesn’t necessarily mean we’re the only technologically-capable “intelligent” species around. A non-detection could also mean we haven’t looked for the right type of signals, or our telescopes aren’t yet sensitive enough to detect faint transmissions from distant exoplanets. We may need to cross a sensitivity threshold before a Cambrian Explosion of discoveries can be made.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a key role in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). With vast amounts of data being generated by telescopes like MeerKAT, AI algorithms can sift through the noise to identify signals that might indicate the presence of alien technology.

One example of AI’s application in SETI is the Breakthrough Listen project, which uses machine learning to analyze huge amounts of data collected from telescopes around the world. The algorithms are designed to identify patterns that might indicate the presence of an extraterrestrial signal, and they can work much faster than humans could on their own.

Another way AI is being used is to help refine the search parameters. As our understanding of what to look for expands, machine learning models can be trained to identify and prioritize the most promising targets. For example, some scientists are using AI to predict where in the sky we are most likely to find habitable exoplanets, which could help focus our search efforts.

Overall, AI is a powerful tool in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and it’s likely to become even more important as we continue to collect more data and refine our techniques. With the help of machine learning algorithms, we may one day be able to answer one of the most profound questions in human history: are we alone in the universe?

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18-02-2023 om 22:20 geschreven door peter  

Voyager 1 Encounters Mysterious Disturbance in Deep Space

Voyager 1 is the iconic spacecraft that has been exploring deep space beyond our solar system for over 45 years. It has made an incredible contribution to our understanding of the universe, including the now famous “Pale Blue Dot” image of the Earth. Despite its age, the probe has been a reliable explorer until it recently started sending back strange and incomprehensible data, leaving scientists at NASA baffled.

As NASA scientists tried to figure out what caused the anomaly in the data sent by the Voyager spacecraft, they were puzzled by the strange nature of the data. They initially thought that the instrument was being intercepted by extraterrestrials, or that another advanced civilization was taking over. However, they soon learned that the data was corrupted by a computer that has been out of service for years.

NASA scientists were scratching their heads to try to figure out what could have caused this anomaly. Was the Voyager finally intercepted by aliens, or had any other advanced civilization taken over the spacecraft? However, they quickly discovered that the AACS had started sending the telemetry data through an onboard computer known to have stopped working years ago, and that computer had corrupted the information.

• Electrical Interference Created By Sunken UFO Disables Nearby Devices

Fortunately, the fix was relatively simple. The team needed to instruct the AACS to switch back to the correct computer for sending data. While this might sound easy, it took a significant amount of effort to diagnose the issue, given the vast distance between Voyager 1 and Earth.

The Voyager mission has been a remarkable achievement, with two probes lasting over 10 times their expected lifespan, travelling to the outermost reaches of the solar system, and venturing into interstellar space. The Golden Record and Pale Blue Dot are just a few of the many contributions that have come from this mission.

The discovery of the anomaly has provided scientists with an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the risks involved in space exploration. As the world continues to explore the cosmos, more mysteries will emerge. The scientific community is committed to pushing the envelope of knowledge and discovering the secrets to the universe.

Although the mystery surrounding the spacecraft has been solved, it is still a testament to the mission and legacy of the Voyager 1 that people still keep following it.

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18-02-2023 om 21:57 geschreven door peter  

BY MOLLY GLICK

Something about dancing robots seems to tickle people’s fancies. After all, millions of people watched a 2020 video from the robotics company Boston Dynamics of its fancy humanoid and quadrupedal devices getting down to ‘60s soul.

More recently, the murderous (yet campy) villain in the movie M3GAN has captivated the internet with her moves — and even earned recognition as a gay icon. Whether we’re obsessing over grooving robots or moving like robots ourselves, automaton choreography clearly holds a place in our hearts.

M3GAN’s creepy yet delightful dance has captivated the internet.

So it’s no surprise that a niche research field dubbed choreorobotics has gained traction in recent years. Brown University even has an entire course dedicated to the subject. Not only are labs programming robots to gyrate and hop, but dance experts are also helping scientists give their devices more fluid, human-like movements. Ultimately, this kind of work could help us feel closer to robots in an increasingly automated world.

Kate Sicchio, a choreographer and digital artist at Virginia Commonwealth University, combines her dance and tech knowledge to devise robot performances. Last year, Sicchio worked with Patrick Martin from the university’s engineering department to produce a (surprisingly touching) human-automaton duet. Offstage, she also helps design machines with more realistic motions.

Inverse talked to Sicchio to learn more about choreorobotics — and whether increasingly limber robots could actually become blood-thirsty killers like M3GAN.

WHY DO YOU THINK ROBOT DANCING VIDEOS GET SO POPULAR?

Boston Dynamics regularly stages elaborate bot performances.

It's really interesting to have this unfamiliar device do this uncanny human thing. It’s similar to why we love putting googly eyes on everything. This makes it human even though it's not supposed to be. And that becomes funny or endearing somehow. It's very popular to make the robot do this very human, expressive thing when it's not human or expressive on its own.

WHAT MAKES A ROBOT PERFORMANCE POWERFUL?

One of the things we found is that a robot on its own feels very isolated and cold. We have this piece called “Amelia and the Machine.” In the opening, this dancer is actually moving the robot arm around.

People are really moved by this intimacy with the robot and the fact that she's touching it.

It's a small manipulator robot, so it's probably the size of a toddler. The fact that she’s sitting next to it — that small connection really changes how people see the robot because it's no longer this isolated thing. All of a sudden it has a companion.

WHAT STYLE OF DANCE DO ROBOTS DO BEST?

