For their study, Peña-Asensio and his colleagues relied on data obtained by the Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube), which accompanied the DART mission and witnessed the kinetic impact test. This data allowed the team to constrain the initial conditions of the ejecta, including its trajectories and velocities – ranging from a few tens of meters per second to about 500 m/s (1800 km/h; ~1120 mph). The team then used the supercomputers at NASA’s Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) to simulate what will become of the ejecta.

These simulations tracked the 3 million particles created by the DART mission’s impact with Dimorphos. As Peña-Asensio told Universe Today via email:

“LICIACube provided crucial data on the shape and direction of the ejecta cone immediately following the collision. In our simulation, the particles ranged in size from 10 centimeters to 30 micrometers, with the lower range representing the smallest sizes capable of producing observable meteors on Earth with current technology. The upper range was limited by the fact that only ejected centimeter-sized fragments were observed.”

Their results indicated that some of these particles would reach Earth and Mars within a decade or more, depending on how fast they traveled after the impact. For example, particles ejected at velocities below 500 m/s could reach Mars in about 13 years, whereas those ejected at velocities exceeding 1.5 km/s (5,400 km/h; 3,355 mph) could reach Earth in as little as seven years. However, their simulations indicated that it will likely be up to 30 years before any of this ejecta is observed on Earth.

“However, these faster particles are expected to be too small to produce visible meteors, based on early observations,” said Peña-Asensio. “Nevertheless, ongoing meteor observation campaigns will be critical in determining whether DART has created a new (and human-created) meteor shower: the Dimorphids. Meteor observing campaigns in the coming decades will have the last word. If these ejected Dimorphos fragments reach Earth, they will not pose any risk. Their small size and high speed will cause them to disintegrate in the atmosphere, creating a beautiful luminous streak in the sky.”

Peña-Asensio and his colleagues also note that future Mars observation missions will have the opportunity to witness Martian meteors as fragments of Didymos burn up in its atmosphere. In the meantime, their study has provided the potential characteristics these and any future meteors burning up in our atmosphere will have. This includes direction, velocity, and the time of the year they will arrive, allowing any “Dimorphids” to be clearly identified. This is part of what makes the DART mission and its companion missions unique.

In addition to validating a key strategy for planetary defense, DART has also provided an opportunity to model how ejecta caused by impacts could someday reach Earth and other bodies in the Solar System. As Michael Küppers, the Project Scientist of the ESA’s Hera mission and co-author of the paper, told Universe Today via email:

“A unique aspect of the DART mission is that it is a controlled impact experiment, i.e., an impact where the impactor properties (size, shape, mass, velocity) are accurately known. Thanks to the Hera mission, we will also know the target properties well, including those of the DART impact site. Data about the ejecta came from LICIACube and earth-based observations after the impact. There is probably no other impact on a planetary scale with that much information about the impactor, the target, and the ejecta formation and early development. This allows us to test and improve our models and scaling laws of the impact process and ejecta evolution. Those data provide the input data (source location, size, and velocity distribution) used by the ejecta evolution models.”

Further

• Reading: arXiv

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22-08-2024 om 21:10 geschreven door peter  

While a NASA probe heads for an asteroid known as Psyche, telescopes have been probing it to prepare for the arrival. Data from the James Webb Space Telescope has found something quite unexpected on the surface – hydrated molecules and maybe even water! The origin of the water is cause for much speculation, maybe it came from under the surface or from chemical interactions with the solar wind! 

Asteroid Psyche was discovered in 1852 by the Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis. It was named after the Greek goddess of the soul who was born mortal and married Eros. It measures 225 km across and is one of the most massive objects in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Most of the asteroids in the belt are composed of rock and ice but Psyche seems to be different being largely composed of metals, perhaps the exposed core of a protoplanet that lost its outer layers. Psyche is of immense interest to study because it provides an opportunity to study planetary cores which are usually inaccessible. 

Aptly named Psyche, the probe launched by NASA has already started its 3.5 billion km journey to the asteroid, due to arrive in August 2029. With its solar panels deployed, the probe measures 25 metres by 7.3 metres, about the size of a tennis court. It has a mass of 2,747 kg and is powered by five solar panel arrays. Once arrived at Psyche they can generate about 3 kilowatts of power.

While the probe is enroute, telescopes on Earth and in space have been exploring Psyche. Observations in different wavelengths of light have provided information that will aid and support the data collected by the Psyche spacecraft. The study was led by Dr. Stephanie Jarmak from the Southwest Research Institute and it was their observations that confirmed the hydroxyl molecules on the surface. 

The data, which was collected using the James Webb Space Telescope revealed the telltale signs of hydroxyl but stopped short of explaining where they came from. There are two possible explanations and we can look to the origin of asteroids to understand them. They are the leftovers from the formation of planets and their make up is determined by the location in the solar nebula from which they formed. If the hydroxyl formed locally without interference from external process then it might suggest that Psyche is not a planetary core remnant.  It might be that Psyche simply formed at a distance that volatile compounds like water condense to form solids like ice before migrating. 

An alternative model explains the variability of the molecule distribution across the surface. This might indicate that impacts from carbonaceous chondrites (like the meteorites often found on Earth) could have provided the water molecules that have been observed. 

It seems that for now, we will have to wait until the arrival of the Psyche spacecraft in 2029 to unravel the mystery. If we can get a better understanding of the origin of the asteroid Psyche it will help us to learn more about the distribution of elements in the nebula that the planets formed from. In particular, understanding more about the distribution of water will help us to develop a better insight to the origins of life. 

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• SwRI-Ked Team Finds Evidence of Hydration on Psyche

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22-08-2024 om 21:00 geschreven door peter  

One way to diagnose the composition of interstellar space trash, like the anomalous interstellar object `Oumuamua, is by using the hot Sun to vaporize them. Suppose their trajectories are not maneuvered by artificial propulsion like the Parker Solar Probe. In that case, the rate of interstellar “Sun-divers” can be calculated from the statistics of interstellar objects near Earth.

The rate of Sun-divers is significant – not just because the Sun is 110 times bigger than Earth but also because of gravitational focusing. The gravitational potential at the surface of the Sun is deeper by a factor of 210 compared to its value at the Earth-Sun separation. A similar factor characterizes the ratio between the square of the escape speed from the surface of the Sun and the square of the characteristic speed of interstellar objects.

Taking account of gravitational focusing, I calculated in a paper with my former postdoc John Forbes that `Oumuamua-like objects would collide with the Sun once every 30 years. `Oumuamua had a diameter of about 160 meters, comparable to the pre-launch height of Starship, the largest rocket ever built by humans. The appearance rates of meteors, namely space objects impacting the Earth, imply that there are many more small ones than there are large ones. As a rule of thumb, the inferred abundance of solar system rocks scales as the inverse of their mass. If the same applies to interstellar objects, as argued in a paper I wrote with my former student Amir Siraj, then meter-scale interstellar Sun-divers are a few million times more  abundant than `Oumuamua was.

Based on NASA’s CNEOS catalog of fireballs, the impact rate on Earth of meter-scale interstellar meteors, like IM1 or IM2, is once per decade. This suggests that a few million of them are within the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. In this case, their collision rate with the Sun would be once every 4 minutes!

Meter-size interstellar Sun-divers release the equivalent energy output of ten Hiroshima bombs upon impact on the Sun. But even before entering the Sun, they would get vaporized by the enormous radiation intensity of thousands of degrees Kelvin. By monitoring the spectrum of the evaporated gases with an Earth-based telescope, one could identify the spectral fingerprints of different elements and infer the composition of these interstellar Sun-divers.

The challenge of doing so is that only one in a thousand Sun-divers is interstellar in origin. However, one could separate interstellar objects from solar system rocks or comets by measuring their velocities and inferring whether they were unbound by the Sun’s gravity at large distances. A prime observatory for this purpose is the 4-meter Inouye Solar Telescope near the summit of Haleakala in Maui, Hawaii. Coincidentally, this is the same mountaintop where the Pan-STARRS observatory, which discovered `Oumuamua, is located. I was fortunate to visit this observatory in July 2017 when the solar telescope was constructed, just a few months before `The Pan-STARRS observatory spotted ‘Oumuamua. In principle, the Webb telescope might also be able to constrain the surface composition of interstellar objects from their infrared emission spectrum.

Alternative methods to study the composition of interstellar objects are much more expensive. The Pacific Ocean expedition I led in June 2023 targeted the chemical composition of the interstellar meteor IM1. This task cost 1.5 million dollars and required a full year of analysis, the findings of which were summarized in a detailed paper by our research team.

The discovery of an unusual chemical composition for BeLaU spherules at IM1’s site motivates our next expedition. Within a year, we hope to search for bigger pieces of IM1, which would allow us to study the material properties and nature of this anomalous interstellar meteor, which was moving faster than 95% of all stars in the vicinity of the  Sun and had material strength tougher than that of iron meteorites.

Based on recent data about the fragmentation of iron meteorites of the same size, IM1’s fireball should have left behind an order of 10,000 fragments of mass ~0.5 grams (or a diameter of ~0.5 centimeter), about 1,000 fragments of mass ~15 grams (or a diameter of ~1.5 centimeters), about 100 fragments of mass ~0.5 kilogram (or a diameter of ~5 centimeters), about ten fragments of mass ~4 kilograms (or a diameter of ~9 centimeters), and one fragment of mass ~20 kilograms (or a diameter of ~16 centimeters). We hope to find some of these in our next expedition, which will cost 6.5 million dollars.

Another approach for studying the material composition of interstellar objects is to rendezvous with them along their trajectory as they approach Earth. Our detailed calculations indicate that a maneuvering speed of tens of kilometers per second would be required, well above the few kilometers per second capability offered by the European-Japanese Comet Interceptor, planned for lunch in 2029.

Finally, there is a possibility of observing maneuvering interstellar probes in the form of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) near Earth. The Director of National Intelligence delivered three reports about UAPs, but it is unclear from publicly available data whether the reported UAPs cannot be all human-made. The main challenge in attending to data-poor reports is avoiding confusion with existing military programs to retrieve and reverse engineer technologies found in crash sites of flying objects manufactured by adversarial nations, which could involve bodies of human pilots. Government agencies might label classified data retrieved by these programs as UAPs to confuse adversaries or discredit the leakage of classified information.

Fortunately, science is better than politics. The Galileo Project observatories take a scientific approach to resolving any confusion. They are collecting data on UAPs in the sky and will soon release the findings in a series of papers. Also fortunate for science is that neither the sky nor our oceans are classified.

• Avi Loeb is the head of the Galileo Project, founding director of Harvard University’s – Black Hole Initiative, director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the former chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University (2011-2020). He is a former member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and a former chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies. He is the bestselling author of “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth” and a co-author of the textbook “Life in the Cosmos”, both published in 2021. His new book, titled “Interstellar”, was published in August 2023.

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22-08-2024 om 17:31 geschreven door peter  

New report claims human civilization could end in 2050

The end of humanity in 2050?
Will human civilization die out by 2050? That is at least the claim of a recent report by the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, a think tank based in Melbourne

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The threat of climate change
This research group describes climate change as “a short- and medium-term existential threat to human civilization” and emphasizes the need for a changed approach to avert catastrophe.

