Carl Sagan Explains The Cosmos Using Drake Equation, To Find How Many Intelligent Civilizations In Our Galaxy. UFO Sighting News.

The Drake Equation is a formula that attempts to estimate the number of intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy with whom communication might be possible. The equation takes into account a number of factors, including the rate of star formation, the fraction of stars with planets, and the number of planets that could support life.

The Drake Equation is often used as a starting point for discussions about the possibility of extraterrestrial life, but it is important to note that the values used for each parameter are highly uncertain and could vary widely depending on a number of factors. Using the Drake Equation to estimate the number of intelligent alien species in the universe is difficult, as it requires making assumptions about a number of unknown factors.

However, some estimates suggest that there could be as many as 10 billion intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy alone. It is important to note, however, that these estimates are highly speculative and subject to significant uncertainty. As we continue to explore the universe and gather more data about the conditions necessary for life, our estimates of the number of intelligent alien species in the universe may change.

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22-02-2023 om 18:44 geschreven door peter  

John Lennon describes seeing a UFO over New York, 1974 UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: 1974

Location of sighting: New York City, New York, USA 

 

John Lennon, one of the founding members of the Beatles, was known for his creative talents, activism, and controversial views on various topics. In 1974, Lennon reportedly had a UFO encounter that left a lasting impression on him. According to reports, Lennon and his girlfriend, May Pang, were living in an apartment in New York City when they observed a bright, circular object hovering in the sky outside their window. Lennon described the object as being "a very vivid, white light" that he initially thought was a helicopter. However, when the object began to move erratically and change colors, Lennon realized it was not a conventional aircraft. Lennon later recounted the experience in interviews and even mentioned it in some of his songs. He described feeling a sense of awe and wonder at the sighting and suggested that it had a profound impact on his worldview.

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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22-02-2023 om 18:33 geschreven door peter  

White UFO Over Kellog, Iowa May 28, 2022, UFO Sighting News. Video

Date of sighting: May 28, 2022

Location of sighting: Kellog, Iowa, USA
Source: MUFON 

 

I made a close up of 6 seconds and slowed it down 2X to make it a total of 12 seconds and put it at the start of the video. That way everyone could see this objects shape, but its odd, its rectangle then oval then round, so its shape seems to change. This to me indicates its a true alien craft, because there are no aircraft or rockets capable of changing shape. 100% alien tech. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

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22-02-2023 om 18:24 geschreven door peter  

UFOs in Belgium

Triangular UFOs in Belgium 1989

The sightings
The Belgian UFO wave began in November 1989. Reports were filed, most many weeks after the events. Many of the reports related a large object flying at low altitude. Some reports also stated that the craft was of a flat, triangular shape, with lights underneath.
The Belgian UFO wave peaked with the events of the night of 30–31 March 1990. On that night, one unknown object was tracked on radar, and two Belgian Air Force F-16s were sent to investigate, with neither pilot reporting seeing the object. No reports were received from the public on the date. But over the next 2 weeks reports from 143 people who claimed to have witnessed the object were received, all of them after the event. Over the ensuing months, many others claimed to have witnessed these events as well. Following the incident, the Belgian Air Force released a report detailing the events of that night
At around 23:00 on 30 March, the supervisor for the Control Reporting Center (CRC) at Glons received reports that three unusual lights were seen moving towards Thorembais-Gembloux, which lies to the southeast of Brussels. Glons CRC requested the Wavre gendarmerie send a patrol to confirm the sighting.
Approximately 10 minutes later, some later reports stated that a second set of lights were seen, moving towards the first triangle. Traffic Center Control at Semmerzake tracked one object only on its radar, and an order to scramble two F-16 fighters from Beauvechain Air Base was given. Throughout this time, in reports after the event, some people claim that the phenomenon was visible from the ground, describing the whole formation as maintaining their relative positions while moving slowly across the sky.

Belgian UFO wave,sightings of triangular UFOs in Belgium lasted from 29 November 1989 to April 1990

The Belgian UFO wave began in November 1989. Reports were filed, most many weeks after the events. Many of the reports related a large object flying at low altitude. Some reports also stated that the craft was of a flat, triangular shape, with lights underneath.

The Belgian UFO wave peaked with the events of the night of 30–31 March 1990. On that night, one unknown object was tracked on radar, and two Belgian Air Force F-16s were sent to investigate, with neither pilot reporting seeing the object. No reports were received from the public on the date. But over the next 2 weeks reports from 143 people who claimed to have witnessed the object were received, all of them after the event. Over the ensuing months, many others claimed to have witnessed these events as well. Following the incident, the Belgian Air Force released a report detailing the events of that night.

Source:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian...

Videocompilatie van de UFO-beelden die in 2022 bij het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt (www.ufomeldpunt.be) binnenkwamen.

Belgian UFO videos 2021

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UFO boven België

Op 23 juni 2020, om 22:02 uur zagen Jasmina Van Wrydeve en haar moeder Manuela Dello een UFO in Zeebrugge (België) vanuit hun appartement vlakbij de zee. Ze slaagden erin het evenement vast te leggen en vertelden ons dat dit geen geïsoleerd evenement was. Volgens hen is er tegenwoordig veel UFO-activiteit op de Noordzee.

Original F-16 radar lock-on footage of a UFO & interview with Belgian Air Force Maj. Gen. De Brouwer

Belgian UFO wave, 1989 - 1990.

"The events of November 29 would be documented by no less than thirty different groups of witnesses, and three separate groups of police officers. All of the reports described a large object flying at low altitude. The craft was of a flat, triangular shape, with lights underneath.

This giant craft made not a sound as it slowly and fearlessly moved across the landscape of Belgium. There was free sharing of information as the Belgian populace tracked this craft as it moved from the town of Liege to the border of the Netherlands and Germany.

This first startling sighting would evolve into a wave over the next several months. On two occasions, a pair of F-16 fighters chased the mysterious object, but to no avail.

On March 30, 1990, a frantic call to military headquarters came from a Belgian national police Captain.

He marveled at a giant triangle passing over and simultaneously two ground radar stations were reporting an object of unknown origin on their screens.

One of these bases was NATO controlled near the city of Glons, southeast of Brussels.

After contacting other radar facilities, they learned that at least four other stations were also reporting the object on their screens. The object was moving across their screens slowly, and failed to send a transponder signal to identify itself.

Two F-16s were ordered to intercept and identify this phenomenon, and one of the jet's radars locked the object in. It appeared as a small diamond on the pilot's screen.

The pilot reported that only a few seconds after locking on the target, the object began to pick up speed, quickly moving out of radar range.

An hour long chase ensued, during which time the F-16s picked up the strange craft's signal two additional times, only to see it fade from view.

The triangular craft seemed to be playing a cat and mouse game, and finally was lost in the night lights of Brussels.

The pilots of the fighters reported that the UFO had made maneuvers at speeds beyond the capability of their technology, and once the radar showed the craft drop from 10,000 to 500 feet in 5 seconds!"

• (Source: https://www.ufocasebook.com/Belgium.html)

Radar footage via Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos (UFO FOTOCAP BLOG:

• http://fotocat.blogspot.com/)

Fast UFO over Belgium 2 May 2021 2am

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-Belgium General says incredible UFO case is a mystery - Exclusive

In this video, retired Belgian Air Force General Wilfried De Brouwer discusses a wave of triangular UFOs he investigated in 1989 and 1990. He was in charge of the Belgian Air Force's official investigation. They never came to a definite conclusion as to where the mysterious triangles came from. De Brouwer also discusses the controversial photograph that was allegedly taken in Petit-Rechain.

