Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
31-08-2016
Geheime ruimteoorlog: “Amerikaanse marine voert intergalactische strijd tegen reptielachtige aliens”
Geheime ruimteoorlog: “Amerikaanse marine voert intergalactische strijd tegen reptielachtige aliens”
De Amerikaanse marine voert al tientallen jaren oorlog met reptielachtige aliens. Dat stelt William Tompkins, die zelf jarenlang voor de marine werkzaam was, in een nieuw boek.
De 92-jarige schrijver claimt te hebben gewerkt voor een denktank die in de jaren vijftig en zestig kilometers lange ruimteschepen moest ontwerpen voor de marine, zo schrijft de Britse Daily Star.
William Tompkins
Tompkins heeft in die periode naar eigen zeggen vijf ruimteschepen en 30 ondersteuningsschepen ontworpen. In zijn boek Selected by Extraterrestrials beweert hij dat deze interplanetaire schepen zijn gemaakt om de aarde te beschermen tegen kwaadwillende aliens die de mensheid tot slaaf willen maken.
Deze ruimteoorlogen zijn vaak van hele korte duur en vinden al tientallen jaren vlak onder onze neus plaats, aldus Tompkins. In het boek waarschuwt hij echter dat de reptielachtige aliens ‘sterker worden’.
Piramides
De Amerikaanse marine zou nauw samenwerken met de zogeheten Nordics, aliens die beschikken over soortgelijke ruimteschepen. De Nordics zijn naar verluidt afkomstig uit het sterrenbeeld Orion en oefenden invloed uit op de bouw van de piramides.
Ontwerp voor Battle Cruiser uit 1954
Tompkins zegt dat hij werd benaderd door de marine toen hij op de middelbare school zat. Hij bezocht tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog geregeld geheime installaties. Hij was gestationeerd op Naval Air Station San Diego, waar hij instructies gaf aan Amerikaanse spionnen.
De spionnen hadden volgens Tompkins ontdekt dat Hitler contact had met aliens. “De Reptilians sloten een deal met de SS. In ruil voor een grote doos vol speeltjes mocht Hitler de rest van de planeet tot slaaf maken,” zei hij.
Antizwaartekracht
Ontwerp voor Carrier uit 1954
In 1951 werd hij ingehuurd door Douglas Aircraft Company, waar hij naar eigen zeggen 12 jaar lang samen met de Nordics werkte aan door antizwaartekracht aangedreven schepen.
Tompkins staaft zijn claims met verschillende geopenbaarde overheidsdocumenten, waaronder ontwerpplannen voor ruimteschepen. Hij laat onder andere ontwerpen zien voor een 1,4 kilometer lange Naval Spacecraft Battle Cruiser en een 2,5 kilometer lange Naval Spacescraft Carrier.
Hij legt uit dat de schepen pas in de jaren tachtig werden gebouwd, toen het geheime ruimteprogramma Solar Warden werd gelanceerd. Volgens sommigen is het boek krachtig bewijs dat de Amerikaanse marine samenwerkt met buitenaardse wezens.
A Washington witness at Portland watched and videotaped three lights in the sky that remained stationary before eventually disappearing, according to testimony in Case 78601 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Cropped and enlarged portion of the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was outside after dark on August 19, 2016, when the first two lights appeared to be hovering in place and began to videotape them.
“How bright they were for being stationary,” the witness stated.“Wasn’t sure what they were.”
Cropped and enlarged portion of the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
Soon a third object appeared.
“The two objects hovered before a third one that showed up next to them. The third started to move away slow before just flat out disappearing. Excited. They just vanished.”
The witness is familiar with the area.
Cropped and enlarged portion of the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
“They’ve never been here before,” he stated on the video.
Oregon MUFON Assistant State Director Keith Rowell is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Be extra cautious with video until the investigation is completed. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Florida witness reports UFOs appearing over five days
Florida witness reports UFOs appearing over fivedays
A Florida witness at Ocala reported watching a large light in the sky that hovered and moved over a 40-minute period with similar sightings over an additional four-day period, according to testimony in Case 78614 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first observed a bright light above the tree line on August 17, 2016. Pictured: Ocala, FL.
(Credit: Google)
The witness stepped outside and noticed a bright white light above the tree line at 11 p.m. on August 17, 2016.
“As I frequently watch the stars, I knew it wasn’t supposed to be there, and I got very excited,” the witness stated. “This thing was big, about 4mm tall, and trapezoidal with the top about 2mm and the bottom about 3 mm.”
The witness watched the object for about 15 seconds as red, green and blue lights blinked randomly.
“I went inside and got my wife and 20-year-old son. As the three of us observed the object, it started to dart left and back to the right about half a dozen times. After hovering motionless for a couple minutes, it shot down and back up again three times. It then started to move in fast, tight circles for about five seconds before returning to its original position. Or at least as near as I could tell.”
The object hovered and moved over a 40-minute period. Pictured: Ocala, FL.
(Credit: Google)
After several minutes of inactivity, the witnesses’ wife turned to her computer for help while he and his son continued to watch.
“Over the next half-hour, my son and I watched it through binoculars and tried to get it on film, but our cameras were inadequate for the low light levels. Also over that same time span, it slowly drifted to the north and farther away. This I discern from its shrinking size. About 40 minutes after first observing it, it grew too small to see.”
The object returned the following four nights.
“Over the next four nights, the 18th through the 21st, we have observed as many as nine of these lighted, blinking objects. On the 19th we had an additional observer, a friend from town. Based on this, I have every reason to believe they will be back tonight. Additional report(s), to follow. Hopefully we’ll get some pictures/video.”
Ocala is about 80 miles northwest of Orlando.
(Credit: Google)
Ocala is a city in northern Florida, population 57,486. No photos or videos were included with the report, which was filed on August 22, 2016.
Florida Field Investigators Gary Paulis and Carol Paulis are investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Een lezer die al jarenlang onderzoek doet naar leven op Mars zegt dat wij eigenlijk met een verkeerde bril op kijken naar leven op de Rode planeet.
Dat wij denken dat leven daar net zo is als wij op aarde gewend zijn, maar, zo zegt hij, “Niets is minder waar”.
De man die zegt dat hij meer weet en beter is dan ufoloog Scott Waring, presenteert het hierna volgende verhaal (dank!):
Als opwarmertje van de foto's die ik vrij ga geven over leven op Mars, ga ik in op het begrip hoe dit te ontdekken is en geef alvast een primeur vrij.
Zodra er foto's op NASA Multimedia Raw worden vrijgegeven, ben ik er als de kippen bij en sla alles op uit de rubriek "Mast Camera (Mastcam)" zodat NASA niet de kans krijgt om zaken weer te veranderen door gemaakte fouten. Dit alles vraagt veel tijd en werk om dit te onderzoeken.
Al jaren doe ik onderzoek naar leven op Mars en door Basiago's documenten te bestuderen, heb ik geleerd zaken anders te bekijken dan een in pijplijn denkende mens die er meestal vanuit gaan dat het leven aldaar eender zou zijn met de Aarde.
Nou, niets is minder waar. Levensvormen in allerlei geuren en kleuren die soms enige gelijkenis toen met Aardse diersoorten. Het leven aldaar heeft zich heel anders ontwikkeld. Om daar een voorstelling van te krijgen kun je hier een PDF document vinden.
Ik kan mij nog heel goed herinneren dat Andrew D. Basiago een verhaal vertelde over mensen op Mars en een flinke oorlog tussen mensen en grote insecten.
Hierbij zouden bijna 100.000 doden zijn gevallen. Zelf kan ik dit niet meer terug vinden maar wel dit, een verklaring bij exopolitics:
The primitive conditions that they encountered on Mars might explain the high level of danger involved. Mr. Basiago and Mr. Stillings agree that Major Dames stated during their training class at The College of the Siskiyous in 1980: “Of the 97,000 individuals that we have thus far sent to Mars, only 7,000 have survived there after five years.”
In light of these risks, prior to going to Mars, Mr. Basiago received additional training from Mr. Hunt. Hunt, a career CIA officer, showed Mr. Basiago how to operate the respiration device that he would wear only during his first jump to Mars in July 1981, provided him with a weapon to protect himself on Mars, and took him to the Lockheed facility in Burbank, California for training in avoiding predators on the Martian surface.
Een bewijs van leven op Mars, want waarom zou je anders een wapen moeten dragen om jezelf te beschermen. En NASA maar ontkennen dat er leven op Mars is???
De meeste onder ons kunnen zich nog steeds niet voorstellen dat wij niet de enigste zijn met een bewoonde planeet en als je iets vrij geeft wordt je al gauw bespot of men wil het niet zien. En dat is soms best te begrijpen omdat de foto's van Mars ontzettend worden bewerkt door de NASA.
Velen onder ons wisten bijvoorbeeld al door onderzoek dat er water is op Mars en het heeft dan ook een tijd geduurd voor NASA het uiteindelijk moest toegeven. Zo is dat nu het geval met leven op Mars wat NASA stellig blijft ontkennen. Ook bestaat er nog steeds een hardnekkig gerucht, dat de opnamen worden gemaakt op Devons Island. Dat is niet zo en mijn foto's zullen dat in deel 2 ook aantonen volgende maand.
Strong Alien signal traced to sunlike star sets SETI on alarm, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Strong Alien signal traced to sunlike star sets SETI on alarm, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: May 15, 2015 Location of discovery: Russia I have been reluctant to put this up, but I guess I should. However this was discovered over a year ago...and it really make me wonder...why so late to tell the public? It well known that SETI often hides alien signals its discovers, and can only release such information with the US presidential content, so I guess this is part of their alien trickle down theory. Little by little let the public know whats out there. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: Alien Life Found? Extraterrestrials 'Strong Signal' From Russian Telescope Is Detected, Scientists Say.SETI researchers are buzzing about a strong spike in radio signals that seemed to come from the direction of a sunlike star in the constellation Hercules, known as HD 164595. The signal conceivably fits the profile for an intentional transmission from an extraterrestrial source – but it could also be a case of earthly radio interference, or a microlensing event in which the star’s gravitational field focused stray signals coming from much farther away. In any case, the blip is interesting enough to merit discussion by those who specialize in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI – including Centauri Dreams’ Paul Gilster, who brought the case into the public eye this weekend. At least two SETI research groups are aiming to track HD 164595 tonight. The SETI Institute is using the Allen Telescope Array in northern California, while METI International is looking to the Boquete Optical SETI Observatory in Panama. Gilster reports that the signal spike was detected more than a year ago, on May 15, 2015, by the RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya. That facility is in the Russian republic of Karachay-Cherkessia, not far from the Georgian border.
Giant UFO Over Russia Causes Locals To Panic, Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Giant UFO Over Russia Causes Locals To Panic, Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 27, 2016 Location of sighting: Russia This UFO cloaked in a cloud was seen over Russia this week and have the local residents a fright. The Sep 1957 UFO sighting by a US solider with a camera confirms this. Back at US Army Ft. Belvoir, Virginia he witnessed a metal ring UFO that slowly built a white cloud around it over a few minutes. (Click here to view). Therefore, the US military has known for decades that UFOs make clouds. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Check out this new footage of a possible triangle UFO formation in the sky above South Carolina. This was filmed on 26th August 2016.
Witness report:
Three objects, very orange with no blinking, rotating around each other At 9:15 3 bright orange objects were seen to the northeast of our home. they were moving slowly to the west and rotating around each other slowly. our neighbors came out and we all witnessed it and had all agreed that we have never seen anything in the sky like that before. the objects blinked out and then reappeared 10 minutes later at the same location in the sky as when we first saw them and moving in the same direction.the second sighting also lasted for approximately 6 minutes before the three orange light abruptly disappeared.
New York: UFO discovered when downloaded trip photos
New York: UFO discovered when downloaded trip photos
Here are some interesting daytime photos of a strange unidentified flying object in the sky above Westfield, New York. This happened on 28th August 2016.
Witness report:
I was returning from diving shipwrecks in Lake Erie on the Southwind. A boat owned be Osprey charters out of Westfield New York. As we were coming back to port about 1 PM I began to take photos of the sky and horizon. The clouds were in some very interesting patterns and I was shooting all around us. Most of those photos were taken looking westerly as we were heading more or less southerly towards port. After coming home and downloading the photos onto my desktop I spotted an object in one that I first took to be some kind of lens flare. I zoomed in on it and saw a yellow rounded shape with some kind of trail ending in an orange /red tapered tail. Then I started to go through the photos and realized that it had started as a round yellow ball and as it got closer to the contrail in the photo it elongated. It actually intersected the contrail by traveling behind it. I have the photos I attached. My regret is that I did not see it at the time it was happening. I was shooting with a Canon SL1 camera on auto with a Tokina 10-17 wide angle lens. I was also on a moving boat and not looking for objects in the sky other than interesting cloud formations. My reaction, once I began to look at the photos in sequence, was first one of puzzlement. Then wonder. Followed by hope that I had actually captured something unknown. I am open to the idea of some type of satellite re-entry or other known object. I have also published the photos on the social media site Facebook.
Astronomers Alleged Strong Radio Signal From Space: Does It Signify Alien Existence?
Astronomers Alleged Strong Radio Signal From Space: Does It Signify Alien Existence?
Alien existence has become the world’s most controversial topic simply because strange orbs, humanoid creatures, and strange lights has continued to show up. Since witnesses have fought for their beliefs, we are left with questions as to whether or not our government has concealed the fact. The group of Russian astronomers has picked up a strong, mysterious radio signal from the space. The radio signal has become the most controversial object since most people connect it to the possibility of alien existence. The appearance of a signal is appealing because it appears like a sun-like star. The astronomers utilized the RATAN-600 radio telescope. This instrument is a massive radio observatory in Zelenchukskaya, Russia. According to the data, the signal came from HD164595, star’s direction located 95 light-years from the Earth. The fact is intriguing since both the star and sun have the same size, and it is acknowledged to have a planet in its orbit. Granting the resemblance and explanation, it is possible that other planets in this system exist.
The signal is not all that new because astronomers found it a year ago. However, it is making headlines for a few reasons. The fact that the astronomers waited to tell the SETI, it is acceptable that once the signal is found, people connect it to extraterrestrial activity right away. It is going to be hard to confirm what the radio telescope picked up last year was genuine. Discovering a repeated signal after the original detection is strange. Also, it is not clear what the signal was; it can still be connected to a message from another civilization or just an effect of a natural space object.
Before, SETI researchers have been burned by intense space signals like the so-called “Wow signal.” It was a strong radio signal picked up by astronomers in 1977 at Ohio State University. As interesting as that signal was, it has yet to be examined again. So until another signal is discovered from the HD164595 system, the appearance of a signal will not indicate alien existence.
Do extraterrestrials exist? This is a question that requires too many explanations. There is too much-documented evidence, witnesses for a rational person to think otherwise. When people hear the word UFO, they categorize them as the little gray aliens that abduct and exploit humans. However, there is nothing absolute because there are peacekeepers, which are those that you rarely hear about. They look more human rather than humanoid, hence, not visually exciting. They are harder to remember since the memories are not that easy to retrieve. A book written by a renowned expert has revealed encounters in Poland. It stated that Polish policemen do not usually report their alien encounters. However, when they do, their reports are unusual ones. On January 8, two police officers returned from a night intervention. They were tasked to calm down an aggressive drunkard in one village. When the job was accomplished, they began to head back to their station. Suddenly, they noticed bright lights in the distance that hovered over the forest. At first, they considered it as a part of the mobile tower, but the luminous object was approaching their car.
Afterward, it stationed over a grove of trees about a kilometer from the road. The object was orange-yellow in color, and it began morphing and altering its colors. One officer felt that something is in the air. When the object appeared on the horizon, they decided to stop and examine it. The officer recalled that it was moving soundlessly, but from the appearance of the object, it has to make a noise as it is apparently generated by the rotor or the engine of the flying machine. They added that it was possible to distinguish the craft hull’s shape. However, strange feelings, darkness, and appearance of the exotic object forced them to drive off the scene. After a while, the aliens began to move in parallel with their car. It was at 4.32 am when the officer recorded the video showing a dim light. Since they did not expect the encounter, they were not prepared to conduct a visual documentation of the incident.
Triangle-UFO caught on tape over DeLand, Florida 29-Aug-2016
Triangle-UFO caught on tape over DeLand, Florida 29-Aug-2016
Here’s one interesting video of an unknown lights in triangle formation hovering in the sky above DeLand in Florida. This was filmed on 29th August 2016.
Witness report:
This thing flew by me from the south.made a loop and went back to the south… If you can blow up the video I could see it as a triangle. Went outside to dump trash notice the blinking lights flying from the south at a very high altitude then when they came back went back inside… Came back outside to smoke a cigarette about 5 to 10 minutes later the craft had circled around and was heading back south flying at a much lower altitude… The video was shot on an iPhone so you should be able to blow it up with my eye I could see that it was a triangle . I shot this video while I was outside smoking a cigarette .
Orb UFO Hovers and Moves At 500 Feet Over Pennsylvania
Orb UFO Hovers and Moves At 500 Feet Over Pennsylvania
A man at Monroeville in Pennsylvania claimed to have watched and photographed an orange orb-like UFO that floated and traveled at 500 feet. According to Case 78094 from witness reporting database of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the unnamed witness was with his co-worker sitting outside on a porch smoking cigarettes at 8:56 in the evening on July 31, 2016, when the unusual event took place.
The reporting witness stated that the UFO hummed through the air while changing colors. The mysterious aerial thing reportedly stopped fast in mid-air, flew right after a couple of seconds, and then shot west, hovered once again, and then shot off the rest of the way.
According to Pennsylvania MUFON State Director Sam Colosimo Jr., the witness, and his co-worker saw the light from the southeast and observed it as it moved toward a south direction. It stopped and hovered for around 20 seconds. The UFO flew towards the witnesses and stopped when it was around five houses away. It then moved away back to the southeast at a tremendous speed.
The reporting witness further claimed that they saw one flashing light in the object. As the object moved away, it produced a humming noise. The object was reportedly about the size of a house. Sam closed this case as Unknown.
The outburst occurred Feb. 19 on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which Rosetta has been orbiting since August 2014. The spacecraft observed the eruption of gas and dust with nine of its 11 science instruments, from a distance of 21.7 miles (35 kilometers), European Space Agency (ESA) officials said.
"Over the last year, Rosetta has shown that, although activity can be prolonged, when it comes to outbursts, the timing is highly unpredictable, so catching an event like this was pure luck," Matt Taylor, ESA's Rosetta project scientist, said in a statement. [See amazing photos from Rosetta's comet mission]
"By happy coincidence, we were pointing the majority of instruments at the comet at this time, and having these simultaneous measurements provides us with the most complete set of data on an outburst ever collected," Taylor added.
The outburst began around 4:40 a.m. EST (0940 GMT) on Feb. 19, when Rosetta's wide-angle camera picked up a significant brightening of the coma — the fuzzy cloud around Comet 67P's nucleus.
Rosetta’s wide-angle camera captured an outburst from the Atum region on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko’s large lobe on Feb. 19, 2016. The images are separated by half an hour each, covering the period 0840–1210 GMT, and as such show the comet rotating.
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
The increased activity continued for at least the next 2 hours. During that stretch, the brightness of the ultraviolet light reflected by 67P's nucleus increased by a factor of six, and the amount of dust emitted by the comet spiked as well. Rosetta's dust counter detected nearly 200 particles over the course of a few hours on Feb. 19; the instrument recorded just three to 10 hits on other days in that month, ESA officials said.
In addition, the temperature of the gas around Rosetta rose by 54 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius) during the outburst.
Rosetta's observations indicate that the eruption started on a steep slope in a region of the 2.5-mile-wide (4 kilometers) comet that is known as Atum, mission team members said.
The activity began when this slope emerged from shadow into sunlight, suggesting that thermal stresses may have caused a landslide that exposed previously buried water ice to space. This ice then immediately sublimated (transitioned to the gas phase), taking lots of dust with it as it rocketed away, according to this hypothesis, which researchers detail in a new paper published online today (Aug. 25) in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
On Feb. 19, 2016, Rosetta’s instruments detected an outburst event from Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The source was traced back to a location in the Atum region, on the comet’s large lobe, as indicated in this image.
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NavCam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
"We’ll continue to analyze the data, not only to dig into the details of this particular event, but also to see if it can help us better understand the many other outbursts witnessed over the course of the mission," said Taylor, who is a co-author of the new study. "It’s great to see the instrument teams working together on the important question of how cometary outbursts are triggered."
The Rosetta mission was the first ever to orbit a comet, and the first to drop a lander on one of these icy bodies. (The Rosetta mothership carried a lander called Philae, which touched down in November 2014; Rosetta team members recently declared Philae dead.)
But Rosetta's pioneering work at Comet 67P is coming to an end: The orbiter will end its mission with a controlled, slow-motion crash onto the comet's surface on Sept. 30.
The billions of stars in the night sky can give rise to the question, are we alone in the universe? The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) seeks to answer that question by hunting for signs of advanced civilizations in the cosmos.
The term SETI can be applied in two ways. The first characterizes the quest itself, the search for other advanced lifeforms undertaken by people around the world. The SETI Institute, the second application, leads the charge in the pursuit of broadcasts from life beyond Earth.
The SETI Institute
The largest player in the hunt for advanced life beyond the solar system, the SETI Institute is made up of scientists, engineers, technicians, teachers, and other support staff. In 1988, NASA began funding a strategy to sweep all directions of the sky in the hunt for life. Observations began in 1992, on the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World. However, within a year, Congress terminated funding.
The SETI Institute then sought private funding to continue the hunt for advanced life in the universe. Donations from the enthusiastic public have helped continue the hunt for signals from other worlds. According to its website, the Institute has over 100 active projects, spanning astronomy and planetary sciences, chemical evolution, the origin of life and climate change.
Project Phoenix continued the targeted search initially instituted by NASA. The program carefully examined regions around a thousand nearby sun-like stars with the world's largest antennae.
In a joint project with the University of California, Berkeley, the Institute built 42 individual telescopes that function as a single massive instrument. TheAllen Telescope Array, named for benefactor Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft), began observations in 2007. According to the SETI Institute, the array should allow scientists to examine as many as 1 million nearby stars in the next two decades
Extraterrestrial life can be roughly grouped into two categories. The first is the broad classification of life itself, a process that includes microbial and other simple forms. Without civilization and technology, life cannot produce the advanced signals that travel across the galaxy. However, many scientists continue to investigate atmospheres and other characteristics of worlds both in and out of the solar system as part of the search for life beyond our planet.
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence looks beyond this broad category in an effort to find advanced civilizations. Most SETI searches focus on the hunt for radio or optical signals that can signify highly evolved alien life.
Because life on Earth arose within 100 million years after the planet was habitable, many scientists think that life should evolve on planets with the right characteristics. With billions of stars in the galaxy, each thought to host at least one planet, there are numerous opportunities for life to evolve. The wealth of planets revealed by NASA's Kepler space telescope have produced a slew of potentially habitable worlds for SETI scientists to target.
According to SETI Institute astronomer Seth Shostak, there are three ways to find life on other worlds. The first is to go and look, a process only feasible within the solar system. The second is by studying light from the planet to investigate its atmosphere, currently under way with instruments like NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The third is to search for signals that could indicate intelligence.
"That's what SETI does," Shostak said in a broadcast.
Most SETI searches focus on radio signals, and most of these hunt for narrow-band signals, radio emissions that cover only a small portion of the radio spectrum. Natural objects blanket the spectrum with signals, so finding a signal that only dominated a small region would be suggestive of an artificial source.
Scientists also focus on optical searches for advanced civilizations. These hunts involve looking for very brief flashes of light that last only nanoseconds.
Messages from other worlds could be deliberately beamed or they could be accidental. Earth has been broadcasting signals since World War II, when radio communications became more common. SETI searches also look for intentional messages transmitted into space. More recently, the SETI hunt has begun to look for communications between two worlds along Earth's line of sight; messages beamed toward a planet or moon in the system couldcontinue on toward Earth.
Whether or not humans would be capable of understanding the message is another story. If a civilization is deliberately beaming a message into space, they may seek to distill it to its simplest form. However, if the message is accidentally broadcast or is a message for another world, it is possible that scientists will never be able to decode it.
According to the SETI Institute, the signal will reveal a few things about the civilization producing it. Scientists will be able to pinpoint its origination, and changes can help determine how the planet is rotating and moving.
"But even though this information is limited, the detection of an alien intelligence will be an enormously big story," the SETI Institute said on its website.
"We'll be aware that we're neither alone nor the smartest thing in the universe."
Having found the signal, the institute envisions that enthusiasm on Earth will spur humans to build larger dishes more capable of receiving weak signals.
It is unlikely that Earth and an advanced civilization far from the sun will engage in much communication. That's because it can take years for a signal to travel from one planet to the other. The closest star, Alpha Centauri, is only 4.3 light-years away. If an advanced civilization exists on a (yet-unseen) planet around the star, it would take over eight years for a signal to travel from Earth to that world and back.
In addition to accidental broadcasts, Earth has sent a handful of messages into space. In 1974, a simple message was transmitted from Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Both NASA and Russia have since sent a handful of brief, deliberate signals into space since then, according to the SETI Institute.
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When an interesting signal is detected, scientists must first verify it came from beyond Earth. By confirming observations with another radio telescope, they can make sure they have not picked up a human-created signal. Even if the original detector determines that the source didn’t come from Earth, additional instruments provide “duplication,” an important part of the scientific process.
"Once an artificial signal is confirmed as being of extraterrestrial intelligent origin, the discovery will be announced as quickly and as widely as possible," said the SETI Institute.
"There will be no secrecy, and indeed getting the word out quickly is important as there would be an urgent need to have astronomers world-wide monitor any detected signal 24 hour a day."
Other seekers
While the SETI Institute is easily the most well-known seeker of signs of advanced civilizations, they are not the only ones. The University of California, Berkeley has several SETI programs under way, including one using the Arecibo Observatory. Italy's University of Bologna also has a radio SETI search in progress. Both Berkeley and Harvard University in Boston have optical SETI searches in progress.
In a 2014 presentation to Congress, Shostak predicted that life would be found on worlds other than Earth in the near future.
"It's unproven whether there is any life beyond Earth," Shostak said. "I think that situation is going to change within everyone's lifetime in this room."
Even if no sign of an advanced civilization is found, the SETI Institute remains optimistic.
According to their website, "We are just scratching the surface of what a modern search can do. Failure to find a signal wouldn’t prove that we’re the only thinking beings in the Galaxy. After all, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
"The SETI Institute intends to press the search. Needless to say, the march of technology and new scientific discoveries will influence future SETI strategies. But giving up is not in the cards. Christopher Columbus did not turn around simply because he failed to find any new lands during his first few days at sea."
6 MILLION YEARS AGO THE MILKY WAY’S SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE RAGED
6 million years ago, when our first human ancestors were doing their thing here on Earth, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way was a ferocious place. Our middle-aged, hibernating black hole only munches lazily on small amounts of hydrogen gas these days. But when the first hominins walked the Earth, Sagittarius A was gobbling up matter and expelling gas at speeds reaching 1,000 km/sec. (2 million mph.)
The evidence for this hyperactive phase in Sagittarius’ life, when it was anActive Galactic Nucleus (AGN), came while astronomers were searching for something else: the Milky Way’s missing mass.
There’s a funny problem in our understanding of our galactic environment. Well, it’s not that funny. It’s actually kind of serious, if you’re serious about understanding the universe. The problem is that we can calculate how much matter we should be able to see in our galaxy, but when go looking for it, it’s not there. This isn’t just a problems in the Milky Way, it’s a problem in other galaxies, too. The entire universe, in fact.
Our measurements show that the Milky Way has a mass about 1-2 trillion times greater than the Sun. Dark matter, that mysterious and invisible hobgoblin that haunts cosmologists’ nightmares, makes up about five sixths of that mass. Regular, normal matter makes up the last sixth of the galaxy’s mass, about 150-300 billion solar masses. But we can only find about 65 billion solar masses of that normal matter, made up of the familiar protons, neutrons, and electrons. The rest is missing in action.
Astrophysicists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have been looking for that mass, and have written up their results in a new paper.
“We played a cosmic game of hide-and-seek. And we asked ourselves, where could the missing mass be hiding?” says lead author Fabrizio Nicastro, a research associate at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and astrophysicist at the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF).
“We analyzed archival X-ray observations from the XMM-Newton spacecraft and found that the missing mass is in the form of a million-degree gaseous fog permeating our galaxy. That fog absorbs X-rays from more distant background sources,” Nicastro continued.
Artist’s impression of the ESA’s XMM Newton Spacecraft.
Image credit: ESA
Nicastro and the other scientists behind the paper analyzed how the x-rays were absorbed and were able to calculate the amount and distribution of normal matter in that fog. The team relied heavily on computer models, and on the XMM-Newton data. But their results did not match up with a uniform distribution of the gaseous fog. Instead, there is an empty “bubble”, where this is no gas. And that bubble extends from the center of the galaxy two-thirds of the way to Earth.
What can explain the bubble? Why would the gaseous fog not be spread more uniformly through the galaxy?
Clearing gas from an area that large would require an enormous amount of energy, and the authors point out that an active black hole would do it. They surmise that Sagittarius A was very active at that time, both feeding on gas falling into itself, and pumping out streams of hot gas at up to 1000 km/sec.
Which brings us to present day, 6 million years later, when the shock-wave caused by that activity has travelled 20,000 light years, creating the bubble around the center of the galaxy.
Another piece of evidence corroborates all this. Near the galactic center is a population of 6 million year old stars, formed from the same material that at one time flowed toward the black hole.
“The different lines of evidence all tie together very well,” says Smithsonian co-author Martin Elvis (CfA). “This active phase lasted for 4 to 8 million years, which is reasonable for a quasar.”
The numbers all match up, too. The gas accounted for in the team’s models and observations add up to 130 billion solar masses. That number wraps everything up pretty nicely, since the missing matter in the galaxy is thought to be between 85 billion and 235 billion solar masses.
This is intriguing stuff, though it’s certainly not the final word on the Milky Way’s missing mass. Two future missions, the European Space Agency’s Athena X-ray Observatory, planned for launch in 2028, and NASA’s proposed X-Ray Surveyor could provide more answers.
Who knows? Maybe not only will we learn more about the missing matter in the Milky Way and other galaxies, we may learn more about the activity at the center of the galaxy, and what ebbs and flows it has gone through, and how that has shaped galactic evolution.
We’re not saying its aliens, but this could be the most enticing SETI-related signal from space since the famous “Wow! Signal” in 1977.
Over the weekend, interstellar expert Paul Gilster broke the news that “a strong signal” was detected by Russian radio astronomers from the region around the star HD 164595. This signal has attracted enough attention that two prominent SETI observatories are quickly making follow-up observations.Alan Boyle reports in Geekwire that the Allen Telescope Array in California has already been observing the star system and the Boquete Optical SETI Observatory in Panama will make an attempt this evening, if the weather is clear.
Doug Vakoch, the President of METI International (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) told Universe Today via email that the Allen Telescope Array has already completed its initial reconnaissance of HD 164595, “with no indications of alien technologies at radio frequencies.”
“The first step in following up a putative SETI signal is to look at the same frequency where it was first detected,” Vakoch said, and with the nil detection from the ATA, “now it’s time to search other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.”
Vakoch said METI International will be observing HD 164595 for brief laser pulses from the Boquete Optical SETI Observatory in Panama as soon as weather permits.
“It looks like the Boquete Observatory will be hit by heavy thundershowers late this afternoon and into this evening,” he said, “so we’ll likely need to wait to observe until another night. Once the evening sky is clear in Boquete, we’ll have about an hour to observe in the direction of the constellation Hercules shortly after sunset.”
The signal from HD 164595 was originally detected on May 15, 2015, by the Russian Academy of Science-operated RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya, Russia. It is located about 95 light years from Earth in the constellation Hercules. The signal had a wavelength of 2.7 cm, with an estimated amplitude of 750 mJy.
Gilster wrote on his Centauri Dreams website that the researchers have worked out the strength of the signal and that if “it came from an isotropic beacon, it would be of a power possible only for a Kardashev Type II civilization,” which means a civilization capable of harnessing the energy of the entire star, and developing something like a Dyson sphere surrounding the star, and transfer all the energy to the planet.
Freeman Dyson theorized that eventually, a civilization would be able to build a megastructure around its star to capture all its energy. Credit: SentientDevelopments.com
If the beam was narrow and sent directly to our Solar System, the researchers say it would be of a power available to a Kardashev Type I civilization, a type of civilization more advanced than us that is able to harness the full amount of solar power it receives from its star.
Of course, like any other signal, such as the recent study of the dimming light curve of KIC 8462852 (Tabby’s Star) that is still being researched, it is possible the signal comes from other “natural” events such microlensing of a background source or even comets as been proposed for both Tabby’s Star or the “Wow! Signal.”
The SETI website explains that narrow-band signals – ones that are only a few Hertz wide or less – are the mark of a purposely built transmitter. “Natural cosmic noisemakers, such as pulsars, quasars, and the turbulent, thin interstellar gas of our own Milky Way, do not make radio signals that are this narrow. The static from these objects is spread all across the dial.”
A member of the SETI@Home team posted a note online that they were “unimpressed” with the paper from the Russian radio astronomers. “Because the receivers used were making broad band measurements, there’s really nothing about this “signal” that would distinguish it from a natural radio transient (stellar flare, active galactic nucleus, microlensing of a background source, etc.) There’s also nothing that could distinguish it from a satellite passing through the telescope field of view. All in all, it’s relatively uninteresting from a SETI standpoint.”
So, this detection might not be as exciting as originally reported. Also SETI senior astronomer Seth Shostak has now weighed in on the topic, also with measured skepticism on the excitement, with a post about this event on the SETI website.
What has probably fueled interest in this signal is the striking similarities between the star and our Sun. HD 164595 is a star just a tad smaller than our Sun (0.99 solar masses), with the exact same metallicity. The age of the star has been estimated at 6.3 billion years it is already known to have at least one planet, HD 164595 b, a Neptune-sized world that orbits the star every 40 days. And as we’ve seen with data from the Kepler spacecraft, with the detection of one planet comes the very high probability that more planets could orbit this star.
Why the Russian team has only made this detection public now is unclear and it may have only come out now because the team wrote a paper to be discussed at an upcoming SETI committee meeting during the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Tuesday, September 27.
As Gilster wrote, “No one is claiming that this is the work of an extraterrestrial civilization, but it is certainly worth further study.”
SECRET SPACE WAR: Shock claim US Navy fighting intergalactic battle with reptile aliens
SECRET SPACE WAR: Shock claim US Navy fighting intergalactic battle with reptile aliens
THE US Navy has been fighting a secret space war against evil reptilian aliens hell bent on invading planet Earth, a new book has sensationally claimed.
