(In)direct
Zoals gezegd zijn er twee manieren waarop astronomen op exoplaneten jagen: direct en indirect. Historisch gezien zijn de meeste exoplaneten gevonden met behulp van indirecte methoden. Direct houdt in dat een telescoop de planeet daadwerkelijk ziet. Momenteel zijn er van de duizenden exoplaneten die ons bekend zijn, slechts twintig direct in beeld gebracht. Dat dit er zo weinig zijn, is niet zo vreemd. Exoplaneten zijn namelijk buitengewoon moeilijk te zien met bestaande telescopen. Om ze goed in beeld te krijgen, moet de exoplaneet ver van zijn moederster verwijderd zijn en bovendien veel massiever zijn dan Jupiter, de grootste planeet in ons zonnestelsel. En het universum maakt helaas niet veel van dergelijke planeten.

Wiebelende sterren
Maar misschien dat Gaia de directe waarneming van exoplaneten nu een tikkie makkelijker maakt. Met behulp van deze telescoop speurden astronomen de nachtelijke hemel af, op zoek naar sterren die letterlijk aan de hemel wiebelen. Op het moment dat een planeet namelijk om een ster draait, dan wiebelt de ster heen en weer, waardoor de relatieve snelheid ten opzichte van de aarde toeneemt of afneemt. Een wiebelende ster kan dus de aanwezigheid van een planeet verraden

Na de verzamelde gegevens grondig te hebben bestudeerd, ontdekten de onderzoekers inderdaad een aantal veelbelovende wiebelende sterren, die zomaar eens een gigantische planeet konden herbergen. Vervolgens wendden ze zich tot de Subaru-telescoop, gelegen op het eiland Hawaï. En niet veel later kregen ze een immense exoplaneet die rond de ster HIP 99770 draait, in het vizier.

HIP 99770 b
De nieuw ontdekte exoplaneet is HIP 99770 b genoemd en heeft ongeveer zestien keer de massa van Jupiter, zo schrijven de onderzoekers in het vakblad Science. De exoplaneet draait om een ster die bijna twee keer zo zwaar is als onze zon. Hoewel de omloopbaan van de planeet meer dan drie keer zo groot is als de baan van Jupiter rond de zon, ontvangt hij bijna dezelfde hoeveelheid licht als Jupiter omdat zijn moederster veel helderder is dan de onze.

Karakteriseren
Met de ontdekking laten de onderzoekers zien dat het met behulp van Gaia mogelijk is om op een veel gemakkelijkere wijze exoplaneten direct in beeld te brengen. En dat is een belangrijke stap voorwaarts. Daarnaast heeft de vondst van HIP 99770 b ook nog bredere implicaties. “Het laat niet alleen zien hoe we meer exoplaneten kunnen opsporen, het laat ook zien hoe we ze beter kunnen karakteriseren,” zegt onderzoeker Thayne Currie. Dat komt omdat directe en indirecte detectiemethoden verschillende informatie over een planeet opleveren. Met behulp van directe methoden kunnen astronomen goed de temperatuur en de samenstelling van een planeet bepalen. Ondertussen leveren indirecte methoden nauwkeurige metingen van de massa en de omloopbaan op, zeker als deze vervolgens nog worden gecombineerd met metingen van de positie van de planeet door middel van directe waarnemingen.

Vervolgstudies
Kortom, de combinatie van de Gaia-gegevens met waarnemingen van de Subaru-telescoop geeft astronomen het beste van twee werelden. En dit is nog maar het begin. Nu astronomen weten dat de planeet bestaat en bovendien zichtbaar is, kunnen andere telescopen de taak op zich nemen om het licht verder te analyseren. “De ontdekking van deze planeet zal leiden tot tientallen vervolgstudies,” denkt Currie.

Bovendien liggen er waarschijnlijk nog veel meer ontdekkingen in het verschiet. HIP 99770 was een van de eerste sterren die werd bestudeerd. Momenteel analyseren Currie en zijn team gegevens van ongeveer 50 andere sterren. En wat ze tot nu toe hebben gezien, doet hen vermoeden dat er meer ontdekkingen van nog onbekende exoplaneten in de pijplijn zitten.

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22-04-2023 om 21:48 geschreven door peter  

Het ruimtevaartbedrijf spreekt zelf van een ‘snelle ongeplande ontmanteling’, kort na lancering. Daarmee kwam de testvlucht weliswaar vroegtijdig ten einde, maar is deze niet per definitie mislukt.

Vanmiddag was het dan eindelijk zover: SpaceX’ Starship koos het luchtruim. De lancering was spectaculair en leek even volgens het boekje te verlopen.

En daarmee is er vroegtijdig een einde gekomen aan de allereerste suborbitale testvlucht van de Super Heavy Rocket en Starship, waarbij Starship zich eigenlijk naar een hoogte van zo’n 235 kilometer had moeten begeven om na ongeveer anderhalf uur met een plons in de Stille Oceaan te landen.

Ook mislukte testvlucht is waardevol
Waarom de testvlucht eindigde in een explosie is nog onduidelijk; een analyse van de data die tijdens de korte testvlucht is verzameld, moet daar meer inzicht in geven. Ondertussen wordt er ook naar een nieuwe testvlucht toegewerkt, zo meldt SpaceX.

Het lijkt te suggereren dat het bedrijf niet in zak en as zit na deze explosie of – zoals ze het zelf noemen – deze ‘ongeplande ontmanteling’. Dat klopt ook wel. Want ook het mislukken van de testvlucht is in zekere zin waardevol. “Met een test zoals deze zit het succes ‘m in wat we leren,” zo schrijft SpaceX op Twitter. “En de test van vandaag helpt ons om Starship betrouwbaarder te maken.”

Tegenslagen zijn SpaceX helaas niet vreemd. Zo moest de lancering van Starship maandag nog worden afgelast vanwege technische problemen. En ook de ontwikkeling van Starship en de Super Heavy Rocket ging niet altijd over rozen. Zo gingen eerdere prototypes van Starship tijdens testvluchten – zonder de Super Heavy Rocket eronder – herhaaldelijk in vlammen op. Dat het nu weer brokstukken regende, is voor degenen met een voorliefde voor de (bemande) ruimtevaart natuurlijk wel een beetje een domper. We moeten namelijk niet vergeten dat deze testvlucht de opmaat is naar meer. Veel meer zelfs. Zo wil SpaceX Starship bijvoorbeeld gebruiken om op korte termijn enkele ruimtetoeristen een rondje om de maan te laten vliegen. En een variant van Starship – het Starship Human Landing System – speelt een cruciale rol in de plannen van NASA om binnen enkele jaren astronauten op de maan te zetten. Het uiteindelijke doel van Starship is echter om mensen nog dieper het zonnestelsel in te laten reizen, bijvoorbeeld naar Mars. Dat scenario lijkt na vandaag echter toch weer ver weg. Tegelijkertijd moeten we SpaceX niet onderschatten; het bedrijf heeft de veerkracht, de middelen en ambitie om van Starship een succes te maken en dat is tijdens de ontwikkeling van eerdere ruimtevaartuigen (uiteindelijk toch) een succesformule gebleken.

