Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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THAT IS AN AVERAGE OF 400GUESTS PER DAY.
THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY BLOG AND HOPE YOU ENJOY EACH TIME.
The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
23-08-2024
NASA’s GOLD Satellite Discovers Mysterious Plasma Structures in the Earth’s Atmosphere
NASA’s GOLD Satellite Discovers Mysterious Plasma Structures in the Earth’s Atmosphere
NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission has discovered a new phenomenon in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. The mission revealed unexpected X- and C-shaped structures in the ionosphere that have puzzled scientists.
The new findings suggest that our understanding of the ionosphere is far from complete and that more dynamics are at play in this region of Earth’s atmosphere than previously thought.
The ionosphere, a layer of the Earth’s atmosphere extending from about 50 to 400 miles above the surface, is a region where solar radiation ionizes atmospheric particles, creating a plasma of charged particles.
This layer plays a crucial role in long-distance radio communications, as it can reflect radio waves back to Earth. However, GOLD’s new observations have shown formations that challenge current scientific models.
Observations from NASA’s GOLD mission shows charged particles in the ionosphere forming an X shape on Oct. 7, 2019. (The colors indicate the intensity of the ultraviolet light emitted, with yellow and white indicating the strongest emission, or highest ionospheric density.)
(Image credit: F. Laskar et al.)
“A unique phenomenon—A geomagnetically quiet time merging of Equatorial Ionization Anomaly (EIA) crests, leading to an X-pattern (EIA-X) around the magnetic equator—has been observed in the night-time ionospheric measurements by the Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk mission,” researchers wrote in the study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.
Observations of these distinctive X-pattern structures had previously been noted only during geomagnetic disturbances, such as after solar storms or volcanic eruptions. However, these new sightings during geomagnetically calm conditions suggest that unknown processes from the lower atmosphere can affect the ionosphere, presenting a new scientific mystery.
Computer simulations showed that these bizarre X-shaped equatorial ionization anomalies are generated during pre-sunset hours and persist until after sunset at local times.
Models also propose that these X-shapes may develop when changes in the lower atmosphere draw plasma downward. However, this hypothesis requires further investigation.
Images from NASA's GOLD mission show C-shaped and reverse-C-shaped plasm
“The X is odd because it implies that there are far more localized driving factors,” Dr. Jeffrey Klenzing, a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center who studies the ionosphere, said in a statement. “This is expected during the extreme events, but seeing it during ‘quiet time’ suggests that the lower atmosphere activity is significantly driving the ionospheric structure.”
Additionally, GOLD identified C-shaped and reverse-C-shaped plasma bubbles near each other. C-shaped plasma bubbles are typically long and straight and form along magnetic field lines. However, on several occasions, GOLD found these structures a mere 400 miles apart, implying that strong turbulence or vortex-like activity in the lower atmosphere influences the ionosphere.
This discovery of closely linked C-shaped bubbles offers further evidence that more complex dynamics are at work in the Earth’s atmosphere than is currently understood.
Dr. Deepak Karan, a research scientist at the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) and author of a 2023 study on these mysterious C-shaped bubbles, highlighted the significance of these recent discoveries.
“Within that close proximity, these two opposite-shaped plasma bubbles had never been thought of, never been imaged,” Dr. Karan said. “To have wind patterns change course in such a small area suggests some sort of strong turbulence — like a vortex, wind shear, or tornado-like activity — is likely at play in the atmosphere.”
“The fact that we have very different shapes of bubbles this close together tells us that the dynamics of the atmosphere is more complex than we expected,“ Dr. Klenzing added.
GOLD’s findings are notable for their clarity and consistency, thanks to the satellite’s geostationary orbit, which allows it to continuously monitor the same region of the Earth. This extended observation capability has enabled scientists to detect the persistent nature of these X- and C-shaped structures.
Since its launch in 2018, GOLD has only recorded two instances of C-shaped atmospheric structures being closely paired. Researchers say the bizarre X-shape anomaly has been detected “very clearly on one occasion and to some extent on other six occasions, during geomagnetically quiet periods.“ This suggests that this mysterious phenomenon, which researchers likened to atmospheric “alphabet soup,” is extremely rare.
Nevertheless, these findings are significant as they could impact our understanding of how the ionosphere interacts with communication and navigation signals, which can be disrupted by such plasma structures.
The presence of strong turbulence or localized disturbances in the ionosphere can lead to signal loss or degradation. Our reliance on technologies that depend on stable ionospheric conditions, such as GPS and satellite communications, makes understanding these influences increasingly critical.
The shape of Earth’s magnetic field (represented by orange lines in this data visualization) near the equator drive charged particles (blue) away from the equator, creating two dense bands just north and south of the equator known as the equatorial ionization anomaly. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Download this visualization from NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio.
Likewise, the mission’s findings underscore the complexity of the Earth’s atmosphere and the need for continued research to understand the various factors that influence its behavior.
NASA says ongoing observations by GOLD, alongside data from other heliophysics missions, are expected to provide more insights into these phenomena. Scientists hope to use this information to shed more light on these enigmatic structures and their implications for our technological world.
Researchers concluded their recent study by noting, “A comprehensive understanding of the dynamics during the pre- to post-sunset period will not only advance our knowledge of the ionosphere’s response to external (lower atmospheric or geomagnetic) drivers but also plays a crucial role in the development of space weather forecasting capability.”
NASA scientists have discovered some unusual shapes high up in the Earth’s ionosphere, which is a layer stretching from 50 to 400 miles above the planet.
