UFO crash buried in ice in Antarctica, UFO UAP sighting news. 👽 Alien owned Earth 🌍 long before humans.

Date of discovery: October 8, 2025

Location of discovery: Antartica

Coordinates:  77°51'48"S 165°13'40"E

 

I found this last night and just wanted to share it with you all. This is a 50 meter in diameter alien disk parked in Antarctica. The UFO is buried in ice and snow for what looks like hundreds of thousands of years, but due to recent melting...it's been exposed! The UFO is 100% real. There is a two layer visible hump that has port windows of about 2 feet across going around its lower second hump. This means it 100% real and undebatable! No doubt in my mind. The country that retrieves this first is going to become a new world power overnight! 

Scott C. Waring 

 

 

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09-10-2025 om 18:43 geschreven door peter  

The Phoenix Lights Phenomenon: An Unsolved UFO Mystery

On the evening of March 13, 1997, an extraordinary event unfolded in the skies over Arizona that would become one of the most documented and hotly debated UFO sightings in history. The Phoenix Lights remains a compelling mystery, but is the truth out there? Read on to find out.

In 1997 over Phoenix, AZ, a group of lights appeared.... The event was one of the first mass UAP sightings, and is still a subject of debate.

In March 1997 over the city of Phoenix, Arizona, lights appeared in the sky, covering a distance of around 350 miles from the Nevada state line in the northwest down to southern city of Tucson. Over several hours, thousands of residents reported witnessing a series of strange, luminous objects and formations in the sky. Descriptions varied from a V-shaped light formation, to orbs that glowed intensely and seemed to move with purpose across the night sky.

Some are convinced the lights over Phoenix in 1997 were UFOs, or UAPs – unidentified aerial phenomenon. The official line is that they were military planes being tested in the desert and flares from aircraft on night manoeuvres.

What exactly did the residents of Phoenix see that night? Did they come within touching distance – literally, according to some – of beings from another world, or is the explanation for the bizarre lights in Phoenix, Arizona, rather more benign?

The strange case of the Phoenix Lights has left the world befuddled for over a quarter of a century. Let’s take a trip to the sixth-largest of the United States in an attempt to shed light on this baffling luminous enigma.

Close Encounters of the First Kind

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Like the bizarre Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion a decade earlier, the Phoenix Lights, also known as the Lights Over Phoenix, came in two distinct waves.

The first occurrence – between approximately 7.30pm and 8.45pm on March 13, 1997 – was observed as a massive, V-shaped object with five or six reddish-orange lights that silently moved north to south in the sky, spanning at least a mile in width according to eyewitness reports.

One of the first witnesses was in Henderson, Nevada, just a few miles south of Las Vegas and a short distance from the Arizona state line. About fifteen minutes later, what are believed to be the same lights were spotted by a former policeman in the town of Paulden, Arizona, about 200 miles southeast of Henderson. Next, about 25 miles south of Paulden, there were further sightings of the lights of Phoenix over Prescott Valley. It seemed they – whatever ‘they’ happened to be – were moving south towards Tucson.

These witnesses, and many others, said that the lights lingered before disappearing and reappearing in the same formation, captivating onlookers for several minutes at a time.

The Strange Tale of Kurt Russell & His Son

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In a bizarre twist to an already incredulous mystery, one of the first people to report the sighting of what has become known as the Phoenix Lights, was none other than Hollywood actor Kurt Russell.

In an interview with the BBC’s The One Show, Russell, a private pilot, explained that he was flying his son Oliver from Los Angeles to Phoenix to see his [Oliver’s] girlfriend, when on their final approach, they noticed a series of strange lights in the sky.

Oliver asked if his father knew what the lights were, to which he responded that he didn’t. He called it in to air traffic control who said that their radar screens showed nothing at all. Russell declared that it was a UFO in the literal sense, in that it appeared to be a flying object that was unidentified, and proceeded to land perfectly safely.

Meanwhile, the Phoenix, Arizona lights were moving closer to the state capital. Witnesses in Glendale, Scottsdale, and downtown Phoenix saw the lights but by around 9pm they were gone.

Close Encounters of the Second Kind

Did a UFO crash land in Roswell?

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About an hour later, the lights over Phoenix were back. Around 10pm, a series of intensely bright lights appeared over the Phoenix area, distinct from the V-shaped formation observed earlier in the evening. These peculiar lights in Phoenix, Arizona, were described as stationary, hovering orbs that remained visible for a considerable period before they started to dim and then vanished, only to reappear and maintain the same formation.

Witnesses reported these lights did not seem to be attached to any solid object, or if they were, the object was not visible against the night sky. This aspect of the phenomenon led to widespread speculation and debate, as the lights behaved unlike conventional aircraft or known atmospheric phenomena.

UFO sceptic Robert Sheaffer described this second occurrence as ‘perhaps the most widely witnessed UFO event in history.’

The Immediate Aftermath

The instant reaction to the Phoenix Lights was a mixture of awe, confusion, and concern. Witnesses flooded police lines and local news stations with reports, seeking explanations for what they had seen.

The story quickly garnered national attention, sparking a frenzy of speculation, investigation, and debate. Sceptics proposed conventional explanations such as flares or military aircraft, while believers in extraterrestrial activity felt validated in their convictions.

The event left a lasting impression on the public consciousness, becoming a pivotal moment for the UFO community and a perennial topic of interest for both sceptics and believers alike.

But what actually happened that night? Was it military aircraft that instigated the illuminations, or were the lights over Phoenix 1997’s answer to Roswell?

The Official Explanation

A10 Thunderbolt II jets on a training mission

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According to the US military, both incidents were as a result of a pilot training programme called Operation Snowbird from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson.

The first incident – the V-shaped object – was explained as nothing more than five A-10 Thunderbolt II jets flying under visual flight rules, so instead of displaying flashing collision lights, they were allowed to display steady formation lights. The planes landed at Davis-Monthan AFB at around 8.45pm.

Later that night, the stationary, hovering orbs were slow-burning, long-falling LUU-2B/B illumination flares dropped from the A10s while on a training exercise from the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range. A later study of their luminosity suggested they could indeed be seen over the distances described on the night of March 13, 1997.

A decade on from thousands of people seeing the lights in Phoenix, Arizona, Maryland Air National Guard pilot Lt. Col. Ed Jones admitted to being one of the airmen who dropped the flares.

While plenty accept the official explanation of events that night, others aren’t so sure.

Is the Truth Out There?

Atmospheric Northern Lights over a city

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Beyond the official Air Force explanation attributing the Phoenix Lights phenomenon to flares and military aircraft, several prevailing theories have been proposed by researchers, UFO enthusiasts, and sceptics alike to explain the events of March 13, 1997. These theories range from the plausible to the speculative, reflecting the enduring mystery and intrigue of the incident.

1. Military or Experimental Aircraft

Some theories suggest that the V-shaped formation responsible for the Phoenix, Arizona lights could have been an experimental or military aircraft, possibly a stealth plane or other advanced, secretive aviation technology. Proponents of this theory point to the size and silent operation of the object as indicative of experimental military projects unknown to the public at the time.

2. Atmospheric Conditions

Another explanation posits that certain atmospheric conditions on that night might have caused or contributed to the visibility of distant or conventional lights in unusual ways. This could involve temperature inversions or reflections from man-made or natural sources, leading to illusions, misidentified celestial objects, or misinterpretations of natural phenomena as something more mysterious.

3. Extraterrestrial Craft 

The most popular and controversial theory is that the lights of Phoenix were from one or more alien spacecraft. This theory revolves around the size, formation, and flight characteristics of the lights. The lack of sound, combined with the apparent coordinated movement of the lights, fuels speculation about technology beyond human capabilities, outside of our current understanding of the laws of physics.

4. Psychological or Social Phenomenon 

Some researchers propose that the Phoenix Lights can be partly explained by psychological phenomena, such as mass hysteria or the power of suggestion. This falls squarely in the ‘they saw what they wanted to see’ category. According to this theory, the initial reports of lights could have influenced subsequent observers to perceive mundane phenomena as extraordinary, especially in the context of a highly publicised event.

5. An Elaborate Hoax

A more sceptical approach suggests that the entire event could have been an elaborate hoax or a series of optical illusions. This could involve the strategic use of flares, balloons, or other devices to create the illusion of a UFO, although the coordinated execution over such a wide area would have been challenging.

Each of these theories attempts to explain the lights over Phoenix phenomenon, but none have definitively ended the speculation. The Phoenix Lights remain a topic of fascination and debate within the UFO community and among the general public.

Unsolved in the Sky: The Enigma of the Phoenix Lights

What were the Phoenix Lights?

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The mysterious lights in Phoenix, Arizona remain one of the most captivating and enduring mysteries in the annals of UFO sightings. Despite the official explanation, the nature of the lights that danced over Arizona’s night sky in March 1997 continues to spark speculation and – for some – fuels the imagination about what might be possible in the vast, unexplored reaches of the universe.

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09-10-2025 om 18:28 geschreven door peter  

Massa Ufo-waarnemingen: spectaculaire gevallen, twijfel en mogelijke verklaringen

Inleiding

Het fenomeen van UFO’s heeft altijd een bijzondere aantrekkingskracht gehad: het idee dat overheden, massa’s mensen en zelfs gerenommeerde professionals plotseling oog in oog kunnen staan met iets wat buiten de gangbare ervaring ligt. De meeste rapporten beschrijven helder zichtbare gebeurtenissen die door weinig personen tegelijk worden waargenomen. In tegenstelling tot die kleinschalige ontmoetingen komen er zo nu en dan gevallen voor waarbij honderden, vaak hoog aangeschreven getuigen dezelfde ervaring melden. Deze massale waarnemingen zijn zeldzaam maar bijzonder intrigerend omdat ze een rijke variatie aan getuigen biedt: politiemensen, militair personeel, journalisten, bestuurders en gewone burgers die allen hetzelfde fenomeen lijken te hebben gezien. In dit artikel nemen we een aantal beroemde massale UFO-flaps onder de loep: van Wanaque in New Jersey (1966) tot de Phoenix Lights (1997) en verder.

We plaatsen deze getuigenissen in een bredere context van mogelijke verklaringen, variërend van misidentificaties van alledaagse fenomenen en ruimteafval tot het spectrale gebied van satellietinval en nog verder. Daarnaast plaatsen we dit onderwerp in een bredere historische voorstelling van phenomena die in de publieke verbeelding een rol spelen: het Zonnewonder van Fatima en wat er in België—in legendarische “frihoekjes” of fringe-gebieden—gewaarschuwd is gebeurd. Zo kan men zien hoe massale waarnemingen niet alleen een wetenschappelijke maar ook een maatschappelijke en culturele referentiekader raken.

1. Een klassieke massale flap: Wanaque Reservoir, New Jersey (1966)

Het verhaal van Wanaque, een buitenwijk van New Jersey, begon als een ogenschijnlijk rustige avond in januari 1966. Omstreeks 18:30 begonnen talrijke meldingen binnen te komen van een extreem helder licht boven het nabijgelegen Wanaque-reservoir. De beschrijvingen waren consistent: een zeer fel wit licht, groter en helderder dan een ster, dat af en toe van kleur veranderde (rood, blauw, groen). Het object hing boven het bevroren meer, bewoog in wat leek op een doelbewust patroon en bereikte hoogte tussen 250 en 1000 voet. Bovendien werden rapporten genoemd van een straal of beam die naar het ijsprojectie maakte, waardoor het ijs smolt en gaten achterliet.

Getuigen aanzienlijk in aantal en diversiteit droegen bij aan de geloofwaardigheid van het verschijnsel. Politiemannen, brandweerlieden en hooggeplaatste functionarissen, waaronder burgemeester Harry T. Wolfe en andere wethouders, getuigen van een object dat stil was, zonder geluid, maar verrichtte een reeks onverklaarbare bewegingen: dalen en stijgen, drijvend boven het water en scherpe bochten makend. De indruk van soliditeit en intelligent bestuurde beweging werd versterkt door de rapportage van het object dat schijnbaar water deed opwellen en het wateroppervlak verplaatste.

Wat dit incident zo intrigerend maakte, was de combinatie van massale waarneming en de overtuiging van onverklaarbaar te zijn: het fenomeen leek geen gewoon vliegtuig of bekend weerfenomeen te zijn. Zichtbaar werd het nogmaals op latere data, ook boven Lakeland Regional High School en op andere locaties in de omgeving. Het leek zich vervolgens uit te breiden tot de omliggende gebieden voordat het weer verdween. Een belangrijke component in de discussie was de mysterieuze afwezigheid van fotomateriaal: hoewel talrijke getuigen het fenomeen beschrijven, ontbreekt er een consistente berg fotodemonstraties. Er worden wel foto’s genoemd die anoniem naar voren zijn gebracht, maar zonder duidelijke herkomst en zonder negatieven, waardoor de echtheid moeilijk te verifiëren is.