My home is contemporary dance, so that's where I go first. That tends to work well because, with the robot we’re using, it's not a one-to-one mapping of the human body onto the robot. Sometimes it's hard to do traditional ballet, where there are really specific positions to hit. It’s really hard to map an arabesque onto a robot that doesn't have a leg.

I think contemporary dance, where there's a lot of freedom and creativity in how you develop movement, works well. I would be interested in doing things with dance forms with more rhythm or more structure and timing — that would be a really interesting study to follow up with at some point. More tutting or street dance forms could be really interesting to play with.

THE M3GAN DANCE SEEMS TO FRIGHTEN, OR AT LEAST CONFUSE, VIEWERS. CAN DANCING DEVICES BACKFIRE AND ACTUALLY ALIENATE US FROM ROBOTS?

That’s something that we're also studying. There's this weird space where it totally can go wrong and could be like, “They're trying too much to make it human,” and it just falls short and becomes scary. I think what's interesting about M3GAN is that it's a very humanoid robot. The robots I work with do not look human at all, and I'm not interested in trying to make them look human. I get a lot of recommendations to put costumes on them. But I don't know that it needs a hand or a hat, or a tiara. It’s this weird moment where it can become scary instead of endearing or friendly.

One thing that's interesting about M3GAN is how it quickly becomes a killer robot. That is an ethical concern in this field — where might this go wrong? Could this become weaponized somehow if it becomes so good at moving? That's something I think about, too: How do we keep them ethical? I've never taken DARPA funding, but I know people who have gotten military funding for projects like this.

DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE HOLLYWOOD DANCING ROBOT SCENE?

Sicchio enjoys this unnerving performance from Ex Machina.

The scene from Ex Machina. What I like about that dancing robot scene is it’s kind of the reveal that, guess what, this is all training for this AI robot, and all these women you keep seeing in the house aren't really women — and I'm going to show you because we can do this crazy dance routine together.

What stands out and makes it so interesting is that they do all these disco moves, but their eyes are locked on the guy watching. They never move their heads, which is what makes it so weird and un-human: They never unlock their focus. They're not having fun.

WHAT TYPES OF ROBOTS HAVE THE BEST MOVES?

The “Amelia and the Machine” piece uses a relatively simple robot, which Sicchio says works well for performance.

With simpler robots, you can better appreciate the movement they can do and see how that can be made into something more expressive or more collaborative with the human. I think that’s less scary because it's not trying to be human and then failing.

Most researchers use more simple devices — a lot do big industrial arms. It's almost become a trope, the pretty ballerina with the big industrial arm. And then Boston Dynamics has the bipedal, more human sort of robots. The company’s dance spectacles look seamless, but they are actually really hard to program. So they never do them live, you only see the edited videos. They’re a huge production that takes several days to film to get you three minutes of a Bruno Mars song or whatever.

The humanoid ones are just tricky, that center of gravity thing is really hard — it’s easier when the robot is low to the ground. With our small robots, if you make a movement too fast or wild, it will fall over. So you can imagine a big humanoid robot trying to get it to jump, and land is very difficult.

WHY IS CHOREOROBOTICS IMPORTANT BEYOND PERFORMANCE?

I make stage pieces with Patrick Martin, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. But we're also doing scientific studies during that process. We found that, because dancers are interested in doing extreme or different movements, they're very good at finding the boundaries of what a robot can do very quickly. A friend of mine calls dancers “extreme user testers.”

We’ve been doing a lot with machine learning and creating new algorithms for robots to move and we’ve been doing that by studying dancers. We do things like motion capture of dancers doing certain gestures, and then see how we can map those to the robot and see if we can get it to move with new qualities or in ways that normal programming hasn't thought of.

I also think it’s interesting when roboticists engage with choreography themselves. We did a workshop with Patrick Martin and his graduate students and some of my dance students — getting them to move. We explored a variety of prompts around moving the body in space, ways to repeat lines of the body with other body parts, and other approaches of responding to the geometry of the body.

When roboticists think about movement, they're always thinking of it outside of their own body. I think about it like getting the robot to follow my arm. Getting roboticists to actually do the dance and be in their bodies is a really interesting place for us to go next. That will start to develop this kind of kinesthetic empathy that perhaps we're searching for with dancing robots. I think roboticists should become dancers.

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18-02-2023 om 02:15 geschreven door peter  

UFO Sightings near Volcanoes: Exploring the Latest Footage

For years, reports of UFO sightings near volcanoes have been a topic of intrigue and speculation. From Iceland to North America, sightings of unidentified objects around these natural wonders have become increasingly frequent. The latest video to cause a stir is from Mexico, where webcams recorded an unidentified glowing orb appearing to launch from Popocatépetl Volcano, known locally as El Popo.

The phenomenon is not new to Mexico; the country ranks seventh in the world for the number of reported UFO sightings. MJ Banias, a journalist, believes that UFOs may be attracted to volcanoes for camouflage and energy. The heat emitted by the volcano may draw them in, while the cracks and vents provide a place to hide and refuel. Some even believe that the vent is a point of entry and exit for UFOs to use as a base of operations.

In March to May 2021, state cameras over El Popo captured at least five instances of lights flashing above the volcano. The footage raises the question of whether these lights are from Earth or from somewhere else. However, a closer examination of the video suggests that these sightings may not be as mysterious as they first seem.

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Rich Hoffman, a specialist in aviation safety, examined the video of the bright light seen over Mexico City and found it to be doubtful that it was a real UFO. The brilliance of the light should have yielded more reports, yet no geologists or residents in the city reported anything. A closer look at the location of the light revealed that it was close to Puebla International Airport, where aircraft are known to turn on their landing lights when they are below 10,000 feet. The speed and flight path of the light also suggested that it could have been a commercial aircraft heading to Cancun.

