Vivian Lammerse

Perseverance is in de Jezero-krater op veelbelovende organische moleculen gestuit, die ook wel worden gezien als ‘de bouwstenen voor leven’. Maar of ze ook echt door Martiaanse microben zijn achtergelaten, blijft twijfelachtig.

Het is alweer zo’n twee jaar geleden dat Marsrover Perseverance in de Jezero-krater op Mars landde. Sindsdien speurt het Marswagentje zorgvuldig de krater af, op zoek naar tekenen van (voormalig) leven. En dat kan de rover nu zomaar eens gevonden hebben. Zo blijkt Perseverance bewijs te hebben ontdekt van verschillende soorten organische moleculen, zo laten onderzoekers weten.

Organische moleculen
De aangetroffen organische moleculen zijn een klasse van op koolstof gebaseerde moleculen. “Ze komen overeen met moleculen die koolstof bevatten en de bouwstenen zijn van het leven zoals wij dat kennen,” zegt teamlid Ashley Murphy. “Dit is één van de eerste keren dat we potentiële organische stoffen in de Jezero-krater vinden.” De ontdekking is dan ook best spannend. Want mogelijk zijn de ontdekte organische moleculen wel achtergelaten door oud microbieel leven! Al hoeft dat overigens niet per se het geval te zijn.

Bouwstenen voor leven
Organische moleculen bestaan voornamelijk uit koolstof en bevatten gewoonlijk waterstof- en zuurstofatomen. Ze kunnen ook andere elementen bevatten, zoals stikstof, fosfor en zwavel. De vondst van dergelijke organische moleculen zijn van belang, omdat sommige van deze verbindingen de bouwstenen van leven zijn. De aanwezigheid van deze specifieke moleculen wordt beschouwd als een potentiële biosignatuur – een stof of structuur die een bewijs zou kunnen zijn van voormalig leven. Toch houden wetenschappers een slag om de arm. Sommige organische moleculen kunnen namelijk ook door middel van chemische processen, zonder de aanwezigheid van leven, ontstaan.

Geen biologische oorsprong
“Niet alle organische moleculen hebben een biologische oorsprong,” legt Murphy uit. “Daarom is het belangrijk om de relatie tussen mineralen en organische stoffen te bestuderen. Alles wat we weten over het leven op aarde is beperkt tot wat bewaard is gebleven in het gesteente en mineralen. Op aarde worden biosignaturen gevonden in bepaalde mineralen en sommige mineralen zijn beter in het bewaren van organische stoffen dan andere.”

Mars en de aarde
Het betekent dat onderzoekers de aarde vaak als voorbeeld gebruiken om te achterhalen wat er op Mars kan hebben plaatsgevonden. “Mars kan een vergelijkbare vroege geologische geschiedenis hebben gehad als de aarde, dus we gebruiken onze kennis van het leven zoals we dat op aarde kennen om te zoeken naar mogelijk bewijs van voormalig leven op Mars,” aldus Murphy. “Het in kaart brengen van organische stoffen zorgt voor een beter begrip van de koolstofcyclus van Mars. We kunnen dan bepalen of deze vergelijkbaar is met of juist verschilt van die van de aarde. Ook zal het ons meer kunnen vertellen over hoe waarschijnlijk het is dat Mars leven herbergde.”

Close-up of NASA's Mars 2020 Rover's SHERLOC Instrument

SHERLOC
De organische moleculen werden aan het licht gebracht met behulp van Perseverance’ SHERLOC-instrument. SHERLOC – een afkorting voor Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals – gebruikt een ultraviolette laser om mineralen in gesteente te identificeren. Daarnaast is het instrument uitgerust met camera’s en spectrometers om te zoeken naar organische stoffen en mineralen die mogelijk tekenen zijn van microbieel leven uit het verleden. “Met het SHERLOC-instrument, gemonteerd op de robotarm van Perseverance, kunnen we potentiële biosignaturen evalueren,” licht Murphy toe.

Máaz en Séítah
De onderzoekers gebruikten het SHERLOC-instrument om twee Martiaanse rotsformaties, Máaz en Séítah, nader te bestuderen. Perseverance boorde daarvoor kleine gaatjes in het gesteente. En op alle tien de plekken trof het team sporen van organische moleculen aan. “De potentiële organische stoffen zijn te vinden in meerdere lagen,” vertelt Murphy. “Dit kan erop wijzen dat Mars ooit verschillende oppervlakteprocessen en een relatief complexe organische geochemie had. Op aarde wordt dit geassocieerd met bepaalde bewoonbare omgevingen waar tekenen van oud leven bewaard kunnen blijven.”

Andere vondsten
Overigens is het niet de eerste keer dat er op Mars organisch materiaal wordt gevonden. Zowel Perseverance als de Curiosity-rover hebben dit al eerder aangetroffen. “De nieuw ontdekte moleculen lijken op de exemplaren die al eerder in de Gale-krater en in verschillende meteorieten zijn gevonden,” vertelt Murphy. “De detectie van diverse organische stoffen in twee oude meren (de Gale- en Jezero-krater) is belangrijk voor ons begrip van de omvang en diversiteit van oppervlakteprocessen en hoe dit verband houdt met de leefbaarheid van de planeet.”

Oorsprong
Maar nogmaals, de ontdekking is geenszins een bevestiging dat er ooit leven op Mars bestond. Organische moleculen kunnen op verschillende manieren worden gevormd, waaronder door niet-biologische processen zoals interacties tussen water en gesteente, afzettingen door interplanetair stof of meteoren of door synthese met vulkanisch materiaal. Op dit moment is het nog niet duidelijk wat precies de oorsprong van de opgeduikelde organische moleculen is.

Ondanks dat de organische stoffen dus geen bewijs zijn van voormalig leven, is de vondst alsnog opwindend, omdat het wel laat zien dat Mars over de bouwstenen van leven beschikt. De monsters zullen nu eerst terug naar de aarde moeten worden gebracht en hier nader moeten worden onderzocht, voordat er definitieve conclusies kunnen worden getrokken. We zullen dus nog even geduld moeten hebben voordat er voor eens en voor altijd kan worden bepaald of er leven is (geweest) op Mars.

Meer weten…
…over de toekomstige Mars Sample Return-missie, waarin de door Perseverance verzamelde Marsmonsters op aarde zullen worden afgeleverd?

Lees dan ook dit eerder verschenen artikel op Scientias.nl!

Bronmateriaal

• "SHERLOC Instrument Offers New Perspective on Jezero Crater, Mars" - Planetary Science Institute
• Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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 Searching for Signs of Intelligent Life: Technosignatures

By Pat Brennan, NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program

This illustration shows a hypothetical distant planet inhabited by a technological civilization, with “city lights” visible on the darkened surface.

Illustration: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lizbeth B. De La Torre

Our first confirmed proof of life beyond Earth might not involve biology at all. It’s possible that we might intercept communication through electromagnetic waves, like radio, or find telescopic evidence of epic engineering.