SPACE WAR: Navy insider William Tompkins claims reptile aliens want to conquer earth
Fleets of Star Wars-style US Navy space fighters have been covertly protecting the human race from reptillian attacks for decades, according to UFO author William Tompkins.
The 92-year-old writer claims to have worked in the aerospace industry for a think tank tasked with designing kilometer-long anti-gravity spacecraft for the US Navy in the 1950s and 60s.
During this period, the former-Navy insider turned whistleblower claims to have personally designed five space ships and 30 support ships.
In the new book, Selected by Extraterrestrials, he claims these massive Naval interplanetary craft were created to fend off the invading lizard aliens, who want to enslave the human race.
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DESIGNS: Tompkins includes designs of Star Wars-style space crafts in his book
These space wars, said to be very short, have been happening for decades right under our noses, he claims.
However, in the book he warns that the lizard aliens are "becoming stronger" and urges the Navy to beef up their defences – or face reptile rule.
Apparently the US Navy works closely with Nordic aliens, who have similar large, moon size spacecraft capable of beating reptile attack ships.
The Nordics apparently came from the Orion Constellation and influenced the building of the pyramids.
Meanwhile, the reptilian enemies attack various planets, take them over, and put their inhabitants into slavery.
But humans and the Nordics, who works with the US Navy to develop advanced spaceship technology, have joined forces to build a variety of Star Wars-style space fighters.
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TEAMWORK: The US Navy have been working with aliens for decades, Tompkins claims
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SKETCHES: Tompkins designed space craft for the Navy during the 50s and 60s
“The reptilians made a deal with the Third Reich SS giving them this big box full of toys in exchange for letting Hitler enslave the rest of the planet.”
William Tompkins
Hand-picked by the Navy during high school to carry out research work, Tompkins regularly visited classified naval facilities during World War Two.
He served at San Diego’s Naval Air Station, where he briefed Navy moles embedded within Nazi Germany’s most secret aerospace facilities during the war.
In the book, Tompkins describes the intelligence the Navy spies had gathered: “The Navy agents in Germany discovered what all those “out of this world” aliens gave Hitler: UFOs, anti-gravity propulsion, beam weapons, extended life and plenty of mind-controlled willing girls programs.
”The reptilians made a deal with the Third Reich SS giving them this big box full of toys in exchange for letting Hitler enslave the rest of the planet.”
He was later hired by Douglas Aircraft Company in 1951, where he worked with the Nordics over a 12 year period to create anti-gravity spacecraft.
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WHISTLEBLOWER: Tompkins, age 92, claims to have designed 35 space ships for the US Navy
Tompkins backs up his claims with several declassified documents including designs he completed for space battle cruisers that apparently went on to form the backbone of the US Navy’s space “Battle Groups”.
These designs include the 1.4km Naval Spacecraft Battle Cruiser and the 2.5km Naval Spacecraft Carrier.
However, the huge space ships weren’t built until the 1980s under a highly classified space program called Solar Warden.
Eventually, there were eight space carrier battle groups that were built for the US Navy.
For decades conspiracy theorists have claimed aliens have been sharing advanced technology with the US.
But fans of Tompkins insist his book provides "powerful" evidence that the US Navy has been working with alien beings to fight off threats to humanity.
Writing for Exopolitics, Michael E. Salla believes the evidence for Tompkins’ claims is “substantive and compelling”.
He writes: “During Tompkins long career with U.S. Navy Intelligence and the aerospace industry, he compiled an impressive collection of documents that substantiate his testimony and background.
“According to Tompkins, the U.S. Navy had corporate contractors design kilometer-long anti-gravity spacecraft in the 1950s to early 1960s, with construction beginning in the 1970s, leading to their deployment in the 1980s.
“Tompkins’ testimony and documents provide powerful evidence that in the 1980’s and 1990’s, the U.S. Navy did indeed covertly deploy eight space carrier battle groups in a top secret space program called Solar Warden.”
A review of the book on UFO International Project reads: “With the amount of unusual crafts seen around the planet and out in space, could it be that our world leaders have the technology at their hands in order to possibly defend earth from alien beings or to explore deep space?
“This may once have been mocked, but not now, it is time that we open our eyes to the lies and deceit from the elite who do not want to lose the control over us.”
Airships are thought to be unsafe after the German passenger airship ‘Hindenburg’ caught fire and crashed in New Jersey in 1937, claiming 35 lives.
But Britain’s Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) is claiming that airships that have been ruled out in the past have a bright future.
HAV has unveiled an airship, ‘Airlander 10,’ which took off on its maiden flight on August 17th. It was scheduled to take off on Sunday, August 14th, but the test flight was postponed at the last minute due to a technical issue.
Though Airlander 10 successfully completed its first voyage, but crashed into a pole just seven days after its maiden voyage.
More about the Airlander
Airlander 10 has been nicknamed the ‘Flying Bum’ due to its distinctive shape.
It was originally developed for the US Army, but the project was scrapped due to funding issues. HAV brought it to the UK and developed it for civilian use.
The 300 foot long (93 meters) airship is longer than the biggest passenger jets.
It can travel at up to 90 mph (148 kph) and stay aloft for up to two weeks.
The Airlander can hover and land on almost any surface, including ice, the desert, and water.
Unlike traditional airplanes, the Airlander emits little pollution and produces less noise.
Instead of hydrogen, the gas used in the Hindenburg, Airlander uses helium which is not flammable.
selon une enveloppe similaire à celle du signal Wow (ci-dessous), quoique beaucoup plus brève (2 s vs 37 à mi-puissance).
La fréquence standard de signal SETIest celle de la transition hyperfine de l'hydrogène neutre interstellaire, soit 1.420 GHz ou 1420 MHz (l'hydrogène étant l'atome le plus répandu dans l'espace, on suppose qu'une civilisation industrielle utilisera cette fréquence pour communiquer). Le signal capté par RATAN-600 est de 11 Ghz. S'il est d'origine intelligente, le modèle de communication qu'il pourrait porter est probablement conçu selon des critères différents. Par ailleurs, plus la fréquence est haute et plus l'énergie d'émission doit être importante. S'il provient bien d'une distance de 95 AL, il a dû être émis avec une puissance de l'ordre du TW. Nous ne disposons pas encore d'antennes capables de telles performances. Cependant toute émission structurée forte à un seul pic, y compris des signaux naturels ou terrestres, aura un ratio signal/bruit plus ou moins semblable. Vue la structure de ce signal, et s'il ne s'accompagne pas d'harmoniques, il n'est malheureusement pas justiciable de l'analyse spectrale. Donc, patience. Des mois de travail seront nécessaires pour confirmer l'une ou l'autre des hypothèses.
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«Un puissant signal» de type extraterrestre? Un radio télescope russe a détecté un puissant signal qui pourrait laisser penser à une transmission intelligente extraterrestre.
La détection d'un «puissant signal» par un radio télescope russe en 2015 qui scrutait la voute céleste en quête de signes d'intelligence extraterrestre suscite un grand intérêt dans la communauté scientifique.
Ce signal, dont les caractéristiques pourraient laisser penser à une transmission d'une intelligence extraterrestre, pourrait tout aussi bien être une interférence radio ou le résultat d'un phénomène naturel, a rapporté ce week-end le site spécialisé Centauri Dreams, rendant publique pour la première fois cette observation.
«Personne ne prétend qu'il s'agit d'une transmission d'une civilisation extraterrestre mais cela vaut certainement la peine de l'étudier davantage», écrit Paul Gilster, auteur de ce site qui couvre les recherches scientifiques portant sur l'exploration de l'espace lointain. Ce dernier a révélé cette découverte après avoir vu une présentation sur le sujet par l'astronome italien Claudio Maccone.
Une étoile similaire au soleil
Le signal provient de la direction d'une étoile similaire au soleil qui se trouve dans la constellation d'Hercules [sic, lire Hercule] (HD164595) à environ 95 années lumière de la Terre.
Les scientifiques savent que cette étoile compte au moins une planète et pourrait en avoir d'autres.
Le signal a été détecté le 15 mai 2015 par le radiotélescope RATAN-600 dans la république russe de Karachay-Cherkessia [sic, lire Karatchaïévo-Tcherkessie] près de la frontière avec la Géorgie.
L'équipe d'astronomes menée par Nikolai Bursov de l'Académie russe des sciences précise qu'il est trop tôt pour en déterminer la nature et la provenance.
Mais ils estiment qu'il est suffisamment intéressant «pour demander à ce qu'il fasse l'objet d'une observation permanente», écrit Paul Gilster.
Cette découverte devrait faire l'objet d'une discussion au 67e Congrès Astronomique International qui doit se tenir à Guadalajara au Mexique le 27 septembre.
Une civilisation beaucoup plus avancée que la nôtre
Selon les chercheurs, si ce signal radio provenait d'une antenne isotrope qui rayonne dans toutes les directions, il s'agirait alors d'une civilisation beaucoup plus avancée que la nôtre, dite «Kardashev [sic, lire Kardachev] de type II», selon ces scientifiques.
Si le signal provient d'une bande d'émissions étroite orientée vers notre système solaire, cela pourrait être une civilisation plus proche des humains.
Selon Nick Suntzeff, un astronome de l'Université A and M du Texas, cité par la revue spécialisée Ars Technica, ce signal de 11 gigahertz se situe dans les fréquences utilisées par les militaires.
«Si j'étais à la place de ces astronomes je continuerais les observations mais sans trop d'illusion étant donné la forte possibilité qu'il pourrait s'agir de quelque chose de militaire», a-t-il dit.
Cette détection est comparée à celle du signal «Wow» capté en août 1977 par un radiotélescope américain ou plus récemment à l'observation controversée de l'étoile Tabby autour de laquelle des astronomes pensaient avoir observé des structures géantes construites par une civilisation avancée.
A strong signal detected over a year ago from the Hercules constellation is now being assessed. While astronomers doubt that it came from an advanced extraterrestrial civilization, they think it's worth having a look (if only to quell the rumors).
THE MYSTERIOUS BLIP
In May 15, 2015, a strong signal was detected by the RATAN-600 radio telescope in Russia. The transmission came from the direction of a star called HD164595, located around 95 light-years away from Earth in the Hercules constellation, and astronomers think this “strange” signal is worth investigating…for aliens?
RATAN-600 radio telescope in Russia. Credit: SAO RAS
To back up a bit: One interesting detail about the star is that it is pretty much like our Sun: it’s 99% the Sun’s mass and has a temperature only 12 Kelvin hotter than the Sun. It’s metallicity is almost the same as the Sun’s, and it’s only 100 million years younger. In terms of universe figures, that’s not a big age gap.
What’s even more intriguing is the fact that the signature detected came at a frequency consistent with that of an intentional transmission, sparking astronomers’ interest enough to circulate the readings with their peers and sending at least two research groups from SETI the (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) looking to the skies to track the star.
Studying the mysterious signal also made its way onto the agenda for the IAA (International Academy of Astronautics) SETI Permanent Committee’s meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico, which is set for this September 27th.
PROBABLY NOT ALIENS
As many publications have already noted, if the signal did come from an alien beacon, it would have been from a Kardashev Type II civilization (the kind of culture that can harness the energy from a whole star). “If that beacon is transmitting radio waves in all directions, the energy it would need to produce is a whopping 1020 watts,” notes SETI astronomer Seth Shostak. “It’s hundreds of times more than all the energy falling on the Earth from sunlight,” Shostak clarifies.
Yet, the possibility that the signal came from an advanced civilization in an attempt to make their presence known (or indeed, came from aliens at all) is low. “The signal may be real, but I suspect it’s not ET. There are other possibilities for a wide-band signal such as this, and they’re caused by natural sources (or even terrestrial interference),” Shostak wrote in an email to GeekWire.
And this case is especially marred because the Russian observatory waited over a year to announce the detection.
Enlarge/ The RATAN-600 radio telescope, in Zelenchukskaya, Russia.
“Standard SETI protocols call for confirmation of possible signals from a separate observatory. This helps ensure that the original signal didn’t arise from a technical glitch in the original observatory, and it helps rule out a hoax perpetuated by some enterprising graduate students targeting a SETI experiment,” Doug Vakoch, president of San Francisco-based METI International, noted.
Moreover, a member of the SETI team has recently posted a response which asserts that that they are “unimpressed” with the paper from the Russian team (and that’s putting it mildly):
I’m sure that many of you have seen the news reports of a “SETI signal” detected from the star HD 164595
I was one of the many people who received the email with the subject “Candidate SETI SIGNAL DETECTED by Russians from star HD 164595 by virtue of RATAN-600 radio telescope.” Since the email did come from known SETI researchers, I looked over the presentation. I was unimpressed. In one out of 39 scans that passed over the star showed a signal at about 4.5 times the mean noise power with a profile somewhat like the beam profile. Of course SETI@home has seen millions of potential signals with similar characteristics, but it takes more than that to make a good candidate. Multiple detections are a minimum criterion.
Because the receivers used were making broad band measurements, there’s really nothing about this “signal” that would distinguish it from a natural radio transient (stellar flare, active galactic nucleus, microlensing of a background source, etc.) There’s also nothing that could distinguish it from a satellite passing through the telescope field of view. All in all, it’s relatively uninteresting from a SETI standpoint.
But, of course, it’s been announced to the media. Reporters won’t have the background to know it’s not interesting. Because the media has it, and since this business runs on media, everyone will look at it. ATA is looking at it. I assume Breakthrough will look at it. Someone will look at it with Arecibo, and we’ll be along for the ride. And I’ll check the SETI@home database around that position. And we’ll all find nothing. It’s not our first time at this rodeo, so we know how it works.
The research should be completed soon, and we will know more at that time (but don’t count on ET).
Kardashev Scale: What It’ll Be Like When We Harness the Power of an Entire World
Kardashev Scale: What It’ll Be Like When We Harness the Power of an Entire World
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To measure the level of a civilization’s advancement, the Kardashev scale focuses on the amount of energy that a civilization is able to harness. Obviously, the amount of power available to a civilization is linked to how widespread the civilization is (you can’t harness the power of a star if you are confined to your home planet, and you certainly can’t harness the power of a galaxy if you can’t even get out of your solar system).
In short, according to the Kardashev scale, Interstellar Travelers = Advanced society
In a previous article, we offered an overview of the various civilization types: Subglobal Cultures, Galactic Cultures, Multiverse Cultures etc. We’ve already discussed a Subglobal Culture. Today, I want to talk about what it would be like to live in a Type I Civilization—A Planetary Culture.
I know that this type of culture doesn’t sound too terribly interesting. A Planetary Culture…a culture that lives on a planet. Wow. Fascinating. But don’t be so quick to judge, as such civilizations are generally far more advanced than we are.
EARTH: ABOVE AND BEYOND
While it’s true that such cultures are limited to the energy that can be obtained from a single world, that they are stuck on a single rock, Type I Civilizations have harnessed the power of theentire planet itself (estimated at about ~4 x 10^19 erg/sec.).
This means that their technological advancement isn’t limited by the availability of fossil fuels.
So in essence, if you lived in a Type I Civilization, you wouldn’t need to worry about earthquakes, tornadoes, or other catastrophic phenomena. Horrifying natural disasters like Pompeii, the 2004 South Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina…all of these cataclysms would be things of the past.
Ultimately, harnessing the power of the planet means controlling weather patterns, plate tectonics, oceanic currents, controlling volcanoes…the list goes on and on. As such, Type I Civilizations are able to manipulate (and, in many ways, manufacture) their own world.
You want rain? You can program it, so no more droughts. And no droughts means little to no starvation. This is a very good thing.
SO. WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE?
Of course, exploiting the power of a planet takes work. And you certainly can’t do it if your civilization is comprised of a few measly individuals who are confined to one tiny continent. Consequently, if you lived in a Type I civilization, you would be part of a vast population. Cities would stretch across the globe. Literally. Your world would no longer have countries or nations; it would be a single City-Empire. All peoples would act as one. They would be one…a truly global culture.
This is an inspiring and a harrowing thought.
The optimist will assert that Type I Civilizations will have ended war and genocide through peaceful processes. The pessimist will assert that Type I Civilizations will have ended war and genocide through war and genocide—by killing all those who dissented and opposed the majority.
Regardless of the path taken, the main point remains: A Type I Civilization will be a single, global culture that uses a network of highly advanced planetary-wide technologies to harness the total energy output of the Earth. For any world plagued by war and infighting, the large-scale projects required to attain Type I status will simply be out of reach.
WHEN WILL WE GET THERE?
Obviously, Planetary Civilizations are more advanced than we are. But, with any luck (if we don’t blow ourselves to oblivion, or turn the Earth into an uninhabitable wasteland), we will reach this stage in 100 to 200 years. So maybe your grand-kids will be around to see it; there’s some hope in that (assuming you have kids).
But there are problems that we will need to overcome if we are to attain the vast amount of energy generation needed to advance to a Type I Civilization. In order to reach Type I status using current modes of technology, we would need to essentially coat the entire surface of the planet with man-made structures. Such an enterprise would be astronomically expensive…and insanely detrimental to the environment. Moreover, we lack the material needed to create such large-scale structures.
On top of all this, nearly all forms of energy — electrical, thermal, mechanical, nuclear — they all return to the biosphere in a single degraded form: Heat. And heat is a wonderful, wonderful thing. Without it, we would all be very, very dead. But too much of a good thing is, well, not a good thing. Thermal pollution can rapidly reach catastrophic proportions. As more and more energy (heat) is liberated, the global temperature begins to rise, and the precarious energy balance of the biosphere begins to suffer irreversible damage.
At what point will this ultimate catastrophe occur?
On Earth, it is estimated that our pale blue dot will turn into a dry dead inferno long before we reach the energy levels needed to reach a Type I Civilization. The main point: The coming days will test us. There is a limit to every kind of energy production. At least, there is a limit if we don’t want to kill ourselves. So if we want to really advance, if we hope to boldly go where no one has gone before, then we are going to need to invest in new technologies and new means of production. We are going to need educated individuals to conduct research (I’m looking at you).
Welcome back to Geek.com’s Origin of the species. Each time out we’ll take a look at one of our favorite fantasy, science fiction or horror races or species, delving deep into history, fiction, mythology and etymology. Check out our previous installments on dwarfs, vampires, and robots!
Aliens run the gamut. Which gamut? Every gamut. Decades of pop culture have taught us that aliens can be pretty much anything, from humans with wacky heads to insect-like monsters to floating clouds of gas. But if you ask an average person to describe an alien, or just what comes to mind when they hear talk of abductions or close-calls with UFOs, chances are they’ll tell you about short grey humanoids with big heads, small mouths, and expressionless black eyes: Grey aliens or just Greys for short.
Greys are very much embedded in the human psyche, with a full 43% of alien encounters in these United States said to involve them. The way we see it, there are three reasons for why this could be the case. The first, and most useful for fiction, is the fact that aliens exist and that just happens to be what they look like. Of course, that’s something best left for our series on conspiracy theories, as we’re sure the Geek.com audience wouldn’t buy the outlandish idea that an alien race would evolve to look so similar to humans, right? Right.
So that leaves us with two other – somewhat connected – possibilities. One is that like werewolves or vampires, grey aliens are a manifestation of deep-rooted racial memories, the fruit that ripens on the vine of our collective unconsciousness. The other possibility is that Greys are nothing more than a fad that got picked up and elaborated upon before taking on a life of its own, a meme from the decades before the word even existed. Before we make a call one way or the other, however, let’s take a look back at where the Greys came from.
For many ufologists and true believers, the answer to that question is a deadpanned “Zeta Reticuli.” Reason being is that, according to some string-and-bead-based model-making by an amateur astronomer, that is supposedly the origin of the aliens that allegedly abducted Barney and Betty Hill. Their story, which they claimed happened in 1961, became the first widely reported abduction incident, and featured a group of aliens that, while not totally in line with the contemporary conception of Greys, weren’t too far off either.
This particular abduction story kicked off a myriad of other similar claims, many of which, as you’ve probably guessed, featured small, grey humanoid aliens. The origins of the grey aliens stretch back far further than the 1960s, however, as H.G. Wells, in an 1893 article, described a futuristic evolution of mankind that was remarkably similar to Grey aliens. He picked up on the notion in a number of subsequent works which depicted the grey skin, big head, and large black eye-having creatures as being extra-terrestrial in origin.
Though Grey aliens can be spotted throughout pop culture – including Close Encounters of the Third Kind and even Star Wars – business really picked up during the 1980s. Reason being is that was the decade in which the Greys were first linked with one of the most famous alien conspiracy theories: The Roswell UFO incident. The claim was that the Roswell wreckage contained not only otherworldly technology but also the bodies of actual Grey aliens.
That rumor and belief spread unchecked throughout the 80s, during which time the Grey aliens became a crucial component of contemporary belief in UFOs. But in the 90s, the Grey aliens became even more central to the beliefs of not just amateur ufologists, but all manner of conspiracy theorists, due largely to the popularity of The X-Files.
The X-Files smashed together countless different conspiracy theories, tying the Grey aliens into a nefarious New World Order-esque organization. As one of the most popular television shows on the air, the show, and its depiction of Grey aliens, was enormously influential, leading to the conflation of Greys and pretty much every other wacky conspiracy theory or New Age belief you could possibly imagine. And given the type of people who go all in on such things, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that the Greys were latched onto by hordes of 90s ravers and drug culture adherents.
So, where does this leave us? There are a few different theories as to the origins of the Grey alien trope, including the idea that the creatures represent an idealized version of traits that read as “intelligent,” as well as claims that they line up with what a mother’s face might look like to the brain of a still developing infant. While there’s nothing to completely discount either theory, there’s also not a whole lot other than speculation and circumstantial evidence to support them.
And for what it’s worth, I’m inclined to believe that any theories to the deeper meaning of Grey aliens are a lot of malarkey. That’s because unlike say, werewolves and vampires—the belief in which goes back hundreds, if not thousands, of years—Grey aliens only really started popping up in the 20th century. If there was something baked into us to envision the little bastards, why didn’t they start showing up sooner? And why does their appearance seem largely limited to Europe and former European colonies?
Similarly, prior to Grey aliens really taking hold in the second half of the 20th century, there were other default looks for aliens. The most notable of these being the bug-eyed monster, a trope that was once the most popular way to depict an alien invader, showing up in countless movies and pulp magazines. There was even a more regional variation on the “standard” alien, the tall, statuesque, blond humanoids known as Nordic aliens, which were particularly popular in Europe during the 1950s.
So, while the Grey aliens certainly might seem, due to their ubiquity and frankly, excellent design, like some kind of vestigial memory from times long past, or the manifestation of some deep-rooted, primal fear, it seems more likely that they’re something just as powerful: A cliché.
Aubrey Sitterson is the creator of the sword & sorcery serial podcast, SKALD. There are no aliens in it, but if you think about it, in a way… we’re all aliens, right? It’s available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher & Podomatic. Follow him onTwitter or check out his website for more information.
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(VIDEO)Edward Snowden say ALIENS are trying to make contact with Earth right now
(VIDEO)Edward Snowden say ALIENS are trying to make contact with Earth right now
The NSA whistleblower is still living in isolation in Russia, however he called in to the StarTalk podcast to make the sensational claims
Whistleblower: Edward Snowden made the claims while speaking to the StarTalk podcast
Edward Snowden has claimed that aliens are trying to make contact with Earth right now.
The NSA whistleblower was speaking as he continues to live in isolation in Russia following a major leak of information regarding the way government agencies monitor and use our personal data.
However he took time on Friday to call into scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk podcast to make some incredible claims.
Aliens on the phone? Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has made the incredible claims
He said:
“So if you have an an alien civilization trying to listen for other civilizations, or our civilization trying to listen for aliens, there’s only one small period in the development of their society when all of their communication will be sent via the most primitive and most unprotected means.
Asylum: Russian President Vladimir Putin has allowed Snowden to stay in the country
“So when we think about everything that we’re hearing through our satellites or everything that they’re hearing from our civilization (if there are indeed aliens out there), all of their communications are encrypted by default.
“So what we are hearing, that’s actually an alien television show or you know a phone call… is indistinguishable to us from cosmic microwave background radiation.”
The former US intelligence contractor went into hiding after carrying out a major leak of information that was initially published in the Guardian newspaper.
Left behind: Lindsay Mills, girlfriend of whistleblower Edward Snowden
Snowden went into hiding in Hong Kong in 2013, and was then granted asylum in Russia, where he continues to live.
Following the leak, he was even forced to leave behind his girlfriend Lindsay Mills.
Snowden faces charges of espionage and theft of government property in the United States.
He claims the US have made an example of him, saying how he has been treated as “a warning to all others who might speak out as I have”.
10 Lesser-Known Facts About AREA 51 You’ll Want to Know
10 Lesser-Known Facts About AREA 51 You’ll Want to Know
Only in 2013 had the US publicly admitted about the existence of the infamous Area 51. Its name is also mentioned in an official statement of Barack Obama, but although the veil of secrecy appeared to be falling off, the CIA refused to offer any additional details on this subject.
Now that the beans have been partially spilled, here are some less known facts about the notorious military base:
1. It had various names along the years, some used for cover up reasons and some for luring unaware working force to the remote area of Nevada where it is located. It was known as ‘Paradise Ranch’, and referred to as a rustic resort. Other names were ‘Home Base’, ‘Water Town’, and ‘Dreamland’, none of this sending suspicions about a top-secret governmental facility. The CIA insists that the correct name for it is either Homey Airport, or Groom Lake, but we all know it as Area 51, a name first mentioned in a CIA document from the Vietnam war.
2. Decades after the Cold War, reports have surfaced revealing mounting evidence of the existence of the A-12 spy plane – an aircraft with advanced flight capabilities developed inside Area 51. According to the existing documents, the plane could reach speeds up to 3,500 km/h and remain undetected from ground radars.
3.Staff only worked during the night when building the 9,000 foot long runway for the testing of A-12, so that it wouldn’t draw any suspicious eyes, and no clear pictures or video could be taken.
4.In April 1955, when Dwight Eisenhower was president, control of the area was given to CIA for developing and testing a scouting aircraft in a classified project named Aquatone.
5.You could have lobsters, oysters and even steak on a weakly basis at the Swedish buffet at Area 51.
6.Access inside the massive military base and a large amount of terrain that surrounds it is strictly forbidden for anyone not directly involved, but that didn’t stop controversial material of extraterrestrial beings, fallen UFOs and other anomalies from surfacing from time to time.
7.There is a strip of land called The Nellis Range near the Groom Lake facility used for testing weapons and technology vital for US military. During the Cold War, the Atmoic Energy Comission (AEC) supervised several atmospheric nuclear detonations for the sol purpose of developing novel atomic technology. The Air Force has publicly admitted its existence, but all activities are still classified.
‘Ivy Mike’ atmospheric nuclear detonation, 1959
8.A few reports suggest that the military exploited the secrecy agreement surrounding area 51, including the fact that people working there had to remain silent about what was going on at all times. In this acceptance, huge amounts of toxic wastes were dumped at the site. In 1996, after Robert Frost died because of the toxic fumes inhaled during working hours, his wife Helen took the matter to court, but she didn’t reach any consent because the case was dismissed as a result of national security considerations. Other rumors speak of how other military facilities were illegally disposing their toxic trash at Area 51 because of its remote location and because the base is apparently exempt of any environmental laws.
9.After test pilot Ken Williams ejected from the cockpit before his plane had crashed, he landed near a pickup truck. The owners offered to take him to the wreckage, but he immediately refused and suggested them to leave the area immediately because the craft had radioactive material on board.
10.Most reports concerning UFOs between the 50s and 60s were written by pilots that were constantly scouting the area. A recent study showed that 70% of people living in the U.S. believe in the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrial being, and most of them suspect the two are related in a way to Area 51.
NASA OPENLY ADMITS ALIEN LIFE EXISTS: GET READY FOR DISCLOSURE
NASA OPENLY ADMITS ALIEN LIFE EXISTS: GET READY FOR DISCLOSURE
Most people ‘in the know’ realize that NASA is just part of the military industrial complex, but a recent open admission on mainstream news that “there are indications of alien life” is likely the beginning of a bid to get your undivided attention before full-forced disclosure ensues.
Most people already believe what NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan states:
I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade . . .I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20-30 years.”
It isn’t going to take that long if we open our eyes.
Stofan goes on to say:
“We’re on the verge of things that people have wondered about for millennia. Within all of our lifetimes we’re going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system. We’re going to understand the implications of that for life here on Earth.”
What we’re going to understand is that our ‘secret’ government has been hiding this fact for ages. In an effort to transition the US and other countries through its reach to a cabal-run oligarchy, our shadow government has been lying about off-planet corporate slavery rings, alien abductions, benevolent beings who can only do so much until our collective consciousness elevates, and much, much more.
William Cooper, among others, tried to disclose the true purpose of NASA, but he was exterminated. His death, among thousands of others, will not be in vain.
We will learn that aside from extraterrestrial beings visiting our planet and many different ET races tinkering with our DNA over millennia, there are ancient humanoid races that are more than 10 million years old.
We will learn that a recent computer hacking retrieved millions of government and corporate personnel records, some say as part of documentation for Nuremburg-like trials, will begin soon against those who have mind-controlled, enslaved and tortured us. Undeniable photos of UFOs were also unearthed.
We will also learn that chemtrails and GMOs were the LEAST of plans made for us ‘sheeple’ and ‘useless eaters’ by a Luciferian cabal, and that President Harry Truman signed a document with certain ETs that allowed the ‘elite’ to conduct highly technological experiments with intelligence gained from these ETs in exchange for looking the other way when certain humans were abducted for ET experiments.
We will learn that we are not helpless, as we have been programmed to believe. We are, in fact, a rare humanoid race that has an incredible range of emotion and creative power. We will learn that our minds and emotions can either fuel chaos on this planet, or restore it to its rightful place of peace and cooperation, of care for others at least as much as ourselves.
We will learn that our ascension into infinitely peaceful beings is indeed possible, and it has been described in countless books, many of which have been suppressed along with UFO information.
NASA is telling us now that the likelihood of alien life is a ruse. Be sure to remember those who have been executed to try to prove this information to us decades ago, and to use discernment when the truth is finally revealed.
In een Engels veld is een hele bijzondere graancirkel ontdekt in een vorm die de meesten van ons heel bekend voor zal komen.
Een teken, een symbool, wat op zich heel positief is, maar ook met één bepaald iemand uit onze geschiedenis wordt geassocieerd.
Op 27 augustus werd er in het Engelse graafschap Wiltshire een bijzondere graancirkel aangetroffen.
Met een symbool dat we allemaal kennen.
De boeren die eigenaar zijn van het land waar deze graancirkel is verschenen, hebben laten weten dat ze absoluut geen bezoekers op hun land willen zien.
Ze hebben gedreigd de cirkel compleet te vernietigen wanneer ze mensen daar aantreffen en bovendien hebben ze aangifte gedaan wegens moedwillige vernieling bij de lokale politie.
Hoe die verhaal moeten gaan halen bij de buitenaardsen die de cirkel hebben gemaakt, is niet helemaal duidelijk.
Alhoewel het voor veel inwoners in ons land een negatieve uitstraling heeft en doet denken aan Adolf Hitler en de Nazi’s is de oorsprong van het hakenkruis of swastika heel positief:
Bij het zien van een Swastika gaan bij veel mensen de haren overeind staan. Dit oud-boeddhistische symbool lijkt namelijk precies op een hakenkruis! Helaas waren de Duitsers niet zo origineel en hebben zij dit teken gestolen en letterlijk gekopieerd van het boeddhisme en hindoeïsme. Hier wordt het teken ook niet hakenkruis genoemd, maar krijgt het een veel sierlijkere naam: Swastika.
De oorsprong van Swastika
De oudste swastika’s die zijn gevonden komen uit 2500 voor Christus. De Swastika werd toen veel gebruikt om een Boeddha mee te versieren. Het teken werd veelal op de borst of voeten van de boeddhabeelden afgebeeld. Later werden ook Swastika’s gevonden in Amerika, afkomstig van de oude indianen en ook bij de Maya’s, Azteken en zelfs de Vikingen werd dit symbool al gebruikt.
De betekenis
Het Duitse hakenkruis heeft qua betekenis overigens niks te maken met een van deze oude culturen en religies. Tijdens de tweede wereld oorlog stond het kruis symbool voor het fascisme en nog steeds wordt het teken gebruikt bij hele rechtse ideologieën.
Bij het boeddhisme wordt de Swastika gebruikt als zonnerad. En worden met de ‘haken’ de vier windstreken benoemd. Dit heilige symbool wordt gezien als de cyclus van het leven. Een andere betekenis bij het Hindoeisme is dat het symbool staat voor het kosmische bewustzijn en het scheppende principe. Oftewel de voortgang van het leven en zijn evolutie.
Moon Size UFO Enters Sun, Disappears in Under Surface In less than 7 minutes, Aug 29, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Moon Size UFO Enters Sun, Disappears in Under Surface In less than 7 minutes, Aug 29, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 29, 2016 13:06 Location of sighting: Earths Sun Source: EIT 284 I found this UFO near our sun today. Its big, about as big as our moon, and its shiny...like its surface is metallic, reflecting the light off of it. The shape is unusual like a pyramid. This object should not be this close to the sun without burning up. It should be impossible, but its there in a NASA SOHO image. I saw other photos of the same location from 13:00...6 min before and from 13:13...7 minutes after this photo was taken. The UFO is gone...no moon size object could possible just disappear unless it had partial light speed capability. There is no known propulsion that could get this moon size object far enough from the sun in just 6 minutes. It may have been entering the sun, because if it was leaving from the sun, there should have been a trail following it, but there is none, therefore, I know it was entering it. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Two UFOs Make Do A Flyby On The Space Station During Live Cam Coverage, Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Two UFOs Make Do A Flyby On The Space Station During Live Cam Coverage, Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 2016
Location of sighting: Earths orbit at ISS Yesterday, Streetcap1 of Youtube caught two UFOs moving above the space station on live NASA cam. This is 100% proof that aliens do monitor the space station. The first UFO is smaller...which tells me its farther away that the second larger UFO. Cool catch. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Streetcap1 states: UFOS PASS PROGRESS. Two fast ufos seen passing Progress Capsule as it's lights attract their attention. Streetcap1.
A Georgia witness at Woodbine reported watching a silver disc UFO hovering under 30 feet off the ground along the Satilla River near I-95, according to testimony in Case 78596 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was northbound along I-95 at the Woodbine exit, pictured, when the object was first seen.
(Credit: Google)
The witness was driving northbound along I-95 just past the Woodbine exit near the Satilla River at 4:30 p.m. on August 20, 2016, when the incident occurred.
“I saw a huge silver, highly polished disc hovering over the marsh next to the treeline about 20-30 feet off the ground,” the witness stated. “The object seemed to be as big as a minivan.”
The witness wanted to get closer to the object.