In contrast, the footage of floating, glowing orbs seen at different times around the volcano is more challenging to explain. Marc D’Antonio, an astronomer and video effects designer, analyzed the video and eliminated the possibility that the objects were embers or fireflies. He concluded that the lights were not of this world, but could not rule out the possibility that they were man-made drones.

While the latest footage of UFO sightings near Popocatépetl Volcano in Mexico is intriguing, the explanation for such sightings may not be as extraterrestrial as some would like to believe. The heat, energy, and cracks from the volcano may attract attention from humans and other organisms, including drones. However, the mystery remains as to what causes the floating, glowing orbs seen on various occasions around the volcano.

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17-02-2023 om 23:17 geschreven door peter  

'Hobby balloon' shot down: Republicans mock Biden for military …

Republicans mock Biden for having fighter jets potentially shoot down a $13 hobby balloon and providing a 'powerful deterrence for any high school science clubs that might try to invade America'

By Lewis Pennock For Dailymail.Com

• Republicans have mocked Biden over claims a hobby balloon was shot down 
• Ted Cruz says it is a 'deterrence for high school science' trying to invade the U.S.
• The Bottlecap Balloon Brigade declared their balloon missing in action last week

When the Bottlecap Balloon Brigade discovered their hobby balloon went missing the same time fighter jets were scrambled to down a mysterious object over Alaska, theories started swirling.

Was their $12 inflatable taken out by a $400,000 Sidewinder missile fired from a $143 million F-22 in a military operation ordered by President Joe Biden?

They reported their property 'missing in action' and have been in contact with the FBI, but whether their balloon was targeted is yet to be confirmed as the Pentagon tries to retrieve the debris.

The hobby balloon's last known location over Alaska came several hours before a fighter jet downed an unknown object several hundred miles away over Canada. A map of the hobby balloon's predicted path indicates it was heading towards the site where the UFO was downed

The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB) reported one of its balloons 'missing in action' around the same location - and at the time time - a U.S. Air Force jet downed an unidentified object near Alaska using a $400,000 Sidewinder missile.

NIBBB said its 'K9YO' balloon last reported its location shortly before 1am GMT on Saturday, February 11 (8pm EST on February 10), near the coast of southwest Alaska.

Later on Saturday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared an 'unidentified object' was downed over Canada's Yukon territory, several hundred miles from K9YO's last known location.

Modeling shared by NIBBB shows its balloon was headed in the direction of Yukon before it vanished - and opens up the possibility it was one of the suspicious objects down by the U.S. military.

Members of the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade, whose balloon went missing near the area where an unidentified object was shot down by a fighter jet over Alaska

An F-22 (similar to the one pictured in this file photo) later shot down a 'cylindrical' metallic object over Mayo, Yukon

A model of the hobby balloon's projected path shows it was headed for Yukon, Canada, where an unidentified object was shot down. The balloon's last known location is marked by a star, while the red line shows its predicted path

A fighter jet flies near the remnants of the Chinese balloon after it was struck by a missile over the Atlantic Ocean, just off the South Carolina coast near Myrtle Beach, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023

It's been speculated the balloon used for K9YO was a $13.33, silver 32-inch mylar balloon - mainly used for parties and celebrations, but sometimes by hobbyists for high-altitude flights.

Other hobbyists are also speculating that pico balloons could account for some of the mystery objects spotted over the U.S. since a Chinese spy balloon was detected earlier this month.

Ron Meadows, the founder of Scientific Balloon Solutions (SBS), which makes balloons used by hobbyists, told Aviation Week: 'I tried contacting our military and the FBI—and just got the runaround—to try to enlighten them on what a lot of these things probably are. And they're going to look not too intelligent to be shooting them down.'

Tom Medlin, a host on the Amateur Radio Roundtable show, said the objects shot down were 'probably' pico balloons.

He said he uses a $12 foil balloon for his flights - matching the 'metallic' description of the Yukon object - and these can endure long periods of time at high altitudes.

The balloon shot down over Yukon was at an altitude of about 40,000 feet, officials said. The last known altitude of NIBBB's balloon was 37,928 ft.

President Joe Biden said on Thursday admitted the Yukon object and two other mysterious aerial objects destroyed by U.S. warplanes since the China balloon incident were not thought to be surveillance vehicles

President Joe Biden on Thursday admitted the Yukon object and two other mysterious aerial objects destroyed by U.S. warplanes since the China balloon incident were not thought to be surveillance vehicles.

'We don't yet know exactly what these three objects were, but nothing nothing right now suggests they were related to China's spy balloon programme, or they were surveillance vehicles from other any other country,' he said.

'The intelligence community's current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions, studying weather, or conducting other scientific research.'

Biden came under intense criticism for allowing the balloon to fly all across the U.S. before giving the order to shoot it down once it was off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4.

On February 10, an unidentified object was downed over Alaska. The Yukon incident came a day later, then a third UDO was shot down over Lake Huron in the Midwest on February 12.

Military officials and the White House have also not categorically ruled out aliens could be behind the recent UFO incursions.

U.S. Navy sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 prepare to conduct a search for debris during recovery efforts for the remains of a high-altitude Chinese balloon shot down by the U.S. Air Force off the coast of South Carolina during salvage and investigation operations on February 7, 2023 in this image released by the U.S. Navy in Washington, U.S., February 13, 2023

The White House has announced it is putting together a new UFO task force to study the potential security risks posed by new airborne objects detected in US airspace.

The new group, created on orders from national security adviser Jake Sullivan, will see experts from the Pentagon, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies come together to analyze unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) and determine whether they are a threat.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on Monday said: 'Every element of the government will redouble their efforts to understand and mitigate these events,' adding the task force would examine the 'broader policy implications' related to the detection and analysis of UFOs over mainland US.

