“She Cared for Alien Babies”: Paul Hynek’s Astonishing UFO Encounter

In the world of UFO lore and extraterrestrial encounters, few accounts are as intriguing and grounded as the one shared by Paul Hynek, son of famed astronomer and Project Blue Book scientific advisor, J. Allen Hynek. In a candid interview on Debriefed (Episode 45), Paul recalls a fascinating conversation with an elderly German woman who claimed to have one of the most unusual jobs imaginable—serving as a nanny for hybrid alien babies aboard a spaceship.

A Matter-of-Fact Encounter

During a conference in San Francisco, Hynek met the woman, who was unassuming and not eager to share her story. When asked about her occupation, she calmly revealed, “I’m a nanny on a spaceship for human-alien hybrid babies.” Her delivery was devoid of drama, describing her work as a 9-to-5, Monday-through-Friday routine. This matter-of-fact tone set her apart from the many sensational accounts often heard in UFO circles.

When Hynek probed further, asking about topics such as the species of aliens she worked with and practical matters like insurance, her responses were steady and reflective. She mentioned there was no insurance but noted that the aliens “kind of healed her” when needed. Her answers painted a picture of a day-to-day job that, while extraordinary, seemed as mundane to her as any earthly employment.

Connecting With Known Abduction Themes

Hynek drew parallels between her account and research by David Jacobs, who documented cases where abductees were trained to care for or socialize hybrid beings to help them adapt to human environments. Such themes often involve abductees being placed in maternal or caregiving roles. Yet, the woman’s account was remarkable for its prosaic, almost businesslike description of life aboard the craft.

A Personal and Historic Perspective

Hynek also shared insights from his family’s deep ties to UFO research. He recalled conversations with Colonel Robert Friend, a Tuskegee Airman and one of the directors at Project Blue Book. In one exchange, Friend was asked if alien bodies were ever transported to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Remaining loyal to his oath of secrecy, Friend replied that bodies wouldn’t have gone there, as it was a mechanics center, but rather to Fort Hood, a burn center. This subtle, yet telling comment hinted at concealed truths within military circles.

On Friend’s 99th birthday, Hynek delicately pressed him again for any convincing evidence of extraterrestrial encounters. Friend’s response was brief but powerful: “Paul, yes.” Though he didn’t break confidentiality, his confirmation resonated deeply with Hynek, who regards it as one of the most compelling personal testimonies he has encountered.

A Reflection on Credibility and Calm

What makes these stories compelling is not just their content but the demeanor of the people telling them. The German nanny’s calm, measured recounting and Friend’s quiet affirmation contrast starkly with the sensationalism often found in UFO narratives. For Hynek, these understated yet powerful anecdotes hold more weight than any dramatic case file.

Closing Thoughts

Paul Hynek’s experiences serve as a reminder that some of the most remarkable stories about extraterrestrial life come from the most unassuming voices. Whether one believes in such accounts or not, they provide a fascinating glimpse into the intersections of human imagination, personal experience, and the enduring mystery of our place in the universe.

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23-07-2025 om 22:25 geschreven door peter  

‘It Became Brighter And Disappeared’: Infrared Camera Captures Footage Of Multiple UFOs Over Brazil

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Mysterious video taken from an infrared camera shows multiple UFOs flying through the sky over Brazil, then vanishing. Brazilian officials have not offered any explanation for the video, despite it going viral on social media throughout the country.

According to a report by CNN Brazil, the footage was taken at around 8:30 p.m. local time on July 8 in Sao Pedro, a city in the metropolitan region of Piracicaba, in the interior of Sao Paulo. One area resident told the media outlet that the UFOs did not move in any conventional way. They also stated that it did not look like any standard aircraft.

What witnesses said about the UFO sighting

“What caught my attention was that they were lights that had a brightness much greater than that of an airplane”, said the witness who recorded the UFO footage. “It was a white glow that oscillated […] And so, there were several points, which did not all appear simultaneously. It followed a path and suddenly it became brighter and disappeared. Then, suddenly, another light appeared in another place [in the sky].”

CNN Brazil also reports that these or similar UFOs have been appearing in the region since last year. One local resident even said it happens at least once a week.

“It’s quiet here, there’s no airplane noise,” the local resident said. “I also thought it might suddenly be a rural drone. I can’t understand how far away they [the lights] are, but the fact is that they appear and leave us wondering.”

Brazil is a known hot spot for UFO and alien activity

The Brazilian National Archives contain at least 26 reports of UFOs being seen by pilots, controllers and people to the Air Force Command in 2024.

The country is also well-known in the UFO community for “the Varginha incident” which occurred on January 20, 1996. Dubbed “Brazil’s Roswell,” the Varginha incident involved numerous witnesses claiming to have seen aliens amid experienced numerous UFO sightings over a period of multiple days, following by some sort of investigation or intervention by Brazilian military.

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On the 6th of June 1980, 56-year-old coal miner Zigmund Adamski left his home in Tingley, West Yorkshire to do some shopping. He never returned. On the 9th of June, his body was found on top of a ten-foot high pile of coal in the town of Todmorden, twenty miles away from his house.

Sent to investigate, local bobby Alan Godfrey discovered that while Adamski was wearing a suit, his shirt, wallet and watch were all missing. Adamski’s hair had been cropped in what PC Godfrey described as a ‘roughly cut’ manner, and he only had one day’s growth of beard despite being missing for several days. The young policeman also reported that Adamski had mysterious burns on his neck, head and shoulders.

The coroner, James Turnbull, confirmed that some of the burns had been treated with a ‘strange ointment’ that could not be identified by forensic scientists. Godfrey later said that Adamski looked like he’d been frightened to death.

Speaking to reporters, PC Godfrey said there was a possibility Adamski had been abducted by aliens. ‘I am open-minded,’ he said. ‘I can't rule it out.’

The true cause of the Lofthouse Colliery worker’s death remains a mystery to this day. One wild theory that did the rounds at the time was that Adamski had been killed by the KGB. Another suggested he had been struck by ball lighting which caused him to wander off confused and eventually die at the top of the coal heap. To many people though, there was only one explanation - Adamski encountered alien beings on his way to the shops and it had cost him his life.

Five months after the grisly discovery of Adamski’s body, Todmorden once again found itself at the centre of media attention. This time it was none other than PC Godfrey who was in the eye of the storm.

Sent out at five in the morning to deal with a call about escaped cattle on a housing estate, Godfrey was, according to his own account, stopped dead in his tracks by what he claimed was an unidentified flying object. Godfrey said the object was a bright light in the sky - a rotating, diamond-shaped vessel, twenty feet high and fourteen feet wide.