The object was hovering under 30 feet off of the ground. Pictured: I-95 at the Woodbine exit.
(Credit: Google)
“I wanted to turn around, but the next exit was 10 minutes down and would be too long to get back. It might be gone. I didn’t turn around.”
The witness was upset over the sighting.
“I was freaked out wondering what the heck I saw and why was it in the marsh. I just so happened to look that way and saw it before I drove past. It was tucked back, almost hiding behind the treeline on the highway.”
Woodbine is a city in and the county seat of Camden County, GA, population 1,412. Georgia Field Investigators Jeremy Haslam and Brion Trainor are investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Australia outback is large and mostly uninhabited, so its only logical that the US gov asked Australia to a lot a large amount of land to aliens for their personal use (underground bases)...probably land that is a preserve, with no hunting, no living on, no harming the trees and such. Its a well known fact that the US works on its top secret aircraft outside of the US in order to confuse the public. And the USAF probably got some new tech from them. This looks a lot like one of those projects called the TR3B. As a matter of fact, I just reported this UFO passing over Yellowstone park on live cam a few days ago. Probably made by Bigelow Aerospace. The witness states that the UFO was 100X bigger than a plane. I stated a few days ago, that the UFO over Yellowstone was over 100 meters long, possibly up to 300 meters. It fits. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states: A GIANT triangular UFO “100 times bigger than a plane” that emerged on the Tablelands on the weekend has shocked a young family. Kyle Mathiot was playing with sparklers with his two young boys and partner Deborah Price in the front yard of their Herberton home on Saturday about 7.30pm when they spotted something strange in the distance. “I notice one light up in the sky and it was way, way too big to be a star,” Mr Mathiot said.
“I went to get my partner’s phone, and started taking pictures of it and all of a sudden there was another two lights, and it was in the shape of a triangle, with a big light up the front and another two lights up the back.” Mr Mathiot, 21, took several photos of the aircraft as it hovered in the same place for about half an hour before it disappeared. “It was zipping around like no plane or drone we’ve ever seen,” he said. “The lights were about two centimetres apart in the sky. “It had to be a massive object. “It definitely wasn’t a drone. It was 100 times bigger than a plane.” He said he was amazed by the sheer size of the unknown object. “I kind of like that type of stuff. I’m kind of a believer but I’m not freaked out, just in shock,” he said. “I’ve never had an experience like that.” An Australian Defence Force spokesman said there was no evidence of military aircraft in the Herberton area at the time of the sighting. Alec Brimacombe, the Far Northern investigator for UFO Research Queensland, said Mr Mathiot’s photos certainly appeared to show a triangular object. “I’m not aware of any reports from Herberton but there were sightings of smaller objects around Tinaroo last year,” he said.
“Certainly there are a great many reports of flying triangular objects seen around the world.” He said in other cases, the large size of triangular UFOs was often mentioned. “If the object was sighted with the naked eye, then it cannot be a photographic anomaly,” he said. “The three points of light suggest a structured triangular object or craft. “As to what it is, we just cannot say. “It sounds too large for a drone and the zigzag movements are not characteristic of planes – civilian or military.”
Travis Walton demonstrates evidence of his 1975 UFO abduction by the unusual rates of tree ring growth at the site. As an experienced logger, Travis explains the rapid tree growth, which occurred after the incident.
⇩⇩ THE INCIDENT (1975) ⇩⇩ ----------------------------------------------------------
The Travis Walton UFO incident refers to an American logger who claims he was abducted by a UFO on November 5, 1975, while working with a logging crew in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona. Walton reappeared after a five-day search. The Walton case received mainstream publicity and remains one of the best-known alleged alien abduction stories, although skeptics consider it a hoax.
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NEW HORIZONS [Extended Version]
NEW HORIZONS [Extended Version]
This is the full extended version of the film I had the honor of making for the National Space Society to promote NASAs New Horizons spacecraft and its historic reconnaissance mission to Pluto and its system of moons on July 14 2015 - the very first exploration of this system in human history. I got to work closely with the missions principal investigator Alan Stern and I am grateful for his and the rest of his team's confidence in me to make this film.
The original official release by NSS can be seen here:
CREDITS: Visual Director: Erik Wernquist Visual Artists: Mikael Hall, Kim Nicosia, Erik Wernquist Composer: Cristian Sandquist Colorist: Caj Müller/Beckholmen Film Soundmix: Håkan Nilsson/Hajp The film utilizes photos and textures from: NASA/JPL/CICLOPS/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualisation Studio
This film was made possible through contributions from New Horizons mission partners Aerojet Rocketdyne, Ball Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, and United Launch Alliance.
The Solar Express is a space train that would be designed and used to ferry humans, supplies and minerals between celestial bodies and space stations in our solar system. It would run non-stop, so smaller vessels would need to catch the train when it passed by.
The Background
In space, the most expensive portions of travel are the acceleration and deceleration phases. The energy required for those portions is tremendous, especially for something as heavy as a space train. In addition, if you were to start hauling cargo, it would become very expensive. However, once the train reached its cruising speed, its energy consumption would be minimal. That’s the idea behind the Solar Express concept. It would never stop; instead, space wagons / capsules would rendezvous with it.
How It Works
The Solar Express would take the form of a series of aligned cylinders. Each cylinder would have a length of at least 50 meters, and one train would be composed of six of them placed in a straight line. These cylinders/torus would be split into four cargo bays and could be swapped in-flight with the help of maintenance robots.
The Solar Express would first accelerate with rocket boosters. Stored fuel contained in the vessel’s core could be used to make course adjustments. The train wouId also use the force of gravity to slingshot around planets or moons. The speed of the Solar Express could be set at 1% of the speed of light, or about 3 000km/s.
Huge solar arrays located along the train’s path could be used to capture solar energy and transfer it by laser to supercapacitors. Water harvested from comets or small moons would be used for humans living on the train and transported to other stations. The harvested water could also be used to create hydrogen and propellant, but the main propulsion system should take the form of an ion thrusters.
Mobile Cargo Bays (MCBs) and other spacecraft would allow for transhipment between celestial bodies (planets, moons, asteroids) and the trains. These vessels could use different types of propulsion to rendezvous with the Solar Express. They would need to match the speed of the train to attach and carry on their transhipment.
The Solar Express would be used to transport material, minerals, vessels and even people living in sections under gravity. Of course, on the train they wouldn’t suffer from acceleration or decceleration. A large ‘space city’ would rotate around the longitudinal axis and provide artificial gravity inside so that humans could walk and live there during the long months of travelling.
The faster the Solar Express moves, the more expensive it will be to catch it. As you can imagine, the cost per ton is important, much like parcel shipping services. Some Solar Express trains could be used to make large loops (between distant planets), while others would be assigned shorter routes and their speed will vary.
What It’s Used For
Obviously, there is a lot to consider, starting with dimensions, masses, speed, energy, etc. How do you control such a complex vehicle? The general idea here is to devise a system to transport minerals, materials, and humans from one place to the other in our solar system. The Solar Express is a basic idea and we would like to know how we could improve it.
The Designer
I would like to Olivier Péraldi who helped me developed this concept along with Boris Schwarzer, who created the renderings of the Solar Express. Boris is based in Michigan, U.S.A. He went to the College of Creative Studies. He currently works as a contractual designer for the Ford Motor Company. Boris also created the images of the Urban Link driverless electric tuk-tuk and the Snowrama II snowmobile concepts.
“Space Train” Concept Could Get Humans to Mars in Two Days, If Only It Would Work
“Space Train” Concept Could Get Humans to Mars in Two Days, If Only It Would Work
Boris Schwarzer/Imaginative
IN BRIEF
Imaginactive founder Charles Bombardier released a concept for a space train that never stops: it cuts down on energy required by eliminating the acceleration and deceleration phases which take up most fuel. The Solar Express will pick up passengers and cargo at specific points where it will meet up with other smaller shuttles so it doesn't have to land (and accelerate) all over again.
SPACE TRAIN
It takes between three to six months for a probe to reach Mars from Earth. A new concept space train called Solar Express is challenging that time frame: it would, hypothetically, be able to transport people and cargo from earth to Mars in less than two days.
Imaginactive founder, Charles Bombardier, and his team aim to create Solar Express in a way were it could travel at around 1% the speed of light, which is 3,000 km (1,864 miles) per second. At this rate, a trip to the moon would only take seven hours.
The concept started out with identifying what makes space travel expensive and inefficient. “In space, the most expensive portions of travel are the acceleration and deceleration phases. The energy required for those portions is tremendous, especially for something as heavy as a space train. In addition, if you were to start hauling cargo, it would become very expensive,” he said on their website.
Solar Express plans to circumvent these inconveniences by eliminating the acceleration and deceleration phase—it will never stop once it’s up there. Instead, it will move back and forth in space as smaller capsules containing cargo and passengers dock onto it while still in motion.
Bombardier says: “once the train reached its cruising speed, its energy consumption would be minimal. That’s the idea behind the Solar Express concept. It would never stop; instead, space wagons/capsules would rendezvous with it.” The space train will use the momentum it gained from its initial launch, and rely partially on gravity thereafter, reducing the need to use fuel. It would, hypothetically, also be able to harness solar energy and pick up water from celestial bodies, which will be used by those on board and well as being converted into fuel.
AMBITION IS THE NEW NORMAL
Seeing as this is just a concept, there are a lot of details that would still need to be figured out. Imaginactive, being a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring innovative, out-of-the-box concepts, encourages and welcomes innovators to think up crazy ideas—and then figure out details after. In fact, they are continuously on the lookout for more inventors and proposals are open to everyone.
To be clear, this is just an ambitious concept. The science and development to make this possible are nowhere near the levels of certainty that would be required to actually get this concept off the ground.
While the concept seems like a moonshot, at the rate space technology is developing, can we really, definitively, say it’s impossible? Besides, we’ve regularly seen science-fiction turn into reality.
Jorge Rigoboulos doesn't care if you don't believe him; he knows when he was a 10-year-old boy he saw a circular-shaped object with lights on it that flew across the sky.
"It was impressive because it was so close," the now-48-year-old said Saturday. "It is true what I saw."
It may have been the first time the Miami man saw an unidentified flying object in the sky, but he said it wasn't the last. Just four years, ago he says he saw another set of lights darting around the Florida sky, only reinvigorating his interest in the unknown.
"It's something that attracts me," Rigoboulos said.
He's not alone in his quest for information about what else—or who else—could live in this solar system or another dimension. Rigoboulos was one of nearly 500 people expected to attend the annual MUFON Symposium.
MUFON, short for the Mutual UFO Network, is a science-based organization that investigates and researches the phenomenon of the existence of aliens and their connection or contact with Earth.
This year's event, "UFOs: From our Oceans to Outer Space,"ends Sunday at the Hilton Lake Buena Vista Hotel near Walt Disney World.
Symposium attendees range from true believers and UFO enthusiasts to skeptics and those determined to debunk any finding of extraterrestrial life.
"Hollywood has always painted this as an X-Filey, sensationalized subject matter," said Morgan Beall, Florida's MUFON state director.
Beall said the importance of the event is to show attendees, including the skeptics, that the work being done isn't about the stereotypical big-eyed, green-skinned alien.
"There is that ridicule factor, that giggle factor that's still out there that shouldn't be because it's actually a very, very serious subject matter," he said. "And, if real, think of the implications."
Shari Gackstatter, owner of Tempe, Ariz.- based Star Woman Crystals, said the event is important to bring together like-minded people, giving them a safe space to discuss their beliefs without fear of judgment.
"I assume every single person has seen something in the sky that didn't make sense," she said. "To me, an intelligent person is going to assume there's more to everything that what we see."
Beall hasn't had any personal experience with extraterrestrials, either having an up-close encounter or seeing an object in the sky, but he knows scientists every day are learning more about the possibilities that humans aren't the only existing life form.
"And I think just putting it into perspective, we're a grain of sand in an ocean," he said. "And we're young compared to the rest of the universe."
Robert Powell, MUFON's director of research, said he's interviewed more than 200 people who've had some kind of experience with other-worldly beings, enough to believe there's something out there even if he hasn't seen it for himself.
Powell said he would love to have his own experience one day.
"In a way, it's really like winning the lottery because there's lots of UFO reports," said Powell. "But there's very few real UFO incidents for witnesses, right? Because people misinterpret what they see."
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5 Bizarre Things Spotted on Mars
5 Bizarre Things Spotted on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Rover may be in full swing right now, but it’s definitely not the first space vehicle to transmit pictures of the Red Planet. We’ve rounded up five bizarre things that have been spotted on Mars during past missions, including the mysterious “Crowned Face” above. Continue reading to see more.
5. Rock Structure
This particular scene is imaged from the Spirit rover Panoramic camera on Sol 726 and the rover location is elevated just enough in the terrain to see some background behind the object and a little more of the terrain it appears to sit in. I include this scene here to provide general site context wider area terrain information and to demonstrate how alone and what a sharp stand out this object is in this terrain.
4. Face on Mars (Cydonia)
The Viking images presented us with a mesa and a reason to suspect artificiality – its seemingly improbable humanoid-face-like appearance. However, as is well known, face-like images sometimes appear in clouds, profiles of mountains, and various other random or visually noisy scenes. This is simply because remarkably regular patterns frequently arise by chance, even when the a priori odds are billions to one against that happening.
3. Monolith
The object in question was first spotted several years ago after being photographed by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA space probe; every so often, it garners renewed interest on the Internet. But is it unnatural – a beacon erected by aliens for mysterious reasons, and even more mysteriously paralleled in the imaginations of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, creators of “2001”? Or is this rock the work of nature?
2. Humanoid Figure
NASA posted a photograph (PIA10216, Google it-same photo as the woman figure was found!) taken by the Mars Spirit Rover on their web site that bloggers around the world began scanning over carefully in order to catch anything that NASA may have accidentally let slip through. To everyone’s amazement some anonymous person in Asia did and posted it on the Internet causing widespread excitement over the possibilities of life existing on Mars.
VIDEO: UFO-vloot gespot boven supervulkaan die ‘buitenaardse basis’ herbergt
VIDEO: UFO-vloot gespot boven supervulkaan die ‘buitenaardse basis’ herbergt
Er zijn beelden opgedoken van een aantal grote UFO’s boven de enorme supervulkaan Yellowstone. Alien-jagers suggereren dat er mogelijk een buitenaardse basis in de vulkaan verscholen ligt.
In de wolken boven de supervulkaan in het Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, die al 70.000 jaar niet meer is uitgebarsten, lijkt een groot cilindervormig object met een doorsnee van meer dan 100 meter te zien te zijn.
Energie
Wetenschappers speculeren dat een uitbarsting van de vulkaan tot zo’n 10.000 sterfgevallen en een nucleaire winter kan leiden. UFO-jagers menen dat buitenaardse levensvormen energie onttrekken aan de vulkaan.
De ‘vloot’ vliegende schotels is gespot op livebeelden van het park. Volgens Jeanette Foresta, die de beelden op YouTube zette, is de video bewijs voor de aanwezigheid van buitenaardse wezens.
Op de hoogte
Foresta maakt wel vaker beelden van Yellowstone National Park, maar heeft nog nooit een filmpje over UFO’s geplaatst. Het beeldmateriaal is geanalyseerd door Scott C. Waring van de website UFO Sightings Daily.
“De Amerikaanse overheid is op de hoogte van het bestaan van een actieve buitenaardse basis of zelfs meerdere bases in het gebied,” claimt Waring, die speculeert dat het gebied om die reden is uitgeroepen tot nationaal park. “Ik leef voor dit soort filmpjes.”
SETI-onderzoekers in de ban van mysterieus signaal uit de ruimte
SETI-onderzoekers in de ban van mysterieus signaal uit de ruimte
SETI-onderzoekers zijn in de ban van radiosignalen die uit de richting van een zonachtige ster in het sterrenbeeld Hercules lijken te komen. Het gaat om de ster HD 164595, zo meldt GeekWire.
Het signaal komt overeen met het profiel van een boodschap afkomstig van een buitenaardse bron, maar het kan net zo goed gaan om radio-interferentie of een geval van microlensing.
Hoe dan heeft het signaal de interesse gewekt van de mensen die zich specialiseren in de zoektocht naar buitenaardse intelligentie, oftewel SETI, waaronder Paul Gilster, die het signaal afgelopen weekendonder de aandacht bracht.
Aantal redenen
Tenminste twee onderzoeksgroepen gaan HD 164595 nauwgezet volgen. Het SETI-instituut gebruikt de Allen Telescope Array in Californië terwijl METI International de Boquete Optical SETI Observatory in Panama inzet.
Het signaal is meer dan een jaar geleden, op 15 mei 2015, opgepikt door een Russische radiotelescoop in Zelentsjoekskaja, niet ver van de grens met Georgië.
De bron van het signaal, HD 164595, is om een aantal redenen interessant: het is een zonachtige ster op 95 lichtjaar van de aarde en er draait tenminste één ‘warme Neptunus’ rond de ster. “Er kunnen zich natuurlijk nog meer planeten in dit stelsel bevinden,” zei Gilster.
Wow!-signaal
Het signaal wordt al vergeleken met het mysterieuze Wow!-signaal dat in 1977 eenmalig werd opgevangen en KIC 8462582, die ook wel de meest mysterieuze ster in het heelal wordt genoemd. Na mei 2015 is het signaal niet meer gedetecteerd. Volgende maand gaan astronomen erover discussiëren op een bijeenkomst in Mexico.
“Dit object moet permanent gemonitord worden,” zeggen de onderzoekers die het signaal hebben ontdekt. Zij staan onder leiding van Nikolai Boersov van de Russische Academie van Wetenschappen.
“Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, Et’s, etc…They are visiting Earth now; this is not a matter of conjecture or wistful thinking. – Theodor C. Loder III, Phd, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire (source)
The topic of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), alongside the extraterrestrial hypothesis being one of multiple explanations for their appearance (which seems to be quite a common phenomenon), is an area of interest for many people that’s continually growing, and for good reasons. This is in large part due to the fact that we now have hundreds of credible witnesses that have officially testified to the reality of an extraterrestrial presence, and its relation to the already disclosed UFO ‘problem.’
This is why members of government, like John Podesta, Chief of Staff for Bill Clinton, Counsellor to Barack Obama and head of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign before she dropped out, stated that “the time to pull the curtain back on this subject is long overdue. We have statements from the most credible sources, those in a position to know, about a fascinating phenomenon, the nature of which is yet to be determined.”(You can find sources for this quote, and other statements made by Podesta on this matter in this article we published in February about him.)
“As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nautical miles it lost all instrumentation and communications. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications. Another brightly lighted object came out of the original object. The second object headed straight toward the F4. ” – One example out of hundreds involving the military intercept of a UFO that was tracked on air radar, ground radar, and visually confirmed by pilots (source)µ
Why It’s Time To Listen To Contactees, Abductees & Experiencers/ A Psychological Standpoint
Just to clarify, ‘contactees’ are usually those who have reported ‘friendly’ contact experiences with extraterrestrials, ‘abductees’ are those who have had what they perceive to be fearful experiences, and experiencers are those who neither view the experience as ‘good’ or ‘bad,” but simply just an experience. It’s important to note this, because various people have reported different types of experiences with different types of beings.
“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered… We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time.” – Dr. Edgar Mitchell, ScD, 6th man to walk on the Moon(source) (source)
The reality is that some people who claim to have had contact with intelligent extraterrestrial beings actually have.
John Mack, A Harvard professor, psychiatrist and Pulitzer Price recipient stresses that:
“Yes, it’s both. It’s both literally, physically happening to a degree; and it’s also some kind of psychological, spiritual experience occurring and originating perhaps in another dimension. And so the phenomenon stretches us, or it asks us to stretch to open to realities that are not simply the literal physical world, but to extend to the possibility that there are other unseen realities from which our consciousness, our, if you will, learning processes over the past several hundred years have closed us off.” (source)
We published an article earlier this year regarding John Mack, and more than 60 school children witnessing non-human beings and a large craft landing. The children were interviewed by him, and it was quite a remarkable story with all of the children providing very similiar stories. Until this day these children have been speaking of it, an event occurred more than 20 years ago….
“They describe these events like a person talks about something that has happened to them. I can tell that these are people of sound mind telling me something…” (quote continued and taken from the video linked below) -Dr. John Mack, professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
You can watch THIS video of Mack Interview the children, and you can read THIS article that goes more into detail on that case.
According to retired McGill University professor in the Department of Psychology (research areas beings cognition and cognitive Neuroscience), Dr. Don Donderi:
“Some of what people report as UFOs are extraterrestrial (ET) vehicles. Some of those extraterrestrial vehicles actually have ET crews, and some of those ET crews catch and release humans.” (source)
Academicians like these, and others like Richard Dolan, David M. Jacobs and more have been studying this phenomena for decades, and the reports of beings and examining why they are here, what they are doing, what they look like and more has been documented by their (and others) research.
What I find most fascinating about these stories is how many of them seem to compliment each other instead of contradicting each other, which just adds to the mystery.
As far as physical research goes:
“There are a great many photographs of such body marks, many of which are in an equilateral triangle pattern of red dots on the wrist or near the ankle. Also common are scoop marks,” in which it appears as if a small amount of tissue was removed from beneath the skin, leaving an indentation.” -Richard Dolan (taken from his book, UFOs for the 21st century mind)
Below is a clip of Dr. Roger Leir. a doctor of podiatric medicine, and arguably the best known individual with regards to extracting alleged alien implants. He has performed more than fifteen surgeries that removed sixteen separate distinct objects. These objects have been investigated by several prestigious laboratories, including Los Alamos National Laboratories, New Mexico Tech, and many others. Unfortunately, he passed away in March 2014, but his legacy lives on.
Truth is, as former NASA astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor puts it, “there is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a vary long time.” (source)
**The information below is a very brief summary of a few of the most commonly reported extraterrestrials based on all of the research I’ve done on this subject.
Human Looking Extraterrestrials
Extraterrestrials with features drastically similar to human beings have reported by contactees, abductees and experiencers for a long time. This type of experience is actually quite common. Many people have reported that they’ve been taken into ships, and warned about the direction the human race is heading. They’re also often portrayed as assisting our planet in various ways, both on a physical level and an energetic one.
“Decades ago, visitors from other plants warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead, we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after.” – Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defense Minister (source)
There have also been reports of human looking extraterrestrials working with humans inside of what’s known as the military industrial complex with regards to making technological advancements. This is why in the highly classified world, the black budget world, it’s probably the independent government contractors that are working in these areas.
Stories of human like extraterrestrials date from the beginning of time all the way up to the present day, and historical literature is littered with accounts of these types of encounters.
My people tell of Star People who came to us many generations ago. The Star people brought spiritual teachings and stories and maps of the cosmos and they offered these freely. They were kind, loving, and set a great example. When they left us, my people say there was a loneliness like no other.” – Richard Wagamese, Ojibway Author (source)
As far as the picture above, I am not sure if it’s real or fake, but that’s not the point. It was used to spark your imagination, it is supposedly one of the extraterrestrials that was discovered dead inside of a ship that was located on the moon – retrieved from one of the Apollo missions.
Other common looks are tall, muscular with long hair, blue eyes and blond hair. The same type of figure has also been reported with black and white beings. Some reports have detailed beings with blue skin, larger eyes, as well as shorter beings, with a little more ’round’ of a head. There seems to be a large variation, some know asand the possibility of several different looking human-like extraterrestrial beings. This raises some very interesting questions regarding the origin of our species, if the humanoid form is common throughout the universe, what does that mean?
Contanctee’s commonly refer to these beings being from various star systems like Arcturus, Sirius, Andromeda and the Pleiades, just to name a few.
Cat/bird like humanoid (like above) beings are also fairly common among supposed encounters.
It’s also noteworthy to mention that all types of beings seem to communicate using telepathy. The following is a selected list of downloadable peer-reviewed journal articles on psi (psychic) phenomena, most published in the 21st century, you can click HERE
The grey alien is another very common type of extraterrestrial that’s been reported by several abductees, contactees and experiencers. Reports range from small, three to four feet tall beings all the way up to seven to nine foot tall beings and everything in between.
One of the most common types of experiences among several abductees is one in which they have their sperm or eggs extracted. Many have gone through what seems to be a pretty scary experience, despite the fact that multiple times people have reported the beings communicating to them and trying to calm them down, and tell the person that they weren’t going to cause any harm to them. At other times, forceful abduction goes without any communication. Many abductee’s report being impregnated, and then abducted years after to see their hybrid child. This seems to be a very common experience, and suggests that this race (Greys) are creating a human/grey hybrid race, or have been tinkering with the DNA of human beings for quite some time. Many researchers have suggested that these hybrids are already here, and that many babies being born today could have been ‘tinkered’ with. There have also been sightings of Grey like beings taking vegetation from our planet (perhaps’s to study, alien scientists?).
There have also been reports of woman being impregnated by a supposed extraterrestrial or extraterrestrial/human hybrid. Shortly after the experience the women are taken by ‘government’ agencies and the baby is removed and taken away to be studied by them. It’s not uncommon for these people who have had these experiences to get visits by these unknown people who seem to want to know more about the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon.
There are some reports of races like these working with certain governments (or ‘shadow governments’) in a technological exchange program. I have come across stories in my research where some groups of beings warn the human race not work with other groups of beings. These stories are endless, and quite fascinating, but I’ll save that for another article.
Reptilians
The ‘Reptilian’ type being is one that’s been reported and depicted in various human cultures that date back thousands of years all the way up to the present day. These beings have been reported as ‘friendly,’not so friendly and in between. That’s a common theme throughout most supposed extraterrestrial species. The fact that two different beings of the same race can be reported as benevolent and the other as malevolent.
Many people seem to believe that reptilian type beings are one (out of many) working behind the scenes with those who control the government to ‘en-slave’ the human race. Some even believe that that the global elite are in large part reptilian in origin.
To be honest, it’s not that far fetched. After researching this topic in depth for almost a decade, there is no doubt in my mind that not only have governments and ‘shadow governments’ become aware of the extraterrestrial presence, but they’ve interacted with several different groups of extraterrestrials.
It’s Ok To Ask These Questions
Just to re-emphasize that things like this need to be discussed more, because they are and have been discussed at the highest levels of government, in secret, for almost one hundred years. For example, this particular FBI document was addressed to “certain scientists of distinction,” to“aeronautical and military authorities,” and to “a number of public officials.”
The document is a letter that was sent to the director of FBI in Washington from the San Fransisco office, on a matter pertaining to UFOs & extraterrestrials:
“Lt.. Colonel (name redacted) of G2 [G2 means army intelligence], San Francisco advised today he has no further information, and that our Seattle office is in possession of all information known by him and is handling the matter at Tacoma, Washington”
The document goes on to provide a copy of a letter written by someone with “several university degrees” and a former “university department head.”
The memorandum also states that “the mere fact that the data herein were obtained by so-called ‘supernormal’ means is probably sufficient to insure its disregard by nearly all persons addressed.”
Key words above – the fact that they would like to “insure its disregard” by “nearly” everyone addressed.Does this mean that ‘some’ of the people addressed should not disregard it?
The letter goes on to outline and state that: (pages 21 & 22)
Part of the disks carry crews, others are under remote control.
Their mission is peaceful, the visitors contemplate settling on this planet.
These visitors are human-like but much larger in size.
They are not excarnate Earth people, but come from their own world
The disks posses some type of radiant energy.
They do not come from any “planet” as we use the word, but from an etheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us.
The bodies of the visitors, and the craft also, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter.
They re-enter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without trace.
The region they come from is NOT the astral plane, but corresponds to the Lakas or Talas. Students of esoteric matters will understand these terms
Please keep in mind that there are probably many different types of extraterrestrials out there, and many different kinds that have interacted with humanity in some way. The above document is probably referring to one specific race? I don’t know.
This is one out of thousands of examples of documents, and it’s not even one that I would pick as most startling. We should definitely be thinking about why these documents were concealed from the public for decades, and think about what other information still lay dormant inside of the military industrial complex when it comes to extraterrestrial beings.
The video below is a clip of Project Camelot’s Kerry Cassidy interviewing Dr. Norman Bergrun about what’s really going on in space. A mechanical engineer, Dr. Bergrun has worked for Ames Research Laboratory, NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, now known as Lockheed Martin. He then went on to found Bergrun Engineering and Research.
You can view some of his publications for NASA, where he worked for more than a decade, here.
Coming from such a distinguished background, we can make several basic assumptions about him, not least of which is that he is highly intelligent. We can also assume that he knows and has worked with other intelligent and powerful people, and that he has had access to extremely sensitive data, which he himself makes clear in the below interview and in his book, The Ringmakers of Saturn.
What makes Norman’s story so intriguing is not only his impressive background, but the fact that hundreds of other scientists, politicians, and high-ranking military personnel have also shared information like this. He is just one of many insiders exposing the reality of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and extraterrestrial beings.
When former NASA astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor Dr. Brian O’Leary said that there is“abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time,” he wasn’t joking. There are now officially declassified documents that verify a long history of military encounters with these objects; objects which are performing maneuvers that no known aircraft can perform, all while traveling at speeds no known aircraft can travel. Not only that, but at the same time that pilots visually confirm their sightings, these objects are being tracked on both air and ground radar.
Dr. Jacques Vallee, notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA, and for his work at SRI International on the network information center for ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, published a paper in the Journal of Scientific Explorationtitled “Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases Of Unexplained Aerial Objects With Defined Luminosity Characteristics.” (source)(source) There you can see some pictures taken by military pilots of the objects they encountered.
When entering into the vicinity of these objects, it’s not uncommon for critical electrical equipment to go ‘dead.’ UFOs have also been seen hovering around global nuclear missile facilities, at which time these facilities completely shut down and the nukes within go offline. You can learn more about that here.
According to Herman Oberth, one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics, “flying saucers are real and . . . they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our Earth for centuries.” (Oberth, Hermann: “Flying Saucers Come from a Distant World,” The American Weekly, October 24, 1954) (source 1)(source 2)
There are literally hundreds of shocking quotes from people of such reputable backgrounds, and thousands of documents pertaining to the UFO phenomenon, which lends even more credibility to the video below.
“What I found out is, these things inhabit Saturn, that’s where I first discovered them, and they’re proliferating.”
By the way, the ships Norman Speaks of around the rings of Saturn, they’re humungous.
There are certain discoveries on planet Earth that cannot be explained by conventional thinking methods and mainstream history sure has a problem with many findings that remain an enigma to experts. There are certain “out-of-place artifacts” that are considered to be nothing more but elaborated hoaxes by skeptics and some researchers but the truth behind them could shatter our views of history and society.
One of these so-called OOPARTS were found in 1991 in Russia while researchers were performing geological surveys in the region of the Ural mountains when they came across hundreds of miniature coil-shaped objects, most of these objects were as small as 1/10,000th of an inch. The enigmatic miniature objects were discovered at a depth of around 12 meters are believed to date back 300,000 years.
According to scientists, the shape of the mysterious artifacts suggest these items are not naturally occurring objects, meaning they must have been manufactured… but who had the knowledge and technology to create something like this 300,00 years ago? The Russian Academy of sciences performed several tests on these mysterious objects and the results were quite interesting. Researchers found out that the largest pieces that were unearthed were made almost entirely out of copper and the smaller ones from tungsten and molybdenum.
According to reports, the largest of the objects is 2.87 centimeters in length while the smallest ones are only 2.5 microns in length, to give you an example of their size, the average human hair is approximately 100 microns wide.
The incredible finding from the Ural Mountains raises numerous questions that so far have remained unanswered. Who could have created these items in the distant past? Is it possible that they are the ultimate evidence on antediluvian civilizations on Earth? Ancient civilizations that had the technology and knowledge to create such elaborate artifacts. What is their purpose, and could they have been part of a much larger object that was once located in the area?
What if before written history, extremely advanced civilizations lived on planet Earth? Civilizations that had technology which was far superior that what we have today, technology that would have allowed them to achieve incredible things like the enigmatic nanostructures from the Ural Mountains? Or is it possible that mankind has de-evolved through history?
Is it possible that the human species suffers from Amnesia?
What if human beings existed on planet Earth millions of years ago? And what if those ancient humans were much more advanced than we are today? Is it possible that we have devolved as a species through time? Both physically and technologically? And if so… wouldn’t we find evidence of that? Is it possible that these mysterious nanostructures are the ultimate evidence backing up the theory?
Leven op Mars is dichterbij dan je wellicht denkt: zes mensen hebben afgelopen jaar 'daar' doorgebracht. Maar vandaag kon de crew eindelijk hun ruimtevaartpak uittrekken en terugkeren naar de aarde: na bijna een jaar lang in isolatie geleefd te hebben op Hawaï in een simulatie van de 'rode planeet', heeft NASA het experiment beëindigd.
De missie was het langste experiment tot nu toe om de gevolgen te meten van het isolement en de beperkingen die een drie jaar durende vlucht naar de rode planeet zich mee zou brengen. Een crew van vier Amerikanen, een Fransman en een Duitser, woonde samen op zo'n 2.500 meter boven zeeniveau in een kleine koepel (diameter: 11 meter diameter, hoogte: 6 meter) op de rotsachtige grond van de vulkaan Mauna Loa-vulkaan op Hawaï: het dichtste bij een Mars leefomgeving dat we op aarde kunnen komen.
De leefomstandigheden waren zwaar: er was geen frisse lucht, geen vers eten of privacy. Communicatie met de buitenwereld was slechts met een vertraging van 20 minuten (net zoals dat op Mars zou zijn) mogelijk.
Beproevingen Als de crewleden (een journalist, een bodemspecialist, een astro-bioloog, een natuurkundige, een piloot en een architect) naar buiten wilden gaan, moesten ze zware ruimtepakken aandoen. Om persoonlijke conflicten te vermijden, moesten ze werken en wetenschappelijke experimenten uitvoeren. Om het allemaal nog wat zwaarder te maken, werd de crew onverwachts voor zware 'beproevingen' (variërend van noodsituaties, tot gebroken werkmateriaal) gesteld. Onderzoekers wilden zo de groepscohesie en -prestaties meten. Daarnaast moesten de 'astronauten' wekelijkse vragenlijsten invullen en werden de 'formele vergaderingen in de keuken opgenomen. Crewleden die last hadden van heimwee konden een virtual reality-spelletje spelen dat ontworpen is om astronauten die lange missies uitvoeren te 'troosten'.
Zwemmen "De onderzoekers kijken vooral uit naar het eten van vers voedsel en ander eten dat ze tijdens het experiment niet kregen. Daarnaast kunnen ze niet wachten om in de oceaan te gaan zwemmen", vertelt Kim Binsted, die de simulatie leidde.