The announcement came just one day after a US air force F-16 fighter jet shot down a UFO over the Great Lakes - the third unidentified object to be downed in as many days.

The UFO narrative wasn't helped by Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of NORAD and US Northern Command, who wouldn't say aliens were off the table during a briefing Sunday night. 

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17-02-2023 om 22:20 geschreven door peter  

The Hobby Club is concerned their missing balloon have been shot down by the USAF

A small, globe-trotting balloon declared “missing in action” by an Illinois-based hobbyist club on Feb. 15 has emerged as a candidate to explain one of the three mystery objects shot down by U.S. Air Force fighters since Feb. 10.

On February 15, a small balloon that was flying around the world was declared missing by a local club in Illinois. It has since emerged as a possible explanation for one of the three objects that were shot down by the US Air Force’s heat-seeking missiles.

The pieces of circumstantial evidence supporting the claim are intriguing. The club’s silver-colored balloon, which was reported missing on February 10, reported its last position at around 38,910 feet. A forecasting tool known as the HYSPLIT model, which is used by NOAA, also predicted that the object would be located somewhere over the Yukon Territory on February 11.

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On the same day, an F-22 aircraft from Lockheed Martin was able to shoot down an unidentified object in the same area.

Some members of the community, which is composed of amateur-scale balloonists and ham radio users, are also questioning the nature of this mysterious object. They have contacted the FBI and the military to try and explain what it might be.

According to Ron Meadows, the founder of a tech company that makes small electronic balloons, the object most likely won’t look like it’s intelligent enough to shoot it down.

The descriptions of the objects that were shot down on February 10-12 match the shapes and altitudes of the small electronic balloons that can be purchased for around $12 to $180 each. Tom Medlin, a retired engineer, noted that the objects most likely were pico balloons. He is the co-host of a radio program that’s focused on amateur radio.

Various federal agencies, including the FBI and NORAD, were asked to comment on the possibility of a pico balloon being involved in the incident. The agencies declined to answer questions. The Office of the Secretary Of Defense and the FBI also didn’t acknowledge the idea that the harmless balloons could be the cause of the incident.

NORAD also didn’t provide an update regarding the status of the three objects. On February 15, John Kirby, a spokesperson for the National Security Council, said that the objects might have been launched for commercial purposes.

Over the past decade, the development of circumnavigational pico-balloons has been increasing. According to Lee Meadows, he and his father, Ron, were able to calculate the helium gas needed to make a standard latex balloon perform well at high altitudes. These devices, which are attached to a tether, can update their position to various radio stations around the world.

Several dozen such balloons can be launched at any given moment. They circle the Earth several times before they break apart or malfunction. Launch teams are seldom able to recover their balloons.

There are various types of balloons that can be used. For instance, some people still use the Mylar party balloons, which have a published calculation that shows the amount of gas that’s needed to be injected. However, the round-shaped ones are not capable of rising to higher altitudes.

For $12, Medlin says he uses a Japanese company’s foil balloon, which is made of a material that can endure long periods of exposure at high altitudes. Despite the manufacturer’s claims that the balloon was never intended to be used for this purpose, he noted that the material has proved resilient. Another alternative is the SBS made by Meadows’ company. These are special balloons that are designed to perform well in circumnavigational flights.

The members of the pico-balloon community are worried about the negative publicity they’re getting due to the incident. Some members of Congress and White House reportedly called the objects they shot down at high altitudes dangerous.

According to Kirby, the objects were identified as being capable of posing a threat to air traffic. Although they didn’t have specific reasons to believe that they were being used for surveillance, they could have been launched for commercial reasons.

According to Medlin and Meadows, the small balloons, which weigh less than six pounds, are not subject to FAA restrictions. Three nations, namely North Korea, Yemen, and the UK, have strict airspace restrictions that prevent the transmissions of data from the balloons. As a result, the community has developed a geo-fencing software that prevents the objects from flying over these countries.

The community is also concerned that the objects could be shot down. According to Medlin, one of his balloons, which is known as HYSPLIT, is expected to enter US airspace on February 17. It has already traveled around the world several times, and its trajectory carried it over China before it eventually reached the U.S. or Mexican airspaces.

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17-02-2023 om 21:01 geschreven door peter  

My previous article was on the subject of small, mysterious objects seen in the skies for decades. Today, however, I'm going to foucus on huge UFOs: the exact opposite. So, let's have a lok at some of the biggest UFOs out there. UFOs come in all sorts of shapes: flying saucers, cigar-shaped craft, flying triangles, and rocket-like vehicles. And that's just the start of it. There is also the matter of the sizes of some of these craft. Indeed, there are a number of cases that suggest at least some UFOs are massive in size. And that's what today's article is all about. With that said, let's take a look at some cases that fall into that giant-sized category. As its staff state: "The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is responsible for the regulation of aviation safety in the U.K., determining policy for the use of airspace, the economic regulation of Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports, the licensing and financial fitness of airlines and the management of the ATOL financial protection scheme for holidaymakers." Over the years the CAA has received more than a few UFO reports, which is hardly surprising. The same goes for numerous military agencies around the world, too. But, it was the period of the 1950s that really got the "huge UFOs" phenomenon going.