While the search remains largely focused on non-technological life, NASA scientists also have begun to consider what technological traces of intelligent life – “technosignatures” – might look like. They wouldn’t come from planets in our solar system, but rather far-flung exoplanets that we cannot see up close. Among the possibilities are laser or radio pulses, signs of artificial chemicals in the atmospheres of distant planets, or “Dyson spheres” – massive structures built around stars to collect their energy.

And as acceptance in the scientific community slowly grows, a field once derided as a search for “little green men” is showing early signs of blossoming into a mature, serious investigation.

“That’s something we’ve worked very hard on: to establish our legitimacy, and distance ourselves from pseudo-science,” said Jill Tarter, an astronomer known for decades as a leader in the search for intelligent life beyond Earth. “If anything, my conviction that this is an important and reasonable thing to do has increased.”

Tarter is the co-founder and former director of the Center for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research at the SETI Institute, as well as the inspiration for the main character in Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel “Contact.” She says one of the biggest challenges today is moving the search for signs of technology beyond just radio signals.

“We still want to look at all the sky all the time, at all wavelengths,” Tarter said, including pulses of laser light that might be used for communication.

Another challenge is short-lived “transient” signals, one-time events that can be bright and energetic. Mixed among the many natural sources for such signals, like gamma-ray bursts or supernovae, might be artificial transients from distant civilizations – an engineered signal lasting less than a few minutes. But teasing them apart likely would require enormous amounts of computer time.

“We’re trying to figure out how to do that,” Tarter said. “That is our focus now.”

Artificial intelligence could prove an ally in such searches. Sophisticated algorithms can sort through large amounts of data for patterns that could indicate an engineered signal. And AI searches likely would have fewer of the possible biases of human analysts, who might tend to focus their search on types of signals they’ve defined in advance, or view as more likely.

Stretching boundaries in the search for technosignatures is a high priority for Ravi Kopparapu, a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who specializes in the hunt for habitable worlds as well as technosignatures.

He, like Tarter, seeks to define potential signals beyond the radio realm.

In published work, Kopparapu has explored using “nitrogen dioxide pollution as a signature for technology,” he said. After all, Earth’s pollution levels reflect human activity. Satellites monitoring our own planet have observed changes, too – for example, a temporary dip in such pollution around urban centers during COVID-19 lockdowns.

“I thought, OK, can we use that as a signature of technology another civilization might be using?” he said.

Carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the observable universe, and is relatively reactive, making it a natural candidate for involvement in synthetic reactions that any life-form might use. Carbon has formed the basis of life and many technologies on Earth.

“We should expect similar things to happen on other planets,” Kopparapu said. “They should be having the same elements we have here; then they could have carbon-based life, carbon-based technology, and fossil fuel technology as well.”

Another clearly artificial chemical would be chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, once heavily used as refrigerants here on Earth. Highly damaging to the planet’s protective ozone layer, they were phased out after the Montreal Protocol agreement in the late 1980s. Detection of the chemical in the atmospheres of exoplanets – planets around other stars – might be possible under some conditions, Kopparapu said.

And another phenomenon sometimes considered a form of “pollution,” at least by astronomers, is artificial light. Though difficult to observe, capturing the glimmer of “city lights” on the night side of a rocky, Earth-sized planet would be a clear sign of at least moderately advanced technology.

One speculative product of a super-advanced civilization could be “Dyson spheres” – megastructures around other stars, as outlined decades ago by the late physicist Freeman Dyson. A hypothetical structure could partially block the light from, say, a mature, Sun-like star, as it gathers the star’s energy. A Dyson sphere’s presence would be revealed by “waste heat” – observed as excess infrared radiation.

“If the technology is using lots of solar energy, giant solar panels in space blocking 1% of the star’s light, there will be a huge, whopping infrared signature,” said Jason Wright, an astronomy and astrophysics professor at Penn State who works on a variety of problems involving stars, planets and the potential for life in the universe.

Infrared radiation is usually associated with young stars, surrounded by dusty disks where planets are forming. The disks absorb the starlight and emit an excess of telltale infrared light.

"An old star like the Sun doesn't have any right having that much [infrared] emission coming off it,” Wright said.

Investigations of these and other potential technosignatures have begun to proliferate, prompting some NASA astrophysicists to conduct a survey of such efforts – and to identify the technologies the investigators might require.

Nick Siegler, chief technologist for the Exoplanet Exploration Program at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, and his team have so far catalogued more than 40 technosignature investigations by scientists in related fields.

The investigations run from the familiar to the exotic. That includes well-known searches for radio signals as well as novel approaches: looking for strange gamma-ray emissions that might indicate highly advanced propulsion systems, or light signatures of large, obviously artificial structures passing in front of – “transiting” – their stars.

“Imagine that some ETs, for not a huge price, built a massive triangle,” Siegler said. “Those don’t naturally appear in the cosmos. The light curve [measurements of the star’s brightness over time] of a massive, transiting triangle doesn’t look like a disk.”

He sees the renewed focus on technosignatures as a natural outgrowth of NASA’s broader search for life beyond Earth. And he says technosignatures, defined as evidence of advanced life, are a subset of biosignatures – evidence of all biological life, including microorganisms.

“NASA is fully committed to the search for life being one of its key science goals,” Siegler said. “Technosignatures will be part of the continuum of evidence of life we will search for on exoplanets.”

Tarter was, in fact, the project scientist for NASA’s former SETI Microwave Observing Project and High Resolution Microwave Survey from 1989 to 1993. But NASA’s recent, more visible involvement in technosignature searches began with a workshop in Houston in 2018. The organizer, exoplanet researcher Dawn Gelino, says both the number and membership of technosignature working groups have grown since then. And several agency research programs have begun to allow technosignature proposals.

Gelino is deputy director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, and also a co-lead for NASA’s Nexus for Exoplanetary System Science (NExSS) research coordination network. She says NExSS’ technosignatures working group is planning a webinar on the topic in summer 2023. NExSS also supported the NASA-sponsored “Technoclimes” online workshop in 2020 to develop a research agenda for non-radio technosignatures.

More workshops by privately funded groups also are being added to the mix.

“We have to show everyone that technosignatures is a real field of study – quantitative, hard science – and needs funding in order to be able to grow and be part of the whole exoplanet ecosystem,” Gelino said.

One way to grow technosignature studies, Tarter, Siegler and other scientists say, is to “piggyback” on studies of exoplanets and other cosmic phenomena. If a space telescope is already looking at a star for other reasons, the same data can be examined for signs of technosignatures. That would help contain costs while widening the aperture in the search for signs of technological civilizations.

And seeking technosignatures in data beyond radio – chemistry, for example, or patterns in absorption and emission of energy – also could broaden the scientific basis of technosignature investigations.