Reis van drie jaar NASA hoopt om tegen 2030 de eerste mensen naar Mars te kunnen sturen. In voorbereiding daarop, houdt de ruimtevaartorganisatie verschillende 'campagnes' of experimenten waarmee ze een zo goed mogelijk beeld probeert te krijgen van wat de eerste crew nodig heeft om de lange reis te maken. Een enkele reis naar Mars duurt namelijk alleen al een slordig jaar. "Er gaat nooit een 'perfecte' crew zijn", zegt Binsted. "Maar inzichten uit deze experimenten kunnen wel helpen om een zo'n ideaal mogelijke groep mensen samen te stellen. Er zullen altijd dingen misgaan, maar op basis van het materiaal dat we met deze experimenten hebben verzameld hopen we erachter te komen hoe we de intermenselijke problemen het makkelijkste kunnen tackelen onderweg."
Compromissen Het derde en langste experiment tot nu toe eindigde vandaag: de crewleden werden met de boodschap 'welkom terug op Aarde' uit hun isolement vrijgelaten. Na de missie raadde de Duitse onderzoekster Christiane Heinicke toekomstige Marsreizigers aan om "iets mee te nemen om aan te werken: een van de grootste vijanden is de verveling. Je moet bovendien bereid zijn om je aan te passen aan de anderen en om compromissen te maken. Als je dat niet kunt, dan moet je niet naar Mars gaan."
Droom De missie op Hawaï was de op één na langste ooit, na een Russische missie die 520 dagen duurde. Er werden eerder al drie korte simulaties uitgevoerd op Hawaï, en er zullen in de toekomst nog twee andere missies plaatsvinden, waarvan er één acht maanden zal duren.
Moest de droom van vele wetenschappers werkelijkheid worden om naar Mars te vliegen, zou de reis naar de Rode Planeet alleen al ongeveer een jaar duren. Experts schatten dat een missie naar Mars één tot drie jaar zou kunnen duren.
Leven op Mars is dichterbij dan je wellicht denkt: zes mensen hebben afgelopen jaar 'daar' doorgebracht. Maar vandaag kon de crew eindelijk hun ruimtevaartpak uittrekken en terugkeren naar de aarde: na bijna een jaar lang in isolatie geleefd te hebben op Hawaï in een simulatie van de 'rode planeet', heeft NASA het experiment beëindigd.
De missie was het langste experiment tot nu toe om de gevolgen te meten van het isolement en de beperkingen die een drie jaar durende vlucht naar de rode planeet zich mee zou brengen. Een crew van vier Amerikanen, een Fransman en een Duitser, woonde samen op zo'n 2.500 meter boven zeeniveau in een kleine koepel (diameter: 11 meter diameter, hoogte: 6 meter) op de rotsachtige grond van de vulkaan Mauna Loa-vulkaan op Hawaï: het dichtste bij een Mars leefomgeving dat we op aarde kunnen komen.
De leefomstandigheden waren zwaar: er was geen frisse lucht, geen vers eten of privacy. Communicatie met de buitenwereld was slechts met een vertraging van 20 minuten (net zoals dat op Mars zou zijn) mogelijk.
Beproevingen Als de crewleden (een journalist, een bodemspecialist, een astro-bioloog, een natuurkundige, een piloot en een architect) naar buiten wilden gaan, moesten ze zware ruimtepakken aandoen. Om persoonlijke conflicten te vermijden, moesten ze werken en wetenschappelijke experimenten uitvoeren. Om het allemaal nog wat zwaarder te maken, werd de crew onverwachts voor zware 'beproevingen' (variërend van noodsituaties, tot gebroken werkmateriaal) gesteld. Onderzoekers wilden zo de groepscohesie en -prestaties meten. Daarnaast moesten de 'astronauten' wekelijkse vragenlijsten invullen en werden de 'formele vergaderingen in de keuken opgenomen. Crewleden die last hadden van heimwee konden een virtual reality-spelletje spelen dat ontworpen is om astronauten die lange missies uitvoeren te 'troosten'.
Zwemmen "De onderzoekers kijken vooral uit naar het eten van vers voedsel en ander eten dat ze tijdens het experiment niet kregen. Daarnaast kunnen ze niet wachten om in de oceaan te gaan zwemmen", vertelt Kim Binsted, die de simulatie leidde.
Reis van drie jaar NASA hoopt om tegen 2030 de eerste mensen naar Mars te kunnen sturen. In voorbereiding daarop, houdt de ruimtevaartorganisatie verschillende 'campagnes' of experimenten waarmee ze een zo goed mogelijk beeld probeert te krijgen van wat de eerste crew nodig heeft om de lange reis te maken. Een enkele reis naar Mars duurt namelijk alleen al een slordig jaar. "Er gaat nooit een 'perfecte' crew zijn", zegt Binsted. "Maar inzichten uit deze experimenten kunnen wel helpen om een zo'n ideaal mogelijke groep mensen samen te stellen. Er zullen altijd dingen misgaan, maar op basis van het materiaal dat we met deze experimenten hebben verzameld hopen we erachter te komen hoe we de intermenselijke problemen het makkelijkste kunnen tackelen onderweg."
Compromissen Het derde en langste experiment tot nu toe eindigde vandaag: de crewleden werden met de boodschap 'welkom terug op Aarde' uit hun isolement vrijgelaten. Na de missie raadde de Duitse onderzoekster Christiane Heinicke toekomstige Marsreizigers aan om "iets mee te nemen om aan te werken: een van de grootste vijanden is de verveling. Je moet bovendien bereid zijn om je aan te passen aan de anderen en om compromissen te maken. Als je dat niet kunt, dan moet je niet naar Mars gaan."
Droom De missie op Hawaï was de op één na langste ooit, na een Russische missie die 520 dagen duurde. Er werden eerder al drie korte simulaties uitgevoerd op Hawaï, en er zullen in de toekomst nog twee andere missies plaatsvinden, waarvan er één acht maanden zal duren.
Moest de droom van vele wetenschappers werkelijkheid worden om naar Mars te vliegen, zou de reis naar de Rode Planeet alleen al ongeveer een jaar duren. Experts schatten dat een missie naar Mars één tot drie jaar zou kunnen duren.
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VREEMD OBJECT WAARGENOMEN OP NASA TELESCOOP ( VIDEO )
VREEMD OBJECT WAARGENOMEN OP NASA TELESCOOP ( VIDEO )
Via één van de NASA ruimtetelescopen is een groot cirkelvormig object waar te nemen dat ogenschijnlijk richting aarde koerst.
Misschien is het een technische afwijking in de telescoop, maar dat overheden iets verwachten blijkt onder andere uit het feit dat de Duitse bevolking, geadviseerd door de regering, moet gaan hamsteren.
Op de beelden van de NASA ruimtetelescoop Stereo A is op de beelden van 22 en 23 augustus een vreemd groot cirkelvormig object waar te nemen. Of, beter gezegd, twee cirkelvormige objecten.
Het lijkt er zelfs op dat de twee bollen met elkaar zijn verbonden en dat niet alleen, het lijkt alsof ze ook recht op de aarde af koersen.
Ook in 2011 werden er al eens vreemde objecten waargenomen via deze telescoop, maar dat werd toen door NASA verklaard als interne reflecties.
Wat het dit keer is, weet op dit moment niemand.
Wat we wel weten, is dat de Duitse overheid de bevolking verplicht wil laten preppen en dat heeft uiteraard niets te maken met terroristische aanslagen, maar alles met de nadering van de planeet Nibiru en metgezellen.
Zoals we in een vorig artikel schreven, zullen grote delen van Europa volgens verschillende Nibiru experts zoals Nancy Lieder en de Zeta’s onder water komen te staan.
Dit wordt veroorzaakt door de zogenaamde poleshift, waarbij torenhoge tsunami’s kunnen worden verwacht.
Echter, volgens Nancy heeft de voorbereiding van de Duitse overheid wel degelijk te maken met de komst van Nibiru, maar dat ze zich nu in alle haast voorbereiden op overstromingen die zullen gaan komen en die in dit stadium nog niet zullen worden veroorzaakt door de poleshift, maar de zogenaamde wobble van de aarde.
Deze wobble komt alleen voor op het noordelijk halfrond en je kunt het je voorstellen als een tol. Waarbij de zuidpool van de aarde de punt is waarop deze rust en de noordpool de bovenkant van de tol vormt. Als een tol wat langzamer gaat draaien dan gaat de bovenkant wiebelen. Dat is wat er in toenemende mate gebeurt met het noordelijk halfrond als gevolg van de nadering van Nibiru.
Echter, voordat de planeet Nibiru daadwerkelijk voor die poleshift zal zorgen, zal er ook wat zij noemt een sterke wobble optreden. Een wiebelen van de aarde dat groter zal zijn dan normaal en wat ook gevolgen heeft voor de aarde.
Zo zullen er na deze sterke wobble ook overstromingen optreden, alleen nog niet zo heftig als dat dat met de poleshift zal gebeuren. Wat er door de heftige wobble zal ontstaan, is dat het water in de oceanen en zeeën heen en weer zal klotsen.
Het water van de Atlantische Oceaan zal dan volgens Nancy in een noordelijke richting klotsen en in combinatie met hoog water wellicht vloedgolven van 100 meter hoogte veroorzaken.
UFO Over Oklahoma Has Periscope Sticking out, Aug 28, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Oklahoma Has Periscope Sticking out, Aug 28, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 28, 2016 Location of sighting: Oklahoma, USA Here is a great example of a UFO that makes its own cloud around it. As you see in the above screenshots, there is even a three layer trail leading from the larger cloud to the UFO. The UFO actually has a periscope device sticking out of its left shoulder area. Very cool catch. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Captured this video near Chickasha Oklahoma on August 28, 2016. I don't try to analyze what is going on in our skies. I just notice that it is strange, , not normal, and not how they use to be.
Alien Base Entrance Found Under Floating Island, Argentina Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Alien Base Entrance Found Under Floating Island, Argentina Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: August 2016 Location of discovery: Buenos Aires, Argentina Google coordinates: 34°15'07.8"S 58°49'47.4"W A floating island has been found not far from Buenos Aires, Argentina on Google Map and it rotates in a circle. Argentina has an over abundance of UFO sightings compared to the rest of the world and I believer this is how aliens try to hide this particular entrance to their base. The shape is large and circular, big enough to fit a 100 meter UFO through it. The water below this floating island needs to be dove into and explored. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: The Eye is a circle of land surrounded by a thin channel of water with an outside diameter of 130 yards. Both, the inner and outer circles, are perfect. The center circle moves and rotates on its own axis. How long had the eye been there? What caused this weird formation? Why does it move? How can it last for so long intact without deforming? How is it possible that having no water currents, aquatic plants don’t grow and cover it entirely? We decided to investigate further. We made our first overland expedition with some equipment, in which the impenetrable vegetation and swamps left us at only 900 yards from the circle completely exhausted. We organized a second expedition. After 8 hours of walking through different paths, we arrived. We discovered that water is incredibly clear and cold, something totally unusual in the area. The bottom is hard in contrast to the swampy marshes surrounding it. The central part floats, We do not know over what… but it floats. We want to return with a complete scientific expedition having: Scuba gear, geologists, biologists, ufologists, specialized drones and more, and take samples of the water, soil, plants and all other objects we may find. We want to understand The Eye's relation with supernatural stories told by locals. We plan to make a movie with all the material, from expedition organization to final evaluation of the samples at the laboratory. We need you to be a part of this adventure, help us finance this project and watch as we unfold the mystery surrounding The Eye, an opportunity exclusive to the project's contributors. It is a concrete and irrefutable strange phenomenon located in an inaccessible place that had never before been reached by men. Join us and be the first to discover it.
A witness at West Jordan in Utah reported seeing a cylinder-shaped UFO floating and changing colors before moving away slowly. According to case 78051 from the witness reporting database of Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the witness was traveling at 7000 South and Redwood when he noticed two lights floating under 500 feet.
He initially thought it was just a plane, but the lights weren’t moving. When the witness got closer, he noticed a cylinder-shaped figure in between the two bright, white lights, which later turned into purple, red, and blue. As he passed, he looked behind and saw the UFO slowly moving towards the northern side of Utah while changing into three colors.
According to Utah MUFON investigators Robert Crowe and Cary Crowe, the witness claimed to have seen a door that was centered on the cylinder, approximately 10 feet by 10 feet. The witness explained that the door is similar to an airplane that rolls up. The witness did not notice a source of propulsion from the flying object.
The investigators tried to find other witnesses in the area for four hours but failed to find one. They also contacted the local West Jordan Police Department to know if there was any report related to this strange event, but the local police received no report.
The investigators dispose this case as Unknown after failing to find another sighting of this description in a thousand mile radius.
Alien Experts Have Claimed Russian Government Has Been Hiding the Race of Underwater Aliens
Alien Experts Have Claimed Russian Government Has Been Hiding the Race of Underwater Aliens
Undersea phenomenon isn’t new to Russian submarines as they have been encountering it since the days of the Soviet Union.
The files on the so-called unidentified submersible objects (USOs) are still not available for public scrutiny. However, some of the sightings about encounters with undersea creatures and massive objects have leaked out. Researchers Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle talked about the secret conflict in a new book.
They believe Russian government has been preventing any witnesses to tell the public on the truth beneath the waves.
They claim these encounters range from UFOs duping craft into the sea, meetings with underwater lifeforms, and mysterious submersibles.
One of the most extraordinary is what they called “The Swimmers”.
These so-called alien humanoids stand at three-meter tall and live at 50 meters in the icy underwater around Siberia.
Stonehill and Mantle feature the testimony of Major General V. Demyanenko, a Russian commander of the Military Diver Service. He reportedly warned his crews on the unknown creatures after some encounters in 1982.
These creatures are reportedly clad in a silvery suit and wearing sphere helmets. Soviet Navy divers of seven were thrown to the surface by a mysterious force after they tried to capture one of the creatures in a net.
In another odd encounter, Steamship Raduga has seen a massive fireball emerging from the ocean while sailing in the Red Sea in 1965. The unusual thing allegedly hovered 150 meters above the surface with a gigantic pillar of water around it before it dived again.
Russia Chief of the Pacific fleet’s intelligence department, Admiral V.A. Domislovsky, claimed to have seen an estimated 900 meters long object floating above the water in the Pacific Ocean.
Rear Admiral and nuclear submarine commander Yury Beketov claimed to have witnessed a mysterious activity involving USO in the Bermuda triangle. Based on their radar, the object was moving 250 mph below the surface.
Mr. Mantle said that the Soviet Union’s military fleet commanders kept their secret about the USO subject, and those witnesses who tried to share their experiences were debunked and ridiculed.
Here’s another footage of a possible paranormal activity in the sky above Portland in Oregon. This one was taken on 19th August 2016.
Witness report:
Two bright lights hovered above some trees when a third one appeared out of nowhere How bright they were for being stationary – wasn’t sure The two objects hovered before a third one that showed up next to them appeared. The third started to move away slow before just flat out disappearing. Excited. They just vanished.
Planeten met een diamanten kern zijn waarschijnlijk zeldzamer dan gedacht. Wetenschappers hebben een nieuwe methode ontwikkeld om de chemische samenstelling van sterren – en van nabije exoplaneten – te analyseren.
De nieuwe methode kan helpen in de zoektocht naar een tweede aarde. Door te weten uit welke grondstoffen planeten buiten het zonnestelsel uit bestaan, kan er een simulatie gemaakt worden om de leefbaarheid en biologische evolutie van een exoplaneet in kaart te brengen. “Op die manier kunnen we vaststellen of een aardachtige exoplaneet meer weg heeft van Venus of toch een zusje van de aarde is”, zegt onderzoeker Debra Fischer van de Yale universiteit.
Dankzij de nieuwe methode zijn in het verleden de oppervlaktetemperatuur, de zwaartekracht nabij het oppervlak, de rotatiesnelheid en de chemische samenstelling van 1.600 sterren berekend. En dat allemaal gebaseerd op basis van vijftien elementen die zijn gevonden in deze sterren. Nu hebben onderzoekers 800 nieuwe sterren geanalyseerd. Zij richtten zich nu op de verhouding koolstof-zuurstof en magnesium-silicium.
Eén van de conclusies is dat diamanten planeten zeldzamer zijn dan gedacht. Er zijn namelijk vrijwel geen sterren die zoveel koolstof bevatten dat er diamanten planeten bestaan. Om diamant in de kern te vormen is namelijk veel koolstof nodig.
Uit de nieuwe gegevens blijkt o.a. dat 55 Cancri e onvoldoende koolstof bevat om de naam ‘diamanten planeet’ te verdienen. Overigens is dit geen gloednieuwe conclusie. De theorie van 55 Cancri e als diamanten planeet is in 2013 al ontkracht.
“Diamantplaneten zijn zeldzamer dan we een paar jaar geleden dachten”, vervolgt Fischer. “Diamanten planeten zijn echt kostbaar.”
Toch weer twijfels over stromend zout water op Mars
Toch weer twijfels over stromend zout water op Mars
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Nieuw onderzoek suggereert dat de donkere strepen die in warme seizoenen op Mars te zien zijn, amper of zelfs helemaal geen water bevatten.
Het is een bekend fenomeen op de rode planeet: de Recurring Slope Lineae (RSL). Het zijn donkere strepen op hellingen – bijvoorbeeld kraterwanden – die alleen in de warmere seizoenen op Mars te zien zijn. De strepen zijn doorgaans minder dan vijf meter breed en verdwijnen weer als het kouder wordt.
Stromend zout water Waaruit bestaan deze donkere strepen toch? Vorig jaar dachten onderzoekers het eindelijk te weten. Ze ontdekten op de plekken waar de donkere streepjes opdoken, gehydrateerde zoutmineralen en stelden dat de donkere strepen het resultaat zijn van zout stromend water. Het was wereldnieuws: opeens bleken er in ons zonnestelsel niet één, maar twee planeten te zijn waarop vloeibaar water stroomde (de aarde én Mars).
Temperatuur Nieuw onderzoek geeft echter een iets genuanceerder beeld. Wetenschappers bestudeerden de donkere strepen dit keer met het Thermal Emmission Imaging System (THEMIS) aan boord van de ruimtesonde Mars Odyssey. Dit instrument meet de grondtemperatuur op Mars en uit die grondtemperatuur kunnen de onderzoekers dan weer afleiden hoeveel water de Recurring Slope Lineae bevatten. Want wanneer water aanwezig is in de ruimte tussen zanddeeltjes, dan is dat van invloed op hoe snel een stukje grond overdag opwarmt en ’s nachts afkoelt.
Hier zie je de donkere strepen op een kraterwand. Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Univ. of Arizona.
Weinig water Uit het onderzoek blijkt dat de Recurring Slope Lineae veel minder water bevatten dan gedacht. Als de RSL een heel dun laagje water bevattende grond bezitten, dan zou die laag niet meer dan drie gram water per kilogram grond bevatten. Daarmee zou de grond ongeveer net zoveel water bevatten als de droogste plekken op aarde (de Atacama-woestijn en de Dry Valleys op Antarctica). Als de laag grond die water bevat dikker is, zou de hoeveelheid water per kilogram grond nog kleiner zijn.
Droog of nat? De onderzoekers sluiten niet uit dat water een rol speelt bij het ontstaan van de Recurring Slope Lineae. “Maar de duisternis van de grond hangt niet samen met grote hoeveelheden water, hetzij vloeibaar of bevroren,” vertelt onderzoeker Christopher Edwards. Hij benadrukt dat echter niet kan worden uitgesloten dat volledig droge mechanismen aan het ontstaan van de RSL ten grondslag liggen.
Het nieuwe onderzoek veegt het eerdere onderzoek dat stelde dat de RSL rijk waren aan gehydrateerde zoutmineralen niet van tafel, zo benadrukken de onderzoekers. “Je kunt gehydrateerd zout hebben, zonder genoeg water te hebben om de ruimtes tussen deeltjes te vullen,” legt Edwards uit. “Zouten kunnen gehydrateerd raken door waterdamp uit de atmosfeer te trekken, daar heb je dus geen ondergrondse waterbron voor nodig.” En daarmee zijn de donkere strepen op het oppervlak van Mars dus eigenlijk weer het mysterie dat ze sinds hun ontdekking in 2011 waren. Nog altijd weten we niet waardoor de donkere strepen ontstaan en weer verdwijnen. Stromend water lijkt in ieder geval niet zo’n grote – of zelfs helemaal geen – rol te spelen.
Gefossiliseerde rivierbeddingen ontdekt op oud stukje Mars
Gefossiliseerde rivierbeddingen ontdekt op oud stukje Mars
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De rivierbeddingen bevestigen wat klimaatmodellen van een jong Mars al voorspelden: de rode planeet was warm en nat.
Al sinds de jaren zeventig van de vorige eeuw ontdekken onderzoekers met regelmaat valleien en kanalen op Mars die door water lijken te zijn uitgesneden. Het bewijs dat Mars ooit nat en warm was, stapelde zich geleidelijk aan op.
Arabia Terra Maar één gebied bleek elke keer een kink in de kabel te zijn. Arabia Terra: een noordelijke vlakte op de rode planeet. Klimaatmodellen van een nat en warm Mars lieten elke keer zien dat het hier lang geleden regende. Maar onderzoekers konden maar geen geologisch bewijs vinden voor flinke regenbuien op de vlakte. “Het leidde ertoe dat sommigen dachten dat Mars nooit warm en nat was, maar een grotendeels bevroren planeet was, bedekt met ijskappen en gletsjers,” vertelt onderzoeker Joel Davis.
Rivieren Davis en collega’s hebben nu echter – eindelijk – bewijs gevonden dat ook Arabia Terra vochtig moet zijn geweest. Ze ontdekten in het gebied gefossiliseerde rivierbeddingen. En niet zo weinig ook: als je ze achter elkaar zou leggen, zou je een afstand van 17.000 kilometer kunnen beslaan. “We hebben nu bewijs gevonden voor uitgebreide riviersystemen in dit gebied en deze onderschrijven het idee dat Mars warm en nat was.” En daarmee moet de planeet een stuk aantrekkelijker zijn geweest voor leven dan wanneer deze bedekt was met ijskappen en gletsjers.
Omgekeerd De rivieren die de onderzoekers ontdekt hebben, zijn ‘omgekeerd’. Het zijn geen geulen, maar heuveltjes in het landschap. Ooit waren het geultjes, waarin het water kiezels en zand afzette. Omdat het omringende landschap sneller erodeerde dan de rivierbedding, ging de rivierbedding gaandeweg steeds verder boven het oppervlak uitsteken. De rivierbeddingen die de onderzoekers nu in Arabia Terra hebben ontdekt, zijn ongeveer 30 meter hoog en tot twee kilometer breed. “We denken dat het de restanten zijn van gigantische rivieren die miljarden jaren geleden stroomden,” vertelt Davis. “Arabia Terra was eigenlijk één grote overstromingsvlakte, grenzend aan de hoog- en laaglanden van Mars. We denken dat de rivieren 3,9 tot 3,9 miljard jaar geleden actief waren, maar geleidelijk aan droogvielen.”
Met deze nieuwe onderzoeksresultaten in gedachten wordt Arabia Terra wel heel interessant in de zoektocht naar sporen van Martiaans leven. Als er miljarden jaren geleden leven was op Mars en die organismen ook in de machtige rivieren van Arabia Terra leefden, zijn resten ervan wellicht nog in de gefossiliseerde rivierbeddingen terug te vinden. “Deze oude Martiaanse overstromingsvlakte is een geweldige plek om te zoeken naar sporen van leven,” vindt onderzoeker Matthew Balme. En misschien gaan we die vlakte al wel heel snel van dichterbij bekijken. Eén van de mogelijke landingsplekken van de ExoMars-rover – deze wordt in 2020 gelanceerd – bevindt zich namelijk in Arabia Terra.
Overleeft Hawkings ruimtevaartuig de trip naar Alpha Centauri?
Overleeft Hawkings ruimtevaartuig de trip naar Alpha Centauri?
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Zal een stofdeeltje roet in het eten gooien en het ruimtevaartuig dat Stephen Hawking binnen 20 jaar tijd naar de dichtstbijzijnde ster wil sturen al ruim voor aankomst vernietigen?
Eerder dit jaar kondigde Stephen Hawking een nieuw wetenschappelijk project aan: Breakthrough Starshot. Het project moet binnen twintig jaar leiden tot de lancering van een ruimtevaartuig dat een bezoekje gaat brengen aan Alpha Centauri: het dichtstbijzijnde stersysteem (dat sinds gisterenavond opeens een stuk interessanter is geworden, zie kader). Het ruimtevaartuig in kwestie weegt niet meer dan een vel paper en gebruikt in eerste instantie een groot, maar flinterdun zeil om op snelheid te komen. Dat zeil wordt door een gigantische laserstraal die vanaf de aarde wordt afgevuurd, versneld. uiteindelijk zal het ruimtevaartuig zich met een snelheid van 60.000 kilometer per seconde door de ruimte haasten. Zelfs met die ongelofelijke snelheid zal het ruimtevaartuig er ongeveer 20 jaar over doen om bij Alpha Centauri te arriveren.
Gisterenavond maakten astronomen bekend dat ze een aardachtige exoplaneet hebben ontdekt die rond de dichtstbijzijnde ster cirkelt. De exoplaneet heeft de naam Proxima b gekregen en draait om de ster Proxima Centauri, onderdeel van het stersysteem Alpha Centauri. De aardachtige planeet bevindt zich in de leefbare zone. “De zoektocht naar leven op Proxima b is de volgende stap,” zo stelde één van de ontdekkers van de exoplaneet, Guillem Anglada-Escudé.
Stof Prachtig plan. Maar is het ook haalbaar? Daarover buigen onderzoekers zich momenteel. En één van de dingen waar ze zich zorgen over maken is: stof. “Zal een ruimtevaartuig dat beweegt met een snelheid die in de buurt komt van de snelheid van het licht in staat zijn om de schade die toegebracht wordt door interstellair gas en stof te overleven?” zo vragen onderzoekers zich in dit recent verschenen paper af.
Kogeltjes Hier op aarde zien we in een enkel stofdeeltje misschien niet zo’n bedreiging. Maar in de ruimte is dat anders. Het ruimtevaartuig van Hawking heeft een snelheid van eenvijfde lichtminuut per minuut. En wanneer je met zo’n snelheid op een stofdeeltje klapt, heeft dat heel andere effecten dan wanneer er hier op aarde een stofdeeltje op je dressoir landt. Met zulke snelheden worden stofdeeltjes als kogels en kan het ruimtevaartuig flink beschadigen. Grote vraag is: zijn die beschadigingen vervelend of fataal voor de missie? Het hangt met name af van de omvang van de stofdeeltjes. Een stofdeeltje van slechts 15 micrometer groot is voldoende om het ruimtevaartuig totaal te vernietigen. Maar, zo stellen de onderzoekers, gelukkig zijn zulke grote stofdeeltjes vrij zeldzaam en de kans dat het ruimtevaartuig zo’n stofdeeltje tegenkomt, is bijzonder klein. Een ontmoeting met kleinere stofdeeltjes is een stuk aannemelijker. “Interstellair stof kan talloze kraters op het oppervlak van het ruimtevaartuig veroorzaken,” zo schrijven de onderzoekers. Tegen de tijd dat het ruimtevaartuig bij Alpha Centauri arriveert, kan het oppervlak van het ruimtevaartuig zo gemakkelijk 30 procent van het volume zijn kwijtgeraakt.
Maatregelen Het goede nieuws is dat er tijdens de ontwikkeling van het ruimtevaartuig wel maatregelen kunnen worden genomen om de kans op beschadigingen door toedoen van stofdeeltjes te verkleinen. Zo kan een 1,3 millimeter dik ‘schild’ gemaakt van grafiet al een verschil maken. Ook lijkt het verstandig om het zeil – dat alleen tijdens het begin van de reis nodig is om het ruimtevaartuig te versnellen – op een gegeven moment op te vouwen en achter een beschermend schild weg te stoppen. “Een andere oplossing kan zijn om het zeil achter het beschermende materiaal, maar voor het ruimtevaartuig te stoppen om de gevoelige elektronica te beschermen.”
Interstellair gas De onderzoekers gingen ook na welk effect het interstellaire gas op het ruimtevaartuig heeft. En ook dat gas kan het ruimtevaartuig beschadigen, maar niet zo erg als het interstellaire stof. Zo zal het interstellaire gas het oppervlak van het ruimtevaartuig slechts tot een diepte van 0,1 millimeter kunnen aantasten. En als het ruimtevaartuig gemaakt wordt van goed geleidend materiaal (bijvoorbeeld grafiet) kunnen beschadigen door zware gasatomen wellicht zelfs helemaal voorkomen worden.
Al met al is er dus nog geen reden om Breakthrough Starshot af te schrijven. Wel wordt duidelijk dat er nog een hoop werk aan de winkel is alvorens dit ruimtevaartuig het luchtruim kan kiezen. Er valt nog veel te onderzoeken en er zijn nog heel wat hindernissen te nemen. Maar het is alle moeite ongetwijfeld waard.
Sterrenstelsel bestaat voor 99,99% uit donkere materie
Sterrenstelsel bestaat voor 99,99% uit donkere materie
Tim Kraaijvanger
Wetenschappers hebben een sterrenstelsel gevonden op een afstand van 320 miljoen lichtjaar van de aarde. Dit sterrenstelsel is even zwaar als de Melkweg, maar bestaat uit veel minder sterren. Dit is te danken aan donkere materie.
Wetenschappers beweren dat het sterrenstelsel Dragonfly 44 voor 99,99% uit donkere materie bestaat. De andere 0,01% wordt verklaard door de aanwezigheid van sterren. “Als je kijkt naar onze Melkweg, dan moet je van iedere honderd sterren er slechts één bewaren. Dan kom je in de buurt van de verdeling van sterren in Dragonfly 44”, zegt onderzoeker Pieter van Dokkum van de Yale universiteit tegen de Amerikaanse nieuwssite New Scientist. “Daarnaast moet je de overgebleven sterren in een blender doen.” Dragonfly 44 is geen mooi spiraalstelsel als onze Melkweg, maar een zogenoemd elliptisch sterrenstelsel.
Volgens Van Dokkum en zijn collega’s zijn er veel meer sterrenstelsels als Dragonfly 44. In het Coma-cluster – een grote groep sterrenstelsels op 320 miljoen lichtjaar van de aarde – zijn 47 zwakke vlekjes te zien. Dit kunnen sterrenstelsels zijn die minstens zo groot zijn als de Melkweg – 100.000 lichtjaar in doorsnee – maar veel minder sterren bevatten. Daarom zijn ze net zo helder als kleinere dwergstelsels.
Met dank aan de spectograaf van de Keck II-telescoop weten de astronomen dat de sterren in Dragonfly 44 een snelheid hebben van 47 kilometer per seconde. Een hogere snelheid betekent dat het sterrenstelsel zwaarder is. Uit de berekeningen blijkt dat Dragonfly 44 een biljoen keer zwaarder is dan onze zon.
Undersea phenomenon isn’t new to Russian submarines as they have been encountering it since the days of the Soviet Union.
The files on the so-called unidentified submersible objects (USOs) are still not available for public scrutiny. However, some of the sightings about encounters with undersea creatures and massive objects have leaked out. Researchers Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle talked about the secret conflict in a new book.
They believe Russian government has been preventing any witnesses to tell the public on the truth beneath the waves.
They claim these encounters range from UFOs duping craft into the sea, meetings with underwater lifeforms, and mysterious submersibles.
One of the most extraordinary is what they called “The Swimmers”.
These so-called alien humanoids stand at three-meter tall and live at 50 meters in the icy underwater around Siberia.
Stonehill and Mantle feature the testimony of Major General V. Demyanenko, a Russian commander of the Military Diver Service. He reportedly warned his crews on the unknown creatures after some encounters in 1982.
These creatures are reportedly clad in a silvery suit and wearing sphere helmets. Soviet Navy divers of seven were thrown to the surface by a mysterious force after they tried to capture one of the creatures in a net.
In another odd encounter, Steamship Raduga has seen a massive fireball emerging from the ocean while sailing in the Red Sea in 1965. The unusual thing allegedly hovered 150 meters above the surface with a gigantic pillar of water around it before it dived again.
Russia Chief of the Pacific fleet’s intelligence department, Admiral V.A. Domislovsky, claimed to have seen an estimated 900 meters long object floating above the water in the Pacific Ocean.
Rear Admiral and nuclear submarine commander Yury Beketov claimed to have witnessed a mysterious activity involving USO in the Bermuda triangle. Based on their radar, the object was moving 250 mph below the surface.
Mr. Mantle said that the Soviet Union’s military fleet commanders kept their secret about the USO subject, and those witnesses who tried to share their experiences were debunked and ridiculed.
We are all familiar with UFOs, Unidentified Flying Objects that are usually associated with alien crafts. But have you ever heard of a USO? A USO is an Unidentified Submerged Objects, meaning an object that is found in the ocean that cannot be explained. Much like UFOs they are often associated with extraterrestrials and some of the stories are fascinating. So from one of the earliest sightings by Christopher Columbus, to the first time a USO has ever been caught on camera. Sit back and enjoy!http://theforteanslip.blogspot.com/2016/08/5-most-mysterious-unidentified_27.html
The female witness was travelling along the Bruce Hwy in her van, just north of Meringa. She observed a very bright white triangular shaped light high in the sky. The object was travelling on a north trajectory at a speed described as faster than a jet aircraft. The object was obscured from the witness’s view by some high trees ahead of the witness on the north side of the highway. The witness described the object as the shape of a long skinny triangle of bright white light, the edges of the shape were clearly defined and sharp.
The apex of the triangle was the leading point. The witness described the size of the object as similar to that of a B-747 aircraft when they fly over the area, or a little smaller than the size of the moon.
Additional Information: Checks with the Cairns Airport Traffic Control revealed no air traffic movements travelling north at the time of the sighting. The record logbook in the control centre had no abnormal sightings logged for the time. The object described does not appear to be a conventional aircraft as normal lighting configuration was not evident. The object’s description is not characteristic of meteorite or space junk entry/burns. Duration of sighting: 4 seconds. NOTE: The above image is CGI.
Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, Gemini, Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The Milky Way has a dark twin. A dimly lit massive galaxy, called Dragonfly 44, consists of a record 99.99 per cent dark matter, and could help rewrite our theories of galaxy formation.
Dragonfly 44 is the Milky Way’s doppelgänger in mass, but its opposite in number of stars and structure.
“If you take the Milky Way and for every 100 stars you keep only one, then you’re getting pretty close,” says Pieter van Dokkum at Yale University. “You also have to put those remaining stars in a blender and mix them all up into a blob.” This galaxy doesn’t have the iconic spiral structure of the Milky Way nor is it a flat disc.
A dragonfly’s eye
And it’s not alone. Van Dokkum and his colleagues spotted it and its neighbours in 2014 with an array of telephoto lenses.
“By pulling them all together into this array, which makes them look like the eyes of an insect, we gather a lot more light,” says van Dokkum. Naturally, they called it Dragonfly.