Mogelijke verklaringen en controverse

• Ruimteafval of object in de lucht. Een populaire theorie was dat het ging om een vallend satellietdebris of eenSpace Shuttle-achtige vorm. Dergelijke concepten konden mogelijk de observaties van een gloeiende, witte bol uitleggen, maar niet de specifieke, verfijnde manoeuvres, het behoud van een vaste positie en het neerzetten van een beam.
• Luchtvaart- of natuurverschijnselen zoals helikopters met krachtige lichtbundels, weersfenomenen of misidentificaties. De getuigen kwamen uit verschillende hoeken en hadden verschillende beschrijvingen die soms op een soort geordende structuur wezen; sommige onderzoekers wezen erop dat hulpschepen, verschillende vliegtuigen of andere normale objecten verkeerd konden worden geïnterpreteerd, vooral in omstandigheden waarin weinig licht was of waar de perceptie vertekend kon raken.
• Een gebrek aan volledige follow-up: de nasleep van de zaak bracht varianten van het verhaal waar onbekende militaire figuren zich bemoeiden met getuigen en mogelijk fotografisch materiaal in beslag namen. De afwezigheid van een gestructureerde, onafhankelijke follow-up maakte het moeilijk om definitieve conclusies te trekken.

De publieke en wetenschappelijke dialoog

De Wanaque-zaak blijft een van de meest geciteerd massale UFO-waarnemingen uit de Verenigde Staten, deels vanwege het grote aantal duidelijke getuigen en de prominente figuren die het zagen. Toch blijft de controverse bestaan: kon men de waarneming verklaren als een misidentificatie, een zeldzame atmosferische gebeurtenis of—zoals door sommige onderzoekers wordt voorgesteld—een object met onbekende oorsprong? De stilte rondom een volledige, rigoureuze opvolgonderzoek laat twijfels bestaan over de integriteit van de officiële documenten en de bereidwilligheid van overheden om al dan niet expliciet informatie te delen.

2. Een internationaal fenomeen: de zonverduistering en het Mexico City-incident (11 juli 1991)

Tijdens een totale zonsverduistering, die de Pacific-oevers van Mexico bereiste tot in Brazilië en uitwaaiend via Hawaï en Midden-Amerika, ontstond in Mexico-Stad een schokgolf toen getuigen een helder, schijvenvormig metalen object registreerden dat boven de eclips leek te zweven. Guillermo Arragin en Jaime Maussan, respectievelijk een televisiemanager en een journalist, filmden het fenomeen terwijl ze de verduistering volgden en stuurden de beelden naar Sesenta Minutos (de Mexicaanse versie van Sixty Minutes). Acht dagen later verscheen het nieuws op televisie en begon een forse stroom van meldingen: duizenden mensen die hetzelfde object zagen of video’s daarvan maakten, met beschrijvingen variërend van stilstaand tot bewegend en een waarneembaar dampspoor dat het object leek te volgen.

Een opvallende twist was de latere opduiking van soortgelijke waarnemingen bij een militair luchtvertoon in Mexico-Stad, waar een ingenieur meldde een “glanzende stip” te zien die kon unduleren en bewegen zonder te volgen wat een normaal vliegtuig zou doen. Nog een jaar later werd het object opnieuw gezien op hetzelfde luchtshow evenement, en in latere jaren bleef het beeld hangen door analysen en discussies: Venus werd onder meer voorgesteld als een verklarende factor, gezien de positie en beweging van het hemelobject in sommige videobeelden. Critici, onder wie de astronomen Tim Printy, wezen erop dat camera-artificatie en het ontbreken van onbegeleide videomateriaal het verhaal mysterieus maakten, terwijl sommige amateuristen en volgelingen van de theorieën rondom “Mayaanse profetieën” probeerden het incident te verbinden met oude mythologie en het idee van buitenaardse bezoekers aan de hoofdstad van Mexico.

De polemiek rondom de video’s

• Venus als verklarende factor. Tim Printy en andere wetenschappers wezen erop dat de meeste beelden consistent met eenvoudige, maar misleidende videocollages of artefacten konden zijn en dat de astronomische context (zoals de positie van Venus) het beeld kon vervormen. Bovendien zag men geen melden van officiële Mexicaanse astronomers die een UFO-breedte in die periode bevestigden, wat het sceptische standpunt versterkte.
• De magische retoriek van sommige commentatoren. Een groepje volgers en mediafiguren, waaronder de Elders (Lee en Brit Elders), stelde dat de gebeurtenis een prooi was voor een narratief van “Mayaanse profetieën” en buitenaardse bezoekers, een verhaal dat Printy scherp afbrandt als “pure bunk voor verkoop.” Hij bekritiseerde de verstrengeling van oude mythen met moderne videomateriaal en betwijfelde de betrouwbaarheid van de zogenaamd “bron-documenten” die zo’n spectaculaire claim zouden ondersteunen.
• Conspiracy-theorieën en geopolitieke roddels. Er deden zich Geruchtencollecties voor over vermeende Amerikaanse of Russische lekkages en “war on UFO’s” die zouden gepleegd zijn naar aanleiding van deze gebeurtenissen. Hoewel zulke claims fascinerend zijn, ontbreken concrete bewijzen en blijven ze in de sfeer van complottheorieën hangen.

Impact en les:

wat hebben we geleerd? Hoewel de Mexico City-verhalen een mix van documentaire bewijs, interpretatie en mythologie bieden, is het belangrijkste wat ze illustreren dat een grote massa waarnemers, inclusief gewone burgers en professionals, identieke of vergelijkbaar lijkende getuigenissen kan leveren. Ze benadrukken ook dat menselijke interpretatie, camera-techniek en culturele narratieven een grote rol spelen bij wat men ziet en hoe men het verklaart. Of Venus nu de ware boosdoener was of niet, blijft de discussie bestaan—maar het grote publiek blijft geïntrigeerd door de mogelijkheid van buitenaardse bezoekers en de redenen waarom zulke fenomenen zich juist op spectaculaire momenten tonen.

3. Cosford Incident en de Engelse controverse (31 maart 1993)

In het zuiden van Engeland brak een forse golf van meldingen uit in maart 1993, met vooraanstaande rapporten bij politie en defensie die in Devon, Cornwall en Wales werden gemeld. Een anonieme waarneming beschreef een enorm object “als twee Concordes die naast elkaar vliegen en verbonden zijn,” met schattingen die het object op meer dan 200 meter lengte plaatsten. Verdere getuigen meldde dat het object laag overvliegt of zelfs in een veld landde. De volgende dag bleef de situatie zich herhalen: RAF Cosford, RAF Shawbury en zelfs een Ierse militaire helikopter kwamen in beeld met rapporten van rode lichten en schaars geluidloze activiteiten. Een meteoroloog bij Shawbury meldde dat een driehoekig vaartuig van 200 voet over de basis naderde, waarna het een krachtige straal op de grond wierp en in een oogwenk verdween, achterlatend een glimmende damp.

Het MoD-onderzoeksproject, geleid door Nick Pope, registreerde honderden getuigenrapporten, en de zaak trok de aandacht tot in de Amerikaanse Defensie. Pope beschreef Cosford als een van de meest opvallende gevallen in zijn tijd bij het UFO-project in de vroege jaren negentig. Desondanks bleven er vandaag de dag verschillende standpunten bestaan over wat er precies gezien is: ruimteafval van een Russische Cosmos-satelliet, geheime militaire testvluchten, bovennatuurlijke fenomenen of een verkeerd geïnterpreteerde luchtvaart. Sommigen betwijfelden zelfs de radarregistraties en stelden dat het hier mogelijk ging om misidentificaties bij nacht kunnen zijn, of dat de waarnemers verstrikt raakten in perceptie-fouten.

Ethische en methodologische kanttekeningen

• De betrouwbaarheid van “getrainde getuigen.” Hoewel de getuigen vaak uit professionele kringen komen, waarschuwt skeptici dat zelfs getrainde waarnemers fouten kunnen maken, zeker bij nachtelijke waarnemingen en uiterst modale vormen van objecten. Chris Fowler benadrukte de noodzaak om voorzichtig te zijn met het vertrouwen in professionals als garantie voor objectiviteit, en wees op de inherente valkuilen van perceptie en interpretatie.
• De rol van “echte data.” Het gebrek aan volledige, verifieerbare data—zoals gebrek aan radar correlatie, en de onzekerheid rondom de kernsignatuur van de objecten—maakt de Cosford-landing een voorbeeld van hoe complex het kan zijn om een zuivere conclusie te trekken op basis van getuigenverklaringen alleen.
• De kritiek op Pope’s benadering. Nick Pope kreeg kritiek op de wijze waarop hij in sommige stukken en documentaires de feiten presenteerde, en hoe hij mogelijk te selectief was in het koppelen van getuigenissen aan specifieke theorieën. Vadert men dat een dergelijk deel van het onderzoek eenzijdig is, dan kan dit de geloofwaardigheid van het hele veld ondermijnen.

Resultaat en interpretatie

De Cosford-zaak staat bekend als een van de meest geïnterpreteerde ‘massieve’ UAP-gevallen in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, maar het blijft onduidelijk wat er precies gebeurde. Een belangrijke les is dat, zelfs wanneer getuigen betrouwbaar lijken, de complexe combinatie van perceptie, technologische beperkingen en bedreigde context het extreem lastig maakt om tot definitieve conclusies te komen. Het incident heeft wel bijgedragen aan de discussie over de aanwezigheid van ongeïdentificeerde fenomenen en de noodzaak van betere en ongekleurde gegevensverzameling.

4. Phoenix Lights: massale waarneming boven Arizona en de Verenigde Staten (13 maart 1997)

Misschien wel de best bekende massale UFO-waarneming uit recente geschiedenis vonden plaats in Arizona op 13 maart 1997, bekend als de Phoenix Lights. Het begon vroeg in de avond toen een enorme V-vormige formatie van fel gereduceerde lichten werd gezien die een aanzienlijke strook van de hemel bedekte en de sterren grotendeels verhulde. De maneuvre werd beschreven als stilstaand of traag beweging, met een zwevend patroon dat door duizenden personen werd waargenomen: politiemensen, piloten, militair personeel, en zelfs de toenmalige gouverneur van Arizona, Fife Symington III.

Later die avond werd een tweede, meer gefocuste groep lichten gezien in een formele vorm die stil over de horizon bewoog. Er ontstond veel debat over de aard van deze fenomenen: waren het militaire luchtdoelen, verkeerslichten, ballonnen, of niet? Verschillen in getuigenis op een aantal punten maakten al snel duidelijk dat het niet eenvoudig was om één gemeenschappelijke verklaring te vinden.

De theorieën en het publieke debat

• Flares en ballonnen. Een overheersende sceptische verklaring suggereerde dat de tweede groep lichten afkomstig was van zware nachtelijke fakkels of “flares” die door het Amerikaanse leger werden gebruikt tijdens oefeningen. Dit leek te worden bevestigd door latere incidenten waarin vergelijkbare lichteffecten werden verklaard als fakkels tijdens trainingscampagnes.
• Een massief object. De eerste vorming, zo werd betoogd door sommige getuigen, was een enorme drie-dimensionale structuur die de sterren blokkeerde. Sommigen suggereerden dat het een gevormd, geheim vliegtuig was—een mogelijke “black op”-operatie. Anderen bleven vasthouden aan de verhalen over een buitenaards vaartuig.
• De gouverneur en publieke verklaring. Symington, die ooit beweerde dat hij niet zeker wist wat hij had gezien, vertelde later dat, als hij een piloot is, hij zeker geen menselijke vliegtuig kon verklaren die zo’n symmetrisch patroon vertoonde en zo’n grote omvang had. Dit gesprek veroorzaakte publieke ophef en maakte het debat nog vuriger.

Herwaardering door latere gebeurtenissen In 2007 en 2008 werden soortgelijke waarnemingen gemeld, die uiteindelijk werden verklaard als flares en ballonnen. Toch blijft de Phoenix Lights-zaak in de publieke verbeelding staan als een van de meest documenteerbare en meest uitgebreide massale waarnemingen uit Noord-Amerika. Een belangrijk aspect van de zaak was de rol van media en officiële verklaringen: de initiële belachelijking van de fenomenen, gevolgd door latere openingen van officiële instituten die erkenden dat bepaalde waarnemingen niet eenvoudig te verklaren vielen.