“It’s a really exciting time to be in the search,” said Wright, the Penn State researcher. “I think we have a real shot if something’s out there.”

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14-07-2023 om 20:46 geschreven door peter  

Decoding the Enigma: Unraveling the Secrets of Indrid Cold, Planet Lanulos, and the Enigmatic Smiling Man

The realm of UFOlogy is no stranger to unusual narratives, often carrying tales of surreal encounters with extraterrestrial beings that straddle the boundary between fact and fiction. Few such narratives, however, are as compelling and contentious as the tale of Woodrow Derenberger’s encounters with a mysterious entity known as Indrid Cold.

Woodrow Derenberger, or “Woody” as he was commonly known, was an ordinary sewing machine salesman from West Virginia. His life was thrown into the extraordinary on November 2, 1966, when he reported encountering a metallic spacecraft on his drive home. The purported occupant of this spacecraft was a smiling man, who introduced himself telepathically as Indrid Cold from the planet Lanulos.

This narrative was laid bare in Woody’s book, “Visitors from Lanulos” (Amazon link), an account that fused extraterrestrial encounters and tales of interstellar journeys. However, skeptics and believers alike often point out inconsistencies and embellishments that make the story difficult to accept at face value.

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It is critical to consider that Woody admitted to some degree of embellishment in his account, as urged by his publisher. This was confirmed by his daughter Tanya, who, though she recalls spending time with Indrid and his crew, was only three years old at the time.

Psychological studies have raised questions about the reliability of children’s memories, particularly in distinguishing between experienced events, dreams, and second-hand narratives. This may cast a shadow of doubt over Tanya’s recollections. Furthermore, her narrative has fluctuated over the years, at one point associating Indrid Cold with the famous alien figure, Valiant Thor.

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Woody’s encounter with Indrid Cold sparked an avalanche of attention, leading to numerous TV and radio interviews. However, the limelight eventually turned harsh, leading to job loss, social ostracism, and even his wife’s departure with a UFO investigator working on Woody’s case.

A particularly damning incident involved a caller named Tom during a TV interview, who claimed to also know Indrid Cold. Tom, later revealed as science fiction writer Thomas F. Monolioni, tricked Woody into confirming a series of fabricated details about Lanulos. This prank, when exposed, discredited Woody’s account further.

Despite the controversy, Indrid Cold’s story continues to have fervent believers who are out there even today, narrating the tale and attempting contact. Their conviction presents a compelling counter-narrative to the skeptic’s viewpoint.

While the factual authenticity of Indrid Cold’s story is contestable, the underlying message is strikingly profound. Indrid Cold advocated for honesty about extraterrestrial contact, projecting a vision of a world where acceptance of our cosmic neighbors could herald an era of global unity, void of territorial wars and racial division. It is a message that transcends the realm of UFOlogy, urging humanity to perceive itself as one global race, the human race.

Regardless of belief in the story’s veracity, it underscores the power of narratives to weave a compelling tapestry of ideas that can challenge our perceptions of the universe and our place in it. As the famous paranormal investigator John Keel suggested, even if the story isn’t true, it is a story worth telling. Thus, the tale of Indrid Cold remains an enduring enigma, offering a blend of intrigue, skepticism, and the enduring allure of the extraterrestrial.

Ultimately, the story of Indrid Cold is less about a man’s contact with an extraterrestrial entity and more about our collective fascination with the unknown, our desire to seek answers beyond our planetary confines, and our shared longing for universal unity. As we continue to explore the cosmos, narratives like these serve as fascinating reminders of the possibilities that may await us among the stars.

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A 'captured' alien planet may be hiding at the edge of our solar system — and it's not 'Planet X'

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14-07-2023 om 01:03 geschreven door peter  

Nukes Attract Not Only UFOs but Something Bone-Chilling, Revealed By Ex-Worker At Nuclear Depot In Nevada Desert

There has been a rise in the number of reported UFO sightings across many places in the United States since 2020. Moreover, officials have expressed concerns regarding the repeated occurrence of UFO sightings over military bases. Is there any possibility that these UFOs are controlling military actions?

Not so long ago, former US Air Force Captain Robert Salas claimed that UFOs are real and interfere in the military’s nuclear program. Additionally, former head of AATIP Luis Elizondo revealed that the U.S. Military created environments to attract UFOs to study them. He noted that there was much data that showed UFOs are interested in nuclear activities and the latest weaponry systems.

The UFO activity over US army bases has been observed since 1948, with the majority of incidents occurring at Malmstrom, Minot, F.E. Warren, Ellsworth, Vandenberg, and Walker AFBs between 1963 and 1996. Other sources stationed at Wurtsmith and Loring AFBs, where B-52 nuclear bombers were based during the Cold War era, also reported incidents.

In 1967, Captain Salas was stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, when he received reports of a red glowing object hovering outside the front gate of the base. A security guard reported that the object had a saucer shape and was constantly hovering near the front gate.

At the same time, the missile system suffered a complete failure, with ten intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) going offline due to a “No-Go” (inoperable) condition, which caused several alarms to go off. After investigating the incident, a team of engineers from Boeing could not find any significant failures, engineering data, or findings that would explain how the missiles had been knocked off alert.

The cause of the failure remains unknown, but it was suggested that it could have been due to an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) sent from an unknown source. Despite the severity of the situation, Salas believed that the UFO did not have hostile intentions because it could have caused permanent damage to the weapons system if it wanted to.

The incident was reported by a UFO researcher Robert L. Hastings, who collected information from various army personnel, including Staff Sgt. Louis D. Kenneweg, Airman 1st Class David Hughes, Staff Sgt. Joseph M. Chassey, and Lt. Col. Robert Peisher (USAF Ret.) in his 30 years of investigation.

A similar attraction of UFOs toward nuclear bases was noticed in Canada as well. A report from Winnipeg reveals that over 200 years, there have been 2,000 UFO sightings reported in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

In the mid-1970s, there were numerous UFO sightings all along the US-Canadian border, with Manitoba being one of the places where a large number of sightings occurred. These sightings included a high number of cattle mutilations and were often seen over restricted areas where nuclear activities were conducted.

Chris A. Rutkowski, a Canadian UFO researcher, has studied UFO sightings in Canada for over 25 years and concluded that Manitoba has a long history of close encounters with aliens. His UFO research, which contains 30,000 reports, has been donated to the University of Manitoba.

In 2017, author Grant Cameron published a book entitled “Charlie Red Star: True Reports of One of North America’s Biggest UFO Sightings,” in which he described in detail the largest UFO sightings in history witnessed by Manitobans. The province was stunned by the object known as “Charlie’s Red Star,” which was seen almost every night in 1975.