Normally, the ionosphere can get electrically charged, especially when influenced by space weather.
In addition to the X shapes, scientists have also found C-shaped bubbles in the ionosphere. These shapes can appear close to each other, indicating that the dynamics of the atmosphere are more complex than previously thought.
Tim McMillan is a retired law enforcement executive, investigative reporter and co-founder of The Debrief. His writing typically focuses on defense, national security, the Intelligence Community and topics related to psychology. You can follow Tim on Twitter:@LtTimMcMillan. Tim can be reached by email: tim@thedebrief.org or through encrypted email:LtTimMcMillan@protonmail.com
Paranormal lore is replete with reports from witnesses who claim to have been visited by mysterious figures claiming to be with the government or the military and delivering threatening messages. Generically known as the Men In Black (or less commonly, Women in Black), they typically seek out witnesses to UFO sightings or other incidents that the government would prefer to keep hidden from the public. They seek to confiscate evidence and intimidate witnesses to prevent them from speaking about what they saw, warning that bad things might happen if they do and that loose lips can sometimes lead to far worse things than sinking ships. But is this something that really happens or could it all be misunderstandings on the part of the witnesses, or perhaps even hallucinations?
Rock-solid evidence is difficult to come by, but it does exist if you dig deeply enough. One example of a visit by the Men in Black can be found in the United States Government's own archival files. The encounter in question that started the entire affair took place on July 7, 1947, but it's not the one you are probably thinking of based on that famous (in ufology) date. In the suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, there lived a young man named William A. Rhodes, a professional musician, amateur photographer, and electronics hobbyist. Late in the afternoon of the day in question, Rhodes was headed out to the workshop he had constructed in his backyard when he heard a strange sound coming from the skies. Looking to the northeast, he observed what he described as a flat, elliptical, gray object 20 to 30 feet across descending from a great height in a spiraling flight path. Amazed, he rushed into his shed and retrieved his Kodak Brownie 120 box camera. He returned outside and took two photographs of the object, one as it reached its lowest, closest point of approach and a second as it zoomed upward and away at a 45-degree angle.
Rhodes quickly contacted the Arizona Republic newspaper, sending them his photographs and giving them an interview. These remain some of the best photos of a UFO from the period, at least in my opinion. (You can view the photos here.) The report briefly generated some excitement locally in the press and among the public. The reason many of us may never have heard of Rhodes' encounter, however, was that it took place only two weeks after Kenneth Arnold's famous "flying saucer" sighting and on the same day that the infamous Roswell, New Mexico incident hit the national news and absorbed the media's attention. What William Rhodes didn't know at the time was that United States military and government officials were paying very close attention to his story. He would find out about that soon enough.
The Rhodes sighting and photographic evidence would go on to be recorded in the Project Grudge Archives under the humble name of "Incident 40." (You can read the full government record at the link.) The government's investigation into Mr. Rhodes would stretch on for more than five years and lead to multiple lawsuits. But the portion of interest for this discussion unfolded quickly. Air Materiel Command at Wright Patterson Air Force Base had been contacting the newspapers that had spoken to the witness and collecting all of the publicly available information about the sighting. Barely a month after the sighting, Wright Patterson assigned Special Agent George Fugate Jr. from the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) to arrange an interview with Rhodes at this home. CIC wanted some backup from the FBI to assist with the interview and a man identified as Special Agent Brower (no first name given) was detailed to travel with Fugate and help him. The interview was scheduled for August 29, 1947.
This is where the story takes an interesting twist. On their way to Rhodes' home, Fugate instructed Special Agent Brower to not reveal his name or produce his badge or any ID for the witness. He was only introduced as "a representative of the United States Government.” Brower complied, though when he was later debriefed he recounted that he found the request to conceal his identity to be “a peculiar procedure." But he also concluded that it was "none of his business," so he accomplished the mission and returned to his regular assignment. The agents informed Rhodes that he would need to turn over any copies of the photos he had in his possession as well as the negatives. Rhodes turned over the photographs but informed the agents that the negatives were not in his home. He would retrieve them and they could return the next day to collect them, which they did. That would be the last time that William Rhodes would ever see the photos or the negatives.
Rhodes pursued various legal methods to have his property returned to no avail. The government insisted that they could not find the evidence, at one point suggesting that they were unsure if the witness had ever turned them over in the first place. The government was obviously lying because the linked archival records contained multiple material transfer receipts showing the negatives being delivered to various offices, with the results of various technical tests done upon them being recorded. They also recorded investigations into William Rhodes' "character," including checks of his credit rating and background investigations revealing that his mother was a Russian immigrant, calling his loyalty to the nation into question. They seemed to be preparing a case against the witness more than anything else. But there was no question that they were very much interested in the sighting. One expert who was very impressed with the evidence was J. Allen Hynek, who wrote in his report that "Incident 40" was “one of the most crucial in the history of these objects.” That was because the photographs Rhodes provided so closely matched the actual description of the objects seen by Kenneth Arnold, which were later incorrectly described as "flying saucers."
Returning to our original subject of inquiry, that's most of what we know about Incident 40, William Rhodes, and his mysterious visitors in August of 1947. This leaves us with an obvious, glaring question. Was the enlistment of Agent Brower to help extract what the government wanted from the witness a one-off, random strategy that Special Agent Fugate cooked up on the spur of the moment, or was this a technique that they were already employing and Brower was unwittingly called in to play that role when they were short-handed? Keep in mind that all of this was unfolding very early in what is now considered the "modern era" of ufology. No matter which answer is the truth, it probably doesn't matter. If this was the only time the government ever did this, that would make the incident a unicorn, and those are deemed impossibly rare for a reason. Few things only happen once in our universe, with the possible exception of the Big Bang, and even that has been called into question recently.