5. Wat leren we van massale UFO-waarnemingen?

• Getuigenverslagen zijn een krachtig maar ambigu bewijsmateriaal. Een groot aantal getuigen, vaak met uiteenlopende achtergronden, kan de algehele geloofwaardigheid vergroten, maar het kan ook leiden tot conflicting interpretaties. Het is essentieel om ze te structureren en te toetsen aan objectieve data zoals radarregistraties, fototype en videomateriaal en, waar mogelijk, meetbare fysische indicatoren (zoals straling, ijs- en waterbeschadiging, atmosferische metingen).
• De rol van perceptie en cognitieve bias. Zelfs ervaren getuigen kunnen misinterpretaties hebben. Wetenschappers en onderzoekers benadrukken dat het menselijke cognitieve systeem geneigd is om patronen te herkennen, zelfs waar die er niet zijn. Het is cruciaal om deze biases te erkennen en te corrigeren door strikte methodologie en onafhankelijke verificatie.
• De politieke en maatschappelijke dimensie. Massale waarnemingen raken aan thema’s zoals nationale veiligheid, publiek vertrouwen en de rol van media. Ze kunnen leiden tot publieke hysterie of, juist, tot een rustige en rigoureuze analyse wanneer data en transparantie worden toegepast.
• De afwezigheid van bewijsmateriaal. In verschillende gevallen blijft er, ondanks de uitgebreide getuigenverslagen, een gebrek aan harde, onafhankelijke bewijzen die definitieve conclusies mogelijk maken. Dit benadrukt de noodzaak van brede, systematische data-collectie en open wetenschappelijke discussie.

Zonnewonder van Fatima en Belgische DRIEHOEKEN: een historische en cultureel-contextuele vergelijking In de geschiedenis van massale fenomenen in de publieke verbeelding bestaan er “bovennatuurlijke” gebeurtenissen die geen direct wetenschappelijk bewijs dragen maar wel een diepgaande maatschappelijke impact hebben gehad. Een van de bekendste voorbeelden is het Zonnewonder van Fatima in 1917, wanneer drie kinderen in Portugal beweerden een verschijning van de Heilige Maagd Maria te hebben gezien en daarna een reeks bovennatuurlijke tekenen en wonderbaarlijke gebeurtenissen gerapporteerd werden, waaronder de “dans van de zon” die voor duizenden toeschouwers werd waargenomen. De Fatima-ervaring heeft de menselijke behoefte aan wonder en verklaring op een unieke manier onderstreept: mensen die zweren bij de realiteit van bovennatuurlijke tekenen, en wetenschappers die proberen dit kritisch te benaderen met historische context, natuurwetten en psychosociale factoren. Het Zonnewonder van Fatima is een verhaal dat de scheidslijn tussen geloof en empirische kennis illustreert, en laat zien hoe massale waarnemingen, ondersteund door collectieve narratieven en culturele context, een blijvende impact kunnen hebben – onafhankelijk van of er een wetenschappelijke verklaring voor kan worden gevonden.

In België, waar de “driehoeken” een culturele uitdrukking zijn voor fringe- of marginale denkbeelden of illusies , ontstaan ook randverhalen die de kloof tussen feit en fabel dramatiseren. De waarnemingen van de Belgische driehoeken en de publieke cultuur rondom het onbekende dragen bij aan hoe waarnemingen worden gezien en geïnterpreteerd. In hoeverre massale waarnemingen culturele scripts volgen die in grotere maatschappelijke structuren bestaan, is een belangrijke onderzoeksvraag: ze vindbaar in hoe mensen getuigenissen vertellen, welke beelden en symbolen zij inzetten, en hoe publieke instellingen reageren. Het erkennen van deze culturele dimensies helpt ons te begrijpen waarom sommige waarnemingen zo’n cultuurrelevantie ontwikkelen, en waarom het gesprek soms verder gaat dan de puur wetenschappelijke analyse.

6. Conclusie: keerpunten en open vragen Massale UFO-waarnemingen blijven fascinerende gebeurtenissen die de grens tussen het bekende en het onbekende raken. Ze laten zien hoe groepen mensen hetzelfde fenomeen kunnen waarnemen, maar hoe interpretatie, context en bewijs elkaar kunnen tegenspreken. De cases zoals Wanaque (1966), Mexico City (1991), Cosford (1993) en Phoenix (1997) illustreren zowel de kracht van collectieve waarneming als de grenzen van bewijs. Ze laten ons ook nadenken over bredere kwesties: hoe luisteren we naar getuigenissen zonder ze te vergevelen? Hoe krijgen we betrouwbare data die de getuigenissen kan ondersteunen of weerleggen? En hoe verbinden historische, culturele en maatschappelijke kaders—zoals het Fatima-zonnewonder en Belgische fringe-caten—met het hedendaagse fenomeen van UAP’s?

In een tijd waarin technologie ons in staat stelt om beelden en data op ongekende schaal te verzamelen, zouden massale waarnemingen een kans moeten zijn om transparant en methodisch te onderzoeken. Dit vereist open data, transparante protocollen voor evaluatie, en samenwerking tussen wetenschappers, sceptici en getuigen. Het doel is niet het bevestigen of ontkennen van buitenaards contact als zodanig, maar het begrijpen van de aard van wat mensen waarnemen, wat ze denken dat ze gezien hebben, en hoe we als verdenking en wonderen, feiten en interpretaties netjes scheiden. Uiteindelijk draait dit om het belang van een rationele, maar open houding ten opzichte van het onbekende: een houding die de menselijke nieuwsgierigheid koestert en tegelijkertijd de discipline van de wetenschap respecteert.

Noten voor verder onderzoek en leesduur

• Voor een vollediger beeld van Wanaque en de bijbehorende getuigenverklaringen, verwijzen naar archieven van lokale kranten en overheidscorrespondentie uit 1966.
• De Mexico City-verhalen hebben een breed spectrum van videomateriaal en sceptische analyses van videotechnieken; voor een kritische evaluatie is het zinvol om werken van Tim Printy en andere astronomen te raadplegen.
• De Cosford Incident heeft een lange geschiedenis in UK-UFO-literatuur, met de MoD-archieven en Pope’s eigen discussies als belangrijkste bronnen. Moderne herzieningen in muppetassen en sceptische artikelen zijn aanbevolen om een gebalanceerd beeld te krijgen.
• Phoenix Lights hebben een rijkdom aan getuigenverslagen en beeldmateriaal, met latere verifieerbare verklaringen zoals het flare-scenario. Het blijft een compacte demonstratie van hoe publiek en autoriteiten elkaar kunnen kruisen in de interpretatie van een onopgelost fenomeen.
• Voor het Zonnewonder van Fatima en de Belgische driehoeken is het nuttig om zowel historische bronnen als sociologische en fenomenologische literatuur te bestuderen die de rol van geloof, media en cultuur in massale waarnemingen verkennen.

Eindnoot

Massa UFO-waarnemingen blijven een spannend venster op menselijke perceptie, maatschappelijke dynamiek en de voortdurende zoektocht naar begrip van wat er boven ons gebeurt. Of je nu gelooft in buitenaardse intelligentie, of het fenomeen ziet als een complex samenspel van onbekende betrouwbare getuigen, natuurverschijnselen en menselijke perceptie, één ding blijft zeker: dit onderwerp voedt een diepzinnige dialoog over wat we weten, wat we niet weten en hoe we het beste bewijs verzamelen om tot betrouwbare conclusies te komen. En terwijl we de geschiedenis van dergelijke waarnemingen blijven bestuderen, kan het ons helpen om de brug te slaan tussen wonder en wetenschap, tussen cultuur en feit.

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09-10-2025 om 18:04 geschreven door peter  

One of the most intriguing mass UFO sighting flaps in U.S. history started as a normal day like any other in the small suburban town of Wanaque, New Jersey, but as the day came to a close, a bizarre series of events would begin to play out. On the crisp and clear evening of January 11, 1966, at around 6:30 PM, calls began to come in from all over the area describing what seemed to be an extremely bright glowing light out over the nearby Wanaque Reservoir. Dozens of calls were coming in from panicked residents and workers at the reservoir describing more or less the same thing, with most reports saying it was a very bright light, larger and brighter than a star, mostly white but sometimes changing to colors such as red, blue and green. The mystery object was described as hovering over the frozen lake surface and roving about in what seemed to be a deliberate pattern at an altitude of between 250 and 1,000 feet, sometimes performing seemingly physics-defying maneuvers and sudden vertical drops and rises. Even weirder were the reports of the object projecting some sort of beam downwards to the reservoir, which was powerful enough to melt holes in the ice.

Before long, the police who were getting these calls were seeing the strange object for themselves, and one of these was police patrolman Joseph Cisco, who just happened to be near the reservoir when the reports began flooding in. He would then drive out there to investigate and look out over the water to see something very strange for himself, of which he said:

“There was a light that looked bigger than any of the stars, about the size of a softball or volleyball. It was a pulsating, white, stationary light changing to red. It stayed in the air; there was no noise. I was trying to figure out what it was.”

The object would then swoop in low and begin shooting a beam to the lake surface, and Cisco soon got a call from another officer on the radio, saying in a panic, “Something landed in front of the dam. Something's burning a hole in the ice! Something with a bright light on it, going up and down!" Another policeman who saw the thing was Sgt. Ben Thompson, who said it actually caused the water to rise below it and sucked together treetops, and yet another Officer George Dyckman would say, "I've never seen anything like it in my life." Several other police officers being called to the area also saw the otherworldly object, including Patrolmen Edward Nestor and Jack Wardlaw, a Sgt. Bobby Gordon, Reservoir Police and Personnel, George Destito, Charles Theodora, Fred Steines, and even Chief of Police Floyd Elson. Chief John Casazza of the Wanaque Reservoir Police would say of his own sighting:

“It was a bright white light. As I said: just like on a locomotive. It was funnel-shaped. It seemed to come out of some object, like a funnel. In other words, it spread out as if it were focused through a telescope. It was narrow at one end in the sky and spread out into a very wide beam as it approached our upper gatehouse at the dam. The strangest part of it was that there was no noise attached to this object. None whatsoever. It was absolutely silent. A silent light.”

News crews who started to trickle in also reported seeing the strange sight, with one reporter, Howard Ball, with the Paterson News, saying:

“I was near the junction of Colfax Road and Hamburg Turnpike… I saw a very extremely bright light... The thing that really brought my attention was, as I traveled along, a white starlight seems to come at me… then it stopped and it made a transverse movement to the west. No color, but if I'd give it a color I'd say brilliant blue-white, similar to the ignition of a magnesium and pure oxygen... really bright light.”

One of the more prominent witnesses to the outlandish event was the town Mayor, Harry T. Wolfe, who had made his way out to the reservoir along with Councilmen Warren Hagstrom and Arthur Barton and the Mayor’s 14-year-old son, Billy, out of sheer curiosity when the reports kept coming in a deluge. They would witness a light that was “a brilliance, a little brighter than a star” that seemed to emit a reddish or pale green light or yellowish light and which was moving “oddly” over the lake. Closer inspection showed that it was some sort of oval-shaped object around 9 feet in diameter, coming in low over the water to shoot down a beam that put a hole in the ice as they looked on in astonishment. Councilman Hagstrom would say of what they saw that night:

“There was something up there that was awful bright. We don’t know what it was. We thought it was a helicopter, but we didn’t hear a motor. It looked like a helicopter with big landing lights on. We got goose bumps all over when we saw where the hole was.”

Before long, there were throngs of people gathered at the reservoir watching this thing go about its inscrutable business, and the mysterious object would do its strange act over the water for over an hour before finally speeding off into the night at great speed and without warning. Moments later, it would be reported as hovering over Lakeland Regional High School and stopping at several other locations in the area before vanishing to leave residents in a state of shock. So many people had seen it, including many policemen and even city officials, and all of them agreed it was not a normal aircraft or celestial phenomenon, but rather something truly unexplainable and baffling. To make it all even weirder still is that it would seem as if the strangeness wasn't quite over yet. The object would make another brief appearance over the reservoir the following evening as well, before seeming to go away for good, but it would make yet another appearance later that year.

In October of 1966, just as people were starting to try and put the whole bizarre incident at Wanaque reservoir out of their minds, a new spate of sightings emanated from the lake. At 9 PM on October 10, the object was seen by several witnesses, including an off-duty police officer by the name of Robert Gordon, who saw it with his wife, Betty, who described it as a bright white light that moved with “a definite pattern” towards the reservoir. This sighting was soon joined by that of a policeman, Sgt. Ben Thompson, who had seen the object during its first appearance, and had quite a harrowing experience when the UFO allegedly flew right at him and he saw it at fairly close quarters. He would say of this:

“I saw the object coming at me. There was an extremely bright light. It was a bright white light, bright like when a light bulb is about to blow. It was very low. It appeared to be about 75 feet over the mountain. That would be Windbeam Mountain. It was traveling very quickly and in a definite pattern; first right, then up and down, then repeating the pattern. Distances are deceiving, but it might have covered an area of a half a mile. It went straight over my head, stopped in mid-air and backed right up. It then started zig-zagging from left to right. It was doing tricks. Making acute angular turns instead of gradual curved ones. It looked as big as a parachute. I got out of my car and continued to watch it for almost five minutes. It was about 200 to 250 yards away. It was the shape of a basketball with the center scooped out and a football thrust through it. Sometimes the football appeared to be perpendicular to the basketball and sometimes standing up on end. There were two different gadgets. It didn’t make much noise, but as it was moving, it raised the water beneath it. I watched it maneuver, stirring up brush and water in the reservoir, it was about 150 feet up…I had difficulty seeing because the light was so bright it blinded me.”