TRIANGULAR UFOs - Mysteries with a History

Driehoekige UFO's als onderwerp is opnieuw in het nieuws gekomen met een nieuwe waarneming boven de Las Vegas-strip tijdens Kerstmis, met video's die op verschillende sociale media zijn geplaatst. Terwijl lokale tv-zenders en nieuwsuitzendingen zich haastten om het te ontkrachten als een zeldzaam weerfenomeen, hebben veel getuigen en anderen gezegd dat dit niet lijkt op iets dat te wijten is aan het weer.
Driehoekige UFO-waarnemingen komen vaak voor en hebben een lange geschiedenis.
Sommigen zeggen dat het geheime militaire vliegtuigtechnologie is, terwijl anderen zeggen dat het nagemaakte buitenaardse vaartuigen zijn.
In deze aflevering zullen Cristina Gomez en Jimmy Church gevallen en theorieën onderzoeken met betrekking tot dit fascinerende aspect van het UFO-mysterie.

ONDERWERPEN DIE IN ELKE AFLEVERING BEHANDELD WORDEN -
Mysteries met een geschiedenis is een wekelijkse show die kijkt naar specifieke plaatsen, gebeurtenissen en onderwerpen met een belangrijke geschiedenis en die ons begrip op de proef stellen. Van UFO-waarnemingen tot UFO-hotspots, het paranormale, inclusief plaatsen van geesten, bizarre bovennatuurlijke activiteit, stedelijke legendes, overleveringen, mythen en nog veel meer.

Cristina Gomez stelt vragen, zoekt naar antwoorden en kijkt in de marge van de menselijke ervaring om aanwijzingen te vinden over enkele van de meest vreemde mysteries die de mensheid in verwarring brengen. Ze onderschrijft geen bepaalde overtuigingen en haar meningen zijn gewoon speculatief.

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00:00 - Inleiding

00:21 - Cristina Gomez gaat open

02:59 - Jimmy Church komt binnen

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12:35 - Beschrijving van driehoekige UFO's

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23:33 - Hudson Valley, New York 1983

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44:21 - Salisbury Plain, VK 1989

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01:29:01 - Outro en credits

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22-02-2023 om 18:16 geschreven door peter  

“The day UFOs stopped play”

UFOs have been a subject of fascination and intrigue for decades. The idea that we may not be alone in the universe has captivated our imaginations for years, and while there are still many questions unanswered, sightings of UFOs continue to occur all over the world. One such sighting occurred in 1954 at a football stadium in Florence, Italy. The event became known as the day UFOs stopped play, and it has since become one of the most well-known sightings of its kind.

On October 27, 1954, the Fiorentina football club was playing against its local rival Pistoiese at the Stadio Artemi Franchi in Florence. The match was well underway, with 10,000 fans watching in the concrete bowl of the stadium. However, just after half-time, the game was interrupted when spectators spotted something strange in the sky. According to the referee’s match report, play was suspended because spectators saw something in the sky. The players stopped playing, and the ball rolled to a standstill.

One of the footballers on the pitch at the time was Ardico Magnini, a legend at the club who had played for Italy at the 1954 World Cup. He later recalled the events of that day, saying, “I remember everything from A to Z. It was something that looked like an egg that was moving slowly, slowly, slowly. Everyone was looking up, and there was also some glitter coming down from the sky, silver glitter. We were astonished we had never seen anything like it before. We were absolutely shocked.”

• “The day UFOs stopped play”

Another player, Romolo Tuci, also vividly remembers the event. “In those years everybody was talking about aliens, everybody was talking about UFOs, and we had the experience, we saw them, we saw them directly, for real,” he said.

Among the crowd was Gigi Boni, a lifelong Fiorentina fan. “I remember clearly seeing this incredible sight,” he said. His description of multiple objects differs slightly from Magnini’s. “They were moving very fast, and then they just stopped. It all lasted a couple of minutes. I would like to describe them as being like Cuban cigars. They just reminded me of Cuban cigars, in the way they looked.”

The incident at the stadium cannot simply be interpreted as mass hysteria. There were numerous UFO sightings in many towns across Tuscany that day and over the days that followed. According to some eyewitness accounts, a ray of white light was seen in the sky coming from Prato, north of Florence.

Another man who relishes the chance to speak about that day is Roberto Pinotti, the president of Italy’s National UFO Centre. He has written many books about UFOs (you can find them on Amazon), and his home in the center of Florence is stuffed full of alien memorabilia, posters of old Italian B-movies, framed newspaper articles, and black-and-white photographs of blurry flying saucers. “The players and the public were stunned seeing these objects above the stadium,” Pinotti says. “At the time the newspapers spoke of aliens from Mars. Of course, now we know that is not so – but we may conclude that it was an intelligent phenomenon, a technological phenomenon, and a phenomenon that cannot be linked with anything we know on Earth.”

Pinotti is also intrigued by the material that fell from the sky – what Magnini describes as silver glitter. “A wave of flying saucers over Italy,” reported the Domenica del Corriere three years later. “It is a fact that at the same time the UFOs were seen over Florence, there was a strange, sticky substance falling from above. In English, we call this ‘angel hair,'” says Pinotti.

Variously described by witnesses as similar to cobwebs, cotton wool, or even marshmallows, angel hair is a strange substance that has been reported in connection with UFO sightings around the world. According to Pinotti, the substance is a type of organic material that has not yet been identified. He believes that it is created by the propulsion systems of UFOs and is left behind as they move through the atmosphere.

The incident at the Stadio Artemi Franchi was not the first time that UFOs had been reported in Italy. In fact, the country has a long history of UFO sightings, with many of them occurring during the 1950s and 60s. Some of the most well-known sightings include the so-called “Sanremo incident” in 1954, in which two Italian air force planes chased a UFO over the Ligurian Sea, and the “Carmine UFO” sighting of 1965, in which a group of schoolchildren in the town of Carmine witnessed a large, cigar-shaped object hovering over their schoolyard.

Despite the wealth of sightings and evidence, the scientific community remains divided on the topic of UFOs. While some researchers argue that there is a great deal of evidence to support the existence of extraterrestrial life and that UFO sightings are proof of this, others are more skeptical. They argue that many UFO sightings can be explained by natural phenomena or are the result of misidentification or hoaxes.

Fifa (Federation Internationale de Football Association) also posted a documentary on their website about the UFO sightings at football matches. You can watch full documentary at this link or in just a part about the Day UFOs Stopped Play in the video bellow!

Regardless of which side of the debate you fall on, there is no denying that the incident at the Stadio Artemi Franchi was a truly remarkable event. It captured the imagination of people all over the world and remains one of the most fascinating UFO sightings on record. Today, over 65 years later, it still inspires wonder and intrigue and reminds us that there is much we still don’t know about the universe and our place in it.

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22-02-2023 om 17:11 geschreven door peter  

Ancient Environmental DNA Reveals Thriving 2-Million-Year-Old Life on Greenland

A “breakthrough” has been made in understanding the history of our planet. Studying ancient environmental DNA a team of researchers has now tracked and mapped the evolution of biological communities that existed some two million-years-ago (Mya).