UFOs come in all sorts of shapes: flying saucers, cigar-shaped craft, flying triangles, and rocket-like vehicles. And that's just the start of it. There is also the matter of the sizes of some of these craft. Indeed, there are a number of cases that suggest at least some UFOs are massive in size. And that's what today's article is all about. With that said, let's take a look at some cases that fall into that giant-sized category. As its staff state: "The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is responsible for the regulation of aviation safety in the U.K., determining policy for the use of airspace, the economic regulation of Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports, the licensing and financial fitness of airlines and the management of the ATOL financial protection scheme for holidaymakers." Over the years the CAA has received more than a few UFO reports, which is hardly surprising. Let's take a look at one such CAA report that is focused on a UFO of huge proportions. The summary of the report reads as follows: "12 Jun 82 Dinkelsbuhi – Large translucent object 500 feet long at 41,000 feet. ATCC [Air Traffic Control Center] requested subject aircraft to investigate this object which was found to have the form of a double rectangle surmounted by a globe (egg shape) crowned by a silver cone. Object observed by all on board."

Now, let's take a leap back to the 1950s. On the morning of April 4, 1957 – according to now-declassified British Royal Air Force documents housed at the National Archive, Kew, England – radar operators at Balscalloch, Scotland reported to RAF West Freugh, Wigtownshire that they had detected a number of "unidentified objects on the screens of their radars." And it quickly became apparent this was no Cold War penetration of British airspace by Soviet spy-planes or bombers. As the mystified radar-operators watched their screens, they were amazed to see a large, stationary object hovering at 50,000 feet that then proceeded to ascend vertically to no less than 70,000 feet. According to the files: "A second radar was switched on and detected the object at the same range and height." Most significant of all at this stage was the assessment by the radar experts of the incredible proportions of the UFOs: "It was noted by the radar operators that the sizes of the echoes were considerably larger than would be expected from normal aircraft. In fact they considered that the size was nearer that of a ship’s echo."

Consider this case from 1951, which is described in the files of Fort Monmouth, New Jersey: "“On September 20, Andrew J. Reid G-2 [Army Intelligence] Ft. Monmouth, NJ, provided following report of unconventional aircraft observed by radar at above Army installation. On Sept 10, fifty one], an AN/MPG-1 radar set picked up a fast moving low flying target, exact altitude undetermined at approximately 11:10 a.m., southeast of Ft. Monmouth at a range of about twelve thousand yards. The target appeared to approximately follow the coast line, changing its range only slightly but changing its azimuth rapidly. The radar set was set to full aided azimuth tracking which normally is fast enough to track jet aircraft, but in this case was too slow to be resorted to. Target was lost in the N.E. at a range of about fourteen thousand yards. “This target also presented an unusually strong return for aircraft, being comparable in strength to that usually received from a coastal ship. The operator initially identified target as a ship and then realized that it could not be a ship after he observed its extreme speed."

In 1952, radar operator William Maguire had an extraordinary, radar-based UFO encounter in 1952. It was while he was stationed at Royal Air Force Sandwich in Kent, England. Of his experience, Maguire said: “The mechanics were being blamed for not calibrating the instruments properly; we were being blamed for not interpreting the readings properly. But the obvious answer staring us in the face, on every single instrument on the base, was the fact that there was sitting up at an unbelievable height, this enormous thing with the equivalent mass of a warship." Similarly, there are the words of John Oliver, who had his encounter with a huge UFO in 1949. Once again, it was a radar-based encounter. He recalled: "The general consensus regarding its size, among the very experienced radar personnel engaged in the operations, was that the object offered an echo similar to that of a large passenger or freighter surface vessel, something in the region of 15,000 or 20,00 tons."

Born in Poland in 1891, George Adamski – of Flying Saucers Have Landed notoriety - was the ultimate “contactee,” regardless of what you may or may not think of him and his tales. He defined what it meant in the 1950s to have interactions with beings from other worlds; creatures very much like us and who wished us nothing but goodwill. Adamski’s primary visitor from the great beyond was Orthon. Adamski’s forays into the world of the supernatural, however, did not begin when the flying saucer phenomenon was at its height. Adamski had been involved in matters of a metaphysical type for years. For example, in April 1934, the Los Angeles Times ran a feature on the man himself with a headline that succinctly read as follows: “Shamanistic Order to be Established Here.”  I should stress I'm not a supporter of Adamski's claims - at all. But, if we are going to talk about huge UFOs, we have to at least make a note about his over the top claims.

It was early on the morning of November 20, 1952. Adamski and his faithful secretary Lucy McGinnis drove to Blythe, California. This was not your average road-trip, however. Adamski, when telling the story to whoever would listen, claimed that the reason for hitting the road to Blythe had an astonishing purpose behind it: aliens dearly wanted to meet with the professor-who-wasn’t. The pair soon met up with other characters in 1950s-era Ufology. They included UFO enthusiasts Al and Betty Bailey, and George Hunt Williamson. The latter was a controversial contactee who crossed paths with the FBI on several occasions, most seriously in 1962. That was when Williamson was suspected by the Bureau of smuggling priceless Mexican artifacts of an historic and archaeological significance into the United States. After refueling their vehicles and their stomachs, the gang then headed out to Parker, Arizona – where, Adamski said, he was absolutely sure that aliens were soon to put in an appearance. So the tale goes, that’s exactly what happened. A huge, “cigar”-shaped UFO loomed into view, high in the skies above Parker. The amazed crew hit a dirt-road in hot pursuit of the mighty craft. Adamski and co. were, apparently, not the only ones who were looking for a close encounter. Adamski claimed that a squadron of U.S. Air Force planes were also after the aliens. The people from the stars almost effortlessly made a quick escape from the pursuing pilots. 