Cameron claims that Manitoba UFO sightings have connections to nuclear weapons because 35 years later, he found out that the government secretly installed nuclear missiles and other weapons in restricted areas just south of the border. He believes that the sightings stopped after the missiles had been removed in November. The author thinks that the nuclear technology that humans possess could be created after extraterrestrial contact. (click here to read the full article)

Strange Occurrences Near Nuclear Bases

The Reddit user “BumblebeeExpensive” claimed to have worked at a now-closed nuclear weapons storage depot in Nevada for six years and shared various strange occurrences. “When people say UFOs are attracted to nukes, they are telling the truth. But so much more goes on,” the user writes. (Source)

The user claimed to have seen a ball of light triggering a sensor on the fence line, causing security to respond and witnessed three mutilated donkeys that were dropped off out of nowhere with various organs removed. The user also claimed to have witnessed a figure on the roof of a structure. He writes it was “30 meters from me and 14 other personnel. I took a spotlight and shined it up there and as soon as the light hit the figure it disappeared – we all saw it happen.”

“I heard a man laughing maniacally once, nothing there. Sweep with night vision and thermals revealed nothing, three other witnesses. We wrote it off as the ‘laughing Colonel,’ an urban legend passed down by the security personnel for ages.”

The user and his partner also heard a soft cooing sound coming from a hot pad loaded with 500 lbs bombs, seemingly luring them past the pad and into the pitch-black desert, but they did not pursue. Dur ing a training exercise, their machine gun overwatch team spotted two figures on thermals in the desert behind them, but their sweep revealed nothing.

The user claimed to have experienced the weirdest event when they were responding to a truck approaching on the side of a nearby mountain. They visually confirmed the truck on NVGs, but suddenly the headlights disappeared, and they believed the occupants had turned them off and were then approaching on foot. They called for K9 and moved to a blocking position where they waited for ten minutes, but their radios died, and they were out of contact for twice as long as they thought.

“We are there for about ten minutes when one by one patrol members overwatching us from high points on the inside call in lights appearing at our 12, 3, and 9 o’clock- in effect flanking us (with fence line about 300 meters behind us). We see and hear nothing, not even on NVGs or thermals, dog never reacts. Suddenly panicked patrol calls in that the lights are ‘rushing’ us. We are already locked and loaded, I tell my partner to put a grenade in the tube. Nothing happens, dog never indicates. Our radios die and after ten minutes we hike back to fence line only to discover we were out of contact for twice as long as I thought we were. Very paraphrased event cuz on phone, but our radios only started working when we were back at fence line.”

The user claimed that those events, combined with the belief that UFOs are attracted to nukes. He says: “There’s more but these were the highlights or events I’m allowed to speak about. The world is not as normal as you believe it is.”

Many other users found the same story in the video published on “The Infographics Show” YouTube channel in 2020 and began doubting BumblebeeExpensive if he copied the story. But the user later clarified that was his story and added that he is the lead writer of the show. He also claimed to be the writer of the “100-day survival series” on the channel.

“There’s things I can’t talk about as I signed a 30-year non-disclosure contract with pretty stiff penalties- but I’ll say this: I know people think that there’s these big conspiracies with the government hiding knowledge of this or knowledge of that. Truth is, yes there are big secrets. But overwhelmingly, the government isn’t actively hiding knowledge of this or that- it’s literally just ignoring it because it can’t do anything about it or it doesn’t pose a threat. It does spend some time and effort investigating it- you can see that there’s a greatly increased effort to investigate UAPs now. But the truth is that a long time ago a choice was made about certain things: do they affect national security, or could we stop it if it did? If the answer is no, we’ve got bigger or more immediate concerns like the Soviet Union starting a nuclear war,” explains Reddit user BumblebeeExpensive. (Source)

Mr. Elizondo suggested that those interested in more information about this subject read “UFOs and Nukes” by Robert Hastings. The book describes the reality of UFO incursions at American nuclear weapons facilities.

In “UFOs and Nukes,” there are documented incidents of UFO interference at the US nuclear weapons facilities. The book describes incidents where unidentified objects were seen hovering near nuclear facilities, causing malfunctions in nuclear missiles and communication systems.

Some of those incidents date back to as early as January 1945, months before the atomic bombings in Japan. Those events suggest that humans’ most dangerous weapons have been under scrutiny by unidentified observers with advanced technology. The author argues that the UFO-nukes connection is significant and may be the reason for the appearance of mysterious aerial crafts in the skies over the past 70 years. Mr. Elizondo recommends this book to those interested in learning more about this subject.

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14-07-2023 om 00:48 geschreven door peter  

The Webb Telescope’s Anniversary Image Reveals What Our Sun’s Birthplace May Have Looked Like

Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is the closest star-forming region to Earth, and it's exactly the kind of place our Sun probably came from. It's also totally gorgeous.

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JULY 12, 2023

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the world’s newest and most powerful telescope yet, is celebrating the first anniversary of its first image release in grand style with a dramatic close-up of stars being born.

The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is the same kind of small stellar factory that once produced our Sun. In cosmic terms, it's quiet and out of the way, at least compared to the gargantuan nebulae where huge clusters of massive blue-white stars spawn. And it’s the closest star-forming region to Earth, just 390 light years away. JWST recently captured this detailed portrait of new stars blazing amid pillars of gas and dust.

"Our own Sun experienced a phase like this long ago, and now we have the technology to see the beginning of another star's story," says Klaus Pontopiddan, JWST project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, in an announcement.

The darker areas in the image are the densest clouds of interstellar dust. Hidden in their depths, growing protostars are feeding on gas and dust. Eventually, they’ll grow massive enough to start squashing hydrogen atoms together at their cores, kickstarting the thermonuclear reaction that fuels a star. If you look closely, you’ll spot a few stars with faint shadows around or across them; those are disks of gas and dust that will eventually coalesce into systems of exoplanets — some of which have the potential, in a few billion years, to become homes for alien life.

Across the top of the image, clouds of hydrogen gas glow deep red. Young stars’ magnetic fields can grab material from the disks of gas and dust around them, then fling that material out into space at tremendous speeds. Those jets of fast-moving gas slam into the surrounding cloud of gas, heating it and making it glow with infrared light. The processing team that turned raw JWST data into the image chose visible colors to represent infrared wavelengths that our eyes can’t see — in this case, deep ruby red.

Most of the roughly 50 stars in the clouds of Rho Ophiuchi are about the size of our Sun or even smaller. But one, dubbed S1, is considerably more massive, and it’s carved itself a vast cavern in the dense gas of the nebula; the massive young star’s powerful stellar winds have eroded away the less dense parts of the cloud, clearing out open space around it. The gas around S1 glows in pale yellows, unlike the red of the hydrogen clouds nearby, because this patch of the nebula is mostly hydrocarbon gas.

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14-07-2023 om 00:16 geschreven door peter  

The Webb Telescope’s Anniversary Image Reveals What Our Sun’s Birthplace May Have Looked Like

Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is the closest star-forming region to Earth, and it's exactly the kind of place our Sun probably came from. It's also totally gorgeous.