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22-04-2023 om 21:14 geschreven door peter  

Ex-NASA Employee Saw Hi-res UFO/Alien Craft Photos, Ready To Testify Before Congress

After the Pentagon‘s great UFO declassification and congressional hearings, NASA decided to hunt down the aliens. The agency possesses advanced technology on Planet Earth, exploring the possibility of transforming satellites into alien seekers to probe unexplained sightings without launching new equipment. The Galileo Project is designing a space mission to rendezvous with the next anomalous (Oumuamua-like) interstellar object that zooms into our solar system.

Is that the first time NASA became interested in alien civilizations? NASA whistleblowers, who claimed to have closely worked in some of the top missions, do not think so. Former NASA employee, Donna Hare reportedly saw a photo of a distinct UFO. Her colleague explained that it was his job to airbrush such evidence of UFOs out of photographs before they were released to the public.

On May 9, 2001, over twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate and scientific witnesses came forward at the National Press Club in Washington, DC to establish the reality of UFOs or extraterrestrial vehicles, extraterrestrial life forms, and the resulting advanced energy and propulsion technologies. As part of the Disclosure Project, Donna Hare, a photographic scientist testified to have worked for NASA contactor Philco Ford in the early 1970s. She had a high-security clearance to walk in NASA’s photo lab and other departments.

During the Disclosure Project press conference, Hare revealed that NASA covered up and eliminated space anomalies such as UFOs from the satellite photos. Hare has got several awards in the space programs. She dedicated most of her time as a technical illustrator to space programs. She created lunar maps and landing slides and had been working for 15 years as a sub-contractor for NASA.

Hare claimed to have had access to a place known as “Building Eight,” from where she made contacts with high-ranking officials. Once, she walked into a restricted area which was NASA’s photo lab. She noticed the lab had photographs of the Moon taken from satellites. She was with a friend who pointed at one of the photographs and surprisingly, she saw a round white dot.

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Below is the transcript of Hare’s part in the Disclosure Program (Full Video link here):

“Good morning everyone! My name is Donna Hare, and I worked at Philco Ford aerospace from 1967 to 1981. During that time, I was a design illustrator draftsman. I did the launch slides, landing slides, and also projected plotting boards lunar maps for NASA. We were a contractor but most of the time, I worked in Building 8. I had the opportunity to do extra work during downtime which was between missions, and I walked into a photo lab which was the NASA lab across the hallway. I had a secret clearance which is not that high but I was able to go into restricted areas.

At the time, I was talking to one of the techs in there and he drew my attention to a NASA photograph. It had a “Dot” on it, and I asked what it was. Well, he drew my attention to it and I said is that a dot on the emulsion? He was smiling and he had his hands crossed… This was an aerial photograph of the Earth, I’m assuming the Earth because it had pine trees on it and the shadows of the craft or whatever it was were at the same angle as the trees and by its very nature, a UFO. And I wanted to clarify that to the gentleman that was talking to me… So, I did not know what this was but I realized at this point that it’s very secret.

I asked him what he was gonna do with this piece of information. He said they always airbrush these out before they sell them to the public, so they’re pissed pesky little creatures appearing on this photograph they wanted to get rid of. After that, I decided I would ask questions to other people that worked there (away from the site and not on site).

A guard told me that he was asked to burn some photographs and not to look at them, and there was another guard guarding him who was in green fatigues watching him burn the photographs and he said he was too tempted he looked at one.

I knew someone in quarantine with the Apollo astronauts he told me that the Apollo astronauts saw crap on the moon when we landed. He said that the astronauts are told to keep this quiet.”

Hare was told by one of the sources that during one of the moon landings, three UFOs had landed. Subsequently, there was a codeword “Santa Claus” for these crafts. She said she would be willing to testify before Congress. (Source)

In 2000, Gary McKinnon, a British Hacker who got so fed up with the government hiding information related to UFOs and free energy that he decided to hack the most secured servers of NASA and the Pentagon. McKinnon said that he had seen real photographs of UFOs in computer files at the Johnson Space Center Building. He even took a screenshot of one of the cigar-shaped UFOs in-between space and the earth’s atmosphere. Unfortunately, it was removed from his computer after being seized.

Below is the recreation of the famous ‘NOT MAN MADE’ craft that was seen by McKinnon when he hacked & accessed NASA computers. (Source)

Gary claims he discovered a satellite picture of a cigar-shaped alien craft with domes on the sides, like this artist’s impression

credit: PROJECT8BALL

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22-04-2023 om 20:59 geschreven door peter  

Where to Next?

The next flight for the chopper is a “repositioning” trip to put it in the right place for the next set of explorations. Mission controllers are eyeing a region called “Fall River Pass”, which is part of the Jezero Crater region. That’s where Perseverance—Ingenuity’s “parent” ship landed in February 2021.

It’s all part of the continuing exploration of Jezero Crater. Planetary scientists think that billions of years ago, this crater was filled with water. As such, it may be a key place to look for signs of past life, probably microbial in nature. While Perseverance isn’t equipped with life-detection instruments, it is perfectly designed to study the chemistry and geology of Mars’s surface. It’s been doing so since landing and has traveled more than 17.5 kilometers.

Its 51st flight (the repositioning) should be happening any time now. That trip should cover just over 180 meters in a period of 130 seconds. It, like Perseverance, is headed west and will be taking images along the way.

Ingenuity Surpasses its Role as a Tech Demo

The first helicopter on Mars really was supposed to be a demo and only fly a few times. But, it has soldiered on. This, despite facing some pretty adverse conditions. Dust storms coat its blades and solar panel. In the winter, it hibernated, and it continues to “brown out” during the night. Now that winter has passed, the Ingenuity can recharge more quickly. It will soon be flying over some pretty amazing terrains more frequently. It stays in touch with Perseverance via a Helicopter Base Station onboard its mother ship and uses auto navigation as it flies.

Ingenuity contains “off-the-shelf” components like smartphone processors and cameras. Its surprisingly hardy, much to the delight of its controllers. “When we first flew, we thought we would be incredibly lucky to eke out five flights,” said Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity team lead at JPL. “We have exceeded our expected cumulative flight time since our technology demonstration wrapped by 1,250% and expected distance flown by 2,214%.”

Ingenuity Helicopter Inspires Future Flights on Mars (Mars Report - April 2023)

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history when it achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet – and it’s inspiring future aerial exploration of the Red Planet, too. In this Mars Report, Ingenuity Team Lead Teddy Tzanetos at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory provides an update on the helicopter’s achievements and future plans.

This video shows testing for Sample Recovery Helicopters, which could serve as a backup retrieval system for Mars Sample Return, a campaign that intends to retrieve samples taken by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover for study here on Earth. These next-generation helicopters would be able to pick up and carry sample tubes in flight and also drive on the Martian surface.

Another future helicopter concept is the Mars Science Helicopter, a proposed six-rotor “hexacopter” that would be about the size of the Perseverance rover. It would bring important payloads to areas of Mars that are not currently accessible.

For more information on Ingenuity, go to: mars.nasa.gov/ingenuity

Despite all the success, the chopper is showing signs of wear and tear. Its future flights and landings will challenge its capabilities, according to Tzanetos. “We have come so far, and we want to go farther,” said Tzanetos. “But we have known since the very beginning our time at Mars was limited, and every operational day is a blessing. Whether Ingenuity’s mission ends tomorrow, next week, or months from now is something no one can predict at present. What I can predict is that when it does, we’ll have one heck of a party.”

