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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...
25-01-2025
NASA is Testing Shape Memory Alloy Wheels
A test rover with shape memory alloy spring tires traverses rocky, Martian-simulated terrain. Credit: NASA
Rovers on alien worlds need to be built of strong stuff. The dry rugged terrain can be punishing on the wheels as they explore the surface. In order to prevent the damage to the wheels, NASA is testing a shape memory alloy material that can return to its original shape after being bent, stretched, heated or cooled. NASA has already used this material for years but never in tires, in what may be its perfect application.
Rovers are a common sight now as they explore the surface of other planets. Their versatility and ability to respond to the environment and commands from mission controllers make them a valuable exploration tool. Cameras, sensors, collection instruments and analysis tools are common onboard systems that provide information about the local environment. There have been a number of well known examples such as the Mars rovers; Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity and Perseverance. They have helped us to learn about the geology, atmosphere, presence of water and habitability of the planet. Taken Mars as a case in point, we have only explored 1% so there is most certainly still a need for robotic rover exploration.
Mars Perseverence rover sent back this image of its parking spot during Mars Solar Conjunction. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
Perhaps the most robust aspect of a rover is its wheels and tires. They must be capable of coping with rugged, uneven and rocky surfaces yet light enough not to cost a fortune to launch to the alien worlds. NASA has recently undertaken and completed a rigorous round of testing of a new tire using revolutionary shape memory alloys material. The tire technology was developed at the Glenn Research Center in partnership with Goodyear Tire and Rubber.
The shape memory alloys have been used for numerous applications due to their unique feature of being able to return to their original shape after being deformed. They are typically made from combinations of metals like nickel and titanium which exhibit the property known as super-elasticity. The fascinating property allows the material to ‘remember’ its original shape and have been used in medical devices like stents, wires and various aerospace components. This is the first time NASA have explore their use in tyres.
Image of the Opportunity rover’s front wheel, taken on June 9th, 2004. Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell
The idea about their use in rover wheels came about rather by chance. Dr. Santo Padula II, materials research engineer at NASA Glenn Research Center came across Colin Creager a NASA mechanical engineer while leaving a meeting. Creager explained about the work he was doing in the Glenn Simulated Lunar Operations Laboratory (a simulated lunar surface) to improve rover performance. Having enjoyed a tour of the facilities, Padula noticed the rover tyres were made of steel. Padula immediately realised that the steel wheels would get irreversibly damaged through use ultimately leading to their failure to provide traction. On discussing the matter, Creager explained it was the only problem they couldn’t solve.
As a materials researcher Padula told him about his work on a new alloy that would solve the problems with wheel irreversible deformations. The SMA tires concept was born. The two joined forces to develop the first nickel-titanium tires that would deform but return to their original shape and, after rigorous testing, the SMA tires became the solution to Creager’s problem.
The team is now looking for other ways that SMAs can be used in other space exploration such as habitat protection. The extreme environment of space with meteoroid impacts being a regular occurrence make memory alloys the ideal solution. As robotic exploration continues apace and human exploration of our Solar System moves forward, SMAs look set to be a real game changer in ensuring safety and continued operation of a multitude of space hardware.
See 10 Mysterious ‘UFO Sighting’ Photos From History
See 10 Mysterious ‘UFO Sighting’ Photos From History
The Amalgamated Flying Saucer Club of America, which headquarters in Los Angeles, released this photo taken by a member reportedly showing a flying saucer on June 16, 1963.Bettmann—Corbis
After confusion swept Los Angeles early on Feb. 25, 1942, the report from Western Defense Command was vague: “Unidentified aircraft were reported in the Los Angeles area.”
What was experienced on the ground on that day 74 years ago, however, was very specific. As TIME reported the following week, “Los Angeles citizens crawled out of beds and goggled at the moon. The city had been blacked out. Suddenly, from dozens of Army anti-aircraft posts, searchlights lanced the dark. Orange bursts blossomed in the sky. The city shook with the concussion of ack-ack guns. For almost two hours, except for one 15-minute interval of scary silence, batteries coughed steadily, spewed 1,430 rounds of ammunition into the night.”
For residents for whom the memory of Pearl Harbor was fresh, the possibility of an attack—later dubbed the “Battle of Los Angeles”—seemed very real. But the shot-down plane that the L.A. Times reported on was never found, and the Secretary of the Navy announced that the whole thing had been a false alarm, though Army officials maintained that enemy planes had in fact been sighted in the area.
In fact, it wasn’t until years later, in 1947, that the common flying saucer image of a UFO would begin to sweep through American popular culture. But, in the years that followed, the reports poured in. Here are a few of the early images that captured the imaginations of those who wished—or feared—to discover that we Earthlings might not be alone.
The Mar. 25, 1950, issue of Dublin's TeenAge Times claimed that these mysterious objects were flying saucers.Keystone-France/Gamma-KeystoneGetty ImagesA picture of a flying saucer photographed by farmer Paul Trent, over his farm in Minnville, Ore., on May 11, 1950.Paul Trent—Bettmann/CorbisGuy B. Marquand, Jr., who made this picture on Nov. 23, 951, in Riverside, Calif., said the object above the skyline was a "flying saucer." Marquand claimed that he and two friends saw the object fly past at a very high rate of speed, and when it came back, he had his camera ready toGuy B. Marquand, Jr.Bettmann/CorbisThis picture, taken through the window of a laboratory by a 21-year-old U.S. coastguard, shows four unidentified flying objects as bright lights in the sky on Aug. 3, 1952, in Salem, Mass.PopperfotoGetty ImagesThis light was photographed on Oct. 16, 1957, when it hovered for 15 minutes near Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico. Bettmann—CorbisThe Amalgamated Flying Saucer Club of America, which headquarters in Los Angeles, released this photo taken by a member reportedly showing a flying saucer on June 16, 1963.Bettmann—CorbisThis March 1966 photo was released on May 16 of that year by William Van Horn, the civil defense director of Hillsdale County, Mich., as part of a 24-page report challenging an Air Force conclusion that "swamp gas" caused supposed UFO sightings in the area. Van Horn said conditions at the time were too windy for swamp gas to form.Bettmann—CorbisA New Mexico State University student took this photo of what he said was a UFO, while photographing land formations for a geology class on Mar. 12, 1967.Bettmann—CorbisThis is one of three photos of a supposed UFO taken by Rex Heflin, on Aug. 3, 1965, near Santa Ana, Calif. Rex Heflin—AP PhotoRobert Rinker, a field technician at the mountain laboratory weather station on Chalk Mountain in Colorado, discovered this unidentified object on a March 22, 1966, negative after he processed it. "I haven't said it's a flying saucer yet," Rinker said when he released the image.Bettmann—Corbis
The Unexplained Phenomena of UAPs: Evidence of Potential Extraterrestrial Origins
The Unexplained Phenomena of UAPs: Evidence of Potential Extraterrestrial Origins
In recent years, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), commonly referred to as UFOs, have captured the attention of scientists, researchers, and the general public alike. With a series of high-profile sightings and government disclosures, the discussion surrounding UAPs has intensified, leading to a growing body of evidence suggesting that some of these phenomena may indeed have extraterrestrial origins.
Historical Context
The fascination with UAPs is not a new phenomenon. Reports of strange flying objects date back centuries, with historical records indicating encounters that could not be easily explained by the knowledge of the time. However, it is in the last few decades that the phenomenon has gained significant traction, especially with the advent of advanced technology and scientific inquiry.7
A picture of a flying saucer photographed by farmer Paul Trent, over his farm in Minnville, Ore., on May 11, 1950.Paul Trent
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Government Acknowledgment
In 2020, the U.S. Department of Defense established the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, which was tasked with investigating sightings of UAPs by military personnel. The release of a report in June 2021 indicated that many of the observed phenomena remain unexplained, with 143 out of 144 incidents classified as UAPs lacking sufficient data for a definitive conclusion. This acknowledgment from a credible government entity lends weight to the idea that there may be something genuinely extraordinary occurring in our skies.
Eyewitness Accounts and Video Evidence
Numerous eyewitness accounts from credible sources, including military pilots and air traffic controllers, have provided compelling narratives of UAP encounters. Videos captured by advanced targeting systems, such as the FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared) cameras, show objects exhibiting flight patterns and speeds that defy the current understanding of aerodynamics and technology. These videos, which have been officially released, depict UAPs performing maneuvers that suggest capabilities far beyond any known human-made aircraft.
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Scientific Inquiry and Theoretical Implications
The scientific community has begun to take UAPs seriously, with various researchers advocating for a rigorous investigation into these phenomena. Theoretical physicists have proposed that if these UAPs are indeed extraterrestrial in origin, they may utilize technologies based on principles of physics that are not yet understood. Concepts such as warp drives or manipulation of gravitational fields may provide explanations for the extraordinary capabilities exhibited by these objects.
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The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
The ongoing search for extraterrestrial life has taken on new urgency in light of UAP sightings. The discovery of exoplanets in habitable zones and the detection of organic molecules on Mars further support the possibility that life exists beyond Earth. If UAPs are indeed linked to extraterrestrial civilizations, it could revolutionize our understanding of life in the universe and our place within it.
Conclusion
While the evidence surrounding UAPs is still largely inconclusive, the growing acknowledgment from government entities, credible eyewitness accounts, and the potential for advanced technologies suggest that there may be more to these phenomena than meets the eye. As scientific inquiry continues and new data emerges, the possibility of UAPs being manifestations of extraterrestrial life remains an intriguing avenue of exploration. The quest for understanding these mysterious phenomena is not just a search for answers but also a journey that may ultimately redefine humanity's understanding of the cosmos.
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CCTV captured mysterious booms in Utah and California
CCTV captured mysterious booms in Utah and California
On January 22, 2025, a mysterious boom echoed through the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Utah, leaving both residents and authorities searching for answers. The incident occurred around 3 AM, startling communities near the state’s capital as a massive explosion shattered in the sky.
Security cameras captured the event, showing the night sky illuminated by a bright flash, followed by the thunderous noise that residents reported hearing from miles away.
“When we’re getting calls from multiple cities miles apart, it’s clear this was something significant, that’s just not typical" said Bill Merritt of the West Valley City Police Department, who described the event as very bizarre.
Speculation about the origin of the boom ranges from a meteorite entering the atmosphere to possible experiments with explosives and even theories of extraterrestrial involvement.
Interestingly, this wasn’t an isolated event. Just 10 days earlier, on January 12, a similar phenomenon occurred in San Dimas, California. In that case, CCTV footage also captured a bright flash followed by a loud explosion, eerily similar to what unfolded in Utah.
When you add these unexplained flashes and booms to the growing list of strange phenomena across the U.S. and other parts of the world—such as unidentified drones, glowing orbs in the sky, flickering streetlights, reports of mysterious fog, and snow that appears to resemble artificial flakes many are left asking: what is really going on and are all these strange events somehow interconnected?
The video above begins with the flash and boom in San Dimas, California, and later features, among other topics, the appearance of unusual snow.
Conversations in city-based Facebook groups early Wednesday had residents speculating on everything from fireworks to munitions detonations to a blown transformer. Some even wondered if it was a meteorite.
Astronomers Release a Huge Survey of Exocomet Belts
The study of exoplanets is challenging enough with the immense distances and glare from the host start but astronomers have taken planetary system explorations to the next level. A team of astronomers have recently announced that they have observed belts of icy pebbles in systems with exoplanets. Using a radio telescope they have been able to detect wavelengths of radiation emitted by millimeter-sized pebbles created by exocomet collisions! Based upon this survey, they have found that about 20% of planetary systems contain these exocometary belts.