A point of no return
The status quo would push the climate and humanity "to a point of no return by mid-century, and the prospect of a largely uninhabitable Earth will lead to the collapse of nations and the international order," according to the report, cited by Vice.

Continuous heating
The experts assume that the current path leads to global warming of 3 degrees, which "could trigger feedbacks that amplify the triggering of further warming".

The collapse of ecosystems
The first consequence would be the collapse of essential ecosystems on Earth, such as “the coral reef system, the Amazon rainforest and the Arctic.”

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Unimaginable consequences
The consequences of this shift would be so severe that they cannot be measured because they "go beyond human experience of the last thousand years," the report continues.

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Unbearable living conditions
For humans, this would lead to unbearable living conditions, with one billion people forced to leave their homes and two billion people facing water shortages.

The collapse of agriculture
In addition, “agriculture in the subtropics would collapse and food production worldwide would be drastically reduced,” notes Vice magazine.

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Underestimated risks
Finally, the report's authors note that the risks of climate change are underestimated by policymakers, as the most pessimistic scenarios tend to be downplayed.

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The unvarnished truth
For Chris Barrie, a former Australian admiral who wrote the foreword to the report, the analysis "reveals the truth about the desperate situation of humanity and our planet and paints a disturbing picture of the concrete possibility that human life on Earth could be wiped out in the most horrific way."

The need for urgent mobilization
The only hope that remains, according to experts, is an immediate limitation of human activities that cause global warming and an urgent mobilization to deal with the consequences of climate change.

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22-08-2024 om 17:22 geschreven door peter  

An Ancient Magma Ocean Once Covered the Moon, India’s Pragyan Lunar Rover Reveals

The Moon was probably once a gooey ball.

by Doris Elín Urrutia

 

NASA

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22-08-2024 om 17:02 geschreven door peter  

Star Drek: UFO Crank Luis Elizondo is Back with Captivating New Tales

The former military spook says in a new book that he knows the Deep State is hiding dead aliens and crashed flying saucers. The media can’t resist.

Keith Kloor

REMEMBER THOSE BIG HEADLINES last summer, when a retired Air Force Intelligence officer named David Grusch testified in Congress about the U.S. government’s secret UFO “retrieval” program? 

“Whistleblower tells Congress a stunning tale of crashed alien spacecraft and dead pilots,” blared the Dallas Morning News.”  The “stunning” part was true.

While speaking to the media, Grusch also said that World War Two Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, tipped by Pope Pius XII, had helped retrieve a flying saucer and turned it over to the Americans. Even the New York Post noted that Grusch “did not provide any evidence for these claims.”

Still, cable news outlets and YouTube content creators latched on to Grusch like a pack of vampires. 

Skeptics pleaded, yet again: Show us the evidence. 

And then in mid-2023 a reporter discovered that Grusch, who had worked in Pentagon satellite intelligence agencies, had had a mental health and substance abuse crises in 2014 and 2018 . The flying saucer brigade cried foul, but also pledged to keep up the fight.  Actual “proof” of a spaceship or an alien, they assured us, was imminent.

As it happens, that is the title and battle cry of a new book published this week by Luis Elizondo, another prominent former intelligence officer-turned UFO truther. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs, is generating a fresh wave of media buzz and excitement among UFO believers. Might it live up to the hype and finally prove the existence of our extraterrestrial overlords? 

Don’t hold your breath.

The author makes the same eye-popping claims about recovered UFO wreckage that we heard of last summer.  Elizondo, in his book, says it’s part of an ultra-black “legacy program” that stretches back to the late 1940s, when the first saucers crashed at Roswell. And how did he learn about this when he was working in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, from 2008 until his retirement in 2017?

“Senior officials told me continuously and confidentially that big aerospace companies have been part of the Legacy Program to retrieve and reverse-engineer crash materials. The big names included Lockheed Martin, TRW, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Raytheon, BAE Systems, and the Aerospace Corporation, all of which have long been principal members of the U.S. military industrial complex.”

What is more far-fetched: A ginormous, decades-long conspiracy that involved hundreds to thousands of employees staying quiet about recovered space aliens and otherworldly crafts, or senior Pentagon officials “continuously” sharing details of humanity’s biggest secret with only Elizondo and a few select others in the I.C.

If this doesn’t trigger your innate bullshit detector, then what about Elizondo’s claim that he is endowed with telepathic powers after being trained by the army as a psychic “super-soldier”? Or his chapter on translucent, basketball sized orbs that terrorized the Elizondo household after he was “recruited” into a secret Pentagon program that researched UFOs? The strange objects, he writes, floated through walls and “behaved as if guided by some intelligence.” He wondered if they were probes “sent to scope out my house” or if an “advanced intelligence was looking into me.”

Before you dismiss Elizondo as just another UFO kook or grifter (or both), it’s important to understand the backstory here: He is a big reason why a topic once associated with Bigfoot and crop circles is now treated by the media as a legitimate subject and the focus of serious attention in Congress. Let’s briefly unwind how that happened.

Learning Curves

Like many readers of Spy Talk, I first learned of Elizondo in December of 2017, when he was featured prominently in the mainstream media, starting with Politico, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. All three outlets (which were granted access to Elizondo months ahead of time), portrayed him as a career intelligence officer who had recently left the Pentagon in protest because a secret UFO investigative program he had led was ignored and not given sufficient resources.  

It is impossible to overstate the importance of this initial coverage; three highly respected journalism organizations independently corroborated Elizondo’s impressive credentials in the classified world, and they all verified the existence of some kind of odd Pentagon program in the late 2000s that investigated “unidentified aerial phenomena,” or UAP—which could have been anything from drones and birds to otherworldly crafts. Elizondo described himself to the journalists as the program manager and framed his “mission” in national defense parlance.

Politico, the Washington Post and the New York Times all published their stories near simultaneously in mid-December, 2017, and all carried much the same narrative. The sensational news about the Pentagon’s “shadowy” UFO program and Elizondo’s explanation of how it was thwarted went viral on the internet and was quickly picked up, verbatim, by all the broadcast networks, which conducted fawning interviews with him.

Overnight, it seemed, UFOs went from tabloid fodder to a serious news story. Elizondo joined a brand new UFO entertainment company (set up by  former Blink182 frontman-turned novelist-turned entrepreneur Tom DeLonge), which was credited with legitimizing the topic. They produced a “documentary” series for the History Channel that cast Elizondo as a heroic truth-teller and re-created his supposed UFO investigations for the Pentagon. By this time, I had already interviewed Elizondo numerous times for articles that examined his unlikely UFO stardom and the military’s tortured historical relationship with UFOs. I had also voiced my criticism of the media’s  largely uncritical coverage of Elizondo and his  small coterie of UFO-promoting intelligence professionals , which included former top Pentagon intelligence official Chris Mellon, scion of the Pittsburgh banking fortune. The UFO mania they created infected even supposedly level-headed members of Congress, like former House Speaker Harry Reid and Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer.

“We managed to convince them the phenomena were real and America needed to take action to determine the capabilities of these craft and the identity and intentions of their operators,” Mellon wrote in Politico last year.

Where’s the Beef?

They definitely have the Big Mo, no matter the holes in their story.  When the debut of Elizondo’s History Channel docuseries arrived in 2019, I published a piece with The Intercept that dismantled the core claim that had propelled Elizondo to fame and UFOs into a national security story. There was no evidence, I reported, that Elizondo had ever been the director of a Pentagon UFO program, much less participated in one. The Defense Department affirmed this to me then and has since held to its position, including as recently as this week.

Yes, I know what you’re thinking: That’s exactly what the Pentagon would do, since it has been covering up the truth about flying saucers for 80 years. 

Fair enough. You don’t have to believe in little green men from Mars to know that a culture of secrecy in the CIA and its cohort of alphabet soup agencies has bred public distrust of “deep state” federal institutions. Then there is the government’s own, real history of deceit, which Elizondo leaned into earlier this week during an interview with CBS after he was asked whether he thought the government was lying about UFOs. 

“Well, we know that the government never lies, right?” he said sarcastically, rolling his eyes. “Iran-Contra, Pentagon Papers, Afghanistan withdrawal.” 

This statement, and his book’s theme of a massive UFO coverup by the government, taps into a dangerous cynicism roiling contemporary American politics. At the same time, who can blame him for wanting to cash in on our boundless appetite for feverish conspiracy narratives? We are inveterate junkies for this UFO stuff, no matter who is peddling it.  

We—or at least many people—want to believe we’re not alone in the universe. The media, because it is an easy mark for a good saucer yarn, enables that belief. This is how the American public’s saucer habit was first established, when, at the dawn of the Cold War, thinly sourced wire service reports were picked up by many outlets across the country, thereby producing  “the illusion of a national trend,” as two media scholars wrote in a 2019 paper. 

The same pack journalism mentality that stirred a flying saucer phenomenon nearly 80 years ago is responsible today for a fabulist narrative that has renewed America’s fascination with UFOs. Throughout this history, self appointed military “whistleblowers” have periodically appeared on the scene to warn about the presence of space aliens in our midst. Belatedly, the Pentagon is trying to address the underlying cause of this trend. Good luck. Their effort is well meaning, I think, but too little and too late. UFOs will always alight in the public mind and their official disclosure will always be … imminent.

• Keith Kloor has had a decades long career as a prodigious science and environmental writer, editor and teacher. He is currently an adjunct professor of journalism at the New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

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22-08-2024 om 16:57 geschreven door peter  

AI Focused, UFO With Three Alien Faces In Top of Craft! 👽 UAP Sighting News. VIDEO!

Date of discovery: 2013
Location of discovery: Earths moon

 

Hey all, check this out. I made a discovery back in 2013 of a UFO on the moons surface coming out of a dark square hold in the moon. This was taken back in Apollo 14 mission. The link to the original UFO photos was quickly taken down but there are still two other links with it still up. At the time I thought it was only a UFO, but it's much more, on the top dome area of the UFO are three alien faces looking straight up at the NASA module! Watch the video and see for yourself. 

Scott C. Waring

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22-08-2024 om 16:42 geschreven door peter  

4000 jaar oude Babylonische tabletten voor het eerst ontcijferd: het zijn grimmige voortekenen gebaseerd op maansverduisteringen

door Janine

The British Museum - Takori234/Wikimedia commons - CC BY-SA 4.0

Deskundigen zijn er eindelijk in geslaagd enkele zeer oude Babylonische tabletten te ontcijferen, maar wat ze zeggen is helemaal niet geruststellend. Laten we er meer over te weten komen.

De betekenis van oude Babylonische tabletten ontdekt

Meer dan honderd jaar geleden werden Babylonische tabletten met spijkerschrift van 4000 jaar oud ontdekt. Ze worden momenteel bewaard in het British Museum in Londen, Engeland, maar zijn in al die tijd nooit ontcijferd. Tenminste, tot vandaag.