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Godfrey made a quick sketch of the object in his notebook and then grabbed his police radio to call the incident in. The line was dead. Suddenly, it disappeared in a bright flash and Godfrey found himself sitting in his car thirty yards further down the road. Looking at his watch, the policeman was surprised to see it was twenty-five minutes later than it had been just moments before. Weirder still, his boot was split open and an itchy mark had appeared on one of his feet.

Baffled, Godfrey returned to where he had seen the light and discovered the road where his car had been was completely dry, despite the fact it had recently been raining. Getting out to investigate the area, he found the cows he’d been looking for in a park next to the road. They had not been there before he saw the strange object in the sky. What on earth was going on?

When he finally managed to report his strange encounter, Godfrey was met with scepticism and even ridicule. On the advice of a solicitor friend, he decided to see a hypnotist to get to the bottom of what he’d witnessed.

Under hypnosis, Godfrey recalled that he had been blinded by the light and passed out. He told the hypnotist that when he awoke, he was in a strange room being examined by several little creatures and a tall, humanoid figure with a beard. Again, his claims were met with raised eyebrows and derision.

Several weeks after Godfrey’s account had leaked to the newspapers and became an international news story, he was called into his inspector's office. There sat a man in a dark suit and tie who introduced himself as ‘the Man from the Ministry’.

He had with him a file containing Godfrey’s drawing of the strange craft. Godfrey wasn’t allowed to see the rest of the file but assumed it also contained his account of the evening’s events, plus his report on the mysterious death of Zigmund Adamski. The man told Godfrey that he was to swear on the Official Secrets Act that he would not talk to anyone about what he had seen. Godfrey reluctantly agreed.

The young policeman then encountered the man on several occasions over the next few days. It was clear he was being followed. Eventually, Godfrey confronted the man in his local pub, telling him to clear off. The man disappeared and was never seen again..

Who was this mysterious man? Was he an MI5 agent, sent to warn him off? That's what Godfrey believes, though another theory is that the stranger was actually from West Yorkshire Police, sent to warn Godfrey off from speaking to the press in an attempt to not draw any more attention to the force. They were already getting a considerable amount of bad publicity over the Yorkshire Ripper case.

Despite that it later transpiring that several other police officers and a bus driver had seen strange lights on the same morning, Godfrey’s claims were seen as an embarrassment to the force. He was eventually transferred to Wakefield and an attempt was even made to have him sectioned.

Godfrey later claimed that he was hounded out of the police for refusing to give up on his story. He also talked of the negative impact the incident had had on his family. ’I wish I'd never seen the UFO, particularly because of the effects on my children,’ he was later to reflect. ’It's not easy having a policeman as a father but when he's a policeman who saw a UFO it's even worse.’

Since the two incidents in 1980, Todmorden and other areas of West Yorkshire have become UFO hotspots. Mysterious objects have been reported for forty years across the Pennines in the skies above Holmfirth, Rothwell and, in 2016, over the world famous Ribblehead Viaduct, where strange lights could be seen hovering in the sky for several hours.

A mere year after Godfrey’s experience, Todmorden local Vicky Dinsdale was out walking her dog with her grandfather when they saw a long, thin, diamond-shaped object that kept changing colour. Vicky’s grandfather, a former sergeant in the army, told the young girl to keep what they saw to themselves, mindful of the ridicule visited on Godfrey.

So, is there an explanation for what happened to Zigmund Adamski and PC Godfrey, or indeed for the numerous incidents that have happened in the four decades since? Despite many people attempting to get to the bottom of this intriguing mystery, no one has ever managed to come up with a definitive answer.

In the case of Adamski, the state of his clothes, his cropped hair, one day of beard growth and the strange burns still baffle people to this day.

As for Godfrey’s account, we have just his word to go on. But if he’s simply making it up, it’s been to his own personal detriment, as he lost both his job and a lot of credibility, becoming a figure of ridicule to many. He also lost his family and his home and slid into alcoholism. Despite all this, he still swears that something out of the ordinary happened to him that night. Plus, there’s the small matter that he wasn’t the only one who reported strange goings-on that morning.

’This was a nuts and bolts craft, not a trick of the mind,’ Godfrey told an audience in Halifax back in 2014. ‘I have never seen anything like it. I would swear on the Bible it was from somewhere else. These things have been seen so many times above Todmorden, they call the area UFO alley.’

Did aliens have something to do with the death of a 56-year-old miner and ruin the life of a young police officer in a small Yorkshire market town in 1980? The answer is we’ll probably never know for sure. For sceptics, the idea of alien abduction is a load of nonsense. For those like the group who meet at the Golden Lion pub in Todmorden once a month to discuss these incidents as well as their own brushes with UFOs, things aren’t quite so black and white.

As part of Sky HISTORY’s ‘Mystery Season’, Craig Charles is joined by renowned astrophysicist Sarah Cruddas to investigate unsolved UFO mysteries, and abductions with episode 8 (1st March at 9pm), focussing on Godfrey’s compelling claims. They scrutinise all available evidence, reveal never before heard testimonies as they attempt to separate fact from fiction.

Also, speculation was recently fueled when, after decades of denial, the Pentagon admitted that UFOs did in fact exist and could not simply be dismissed as weather balloons or natural phenomena. To many believers, there is indeed something strange going on in West Yorkshire, and cases like those of the Todmorden UFO Mystery cannot be simply dismissed.

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Area 51. The name itself immediately conjures images of aliens, armed personnel guarding the perimeter of a facility deep in the desert, and bunkers filled with who-knows-what. So much about this large region of Nevada, northwest of Las Vegas, is a mystery. With any movement there completely under government control and the area resolutely closed to the public, all kinds of theories - some wild and some not-so-wild - have sprung up about what has taken place over the past 65 years. Most of the theories involve alien life forms and extraterrestrial research - but what is the actual truth?

It has been approximately nine years since the US government acknowledged Area 51’s existence for the first time, so it’s time to take a look at the timeline of events surrounding the US Air Force’s most mysterious military installation.

The story begins in 1954. President Dwight Eisenhower called for a confidential location to be established for aircraft to be developed and tested for espionage purposes. At that point, the possibility of nuclear war was driving the American military, and creating effective spy planes was a high priority so that the security forces could understand how much of a threat Russia’s weapons capability posed to the West.

Work had already begun in the area - the U-2 reconnaissance plane had been created by 1955 - and then later, under Public Land Order 1662, the 38,400-acre land area that comprises the area was withdrawn from public use by the US Atomic Energy Commission in 1958. Public entry was strictly prohibited and armed guards prevented those who were curious from breaching its borders.

Whilst the US was preparing these specialised aircraft and flying them deep into Russian territory without detection, theories about alternative operations happening deep within the facility began to surface. Rumours had previously abounded that a UFO had crash-landed in Roswell in 1947 and many speculated that the wreckage was being re-engineered in the bunker known as Area 51, deep inside the Nevada Test & Training Range. From there, the extraterrestrial theories began to grow for decades to come.