Our own Solar System is peppered with them so it’s perfectly reasonable to expect to find them in planetary systems around other stars. The so called exocomets are generally only detected when they pass through or near to our own system. It would also be reasonable to assume they are made of the same icy and rocky material as our own comets but they can still provide valuable insights into the formation and evolution of exoplanetary systems. The first such comet was discovered around the star Beta Pictoris in the 19080s.
Comet 12P Pons-Brooks. Credit: Michael Jaeger.
A team of astronomers that have been working upon the REASONS (REsolved ALMA and SMA Observations of Nearby Stars) study and have imaged exocomet belts around nearby stars! ALMA (the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) and SMA (Submillimeter Array) are powerful radio observatories that explore the skies in millimetre and submillimeter wavelengths. ALMA is based in northern Chile and composed of an array of 66 dishes and SMA is in Hawaii consisting of 8 dishes.
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Credit: C. Padilla, NRAO/AUI/NSF
The team led by astrophysicists from Trinity College Dublin have been revealed images that reveals pebbles and hence the locations of exocomets. In most cases, they are located tens to hundreds of astronomical units from their host star (one astronomical unit is the average distance from Earth to the Sun.) At theses immense distances from the star the temperatures will be in the between -250 and -150 degrees where any water will be frozen. The observations have detected the radiation emitted from the exocometary collisions. It’s the first time such an in depth analysis has been completed and to date, they have released images from belts in 74 exoplanetary systems.
The rings are quite varied with some multiple disks and risks, others exhibiting high eccentricity. The eccentricity suggests that there are planets in these systems causing gravitational effects to modify the distribution of the pebbles in the belts.
Co-author of the study Dr Sebastian Marino, Royal Society University Research Fellow from the University of Exeter explained “The images reveal a remarkable diversity in the structure of belts. Some are narrow rings, as in the canonical picture of a ‘belt’ like our Solar System’s Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. But a larger number of them are wide, and probably better described as ‘disks’ rather than rings.”
The study was able to develop a model showing that the number of pebbles seems to decrease for older planetary systems. This makes sense since an aged system will have run out of exocomets to generate the debris. They also found that the decrease in pebbles is faster when the belt is closer to the star.
Over the last few decades the focus seems to have been on exoplanets but this recent study has shown that the field of exocometary research is well and truly off the starting blocks and revealing fascinating insights into the exoplanetary systems.
These questions are preoccupying astrobiologists, who are scientists who look for life beyond Earth. Astrobiologists have attempted to come up with universal rules that govern the emergence of complex physical and biological systems both on Earth and beyond.
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Many of these exoplanets are small and rocky, like Earth, and in the habitable zones of their stars. The habitable zone is the range of distances between the surface of a planet and the star it orbits that would allow the planet to have liquid water, and thus support life as we on Earth know it.
The sample of exoplanets detected so far projects 300 million potential biological experiments in our galaxy — or 300 million places, including exoplanets and other bodies such as moons, with suitable conditions for biology to arise.
The uncertainty for researchers starts with the definition of life. It feels like defining life should be easy, since we know life when we see it, whether it's a flying bird or a microbe moving in a drop of water. But scientists don't agree on a definition, and some think a comprehensive definition might not be possible.
NASA defines life as a "self-sustaining chemical reaction capable of Darwinian evolution." That means organisms with a complex chemical system that evolve by adapting to their environment. Darwinian evolution says that the survival of an organism depends on its fitness in its environment.
The evolution of life on Earth has progressed over billions of years from single-celled organisms to large animals and other species, including humans.
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Exoplanets are remote and hundreds of millions of times fainter than their parent stars, so studying them is challenging. Astronomers can inspect the atmospheres and surfaces of Earth-like exoplanets usinga method called spectroscopyto look forchemical signatures of life.
Spectroscopy might detect signatures of oxygen in a planet's atmosphere, which microbes called blue-green algae created by photosynthesis on Earth several billion years ago, or chlorophyll signatures, which indicate plant life.
NASA's definition of life leads to some important but unanswered questions. Is Darwinian evolution universal? What chemical reactions can lead to biology off Earth?
Evolution and complexity
All life on Earth, from a fungal spore to a blue whale, evolved from a microbial last common ancestor about 4 billion years ago.
The same chemical processes are seen in all living organisms on Earth, and those processes might be universal. They also may be radically different elsewhere.
In October 2024, a diverse group of scientists gathered to think outside the box on evolution. They wanted to step back and explore what sort of processes created order in the universe — biological or not — to figure out how to study the emergence of life totally unlike life on Earth.
Two researchers present argued that complex systems of chemicals or minerals, when in environments that allow some configurations to persist better than others, evolve to store larger amounts of information. As time goes by, the system will grow more diverse and complex, gaining the functions needed for survival, through a kind of natural selection.
Minerals are an example of a nonliving system that has increased in diversity and complexity over billions of years.(Image credit: Doug Bowman, CC BY)
They speculated that there might be a law to describe the evolution of a wide variety of physical systems. Biological evolution through natural selection would be just one example of this broader law.
In biology, information refers to the instructions stored in the sequence of nucleotides on a DNA molecule, which collectively make up an organism's genome and dictate what the organism looks like and how it functions.
If you define complexity in terms of information theory, natural selection will cause a genome to grow more complex as it stores more information about its environment.
However, it's wrong to conclude that animals are more complex than microbes. Biological information increases with genome size, but evolutionary information density drops. Evolutionary information density is the fraction of functional genes within the genome, or the fraction of the total genetic material that expresses fitness for the environment.
Organisms that people think of as primitive, such as bacteria, have genomes with high information density and so appear better designed than the genomes of plants or animals.
A universal theory of life is still elusive. Such a theory would include the concepts of complexity and information storage, but it would not be tied to DNA or the particular kinds of cells we find in terrestrial biology.
Implications for the search for extraterrestrial life
Researchers have explored alternatives to terrestrial biochemistry. All known living organisms, from bacteria to humans, contain water, and it is a solvent that is essential for life on Earth. A solvent is a liquid medium that facilitates chemical reactions from which life could emerge. But life could potentially emerge from other solvents, too.
Astrobiologists Willam Bains and Sara Seager have explored thousands of molecules that might be associated with life. Plausible solvents include sulfuric acid, ammonia, liquid carbon dioxide and even liquid sulfur.
Alien life might not be based on carbon, which forms the backbone of all life's essential molecules — at least here on Earth. It might not even need a planet to survive.
Advanced forms of life on alien planets could be so strange that they're unrecognizable. As astrobiologists try to detect life off Earth, they'll need to be creative.
One strategy is to measure mineral signatures on the rocky surfaces of exoplanets, since mineral diversity tracks terrestrial biological evolution. As life evolved on Earth, it used and created minerals for exoskeletons and habitats. The hundred minerals present when life first formed have grown to about 5,000 today.
For example, zircons are simple silicate crystals that date back to the time before life started. A zircon found in Australia is the oldest known piece of Earth's crust. But other minerals, such as apatite, a complex calcium phosphate mineral, are created by biology. Apatite is a primary ingredient in bones, teeth and fish scales.
Another strategy to finding life unlike that on Earth is to detect evidence of a civilization, such as artificial lights, or the industrial pollutant nitrogen dioxide in the atmosphere. These are examples of tracers of intelligent life called technosignatures.
It's unclear how and when a first detection of life beyond Earth will happen. It might be within the solar system, or by sniffing exoplanet atmospheres, or by detecting artificial radio signals from a distant civilization.
The search is a twisting road, not a straightforward path. And that's for life as we know it — for life as we don't know it, all bets are off.
Are UFO sightings a 20th-century phenomena, or did people report seeing them earlier in history?
Did earlier civilizations report seeing UFOs?
(Image credit: Aaron Foster via Getty Images)
Every so often, claims of UFO sightings go viral and even spur serious research. But humans have been gazing at the sky for millennia, and reports of such sightings go way back. So what was the first recorded UFO sighting, and did it predate the mid-20th century, when reports of UFOs became more commonplace?
Unfortunately, the answer isn't clear-cut, at least when looking at pre-modern examples.
"There is no consensus on what constitutes the first recorded UFO sighting in history," Chris Aubeck, an independent researcher and director of the Magonia Exchange, an international UFO history archival project with members in 15 countries, told Live Science. This dispute is not due to a lack of accounts; many artifacts portray puzzling, celestial objects.
"There's no question that human beings have depicted or reported or chronicled things about strange, anomalous things in the sky dating back to the ancient world," Greg Eghigian, a professor of history and bioethics at Penn State, told Live Science.
Rather, the context and form of these accounts make it difficult to pinpoint what can be definitively described as the first recorded UFO sighting. For example, according to Aubeck, ancient texts like Sumerian and Babylonian cuneiform tablets, like those in the Šumma ālu series and other divination texts from the second and first millennia B.C., provide the first known recordings of potential UFO sightings, though these are interpreted as omens. These accounts describe changing shapes in the sky and black meteors, which, at the time, were regarded as religious harbingers. However, these texts lack visual depictions or illustrations.
The Šumma ālu cuneiform tablets from the first millennium B.C. detail the first known recordings of potential UFO sightings. (Image credit: Purchase, 1886; The Met; Public Domain)
"I can't put a lot of stock in those stories because they're completely decontextualized from the society in which they're made," Eghigian said. These accounts may not be claims of extraterrestrials visiting Earth, but rather religious scriptures or written stories. In these cases, it can be difficult to separate cultural lore from an individual's attempt to describe a sight they could not explain, from comets to lenticular clouds.
In one example, residents of Nuremberg, Germany reported a strange aerial battle on April 14, 1561. They wrote about seeing orbs, crosses, cylinders, and a giant, mysterious black arrow-shaped object, which crash-landed in the distance. According to Hans Glaser, a local artist who made a woodcut depicting the event, the different objects in the sky "all started to fight among themselves" until "they became fatigued … fell from the sun down upon the earth 'as if they all burned' and they then wasted away on the earth with immense smoke." However, he didn't mention UFOs, only writing that "Whatever such signs mean, God alone knows."
Because their interpretation isn't clear, these bygone examples aren't necessarily claims of a UFO sighting. What's more, although humans commonly believed in alien civilizations for centuries, "what was not common was to say aliens were visiting us," Eghigian said.
German artist Hans Glaser created a woodcut engraving that depicted a strange aerial disturbance that people in Nuremberg reported seeing on April 14, 1561. (Image credit: Public Domain)
For Eghigian, the first definitive recorded "UFO sighting" was relatively recent. In June 1947, amateur pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying his plane around Mount Rainier in Washington in search of a crashed cargo plane, when he saw nine objects flying in formation at high speeds. According to Eghigian, Arnold suspected these were military aircraft that the public wasn't supposed to know about. He took this sighting to the local newspaper.
One reporter asked about how the aircraft moved, and Arnold described it as a saucer skipped across the water. This reporter turned that description into "flying saucer." The following summer, many more people reported sightings of flying saucers. In this way, the Arnold sighting kicked off modern UFO culture as we know it.
Aubeck agreed that this sighting "is widely regarded as the event that kick-started modern UFO culture."
Still, Eghigian said the public didn't immediately point to extraterrestrials in the mid-20th century. Instead, they suggested it was either the U.S. or Soviet military. This theme of paranoia and suspicion of other humans extends back to previous sightings. Eghigian said there were a number of dirigible sightings in England in 1912 and 1914, and civilians suspected the Germans.