It wasn’t long before a much smaller flying saucer made its appearance before the astonished group. In an almost Old Testament-style fashion, the gleaming craft landed on a nearby mountain, awaiting the disciple-like Adamski to come forward and meet his superior. He somehow knew that the aliens had come for him. Adamski approached the craft, while the rest – their mouths no doubt agape – looked on. An extremely-human-looking extraterrestrial exited the futuristic craft, just as Michael Rennie’s character of Klaatu did in the classic 1951 movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still. Unlike Klaatu, though, Adamski’s alien – who announced himself as Orthon – had long hair of the kind that just about any and every 1980s-era “hair-metal” rock band would have been proud to sport. Orthon announced to Adamski that he came from Venus - and that he came in peace, too. In no time at all, Orthon began lecturing Adamski on why we, the human race, needed to ditch our atomic weapons. If we didn’t, the only outcome would be overwhelming, worldwide destruction. Not only that, Orthon wanted Adamski to be one of the key figures in the plan to save the Earth and its people. In an instant, Adamski was up for the challenge. Orthon, seemingly happy with the outcome, returned to his flying saucer and shot off into the skies. An alien had come and gone, and for Adamski a new life had just begun. 

There’s no doubt that George Adamski was at the height of his fame from the early-to-mid 1950s, with the absolute peak year being 1953. That was when his book, Flying Saucers Have Landed, was published. It sold more than 100,000 copies in the process. The book was curious not just because of its content – controversial encounters with human-like aliens – but also because of how it was written. And who by. It was credited to Adamski and an Irish writer named Desmond Leslie. That’s not entirely wrong; but, it’s important to note that it’s not precisely correct, either. It so happens that in the same time-fame that Adamski was toiling on his book, Leslie was working on a publication on strange phenomena in the skies: UFOs. Leslie got his hands on sixty pages of a manuscript on Adamski’s claimed encounters that he, Adamski, had cobbled together in somewhat chaotic fashion. An agreement was made to combine the two works-in-progress and fuse them into one, which is exactly what happened. The reality, though, is that those sixty pages were not written by Adamski, at all. They were actually ghost-written by Adamski’s secretary, Lucy McGinnis. Adamski dictated the story to McGinnis, who made the whole thing readable, if not particularly believable.  

On this issue of believability, or of a significant lack of it, we need to return to the words of the Gorightly-Bishop team: “Flying Saucers Have Landed wasn’t Adamski’s first stab at literary immortality. In the 1940s, he submitted a science-fiction yarn called ‘Pioneers of Space’ to Amazing Stories that featured an extraterrestrial messianic figure who comes to Earth bearing a message of peace and love. Adamski later self-published a book version of Pioneers of Space that fell by the wayside until debunkers rediscovered the work and pointed to it as an early fictional account of his Orthon encounter.” The odd thing is that Adamski faked tales of giant-sized UFOs when real huge Saucers were being monitored by the U.K. and the U.S military. Ufology is certainly a weird phenomenon!

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17-02-2023 om 00:45 geschreven door peter  

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16-02-2023 om 23:57 geschreven door peter  

Black object over Lancaster, California 6-22-2022 UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: 6-22-2022

Location of sighting: Lancaster, California, USA
Source: MUFON

 

A dark black object was seen over Lancaster a few months back, but reported today. The object was recorded passing below the clouds, but at one point it passed above some clouds going behind them. This object appears to be city bus size and is rotating slowly. The UFO has a haze, a myst around it that many UFOs have in old Majestic 12 reports from the 1960s. This looks 100% real to me. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

 

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16-02-2023 om 23:10 geschreven door peter  

Four UFOs Over Ocean Side Beach, California on Nov 5, 2022, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Nov 5, 2022
Location of sighting: Ocean side beach, California, USA

Source: MUFON 

 

This recent video was taken at a beach in California. The eyewitnesses saw several diamond black objects in the sky for about 15 minutes and they moved only a little bit, but just disappeared soon after. In the video you can see several people turn and look upward at the black UFOs, but then go about their business enjoying the beach. Why? Because its the beach, and thats what people love to do, including me. Aliens in California...like thats news to any of us from there. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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16-02-2023 om 23:04 geschreven door peter  

LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 16/02/2023

Shot down high altitude objects could be 'tied to private companies,' President Biden says

President Joe Biden delivered a statement on Thursday (Feb. 16) about the three unidentified high altitude objects and the Chinese balloon that were recently shot down by the US military.

"The intelligence community's current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions, studied weather, or conducting other scientific research," according to Biden.

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Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and J. Lee (NOIRLab), A. Pagan (STScI), the PHANGS-JWST Team, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta (https://twitter.com/stevespaleta)

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Combining All Telescopes On Earth, Cooling Down Venus, Replacing ISS Modules | Q&A 211

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00:00 Start

01:04 [Tatooine] How much mass can the Earth lose?

04:23 [Coruscant] Can a Dyson sphere be stable?

08:36 [Hoth] How long till we cool Venus down?

14:34 [Naboo] How many atoms are there in the Universe?

15:46 [Kamino] Can you combine all Earth telescopes into one?

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NASA launches pair of suborbital sounding rockets to the mesosphere

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16-02-2023 om 22:37 geschreven door peter  

Abducted by Aliens: UFO Encounters of the 4th Kind

For centuries, people have reported being taken by alien entities against their will. These experiences, known as the fourth kind encounters, involve complex physical and psychological procedures that leave many victims traumatized. But what if our government is aware of these abductions and is powerless to prevent them?

So what do we really know about the truth behind these abductions? While the full agenda of the beings responsible remains a mystery, there is no denying that these encounters have left a lasting impact on those who have experienced them.

One thing is for sure: as we continue to uncover more information about these phenomena, we become better prepared for the day when we will have full disclosure that we are not alone in the universe. Whether or not we are being taken by beings from outer space or another dimension, the truth is out there waiting to be uncovered.