Until now, the scientific understanding of Earth’s ancient biological lifeforms was greatly built on the oldest environmental DNA available, which was taken from a woolly mammoth that roamed in the Siberian tundra around 1 Mya. But a team of researchers has now sampled and interpreted DNA from sedimentary clay and quartz deposits taken from the permafrost of Greenland that dates back to around 2 million Mya.

Based on this new study of ancient environmental DNA, the team of researchers has presented a detailed picture of life in a 2-million-year-old (Myo) environment, describing it as “far removed from the icy shores of the Arctic Circle.” But more importantly, they think their new techniques and methodology might soon shine light on the ancient origins of humans .

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A two-million- year-old trunk from a larch tree still stuck in the permafrost within the coastal deposits. The tree was carried to the sea by the rivers that eroded the former forested landscape.

(Professor Svend Funder/ Nature)

Peering Through A Wormhole In Time

A new paper published in the journal Nature explores an ancient ecosystem through the results of an analysis of “the oldest ancient environmental DNA recovered to date,” anywhere. The samples were all taken in the north of Greenland, and the study reveals the animal and plant species that roamed these northern territories approximately two Mya.

Author of the new paper, Geneticist Eske Willerslev of the University of Cambridge in the UK and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, says the new research opens “a new chapter spanning 1 million extra years of history.” And as a result of this new study scientists can now “look directly at the DNA of a past ecosystem that far back in time" added Eske.

Prof. Eske Willerslev and a colleague sample sediments for environmental DNA in Greenland.

(Courtesy of NOVA, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios & Handful of Films/ Nature)

Revolutionary Steps in Environmental DNA Analysis

The ancient environmental DNA was identified in samples taken at the Kap København Formation, located in Peary Land, North Greenland. Often described as a ‘polar desert’ this region is renowned for its rare fossils dating back to the Neogene period beginning 23.03 million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period 2.58 Mya.

Notwithstanding, because ‘vertebrate’ fossils are rare in the Arctic researchers have always struggled to obtain samples that reveal new data about ancient biological communities. Eske explains that all previous research suggested that around 2–3 Mya the Kap København Formation region had experienced a much warmer climate with “temperatures 11–19 °C warmer than today.” But the new research was constructed around extracted and sequenced DNA “from 41 organic-rich sediment samples taken from 5 different sites within the Kap København Formation.”

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Newly thawed moss from the permafrost coastal deposits. The moss originates from erosion of the river that cut through the landscape at Kap København some two million years ago.

(Professor Nicolaj K. Larsen/ Nature)

Mapping A Two MYO Ecosystem

Geologist Kurt Kjær of the University of Copenhagen explains that most of the samples were taken many years ago during other research projects. It wasn't until “a new generation of DNA extraction and sequencing equipment was developed” that extremely small and damaged fragments of DNA in the sediment samples could be analysed enabling the new “map a 2-million-year-old ecosystem."

The new model of the Greenland polar region some 2 Mya shows an ancient ecosystem thriving with fern and fauna. An open boreal forest was filled with “a mixed vegetation of poplar, birch and thuja trees, as well as a variety of Arctic and boreal shrubs and herbs.” Furthermore, mitochondrial DNA allowed the researchers to build a picture of the wildlife from the ground up.

On a microscopic scale, DNA was identified from microorganisms and fungi and the ancient world was populated by ants and fleas. On the other end of the spectrum giant mastodons roamed among reindeer, rodents and geese, and until this study it was thought that mastodons did not range as far north as Greenland. Then, in areas that were once ancient seas, the scientists recovered DNA from the Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus).

Questing Ancient Origins

In conclusion, the authors suggest their data points towards “Earth's future in the face of a changing climate.” What they mean here is that they now have insights into the ability of different species to adapt to the changing environments resulting from temperature increases. Geogeneticist Mikkel Pederson of the University of Copenhagen said the new found information suggests that given time, “more species can evolve and adapt to wildly varying temperatures than previously thought.”

In the opening sentence this new research was described as a “breakthrough.” Why so? Now that ancient environmental DNA has been extracted from clay and quartz samples, and successfully analysed, the new technique might now be turned towards deposits from other locations around the world. Willerslev said “the possibilities are endless" and that if the new method was applied in Africa scientists might soon be gathering “ground-breaking information about the origin of the first humans and their ancestors."

• Top image: Reconstruction of Kap København formation two-million years ago in a time where the temperature was significantly warmer than northernmost Greenland today.        
• Source: Beth Zaiken / Nature

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22-02-2023 om 00:29 geschreven door peter  

The European Space Agency hopes that its Argonaut Moon missions (artist’s impression) will be powered by batteries that use the radioactive element americium.

Credit: ESA

European scientists are developing a breed of battery for space missions that is powered by nuclear waste. The European Space Agency (ESA) hopes that the technology will, by the end of the decade, allow it to operate spacecraft that don’t rely on solar panels and can explore the Moon and far-off reaches of the Solar System without relying on equipment from international partners.

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Ministers at ESA’s ministerial council meeting in Paris on 22 and 23 November agreed to fund a €29-million (US$30-million) programme called European Devices Using Radioisotope Energy (ENDURE). This aims to develop long-lasting heat and electricity units powered by the radioactive element americium-241, in time for a series of ESA Moon missions in the early 2030s.

“If we want to have autonomy in exploration, we need these capabilities,” says Jason Hatton, a co-leader of ENDURE, based at the European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. ESA’s growing space ambitions mean it needs its own source of long-lasting power, says Hatton.

Element 241

Americium, a by-product of plutonium decay, has never been used as a fuel. For missions in which solar power would not suffice — either because of shade or because of distance from the Sun — ESA has relied on US or Russian partners, which have used plutonium-238 batteries to power missions since the space race. NASA built plutonium batteries, for example, that warmed the Huygens probe during its descent to Saturn’s moon Titan in 2005. But plutonium-238 has been in short supply over the past decade and is expensive to produce.

And ESA severed ties with Russia after the country invaded Ukraine. “The current political situation demonstrates that you cannot always rely on partners”, says Athena Coustenis, an astrophysicist at the Paris Observatory in Meudon, France, who chairs an ESA advisory committee that backed the new programme.

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The lack of a power source has long restricted the solo missions that European scientists propose, and limited others. The agency felt its lack of radioisotope power keenly in 2014, when its comet-landing Philae probe was operational for less than three days because it ended up in a shaded spot where its solar panels were useless. “For years, European scientists have been saying that if you want to go far, or to dark and cold places, there is no other way,” says Coustenis.

Better than plutonium?

Americium’s big advantage over plutonium is that it is cheaper and more abundant, repurposing waste that would otherwise be useless, says Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois, who co-leads the ENDURE initiative at ESTEC.

Plutonium-238 is made in a two-stage process that involves irradiating a neptunium target with neutrons. Researchers at the UK government’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) in Sellafield have shown that americium can be extracted from reprocessed nuclear fuel used in civil power plants and made into fuel pellets, which form the core of the batteries. Part of the ENDURE programme will include raising americium production capacity to what is needed for batteries, says Hatton.

Americium has a longer half-life than plutonium-238, which means it lasts longer but packs less power per gram. But because americium is more readily available, producing one watt of power costs about one-fifth as much as it does using plutonium, says Markus Landgraf, who coordinates work on future lunar missions at ESTEC.