Ultimately, understanding the history of UFO sightings helps us understand human storytelling. "Studying UFO sightings is valuable because they represent the urban legends of our time," Aubeck said. "They allow us to examine the interplay between human imagination and observation, helping us understand how cultural narratives shape our perceptions of unexplained phenomena."
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Noah's flood is a story much older than the Bible, and researchers are still learning about its roots.
An illustration of Noah's ark during the biblical flood.
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Noah's flood is one of the most recognized Bible stories. According to the Old Testament, "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened" (Genesis 7:11, English Standard Version).
As the text recounts, God saw wickedness within humans and sent a global inundation. Because Noah was righteous, God instructed him to build an ark for his family and save two of every beast, bird and creeping thing. But did Noah's flood really happen?
"The one thing we know for sure from geology is that a global flood never happened," said David Montgomery, a professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington in Seattle and author of "The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood" (W. W. Norton & Company, 2012). "If you look at it as literally a global flood that covered the world's highest mountains, I'm sorry, there's just not enough water on Earth to do that," he told Live Science.
If the "heavens" opened and all of the water in the atmosphere came down at once as rain, the planet would be submerged — but only to a depth of about 1 inch (2.5 centimeters), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. That's not enough water to justify a canoe, let alone a massive ark.
But what if more than the water in the "heavens" were considered? If all the world's glaciers and ice sheets were to melt, then sea levels would rise by more than 195 feet (60 meters), according to NASA, which would add a bit more water. Moreover, a 2016 study published in the journal Nature Geoscience estimated that there's 5.4 million cubic miles (22.6 million cubic kilometers) of groundwater stored in the upper 1.2 miles (2 km) of Earth's crust, which is enough to cover the land to a depth of 590 feet (180 m). That's a lot of water, but there are cities thousands of feet above sea level, and Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth, is more than 29,000 feet (8,849 m) above sea level. On top of that, geologists don't see evidence for a global flood in the rock record.
The biblical tale has other questionable sections. For example, Noah was 600 years old when the flood started — we know humans don't live that long — and most species wouldn't survive being reduced to just two animals as they wouldn't have enough genetic diversity to create a viable population. What's more, it's unclear how every animal would be capable of making it to the ark in the first place — imagine penguins waddling from Antarctica to the Middle East.
According to historical documents, Noah's flood is a retelling of older stories, and it's likely allegorical rather than a literal recounting of an event. Ira Spar, professor of ancient studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey, told Live Science that the biblical stories in the Old Testament, which were written down between 800 B.C. and 500 B.C., likely came from older oral traditions and multiple sources.
There are slightly different accounts of Noah's flood story in other religious books, such as the Quran, while earlier versions of a cataclysmic flood stem from ancient Mesopotamian texts. Spar noted that there's a Sumerian flood story recorded in fragments that dates back to the late third millennium B.C.
"Who knows how far back the story goes?" Spar said.
If we consider the sources of Noah's flood to be regional floods and not a global flood, then it's not so far-fetched. Montgomery explained that some "geologically plausible" floods could have occurred that inspired the story.
For example, in the late 1990s, oceanographers William Ryan and Walter Pitman hypothesized at an American Geophysical Union meeting that around 7,500 years ago, the Mediterranean Sea started flowing into the then-isolated Black Sea, causing massive flooding around the Black Sea, which could be the origins of Noah's flood, the journal Science reported in 1998.
"That would have been a disruptive event that flooded the whole known world to the people who were living there, and that could have gone on to seed the story of Noah's flood with some of the survivors who fled to Mesopotamia," Montgomery said.
A 2009 study published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews argued that the flooding would have been much more minor than what Ryan and Pitman proposed, if it happened at all. But while the inspiration for the story of Noah's flood is open to debate, there are plenty of other flood stories from around the world that have been seemingly inspired by regional events.
Montgomery said that many Indigenous American stories in the Pacific Northwest, for example, involve floods that sound a lot like tsunamis, with great waves crashing onto the shore. The same is true for stories from the seismically active coasts of South America and the South Pacific islands.
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Coronal Loops Flicker Right Before the Sun Unleashes Big Flares
Predicting space weather is more complex than predicting traditional weather here on Earth. One of the most unpredictable kinds of space weather is solar flares, which explode out from the surface of the Sun and can potentially damage sensitive equipment like electrical grids and the ISS. The Carrington Event, one of the most violent solar storms in history, literally caused telegraph lines to catch fire when it occurred in 1859 – a similar storm would be much more devastating today. Due to their potentially destructive potential, scientists have long looked for ways to predict when a storm will happen, and now a team led by Emily Mason of Predictive Sciences, Inc. in San Diego thinks they might have found a way to do just that.
Solar flares typically occur in highly magnetic areas of the Sun. However, they aren’t the only events that occur in those regions—another, less potentially hazardous event is a coronal loop. These look like giant arches of particles that start from and connect back to the Sun’s outer layer, also called its corona.
Scientists have long thought there might be some sort of tie between coronal loops and the solar flares that emerge from the same region. However, the lifespan for coronal loops ranges from seconds to weeks, and scientists have yet to find a valid link between that metric, or any other, and the occurrence of a solar flare in the same region.
Fraser discusses the danger of solar storms.
Dr. Mason and her colleagues thought they might take a different approach. They got some observational time on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a telescope in geosynchronous orbit explicitly designed to observe the coronal layer. They used SDO’s extreme ultraviolet wavelength observational capabilities to observe coronal loops in regions that eventually formed a flare versus those that didn’t.
They observed areas that produced around 50 flares and found that the amount of variability in extreme ultraviolet light the coronal loops in those areas put off was much higher than in the areas that didn’t produce a flare. Essentially, the coronal loops acted like “flashing warning lights” in a certain kind of light spectrum, according to a press release from NASA’s Goddard Institute, some of whose scientists contributed to the paper.
The discovery was critical because the flashing appeared to take place consistently a few hours before a flare was formed. In technical terms, they accurately predicted the onset of a flare about 2-6 hours beforehand, about 60-80% of the time. That might not seem like great odds and even lesser warning, but some warning is better than none. When given the decision between frying half of the Earth’s electrical grid in a few hours and taking preventive measures, I think policymakers would at least appreciate the opportunity to have a choice.
Fraser talks about how bad the Carrington Event was, even almost 200 years ago.
There are some other nuances in the data, such as stronger flares appear to be predicted by earlier peaking flickering, however more work still needs to be done. Ultimately, this research aims to develop a system of automatically warning the appropriate authorities if there is a potentially hazardous solar event coming our way, but without so many false positives that they feel the system is crying wolf.
That automated system is still a little way off, but this research is a step in the right direction. SDO was initially launched in 2010 and has long outlived its original 5-year mission plan. However, there are plenty of instruments constantly watching the Sun, and undoubtedly, there will be more soon. Maybe they will someday contribute to finalizing a system that will one day save civilization from an avoidable catastrophe.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of coronal loops above an active region on the Sun in mid-January 2012. The image was taken in the 171 angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light.
Charles Hall’s Astonishing Encounters with Tall Whites: Secrets of Extraterrestrial Life Revealed
Charles Hall’s Astonishing Encounters with Tall Whites: Secrets of Extraterrestrial Life Revealed
lace during the 1960s at Nellis Air Force Base and its auxiliary field, Indian Springs, located in Nevada. Hall’s claims have sparked intrigue and controversy, offering a detailed account of interactions with beings from beyond Earth. Let’s delve into the core of his discoveries.
Who Are the Tall Whites?
According to Hall, the Tall Whites are a humanoid extraterrestrial species with pale skin, tall stature, and an advanced level of technology. They are described as highly intelligent, traveling in family units that include men, women, and children. Their physical appearance allows them to blend into human-like settings, although their pale and almost translucent skin makes them distinctive.
The Tall Whites are said to have a unique physiology that allows them to live much longer than humans, with some individuals potentially reaching ages well beyond our understanding of life expectancy. They wear technologically advanced suits that enable levitation and serve as protective mechanisms. Hall observed that their behavior could be perceived as cautious and defensive, particularly in unfamiliar situations.
The Alleged Collaboration with the U.S. Government
Hall claims that the U.S. government built a base for the Tall Whites at the northern end of Indian Springs Valley. This area, described as having a double security perimeter, was treated like a foreign embassy, with the outer perimeter managed by the U.S. military and the inner perimeter controlled by the Tall Whites themselves.
The base functioned as a spaceport for the Tall Whites, where their spacecraft were repaired, refueled, and refurbished. Hall noted that their deep-space craft adhered to a strict schedule, typically arriving at sundown on the night of a full moon and departing at midnight on the night of a new moon. This attention to lunar and gravitational conditions suggests a highly sophisticated understanding of physics and space travel.
Cultural Observations and Interactions
Hall’s interactions with the Tall Whites provided insights into their culture and behavior. He described them as having a sense of humor, a social hierarchy, and emotional depth. They traveled in family groups, and children often accompanied adults during visits to the base.
In one memorable instance, Hall recounted how Tall White children entered his vehicle and playfully mimicked driving it. These moments of levity contrasted with the overall tension of his encounters, as the Tall Whites remained wary of human actions that could be interpreted as hostile.
Other Extraterrestrial Encounters
In addition to the Tall Whites, Hall reported interactions with two other extraterrestrial species:
Norwegians with 24 Teeth:These beings were so similar to humans that they could walk among us undetected unless examined by a dentist.
Grays:Hall’s encounters with the Grays, often associated with the Roswell incident, revealed significant differences in physiology and behavior compared to the Tall Whites. For example, adult Grays required breathing devices to survive in Earth’s atmosphere, while their younger counterparts could breathe without assistance.
Technology Beyond Human Understanding
A key aspect of Hall’s claims revolves around the advanced technology of the Tall Whites. Their spacecraft reportedly operated without conventional fuel sources, utilizing propulsion systems that left no ion trails or emissions. Hall speculated that their technology relied on principles of physics unknown to humans, potentially involving undiscovered forces akin to gravity or magnetism.
These capabilities allowed the Tall Whites to travel vast interstellar distances without the limitations faced by human spacecraft. Hall’s observations suggested that their understanding of space-time far exceeded that of contemporary human science.
Government Secrecy and Disclosure
Hall’s experiences highlighted the U.S. government’s efforts to keep the existence of the Tall Whites a secret. The extraterrestrials themselves reportedly advocated for transparency, urging the government to disclose their presence to the public. However, the government’s reluctance to do so stemmed from concerns about societal reactions and potential risks to national security.
Interestingly, Hall emphasized that his role was not part of any reverse-engineering program or formal collaboration. Instead, he acted as a liaison of sorts, tasked with observing weather conditions while adhering to strict protocols for interacting with the Tall Whites. These included avoiding sudden movements, refraining from taking photographs, and always remaining alone during his duties.
Motivation for Sharing His Story
Charles Hall initially intended to document his experiences for his children and grandchildren, aiming to convey the emotions and challenges he faced during his time at Indian Springs. Over time, his accounts gained wider attention, leading to the publication of his “Millennial Hospitality” book series (Amazon link).
Despite the lack of physical evidence, Hall’s detailed recollections and consistent narrative have captured the interest of UFO researchers and enthusiasts. Investigative journalist Paola Harris spent years verifying aspects of his story, adding credibility to his claims by interviewing others who had been stationed at Nellis during the same period.
What Did Charles Hall Discover About TALL WHITES Alien Residents?