Wetenschappers hebben eindelijk wat licht geworpen op hun betekenis, maar het nieuws is verre van geruststellend. Blijkbaar bevatten de tabletten informatie over maansverduisteringen, waarvan sommige zijn geïnterpreteerd als voortekenen van belangrijke negatieve gebeurtenissen voor de mensheid. Andrew George, Babylonisch docent aan de Universiteit van Londen, en onderzoeker Junko Taniguchi, leggen in hun studie uit dat de vier kleitabletten "de oudste voorbeelden vertegenwoordigen van compendiums van voortekenen van maansverduisteringen die tot nu toe zijn ontdekt.

Babylonische tabletten, voortekenen gebaseerd op maansverduisteringen

The British Museum

Volgens de auteurs van het onderzoek berekenden degenen die de tabletten hebben gemaakt de nachttijd, de beweging van de schaduwen, de datum en de duur van maansverduisteringen om hun voortekenen te formuleren. Op basis van bepaalde kenmerken van eclipsen voorspelden de oude Babyloniërs de gevolgen ervan. Een van de voortekenen verwijst bijvoorbeeld naar het feit dat als de zonsverduistering “in één keer vanuit het midden donker wordt en in één keer licht wordt”, dit ongeluk zou betekenen voor de koning en de stad Elam, een regio in Mesopotamië waar Iran zich vandaag bevindt.

Als de zonsverduistering in het zuiden zou beginnen en vervolgens opklaarde, spreekt de voorspelling over de “val van Subartu en Akkad”, twee andere gebieden in het oude Mesopotamië. Andere negatieve gebeurtenissen werden verwacht in het geval van een zonsverduistering gedurende de avond. Waarschijnlijk baseerden astrologen uit die tijd hun voorspellingen op eerdere gebeurtenissen, die al hadden plaatsgevonden na maansverduisteringen.

Hemelse gebeurtenissen en voorspellingen in het oude Mesopotamië

Volgens Andrew George zouden de voortekenen in feite afkomstig kunnen zijn van gebeurtenissen die daadwerkelijk hebben plaatsgevonden, ook al waren de meeste voorspellingen naar alle waarschijnlijkheid geformuleerd door de eigenaardigheden van de eclipsen op een volledig theoretische manier met de verschillende voortekenen te associëren. In het oude Babylon geloofde men namelijk dat kosmische gebeurtenissen de toekomst konden voorspellen. De studie zegt dat, volgens mensen uit die tijd, “gebeurtenissen in de lucht gecodeerde signalen waren die daar door de goden waren geplaatst als waarschuwingen over de toekomstperspectieven van degenen die op aarde leefden. Zij die de koning raad gaven, hielden de nachtelijke hemel in de gaten en vergeleken hun waarnemingen met het academische corpus van teksten over hemelse voortekenen".

Aangenomen wordt dat de tabletten afkomstig zijn uit Sippar, het huidige Irak. Toen ze 4000 jaar geleden werden gemaakt en geschreven, breidde het Babylonische rijk zich uit naar verschillende gebieden van Mesopotamië. Tussen 1982 en 1914 werden ze onderdeel van de collectie van het British Museum, maar pas nu zijn ze voor het eerst ontcijferd.

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22-08-2024 om 16:36 geschreven door peter  

Bewijs van “Sneeuwbalaarde” gevonden op 700 miljoen jaar oud gesteente

door Janine

Oleg Kuznetsov/Wikimedia Commons - CC BY-SA 4.0

De afgelopen decennia hebben we meer inzicht gekregen in de geologische geschiedenis van onze planeet: we kunnen nu gebeurtenissen traceren die honderden miljoenen, zo niet miljarden jaren geleden plaatsvonden. Een van de meest fascinerende gebeurtenissen is ongetwijfeld die van de Sneeuwbalaarde, een tijdperk waarin onze planeet volledig bedekt was met ijs. Dit is een theorie die vrij wijdverspreid is in de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap, maar sommige onderzoekers hebben er mogelijk bewijs van gevonden dat even uitzonderlijk als zeldzaam is. Laten we eens kijken wat het is.

Rotsen gevonden die de theorie van de Sneeuwbalaarde bevestigen

We bevinden ons tussen Ierland en Schotland, waar een bepaalde rotsformatie mogelijk het meest complete bewijs levert van de Sneeuwbalaarde. De ontdekking werd gedaan door een team onderzoekers van het University College in Londen, die hun bevindingen publiceerden in het Journal of Geological Society. Volgens het onderzoek bestaat deze rotsformatie uit lagen die zich tussen 662 en 720 miljoen jaar geleden hebben gevormd, tijdens het Sturtien. Dit zijn de woorden van de onderzoekers over de ontdekking:

De rotslagen die zijn blootgelegd op de Garvellachs zijn uniek in de wereld. Onder de rotsen die zijn afgezet tijdens de onvoorstelbaar koude ijstijd van het Sturtien bevinden zich 70 meter oudere carbonaatrotsen die zijn gevormd in tropische wateren. Deze lagen laten een tropisch zeemilieu zien met florerend cyanobacterieel leven dat geleidelijk kouder werd en het einde markeerde van een miljard jaar gematigd klimaat op aarde.

Met name een rotspunt op de Garvellachs-eilanden in Schotland lijkt de abrupte overgang van een gematigd klimaat naar een met ijs bedekte, sneeuwbalachtige aarde aan te tonen.

Een Sneeuwbalaarde, 700 miljoen jaar geleden

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Het bewijzen van de theorie van de Sneeuwbalaarde is niet alleen nuttig om meer te weten te komen over de geschiedenis van onze planeet, maar ook om de evolutie van levensvormen te begrijpen. Van eencellige organismen en algen tot veel complexere vormen en de Cambrische explosie: de Sneeuwbalaarde zou, kortom, een fundamenteel moment kunnen zijn in de evolutie van het leven op onze planeet. Het probleem is om te begrijpen hoe en volgens welke verschijnselen.

Een vrij algemeen geaccepteerde theorie ziet extreme kou als een van de factoren die eencelligen ertoe bracht om met elkaar samen te werken en zo de eerste meercellige organismen te vormen. Tegelijkertijd zou de snelheid van deze evolutie verklaard kunnen worden door de relatief korte tijden van uitzetting en terugtrekking van het ijs, dankzij het albedo-effect. In de praktijk geldt dat hoe meer ijs er op het aardoppervlak zit, hoe meer het de zonnestralen reflecteert en daardoor afkoelt: een vicieuze of virtueuze cirkel, afhankelijk van hoe je het bekijkt.

Waar te zoeken naar bewijs van de Sneeuwbalaarde

Het team van het University College London kwam tot deze conclusies na het verzamelen van zandsteenmonsters uit rotsformaties tussen Noord-Ierland en Schotland. Daarna analyseerden de onderzoekers bepaalde mineralen in het gesteente, zirkonen genaamd, die gedateerd kunnen worden door de aanwezigheid van uranium dat met regelmatige tussenpozen vervalt tot lood. Deze monsters werden gevormd tussen 662 en 720 miljoen jaar geleden, precies aan het begin van het Cryogene tijdperk.

Als de resultaten van het onderzoek worden bevestigd door verder onderzoek, dan kunnen we kijken naar onweerlegbaar bewijs van de Sneeuwbalaarde. Aan de andere kant lijkt het vrij duidelijk dat we van de vroegere eenvoudige organismen zijn overgegaan op complexere organismen. Tussen de twee perioden in is er een planeet bedekt met ijs dat, eenmaal gesmolten, leidde tot een van de grootste veranderingen die ooit op aarde zijn gezien.

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22-08-2024 om 16:28 geschreven door peter  

Ex-Pentagon Official Reveals U.S. UFO Retrieval Program and Alien Bodies

In a groundbreaking revelation, former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo has made startling claims regarding the U.S. government’s involvement in a UFO retrieval program. According to Elizondo, this program not only deals with unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) but also involves the recovery of non-human biological specimens, suggesting the presence of extraterrestrial life.

UFO Crash Retrieval Program

Elizondo, who previously headed the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), has brought to light information that has long been speculated by UFO enthusiasts and researchers. He asserts that the Department of Defense has been actively involved in retrieving crashed spacecraft, some of which are believed to be of non-human origin. These claims, if proven true, would mark one of the most significant disclosures in the history of extraterrestrial research.

During a NewsNation special, Elizondo elaborated on the existence of this program, stating that the U.S. government has been engaged in these activities for decades. He also named various government agencies and aerospace companies that allegedly possess these spacecraft. The implications of such a program are profound, as it suggests that the government has been reverse-engineering alien technology for potential use in defense and other sectors.

The Roswell Incident and Beyond

Elizondo’s revelations also touch on the infamous Roswell incident of 1947, one of the most well-known UFO events in history. He claimed that not just one, but two unidentified aerial phenomena crashed during the Roswell event. While one managed to escape, the other was reportedly recovered by the U.S. government. This aligns with long-standing rumors that Roswell was a cover-up for the recovery of alien technology and possibly even extraterrestrial beings.

These allegations point to a legacy of UAP retrieval and reverse engineering that has spanned multiple decades. The U.S. government’s interest in these phenomena, according to Elizondo, is not merely scientific curiosity but a deep-seated pursuit of advanced technology that could potentially change the course of human history.

Alien Bodies and Biological Specimens

Perhaps the most shocking aspect of Elizondo’s claims is the mention of non-human biological specimens. He suggests that alongside the recovery of spacecraft, the U.S. government has also retrieved alien bodies. These biologics, as he refers to them, are evidence of non-human intelligences that have been interacting with humanity.

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Elizondo emphasizes that this is not a recent discovery; the U.S. government has allegedly been aware of the existence of these non-human entities for decades. This revelation raises numerous questions about the nature of these beings, their intentions, and the extent of their interactions with humanity.

The Implications of Elizondo’s Claims

If Elizondo’s statements are accurate, they could lead to a paradigm shift in how we understand our place in the universe. The idea that we are not alone, and that other intelligences have been engaging with us, challenges many of our fundamental beliefs about life, technology, and even security.

The potential existence of a UFO retrieval program also raises ethical and legal questions. If the government has indeed been hiding such information, it could lead to calls for greater transparency and accountability. Moreover, the prospect of reverse-engineering alien technology could have far-reaching consequences, both beneficial and potentially dangerous, for global security.

In conclusion, Luis Elizondo’s claims about a U.S. UFO retrieval program and the recovery of alien bodies open up a vast array of possibilities and concerns. While these revelations are yet to be fully verified, they undoubtedly add fuel to the ongoing debate about UFOs and extraterrestrial life. As more information emerges, the world will be watching closely to see how these claims unfold and what they mean for the future of humanity.

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22-08-2024 om 16:18 geschreven door peter  

Ken je de Fermiparadox over buitenaards leven?

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De Fermiparadox: waar zijn de buitenaardse wezens?
Naar schatting bevinden zich alleen al in de Melkweg tussen de 200 en 400 miljard sterren. Daarvan zijn er veel vergelijkbaar met de zon, miljoenen jaren ouder en met aardachtige planeten in de buurt. Maar we hebben vermoedelijk nog nooit definitief bewijs gehad van buitenaards leven. Waarom is dat eigenlijk?