Once again, the police were flooded with dozens of calls from terrified residents seeing the object in the vicinity of the reservoir, and it would be seen again on October 15 before finally disappearing again, this time apparently for good. In the wake of the UFO flap over Wanaque reservoir, there would be some strange and sometimes ominous stories coming out of the area. It was reported that unknown men posing as military officials from the Air Force were doing the rounds in the area, intimidating residents and discouraging people from talking about what they had seen, and some people even claimed that these mysterious men had confiscated photographs taken of the phenomena. The military would deny that these people were with them, or that they had had anyone in the area to investigate at all, and one Air Force Colonel Freeman would state, “We have checked a number of these cases and these men are not connected with the Air Force in any way.” Other witnesses would also insist that they had seen military helicopters and even jets in the area shortly after the initial sightings and in the months after, but the Air Force denied this as well, while at the same time making efforts to explain away the UFO sightings as misidentified aircraft or a weather balloon. What happened here, and did the military have any connection to these events or not? Were they trying to hide something or cover it up? No one knows.

The claims of mysterious officials confiscating photographic evidence are cited as one of the reasons there is so little such documentation of the incident. Indeed, although the UFO was witnessed by so many people, including police and high-ranking officials, there is oddly only a handful of photographs of the alleged craft known to exist, most of which were later sent in anonymously to make it hard to ascertain who took them in the first place or whether they are real or hoaxes. One photo in particular, showing the object shooting a beam of light downwards, has become intensely debated and analyzed in the years since, with no real conclusion. Since we don’t know who took these photos and have no negatives, it is hard to say. What we do know is that the incident did happen, and so this odd lack of photographic evidence from such a well-documented mass sighting has been seen as proof that someone has tried to suppress the event.

Today, there have been many proposed explanations, including helicopters with spotlights, atmospheric phenomena, Venus, weather balloons, or even ball lightning, but there are problems with these explanations in that so many reliable witnesses saw them and insist that what they witnessed was none of these things. One unidentified witness has said of this to researcher Anthony Bragalia, of UFO Explorations, as follows:

“I remember the thing very well. I still do not know what it was. I think about it from time to time, but it's no use because it doesn't bring me any closer to knowing what it was. Maybe things that aren't from here aren't meant to be understood by us here. Ask anyone who will tell you, it was not a helicopter or something astronomical. It was...not...from our military or something we misidentified. It was a UFO, from somewhere else. The beams or ray thing that came out from the bottom of the globe was the thing that got to me. It made the light cut the ice out. It frightened us kids. And I'm sure the adults. Because we don't have anything like that even today. The adults didn't really speak much about it after the initial thing that I could tell. I'd talk about it with my friends some time later and one of them told me that people came around to not say anything.”

Amazingly, there has apparently been very little follow-up investigation done into the case. It seems that no one ever went back to examine those holes in the ice, nor were there any water or radiation measurements taken, and the proper authorities don’t seem to have ever made any real efforts to interview witnesses. Most of what we know is from independent UFO researchers who pieced together what happened from newspaper articles of the time. We are left to wonder just what happened out over that expanse of frigid ice all of those decades ago and what it all means. Was this all the result of mundane phenomena and misidentification, or something else? Has there been some sort of cover-up put into effect that has managed to keep such a spectacular incident largely buried in history? If this was really an alien craft, then what was it doing at that reservoir, and what did it want? These are questions that linger, and which may never be satisfactorily answered, and the UFO wave of New Jersey's Wanaque reservoir remains a very compelling case of a mass UFO sighting that has been largely forgotten.

Moving on to our next case, on July 11, 1991, a total solar eclipse occurred from the Pacific Ocean to Brazil, passing over Hawaii, Mexico, Central America, and South America. In Mexico City, Mexico, thousands of people were out to get a look at the rare celestial event that day. Two of these observers were Guillermo Arragin, a television executive, and Jaime Maussan, a journalist, who were shocked to notice a bright, disk-like metallic object hovering in the sky and were able to videotape it easily, as they had already been taping the eclipse. They sent the tape to Jaime Maussan, who produced, directed and hosted Sesenta Minutos, Mexico’s edition of Sixty Minutes. When this footage was shown on TV eight days later, it started a deluge of others calling in to report that they had seen or videotaped the same thing during the eclipse, of which Maussan would say:

“The telephone lines blew up. I mean 40,000 calls at the same time. Then the system was completely shut out. We received more than 15 videos and we now know for sure that in at least 7 of them, we can see the same ship that was recorded by Guillermo Arragin.”

It would turn out that many thousands of people had seen the mysterious object, and all of them described the same metallic shining object, with some reports stating it merely hovered in a stationary position, while others said it moved around while leaving a vaporous trail in its wake, and there were also mentions of the thing having three blinking lights on it. After this, it seems that whatever it was disappeared as the sun emerged once again to bring broad daylight. Among the many people sending in videos of the thing was 19-year-old student Erick Aguilar, who saw it while videotaping the eclipse from a rooftop with his friends and girlfriend. He would describe it as looking like a white point of light that got bigger and brighter as they watched it. At the same time, about 60 miles from Mexico City, a businessman named Luis Lara videotaped an object that was identical to the one on Aguilar’s footage, and he was convinced it was not a star, explaining that there was some sort of dark shadow under the object. The Breton family also filmed a similar object in Puebla, eighty miles from Mexico City, and they described the object as pulsating and having a strange wave-like disturbance behind it. It is unclear if this was the same object or a different one. In total, there were over a dozen videos of what seemed to be the same object from different angles and distances, making it one of the most videotaped UFOs ever. 

After this appearance on Sesenta Minutos, the UFO sightings were all over the news, becoming a sensation in Mexico and sparking a mass hysteria, and this was only further fueled when a similar object was spotted just two months later at a military air show at Mexico City. On this occasion, an engineer named Vincente Sanchez was filming the air show when he noticed something very bizarre up in the air with those planes. He would say of it:

“I was following one of the planes and I saw a shiny dot in the camera. It didn’t fly like a plane; it was undulating. I didn’t know what it was so I let the planes go off and I focused more on this shiny dot in the sky. What I saw was a bright, round object, about 10 meters in diameter. It was made of silver, was shining very brightly and reflected the sunlight a lot. The object appeared, undulated, and moved around quickly.”

The object would be seen again at the same air show a year later, this time with the disc descending rapidly to seemingly vanish into thin air. At the same air show in 1993, it was seen yet again, this time apparently flying in close proximity to a squadron of helicopters. It is not clear if these sightings have any connection to the mass sighting on July 11, 1991, but at the time, many were linking them and even claiming they were the very same object. Over the years, the various footage taken on July 11, 1991, has been debated and analyzed, and one astronomer by the name of Tim Printy has given a pretty good argument that it was all down to the planet Venus. As evidence, he states that the object can’t be conclusively shown to be moving in any of the videos, the alignment of the object in the footage in relation to other celestial objects shown in some of the videos, such as Mars and Regulus, correlates to the position of where Venus should be, and the object disappears when the sun comes back out. Most damningly, he points out that not a single Mexican astronomer, of which there would have been many recording the eclipse, reported any UFO or anything out of the ordinary at all. According to Printy, the videos only appear to show something truly strange because of camera artifacts and the fact that there are no uncropped videos of the object, which makes it all appear even more mysterious. 

Nevertheless, despite such criticism of the videos, many still believe them to be good UFO evidence, and some have gone and to take it all to new levels of weirdness. One of these is a couple by the name of Lee and Brit Elders, who believe that the UFO appearance during the eclipse was not only aliens, but that the whole incident was prophesied by the Mayans more than 1200 years ago. The Elders claim that through various ancient documents, they have deduced that the Mayans predicted that the aliens would arrive in the area of Mexico City on July 11, 1991, as harbingers of world change and “cosmic awareness through encounters with masters of the stars,” to usher in “a new era that will rise on the ashes of the one before.” The couple even made a whole series of videos talking about this, titled Messengers of Destiny, Masters of the Stars, and Voyagers of the Sixth Sun, and it all revolves around this supposed ancient prophecy and the July 11, 1991, UFO over Mexico City. Printy has a lot to say about the Elders, and does not mince words at all when he says of what he calls their “pure bunk for sale”:

“Not only do the Elder's state that Venus was a UFO, but they also make a profound statement that the Mayans predicted the arrival of the UFOs! Exactly when did the Maya predict such an event? The Elders state there are several ancient documents that state this. However, is there any basis for such a claim? The Elders rarely, if ever, give details. They seem to expound on new age mysticism trying to link statements from various documents in order to create some strange prediction to meet their needs. Are their statements correct? Are these source documents accurate? The credibility of the Elders is important to understand how accurately they represented the UFOs shown in the videos.

Despite a wealth of evidence that Venus was the likely culprit in many of these videos, the Elders went out of their way to create a story that describes alien visitation. The mixing and matching of Mayan and Aztec myths and then trying to make some form of prediction made by the Maya is another case of the Elders trying to deceive the viewers of real facts. The Mexico City eclipse UFO story is nothing but a new age myth generated by a couple of con-artists, who rely on the viewer to be uninformed and willing to believe the most ridiculous claims. The Messengers of Destiny/Masters of the Stars/Voyagers of the sixth sun prediction is nothing but a new age myth designed to make money!”

The Mexican UFO has also been the source of conspiracies, such as one that states the U.S. government knew about the event in Mexico, but tried to suppress it so that the public would not panic, which is supposedly why the story failed to produce even a blip in the American news. According to a report from the site Cool Interesting Stuff, there was a Kremlin report that supposedly not only mentions this, but also that the incident of July 11, 1991, in Mexico City put the Americans on alert for a "war” against UFOs based on or near the Continent of Antarctica.” The site says:

“A report circulating in the Kremlin prepared for President Medvedev by Russian Space Forces (VKS) 45th Division of Space Control says that an upcoming WikiLeaks release of secret US cables details that the Americans have been “engaged” since 2004 in a “war” against UFO’s based on or near the Continent of Antarctica, particularly the Southern Ocean. According to this report, the United States went to its highest alert level on June 10, 2004 after a massive fleet of UFO’s “suddenly emerged” from the Southern Ocean and approached Guadalajara, Mexico barely 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) from the American border. Prior to reaching the US border, however, this massive UFO fleet is said in this report to have “dimensionally returned” to their Southern Ocean “home base.”

The fears of the Americans regarding these Southern Ocean UFO’s began, this report says, during the unprecedented events of July 11, 1991 (referred to as 7/11) when during the Solar Eclipse these mysterious aircraft appeared by the hundreds over nearly all of Mexico, even their Capital city. Most notable about the events of 7/11 were that as millions of Mexicans were watching on their televisions the National broadcasts of these UFO’s over Mexico City, the American media refused to allow their people to view it.”

Is there anything to this? What was going on here with this incident? Was this an otherworldly presence, celestial gods on some mission to fulfill a Mayan prophecy, or merely the planet Venus and mass hysteria? How can we account for so many sightings? Were they all misidentifying a mundane phenomenon? Whatever the case may be, the July 11, 1991, UFO flap over Mexico City has gone on to become one of the most widely witnessed and most videotaped UFO encounters there is, and it remains a curious case in the annals of ufology. 

Moving along, the beginning of what has gone on to be one of the most talked about mass UFO sighting incidents in recent memory was on March 30, 1993, in England. On this evening, there suddenly began a deluge of reports coming in from across a swath of southwest England, particularly in the vicinity of Shropshire, of something decidedly weird in the sky, from witnesses of all walks of life and many of them traditionally reliable witnesses. One of the first reports came from a policeman who claimed to have seen a massive object resembling “two Concordes flying side by side and joined together,” and there were other reports that put the object’s size at a massive 200 meters long. Other reports claimed that the object had been observed sometimes flying very low to the ground, and there was even a panicked resident who claimed that it had landed in a field. Dozens of reports like this came in, and curiously, people were giving different descriptions, including a cylindrical object, a triangular-shaped craft with three lights, and a pair of lights seeming to emit a tail-like plume, suggesting there was more than one aerial disturbance at work. Yet this was only the beginning.