Charles Hall’s account of the Tall Whites offers a fascinating perspective on potential extraterrestrial interactions with humanity. While skepticism surrounds his claims due to the absence of tangible evidence, the depth and consistency of his narrative continue to spark curiosity and debate. Whether viewed as a literal account or a symbolic tale, Hall’s story challenges us to explore the boundaries of human knowledge and consider the possibility of life beyond Earth.
The map, created by the UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) tracking website Enigma Labs, shows hundreds of sightings logged as recently as January 7 in multiple Northeastern states.
The mysterious drones along the East Coast appeared in November, with 22 people issuing reports to Enigma starting on the 20th. But that number dramatically increased to 347 by December 31.
A drone ban was issued from December 18 to January 17, during which Enigma labs said the average number of reported sightings dropped by 43 percent.
Now, new data shows 36 sightings were logged the week of January 1, and nearly half were spotted in New Jersey.
'Why don't we find out immediately,' he said while in the Oval office. 'I can't imagine it's an enemy or there... people would've gotten blown up over [it].
'Maybe they were testing things. I don't know why they wouldn't have said what it was.'
The Biden administration had assured the public that the sightings were not a threat, brushing most of them off as hobbyist drones, commercial airplanes and even stars.
The Garden State still appears to be the epicenter of activity following the first sightings in November, when eye-witnesses reported 'car-sized drones' flying above a military base and President Donald Trump's golf course.
But since November, hundreds of other reports have surfaced across the Northeast and even from several southern states, including Virginia, Kentucky and the Carolinas.
The most recent drone sightings recorded by the UAP tracking site occurred in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Around 7:10pm ET on January 5, an unnamed person reported two orbs moving slowly across the sky over Marlton, New Jersey.
'They were pulsating and appeared to be lower than a star,' the eyewitness wrote to the the UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) tracking website EnigmaLabs.io that created the map.
Videos included in the report show an aircraft that appears to be flashing a green light flying overhead, as well as a circular blue orb high in the air.
On that same day around 10:55pm ET, an eyewitness in Muhlenberg, Pennsylvania reported an 'airplane-like ring of lights changing direction.'
'Looked as though it was mimicking an airplane at first and then turned into a ring of lights and changed directions it was going. Never have seen anything like this. Are these the drones people are talking about?' the eyewitness wrote.
A video shows a single aircraft with a flashing yellow light on one side flying over a shopping complex.
On January 7 around 3:00am ET, an eyewitness in Yaphank, New York reported 'three lights moving rapidly southeast.'
'Exiting my vehicle, noticed some lights in the sky moving at a very rapid pace. Was initially three lights, one behind another. Video only shows two, with one fading out of view,' they wrote.
In the video, two distant lights appear to be moving across the night sky.
A videos taken around 7:10pm ET on January 5 in Marlton, New Jersey show an aircraft that appears to be flashing a green light flying overhead, as well as a circular blue orb high in the air
A still image of the orb was also included in the report from Marlton, New Jersey
Another video taken on January 5 around 10:55pm ET in Muhlenberg, Pennsylvania shows a single aircraft with a flashing yellow light on one side flying over a shopping complex
'Was somewhat low in the sky in comparison to other sightings in the past. No noise heard, no red/green aviation lighting witnessed. Very high rate of speed observed, traveling from the northwest to southeast,' the eyewitness wrote.
The first drone sightings occurred in November over the US Army's Picatinny Arsenal and President-elect Donald Trump's golf course in Bedminster, which raised concerns the drones are part of spy campaign.
Indeed, the unidentified aircraft have been reported over multiple US military sites in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Texas, Virginia, Ohio, and even American bases in Germany and England.
In December, Trump claimed 'the government knows what is happening' when asked about bizarre phenomenon during a news conference.
His drone report could be coming as soon as today, as he recently said that the American people are 'going to find out' what is behind the drone activity on January 21.
But the White House said the sightingsnear or over Department of Defense (DoD) installations 'are not new.'
'DoD takes unauthorized access over its airspace seriously and coordinates closely with federal, state, and local law enforcement authorities, as appropriate,' the statement continued.
Numerous 'car-sized' drones first appeared over New Jersey in mid-November, and have since been reported by eyewitnesses all across the Northeast
'Heavy' UAS movement reported at Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio
The Department of Homeland Security, DoD, Federal Aviation Administration and the FBI released a joint statement on the matter in mid-December.
The agencies said the sightings were 'a combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones, and law enforcement drones, as well as manned fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and stars mistakenly reported as drones.'
But many remain unconvinced by this explanation, and still fear that the drones are being operated by one of the nation's foreign adversaries, such as China, Russia or Iran.
Such theories have been put forth by lawmakers like Michael McCaul, R-Texas, who has claimed some of the unidentified aircraft are Chinese 'spy drones.'
'We need to identify who is behind these drones,' he told reporters before a classified briefing to members of the House Intelligence Committee.
'I believe they're spy drones and the [People's Republic of China] and communist China is very good at this stuff. We know they bought land around military bases. This would be very consistent with their policy over the past couple of years,' he said.
Exclusive polling from DailyMail.com and J.L. Partners suggests many American citizens share these concerns.
The poll found that nearly half (45 percent) of respondents believe the bizarre activity was more than just recreational or normal drone use, with the majority (26 percent) of those respondents pointing to foreign surveillance.
But 19 percent of Americans do believe the sightings are nothing more than hobby drones, and 18 percent stated they are 'normal flying actives that have been exaggerated.'
Despite the wave of concern, the Pentagon has denied that a foreign country was behind the mysterious drones, even as they have been repeatedly spotted over sensitive US military sites.
White House national security spokesman John Kirby said in December there are more than one million drones registered in the US and 'there are thousands of commercial hobbyists and law enforcement drones that are lawfully in the sky on any given day,' suggesting the sightings were likely any of these.
Nuclear fusion breakthrough: China's 'artificial sun' reactor sets a new world record by generating a steady loop of plasma for 1,066 seconds - taking the world closer towards limitless clean energy
Nuclear fusion breakthrough: China's 'artificial sun' reactor sets a new world record by generating a steady loop of plasma for 1,066 seconds - taking the world closer towards limitless clean energy
If we want to rely on nuclear fusion to power the world's homes, the first step is making reactors that can run as hot and as long as possible.
Now, China's 'artificial sun' reactor – officially called 'Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak' (EAST) – has set a new world record, bringing the goal of limitless clean energy ever closer.
The reactor, located in Hefei in Anhui province, generated a steady loop of plasma for 1,066 seconds at 180million°F (100million°C) – seven times hotter than the sun's core.
It surpasses the previous world record of 403 seconds, also set by EAST in 2023.
EAST could be a precursor to the first ever fusion power plants that supply power directly to the grid and electricity to people's homes.
These power plants could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the power-generation sector by diverting away from the use of fossil fuels like coal and gas.
Fusion differs from fission (the technique currently used in nuclear power plants), because the former fuses two atomic nuclei instead of splitting one (fission).
Unlike fission, fusion carries no risk of catastrophic nuclear accidents – like that seen in Fukushima in Japan in 2011 – and produces far less radioactive waste than current power plants, its exponents say.
China's 'artificial sun' reactor - officially called 'Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak' (EAST) - has set a new world record, bringing the goal of limitless clean energy ever closer. The reactor, located in Hefei in Anhui province, generated a steady loop of plasma for 1,066 seconds at 180million°F (100million°C) - seven times hotter than the sun's core
If nuclear fusion experiments can be harnessed on a much larger scale, reactors hotter than anything else in the solar system will provide limitless clean energy. Tokamak Energy is a private company based at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire
China's 'artificial sun' is operated by the Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) at Hefei Institutes of Physical Science on behalf of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The new world record, achieved on Monday, marks a critical step toward a functional fusion reactor, according to ASIPP director Professor Song Yuntao.
'A fusion device must achieve stable operation at high efficiency for thousands of seconds to enable the self-sustaining circulation of plasma, which is essential for the continuous power generation of future fusion plants,' he said.
Global scientists have worked for more than 70 years on trying to achieve this feat, according to a release from State Council Information Office, central propaganda department of the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
Gong Xianzu, head of the division of EAST physics and experimental operations, said they have upgraded several EAST systems since the last round of experiments.
For example, the heating system, which previously operated at the equivalent of nearly 70,000 household microwave ovens, has now doubled its power output.
'The ultimate goal of an artificial sun is to create nuclear fusion like the sun, providing humanity with an endless, clean energy source,' the release says.
Fusion – generally considered the holy grail of energy – could also enable 'space exploration beyond the solar system', by providing rockets with more powerful propulsion systems.
China's self-designed 'artificial sun' - a device to harness the energy of fusion, has made an important advance by achieving a temperature of 180 million °F (100 million °C) in plasma
This photo shows the control center of the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, January 20, 2025
A staff member performs an upgrade to the experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST) at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on April 28, 2021
Nuclear fusion vs. nuclear fission
Nuclear fusion and nuclear fission are nuclear processes, in that they involve nuclear forces to change the nucleus of atoms.
Fusion joins two light elements (with a low atomic mass number), forming a heavier element. For fusion to occur, hydrogen atoms are placed under high heat and pressure until they fuse together.
Meanwhile, fission splits a heavy element (with a high atomic mass number) into fragments.
In both cases, energy is freed because the mass of the remaining nucleus is smaller than the mass of the reacting nuclei.
Both reactions release energy which, in a power plant, would be used to boil water to drive a steam generator, thus producing electricity.
Source: International Atomic Energy Agency
At the heart of EAST and other fusion reactors around the world is a tokamak, a doughnut-shaped device initially conceptualised in the 1950s by Soviet physicists.
Inside, under the influence of extreme heat and pressure, gaseous hydrogen fuel becomes a plasma – a hot, electrically charged gas.
Plasma is often referred to as the fourth state of matter after solid, liquid and gas, and comprises over 99 per cent of the visible universe, including most of our sun.
In the tokamak, the plasma is trapped and pressurised by magnetic fields until the energised plasma particles start to collide.
As the particles fuse into helium, they release enormous amounts of energy, mimicking the process that occurs naturally in the centre of stars like our sun.
The only by-products of fusion reactions are small amounts of helium, an inert gas which can be safely released without harming the environment.
As a result, fusion reactors have long been touted as the best clean energy source – although the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists claims they are 'far from perfect'.
As yet, the energy input required to produce the temperatures and pressures that enable significant fusion reactions in hydrogen isotopes don't justify the fusion energy that's actually being generated, the nonprofit organization points out.
At the heart of EAST and other fusion reactors around the world is the tokamak, a doughnut-shaped device initially conceptualised in the 1950s by Soviet physicists. Inside, under the influence of extreme heat and pressure, gaseous hydrogen fuel becomes a plasma – a hot, electrically charged gas
Gong Xianzu, head of division of the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) Physics and Experimental Operations, watches the experimental data on January 15, 2025 in Hefei, Anhui Province of China
Nuclear fusion is still in the research and development phase - while nuclear fission is already making electricity. Pictured, nuclear power plant in Wuhan, China
Fusion power works by colliding heavy hydrogen atoms to form helium - releasing vast amounts of energy in the process, as occurs naturally in the centre of stars
Why are there no nuclear fusion plants yet?
Unlike nuclear fission, the nuclear fusion reaction in a tokamak is an inherently safe reaction.
But fusion is a finely balanced reaction which is very sensitive to the conditions.
The reaction will die if the plasma is too cold or too hot, or if there is too much fuel or not enough, or too many contaminants, or if the magnetic fields are not set up just right to control the turbulence of the hot plasma.
