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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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22-03-2026
Rujm el-Hiri, Israel’s Mysterious “Stonehenge of the East” Is Not Alone, New Research Reveals
Credit: Y. Shmidov and A. Wiegmann
Rujm el-Hiri, Israel’s Mysterious “Stonehenge of the East” Is Not Alone, New Research Reveals
Israel’s strange Wheel of Ghosts, first discovered in 1968, turns out not to be so unusual after all, as new research combining remote sensing and AI now confirms the presence of many similar sites in the region.
Situated in the Golan Heights and composed of 40,000 tons of rock, archaeologists estimate the structure to date back between 3,500 and 6,500 years. Commonly referred to as the “Stonehenge of the East,” the site’s official name is Rujm el-Hiri, and it is cast in a decidedly new light in a recent paper published in PLOS One, revealing many similar structures.
Interpreting the Wheel of Ghosts
Existing interpretations have diverged in their explanations of what the Wheel of Ghosts meant to the people who built it. Those explanations run the gamut of what is generally assumed of these mysterious ancient sites: a ceremonial space, a burial mound, or an astronomical observatory.
However, these interpretations all relied on a major assumption that has proven false: that the Wheel of Ghosts is unique to the area.
That basic assumption has now been turned on its head by an international multidisciplinary team of physicists and archaeologists. Their work was rooted in remote sensing, a broad category of tools that have allowed archaeologists to view areas at broad scales, and even image beneath the ground. While such technologies have long existed, their increased adoption among archaeologists has led to major discoveries in the last two decades.
Newly discovered sites surrounding the Wheel of Ghosts maintained the round motif of the original. Credit: M. Birkenfeld
The Satellite View
Data for the research came from archives containing multiple satellite imagery platforms, including Google Earth Pro and CNES/Airbus. These archives held two decades of imagery captured between 2004 and 2024, providing multiple observations of the same regions over the years. Processing those images and then performing a comparative analysis helped the team to uncover these new sites.
Through AI processing, obscuring features like shadows and seasonal vegetation were mitigated, revealing features otherwise impossible to discern. These included signs of ancient human intervention, along with other notable landscape features, which were typically obscured. The team noted that this is a major boon to archaeology, alleviating the need for expensive, time-consuming expeditions to regions that may contain nothing of interest.
In the AI-processed imagery, researchers uncovered new sites resembling the wheel of Ghosts.
Credit: A. Kleiner
Uncovering Further Wheel of Ghosts-Like Sites
During their research, the team was shocked to find 28 sites resembling the Wheel of Ghosts, all of which had remained hidden in the area. These large, round structures shared many of the characteristics with Rujm El-Hiri and were all situated within a tight 16-mile radius of the site.
Amid the new discoveries, the Wheel of Ghosts remains singular in terms of its quality. Other sites were smaller, less elaborate, and more heavily degraded. This is likely why they remained undetected for almost six decades after the Wheel of Ghosts was first identified by modern archaeologists.
One of the primary impediments to clearly understanding the original site and these additional newly discovered structures is the broad time range archaeologists attribute to the original’s construction. This makes it difficult to determine exactly which group of people inhabited the area at the time, further clouding what these structures may have been intended for.
Aerial views of Circles 11(a) and 12 (b) identified in a survey conducted by remote sensing and published in the PLOS ONE journal on March 18, 2026. (Aerial imagery provided by the survey of Israel (MAPI)- used with permission. Upper photo by A. Wiegman. Prepared by M. Birkenfeld and U. Berger)
Intriguingly, while there seems to be a clear group of similar structures in this region, sites farther away in Galilee and Lebanon also resemble the Wheel of Ghosts in the new research. Tying together all of these sites, both near and far, will now require extensive on-the-ground research to determine if they were all occupied by a single culture
Ryan Whalen covers science and technology for The Debrief. He holds an MA in History and a Master of Library and Information Science with a certificate in Data Science. He can be contacted at ryan@thedebrief.org, and follow him on Twitter @mdntwvlf.
A Texas woman says she believes a meteorite crashed through the roof of her home on Saturday, following a loud boom reported by residents near Houston.
The space object reentry, which was later confirmed by NASA, occurred on March 21 at approximately 4:40 p.m. local time.
“Many eyewitnesses in the state of Texas have filed reports on the American Meteor Society website of a bright fireball,” a NASA statement read. “The meteor was also detected by the Geostationary Lightning Mappers on the GOES satellites.”
Officials said the object became visible as it reached an altitude of about 49 miles above Stagecoach, which lies outside Houston to the northwest.
Before breaking apart approximately 29 miles above Bammel, Texas, the object reached speeds of 35,000 miles per hour, causing a loud boom reported by many in the region as the object streaked through the skies toward the southeast.