The technique worked, and if it worked once, why wouldn't you try it again? Having spent time working in both military and government operations myself, I can assure you that this would be a very typical military mindset. You don't abandon your game plan when you're in the process of running up your score. The archived files of Project Blue Book are filled with stories of the American government diving deeply into reports of UFOs and associated phenomena while working strenuously to assure the media and the public at large that there was "nothing to see here" and it was all swamp gas, balloons, or ball lighting (which doesn't even exist according to my own research). The major stumbling blocks in their efforts were the eyewitnesses, particularly those who may have captured compelling photographic or video evidence. Finding a way to shut them up and prevent the spread of potential "public hysteria" would have been high on their priority list.
It's not as if the American government (and most other governments, for that matter) don't have long-established track records of keeping secrets when they felt it was in their best interest. In the United States, consider what happened during the Tuskegee syphilis experiments. That went on for decades and hundreds of unwitting Black Americans died as a result, believing that they were "helping the government" find a cure. Plenty of people knew it was going on but they remained silent and hid it from the public and the press. The United States Army conducted tests of hallucinogenic drugs on its own soldiers starting in the 1950s for years without informing them. Again, this was all known and records exist confirming it to this day, but nobody was told. Should we honestly believe that these same power brokers wouldn't engage in some "Men in Black" tactics to conceal what they really knew about potential extraterrestrial life if they believed it would benefit their long-term goals?
It's not as if we don't have plenty of other highly credible accounts of people who have described run-ins with these shadowy military or government entities under similar circumstances, even if their own accounts didn't wind up in the national archives. These reports come to us from the earliest days of the modern UFO era to the present. Back in the 1950s, Albert Bender reported encounters with extraterrestrials and being subsequently visited by Men in Black who may or may not have even been human. He went on to write a book about it and became the subject of numerous documentaries. He said that he was visited by three men dressed in black suits who warned him to stop his UFO research. His claims were quickly dismissed by skeptics because he later described them as "floating about a foot off the floor," suggesting that they may have been aliens themselves, but who is to say that this point?
In 1947, around the same time that William Rhodes was having his own experiences, Harold Dahl reported seeing mysterious flying objects near Maury Island, Washington. He later claimed he was visited by a man in a black suit who threatened him and his family if he spoke about the incident. In 1968, UFO researchers Jack and Mary Robinson reported Men in Black searching their apartment while they were out after being warned to avoid the topic. A friend of theirs even captured a picture of a stereotypical MIB sitting in a car outside their home.
Much more recently, in 2008, residents of Stephenville, Texas, called in to local media and the police reporting strange lights in the sky. Some of those same witnesses later told reporters that they had been "visited by men in black suits who instructed them not to discuss what they had seen." In another event in 2014, a man going by the pseudonym "Jack Smith" reported that the MIB had accosted him in New Orleans, threatening his life unless he stopped investigating the topic. So what is the logical explanation for all of this? If you wish to argue that some of these people were simply confused or they were making up stories to attract attention or sell books, that's fine. That's part of human nature and it happens. But all of them after so many years? We've already documented here that the American government has done this at least once. The idea that they wouldn't have kept doing it is even less plausible than the proposal that every UAP ever reported was nothing more than an errant weather balloon or the planet Venus. My wife and I have seen five UFOs and I can assure you that they were neither of those things. At this point, I'm literally waiting to hear a knock on our door.
"Vreemde" talen bestaan niet meer dankzij deze slimme Japanse innovatie.
"Vreemde" talen bestaan niet meer dankzij deze slimme Japanse innovatie.
Het spreken van een vreemde taal is een gewilde vaardigheid vanwege de binnenlandse culturele diversiteit en het aantal bedrijven dat zaken doet in het buitenland. Vreemde talenkennis kan je aan een baan helpen door je kwalificaties te verbeteren.
Het maakt niet uit of je maatschappelijk werker bent, geneeskunde beoefent, internationaal zaken doet, talen onderwijst/leert of gewoon naar het buitenland reist - de mogelijkheid om klanten in hun eigen taal aan te spreken en met hen te communiceren is een enorm voordeel.
Niet meertalig?
Gelukkig hebben twee beroemde Japanse uitvinders het vertalen van talen naar een hoger niveau getild en een instant vertaler gemaakt die luistert naar de naam Poliglu. Deze kan gemakkelijk spraak in realtime vertalen in meer dan 36 talen met slechts een paar vingertikken.
Je hoeft dus geen andere taal te kennen of te leren om erin te kunnen communiceren. Moeilijkheden, veroorzaakt door taalbarrières, behoren binnenkort tot het verleden! Wat kan er beter zijn dan dit?
Ontdek het in de praktijk!
Waarom dit kleine gadget zo bijzonder is?
Directe communicatie in een andere taal
Een nieuwe taal leren vergt maanden en zelfs jaren van toegewijde studie. Poliglu kan je onmiddellijk in een communicatieve meester veranderen!
Eerlijke en redelijke prijs
Poliglu is goedkoop. Een ervaren professionele vertaler of tolk kan duur zijn, en je moet meerdere keren betalen. Poliglu vereist slechts een eenmalige betaling voor een uitgebreide selectie talen.