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De Nobelprijswinnende natuurkundige achter de paradox
Enrico Fermi was een Nobelprijswinnaar voor natuurkunde en is over het algemeen bekend vanwege zijn rol in de ontwikkeling van de eerste kernreactor en zijn bijdrage aan het Manhattanproject.

"Waar is iedereen?"
In 1950 startte hij onbedoeld dit wetenschappelijke debat met een eenvoudige vraag tijdens de lunch: "Waar is iedereen?". De vraag lokte gelach uit, maar sommige genieën krabden zich echt achter de oren.

De obsessie van Enrico Fermi
Volgens collega Herbert York raakte Fermi geobsedeerd door het vinden van een antwoord en maakte hij een reeks berekeningen over de waarschijnlijkheid van buitenaards leven.

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Een schatting maken van de kosmische populatie met de Vergelijking van Drake
De Vergelijking van Drake, voorgesteld door astronoom Frank Drake in 1961, voorziet in een methode om een nog nauwkeurigere schatting te maken van het aantal communicerende beschavingen in ons sterrenstelsel.

Van 1000 tot 100.000 beschavingen in de Melkweg
Tijdens de eerste bijeenkomst over de vergelijking van Drake, waaraan mensen als Carl Sagan deelnamen, werd gespeculeerd dat het aantal beschavingen in de Melkweg tussen de 1000 en 100.000.000 zou liggen. Pessimisten stellen echter dat dit een zwaar overdreven aantal is.

Dus, waar is iedereen? En waarom zijn ze niet op bezoek geweest?
De grote vraag of we wel of niet alleen zijn in het universum is fascinerend. Bij gebrek aan enig concreet bewijs hebben veel grote geesten gespeculeerd over waarom we nog niet zijn bezocht door E.T.'s (of in ieder geval niet officieel). Hier zijn enkele van de belangrijkste hypotheses...

Uitdagingen van interstellair reizen: een groot obstakel voor contact
De enorme afstanden tussen sterren kunnen onoverkomelijke uitdagingen vormen voor interstellaire reizen. Dit is een mogelijke verklaring waarom er nog geen buitenaardse beschaving de aarde heeft bezocht.

Veel tijd om een sterrenstelsel te koloniseren
Een fysieke onmogelijkheid zou ook een mogelijke verklaring kunnen zijn. Want, mocht interstellair reizen mogelijk zijn, dan zou het volgens wetenschappelijke berekeningen tussen de 5 miljoen en 50 miljoen jaar duren om het sterrenstelsel te koloniseren.

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Het grote filter: buitenaards leven en intelligentie zijn zeldzaam of niet bestaand
Zouden we echt alleen zijn in het enorme universum? Of in ieder geval de enige intelligente beschaving met geavanceerde technologie?

Intelligentie is niet meer onvermijdelijk
Zoals astronoom Charles Lineweaver (foto) suggereert, is intelligentie niet meer 'onvermijdelijk' dan bijvoorbeeld grote neuzen zoals die van olifanten.

Wij zijn de enige ruimtesoort
Natuurlijk heeft de prachtige planeet Aarde maar één ruimtesoort voortgebracht, namelijk: ons. Het niet bereiken van het noodzakelijke intelligentieniveau wordt wel 'het grote filter' genoemd.

Zelfvernietigend gedrag: een gemeenschappelijk lot?
Een afschuwelijke hypothese, gerelateerd aan de ontwikkeling van de atoombom in de 20e eeuw en de dreiging van klimaatverandering, is dat elke beschaving met zulke geavanceerde technologie waarschijnlijk zichzelf heeft vernietigd.

Zelfvernietiging of overleving
Amerikaans astronoom Carl Sagan en de Sovjet-collega Iosif Sjklovski speculeerden in 1966 dat technologische beschavingen de neiging zouden hebben om zichzelf te vernietigen binnen een eeuw na de ontwikkeling van interstellaire communicatiecapaciteit of om deze impulsen te overwinnen en miljarden jaren te overleven.

Is de wens om te koloniseren universeel?
Misschien is de aanname dat, als er buitenaards leven zou zijn, het zou proberen de rest van het melkwegstelsel te koloniseren (of op zijn minst te communiceren) een zelfprojectie. Ja, dat is wat onze samenleving zou doen, maar dat bij buitenaardse wezens in de schoenen schuiven gaat misschien te ver.

Wetenschapper zegt dat buitenaardse intelligentie hem zou verbazen
Zoals de Amerikaanse evolutiebioloog Stephen Jay Gould schreef: "Ik heb al moeite genoeg met het voorspellen van de plannen en reacties van de mensen die het dichtst bij me staan... Het zal me verbazen als ik met zekerheid kan zeggen wat een of andere buitenaardse bron van intelligentie kan doen"

Bevinden we ons in the middle of nowhere?
Het heelal is beangstigend groot. Volgens York is een van Fermi's beste veronderstellingen over waarom buitenaardse wezens nog niet op bezoek zijn geweest, dat de aarde en ons sterrenstelsel "heel ver verwijderd liggen van de agglomeratie van het galactische centrum".

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De dierentuinhypothese: houden buitenaardse wezens ons in de gaten?
Volgens deze theorie weten geavanceerde buitenaardse beschavingen misschien wel van ons, maar kiezen ze ervoor om van een afstandje te observeren en zo min mogelijk in te grijpen om onze natuurlijke evolutie niet te verstoren.

Buitenaardse wezens zijn misschien bang om contact te zoeken
Het is denkbaar dat buitenaardse wezens de voorkeur geven aan isolatie en om hun eigen redenen ervoor kiezen om zich te verbergen of contact met andere beschavingen te vermijden, wat nog een laag complexiteit toevoegt aan de Fermiparadox. Dit staat bekend als de 'Dark forest hypothesis' of 'Donkerboshypothese'.

Kiezen de buitenaardse wezens ervoor om de fysieke vorm weg te vagen?
Zoals Nick Bostrom, de bedenker van de simulatietheorie, suggereert, zullen geavanceerde wezens zich misschien helemaal ontdoen van de fysieke vorm en zich in plaats daarvan richten op het creëren van enorme virtuele omgevingen.

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De planetariumhypothese: het universum is niet echt
Sciencefictionschrijver Stephen Baxter opperde dat alles wat we in het universum zien, inclusief alle wetenschappelijke berekeningen, een illusie is die is gecreëerd door een superieure beschaving.

Leven we in een simulatie?
Met andere woorden, we hebben dusver geen buitenaardse wezens gezien omdat zij ze zo hebben ontworpen dat wij ze nooit zien. In de zin van Bostrom zouden we ook in een simulatie kunnen leven en is het universum gewoon virtueel.

Buitenaardse taal decoderen: zijn we technologisch voorbereid?
Projecten zoals SETI scannen actief het heelal op tekenen van buitenaards leven, waarbij geavanceerde apparatuur wordt gebruikt om te luisteren naar signalen die afwijken van de kosmische achtergrondruis, in de hoop uiteindelijk contact te kunnen leggen.

Duidelijke signalen
Maar zelfs als ze proberen te communiceren, is onze huidige technologie volgens Sagan mogelijk niet in staat hun signalen te detecteren of te begrijpen, wat heel anders kan zijn dan wat we hadden voorspeld.

Zijn de buitenaardse wezens al hier?
Sommige theoretici suggereren dat er buitenaards leven op aarde zou kunnen zijn in vormen die we niet herkennen, zoals microscopische organismen of niet-biologische intelligenties, die wachten tot we een hoger begripsniveau bereiken. En zelfs Whoopi Goldberg heeft het al gezegd: "Ze zijn er al. En ze zijn er al een tijdje".

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22-08-2024 om 15:54 geschreven door peter  

The research, led by researchers with the University of Montreal, reveals that LHS 1140 b is unlikely to be a small gas giant or “mini-Neptune,” constituting a large, mostly gaseous planet with a thick atmosphere abundant in hydrogen.

The data was collected by the Webb telescope last December and built on previous data collected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, as well as the Spitzer and TESS telescopes.

Ryan MacDonald, a NASA Sagan Fellow in the University of Michigan’s Department of Astronomy and one of the participants in the recent research, said the discovery “is the first time we have ever seen a hint of an atmosphere on a habitable zone rocky or ice-rich exoplanet.”

“Detecting atmospheres on small, rocky worlds is a major goal from JWST, but these signals are much harder to see than for giant planet atmospheres,” he added.

MacDonald, who played a significant role in analyzing LHS 1140 b’s atmosphere, says that LHS 1140 b represents one of the best small exoplanets astronomers have discovered in the habitable zone so far, given that it can support a thick atmosphere.

“[W]e might just have found evidence of air on this world,” MacDonald said in a statement.

As the most advanced space telescope to date, the James Webb Space Telescope excels in the study of exoplanets. Its cutting-edge technology allows astronomers to probe the atmospheres of distant worlds, analyzing their makeup and assessing their potential to support life.

Credit: Northrup Grumman

A Captivating Habitable Zone Exoplanet Discovery

One reason LHS 1140 b has astronomers talking has to do with how close it is. At just 48 light-years away within the constellation Cetus, LHS 1140 b is likely one of the closest exoplanets to our solar system that also resides within its host star’s habitable region, sometimes also known as the “Goldilocks Zone” since such planets can offer temperatures suitable for the existence of liquid water, as opposed to its frozen or gaseous states.

However, there are still a number of questions about LHS 1140 b, including its size. Astronomers are hoping to determine if the exoplanet is indeed a rocky or water-rich super-Earth or if it might still be a gas-rich mini-Neptune after all.

Charles Cadieux, a doctoral student at the University of Montreal and the lead author of a new study on the promising exoplanet discovery, says that LHS 1140 b presently represents what may be “our best bet to one day indirectly confirm liquid water on the surface of an alien world beyond our solar system.”

Such a discovery, if confirmed, would be “a major milestone in the search for potentially habitable exoplanets,” Cadieux said.

A Super-Earth or a Mini-Neptune?

Although many aspects of LHS 1140 b’s size and nature remain mysterious, some of the data recently obtained with help from the James Webb Space Telescope seem to contradict the idea that the exoplanet is a mini-Neptune. Specifically, the team points to evidence that suggests LHS 1140 b has an atmosphere rich in nitrogen, making it similar to Earth.

Additional data will be required from future observations by Webb before the exoplanet’s nitrogen-rich atmosphere can be confirmed. However, one of the more promising details in the current data suggests that LHS 1140 b possesses less density than what astronomers would expect for a rocky planet with a composition like Earth’s, which could mean that as much as a fifth of the planet’s mass could consist of water.

In other words, LHS 1140 b could be a water world, which astronomers say may likely resemble a snowball. A liquid ocean may exist on the portion of its surface that continually faces its host star, given that it possesses a synchronous rotation similar to that of our own planet’s Moon, with one side constantly facing the Earth.