“The disintegration of the asteroidal fragment—which weighed about a ton with a diameter of 3 feet—unleashed an energy of 26 tons of TNT,” NASA’s statement read, “creating a pressure wave that propagated to the ground and causing the booms heard by some in the area.”
NASA officials also said that weather radar data showed evidence of “meteorites falling to the ground between Willowbrook and Northgate Crossing.”
One of those meteorite fragments may have struck the home of Sherrie James, a resident of the Spring area outside of Houston, who said that she found an unusual rock fragment after a loud noise led her and her family to discover a hole punctured in the ceiling.
“My grandson went to check and said there was a hole in the ceiling,” James told local news outlet KHOU11. “I saw the rock, and I thought, ‘That looks like a meteor.’”
Local authorities said they initially suspected the object had fallen from an aircraft. However, with confirmation of a meteor that exploded above the area and NASA’s advisory that portions could fall to Earth, they quickly connected the incident on Saturday to the object that damaged James’s home.
The alarming incident occurred just days after similar events unfolded in Ohio, as a six-ton meteor blazed through the skies at speeds NASA estimates were at least 45,000 miles per hour.
Many residents in northern Ohio and surrounding states also reported hearing a loud “mystery boom” at the time of the meteor reentry.
One resident who spoke with The Debrief compared the sound associated with the object seen over Ohio to a nuclear blast.
Robert Lunsford, writing in an update posted on the website of the American Meteor Society, said that a new meteor shower was recently identified, which may help account for the recent rise in space object reentries.
“Between March 18-22, 2025, a new meteor shower from the constellation of Puppis was discovered by cameras of the Global Meteor Network,” Lunsford wrote. “It is tentatively called M2025-F1.
Lunsford said that rates remained low, but that “activity could have been noticed by someone viewing in this general direction during these nights.”
“If a repeat performance occurs this year, it will most likely occur during the period March 19-23,” Lunsford said.
Fortunately, no residents reported any injuries following Saturday’s incident near Houston, Texas.
Micah Hanks is the Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of The Debrief. A longtime reporter on science, defense, and technology with a focus on space and astronomy, he can be reached atmicah@thedebrief.org. Follow him on X @MicahHanks, and at micahhanks.com.
UFOs Landed In The Brazil Jungle, Google Earth Map! UFO UAP Sighting News
UFOs Landed In The Brazil Jungle, Google Earth Map! UFO UAP Sighting News.
Date of discovery: March 10, 2026
Location of discovery: Brazil jungle
Google coordinates: -25.152750, -49.407833
There are two hidden UFOs in the jungle of Brazil. One round and one triangle shaped. The round UFO has a very mechanical look to it with its arms and dark long windows between each arm. The triangle UFO is also unique in that it has a wing structure and tail wings. Now many UFO reports and videos have been coming out of Brazil this last twelve months and each one back this up...that UFOs land in the jungle forest in locations inaccessible to humans. These are rare catches, and I used google earth history to see they were not there a year before. Two UFOs which look like they are landed, not crashed. Two intact...alien craft...just sitting there...so the people on board could exit, explore and research the existing plants, animals, etc.
While Searching The Bermuda Triangle For Lost Aircraft, History Channel Made A Tragic Discovery – And Contacted NASA To Confirm
While Searching The Bermuda Triangle For Lost Aircraft, History Channel Made A Tragic Discovery – And Contacted NASA To Confirm
Divers were searching the Bermuda Triangle for lost WWII planes when they found an odd – and clearly human-made – artifact buried in sand on the ocean floor.
While exploring its natural habitat – the Bermuda Triangle – in 2022, History Channel stumbled across an intriguing piece of material, prompting them to contact NASA for further analysis.
Intrigue surrounding the Bermuda Triangle, a loosely-defined area of ocean between Florida, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda, can largely be traced back to an incident in 1945, known as "Flight 19".
On 5 December 1945, five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers carrying 14 men were participating in a mock bombing run in the Bahamas, a training exercise for student pilots.
In the second leg of the exercise, the team ran into some unusual trouble. In intercepted radio messages, one student pilot could be heard asking a crew member for a compass reading.
"I don’t know where we are," they could be heard replying. "We must have gotten lost after that last turn."
U.S. Navy Lieutenant Charles Carroll Taylor, an experienced pilot leading the flight, was later heard confirming similar issues to another pilot.
"Both my compasses are out, and I am trying to find Fort Lauderdale, Florida," he said in the recordings. "I am over land, but it’s broken. I am sure I’m in the Keys, but I don’t know how far down and I don’t know how to get to Fort Lauderdale."
That pilot urged Taylor to use the Sun, putting it on the port side, and the coastline to navigate their way back to Fort Lauderdale, but for reasons unknown, the advice was ignored.
"If we would just fly west we would get home," one voice was heard saying. "Dammit, if we would just fly west we would get home."