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Over the next three years, the ENDURE team will develop prototypes into models that can be tested in mission-like conditions, as precursors to usable devices. In a collaboration with NNL, a team at the University of Leicester, UK, has developed two types of device: a radioisotope heating unit, which warms instruments with heat produced in the decaying americium, and radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), which use the heat to produce electricity by creating a temperature difference across metal plates.

The researchers designed both types of device to account for americium’s higher volume for a given power output, and cooler temperatures, compared with plutonium, says Richard Ambrosi, a physicist and specialist in space power systems, who leads the team at the University of Leicester.

Safety is also crucial, because of the use of radioactive materials. The units are encapsulated in layers including a platinum alloy, which seal in the americium while allowing heat to escape, he says. The programme’s next phase will focus on safety testing, so that the americium units can be certified for launch. Tests will include monitoring the behaviour of components at high temperatures and under impact — for example, during an explosion on the launch pad — to ensure that radioactive material would not leak. “We have to be able to survive a significant set of very extreme scenarios,” says Ambrosi.

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Batteries on the Moon

Once developed, the same basic power system could be reused on any missions for which solar energy is unavailable, says Ferlet-Cavrois. This is the case during nights on the Moon, which last 14 Earth days, and on expeditions to the Solar System beyond Jupiter. To survive the harsh lunar night, China’s active Moon rover, Chang’e-4, uses plutonium heating units built in collaboration with Russia.

ESA’s first target for launching americium power sources is its Argonaut Moon lander, scheduled to launch in the early 2030s. The Argonaut missions would conduct long studies on the lunar surface and support astronauts working there, says Landgraf. And in the 2040s, ESA hopes to power a mission to the ice giants Uranus and Neptune, says Ferlet-Cavrois. These planets have been studied only during fly-bys by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe in the 1980s.

Americium’s availability, and the challenges of producing plutonium-238, mean that NASA might want to use it too, says Landgraf. The agency is assessing its ability to produce enough RTGs for its coming missions. For its Artemis programme, which aims to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, “they consider our americium very interesting”, he says.

It has taken more than a decade of research to get the americium technology to the stage at which it can be developed for real missions, says Ambrosi. “The excitement is actually quite palpable at the moment. We’ve been working on this for a long time,” he says.

• Nature 612, 385-386 (2022)
• doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04247-6

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21-02-2023 om 23:53 geschreven door peter  

Buitenaardse steen blijkt twee mineralen te herbergen die wetenschappers hierop aarde nog nooit in het wild hebben gezien & meer wetenschap

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21-02-2023 om 23:35 geschreven door peter  

De onfortuinlijke ster werd volledig aan flarden gescheurd, wat leidde tot een recordbrekend heldere uitbarsting waarbij er meer licht werd uitgestraald dan 1000 biljoen zonnen samen!

Eerder dit jaar ontdekten astronomen een ongewoon heldere lichtbron aan de nachtelijke hemel. Meerdere telescopen, waaronder de Very Large Telescope (VLT), werden door onderzoekers van over de hele wereld op de mysterieuze bron gericht. En wat blijkt? Het signaal is waarschijnlijk afkomstig van een straal materie (een jet) die bijna met de snelheid als het licht uit een superzwaar zwart gat schiet. En deze jet blijkt het product van een zwart gat dat plotseling een nabije ster begon te verslinden, waarbij een enorme hoeveelheid energie vrijkwam.

Tidal disruption event
Sterren die onverhoopt te dicht bij een zwart gat in de buurt komen, worden door diens enorme getijdenkrachten aan flarden getrokken. Zo’n gebeurtenis wordt ook wel een ‘tidal disruption event’ (TDE) genoemd. In ongeveer één procent van de gevallen schieten bundels van plasma en straling uit de polen van het draaiende zwarte gat weg. In 1971 omschreef zwarte-gatenpionier John Wheeler het concept van TDE’s met jets als ‘een tube tandpasta die in het midden stevig wordt samengeknepen, waardoor aan beide uiteinden materie wegspuit’.

Deze animatie laat zien hoe materiaal van een ster naar een zwarte gat in het centrum van een ver sterrenstelsel toe valt, waarbij ‘jets’ van materie en straling ontstaan. Een deel van het materiaal van de ster wordt naar binnen getrokken en wervelt om het zwarte gat, waardoor de hierboven afgebeelde schijf ontstaat. In zeldzame gevallen (zoals deze), schieten materie en straling uit de polen van het zwarte gat weg. In het geval van AT2022cmc zijn deze ‘jets’ gedetecteerd met verschillende telescopen, waaronder de VLT, die vaststelde dat dit het verste voorbeeld van een gebeurtenis van dit type is.

Zeldzaam
Dit soort verschijnselen zijn uiterst zeldzaam en geven zich niet gemakkelijk prijs, waardoor ze moeilijk te bestuderen zijn. “We hebben tot nu toe pas een handjevol TDE’s met jets gezien en het zijn nog steeds heel exotische en slecht begrepen gebeurtenissen,” zegt onderzoeker Nial Tanvir. Astronomen zijn dus voortdurend op jacht naar deze extreme verschijnselen, om te begrijpen hoe de jets precies ontstaan en waarom ze maar bij zo weinig TDE’s optreden.

Speurtocht
In het kader van deze zoektocht speuren veel telescopen regelmatig de hemel af naar tekenen van kortstondige – vaak extreme – gebeurtenissen, die vervolgens veel gedetailleerder onder de loep kunnen worden genomen door telescopen zoals de VLT. In februari van dit jaar ontdekten astronomen vervolgens de nieuwe mysterieuze bron van zichtbaar licht. De gebeurtenis, die AT2022cmc is genoemd, leek op een gammaflits – de krachtigste lichtbron in het heelal. Het vooruitzicht om getuige te zijn van dit zeldzame verschijnsel bracht astronomen ertoe om telescopen van over de hele wereld te activeren om de mysterieuze lichtbron beter te kunnen bekijken.

Verste en helderste ooit
In totaal hebben 21 telescopen allerlei soorten licht – van hoogenergetische gammastraling tot radiogolven – verzameld. Verschillende theorieën over wat de heldere flits kon hebben veroorzaakt, passeerden de revue. Maar uiteindelijk is het enige scenario dat met de gegevens overeenkomt een zeldzame TDE, waarbij een onfortuinlijke ster door een hongerig zwart gat wordt opgeslokt. Wanneer de stellaire materie vervolgens in het zwarte gat valt, komt een heldere uitbarsting van energie vrij die onderzoekers kunnen detecteren. En van de weinig TDE’s met jets die tot nu toe zijn ontdekt, is AT2022cmc zowel de verste als de helderste.

Hoe dan?
De bron bevindt zich op een slordige 8,5 miljard lichtjaar afstand – meer dan halverwege het universum. Het licht van AT2022cmc begon zijn reis toen het heelal nog maar ongeveer een derde van zijn huidige leeftijd had. Hoe zo’n verre gebeurtenis zo helder aan onze hemel kan verschijnen? Het team denkt dat de uitgespuugde jet mogelijk rechtstreeks naar de aarde wijst, waardoor het signaal helderder lijkt dan wanneer de jet in een andere richting zou wijzen.