When the team aimed Dragonfly at the Coma cluster, an immense cluster of galaxies 320 million light years away, they detected 47 faint smudges: galaxies that could be at least as large as the Milky Way, 100,000 light years from end to end, but which contain so few stars that they glow as dimly as dwarf galaxies.
There are two explanations for the appearance of these galaxies: they may be tightly bound by dark matter, the so-far-undetected substance thought to make up about 85 per cent of the mass of the universe. Either that, or they’re unstable – and the violent Coma cluster is currently ripping them to shreds.
How can it have so much dark matter?
To find out, van Dokkum and his colleagues observed Dragonfly 44, one of the largest of the galaxies, with the spectrograph on board the 10-metre Keck II telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. This allowed the team to track how fast its few stars move around the galaxy and therefore calculate its mass: a faster speed means a more massive galaxy.
The team found that the stars clocked in at 47 kilometres per second, making Dragonfly 44 roughly a trillion times more massive than the sun. With so little normal matter, it must contains 99.99 per cent dark matter to hold itself together, which is much higher than the universe at large. It beats another similarly dark galaxy in the Virgo cluster discovered earlier this year, which is 99.96 per cent dark matter.
But astronomers are baffled as to how these dark galaxies arise. “It’s hard to argue with the observations, yet the conclusion from this paper runs counter to my understanding of how galaxies are formed,” says Marla Geha at Yale University. “I’m hoping these objects are rather rare and/or only form in special environments such as a dense galaxy cluster. Otherwise we may need to rewrite galaxy formation.”
The ‘star in a jar’ that could provide limitless energy on Earth
The ‘star in a jar’ that could provide limitless energy on Earth
US Government reveals experiments to create compact fusion plants…
Backs plans to create spherical tokamaks shaped like a cored apple
Existing experiments have used bulkier doughnut-like shapes
Next generation device could lead to commercial fusion power plants
It would provide humankind with near limitless energy, ending dependence on fossil fuels for generating electricity.
US Government physicists have backed plans to create ‘a star in a jar’ – replicating on Earth the way the sun and stars create energy through fusion.
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) revealed their plan for a next generation fusion device in a paper published in the journal Nuclear Fusion.
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Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory revealed their plan for a next generation fusion device in a paper published in the journal Nuclear Fusion. Pictured, researchers inside the centre stack of the $94-million upgrade of the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade, which began operating last year.
‘We are opening up new options for future plants,’ said lead author Jonathan Menard, program director for the recently completed National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U) at PPPL.
The $94-million upgrade of the NSTX, financed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, began operating last year.
Spherical tokamaks are compact devices that are shaped like cored apples, compared with the bulkier doughnut-like shape of conventional tokamaks.
The plants already exists in experimental form – the compact spherical tokamaks at PPPL and Culham, England.
These tokamaks, or fusion reactors, could provide the design for possible next steps in fusion energy – a Fusion Nuclear Science Facility (FNSF) that would develop reactor components and also produce electricity as a pilot plant for a commercial fusion power station.
HOW DOES FUSION POWER WORK?
A simulation of plasma inside the tokamaks
Fusion involves placing hydrogen atoms under high heat and pressure until they fuse into helium atoms.
When deuterium and tritium nuclei – which can be found in hydrogen – fuse, they form a helium nucleus, a neutron and a lot of energy.
This is down by heating the fuel to temperatures in excess of 150 million°C, forming a hot plasma.
Strong magnetic fields are used to keep the plasma away from the walls so that it doesn’t cool down and lost it energy potential.
These are produced by superconducting coils surrounding the vessel, and by an electrical current driven through the plasma.
For energy production, plasma has to be confined for a sufficiently long period for fusion to occur.
The increased power of the upgraded PPPL machine and the soon-to-be completed MAST Upgrade device moves them closer to commercial fusion plants, the researchers say.
The increased power of the upgraded PPPL machine and the soon-to-be completed MAST Upgrade device moves them closer to commercial fusion plants, the researchers say.
The NSTX-U and MAST facilities ‘will push the physics frontier, expand our knowledge of high temperature plasmas, and, if successful, lay the scientific foundation for fusion development paths based on more compact designs,’ said PPPL Director Stewart Prager.
However, the devices face a number of physics challenges.
How it works: Fusion involves placing hydrogen atoms under high heat and pressure until they fuse into helium atoms.
For example, they must control the turbulence that arises when superhot plasma particles are subjected to powerful electromagnetic fields.
They must also carefully control how the plasma particles interact with the surrounding walls to avoid possible disruptions that can halt fusion reactions if the plasma becomes too dense or impure.
Researchers at PPPL, Culham, and elsewhere are looking at ways of solving these challenges for the next generation of fusion devices.
The central stack of the reactor being lowered into place (left), and in situ (right).
The spherical design produces high-pressure plasmas – the superhot charged gas also known as the fourth state of matter that fuels fusion reactions – with relatively low and inexpensive magnetic fields.
This unique capability points the way to a possible next generation of fusion experiments to complement ITER, the international tokamak that 35 nations including the United States are building in France to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power.
ITER is a doughnut-shaped tokamak that will be largest in the world when completed within the next decade.
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory revealed their plan for a next generation fusion device in a paper published in the journal Nuclear Fusion. Pictured, a test cell for the $94m National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade with its tokamak in the center.
WHAT IS ITER?
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) will be the world’s largest tokamak nuclear fusion reactor when it’s complete in 2019.
35 nations including the United States are building it in France to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power.
But its construction is proving a challenge.
A team of engineers in France is currently grappling with building the massive device, which has magnets that weigh as much as a Boeing 747.
This causes the magnetic field to be stronger in the centre than it is on the outer side.
As a result, plasma contained in a tokamak can moves to the outer walls where it then collapses.
In stellarators, plasma is contained by external magnetic coils which create twisted field lines around the inside of the vacuum chamber, according to Science.
The photograph on the left combines the tracer of an electron beam on its multiple circulation along a field line through the machine. On the right is one of the interior components of the W7-X being made
As such, it overcomes can continuously hold the plasma away from the walls of the device.
Its key component is a ring 50 superconducting magnetic coils approximately 3.5 metres in height. In total the device is 16-meters-wide.
The stellarator design was first thought up in 1951 by Lyman Spitzer working at Princeton University.
But at the time, it was thought to be too complex for the constraints of materials available in the middle of the 20th Century.
Now using supercomputers and new materials, researchers have finally made Spitzer’s vision a reality.
While the Tokamak design is ideal for containing this plasma, it poses some safety risks, for instance, if the current fails or there’s a magnetic disruption
‘We all know the trend of global development, the hunger for energy of emerging economies and emerging countries,’ said Professor Johanna Wanka, Federal Minister for Education and Research.
‘So when we talk about energy, we need research that keeps all options open. And one of these options is nuclear fusion.
‘Wendelstein 7-X is an important step forward allowing us to better evaluate the ‘fusion option.’
The machine took 1.1 million hours to assemble, using what has been described as one of the world’s most complex engineering models.
Testing of the magnetic field in the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device was completed in June – much sooner than expected.
The test revealed that the magnetic cage for the fusion plasma, which has a temperature of many million degrees, was working as scientists predicted.
If the machine works for longer periods of time, scientists believe it could herald a change in the direction for fusion power.
Ancient Egyptian metropolis lost for 1,200 years below Mediterranean sea set to go on display
Ancient Egyptian metropolis lost for 1,200 years below Mediterranean sea set to go on display
The ‘lost city of Atlantis has eluded explorers for centuries and is almost certainly the stuff of myth.
Staggeringly, though, an ancient city that is Atlantis in all but name has emerged from under the sea near Alexandria — and now the lost world of Heracleion is giving up its treasures.
Just as in the classical tale, Heracleion was once a prosperous, thriving city before it was engulfed by the sea around 1,500 years ago. It was grand enough to be mentioned by the Greek writer Herodotus, the 5th-century BC historian.
He told the fabulous story of Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman in the world — she of the face that launched a thousand ships — travelling to Heracleion, then a port of ‘great wealth’, with her glamorous Trojan lover, Paris.
A colossal statue of an ancient unknown Pharaoh (left) lies on a barge in an Alexandrian naval base after it was uncovered in the ancient submerged city of Heracleion. French marine archaeologist Frank Goddio (right) explains text on the stele of Heracleion
Franck Goddio and divers from his team inspect the statue of a pharaoh
Among the most important monuments that were discovered at the temple area of Thonis-Heracleion is this monolithic chapel dating to the Ptolemaic period
But no physical evidence of such a grand settlement appeared until 2001, when a group led by French marine archaeologist Franck Goddio stumbled upon some relics that led them to one of the greatest finds of the 21st century.
Goddio was in search of Napoleon’s warships from the 1798 Battle of the Nile, when he was defeated by Nelson in these very waters, but came upon this much more significant discovery.
Goddio’s team has since been joined by the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology and the Department of Antiquities of Egypt to produce a wealth of dazzling finds.
The archaeologists first faced the mammoth task of reassembling massive stone fragments on the seabed before they could haul them to the surface. Twelve years on, their fabulous finds have been exposed to public view for the first time after more than a millennium spent beneath the silt and water of Aboukir Bay, 20 miles north-east of Alexandria.
Among the discoveries are colossal statues of the Egyptian goddess Isis, the god Hapi, and an unidentified Egyptian pharaoh — all preserved in immaculate condition by their muddy burial shroud. Along with these 16ft statues there are hundreds of smaller statues of Egyptian gods — among them the figures that guarded the temple where Cleopatra was inaugurated as Queen of the Nile.
It seems the Amun-Gereb temple at Heracleion was the Egyptian equivalent of Westminster Abbey, where our own Queen was crowned 60 years ago.
Dozens of sarcophagi have been found, containing the bodies of mummified animals sacrificed to Amun-Gereb, the supreme god of the Egyptians. Many amulets, or religious charms, have been unearthed, too, showing gods such as Isis, Osiris and Horus.
These were made not just for the Egyptians but for visiting traders, who incorporated them into their own religions and also, one imagines, kept them as trinkets to remind them of their far-flung journeys.
The importance of Heracleion has been further proved by the discovery of 64 ships — the largest number of ancient vessels ever found in one place — and a mind-boggling 700 anchors.
Other finds illustrate how crucial Heracleion was to the economy of the ancient world. Gold coins and lead, bronze and stone weights from Athens (used to measure the value of goods and to calculate the tax owed) show that Heracleion was a lucrative Mediterranean trading post.
An archaeologist measures the feet of a colossal red granite statue at the site of Heracleion discovered in Aboukir Bay
The statue of the Goddess Isis sits on display on a barge in an Alexandrian naval base (left). Pictured right is a colossal statue of red granite representing the god Hapi, which decorated the temple of Heracleion
An international team of marine archaeologists is preparing to show some of the objects found in the underwater city
Heracleion was mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus, who told of Helen of Troy visiting the city with her lover Paris before the Trojan war
In the ancient world, the Mediterranean Sea was their equivalent of a superfast motorway. All their greatest cities, including Constantinople, Rome and Athens, were either on the coast or on rivers with easy access to it.
And now Heracleion can be added to their number as Egypt’s most important port during the time of the later pharaohs. It was, if you like, a major motorway junction — the spot where the Nile, Egypt’s lifeline, met the Med. Archaeologists have determined that as well as having a naturally navigable channel next to its ancient harbour, a further artificial channel appears to have been dug to expedite trade.
The Heracleion finds will add tremendous depth to our understanding of the ancient world — not least because, among the discoveries, there are perfectly preserved steles (inscribed pillars) decorated with hieroglyphics. Translated, they will reveal much about the religious and political life in this corner of ancient Egypt.
It was a similar inscription on the Rosetta Stone — discovered in the Nile Delta town of Rosetta in 1799 by a French soldier, and now in the British Museum — that cracked the code of hieroglyphics in the first place.
And like the Rosetta Stone, those steles found beneath the waters of Aboukir Bay are inscribed in Greek and Egyptian, too. Who knows how many more archaeological gems will be uncovered at Heracleion?
The very name of the city is taken from that most famous of Greek heroes, Heracles — aka Hercules — whose 12 labours, from killing the Hydra to capturing Cerberus, the multi-headed hellhound that guarded the gates of the Underworld, captivated the ancient world.
Heraklion, Crete’s capital and largest city, is also named after Heracles, as was Herculaneum, the ancient Roman town that was buried under ash when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.
It appears that Heracleion faded in importance in the later classical period, eclipsed by its neighbouring city of Alexandria, which became the capital of Egypt in 312BC.
Still, Heracleion lingered on, later under Roman control, until it slipped into its watery grave some time in the 6th or 7th century AD. What a thrilling discovery we have on our hands now that the sea has, 1,500 years later, given up one of its greatest secrets.
Harry Mount is the author of Amo, Amas, Amat and All That — How to Become a Latin Lover (Short Books)
The ancient port city lies 20 miles northeast of Alexandria in the Mediterranean
Items including 16ft sculptures, gold coins and giant tablets are among some of the objects recovered from the ancient port city
One theory suggests a rise in sea level and unstable collapsing sediment combined to submerge the city
One of the best things about archaeology is uncovering places, artifacts, and human remains that answer long-held mysteries about our past and our origins. But frequently discoveries are made that do not solve ancient puzzles, but simply raise more questions to be answered. Here we feature ten such discoveries – from indecipherable manuscripts to Frankenstein mummies, and incredible artifacts from unknown civilizations. Some of these mysteries will one day be solved as science and research techniques progress, others will keep their secrets hidden forever.
Longyou Caves, QUZHOU, CHINA
1. The Unknown Origins of the Longyou Caves
Located near the village of Shiyan Beicun in Zhejiang province, China, lies the Longyou caves - an extensive, magnificent and rare ancient underground world considered in China as ‘the ninth wonder of the ancient world’. The Longyou grottoes, which are thought to date back at least 2,000 years, represent one of the largest underground excavations of ancient times and are an enduring mystery that have perplexed experts from every discipline that has examined them.
Scientists from around the world in the fields of archaeology, architecture, engineering, and geology have absolutely no idea how they were built, by whom, and why. First discovered in 1992 by a local villager, 36 grottoes have now been discovered covering a massive 30,000 square metres. Carved into solid siltstone, each grotto descends around 30 metres underground and contains stone rooms, bridges, gutters and pools. There are pillars evenly distributed throughout the caves which are supporting the ceiling, and the walls, ceiling and stone columns are uniformly decorated with chisel marks in a series of parallel lines. To date, scientists have not been able to establish who built them, how they were constructed, and why.
2. The Sound Effects of Malta’s Hypogeum Hal Saflieni
The Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni in Malta is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which is believed to be the oldest prehistoric underground temple in the world. The subterranean structure is shrouded in mystery, from the discovery of elongated skulls to stories of paranormal phenomena. But the characteristic that has been attracting experts from around the globe is the unique acoustic properties found within the underground chambers of the Hypogeum. Although not known for certain, it is believed that the hypogeum was originally used as a sanctuary, possibly for an oracle. It is for this reason that a unique chamber carved out of solid limestone and demonstrating incredible acoustic properties has been called ‘the Oracle Chamber’.
According to William Arthur Griffiths, who wrote ‘Malta and its Recently Discovered Prehistoric Temples’, a word spoken in the Oracle room is “magnified a hundredfold and is audible throughout the entire structure.” It is said that standing in the Hypogeum is like being inside a giant bell. At certain pitches, one feels the sound vibrating in bone and tissue as much as hearing it in the ear. The questions remain – was it intentional? Was the Hypogeum actually designed to enhance amplification? If so, why? Is it possible that the designers of these spaces knew something that modern scientists are just rediscovering?
A floral illustration on page 32; the colors are still vibrant
3. The Indecipherable Voynich Manuscript
In 1912, a Polish-American book dealer named Wilfrid M. Voynich went to Rome on an acquisitions trip. There he happened upon a trunk that contained a rare 15th century manuscript now known as the Voynich manuscript. Since its appearance, this document—which is now under lock and key at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript library at Yale—has been studied extensively and has stumped even the most successful cryptographers and code breakers. You must be asking yourself why the intrigue? The answer is simple: the book is almost entirely illegible. The author is also unidentified, as is the obscure language used throughout the text. Even many of the illustrations remain enigmatic, as many of the plants portrayed in the book—which are often crudely drawn—are unidentifiable, and the numerous pictures of nude women are involved in inexplicable acts.
4. The Plain of Megalithic Jars
The Plain of Jars in the Xieng Khouang plain of Laos is one of the most enigmatic sights on Earth. The unusual site of thousands of megalithic stone jars scattered across nearly one hundred sites deep in the mountains of northern Laos has fascinated archaeologists and scientists ever since their discovery in the 1930s. The unusual site known as the Plain of Jars is dated to the Iron Age (500 BC to 500 AD) and is made up of at least 3,000 giant stone jars up to 3 metres tall and weighing several tonnes. Most are made of sandstone but there are others made of much harder granite and limestone. The jars appear to have been manufactured with a degree of knowledge of what materials and techniques were suitable. It is assumed that Plain of Jars’ people used iron chisels to manufacture them although no conclusive evidence for this exists. Little is known of the people who carved the huge containers and the jars themselves give little clue as to their origins or purpose.
Paracas skulls at the National Museum of Achaeology, Anthropology, and History in Lima. (Photo: Jacopo Werther)
5. The Paracas Elongated Skulls
Paracas is a desert peninsula located within the Pisco Province in the Inca Region, on the south coast of Peru. It is here were Peruvian archaeologist, Julio Tello, made an amazing discovery in 1928 – a massive and elaborate graveyard containing tombs filled with the remains of individuals with the largest elongated skulls found anywhere in the world. These have come to be known as the ‘Paracas skulls’. In total, Tello found more than 300 of these elongated skulls, which are believed to date back around 3,000 years.
It is well-known that most cases of skull elongation are the result of cranial deformation, head flattening, or head binding, in which the skull is intentionally deformed by applying force over a long period of time. It is usually achieved by binding the head between two pieces of wood, or binding in cloth. However, while cranial deformation changes the shape of the skull, it does not alter its volume, weight, or other features that are characteristic of a regular human skull.
Some of the Paracas skulls, however, have a cranial volume that is up to 25 percent larger and 60 percent heavier than conventional human skulls, meaning they could not have been intentionally deformed through head binding/flattening. They also contain only one parietal plate, rather than two. The fact that the skulls’ features are not the result of cranial deformation means that the cause of the elongation is a mystery, and has been for decades.
Just some of the thousands of Ica stones that form Cabrera’s collection. Photo source
6. The Ica Stones and their Strange Engravings
It is a rare object that stimulates the curiosity of archaeologists, ancient astronaut theorists, and creationists all at the same time, but the Ica stones have done just that. The Ica stones refer to the momentous collection of more than 15,000 engraved stones which curiously depict clear and detailed dinosaurs, complex medical surgery, and forms of advanced technology such as telescopes.
Most believe the stones are nothing more than an elaborate hoax, while others maintain that they are evidence that an ancient race of humans who possessed advanced technology coexisted with dinosaurs. Today, most maintain that the stones are nothing more than a fraud, however, others suggest that attempts to discredit the stones are merely a way to hide evidence that conflicts with mainstream perspectives. The Ica museum in which the stones are housed remains open to those who would like to interpret the mysteries for themselves.
7. The Ancient Artifacts of Sanxingdui
Amid the once-tranquil village of Sanxingdui, in a quiet part of Sichuan province in China, a remarkable discovery took place which immediately attracted international attention and has since rewritten the history of Chinese civilisation. Two giant sacrificial pits were unearthed containing thousands of gold, bronze, jade, ivory and pottery artifacts that were so unusual and unlike anything ever found in China before, that archaeologists realised they had just opened the door to an ancient culture dating back between 3,000 and 5,000 years.
The discovery of the artifacts opened up a world of intrigue. The objects included animal-faced sculptures and masks with dragon ears, open mouths and grinning teeth; human-like heads with gold foil masks; decorative animals including dragons, snakes, and birds; a giant wand, a sacrificial altar, a 4-metre tall bronze tree; axes, tablets, rings, knives, and hundreds of other unique items. However, by far the most striking findings were dozens of large bronze masks and heads represented with angular human features, exaggerated almond-shaped eyes, straight noses, square faces, and huge ears, features which don’t reflect those of Asian people. The discovery of Sanxingdui shocked the world, but the history of the artifacts remains a mystery. Only the contents of two solitary pits reflect their immemorial and brilliant civilisation – no other artifacts like them have ever been found since. There are no historical records, and no ancient texts that speak of them, leaving experts asking what the purpose of the objects was, where the culture came from, and where they went after burying their most precious treasures.
8. The Giant Spheres of Costa Rica
Many will be familiar with the opening scene of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” where a giant stone sphere nearly crushes Indiana Jones to death. While everyone recognises the movie as a work of fiction, the giant ancient stone spheres are not. While clearing the jungle for banana plantations in 1940 in Costa Rica's Diquis Delta region, employees of the United Fruit Company uncovered numerous large stone spheres partly buried in the forest floor.
Around 300 spheres are known to exist, with the largest weighing 16 tonnes and measuring eight feet in diameter, and the smallest being no bigger than a basketball. Almost all of them are made of granodiorite, a hard, igneous stone. Since their discovery the true purpose of the spheres, which still eludes experts, has been the subject of speculation ranging from theories about the balls being navigational aids, to relics related to Stonehenge, the product of an unknown ancient civilization or visits from extraterrestrials.
Part of the mystery surrounds the way in which they were created as the near-perfect spheres appear to have come from a quarry that was more than 50 miles away and they were created in a time in which metal tools had apparently not been invented yet. However, the biggest mystery remains what they were used for. The people who made them didn't leave any written record and there no myths or legends or other stories that are told by the indigenous people of Costa Rica about why the spheres were made.
9. The Stone Head of Guatemala
Over half a century ago, deep in the jungles of Guatemala, a gigantic stone head was uncovered. The face had fine features, thin lips and large nose and its face was directed up at the sky. Unusually, the face demonstrated Caucasian features which were not consistent with any of the pre-Hispanic races of America.
The discovery rapidly attracted attention, but just as quickly it slipped away into the pages of forgotten history. News of the discovery first emerged when Dr Oscar Rafael Padilla Lara, a doctor of philosophy, lawyer and notary, received a photograph of the head in 1987 along with a description that the photograph was taken in the 1950s by the owner of the land where the head was found and that it was located “somewhere in the jungles of Guatemala”. Upon tracking down the site some ten years later, Dr Padilla was devastated to find the site had been obliterated by revolutionaries. To date, no one knows where it came from, who made it, and why.
In 2001, a team of archaeologists found four skeletons at an archaeological site on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. At first, it appeared to be a typical Bronze Age discovery, but the researchers soon discovered that the finding was far from normal. The skeletons, one male and one female, were buried in the foetal position. Initial tests revealed that the male had died in around 1600 BC and the female had died in approximately 1300 BC. However, some ten years later, further DNA examination of the remains led to a startling discovery – the two skeletons were actually made up of body parts from six different individuals. In the ‘male skeleton’, the torso, skull and neck, and lower jaw belonged to three separate men, and the ‘female skeleton’ is a composite formed from a male skull, a female torso, and the arm of a third person whose gender had not been determined.
Carbon dating revealed that the skull of the ‘female’ mummy is 50 to 200 years older than the torso. It appears that the mummies were made up of parts from people in the same families and then put together like a jigsaw to make it look like they were just one person. Archaeologists have no idea why the remains were mummified and then mixed together. However, Parker Pearson believes that the mixing of remains was done to combine different ancestries of families to create a ‘symbolic ancestor’ that literally embodied traits from multiple lineages.
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These are the Anunnaki: Alien Gods of Ancient Sumer
These are the Anunnaki: Alien Gods of Ancient Sumer
The Anunnaki are said to be a group of deities in several ancient Mesopotamian cultures like the Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian.
The Anunnaki are also one of the MOST controversial subjects among many people around the globe. Millions of people around the world believe the Ancient Anunnaki are the creators of man and are not mythological beings but in fact flesh and blood ‘gods’ who came to Earth in the distant past.
Several authors and researchers have argued that the Anunnaki are not fully understood and that mainstream scholars refuse to admit their true origin.
Based on numerous archaeological discoveries: artifacts, records and monuments found in the past by experts, it is believed that the Anunnaki (Sumerian: “those who came down from the heavens), a highly advanced civilization from an elusive planet in our solar system, came to Earth, landing in the Persian Gulf some 432,000 years ago.
But imagine what would happen if history acknowledged that hundreds of thousands of years ago, advanced beings from elsewhere in the universe came to Earth and helped kickstart the human civilization?
Aliens or not?
If we search for the Anunnaki and look for alternative explanations that disagree with mainstream scholars, we will eventually come across the Ancient Astronaut (alien) theory.
The ancient alien astronaut theory presupposes that thousands of years ago even before recorded history our planet was visited by astronauts from another world, intelligent beings with technology beyond our own today.
Many archeologists consider modern day Iraq as the “cradle of civilization” and that the Ancient Anunnaki are one of the main reasons why this part of the world developed so rapidly thousands of years ago.
Approximately some 250,000 years ago, according to Sitchin, the ancient Anunnaki merged their Alien genes with that of Homo Erectus and created a species known as Homo Sapiens, obtaining as a result, a genetically bicameral species.
Between 3500 and 1900 BC the Tigris and Euphrates river were the home of the Sumerian people who prospered in this region.
Approximately some 250,000 years ago, according to Sitchin, the ancient Anunnaki merged their Alien genes with that of Homo Erectus and created a species known as Homo Sapiens, obtaining as a result, a genetically bicameral species.
So basically, when we look at the ancient Anunnaki and their actual origin we encounter two different perspectives from two types of people.
Those who believe that the ancient Anunnaki are part of a creation myth of ancient cultures like the Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian, and those who believe that what is written on ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets are actual descriptions of otherworldly beings who came down to Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago.
This seems to be a never-ending debate.
But even before the ancient Anunnaki allegedly created mankind, it is said that the Igigi –they who turn and see—were the Ancient Astronaut Gods of the younger generation, the servants to the mighty Anunnaki who came to Earth to mine gold.
Black and white crop of full plate scan, from Austen Henry Layard’s ‘Monuments of Nineveh, Second Series’ plate 19/83, London, J. Murray, 1853
Mainstream scholars use the term Igigi to reference the mythological Sumerian deities. According to mainstream academics, the Igigi were the younger servants of the Anunnaki, who initiated a rebellion against their masters and dictatorship of Enlil. Eventually, the Anunnaki replaced the Igigi with humans.
What do you believe and what are your thoughts? Do you thnk there is enough evidence to support theories regarding the existence of the Anunnaki? Were they mere myths? Or is it possible they were flesh and blood ‘Gods’ that came down to Earth in the distant past, kickstarting the human civilization?
Satellite images of Mars reveal fascinating ‘structures’ buried beneath the surface
Satellite images of Mars reveal fascinating ‘structures’ buried beneath the surface
Images taken by the HiRISE camera onboard the MRO orbiting Mars seem to indicate intelligently designed structures and subdivision which seem to be of logical proportions of the base dimensions. The anomalies found at the Hellas Planitia have roughly the same length and similar straight features that spread across a distance of one kilometer.
The idea that Mars is inhabited –or at least was, millions of years ago— has fascinated researchers and people for decades
Throughout human history, as far as there are written records, the red planet has captured the interest of ancient civilizations around the world in a magical way.
But is there something more to this mysterious planet other than it’s red color and authority in the skies?
How much do we know today about Mars?
And what if governments worldwide are not telling everything they know about the red planet?
In the last couple of years, we have learned so much about the red planet.
We have come to understand that Mars isn’t a desolate, dead world as researchers previously believed.
In fact, Mars may have been Earth’s twin planet in the distant past.
Scientists have found a couple of extremely interesting clues that suggest life may have developed on Mars in the distant past.
Not long ago, scientists discovered that there is liquid water flowing on the surface of Mars. Researchers have also found traces of giant oceans, rivers, and lakes that covered most of the Martian surface.
Experts have also discovered faint traces of a once mighty atmosphere that encircled the red planet in the distant past.
Recently, researchers have discovered that in the distant past, Mars had a ‘human’ breathable atmosphere.
Using the ChemCam instrument aboard Curiosity, scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered high levels of manganese oxides in cracks filled with minerals present in some Martian rocks of the Kimberley region in the Gale crater.
The presence of this chemical suggests that in the past there were sufficient levels of oxygen in the atmosphere of Mars, which would have made the planet “breathable” for humans.
As you can see, every discovery points to the possibility that life as we know it may have developed on Mars in the distant past.
The question remains how much life on Mars may have developed.
Was life on Mars just microbial?
A comparison of the structures on Mars (left) and an archaeological site on Earth (right).
Or is it possible that the planet offered ideal conditions in the past, for an advanced alien species to flourish on Mars?
Curiously, based on the numerous satellite images of Mars and photographs taken by NASAs rovers exploring the surface of the red planet, people around the globe have been able to identify certain ‘anomalies’ on Mars which ‘seem’ to indicate an advanced species, capable of erecting structures, once flourished on Mars.
Now, these structures are covered under the Martian surface and are barely visible according to many.
A perfect example of possible structures is identifiable in the images taken by the HiRISE Camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) at the Hellas Planitia on Mars.
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UFO hunters believe the Hellas Planitia on Mars may hide an anomaly indicative of intelligently designed structure buried under the surface.
According to a post written on ATS, the author indicates that the first formation seen in the satellite images is the most noteworthy mostly because of the subdivision which seems to be of logical proportions of the base dimensions.
The author explains that all of the formations seen in the Hellas Planitia have roughly the same length and similar straight features that spread across a distance of one kilometer.
While the author remains reserved saying that they do not have to be necessarily artificial in nature, their extraordinary alignments and subdivision are something noteworthy to mention.
The KGB Had a Classified Information Exchange Program With an Alien Civilization, Russian Officials Reveal
The KGB Had a Classified Information Exchange Program With an Alien Civilization, Russian Officials Reveal
Russia is believed to have knowledge of extraterrestrial beings for over 20 years, and retried high rank officials have been trying to expose this secret, but to no avail. The media seemingly managed to intervene each and every time, thus preventing them from spreading the desired information on a serious manner, or even discredit or ridicule them
The Soviet era had the Ministry of Defense work on really daring projects that would give soldiers superhuman abilities. During these trials, a team of researchers encountered a signal coming from intelligent lifeforms from outside of the Earth. The story became known after the man in charge of this top-secret program revealed numerous details to the Russian media. Backing up his claims, Alexey Savin, member of the Natural Sciences Academy, and current lieutenant-general in reserve, has stepped forward and shared his knowledge regarding a group of Russian scientists from the late 80s who could constantly get in touch with representatives of an intelligent species of extraterrestrials.
However, the first man to take action by revealing these shocking facts to the press was Vasily Yeremenco, a now-retired major-general who claims to have used special military technology to retrieve alien intelligence from UFOs encounters. He admits that information originating from these otherworldly sources were abundant at that point in time, and it helped the Russians shape the future of their country. In fact, his goals were to suppress any conflicts that would arise between Russia and other alien civilizations. In 1984, the KGB was involved in an ample study documenting unexplained phenomenon near the area of Vladimirovska, a place that hasn’t been randomly picked because most UFO encounters were known to be drawn by dangerous spots where weapons of mass destructions were deployed.
General Vasily Yeremenko
He states that, because of this, the KGB didn’t have to pursue UFOs anymore. They have instead learned how to summon them on their grounds. “We can say that we learned to summon UFOs in Vladimirovska,” Savin said in a news report. “To do this, we dramatically increased the number of military flights and movement of the equipment. If the intensity on our side increased, UFOs appeared with the probability of one hundred percent.”
The trials were subdued after about half a year of constant UFO summoning. The Russians concluded that science, at least back then, was unable to make a difference between a UFO and a conventional aircraft. At the best, and because of the constant threat of unfinished war, the otherworldly crafts would be confused with new technology tested by either the US or Japan. Yaremenko discovered that on his own ‘comrades’.“The UFO topic today is ubiquitous,” he said in a press release after his retirement. “Precisely because of its scandalous nature, serious scientists are not willing to identify their position on this issue. Pilots often see such objects, but they have a veto on this topic, so do astronauts. In confidential conversations they talk about their experiences meeting with UFOs, but they are afraid to speak publicly about this.” In his acceptance, the UFO topic shouldn’t be taken lightly because it represents a matter of global security.
He furtherly revealed a classified technique used by the KGB to control the human brain by triggering superhuman abilities through it. Proof of the existence and continuity of this project stands DARPA, with its daring plan to create ‘future soldiers’ using futuristic chips implanted inside the brain. “In the process of research, we came to the conclusion that a human was an energy and information system that receives information from outside. This is precisely why a human can manifest paranormal abilities,” Savin revealed.
Besides the military personnel and scientific crew, a team of woman was assembled to carry out some of the crucial tasks. Furthermore, Sevin explained how they had achieved a way to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations using the functions of the human brain that acted as a radio beacon through space, thus allowing the Russians to receive extraterrestrial messages. “We wanted to make a contact with representatives of other civilizations. And we did it. We had to tune energy-contour of the human brain to a particular wave, like a radio.”
No chemicals or drugs were used on subjects during testing, and the scientists also came up with a way to tell if individuals were making progress or just hallucinating. What happened next was astounding. Six individuals were privileged to actually touch extraterrestrial beings and one member of the team was even granted access to one of their spaceships.
The aliens did give away some information about the structure of their society, but left out important parts like any military details. They supposedly left knowledge of medical procedures that could cure most diseases. Savin told journalists that the human race is so precariously evolved that the aliens would easily compare us to infants. According to him, “our civilization is too young to be of interest to them as a subject for a dialogue. Because we are also a part of the universe, we may harm ourselves and other civilizations with our foolish actions, so they are looking out for us. ”
In 1993, politics came in the way, the whole project was abandoned and the team disbanded, but the brain manipulation method remained in use at the Gagarin Academy, where a core team of scientist continued to develop and improve the scheme, and it’s no secret anymore that these techniques kept secret by the Russian military are used by the Americans as well.
“Four years ago we tried to repeat the experiment, and we were successful,” Savin said. “Brains and talented people are still present in the defense industry. Why hide something from people? Instead, they need to prepare for new challenges.”
If the aliens come in peace and only want to monitor us for our own good, why is Savin considering that we should be taking this matter seriously, more like a possible global threat, and less like our guardian angels?
Fascinating video filmed in 69′ by Armstrong reveals Ancient Structures on the moon
Fascinating video filmed in 69′ by Armstrong reveals Ancient Structures on the moon
Another fascinating video from YouTube tells a fascinating story. According to the video posted online, the alleged footage was filmed in 1969 by Neil Armstrong and shows ancient ‘alien’ structures on the surface of the moon.