For More Information

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes 50th Flight
Mars Helicopter

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22-04-2023 om 18:37 geschreven door peter  

The researchers determined the Earth refueling option would involve approximately 1.5 launches of a Falcon Heavy (FH) Expendable plus propellant tank with a spacecraft refueling payload of 17.5 tons. While the OD has a capacity of 25 tons, the FH would need to bring a combined total of 26.69 tons as the remaining 1.69 tons of fuel would be used to “transfer the refilling tank with its subsystems”, according to the study. As stated, the fuel costs are negligible, but the launch costs are estimated to be $150 million per launch, putting a total refueling price tag at $227.9 million, which includes launch plus fuel costs. The estimated launch costs also totaled $6511.4 per kilogram with a total operation cost of $42.38 million per year.

For the Moon refueling option, the researchers used a hypothetical Moon shuttle built by the Cislunar Space Development Company (CSDC) with a payload of 25 tons that launches from the Moon, docks and refuels the OD to its maximum capacity of 25 tons , then returns to the lunar surface, with the assumption that zero fuel is lost during the entire process. As stated, the hypothetical lunar mining company put the fuel costs at $500 per kilogram, and the study put the total refueling price tag at $37.51 million dollars, which includes launch plus fuel costs, giving a total operation cost of $35 million per year.

Based on these results, the researchers concluded that refueling the OD is more affordable from the Moon than from the Earth.

“So, if you want to put this project into real substance, it should be able to understand and to analyze data from a project financing point of view,” Pianorsi recently told Universe Today. “So, it’s the same logic under which you finance the infrastructure here on Earth, you have to understand how to incentivize your investors to jump in on the basis of the mitigation of the risk that you that you put in place, for instance, through contracts. So, this is a very important thing to do if you want to develop infrastructure, involving not only the public money, and maybe the money of the corporates, but even the money of financial investors. And I don’t speak about venture capital or private equity, I speak about institutional investors.” Pianorsi tells Universe Today that he believes these factors should be the next steps in terms of research.

As for the upcoming Artemis missions, Pianorsi emphasized to Universe Today the importance of “creating an economic cycle between the Earth and the Moon” but also emphasized the importance of not just having space agencies and space companies conducting lunar and Mars activities, but non-space companies, as well.

“The companies need to understand that economic sustainability is the new prerogative of the new space economy,” Pianorsi tells Universe Today. “It’s not anymore cost-plus contracts of NASA. Right now, the times are changing and even space agencies, especially in times of budget constraints, need to rely on private companies to make innovation and to improve efficiency. And this implies not only from a cost perspective, but even from a market perspective.”

Could a future orbiting depot assist in crewed missions to the Moon, and will it turn out to be cheaper to refuel from the Moon than from the Earth? Only time will tell, and this is why we science!

• As always, keep doing science & keep looking up!

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22-04-2023 om 18:17 geschreven door peter  

Stern points out that the mission has, through 2022, observed and characterized 36 Kuiper Belt objects. In addition, it has studied several dwarf planets from its unique vantage point in the Belt. Data from those observations help calculate the shapes, orbits, and surface textures of these very distant bodies.

What the science teams have found so far will help place some important constraints on KBO formation mechanisms. Future observations should also help the teams understand the processes driving the surface evolution and compositional differences between various KBOs. 

Building on New Horizons Observations of Pluto and Arrokoth

Science also continues to flow from the mission’s earlier discoveries, as reported at the March Lunar and Planetary Science conference. For example, the team may have figured out how the primitive Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth formed by gentle accretion. They’ve also been tracking the phenomenon of polar wander on Pluto. It turns out that the surface feature Sputnik Planitia may play a role. 

The spacecraft is well placed to “look back” and capture views of Uranus and Neptune. Those observations will be done in tandem with the Hubble Space Telescope. In addition, New Horizons will continue its planned studies of the heliosphere. Finally, it will continue to map the cosmic background in optical and ultraviolet light. In other words, there’s plenty for the spacecraft to do in astrophysics, cosmology, and solar system sciences. 

Searching for the Next Target

Since the Arrokoth encounter, the team’s been hunting for another flyby target.  According to Stern, it’s been an intense search. “We’re twice as far out from Earth as when we found Arrokoth, which makes the targets we search for sixteen times farther. So, the search is much harder,” he said. “This is the only chance we’ve got to do Kuiper Belt science for decades and we need time to find the next target.” 

That hunt uses enhanced equipment on ground-based telescopes and also takes advantage of machine-learning AI software. The Subaru Telescope in Hawai’i has a new high-throughput filter on its giant Hyper Suprime-Cam digital camera. The New Horizons team specifically purchased that filter to use in the KBO search. The Dark Energy Camera instrument at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile is another tool in the hunt. Those facilities should be able to find what amounts to a needle in the Kuiper Belt haystack. If the team finds an object along the New Horizons trajectory, they’ll spool up planning for its observations.

Proposed Changes from NASA

So, given the current successes, why is NASA looking to discontinue planetary science using New Horizons? The first hints about this proposed change came when the agency sent word that the current extended mission will end on October 1, 2024. Originally, the team asked for funding to continue Kuiper Belt science through 2025. However, in May 2022, NASA informed the team of the cutback to only two years of further exploration. The team is working to get the third year back. This is important since the mission will be traversing the Kuiper Belt until at least 2027-2028. That gives plenty of time to do more planetary science.

Other hints of possible changes came in another NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) suggestion. This one is to move the mission from the Planetary Science section to the agency’s Heliophysics division. SMD also issued a request for Information (RFI) on March 15, 2023. It states, “SMD is exploring whether interested science teams have a set of science objectives to propose to NASA for use of the mission beyond FY24. The purpose of this RFI is to gauge the level of interest of the wider science community in pursuing the next phase of science leadership for the mission, and to estimate appropriate annual costs.”

The SMD request for input from the larger science community seems focused on what to do with the mission (and its team) now that the Pluto and Arrokoth flybys are over. It doesn’t acknowledge that New Horizons hasn’t finished its survey of the Kuiper Belt. Plus, it’s still actively doing planetary science there.

Presenting the Changes

At an SMD question-and-answer session on April 6th, Planetary Science Division director Lori Glaze acknowledged the mission extension proposal for operations past Fiscal Year 2024. She also noted that it received a good senior review as a multi-disciplinary approach for planetary science, astrophysics, and heliophysics.

Glaze stated, “[The review] says that the probability of additional science return for planetary science with New Horizons spacecraft is quickly diminishing and that there’s very little additional planetary science that we can gain from the spacecraft.” Glaze also pointed out that the astrophysics and heliophysics divisions evaluated the same review. “They did identify significant heliophysics science that could be done from this unique location in the solar system,” she said.  

The actual review she refers to says something slightly different. It states that proposed KBO studies are unlikely to dramatically improve the state of knowledge. This is a statement some planetary scientists have characterized as a naive assumption. But, it does not say specifically that there’s very little planetary science to be gained. It also goes on to point out that an extended mission would support all the planetary science, plus astrophysical and heliophysics objectives outlined in the 2003 Decadal Survey. 

Truncating Valuable Planetary Science?