Throughout the rest of the late 1950s, further developments were made which resulted in the A12 aircraft being created, as well as the F117 stealth jet.

Things became quieter on the topic until the 1970s, with the speculation over other-worldly research being something of a niche interest in the interim period. In that decade, it was determined that the location wasn’t secure enough, with Deputy Director of Central Intelligence E.H. Knoche to General David C. Jones declaring that the facility should be moved from management by the CIA to the Air Force.

Once again, things went a little quiet. Then, in 1989, what was once a niche interest truly became public domain when an individual named Bob Lazar exposed details about Area 51, claiming that he had worked there to reverse engineer “a downed alien spacecraft” - though the veracity of his claims couldn’t be confirmed. At this point, Area 51 became a watchword for government secrecy and the existence of alien life on Earth.

Possibly as an attempt to reverse swelling interest in confidential affairs, the US government released a statement in 1994 claiming the wreckage in Roswell in the 1940s came from Project Mogul - a very much terrestrial weather experiment. However, these claims only reduced public trust in the government’s statements on the subject, and the theories continued to spread.

Conjecture on the true purpose of Area 51 was only made more vigorous when President Bill Clinton exempted the facility from laws surrounding the movement and disposal of hazardous waste in 1996. Naturally, UFOlogists wondered what that hazardous waste might be - and whether it was of this planet. This continued to be an issue until the early part of the 21st century when in 2003 President George W Bush once again signed off on exempting it from the hazardous waste laws.

There was little news on the facility for nearly 10 years and then, in 2012 - a year prominent in the mind of many conspiracy theorists due to the end of the Mayan calendar - the confidential Pentagon department known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was shut down. The following year in 2013, the CIA finally admitted that the area was indeed a secret government facility.

In the following years, ex-Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama spoke casually of their interest in the topic in public, on talk shows, and at public engagements. Hillary Clinton also expressed her curiosity during her failed Presidential campaign, but no new details emerged from anywhere official.

The most recent events surrounding Area 51 occurred in 2019 when public interest reached a sudden fever pitch. An event was arranged online, jokingly referred to as “Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us", with Facebook users signing up to take part in a civilian rebellion to “find them aliens”. Thankfully this resulted in little more than a skirmish, with only two arrests for disorderly conduct.

Since then we’ve seen a dip in interest in the secretive Air Force base once again. However, this quiet period is unlikely to last long as public curiosity regarding this byword for clandestine government operations is never far away. People truly do seem to believe that, as far as Area 51 is concerned, the truth is out there.

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23-07-2025 om 20:38 geschreven door peter  

Students build new 'hybrid drone' — watch it fly in the air and then seamlessly dive underwater

Students have built a hybrid drone that can seamlessly transition from flying in the air to swimming in water.

The students developed a working prototype of the hybrid drone for a bachelor's thesis at Aalborg University in Denmark, and recently shared a video of the drone in action.

In the video, the drone takes off next to a large pool of water and then quickly dives underwater. It then moves around beneath the surface for a few seconds before shooting straight out of the water to fly once again. The video shows the drone repeating the trick several times from different angles.

Andrei Copaci, Pawel Kowalczyk, Krzysztof Sierocki and Mikolaj Dzwigalo, who are all studying applied industrial electronics, achieved this remarkable air-to-water transition by using variable pitch propellers, which have blades that can rotate at different angles to match the two different environments.

"The development of an aerial underwater drone marks a major step forward in robotics, showing that a single vehicle can operate effectively in both air and water thanks to the use of variable pitch propellers," the students told Live Science in a joint email.

This isn't the first air-water hybrid drone to be built. Researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey developed a hybrid prototype that could perform a similar action in 2015, while Chinese scientists showed off a drone transitioning from air to water in 2023.

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The students designed, built and tested their drone over two semesters at their university, according to a LinkedIn post by Petar Durdevic, an associate professor who leads the Offshore Drones and Robots research group at Aalborg University.

They began by creating a model of the drone and designing the variable pitch propeller system. The angle of the blades, or propeller pitch, is higher when flying to create more air flow, while lower in the water to minimize drag and increase efficiency. The propellers are also capable of providing negative thrust to increase maneuverability underwater, the students said.

The team used a 3D printer and a computer numerical control machine — another piece of automated manufacturing equipment — to get the parts they needed for the build, and programmed the drone with custom software. Finally, they moved on to testing.

"We were surprised how seamlessly the drone transitions from water to air," the students said.

The new drone is just a single prototype, but this kind of technology has a variety of potential real-world applications, from emergency response to warfare. "A few of the applications are military, vessel inspections, marine exploration, search and rescue," the students said.

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22-07-2025 om 23:21 geschreven door peter  

Nessie, ben je daar? Mensen die het monster van Loch Ness hebben gezien

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Het monster van Loch Ness
Het mythische monster van Loch Ness wordt steeds minder vaak gezien. Misschien heeft de massale aanwezigheid van toeristen het iconische wezen weggejaagd of... misschien heeft het nooit bestaan.

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"Enorme donkere vorm" in het water van het meer
Op 16 juni 2023 (toevallig of niet, net voor het hoogseizoen) kopte The Telegraph dat een Franse toerist een "enorme donkere vorm" had waargenomen in het water van het meer. Iets van ongeveer 15 meter lang dat onder water bewoog.

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"Ik ben een man van de wetenschap"
De toerist die de vreemde vorm in het water zag, heet Etienne Camel en is apotheker. Volgens The Mirror zei hij: "Het was heel vreemd. Ik ben een man van de wetenschap, dus ik heb nooit geloofd dat het monster van Loch Ness een prehistorisch dier is. Maar toen ik een foto nam zag ik een heel lange schaduw."

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De Franse apotheker en zijn vrouw zagen het
De Franse apotheker en zijn vrouw waren getuige van de vreemde grote schaduw. Beiden waren verbaasd en zo dook mythe voor weer een nieuwe zomer op in het nieuws.

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Nessie in de Schotse folklore
Nessie maakt al eeuwenlang deel uit van de Schotse folklore. Volgens Wikipedia duikt er in de 7e eeuw een verwijzing op in de tekst 'Vita Columbae' (een heilige redt iemand van een monster uit het meer), maar pas in 1868 wordt er in een artikel in de Inverness Courier gesproken over "een enorme vis of ander soort wezen" in Loch Ness.

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Vermeende beelden van Nessie
In de loop der jaren zijn er talloze foto's openbaar gemaakt waarop onduidelijk iets te zien was dat leek op een monster met prehistorische kenmerken.

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Misschien zijn het schaduwen, boomstammen... en verbeelding
Sommige kiekjes die Nessi zogenaamd hebben vastgelegd (zoals deze foto) zijn misschien gewoon schaduwen of boomstammen die op het oppervlak van het meer drijven.