Continuing into March 31st, 1993, the reports kept coming in, and it seemed as if the phenomena had gotten even more active. The evening of the 31st would also mark a series of high-level sightings from police and military personnel, who had been on alert due to the sheer number of anomalous reports the night before. There would be several sightings made from RAF bases in the region, including sightings of a fast-moving red light by personnel at RAF Cosford and another incident at RAF Shawbury. One meteorologist at RAF Shawbury by the name of Wayne Elliot would claim that a triangular-shaped craft measuring around 200 feet across had slowly approached his base while emitting a low humming noise, and then shot a bright beam of light towards the ground before shooting off at amazing speed while leaving a luminous vapor trail in its wake. At no point were any of these objects picked up on radar at the bases. Some of the reports were scattered over a wide area, as another military encounter with one of the objects allegedly happened to an Irish military helicopter en route to Ireland over the coast of southwest Wales. The crew would report seeing “two white lights at a fixed distance apart in the horizontal plane” with trails visible through night vision equipment, which appeared to close the distance and pace them for a time.

The sightings were investigated by Nick Pope, who ran the UFO project run by the British Ministry of Defense (MoD), and he collected a steady stream of the reports, which he described as “coming in thick and fast,” in particular from the areas of Devon, Cornwall and Wales. Pope would claim to gather several hundred eyewitness reports of the bizarre unidentified aerial phenomena from March 30 and 31, and he also asserted that it was such a major and anomalous incident that it had even captured the attention of military officials at the Pentagon, who he believed included it in their 490-page secret report under the part of the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program. Pope  has said of this:

“The Cosford Incident was the most high-profile and compelling UFO incident that took place during my time on the MoD’s UFO project in the early Nineties. It is probably among the best cases in our entire archive, which goes back decades and includes around 12,000 sightings. It is inconceivable to me that this wouldn’t be one of the incidents mentioned in the secret US report. I’m sure the Americans knew all about the Cosford Incident, and maybe conducted some discreet enquiries of their own.”

Despite how amazing this may all seem, we are still left to wonder about just what exactly was seen by all of these witnesses, and there has been much debate on the matter. One very prevalent theory is that the aerial phenomena were caused by some kind of falling space debris, notably the re-entry of a Russian satellite called the Cosmos 2238, which it turns out was scheduled to re-enter the atmosphere on the evening of March 31. This would not be out of the question, as falling space debris has caused UFO flaps before, and incidentally, a similar Cosmos satellite that had gone down in the winter of 1978 also coincided with a wave of UFO sightings. 

A reentering satellite might explain some of the sightings, but it would not really explain the fact that many of the reports describe distinctly triangular objects that were allegedly seen flying in a seemingly intelligently controlled manner, including changing speed, hovering, or flying low to the ground, even in one case landing and taking off, which doesn’t really fit in with the space debris theory. The Russian satellite angle also would not explain the sightings going on during the evening of March 30, nor the insistence of some very trained witnesses that these were not space debris. So what are some of the other possibilities? Other ideas are that this was some sort of top-secret experimental aircraft being tested, a military black op, or some strange atmospheric phenomenon. There is also the possibility that this was just a misidentified normal aircraft, such as an airplane or helicopter. One local police investigator has said of this likelihood:

“If there’s no full moon you would not necessarily see the shape of the aircraft just the three lights and perhaps the searchlight. On a number of occasions in the last nine years we have had people ringing the police to report UFOs and when we have checked our operation logs it has turned out to be our helicopter. On other occasions we have had people reporting UFOs who have actually seen airliners descending into Manchester who have switched their landing lights on or off. Most people have no idea of spatial awareness at night and cannot accurately judge the height or distance. We have had people saying they have seen things at treetop height and when we have checked it has been an aircraft descending into Manchester at 10,000 feet or more.”

One argument against this is that many of the observers were reliable, trained witnesses such as RAF personnel, police officers, and the meteorologist, so how could they all misidentify a helicopter or plane? UFO investigator Chris Fowler has addressed this by explaining the problems with leaning too heavily on supposed expert witnesses, pointing out that even trained and seasoned individuals can be fooled by innate problems with our senses of perception. Fowler says of this:

“The human visual perceptual system and cognizance are very discerning but easily fooled by events like those described here. It is part of common UFO reportage that lights and aircraft flying at night can lead to false reports of distance, altitude, time estimates, size and other fundamental attributes. We should take note all observers are fallible to misperception and illusory effects and to false interpretation and apply adequate reasoning here. These 1993 events may be exemplary in providing more evidence of the inability of those often described as ‘trained observers’ to discern altitude in lights than is supposed. It is fallacious to assume that certain subsets of people, by occupation, may be more or less accurate in their observations of lights, shapes, distance and altitude without providing evidence. Observational accuracy by any subset of witnesses depends upon circumstance and a willingness to apply useful pragmatic means to recording observations at the time and on some understanding of limitations.”

One of the problems with trying to get to the bottom of the Cosford Incident is that Nick Pope has been accused by skeptics and even others within the UFO field of being a bit overzealous in his approach and too willing to try and fit everything into his own preconceived theories. He has been accused of cherry-picking, twisting and misrepresenting data to fit his needs, leading witnesses in interviews into the outcomes he wants, and generally exaggerating certain elements of the cases, giving misleading statements, or leaving out certain information to misrepresent the facts. For instance, although Pope has admitted that some of the sightings could have been space debris, he rarely mentions this, instead focusing on the more bizarre and mysterious sightings and elements. UFO researcher Gary Anthony has criticized Pope’s approach in relation to his participation in a documentary of the incident called The British UFO Mystery – Stranger Than Fiction, saying of it:

“After watching the documentary myself, I wondered if Nick Pope had lost the real plot or not because in places there were exaggerative comments and the reports were misrepresented both by Nick and in the visual continuity and the narrating voice. The presentation was more geared towards Pope’s own personal and theatrical interpretation of the sightings and was laid out fallaciously for an unsuspecting public.  Relevant information was not included, witness participation was minimal and some of the facts presented were grossly out of context. He clearly has fallen into the trap of not recognizing salient features and errors of multiple witness reports, making links that do not exist and falling back on the questionable prowess of ‘trained observers,’ endowed with super-human abilities of discerning distance, altitudes and size in lights seen at night. A real house of cards. The programme featured only one witness, a lady who saw a row of lights whilst driving home. For the 45-minute plus feature exclusively on these sightings none of the official witnesses used to bolster the theme appeared.”

In the end, the whole incident has sort of quietly been brushed away, and is rarely talked about outside of UFO circles, despite how many witnesses there apparently were. What was going on here? Was this merely space debris? Was it experimental aircraft, aliens, atmospheric phenomena, or all of the above? How reliable is Pope's documentation of the supposed events, and is there anything we are missing? There is no way to really know the answers to such questions and others like them, and we are left to wonder just what went on over the English countryside in March of 1993.

Finally, what has gone on to become one of the most well-known and oft-discussed, and debated mass UFO sightings in history is widely accepted as having started on March 13, 1997, in the skies over Henderson, Nevada, in the United States. Here, a witness claimed that at approximately 6:55 PM, he saw a large, V-shaped object about the same size as a passenger airliner with a formation of six lights along its front edge, which flew across the sky at a good clip with a sort of whooshing noise to disappear to the southeast. This same object would soon after be witnessed by a police officer from Paulden, Arizona, at around 8:15 PM, who said that he saw a triangular formation of four mysterious lights trailed by a fifth, and claimed to have watched the strange sight through his binoculars as they travelled south.

This would be the beginning of one of the most famous UFO cases there is. Before long, there were sightings of something strange in the sky coming in from the area of Prescott, Arizona, and the Prescott Valley. Many of the witnesses at the time described it as being definitely solid, blocking out the stars and the sky as it passed over, and it was mostly explained as being rather enormous. One witness who saw the boomerang-shaped object said it was massive, at least a mile wide, stating:

“We don’t have anything that big. It was totally silent. I’ve never seen anything even close to the colors from the exhaust that propelled that thing. It was as big as downtown Prescott and completely blocked out the stars.”

The object or objects were usually described as being a V-shaped or wedge-shaped formation of red or orange lights, with the leading light being a bright white, usually said to be embedded within a solid object, but descriptions varied, and they were sometimes claimed to be separate lights moving independently. At the time, there were dozens of witnesses from all ages and walks of life observing it as it made its way inexorably towards Phoenix to the southeast. The lights were also seen from the nearby town of Dewey, around 10 miles away, and as they drew closer to the greater Phoenix area, there would be a deluge of people seeing whatever it was that had come in from out of the unknown.

The phenomenon reached Phoenix at around 8:30 PM, after which it hovered over the area for around two hours, being seen by thousands of people in the process. During this time, it seems that there were actually two separate events going on over the region at the same time, with one being the massive V-shaped group of lights moving through the air, and a second formation of lights south of Phoenix that seemed to be stationary or moving very slowly. These lights, which would go on to collectively be known as the “Phoenix Lights,” were seen by people from all walks of life, including police officers, pilots, military personnel, and even the governor, none of whom could come up with any explanation for what was going on. While most of the reports described some massive solid object, an interesting aspect of it all is that witness descriptions of the phenomena tended to vary to quite a wide degree, of which UFOlogist Peter B. Davenport has said:

“Witnesses were reporting such markedly different objects and events that night that it was difficult for investigators to understand what was taking place. Some witnesses reported five lights, others seven, or even more. Some reported that the lights were distinctly orange or red, whereas others reported distinctly white or yellow lights. Many reported the lights were moving across the sky at seemingly high speed, whereas others reported they moved at a slow (angular) velocity, or they even hovered for several minutes.”

The objects were being seen all over the place at the time, seen in places as far away as Las Vegas, New Mexico, and northern Mexico, always inspiring awe and dread. In the meantime, the media didn’t really seem to show much interest in it, and officials seemed to treat it as a big joke, with Arizona Governor Fife Symington III holding a press conference on the situation flanked by an aide wearing an alien costume. However, when the story hit USA Today, it blew up into national news, appearing all over newspapers and TV shows. The USA Today piece was quite sensational, including the line, “The incident over Arizona was the most dramatic I’ve seen. . . . What we have here is the real thing. They are here,” and people ate it up. Before long, the Phoenix lights were being talked about and widely discussed all over the nation, with theories being thrown about as to what the phenomenon could have been, which is made somewhat complicated by the fact that it seems that there were two separate phenomena going on at the same time, the large moving object and the hovering lights.

One of the main ideas put forward was that at least the second event concerning the stationary lights was simply flares dropped by the military during a nighttime training exercise, but this has been challenged by many. Curiously, one of the main opponents of the flare theory was the governor himself, who would end up later changing his tune entirely, claiming to have seen the lights himself, and he would say of this:

“As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man made object I'd ever seen. And it was certainly not high-altitude flares because flares don't fly in formation. It was enormous and inexplicable. Who knows where it came from? A lot of people saw it, and I saw it too. It was dramatic. And it couldn't have been flares because it was too symmetrical. It had a geometric outline, a constant shape. I'm a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies. It was bigger than anything that I've ever seen. It remains a great mystery.”

Symington also found it odd that his attempts to get more information from the government on what was going on out there were shot down with basically “no comment,” and that no government agency had made any effort to seriously investigate. Another opponent of the flare theory was UFO enthusiast Jim Dilettoso, who claimed that he had done a full spectral analysis of the lights in one of the videos and determined that they could not have possibly come from a manmade source. However, considering that such an analysis on video footage images would be inaccurate, this has been criticized as an incomplete analysis at best. It has also been pointed out that the wind direction and speed at the time were consistent with flares as to the movement seen with the pattern of lights, which also supports the flare theory, as does the fact that the lights seemed to dip over the horizon and disappear, very much as flares would do. With regards to at least this aspect of the event, even UFOlogists have conceded that it could have been flares in this case.

The first event, which covers that huge, light-studded craft moving over the state and blocking out the stars, has been more difficult to explain. Skeptics say that it was just a formation of high altitude aircraft flying in formation on a classified mission, the blackened sky just an illusion. This has been corroborated by amateur astronomer Mitch Stanley, who claims that on the night of the incident, he had observed the large V-shaped craft through a telescope to find that it was unambiguously an aircraft, specifically a formation of five planes that were either A-10s or possibly T-37 fighter-trainers. However, many of the thousands of witnesses have denied that this could have been the case; the planes were apparently not picked up on radar, and the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson did not assert that they had any aircraft in the air at the time. In the end, it all remains a curious oddity, of which one investigator with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) has said:

“Do we have evidence that it was an extraterrestrial event? No. We have evidence that it was an extremely bizarre event. We can't put a label on it other than it was an anomaly.”