Current estimates suggest that if LHS 1140 b is indeed a snowball super-Earth or a water world, it may possess a “bull’s eye” ocean on its star-facing side that would be roughly half the surface area of the Atlantic Ocean. Given its constant exposure to radiation from its nearby star, this bull’s eye of liquid water ocean would also maintain a regular estimated temperature of around 20 Celsius (68 Fahrenheit).

Exoplanets are worlds that orbit stars other than the sun. 

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A Glimpse at a Habitable World

“This is our first tantalizing glimpse of an atmosphere on a super-Earth in the habitable zone,” MacDonald said of his team’s discovery, which they believe to be one of the best candidates ever discovered for such habitability studies. Compared with other potentially habitable exoplanets, the relatively calm state of its host star also makes studies of LHS 1140 b’s atmosphere less likely to suffer from interference resulting from starspots.

Although MacDonald says that initial observations are extremely promising, additional observations by the Webb telescope will help astronomers confirm whether the exoplanet does possess a nitrogen-rich atmosphere

For now, MacDonald and his team are excited about what their current findings seem to have revealed.

“Our initial reconnaissance of LHS 1140 b with JWST has revealed this to be perhaps the best habitable zone exoplanet currently known for atmospheric characterization,” MacDonald said.

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21-08-2024 om 23:47 geschreven door peter  

21-08-2024 om 21:18 geschreven door peter  

EXCLUSIVE - US Congress to investigate controversial Peru 'alien' mummies amid fears they could be linked to UFOs

• READ MORE: Congressman says claims of govt-held aliens and craft 'have merit'

By Matthew Phelan - Senior Science Reporter For Dailymail.Com

Peru's famous 'alien mummies' are set for the US, where Congress has pledged to crack the mysterious cases once and for all. 

Republican Tim Burchett, known for his outspoken criticism of the US government's UFO secrecy, vowed to assemble 'the most important people in the world' to examine the bodies, which some scientists claim harbor '30 percent unknown' DNA.

The congressman said he would initiate this new analysis at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in his home state.

The team at Tennessee have obtained half-a-million dollars from the Department of Justice late last year to better understand skeletal remains and 'relic DNA.'

But Rep. Burchett had caveats to his promise to help scientifically analyze the seven-and-counting, so-called 'tridactyl' mummy specimens (like the one pictured), which Maussan maintains could be extraterrestrial: analysis must be 'independent of the federal government'

Though Rep. Burchett has not called the bodies 'alien' yet, his plan is sure to spark furor akin to the firestorm that accompanied the mummies' debut before Mexico's Congress last September.

Legal experts also told DailyMail.com that, despite Rep. Burchett's best efforts, US treaty agreements with Peru could delay transnational shipping of the eerie remains.

The Republican lawmaker made his pledge to veteran Mexican broadcast journalist and prolific UFO researcher Jaime Maussan in a new interview, which aired Monday. 

'I will gladly help you,' Rep. Burchett said during his appearance on Maussan's 'No Humano' ('Non-Human'), 'help you find someone that would analyze them.' 

'I would also be interested in getting some people to analyze those bodies that are independent of the federal government,' the congressman added, echoing myriad past comments in which he has accused federal officials of a UFO 'cover up.' 

'We will look for the most important people in the world,' Rep Burchett said, in the Spanish-translated interview, 'right here in Tennessee.'

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville — the school that the congressman referenced as a likely candidate for this work — is home to an internationally recognized center for the forensic examination of human remains: the 'Body Farm.'

Last December, the US Department of Justice's R&D agency, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), awarded two grants to the Farm, more formally known as UT's Forensic Anthropology Center, totaling more than $580,000.

One of these grants, amounting to $229,000, will help forensic researchers better grasp (and one day correct for) the phenomena of so-called 'relic DNA,' which can linger on a site of forensic interest and thus contaminate dig sites and crime scenes.

Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett (left) has vowed to assemble 'the most important people in the world' to finally crack the mystery of Peru's infamous 'alien' mummies. The GOP lawmaker made the pledge to Mexican journalist and UFO researcher Jaime Maussan (right)

A third project at the Body Farm connected to DOJ's NIJ will spend $660,000 hoping to improve the genotyping of older and long-decomposed skeletal remains' DNA.

'There are well-established, validated, practices for SNP Genotyping from recently deceased, fully fleshed human remains,' as one UT assistant anthropology professor, Dr. Amy Mundorff, put it to the local NBC affiliate. 

'This project seeks to validate these procedures to achieve similar results from skeletonized remains,' she explained.

Both projects could bring forensic anthropology's latest tech and methodology to bear on the elusive origins of Maussan's now seven-and-counting, 'tridactyl' mummies, which the UFO researcher maintains could be extraterrestrial. 

Maussan, whose research has courted controversy for nearly a decade, has floated the idea that the mummies might be alien-human 'hybrids' — and he's now suing Peru's government for the right to ship the bodies to more advanced labs in the US.

'So far we have tomographies [CT scans] and fluoroscopy analysis,' Maussan told DailyMail.com earlier this spring, describing the x-ray and ultrasound data on the mummies that he unveiled at a March 12, 2024 press event. 

And at the conference, he pushed for more analysis on the specimens in a plea for continued inquiry into the bodies' true origins.

'If I were faking this, I wouldn't put it available to everyone,' Maussan said at this March press conference. 'It's open to everyone.'

Maussan has pushed for wider scientific interest in the apparently alien bodies, including a presentation before Mexico's Congress in September of 2023 (pictured)

In Peru last April - as part of another event hosted by Maussan - a new 'alien' specimen named Montserrat (above) was presented. This photo was taken by Colorado attorney Josh McDowell who told DailyMail.com, one mummies' 'fingerprints weren't consistent with human prints'

During his interview with the Tennessee lawmaker, Maussan called Rep. Burchett 'a hero' for his public advocacy on the declassification of America's UFO files, adding that efforts to study his mummified tridactyl specimens also needed 'a champion.' 

For well over a year, Rep. Burchett has become a vocal and prominent member of what has been called the 'House UAP Caucus' - a bipartisan effort to get to the truth behind what are now technically referred to as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).

Undaunted by push back that led to the passage of a 'disappointing,' watered-down version of Congress's 2023 UFO disclosure act, Rep. Burchett also said he will keep pressing for 'complete declassification' of the government's UFO files.

He also confirmed that fellow Rep. Anna Paulina Luna plans to launch new open hearings on these otherworldly mysteries 'before the end of the year.'

'I don't want there to be a hearing every week [...] We are going to have one, hopefully, before the end of the year,' Rep Burchett told Maussan. 'That is what [Rep. Anna Paulina] Luna and others have expressed,' he explained (Above, Rep. Luna)

'l'm not going to give into the pressure from any of the parties that say we have to do this hearing right now or the people who say we are not going to do it,' he explained.

'We are going to have one' the congressman added in his translated interview. 'That is what Luna and others have expressed.' 

Rep. Burchett attributed the ongoing secrecy and the efforts to thwart public access to the government's records on UFOs, UAP and 'aliens' as nothing more than 'greed, power, and arrogance' from career bureaucrats in the US national security sector. 

'We are going to continue until we have complete declassification,' Rep. Burchett said. 'Nothing less, year after year.'

His words come amid a summer of quiet but diligent efforts on Capitol Hill to keep the pursuit of UFO secrets alive — including new efforts by Senators Mike Rounds and Chuck Schumer to pass a more robust version of their UFO disclosure act.

Earlier this year, Rep. Burchett (center) and his colleague Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (right) joined a House Oversight hearing held inside a 'Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility' (SCIF) as part of their efforts to get to the bottom for what the government knows about UFOs

Above, veteran broadcast journalist and prolific UFO researcher Jaime Maussan this Monday

In mid-July, Senators Schumer and Rounds doubled-down on their proposed amendment from last year, reintroducing it as the 'Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2024.' 

The new proposal seeks to codify into law many of the robust oversight powers stripped from last year's version, including the presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed UAP Records Review Board, to be granted broad subpoena power and 'eminent domain' authority to seize UAP evidence from private contractors.

The 2024 version of the amendment also includes much of the precisely defined new language that has become synonymous with wild allegations of a UFO cover-up in the past few years: terms like 'non-human intelligence,' and 'legacy program.'

Such legal intricacies have increased in significance on the twin issues of UAP and alleged visitations by otherworldly 'non-human' beings — a direct consequence of these topics moving from the fringe into the mainstream.

Former Colorado prosecutor Josh McDowell, who led a team of US medical examiners to investigate the 'alien' mummies this April, told DailyMail.com that any effort to have these specimens studied stateside would face diplomatic hurdles.

'So far we have tomographies [CT scans] and fluoroscopy analysis,' Maussan told DailyMail.com describing the x-ray and ultrasound data he unveiled at West Hollywood's Mondrian Hotel at a March 12 press event (pictured above)

Thus far, Maussan and his research partners report that they have had X-rays (above), DNA, and other laboratory examinations conducted on one of the apparently mummified bodies, filmed in collaboration with scientists from the United States on location in Mexico and Peru

Former Colorado prosecutor Josh McDowell, who led a team of US medical examiners to investigate the 'alien' mummies this April, told DailyMail.com that any efforts to have these specimens studies stateside 'would need to be completed with the approval of Peru'

'The big question I get from people is 'Why the hold up on tests?'' McDowell explained. 'And the reality is that there are federal laws and a Memorandum of Understanding between Peru and the US about the importation of archaeological artifacts that require State approval.'

For over 25 years, in fact, the US and Peruvian governments have worked in concert to reduce the illicit trafficking of priceless Peruvian cultural and historical artifacts. 

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•  Mystery around Peru 'alien mummies' deepens after new fingerprint analysis finds they're NOT 'HUMAN' 

As of 2017, according to the US State Department, over 2,000 'looted and stolen items' have been returned to Peru under this 'Memorandum of Understanding.'

'Ideally you'd want to test the bodies with the best methods [and] modalities in a state of the art laboratory environment,' McDowell elaborated. 'And that means removing them from Peru, for an agreed upon time period, to a facility that can employ the best scientific methods.'

'Any study of the bodies would need to be completed with the approval of Peru,' he emphasized, 'and the country in which further scientific studies were completed.'

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21-08-2024 om 20:32 geschreven door peter  

This Woman Nearly Died & Found Humans Are a Temporary Symbiosis Between TWO Beings: One Mortal, One Immortal. Death Does Not Exist, Only Transition

This Woman nearly Died in the ICU. She claims she watched herself lying in bed & found that Humans are a temporary symbiosis between TWO beings: one mortal, one immortal. Death does not exist, only transition.

Her name is Julia Fischer (from Vienna) and she had a near-death experience at the age of 6. She recalled the incident from 2003 when she was six years old. She describes waking up with a severe headache, which led to her collapsing shortly afterward.

This event marked the beginning of a life-threatening cerebral hemorrhage, resulting in her being taken to the hospital and placed in intensive care for two weeks.

While in intensive care, Fisher had a near-death experience. She describes the sensation of “slipping out” of her body, feeling as though a layer was lifted off her.