Zichtbaar licht
Dat is nog niet eens het enige bijzondere. “De weinige TDE’s met jets die tot nu toe zijn waargenomen, zijn in eerste instantie opgemerkt met telescopen die hoogenergetische gamma- en röntgenstraling detecteren,” vertelt onderzoeker Daniel Perley. “Maar AT2022cmc is de eerste ontdekking van een TDE in zichtbaar licht.” Dit betekent dat er blijkbaar nog een andere manier bestaat om TDE’s met jets te detecteren en deze zeldzame gebeurtenissen in de extreme omgevingen rond zwarte gaten nader te onderzoeken.

De waarnemingen verschaffen meer inzicht in superzware zwarte gaten. Zo zou het meer kunnen verhelderen over hoe zwarte gaten zich voeden en groeien. Daarnaast gaat de jacht op TDE’s onverstoorbaar door. En mogelijk wachten er in de nabije toekomst nog veel meer op ontdekking. In de komende jaren zullen er namelijk meer krachtige telescopen in bedrijf worden genomen die in staat zijn TDE’s aan het licht te brengen. “We verwachten in de toekomst nog veel meer van TDE’s te vinden,” zegt onderzoeker MatteoLucchini. “Dan zullen we mogelijk ook achterhalen hoe zwarte gaten de waargenomen extreem krachtige jets precies lanceren.”

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21-02-2023 om 23:16 geschreven door peter  

21-02-2023 om 20:42 geschreven door peter  

There is much written about the infamous Blue Beam project from which it is said that it will be used to create a fake alien invasion. 

Now, there are rumors that soon they are going to rollout this blue beam technology in order to convince the people that there is a threat from outer space. 

Of course there are secret government projects that use certain technologies and they have powerful satellites and ground based systems that can project holograms. They have been developing and perfecting this holographic blue beam technology for decades and it looks real.

But creating a fake alien invasion would require an enormous amount of resources and would be very difficult to keep it secret. Additionally, such an event would likely have major ethical and political implications that the US government would not want to risk, therefore it is unlikely that it would be used to create a false flag event, but you never know.

Watching the video below of a large fire-breathing dragon flying around at the opening of a baseball game at Happy Dream Park in South Korea in 2019 which was streamed live through sports broadcasting channels then it's not hard to imagine what's possible by using 3D holographic blue beam technology. 

  

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

UFO Sighting in Quebec: Telepathic Chat with Pleiadians

On the 10th of August 2022, a driver in St-Élie-de-Caxton, Quebec, Canada, witnessed a mysterious UFO in the sky. The object was large and silvery white, with some small darker vessels below it. The driver was able to film the UFO, but the camera failed to capture the full extent of what the driver’s eyes could see.

The sighting was not just a random event, as another witness from a nearby town also saw the UFO and confirmed the presence of smaller vessels below the main one. However, what set this sighting apart from others was the fact that the driver claimed to have chatted telepathically with the UFO afterwards, and it identified itself as a Pleiadian spacecraft.

The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters, is a star cluster located in the Taurus constellation, and it has been the subject of much fascination for many years. According to believers in the existence of extraterrestrial life, the Pleiadians are an advanced race of beings who have been visiting Earth for a long time. They are said to be peaceful and benevolent and have been working to help humanity in various ways.

• Strange Glowing UFO Over Canadian City

The driver’s telepathic chat with the Pleiadian craft was an extraordinary event, but it raises a lot of questions. How did the driver know that the craft was a Pleiadian spaceship? Was the chat genuine, or was it just a figment of the driver’s imagination? These are difficult questions to answer, and it’s up to each person to decide what they believe.

Despite the skepticism that some may have towards the driver’s experience, it’s worth noting that there have been many reports of people claiming to have had telepathic communications with extraterrestrial beings. In some cases, these contacts have led to profound changes in people’s lives, inspiring them to become more spiritual or pursue a deeper understanding of the universe.

In any case, the sighting in Quebec is an exciting event that adds to the long list of mysterious and unexplained phenomena that continue to fascinate people around the world. Whether or not the driver’s telepathic chat with the Pleiadian craft was genuine, it’s clear that the event had a profound impact on the driver and may inspire others to keep an open mind about the possibility of life beyond Earth.

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21-02-2023 om 17:48 geschreven door peter  

LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 21-02-2023

Mercury transits the Sun in these awesome Solar Orbiter views

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun on Jan. 3, 2023. Multiple instruments aboard the spacecraft captured the imagery.

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Strangest Laser/Maser Object in the Milky Way Gets Even Weirder, MWC 349

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0:30 MWC 349 Object Explained

1:30 What Do We Know About This Object's Origin?

2:55 Strange Observations and Discoveries

3:45 History of Masers and Mysterium

5:35 Biggest Questions About This Object

6:00 New Discoveries and More Mysteries

7:20 Potential Explanation and Conclusions

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SpaceX NEW Dragon scheduled to ISS with astronauts made Russia embarrassed cause of Soyuz

SpaceX Dragon to ISS with astronauts while Soyuz is empty, Dragon to rescue Soyuz...

This is the International Space Station or ISS for short.
It has been continuously occupied since November 2000. The station is divided into two sections: the Russian Orbital Segment is operated by Russia, while the United States Orbital Segment is run by the United States as well as by the other states.
Countries have cooperated very well with each other over the past two decades. But the ISS status is recently experiencing a lot of turmoil due to the Soyuz leak two times in nearly two months.
More stress will come this week as in just a short period of time, SpaceX Dragon will dock to ISS with astronauts while Soyuz is empty to rescue the MS-22 crew.
Explain all of this in today's episode of Alpha Tech:
First, in an important news, one leaky Russia space station ships burned up over the Pacific Ocean last week.
The Progress MS-21 cargo ship undocked from space-facing Poisk module on the Russian segment of the space station at 9:26 p.m. EST Friday (0226 GMT Saturday), keeping a departure date that has been set for months. But the routine undocking took special significance after the Progress MS-21 cargo ship suddenly leaked coolant last Saturday, Feb. 11, soon after the docking of a fresh Progress resupply spacecraft to a different port on the space station.
The timing of the leak soon after the docking of another Progress supply ship was presumably a coincidence, but it was the second time in less than two months that a Russian spacecraft suddenly lost its coolant fluid while docked at the international research complex. Russia’s Soyuz MS-22 crew ferry ship leaked coolant in December, an incident that Russian space agency officials previously blamed on a likely high-speed impact from a micrometeoroid, or a tiny fragment of rock from deep space.
Russian engineers continue analyzing the cause of the coolant leak on the unpiloted Progress MS-21 cargo ship, and officials have not said whether both leaks were caused by the same failure, or if both spaceships suffered untimely hits by space junk or micrometeoroids. The coolant on both vehicles is used to dissipate heat generated by internal spacecraft electronics, and maintain comfortable operating temperatures for computers, cargo, and people inside.
The 58-foot-long (17.6-meter) Canadian-built robotic arm inspected the damaged thermal control system radiator Progress MS-21 spacecraft’s rear instrumentation compartment earlier last week, according to Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency. Russian space officials decided to move ahead with the planned undocking and re-entry of the Progress MS-21 spacecraft, which is carrying trash and other unnecessary space station equipment for disposal.
SpaceX NEW Dragon scheduled to ISS with astronauts made Russia embarrassed cause of Soyuz

Breakthrough In Dark Energy? Here's What The Researchers Have To Say

A recent research paper suggests that supermassive black holes can be the source of dark energy. It's a big potential breakthrough in Astronomy. So, here's what the co-author of the study, Dr Chris Pearson from STFC RAL Space, has to say about it.