In one communication, Taylor can be heard saying that when the first plane's fuel goes below 10 gallons, then all planes would attempt a water landing. But the planes didn't return, and they likely went down in the ocean, never to be seen again. Since then, other incidents of lost planes and ships have been attributed to the "Bermuda Triangle", and it has became a popular mystery.
These days, there is waning interest in the Bermuda Triangle, with studies finding there is no real mystery to solve here, as the area does not see a statistically significant number of disappearances compared with other areas of the ocean. But that won't deter an organization as dedicated as History Channel – which these days is known for some of its more sensationalist programming – from investigating, and in this case we're glad they did.
In 2022, the channel was filming the program The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters in Florida, searching for World War II aircraft on the ocean floor, when they spotted a large piece of wreckage partially obscured by sand off the coast. Looking at the object, they found it was clearly of human construction, and covered in 20 centimeter (8 inch) square tiles. As well as that, divers could tell that it did not come from an aircraft.
Knowing they were close to Florida, which NASA essentially uses as a big launch pad, History Channel contacted the US space agency for its opinion. Soon, the agency confirmed that the debris was an artifact from the space shuttle Challenger, which tragically broke apart 73 seconds into its flight in 1986, killing all seven astronauts on board. The disaster, investigations determined, was the result of two failed O-rings sealing a joint on one of the rocket boosters.
“While it has been nearly 37 years since seven daring and brave explorers lost their lives aboard Challenger, this tragedy will forever be seared in the collective memory of our country. For millions around the globe, myself included, Jan. 28, 1986, still feels like yesterday,” then NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement.
“This discovery gives us an opportunity to pause once again, to uplift the legacies of the seven pioneers we lost, and to reflect on how this tragedy changed us. At NASA, the core value of safety is – and must forever remain – our top priority, especially as our missions explore more of
the cosmos than ever before.”
A salvage operation shortly after the disaster, the largest ever attempted, recovered 167 pieces of the shuttle, weighing a total of 118 tons, but other pieces such as the one discovered above are likely still laying on the ocean floor.
From 'Apollo 8' to 'Artemis 2': Six decades after the first flight to the Moon, the space race is no longer the same
From 'Apollo 8' to 'Artemis 2': Six decades after the first flight to the Moon, the space race is no longer the same
Story by Rafael Clemente
The idea of sending that expedition to the Moon arose in the summer of 1968. It was a proposal put forward by George Low, head of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office. The program envisioned a first flight of the main capsule around the Earth in October of that year; this would be followed by another, also orbital, which would include the lunar module. But the lunar module wouldn’t be ready until spring, which would delay the entire program, jeopardizing John F. Kennedy’s goal: “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade.”
Meanwhile, U.S. spy satellites had located the Russian N-1 super rocket (the equivalent of Wernher Von Braun’s Saturn V) installed at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It might not yet be operational, but what was certain was that, using smaller Proton rockets, the Soviet Union could launch a Soyuz-type capsule on a circumlunar trajectory. It wouldn’t be a lunar landing attempt, but the propaganda impact would be immense.
The 'Apollo 8' crew (from left to right): James Lovell, William Anders and Frank Borman.
Low sent his proposal to NASA’s top brass. If the first crewed Apollo flight was successful, the next one would be to our satellite. No lunar module. Just go, orbit a few times, and return.
The first manned mission, Apollo 7, was a success. A mixed bag, since all three astronauts caught colds that put them in a foul mood throughout the flight. This, combined with their exasperation at ground control’s constant changes and expansions to the experiment program, eventually erupted in the first mutiny aboard a spacecraft. None of the three ever flew again. But that’s another story.
NASA didn’t want to take the same risks as in 1968, especially with a new spacecraft that has only flown once without a crew. That’s why Artemis 2 won’t orbit the Moon. It will simply follow a figure-eight trajectory, passing high above the far side before heading back. Even if all propulsion systems failed, the return would be guaranteed from the very first minute. For NASA, that’s the most important thing.
And what will the astronauts do during the journey? Essentially, thoroughly test all the onboard systems, from the cameras and the computer for star navigation (the Apollo missions made do with a sextant and a computer with 38K of memory) to the new toilet built into the cabin floor, complete with a door to ensure some privacy. Half a century ago, astronauts only had plastic bags and had to trust that their colleagues would look the other way while they used them.
Specifically, the astronauts will practice the approach and formation flight with the rocket’s final stage. This is a preparatory exercise for what their Artemis 3 colleagues will have to do, but this time to dock with the lunar lander. It’s a routine maneuver, both in manual and automatic modes: the Soyuz and Dragon capsules perform it every time they have to deliver new crews to the International Space Station. But for the Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft, it’s a first.
'Apollo 8,' the first manned mission to lunar orbit, departing from Earth.