She found herself floating about two meters above her bed, observing her own body lying with tubes connected to her head. Initially, she did not fully understand what was happening but soon realized that something was not right. This realization led her to the conclusion that she might be dead.

Fisher explains how the experience differed from looking at herself in a mirror. As a small child, being two meters above herself was an unusual perspective.

She observed herself and the surrounding medical equipment with a sense of detachment and lightness, a feeling she describes as being as light as a feather. Despite trying to look at her feet or hands, she could not see them, emphasizing the disembodied nature of her experience.

She said, “The most impressive part was the unbelievable silence—a silence that I don’t think we can experience at all in this world. It was like pressing a pause button; no background noise. You see everything in slow motion—that’s how I perceived it. It’s a silence we cannot experience on Earth in the same way.“

Fisher recalls moving towards a door frame filled with light, which had a unique frequency, unlike any light on Earth. She felt drawn to this light but was suddenly stopped by a voice asking if she wanted to go further.

This voice did not belong to any visible person, adding to the mysterious nature of the experience. As she contemplated the question, thoughts of her parents pulled her back to her body with great force.

I had the feeling it was a slightly bluish tint, a mix of white and blue light. I was drawn to it; it was something I had never seen in my life on Earth. I slowly moved toward this light, very slowly, at a walking pace. Then, I heard a voice—a voice that asked me, “Girl, do you want to go?” I was asked this question, but I didn’t see anybody or anything, just a voice asking, “Do you want to go?” That was really the exciting part. I was standing in this dark room in front of a doorframe filled with white light and this blue color, this unique light frequency.

I slowly moved toward this light, and I was asked again, “Girl, would you like to go on?” At that moment, I reflected on the whole situation, if you can put it that way. I thought about it and had only one thought: my parents. They dominated my mind. I immediately thought of my parents—Mom and Dad. As I was having this thought, it was like a force pulled me back, like Mom and Dad were pulling me back to my body at an incredible speed. That was the kind of near-death experience I had.

She described the light as evoking feelings of love, security, and being in good hands. The decision to return to her body seemed influenced by her thoughts of her parents, and she felt no pressure from any external force to stay or go.

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After spending two weeks in intensive care and another two weeks in a regular ward, Fisher chose not to immediately share her experience with her parents. She felt they were too emotionally fragile at the time. It took her two years to process the event herself before discussing it with her mother, who reacted openly and supportive.

She discussed how the near-death experience has influenced her life. She mentions that, although the experience was clear to her, she understands that others might view her as crazy. She also shares her belief that humans are not truly afraid of death but rather of their own greatness and immortality.

The experience led Fisher to explore spiritual topics from a young age. She attended seminars with her mother and became deeply interested in the meaning of life and what happens after death. She believes that souls come to Earth to experience various aspects of existence, such as forgiveness, by living through specific life events.

Fisher notes that since her near-death experience, she has become more sensitive to energies and emotions around her. This heightened sensitivity affects her interactions with people and her ability to handle mass gatherings.

She also explains that her spiritual orientation influences her professional choices, leading her to train as a kinesiologist, though she seeks to integrate spirituality more deeply into her work.

There is definitely something after Death. Jeffrey Long, a radiation oncologist in Kentucky studied more than 5,000 near-death experiences and his research has convinced him without a doubt that there’s life after death. (Source)

He claims that he found a pattern of events in NDEs.

About 45% of people who have an NDE report an out-of-body experience. When this happens, their consciousness separates from their physical body, usually hovering above the body. The person can see and hear what’s happening around them, which usually includes frantic attempts to revive them. One woman even reported a doctor throwing a tool on the floor when he picked up the wrong one—something the doctor later confirmed.

After the out-of-body experience, people say they’re transported into another realm. Many pass through a tunnel and experience a bright light. Then, they’re greeted by deceased loved ones, including pets, who are in the prime of their lives. Most people report an overwhelming sense of love and peace. They feel like this other realm is their real home.

Dr. Long said, “These experiences may sound cliché: the bright light, the tunnel, the loved ones. But over twenty-five years of studying NDEs, I’ve come to believe that these descriptions have become cultural tropes because they’re true. I even worked with a group of children under five who had NDEs. They reported the same experiences that adults did—and at that age, you’re unlikely to have heard about bright lights or tunnels after you die.

Other people report seemingly unbelievable events, which we can later confirm. One woman lost consciousness while riding her horse on a trail. Her body stayed on the trail while her consciousness traveled with her horse as he galloped back to the barn. Later, she was able to describe exactly what happened at the barn because she had seen it despite her body not being there. Others who hadn’t spoken to her confirmed her account.”

American scientist Robert Lanza, MD also believes that death is not real. He introduced the concept of biocentrism, suggesting that we, as living beings, are the center of everything around us. According to him, death exists because we identify ourselves with our bodies, but he argues that the human mind continues to work even when the body stops functioning. (Source)

To support his ideas, Lanza refers to quantum mechanics, suggesting that consciousness is immortal and exists outside of space and time. He explains that in the realm of quantum possibilities, various outcomes can occur, and human consciousness can smoothly transition to another reality after death.

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21-08-2024 om 18:06 geschreven door peter  

Ex-Pentagon Official Reveals U.S. UFO Retrieval Program and Alien Bodies

In a groundbreaking revelation, former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo has made startling claims regarding the U.S. government’s involvement in a UFO retrieval program. According to Elizondo, this program not only deals with unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) but also involves the recovery of non-human biological specimens, suggesting the presence of extraterrestrial life.

UFO Crash Retrieval Program

Elizondo, who previously headed the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), has brought to light information that has long been speculated by UFO enthusiasts and researchers. He asserts that the Department of Defense has been actively involved in retrieving crashed spacecraft, some of which are believed to be of non-human origin. These claims, if proven true, would mark one of the most significant disclosures in the history of extraterrestrial research.

During a NewsNation special, Elizondo elaborated on the existence of this program, stating that the U.S. government has been engaged in these activities for decades. He also named various government agencies and aerospace companies that allegedly possess these spacecraft. The implications of such a program are profound, as it suggests that the government has been reverse-engineering alien technology for potential use in defense and other sectors.

The Roswell Incident and Beyond

Elizondo’s revelations also touch on the infamous Roswell incident of 1947, one of the most well-known UFO events in history. He claimed that not just one, but two unidentified aerial phenomena crashed during the Roswell event. While one managed to escape, the other was reportedly recovered by the U.S. government. This aligns with long-standing rumors that Roswell was a cover-up for the recovery of alien technology and possibly even extraterrestrial beings.

These allegations point to a legacy of UAP retrieval and reverse engineering that has spanned multiple decades. The U.S. government’s interest in these phenomena, according to Elizondo, is not merely scientific curiosity but a deep-seated pursuit of advanced technology that could potentially change the course of human history.

Alien Bodies and Biological Specimens

Perhaps the most shocking aspect of Elizondo’s claims is the mention of non-human biological specimens. He suggests that alongside the recovery of spacecraft, the U.S. government has also retrieved alien bodies. These biologics, as he refers to them, are evidence of non-human intelligences that have been interacting with humanity.

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Elizondo emphasizes that this is not a recent discovery; the U.S. government has allegedly been aware of the existence of these non-human entities for decades. This revelation raises numerous questions about the nature of these beings, their intentions, and the extent of their interactions with humanity.

The Implications of Elizondo’s Claims

If Elizondo’s statements are accurate, they could lead to a paradigm shift in how we understand our place in the universe. The idea that we are not alone, and that other intelligences have been engaging with us, challenges many of our fundamental beliefs about life, technology, and even security.

The potential existence of a UFO retrieval program also raises ethical and legal questions. If the government has indeed been hiding such information, it could lead to calls for greater transparency and accountability. Moreover, the prospect of reverse-engineering alien technology could have far-reaching consequences, both beneficial and potentially dangerous, for global security.

In conclusion, Luis Elizondo’s claims about a U.S. UFO retrieval program and the recovery of alien bodies open up a vast array of possibilities and concerns. While these revelations are yet to be fully verified, they undoubtedly add fuel to the ongoing debate about UFOs and extraterrestrial life. As more information emerges, the world will be watching closely to see how these claims unfold and what they mean for the future of humanity.

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21-08-2024 om 17:49 geschreven door peter  

• READ MORE: Pentagon is accused of a cover-up after its anticipated UFO report

By Josh Boswell For Dailymail.com

The former head of a secret government UFO program has spoken out in an interview with DailyMail.com – before revealing in a new book why he is certain the Pentagon has material from crashed ‘nonhuman’ spacecraft.

Luis Elizondo, 52, helped run the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) from 2009 to 2017, investigating UFOs that harassed Navy warships and nuclear silos.

DailyMail.com obtained an advance copy of his book, Imminent, in which he shockingly and unequivocally stated that a ‘Legacy Program’ is ‘in possession of advanced technology made off-world by nonhuman intelligence’.

The memoir is bursting with other jaw-dropping revelations and claims, including a 2016 plan Elizondo and colleagues hatched to catch a UFO in the ocean, and his family’s own disturbing experience with ‘green orbs’ floating through their house.

The ex-Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) official revealed Donald Trump was briefed on the government’s UFO program during his presidency, and detailed in his book some intriguing and previously unknown UFO incidents.

Luis Elizondo, 52, helped run the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) from 2009 to 2017, investigating UFOs that harassed Navy warships and nuclear silos

The former head of a secret government UFO program has spoken out in an interview with DailyMail.com – before revealing in a new book why he is certain the Pentagon has material from crashed ‘nonhuman’ spacecraft

These included a 2013 dramatic saucer sighting at the secretive Los Alamos missile test range; laser-precise holes cut through armored tanks in the Kuwaiti desert in 2003; a giant craft beneath the waters of Puerto Rico in 1999; and foreign biological implants found in servicemembers after they encountered UFOs.

Some sections of the book were redacted by the Pentagon, which reviewed it before publication to prevent unauthorized spilling of secrets. Their review does not mean they are vouching for Elizondo’s claims.

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A career senior defense intelligence officer who played a major role running Guantanamo Bay in the 2010s, Elizondo was long a creature of the shadows.

His father, who fought alongside young Fidel Castro and joined Americans in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, taught Florida-raised Elizondo to assemble an AR-15 at age seven. Soon after he showed him how to ride a motorcycle and fly a plane.

Elizondo thought he’d seen it all, serving in Afghanistan alongside General James Mattis and running antiterrorism missions against ISIS, Al Qaeda and Hezbollah.

But when top DIA rocket scientist James Lacatski called him in for a meeting in 2008, he got let in on something altogether stranger.

‘He looked over his glasses at me and he said, “What do you think about UFOs?”’ Elizondo told DailyMail.com.

‘I paused for a moment, and I said “I don’t have the luxury to think about them. I’m too busy chasing bad guys.”

‘He said to me: “Don't let your own personal bias get the best of you, because what you learn here may challenge any preconceived notions.”

‘That’s really when I first learned what this program was about.’