Despite the favorable reviews and mission accomplishments, the proposed plan to abruptly stop doing planetary science with New Horizons and turn it into a heliospheric mission will be devastating. According to Stern, if a further extension is not granted, it amounts to a truncation of New Horizons Kuiper Belt planetary science years too early. 

“New Horizons is a national treasure,” he said. ” “We’ll never get another Kuiper Belt extension if it goes to Heliophysics Division. Right now, we need to exploit this mission for every bit of planetary and particularly Kuiper Belt science we can get while we’re still in the Kuiper Belt.” 

Historically, the exploration of this regime of the solar system came from a prime recommendation of the 2003 Planetary Decadal Survey. It recommended a Pluto-Kuiper Belt explorer mission as a way to study solar system history, volatiles, and organics in the solar system. The survey report specifically stated that “KBP’s value increases as it observes more KBOs and investigates the diversity of properties.”

It further points out that “The SSE Survey anticipates that the information returned from this mission might lead to a new paradigm for the origin and evolution of these objects and their significance in the evolution of objects in other parts of the solar system.”

That survey led to the creation of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. Its prime aims were to do as much planetary science in the Belt as possible. It also included robust heliophysics and astrophysical components from the beginning. So far, it has accomplished all those types of observations and more.

What’s Lost If New Horizons KBO Mission Gets Shortened?

According to Mark Sykes, a planetary scientist and CEO and Director of the Planetary Science Institute, the potential loss of planetary science from New Horizons is a big deal. “It has a collection of instruments and a team that’s operating now that knows best how they operate, their sensitivities, and so on,” he said.  “New Horizons is the one opportunity we have to study these objects in their primordial state in the region where they have resided frozen for the age of the solar system.”

 “Four years ago New Horizons flew by the first such object ever seen, Arrokoth,” he said. “The most important thing NASA can do now is to make every effort to find a second target for New Horizons to fly by. It is the only way we could get any clue about the physical diversity of these objects, which would greatly impact our understanding of the formation and evolution of the solar system.”

Sykes points out that the search for a flyby target is high risk. “There might not be a target close enough to New Horizons’ flight path. But, the very high payback and the marginal cost of the effort is tiny compared to the billion dollars already invested by taxpayers in this mission, he said. “While they hunt, there are a lot of unique planetary, astrophysical, and heliophysical observations that can be made. To not make these observations, to not make an effort in planetary, as well as astrophysics, and heliophysics with everything this spacecraft can do, to me, is a crime.” 

Sykes also pointed out that the spacecraft’s position in the Kuiper Belt provides the most unique look at dust distribution there. That’s because it’s taking in situ measurements. “The dust tells you something about the collisional environment there, and provides a really important constraint in terms of what’s going on,” he said.

What’s Next?

For now, New Horizons has not yet been moved out of the planetary science portfolio. NASA is still soliciting input from the broader science community over the proposed move. The RFI ends on April 17th.

The New Horizons team is working to get the planetary component extended. They also want to keep experienced mission scientists in place. Although the RFI doesn’t state it directly, the wording seems to suggest that the Science Mission Directorate is looking to replace the current science team with new groups of scientists who will propose heliophysics science for the spacecraft moving forward. These researchers would not be as familiar with the mission instruments. 

Something like this has never been done to any spacecraft team before, said Stern. He fears that if new people are brought in to run the mission, the current team will be sent packing, unfunded and unaffiliated with the spacecraft they worked to build, launch, and operate. And, the loss to science is incalculable.

 “If they shut it down as a planetary mission, it will be the end of Kuiper Belt exploration for several decades,” he said. “Cutting us off prematurely is exactly counter to what the Decadal Survey recommended.”

Planetary Mission Challenges

This challenge to New Horizons and its science team plays out against a backdrop of big budget issues at NASA. Just as one example, the agency is grappling with delays to the flagship Mars Science Return mission. There is talk about descoping it to save money. The Veritas mission just got delayed by three years. That’s largely due to technical issues, as well as funding requirements for other missions.

Budgetary constraints shouldn’t be part of the New Horizons situation, according to Stern. “Our budget request for another mission extension is around $10 million,” he said. That’s an amount the team requested to restore the fiscal year 2025 funding that NASA took away. He compared that to NASA’s overall science budget of just under $8 billion. “It’s a drop in the bucket for the amazing science return we still hope to get.” 

For More Information

• New Horizons Missions Page
• Request for Information: New Horizons Interstellar Mission (note: Link may expire after April 17)
• NASA Response to the 2022 Planetary Mission Senior Review (PDF download)
• New Frontiers in the Solar System
  SMD Community Town Hall Meetings for March 23 and April 6, 2023

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22-04-2023 om 18:05 geschreven door peter  

Galileo Project’s Search for ET Techno Signatures & Advanced Aliens

Written by Dr Michael Salla 

Professor Avi Loeb is the former chair of Harvard University’s Department of Astronomy and founder of The Galileo Project that seeks empirical evidence of “extraterrestrial technological signatures.” His interest in the discovery of alien techno-signatures began in 2017 with the arrival of the interstellar object Oumuamua whose orbital behavior around the Sun suggested it was an artificial object. Prof Loeb’s subsequent papers and book on Oumuamua, Extraterrestrials: The First Sign of Intelligence Life Beyond Earth (2020), has generated much mainstream interest in the possibility of extraterrestrial visitation.

In this Exopolitics Today interview with Dr. Michael Salla, Prof. Loeb explains the genesis of his interest in extraterrestrial visitation and the role Professor Stephen Hawking played due to his 2010 views about advanced extraterrestrials likely being hostile. Prof. Loeb explains why he arrived at his conclusion that advanced extraterrestrials would be beneficial rather than hostile.

In response to questions about the role of human judgment and observation in collecting data on the UFO phenomenon, as opposed to scientific data gathered through mechanical instruments, Prof Loeb took the uncompromising position that the former is not reliable or accurate and therefore has no role in the Galileo Project endeavors. In contrast, Dr. Salla pointed out the benefits of non-empirical data sources as a complement to scientific sources for a wide-ranging intelligence gathering approach to understanding the UFO phenomenon. Prof. Loeb finished his interview by briefly discussing the genesis of his view that some UFOs may be probes released by an alien mothership that recently entered our solar system.

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22-04-2023 om 17:17 geschreven door peter  

UFO out window as guy watches Ancient Aliens on TV in Texas, 4-15-2023, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: April 15, 2023

Location of sighting: Texas, city unknown. 

 

Now this just in guys. This video was just sent into MUFON a few minutes ago. The eyewitness was watching Ancient Aliens on TV and the show was talking about Easter Island statues which you can hear in the background. The UFO flew past a window, so he grabbed his camera and got us some proof of what he saw. I believe this is proof that UFOs do use telepathic powers to listen to a persons thoughts, see the pictures in our heads and even understand if we would be scared or not of a UFO even without us see it yet. Telepathic UFOs are real, this is 100% proof of that. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states: 

This object caught my eye out of my window. This object caught my eye and was moving unnaturally so I grabbed my phone to capture this video so I could get it recorded to then analyze it and I still can't explain what this is.