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Maar waarom zouden we niet fantaseren?
Toch heeft de legende van Loch Ness iets moois en poëtisch. En een schot in de roos voor de roddelpers die in de jaren 1930 van dit verhaal een massaverschijnsel maakte. Foto's als deze werden gepubliceerd in de Londense media en gingen al snel de hele wereld over.

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20.000 pond voor degene die het monster zou vangen
Het was ook in de jaren 1930 toen Bertram Mills, een circuseigenaar, 20.000 pond beloofde aan degene die Nessie zou vangen. Deze beloning leidde uiteraard tot de komst van avonturiers, reizigers en gelukszoekers van allerlei pluimage.

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Maar is er een wetenschappelijke verklaring voor deze legende?
Naast verbeelding en legende zijn er mensen die wetenschappelijke (of pseudowetenschappelijke) verklaringen hebben gezocht voor de vermeende waarnemingen van een monster in Loch Ness. De meest wijdverspreide verklaring is de theorie die het heeft over het overleven van een antediluviaans wezen in dit meer.

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A plesiosaur that survived extinction
Het prehistorische dier dat het dichtst in de buurt komt van de beschrijvingen van het monster van Loch Ness zou de plesiosaurus zijn, een soort waterdinosaurus. Maar de wetenschap gelooft dat het bijna onmogelijk is voor deze soort om geïsoleerd te overleven in de wateren van Loch Ness.

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Een olifant?
Het zou ook kunnen dat mensen in de jaren 1930 een olifant hadden zien baden in het water van het meer. Het zou een olifant zijn geweest van een circus dat zich in het gebied bevond, volgens MSNBC, gebaseerd op het proefschrift van paleontoloog Neil Clarck, conservator van het Hunterian Museum in Glasgow.

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Een steur?
Er is ook gespeculeerd dat Nessie een steur was, een reusachtige vis met een monsterlijk uiterlijk. De steur komt voor in nabijgelegen rivieren, maar in principe zou deze soort niet in het meer leven.

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Koudwaterhaai
Er is ook sprake van een soort koudwaterhaai die voor de Schotse kust is gesignaleerd: de zogenaamde Groenlandse haai. Maar hoe zou die in Loch Ness terecht zijn gekomen?

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Misschien gewoon wat simpele alen
Een onderzoek van de Nieuw-Zeelandse University of Otago (waarover The Guardian berichtte) wees echter in een andere richting. Een onderzoeker verzamelde biologische monsters van het meer en vond geen sporen van prehistorische monsters, haaien, steuren... Maar ze vonden wel alen, en volgens professor Neil Gemmell, die het onderzoek leidde, zagen de duikers alen van enorme afmetingen (groter dan normaal), wat hun verwarring met een mythologisch wezen zou verklaren.

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Een personage uit de populaire cultuur
De rationele verklaring doet er eigenlijk niet toe. Nessie is vandaag de dag een belangrijk onderdeel van de populaire cultuur en een toeristische attractie voor de Schotse Hooglanden. En mensen houden van mysteries, dus het is beter om het raadsel in leven te houden. En dus ook de zogenaamde waarnemingen.

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Bestaat er een mysterieuze negende planeet in ons zonnestelsel?

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Bestaat er een mysterieuze negende planeet in ons zonnestelsel?
Nieuw bewijs toont aan dat er mogelijk ver voorbij Pluto een hypothetische planeet is ​​die 'Planeet Negen' of 'Planeet X' wordt genoemd. Astronomen voorspellen dat er mogelijk een grote, nog niet ontdekte planeet met gravitationele interactie zich in de Kuipergordel bevindt. Het bestaan ​​van deze mysterieuze planeet kan de afwijkende banen en gravitationele interacties van enkele dwergplaneten en andere objecten in de Kuipergordel verklaren.

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Neptunus
Het is bijna 200 jaar geleden dat astronomen op een nieuwe planeet in ons zonnestelsel stuitten. Neptunus werd in slechts één nacht planeten observeren ontdekt, toen Johann Gottfried Galle en zijn student in 1846 een telescoop op de planeet richtten.

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California Institute of Technology
In 2016 verklaarden Konstantin Batygin en Mike Brown, twee astronomen van het California Institute of Technology (Caltech), dat hun onderzoek bewijs levert voor het mogelijke bestaan van een grote planeet in het buitenste zonnestelsel.

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Sterk bewijs
Hoewel de astronomen de planeet niet hebben waargenomen, leveren ze sterk theoretisch bewijs voor zowel het bestaan ​​ervan als relevante informatie over de mogelijke impact ervan.

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Kuipergordel
Dit bewijsmateriaal toont de invloed van de hypothetische planeet op dwergplaneten en kleinere objecten in de Kuipergordel en de mogelijke relatie tussen hen.

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Planeet Negen
De mysterieuze planeet, die ook wel 'Planeet X' (de 'X' staat voor de letter, niet voor het Romeinse cijfer) of 'Planeet Negen' wordt genoemd, is vermoedelijk 1,5 keer zo groot als de aarde en bevindt zich ver voorbij Pluto.

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Vijf tot tien keer grotere massa dan die van de aarde
De massa van de planeet is mogelijk 5 tot 10 keer groter dan die van de aarde en hij zou in een 20 tot 30 keer grotere baan om de zon kunnen draaien dan Neptunus. NASA merkt op dat het Planeet Negen, mocht deze theorie kloppen, 10.000 tot 20.000 aardjaren zou kosten om één keer om de zon te draaien.

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Unieke banen
Astronomen zeggen dat het mogelijke bestaan ​​van deze planeet het gedrag van bepaalde objecten in het buitenste zonnestelsel zou kunnen verklaren, met name de unieke banen van dwergplaneten en ijzige objecten in de Kuipergordel.

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Gerard Kuiper
De Kuipergordel is vernoemd naar de astronoom Gerard Kuiper. Het is een koud gebied dat zich voorbij de baan van Neptunus bevindt en wordt soms de 'derde zone' van het zonnestelsel genoemd.

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IJzige objecten
Astronomen denken dat er naast Pluto nog miljoenen andere ijzige objecten in de Kuipergordel aanwezig zijn, waaronder stoffen als ammoniak en methaan.

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Opgeblazen donut
De Kuipergordel staat bekend als een van de grootste samenstellingen in ons zonnestelsel en wordt over het algemeen beschreven als een opgeblazen donut.

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Rand van de baan van Neptunus
De Kuipergordel begint aan de rand van de baan van Neptunus en strekt zich uit over bijna 1.000 AE (1 AE komt overeen met de afstand van de zon tot de aarde).

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Meer dan 2.000 objecten ontdekt
Hoewel astronomen rond de 2.000 objecten hebben geïdentificeerd in de Kuipergordel, is het waarschijnlijk dat er nog honderdduizenden onontdekte objecten zijn. Deze worden vaak beschouwd als 'overblijfselen' van de vorming van het zonnestelsel.