DailyMail.com obtained an advance copy of Elizondo's book, Imminent, in which he shockingly and unequivocally stated that a ‘Legacy Program’ is ‘in possession of advanced technology made off-world by nonhuman intelligence’

Pictured: an old photograph of Luis Elizondo, author of the new book Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs, when he was in the military 

Lacatski recruited Elizondo to manage security for the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), a $22 million DIA initiative that chased down servicemembers’ reports of UFOs, and researched ways to replicate their unearthly technology.

After funding ran out in 2012, Elizondo and his colleagues continued their work using resources cobbled together from their other jobs at DIA and varied military and defense agencies, under the new name AATIP.

In his memoir, Elizondo described some of the strange incidents he investigated while in government.

He said scientists were testing a classified device at the White Sands missile test range in Los Alamos, New Mexico in 2013, when ‘witnesses spotted several mysterious and luminous orbs moving over a nearby ridge’.

‘The orbs moved toward the test site, hovered over the device as if scanning it for intel, then zipped away, brashly flying over the heads of bewildered scientists,’ the ex-official wrote.

‘Later, several eyewitnesses saw a formation of disc-shaped objects that seemed to know precisely where the device being tested was located. This occurred several times over a few days.’

He described another case from 1999, in which a Navy chopper flew over Puerto Rican waters to retrieve a dummy cruise missile they were test-launching.

‘As the frogman dangled from his hoist, a large, circular object the size of a small island began to rise to the surface,’ Elizondo wrote.

‘The pilot told me that it was black as the devil and the water began to churn and roll like a witch’s brew. The crew panicked.

‘As the helicopter rose, the pilot noticed the missile getting sucked underwater.’

DailyMail.com obtained an advance copy of Elizondo's book, Imminent, in which he shockingly and unequivocally stated that a ‘Legacy Program’ is ‘in possession of advanced technology made off-world by nonhuman intelligence’

Elizondo is a former senior intelligence official and special agent who was recruited into a strange and highly sensitive US Government program to investigate UAP / UFO incursions into sensitive military installations and air space

While serving with the US Army in Kuwait in 2003, Elizondo said he had an inexplicable experience.

Military police told him a Bedouin goat herder saw a ‘brilliant green flash’ over tanks stationed at the remote desert base of Arifjan one night.

When Elizondo came to investigate, they showed him a heavily armored M1 battle tank – designed to withstand a direct missile hit – with ‘a small hole punched through the armored side’ that was ‘perfectly round, no rough edges.’

‘The tank next to it showed precisely the same sabotage,’ Elizondo wrote. ‘Whatever caused this seemed to penetrate the sides of two of our best tanks with one clean hole through both.

‘It was as if someone had used a supersharp cookie cutter to take a core sample of the vehicle. The energy required to do such a thing would have been enormous.’

Things got weirder from there.

He described ‘implants’ found in military servicemembers who had a run-in with a UFO.

‘I once handled one of these implants myself, provided to me by a hospital in the Department of Veterans Affairs, where it had been removed from a US military servicemember who had encountered a UAP [Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, the government term for UFOs],’ Elizondo wrote.

‘The material, no longer or wider than a joint of one of your fingers, looked more like a microchip encapsulated by a slimy semitranslucent casing of tissue… Under a microscope, it was still moving somehow.

‘AAWSAP/AATIP had also obtained photographs of these sorts of tiny objects from living foreign military pilots.’

Pictured: Elizondo speaking about his new book about the Pentagon's hunt for UFOs 

Pictured: Aerial view of the United States military headquarters, the Pentagon 

Elizondo claimed samples were sent to ‘the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and a US Army research facility at Fort Detrick in Maryland.’

Elizondo and his colleagues’ ultimate goal was to get access to an alleged longstanding program hidden by defense contractors working with the Pentagon, that had recovered crashed UFOs – some dating back to the infamous reported flying saucer crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.

And in an interview with DailyMail.com, Elizondo revealed that his team got a meeting with this shadowy program’s administrators.

‘We were told by the people who had the material,’ he said. ‘They sat there and said “We’re happy to have this conversation with you. There’s some things you’re going to need to do if you want more access to it. But we’re happy to give this stuff to you.”

‘That’s a holy cow moment. That’s a seismic revelation.

‘There are countless examples of this type of material being collected, that when analyzed and scrutinized by scientific experts – I'm talking about US government top secret-cleared scientists – substantiate that what we're dealing with is something that was not made by us.’

But he said these ‘gatekeepers’ tied his team up in red tape and ultimately failed to open their books – or secret bunkers – to the scrappy Pentagon team.

Elizondo added that for now he is unable to back up his claims with further evidence, as the rest, he says, is classified.

His claims echo those of Pentagon whistleblower David Grusch, a former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency official, who told Congress in a public hearing last year that the government is covering up a UFO crash retrieval program that has half a dozen spacecraft and even alien bodies.

While working on AATIP, Elizondo said he and his family had their own close encounter.

‘My wife was a complete skeptic on all this – that is, until she saw an orb in our house for herself,’ he wrote in his book.

‘We had a long main hallway in the house, and one evening a green, glowing ball, probably about the size of a basketball, with soft edges that weren’t defined, floated down slowly from the kitchen to our bedroom door just below ceiling height, then disappeared into a wall.’

‘If it was just me that saw these things, I probably wouldn’t have said anything. But the fact is, my whole family saw them,’ the intelligence officer told DailyMail.com. ‘And other members in AATIP experienced this same thing as well.

He said he, his family and even neighbors saw these luminous green orbs repeatedly – but only while he worked in the UFO program.

‘There was a lot of weird stuff. The more you got involved with the portfolio, the more bizarre it got,’ he said. ‘I don’t talk too much about it because it just seems so bizarre.

‘It was only happening when we were involved with AATIP. It never happened before, never happened after.’

Elizondo and fellow AATIP member Jay Stratton hatched a plan in 2015 to catch a UFO.

He told DailyMail.com that their investigations pointed to these craft having an apparent interest in military operations, nuclear power, and were often seen around bodies of water.

So they coordinated with the Navy and other branches to create ‘Project Interloper’: an attempt to lure these mysterious craft and record them with high-tech equipment.

‘You take a nuclear carrier strike group, a nuclear powered aircraft carrier, you have a nuclear powered submarine and other nuclear equities in the area, and you put it on the water,’ he told DailyMail.com.

‘So you have the military, nuclear and water nexus. We were very, very confident we were going to get UAP encounters, because we had them all the time. That’s what they were attracted to, like flies to fly paper.’

The idea was to gather warships in the ocean, focusing their radar, sonar, and cameras where they believed the UFOs would appear.

‘There was an official plan that had support. It got briefed all the way to the Joint Staff,’ Elizondo said. ‘We had a lot of interest from the intelligence community. A lot of agencies were part of this. They were ready to put their effort and assets into it. And at the last minute it got denied.

‘That, for me, was one of the last straws. I was very, very frustrated. Despite our best efforts to get this up the chain of command, someone kept cutting this off and saying “we don’t want to talk about UFOs”.’

In 2017 he decided to quit in protest and publicly revealed AATIP’s existence to the New York Times – and the fact that Navy fighter pilots were routinely encountering craft with capabilities far surpassing known human technology.

The revelation sparked a renewed interest in UFOs, and a series of better-funded but equally jargon-filled successors to Elizondo’s AATIP, the most recent being the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).

In between contracting for Space Force, as he did last year, Elizondo is working as part of an effort to persuade lawmakers to add new protections for more whistleblowers to come forward.

That is the only route, he believes, for bringing to light what the government really knows about UFOs.

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21-08-2024 om 00:52 geschreven door peter  

Book Review: Former Pentagon insider says U.S. unwilling to release all its UFO info

By Associated Press

A procession of books in recent years have explored the UFO phenomenon but few perhaps with the authority Luis Elizondo brings as a Defense Department insider, laboring for decades to learn who the visitors are, where they are from and what they want.

In the 275 pages of "Imminent: Inside the Pentagon´s Hunt for UFOs," Elizondo provides evidence of what the U.S. Department of Defense knows with this somewhat surprising conclusion - Defense Department higher-ups often thwart Elizondo and his team´s efforts.

Why? Elizondo writes that the defense establishment doesn´t want to present a problem it neither can explain nor offer a solution. But are these visitors a threat? Elizondo concludes that the visitors´ capabilities make them a "very serious national security issue."

Earliest documented UFO sightings go back to before World War II and since then, many UFOs have violated sensitive military airspace but no one appears to have been deliberately hurt by a UFO in the United States. However, perhaps given his combat experiences and long association with Defense Department work, Elizondo worries about another 9-11-type attack, a threat we should have anticipated but did not.

Elizondo deploys way too many government acronyms - consider AAWSAAP/AATIP, for example - but he´s undeniably thorough in presenting what he has worked on and learned over two decades. Pages of diagrams and explanations suggest how UFOs might propel themselves.

Elizondo became so alarmed at what he was learning about UFOs that the Defense Department refused to disclose to the public that he ultimately resigned his job with the Defense Department so he could go public with much of what he knows about the presence of visitors whose vehicles are far more advanced than what we earthlings have built. Several passages in the book are redacted and Elizondo writes multiple times that he cannot say more about certain subjects.

This cover image released by William Morrow shows "Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs" by Luis Elizondo.

(William Morrow via AP)

Perhaps more alarmingly, as he points out, the Defense Department and other government entities at every level tend to regard our elected representatives as "temporary hires" who need to be managed and fed information as the departments see fit. The Defense bureaucracy, for example, didn´t trust President Nixon, so it didn´t tell him much about UFOs.

The Defense Department recently has released more information on UFOs, thanks largely to Elizondo and his colleagues, but given the reluctant government pace, the bureaucracy doesn´t appear to judge UFOs as an "imminent" threat.

Meantime, the American people - make that the world - seem to regard the proven-beyond-reasonable-doubt arrival of visitors from far away as news eliciting little more than a shrug.

A Defense Department briefing detailing much more of what it knows might change that. A good starting point might be what happened to the remains of non-human bodies that have been recovered from crash sites.

Elizondo fears the Defense Department never will disclose what it knows about that.

AP book reviews: 

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21-08-2024 om 00:37 geschreven door peter  

This Woman Slowed Down Light to 17 m/s, Stopped It Completely, and Manipulated It & did Something Einstein Theorized was 

In 1999, the Danish physicist Lene Hau managed to slow down the Speed of  Light to 17 meters/second. Later she stopped the  light completely and not this only, she could also manipulate the light and did something Einstein theorized was impossible. She stopped light cold using atoms and lasers in her Harvard lab.

According to Albert Einstein, light or photons cannot travel faster than 299791,819 Km/sec. Dr. Hau said that the famous genius would “probably be shocked” by the results of her experiments. In 1999, while working at the Rowland Institute for Science in Boston, she and her team slowed down light by 20 million times, making it move at just 38 miles an hour. They achieved this by shining a light beam through a tiny cloud of atoms that were cooled to incredibly low temperatures, much colder than the empty space between stars. The cloud of atoms was held in place by magnets inside a chamber with almost no air, far emptier than the air in the room you’re in right now.