Rembours: 100% risicovrij
Koop geen kat in een zak! Poliglu heeft een uiterst handige optie voor levering onder rembours. Je hoeft helemaal niets te betalen als je online bestelt, wat het kopen van Poliglu extreem veilig maakt (je hoeft geen gevoelige informatie in te voeren). Je kan het artikel bij aflevering inspecteren en contant betalen - kan het nog handiger dan dit?
Comfortabel en gebruiksvriendelijk
Met zijn lichtgewicht ontwerp en kleine formaat is Poliglu gemakkelijk mee te nemen in elke zak of tas en is het daar wanneer het nodig is. Vandaar de naam "draagbare spraakvertaler" die je elke dag zal willen gebruiken!
Perfecte geluidskwaliteit
Het is comfortabel te gebruiken op drukke plaatsen, omdat het geluid luid genoeg is om duidelijk gehoord te worden.
Ondersteunt meer dan 36 talen
De ingebouwde geavanceerde technologie kan een vertaling in beide richtingen ondersteunen. Bovendien is er ook een tekstvertaling beschikbaar.
Waarom maakt dit het leven zoveel gemakkelijker?
Hoewel Poliglu voornamelijk werd gemaakt voor reizigers, begon het massaal aan populariteit te winnen onder mensen met verschillende beroepen. Plots werd het een onmisbaar apparaat!
Wat ons verbaasde, is dat steeds meer sociale/hulpverleners en vrijwilligers kiezen voor Poliglu om hun werk te vergemakkelijken.
We vroegen mensen die de Poliglu vertaler hebben gebruikt om uitleg over hoe het voor hen werkt. Uit de resultaten bleek dat mensen de kwaliteit van hun werk drastisch hebben verbeterd nadat ze de Poliglu vertaler hadden aangeschaft.
Zou jij er ook één moeten aanschaffen?
Taalbarrière mag niet langer je bezorgdheid zijn, dus het antwoord is zeker JA! En dit is het beste moment om het te doen, want Poliglu vertalers kunnen binnenkort uit voorraad raken door hun wereldwijde populariteit.
Wil je in staat zijn gedurende een week of twee in een nieuw land uit de voeten te kunnen? Moet je met nieuwe vrienden of familieleden kunnen communiceren in hun moedertaal? Of moet je een taal voldoende beheersen om voltijds in een vreemd land te kunnen werken?
Welnu, Poliglu kan al die dingen leveren en nog veel meer!
Voor alle duidelijkheid: doe het zolang ze nog een superhandige en risicoloze optie voor rembours aanbieden. Ik voelde me VEEL veiliger bij het betalen voor dit handige hebbedingetje bij ontvangst en omdat ik NIET mijn gevoelige creditcardgegevens in een andere webwinkel hoefde in te voeren. Meer verkopers zouden zo'n handige optie moeten bieden. Gewoon een handige tip voor jou.
The Wow! Signal Deciphered. It Was Hydrogen All Along.
In 1977, astronomers received a powerful, peculiar radio signal from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. Its frequency was the same as neutral hydrogen, and astronomers had speculated that any ETIs attempting to communicate would naturally use this frequency. Now the signal, named the Wow! Signal has become lore in the SETI world.
But what was it?
Beginning in the 1970s, the Ohio State University Big Ear radio telescope was used in the university’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program, which ran from 1973 to 1995. This program is the longest-running SETI program in history.
In 1977, Big Ear detected a peculiar signal that’s taken on a life of its own: the Wow! Signal. The Wow! Signal was a strong narrowband radio signal right near the frequency of neutral hydrogen. The Big Ear telescope is long gone now, but the effort to understand what the signal is lives on.
The signal lasted the full 72-second window in which Big Ear was able to observe it. A few days later, astronomer Jerry R. Ehman was looking over the data when he saw the signal on a computer printout. Astronomers had never seen anything like it, and he wrote “Wow!” beside it, and the name has stuck ever since.
The Wow! signal from 1977 as discovered by astronomer Jerry R. Ehman. Image via Big Ear Radio Observatory and North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO).
The signal has another name: 6EQUJ5. This has been interpreted as a message hidden in the signal, but it really represents how the signal’s intensity varied over time.
This image is a plot of the Wow! signal’s intensity versus time. Image Credit: By Maxrossomachin – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16197844
The signal generated a lot of excitement. Some thought it was extraterrestrial in origin, some thought it could come from some type of human-generated interference, and some thought it could be from an unexplained natural phenomenon.
New research shows that the Wow! Signal has an entirely natural explanation.
Arecibo Wow! is a new effort based on an archival study of data from the now-defunct Arecibo Radio Telescope from 2017 to 2020. The observations from Arecibo are similar to those from Big Ear but “are more sensitive, have better temporal resolution, and include polarization measurements,” according to the authors.
“Our latest observations, made between February and May 2020, have revealed similar narrowband signals near the hydrogen line, though less intense than the original Wow! Signal,” said Méndez.
Arecibo detected signals similar to the Wow! signal but with some differences. They’re far less intense and come from multiple locations. The authors say these signals are easily explained by an astrophysical phenomenon and that the original Wow! signal is, too.
“We hypothesize that the Wow! Signal was caused by sudden brightening from stimulated emission of the hydrogen line due to a strong transient radiation source, such as a magnetar flare or a soft gamma repeater (SGR),” the researchers write. Those events are rare and rely on precise conditions and alignments. They can cause clouds of hydrogen to brighten considerably for seconds or even minutes.