After all, NASA still remembers the problems that plagued another newly designed capsule — Boeing’s Starliner — in 2024 during its first attempt to dock with the International Space Station. Five of the 28 positional control engines failed, partly due to unexpected helium leaks and corrosion of the fuel valves. It was later discovered that the culprit had been ambient humidity while the rocket was on the launch pad.
The astronauts will serve as guinea pigs, and not just during the flight. For six months, the four have been providing blood, saliva, and urine samples to be compared with those obtained during and after the journey. The idea is to conduct a study of immune biomarkers. They have also provided bone marrow samples, which have been implanted in small, pen-sized devices to see how tissues respond to radiation and microgravity. And during the flight, their sleep, circadian rhythm, stress levels, and mood will be monitored. The attention to their mood is certainly intriguing. Not everyone has the opportunity to travel through space to contemplate, for a few hours, the side of the Moon that no one else sees.
Amerikaanse luchtmacht versnelt productie van nieuwe B-21 Raider-stealthbommenwerper
Amerikaanse luchtmacht versnelt productie van nieuwe B-21 Raider-stealthbommenwerper
Artikel door businessam.be
Amerikaanse luchtmacht versnelt productie van nieuwe B-21 Raider-stealthbommenwerper
Key takeaways
De Amerikaanse luchtmacht versnelt de productie van de Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider-stealthbommenwerper met 25 procent.
Deze versnelling zorgt voor een snellere levering van gevechtsklare bommenwerpers, waarmee wordt ingespeeld op de dringende noodzaak om de verouderde nucleaire vloot te moderniseren.
Ondanks dat er 4,5 miljard dollar (zo’n 3,9 miljard euro) extra nodig is, beperkt het versnelde schema mogelijke budgetoverschrijdingen en bouwt het voort op de reeds sterke staat van dienst van het B-21-programma.
De Amerikaanse luchtmacht versnelt de productie van de Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider stealthbommenwerper, de opvolger van de verouderde B-2 Spirit. Al bijna drie decennia lang vormt de B-2 een hoeksteen van de Amerikaanse nucleaire triade. Hoewel de vliegtuigen nog steeds operationeel zijn, naderen ze hun pensioen en moeten ze worden vervangen door een even geavanceerde bommenwerper.
B-21 Raider
Wikicommons
Verbeterde capaciteiten
De B-21, die al in de inventaris van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht is opgenomen met ten minste twee geleverde testvliegtuigen, belooft de wereldwijde aanvalscapaciteiten van de luchtmacht aanzienlijk te verbeteren. Hoewel het uiterlijk doet denken aan de B-2, zijn er belangrijke verschillen, zoals minder motoren en een kleinere voetafdruk.
Omdat het Ministerie van Luchtmacht de dringende behoefte aan de B-21 inziet, heeft het onlangs een overeenkomst gesloten met Northrop Grumman om de productie met ongeveer 25 procent te verhogen. Deze versnelling heeft tot doel de bommenwerpers sneller te leveren dan oorspronkelijk gepland, zodat er in de nabije toekomst een groter aantal gevechtsklaar is.
Budgettaire gevolgen
Het versnelde schema beperkt ook mogelijke budgetoverschrijdingen door meer vliegtuigen binnen een korter tijdsbestek te leveren. Het initiatief vereist 4,5 miljard dollar (3,9 miljard euro) extra, wat al eerder is goedgekeurd onder de Reconciliation Act voor het boekjaar 2025.
Het B-21-programma heeft zich grotendeels aan het oorspronkelijke tijdschema en budget gehouden. Dat is opvallend in vergelijking met andere Amerikaanse militaire projecten, die vaak kampen met vertragingen en kostenoverschrijdingen. Het valt nog te bezien of de versnelde levering invloed zal hebben op dit positieve trackrecord. (jv)
Alle letters van DNA en RNA aangetroffen in Ryugu-stof
Alle letters van DNA en RNA aangetroffen in Ryugu-stof
Yorick La Rivière- Redacteur astronomie/ruimtevaart & Moderator Disqus
In stof van de asteroïde Ryugu zijn alle vijf nucleobasen gevonden: de chemische letters van DNA en RNA. De vondst versterkt het idee dat de ingrediënten voor leven wijdverspreid waren in het vroege zonnestelsel en mogelijk via ruimterotsen op aarde zijn beland.
Wetenschappers hebben in stof van de asteroïde (ook: planetoïde) Ryugu iets bijzonders gevonden. Eerder werdin monsters van Ryugu al uracil gevonden, maar nu blijkt dat ook de andere vier nucleobasen aanwezig zijn.
In de monsters die de Japanse Hayabusa2-missie in 2020 naar de aarde bracht, zijn nu alle vijf de fundamentele nucleobasen aangetoond: adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine en uracil. Dat zijn de chemische bouwstenen die samen de letters van DNA en RNA vormen. Volgens de onderzoekers laat dat zien dat belangrijke ingrediënten voor leven niet alleen op aarde voorkomen.