When atoms get extremely cold, a few millionths of a degree above absolute zero, they lose their identities and blend. At low enough temperatures, a collection of millions of atoms can behave like a single “superatom.” This collection is known as the “Bose-Einstein Condensate,” after the two physicists whose work predicted its existence in 1924. “I was so curious to see what this new state of matter was like,” Dr. Hau said. (Source)

In June 1997, Hau and her co-workers finally cooled atoms enough to form a Bose-Einstein Condensate. “We were incredibly happy,” she said. “We had succeeded.” They were among the first people in the world to see those condensates.

She explained that scientists made a special substance called a condensate. They used lasers to change it, making it slow down light passing through. They suspended the condensate in a vacuum and shot laser pulses through it. The pulses slowed down and even stopped completely. When they turned the lasers back on, the light pulses returned. This means they can “store” light for a short time, like pausing a video.

In 2001, she made a big breakthrough. Using a special device she built, which looks like a big pinball machine with mirrors and lasers, she took a bunch of sodium atoms and cooled them to just above absolute zero. Then, she shot a beam of light into these sodium atoms, and amazingly, the light stopped.

The light paused inside the sodium atoms. This happened because at the moment the light hit the sodium, it was also hit by another laser called a coupling laser.

This might sound complicated, but it has a useful computer application. If you can control, stop, and manipulate light, you could create a new type of super-fast computer called a quantum computer. Instead of storing information on a disk, these quantum computers would use  light to store and send information through optical fibers.

What happens to light when it stops?

Basically, when light is stopped, it does disappear for a moment. It gets stuck. You can make it move again by, in a way, opening a gate To stop the light, a special laser has to mix with a cloud of sodium atoms. The laser hits the sodium atoms, stopping the light. When the laser is turned off, the light starts moving again. That’s the basic idea of how it works. In 2018, a study published that says  Light completely stopped for a record-breaking minute. (Source)

Dr. Lene Hau was asked: Are you changing reality? Are you taking this basic fundamental property of all reality — light — and obliterating what exists in existing light?

She said what they are doing is a kind of magic, but on the other hand, it needs to be understood that we are dealing with very, very tiny quantities of light. It’s not as if this can be extrapolated to mean that the light flowing off a person’s face or off a tree could ultimately be captured or stopped — almost like some kind of science-fiction manipulation of light.

This is a very limited control of light involving this super-cooled sodium that eventually may have implications for super-fast computers.

Manipulating Light

In 2014, Dr. Hau said that she not only stopped the light but also moved it around, manipulating it for half a minute before making it reappear.

”We can hold on to the light, move it around, or even save it for later. We can actually manipulate it, “ said Dr. Hau in an interview with ScienceNordic after her talk at the annual Hans Christian Andersen (HCA) lecture at The University of Southern Denmark.

With a coupling laser, Dr. Hau shone a beam of light — a light wave — through the Bose-Einstein condensate. The cold environment of the condensate not only slows down the light but also compresses it.

Coupling laser light is special because it couples together two energy levels of the molecule to make a superposition. Inside the condensate, the light from the coupling laser is compressed from being one kilometer long to only 0.02 millimeters.

“Once the lightwave is inside the Bose-Einstein condensate, we turn off the laser. Though the light is gone, it leaves a distinct imprint behind in the atom cloud,” said Dr. Hau. This process creates a sort of cast of light in the actual matter — an imprint.

Using such an imprint, Dr. Hau had shown that it is possible to save the light wave and even move it around for up to half a minute. This also means moving it out of the condensate where is was created. “We can slow it [the light] down, stop it, and move it around, and then create a copy of it in a new place,” explained Dr. Hau.

It is possible to manipulate the cast of the light, said Dr. Hau. “We can make changes to the cast of  light, which will then become apparent when we make it into light again. So it’s not just a way to store light but also to manipulate it.”.

How can you manipulate the light wave? Could you for example change the color of the light? “In principle, you could change the color of the light, yes. But for information processing it’s probably more important to change the shape of the light pulse so you get a different amplitude variation or a different phase,” said Dr. Hau.

What can we use it for?

“The aim has been fundamental research, that is, learning new things about nature. In the long term, I think, we might be able to use it for areas such as information processing in both areas of classical information and quantum information,” said Dr. Hau.

The manipulation and storing of light could prove to be a step towards the development of quantum computers. We all know that Quantum computers exist. The list of laboratories with functioning quantum systems includes IBM, Google, Microsoft, D-Wave, QuEra and scores more. There are several functioning quantum computers in both Europe and China.

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21-08-2024 om 00:31 geschreven door peter  

Is this proof the Turin Shroud IS real? Scientists make startling discovery after analysing cloth 'Jesus was buried in'

• Scientists claim the Turin Shroud can be dated back to the time of Jesus' life
• A Wide-Angle X-ray scattering technique was used to re-date the shroud  
• Experts make 'groundbreaking' discovery where Jesus performed miracles 

By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com

A controversial linen shroud - regarded by some to be the one Jesus was buried in - has baffled the world for more than centuries.

When it was first exhibited in the 1350s, the Shroud of Turin was touted as the actual burial shroud used to wrap the mutilated body of Christ after his crucifixion.

Also known as the Holy Shroud, it bears a faint image of the front and back of a bearded man, which many believers is Jesus' body miraculously imprinted onto the fabric.

But research in the 1980s appeared to debunk the idea it was real after dating it to the Middle Ages, hundreds of years after Christ's death.

Now, Italian researchers who used a new technique involving x-rays to date the material have confirmed it was manufactured around the time of Jesus about 2,000 years ago.

Scientists have used a technique called Wide-Angle X-ray scattering to predict that the age of the shroud of Turin is close to 2000 years old 

Italian researchers used a special X-ray technique to look at how the Shroud of Turin's threads (pictured) have aged, revealing it was manufactured around the time of Christ

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They say the fact the timelines add up lends credence to the idea that the faint, bloodstained pattern of a man with his arms folded in front were left behind by Jesus' dead body.

The Bible states that Joseph of Arimathea wrapped the body of Jesus in a linen shroud and placed it inside the tomb.

Matthew 27:59-60 reads: 'Then Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a new linen cloth. He put Jesus’ body in a new tomb that he had dug in a wall of rock. Then he closed the tomb by rolling a very large stone to cover the entrance. After he did this, he went away.' 

The burial cloth has captivated the imagination of historians, church chiefs, skeptics and Catholics since it was first presented to the public in the 1350s. 

French knight Geoffroi de Charny gave it to the dean of the church in Lirey, France, proclaiming it as the Holy Shroud.

The Bible states that, Joseph of Arimathea wrapped the body of Jesus in a linen shroud and placed it in a new tomb

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It has been preserved since 1578 in the royal chapel of the cathedral of San Giovanni Battista in Turin, Italy.

The cloth appears to show faint, brownish images on the front and back, depicting a gaunt man with sunken eyes who was about 5ft 7 to 6ft tall. 

Markings on the body also correspond with crucifixion wounds of Jesus mentioned in the Bible, including thorn marks on the head, lacerations on the back and bruises on the shoulders.

Historians have suggested that the cross he carried on his shoulders weighed around 300 pounds, which would have left contusions.

The Bible states Jesus was whipped by the Romans, aligning with the lacerations on the back, who also placed crown of thorns on his head before the crucifixion. 

The 14-foot-long Shroud of Turin is touted as wrapping used for Jesus' body after the crucifixion, which shows a faint, bloodstained pattern of a man with his arms folded in front

In 1988, a team of international researchers analyzed a small piece of the shroud using carbon dating and determined the cloth seemed to have been manufactured sometime between 1260 and 1390 AD. 

This technique used the decay of a radioactive isotope of carbon (14C) to measure the time and date objects containing carbon-bearing material. 

Some experts have said that the linen's authenticity should no longer be disputed, claiming it was made from flax grown in the Middle East and features a helmet-style crown of thorns on the man's face.

However, others have held on to the notion that it is fake due to the 1988 radiocarbon dating analysis conducted at three different laboratories, which all determined it was only seven centuries old.

The Shroud of Turin features the image of a man with sunken eyes, which experts have analyzed under different filters to study it (pictured) 

For the new study, scientists at Italy's Institute of Crystallography of the National Research Council conducted a recent study using wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS).

The technique measures the natural aging of flax cellulose and converts it to time since manufacture.

The team studied eight small samples of fabric from the Shroud of Turin, putting them under an X-ray to uncover tiny details of the linen's structure and cellulose patterns.

Cellulose is made up of long chains of sugar molecules linked together that break over time, showing how long a garment or cloth has been around.

To date the shroud, the team used specific aging parameters, including temperature and humidity, which cause significant breakdown of cellulose.

The scientists obtained small samples of the shroud of Turin (left) and exposed it to Wide-Angle X-ray radiation to create an image of the linen sample (right) which was used for dating 

Based on the amount of breakdown, the team determined that the shroud of Turin was likely kept at temperatures at about 72.5 degrees Fahrenheit and a relative humidity of around 55 percent for about 13 centuries before it arrived in Europe.

If it had been kept in different conditions, the aging would be different. 

Researchers then compared the cellulose breakdown in the shroud to other linens found in Israel that date back to the first century.

'The data profiles were fully compatible with analogous measurements obtained on a linen sample whose dating, according to historical records, is 55-74 AD, found at Masada, Israel [Herod's famous fortress built on a limestone bedrock overlooking the Dead Sea],' reads the study published in the journal Heritage.

The team also compared the shroud with samples from linens manufactured between 1260 and 1390 AD, finding none were a match. 

'To make the present result compatible with that of the 1988 radiocarbon test, the Shroud of Turn should have been conserved during its hypothetical seven centuries of life at a secular room temperature very close to the maximum values registered on the earth,' the study reads.

Lead author Dr Liberato De Caro said in a statement that the 1988 test should be deemed as incorrect because 'Fabric samples are usually subject to all kinds of contamination, which cannot be completely removed from the dated specimen.'

'If the cleaning procedure of the sample is not thoroughly performed, carbon-14 dating is not reliable,' he added. 

The shroud has been preserved since 1578 in the royal chapel of the cathedral of San Giovanni Battista in Turin, Italy

Previous studies have also used X-ray analysis to confirm that the flax used to make the linen in the shroud (pictured) was grown in the Middle East 

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'This may have been the case in 1988, as confirmed by experimental evidence showing that when moving from the periphery towards the center of the sheet, along the longest side, there is a significant increase in carbon-14.'

Scientists have long been studying the Shroud of Turin with hopes of solving the centuries-old mystery.

More than 170 peer-reviewed academic papers have been published about the mysterious linen since the 1980s, with many concluded it to be genuine. 

Testing in the 1970s looked at whether the images were made through painting, scorching or other agents, but they none could be confirmed. 

Another group of experts from the Institute of Crystallography announced in 2017 that they had found evidence that the shroud featured the blood of a torture victim.

They claimed to have identified substances like creatinine and ferritin that are usually found in patients who suffer forceful traumas.

The alleged findings contradicted claims the face of Jesus was painted on by forgers in medieval times.

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21-08-2024 om 00:15 geschreven door peter