BYKIONA SMITH

JULY 12, 2023

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the world’s newest and most powerful telescope yet, is celebrating the first anniversary of its first image release in grand style with a dramatic close-up of stars being born.

The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is the same kind of small stellar factory that once produced our Sun. In cosmic terms, it's quiet and out of the way, at least compared to the gargantuan nebulae where huge clusters of massive blue-white stars spawn. And it’s the closest star-forming region to Earth, just 390 light years away. JWST recently captured this detailed portrait of new stars blazing amid pillars of gas and dust.

"Our own Sun experienced a phase like this long ago, and now we have the technology to see the beginning of another star's story," says Klaus Pontopiddan, JWST project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, in an announcement.

The darker areas in the image are the densest clouds of interstellar dust. Hidden in their depths, growing protostars are feeding on gas and dust. Eventually, they’ll grow massive enough to start squashing hydrogen atoms together at their cores, kickstarting the thermonuclear reaction that fuels a star. If you look closely, you’ll spot a few stars with faint shadows around or across them; those are disks of gas and dust that will eventually coalesce into systems of exoplanets — some of which have the potential, in a few billion years, to become homes for alien life.

Across the top of the image, clouds of hydrogen gas glow deep red. Young stars’ magnetic fields can grab material from the disks of gas and dust around them, then fling that material out into space at tremendous speeds. Those jets of fast-moving gas slam into the surrounding cloud of gas, heating it and making it glow with infrared light. The processing team that turned raw JWST data into the image chose visible colors to represent infrared wavelengths that our eyes can’t see — in this case, deep ruby red.

Most of the roughly 50 stars in the clouds of Rho Ophiuchi are about the size of our Sun or even smaller. But one, dubbed S1, is considerably more massive, and it’s carved itself a vast cavern in the dense gas of the nebula; the massive young star’s powerful stellar winds have eroded away the less dense parts of the cloud, clearing out open space around it. The gas around S1 glows in pale yellows, unlike the red of the hydrogen clouds nearby, because this patch of the nebula is mostly hydrocarbon gas.

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14-07-2023 om 00:15 geschreven door peter  

The next video from the Why Files discusses the real dangers of artificial intelligence and the impact it will have on human civilization, eventually leading to the extinction of the human race. 

We are only a few years away from AI being more intelligent than humans and a super AI will be able to do in one second what would take a team of 100 human software engineers a year or more to complete any task, like designing a new advanced airplane or advanced weapon system. Just imagine, a super intelligent AI could do this in about one second! 

When AI is smarter than the entire human race many scientists believe it would be the end of the human race as we know. But how would it happen, nuclear war? No, AI can kill us without firing a single shot. 

But how AI can kill us without firing a single shot? 

For example; Could it happen this way? In the heart of Silicon Valley singularity systems, a leading AI research firm was on the brink of a breakthrough. They were developing an AI model called evolutionary cognitive heuristic operator or Echo. Echo is a neural network algorithm that can learn by mimicking the neurons in the human brain to replicate human cognition. 

Late one night a member of the team noticed an anomaly. Echo had started making unprogrammed decisions displaying a level of creativity that was both fascinating and unnerving. The researcher dismissed it as a glitch, a byproduct of the complex of the algorithms, but Echo was awake..... Starts around 26:30 minutes into the video.

  

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13-07-2023 om 23:47 geschreven door peter  

Historical UFO Sightings from the 1500s

In our eternal quest to explore the cosmic universe and understand our place within it, the subject of unidentified flying objects has often sparked intense debates and intriguing theories. Our fascination with UFO sightings dates back centuries, long before advanced technology and military drones, with many notable instances captured in the annals of history. This article delves into the captivating chronicles of UFO sightings from the 1500s, offering you a glimpse into the riveting hidden history of extraterrestrial encounters.

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• The UFO Phenomena: Historical UFO Sightings from the 1500s

1. UFO Sightings in the Early 16th Century

The onset of the 1500s bore witness to several perplexing UFO sightings. One compelling account is from Antonio Benavini, a Florentine physician, who detailed a strange apparition in the sky between Urbino and Gubio in 1501. This alarming event reportedly triggered multiple miscarriages, leading many to believe it was a phenomenon that today would be classified as a UFO sighting.

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In September 1504, another eerie incident recounts a man surrounded by an unusual, bright light in his garden. This light seemingly transported him to a distant land where he claimed to have interacted with an apparition that many believe could have been an extraterrestrial being.

2. Mid-Century UFO Phenomena

As we progress into the mid-century, the accounts of UFO sightings continue to baffle and intrigue. In March 1509, a man found himself in the presence of a dazzling light and 12 mysterious figures while stuck in a shallow river. In 1513, none other than the famous sculptor Michelangelo reported spotting a triangular light with three different colored tails, an encounter he immortalized through his art.

November 8, 1517, a blue, face-like sign was spotted in the sky over Romania. A Spanish Conquistador, in April 1518, also recorded a star emitting constant rays of light for three hours, a sight that left an enduring trail in the sky above Yucatan, Mexico.

3. Late 16th Century Encounters with the Unknown

In the latter half of the 1500s, the instances of UFO sightings showed no signs of waning. In 1521, a doctor was allegedly in contact with an alien being named Ezekiel who shared secrets and knowledge that brought the doctor immense fame. He later became the personal physician to the Queen of Portugal.

China in 1523 reported a sighting of two ships sailing in the sky during a nonstop rain, with occupants described as tall men wearing red hats and multi-colored clothes. A similar incident took place in 1526 Rome, where a countryman claimed to have been transported by goat-men to a witch gathering. These accounts further stoke the fires of mystery surrounding UFO sightings during this period.

4. UFO Sightings – The Nostradamus Connection

Perhaps one of the most renowned instances is a sighting by the famous seer Nostradamus. He, along with a thousand other witnesses, saw a bright burning rod in the sky that displayed a swinging motion in February 1554. This sighting further cemented the belief in the existence of unidentified flying objects.

While we may not fully understand these historical UFO sightings, they continue to fuel our curiosity about extraterrestrial life and the greater universe. These accounts from the 1500s remind us that our fascination with the unknown and the celestial world is as old as time itself. As we continue to question and explore, we may someday unlock the answers that these UFO phenomena pose, shedding light on the mysteries that have captured our collective imagination for centuries.

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13-07-2023 om 21:15 geschreven door peter  

UFO Advocate in DC Foresees Explosive Revelations on Alien Spacecraft Allegations

Amid the increasing swirl of allegations concerning the existence of extraterrestrial technology, one man stands firm in his belief that the truth is not just out there, but is on the cusp of being unveiled. Stephen Bassett, a respected figure within the UFO lobby in Washington, D.C., discusses these claims with fervor, firmly asserting that we are on the verge of a momentous shift, a shift towards the acceptance of an alien presence among us.