This simple schematic shows how the Wow! Signal was generated and detected. A radiative source such as a magnetar or a soft gamma repeater is positioned behind a cloud of cold neutral hydrogen. Energy from the source stimulates emission from the HI cloud, which brightens abruptly and is observable from Earth. Image Credit: Méndez et al. 2024.
The researchers say that what Big Ear saw in 1977 was the transient brightening of one of several H1 (neutral hydrogen) clouds in the telescope’s line of sight. The 1977 signal was similar to what Arecibo saw in many respects. “The only difference between the signals observed in Arecibo and the Wow! Signal is their brightness. It is precisely the similarity between these spectra that suggests a mechanism for the origin of the mysterious signal,” the authors write.
These signals are rare because the spatial alignment between source, cloud, and observer is rare. The rarity of alignment explains why detections are so rare.
The researchers were able to identify the clouds responsible for the signal but not the source. Their results suggest that the source is much more distant than the clouds that produce the hydrogen signal. “Given the detectability of the clouds as demonstrated in our data, this insight could enable precise location of the signal’s origin and permit continuous monitoring for subsequent events,” the researchers explain.
The Wow! Signal was originally interpreted as a technosignature by many. By explaining where the signal came from, this research outlines a new source of false positives.
“Our hypothesis explains all observed properties of the Wow! Signal, proposes a new source of false positives in technosignature searches, and suggests that the Wow! Signal could be the first recorded event of an astronomical maser flare in the hydrogen line,” the authors explain in their conclusion.
Debris from DART could Hit Earth and Mars Within a Decade
The asteroid Dimorphos was captured by NASA’s DART mission just two seconds before the spacecraft struck its surface on Sept. 26, 2022. Observations of the asteroid before and after impact suggest it is a loosely packed “rubble pile” object. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL
Debris from DART could Hit Earth and Mars Within a Decade
On Sept. 26th, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroids Redirect Test (DART) collided with Dimorphos, the small moonlet orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos. In so doing, the mission successfully demonstrated a proposed strategy for deflecting potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) – the kinetic impact method. By October 2026, the ESA’s Hera mission will rendezvous with the double-asteroid system and perform a detailed post-impact survey of Dimorphos to ensure that this method of planetary defense can be repeated in the future.
However, while the kinetic method could successfully deflect asteroids so they don’t threaten Earth, it could also create debris that might reach Earth and other celestial bodies. In a recent study, an international team of scientists explored how this impact test also presents an opportunity to observe how this debris could someday reach Earth and Mars as meteors. After conducting a series of dynamic simulations, they concluded that the asteroid ejecta could reach Mars and the Earth-Moon system within a decade.
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.
This illustration shows the ESA’s Hera spacecraft and its two CubeSats at the binary asteroid Didymos. Credit: ESA
“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.”
There Might Be Water on the Surface of the Metal Asteroid Psyche
An SwRI-led team used NASA’s Webb telescope, shown in the bottom right corner of this illustration, to confirm the presence of hydrated minerals on the surface of Psyche, a massive and heavily metallic body in the main asteroid belt. These findings suggest a complex history for this interesting asteroid, which many scientists think could be the remnant core of a protoplanet, including impacts with hydrated asteroids.
There Might Be Water on the Surface of the Metal Asteroid Psyche
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.
Illustration of the metallic asteroid Psyche. Credit: Peter Rubin/NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
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.
Image of NASA engineers preparing the Psyche spacecraft for launch within a clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility located near the NASA Kennedy Space Center. Psyche is scheduled to launch in October 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from historic Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy. (Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky)
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.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, dives into the Sun’s corona within ten times the radius of the Sun, placing it eight times closer to it than the orbit of Mercury. The spacecraft collects unprecedented data on the origin and evolution of the solar wind.
Suppose a spacecraft visiting from another civilization aimed to recharge its batteries. It could have approached the Sun similarly and used photovoltaic cells to maximize the energy harvest, since the solar power per unit area drops inversely with distance squared.
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.
New report claims human civilization could end in 2050
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
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
A year ago, India’s Pragyan rover began a nine Earth-day-long trek across a mysterious region of the Moon.
The robotic explorer encountered both smooth terrain as well as places filled with boulders likely flung out from craters. Despite this variety, the lunar dirt it observed at 23 different stops along its path was actually uniform in composition. When Pragyan probed the ingredients of this surface material, called regolith, it wound up boosting the idea that the Moon once harbored a subterranean magma ocean.
The findings appear in a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
The idea is that when an ancient object careened into Earth, material sloshed off into space. Eventually it came together into a gooey ball, and cooled down in an uneven manner. The Moon was somewhat like a chocolate-covered cherry. The magma slush was filled with different elements. As the proto-Moon cooled down, light material started to crystallize. It floated to the surface. Once in place, it formed a lid. Now, with the frigid environment of space cut off from the hotter material underneath the surface, the Moon’s magma ocean couldn’t cool down as fast.
The rover found that the terrain in the 23 places it stopped, all within 50 meters of the mission’s Shiv Shakti Point landing site, was uniform and mostly made up of ferroan anorthosite.
It’s a fresh check-mark for the LMO hypothesis: If the lunar magma ocean existed in the distant past, the anorthosite would have formed as the crystals during the early cooling process rose to the surface, and made the Moon’s crust. And billions of years later, India’s Pragyan rover would roll its tires over a stretch of this land and study it up close.
Pragyan rover is part of the country’s Chandrayaan-3 mission. Its Shiv Shakti Point landing site is located about 350 kilometers from one of the Moon’s most exciting places: the South Pole Aitken (SPA) basin.