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22-04-2023 om 16:07 geschreven door peter  

Dark Craft Over Rooftops in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 8-23-2022, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: 8-23-2022

Location of sighting: Sao Paulo, Brazil

 

Hey, here is a sighting from that happened last year, but I have never ever heard about it. A Japanese youtuber released this video and discussed its unique shape and rooftop exploration over the city of Sao Paulo, brazil. The UFO even has an orb shoot out of it in a few frames of the video as he points out. Brazil is a hotspot of UFO activity so much so, that people there often shrug it off and continue about their business. Undeniable proof that UFOs are watching us! 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

On the video below, make sure you have on the auto translator turned on under settings, then set it to your language. 

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22-04-2023 om 16:03 geschreven door peter  

Orb Escapes Snowstorm Hiding On Woman's Porch, Doorcam Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: April 15, 2023

Location of sighting: Unknown, somewhere in US

 

Now door cams and cams in general are an important tool for catch alien phenomena and this video is absolute proof of that. An eyewitness caught a bright glowing orbs during a snowstorm last week and the orb seems to be taking a rest under the roof of the front porch. It also is hovering near the front window of the house, looking in, watching the activities inside the home. This is 100% proof that aliens are watching us, like it or not. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

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22-04-2023 om 15:56 geschreven door peter  

I asked ChatGPT what would happen if humans and aliens met for the first time, Its response was shocking, UFO Sighting News.

Guys, I had to have a chat with ChatGPT and it gave me some interesting thoughts about how a first contact with an intelligent alien species might go. I have to admit, some of them are a bit scary to think about, but there is always the possibility of things turning out different that we wanted. Regardless of the possibilities, humans meeting aliens should remain a top priority, to help humanity escape the confines of Earth, the solar system, to free our minds and allow us to think outside the box, and to know that like them, we too can survive to become a advance alien species capable of traveling across the universe.  

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

ChatGPT states: 

Humans and Aliens Meeting: How It Might Go 

For decades, the idea of humans and aliens meeting has been a fascination for many people around the world. With the advancement of technology and the increasing likelihood of discovering extraterrestrial life, the possibility of a real-life encounter with aliens becomes more plausible. 

But how might such a meeting go down? Would it be a peaceful exchange of ideas and knowledge, or a catastrophic clash of cultures? Here, we explore some possible scenarios of a first contact. 

Scenario 1: The Welcome Party In this scenario, aliens arrive on Earth and are welcomed with open arms. Humans offer them food, shelter, and the opportunity to share knowledge and technology. Aliens, in turn, provide insights and ideas that revolutionize our understanding of the universe. This scenario assumes that aliens are benevolent and that they come to Earth with peaceful intentions. 

Scenario 2: The Invasion In this scenario, aliens arrive on Earth with hostile intentions. They may see humans as a threat or simply as a resource to exploit. In this scenario, the outcome is not good for humans, and they may have to fight for their survival. 

Scenario 3: The Cultural Exchange In this scenario, humans and aliens meet on equal terms and exchange ideas and knowledge. Both sides learn from each other, and the encounter leads to a better understanding of the universe and ourselves. 

Scenario 4: The Misunderstanding In this scenario, humans and aliens fail to communicate effectively due to cultural or technological differences. A misunderstanding leads to conflict, and the outcome may be disastrous for both sides. 

While these scenarios are speculative, they highlight the importance of careful consideration and planning in the event of a real-life encounter with aliens. It is important to approach the situation with an open mind and an eagerness to learn, while also being cautious and aware of potential risks. 

In conclusion, the possibility of humans and aliens meeting is a fascinating topic that captures the imagination of many. While we cannot predict the future, it is important to consider the various scenarios that may arise and prepare accordingly. Whether it is a peaceful exchange of knowledge or a catastrophic clash of cultures, the outcome will ultimately shape our understanding of the universe and our place within it.

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22-04-2023 om 15:52 geschreven door peter  

MEDECINE BOW MYSTERY FINALLY SOLVED

The disappearance and subsequent death of Mark Strittmater in October 2020 remains an enigma, with several theories circulating around the case. Despite an extensive search, only a few details have been pieced together about the hunter’s last moments. This article explores the various theories surrounding Strittmater’s disappearance, from the possibility of a UFO abduction to the more likely scenario of misadventure due to unfortunate circumstances.

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22-04-2023 om 12:45 geschreven door peter  

VIDEO: Triangle UFO over Ohio 18-Apr-2023

This triangular shaped craft was seen and recorded in the night sky above Ohio on 18th April 2023.

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21-04-2023 om 23:02 geschreven door peter  

Actual Footage Of Bob Lazar With John Lear; Witnessed Testing Alien Craft At Area 51

Bob Lazar is a controversial figure in the UFOlogy community, who claims to have worked on reverse engineering extraterrestrial technology at a site called S-4, located near Area 51 in Nevada. Moreover, Gene Huff, Lazar’s former colleague, also claimed to have worked at S-4 and seen extraterrestrial spacecraft.

There is a video of Bob Lazar hanging with Huff and Lear in the Nevada desert. It is claimed that Lazar reportedly took Gene Huff and five other people to the edge of Groom Mountain on two consecutive weeks, where they could observe strange, glowing objects lifting off the mountain. They managed to dodge security patrol to witness these events.

“It came up above the same mountain, moved around it, and did a step move. It actually went up in the air like this and hovered then dropped way down then it just floated around and cruised around and then it started coming up to the mountain range,” Huff said.

A videotape was recorded during one of the trips to the groom mountains, where all the witnesses saw a bright light moving up in the sky. At some point, John Lear, who had worked for the CIA as a pilot, appeared in the video, speaking of his experience during the trip. He admitted visiting eight miles due east of Groom Lake, Nevada, at the government secret test site on March 22, 1989.

Lear said:

“March 22nd, 1989, we’re standing just about eight miles due east of Groom Lake, Nevada – the super-government secret test site – and just a few minutes ago, we saw one of the government’s extraterrestrial UFOs fly over there. We all watched it for about seven or eight minutes. Right here, I have my Celestron scope, it’s eight inches, and I had it focused in for about 15 seconds and saw it myself. In fact, it is what it is.

We are going to stay here for another couple of hours here to see if we can show you, folks, an actual extraterrestrial flying saucer being flown by the government. So if you just came by and we’ll be looking over that mountain, which is where they are. They also come over here, which is over at Bald Mountain.

There is some lights over there which you cannot see but there are a number of trucks. We do not know whether they are looking down here…We are standing on public land. It is completely legal where we are. And if you’d like to come here later in the show, we’ll tell you exactly how to get you…We have Bob Lazar and we have Joy Lazar, Bob’s wife and we have Gene Huff. This mission was organized tonight by Bob Lazar, who is a theoretical physicist who works at Groom Lake.”

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Gene Huff testimony

Before going into Huff’s statement on the incident, we should know the relationship between Lazar and Huff. Huff has a background in real estate appraisal and has known Lazar for many years, both before and after his alleged involvement in a flying disc reverse engineering program at S-4. In “The Lazar Synopsis by Gene Huff,” he wrote that he was introduced to Bob Lazar in the mid-1980s after moving to Las Vegas in 1979.

Along with Lazar, Huff co-produced the video “The Lazar Tape and Excerpts from the Government Bible” and wrote the screenplay for “S4, The Bob Lazar Story,” which has been considered by Hollywood studios but has not yet been made into a film. Huff has also been involved in other ventures with Lazar, such as co-owning Tri-Dot Productions and producing the “Desert Blast” summer event featuring fireworks, guns, and explosives.