Interestingly, there have been reemergences of the lights in later years that have been explained as flares. On February 6, 2007, almost the same thing was seen over Phoenix, and military officials were quick to admit that it was flares they had dropped, and on April 21, 2008, there was another wave of sightings of the lights, this time found to be flares attached to balloons. Yet, the sightings that remain the most well-known are the original 1997 incident and whatever was behind it all, the Phoenix Lights have continued to have a place among the greatest, most extensively seen and documented UFO sightings ever, and remain mostly a mystery.

There can be no doubt that mass sightings such as what we’ve looked at here are the most spectacular type of UFO sightings there is. What were these people seeing, and how can we explain it rationally when so many people are seeing the same thing, often very traditionally reliable witnesses? Are these cases of misidentifying Venus or other aerial or atmospheric phenomena? Is it flares or balloons, or whatever official report it is, they want you to believe? How can you tell hundreds of people that they did not see what they think they did? If these are extraterrestrial in nature, then why would they want to be so widely seen in these cases? Whatever the answers may be, mass UFO sightings are among the most exciting and well-documented in the field. 

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09-10-2025 om 17:15 geschreven door peter  

Mysterious interstellar visitor heading towards Earth dubbed a 'Trojan Horse' for alien tech

• READ MORE: Space agency breaks silence on 'foreign' interstellar object soaring past Mars: 'A rare visitor'

By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

A scientist has warned that the interstellar visitor moving closer to Earth could be a 'Trojan Horse,' where a technological object masquerades as a comet.

The Harvard professor, who has been monitoring 3I/ATLAS since its discovery in July, said Wednesday that there is a 30 to 40 percent chance the object 'does not have a fully natural origin.'

Avi Loeb admitted that his ranking could change after new data comes in over the next few months, including observations next month from a spacecraft en route to Jupiter and when 3I/ATLAS comes 167 miles within Earth in December.

'We have no idea of the amount of traffic of extraterrestrial probes in the vicinity of the Solar system,' he said in a blog post.

'Given the uncertainty, it would be prudent to collect as much data as possible on interstellar objects from all directions and assess the level of risk based on that data.'

The object, a rare visitor from beyond the solar system, is unusually large and closely aligned with the plane of the planets, making it visible to orbiters around Mars over the weekend.

NASA's rover on the Martian planet snapped images of 3I/ATLAS, which captured it as a massive cylindrical object, sparking fresh theories about alien technology.

Stargazers on social media shared color-enhanced images of the object, which showed the interstellar visitor having a green glow. 

A Harvard scientists said there is a possibility that the interstellar visitor moving closer to Earth could be a 'Trojan Horse,' where a technological object masquerades as a comet

Loeb analyzed the Perseverance rover's photos by calculating its distance, speed, and camera settings.

According to his initial study, Loeb was not convinced that 3I/ATLAS is actually a massive cylindrical object, noting that the strange shape might have been a trick of the rover's camera stretching the object out.

He explained that the apparent cylinder from the rover's 'Navcam' was likely caused by the camera stacking hundreds of images of 3I/ATLAS over a period of about 10 minutes, making it look more like a log than a ball.

The professor added that 3I/ATLAS is likely smaller and rounder, but still massive, with a potential diameter of more than 28 miles across.

Dr Horace Drew, a retired senior researcher at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), noted that the mysterious green glow seen in some images could be a result of the object being an interstellar spacecraft coated in nickel.

He explained that humans use the same practice on Earth-made space technology on a much smaller scale.

'It is not a "comet,"' Drew shared in a post on X.

Drew disagreed with Loeb's conclusion that the cylindrical shape was a result of the Mars rover sending back a stretched image over several minutes, claiming that an amateur astronomer on Earth captured a similar shape with their telescope.

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'We can see an extended white shape, with a green coma outside. Not a small white ball,' Drew explained in a post about the astronomer's photograph.

However, Loeb recently cited the findings from the Very Large Telescope, highlighting how it detected an unusual nickel plume from the object.

Unlike natural comets, which always emit nickel alongside iron, 3I/ATLAS shows the metallic element without any detectable iron.

Loeb explained that this nickel signature is a hallmark of industrial production of nickel alloys.

'Is this anomaly another clue for a possible technological origin of 3I/ATLAS?' Loeb wrote in a blog post.

'The paper suggests that chemical formation occurs through the nickel carbonyl channel, an extremely rare process in comets, but a standard technique in industrial nickel refining,' he added.

The new study, published by astrophysicists in Chile in late August, found that 3I/ATLAS is shedding nickel at roughly five grams per second and cyanide at 20 grams per second, with both rising sharply as the object moves closer to the sun.

Researchers noted that the mechanisms driving these emissions are not typical of natural cometary processes.

They hypothesized that nickel might be released from dust through gentle processes, such as sunlight, causing it to evaporate or breaking down small nickel-containing compounds.

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09-10-2025 om 16:50 geschreven door peter  

Mystery over strange crash near Area 51 deepens as FBI opens investigation

• MORE: World's most secretive jet spotted over Area 51

By CHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR

The US Air Force has sparked a mystery near the top-secret base Area 51 after admitting the FBI was investigating a recent crash near the facility. 

In a statement on October 4, officials at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada said that an aircraft 'was involved in an incident,' crashing in the desert just miles from the restricted zone around Area 51 on September 23.

The infamous base has been tied to extraterrestrial lore for decades, with UFO researchers and conspiracy theorists claiming that secret government projects have been conducted at Area 51 since the 1950s.

While the Air Force said that the craft was assigned to the base as part of the 432nd Wing, some on social media pointed out that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a temporary flight restriction around the area for an entire week.

The reason for the shutdown was simply noted as 'national security' with no other explanation given by the FAA.

The location of the flight restriction placed the crash roughly 12 miles east of the security boundary around Area 51, and about 24 miles from the base itself.

However, the Air Force has revealed that even more strange activity took place after military personnel cleaned up the site, leaving nothing for the public to find.

Officials at Creech said investigators found an 'inert training bomb body' and a piece of an unidentified aircraft at the same crash site on October 3, prompting the military to get the FBI involved.

Area 51, an area of more than 2.9 million acres, is located at the Nevada Test and Training Range

A temporary flight restriction was issued by the FAA shortly after the US Air Force announced the crash of a military aircraft near Area 51

According to the Air Force statement, officials believe someone intentionally altered the scene of the secretive crash after the military left the desert.

An inert training bomb body is a practice explosive that's not rigged to explode.

Meanwhile, the Air Force said the aircraft piece was likely a panel from a plane, but admitted that it came from an 'unknown origin.'

Joerg Arnu, a long-time Area 51 researcher and host of the website Dreamland Resort, visited the site of the crash on September 27, finding nothing but a completely cleared area and several tire tracks, likely from military vehicles that combed the desert for wreckage.

'They really tore up the ground so it's impossible to find the impact mark,' Arnu said in a video taken from the alleged crash.

The researchers noted that there was no debris left in the area, but something could still be there underground, adding that desert rains often wash hidden objects back up to the surface.

The Air Force noted that 'no further details are available at this time,' but did say that there were no injuries or fatalities during the unexplained incident.

Creech Air Force Base is less than 60 miles from the alleged crash site and is home to the 432nd Wing, which operates MQ-9 Reaper armed drones, RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drones, and other craft used for intelligence, surveillance, and combat missions.

Area 51 researcher Joerg Arnu captured video of the supposed crash site after the military had finished recovering the object

The crash reportedly took place just 12 miles from the security area surrounding Area 51, a base tied to UFO encounters for decades

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According to online defense news site The War Zone, Reapers are the main type of aircraft housed at the base, used for spying, watching targets, and even firing missiles from far away.

They've been in use for two decades, and it's not uncommon for them to crash under certain circumstances, including user error and mechanical failures with the uncrewed, remote-controlled drones.

Conspiracy theorists online pointed out that it would be incredibly unusual for the federal officials to keep a Reaper drone crash so secret.

They noted the fact that federal investigators showed up so quickly, searched for planted fake evidence, and kept the incident completely under wraps for over two weeks were signs that the aircraft was no ordinary drone.

Recently, the US Air Force's top-secret RAT55 jet was also spotted soaring over Area 51, confirming rumors that the enigmatic radar plane operated from the clandestine Groom Lake facility.

Area 51 has also been involved in the development and testing of other revolutionary and experimental aircraft over the years, including the F-117 Nighthawk, America's first stealth bomber.

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09-10-2025 om 14:42 geschreven door peter  

Even the smallest details of the Martian landscape can hide incredible phenomena. It turns out that dust whirlwinds, also known as “dust devils” on the Red Planet, move at incredible speeds that significantly exceed scientists’ previous estimates.

Researchers from the University of Bern in Switzerland analyzed archives of images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express and Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft. Using artificial intelligence models, they were able to track more than a thousand dust devils recorded over the past two decades. 

The result is impressive: these whirlwinds can reach speeds of up to 158 km/h, making them much more powerful than previously thought. This discovery radically changes our understanding of the dynamics of the Martian atmosphere.

Turning artifacts into scientific data

The most ingenious aspect of this study was the method. None of the orbital vehicles were specifically designed to measure wind. However, the team found a way. They noticed slight color shifts in the images caused by split-second delays between the camera channels. These shifts are usually considered technical noise. But everything that moves across the surface of Mars — clouds or dust whirlwinds — leaves its mark in these shifts. By analyzing these tiny shifts between frames, scientists were able to calculate the speed and direction of each whirlwind.

As research leader Valentin Bickel noted, they literally “turned image artifacts into valuable scientific measurements.” 

This fundamental discovery has direct practical significance for the exploration of Mars. A dust devil is a kind of visualizer of invisible wind. By measuring it, we obtain a map of winds across the entire surface of the planet.

This information will be invaluable for planning future landings. Scientists will be able to more accurately assess wind conditions at the landing site, predict how much dust will settle on the rovers’ solar panels, and determine the optimal frequency of self-cleaning to maintain viability. 

Rhythms of Martian weather

The new catalog also confirms that dust devils have their “favorite” places and times. They most often occur on dust plains such as Amazonis Planitia during the warm seasons of spring and summer. Their activity peaks between late morning and early afternoon, which is very similar to patterns on Earth.

However, there is a key difference on Mars. Since no rain falls there, dust can remain in the atmosphere for months. Understanding how and when it enters the atmosphere is key to unraveling the planet’s long-term climate cycles and accurately predicting Martian weather. As ESA scientist Colin Wilson noted: “Dust on Mars affects absolutely everything.” 

Earlier, we reported on how robots on Mars would quickly turn into scrap metal.

• According to ESA

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09-10-2025 om 14:27 geschreven door peter  

Saw this today and wondered why they didn’t land? UFO UAP sighting daily news 👽

Date of sighting: Oct 8, 2025

Location of sighting: Bountiful, Utah, USA

Hey I recorded this in my backyard today and there was this amazing disk UFO about 500 meters across over the Salt Lake City Airport, Utah today. The disk also had a mini disk above it. The planes all flew around it. None chose to fly through it. Appearing as a cloud is the number one easiest way for aliens to fly low to the ground so they can actually look out the ship and see humans and life with their own eyes rather than staring at a computer screen experiencing it. 

Scott C. Waring 

 

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08-10-2025 om 21:58 geschreven door peter  

What’s going on in Arizona! Stargate portal in mountain used by aliens 👽 UFO sighting daily news 📰

Date of discovery: Oct 4, 2025

Location of discovery: Arizona, USA

Guys check this out. In the Arizona desert there is a mountain with a greenish emerald portal in it. It's probably not visible with the naked eye in person, since most portals must be hidden, however the digital eye of a satellite has picked up on it. Defiantly a great method of aliens traveling across the universe in a flash of an eye. 

Scott C. Waring 

 

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08-10-2025 om 21:52 geschreven door peter  

Cube UFO Over Midlothian, Virginia On Oct 5, 2025, UAP Alien Sighting News....VIDEO!

Notice the aura around the UFO below? Dead give away...alien propulsion systems there. 

Date of sighting: Oct 5, 2025

Location of sighting: Midlothian, Virginia, USA

Source: NUFORC #193027

Watch this recent video of a metallic cube moving across the sky. It's flying low while rotation ever so slowly. The thing that gives this object away is the aura around it. UFOs have auras around it...or so says the famous nuclear engineer Bob Lazar of Area S4. Notice the screenshot above...the light around the cube...it's the energy aura created by the alien propulsion systems. 100% proof this is an alien craft. 

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Eyewitness states: 

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08-10-2025 om 21:46 geschreven door peter  

UFO over New York on Oct 5, 2025 UAP Alien sighting news, aliens want to be seen! Video.

Date of sighting: Oct 5, 2025

Location of sighting: Newburgh, New York, USA

Source: NUFORC

 

This is a UFO that morphs or changes shape. Shapeshifter's are actually very common and as we see in several frames, this UFO does just that. UFOs often look white or silvery from far away, however when you see one a few meters from you...the colors are totally mesmerizing. It's clear this UFO was trying to slow down on a very windy day. The wind is blowing, however the object in the sky barely moves at all, then suddenly moves away. 100% proof that this is an alien craft. 