Earth’s moon has been the center of attention ever since mankind looked up to the sky. Ever since the Apollo missions landed on the lunar surface, interest n the moon increased exponentially.
According to many ufologists and researchers, there are things on the moon that have been kept away from society for years. Now, this video posted on YouTube allegedly reveals some of these shocking secrets that were found by Apollo astronauts on the lunar surface.
Many people around the globe argue that it isn’t a question anymore whether or not there are mysterious ‘Alien’ structures on the moon. This video, according to many is the ultimate proof.
But in addition to this video, in the last couple of years, many scientists, astronauts and highly ranked officials have spoken out about anomalous structures and the presence of otherworldly beings on the surface of the moon.
“Read the books, read the lore, start to understand what has really been going on, because there is no doubt that we are being visited. . . . The universe that we live in is much more wondrous, exciting, complex and far-reaching than we were ever able to know up to this point in time. . . . [Mankind has long wondered if we’re] alone in the universe. [But] only in our period do we really have evidence. No, we’re not alone.” – Dr. Edgar Mitchell, ScD., former NASA astronaut and the 6th man to walk on the moon.
Whether or not this video is real or not remains a mystery that we are unable to answer. However, many people believe that Apollo astronauts encountered numerous Alien structures on the moon when the Apollo 11 mission landed on the 20th of July, 1969. To date, the United States is the only country to have successfully conducted manned missions to the Moon, with the last departing the lunar surface in December 1972.
In addition to this video –and other images and video footage— numerous claims about alien structures on the moon have captured the interest of millions of people worldwide.
Interestingly, Dr. John Brandenburg who was the Deputy Manager of the Clementine Mission to the Moon –when water was found at the Moon’s poles in 1994— said that:
“It was (the Clementine Mission) a photo reconnaissance mission basically to check out if someone was building bases on the moon that we didn’t know about. Were they expanding them?”
“Of all the pictures I’ve seen from the moon that show possible structures, the most impressive is a picture of miles wide recto-linear structure. This looked unmistakably artificial, and it shouldn’t be there. As somebody in the space defense community, I look on any such structure on the moon with great concern because it isn’t ours, there’s no way we could have built such a thing. It means someone else is up there.”(source)
Whether or not this fascinating video –which we are unable to verify— is real or not is up to you as always.
We believe its is extremely interesting that in the last couple of years, so many astronauts, scientists, and highly ranked officials have decided to speak about the Extraterrestrial phenomenon and alleged structures found on the surface of Earth’s moon.
VIDEO: UFO-jager legt ‘buitenaards moederschip’ vast boven Londen
VIDEO: UFO-jager legt ‘buitenaards moederschip’ vast boven Londen
UFO-jager Andrew Burlington claimt een ‘moederschip’ te hebben vastgelegd boven de Londense wijk Charlton. De 40-jarige man spotte naar eigen zeggen een vloot cilindervormige objecten toen hij een wandeling maakte met zijn neefjes.
Burlington beweert al meerdere keren UFO’s te hebben gezien, maar zegt dat hij voor het eerst een ‘moederschip’ heeft vastgelegd op de gevoelige plaat.
“We dachten in eerste instantie dat het ballonnen waren omdat ze cirkelvormig waren en er kleine objecten onder hingen,” legde hij uit. “Maar ze verdwenen snel uit het zicht en het laatste object knipperde een paar keer voordat het langzaam onzichtbaar werd.”
Kleinere UFO’s
Andrew Burlington (SWNS)
“Het feit dat een langwerpig onbekend object aan het begin van de video door het beeld schiet is mogelijk een indicatie dat er boven de Thames Barrier kleinere UFO’s uit het moederschip kwamen,” zei hij.
“Mijn neefjes konden het niet geloven,” aldus Burlington. “Ik ben blij dat ze het samen met mij hebben gezien, ook al zijn het nog kinderen. Ze hebben me in het verleden vaak horen praten over UFO-waarnemingen, maar dachten vast dat ik een grapje maakte.”
V-vormige UFO
Burlington legde uit dat er aan het begin van de video ook nog een kleiner, donkerder object is te zien dat alle kanten op beweegt. “Er is een mogelijkheid dat het een vogel was, maar het zou ook een zwarte driehoekige of V-vormige UFO kunnen zijn geweest, zoals een object dat ik in mei 2014 boven Lewisham heb gezien.”
Hij zegt bekend te zijn met alle soorten conventionele vliegtuigen en ballonnen. “Als de objecten ballonnen waren geweest, hoe konden ze dan zwakker worden en in het niets verdwijnen?” vroeg hij.
UFO Caught Just 20 Meters Away From Home Over Ireland On Aug 2016, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Caught Just 20 Meters Away From Home Over Ireland On Aug 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 24, 2016 Location of sighting: Donegal, Ireland Source: MUFON #78723 This UFO was captured at sunrise...and as you probably have heard from me many times...sunset and sunrise are the moments of the day when the cloaks of UFOs are vulnerable due to the angle of the sun, angle of the person to the UFO and the sun and how the light bends around the cloak. Needless to say, this is a fantastic catch of a UFO shooting past the persons window at just the right time. I can tell from the lighting on its right side of the UFO and the right side of the roof that the lighting is untampered with, it has no flaws to be found...because its real. Also on the right side of the UFO are ridges which are slightly blurred, due to its incredible speed as it shot past the window, stopped for a split second, then shot off. Controlled by AI of course in a almost flawless close encounter...except it was caught on iphone. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: At family holiday home in ( very remote) County Donegal,Ireland. I awoke unusually early (6:30am) and instantly alert. Decided to video and photograph the sunrise, something I have never done? Took several pictures and videos before and after object appeared in photo, with no resulting foreign/unexplained objects. Nothing appeared in the sky at any time. My instant reaction was that perhaps my iPhone camera was broken? However couldn't understand how pics immediately before and after photo in question, didn't have a huge black triangle (apparently hovering in sky?) Was in shock for the rest of the day.
The blur of the UFO indicates that it shot fast in front of the window, stopped for a split second, then shot off at light speed.
Real Life Borg Cube Seen At Earths Sun Sucking Its Energy, Aug 26, 2016, photos, UFO Sighting News.
Real Life Borg Cube Seen At Earths Sun Sucking Its Energy, Aug 26, 2016, photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 26, 2016, 01:13 Location of sighting: Earths Sun Source: SOHO EIT 195 camera This cube has been seen a lot over the last 5 years and its frequency of sightings has only increased. The size of the cube can very depending on the distance from the SOHO satellite, but here its appears to be larger than earth. The cube is usually dark, so only a 2D view of it is seen in this photo, but it has been seen in 3D in 25% of the photos over the years. When enlarged more detail can be seen. I believe these cubes are harvesting the energy from our sun and carrying it off to other species that live in our solar system on Jupiter, Saturn and Venus, not to mention the false moons like our own...IO, Phobos and much more. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Fleet of UFOs Pass Over Yellowstone Park On Live Cam! Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Fleet of UFOs Pass Over Yellowstone Park On Live Cam! Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 27, 2016 Location of sighting: Yellowstone Park, USA This is the most breathtaking and detailed UFO sighting all year long! It was caught when Jeanette Foresta of Youtube was watching the live cam and caught a whole fleet of UFOs passing over Yellowstone on live cam. At least one UFO (first photo above) is a TR3B type UFO but is over 100 meters across! As it moves, it actually rotates, just like disk do. The shape corners are darker...signs of a TR3B when light speed engines are turned off. When it powers up, those three ends will glow like white suns, also the center top and bottom will glow (4 white balls of light at once). Behind it is one disk. You can also see the light reflecting off its metal sides and what looks like sever other TR3B 100 meter UFOs further away. Jeanette Foresta has recorded Yellowstone and posted it to Youtube many times before over the years, so this is not a fake, she keeps a watchful eye over this area of the park. Yellowstone park was allotted 3,468 square miles of land, by the US government, so obviously the US knows about an active alien base or bases in this area, and hoped that stoping construction would limit human activity in the area. This is the highlight of my month...maybe my whole year of reporting. I live for moments like this. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: I have another one ready to make public. Let's give it a minute aye? It's the same. Maybe you want to take a better look at them all. :)
I took the mouse halo out which was in the very first video I did of this, a few months ago. It was kinda in the way. I felt I should do a better job of it because it's a once in a lifetime capture -Maybe? :)
50,000 artifacts found in tunnel under Teotihuacan temple
50,000 artifacts found in tunnel under Teotihuacan temple
When last we saw the tunnel underneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Teotihuacan, the remote vehicle Tláloc II-TC had forged 65 feet ahead of the point where humans could tread and identified the presence of three chambers with its infrared camera and laser scanner. Wednesday Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced that archaeologists have reached a space just before the three chambers and have discovered there a massive cache of sacred objects.
The tunnel was discovered by chance in 2003 after heavy rains opened a hole more than two and a half feet (83 cm) wide in front of the Adosada platform, a 4th century structure inside the Citadel that faces the temple. Fifty feet under the hole, archaeologists found a tunnel almost 400 feet (120 meters) long. Excavations began in 2009, with initial explorations done with ground penetrating radar, laser scanning and two robots.
The technology was only the beginning. The tunnel was expertly sealed by the residents of Tenochtitlan in the second century A.D., filled top to bottom with soil and rocks. The heavy lifting was done by at least 25 workers at any given time, one of whom was Julio Alva, a descendant of 17th century Nahuatl chronicler Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, himself a direct descendant of Ixtlilxochitl I and Ixtlilxochitl II, rulers of Texococo, and of Cuitláhuac, the penultimate ruler of Tenochtitlan. Alva and his comrades worked tirelessly to remove 970 tons of earth and stone to make way for the remote vehicles and archaeologists to explore the tunnel.
INAH archaeologists have now reached the 103 point where they have encountered a space 13 feet wide and 26 feet long filled with an extraordinary wealth of objects: 50,000 artifacts, including organic remains perfectly preserved in the low oxygen environment. There are more than 4,000 wooden objects, bones and fur from large cats, beetle skeletons, more than 15,000 seeds from different plants and the remains of skin, possibly human, which will be submitted for laboratory analysis.
On the non-organic side are beautifully carved stone sculptures, four of them anthropomorphic figures two feet tall made from greenstone, scores of shells from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, imported Guatemalan jade, rubber balls, pottery, pyrite disks and a wooden box filled with dozens of elaborately engraved conchs. There are beads, complete necklaces, amber and dozens of obsidian blades and arrow heads.
All of these offerings were interred in the tunnel between 150 and 200 A.D., a period known as the Miccaotli phase when Teotihuacan’s plan was being vigorously altered with previous buildings taken down and new ones erected that would redesign the city. With no written records to go by, archaeological remains are invaluable to the study of Teotihuacan’s culture and history.
This space is 18 feet deep, and given its location close to the end of the tunnel in front of the three chambers, archaeologists think the explosion of artifacts is a strong indicator that there are significant burials in those chambers.
[Archaeologist Sergio] Gomez, who works for Mexico’s National Anthropology and History Institute, said he hoped to find a royal tomb at the end of the tunnel. “Due to the magnitude of the offerings that we’ve found, it can’t be in any other place,” he said.
“We’ve been able to confirm all of the hypotheses we’ve made from the beginning,” he added, saying ongoing excavations could yield more major discoveries next year.
Here’s a video that takes you down the tunnel and shows some of the highlights of the recent discoveries. There’s no narration but there is some music well worth muting.
Robot finds 3 rooms under Feathered Serpent temple
Robot finds 3 rooms under Feathered Serpent temple
A robot named Tláloc II-TC, equipped with an infrared camera and laser scanner, has discoveredthree new chambers underneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent pyramid in the Mesoamerican metropolis of Teotihuacan. He was sent down a tunnel 390 feet long that was discovered 50 feet below the surface of the temple in 2003. The tunnel had been filled with debris by the ancient Teotihuacans to block access, an effective technique since despite centuries of looting and archaeological excavations nobody had managed to breach it. It’s been a decade since the subterranean conduit was discovered and five years since excavations began, and archaeologists have only able to get a glimpse of what’s on the other side in the past few months.
They first discovered two side rooms dubbed the North Chamber and the South Chamber 236 and 242 feet respectively from the entrance. The human archaeologists couldn’t get any further than that, so they deployed Tláloc II-TC to travel another 65 feet. The terrain was uncongenial, to say the least, with the floor in some parts of the tunnel caked in sludge a foot deep. Tláloc is neither light as a feather nor stiff as a board. He weighs 77 pounds and his articulated tank-track feet kept getting stuck in the thick mud. Archaeologists believe the Teotihuacans intentionally dug down to the water table in order to build a space that recreated the conditions of the underworld.
Despite the navigation difficulties, Tláloc’s sensors never failed. They revealed that the tunnel has a semicircular vault and is a constant size and shape until it reaches the entryways of three previously unknown chambers. The rooms are blocked by a wall or large stone so Tláloc wasn’t able to go inside, but his scanner detected spaces that are deeper than 16 feet. The scanner can only record a maximum of five meters (approximately 16 feet) in depth. It can detect that there’s more than that to be found only it can’t find out exactly how much until it’s inside the chambers.
They’ll need to clean out the tunnel to make it accessible to puny humans before they can reach the chambers Tláloc has found. The team hopes these rooms, hidden deep underground and deliberately made so unreachable not even highly motivated thieves and archaeologists were able to explore them for almost 2000 years after they were closed, might contain something of inestimable significance to Teotihuacan society, perhaps even the graves of the city’s founders.
Meanwhile, archaeologists exploring North Chamber and South Chamber have discovered some unusual artifacts. They look like yellowish clay lumps ranging in diameter from 1.5 to five inches, but they’re man-made with a core of clay covered in iron pyrite. When new, they would have been spherical and the pyrite exterior, which has oxidized into duller jarosite, would have been shiny gold. The adobe walls of the chambers were also enhanced for shininess. They were coated with a powder compound of magnetite, pyrite and hematite which would have made this dark underground space gleam.
The lumps/spheres must have been left in the space before the tunnel was closed 1800 years ago. What function they may have played is unknown at this juncture, but the prevailing hypothesis is that they were special ritual offerings of some kind. No other such artifacts have been discovered before, but many other offerings — pottery, wooden masks inlaid with rock crystal and jade — were also found in the chambers so it seems likely the balls had the same job. The pottery and masks have been dated to around 100 A.D.
The Temple of the Feathered Serpent, also known as the Temple of Quetzalcoatl after the feathered serpent deity of the Aztecs who moved in to the city in the 14th century A.D. long after the original Teotihuacans had mysteriously abandoned it in the 8th century, is the third largest of Teotihuacan’s temples. The largest is the Pyramid of the Sun under which a similar tunnel was discovered in the 1970s. That excavation was less than scientifically rigorous, however, and much of the precious context information was lost. The clean, deliberate nature of this multi-season exploration, on the other hand, will ensure all of the data that can be retrieved will be retrieved. This will hopefully reveal important new information about the religious life of Teotihuacan.
From bacteria that can survive inside rocks to microbes that can withstand tremendous heat, cold and radiation, life can take some extreme forms. These enterprising creatures reveal not just the resilience of life on Earth, but the possibilities for life elsewhere in the universe. Here are some especially amazing examples of so-called extremophiles.
Credit: Armando Azua-Bustos
1. Not a drop to drink
Some organisms, such as Dunaliella algae discovered in 2010 in a cave in Chile's Atacama desert, can thrive on very little water. Despite living in the driest place on Earth, these mooching microbes grow on top of spiderwebs to capitalize on dew – the meager amounts of air moisture that condense on the webs in the mornings.
Credit: David M. Ward
2. Hot stuff
So-called hyperthermophiles are species that thrive in extremely hot environments. TheAquifex genus of bacteria, for example, has been found living in hot springs in Yellowstone National Park, where temperatures can reach 205 degrees Fahrenheit (96 degrees Celsius).
Credit: NOAA
3. Frugal living
One extreme species, the Thermococcus microbe, can survive on so little energy that until now the chemical reaction it uses wasn't thought able to sustain life. These organisms were found living near deep-sea hydrothermal vents where super-hot water seeps out of the Earth's crust near Papua New Guinea. In addition to their thrifty use of energy, the microbes can survive in extreme temperatures too scorching for most creatures.
Credit: Jennifer Loveland-Curtze, Penn State.
4. Pass the salt
Talk about high sodium! Salt-tolerant "halophilic" microorganisms can withstand salt concentrations that would wither most life. One example is the bacteria Halobacterium halobium, which has evolved to live in environments with 10 times more salt than seawater, such as the salty lakebed of California's Owens Lake.
Credit: Eric Rignot, NASA JPL
5. Brrr, it's cold in here
Some microbes, called psychrophiles, found in polar ice, glaciers and deep ocean waters can withstand frigid temperatures as low as 5 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15 degrees Celsius). They consist mostly of bacteria, fungi and algae, and contain enzymes that are adapted to function at low temperatures. They have been found, for example, in the frozen Arctic and Antarctic Oceans and beneath sheets of ice in Siberia.
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
6. Radiation proof
Other extreme species prove their mettle by withstanding intense amounts of radiation. For example, the Deinococcus radiodurans bacterium can survive a 15,000 gray dose of radiation, where 10 grays would kill a human and it takes over 1,000 grays to kill a cockroach. This species, in fact, is exemplary in many ways, encompassing also the ability to survive cold, dehydration, vacuum and acid. The Guinness Book of World Records lists D. radiodurans as the world's toughest bacterium.
Credit: David Ward / Montana State University
7. Between a rock and a hard place
Endoliths are organisms that live inside rocks or other spots thought impermeable to life, such as in crevices of animal shells or the pores between grains of minerals. These species have been found over 2 miles (3 km) below the Earth's surface, and may live even deeper. Water is scarce at these depths, but some studies suggest they feed on surrounding iron, potassium, or sulfur. While their choice of abode presents some limitations, it also provides protection from harsh winds and radiation from the sun.
Credit: Roberto Danovaro et al., BMC Biology.
8. No oxygen
This newfound creature, a loriciferan identified as an undescribed species of the genus Spinoloricus. The creature has specialized organelles so that it can survive without oxygen. Scale bar is 50 microns.
'RNA World': Scientists Inch Closer to Recreating Primordial Life
'RNA World': Scientists Inch Closer to Recreating Primordial Life
By Jesse Emspak, Live Science Contributor
Earth's very first living things may have relied on RNA to store genetic information.
Credit: NASA / Jenny Mottar
To figure out how life on Earth started, scientists must recreate the world as it was, or at least know the ins and outs of our primordial planet. This week, scientists moved in that direction, putting together a mix of chemicals simpler than DNA that reproduced similar molecules — a step toward actually being alive.
Scientists studying the origin of life think that the first molecules to replicate themselves — the very first living things — lived in what is called "RNA world." The RNA world hypothesis says that before there was DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, there was RNA (ribonucleic acid) serving as a kind of primitive genetic material and simple enzymes. This is simpler than the protein-based chemistry that governs life today, in which the genetic material and enzymes are separate. [7 Wild Theories on the Origin of Life]
RNA replicator
In the new study, David Horning and Gerald Joyce, both at The Scripps Institute in La Jolla, California, mixed a cocktail of water, RNA and an enzyme called ribozyme. They found that the ribozyme linked to the pieces of RNA, and in turn allowed those RNA bits to link with other chemicals called monomers, to make more RNA.
"It's the first example of nucleic acids (or genetic information in general) being replicated by anything other than a protein enzyme, and further shows that replication of genetic material could be accomplished with RNA alone, confirming part of the RNA world hypothesis," Horning told Live Science in an email.
Ribozymes have been used in biochemistry for decades. But in this experiment, Horning and Joyce took the ribozyme and made millions of variants. The idea was to have these different types of ribozyme interact with RNA in a test-tube environment. The ribozymes that could link up to RNA and form more RNA were the "survivors." Effectively, what happened was very like the natural selection process. [Extreme Life on Earth: 8 Bizarre Creatures]
The reason the resulting material isn't a fully living thing is that the ribozyme can neither duplicate itself nor any RNAs that are larger than the enzyme. Even so, the new research did show it's at least possible to make proto-life out of RNA alone. "If the polymerase is made better, it should be able to replicate itself." Essentially, the only missing piece is the right molecule to link with the RNA.
The reason this works is that like DNA, RNA is made of a specific set of chemical bases called nucleotides. They differ in their shapes. DNA is a double-stranded helix shape made of adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine, the famous A, G, C and T of the genetic code. RNA shares three of the nucleotides with DNA; the fourth is a chemical called uracil — so the "alphabet" is A, G, C and U. Instead of making a double-helix shape, RNA comes in single strands that sometimes fold on themselves. Ribozyme links to RNA and unfolds it, which allows the nucleotides to come in contact with their complementary partners, making more RNA.
Why DNA is better at creating life
DNA replicates by coming in contact with enzymes and breaking into two strands. Because the A can link only with T, and G can link only with C, DNA can preserve its shape — the DNA molecule can only be put together in a certain way. That's why genetic information can be preserved; the DNA always duplicates itself.
Horning and Joyce's work got RNA to replicate itself, but only for a limited amount of time before it stopped. And on top of that, the process did not always reproduce exactly the same kind of RNA, nor can it make copies of molecules bigger than itself. With DNA and the enzymes that unzip the helix, that's not the case – DNA molecules are quite a bit larger than the enzymes that cut them in two.
Yet some in the field are skeptical. Parallel research last year looked at the possibilities of simple chemicals that may have worked with RNA to give life a jumpstart, notably that RNA might have worked with simple amino acids and avoided the use of complex enzymes entirely. While that work shares some characteristics with the RNA world hypothesis, there are some differences.
Charles Carter, of the University of North Carolina, who worked on one of those studies, said while this experiment was a "tour de force," it might not tell scientists everything they hope about the first living molecules. He said the chemicals used — ribozyme in this case — might not reveal how evolution could have happened billions of years ago, because they are artificial. Ribozyme "is entirely the product of 21st-century technology," and doesn't answer the question of how pre-biotic chemistry could give rise to the kind of reactions Joyce and Horning set up.
The experiments Carter and others did last year, he said, seem to point in a different direction, in which RNA molecules interacted with simple amino acids to act as a primitive kind of code for biochemistry.
Horning, though, likened the stage of their research to early nuclear experiments in physics. "For a while before they built a bomb, they understood that if you enrich uranium, you get generation of heat," he said. "Only after you had a critical mass, enough uranium together, could you get a process that was self-sustaining."
The next steps, he added, will be finding that combination of enzyme and RNA that sustains itself, and keeps reproducing.
No need to worry about creating life that will take over the world, Horning noted. RNA-based life was replaced by protein-based life precisely because protein-based life worked better. This is one reason why it's so hard to find evidence of what kind of RNAs existed billions of years ago. "[The] RNA world probably died out no less than 3 billion years ago," he said.
There are also implications for finding life elsewhere. While there's no real data on how often life happens in the universe as a whole, the research does point to the kind of chemistry that can get it started. "It begins to confirm something – that life doesn't need the genetic code."
The research appeared in the Aug. 15 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Hebben we al contact gelegd met aliens uit het Alpha Centauri-stelsel?
Hebben we al contact gelegd met aliens uit het Alpha Centauri-stelsel?
24 augustus is een mijlpaal in de geschiedenis van het menselijk planetenjagen met de ontdekking van de meest dichtstbijzijnde levensvatbare planeet die we ooit zullen vinden. Proxima b ligt op amper 4,22 lichtjaar van onze aarde en draait rond de meest nabije buur van de zon.
Vooral die nabijheid zorgt ervoor dat het hart van menig astronoom sneller gaat kloppen. En wat de ontdekking nog interessanter maakt is dat Proxima b ongeveer even groot is als de aarde en in de bewoonbare zone ligt van Proxima Centauri, een ster in het Alpha Centauri-stelsel.
Elizabeth Klarer
De opwinding onder astronomen is groot. De ontdekking van een soortgelijke planeet als de aarde, waar leven misschien mogelijk is. Of hebben we al contact gelegd met leven afkomstig uit het Alpha Centauri-stelsel?
Zilverkleurige schijf
De Zuid-Afrikaanse meteorologe Elizabeth Klarer (1910-1994) claimde tussen 1954 en 1963 in contact te hebben gestaan met buitenaardse wezens van Alpha Centauri (Alien Intervention, 1998, pp. 156-7). Op 7-jarige leeftijd zou ze samen met haar oudere zus bij de boerderij van haar ouders in KwaZoeloe-Natal haar eerste ontmoeting hebben gehad.
Klarer zei dat ze zag hoe een meteoor werd onderschept door een zilverkleurige schijf. Ze verhuisde daarna naar Italië om kunst en muziek te studeren en studeerde vervolgens meteorologie aan Cambridge.
In de jaren vijftig herinnerde Klarer, die inmiddels voor de Luchtmacht Inlichtingendienst werkte, zich naar eigen zeggen dat ze in haar jeugd af en toe telepathische boodschappen ontving van een vriendelijke alien die Akon werd genoemd. Op 17 juli 1955 maakte ze vanaf de Drakensbergen foto’s van zijn schip (UFOs, PSI, and Spiritual Evolution, 2005).
Zwaartekrachtaandrijving
Het schip van Akon (Michael Hesemann)
Op 7 april 1956 landde Akon met zijn verkenningsschip, waarna Klarer werd meegenomen naar een moederschip dat in een baan om de aarde draaide. In 1957 werd ze meegenomen naar de thuisplaneet van Akon. De planeet, Meton geheten, bevindt zich in het Alpha Centauri-stelsel.
Klarer raakte zwanger van Akon, waarna ze een zoon ter wereld bracht. De zoon, Ayling, bleef op Meton terwijl Klarer weer naar de aarde werd gebracht. Dit hele proces – de reis, de zwangerschap, de geboorte en de terugreis – zou slechts vier maanden in beslag hebben genomen.
In 1980 publiceerde Klarer haar boek Beyond the Light Barrier, waarin ze uitvoerig over haar buitenaardse avonturen spreekt. Ze stierf op 84-jarige leeftijd aan borstkanker, waardoor ze haar tweede boek The Gravity File niet kon afmaken. Het boek zou vooral gaan over de zwaartekrachtaandrijving van Akons schip.
Gigantische menselijke voetafdruk ontdekt in China
Gigantische menselijke voetafdruk ontdekt in China
In de zuidwestelijke Chinese provincie Guizhou zijn een tweetal uitzonderlijk grote gefossiliseerde menselijke voetafdrukken gevonden.
Op 24 augustus stuitte een groep fotografen op de enorme menselijke voetafdrukken in het dorp Pingyan, zo melden lokale media. Eén van de voetafdrukken, die mogelijk uit de oudheid stamt, is gemaakt door een linkervoet die 57 centimeter lang en 20 centimeter breed is.
Gigantische voetafdruk in Guizhou (Sina)
Dergelijke ontdekkingen stellen wetenschappers voor een raadsel. In 1912 werd door een jager genaamd Stoffel Coetzee een enorme voetafdruk gevonden in het Zuid-Afrikaanse Mpuluzi.
Volgens Michael Tellinger, die in 2012 een filmpje over de voetafdruk maakte, staat de afdruk bij de lokale bevolking bekend als de ‘Voetafdruk van God’. De afdruk is 1,2 meter lang en zou tot wel 200 miljoen jaar oud kunnen zijn.
In 1987 werd door paleontoloog Jerry MacDonald een 290 miljoen jaar oude voetafdruk ontdekt in New Mexico. Op de Chinese nieuwssite Sina zijn meer foto’s te bekijken van de afdruk in Guizhou.
Zitten aliens achter de meest mysterieuze ster in het universum?
Zitten aliens achter de meest mysterieuze ster in het universum?
KIC 8462852 wordt ook wel de meest mysterieuze ster in het universum genoemd. In veel opzichten is het een gewone ster, maar de helderheidsvariaties van Tabby’s ster zijn zo vreemd en onverklaarbaar dat sommigen zich afvragen of ze worden veroorzaakt door aliens.
Af en toe schuift er een onbekend object voor de ster langs dat ongeveer 1000 keer groter is dan de aarde. Astronomen hebben geen idee wat het is. Ze denken aan een stofwolk, een planetoïdengordel of een zwerm kometen. Een andere mogelijkheid is dat het object rond KIC 8462852 is gebouwd door een intelligent buitenaards ras.
Dysonbol
Dr. Tabetha Boyajian
Het klinkt vergezocht, maar zelfs dr. Tabetha Boyajian van de Louisiana State University, naar wie de ster is vernoemd, zegt dat het een hypothese is die niet zomaar kan worden uitgesloten. “Deze ster is anders dan andere astronomische objecten die we kennen,” vertelde ze aan de Huffington Post. “Sterren doen dit niet zomaar.”
Volgens Boyajian moeten we out of the box denken. In 1960 publiceerde theoretisch natuurkundige Freeman Dyson een paper in vakblad Science over een grootschalige structuur gebouwd door een hoogontwikkelde beschaving om energie af te tappen van zijn ster. Hij noemde dit een Dysonbol.
Little green men
De helderheidsdipjes werden in 2011 voor het eerst waargenomen. Het jaar erop werd de ster plotseling 15 procent zwakker. Tabby’s ster wordt inmiddels ook wel LGM2 genoemd. In de jaren zestig werd een vreemd signaal ontdekt waarvan in eerste instantie werd gedacht dat het mogelijk afkomstig was van ‘little green men’ (kleine groene mannetjes). Om die reden kreeg het object de naam LGM1.
Boyajian wil de ster ‘op heterdaad betrappen’ om te kijken wat er precies gebeurt. Het probleem is dat ze geen idee heeft wanneer de volgende dip zal plaatsvinden. Maandag deelde ze de eerste gegevens, waaruit blijkt dat er op dit moment niets spannends gebeurt bij de ster. Maar wat niet is kan nog komen natuurlijk.
On This Day, Canada military pilots see and photograph UFO On Aug 27, 1956, UFO Sighting History News.
On This Day, Canada military pilots see and photograph UFO On Aug 27, 1956, UFO Sighting History News.
Date of sighting: August 27, 1956 Location of sighting: McCleod, Alberta, Canada This is a sighting by the Canadian military back in 1956, which shows that UFOs not only hide in clouds, but can mimic the color of their surroundings...white like the clouds. This is a photo the US government prefers you not to see...the truth. However this is Canadian and the US has no power over Canadian affairs. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Report states: August 27, 1956, near McCleod, Alberta, Canada. The witnesses were two Royal Canadian Air Force pilots who were flying in a formation of four F86 Sabre jet aircraft. The planes were flying due west over the Canadian Rockies at 36,000 feet about one hour before sunset. One of the pilots saw a "bright light which was sharply defined and disk-shaped," that resembled "a shiny silver dollar sitting horizontal," situated below the planes but above a thick layer of clouds. It appeared to be considerably brighter than sunlight reflecting off the clouds. The duration of the sighting was estimated to be between 45 seconds and 3 minutes. The first pilot to notice the object reported the observation to the flight leader and then took a photograph on a Kodachrome color slide. This case and this photograph were subsequently analyzed by Dr. Bruce Maccabee (Maccabee, 1996). Maccabee has presented an argument against the propositions that the phenomenon is due either to reflection of sunlight by the clouds or to lightning. From the available data, Maccabee estimates the luminosity of the object (the power output within the spectral range of the film) to be many megawatts. ("Physical Evidence Related to UFO Reports" - The Sturrock Panel Report)
Muhammad Ali Once Revealed His Several UFO Sightings With UFO Expert Timothy Green Beckley
Muhammad Ali Once Revealed His Several UFO Sightings With UFO Expert Timothy Green Beckley
The legend in the sport of boxing, Muhammad Ali, was a UFO believer who claimed to have had encounters with the mysterious visitors from other planets.
Author and UFO expert Timothy Green Beckley had many alien encounters with the boxing icon up to the early 1990s.
Ali even said that he had witnessed a strange activity involving massive UFO mothership and went on to say that extraterrestrial visitations were “of tremendous importance to the whole world.”
In a tribute to the legendary boxer and civil rights activist, Mr Beckley explored Ali’s thoughts on UFOs. In his book “Amazing Flying Saucer Experiences of Celebrities, Rock Stars and the Rich and Famous,” published in 2015, Mr Beckley said that of all the people who talked about UFOs and extraterrestrial theories, no one more knowledgeable than the heavyweight boxing champ Muhammad Ali.
Mr Beckley revealed that he had four meetings with Ali when they discussed alien topics. The first one happened in the boxer’s home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which the author described it as more like a Holiday Inn hotel than somebody’s residence.
In his book, he wrote that the knockout artist had been working out on previous mornings in the park and had made the headlines when he claimed that he had seen two UFOs moving over New York City in the park and his home.
Ali apparently told him he often look up before dawn while running and during that time, he saw the first bright UFO hovering as if hanging by an invisible thread.
The second UFO was reportedly spotted with a glowing red trail behind. Ali then called the attention of his trainer, and they watched the two mysterious aerial objects, which moved slowly across the sky for about 15 minutes. The best Ali could describe the incredible event was just round and big.
Ali further told the author that he found out later there were other UFO sighting reports on the same night, including one from a pilot who was about to land at Newark Airport.
Ali also revealed to Beckley that he had seen several UFOs many times before, a total of 16 sightings to the date of their conversations.
When the author was about to bid goodbye, Ali waved him over and said he would not mind talking further.
The author indicated in his book Ali claimed that UFOs “had been watching him” for some time. Ali reportedly said to him that he had seen UFOs playing tag between the stars many times in the early morning hours.
On the second meeting, he showed a video of UFOs to Ali, and the boxing champion pointed out characteristics of flying saucers in the video like the ones similar to what he observed in real life.
During their third meeting, Mr Beckley took with him Israeli psychic Uri Geller to Ali’s training camp in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania at Dear Lake. However, Ali apparently returned to the UFO topics, which he appeared to be more comfortable than talking about psychic phenomena.
The author had one final formal meeting with Ali about UFOs where the legend had said that he always speak his mind because he discovered that many other people have had similar sightings. Ali was hoping that others will listen in the future as he was convinced UFOs are critical to the entire world.
Did Disney Teen Actress Accidentally Photograph A UFO Over NYC?
Did Disney Teen Actress Accidentally Photograph A UFO Over NYC?
Rowan Blanchard UFO.
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BJeVT3VgwIQ/
Aliens and UFOs are back at the center stage of the media recently after the release of Netflix’s Stranger Things, as well as The X-Files revival. Several celebrities have come forward to share their UFO encounters, including William Shatner, Victoria Beckham, and John Lennon. Shatner later admitted to lying about it, though.
On August 23, Tuesday, Girl Meets World actress and teen feminist personality Rowan Blanchard can be added to the list of celebrities who have infamously claimed to have seen UFOs over the years. The 14-year-old Disney star shared her visit in New York City with a picture of an unusual object in the sky. The UFO can be seen in the upper right-hand corner of the photo.