Huff wrote: “The first Wednesday, March 22, 1989, we arrived right at dusk, turned our lights off, and went in about 5 miles on the Groom Lake road. Soon we saw a bright light rise above the mountains which were between us and S4. The light begins jumping and dancing around, doing step moves in the sky, then would come to a dead stop and hover, etc.”

He continued: “The light repeated this type of activity for a few minutes, which was thrilling, but it was so far away we could only see so much. This activity by the object was blatant, and it wasn’t our eyes playing tricks on us with starlight and planet light being distorted by the atmosphere or clouds or anything of that sort. Eventually, the light slowly sat back down behind the mountains.”

During their next visits on consecutive Wednesdays (March 29 and April 5, 1989), Huff said they observed a disc-shaped object in the sky that appeared to approach closer to them and had a bright glow, which they attributed to its method of propulsion and the way it distorted space and light. They were so startled by the object that they moved behind the open trunk of their car for protection.

On their April 5 visit, they were chased by security personnel and issued a warning for approaching a military installation. They also had a run-in with a local police officer, who took their IDs and radioed them into the security base station. Clearly, they had a strong interest in observing UFOs and were not pleased with the response they received from security and law enforcement.

Note: Bob Lazar was an employee of the military defense contractor, EG&G. Huff explained that on the following day, when Lazar reported to EG&G, he was stopped by a security man, Dennis Mariani, who told him they would not be flying out to Groom and instead drove him to Indian Springs Air Force Base.

At Indian Springs, Lazar was debriefed, reprimanded, and his security clearance was revoked for bringing his friends to watch the disc test. The security personnel also told Lazar that if they caught any of his friends again, they would arrest them for espionage. They also showed Lazar transcripts of his wife’s phone conversations with her boyfriend, indicating that they had also been monitoring her.

After losing his job and his wife, Lazar decided to go on television to expose what was happening in Area 51. However, he faced retaliation from the authorities, including a threat and a shooting of his car’s tire. Lazar decided to work with journalist George Knapp to expose the story.

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21-04-2023 om 00:51 geschreven door peter  

This US President Cried After He Found Disturbing Alien Information In UFO Briefing

In 1973, before the presidential elections, yet to become President, Jimmy Carter filed a report with the International UFO Bureau claiming he had seen a UFO in October 1969. Along with other witnesses, Carter saw a bright UFO that changed colors and moved towards and away from the Earth before disappearing. He was quite vocal about his beliefs on UFOs and promised to public all available information about UFOs if he became president.

“He described waiting outside for a Lion’s Club Meeting in Leary, Georgia, to begin, at about 7:30 p.m., when he spotted what he called ‘the darndest thing I’ve ever seen’ in the sky.” Along with 10 to 12 other witnesses, Carter observed a bright object in the sky, which was about the size of the moon. (Source)

“We all saw it. And then the light, it got closer and closer to us. And then it stopped, I don’t know how far away, but it stopped beyond the pine trees. And all of a sudden it changed color to blue, and then it changed to red, then back to white,” Carter told GQ in 2005. The object reportedly hovered about 30 degrees above the horizon, moved towards and away from the Earth, and eventually disappeared into the distance. Carter’s experience led him to make a vow to never again ridicule individuals who claimed to have seen a UFO.

“One thing’s for sure, I’ll never make fun of people who say they’ve seen unidentified objects in the sky. If I become President, I’ll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and the scientists,” Carter said.

As for the object that Carter saw, it has since been classified as “a high altitude barium release cloud launched from Eglen AFB,” which sounds legit. However, after winning the presidency, Carter backed away from this promise, citing concerns about national security and defense implications. His experience with a UFO is just one of many reported sightings that have fueled conspiracy about extraterrestrial life and government cover-ups.

President Carter’s Disturbing Briefing on UFOs and Religion

Former NASA researcher Ed Harris claimed that serious researchers on the subject believe the story of former President Jimmy Carter crying after being briefed about classified UFO information to be true. According to the story corroborated by multiple witnesses, U.S. presidents are given only a brief overview of the subject by the CIA, and presidential curiosity is not considered a sufficient need to know.

After being repeatedly stonewalled, Carter was given “the talk,” which reportedly left him deeply sobbing and visibly disturbed for weeks. He was told that major religions, including Christianity, were created by extraterrestrials to prevent humans from destroying themselves while they ran experiments on us, and that they made us. Carter, a deeply religious man who had witnessed a UFO with six other people, realized that releasing such information could cause tremendous economic and social upheaval.

Below you can read Ed Harris’ statement on the subject that he wrote on Quora:

"Yes, the incident of Jimmy Carter crying after being briefed about classified information regarding UFO’s is largely believed to be true by the serious researchers on the subject. As a forewarning, the following information is very unsettling and will explain why Carter never “kept his promise” of revealing classified UFO information to the public.

According to the story that was corroborated by more than one witness, U.S. presidents are only given a cursory overview of the subject. Apparently, the CIA runs the program, only provide information to the President on a need to know basis, and do not consider presidential curiosity as sufficient need to know. This was implemented after Kennedy, and all presidents after him have been given only summary briefings (some presidents for unknown reasons were given more than others).

Okay on to your question. President Carter is a deeply religious man who had also witnessed a UFO with 6 other people. Everyone thought that he would be the one to finally release UFO info to the public but as the story goes, he was repeatedly stonewalled. Eventually, the CIA had “the talk” with him, and afterward it was reported that he sunk his head in his hands and not only began to deeply sob, but was visibly disturbed for some weeks afterward.

What was he told and shown?

He was told that the major religions including Christi anity were programs created by extraterrestrials to prevent us from destroying ourselves while they ran their experiments on us – and that they made us. At this moment it became clear to Carter that such information could cause tremendous economic and social upheaval. I should add that I am not only a Christian but a clergyman, so I am in no way attempting to promote atheism here. In fact, how God fits into this might be an interesting separate post. Nevertheless, these are the facts as I know them to be."

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The briefing was supposedly given by a lone MJ-12 briefing officer and several independent sources. The leaked “Executive Briefing: Project Aquarius” document gives the standard account of multiple retrievals of alien technology. While there is no hard evidence to support the claims of the briefing, a presidential aide, who was “very, very close to Carter,” witnessed President sobbing after a UFO-related briefing in the Oval Office.

Carter Administration & Project Blue Book

Daniel Sheehan, a Harvard-educated Constitutional Trial Lawyer and Appellate Attorney has worked on many high-profile cases in his career. In 1977, he was approached by his friend Marcia Smith, who informed him that President Carter had demanded that the CIA provided classified information about unidentified flying objects to him, but George H. Bush, who was the CIA director at the time, refused to give this information to the president.

Sheehan tried to obtain information on the UFO phenomena and extraterrestrials from the Vatican Library but was unsuccessful. However, with Carter’s help, he managed to get access to the classified portions of the Air Force’s Project Blue Book for a few hours in May 1977, where he claimed to have discovered classified documents and photographs of a crashed UFO being investigated by Air Force personnel.

“There were these photographs of unmistakable — of a UFO sitting on the ground. It had crashed,” Sheehan said. “Apparently, it had hit into this field and had dug up, kind of plowed this kind of trough through this field,” he paused for a second.