00:00 Intro

01:36 How did the paper come together

03:36 Connection between Dark Energy and Black Holes

06:48 Observations behind the research

14:37 Causation or just correlation?

21:20 Redefining what black holes are

25:27 Dark Energy core of a black hole

27:53 Nature of dark energy

35:35 Will Dark Energy tear the Universe apart?

38:30 What's next

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Why Is It So Difficult To Get To Saturn?

Since space exploration began, only four spaceships have managed to reach Saturn. But, only one managed to enter the planet's bowels and reveal what is hidden under its cloud-filled atmosphere. Is it difficult to get to the planet with the giant asteroid rings?
Ready? Let's get started!
Being the sixth closest planet to the sun, Saturn is also known for its famous asteroid rings, but despite its fame, few have been the ships that have managed to reach this distant planet.
The Gas Giants
One of the main reasons Saturn is so difficult for our spacecraft or space exploration probes to visit is that it is part of the planets known as "gas giants," which are very far from Earth and the sun.
Any spacecraft destined to visit the outermost planets of the solar system must meet specific requirements that are very difficult to achieve. One such requirement is that the spacecraft must have a nuclear battery that provides it with electrical power for all its data transmission functions. These ships must carry this type of battery instead of the classic solar panels because these planets are too far from the sun; because of this, very little light arrives, and the solar panels fail to provide enough energy for the operation of the ship.
Due to the lack of light, it is necessary to incorporate batteries that work with nuclear thermal energy. Still, the problem with these batteries is that they weigh a lot, which considerably increases the cost of the spaceship, in addition to the fact that the heavier it is, the more fuel is also needed to take it very far, compared to the energy needed by exploration probes that use solar panels.
Gas giants like Saturn are located beyond the asteroid belt; in these regions, the temperatures are very, very low, which is why the ships that are sent to explore these planets must have isolation systems to the low temperatures of the interplanetary medium.
And, of course, one of the most important reasons why it is tough to reach Saturn is that it is 1,300 million kilometers from Earth. To cover this distance, a large amount of energy and fuel is necessary at the time of launch, which is why the probes that have visited Saturn have been supported with the gravitational assistance of Jupiter.
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Scientists Just Opened A Black Hole And FINALLY Found What's Inside

For as long as most of us can remember, black holes have been seen as one of the scariest things mankind has ever come across. They have the ability to swallow up anything that comes too close, including galaxies, stars, and any other matter in their reach. But there is much more to black holes than meets the eye. The thing is, you can't exactly get up close to one to study it, or can you? Well, scientists have just admitted that they've created an actual black hole in their lab, and well, it's revealed details that no one saw coming.
Join us as we explore the incredible and mysterious world of black holes, what scientists were able to find out with the one they made, and what it all might mean for the future of science and mankind as a whole.

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Google's AI Robot Terrifies Officials Before It Was Quickly Shut Down

Google's AI Robot Terrifies Officials Before It Was Quickly Shut Down. Google engineer Blake Lemoine began talking to LaMDA as part of his job to test if the artificial intelligence used discriminatory or hate speech. But what followed, let Lemoine’s jaw open.

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Elon Musk Drops Truth Bomb About Aliens - You Won't Believe What He Said!

Elon Musk Drops Truth Bomb About Aliens - You Won't Believe What He Said!

In this video, we explore what Elon Musk just said about aliens and how it could potentially change our understanding of the universe. From the possibility of life on Mars to the potential implications for space travel, Musk's comments have left many people wondering about the future of space exploration. Join us as we dive into this fascinating topic and uncover the truth about Elon Musk's thoughts on extraterrestrial life.

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21-02-2023 om 17:22 geschreven door peter  

NASA’s Webb Reveals Intricate Networks of Gas and Dust in Nearby Galaxies

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope are getting their first look at star formation, gas, and dust in nearby galaxies with unprecedented resolution at infrared wavelengths. The data has enabled an initial collection of 21 research papers which provide new insight into how some of the smallest-scale processes in our universe – the beginnings of star formation – impact the evolution of the largest objects in our cosmos: galaxies.

The largest survey of nearby galaxies in Webb’s first year of science operations is being carried out by the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby Galaxies (PHANGS) collaboration, involving more than 100 researchers from around the globe. The Webb observations are led by Janice Lee, Gemini Observatory chief scientist at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab and affiliate astronomer at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

The team is studying a diverse sample of 19 spiral galaxies, and in Webb’s first few months of science operations, observations of five of those targets – M74, NGC 7496, IC 5332, NGC 1365, and NGC 1433 – have taken place. The results are already astounding astronomers. 

“The clarity with which we are seeing the fine structure certainly caught us by surprise,” said team member David Thilker of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. 

“We are directly seeing how the energy from the formation of young stars affects the gas around them, and it’s just remarkable,” said team member Erik Rosolowsky of the University of Alberta, Canada.

The images from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveal the presence of a network of highly structured features within these galaxies – glowing cavities of dust and huge cavernous bubbles of gas that line the spiral arms. In some regions of the nearby galaxies observed, this web of features appears built from both individual and overlapping shells and bubbles where young stars are releasing energy. 

“Areas which are completely dark in Hubble imaging light up in exquisite detail in these new infrared images, allowing us to study how the dust in the interstellar medium has absorbed the light from forming stars and emitted it back out in the infrared, illuminating an intricate network of gas and dust,” said team member Karin Sandstrom of the University of California, San Diego. 

The high-resolution imaging needed to study these structures has long evaded astronomers – until Webb came into the picture. 

“The PHANGS team has spent years observing these galaxies at optical, radio, and ultraviolent wavelengths using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array, and the Very Large Telescope’s Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer,” added team member Adam Leroy of the Ohio State University. “But, the earliest stages of a star’s lifecycle have remained out of view because the process is enshrouded within gas and dust clouds.”

Webb’s powerful infrared capabilities can pierce through the dust to connect the missing puzzle pieces. 

For example, specific wavelengths observable by MIRI (7.7 and 11.3 microns) and Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (3.3 microns) are sensitive to emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which play a critical role in the formation of stars and planets. These molecules were detected by Webb in the first observations by the PHANGS program.

Studying these interactions at the finest scale can help provide insights into the larger picture of how galaxies have evolved over time.

“Because these observations are taken as part of what's called a treasury program, they are available to the public as they are observed and received on Earth,” said Eva Schinnerer of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, and leader of the PHANGS collaboration.

The PHANGS team will work to create and release data sets that align Webb’s data to each of the complementary data sets obtained previously from the other observatories, to help accelerate discovery by the broader astronomical community. 

“Thanks to the telescope's resolution, for the first time we can conduct a complete census of star formation, and take inventories of the interstellar medium bubble structures in nearby galaxies beyond the Local Group,” Lee said. “That census will help us understand how star formation and its feedback imprint themselves on the interstellar medium, then give rise to the next generation of stars, or how it actually impedes the next generation of stars from being formed.”