It’s the largest impact basin in the Solar System, and the oldest on the Moon. It’s packed with clues about the Moon’s history.
NASA also wants to place astronauts there someday. According to a space agency white paper, the south pole of the Moon has good lighting conditions, including places where sunlight is continuous throughout the year. Plus, ice may be trapped here. This could be a valuable resource for astronauts, and could sustain their missions by offering a local source of water and potentially fuel.
Pragyan was exploring a prime place, for more reasons than one.
In a little more than a week, Pragyan had gained a precise analysis backed up by data from instruments delivered to the Moon via India’s two lunar missions, Chandrayaan-1 and Chandrayaan-2.
Pragyan reinforces findings from American and former Soviet Union missions half a century ago. While Pragyan regolith data wasn’t a perfect match with the findings from the 1972 missions — NASA’s Apollo 16 and the Soviet Union’s Luna 20 — it was very close. Since the three missions had landing sites that were geographically well separated, the study authors said, the similarities in regolith data across them all reinforces the hypothesis that the Moon did have a magma ocean. And that the natural satellite’s first stage of development did involve a differentiation, or split, between the light stuff that floated to the top, the heavier elements that sunk below, and the hardening of the crust that made the subterranean lunar magma ocean cool down slower.
The lunar south pole is undeniably a portal to probing the Moon’s past and the lofty ambitions of space exploration’s future.
Luis Elizondo: UFO proof is “imminent.” (Max Moszkowicz/Wikimedia Creative Commons photo)
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.”
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.
Navy pilots keep reporting encounters like this one off California. (DoD)
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.
AI Focused, UFO With Three Alien Faces In Top of Craft! 👽 UAP Sighting News. VIDEO!
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.
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.
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.
Ex-Pentagon Official Reveals U.S. UFO Retrieval Program and Alien Bodies
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.
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.
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?
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.
We hadden al bezocht moeten zijn
"Hij kwam tot de conclusie dat we al lang geleden en vele malen bezocht hadden moeten zijn", aldus York. Jammer genoeg overleed Fermi in 1954 aan kanker.
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.
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".
On July 2, 1997, Will Smithand Tommy Lee Jones teamed up as Agents Jay and Kay, respectively, to quietly control the large alien population living in New York City. The comic book-adapted buddy comedy spawned three sequels, which as a franchise went on to gross more than $1.9 billion. The original film in the series—which was released nearly 25 years ago—was the second-highest-grossing film of 1997, only overshadowed by Titanic’s immense success. Here are some intergalactic facts about the series.
1. Will Smith used to be known as “The King of the 4th."
Smith had back-to-back number one Fourth of July weekend hits in the mid-1990s: In 1996, Independence Day dominated the box office, and the next year Men in Black opened in first place. Though 1999’s Wild Wild West was one of Smith’s lowest openings, bringing in just $27,687,484 during its opening weekend, it was a strong enough total to top the box office charts. In 2002 and 2008, Men in Black II and Hancock, respectively, solidified Smith’s moniker.
2. Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld got his start as a cinematographer for the Coen brothers.
Sonnenfeld cut his teeth as a director of photography on the Coen brothers’Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, and Miller’s Crossing; he also worked with Penny Marshall on Big and Rob Reiner on When Harry Met Sally… and Miserybefore segueing into directing the Addams Family films and Get Shorty. Besides all three Men in Black films, Sonnenfeld also directed Smith in 1999’s Wild Wild West.
3.Sonnenfeld didn’t want to work with Tommy Lee Jones because of his alleged temper.
In fairness, he can look a little grumpy. Jeff Vespa/GettyImages
Before Sonnenfeld signed on to direct Men in Black, a director by the name of Les Mayfield was originally hired. Tommy Lee Jones joined the cast in the beginning, back when Chris O’Donnell was being considered for what eventually became Will Smith’s role. Much to Sonnenfeld’s surprise, he loved working with Jones.“I saw Tommy do a TV interview a few years ago, and he was so mean I remember thinking, ‘Thank god I never have to work with this jerk,”’ Sonnenfeld recalled to Entertainment Weekly. “But I ended up loving every minute of it. He can be difficult if you don’t have clear opinions, but we got along extraordinarily well.”
4. Some people think the Men in Black really exist.
Going back to Ufology in the 1940s and ’50s, several people wrote accounts and books about these so-called "men in black." The Mothman Prophecies author John Keel was the first person credited with using the "MIB" abbreviation in his writings. Albert K. Benderclaimed“he was visited by three men in dark suits who threatened him with imprisonment if he continued his inquiries into UFOs,” and Gray Barker wrote several nonfiction books featuring the men in black, including 1956's They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers and 1984's MIB: The Secret Terror Among Us.Barker’s sister, Blanch, recalled how he once told her why he wrote the books: “There’s good money in it.”
5. The Men in Black comic book writer also thinks they’re real.
In the early ’90s, Lowell Cunningham penned the Men in Black comic book series, which was based on his own ideas of the men in black agents. “I was taken with the whole idea of these powerful men who show up and keep the peace,” Cunningham told The New York Times in 1997. “I shaped the men in black to be active agents, out there responding to threats, cleaning them up if they’ve already occurred. They describe themselves as the thin black line between reality and chaos.” He goes on to say one day he saw a black car drive by him and thought, “That’s the kind of car the men in black would drive.”