“It was wedged into the side of this bank,” he said after taking a deep breath. “There was snow all around the picture. The vehicle was wedged into the side of this mud-like embankment — kind of up at an angle. There was Air Force personnel. As I cranked the little handle and looked at additional photos, these Air Force people were taking pictures.” (Click here to read the full article)

When Mr. Sheehan left the room, the guard asked to see his yellow legal pad and flipped through the pages, missing the alien hieroglyphs Sheehan had copied on the back of the pad. Sheehan offered to share this information with the religious establishment; they told him they were not interested.

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21-04-2023 om 00:23 geschreven door peter  

Ex-CIA Pilot Claimed To Receive 25 Secret CIA Memos About Aliens On Earth

John Lear, a former CIA pilot, passed away on March 29, 2022, leaving behind a legacy in the world of aviation and conspiracy theories. He was widely known for his claims about the unidentified aerial phenomenon and Area 51, but also for a lifetime of daring exploits in everything that could fly. He was the son of American inventor Bill Lear, who created the Lear jet and invented the 8-Track tape system.

Determined to carve out his own path, Lear delved into aviation, becoming an accomplished pilot at a young age, setting multiple world records in various planes. Despite his accomplishments, his daredevil lifestyle resulted in serious injuries from plane crashes that he should not have survived.

During the Vietnam era, Lear flew cargo planes for the CIA and continued to seek out danger by flying in and out of other hotspots. He had numerous contacts in the aerospace industry and became interested in secret planes and projects.

In the 1980s, Lear and a few friends began investigating obscure bases in the Nevada desert, which later became famous. His claims about UFOs and Area 51 and his lifetime of daredevil exploits in the skies will forever be remembered.

Lear’s appearance in “On the Record,” which aired on January 28, 1988, on KLAS TV in Las Vegas, startled the UFO discussion and told investigative journalist George Knapp that the government even housed aliens at two U.S. sites. Lear said the government was engaged in a program to gradually inform the public of encounters that had already happened.

According to Lear, there are at least 70 different species of aliens. He specifically mentioned the existence of “little green men” as well as “little grey ones,” who are about 4 and a half feet tall. He also talked about the existence of “Nordics,” which are similar in appearance to humans, but are taller and have blond hair and blue eyes. He stated that one of those species was recovered from a crash and was stored on ice.

Lear claimed that there are good and bad aliens and they have all kinds of ways to interact with humans. “And what are some of the reasons? Why would they be here?” Knapp asked. Lear replied: “Genetic experiments.” He further said that “movies such as E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind were carefully guided by representatives from MJ-12, who is this organization that is in charge of the coverup, in order to get us ready for the release of the information that there are indeed, aliens.”

Lear believed that everything started with the Roswell crash in 1947. He claimed that in September 1945, President Truman established MJ-12, and the purpose of that was to study the saucers and cover up the existence of UFOs. He told Knapp that four alien bodies were recovered from a crash and were autopsied by Dr. Detlev Bronk.

They were named “EBEs” (Extraterrestrial Biological Entities) and three live EBEs were captured in different crashes. EBE1 lived with an Air Force Colonel between 1949 and 1952. The EBEs were kept in an electromagnetic facility called a YY-2, which was designed by Dr. Eric Wang who worked under Dr. Kissinger and was involved in the coverup of the incident since the beginning.

Lear said: “The reason they have to create an electromagnetic facility is the fact that the EBEs are so advanced, they’re there at least a half a billion years advanced from us, and probably more… And they can also disappear. But they can’t move by thought through an electromagnetic facility, so they built this facility. There was two, one in Los Alamos and one either Edwards (AFB) or at the Test Site.”

Lear discussed the existence of extraterrestrial beings at Groom Lake, Nevada, also known as Area 51. He stated that there was still a living extraterrestrial biological entity (EBE) known as EBE3 and that there was a tape of an interview with this being. However, Lear did not see the tape and was unaware of what language was used in the interviewers. He also mentioned that he had been given 25 secret CIA memos on his trip to gather information, and one of the memos mentioned that EBE3 wanted to see the ocean and that arrangements needed to be made or the EBE would “disappear again.”

Knapp asked if these beings can exist among us and if they need a special environment. Lear stated that they have a special environment, special air, and can only last about 20 minutes in Earth’s air.

Lear also claimed that the grey EBEs are the ones that are most commonly seen and that there are different motives for their presence on Earth. He suggested that a deal was made with them, as they are trying to regenerate their own race. This is because their digestive system is atrophied and they could no longer eat through their mouths. Instead, they obtain hormones and enzymes from cattle and spread it on their skin for nutrients, excreting the waste back to their skin.

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On March 29, 1989, Lear and his friends including Bob Lazar recorded a video of the object, a glowing disc that rose from a facility on the outskirts of Area 51 that officially did not exist. Ironically, March 29 was the same date Lear died at his Las Vegas home, though many years later. (Source)

During the interview, Lear discussed his knowledge of two incidents involving UFOs. The first incident occurred in July 1987, when an enormous UFO is said to have followed a cargo plane over Anchorage, Alaska. The second incident took place in 1975, where UFOs were reportedly seen hovering over Strategic Air Command bases.

Knapp: You’ve said before you thought that a lot of their intentions were hostile and you’ve mentioned before that a lot of the sightings around the military bases. Why don’t we see them here? Las Vegas, we’ve got a lot of military bases here.

Lear: Well, the in fact there have been a lot of a lot of reports of UFOs in around Las Vegas, not specifically over the Air Force bases. We have the Test Site and of course, we don’t know what’s going on there, and we have Nellis Air Force Base. But there have not really been a lot of sightings over there. The main Air Force sightings were in 1975. And the UFOs descended on every Strategic Air Command base guarding the perimeter of the northern United States. They hovered over the nuclear weapons storage area and they stayed there with impunity for up to two and three hours over a period of three days.

“The problem is not only just the fact that there are five and as many as 10 different civilizations visiting us. Apparently, and this is from the research that I’ve done, at least 90% of them are hostile. And when I say hostile, if not hostile, they have a completely different set of morals than we do,” he added.

The following statement by the ex-CIA pilot is also worth noting: “The moon is an artificial body that was dragged to our planet, as a result of which an ice age broke out on Earth that killed all living things.” In fact, the circumstances of the appearance of the moon in outer space are not exactly known, and no one has seen the back of the moon.

Lear also explained in his interview how Moon had been created in Jupiter and brought to Earth’s orbit about 15,000 years ago, which was nearly around the last Ice Age. Besides, he said that the Greys are on the moon as well, but mainly remain underground within huge laboratories.

John Lear claimed that NASA sent astronauts to Mars in 1966, and that the astronauts had undergone extensive preparation for the mission, including taking drugs to adapt to the Martian climate. He also alleged that those astronauts were able to breathe the thin atmosphere on Mars, allowing for longer missions on the planet.

Lear mentioned that there are several notable figures from various fields, such as military, espionage, and aeronautics who corroborated these claims, including Colonel Philip Corso, David Wilcock, Glen Steckling, Henry Deacon, Barr Digregorio and Gilbert Levin, and they are not considered as madmen but are the key figures in space research.

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20-04-2023 om 23:48 geschreven door peter  

Today’s astronauts have more than 50 years of missions since the Apollo era.