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Vorming van het zonnestelsel
De theorie over hoe dit tot stand kwam, is dat toen het zonnestelsel zich vormde, Uranus en Neptunus door verschuivingen in de banen van Jupiter en Saturnus gedwongen werden om verder van de zon te bewegen.

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Uranus en Neptunus
Uranus en Neptunus dreven steeds verder weg en passeerden de ijzige overblijfselen nadat alle grote planeten waren gevormd.

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Jupiter
De zwaartekracht van de baan van Neptunus duwde deze objecten in de richting van de zon en grote planeten zoals Jupiter, terwijl Jupiter ze vervolgens uit het zonnestelsel slingerde of naar verre banen bracht.

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Verbrokkelde stukken
De zwaartekracht van Neptunus duwde de resterende objecten de Kuipergordel in, waar ze soms op elkaar botsten en in verbrokkelde stukken uiteenvielen.

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Dwergplaneten en samengeklonterde objecten
Astronomen die de Kuipergordel onderzoeken, merken dat verschillende kleinere planeten en sommige objecten de neiging hebben om in dezelfde banen rond te draaien en daarbij samen te klonteren.

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Theorie over Planeet Negen
Het is de analyse van deze banen, oftewel de gravitationele interacties met een grote planeet, waar astronomen hun theorie over het bestaan ​​van Planeet Negen op baseren.

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Sommige onderzoekers ontkennen het bestaan ​​ervan
Sommige criticasters in de gemeenschap van wetenschappers ontkennen het mogelijke bestaan ​​van Planeet Negen. Zij beweren dat de waargenomen banen slechts te wijten zijn aan de willekeurige verspreiding van objecten langs de Kuipergordel.

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Alle middelen worden ingezet
Wetenschappers proberen wanhopig de planeet te vinden om het bestaan ​​ervan te bevestigen. Met behulp van een speciaal observatorium, krachtige telescopen en burgerprojecten proberen astronomen zoveel mogelijk gegevens te verzamelen om de planeet te lokaliseren.

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Complexe computersimulaties
De huidige theorie is gebaseerd op complexe computersimulaties waarbij rekening wordt gehouden met een aantal voorwaarden. Het model dat het meest aansluit bij het waargenomen gedrag van banen is het model waarin Planeet Negen is opgenomen.

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Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Wetenschappers hopen dat het nieuwe Vera C. Rubin Observatorium in Chili zal bijdragen aan het beantwoorden van een aantal vragen over Planeet Negen en het oplossen van andere kwesties m.b.t. sterrenkunde.

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Gedetailleerde timelapse
Dankzij innovatieve technologie kan het observatorium gedurende tien jaar een uitgebreid en gedetailleerd overzicht van het heelal bieden met behulp van de grootste camera die ooit is gebouwd.

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Verzamelde beelden
De beelden die het observatorium verzamelt, kunnen een gedetailleerder inzicht verschaffen in de verspreiding van objecten langs de Kuipergordel.

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Waarom is het zo moeilijk om de planeet te vinden?
Het lokaliseren van planeten is een behoorlijke uitdaging. Astronomen gebruiken de transitmethode om planeten in andere zonnestelsels te vinden.

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Transitmethode
Astronomen kunnen planeten waarschijnlijk beter vinden door de bewegingen van een ster te observeren. Het computermodel dat wordt gebruikt om Planeet Negen te detecteren, schat de kans dat de planeet bestaat op 99 procent.

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Malena Rice
Malena Rice, universitair docent astronomie aan de Yale-universiteit, stelde dat het vinden van een andere planeet "ons begrip van het zonnestelsel en andere planetenstelsels, en hoe wij in die context passen, volledig zou kunnen veranderen".

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Mysteries van het buitenste zonnestelsel
Kleine zwarte gaten, potentiële buitenaardse werelden, extra dwergplaneten, vulkanische kometen en asteroïden zijn slechts enkele van de mysteries omtrent het buitenste zonnestelsel die astronomen proberen te ontrafelen.

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De zoektocht gaat door
Terwijl de zoektocht naar Planeet Negen doorgaat, zetten sommige wetenschappers alles in op indirect bewijs voor het bestaan ​​van de planeet, terwijl anderen er zeer kritisch tegenover staan.

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22-07-2025 om 15:31 geschreven door peter  

Apparently Vera Rubin Captured Images Of 3I/ATLAS Before It Was Even Discovered

Sometimes serendipity happens in science. Whether it’s an apple falling from a tree or a melting chocolate bar, some of the world’s greatest discoveries come from happy accidents, even if their stories may be apocryphal. According to a new paper on arXiv, there’s a new story to add to the archives of serendipitous scientific discoveries - Rubin happened to make observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS before its official discovery, while the telescope was still in its Science Validation survey, marking the earliest, high resolution images we will likely get of the comet at that time.

According to the paper, Rubin just happened to be pointing at the part of the sky where 3I/ATLAS was located during its Science Validation (SV) phase. It unknowingly took pictures of the object between June 21st (10 days before it was officially discovered) and July 7th. June 21st was even a few days before the telescope officially released its “First Look” images to the public back on June 23rd.

These observations are important because they are the earliest ones done by a high power telescope. Rubin’s 8.4m Simoyi Survey Telescope and 3.2-gigapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) combined to capture the highest resolution images of the comet released to date. Since the images were captured before full commissioning, the data they represented had to be run through customer data pipelines rather than the standard automated ones that will handle the terabytes of data normally created by Rubin every night.

Fraser discusses the new interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS.

There were 49 images included in the study, though some were excluded due to being captured during telescope alignments, blending with other stars, or just being out of focus. Nineteen of the images were captured during intentional SV operations.

Those images show a comet that largely behaved as expected. They provided the highest resolution proof that 3I/ATLAS is, in fact a comet, and shows cometary behavior, like a coma of gas and dust surrounding it. The apparent size of its coma grew about 58% over the observational period as it continued to approach the Sun. Interestingly, it had a sunward pointing tail. According to the paper this can be explained by “anisotropic dust emission”, and has been observed in other comets, though it is relatively rare. Several explanations are offered, including slow ejection of large particles that aren’t pushed back as quickly by the Sun’s radiation pressure or a rotational axis that nearly aligns with its orbital plane.

Perhaps not as excitingly, 3I/ATLAS doesn’t show any sign of non-gravitational acceleration like 1I/Oumuamua. That’s not to say there won’t eventually be - 1I/Oumuamua’s acceleration was first observed during its perihelion, so astronomers will be watching closely to see if the same effect happens for 3I/ATLAS when it approaches its perihelion in October. However, in an opposite twist of luck, the object itself won’t be visible at that time as it will be blocked by the Sun from September through December.