Deze ontdekking, gepubliceerd in Nature Astronomy, toont aan dat de chemische ingrediënten voor DNA en RNA niet alleen op aarde voorkomen, maar waarschijnlijk algemeen aanwezig waren in het vroege zonnestelsel.
Wat zijn nucleobasen eigenlijk?
Nucleobasen zijn de stikstofhoudende moleculen die de ‘letters’ vormen in de genetische code. In DNA werken adenine, guanine, cytosine en thymine; in RNA wordt thymine vervangen door uracil. Samen met suikers en fosfaten vormen ze nucleotiden, de bouwstenen van DNA en RNA. Zonder deze basen zou de blauwdruk voor groei, voortplanting en evolutie simpelweg niet bestaan.
Illustratie ‘Ryugu Story’, die de detectie weergeeft van alle vijf de canonieke nucleobasen in monsters die door de Hayabusa2-missie zijn teruggebracht van de asteroïde Ryugu. Bron: JAMSTEC (press@jamstec.go.jp)
De onderzoekers analyseerden twee monsters van het oppervlak van Ryugu en vonden in beide de volledige set. Het ene monster bevatte zelfs ongeveer drie keer zo veel van deze organische moleculen als het andere. Omdat de monsters rechtstreeks van Ryugu naar de aarde zijn gebracht en niet eerst door de aardse atmosfeer zijn gegaan, is de kans op vervuiling praktisch nihil. Daardoor leveren de monsters bijzonder sterk bewijs dat zulke moleculen ook buiten de aarde kunnen ontstaan.
Twee fragmenten van het oppervlak van de asteroïde Ryugu, bemonsterd door de Hayabusa2-missie. Het linkse fragment (A0480) weegt 11,9 milligram, het rechtse (C0370) 8,3 milligram. In beide zijn alle vijf nucleobasen aangetroffen. Foto: JAXA/JAMSTEC
Elke asteroïde heeft zijn eigen chemie
Opvallend genoeg is de chemische samenstelling van Ryugu niet identiek aan die van andere bekende ruimterotsen. In de Murchison-meteoriet, die in 1969 in Australië insloeg, zitten relatief veel purines (adenine en guanine). Daarentegen bevatten asteroïde Bennu en de meteoriet Orgueil (Frankrijk, 1864) juist meer pyrimidines (cytosine, thymine en uracil). Ryugu laat een meer evenwichtige verdeling zien. Dat wijst erop dat deze objecten elk een andere chemische en evolutionaire geschiedenis hebben doorgemaakt.
De onderzoekers denken dat ammoniak daarbij een belangrijke rol kan hebben gespeeld, al gaat het nog om een hypothese en niet om sluitend bewijs.
Figuur 3 uit de Nature-studie. a, De totale concentraties (in pmol per gram) van purines, pyrimidines en alle nucleobasen in monsters van Ryugu (A0480 in rood, C0370 in blauw), Bennu (groen), en de meteorieten Orgueil (grijs) en Murchison (zwart). b, De verhouding tussen purines en pyrimidines (Pu/Py) in dezelfde monsters. Ter vergelijking zijn de ratio’s weergegeven van experimenten met ijs-analoog-fotochemie (paars) en formamide-bestra ling (bruin). c, De sterke correlatie (R² = 0,89) tussen de Pu/Py-verhouding en de beschikbaarheid van ammoniak in monsters van Ryugu, Bennu en Orgueil. Dit wijst op een gedeeld vormingsmechanisme dat afhangt van de chemische omgeving. Afbeelding: Toshiki Koga et al., Nature Astronomy (2026)
Een kosmisch verhaal van leven
Ryugu is een donkere, brokstukkenhoop van ongeveer 900 meter groot die behoort tot de zeldzame Cb-type asteroïden – rijk aan koolstof. Hij wordt gezien als een overblijfsel van het vroege zonnestelsel, ruim 4,5 miljard jaar oud. De monsters vertellen een fascinerend verhaal: ze bevatten sporen van vloeibaar water, aminozuren en zelfs vitamine B3, naast nu dus de complete set nucleobasen.
Deze opeenstapeling van vondsten maakt het steeds aannemelijker dat koolstofrijke asteroïden als Ryugu een soort tijdcapsules zijn waarin chemische ingrediënten uit het vroege zonnestelsel bewaard zijn gebleven. Dat zulke bouwstenen van DNA en RNA blijkbaar op meerdere plekken in het zonnestelsel konden ontstaan, zet ook het verhaal van ons eigen ontstaan in een groter kosmisch perspectief.
Met de vondst van alle vijf nucleobasen op Ryugu is een belangrijke mijlpaal bereikt. Het toont aan dat de moleculaire ‘letters’ van het leven niet alleen op aarde bestonden, maar wijdverbreid waren in de ruimte. Het verhaal van het leven op onze planeet is daarmee onlosmakelijk verbonden met de chemie van oeroude asteroïden die de bouwstenen miljarden jaren geleden mogelijk op veel plekken hebben afgeleverd.