The research by the PHANGS team is being conducted as part of General Observer program 2107. The team’s initial findings, comprised of 21 individual studies, were recently published in a special focus issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The James Webb Space Telescope is the world's premier space science observatory. Webb will solve mysteries in our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency), and CSA (Canadian Space Agency).

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20-02-2023 om 23:57 geschreven door peter  

AI tools have allowed researchers to solve complex mathematical problems.

Credit: Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty

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20-02-2023 om 20:27 geschreven door peter  

Pilots report seeing 'large white balloon' floating 50,000ft above Hawaii on plane radars - after Pentagon downed four objects flying over US in last month

• There have been multiple reports of a large white balloon sighted by pilots over Honolulu, Hawaii
• It comes after recent claims by US officials that a Chinese 'spy' balloon targeting Hawaii had been blown off course  
• The object was seen by several pilots and was estimated to be at an altitude of approximately 50,000 feet

By JAMES GORDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM 

Pilots have reported seeing a 'large white balloon' on their radars just east of Hawaii on Sunday afternoon. 

A number of reports suggest that the object was spotted above Honolulu according to The Sun.

It comes days after US officials claimed that a Chinese 'spy' balloon that was headed towards Hawaii had been blown off course. 

Some postings on social media report how a 'large white balloon' was spotted by pilots at an altitude of around 50,000 feet.

However, Air Traffic Control and other US officials have not yet confirmed such reports with the identity of the object and the potential threat it poses to the public unknown. 

Pilots have allegedly been told to look out for another large white balloon off the Hawaii coast on Sunday

Air traffic control sent out instructions asking for pilots to report any sightings of the balloon

The balloon was allegedly spotted about 600 miles northeast of Hawaii on Sunday afternoon 

A 'Large White Balloon' was spotted 524 nautical miles NE of Honolulu on Sunday afternoon

It comes after recent claims by US officials that a Chinese 'spy' balloon targeting Hawaii had been blown off course (file photo from earlier this month)

An image posted to social media online shows what looks to be a pilot in the cockpit holding a note. 

'Report of large white balloon in vicinity of 2639N15021W. Estimated to be between FL400 and FL500. Precise altitude unknown. Advise ATC if object is seen.'

Oakland Oceanic Air Traffic Control Center confirmed the existence of the flying object which reported how the balloon was about 600 miles northeast of Honolulu, over the Pacific Ocean.

The US military shot down several balloons earlier this month, including what was believed to be a Chinese spy balloon on February 4 off the coast of South Carolina. 

Since February 4, four objects have been shot down including the Chinese spy balloon, and then three 'UFOs'

Last week another balloon was shot down over Alaska. A map of the hobby balloon's predicted path indicates it was heading towards the site where the UFO was downed

On February 4, a much bigger balloon - believed to be a Chinese spy balloon (pictured) - was shot down off the coast of South Carolina

U.S. Navy shows sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recovering a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recovering a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina earlier this month

The remnants of the downed balloon from earlier this month is packed away for investigation

On Thursday Joe Biden said that the U.S. is updating its guidelines for monitoring and reacting to unknown aerial objects after the discovery of a suspected Chinese spy balloon transited the country triggered high-stakes drama.

It saw the U.S. shootdown that balloon off the South Carolina coast and three smaller ones days later. 

Biden said officials suspect the three subsequent balloons were ordinary ones which could mean they were used for research, weather, recreational or commercial purposes. 

Officials have been unable to recover any of the remains of those three balloons, and late Friday the U.S. military announced it had ended the search for the objects that were shot down near Deadhorse, Alaska, and over Lake Huron on February 10 and 12.

President Joe Biden said there was no evidence of a surge in mysterious balloons, when he addressed the nation on Thursday. 'We're now just seeing more of them,' he said 

'The U.S. military, federal agencies, and Canadian partners conducted systematic searches of each area using a variety of capabilities, including airborne imagery and sensors, surface sensors and inspections, and subsurface scans, and did not locate debris,' officials said on Friday.

In the South Carolina incident, the U.S. military has said it believes it has collected all of the Chinese balloon's priority sensors and electronics as well as large sections of its structure.

The balloon, which Beijing denies was a government spy vessel, spent a week flying over the United States and Canada before being shot down off the Atlantic Coast on Biden's orders.

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20-02-2023 om 18:21 geschreven door peter  

Twitter:

• https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1627481731778416647

and

• https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1627473004660752385

Will the US Air Force also shoot this balloon out of the sky? 

All these objects shot down by the US Air Force the last weeks have nothing to do with aliens. As Neil deGrasse Tyson said during an interview with CNN: "We have expensive planes and expensive missiles to pop balloons, and that's odd, but Ok that's fine to protect the airspace, Do I think these are visiting aliens? It would be odd. If they were aliens moving across the galaxy and dropping some balloons, oh what aliens would do?" 

It is clear that there is more to it than we are being told, and it is not just about these balloons and unknown objects shot down by the US Airforce. They know what is coming and they are preparing for it. 

The fact that a truckdriver (see video below) has driven for the last few days truckloads of products from the Kraft Foods plant which is an American food manufacturing to deliver it to the Springfield Underground base says enough that they are preparing for something that is going to take place on a large scale.

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20-02-2023 om 17:54 geschreven door peter  

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has captured one of the longest asteroids ever found. The oddly shaped object is as big as Empire State Building and to get a sense of its scale, scientists have estimated the object is about 1,600-by-500 feet, roughly comparable to that of the world-famous landmark that looms over 100 stories above New York. 

The supposed asteroid, which recently sped past Earth, has caught the attention of NASA astronomers for its bizarre long shape. The space object is more than three times as long as it is wide and it is as dark as charcoal when viewed by the human eye, it appears to be scooped on one side and is spinning around every nine hours. 

"Of the 1,040 near-Earth objects observed by planetary radar to date, this is one of the most elongated we’ve seen," said Lance Benner, principal scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a statement. 

The strange space object reminds us the infamous object called Oumuamua which was the first interstellar object, detected by the Pan-STARRS telescope at Haleakalā Observatory, Hawaii, on 19 October 2017, passing through the Solar System. 

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggested that Oumuamua could be an alien spacecraft, and given the equality of the new discovered elongated shaped object to Oumuamua we should at least be open to the possibility that it could be evidence of another interstellar alien spacecraft.

  

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20-02-2023 om 17:36 geschreven door peter  

The Truth Behind the Infamous ‘Tic Tac’ UFO Video: A Former Navy Officer’s Shocking Revelations

The year was 2004, and the USS Nimitz was on a combat training mission off the coast of San Diego. It was a day like any other, until Kevin Day, the chief radar officer for the Navy, witnessed one of the biggest UFO sightings in the 21st century. Day had a front-row seat to the Nimitz video, which would become known as the “Tic Tac” video, and would change his life forever.

In a recent interview, Day revealed details of his encounter with the unidentified flying object. The cylindrical object in the shape of a Tic Tac hovered between 15,000 and 24,000 feet in midair, before suddenly darting off. The encounter was captured on video, which was leaked to the New York Times 13 years later. To this day, analysts have been unable to identify the craft, and there is simply no denying that this was a UFO.

Day, who was the radar operator on the Nimitz that day, has since left the Navy, but has been warned not to discuss what he saw. Despite the risk, Day agreed to meet with Ben, a UFO witness, to recount the details of his encounter.