An hour-and-a-half into the Apollo 11 flight, which landed the first humans on the moon, astronaut Michael Collins hustled to find the Hasselblad camera that had floated away from him. Once in his grasp, Collins worked to snap pictures, though he’d missed capturing sunrise from Earth orbit. As the astronaut peered down below at a landscape on Earth, he searched for the right words to describe what he saw.

NASA's Next Moon Mission Has A Technological Feat 50 Years in the Making

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“Trees and a forest down there. It looks like trees and a forest or something. Looks like snow and trees. Fantastic. I have no conception of where we're pointed or which way we are or a crapping thing, but it's a beautiful low-pressure cell out here,” he said, according to a NASA transcript of the historic mission.

More than half a century later, NASA is gearing up to send humans to the lunar environment again. It goes without saying that modern astronauts owe a lot of where they are today to Collins and the Apollo generation.

Today’s astronauts have a different skill: Their eyes are trained to study planetary surfaces thanks to the more than 50 years of missions since the Apollo era. 

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But today’s astronauts have a different skill: Their eyes are trained to study planetary surfaces thanks to the more than 50 years of missions since the Apollo era. According to Noah Petro, project scientist with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft and recently-appointed project scientist for Artemis III (the landing mission), this is a major advantage for the upcoming Moon trip.

“Nothing I’m saying should be viewed as being any kind of diss on Apollo astronauts,” Petro tell Inverse. “Their observations were spectacular. They were also trying to make sure the spacecraft was working. They were asked to do a lot of things.”

He adds that “the Artemis crew will have this additional advantage of, for many of them, months of Earth orbit, looking down,” referring to the time the astronauts have spent aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

“We have sent cameras to the Moon, but we’ve never been able to recreate the kind of observations that Apollo astronauts made from orbit,” he says.

Earlier this month, NASA and the Canadian Space Agency announced that Victor Glover, Reid Weisman, Jeremy Hansen, and Christina Hammock Koch would be the first crew of the new Moonshot program dubbed Artemis. They’ll fly as early as next year, going around the Moon and back for the Artemis II mission. Their names went public just a few months after Artemis I, an uncrewed integrated demonstration of the Orion space capsule and the Space Launch System rocket, ended successfully.

Unlike Apollo, Artemis astronauts will have had years of collective experience watching landscapes from a birds-eye view. Three Artemis II crew members have spent at least five months orbiting about 250 miles above the planet. One of them, Koch, is the record holder for longest single spaceflight by a woman, clocking in at 328 days in Earth orbit.

On the International Space Station (ISS), today’s astronauts frequently gaze out through its downward-pointed, multi-windowed cupola. NASA astronaut Suni Williams once described the cupola as a “glass-bottom boat” where she and others have found themselves “hanging out in all the time.”

NASA built the ISS with its Shuttle Program, the agency’s next major chapter of spaceflight after Apollo. Though NASA will likely retire this orbital laboratory, now in its third decade, by the year 2030 to make funding room for its ambitious attempts at building a permanent presence on the Moon with its Artemis program — which includes aspirations for Mars crewed journeys, too — the space station will live on as a critical tool that shaped modern astronauts.

The ISS gives astronauts “an incredible platform” to learn how to watch the Moon’s surface for important information, Petro says.

Earth, as photographed from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during its first lunar landing mission in July 1969. 

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“As much as we think it might be silly — like, why do you need to practice looking at the planet? — you know, it’s a different skill: Looking down from hundreds of miles above the planet, and identifying features, and describing the geology, even for a place that we’ve been or know about, with the Earth,” Petro says.

Petro says Artemis astronauts will use these skills to elevate the work of Apollo. “We have sent cameras to the Moon, but we’ve never been able to recreate the kind of observations that Apollo astronauts made from orbit,” he says.

Partly, this comes from the ability of human eyes to be dynamic and make quick decisions, whereas spacecraft only have the most rudimentary autonomy. It’s still up to mission operators on robotic missions to decide from afar what to observe — sometimes a bit too late for a quick second glance, and the next go-round may not line up just right to gaze at an unusual feature.

“The human eye is pretty spectacular. The things that we’re going to be having crew members look for are patterns and textures,” Petro says. “You can take images, black and white images, color images. But the human eye can immediately recognize, hey, that’s something unusual, let me pay attention to that.”

“You can take images, black and white images, color images. But the human eye can immediately recognize, hey, that’s something unusual, let me pay attention to that.”

Apollo astronauts spent a fraction of time in space when compared to today’s astronauts. But even so, their flight journals show they could identify lighting flashes, continents, and the peculiarities of clouds over Earth.

“See those big thunderheads on the horizon?” asked Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan just 20 minutes into the mission that would be the last time humans flew to the Moon. “The clouds are sticking up above the horizon,” Apollo 17 astronaut Ronald Evans noted soon after.

Artemis astronauts are poised to pick up this mantle, bring their ISS experiences to the Moon and deliver science observations not seen in a very long time, thanks to the nuanced capacity of perception from the human eye.

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20-04-2023 om 23:20 geschreven door peter  

UFO Seen Causing Supercell Tornado Storm Oklahoma, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: April 20, 2023

Location of discovery: Slaughterville, Oklahoma, USA

News source: Twitter

 

Watch this twitter video of a cloaked UFO forming a cloud around it during a supercell storm this week. The UFO instantly realized it was being recorded and took immediate precautions by forming white cloud all around it to insure its hidden well and not accidentally seen, because some cameras with IR lenses can see and record cloaked UFOs. Not only that, this UFO is the cause of the supercell storm and tornados in Oklahoma. It's actually experimenting on changing and controlling the weather in order to gather data on it and its effects. Great...just what we needed, another species messing with our already chaotic weather system. 

Scott C. Waring 

 

Eyewitness states: 

MASSIVE tornado producing supercell near Slaughterville, Oklahoma. This doesn’t even seem real. 

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20-04-2023 om 17:52 geschreven door peter  

UFO Hides In Cloud Over Florence, South Carolina, April 15, 2023, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: April 15, 2023

Location of sighting: Florence, South Carolina, USA

Source: Twitter 

 

On many occasions UFOs are reported to become gradually engulfed in a vapor cloud. The fully developed cloud looks like any other cloud in the sky and affords the UFO with a very convenient hiding place. Sure people are skeptical today, but UFO reports have stated in the past that the UFO was seen creating a cloud, either around it or behind it. A fact is a fact. These UFOs can create the cloud within their energy shields to keep most of the smoke from blowing away, however some are so big, some smoke escapes causing a long thing trail behind them as seen in one of the below Twitter photos. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

Eyewitness states: 

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20-04-2023 om 17:46 geschreven door peter  

Rotating Orbs Over San Antonio, Texas On April 2023, Video, UFO Sighting News.

 

Date of sighting: April 20, 2023
Location of sighting: San Antonio, Texas, USA

 

Here is a confusing video. In the video is a craft that at first looked like maybe a plane, but it had no wings, no contrail, no sound. And then later it comes into detail and its two orbs. One orb rotation around over the bottom orb. Its rhythm is constant, repetitive and deliberate. Defiantly a rare catch from Texas. Aliens love the warm weather, which is much like other planets climate. 100% proof of aliens over San Antonio, Texas. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states: 

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20-04-2023 om 17:36 geschreven door peter