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Eyewitness states:

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08-10-2025 om 21:36 geschreven door peter  

UFOs over Maxwell, New Mexico, USA on October 6, 2025, UFO UAP sighting news 👽 watch the sky!

Date of sighting: Oct 6, 2025

Location of sighting: Maxwell, New Mexico, USA

Source: NUFORC 

 

Watch carefully and you will see not one but many glowing spheres appear and disappear in New Mexico. Person was at a rest area and noticed the dancing lights in the sky. Aliens want to be noticed and it's 100% clear that this was intentional to test the publics reactions to them. This is building up to something big soon. 

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Eyewitness states: 

Lights on object Brights lights descending Driving north on 1-25 noticed bright lights to the east. Stopped at rest area and walked to edge of rest area to watch the lights. Watched lights seem to appear, descend, or move sideways. Sometimes one light sometimes three at once. Took photos and video with cell phone. Lights caught my attention because I had seen the same phenomena on the night of Friday October 3rd in Alamogordo NM with several other people facing west. Lights displayed same movement of appearing suddenly, growing in brightness and fading off.

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08-10-2025 om 21:28 geschreven door peter  

Apollo Sample Preservation

Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt collected these samples of volcanic material from the Taurus Littrow region, after pushing a hollow metal cylinder 60 centimeters into the regolith. Upon their return, the NASA Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis (ANGSA) program preserved the entire tube full of material in a helium chamber for future scientists to study.

After fifty years on the shelf, NASA has finally begun allowing researchers to apply modern scientific tools to ANGSA samples. Gaining access to the precious samples is no easy feat, though. A rigorous and competitive application process is in place to ensure that ANGSA releases materials only to the most deserving projects.

One of the recipients of the lunar samples was James Dottin of Brown University, whose work proposed using ion mass spectrometry on the lunar soil for the first time, in an effort to explore the sulfur in what resembled mantle-derived volcanic rock.

“I was targeting sulfur that had a texture that would suggest it was erupted with the rock and not added through a different process,” Dottin explained.

Sulfur-33

The unexpected sulfur compounds found in the samples were strange for their high depletion of sulfur-33, which is among the four most radioactively stable sulfur isotopes. Compared to sulfur-33 samples recovered on Earth, the lunar samples are far different, as terrestrial sulfur-33 is typically far less depleted.

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08-10-2025 om 21:19 geschreven door peter  

Scientists observed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using the Swift ultraviolet space telescope. With the help of this instrument, they found hydroxyl ions, indicating the presence of water on the comet. This allows us to compare it to the “cosmic icebergs” that are constantly present in our Solar System.

Water on comet 3I/ATLAS

Scientists have published a study of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using NASA’s Swift space telescope. This orbital observatory operates in ultraviolet light and is capable of performing spectral analysis for this wavelength range. As a result, scientists learned something interesting about its chemical composition.

In particular, water was found on it. More precisely, the telescope captured ultraviolet light from the hydroxyl ion OH, but it cannot be anything other than the decay product of a water molecule. Thus, a safe assumption is that it is present there.

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08-10-2025 om 21:02 geschreven door peter  

A new study has refuted the popular theory about the unexpected shortening of Dimorphos’ orbital period. Scientists have discovered that the proposed mechanism would actually have the opposite effect. 

In 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) vehicle deliberately collided with Dimorphos, a small satellite of the near-Earth asteroid Didymos. The mission was dedicated to protecting our planet. Scientists wanted to test whether the space ram technique could be used to change the orbit of a celestial body threatening Earth.

The demonstration was quite impressive. The period of Dimorphos’s orbit around Didymos after the impact was reduced by as much as 33 minutes, which far exceeded the scientists’ expectations. However, in the following weeks, something unusual happened: observations revealed an additional reduction in the orbital period of another 30 seconds. This situation has left researchers perplexed as to its causes.

The initial hypothesis suggested a scenario known as binary system hardening. It involves debris ejected as a result of the collision interacting with Dimorphos’ gravity and ultimately being ejected from the system, causing it to lose angular momentum and acquire a tighter orbit. 

However, the results of a recent study conducted by scientists from Université Côte d’Azur have cast doubt on this scenario. Simulation showed that Dimorphos was too weak a “scatterer” to affect the angular momentum of the system. 

If the ejected particles do not disperse, the most likely consequence will be re-accretion, in which the debris falls back onto one of the components of the binary system. Since the collision between DART and Dimorphos was head-on, most of the ejected material entered prograde orbits. This means that they are moving in the same direction as Dimorphos and Didymos in their mutual motion around the Sun. In turn, when material moving in the prograde direction re-accretes, it increases the angular momentum of the binary system. This leads not to a decrease, but to an increase in the orbital period, which contradicts the observed pattern.

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08-10-2025 om 20:52 geschreven door peter  

The origin of Easter Island's iconic head statues is one of the world's greatest archaeological puzzles.

Now, scientists claim to have solved one important part of the mystery.

Weighing between 12 and 80 tonnes, scientists have long wondered how the island's ancient civilisation could have moved the huge stone statues into place.

Using a combination of 3D modelling and real–life experiments, scientists have confirmed that the statues actually 'walked' to their final destinations.

After studying nearly 1,000 of the heads – known as moai – anthropologists found that the people of Rapa Nui likely used ropes to rock the statues in a zig–zag pattern.

This technique would have allowed small teams of people to move the enormous moai over long distances with relatively little effort.

Co–author of the study Professor Carl Lipo, of Binghamton University, says: 'Once you get it moving, it isn't hard at all—people are pulling with one arm.

'It conserves energy, and it moves really quickly, the hard part is getting it rocking in the first place.'

Scientists say that they have solved the mystery of how Rapa Nui's stone heads reached their destinations. According to a new study, the stone heads 'walked' to their destinations 

The origin of Easter Island's iconic head statues is one of the world's greatest archaeological puzzles

Previously, anthropologists had thought that the moai must have been laid flat and pulled all the way to their destinations.

This would have been an enormously strenuous task requiring a large number of people, and would have been almost impossible for some of the larger heads.

However, there is now mounting evidence to suggest that the people of Rapa Nui had come up with a more elegant solution.

By attaching ropes to either side of the head and pulling back and forth, the moai can be rocked side to side and shuffled forward in a 'walking' motion.

Professor Lipo and his collaborator Professor Terry Hunt, of the University of Arizona, previously tested their walking theory on smaller models, but wanted to see how it would work for larger moai.

First, the researchers created a detailed 3D model of a moai head to investigate which features helped them walk.

They discovered that the moai appear to have been carefully designed with walking in mind.

Their large D–shaped base and forward–leaning position make them more likely to move forward in a zig–zag pattern when rocked side to side.

Scientists used computer modelling to investigate how the moai heads might have moved, and found that they were perfectly shaped to rock forwards in a zig–zag pattern

With a D–shaped base and forward–leaning position, the heads are made more likely to shuffle forward when rocked from side to side. This suggests they were walked rather than pulled 

To test this theory in the real world, Professor Lipo and Professor Hunt constructed a 4.35–tonne replica moai head based on their 3D model.

Just like the real things, this model had a D–shaped base and the distinctive forward–leaning centre of gravity.

With a team of just 18 people, the researchers were able to move the moai 100 metres in just 40 minutes – much faster than previous attempts.

The researchers argue that this is extremely strong evidence that the largest of the moai heads must have been moved by walking.

Professor Lipo says: 'The physics makes sense. What we saw experimentally actually works.

'And as it gets bigger, it still works. All the attributes that we see about moving gigantic ones only get more and more consistent the bigger and bigger they get, because it becomes the only way you could move it.'

This new scientific evidence even aligns with surviving oral traditions on the island, which describe the heads 'walking' from the quarry where they were made to their final positions.

To add even more support for the theory, the study also looked at the network of 'moai roads' which criss–cross the island.

Some moai heads found by the side of transport routes show evidence of attempts to right them by digging under their feet (pictured). The researchers believe these 'moai roads' were also shaped specifically to help support a rocking motion. 

'Every time they're moving a statue, it looks like they're making a road. The road is part of moving the statue,' says Professor Lipo.

These specially prepared paths are believed to have been made specifically to enable the moai heads to be moved over long distances, and their shape is perfect for 'walking'.

Made to be around 4.5 metres wide with a concave profile, the researchers found that the specific shape of these roads helped to stabilise the heads and made them more likely to shuffle forwards.

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Moai fallen by the side of the road during transport even have signs that people attempted to right them by digging underneath their 'feet'.  

According to the researchers, this is another strong indication that the people of Rapa Nui knew that walking was the best way to move their large statues.

Professor Lipo says: 'It shows that the Rapa Nui people were incredibly smart. They figured this out.

'So it really gives honour to those people, saying, look at what they were able to achieve, and we have a lot to learn from them in these principles.'

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08-10-2025 om 20:41 geschreven door peter  

Earth's largest ocean current is grinding to a halt: Crucial system is now flowing three times slower than it was 130,000 years ago – and the consequences could be disastrous

• READ MORE: Key North Atlantic current is on the brink of COLLAPSING

By WILIAM HUNTER, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY REPORTER

Five times stronger than the Gulf Stream and 100 times larger than the Amazon River, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is by far the world's largest ocean current.

But this key system is grinding to a halt, a new study has warned. 

Analysing core samples, scientists from the University of Bonn have found that the ACC has undergone a major slowdown.

In fact, the ocean current is now running three times slower than it was 130,000 years ago.

Worryingly, if it continues, this dramatic slowdown could have disastrous consequences.

The ACC is largely driven by westerly winds, which allow the circling flow to transport heat, dissolved carbon, and nutrients from ocean to ocean.

That makes it essential for sustaining not only regional temperatures, but also the entire global climate and ecosystem.

'If this current "engine" breaks down, there could be severe consequences, including more climate variability, with greater extremes in certain regions, and accelerated global warming due to a reduction in the ocean's capacity to act as a carbon sink,' warned Dr Bishakhdatta Gayen, associate professor at the University of Melbourne, who was not involved in the study. 

Scientists have found that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (illustrated), the world's largest ocean current, was over three times faster 130,000 years ago 

The ACC circles the Antarctic continent from East to West, connecting the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. 

While it's critical for global heat transport, how it has changed through the years has remained unclear until now. 

To get to the bottom of it, the University of Bonn scientists looked at sediment samples collected by a research vessel in the Scotia Sea north of Antarctica.

This allowed them to work out how the ACC has changed in speed and position over the last 160,000 years.

'The velocity in the second–to–last warm period, roughly 130,000 years ago, was more than three times greater than in the last millennia comprising the current warm period,' said expedition lead Dr Michael Weber.

While the reason for this slowdown remains unclear, the researchers suggest that most of the change can be attributed to the differences in Earth's orbit around the sun.

The Earth orbits the sun in an elliptical pattern that repeats once every 100,000 years.

At the same time, the Earth's axis changes in tilt and rotation once every 21,000 years. 

Using sediment cores gathered by the research vessel Joides Resolution, researchers were able to see how the current has changed its speed and position over the last 160,000 years

This creates a pattern of radiation intensity from the sun that has a strong influence on the speed of winds and, therefore, on the speed of wind–driven currents like the ACC.

This could explain why the current was moving so much faster 130,000 years ago – despite the climate looking largely the same as today.

Those same patterns of radiation likely forced the ACC at least 370 miles (600 km) closer to the south pole during the last warm period than it is today.

Dr Webber explained: 'Both parameters showed a simultaneous, mutually reinforcing maximum exclusively during the last warm period.' 

However, research has also shown that human activity is further slowing down the ACC.

Using Australia's fastest supercomputer, researchers from the University of Melbourne recently simulated how the ACC will respond to a warming climate.

Worryingly, they found that human–caused climate change will likely cause the ACC to slow down by a further 20 per cent by 2050.

Scientists had previously thought that the current would actually get faster as the planet warmed, since warmer air produces faster winds and warm water is less dense. 

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), highlighted here in green, could slow by a further 20 per cent due to the effects of human–caused climate change 

However, these simulations revealed that the impacts of climate change on Antarctica's Ice shelves meant climate change was actually slowing the ACC overall.

As ice melts, it dumps vast quantities of cold, fresh water into the oceans, which fills the deep oceans and counteracts the effects of ocean warming – leading to a slower current.

If the ACC slows down further, it is likely to have dramatic and devastating effects on the global climate.

The ACC helps circulate nutrients around Antarctica that feed fish populations that global fisheries rely on.

The current also acts like a barrier, keeping warm water and invasive species like Southern Bull Kelp out of Antarctica.