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A fridge-size space rock spectacularly broke apart over Ohio at 40,000 mph, creating a loud boom and a "fireball" that shone in the bright blue daytime sky. The rare sight, which exploded with the equivalent force of 250 tons of TNT, was also seen from space.
A hefty meteor exploded in the daytime skies over Ohio shortly after entering Earth's atmosphere on March 17. This photo, taken in Pennsylvania, shows the smoke trail leftover by the "fireball."
An extremely rare "daytime fireball" meteor was recently spotted streaking across sunny blue skies over the eastern U.S. after a fridge-size space rock exploded and triggered a powerful sonic boom. The unusual event, which was also visible from space, may have rained tiny meteorite fragments across the local area, experts say.
The 6-foot-wide (1.8 meters) asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere on Tuesday (March 17), at approximately 8:57 a.m. EDT, and began to burn up in the skies over Lake Erie in northern Ohio at a speed of around 40,000 mph (64,400 km/h), according to a NASA report. The flaming space rock, which weighed around 7 tons (6.4 metric tons), then broke apart around 30 miles (48 kilometers) above the town of Valley City near Akron, creating a bright flash that lasted for up to seven seconds.
Multiple eyewitnesses and security cameras recorded the explosion, and at least 200 people — from states including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Wisconsin, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia, as well as part
Several people along the meteor's path reported hearing a loud bang coming from the sky, which was later confirmed to be a sonic boom from the fragmenting space rock, according to a post on the social platform X by the Cleveland branch of the National Weather Service.
The streaking fireball was also visible from space and was caught on camera by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) GOES-19 weather satellite, which orbits Earth at an altitude of around 22,000 miles (35,500 km), Live Science's sister site Space.com reported.
The exploding meteor was also clearly visible in the clear blue skies in the greater Pittsburgh area. (Image credit: Jared Rackley/NWS Pittsburgh)
Fireball meteors occur when falling space rocks are superheated due to high levels of friction from the surrounding air, according to AMS. This eventually causes the object to break apart, which creates a bright flash of light.
These explosions can be extremely powerful. The latest fireball, for example, likely exploded with the equivalent force of 250 tons (227 metric tons) of TNT and unleashed pressure waves that "may have shook houses" on the ground, according to the NASA report.
Most fireball meteors are spotted at night, when they are much more visible. However, the light shows can be so bright that they briefly outshine the sun in the daytime sky. These super-bright "daytime fireballs" are often reported alongside sonic booms.
The majority of fireball fragments burn up before they reach the ground or are too small to be noticed. However, particularly hefty space rocks, like the one that exploded over Ohio, can produce meteorites that impact Earth's surface.
NOAA's GOES-19 weather satellite captured the fireball exploding above Ohio. It is visible in this image as a bright green smudge (circled). (Image credit: NOAA/GOES-19)
"When an extraordinarily large meteor (beach ball size or larger) enters the atmosphere, it often survives down to the lower atmosphere where the air molecules are dense enough to carry sound," Robert Lunsford, a meteor observer with AMS, told Space.com. Therefore, the sonic boom heard during this incident is "a good indication that the fireball produced fragments on the ground."
If there were meteorites, AMS simulations suggest that they most likely landed somewhere "in the vicinity of Akron," Lunsford added.
Most fireball fragments land in unpopulated areas and therefore pose little threat and can be very hard to find. But this isn't always the case. For example, just nine days prior to this incident, on March 8, around a dozen meteorites fell on a town in Germany during a bright fireball event — one of which punched a sizable hole through the roof of a family home.
Aliens are really just us human geezers, says TV star and UFO 'expert' Danny Dyer
Aliens are really just us human geezers, says TV star and UFO 'expert' Danny Dyer
The actor reckons the human race are aliens after arriving from another planet after the dinosaurs became extinct
BY John Ward
DANNY Dyer has claimed aliens do exist - because it is us that are actually them.
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Danny Dyer has claimed aliens do exist - because it is us that are actually them. The Rivals andEastEnders actor reckons the human race arrived from another planet when dinosaurs became extinct 66 million years ago.
Danny, 48,said: "I’ve got this theory they’d tell us that maybe we are thealiensand during the dinosaur period, aUFOcrashed into the earth and we’re the result of it. "Because there’s a lot of mad s*** going on in the world, so I do think that anything’s possible."
Danny has been fascinated byextraterrestrial lifefor years and fronted a 2010 documentary I Believe in UFOs. In the BBC doc he examined "reported UFO landing sites and sinister evidence that aliens may have conducted scientific experiments in Britain".
Danny reckons reckons the human race arrived from another planet when dinosaurs became extinct 66 million years ago.