This is why fusion is still in the research and development phase - and fission is already making electricity.
Source: EUROfusion
It's worth bearing in mind that EAST, as the name suggests, is China's 'experimental' reactor project – and may yet pave the way for the first nuclear fusion power plants.
Chinese experts say: 'The mission of the EAST project is to develop an advanced fully superconducting tokamak so as to establish solid scientific and technological bases for the future continuous operation of tokamak fusion devices.'
Of course there are already nuclear power plants around the world, but they use nuclear fission, which has the disadvantage of generating unstable nuclei, some of which are radioactive for millions of years.
Fusion, on the other hand, does not create any long-lived radioactive nuclear waste but instead helium, which is an inert gas.
Fusion fuel is made up of deuterium and tritium, which are isotopes of hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, giving scientists hopes of 'unlimited energy'.
The Chinese team plan to use the nuclear fusion reactor in collaboration with scientists in France working on the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER).
The Provence-based ITER project is expected to begin delivering power in 2035, and will become the world's biggest reactor once completed.
Meanwhile, the SPARC nuclear fusion reactor, a US project involving MIT, is currently in development in Devens, Massachusetts and scheduled to start operations in 2026.
Construction of ITER, the world's largest nuclear fusion project that will replicate the reactions that power the sun in pursuit of clean power
In 2024, Korea's artificial sun' (pictured) ran at 100 million°C (180 million°F) for 48 seconds - seven times hotter than the sun's core
South Korea also has its own 'artificial sun', the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR), which has run at 180million°F (100million°C) for 48 seconds.
Japan's reactor, called JT-60SA and switched on in Naka north of Tokyo late 2023, is a six-storey-high machine measuring 50 feet high and 44 feet wide.
Built and operated jointly by Europe and Japan, JT-60SA will be the world's largest fusion reactor until the completion of ITER in France.
Other smaller reactors are being built and tested – including the ST40 in Oxfordshire, which is more squashed-up and compact compared with other 'doughnut-shaped' reactors.
The Joint European Torus (JET), also located in Oxfordshire, released a total of 69 megajoules of energy over five seconds before being decommissioned.
They could all be precursors to fusion power plants that supply power directly to the grid and electricity to people's homes.
Fusion is the process by which a gas is heated up and separated into its constituent ions and electrons.
It involves light elements, such as hydrogen, smashing together to form heavier elements, such as helium.
For fusion to occur, hydrogen atoms are placed under high heat and pressure until they fuse together.
The tokamak (artist's impression) is the most developed magnetic confinement system and is the basis for the design of many modern fusion reactors. The purple at the center of the diagram shows the plasma inside
When deuterium and tritium nuclei - which can be found in hydrogen - fuse, they form a helium nucleus, a neutron and a lot of energy.
This is done by heating the fuel to temperatures in excess of 150 million°C and forming a hot plasma, a gaseous soup of subatomic particles.
Strong magnetic fields are used to keep the plasma away from the reactor's walls, so that it doesn't cool down and lose its energy potential.
These fields are produced by superconducting coils surrounding the vessel and by an electrical current driven through the plasma.
For energy production, plasma has to be confined for a sufficiently long period for fusion to occur.
When ions get hot enough, they can overcome their mutual repulsion and collide, fusing together.
When this happens, they release around one million times more energy than a chemical reaction and three to four times more than a conventional nuclear fission reactor.
China is making a 'mini sun' as global fusion race heats up | World News | WION
The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface. Here are some of the most baffling.
Is that really a floating spoon on Mars or just a strange rock?
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
As one of Earth's closest neighbors in space, Mars has long captivated humans with the prospect of alien life located just a short rocket trip away. No such life has been found. But now, as NASA and other space agencies have begun to explore the skies and surface of the Red Planet using robotic technology, images of strange features and formations continue to inflame skywatchers' hopes, fears and curiosities.
Here are some of our favorite objects on Mars that look like they don't belong on a dead and dusty planet. Many of these are a result of pareidolia — the tendency for humans to seek familiar patterns and shapes in inanimate objects. However, some of them may even lead scientists to the long-sought evidence of past Martian life.
1. An open "travel book"
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
Perhaps weary from hunting for evidence of ancient water, NASA's Curiosity rover took a short break in April 2023 to leaf through the pages of an old Martian hardback lying in the dust of Gediz Vallis. While the strange object may look like a book with a single page frozen mid-turn, it is in fact just a rock — and a small one at that. The charming little book-rock measures just 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) wide, according to NASA. Hey, at least it's travel-size!
In an image shared in January 2023 by the University of Arizona (UA), what appears to be the face of an enormous Martian teddy bear — complete with two beady eyes, a button nose and an upturned mouth — grins at the camera of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. According to UA, the cuddly-wuddly formation is likely just a broken-up hill in the center of an ancient crater. But as far as we're concerned, it's the cutest pile of rubble in the known universe.
3. Frozen "mineral flowers"
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
Branching outward like a tiny coral, this delicate mineral flower is about the closest thing to greenery one can find on the Red Planet today. Mineral deposits like these are common sights across Mars and result from ancient water mixing with ancient rock. Still, it's rare to see a deposit that's so perfectly flower-like, NASA researchers said. You'll notice two slightly less impressive, circular rocks of the same type to the right of the coral. Curiosity spotted this floral feature in February 2022.
4. A mysterious "doorway"
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
Is this perfectly hewn "doorway" into a Martian cliffside evidence of intelligent alien life on the Red Planet — or perhaps signs of a secret society of human astronauts camped out in clandestine Mars bunkers? Sadly (for conspiracy theorists), the truth is far simpler: It's just an eroded rock formation caught at the perfect angle. The image was captured by NASA's Curiosity rover in 2022.
5. Fossilized "animal tracks"
(credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
Did alien creatures once skitter across the surface of Mars, leaving fossilized tracks embedded in the rocks? One researcher made this controversial claim in 2018, pointing to images of stick-like structures, each about the size of a grain of rice, crisscrossing a Martian rock. NASA researchers quickly debunked the claims, noting that similar features are plentiful on Earth in areas where salts become concentrated in water, such as evaporating lakes. Their presence on Mars is yet more evidence of past rivers and lakes on the Red Planet, but they offer no proof that living creatures ever adorned its surface.
6. A bushel of "blueberries"
(Image credit: NASA)
Blueberries are not a significant source of iron when consumed on Earth — but these geological "blueberries" discovered by NASA's Opportunity rover on Mars in 2004 are built differently. The iron-rich spheres, polished smooth by plentiful amounts of water billions of years ago, are some of the earliest evidence scientists have of Mars once being an incredibly wet world. Whether they also taste good on cheesecake is a question for future generations to grapple with.
7. Thousands of black "spiders on Mars"
(Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (left) ESA/TGO/CaSSIS (right))
Every spring, thousands of squiggly black "spiders" emerge from their hibernation near the Martian south pole. No, they are not real spiders — they are not alive at all, of course. The seasonal phenomenon is a result of buried carbon dioxide ice sublimating, or turning to gas, as the weather warms. The newly released gas bursts through layers of surface ice, carrying with it dark dust that splatters across the ground in craggy patterns. To be visible from space, as these formations are, the "spiders" must be fairly big — each one measuring 150 to 3,300 feet (45 meters to 1 kilometer) across, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Please, nobody tell Ziggy Stardust the bad news.
8. Ruins of an "Inca City"
(Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin)
Near the Martian south pole are curious structures that look like the ruins of a vast and ancient city. Dubbed the "Inca City" for its resemblance to actual ruins discovered in South America, the bizarre rock formation may be made of elevated sand dunes that turned to stone over time, according to ESA. However, its exact origins remain a mystery. The labyrinthine formation appears to curve, forming part of a giant circle 53 miles (86 km) in diameter, leading scientists to suspect it may be part of a much larger impact crater from a meteor strike ages ago.
9. An ancient smiley face
(Image credit: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS)
Did someone spray-paint a grinning face onto the Martian surface? Not quite, despite what it looks like in this infrared image snapped by ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. Visible only under certain conditions, the face seen here is actually the remnants of an ancient lake, outlined by chloride salt deposits and dotted with two meteor crater eyes. While no Martian graffiti artists are going to pop up from the lake to claim their work, the face-like structure could contain evidence of ancient life on the Red Planet. As Mars' once-plentiful lakes dried up, the remaining water sources likely became very salty, possibly offering a haven for microbial life.
10. An extremely out-of-place rock
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS)
One of these things is not like the other. Standing out like a sore Martian thumb inside dusty Jezero Crater, this unusually white rock is the first of its kind ever seen on the Red Planet. Dubbed "Atoko Point" after a similarly light-colored feature of the Grand Canyon, the speckled rock is likely made of the minerals pyroxene and feldspar, according to an analysis by NASA's Perseverance rover. How did such a white rock find itself in such dark-hued company? It likely tumbled down from the crater rim or was transported to the crater floor from elsewhere on Mars back when rivers raged across the region.
11. A stony "Star Trek" symbol
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Looks like someone from Starfleet left their communicator badge on the Red Planet — or so it would appear from the familiar shape of this rock spotted by the Curiosity rover. The rock's delta shape is just a coincidence, according to NASA. It is one of thousands located on Mount Sharp, which Curiosity has been exploring for years in its search to uncover clues about Mars' past and whether it ever held the conditions for life.
12. A "tile floor"
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/IRAP)
While scaling the slopes of Mount Sharp in 2021, NASA's Curiosity rover found remnants of what looks like a tile floor from a Martian bathroom. Dozens of interlocked polygons cracked through the dirt; most contain five or six sides and date to between 3.8 billion and 3.6 billion years ago. These jagged polygons are mud cracks, which have repeatedly dried out and moistened again over the course of untold years. They likely date to a time when the water level in the surrounding Gale Crater rose and fell repeatedly, causing the polygonal cracks in the ground to appear and disappear over time before a final dry spell left them as they are today.
13. Perfectly circular sand dunes
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)
Mars is covered in dunes of all shapes and sizes, but few of them are as perfectly circular as the group spotted above by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2022. Snapped while flying over Mars' northern hemisphere, the image shows a bubbling patchwork of dark and strangely round dunes, slanting southward in the direction where the Martian wind likely blew them. Scientists are still not certain why these particular dunes are so circular or why they appear to be slowly migrating away from Mars' equator at a rate of roughly 3.3 feet (1 m) per Martian year (687 days on Earth).
14. A "shark fin" and a "crab claw"
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While trawling through Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance rover caught sight of a few fishy-looking rocks. The two odd boulders — one jutting upward like a shark fin, and the other crimped like a crab claw — surprised researchers. However, there isn't much mystery to them. They are just rocks, sculpted by the wind over billions of years and left in the Martian dust for pattern-seeking human minds to find.
15. A "floating spoon"
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
In 2015, NASA's Curiosity rover spotted what appeared to be a wooden spoon, floating in midair with a shadow on the ground beneath it. It was, of course, an optical illusion; the spoon is simply a rock, shaped by the wind over eons, also known as a ventifact. The handle of the spoony rock juts out from a larger formation, allowing the spoon's rounded tip to hover over the ground below, casting a distinct shadow beneath it.
16. An eerie "face"
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One of the earliest Martian rock formations to capture the public's interest was this infamous "face" spotted b{{ y NASA's Viking 1 satellite in 1976. While circling the planet looking for a landing site for its robotic companion, Viking 2, the satellite spotted a mound of rocks, partially obscured in shadow, distinctly resembling a human face. Follow-up observations with later spacecraft showed that the face was visible only from certain angles and under certain light conditions, proving that the Martian mound's humanlike appearance was just a trick of light and shadow.