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If this barrier weakens, more warm water will reach the Antarctic sea ice, further accelerating ice melt and exacerbating the slowdown effect.

That could lead to widespread disruption of global climate patterns and reduce the oceans' ability to help regulate world temperatures.

The Antarctic Ice Sheet holds around 90 per cent of all the fresh water on Earth and has the potential to cause massive increases in sea levels should it melt.

While researchers don't believe the ice sheet will vanish anytime soon, even modest accelerations in sea level rise could be catastrophic for the 230 million people who live within three feet of the high tide line today.

ATLANTIC OCEAN CIRCULATION PLAYS A KEY ROLE IN REGULATING THE GLOBAL CLIMATE

When it comes to regulating global climate, the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean plays a key role.

This is due to a constantly moving system of deep-water circulation often referred to as the Global Ocean Conveyor Belt which sends warm, salty Gulf Stream water to the North Atlantic where it releases heat to the atmosphere and warms Western Europe.

The cooler water then sinks to great depths and travels all the way to Antarctica and eventually circulates back up to the Gulf Stream.

When it comes to regulating global climate, the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean plays a key role

This motion is fuelled by thermohaline currents – a combination of temperature and salt.

It takes thousands of years for water to complete a continuous journey around the world.

Researchers believe that as the North Atlantic began to warm near the end of the Little Ice Age, freshwater disrupted the system, called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).

Arctic sea ice, and ice sheets and glaciers surrounding the Arctic began to melt, forming a huge natural tap of fresh water that gushed into the North Atlantic.

This huge influx of freshwater diluted the surface seawater, making it lighter and less able to sink deep, slowing down the AMOC system.

Researchers found the AMOC has been weakening more rapidly since 1950 in response to recent global warming.

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08-10-2025 om 18:43 geschreven door peter  

Space agency breaks silence on 'foreign' interstellar object soaring past Mars: 'A rare visitor'

• READ MORE: Mysterious interstellar visitor spotted above Mars appears as 'massive cylindrical craft'

By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

The European Space Agency (ESA) has finally shared new details about the mysterious interstellar visitor days after its closest approach to Mars.

The object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, came within 18.6 million miles of the Red Planet on October 3, and while NASA quickly uploaded images captured by its Perseverance rover on the Martian surface, ESA had remained quiet until now. 

The ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) captured images of the object, appearing as a tiny, blurry white dot in a series of images.

The object's icy nucleus and its surrounding halo of gas and dust, called a coma, could not be distinguished separately, but the faint glow was clearly visible against the blackness of space. 

Scientists were initially unsure whether either orbiter's cameras would detect the comet at all. Both are designed to photograph Mars' bright, rocky surface from just a few hundred to a few thousand miles away, not to capture a dim object tens of millions of miles distant.

'This was a very challenging observation for the instrument,' said Nick Thomas, principal investigator of the CaSSIS camera. 

'The comet is around 10,000 to 100,000 times fainter than our usual targets.'

The visible coma suggested that 3I/ATLAS is beginning to heat up as sunlight reaches its surface, causing ice to vaporize and release dust, which gives comets their ghostly appearance. 

The European Space Agency finally released images 3I/ATLAS, captured by a Mars orbiter 

Originating from outside our Solar System, 3I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar comet ever seen, following 1I/ʻOumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019.

'These comets are absolutely foreign,' the ESA shared on Tuesday, referring to 3I/ATLAS as a 'rare visitor.'

'Every planet, moon, asteroid, comet and lifeform in our Solar System shares a common origin. 

'But interstellar comets are true outsiders, carrying clues about the formation of worlds far beyond our own.'

ExoMars TGO captured the series of images with its Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS), which was unable to distinguish the nucleus from the coma due to 3I/ATLAS being too far away.

However, the device was able to image the coma that spanned thousands of miles across. 

'The full size of the coma could not be measured by CaSSIS because the brightness of the dust decreases quickly with distance from the nucleus,' the ESA report shared.

'This means that the coma fades into the noise in the image.'

3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Mars on October 3 and is set to continue through our Solar System

NASA was quick to release images of the object snapped by its Perseverance rover on Mars. The agency uploaded them over the weekend 

Typically, material from the coma is swept into a long tail that can stretch for millions of miles as the comet moves closer to the sun. 

'The tail is much dimmer than the coma. We can’t see the tail in the CaSSIS images, but it may become more visible in future observations as the comet continues to heat up and release more ice,' shared the ESA. 

The images have flooded X, where one user posted: 'ESA Finally Releases Images of 3I/ATLAS. After days of silence, ESA finally broke the blackout.'

The ESA's report comes days after NASA released its view of the visitor.

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who has been convinced that the object could be an alien craft or probe, analyzed the Perseverance rover's photos by calculating its distance, speed, and camera settings.

According to his initial study, Loeb was not convinced 3I/ATLAS is actually a massive cylindrical object, noting that the strange shape might have been a trick of the rover's camera stretching out its shape.

He explained that the apparent cylinder from the rover's 'Navcam' was likely caused by the camera stacking hundreds of images of 3I/ATLAS over a period of about 10 minutes, making it look more like a log than a ball.

The professor added that 3I/ATLAS is likely smaller and rounder, but still massive, with a potential diameter of more than 28 miles across.

Dr Horace Drew, a retired senior researcher at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), noted that the mysterious green glow seen in some images could be a result of the object being an interstellar spacecraft coated in nickel.

Color-enhanced images shared by multiple social media users revealed a strange green glow around 3I/ATLAS

Drew explained that humans use the same practice on Earth-made space technology on a much smaller scale.

'It is not a 'comet,'' Drew declared on a post on X Monday morning.

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Drew disagreed with Loeb's conclusion that the cylindrical shape was a result of the Mars rover sending back a stretched image over several minutes, claiming that an amateur astronomer on Earth captured a similar shape with their telescope.

'We can see an extended white shape, with a green coma outside. Not a small white ball,' Drew explained in a post about the astronomer's photograph.

Drew, who earned his PhD in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology, added that previous images of the interstellar object were allegedly from a 'head-on view' and didn't capture its shape from the side, like the new photos from Mars.

Loeb said he's excited about another image taken by a different Mars camera, called HiRISE, which has better resolution and could show 3I/ATLAS more clearly.

That image is being sent back to Earth by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and has yet to be released by NASA.

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08-10-2025 om 18:27 geschreven door peter  

Brits have been left in awe after spotting what is believed to be a 'meteor' glowing through the night sky. 

Lucky stargazers in Northfields and Ealing, west London, have reported seeing a blue-ish green blob race through the city's sky on Tuesday. 

One onlooker described seeing the 'streak' of light dash through the clouds at around 8.10pm to 8.30pm, and initially believed it was fireworks.  

'I'm used to seeing planes coming and going to Heathrow, and also helicopters coming and going; this was not that,' they wrote on Reddit. 

'My next thought was fireworks but I'm 90% sure it wasn't that, and there was no explosion.

'For reference it was about the same size as the full-ish moon tonight, visible through the clouds, but as a much brighter blue-green color and, again, moving quite fast.

'It was a very odd combination of speed, size and brightness and didn't look like anything I've ever seen in the sky here before.'

Others claimed to have seen the unusual sighting from Wimbledon and Hampstead Heath, with some even catching a glimpse as far afield as Brighton and Grantham.

Lucky stargazers in Northfields and West Ealing, west London, and further afield, have reported seeing a blue-ish green blob race through the city's sky on Tuesday night

It has not yet been confirmed what the colourful 'streak' in Tuesday's sky was, however, the Daily Mail has approached the Met Office for comment. 

It comes as earlier this week Jessica Lee, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich also said sky gazers could expect the Draconid meteor shower today. 

But, the meteor shower, which is expected to peak Wednesday night may be difficult to see due to the moonlight, Ms Lee warned. 

'The Draconids meteor shower is named after the constellation of Draco the dragon,' Ms Lee said.

'This is because, although meteors appear all over the sky, they all appear to emerge or radiate from a single point that lies within this constellation.

'The meteor shower is visible from the 6th until the 10th of October this year.

'The best time will be from around 8pm on the 8th of October.

'At this time, that radiant point within Draco will be in the north-west of the sky, slowly getting lower in the sky until sunrise.

'The moon will be almost full on this night, however, so it could make the meteors tricky to see.'

The Draconids are caused when debris from the comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner burns up in the Earth's atmosphere, Ms Lee added.

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'Most of this debris will burn up at a height of around 80km above the ground, so this is not a dangerous event,' she said.

'For the best chances to spot them, find a dark area of clear sky and allow around 20 minutes to let your eyes adapt to the dark.

'It may also be advisable to lie down as you may be looking up for a long time.'

In September, walkers were urged to keep an eye out for meteorite fragments scattered over Scotland after a shooting star was spotted in the early hours of July 3. 

The meteor is believed to have exploded over northern Scotland, with the 'fall zone' straddling Loch Treig in Lochaber, Highland. 

The aerial event was captured on some cameras and shared on social media, showing a big yellow spark soaring through the dark sky.

Members of the public have since been tasked to look for the fragments, which should appear 'black, glassy and shiny'.

Meteorites – rocks from outer space and have fallen to the surface of a planet – may have delivered essential compounds facilitating the evolution of life as we know it.

Professor Luke Daly, a planetary geoscientist and space rock hunter at the University of Glasgow, called them 'time capsules of the early solar system'.

'They hold a wealth of information about how our solar system formed and developed,' he said.

'This is a very exciting opportunity to learn more about where this rock came from and where it has been and fill in a bit more of the jigsaw of our solar system's history.' 

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08-10-2025 om 18:14 geschreven door peter  

Bob Lazar Reveals What He Saw Inside the UFO at S-4

In one of the most discussed interviews on The Joe Rogan Experience, physicist and whistleblower Bob Lazar detailed his extraordinary claim of having seen the interior of an alien spacecraft during his time working at a secret U.S. facility known as S-4, near Area 51. Lazar’s account remains one of the most detailed and controversial depictions of non-human technology ever shared publicly.

An Unworldly Interior

Lazar recalled being allowed inside the craft on only one occasion, primarily to examine how its internal components were arranged. According to him, the layout was crucial, since the craft’s systems operated without any visible wiring or connections.

The moment he stepped inside, he said the environment felt profoundly alien. Everything was one uniform color — a dark, pewter-like tone — with no sharp angles or seams. It appeared, he said, as if “someone had molded the interior from wax and then heated it just enough to let everything melt slightly together.” Every surface flowed into another, giving the sense that the structure was fused or grown, rather than built.

Designed for Smaller Beings

Inside the craft, Lazar found it too small for an average human. At 5’10”, he could not stand upright except at the very center. The seats were tiny, clearly made for beings about half his height — roughly three feet tall.

There were no familiar features such as control panels, lights, or decorations. The space was minimal and utilitarian — only a few seats, a central reactor, and several rectangular components positioned symmetrically around it. “There was nothing you could recognize as human technology,” Lazar said.

Advanced Materials and ‘Smart’ Surfaces

While exploring, Lazar noticed archways that became transparent at times. He observed another team working on one of these archways as it shifted from opaque metal to see-through material. The phenomenon reminded him of “smart glass”, a real-world technology that changes opacity, but far beyond anything publicly known.

He described the craft’s material as cold to the touch, suggesting it was metallic or perhaps a form of advanced ceramic. The smooth, continuous design reinforced his belief that the entire object was a single integrated system, not assembled from parts.

Three Levels of Technology

Lazar stated the craft contained three internal levels:

1. Main Deck: Contained the reactor and three seats arranged evenly around it.
2. Lower Level: Housed “gravity amplifiers” and “emitters” — cylindrical devices resembling trash cans attached to pipes. These, he said, were responsible for the craft’s propulsion.
3. Upper Level: Believed to include navigation or control systems, with dark, sensor-like panels on the outer surface used for orientation in space.

He physically entered the main deck and leaned into the lower level to observe the positioning of the gravity amplifiers firsthand.

According to Lazar, the craft he entered was one of nine extraterrestrial vehicles stored and studied at S-4. Each had a different design, suggesting they came from different origins or time periods. One, he said, looked like a “Jell-O mold” with rippled sides, while another resembled a flat disc “like a straw hat.” At least one of them showed visible damage, possibly from being shot down or recovered after a crash.

The Enduring Mystery

Bob Lazar’s story has inspired decades of debate, skepticism, and fascination. Critics question his scientific background and lack of physical evidence, while supporters argue that his detailed technical descriptions of gravity manipulation and element 115 propulsion predate modern discussions of exotic energy physics.

Whether seen as revelation or fabrication, Lazar’s account remains one of the most vivid and technically specific portrayals of an alleged alien craft interior — a description that continues to shape popular culture’s image of reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology.

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08-10-2025 om 16:59 geschreven door peter