Blanchard captioned the picture in her Instagram post that the odd aerial thing wasn’t there physically and just appearing in the photograph.
Typically, with the advancement of trick photography, this would be dismissed as a hoax or just unusual lighting. However, a tiny historical factoid could bring weight to the space UFO or alien theory on this picture. On exact the same day, 42 years ago, John Lennon spotted a UFO in NYC. It was Blanchard’s friend and makeup artist Amy Strozzi who did some research and learned of the ET connection.
Dark Disc UFO Discovered Flying Over Lunar Surface Through the Moon Live Steam
Dark Disc UFO Discovered Flying Over Lunar Surface Through the Moon Live Steam
A mysterious disc-like dark UFO was caught on video passing the moon. The strange event was captured on a footage of the Moon Live Stream. UFO investigators got excited about the sighting as it wasn’t the first time it happened.
Skeptics suggest that these sort of odd-looking objects are just satellites placed into orbit by space agencies. Others point out that they could be weather balloons that look closer to the moon on the live stream than their actual distance.
Some UFO enthusiasts consider sightings like these as luck and just captured on live stream by chance. They say that the UFO isn’t a satellite, which typically travel in a straight line. The UFO in question flies in the zig-zag direction as it moves forward. They also rule out balloon as a possible reason because it doesn’t zig zag as it travels.
YouTube username SpaceImaging Keith noticed the UFO on the live stream and posted it to the video sharing site. He believes that it could be an intelligently maneuvered alien spacecraft or some other top secret Earth-based project.
Keith also claimed to have found other dark disks traveling to the moon many times before this latest one. The most memorable one for him was a UFO that measured over five miles across, which was discovered by an amateur astronomer from Italy while cleaning his telescope’s optics.
The latest black object was noticed on the live stream on August 10 of this year.
George Knapp welcomed UFO researcher Yvonne Smith for a discussion about a mass abduction that took place on Coronado Island in San Diego. In the latter half, alien abduction researcher Melinda Leslie, and abductee Jesse Long (related video) joined the conversation. In March of 1994, the TRIAD UFO Conference was held at Coronado Island off San Diego, and among those in attendance were members of Smith’s group CERO (Close Encounters Research Organization). After the conference, a number of the attendees compared notes, and began to wonder if something strange had happened to them during their weekend at Coronado. Eventually, Smith pieced together various types of physical evidence and testimony that indicated alien abductions.
A viral video hit the internet last week in which an alien imparts its wisdom to the the interviewer. This video was supposedly recorded by members of the official government-funded project, Blue Book. The wisdom of said alien included claims that it was an “evolutionary descendant” of humans, from our future. It can be seen in its entirety below.
UFO researcher, Isaac Koi, was quick to analyze the video and determine that it was most definitely a hoax. Koi was able to trace the video back to its original uploader, and that’s when it became clear that this was nothing more than a pet project of a digital effects artist. In an article written by Koi, he states that this was all done by:
“… Canadian visual effects artists Aristomenis Tsirbas (“Meni Tsirbas”) of MeniThings Productions. He has been a digital artist on ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’, ‘Star Trek: Voyager’, ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’”
Aristomenis Tsirbas (Credit: Divulgação)
Koi was also quick to point out that this was not the first time Tsirbas had dipped his foot into the UFO/Alien video world. In fact, he was known for another well-known hoax of a UFO that can be seen below.
A viral video hit the internet last week in which an alien imparts its wisdom to the the interviewer. This video was supposedly recorded by members of the official government-funded project,Blue Book. The wisdom of said alien included claims that it was an “evolutionary descendant” of humans, from our future. It can be seen in its entirety below.
UFO researcher, Isaac Koi, was quick to analyze the video and determine that it was most definitely a hoax. Koi was able to trace the video back to its original uploader, and that’s when it became clear that this was nothing more than a pet project of a digital effects artist. In an article written by Koi, he states that this was all done by:
“… Canadian visual effects artists Aristomenis Tsirbas (“Meni Tsirbas”) of MeniThings Productions. He has been a digital artist on ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’, ‘Star Trek: Voyager’, ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’”
Aristomenis Tsirbas (Credit: Divulgação)
Koi was also quick to point out that this was not the first time Tsirbas had dipped his foot into the UFO/Alien video world. In fact, he was known for another well-known hoax of a UFO that can be seen below.
Koi points out that Tsirbas admitted to the video, proudly, and even posted a detailed breakdown video of how he created it.
This brings up one of the major issues plaguing the UFO field more and more each day, and that is digital effects. Everyone likes a good alien invasion movie, so why not hoax a video rack up millions of hits online, and then make this your calling card to Hollywood. If people find your work that convincing, then you may surely be on your way to a new job.
But this deceptive ambition by digital effects artists unfortunately comes at the cost of true believers often stating that these clearly hoaxed videos are “The One”. This will be the video to prove it all to the skeptics. The problem is, the skeptics are always one step ahead, and make those out there consuming these videos to cower in the corner with their tin-foil hats. Perhaps a bit of due diligence and common sense could help the field of Ufology save face. As Koi points out:
“I find it somewhat bemusing that anyone could have spent five minutes watching the video but not bother spending one minute looking into the uploader of the video, which would easily reveal these facts. I’m regularly bemused by the conduct of some people in ufology. So many things within ufology are the basis of speculation when a little bit of work reveals relevant facts. This applies to government documents in various archives as much as it does to “UFO” videos on Youtube.”
While this video is well done, entertaining, and scary as hell, it proves once more that the true work is being done by people like Koi and many others (Roswell Slides Team anyone?) who are able to stamp these hoaxes down into the ashes as soon as they see a flame starting.
While we strive for truth here at Rogue Planet, we also need to point out the hoaxes as quickly as possible. And we hope we can be a source where you find some of the most compelling and credible information about UFOs out there. With the work of people like Isaac Koi, we have no doubt that we can do that with greater ease.
Continue to search the skies. But remember to keep your feet on the ground.
A transcript of the video is given below:
Interrogator: We Recording? State Planet of origin. Being: Earth. Interrogator: Yesterday you told us you traveled… … and I quote. …”Thousands of light years to get here.”
Being: Yes. Interrogator: Tell us the truth or (indiscernible). Being: It is truth. Being: I am from Earth. Being: From your future. Being: To travel in time is to travel in space. Being: Offset spacial divergence. Interrogator: So I take it aliens took over our future?
Being: No. Interrogator: So you’re human. Being: An evolutionary descendant. Interrogator: So you evolved from us?
Being: Yes. Interrogator: So what are you doing here? Now?
Being: Observing. Being: Since evidence was destroyed. Interrogator: How? Being: Nuclear war. Being: Small numbers survived. Being: Our ancestors. Interrogator: How about we concentrate on your time. Being: You are not capable of comprehending… … or accepting… Being: …the discoveries of my time. Interrogator: Try me. Being: The origin of the universe… … the nature of so called life… it is known. Interrogator: So you know the meaning of life?
Being: Not meaning. Nature. Interrogator: What’s the difference?
Being: Meaning is something that is ascribed. Being: Nature is the objective reality. Interrogator: So you know how the universe is created?
Being: Yes. Interrogator: So you’ve seen God?
Being: We evolved past a need for superstition. The need for God and other myths. Interrogator: Illuminate us. Interrogator: What happens when we die?
Being: Death is a human construct. Being: It does not exist. Being: You will experience… … and have experienced… Being: … every instance of so called life. Being: You. Me. Him. Being: We are instances of the same life. Being: Separated by what you call death. Interrogator: So let me get this straight. Interrogator: There is no death… … and we all experience each other’s lives?
Being: In essence, yes. Interrogator: So, how was the universe created and… … why is it so perfectly made for us?
Being: There are an infinite number of universes. Being: Each with different physical properties. Being: Virtually all do not support life… … such as you know it. Being: We exist in a universe that does support… … so called life. Being: That is all. Interrogator: Moving on. Interrogator: So why do we destroy ourselves with nuclear war?
Being: Dogma. Interrogator: Can you be more specific? Being: Political and religious dogma. Being: It is the root of all major conflict of your species. Being: In your next century… … access to weaponry of mass destruction… Being: … by states that are ruled by dogma… … will destroy your species. Interrogator: One last thing. Interrogator: What about morality? What do you base your morality on?
Being: Compassion and… … evidence. Interrogator: I see. Interrogator: That’s it. Thank you. (indiscernible)
To read Isaac Koi’s complete breakdown of the Alien Interview hoax, CLICK HERE
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The PowerEgg is a UFO-like drone that looks straight out of Area 51
The PowerEgg is a UFO-like drone that looks straight out of Area 51
We’ve all heard the rumors about Area 51, the secretive military base in the Nevada desert, where captured alien craft and technology is supposedly hidden away. If it’s true, we wouldn’t be shocked to find out the PowerVision team had enjoyed a tour, and come away with the inspiration for the PowerEgg — an amazing (and very odd-looking) new drone. Sadly, it’s probably not the case (or founder Wally Zheng his hiding something). Instead, he claims inspiration for the drone came from the work of Leonardo da Vinci, but that could just be another government cover-up. The fact that the PowerEgg will appeal to beginners doesn’t necessarily mean the tech inside is basic.
The PowerEgg’s design serves a purpose: to make the joy of flying drones more accessible for everyone — a philosophy that manifests itself in everything from the drone’s camera operation to the flight controllers. Before we get to that, you need to know the coolest part. While the rotor assemblies are extended from the egg manually, the landing gear is retracted and extended automatically, so when the PowerEgg is flying around, those legs are tucked up in the body. If that’s not straight out of a 1950s flying saucer movie, we don’t know what is.
PowerVision has been making drones for several years at this point, but this is its first model for enthusiasts, with an emphasis on the first-time owner. The egg-shaped design is friendly, attractive, and easy to carry around. It’s less than a foot tall, and despite weighing nearly 4.5 pounds, it feels like a lot less when cradling the PowerEgg in your arms. The arms pull out from the sides and click into place, and the rotors are spread by hand. A trigger assembly under each arm primes them for folding back inside the body.
Folded up, the PowerEgg is easy to transport, and there’s no need to start disassembling it or risking damage by not bothering because it’s a pain. Order the PowerEgg early enough, and you’ll get a custom backpack to carry it around in too. A plinth stops the PowerEgg from rolling away, and placed on a table it could pass for a piece of modern art, it looks so sleek.
The battery is hidden under the top of the egg, while the base is removed before flight, revealing the 360 degree camera. The 1/2.3-inch sensor shoots 4K video at 3,840 x 2,160 pixels, and it has a 95-degree field of view. It’s mounted on a gimbal under the egg, and can be controlled in the app. Here’s where the user-friendliness starts to come in. Due to the unusual shape and design of the drone, first-time drone fliers won’t have to work out direction of flight, or quickly learn complex maneuvers to capture great footage.
Two controllers are included in the drone package, a regular two-handed, dual-stick controller with a mount for your smartphone, plus another called the PowerEgg Maestro. Think of it like a Nintendo Wiimote, and you’re got the concept. The motion-sensing controller is held in one hand, has a single button for takeoff and landing, and you simply move the remote in the direction you want the drone to fly. Like the design of the PowerEgg itself, this is a far more accessible, user-friendly control system for drone newcomers to pick up.
However, the fact that the PowerEgg will appeal to beginners doesn’t necessarily mean the tech inside is basic. The 6,400mAh replaceable battery will return about 23 minutes of flight time, and the software contains many different automated modes, including Follow Me, Selfie Mode, and a Waypoint tracker. It’ll zoom off to a distance of 3.1 miles (allegedly), operate in GPS-free zones, indoors, and has a return-to-home setting in case it gets lost.
We had a brief demonstration of the PowerEgg, where the drone took off, retracted the undercarriage, hovered, and landed again inside a large room. Sadly, we will have to wait to try the drone out for ourselves, but did note the PowerEgg wasn’t too noisy, and appeared very smooth and stable during its flight.
Like the look of the PowerEgg? Pre-orders start on August 25 for £1290, which is about $1700, and provided that you order before September 30, you get the backpack with it. The standard package includes the two controllers, a battery, base station plinth, battery charger, and the drone itself. Visit PowerVision’s website to grab yourself some (possibly) alien technology.
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Filer’s Files #35 – 2016 Astronauts Saw UFOs - PART I
Photo taken in California of the Los Angeles LAX airport tower on August 20, 2016.
Filer’s Files #35 – 2016 Astronauts Saw UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Astronaut Gordon Cooper saw UFOs, Hillary Clinton/Alien Pin from the Philly DNC, Roswell’s Alien Creatures Photographed in Ohio, Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin, NASA Releases Apollo Mission Transcripts, and Military Close Encounter During World War 2.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Vermont.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Portugal, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
George A. Filer III
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Www.nationalUFOcenter.com. Now receiving 3 million hits a month
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Special Projects
Astronaut Gordon Cooper
“I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets… Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.” “I did have occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.” “While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn’t tell how high they were. We couldn’t get anywhere near their altitude.” “While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward’s Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed the landing of a strange disc object that flew in over their heads and landed on a dry lake nearby. A camera crewman approached the saucer; it rose up above the area and flew off at a speed faster than any known aircraft.” —NASA astronaut, L. Gordon Cooper. —Major Gordon Cooper (NASA astronaut) to the United Nations:
Clinton/Alien Pin from the Philly Convention
DNC attendee got this pin during the July 25-28, 2016, Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, PA. This was an official pin made by the Democratic Party that I picked up inside the Philadelphia convention hall.” Image received by DNC attendee in July 2016.
Hillary Clinton stated, “I think we may have been visited already (by UFOs). We don’t know for sure. … (John Podesta) has made me personally pledge we are going to get the (UFO) information out one way or another. Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51.”
– Hillary Clinton, December 30, 2015, interview with reporter Daymond Steer at The Conway Daily Sun, Conway, NH See: “Hillary Clinton and John Podesta — Tweets About Aliens…” basically Hillary indicated she plans on revealing the truth about UFOs.
Roswell’s Alien Creatures Photographed
Wright Field Dayton Ohio — In 1957 my father took me to see a movie called Earth VS the Flying Saucers. On the way home he was unusually quiet. Finally he said, “They were too big.” He then told me that 10 years earlier he had been stationed at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, where he was part of a film unit. One day an officer came and told him and another man to grab a couple of 16mm movie cameras and follow him. He took them to a heavily guarded hanger. Inside was a badly damaged circular craft and about an acre of debris placed on a canvas tarp. My father and his friend were instructed to get footage on everything. They did so. They then were taken into a refrigerated unit at the rear of the hanger. Inside the unit was what my father described as a museum case holding the bodies of two small creatures; gray, thin with large eyes but no eyelids. One showed some severe wounds, the other had no visible injuries. They were instructed to get footage of the creatures. When the case was opened to allow a better shot there was a smell similar to dead fish. When they had finished filming the cameras were confiscated instead of being taken back to the lab for processing. My father said he and his friend were literally sworn to secrecy. My father only spoke of this to me that one time and I promise never to tell anyone. Since he recently passed away I feel I am now at liberty to relate his story. My father was very patriotic and very religious and not prone to making things up. Out of respect for his privacy and mine I submit this report anonymously. NOTE: The above image is possibly real. Ken
Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin
Armstrong and Aldrin (seated)
There are places to go beyond belief. What was Armstrong hiding? What did he mean by “truth’s protective layers?”In an August 27 blog post, Dr. Stephen Greer reveals that he spoke with close relatives of both Armstrong and Aldrin (seating) who had been told the truth about what the latter had seen on the moon: such as bases.
In astronomy, this motion is called “precession.” It takes 72 years for the Earth to complete one degree of processional wobble.
So it seems the Great Pyramid’s builders knew not only the size of the planet but also some very subtle, sophisticated things about how it moves through space. This at a time before modern man even realized Earth was round.
And why couldn’t life have been seeded throughout the galaxy by giant aliens? The stairs at Chichén Itzá, Mexico Graham Hancock suggests — to the everlasting irritation of mainstream archaeologists — that, yes, perhaps the Great Pyramid and other megaliths are thousands of years older than we currently believe and were built by one such advanced, ancient civilization. Whoever the pyramids’ builders were, they had a deep knowledge of astronomy. Edgar Casey claims the Great Giza Pyramid is more than 10,000 years old and was built using levitation of the stones.
The perimeter of the base of the Great Pyramid, for instance, multiplied by 43,200, gives you the equatorial circumference of the Earth. And 43,200 isn’t a random number. It is a multiple of 72.
Why does 72 matter? Like a top winding down while it spins the Earth wobbles on its axis.
The steps for instance, are 12 inches high. “Who climbs 12-inch steps?” Klarfeld asks, a small smile dancing at the corners of his mouth. “People 9 feet tall.” For some, proof is not necessary. One woman waiting in line at the registration booth admits she’s never seen an alien but has “intuited them.”Others have seen things, and heard and touched things. They have the truth of their own experience.
Is it possible the series is based on insider information? There are sci-fi movies such as Hangar 18and TV series that are allegedly financed by the government apparently to educate the public.
The Lockheed Skunk works Director Ben Rich claims, “We have built craft that can take ET home.” Of course the question is why spend billions for a task force in space?
The Stargate TV Series has similarities to the Star Wars system proposed by President Reagan. In Reagan’s March 23, 1983, “Star Wars” speech, Reagan announced, “I call upon the scientific community who gave us nuclear weapons to turn their great talents to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.” In a surprising statement, “He also offered to share the technology with the Soviets.”
The Star Wars program became the largest and most expensive weapons program in the US defense budget costing 8.5 Billion dollars per year. Although, we’re are told it is designed to destroy incoming nuclear missiles it may also be an effective weapons system to protect the United States against limited UFO threats as Reagan inferred on several occasions.
NASA Releases Apollo Mission Transcripts Revealing Aliens & UFO’s
Moon Towers
UFO‘s and Conspiracy theories about the Moon landing have become hot topics over the recent years, but now there’s been a release of NASA transcripts that may now be considered as ‘proof’ that the Apollo mission astronauts saw Alien objects on the moon. Please note all transcripts can be verified on the officialNASA website.
.Millions of people around the globe firmly believe UFOs and Aliens are a real phenomenon. But is there any real evidence to support their beliefs? The following NASA transcripts may be considered by many as enough proof to suggest Apollo mission astronauts saw ‘alien’ things on the moon.
While we still have not found conclusive evidence of their existence –we have actually witnessed a UFO land, and aliens walk around saying hi, we come in piece— at least not officially, there are many highly ranking government officials, military officers and even astronauts who have spoken out about alien life and the UFO phenomenon indicating that it is real as it gets.
In addition to numerous people finally speaking out in the name of the disclosure movement, recently, hundreds of declassified documents have become available to the public detailing UFO sightings, mysterious phenomenon, and alien life.
One of the most fascinating documents comes from the FBI archive and indicates that:
Part of the disks carry crews; others are under remote control. Their mission is peaceful; the visitors contemplate settling on this planet. These visitors are human-like but much larger in size. They are not excarnate Earth people but come from their own world the disks posses some type of radiant energy. They do not come from any “planet” as we use the word, but from an etheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us. The bodies of the visitors and the craft also, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter. They re-enter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without a trace.
The region they come from is NOT the astral plane but corresponds to the Lakas or Talas. Students of esoteric matters will understand these terms. But the document from the FBI isn’t the only one that has been made available to the general public.
If we look back in history at one of NASA’s most successful space programs, we will find numerous clues that according to many indicate how astronauts of the Apollo missions were followed by UFO’s and that there are ‘alien’ structures on the surface of the moon.
The following NASA transcripts come from the Apollo missions and make some fascinating references: Note: All of these transcripts can be verified at NASA’s website.
Apollo 8 Transcript
03 16 44 39 LMP There’s a strange light down there.
03 16 h4 45 CDR Is it a bonfire?
03 16 24 47 LMP It might be campfires.
03 16 h5 03 C5_ How does it look?
Apollo 10 transcript
04 06 13 02 LMP that music even sounds outer-spacey, doesn’t it? You hear that whistling sound?
04 06 13 06 CDR Yes.
04 06 13 07 I2_P Whoooooo. Say your – –
04 06 13 12 CMP Did you hear that whistling sound, too?
04 06 13 14 LMP Yes. Sounds like – you know, outer-space-type music.
04 06 13 18 CMP I wonder what it is.
04 06 17 58 L_P Boy, that sure is weird music.
04 06 18 O1 _ We’re going to have to find out about that.
04 06 18 O1 _ Nobody will believe us..
04 06 18 07 I.t,2’_ Yes. It’s a whistling, you know, like an outer-space type thing.
04 12 09 16 CDR _I mean you … What the hell was that gurgling noise?
04 12 09 25 LMP _I don’t know. But I’ll tell you, that eerie music is what’s bothering me.
04 12 09 28 CMP G– damn, I heard it, too.
04 12 09 29 LMP You know s that was funny. That’s Just like something from outer space, really. Who’s going to believe it?
04 12 09 34 CMP Nobody. Shall we tell them about it?
04 12 09 39 LMP I don’t know. We ought to think about it some.
04 12 09 41 CMP Did you hear it, Tom?
04 12 09 42 LMF Yes, he heard it.
04 12 09 43 CDR Yes.
04 12 09 47 LMP Hell, I Just want to get out of this suit.
05 10 33 CDR Where is the music – I want to – have Charlie describe it to us. Where’s the tape recorder?
06 05 10 38 CMP On the second one over.
06 05 10 3g CDR No – no, I Just didn’t play that.
06 05 10 43 CDR Hello, Houston; Apollo 10.
06 05 10 48 _ Hold your mike down a little bit.
06 05 10 54 CDR Is it on?
06 05 10 55 _ Yes ….
06 05 10 59 C_P Play that song over again, though, when you get to it. Zap it up a little bit.
Apollo 11 transcript
03 08 20 18 IRP That’s a spectacular crater.
03 08 20 23 CDR Did you shoot some pictures while you were over there?
03 08 20 25 CMP No, it’s Just going by – we’d better get it later; there will be better times. If the damn antenna isn’t in the way –
03 08 20 42 CMP Boy, there must be nothing more desolate than to be inside some of these craters, these conical ones
03 08 20 50 CDR People that live in there probably never get out.
03 l0 55 20 CMP Oh God, look at that Moltke; he’s my favorite … Look at that son of a bitch. You see all those roads – triangular roads leading right past him?
03 l0 55 29 CDR Yes.
03 l0 55 30 CMP That’s US l, I guess, huh?
03 l0 55 31 CDR Yes.
Apollo 14 transcript
03 12 22 39 I2_P Really an interesting one. Huh? That one … looks like … got a rugged one right out here – with the central peaks.
03 12 23 02 CDR …
03 12 23 05 I_l° Sure does. Really got a very complex central structure.
03 12 23 08 CR_° It’s got one of the biggest central peaks around. It’s a very unusual crater. But there are some dark areas in it that Farouk has gone on record as saying they are dikes.
03 12 23 37 CMl° High Sun. That’s one right down there; Just shows how it dominates the whole photograph. Just an extremely bright crater. Sun angle Just isn’t high enough for you to see it here …. Yes, they’re mining it, I think.
Tulagi Island Solomon’s — Stephen J. Brickner, a sergeant with the 1st Marine Division, had an even more fantastic encounter with mysterious aerial objects. “The sightings occurred on August 12, 1942, about 10 in the morning while I was in bivouac with my squad on the island of Tulagi in the southern Solomon’s, west of Guadalcanal,” he recalled. It was a bright tropical morning with high banks of white, fleecy clouds. I was cleaning my rifle on the edge of my foxhole, when suddenly the air raid warning was sounded. There had been no ‘Condition Red.’ I immediately slid into my foxhole, with my back to the ground and my face turned up to the sky. I heard the formation before I saw it. Even then, I was puzzled by the sound. It was a mighty roar that seemed to echo in the heavens. It didn’t sound at all like the ‘sewing-machine’ drone of the Jap formations.
A few seconds later, I saw the formation of silvery objects directly overhead. “At the time I was in a highly emotional state; it was my fifth day in combat with the Marines. It was quite easy to mistake anything in the air for Jap planes, which is what I thought these objects were. They were flying very high above the clouds, too high for a bombing run on our little island. Someone shouted in a nearby foxhole that they were Jap planes searching for our fleet. I accepted this explanation, but with a few reservations. First, the formation was huge, I would say over 150 objects were in it. Instead of the usual tight ‘V’ of 25 planes, this formation was in straight lines of 10 or 12 objects, one behind the other. The speed was a little faster than Jap planes, and they were soon out of sight. A few other things puzzled me: I couldn’t seem to make out any wings or tails. They seemed to wobble slightly, and every time they wobbled they would shimmer brightly from the sun. Their color was like highly polished silver. No bombs were dropped, of course. All in all, it was the most awe-inspiring and yet frightening spectacle I have seen in my life.”
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Filer’s Files #35 – 2016 Astronauts Saw UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files #35 – 2016 Astronauts Saw UFOs - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
California Disc
Los Angeles — I was taking pictures of the LAX airport from the El Segundo Dog Park on August 20, 2016, and didn’t realize at the time that I took a picture of this object until I uploaded all the pictures on my laptop.
I took 160 frames from that spot, and the object showed up in only one of the frames. I sent it to my family, and they all agreed they’ve never seen anything like this, including one family member who is a former FAA employee with flight experience. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Wrightwood — We were up on Table Mountain to observe the Perseids Meteor Shower on August 12, 2016, and noticed a bright light. I had my camera on a tripod and was taking 30 second exposures of the sky to try and get photos of the meteors. My partner was sitting in the convertible while I was adjusting the camera settings. I noticed a bright light over the trees and a black triangular shaped craft hovering. I yelled at my partner to have a look and he spotted it too. It then took off in a northwest direction and flew thru my camera’s view and I captured the light trail which was huge. We were both excited to see the craft, especially the fact that it was hovering and then took off rapidly. It flew past the tree line and headed towards Palmdale. I’ve attached a photo of the triangular craft’s huge and super bright light trail and the jet following it. Worldwide UFO Reports
Florida Light
Citrus Springs– A bright light in the sky just chilling there and then it started to move up and stopped again and started getting brighter until it stopped and zoom out sight on August 18, 2015.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana Light
Indianapolis — At 11:34 PM on August 17th, 2016. I spotted on entering my subdivision three hovering lights in a triangle formation with weird planes flying by. The sighting lasted over an hour and is still going on. The objects appear far away, but look huge. The photo and video attached of both sightings happening at the same time. I have more and I am sorry for the bad quality. I also saw a Blackhawk helicopter fly by.
Note: The video appears similar to a regular aircraft. However, the witness said that the lights were hovering in two areas for over an hour. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Louisiana Lights
Evergreen— I was on my way to work the grave shift and noticed lights that were never there for the five years I’ve taken the road to work. I freaked out and when I pulled out my phone to record on August 18, 2016. When I saw it again I began to record. When I got to the next town, I called the police station and asked if there were any reports on lights in the sky and he informed me that I wasn’t the first one to call. I’m still lost for words. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maryland Triangle
Frederick – I came out of movies around 8:45 pm on August 13, 2016, and noticed a very large dark cloud and what seemed like heat lightning as there wasn’t any rain. I pulled out my cell phone and snapped a picture and immediately noticed three blue lights in a cloud that appeared triangle shaped that I immediately believed to be a UFO. I noticed a plane to the right of the cloud which was significantly smaller. I lost sighting by leaving area. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mississippi Light
Pelahatchie — I was trying to capture lighting strikes with my iPhone 5s using burst mode on August 18, 2016. It was only moments later that I noticed the object in the photos. At first I thought it was the beginning of a lightning strike until I noticed the object moving as I scrolled through the photos. The object moved from left to right at a high rate of speed. There were big cumulus clouds and a lighting storm going on at the time. I estimate the object to be 1 to 3 miles away. As you can see in the photos there are stationary objects in the back ground to compare the movement to, I was about 40 feet away from the street lights in the back ground and the lights are about 50 feet apart. As the object abruptly stops and changes direction it appears get taller. When moving it appears to get flatter as the protruding top seems to go back down. I would say it is probably dome or saucer shaped with lights. The UFO exceeded the technology that we currently have and was happy to have captured it on photo. The photos are from the burst on my iPhone camera. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Light
St . LOUIS– A light that appeared high over St. Louis’ Gateway Arch on August 2, 2016, early morning is perplexing officials. The mystery started when an Illinois man shot video of the light early Tuesday morning and shared it with KTVI-TV. After seeing the report, an employee at an Illinois park across the river from the arch took a look at footage from a security camera and also saw the same light. The video has been posted on the park’s Face book page.
Mike Buehlhorn, director of the Metro East Parks said, “I don’t know if he believes in UFOs, but there’s something weird with that one.” Spokesmen for the nearby Scott Air Force Base and the Federal Aviation Administration said they know nothing about the source of the light. Thanks to Appleton (Wis.) Post-Crescent, “Mysterious light flashing above Gateway Arch stumps St. Louis,” AP from St. Louis
New Jersey Triangles
Edison— Three lighted triangular crafts were sighted within minutes of each other on August 17, 2016. Multiple triangular objects were observed within 17 minutes of each other near Oak Tree Road, Edison, NJ ….. Here’s the story. We were watching the Perseid meteor shower so we set up lawn chairs and waited, we saw a few steaks but nothing spectacular.
About 4:10 am, I observed a craft that was directly overhead traveling north shaped like an acute triangle with long sides and had a blue white light on front of it with two rectangular lights on each side. The lights were a different color than the stars and when the craft would go in front of star it would blot it out. I would say this craft was orbital, for it traveled my field of view in 15-20 seconds and was very high in the sky
Then to my surprise I spotted another craft of this type a few minutes later heading northwest moving at the same speed as the prior one. And then another lighted triangle appeared but it was about 6 seconds behind this one, having follow same track but as it drew near it acted in a Herky Jerky Manner, slowing down and speeding up at times….lost sight of these objects as they left my field of view to the left (NW).
Objects observed were about size of three pencil erasers held at arm’s length, and high up in the sky. I feel they are of foreign origin. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Close Encounter of the Third Kind in New Jersey
Long Beach Township — A paranormal group visited me on the first week of August 4, 2016, because I did not know where to turn. I explained to them I was experiencing occult influences in the form of entities that were able to control my thoughts and talk to me with my own voice. It has been going on for seven years. I thought it was a mixture of alien and supernatural but was not sure and needed help. I told them I did experience seeing a UFO at least twice. I saw one fly over my home around seven years ago when this all began, it was very large, about the size of my house, and flew off extremely fast when I saw it for about a second. The second event was around five months ago and it flew left, and then flew right, and stayed there for a short while. I showed no interest because of my symptoms and it disappeared. I have been guided into believing the control over my mind is robotic and from implants. They have mentioned Reptilian to me. I saw a Grey once in my room, but am not sure what to consider actual because I know they like to trick and manipulate.
The word Illuminati comes up a lot. I have been getting attacked both mentally and physically. When the paranormal group came they tested me for EMF signals, and I was emitting them from the left side of my ear and my arm. The group has it recorded on a camera video phone. They tried reaching out to you and I was told to personally submit a report. I can ask for the video of the EMF when you reply to this if you need it, I am unsure as to the procedure you take. I have been struggling and life has been very hard for me with all of these attacks. The attacks include pains in the head, chest pains, unwanted sexual feelings, heating of the body, loss of memory, feeling tired, being kept awake at night, altering electronics such as music I’m listening to, and nausea. I need help. And I have a dermatologist scheduled for this bump in my arm but I am afraid of ethereal implants which they have mentioned and other types of influence. Evidence such as video of emf signatures can be provided.
NOTE: The above image is CGI.
NOTE: This case is under investigation by State Section Director Bob Spearing of MUFON New Jersey.
Lyndhurst— My window has a view to the air space of Newark airport. I always hear the airplanes landing and taking off when I’m in my living room. On August 17th at 7:20 pm, I was surprised when I saw two objects flying close to each other. They were high enough in the sky not to affect the airport traffic, but I could see they were flying relatively close to each other, so I wonder what they were. I know airplanes don’t fly together like that. I took my phone and zoomed to take a picture and what a surprise when I noticed the third object on my picture. They were in the triangle formation, but the third one was kind of far away. I watch them crossing the sky for five minutes shining like a star. I didn’t see any wings. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Disc
North Tonawanda — I was walking my dog at Gatwick Park in and was admiring the sunset. I decided to take a picture on my Samsung 6 phone. I looked at the picture a few days later and I noticed an object. It’s lower and to the right of the sun.
This was over the Niagara River towards Grand Island, NY. It appears to be reflecting light from the sun and it gives off a haze through the clouds. There seems to be a pattern on it too. I can’t figure it out. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Lights
Springfield — I was driving when I saw the ufos over Home Depot.
I started to take pictures but then they disappeared. I only managed to take a photo of about four of them on August 19, 2016. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Vermont Lights
West Pawlet – First, I saw a white cylinder with four legs each with a sphere on August 20, 2016.
One light was red, like a kids jack o lantern with only four legs.
It was flying low and went behind the trees. Then a few minutes later a red orb with white lights did the same and disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
World Wide Sightings
Australia Objects
Melbourne — I was in my backyard filming the sky at about 5:30 pm, just before the sunset with my Smartphone for about two minutes on August 16, 2016. I then decided to upload the film to my computer and on going through the footage I noticed a fast moving object in the sky on film. My first thought was a bird, but on going through the footage frame by frame I soon saw that it was not a bird.
I decided to take a closer look at the frames by saving them as still shots.
What I found was a black object that moved extremely fast in the sky changing direction as it went. I also found that as it moved, it split into two objects and then three objects that kept moving apart from each other. I also noticed that the main object changed shape, from a sphere to a cube and a square with a dome shaped top. As it was travelling extremely fast it looks blurred at times and even see through. A common thing with fast moving objects and as I was using my Smartphone, this was the best I could do in regards to the photo`s. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Brazil Light
Mogi das Cruzes — I was taking some pictures from my backyard, with my Nikon DX40 camera on a tripod on June 15, 2015. My intention was to capture a day-by-day sequence of the conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury. I was surprised when I downloaded the photos and spotted a green glowing object on four pictures. I stacked the pictures and noted it in four different positions; I looked it up on Stelarium software and could not identify any celestial objects at that position. So, what could it be? Thanks to MUFON!
Canada Orb
Scarborough, Ontario — On July 19, 2016, while on work break I was carefully looking up for anything unusual and after ten minutes I had a sighting of something very high. The sky was quite clear for a perfect opportunity to view high elevation objects crossing north to south less than hundred yards from my position.
It appeared to moving about one hundred miles per hour towards Lake Ontario. It looked brilliant white and I watched for about a minute. After taking five pictures 30 x high zoom I was successful in capturing this unknown anomaly at 10:17 am,
You have to wonder what kind of unknowns cross our skies today.