The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface. Here are some of the most baffling.
17. A "giant's fingerprint"
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)
A long time ago, something slammed into the surface of Mars and left this enormous, ridged, thumbprint-like depression behind. A giant finger was not the culprit, of course. Located inside a much larger crater called Airy-0, this Martian hole is the result of an ancient meteor impact. The bright striations forming the "lines" of the fingerprint are a common sight across Mars. Known as transverse aeolian ridges, they are created when sand dunes get coated in a thin layer of dust. The dust likely contains reflective minerals, giving the depression its glowing appearance in this image.
18. A rock with an, er … crack
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU)
Try not to laugh at this rock snapped by NASA's Perseverance rover in 2021. The cracked boulder became the butt of more than a few jokes after its close-up was first released to the public. There's really not much to see, though — the Red Planet is full of cracked rocks, albeit not quite as plump as this one. Perseverance spotted this rock in dusty Jezero Crater, on its 102nd day on Mars.
19. An "angel" and a heart
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When it's summertime on Mars, the angels come out to play. The Martian south pole is usually covered in an enormous ice cap, but when the ice melts in warmer weather, patterns in the ancient, red-hued sediment below come to light. This image, snapped by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, shows an angel-like pattern next to a heart-shaped one. Both of these familiar-looking structures are the result of meteor impact craters that scraped away Mars' dusty topsoil to reveal the darker sediment below.
20. A weirdly green rock with "drill holes"
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Did a bored Martian teenager get a hold of his parents' power tools again? That is one (unlikely) explanation for a strange, green rock seemingly pumped full of drill holes that was spotted by NASA's Perseverance rover early in its mission. The roughly 6-inch (15 cm) rock looks out of place in its environment, and scientists aren't totally sure how to explain it. Perhaps it is the remnant of a meteor that collided with the Red Planet, or maybe it is a piece of Martian bedrock that was flung far across the world during an impact event. Most of the holes are also a mystery — but, if you look just right of center, you may see a small train of tiny, uniform pockmarks left by Perseverance's laser, which it fired at the rock while trying to analyze its composition.
21. A small "foreign object"
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
A small, rectangular object spotted in Mars' Gale Crater in 2018 briefly gave NASA scientists a scare. Looking vaguely like a dusty sheet of metal, the object was potentially thought to be a chunk of the Curiosity rover that had inexplicably fallen off. Luckily, a quick analysis showed that the "foreign object," as NASA initially dubbed it, was just a flake of rock that had split off of a larger formation and wasn't foreign to Gale Crater at all.
22. A strange, white tower
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Towering over the Martian horizon in an image captured by NASA's Perseverance rover in 2023, a tall, white column stands against the dark, rocky background. It is, in fact, a Martian dust devil. And it's an enormous one: The dusty vortex captured here is taller than an average tornado on Earth and five times taller than the Empire State Building, according to NASA. Formed when rising cells of warm air meet falling columns of cool air, dust devils are exceedingly common on Mars — perhaps numbering as many as 145 million per day, one 2018 study estimated.
23. A "scar" longer than the Grand Canyon
(Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin)
Gaping like a fresh wound in this image captured by ESA's Mars Express orbiter in 2024, the Martian feature known as Aganippe Fossa is a sight to behold. The deep, dark ravine stretches around 375 miles (600 km) long — longer than the Grand Canyon, which measures about 277 miles (446 km) long. Located near the base of an extinct volcano, the Martian canyon likely formed as the result of ancient volcanic activity — possibly when a large pool of magma beneath the volcano pushed violently upward, tearing the ground asunder, according to ESA.
24. "Rock candy," or ultra-rare crystals?
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
These strangely colored crystals on Mars were discovered by pure accident. In May 2024, NASA's Curiosity rover drove over a small rock in its path, unintentionally crushing it. Buried within the stone tomb was a cache of rare minerals, including some never seen before on the Red Planet. The yellowish crystals are made of pure elemental sulfur. Scientists had long expected that this material existed on Mars but had no proof until Curiosity's bout of destructive driving.
25. A "bullet" hole
(Image credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech/UArizona)
What looks like a hole blasted into the Martian landscape by a stray bullet may be something much more exciting — a possible refuge for future astronauts. The hole, which measures a few meters across, was imaged by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2022 on the flank of a massive volcano called Arsia Mons. The pit is located along a lava flow and appears to be a vertical shaft that could potentially connect to a deep system of caverns below the volcano. Although the hole's depth is unknown, it may be a tempting refuge for future astronauts who need a place to shield themselves from the intense radiation that beams down on the Red Planet.
26. An underground "dog"
(Ima creditge: Root et al.)
Strange structures don't appear only on Mars' surface but underground as well. In September 2024, researchers combined data from several Mars-orbiting spacecraft to create a planet-wide map of gravitational anomalies — places where the pull of gravity is stronger than average, suggesting the presence of massive, dense structures located under the planet's surface. Most of these dense blobs are amorphous, but one caught the researchers' attention: a strange, dog-shaped structure, with a dark tail and ears, located near the Martian north pole. It's unclear how the dense, doggy structure formed, but it could be related to a past meteor impact or a pile-up of volcanic material.
27. Debris from outer space?
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
Nestled among the dusty, red rocks of Gale Crater, a jagged, gray object instantly caught the attention of scientists operating NASA's Curiosity rover. The shrapnel-like rock looks out of place because it almost certainly is — according to researchers, the pointy boulder is probably the remnant of a meteorite that crash-landed on Mars' surface ages ago. Dubbed Ames Knob and measuring about 4 inches wide by 5.5 inches long (10 by 14 cm), this meteorite isn't just space trash; according to NASA researchers, studying the rock could help reveal the past conditions on the planet when the meteorite fell, including whether it landed on land or in now-vanished water.
28. Debris … from Earth?
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In 2022, NASA spotted what looked like the wreck of an "alien" spacecraft on Mars. In this case, the "aliens" were, in fact, Earthlings; the wreckage seen by NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter was a piece of the helicopter's own parachute and backshell, a saucer-like cover that helped slow the robotic craft's descent as it dropped onto the Red Planet along with the larger Perseverance rover. This piece of wrecked human technology, photographed by Ingenuity while it was flying 26 feet (8 m) above the Martian surface, looks particularly alien amid the desolate rocks and dust of the surrounding landscape.
From certain angles, this pockmarked rock looks like an oozing, green egg belonging to some unknown alien monster. But a quick analysis from NASA's Curiosity rover revealed that the odd boulder — dubbed Egg Rock — is actually a fragment of a meteorite that landed on the Red Planet at some unknown time in the past. Studying Martian meteorites like this one can reveal valuable clues about the planet's past but is unlikely to lead back to any extraterrestrial monster nests.
Strange patterns carved into the surface of Mars' Nili Fossae region aren't alien sand art or the Martian version of Peru's Nazca Lines. They are, in fact, mineral deposits containing large quantities of olivine, a mineral typically only found deep below the surface of Mars. How did so much olivine-rich rock reach the planet's surface? That question presents a tempting mystery for scientists. It could be that a huge asteroid impact excavated the Martian interior, bringing olivine to the surface in swirling splatters — or perhaps the subsurface mineral saw daylight following a massive volcanic eruption. Its precise origin remains a mystery to this day.
31. An alien monolith?
(Image credit: Image: NASA HiRISE; Arrow: thesun.co.uk)
When amateur stargazers were looking through images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, they spotted something strange in the satellite's data: a bizarrely rectangular object reminiscent of the alien monolith from the opening scene of "2001: A Space Odyssey." The perplexing feature is indeed monolithic in shape and size, according to mission scientists. However, it is likely nothing more than a big, perfectly rectangular rock.
32. A crawling robot
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona)
Spotted from miles above by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a crawling metallic robot glints on the Martian surface far below. This is a rare case where the mystery object is exactly what it looks like; that robot is NASA's Curiosity rover, making its way up Mount Sharp several years into its mission to explore the Red Planet. Concrete evidence that Mars ever held life is still lacking — but at least we can say Mars is the only known planet in the universe inhabited exclusively by robots.
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently captured images of an odd-looking series of ridged lines carved into the landscape of the Red Planet, the U.S. space agency recently announced.
Designed to aid in the search for water on Mars and assist missions to the planet with its high-quality imaging capabilities, since its launch in 2006 the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, has collected information from its position in orbit above the Red Planet.
On August 18, the MRO captured a series of unusual, ridged lines that appeared to be carved into the Martian landscape, as can be seen in the image below.
The unusual-looking ridged lines scoring the Martian surface were captured in August by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona)
However, these aren’t evidence of remnants from roadways built by ancient Martians; the curious-looking lines are a natural formation, produced by the subtle movement of ice on the planet’s surface.
Generally, ice deposits located on the surface of Mars accumulate in the greatest abundance around the planet’s polar caps. However, in the past these odd-looking ridged patterns have been found in other regions on the surface of the Red Planet as well, revealing the presence of ice on the planet’s surface in various other regions.
The ridges form as ice naturally flows downhill, moving soil and stony deposits from their positions along the Martian landscape as it goes. However, it isn’t a fast process; this gradual movement of ice that shifts the Martian soil as it flows can take several thousands of years, processes that imagery collected by the MRO can help to shed light on, as well as reveal their history.
With its ongoing studies, the MRO continues to scour the surface of Mars from its position in orbit in search of water, as well as mineral formations and evidence of water beneath the planet’s surface. The MRO also monitors daily weather patterns on the Red Planet and collects information about where minerals and water may have existed on the planet in the past.
Such information could be useful for future crewed space missions to Mars, and may also provide astrobiologists with crucial information that may help in the search for evidence of life—past or present—on the planet.
In 2003 and 2004, a series of unexplained fires broke out in Canneto di Caronia, Sicily, Italy. These fires were seen in household objects such as fridges, TVs, and mobile phones. The phenomenon attracted the attention of residents and dozens of experts, including scientists, electrical engineers, and military personnel.
Investigations ruled out arson, and an amazed scientist reported witnessing an unplugged electrical cable burst into flames. Locals blamed supernatural forces, and the Vatican’s chief exorcist even weighed in, stating that the fires could be caused by demons occupying electrical goods. (Source)
A leaked interim report by the Italian Civil Protection Department, conducted with the involvement of a NASA scientist and ordered by the government, concluded that the most likely cause of the fires was “aliens.” The report estimated the cost of the two-year investigation at $1.2 million.
According to the report, the fires were caused by high-power electromagnetic emissions with a power of 12 to 15 gigawatts, which were not man-made. The report also cited a possible unidentified flying object (UFO) landing near the village, with burnt imprints found in a field that could not be explained.
Francesco Mantegna Venerando, Sicily’s Civil Protection chief, stated that they were still working on their conclusions. He noted that while they were not claiming little green men from Mars caused the fires, they were considering the possibility of unnatural forces producing a large amount of electromagnetic energy. Another possibility being explored was the testing of top-secret weapons by an unknown power capable of producing an enormous amount of energy.
In April 2004, when a series of mysterious fires broke out, the Italian Military became involved since there had been several reports by fishermen of luminous objects at night flying over and going into the sea. The Military detected a UFO on the radar, but they could not make visual confirmation from the ground. So, they sent a helicopter to investigate everything.
Vedruccio showed Elizondo a photo showing the claimed UFO on the left and the helicopter in question on the right
Lt. Col. Clarbruno Vedruccio of the Italian Navy’s Special Forces shared a story about a series of spontaneous fires in Sicily in 2004 and how a UFO approached the helicopter and fired a beam forced the pilots to make an emergency landing.