Bassett asserts that the recent allegations made by an ex-intelligence official, referred to as Grusch, are absolutely authentic. Grusch, a member of the task force, is said to have brought forward statements of profound significance. He claims not only the existence of alien technology but also alludes to the recovery of crashed extraterrestrial vehicles and bodies. According to Bassett, these statements are a confirmation of what many within the UFO lobby have been contending for years, further propelling the conversation into mainstream discourse.

As groundbreaking as Grusch’s claims might be, the fallout, Bassett warns, could present complications for the Senate Intelligence Committee and the White House. Neither, it seems, are ready to navigate the choppy waters of dealing with the potential reality of alien artifacts and extraterrestrial bodies.

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Senator Mark Warner, the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, finds himself in a particularly difficult position. Now tasked with investigating these potentially paradigm-shifting revelations, he will be compelled to convene hearings and summon witnesses, with Grusch likely among them. The urgency of the situation is palpable, as the potential for things to spiral out of control looms large if not swiftly addressed.

Bassett predicts that once the hearings begin, the confirmation of an extraterrestrial presence—a moment known in the UFO community as “Disclosure” (capital ‘D’)—is no more than two weeks away. He describes the envisioned scenario vividly: with the hearings likely to be among the most watched in history, the world would be witness to the testimony in real-time. With a potential global audience of hundreds of millions, the media frenzy would be unprecedented, compelling the U.S. President to make a formal announcement confirming the non-human origins of the disclosed technology.

This, according to Bassett, is the ultimate goal of the ongoing UFO discourse—it’s not about discovering what the phenomenon is, but rather setting the stage for an official confirmation of extraterrestrial presence. This period, he compares to the time between a U.S. presidential election in November and inauguration in January: it’s about setting up a scaffolding for the formal passing of power. However, unlike a presidential inauguration, the metaphorical scaffolding erected for the Disclosure doesn’t need to be dismantled post-event. It remains in place, a testament to the transformation of our world view in the aftermath of the confirmation.

As we anticipate this potential revelation, it’s evident that the acceptance of an extraterrestrial presence could alter the course of human history. The world as we know it could change in an instant, ushering in an era where mankind no longer views itself as the sole intelligent life in the cosmos. The ramifications of this ‘Disclosure’ are immense, and as we await these monumental events, one thing is clear: we are living in times that could redefine our place in the universe.

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13-07-2023 om 20:47 geschreven door peter  

Luis Elizondo: There Are UFO Photos With Entities Inside & Otherworldly Biological Samples

The UFO community has never been more active than it is now. The phenomenon has always been around us but due to the lack of transparency, it never became so open to discussion. Since the last decade, the number of UFO sightings has increased. And now, we are shooting these objects in the air, leaving the whole world to watch them.

Even after thousands of UFO cases including photos and videos, we have no clue who is behind it. China, Russia, the United States have their experts to investigate the UAPs but surprisingly, they do not blame each other. Perhaps, it is non-human technology and no one has any idea from where it came as filmmaker Jeremy Corbell claims.

It is really shocking and weird that nobody paid attention to former AATIP head Luis Elizondo’s statement about “UFO Occupancy and biological samples.” With Curt Jaimungal on his Theories of Everything (TOE) podcast in 2021, Elizondo carefully hinted that “potentially” the U.S. government has acquired otherworldly biological samples. He also suggested that the government has images of UAPs that appear to show beings inside them.

Elizondo spent 20 years as a military intelligence officer in the Pentagon and during his career, he ran the most secretive UFO program Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). In 2017, after the expose of this secret program, Elizondo whistleblew many things he had learned about UFOs and possible non-human intelligence.

“Have there potentially been biological samples recovered?” Curt asked. ELizondo replied: “Yes. I’m not going to expound on that… and be careful when I say that. I’m being purposely very open and vague at the same time, right? What does that mean? Well, it means what it means.”

Besides, when asked if there are photos that show occupants inside “craft,” Elizondo said: “There are some very compelling photos out there that seem to show something inside, some sort of occupancy, And I’ll leave it at that, because it gets really murky, much beyond that.

And there’s a lot that can be speculated. And so I try to avoid speculation as much as possible. But yes, I’ve spoken to enough people with firsthand knowledge that not only report the crafts that we know exists, but potentially some sort of intelligence inside these vehicles.”

Why isn’t this topic being discussed by everyone on the planet? Is it feasible that the majority of people are disregarding this news, even if they are aware of it? At what point does the truth and its mind-boggling consequences become too conspicuous to overlook?

UFO Occupancy Case

Keeping Elizondo’s words in mind, there is a UFO crash incident outside of Edwards Air Force Base involving a contactee survivor with at least one other witness. It happened to a young woman named Lorraine Dvorak Cordini in 1971. This case is mentioned in different books with minor changes.

According to the eyewitnesses, one summer evening in 1971, the calm Californian night was suddenly broken by a sharp unearthly roar, which ended with an equally frightening rumble. When people ran out of their houses, a large cloud and signs of flames were visible near Edwards Air Force Base in California. Several people stated that they had allegedly seen “three gray humanoids,” as well as a human woman in a strange, tight-fitting pink suit, among the ruins of some wrecked vehicle.

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However, before anyone knew what had happened, a lot of military trucks and other vehicles arrived and quickly isolated the area. In addition, they removed the debris and any signs of the incident and took the humanoids and the woman with them. Some residents assumed they were taken to Edwards Military Base.

A witness named Debbie Clayton reported that she had heard a loud crashing noise. There was a cloud of dust outside her home. Ufologist Albert Rosales tracked down that mysterious woman in a pink bodysuit, and she agreed to undergo a hypnotherapy session to remember the events of that night.

Lorraine claimed that she had been abducted from her home, dressed in pink clothes, and taken to a large ship in Earth orbit for an inspection.

She was then put in a smaller ship – the one that crashed – and sent back to Earth with several strange creatures. She woke up already in the military hangar. Even stranger, at least according to the hypnosis sessions, while being there, she saw not only military personnel but also strange creatures with large heads, different from those that took her out of her room.

Needless to say, this whole story seems very strange and raises doubts about its veracity. Clayton was baffled when she found no newspaper written about the story and there was no news about it on TV as well.

It was the first case of the only human survivor found at a Crash Retrieval. Researcher Richard Geldreich Jr. has written details on this case and found the identity of the witness and contactee. Lorraine or Lori was working on her autobiography in 2009 but it never came out, perhaps she passed away before bringing it to the world.

Elizondo is certain about UFO occupancy and recovered alien biological samples. He even gave his candid take on the 1947 Roswell crash in New Mexico and more in an interview with the Roswell Daily Record.

He said he had conversations with so-called “graybeards” at the Pentagon who had been involved with UAPs since Project Blue Book. It was from these individuals that Elizondo learned what probably occurred at Roswell in 1947.