Fraser discusses the observational power of Vera Rubin and how it could change astronomy forever.

Rubin will lose sight of its slightly beforehand, on August 22nd, when it will move out of the telescope's surveyed area of the sky. Between the final image presented in the paper and that time, the authors expect at least 100 more images of the comet to be captured, many of which will likely be high quality than the earlier sets when the telescope operators didn’t know they had such a valuable and rare object in their field of view. An even more detailed paper is sure to be forthcoming, even if it might not be as much of a surprise.

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22-07-2025 om 14:33 geschreven door peter  

NASA rover discovers out-of-place 'Skull' on Mars, and scientists are baffled

The region, called Port Anson, contains several such rocks that may have been transported from elsewhere, scientists said. Known as "floats," these loose rocks likely traveled vast distances billions of years ago when Mars possessed a warmer, wetter environment with rivers, lakes and potentially even oceans. As the water receded and softer surrounding material eroded over eons, the more resilient rocks remained perched on the Martian soil.

"We've found a few of these dark-toned floats in the Port Anson region," the post noted. "The team is working to better understand where these rocks came from and how they got here."

The mystery of Skull Hill

According to the post, the pits on Skull Hill may have formed in a couple of ways. Small pieces within Skull Hill itself might have become loose and eroded away, leaving the holes. Another possibility is that Martian winds, carrying tiny dust and rock particles, could have acted like sandpaper, slowly wearing away the rock's surface and creating the pits.

The dark tone of Skull Hill and similar rocks could suggest they are meteorites, but recent analysis of their chemical data from Perseverance's SuperCam instrument indicates their composition doesn't match that of a typical meteorite.

Alternatively, these dark rocks could have a volcanic origin. On both Earth and Mars, minerals like olivine, pyroxene and biotite are known to give igneous rocks their dark color. If these rocks are indeed igneous, they might have come from nearby volcanic rock formations that have eroded away, or they could have been blasted out of the ground by an impact crater that excavated deeper volcanic layers.

"Luckily for us, the rover has instruments that can measure the chemical composition of rocks on Mars," according to the post. "Understanding the composition of these darker-toned floats will help the team to interpret the origin of this unique rock."

In the past few months, Perseverance has collected samples of five rocks, analyzed seven others in detail and zapped 83 more with its laser for remote study — the robotic explorer's fastest pace of scientific data collection since landing on Mars four years ago, representatives of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said in another statement.

Mission scientists noted that it often takes months of searching the crater to find a scientifically unique rock worth sampling. On the crater rim, however, Perseverance is encountering new and intriguing rocks at every turn, according to the statement.

"Crater rims — you gotta love 'em," Katie Morgan, Perseverance's project scientist at JPL, said in the statement. "The last four months have been a whirlwind for the science team, and we still feel that Witch Hazel Hill has more to tell us — it has been all we had hoped for and more."

Scientists are keen to get the samples Perseverance has collected back to Earth to determine if life ever existed on Mars. However, NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is facing significant challenges with budget, timelines and technical complexities, leaving its future uncertain.

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21-07-2025 om 21:53 geschreven door peter  

Trippy liquid 'fireworks' appear when scientists try to mix unmixable fluids

In this case, the word "fluid" can refer to both gases and liquids, including gaseous carbon dioxide. Viscosity is a measure of how easily a fluid moves. Fluids with high viscosity move sluggishly, like molasses or tar, while low-viscosity fluids move faster and can spread out more, like water or air.

The fluid "fireworks" are caused by Saffman-Taylor instability — a phenomenon that occurs when two immiscible fluids with different viscosities are confined in a small space. When a less viscous fluid is added to the system, there aren't a lot of places for it to go, so it pushes against the thicker fluid instead — forming the distinctive patterns.

If you've ever put a drop of glue between two flat surfaces, then changed your mind and pulled them apart, you might have noticed the wet glue forming strange ridges and channels. This is Saffman-Taylor instability in action. When you pulled the pieces apart, air tried to go where the more viscous glue was and left those patterns behind.

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Storing carbon dioxide in the ground involves "injecting" carbon dioxide gas into a more viscous liquid (water) in confined spaces underground, leading to Saffman-Taylor instability. The "fireworks" from the paper show that the number and extent of the fingers can be changed depending on when and how the fluid is injected into the system. Increasing the fingering effect helps keep the gas from escaping back into the atmosphere.

People across the globe are already working on carbon sequestration (storage) projects — as of 2024, there were 50 facilities in operation, 44 being built, and an additional 534 in development according to the Global CCS (carbon capture and storage) Institute. Developing this technology further gives us more tools to rein in global heating caused by the presence of too much carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere.

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21-07-2025 om 21:25 geschreven door peter  

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21-07-2025 om 21:05 geschreven door peter  

We're within 3 years of reaching a critical climate threshold. Can we reverse course?

The ocean will release this extra heat over the next few decades via evaporation and direct heat transfer regardless of whether we curb emissions, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

This means that even if carbon emissions dropped to zero today, global temperatures would continue to rise for a few decades, with experts predicting an extra 0.5 C (0.9 F) of warming from oceans alone.

However, temperatures would eventually stabilize as heat radiated out to space. And over several thousand years, Earth would dial temperatures back down to preindustrial levels via natural carbon sinks, such as trees and soils absorbing CO₂, according to NOAA.

Why 1.5 C?

Climate scientists see 1.5 C as a critical threshold: Beyond this limit, levels of warming are unsafe for people living in economically developing countries, and particularly in island nations, said Kirsten Zickfeld, a professor of climate science at Simon Fraser University in Canada.

The 1.5 C limit is "an indicator of a state of the climate system where we feel we can still manage the consequences," Zickfeld told Live Science.

A huge amount of additional heat could be baked into the ocean and later released if we exceed 1.5 C, which is another reason why scientists are worried about crossing this threshold.

Speeding past 1.5 C also increases the risk of passing climate tipping points, which are elements of the Earth system that can quickly switch into a dramatically different state. For example, the Greenland Ice Sheet could suddenly tumble into the ocean, and the Amazon rainforest could transform into a dry savanna.

Reversing temperature rise

Although it's best to reduce emissions as quickly as we can, it may still be possible to reverse a temperature rise of 1.5 C or more if we pass that critical threshold. The technology needed isn't quite developed yet, so there is a lot of uncertainty about what is feasible.

If we do start to bring temperatures down again, it would not undo the effects of passing climate tipping points. For example, it would not refreeze ice sheets or cause sea levels to fall after they've already risen. But it would significantly reduce risks for ecosystems that respond more quickly to temperature change, such as permafrost-covered tundras.