“In 2004, in Sicily, a craft appeared a few hundred meters behind the copter tail and it shot an (electromagnetic) ray that destroyed the helicopter wings. The signal was absolutely directional. It was a beam. On a certain band of frequencies. Then we discovered that when they use their energy weapons, they must go outside stealth mode. We could see them on a certain band of (electromagnetic) frequencies.” […] “You could use the same frequency to provide a radio beacon to call them, to attract them. To show them that we have understood their technology,” said Lt. Col. Clarbruno Vedruccio.
Once the helicopter approached the coordinates, the UFO revealed itself, coming out of stealth mode. Officials said the helicopter was chased by a saucer-shaped UAP that shot a powerful, focused electromagnetic beam at its rotors. It fried them enough to disable the helicopter and force it to crash land. They figured out that the source of the spontaneous fires was an electromagnetic frequency from the sea. About 80 kilometres offshore and deep underwater really surprised Elizondo, as he was quite aware of underate sightings.
Elizondo said: “They were very pointed, in a matter of fact, that these things had been kind of plaguing them for some time. One individual, in particular, provided some very, very detailed information to include some analysis on frequency. I hate to say it, but they may have more information than we do, even in the US potentially.”
Officials say that this helicopter was chased by a saucer shaped UAP that shot a powerful focused electromagnetic beam at its rotors. Which fried them enough to disable the helicopter and force it to crash-land.
Another incident involved Captain Achille Zaghetti and his co-pilot, who encountered a 10-foot-long, khaki-colored UFO while flying from Milan to Heathrow. Capt. Zaghetti, recounting the 1991 event above Lydd, Kent, told Italian journalists: “It was shaped like a cigar and passed very close about 300 meters on the right, or 1,000ft.” (Source)
“The color was military beige. We guessed that it was around three meters long. It was approximately 8 or 9 p.m., when it was still bright at altitude but pitch black on the ground,” said Captain Zaghetti, who resides in Grosseto, Tuscany.
“It could have caused a terrible accident. If you’re flying at 700 kilometers an hour, hitting an object of 1kg is like hitting something which weighs 700kg.” Air traffic controllers at Heathrow spotted the UFO on the radar while directing a British Airways jet into the airport.
Capt Zaghetti claimed the object was not a weather balloon and resembled instead the sort of long-distance fuel tanks that fighter aircraft sometimes carry.
He was later contacted by a counter-terrorism official from an American agency who asked for more details about the encounter. He said he was glad his co-pilot had seen the UFO as well, because he did not want to be accused of being a fantasist. “And we had to visit the doctors every six months,” Capt Zaghetti added, saying there were no doubts about his health at the time.
“Had any foreign adversary attacked a military helicopter of another nation, that could surely be a sign of aggression, and maybe potentially an act of war. So that’s a big deal,” Elizondo said. So are the world militaries engaged in combat with UFOs? It was not the first time UFO attacked man-made crafts and missiles.
For 18 years, Robert Jacobs, a former US Air Force officer, had been participating in the official United States Government-ordered UFO cover-up. The cover-up was about the UFO shooting down one of the ballistic missiles back in 1964 in Big Sur, California. He claimed that his colleagues had ridiculed him for writing about this cover-up that appeared in The National Enquirer. (Click here to read full article)
According to him, the warhead was approached by a UFO and fired a beam of light from different directions. Subsequently, the warhead malfunctioned and tumbled out of sub orbit hundreds of miles short of its target. “This… unidentified flying… thing had apparently shot down an American dummy atomic warhead,” Dr. Jacobs said.
Former U.S. Air Force pilot Jacob Barber believes he recovered alien technology while working for a secret government UFO retrieval program. He claims he was contracted as a helicopter pilot to retrieve downed crafts that were nonhuman in origin.
“Just visually looking at the object on the ground, you could tell that it was extraordinary and anomalous,” Barber told Ross Coulthart on NewsNation. “It was not human.”
Barber also claimed that the UFO was “inconsistent with anything I’d ever seen before. I can also tell you that the reaction by my team, we all knew we were dealing with something extraordinary.”
He added, “Over the last couple years, it’s been confirmed to me by ranking members of the UAP [Unidentified Aerial Phenomena] task force that what we were working with that night was, in fact, NHI (nonhuman intelligence) and it was not a unique experience.”
New video that allegedly shows a crashed alien craft being recovered by a U.S. Air Force helicopter, and matches much of what Barber claims, recently surfaced.
Barber claims he left the Air Force shortly after September 11, 2001 and took on a “cover” identity as a civilian contractor.
“A lot of the work we did was on what I call ‘The Range,’ where the U.S. government and its private partners used to test all kinds of things – weapon systems and resilience to weapon systems of certain craft – and so you see a lot of exciting things,” Barber told Coulthart.
Barber explained one of the times he was tasked with the retrieval of an “extraordinary and anomalous” UFO.
“I saw an egg, a white egg,” he said. “There was no engine. There was no thermal signature. I was operating at night when I finally came in to pick it up. So, I’m working under night vision goggles at the time, and it was quite clear. I flipped them up, flipped them down and looked at it a couple of different ways.”
“There was another object,” he continued. “One was the egg, the other is what I called an ‘eightgon.’ The eightgon was essentially a flying disc with what looked like eight delineated sections when looking down.”
Another UFO he claims to have witnessed on craft that was trans-medium and could pass through solid matter. He also claimed some Air Force personnel had been trained to control these non-human aircraft using a form of telepathy.
“In the program, there was certainly a desire to explore the idea that perhaps UAP could be summoned, could be communicated with, could be controlled and could be persuaded to land, all by deploying people with psionic abilities to interface and communicate with the UAP,” he said.
Lehto & Forbes Reveal Zero Point Energy Secrets: UFO Tech Unveiled!
Lehto & Forbes Reveal Zero Point Energy Secrets: UFO Tech Unveiled!
The intersection of advanced physics, zero-point energy, and UFO technology is an area of growing intrigue. In a groundbreaking discussion, Chris Lehto and Ashton Forbes delve deep into the science behind these enigmatic topics. Their dialogue explores how suppressed innovations in zero-point energy could revolutionize humanity’s understanding of the universe and the mysteries surrounding UFO technology.
What Is Zero Point Energy?
Zero-point energy (ZPE) refers to the latent energy present in the quantum vacuum of space. Unlike traditional energy sources, ZPE is not derived from matter but from the fabric of the universe itself. This idea challenges many assumptions of classical physics, suggesting that space is not empty but filled with a vast, untapped ocean of energy. As Lehto and Forbes note, this energy could power advanced technologies, including anti-gravity propulsion systems, if harnessed effectively.
The Ether Revisited
Historical scientific debates often dismissed the concept of an “ether” as the medium through which light waves travel. However, Lehto and Forbes argue that the ether is synonymous with the modern understanding of zero-point energy. Revisiting these ideas through advanced experiments, they highlight that gravity, inertia, and even the speed of light could be influenced by the energy density of the ether.
Forbes connects this concept to the Michelson-Morley experiment, which historically concluded that no ether existed. However, he suggests that revisiting the experiment from a different perspective could reveal that the ether is real and foundational to our understanding of physics.
The Implications for UFO Technology
One of the central themes of the discussion is how zero-point energy could explain the propulsion systems of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Traditional propulsion relies on fuel and combustion, whereas UFOs appear to defy these limitations, achieving rapid acceleration and abrupt directional changes without visible exhaust. Forbes and Lehto propose that these movements are consistent with an advanced understanding of physics, where gravitational manipulation and high-frequency gravitational waves come into play.
This technology, they suggest, has been hidden from public knowledge for decades. The reasons for this secrecy range from national security concerns to fears of misuse. However, both Lehto and Forbes advocate for greater transparency, arguing that the potential benefits of zero-point energy—including free, limitless power—far outweigh the risks.
Challenges in Mainstream Acceptance
Lehto and Forbes emphasize the societal resistance to groundbreaking scientific ideas. Historically, major advancements like heavier-than-air flight and quantum mechanics were initially dismissed. Similarly, concepts like zero-point energy and warp drives are often ridiculed, despite mounting evidence supporting their plausibility.
A key obstacle is the academic and institutional gatekeeping in science, where peer review processes often stifle unconventional ideas. Lehto and Forbes call for a cultural shift that encourages curiosity and challenges entrenched assumptions, making science accessible and exciting for future generations.
The Role of Disclosure
The conversation also touches on the importance of full disclosure regarding UFOs and advanced technologies. While acknowledging the risks, Lehto and Forbes argue that humanity cannot fully progress without addressing these hidden truths. They caution that withholding knowledge about zero-point energy and its potential applications perpetuates inequality and slows innovation.
Lehto & Forbes EXPOSE Zero Point Energy UFO Secrets!
Moreover, they highlight the ethical implications of using advanced technologies for destructive purposes, such as high-frequency scalar weapons. Transparency, they argue, is the only way to ensure that these technologies benefit humanity rather than endanger it.
The Future of Zero Point Energy
Lehto and Forbes remain optimistic about the future. They believe that as awareness grows and more people engage with these ideas, the potential for breakthroughs increases. They encourage a renewed focus on physics and engineering, particularly among young people, to drive humanity toward a more advanced and equitable future.
Their message is clear: Zero-point energy is not just a theoretical concept but a pathway to unlocking the universe’s mysteries and transforming our way of life.
Area 51: Het Mysterie en de Waarheid Achter de Verboden Basis
Area 51: Het Mysterie en de Waarheid Achter de Verboden Basis
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Inleiding
Area 51, een afgelegen militaire basis in Nevada, is een van de meest omstreden en mysterieuze locaties ter wereld. Het heeft talloze speculaties, complottheorieën en fascinatie opgewekt sinds het in de jaren vijftig werd opgericht. Hoewel de basis officieel bekend staat als het Nevada Test and Training Range, is het vooral beroemd vanwege de vermeende connecties met buitenaardse technologie en UFO-waarnemingen. Dit artikel verkent de geschiedenis, de mythes en de realiteit van Area 51.
Area 51 werd in 1955 opgericht door de Amerikaanse luchtmacht. De basis was aanvankelijk bedoeld voor het testen van de U-2 spionagevliegtuig, dat een cruciale rol speelde tijdens de Koude Oorlog. De afgelegen locatie, omgeven door bergen en woestijn, bood de perfecte omgeving om militaire technologie in het geheim te ontwikkelen en te testen.
In de jaren zestig werd de basis verder uitgebreid met de ontwikkeling van de A-12 Oxcart, een geavanceerd spionagevliegtuig. De geheimhouding rond de basis was zo intens dat zelfs de naam "Area 51" pas in de jaren negentig officieel werd bevestigd. Voor die tijd werd het vaak aangeduid als "Dreamland" of "Watertown".
Met de opkomst van de UFO-cultuur in de jaren vijftig en zestig, begon Area 51 een centrale rol te spelen in complottheorieën. De legendarische Roswell-incident in 1947, waarbij een vermeende UFO neergestort zou zijn, droeg bij aan de opbouw van een mystieke aura rond de basis. Veel mensen geloofden dat de Amerikaanse overheid buitenaardse technologie en zelfs buitenaardse wezens op de basis had opgeslagen.
Een van de meest prominente figuren in de UFO-gemeenschap is Robert Lazar, die in 1989 beweerde dat hij had gewerkt aan reverse engineering van buitenaardse technologie bij Area 51. Lazar's verklaringen waren schokkend en leidden tot een golf van belangstelling en speculatie over wat er werkelijk op de basis gebeurde.