6. Frank the pug got the diva treatment.
In real life, Frank was a pug named Mushu, who appeared briefly in the first film but had a more expanded role in the sequel. “I had to find a pug for the original Men in Black," Mushu’s owner, Cheryl Shawver, told The National Enquirer in 2002. "I saw an ad in the paper and bought Mushu for just a few hundred dollars. He travels by crate in business class with Cristie [the trainer]. He goes under the seat. He stays in the hotel room with her, sleeps on her bed. She orders his meals from room service: steak, chicken. He drinks only bottled water when he’s on the road. He’s a VIP!”
7. A Men in Black /21 Jump Street mash-up was discussed.
Tommy Lee Jones and his 'Men In Black' co-stars. Getty Images/GettyImages
In the wake of the 2014 Sony hack, reports surfaced that among the leaked documents was an e-mail from former Sony studio head Amy Pascal stating that the studio was planning on mashing up the 21 Jump Street and Men in Black franchises for one star-studded movie. The premise would entail Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum playing cops, but it’s unclear if Jones and/or Smith would reprise their roles. In an e-mail to Pascal, Hill said: “Jump Street merging with MIB—I think that’s clean and rad and powerful.”
Back in 2013, it was reported a Men in Black 4was in the works, with 22 Jump Street scribe Oren Uziel writing the script. Though a fourth installment led by Smith and Jones hasn't materialized yet, 2019 did see the release of Men in Black: International with Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson as the leads.
8. BadAstronomy.com laid out the film’s scientific accuracies and inaccuracies.
The scientific website BadAstronomy.com broke down all of the astronomical incidents in the first Men in Black film and discussed what was good (a.k.a. accurate) about the movie and what wasn’t. For instance, Agent Kay says,“You want to stay away from that guy. He’s, uh, he’s grouchy. A three-hour delay in customs after a trip for 17 trillion miles is gonna make anybody cranky,” but BadAstronomy corrects the error: “The nearest known star to the Sun is Proxima Centauri, which is roughly 25 trillion miles away. So 17 trillion still falls a bit short. Still, I give them some credit.”
9.Men in Black is still the highest-grossing action buddy comedy of all time.
Rush Hour 2 almost dethroned Men in Black from the top spot in 2001, but with a gross of $250 million, Men in Blackheld onto its position. 22 Jump Street comes in third, and Men in Black II and Men in Black 3 rank fourth and fifth on the list, respectively.
10. Basketball braces inspired Vincent D'Onofrio’s bug walk.
The actor, who played a bug-like alien named Edgar, talked about how he came up with his distinct walk in the movie. While watching bug documentaries helped, there was another ingredient that put it over the top.
“I was walking by a sporting goods store one day, and I saw these braces that the basketball players wear,” he said. “I went in and I tried one on and I realized you could lock it off, you could tape the hinges so that you can’t bend either way. So I bought two of them and I took them home and I put them on. So, I slightly bent my leg and locked off the braces so I couldn’t move either way, but it was slightly bent and I taped off both my feet and I tried to walk and it created this restrained, physical odd thing.”
11. Will Smith came up with the plot for Men In Black 3 while filming Men in Black II.
One night while on the set of Men in Black II, Smith told Sonnenfeld his idea for a third film.“At the beginning, something has happened and Agent Kay is missing and I have to go back to the past to go try to save young Agent Kay,” Sonnenfeld recalled to CNN. “In doing so, myself and the audience find out all sorts of secrets about the world that we didn’t even know were out there.” All Sonnenfeld could muster was, “Can we just finish this one?” Over a decade later, the plot to Men in Black 3 did revolve around time travel and saving a young Agent Kay, played by Josh Brolin.
12. The Men in Black theme song was Will Smith’s first solo hit.
Smith previously experienced success with his rap-duo group DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, but co-writing and singing the Men in Black theme song was his first taste of solo success. The song was featured on both the film’s soundtrack (which sold more than 3 million copies) and Smith’s debut solo album, Big Willie Style, which was released a few months after the film came out. The theme song won Smith a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance, and cemented Smith as a triple threat: a bona fide television and movie star, and a rapper.
13. Men in Black makeup artist Rick Baker announced his retirement in 2015.
Rick Baker won seven Oscars for his makeup effects during his career, including one for his Edgar the Bug work on Men in Black. In 2015, Baker announced his retirement.
“I said the time is right, I am 64 years old, and the business is crazy right now,” Baker told 89.3 KPCC about why he was getting out of the biz. “I like to do things right, and they wanted cheap and fast. That is not what I want to do, so I just decided it is basically time to get out.”
14. Will Smith and Rip Torn reprised their roles for an amusement park ride.
In 2000, Men in Black Alien Attack replacedBack to the Future Part III Locomotive Display when it opened at Universal Studios Florida in Orlando. Smith and Torn filmed a short video and supplied their voices, which play as the riders use laser guns to shoot animatronic aliens. At 70,000 square feet, it was the largest dark ride built for a Universal park at the time.
15.The Ray-Ban glasses worn in the movie almost didn’t get a shoutout.
The Ray-Bans from 'Men in Black' are an iconic part of the franchise. Getty Images/GettyImages
The sunglasses Smith and Jones sport in the film are Ray-Ban Predator II glasses. According to a 1997 article in Promo magazine, a special coating was applied to the glasses to limit reflection, which meant removing the logo. Without the logo, nobody would know what type of glasses they were (Sonnenfeld edited out a previous line in the movie where Jones says “that’s why they call them Ray-Bans”).
Ray-Ban tried to convince the studio to reinstate the logo, but they refused. After some coercing, Smith compromised and name-dropped the company in the “Men in Black” song: “Black tie with the black attitude / New style, black Ray-Bans, I’m stunnin’, man.”The popularity of the movieand the song’s music video gave the $100 Predators a four- to five-fold increase in sales, and a boost to Ray-Ban’s entire catalog of shades.