Reversing temperature rise requires not just net zero emissions, but net negative emissions, Zickfeld said. Net zero would mean we sequester as much CO₂ via natural carbon sinks and negative emissions technologies as we emit. Negative emissions would require systems that suck carbon out of the atmosphere and then bury it underground — often known as carbon capture and storage.

Net zero may halt warming. But if we want to reverse warming, we must remove more carbon from the atmosphere than we emit, Zickfield said.

Scientists estimate that 0.1 C (0.2 F) of warming is equivalent to 243 billion tons (220 billion metric tons) of CO₂, which is a "massive amount," Zickfeld said. "Let's say if we go to 1.6 C [2.9 F] and we want to drop down to 1.5 C — we need to remove around 220 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide."

Currently, nature-based carbon-removal techniques, such as planting trees, sequester around 2.2 billion tons (2 billion metric tons) of CO₂ each year. "So we need to scale that up by a factor of 100 to drop us down by 0.1 C" in one year, Zickfeld said.

Due to competing demands for land, it is highly unlikely that we could plant enough forests or restore enough peatland to meaningfully reverse temperature change, Zickfeld said.

This means we will definitely need negative emissions technologies, she said. However, most negative emissions technologies are still being tested, so it's difficult to say how effective they would be, Zickfeld said.

These technologies are also extremely expensive and will likely remain so for a long time, Robin Lamboll, a climate researcher at Imperial College London and a co-author of the recent report, told Live Science in an email.

"In practice we will be doing quite well if we find that the rollout of these technologies does any more than bring us to net zero," Lamboll said. There is some uncertainty about how Earth might respond to net zero, and it's possible that the planet might cool at that point. "If we cool at all, we do so very slowly. In a very optimistic case we might go down by 0.3 C [0.5 F] in 50 years," Lamboll said.

There is no requirement under the Paris Agreement for countries to roll out negative emissions technologies. But the goal of the agreement to stay well below 2 C (3.6 F) means that governments may decide to ramp up these technologies once we pass 1.5 C, Lamboll said.

Figures from the recent report indicate that at the current rate of emissions, the remaining carbon budgets to stay below 1.6 C, 1.7 C (3.1 F) and 2 C could be used up within seven, 12 and 25 years, respectively.

"If we do pass 1.5 C, 1.6 C is a whole lot better than 1.7 C, and 1.7 C is a whole lot better than 1.8 C [3.2 F]," Mann said in an interview with BBC World News America in June. "At this point, the challenge is to reduce carbon emissions as quickly as we can to avert ever-worse impacts."

It's worth noting that the world is making progress with emission cuts, Mann added in the interview. "Let's recognize that we're starting to turn the corner," he said.

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21-07-2025 om 17:30 geschreven door peter  

Facts about UFOs that will blow your mind and change how you see the sky

Whether you’re a skeptic or already convinced we’re not alone, these facts are difficult to ignore — and they may change the way you see the world above.

by Ivan Petricevic

An illustration of a UFO probe contorlled by superadvanced AI.

Stories of strange lights in the sky used to live on the edges of belief — whispered by conspiracy theorists or buried in classified files. But that’s changed. Military pilots have gone public. Governments have released official documents. And decades of silence are starting to crack. This article explores 15 remarkable facts about UFOs — from ancient sightings to modern-day encounters, including government programs, radar anomalies, and mysterious objects seen by astronauts. Whether you’re curious, skeptical, or something in between, these cases challenge everything we think we know about what’s in our skies.

Whether you’re a skeptic or already convinced we’re not alone, these facts are difficult to ignore — and they may change the way you see the world above.

Declassified U.F.O. Documents

Even though governments around the world have long denied serious interest in unidentified flying objects, a large number of recently declassified documents suggest otherwise. Contrary to public denials, agencies like the U.S. Department of Defense and the CIA have spent millions of dollars studying unidentified aerial phenomena that often defy the laws of known physics.

The American government alone has invested heavily in these investigations. These documents, now public, paint a very different picture — one in which UFOs are not dismissed, but tracked, analyzed, and kept under tight control.

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Official Video Footage of Pilots Chasing a U.F.O.

When it comes to UFOs, people want more than rumors — they want proof. A few years ago, the U.S. government declassified a video captured by a Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet. In it, military pilots can be heard reacting in disbelief as they chase an object flying at impossible speeds.

This wasn’t fiction or amateur footage — it was released through official channels, prompting a shift in how the public perceives the UFO phenomenon.

Video Footage: The Best Evidence

The Super Hornet video is far from the only footage out there. Over the years, numerous videos have emerged showing craft that move in ways no known aircraft should. One of the most famous examples is the STS-75 Tether Incident, captured by NASA during the space shuttle Columbia’s mission in 1996.

During this mission, a 12-mile-long tether broke off and floated into space. As the tether drifted, countless bright, disc-like objects appeared around it. While some have written the incident off as space debris or lens flare, others argue it represents one of the clearest recordings of unidentified flying objects in space.

The Pentagon Studied “Exotic U.F.O. Tech”

Although most governments publicly downplay the existence of UFOs, internal reports show another side. Declassified papers have revealed that the U.S. Department of Defense conducted secret research into what they called “exotic, futuristic technologies.”

These investigations were part of the now-famous Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), and were authorized in part by Senator Harry Reid. In a letter to Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III, Reid supported funding the program to explore advanced propulsion systems and technologies far beyond our current capabilities.

These weren’t just speculative ideas. The documents state that researchers explored whether certain technologies could give the U.S. military an edge — technologies that may have come from observed phenomena, or possibly reverse-engineered craft.

Official Documents Reveal Antarctic U.F.O. Encounters

Antarctica has long been tied to tales of hidden bases, strange energy sources, and mysterious sightings. While some of these claims are rooted in conspiracy, there are verified reports that are difficult to dismiss.

In 1965, scientists at three separate Antarctic research stations witnessed unexplained lights in the sky. Two reports were filed by the Chilean Air Force (FACh), two others by the Argentine Navy, and a fifth by the British Antarctic Survey (B.A.S.).

Dated October 22, 1965, a letter (above) written by a B.A.S. researcher reads:

“On the July 12 this year, the British Antarctic Survey Base on Deception Island (62° 59′ S, Long. 60° 34′ W) reported the following, which I quote as requested:

‘Argentine base (on Deception Island) observed a moving colored light on June 7th, 20th, and July 3. Chilean base (also on Deception) made similar observations on the latter two dates.

Flickering red-green-yellow light observed from British Base 2300 Z July 2 die north; it had moved in two waves quickly from the west then reversed along the course for a short distance before returning again to the north where it remained stationary for about 20 minutes.’

I should comment that our people in the Antarctic did not consider the important event enough to comment until asked. I requested information because of pressure from the B.B.C., N.B.C., and the Press, who acted on a news report put out from Argentina.

Yours sincerely,
V.E. Fuchs.”