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3. De Rol van de Media
De media hebben een aanzienlijke rol gespeeld in het creëren van de mythe rond Area 51. Documentaires, boeken en films hebben de fantasieën van het publiek gevoed. Sinds de jaren negentig zijn er talloze documentaires verschenen, waaronder de populaire serie "Ancient Aliens", die de link tussen Area 51 en buitenaardse wezens verder heeft versterkt.
De pers heeft ook bijgedragen aan de geheimhouding van de basis. Journalisten die probeerden informatie over Area 51 te verkrijgen, werden vaak geconfronteerd met juridische dreigingen en intimidatie van de overheid. Dit heeft de speculaties alleen maar aangewakkerd en geleid tot de overtuiging dat er iets te verbergen viel.
4. De Waarheid Achter de Mythen
Ondanks de vele theorieën en geruchten, heeft de Amerikaanse overheid nooit officieel bevestigd dat er buitenaardse technologie of wezens op Area 51 aanwezig zijn. Wat we wel weten, is dat de basis voornamelijk wordt gebruikt voor militaire doeleinden, waaronder de ontwikkeling van geavanceerde luchtvaartuigen en technologieën.
In 2013 declassificeerde de CIA een aantal documenten die bevestigden dat Area 51 werd gebruikt voor het testen van spionagevliegtuigen, zoals de U-2 en de A-12. Deze onthullingen gaven een zekere mate van duidelijkheid over de activiteiten op de basis, maar ze ontkrachtten de mythen over buitenaardse technologie.
5. De Impact van Area 51 op de Populaire Cultuur
Area 51 heeft een blijvende invloed gehad op de populaire cultuur. Films, boeken en videogames hebben het mysterie van de basis benut om spannende verhalen te creëren. Van sciencefictionfilms zoals "Independence Day" tot populaire videogames zoals "Call of Duty" en "Grand Theft Auto", de basis is een terugkerend onderwerp dat de verbeelding van mensen blijft prikkelen.
Bovendien heeft de online cultuur bijgedragen aan de verspreiding van informatie en desinformatie over Area 51. Sociale media en forums zoals Reddit hebben een platform geboden voor discussies over UFO's en complottheorieën, waardoor de mythe rondom de basis verder is gegroeid.
6. De Toekomst van Area 51
Met de voortschrijdende technologie en de toenemende interesse in ruimteverkenning, is het waarschijnlijk dat Area 51 een centrale rol zal blijven spelen in de discussie over buitenaards leven en militaire technologie. De recente onthullingen over UFO-waarnemingen door militaire piloten hebben de belangstelling voor het onderwerp nieuw leven ingeblazen.
De overheid heeft in de afgelopen jaren enkele van deze waarnemingen erkend en onderzocht, wat heeft geleid tot een nieuwe golf van speculatie over wat er werkelijk in de lucht gebeurt. Dit heeft de vraag doen rijzen of Area 51 ooit meer geheimen zal onthullen of dat het altijd een mysterie zal blijven.
Conclusie
Area 51 blijft een fascinerend onderwerp dat de nieuwsgierigheid van mensen over de hele wereld blijft prikkelen. De combinatie van militaire geheimhouding, UFO-mythologie en populaire cultuur heeft geleid tot een rijke en complexe geschiedenis die nog steeds in ontwikkeling is. Of je nu gelooft in buitenaardse wezens of niet, het mysterie van Area 51 zal ongetwijfeld voortleven in de harten en geesten van velen.
De basis vertegenwoordigt niet alleen een plek van geheimhouding, maar ook een symbool van de menselijke nieuwsgierigheid naar het onbekende. Terwijl we de toekomst ingaan, zal de zoektocht naar waarheid en begrip over Area 51 en de mysteries van het universum blijven voortduren.
Ontvoeringen door Aliens: De Waarheid Achter het Mysterie
Ontvoeringen door Aliens: De Waarheid Achter het Mysterie
Inleiding
Het fenomeen van ontvoeringen door aliens is een onderwerp dat de verbeelding van mensen over de hele wereld al tientallen jaren bezighoudt. Van mysterieuze verhalen tot diepgaande onderzoeken, deze ontvoeringen hebben geleid tot tal van speculaties en theorieën. In dit artikel zullen we de geschiedenis, getuigenissen, mogelijke verklaringen en de impact van deze ontvoeringen op de samenleving onderzoeken.
Geschiedenis van Alien Ontvoeringen
De moderne verhalen over ontvoeringen door aliens begonnen in de jaren '50 van de 20e eeuw. Een van de bekendste gevallen is dat van Betty en Barney Hill, een Amerikaans paar dat in 1961 beweerde te zijn ontvoerd door een UFO. Hun verhaal omvatte gedetailleerde beschrijvingen van hun ontvoerders en de omstandigheden waarin ze werden vastgehouden. Dit geval vormde de basis voor veel van de latere ontvoeringsverhalen.
In de jaren '70 en '80 nam het aantal meldingen van ontvoeringen toe. Mensen over de hele wereld begonnen vergelijkbare ervaringen te delen, vaak met opmerkelijke overeenkomsten. Deze verhalen bevatten vaak elementen zoals medische onderzoeken, telepathische communicatie en het gevoel van tijdverlies.
Bekende Gevallen van Ontvoeringen
1. Betty en Barney Hill
THE UFO INCIDENT (Betty and Barney Hill abduction case 1961)
Het verhaal van Betty en Barney Hill is een van de meest gedocumenteerde ontvoeringen. Het paar reed in september 1961 terug naar huis van een vakantie in Canada, toen ze een heldere licht in de lucht zagen. Na het voorval ervoeren ze een tijdsverlies van enkele uren en herinnerden ze zich vage details van hun ontvoering. Tijdens hypnose onthulden ze gruwelijke details over hun ervaringen aan boord van een ruimteschip.
In 1975 werd boswerker Travis Walton ontvoerd terwijl hij met zijn collega's aan het werk was in Arizona. Zijn vrienden verklaarden dat ze een fel licht zagen en Walton verdween. Na vijf dagen werd hij weer gevonden, en hij had een angstaanjagend verhaal over zijn tijd aan boord van een UFO. Walton's geval is sindsdien omgevormd tot een populaire film, "Fire in the Sky".
3. Kelly Cahill
The Kelly Cahill Alien Abduction
In 1993 beweerde Kelly Cahill dat ze tijdens een rit in Australië werd ontvoerd door aliens. Ze vertelde over haar ontmoeting met een ruimteschip en de buitenaardse wezens die haar benaderden. Cahill's ervaring omvatte visioenen en een gevoel van terror. Haar getuigenis is uniek omdat ze beschrijvingen gaf van de buitenaardse wezens die overeenkwamen met andere getuigenissen.
Gemeenschappelijke Kenmerken van Ontvoeringen
Veel verhalen over ontvoeringen door aliens bevatten vergelijkbare elementen. Dit zijn enkele van de meest voorkomende kenmerken:
1.Medische Onderzoeken
Vele slachtoffers beweren dat ze medische onderzoeken ondergaan hebben terwijl ze vastgehouden werden. Dit omvat vaak het afnemen van monsters, zoals bloed of huidcellen. Sommige getuigen beschrijven zelfs het gevoel van een naald die in hun lichaam wordt gestoken.
2. Tijdverlies
Een ander veelvoorkomend thema is het gevoel van tijdverlies. Slachtoffers melden vaak dat ze uren of zelfs dagen kwijt zijn terwijl ze denken dat er slechts enkele minuten zijn verstreken. Dit fenomeen heeft geleid tot speculaties over de manier waarop aliens de tijd kunnen manipuleren.
3. Telepathische Communicatie
Veel getuigen beweren dat ze telepathisch konden communiceren met hun ontvoerders. Dit betekent dat ze gedachten en gevoelens konden uitwisselen zonder woorden te gebruiken. Dit aspect van de ontvoering heeft geleid tot de hypothese dat buitenaardse wezens een hogere ontwikkeling hebben dan mensen.
Psychologische Verklaringen
Er zijn verschillende psychologische verklaringen voor het fenomeen van alienontvoeringen. Sommige onderzoekers suggereren dat deze ervaringen kunnen voortkomen uit slaapparalyse, waarbij mensen ontwaken maar niet in staat zijn om te bewegen. Dit kan een gevoel van angst en hallucinaties veroorzaken, wat kan leiden tot ontvoeringsverhalen.
Daarnaast zijn er theorieën over valse herinneringen, waarbij mensen onjuiste herinneringen ontwikkelen door suggestie of invloeden van buitenaf. Het gebruik van hypnose om herinneringen op te roepen heeft ook geleid tot controverses, aangezien het kan resulteren in het creëren van vervalste herinneringen.
Culturele Impact
Het fenomeen van alienontvoeringen heeft een aanzienlijke impact gehad op de populaire cultuur. Films, boeken en televisieprogramma's hebben deze verhalen verder verspreid en het publiek gefascineerd. De invloed is zo groot dat het idee van ontvoeringen door aliens een integraal onderdeel is geworden van de sciencefictiongenre.
Bovendien heeft het fenomeen geleid tot de oprichting van verschillende organisaties en clubs die zich richten op het onderzoeken van UFO-waarnemingen en ontvoeringen. Deze groepen bieden vaak ondersteuning aan mensen die denken dat ze zijn ontvoerd, en ze proberen de waarheid achter deze ervaringen te achterhalen.
Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Hoewel veel wetenschappers het fenomeen van alienontvoeringen als onwaarschijnlijk beschouwen, zijn er enkele die het serieus onderzoeken. Het is een complex onderwerp dat de grenzen van wetenschap en geloof raakt. Onderzoekers hebben geprobeerd om patronen en gemeenschappelijke elementen in ontvoeringsverhalen te identificeren.
In de afgelopen jaren zijn er verschillende studies uitgevoerd die probeerden de psychologische en sociologische aspecten van ontvoeringen te begrijpen. Deze studies hebben aangetoond dat veel getuigen een sterke behoefte hebben om hun verhalen te delen, wat kan helpen bij hun verwerking van de ervaring.
Kritiek en Skepsis
Er is veel kritiek en scepsis rond het fenomeen van alienontvoeringen. Veel skeptici wijzen op het gebrek aan concreet bewijs en beschouwen de verhalen als verzinsels of hallucinaties. Critici wijzen ook op de mogelijkheid van collectieve illusies, waarbij groepen mensen vergelijkbare ervaringen delen zonder dat er een feitelijke basis voor is.
Wetenschappers hebben herhaaldelijk gepleit voor een rationele benadering van het onderwerp en benadrukken dat persoonlijke getuigenissen niet altijd betrouwbaar zijn. De afwezigheid van fysiek bewijs maakt het moeilijk om deze claims serieus te nemen.
Conclusie
Het fenomeen van ontvoeringen door aliens blijft een intrigerend onderwerp dat zowel fascinatie als scepsis oproept. Of het nu gaat om persoonlijke verhalen van slachtoffers of wetenschappelijke onderzoeken, het blijft een mysterie dat ons uitdaagt om na te denken over de mogelijkheden van buitenaards leven en onze eigen realiteit.
Terwijl de discussie over dit onderwerp voortduurt, blijft de vraag bestaan: zijn we echt alleen in het universum, of zijn er andere wezens die ons observeren en misschien zelfs met ons communiceren? De waarheid is misschien nog steeds daarbuiten, wachtend om ontdekt te worden.
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