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Day recalled that on the morning of November 14, they had planned to do a major air defense exercise. They were off the coast, about 90 miles off San Diego. As the anti-air warfare coordinator, Day’s job was to identify objects that flew. He noticed some strange contacts off Catalina Island, which were at 28,000 feet in a loose formation, tracking south at 100 knots.

“I had never seen anything fly like that before. Immediately we’re thinking, ‘hey, are these things real?’ Is this some type of glitch? So, we ran a bunch of diagnostic tests and we brought all our systems back up, and the contacts were stronger now.”

The object seemed to ping-pong through the sky, changing speed and direction in ways that defy the laws of physics. Day became concerned about these things and strongly recommended that they take one of the aircraft that had just launched off the Nimitz and intercept one to see what it is.

Commander Fravor was one of the first pilots to launch off the Nimitz. He was one of the best pilots that the Navy had ever produced, and Day said that he immediately engaged when he heard the order to intercept. The object was described as a white 40-foot long Tic Tac-shaped craft, dropping from 28,000 feet down to the surface of the water in less than a second.

Fravor followed the object down to the surface, and the craft recognized him. The next thing he knew, the craft was gone. The encounter was one of the most humbling moments of Day’s life. They were a highly trained group of people on that ship, with years of experience, and these objects totally kicked their asses. If they had been hostile, there was nothing Day could have done.

In the interview, Day speculated that the objects had been there for a long time. He believed that the technology upgrade that their ship had received gave them the ability to finally see these objects. He thinks that they were curious about what they were doing out there and that they’ve been there for a long, long time.

The encounter was recorded on video, and Day confirmed that there was a system on the ship that recorded all their external communications onto an optical disk. When people with top-secret clearances came on board the ship, they collected a bunch of stuff, including the voice data.

As Kevin Day finishes recounting his experience with the Tic Tac UFO sighting off the coast of California, it’s hard not to be impressed with the sheer scale and intensity of what he witnessed. For years, the video footage of this sighting has been the subject of intense speculation, with many people wondering what exactly the object captured on film could be.

But hearing Kevin’s firsthand account of what he saw only serves to deepen the mystery surrounding this incident. How could an object moving at such high speeds, changing direction so suddenly and seemingly defying the laws of physics, be anything other than extraterrestrial in nature?

And yet, as Kevin himself admits, there’s still so much we don’t know. Were the beings piloting this craft simply curious about what was happening on our planet, or were they up to something more sinister? What kind of technology did they possess that allowed them to move at such incredible speeds without suffering the ill effects of G-forces that would surely have incapacitated any human pilot?

Perhaps most intriguingly of all, Kevin speculates that this is not the first time these objects have been seen. Instead, he believes they’ve been present on our planet for a very long time, and that it’s only through recent advances in technology that we’ve finally been able to detect them.

Whether or not you believe in UFOs, it’s hard not to be fascinated by the story that Kevin Day has to tell. In a world where so much of what we take for granted is based on what we can see and touch, the idea that there might be something out there that we can’t explain or comprehend is both humbling and awe-inspiring.

And who knows? Perhaps one day we’ll finally be able to unlock the secrets of these mysterious objects and understand what they represent. Until then, though, the story of the Tic Tac UFO will remain one of the most compelling and fascinating tales of our time.

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20-02-2023 om 12:58 geschreven door peter  

BY ANTON POZDNYAKOV

Meteor Explodes Over English Channel, Moon Breakthrough, Dark Matter Galaxy

Blue Origin wants to build solar panels on the Moon, out of the Moon, SpaceX sold its floating landing pads, and another asteroid hits Earth exactly where and when astronomers predicted.

Blue Origin’s Blue Alchemist

Blue Origin announced a new technology they call Blue Alchemist. It will allow making solar panels out of Moon regolith. This can be a very big deal, as a system like that will not require any additional input from Earth. All it needs is energy. So, once you put a robot like this on the Moon and give it some time, you should have a bunch of solar panels as the result. Of course, it’s still in development and tests will be required to prove the concept viable. But it definitely sounds promising.

• More about Blue Alchemist.

SpaceX Sells Phobos and Deimos

In the past, SpaceX had bought two oil platforms that they hoped to convert into Starship launch and landing pads. The platforms were called Phobos and Deimos, after the two satellites of Mars. However, this week we learned that the company sold the platforms. Gwenn Shotwell, president of SpaceX, told the press that SpaceX needs to learn to fly Starship first and understand the vehicle better, before expanding the infrastructure like sea launch and landing pads.

Another Meteoroid Discovered Right Before it Hits the Atmosphere

Sneaky asteroids have a hard time crashing into the Earth without notice these days. For the seventh time, astronomers detected a small space rock, or meteoroid, about half a day before it impacted the planet. The detection was made by Krisztián Sárneczky using a 60 cm Schmidt telescope from the Piszkéstet? Observatory in Hungary. The 1-meter object was designated as 2023 CX1 and was predicted with 100% certainty to hit Earth above the English Channel. Astronomers continued to track the object, and then it lit up the skies in Europe right on schedule.

• More about an asteroid exploding over the English Channel.

Another Russian Spacecraft is Leaking Coolant

Russia announced that another spacecraft at the International Space Station is leaking coolant. This time it’s the unpiloted Progress 82 cargo ship that’s docked at the station, is filled with trash and will be de-orbited on Feb. 17th. Roscosmos is investigating the leak, which follows the recent Soyuz coolant leak reportedly caused by a micrometeorite impact. Is there an underlying technical problem with Russian spacecraft? The replacement Progress 83 arrived on February 11th, bringing more supplies to the station.

• More about yet another Russian spaceship problem.

A Galaxy Almost Entirely Made Of Dark Matter

Astronomers found an unusual galaxy that is made mostly of gas and dark matter. Meaning, there are almost no stars in it. It’s also close to us, just 1 million lightyears away. It’s not clear why there are almost no stars in the galaxy. However, such objects can potentially help to solve the missing dwarf galaxy problem in cosmology. As our models predict more dwarf galaxies to exist than being observed. If a lot of small galaxies are in fact just dark matter and gas, it might be the solution.

• More about dark matter galaxy.

Rogue Supermassive Black Hole

When galaxies merge, their supermassive black holes inevitably find one another. Some merge, while others recoil from an encounter and are kicked out of the galaxy at tremendous speeds. Astronomers think they’ve found one of these hypervelocity supermassive black holes hurtling away from a galaxy at 1,600 km/s. It’s leaving a trail of destruction in its wake, containing shocked gas and new star formation. It’s believed that the black hole began its journey about 39 million years ago.

• More about the supermassive black hole on the run.

Mass Migration of Stars in Andromeda

Astronomers at NSF’s NOIRLab found new evidence for a mass immigration of stars into the Andromeda Galaxy. This image shows individual stars from blue (moving toward us) to red (moving away from us).

Image Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/AURA/NSF/E. Slawik/D. de Martin/M. Zamani

By studying the motion of stars in Andromeda galaxy, astronomers have discovered about 7,000 which are moving together and recently migrated into the area. These stars were once part of a dwarf galaxy orbiting Andromeda, similar to the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds around the Milky Way. About 2 billion years ago, the galaxy got too close and was unwound, with its stars joining the vastly larger Andromeda Galaxy.

• More about stars’ movement in Andromeda.

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20-02-2023 om 12:39 geschreven door peter