The C.I.A. Alone Declassified Thousands of U.F.O. Documents

The CIA has released thousands of documents detailing their involvement with UFO investigations, stretching from the 1940s to the early 1990s. These reports include everything from international news clippings to internal memos and firsthand accounts of sightings.

According to the CIA’s own archive:

“This collection catalogs C.I.A. information on this subject from the 1940s through the early 1990s.”

While many of the sightings remain unverified, the sheer volume of reports — and the agency’s decision to preserve them — speaks to the seriousness with which these phenomena were taken.

U.F.O.s Aren’t a Modern Phenomenon

One of the earliest and most dramatic sightings occurred over Nuremberg, Germany, in 1561. It was documented in the city’s newspaper and later studied by historians. The report reads:

“In the morning of April 14, 1561, at daybreak, between 4 and 5 a.m., a dreadful apparition occurred on the sun, and then this was seen in Nuremberg in the city, before the gates, and in the country – by many men and women.

At first, there appeared in the middle of the sun, two blood-red semi-circular arcs, just like the moon in its last quarter. And in the sun, above and below and on both sides, the color was blood, there stood a round ball of partly dull, partly black ferrous color. Likewise, there stood on both sides and as a torus about the sun such blood-red ones and other balls in large number, about three in a line and four in a square, also some alone.

In between these globes, there were visible a few blood-red crosses, between which there were blood-red strips, becoming thicker to the rear and in the front malleable like the rods of reed-grass, which were intermingled, among them two big rods, one on the right, the other to the left, and within the small and big rods there were three, also four and more globes.

These all started to fight among themselves so that the globes, which were first in the sun, flew out to the ones standing on both sides; thereafter, the globes standing outside the sun, in the small and large rods, flew into the sun.

Besides, the globes flew back and forth among themselves and fought vehemently with each other for over an hour. And when the conflict in and again out of the sun was most intense, they became fatigued to such an extent that they all, as said above, fell from the sun down upon the earth ‘as if they all burned’ and they then wasted away on the Earth with immense smoke. After all this, something like a black spear, very long and thick, sighted; the shaft pointed to the east, the point pointed west. Whatever such signs mean, God alone knows…”

(Source: Colman S. Von Kevicsky, “The Ufo Sighting Over Nuremberg in 1561” Official Ufo January 1976. Translation by Ilse Von Jacobi.)

One of the First U.F.O. Reports in America

One of the earliest sightings in North America dates back to 1639. Near the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Governor John Winthrop recorded an event in his diary involving strange lights in the sky over Boston. Witnesses reported the objects moving rapidly and even claimed they lost track of time — a possible reference to missing time, a common theme in modern abduction narratives.

U.F.O. in Northern Saskatchewan

In 1968, a strange object was discovered near Wollaston Lake, close to the Manitoba border. A letter from that time reads:

“Examination revealed the exhibit had likely formed part of a vehicle that traveled in outer space.”

The metallic fragment was handed to J. Hodges of the Canadian National Research Council by an unnamed pilot. Its origins remain unexplained.

Oppenheimer and Einstein Wrote About U.F.O.s

A six-page document written by physicists Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein discussed “Relationship with Inhabitants of Celestial Bodies.”

The document is one of the first to reference Extraterrestrial Biological Entities and indicates that the military had considered UFOs as part of its strategic assessments. You can read the full document here.

Winston Churchill Wrote About Alien Life

In an essay written in 1939, Churchill speculated:

“I, for one, am not so immensely impressed by the success we are making of our civilization here that I am prepared to think we are the only spot in this immense universe that contains living, thinking creatures…”

Churchill’s essay, “Are We Alone in the Universe?”, predicted a vast universe filled with potentially habitable planets long before exoplanets were ever confirmed.

California Is a U.F.O. Hot Spot

According to the National U.F.O. Reporting Center, more sightings have occurred in California than in any other U.S. state. Los Angeles in particular has been the epicenter for sightings between 2001 and 2015.

One of the most famous events took place in 1942.

The Battle of Los Angeles

“The city went completely dark as Air Raid sirens started going off. Massive searchlights searched the sky for potential threats. Eventually, the anti-aircraft fire started going off, and in the middle of the ‘battle,’ a photograph of the enigmatic object was taken.”

The object was never identified, and explanations ranged from weather balloons to enemy aircraft. To this day, the event remains one of the most widely discussed mass sightings in American history.

Washington D.C., 1952: Radar Confirms Fast-Moving Object

On July 19, 1952, air traffic controllers at Washington National Airport picked up a fast-moving object on radar. In the weeks that followed, additional sightings were reported by military personnel.

Despite public reassurances, the official explanation never fully accounted for the object’s speed or maneuverability.

The Rendlesham Forest Incident

In December 1980, U.S. Air Force personnel stationed at RAF Woodbridge in England reported seeing a glowing object in the woods.

“Allegedly, the U.F.O. irradiated several different colors. The craft landed, and soldiers went out to investigate.
They supposedly found the spaceship. The following day, radiation levels where the alleged U.F.O. landed were off the charts, and there were reports of damaged trees nearby.”

The case remains one of the most famous and well-documented U.F.O. encounters involving military witnesses.

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21-07-2025 om 17:04 geschreven door peter  

The Immediate UFO Situation

by Ivan Petricevic

An artist's illustration showing the Military and a UFO.

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UFO sightings have increased in the past few years abruptly. The key point in this was probably the declassification of the three UFO videos shot by Navy pilots as they were in pursuit of Unidentified Flying Objects. This was back in 2017. Since then, the UFO topic has morphed from being a conspiracy theory, a joke to many, to something worthy of the most rigorous scientific study. Now, people no longer see UFOs as something that can be joked about. No longer are people afraid to speak out about the subject. But what is perhaps even more important is that military personnel, as well as pilots and intelligence officers, have also obtained more freedom to speak out.

What has changed

In fact, the United States Government is working on laws that will protect people who come forward with valuable information about the phenomenon. Officially, UFOs are now known also as UAP, Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon. NASA, which in the past has denied having anything to do with UFOs, is now actively studying them. The Pentagon is doing so, too, with a dedicated UFO research group. In fact, not long ago, the Pentagon revealed it would be studying so-called transmedium UFOs.

Corbell’s contribution

Some of the best footage about tr4ansmeidum UFOs was presented by UFO researcher Jeremy Corbell, who has worked tirelessly over the past few years to force transparent UFO research. Corbell has been “fighting” for UFO disclosure and has gained much territory in recent years. Now, Corbell has posted a new video on his YouTube channel. The video dubbed the “Immediate UFO Situation” is an interview with reporter John Hook and Corbell. In this video, Corbell speaks out about current UFO events in addition to detailing key pieces of UFO footage and images taken by military pilots and leaked to the public. Check it out here, it is worth a few minutes of your time.

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21-07-2025 om 16:07 geschreven door peter