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Now he has told Rolling Stone magazine that he thinks Earth could do with a new influx of alien arrivals to sort out the world's problems.
He said: "Misogyny, sexism, homophobia and racism are all on the rise again. We’ve regressed as human beings, so we need some sort of reset, don’t we?
"That’s why I’m praying there are f****** aliens out there that are gonna come down and change everything. "Who else is gonna f****** do it? I got obsessed with the [active comet] 3I/ATLAS for a little while, but it turned out to be f*** all.
"I really felt, 'Maybe this is it. Maybe the aliens are going to show up.'"
Danny said previously that he believes aliens “are among us” – and they are monitoring the damage humans are causing the planet.
He told his daughter Dani, 25, on their Sorted With The Dyers podcast: “I have seen a couple. I won’t go into it now. “Aliens, they are among us. They’re about at the moment because they can see how much we’re destroying this f***ing planet.
Danny said previously to daughter Dani on a podcast that he believes aliens “are among us”
“There’s the Greys which are the commonest ones with the massive heads. You can go right back to the Egyptian times and some of the stuff they were scratching on walls says it all.
“They were being visited quite often by aliens and of course then you didn’t have mobiles or the internet so no-one could really declare it. But he's far from the only celeb to believe they're real, as Gemma Collins has spoken about an encounter her mum claims to have had.
A retired Air Force general known in UFO circles has gone missing during a hike inNew Mexico, just months after a former colleague disappeared in a nearly identical case.
US Major General William Neil McCasland, 68, was last seen on the morning of February 27 as he left his Albuquerque home with only a backpack, wallet and .38-caliber revolver for a trail run, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office.
Sources previously told The New York Post that McCasland was a 'gatekeeper' and 'participant' in the UFO community.
His disappearance has only fueled speculation around the disappearance of 60-year-old Monica Reza, who had worked on a rocket project overseen by McCasland, who also went missing in June 2025.
In a chillingly similar case, Reza was last seen hiking in a California forest with a colleague, smiling and waving moments before she 'vanished off the face of the earth,' according to NewsNation.
For months, authorities and volunteers have combed the area using every resource at their disposal, but the aerospace engineer remains missing without a trace.
At a recent press conference, Sheriff John Allen said a Silver Alert was issued for McCasland after reports of a 'mental fog' in the months before his disappearance, adding that he had no other known health problems.
Yet despite an intensive search involving drones, helicopters, ground crews and K-9 units, the avid outdoorsman - and any trace of his belongings - also remains missing.
US Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland (pictured), 68, who was in the UFO community, went missing in February after leaving on a hike near his New Mexico home
Months before, 60-year-old Monica Reza (pictured), who had worked on a rocket project overseen by McCasland as an aerospace scientist, also went missing during a hike
McCasland's disappearance came days after President Trump pledged to release files on UFOs and extraterrestrial life
'Let me be straight. We've had a lot of tips, and we will go through every tip. But there are some tips with some outlandish theories, conspiracy theories,' the sheriff said.
'We will look into everything, but we are trying as a law enforcement agency and entity,' he added.
The general's wife, Susan McCasland, posted on Facebook to set the record straight amid what she described as 'misinformation' about her husband's disappearance.
'It is true that Neil had a brief association with the UFO community,' she wrote. 'This connection is not a reason for someone to abduct Neil.
'Though at this point with absolutely no sign of him, maybe the best hypothesis is that aliens beamed him up to the mothership. However, no sightings of a mothership hovering above the Sandia Mountains have been reported.'
Just nine months ago, Reza - known professionally as Monica Jacinto at Aerojet Rocketdyne as a material scientist - was last seen hiking on the popular Mount Waterman Trail in the Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles.
Like McCasland, she loved hiking. She was just 30ft behind the man she was with when she vanished on what was described as a 'normal day,' according to NewsNation.
'He turned around, next thing you know, she was just completely gone,' the outlet reported.
McCasland's wife Susan (both pictured) shared that her husband's UFO ties 'is not a reason for someone to abduct Neil'
In June 2025, Reza (pictured) was hiking 30 feet behind a companion on a Los Angeles trail when she 'vanished off the face of the earth'
'Rescue teams spent days looking for her, but actually never recovered her body.'
Reza worked for Aerojet Rocketdyne, a high-profile company funded for years by NASA and the Air Force Research Laboratory, according to SpaceNews.
In the 1990s, she engineered a nickel-based superalloy that could survive extreme oxygen environments without added weight - technology that helped create the AR1 engine, set to replace Russian RD-180 engines on United Launch Alliance rockets.
Her patented invention brought her into McCasland's sphere, as he oversaw the Air Force group that funded early-2000s research on advanced materials for reusable spacecraft and weapons systems.