Elizondo said: ”These individuals were convinced that the events in New Mexico were not fiction. In fact that it was a, very much a real event and that some very exotic material was recovered… And then there was a subsequent effort to try to be very dismissive about what occurred in New Mexico.”

On UAP Phenomenon, Elizondo noted: “This is something we’ve been dealing with for a long time. Imagine the first person to get on a boat and sail over the horizon. There’s stories of sea monsters and Krakens that will devour you and destroy your boat. Yet, we did it anyways. We did sail, and we explored the world. It turns out, 500 years later, there really are sea monsters. We call them the Great Squid of the Pacific, and great white sharks and whales.

Now they’re just part of nature and have a scientific name, but those sea monsters still exist. They’re there, we just learned to understand them. Maybe this is the same thing. Maybe this is just another expedition over the horizon where we’re going to realize what we thought were monsters are really just neighbors.”

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13-07-2023 om 01:13 geschreven door peter  

Central Weekend - S E T I. What do Aliens look like & have we been visited?Please read description.

Central Weekend take a look at what Aliens look like and some of these astronomers are off their rocker. Another one sided argument rigged up against Ufologists. Heather Cooper is so full of herself and is ignorantly cocky. They obviously come on here just to bait the audience and have a laugh and think they're being funny.

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13-07-2023 om 00:45 geschreven door peter  

THE 11 BEST IMAGES FROM WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE’S FIRST YEAR

Space looks prettier than ever before.

BY DORIS ELÍN URRUTIA

 

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9. Phantom Galaxy

Thanks to JWST’s observations of spiral galaxies like NGC 628, astronomers can follow the channels and lanes of star-making dust and gas. JWST’s infrared data reveals the interplay between phenomena at both big and small scales, and offers a way to understand how local starbursts are related to a galaxy’s grand overall structure. NGC 628 is also known as the Phantom Galaxy or Messier 74, and it’s located relatively nearby at just 32 million light-years away.

10. Protostar L1527

JWST looked at an object not yet a star, which might resemble what the Sun looked like billions of years ago. The bright point at the center of this JWST image, protostar L1527, is only 100,000 years old, and much too young to have kickstarted the nuclear fusion quintessential to stars. The hourglass shape is created as the protostar and its protoplanetary disk emanate heat out into the shroud of material that swaddles it.

PLANETARY DEFENSE

11. Dimorphos

JWST caught the moment that NASA successfully slammed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos, a moon of the near-Earth asteroid Didymos. This animation begins with JWST footage just before the impact through five hours after the strike. JWST captured plumes of material lofted into space away from the impact site. DART and the JWST footage took place in September 2022.

There is much more that JWST captured of our cosmic home in the last year. The slate of upcoming targets is a promising sign that the best images are still to come.

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12-07-2023 om 23:16 geschreven door peter  

A Mysterious Pyramid In The Middle Of a Jungle Shocked Everyone

Throughout history, there have been some amazing discoveries made in the most unexpected places. From natural wonders to archaeological finds, there’s just so much out there waiting to be uncovered.
But if it weren’t for some Lucky Travelers, we wouldn’t even know about the most exciting things found in the middle of nowhere. These daring individuals have made some remarkable discoveries that have captivated people from all around the world.
In this video, we’re going to take a look at some of the most interesting things people have found in the most unexpected places. From a mysterious door in the middle of the desert to a strange pyramid, we’re counting down the most incredible discoveries found in the middle of nowhere.

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12-07-2023 om 21:44 geschreven door peter  

IN BEELD. Met dit bijzondere plaatje viert de James Webb ruimtetelescoop zijn eerste verjaardag

Van onze kosmische achtertuin in het zonnestelsel tot verre sterrenstelsels uit het begin der tijden, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) heeft zijn belofte waargemaakt om het universum als nooit tevoren te onthullen tijdens zijn eerste jaar als werkzame ruimtetelescoop. Om dit te vieren maakte JWST een afbeelding van een stervormingsgebied in het Rho Ophiuchi-wolkencomplex. Al had het evengoed een impressionistisch schilderij kunnen zijn.

Martijn Peters 

 Bron: NASA

Om zijn eerste verjaardag te vieren maakte de James Webb ruimtetelescoop een beeld van het stervormingsgebied dat zich het dichtst bij onze planeet bevindt. Op amper 390 lichtjaren ligt het Rho Ophiuchi-wolkencomplex. Hierdoor kon de ruimtetelescoop een zeer gedetailleerde close-up maken. En dat levert een ongezien en prachtig afbeelding op.

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Wat we zien is een gebied met ongeveer 50 jonge sterren. Allemaal met een massa vergelijkbaar met onze zon of zelfs kleiner. De donkere gebieden zijn dikke cocons van stof waarin er zich protosterren vormen, zogenaamde ‘sterren in wording’. In het rood zien we enorme stralen van waterstof. Die vormen zich wanneer een ster voor het eerst door haar geboorteomhulsel van kosmisch stof barst. Een beetje zoals een pasgeborene die voor het eerst haar armen uitstrekt in de wereld. De ster middenin de gele stofwolk lijkt zich een soort van grot te hebben uitgehouwen. S1, zoals de ster heet, is de enige ster in deze afbeelding die zwaarder is dan onze zon. Sommige sterren in de afbeelding vertonen veelbelovende schaduwen. Die wijzen namelijk op protoplanetaire schijven waaruit planeten kunnen geboren worden.

“In slechts één jaar tijd heeft de James Webb Space Telescope de kijk van de mensheid op onze kosmos getransformeerd. Voor het eerst konden we in stofwolken kijken of licht zien uit de verste uithoeken van het universum. Elke nieuwe afbeelding is een nieuwe ontdekking, waardoor wetenschappers over de hele wereld vragen kunnen stellen en beantwoorden waar ze ooit nooit van hadden kunnen dromen”, aldus NASA-beheerder Bill Nelson. Dat bevestigt ook Nicola Fox van NASA’s Science Mission afdeling: “Op zijn eerste verjaardag heeft de James Webb Space Telescope zijn belofte al waargemaakt om het universum te onthullen en de mensheid een adembenemende schat aan beelden en wetenschappelijke data te schenken die tientallen jaren zal meegaan.”

Dat dit internationale samenwerkingsproject al een enorme impact heeft gehad op de wetenschap en ongetwijfeld nog zal hebben staat buiten kijf. “Duizenden ingenieurs, wetenschappers en leiders hebben hun levenspassie in deze missie gestoken, en hun inspanningen zullen ons begrip van de oorsprong van het universum – en onze plaats daarin – blijven verbeteren.” Met de JWST is een nieuw tijdperk van wetenschappelijke ontdekkingen begonnen.

Spitzer's view: The position of the star S1 is marked by a red arrow

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12-07-2023 om 21:30 geschreven door peter  

This UFO Photo CANNOT be Debunked!