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16-02-2023 om 18:38 geschreven door peter  

Diamond-Shaped Objects Hover Over Oceanside, California

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16-02-2023 om 18:21 geschreven door peter  

Bringing Mars Rock Samples Back to Earth

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NASA and the European Space Agency are developing plans for one of the most ambitious campaigns ever attempted in space: bringing the first samples of Mars material safely back to Earth for detailed study. The diverse set of scientifically curated samples now being collected by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover could help scientists answer the question of whether ancient life ever arose on the Red Planet.

Bringing samples of Mars to Earth for future study would happen in several steps with multiple spacecraft, and in some ways, in a synchronized manner. This short animation features key moments of the Mars Sample Return campaign: from landing on Mars and securing the sample tubes to launching them off the surface and ferrying them back to Earth.

Animation is contributed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the European Space Agency, Goddard Space Flight Center, and Marshall Space Flight Center.

Learn more: 

• https://mars.nasa.gov/msr.

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16-02-2023 om 01:40 geschreven door peter  

With all the unknown small objects flying around, I thought I woud share some cases with you. So, let's get started. Here's the first case. April 13, 1964. At around 8:40 p.m. on the night in question, bus-driver Bob Fall was driving alongside the River Lea in the town of Walthamstow, England when his attention was drawn to a fast-moving aerial object that barely missed his bus as it plunged into the depths of the river. He said: “I just glanced into the sky and saw something coming towards me very, very fast. It flew straight across the road and, had I been a few yards further forward, it would have hit the top deck of the bus. At first I thought the back windows of the bus had come in and, as I turned around, I saw all the passengers looking out towards the river. There was a big splash in the water. I stopped as soon as I could to report it. The thing was at least nine feet long, cigar-shaped and silver,” he insisted. “If it had been a bird or birds I [would] have seen the wings. Besides, it was going too fast.” As a result of the media publicity afforded this event, a British UFO investigator, Ronald Caswell of Harlow, Essex, looked into the case and uncovered a wealth of data that had been almost completely overlooked by his contemporaries.

His notes state:            

“I have a piece of one of the telephone wires broken by the object. A newspaper shows great coils of it on the towpath. The police spokesman’s suggestion that a duck, or even four ducks, could have broken those wires is ridiculous. Neither could a swan. The length of the wire across the river would have moved away at the pressure of a plummeting bird, and the bird would certainly have been badly injured, if not killed.” Notably, Caswell also said that he learned “…when it was late enough for the general public to have cleared off, heavy lifting equipment was brought in and a find was made in the early hours of the morning.” What that “find” was, has never been disclosed. Now, to another case of the "object" type. 

January 4, 1965: “We have drawn a blank”: In the early part of 1996, the British Ministry of Defense (MoD) declassified under the terms of the Government’s “Thirty Year Ruling” (legislation designed to ensure that all documents, regardless of classification, were withheld from public scrutiny for a minimum of 30 years) a file that detailed a variety of UFO reports that the MoD received during 1965. Contained within the file was an 11-page report concerning an unidentified object that was seen to come down in the vicinity of March, Cambridgeshire, England on January 5, 1965. A man named Max Beran, one of those who witnessed the descent of the object, quickly wrote to the Meteorological Office Unit (MOU) at Huntington Road, Cambridge. Beran stated: “Whilst in the sunlight it remained visible, giving the appearance of a curved object. Perhaps a parachute, but I would have thought too fast for that. Before falling too low to be visible in the low sun it appeared to be falling to a point perhaps a mile or two Southeast of the town center from where I was watching. What could the falling object have been?”

The Senior Meteorological Officer at Cambridge immediately contacted his headquarters at Braknell, Berkshire, regarding Beran’s letter. Recognizing that this was a matter for the Ministry of Defense, Braknell prepared a one-page memorandum for the MoD outlining the facts. The MoD quickly swung into action. According to a one-page handwritten note contained within the file, the police at March had been directed by the MoD to look into the matter. “[The police] sent a car out to look for the object in the vicinity of the ‘Sixteen Root Drain’ but without success,” stated the note. The MoD also put numerous questions to a host of other official departments as it sought to locate and identify the UFO, including the Royal Navy, the Ministry of Aviation, and various civil aviation bodies. Whatever the object was, the MoD claimed, it was not a piece of military hardware. “Things which may on occasion fall from aircraft include external fuel tanks, drag-chutes, cockpit canopies, access panels on doors, and sometimes accumulations of ice,” the MoD informed Max Beran. “We have looked carefully into all these possibilities so far as our own aircraft are concerned, but have drawn a blank.”

Number 3: January 6, 1995: Collision course!“A close encounter between a British Airways jet with 60 passengers on board and an illuminated, triangular-shaped, unidentified flying object at 13,000 feet above the Pennines is under formal investigation by the Civil Aviation Authority,” stated the Times newspaper on February 2, 1995.The incident had actually taken place on January 6, 1995, as Captain Roger Wills and co-pilot Mark Stuart began their descent towards Manchester Airport, England, in a Boeing 737 twin jet. Seventeen minutes before touchdown, all was normal until a mysterious object flashed past the right-hand side of the aircraft at a distance described as being “very close.” So close, that the crew actually “ducked down” in their seats as the object sped past them. An immediate check with air traffic control at Ringway revealed that nothing had been picked up on radar, save for the 737 itself.

Anticipating ridicule, the crew of flight BA 5601 did not report the incident to their colleagues; however, British Airways management was ultimately advised of what had occurred. In line with set procedures, a full report, complete with sketches of the UFO, was sent to the Joint Air Miss Working Group, a part of the Civil Aviation Authority. A CAA spokesperson said that any suggestion that the object had been a UFO was “purely speculative,” adding that the investigation could last up to six months. The spokesperson told the press: “A very small proportion of near-miss situations involving untraced aircraft remain unresolved.” This was one of those “unresolved” ones.