McCasland's Air Force biography reveals he oversaw advanced materials as director of the Space Vehicle Directorate's materials wing and commanded the Phillips Research Site at Kirtland Air Force Base from 2001 to 2004.
His roles ultimately had a direct connection to Reza's highly successful research.
The general had also led research at Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which Marik Von Rennenkampff, a former Obama-era national security analyst, described as 'where all the super-secret research happens,' CNN reported.
On the day he vanished, McCasland spoke with a repair person at his home at 10am, while his wife left around an hour later for a medical appointment, the sheriff's office said.
Reza (pictured) worked for Aerojet Rocketdyne, funded for years by NASA and the Air Force Research Laboratory, and created a nickel-based superalloy for rockets
McCasland (pictured) oversaw the Air Force group that funded Reza's early-2000s research
McCasland also led research at Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (pictured)
She returned at noon to find her husband gone, though his phone, prescription glasses and smartwatch were still there.
'His wearable devices and taking his phone were common practice with him. That is out of the norm,' Deputy Kyle Woods said during a press conference.
The sheriff revealed that authorities had gone door to door at 700 homes, including those near his Quail Run Court residence, trying to find him.
Search teams combed the areas McCasland often hiked, including Elena Gallegos and Domingo Baca Canyon, with dogs and horse units investigating mysterious odors.
Days later, authorities discovered a US Air Force sweatshirt about a mile and a half from his home. While it hasn't been confirmed as McCasland's, no blood was found on it.
Lt Woods said there has been no indication of foul play, nor any evidence from his electronic devices suggesting unusual circumstances.
Authorities mentioned McCasland's reported 'mental fog' but added that they would not provide further details regarding any mental health issues.
'There's no indication, and we are not putting forward that Mr McCasland was disoriented or confused,' Woods said.
Sheriff John Allen said a Silver Alert was issued for McCasland (pictured) after reports of a 'mental fog' in the months before
McCasland (pictured) disappeared without his phone, prescription glasses and smartwatch
This photo shared on Facebook was taken of Reza in the hours before she went missing
'Arguably, he would still be the most intelligent person in the room that any of us would be in. Highly intelligent, highly capable,' he added.
Still, the deputy acknowledged the grim reality: 'We are many weeks in, and if he were to have gone into the mountains, the likelihood of surviving this time frame would be very low.'
Police said they are chasing every lead, but warned that countless 'rabbit holes' have made their work far more challenging.
The overlap in timing, combined with the bizarrely similar details of both cases, has ignited a storm of online theories trying to connect them.
McCasland's mysterious disappearance also comes just six days after President Donald Trump pledged to release long-awaited files on UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
Investigative journalist Ross Coulthart described him as 'a man with some of the most sensitive secrets of the United States head,' according to an interview on NewsNation.
'The timing is screechingly relevant,' he said. 'The fact that General Neil McCasland has disappeared off the face of the earth is a grave national security crisis for the United States of America.'
But the sheriff’s office has maintained that there is no evidence of criminal activity, including kidnapping.
Investigative journalist Ross Coulthart described McCasland (pictured) as 'a man with some of the most sensitive secrets of the United States head'
McCasland's wife (both pictured) said her husband worked in the UFO community after retirement, offering unpaid expertise on military, technical and scientific matters
Retired FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer shared on X that she suspects McCasland (pictured) may have died by suicide
'Some of the tips coming in, I don't want to say that they are wasting our time because we would never say that, but they are tedious to go through,' Sheriff Allen said.
McCasland's wife clarified on social media that her husband did not have dementia and 'was not confused or disoriented.'
'It is true that when Neil was in the Air Force, he had access to some highly classified programs and information,' she wrote, adding that he had retired almost 13 years ago.
'It seems quite unlikely that he was taken to extract very dated secrets from him,' she added.
She revealed that his ties to the UFO world came via Tom DeLonge, ex-frontman of Blink-182 and founder of To The Stars.
She said her husband willingly worked with DeLonge after retiring, offering unpaid expertise on military, technical and scientific matters to bring authenticity to his books and media projects.
'After the Russians hacked John Podesta's emails, there was less contact with Tom and the community pushing for release of UFO information,' she said.
'Neil does not have any special knowledge about the ET bodies and debris from the Roswell crash stored at Wright-Patt.'
Authorities and volunteers combed the area using every resource at their disposal (pictured), but Reza remains missing
Reza's (pictured) technology helped create the AR1 engine, set to replace Russian RD-180 engines on United Launch Alliance rockets
Pictured above is an image shared on Facebook showing volunteers in the search for Reza
Meanwhile, retired FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer shared on X that she suspects McCasland may have died by suicide.
'Not that I believe the premise, but what I do believe is that likely, General McCasland took his life,' Coffindaffer wrote.
'He retired over a decade ago,' she added. 'I don't believe his military background has anything to do with his disappearance. His health may have. We don't know his medical condition, but was it grievous?'
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