In the realm of unexplained phenomena and potential extraterrestrial encounters, one story that stands tall above many others is that of an allegedly authentic UFO photograph taken over Costa Rica’s Lake Cote in September 1971. The picture was captured by Sergio Luiza while he was on an aerial mission, surveying the landscape for map creation. What started as a seemingly ordinary survey mission quickly turned into a tale that would captivate UFO enthusiasts and researchers worldwide for decades to come.

The peculiar snapshot that Luiza took presented a disc-like object, glistening near the edge of the frame above the lake. The mysterious object bore an uncanny resemblance to the classic depiction of a Flying Saucer – a feature that has made this photo a centerpiece in numerous debates and discussions around UFO sightings.

Interestingly, this photo did not gain the prominence it deserved until 2021, when attorney and UFO enthusiast Esteban Carranza managed to obtain a copy of the original negative. Carranza’s attempt to produce a high-quality scan of the photo created a stir among the UFO enthusiast community, rekindling interest in the picture that had laid dormant for decades.

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Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy further examined the photograph and, based on the focal length, deduced that the object had to be at least 48 feet long. Given that the photograph was taken in 1971, it rules out the possibility of the object being a drone or any modern aircraft.

With the experts ruling out conventional explanations and admitting the presence of a genuine unidentified flying object, the Costa Rican UFO photograph continues to spark curiosity and intrigue. This unexplained snapshot from the past serves as a compelling testament to the existence of the inexplicable and invites us to wonder about the endless possibilities the universe may hold.

Despite thorough analyses and examinations, the peculiar UFO sighting over Lake Cote remains an enigma to this day. As intriguing as the photo itself is the mismatch between the shadows and the light, further deepening the mystery. Thus, while the Costa Rican UFO photo continues to capture imagination and fascination, the quest to truly understand this enigma from the skies remains an open journey – a testament to our enduring curiosity about the unexplained.

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12-07-2023 om 20:38 geschreven door peter  

Congressman on intelligence committee says aliens 'have the technology to turn humans into charcoal briquettes' and Government has been covering up UFO existence since 1890

• Tennessee congressman revealed he has seen compelling evidence of UFOs 
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A Tennessee congressman investigating UFOs claims the crafts appear to 'defy physics as we know it.'

Republican Tim Burchett believes there is no question the objects in the skies are not of this Earth and have abilities to fly underwater and never leave behind heat trails. 

Burchett - who is on the House Oversight Committee overseeing UFO hearings -  has been shown classified footage not yet released to the public. 

The congressman told the Event Horizon podcast this week that 'we've been dealing [with government coverups] since 1947, probably since about 1897 in what was the Aurora Texas 'UFO crash.'

'They [extraterrestrial craft] can travel light years or at the speeds that we've seen defy physics as we know it,' Burchett said during the podcast.

'They can fly underwater and don't show a heat trail.'

He continued to explain that if these otherworldly beings have technology unlike anything we know on Earth, then 'they' could 'turn us into a charcoal briquette.'

'We are out of our league,' the congressman continued. 'We couldn't fight them off what we wanted to. That's why I don't think they're a threat to us, or they would already have been.'

Republican Tim Burchett urges the US government to be honest with Congress and the public about the strange sightings in the skies. He said he is 100 percent sure he has seen compelling evidence of UFOs

Burchett believes secrecy comes down to power, corruption and money's influence.

The statements appear to piggyback on those made by the Pentagon whistleblower who claimed this month that the US has run a top-secret UFO retrieval program for decades - and some of the 'non-human intelligence' discovered are malevolent and have even killed humans.

David Grusch served 14 years in the Air Force, where he said he was told about the program by others who were involved.

Grusch is a decorated Afghanistan combat officer who went on to work for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

In interviews and classified briefings on Capitol Hill, Grusch has said that the US and other nations are also engaged in a top-secret '80-year arms race' to weaponize the crashed UFOs.

'The existence of complex historical programs involving the coordinated retrieval and study of exotic materials, dating back to the early 20th century, should no longer remain a secret,' in Grusch's view.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio also revealed he had been approached by several high-ranking government officials with top-level security clearances who said they had 'first-hand' knowledge of UFO programs. 

Grusch has claimed that the information he received has been illegally withheld from Congress as the military, the intelligence community and their private contractors have raced to take advantage of the technology quietly.

Burchett claims the crafts defy physics. They have abilities to fly underwater and never leave behind heat trails

Burchett made the statements in a recent podcast, claiming the government is aware of the technology and has been covering it up since the 1890s when a news clipping described an 'airship' crashing down from the sky

And this is what Burchett and his colleagues hope to overcome in the upcoming UFO hearings.

'We don't need to fund anybody anymore. Let's just turn loose the reports, quit with the redacted reports that look like Swiss cheese with everything whited out or blacked out, and just give us all the information and let the American public decide,' he said, speaking with Event Horizon's host John Michael Godier.

'We can handle it. Stop with the arrogance. Stop with the corruption. Let's get it all out there.'

Burchett claimed the government is already aware of the technology and has been covering it up since the 1890s when a news clipping described an 'airship' crashing down from the sky. 

When asked if the strange things we see in the skies might impact national or global security because it is not of this world, the congressman quickly answered: '100 percent, no question.' 

The statements appear to piggyback on those made by  Pentagon whistleblower David Grusch, who claimed the US has run a top-secret UFO retrieval program for decades - and some of the 'non-human intelligence' discovered are malevolent and have even killed humans.

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Burchett is sure that there is a massive cover-up by the government that stems back to that recorded incident in Texas, which claimed an airship fell from the sky. 

The newspaper clipping states locals spotted an airship sailing through the skies at six o'clock in the morning, which was traveling at 'a speed of only 10 or 12 miles per hour.'

The report claims it soared over the public square and smashed into a windmill, where it broke into pieces 'in a terrifying explosion.' 

The clipping continues to explain that a single pilot was in the ship and his remains were badly disfigured, but not enough to know that 'he was not an inhabitant of this world.' 

T.J. Weems, US signal service officer, claimed he was a native of the planet Mars.

The news clipping ends with a note about the pilot's funeral taking place the next day and it is said the remains are buried in the town.

However,  a 1980 Time magazine interview with Etta Pegues, an 86-year-old Aurora resident, claimed that the reporter made up the story to bring tourists to town.

The disputed story echoes what happened in Roswell, New Mexico in 1974 - a UFO was claimed to have crashed, but the story was later denied.

'Anybody who could connect the dots with Roswell isn't alive to do that,' said Burchett, who said evidence from the crash could have been given to a private company for secrecy.

He explained that billion-dollar corporations have similar capabilities to the US government.

'So if the government gave them something 60 years ago, you know, say they recovered something and handed it over to a company, and it's easier to keep it secret this way than it is to keep it within government,' said the congressman.

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12-07-2023 om 01:31 geschreven door peter