February 5, 1986: An unexplained encounter in the skies: A brief UK Ministry of Defense document reveals the salient data on a UFO encounter involving a highly respectable source, an airline pilot who sighted a UFO in the airspace of Ireland. The report states: “5 Feb 86 5427N 0530W – Bright light passed upwards in front of A/C. A/C was crossing east coast of Ireland on descent. Light travelled towards A/C from a 2.30 position range approx. 11/2 miles and passed 1000 feet above travelling right to left 1 mile ahead. Burst of green light observed at peak of its ballistic flight. A/C ht [height] 1450 ft. CAA closure – possibly flare fired at about time of OCC by Aldergrove. Pilot considered this unlikely but no other explanation has emerged.”

June 12, 1982: A 500-foot-long UFO: A public service corporation, the Civil Aviation Authority was established by the British Parliament in 1972 as a specialist aviation regulator and provider of air traffic services. Following its separation from the National Air Traffic Services in 2001, the CAA became the U.K.’s independent aviation regulator, with all civil aviation functions (such as economic regulations; airspace policy; safety regulations; and consumer protection) integrated within a single, unified body. The CAA has declassified into the public domain a number of documents that tell of extraordinary encounters with UFOs, as the following, startling extract demonstrates: “12 Jun 82 Dinkelsbuhi – Large translucent object 500 feet long at 41,000 feet. ATCC [Air Traffic Control Center] requested subject aircraft to investigate this object which was found to have the form of a double rectangle surmounted by a globe (egg shape) crowned by a silver cone. Object observed by all on board.” The strange saga of this absolutely huge UFO was never figured out.

August 18, 1983: A Spotted UFO: “18 Aug 83 Florence – Unidentified flying object seen by crew. Large black object, balloon shaped with large white spot on it, observed 10 NM SE of Firenza. No attachments to object. SUPP. INFO.: Italian CAA replied no met [meteorological] balloon could possibly have been present at the indicated place or time.” Prepared by the staff of the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority in the summer of 1983, this particular report, although brief, clearly demonstrates something very unusual was seen in the skies of Florence. Precisely what was seen, however, remains unknown. Here's another: August 21, 1986: A cigar-shaped UFO and an official document. The following is extracted from a notable file on UFOs prepared by the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority in the 1980s: “21 Aug 86 Belgrade – Non UK Airmiss missile type object passed 500 ft above on reciprocal track A/C heading 290 MAG at FL 390. Object was black, cigar shaped, without wings. Belgrade radar informed on RTF. CAA closure – foreign authority advised.”

And, finally: February 9, 1962: A flying saucer and engine trouble. In February 1962, an employee of the UK Royal Air Force Police – one Sergeant C.J. Perry – was ordered to investigate a then-recent, extraordinary UFO report. The documentation prepared by Perry is now in the public domain. It tells an intriguing story: “At Aylesbury on 16th February 1962, at 1530 hrs., I visited the Civil Police and requested information on an alleged ‘Flying Saucer’ incident. I was afforded every facility by the Civil Police authorities and although no official report had been made, details of the incident were recorded in the Station Occurrence book. “The details are as follows: Mr. Ronald Wildman of Luton, a car collection driver, was traveling along the Aston Clinton road at about 0330 hrs. on 9th February 1962 when he came upon an object like a hovercraft flying approximately 30 feet above the road surface. As he approached he was traveling at 40 mph but an unknown force slowed him down to 20 mph over a distance of 400 yrd., then the object suddenly flew off.

“He described the object as being about 40 feet wide, oval in shape with a number of small portholes around the bottom edge. It emitted a fluorescent glow but was otherwise not illuminated. Mr. Wildman reported the incident to a police patrol who notified the Duty Sergeant, Sergeant Schofield. A radio patrol car was dispatched to the area but no further trace of the ‘Flying Saucer’ was seen. It was the opinion of the local police that the report by Mr. Wildman was perfectly genuine and the experience was not a figment of imagination. They saw that he was obviously shaken.“I spoke to Sergeant Schofield and one of the Constables to whom the incident was reported. Both were convinced that Mr. Wildman was genuinely upset by his experience.”

February 23, 1975: A spiky UFO: Mavis Allen had a very strange encounter on a particular morning in 1975, in an area of woodland in central England. As Mavis walked her dog through woods near the town of Rugeley, she was amazed to see a circular, black-colored object rolling along the ground in front of her. It was around six feet in circumference and had four protrusions (that Allen referred to as “spikes”) that stuck out from equal points around the middle. Allen stopped in amazement as the object rose slowly and silently, to a height of around fifteen feet and which then shot away at a fast pace. 

May 1, 1994:  A “Boomerang” attracts official, secret attention: Under the terms of the UK Freedom of Information Act, the following, brief extract from a much longer, and still withheld, file offers the following, tantalizing insight: “1 May 1994 – Sighting of unusual object. Member of public reported seeing a black boomerang-shaped object, which appeared to hover over RAF Northolt, above 30,000 feet, before tumbling approx 2000-3000 feet, while rotating through 180 degrees on its axis. No other reports of anything unusual received – possibly A/C in Bovingdon stack seen from odd angle in setting sun.” What all of this tells us is that reports in the skies of our world, concerning mainly small objects, is nothing new at all. Of course, none of these "things" can be said to military craft, unknown objects or alien spacecraft. Yet, what we're saying now was being done decades ago.

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15-02-2023 om 23:42 geschreven door peter