New data obtained by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has helped identify what researchers are calling “one of the most promising habitable zone exoplanet candidates” yet discovered. The new data reveals what could also be a watery world that may behome to alien lifeforms.
The newly discovered exoplanet LHS 1140 b is believed to be a likely candidate planet for habitable conditions, including an atmosphere and the potential for a liquid water ocean.
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.
Four private citizens — none of them professional astronauts — plan to climb aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceshipand roar into orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket.
This isn't the space-tourist joyride you might imagine. The Polaris Dawn crew plans to conduct experiments and test technologies for Mars, including the first-ever attempt at a new spacewalk method.
"We're really starting to push frontiers with the private sector and learning new things that we would not be able to learn by staying in the risk-free environment here on Earth," Bill Gerstenmaier, who is SpaceX's vice president of build and flight reliability, said in a briefing on August 19.
"It's time to go out, it's time to explore, it's time to do these big things and move forward," Gerstenmaier added.
Polaris Dawn plans to fly through a radiation belt
Along with Isaacman, the crew includes a former US Air Force pilot named Scott Poteet and two SpaceX engineers, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon.
The Polaris Dawn crew tries out their new spacesuits.
They're scheduled to spend about five days in space, soaring further from Earth than anybody has gone since the Apollo era more than 50 years ago.
As they travel up to 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) from Earth's surface, they should pass through the Van Allen radiation belts, which are two donuts of intense radiation surrounding Earth.
An artist's concept of the Van Allen belts with a cutaway section of the two giant donuts of radiation. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
They plan to study how that environment affects their bodies since future missions to Mars would expose passengers to immense amounts of space radiation for months.
A first-of-its-kind spacewalk plan
On day three, if everything goes according to plan, they'll do a spacewalk. About 700 kilometers (435 miles) above Earth, the crew plans to don a set of new spacesuits, open the Crew Dragon's hatch, and send Isaacman and Gillis into space on umbilical cables, each of them keeping contact with handholds on the spaceship.
Because Dragon has no airlock, this will depressurize the spacecraft's cabin and expose its entire interior to the void.
The Polaris Dawn crew will have to open Dragon's nosecone with no airlock to keep its cabin pressurized. Polaris via X
A Dragon spaceship has never been opened up to the vacuum of space like that.
"You are taking on a lot of risk at that point," Isaacman said, adding that he thought SpaceX had mitigated the risks well through testing and spaceship upgrades.
He said the spacewalk was the main focus of the mission preparations, almost to the point that he worried about being "way too focused" on it. SpaceX also subjected every part of the mission to "paranoia reviews," starting over to double-check everything, he said.
When astronauts conduct spacewalks from the space station, they do a "pre-breathe" process: They breathe pure oxygen for a few hours to pull nitrogen out of their bloodstream. Otherwise, the decrease in air pressure from the spacewalk could cause the nitrogen to form bubbles in their blood and give them a dangerous condition called the "bends."
Polaris Dawn also plans to do a pre-breathe, but stretch it over 48 hours as they slowly depressurize the cabin. They've already practiced this in a two-day simulation on the ground.
Polaris Dawn crew members train for depressurization and changing oxygen levels. Polaris Program / John Kraus
"I like the plan," Abhi Tripathi, a former Dragon mission director at SpaceX, who now directs mission operations at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, told BI in an email. "It's a rational and incremental step, partially paid for by a private individual."
He added that Crew Dragon was designed "from the beginning" to withstand unplanned depressurization events and that he doesn't see "any special risks."
New SpaceX spacesuits
A major goal of the spacewalk is to test out SpaceX's first extravehicular spacesuits, which use new textiles and joint designs for increased mobility. The suits also feature a "heads-up" display in the mask, which shows the wearer real-time information about the suit's internal pressure, temperature, and humidity.
"You're throwing away all the safety of your vehicle," Isaacman said of the spacewalk.
"Your suit becomes your spaceship," he added.
Crew Dragon has a strong spaceflight record, except for the toilet
Dragon spaceships have flown eight crews of astronauts to and from the space station for NASA, as well as four private missions.
The vehicle's first private mission — which was also the world's first all-tourist spaceflight — was also sponsored and led by Isaacman. That flight, called Inspiration4, carried its four passengers through Earth's orbit for three days.
It went smoothly, except for a toilet malfunction aboard Dragon. A tube carrying urine broke loose in a compartment beneath the spaceship's cabin floor.
The pee didn't make it into the cabin where the passengers were living. Other than fixing a toilet system fan that set off an alarm, the crew said they didn't notice the contamination until they'd landed.
Isaacman and his new Polaris Dawn crew are flying on that same spaceship.
Isaacman's Polaris program plans to fly the first people on Starship
This is just the first mission of SpaceX's and Isaacman's Polaris program. The project has not yet announced details for its second mission.
The program's third mission, however, is set to be the first crewed flight of SpaceX's gargantuan Starship. That's the workhorse rocketship that Musk plans to one day use to ferry a million people to Mars.
SpaceX's Starship lifts off from the company's facilites in Boca Chica, Texas. PATRICK T. FALLON/Getty Images
Starship, which stands taller than the Statue of Liberty, flew to space and returned in one piece for the first time in June. It has many more test flights ahead before SpaceX plans to put a Polaris crew on board.
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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'
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).
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
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.
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.
'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.'
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.
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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