I also heard the sad news of the passing of Errol Bruce Knapp here in Toronto who was the second person I approached in Ufology back August 2003. I had enjoyed his Radio Shows “Strange Days Indeed”. His interest and time he spent with me was so understanding of my position; I will miss him dearly. Thanks to Paul Shishis
Denmark Lights
Strange dancing lights were over a busy west Europe resort town in the early hours by the seaside on July 7, 2016. My video was recorded with a SONY Xperia Z5P phone’s camera and has an impressive soundtrack as well. Nearby moving and stationary light sources are to blame for the annoying light flares serve as landmarks for estimation of spatial geometry. The camera zoom is used to observe the object’s unbelievable form from a closer distance and follow its course for several minutes. The incident was observed from hotel room overlooking the sea and a distant lighthouse and sea-town. It coincided with the start of the Pokémon go madness during summer 2016 in Europe where people were actually searching everywhere with torches even at 2:00 AM. The video represents the first three minutes of a 15 minute recording that has not been altered. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Disc
Paris –While taking a picture of the Eifel Tower an object with a strange shape that was not a bird or a plane on July 24, 2016. My girlfriend and I were visiting Paris for holidays. When we got back in our hotel we took a look at the photos we’ve had taken and I noticed a strange object that I thought of an UFO right away because of the odd shape. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Germany Disc
Oberhof– My girlfriend was driving the car and I was taking random pictures on our vacation trip on August 18, 2016. When I got home and looked at the pictures I noticed the dark objects. I was amazed that I captured those things, and I can’t say for sure what they are. I hope you guys can analyze them. I took the pictures with my Galaxy Note 4. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Portugal Orbs
Charneca de Caparica — In my second year observing the skies a red glowing ufo came from the north very slowly on August13, 2016. It maneuvered in various directions, sometimes hovering, sometimes flying in a very curious way. I start to make flashing light signals and I believe he sees me and flies towards me, approaching, and then flashes green. Because I am used to seeing them every night I check everything through binoculars. It doesn’t mean they’re extra-terrestrial machines. This object was flying very slowly with repeating accelerations from one direction to the other, after a plane goes by, and after 9 minutes this Ufo flees northwest. An image speaks for a thousand words. My aim is to help in a scientific way to clarify the intentions of our friends. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Puerto Rico Sightings
I recently returned from Aguadilla and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico. I took some photos that I will send to you for greater clarification. I’ve been asking for a clear demonstration of ET activity and contact. I can feel their presence and am getting more downloads. This is so exciting! Do you know anything about the crystalline bed under parts of Puerto Rico? I got clear indications of a crystalline base. I also feel there is a strong connection to Atlantis and that island/area. Do you have any information regarding that possible connection? Thanks to Linley
Note: There is a crystalline base in many parts of Puerto Rico with a high number of UFO sightings.
UK/England Objects
Leeds— Whilst watching a TV documentary on Sean Beans Waterloo Episode 2, just after a cavalry man cuts a pig carcass with a sword, the camera was panned out and I noticed an object flash through the shot. I was able to take back the film to when the object came from behind a large building and flew overhead. It was square or a rectangular UFO. It’s not a drone and it was travelling too fast. A second black object can also be seen at a further distance away. With technology available if you see the shot and edit it you may get some great detail. If you check out the footage filmed on the documentary.
Peterborough – A bright saucer shaped object was photographed on August 24, 2016, I was travelling home from work from Market Deeping towards Thurlby. It made no noise and was stationary. Then the object made rapid movement and disappeared.
I saw a very bright object still in the sky. I stopped at a roundabout and opened the window heard no sound. It seemed to get closer so I started to video it. This lasted a few minutes then it moved rapidly and left a trail. It was extremely bright and looked like a saucer. I am an intelligent woman and have always explained things away. This is not like any aircraft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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NASA is planning the most powerful rocket engine ever called the Space Launch System (SLS). It will be the largest and most powerful engine ever built and is targeted for testing in 2017. At a cost of over $18 billion this new system sounds expensive but includes the cost the first three flights. SLS will use technology from the Space Shuttle program including the main engines and the solid rocket motors.
SLS Innovative Design & Comparison to Saturn 5
One of the critical innovations of the new SLS design is to go back to a vertical design where components of the rocket are vertically integrated, making it simpler than the Space Shuttle which carried the shuttle “piggyback”.
The SLS is currently designed to have three engines but this number could grow to five according to NASA. The SLS will be capable of lifting 70 metric tons or 10% more thrust than Saturn V. Expansion of the advanced boosters will provide lifting capacity up to 130 metric tons or 20% more thrust than Saturn V.
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The Saturn V was 363 feet tall and the SLS will be about 40 feet taller. The Saturn V was used by NASA’s Apollo and Skylab programs from 1967 to 1973 and was the only rocket that has taken humans out of low Earth orbit and to the moon. Following is a take-off animation of the SLS!
SLS will look a bit like Saturn V and the Space Shuttle but advancements in manufacturing will make SLS a much more efficient system with advanced nozzle materials and newer and greener technologies. NASA expects the system to be more reliable and easier to operate than the Space Shuttle.
SLS Comparison with SpaceX Falcon System
SLS appears to be a superior vehicle in terms of maximum capacity but the SLS price tag is very high. Some engineers have estimated that the SpaceX Falcon may be able to have 10+ flights for the cost of a single SLS launch. Additionally the SLS’s more advanced performance capabilities may not be needed; it may be cheaper to use a smaller lift vehicles.
In a recent in-depth article on IndustryTap we looked at the life and career of SpaceX founder Elon Muskwhose goal is to go to Mars.
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So far, a moon landing has been accomplished only by three nations. The United States’ Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon, on July 20, 1969.
Subsequently, only two counties successfully landed spacecraft on the moon: Russia and China. But no private company has ever been given permission for a moon landing.
But now, a US company has been given government permission by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to land on the moon.
The Florida-based company, “Moon Express,” plans to send a small unmanned lander called MX-1. The company hopes to send the robotic spacecraft to the moon next year. The robotic lander will be sent to the moon on the top of a rocket that they are purchasing from space startup Rocketlab.
Naveen Jain, Co-founder and Chairman of the Moon Express, says, “Only three super powers have ever landed on any planet—we will become the fourth superpower.”
Water is the oil of the solar system, and the moon has become a gas station in the sky
Moon Express CEO Bob Richards referred to the recent discovery of water on the moon by the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft with ISRO’s Moon Impact Probe (MIP) and NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) as being highly important.
Mission can win Google Lunar X-Prize of $20 million
Moon Express can win the prize if MX-1 successfully lands on the moon, takes off again, lands more than 1,500 feet away from its earlier position and sends high-definition video and images back to Earth.
But winning the prize is not the only point; the bigger plan is to discover valuable natural materials that can be used on Earth.
The total estimated cost of the mission is about $55 million. Moon Express has already raised $30 million.
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Deze reusachtige piramide zit verborgen in een berg
Deze reusachtige piramide zit verborgen in een berg
De Grote Piramide van Gizeh valt in het niet bij de piramide van Cholula in Mexico. Toch zagen de Spaanse indringers hem over het hoofd.
Toen Hernan Cortes en zijn Spaanse leger bijna 500 jaar geleden Cholula binnenmarcheerden, werden ze begroet door een vreedzaam volk dat piramides bouwde in plaats van grote opslagplaatsen vol wapens. Binnen een dag werd 10 procent van de lokale bevolking uitgemoord en de piramides werden in brand gestoken.
De kerk bovenop de piramide (Wikicommons)
Volgens een legende werd één piramide verborgen. Het bouwwerk werd honderden jaren aangezien voor een berg, tot de lokale bevolking in 1910 begon met de bouw van een psychiatrisch ziekenhuis. Toen stuitte men op het grootste bouwwerk ooit gemaakt.
Matroesjka’s
Tlachihualtepetl, oftewel de Grote Piramide van Cholula, is 66 meter hoog en 450 meter breed. De Grote Piramide van Gizeh valt bij dit kolossale bouwwerk in het niet, zo bericht de BBC.
De Spanjaarden bleven in Cholula en stampten overal kerken uit de grond. Toen ze de Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remediosa wilden bouwen op wat zij zagen als een grote heuvel, plaatsten ze in werkelijkheid een religieus monument bovenop een piramide.
Een uitgegraven deel van de piramide
De Grote Piramide van Cholula is niet zomaar een piramide. Het zijn in totaal zes piramides die als een soort matroesjka’s in elkaar passen. Gedacht wordt dat de oorspronkelijke piramide rond 300 voor Christus werd gebouwd en dat latere beschavingen de overige vijf piramides hebben gebouwd.
Reus
Vanwege de kerk, die aangeduid is als koloniaal monument, is het niet mogelijk om de piramide in zijn geheel te onderzoeken en te herstellen. In de piramide hebben archeologen inmiddels zo’n acht kilometer aan tunnels uitgegraven.
Ondanks de enorme omvang van de piramide is er maar heel weinig over bekend. Volgens een mythe is de piramide gebouwd door een reus. De Azteken stelden dat de bouw te danken was aan Xelhua, één van de zeven reuzen in de Azteekse mythologie.
Bijna 500 jaar na de koloniale overheersing heeft Cholula te maken met een nieuwe invasie: toeristen.
UFO Sighting Over Small Arizona City On Aug 20, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Sighting Over Small Arizona City On Aug 20, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 20, 2016
Location of sighting: Buckeye, Arizona, USA
This is awesome...why? Because its an overcast day with massively thick and dark clouds in the sky. What that means is that nothing could shine bright enough to break through those clouds...no stars, no night sky, no moon. So any argument that this is a star is a waste of breath. This glowing object is checking out the neighborhood and could be interested in the lighting that comes from such clouds. These clouds build up a special kind of lighting rare around the world...called colored lighting. It could contain energy that the UFO or alien drone needs to continue its research mission. You often see lighting in these clouds in Arizona...without even a drop of rain to be had...I use to live in Bullhead city, Arizona and Needles, California for a few years, where I often saw the rainbow color lighting...loved it.
Just had a UFO sighting in Buckeye, Arizona August 20th, 2014 at 7:25 pm. Have no idea what I just witnessed. Maybe it's a UFO or maybe just a drone, nevertheless it was kinda strange to see this hovering over our neighborhood in the middle of a thunderstorm. The sound of my AC unit in the background possibly drowned out any sound the object was making. Please understand, I'm not saying this is an alien spacecraft, I'm just saying that I have no idea what this object is and the fact that it was flying makes this an "Unidentified Flying Object"
Hollywood Rowan Blanchard Catches UFO Over New York City, Aug 23, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Hollywood Rowan Blanchard Catches UFO Over New York City, Aug 23, 2016, UFO Sighting New
Date of sighting: August 23, 2016
Location of sighing: New York City, New York, USA
Today own Instagram Hollywood star Rowan Blanchard posted a photo of a UFO that has he fans a buzz. While visiting in New York City, she chanced to take a photo during a beautiful sunset, and accidnetly captured a UFO disk that is 90% cloaked. Remember what I said about sunset being the most common time for UFOs to be seen? Its due to the bending of the light, the observer (us) and the angle of the sun.
She stated, "Say what u will but that thing was just appearing in the photo and wasn't physically there ..... 👽." This is a fantastic catch and I am so glad she shared it with us all. This is 100% evidence that aliens do watch over New York City with enthusiasm.
Vlakbij de meest nabije ster is een levensvatbare aarde-achtige planeet ontdekt. Dat meldt het ESO, de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht. Die planeet kan de dichtste woonplaats van leven buiten ons zonnestelsel zijn.
De planeet draait in een baan om Proxima Centauri, de dichtste ster buiten ons zonnestelsel. Die bevindt zich zo’n vier lichtjaar van de aarde, omgerekend een goeie veertig biljoen kilometer. De planeet, die de naam Proxima b kreeg, is ongeveer 1.3 keer zo groot als onze aarde. Ze draait op een afstand van ongeveer zeven miljoen kilometer rond de koele moederster, amper vijf procent van de afstand tussen de aarde en de zon. Maar Proxima Centauri is een rode dwergster en een stuk zwakker dan onze ster, waardoor de planeet zich toch in een levensvatbare zone bevindt.
Het lijkt erop dat vloeibaar water alleen op het oppervlak aanwezig kan zijn in de zonnigste gebieden. De draaiing van planeet Proxima b, de sterke straling van de ster en de vormingsgeschiedenis van de planeet zorgen ervoor dat het klimaat nogal verschilt van dat op aarde en dat het onwaarschijnlijk is dat er op Proxima b seizoenen voorkomen. Volgens de ESO zal Proxima b "een belangrijk doelwit zijn in de jacht naar het bewijs van leven elders in het heelal.”
Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world...
Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world, designated Proxima b, orbits...
Nearly 8000 Strange Blue Lakes Have Appeared in Antarctica
Nearly 8000 Strange Blue Lakes Have Appeared in Antarctica
Satellite Image by Digital Globe Inc
IN BRIEF
Researchers studying East Antarctica have observed nearly 8,000 dazzling, blue lakes appeared on the Langhovde Glacier between 2000 and 2013. Not just a sign of global warming, these so-called supraglacial lakes can cause an ice sheet to collapse.
SUPRAGLACIAL LAKES
Oftentimes, the sight of spectacularly blue water is enough to make anyone happy. Unfortunately, not in this case.
Scientists studying East Antarctica, the largest ice mass on Earth, have discovered blue lakes sprouting like summer blooms on the Langhovde Glacier, an outlet glacier located at the Soya Coast.
From 2000 through 2013, scientists have been using satellite imagery to study East Antarctica’s Dronning Maud Land. And in a new study published in the Geophysical Research Letters, researchers state they’ve observed close to 8,000 lakes appearing on the surface of glaciers across the region.
Since the water is found on top of the glaciers, they are distinguished as “supraglacial.” Essentially, they are formed when the increasingly warm summer air heats the surface of an ice sheet.
These lakes were first seen spreading across Greenland and serve as beautiful, yet ominous, evidence of global climate change.
Langhovde Glacier. Source: Hokkaido University
COLLAPSING ICE SHELVES
One of the results of the lakes’ formation is the drainage from the lake traveling and weakening the more vulnerable parts of the glacier. Researchers believe this drainage caused the shattering of the Larsen B ice shelf on the warmer Antarctic Peninsula in 2002, among possible other events.
This occurring now in East Antarctica is a signal of the further consequences of rising temperatures. “That’s the part of the continent where people have for quite a long time assumed that it’s relatively stable, there’s not a huge amount of change, it’s very, very cold, and so it’s only very recently that the first supraglacial lakes, on top of the ice, were identified,”Stewart Jamieson, one of the study authors and a glaciologist at UK’s Durham University, toldThe Washington Post.
Scientists are quite concerned about the long term consequences of increased melting. In an email to Gizmodo, lead study author Emily Langley stressed the importance of monitoring “these in the future to see how they evolve with surface air temperature changes.”
NASA Just Made Contact With a Lost Spacecraft After Two Years of Silence
NASA Just Made Contact With a Lost Spacecraft After Two Years of Silence
NASA
IN BRIEF
After almost two years of losing contact with one of its spacecrafts, NASA finally reestablishes communications with the STEREO-B as it starts to move out of the Sun's interference zone.
MISSED CONNECTIONS
In October of 2006, NASA launched the third mission of its Solar Terrestrial Probes program: the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, also known as STEREO.
Two spacecrafts, STEREO-A and STEREO-B, were sent off on a mission to further understand the Sun-Earth system, particularly how violent eruptions on the Sun disrupt satellites and power grids on Earth, and when they might happen. This is also very critical for astronauts on errands outside the International Space Station, and could create potentially devastatingeffects to life on Earth.
STEREO-A and STEREO-B. NASA.
However, on October 1, 2014, STEREO-B lost its connection to Earth as it moved to the far side of the Sun. Meanwhile, STEREO-A maintained contact but had a weakened signal for about a year before returning to its normal performance.
Deep Space Network: Goldstone, California antenna. NASA.
NASA explains that the spacecrafts’ slow drift and orbit eventually leads to a disadvantageous alignment to the Sun and Earth: “Since August 2014, our line of communication to the spacecraft (STEREO-A) was so close to the sun that pointing the antenna straight at Earth also meant pointing it nearly directly at the sun, which would cause the spacecraft’s antenna to dangerously overheat.”
LOST AND FOUND
Finally, after almost two years of failed recovery attempts, NASA finally reestablished contact with STEREO-B using NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) on August 21. They will be checking if the spacecraft’s systems are all in place despite the hard reset they executed as a test before losing the STEREO-B, which should get easier as the spacecraft moves closer, and outside the Sun’s interference zone.
With DSN on the job, consistent communications with STEREO-B will hopefully be restored. After all: “When it comes to making a long-distance call, it’s hard to top NASA’s Deep Space Network,” NASA says.
Aiming to become a global space giant, China unveils some information on its first mission to Mars in 2020—with the goal of finding ice and water on the Red Planet.
Mankind’s insatiable hunger for knowledge has sparked another mission to find out whether Mars was ever occupied by living organisms.
Concept portrayal of China’s Mars probe. China Daily.
Stepping back onto the space exploration scene, China is giving us a computer-generated glimpse of the design for its space probe and rover, which will be used in its first ever Mars mission in 2020. The goal: find ice and water on the Red Planet.
According to Reuters, the mission will initially go into orbit around Mars before deploying a lander that will touch down in the low latitudes of Mars’ northern hemisphere, where the rover will explore the surface.
Concept portrayal of China’s Mars rover and lander. China Daily.
Carrying a number of instruments ranging from cameras to a ground-penetrating radar, the lander’s six-wheeled rover will be the one to roam the Red Planet.
Although China would be the fifth country to orbit Mars, President Xi Jinping’s unyielding resolve to become a global space giant emerged in the undertaking of this endeavor.
“Becoming an aerospace power has always been a dream we’ve been striving for,” he said.
Using the combined powers of two telescopes, researchers were able to gain visibility over a massive star in our galaxy that is 30 times the size of the sun—and is still growing. Much can be learned about the lifespan of supermassive stars.
TELESCOPES UNITE
Astronomers have their eyes on a young star around 11,000 light-years away from Earth, and for very good reasons. The massive young star, G11.92-0.61 MM1, or MM1 for short, is in our galaxy and reached its size faster than normal stars. “An average star like our Sun is formed over a few million years, whereas massive stars are formed orders of magnitude faster – around 100,000 years,” said team leader John Ilee, from the University of Cambridge in the UK.
The finding, published in the Monthly Notices of The Royal Astrological Society, is a rare one because while the dense clouds of molecular material make stellar nurseries perfect for birthing stars, those clouds of space dust make it very hard for normal telescopes to see through the clouds. Being able to watch this young star mature is an exceptional chance to monitor and better understand a massive star’s lifecycle.
Artist’s impression, MM1. Credit: A. Smith, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.
Using the combined powers of the Submillimetre Array (SMA) in Hawaii and the (aptly named)Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico, which offer longer wavelengths than most telescopes, the team not only managed to spot the star but also to assess its surroundings.
EAT FAST, DIE FAST
At a young age, MM1 is already over 30 times the size of the Sun…and it’s still hungry. And it seems the MM1 still has a front seat to a full buffet, as calculations show a large disc of matter surrounding it. This is called a Keplerian disc, thus named for the law of motion it follows. Particles closer to the star move faster than those on the outer edges.
This disc implies that supermassive stars start out just like normal stars. “This type of rotation is also seen in the Solar System – the inner planets rotate around the Sun more quickly than the outer planets,” Ilee explained. “It’s exciting to find such a disc around a massive young star, because it suggests that massive stars form in a similar way to lower mass stars, like our Sun.”
So what else is on the table for MM1 (apart from lots of star food)? Well, death.
From what we know of stars, the faster they eat (and the more they do), the sooner they die. This makes finding them in their early stages of death by gluttony a rare occurrence. “These massive stars also burn through their fuel much more quickly, so they have shorter overall lifespans, making them harder to catch when they are infants,” Ilee says.
Photo: ALMA Observatory.
However, before MM1’s imminent demise, which would end up in either a supernova or a black hole (this is a debate), researchers want to use the Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) in Chile to confirm if the Keplerian disc around it is hiding more. “Our theoretical calculations suggest that the disc could, in fact, be hiding even more mass under layers of gas and dust,” says team member Duncan Forgan. “The disc may even be so massive that it can break up under its own gravity, forming a series of less massive companion protostars.”
Former NASA whistleblower's shock claim space agency hid PROOF of UFOs orbiting Saturn
Former NASA whistleblower's shock claim space agency hid PROOF of UFOs orbiting Saturn
A DECORATED former NASA scientist has claimed the US space agency has proof that alien UFOs have been orbiting Saturn for years, but the shocking fact has been withheld from the public.
Dr Norman Bergrun, a distinguished engineer who has worked with NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, said the rings of the planet are a massive meeting place for extraterrestrials.
He claims "alien UFO spaceships" have started "proliferating" at a shocking rate on the planet's many rings, which are made up of "space crafts and their exhaust fumes" but the world-changing evidence has been covered up at high-level within the US Government.
The former NASA engineer, who has written books on his claims and done numerous interviews, believes the number of UFO crafts in the solar system had reached "critical" levels.
Bizarrely, Dr Bergrun claims the spaceships include living entities, which use the rings as a source of energy, and are multiplying and spreading to other planets such as Uranus and Jupiter.
Dr Bergrun developed “roll stability laws for airplanes, missiles and rockets.”
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Dr Norman Bergrun claims UFOs are in Saturn's rings.
He also won prestigious awards, including the California Society of Professional Engineers Archimedes Engineering Achievement Award.
Dr Bergrun, who served on the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and worked with Lockheed Martin on high-profile and top-secret aerospace projects, first launched his theory in 1986 with his book Ringmakers of Saturn, but continues to promote it and is annoyed that scientists do not appear to be giving it any credence.
He said: "What I found out is, these things inhabit Saturn, that’s where I first discovered them, and they’re proliferating. You can find them around Uranus and Jupiter.
"Wherever you see some rings, that’s where I see the aircrafts, I call them a ring maker.
What I found out is, these things inhabit Saturn, that’s where I first discovered them, and they’re proliferating. You can find them around Uranus and Jupiter.
Dr Norman Bergrun
"I say that it is electromagnetic because I can identify streamline patterns with respect to it that I knew were what we called 'potential lines' and that says it was electrical."
Dr Bergrun has produced historic NASA images of the rings, which he claims show UFOs, including cylindrical objects.
But he claimed we have been unable to communicate with any of these aliens so far, and they could ultimately pose a threat to Earth.
He warned that the proliferation of the crafts across our solar system was speeding up and reaching a “critical” stage.
He claims the crafts are “living” because they are capable of the essential functions of biological systems, such as self-replication and self-maintenance.
Mainstream scientists dismiss his extraordinary claims, but the UFO community is captivated.
Conspiracy website Collective Evolution said: "We can assume that he knows and has worked with other intelligent and powerful people and that he has had access to extremely sensitive data, which he himself makes clear… in his book.”
And UFO blogger Scott C Waring wrote: "Norman Bergrun worked in a top secret area inside the US government and has personally witnessed seeing photos directly from NASA that had UFO near Saturn that make the rings around Saturn.
"He says he has personally seen an increase of alien ship activity among the rings of Saturn over his career. Something has to be done."
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Exoplanètes: «Une preuve de vie extraterrestre d'ici dix ans»
Exoplanètes: «Une preuve de vie extraterrestre d'ici dix ans»
ESPACE L'astrophysicien Michaël Gillon nous en dit plus sur la découverte de la planète Proxima B...
Vue d'artiste de la planète Proxima B, avec son étoile, la naine rouge Proxima du Centaure, au loin - M. Kornmesser / EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY / AFP
Jamais on n’avait découvert d’exoplanète aussi proche de nous. La confirmation, mardi dans Nature, de la découverte de Proxima B, dans l’orbite de l’étoile Proxima du Centaure, se double d’une jolie surprise : La planète tourne autour de son étoile à une distance qui rend possible la présence d’eau liquide et de vie à sa surface.
Proxima du Centaure est bien connue des chercheurs qui traquent les planètes situées en dehors du système solaire, car c’est la plus proche de notre soleil. L’astrophysicien belge Michael Gillon, de l’Université de Liège, co-découvreur de plusieurs exoplanètes « potentiellement habitables », analyse l’importance de cette découverte.
On a découvert plus de 3.000 planètes en dehors du système solaire, depuis la première en 1995. Pourquoi ne découvre-t-on que maintenant celle qui tourne autour de Proxima du Centaure ?
Parce que le système de Proxima du Centaure n’est pas facile à examiner. L’étoile est proche, mais beaucoup moins brillante que le soleil (670 fois moins), elle pèse 10 % de son poids et émet essentiellement de la lumière infrarouge. D’ailleurs, de la Terre on ne la voit pas à l’œil nu, il faut une lunette pour l’observer…
Dans mon équipe nous avons déjà essayé de scruter ce système par la méthode du « transit » (on guette la baisse de luminosité qui résulte du passage d’une planète devant l’étoile), sans rien détecter. Là, ils ont pu utiliser une autre méthode, gravitationnelle (on détecte indirectement les mouvements de la planète), avec une quantité de données très importante.
Cette planète, Proxima B, est située à une distance de 4,2 années-lumière, soit quarante mille milliards de kilomètres. Que change cette découverte ?
C’est très enthousiasmant qu’une étoile si proche de nous dispose d’une planète potentiellement habitable. Et il est possible qu’avec certains instruments on soit assez rapidement capables d’observer directement l’image de cette planète, et de détecter une atmosphère, si elle en a une.
La prochaine étape, c’est la découverte de vie extraterrestre. Comment procède-t-on ?
On cherche des signes de cette vie en guettant, par exemple dans la lumière émise par la planète, des traces de molécules caractéristiques de la vie. Ce sont des « biomarqueurs ». Cela peut-être de l’oxygène en grande quantité, si on prouve qu’aucun autre phénomène n’a pu le produire. Avec les nouveaux instruments qui sont en train d’être mis en place, je pense que l’on peut espérer une telle découverte d’ici une dizaine d’années.
Exoplanètes: «Une preuve de vie extraterrestre d'ici dix ans»
Exoplanètes: «Une preuve de vie extraterrestre d'ici dix ans»
ESPACE L'astrophysicien Michaël Gillon nous en dit plus sur la découverte de la planète Proxima B...
Vue d'artiste de la planète Proxima B, avec son étoile, la naine rouge Proxima du Centaure, au loin - M. Kornmesser / EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY / AFP
Jamais on n’avait découvert d’exoplanète aussi proche de nous. La confirmation, mardi dans Nature, de la découverte de Proxima B, dans l’orbite de l’étoile Proxima du Centaure, se double d’une jolie surprise : La planète tourne autour de son étoile à une distance qui rend possible la présence d’eau liquide et de vie à sa surface.
Proxima du Centaure est bien connue des chercheurs qui traquent les planètes situées en dehors du système solaire, car c’est la plus proche de notre soleil. L’astrophysicien belge Michael Gillon, de l’Université de Liège, co-découvreur de plusieurs exoplanètes « potentiellement habitables », analyse l’importance de cette découverte.
On a découvert plus de 3.000 planètes en dehors du système solaire, depuis la première en 1995. Pourquoi ne découvre-t-on que maintenant celle qui tourne autour de Proxima du Centaure ?
Parce que le système de Proxima du Centaure n’est pas facile à examiner. L’étoile est proche, mais beaucoup moins brillante que le soleil (670 fois moins), elle pèse 10 % de son poids et émet essentiellement de la lumière infrarouge. D’ailleurs, de la Terre on ne la voit pas à l’œil nu, il faut une lunette pour l’observer…
Dans mon équipe nous avons déjà essayé de scruter ce système par la méthode du « transit » (on guette la baisse de luminosité qui résulte du passage d’une planète devant l’étoile), sans rien détecter. Là, ils ont pu utiliser une autre méthode, gravitationnelle (on détecte indirectement les mouvements de la planète), avec une quantité de données très importante.
Cette planète, Proxima B, est située à une distance de 4,2 années-lumière, soit quarante mille milliards de kilomètres. Que change cette découverte ?
C’est très enthousiasmant qu’une étoile si proche de nous dispose d’une planète potentiellement habitable. Et il est possible qu’avec certains instruments on soit assez rapidement capables d’observer directement l’image de cette planète, et de détecter une atmosphère, si elle en a une.
La prochaine étape, c’est la découverte de vie extraterrestre. Comment procède-t-on ?
On cherche des signes de cette vie en guettant, par exemple dans la lumière émise par la planète, des traces de molécules caractéristiques de la vie. Ce sont des « biomarqueurs ». Cela peut-être de l’oxygène en grande quantité, si on prouve qu’aucun autre phénomène n’a pu le produire. Avec les nouveaux instruments qui sont en train d’être mis en place, je pense que l’on peut espérer une telle découverte d’ici une dizaine d’années.
VIDEO. Faites chauffer la fusée, une potentielle «seconde Terre» découverte à deux pas de chez nous
VIDEO. Faites chauffer la fusée, une potentielle «seconde Terre» découverte à deux pas de chez nous
ASTRONOMIEProxima du Centaure est l'étoile la plus proche du Soleil, et le système abrite une planète sans doute rocheuse...
Vue d'artiste de Proxima b, la planète la plus proche de la Terre. - ESO, M. KORNMESSER
C’est le Graal de l’astronomie. Des chercheurs ont bien découvert une exoplanèteautour de l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil, Proxima du Centaure, dans une zone où l’eau liquide peut exister à la surface. La rumeur, qui courrait depuis deux semaines, a été confirmée mercredi par la publication officielle dans le magazine Nature. « La chasse à la vie peut commencer », écrit son auteur principal, l’astronome Guillem Anglada-Escudé, de l’université Queen Mary de Londres.
Cette fois, il ne s’agit pas d’une erreur
Avant de réserver son billet pour un aller simple, plusieurs précisions importantes s’imposent. Proxima b, située à 4,2 années-lumière du Soleil, a une masse minimum de 1,3 fois celle de la Terre. Les chercheurs supposent qu’elle est rocheuse mais ils n’en ont pas la preuve. Ils ne savent pas non plus si elle possède une atmosphère, de l’eau liquide et tous les composés nécessaires à l’éclosion de la vie telle que nous la connaissons.
Les sceptiques se rappelleront encore que la dernière découverte d’une planète « candidate » autour de Proxima du Centaure avait finalement été rétractée. Mais cette fois, les mesures réalisées avec deux télescopes différents laissent peu de place au doute. « Les instruments ont fait d’immenses progrès. Après avoir lu l’étude, je suis convaincu que cette planète est réelle », juge l’astronome Phil Plaitsur son blog Bad Astronomy.
Le tour de son étoile en 11 jours
Proxima b se trouve à seulement 7,5 millions de kilomètres de son étoile. C’est 20 fois plus près que la Terre du Soleil. Elle en fait le tour en seulement 11,2 jours. Mais parce que Proxima du Centaure est une naine rouge de faible intensité, de l’eau liquide peut, sur le papier, exister à la surface.
La donne est cependant compliquée par la configuration de la planète, en verrouillage gravitationnel avec son étoile, comma la Terre avec la Lune. Traduction : c’est toujours la même face qui est au « soleil », et il n’y a pas de saison. On ne parle même pas des violentes éruptions solaires, face auxquelles une protection (atmosphère dense, champ magnétique) est indispensable. Bref, il va falloir observer la planète directement, et le télescope spatial James Webb, qui doit prendre la relève d’Hubble en 2018, arrivera à point nommé.
Si près et pourtant si loin
A 4,2 années-lumière, Proxima b est la planète la plus proche de la Terre. Mais avec les systèmes actuels de propulsion, il faudrait entre 20.000 et 80.000 ans à une sonde pour s’y rendre. Le projet Starshot, qui mise sur une voile solaire accélérée par des rayons laser pour atteindre 20 % de la vitesse de la lumière, permettrait toutefois de réduire la durée du voyage d’une micro-sonde à une vingtaine d’années. Allez, on espère être encore vivant pour assister à ce grand moment…
(CNN)In a discovery that has been years in the making, researchers have confirmed the existence of a rocky planet named Proxima b orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun, according to a new study. It is the closest exoplanet to us in the universe.
Given the fact that Proxima b is within the habitable zone of its star, meaning liquid water could exist on the surface, it may also be the closest possible home for life outside of our solar system, the researchers said.
Because of its location, the researchers hope it provides an opportunity for possible "robotic exploration in the coming centuries."
This artist's impression shows a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b.
"The good news is that it is so close," study author Ansgar Reiners said. "It is not only nice for having it in our neighborhood, but it's a dream come true for astronomers if we think about follow-up observation."
Proxima Centauri coexists with a binary star in Alpha Centauri, a well-studied star system that serves as a neighbor to our sun.
Proxima b is a mere 4.2 light-years away from our solar system, or 266,000 times the distance between the Earth and the sun, which are 92.96 million miles apart. Previous rocky exoplanet discoveries, like those orbiting ultracool red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, were previously described as "close" at 40 light-years away.
"It's not only the closest terrestrial planet found, it's probably the closest planet outside our solar system that will ever be found because there is no star closer to the solar system than this one," said lead study author Guillem Anglada-Escudé.
"The only thing you can hope to find between that is Planet Nine, but that would (require) a solar system object or a brown dwarf that hasn't been discovered," researcher Pedro Amado added.
Here is what we know about the planet, as well as the questions that researchers hope to be able to answer.
Meet Proxima b
Proxima b is a rocky, terrestrial planet with a surface -- unlike a gas giant, such as Jupiter -- that is 1.3 times the size of Earth and orbits its star every 11.2 days. It is in a close orbit of Proxima Centauri: only 5% of the distance between the Earth and the sun. They are even closer together than Mercury and the sun. But because its star is much cooler and fainter than our sun, Proxima b has a temperature that is suitable for liquid water to exist on the surface without evaporating.
Researchers estimate that if the planet has an atmosphere, which could be assumed but isn't known, it may be between 86 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit (31 to 40 degrees Celsius) on the surface. Without an atmosphere, it could be -22 to -40 degrees Fahrenheit (-30 to -40 degrees Celsius). To put that in perspective, Earth would be -4 degrees (-20 degrees Celsius) if it didn't have an atmosphere, Reiners said.
Given the proximity to its star, Proxima b is also subject to less pleasant factors like ultraviolet and X-ray flares that are 100 times the intensity of what Earth receives from the sun. In the paper, researchers estimated it to be 400 times the intensity, but recent research has caused them to create a new estimate, they said. If there is life on the planet, it would be affected by this radiation, but it is pure speculation as to what kind of effect.
This infographic compares the orbit of the planet around Proxima Centauri (Proxima b) with the same region of the Solar System.
What took so long?
If the Alpha Centauri system is well-studied and Proxima Centauri is our sun's cozy star neighbor in the universe, why did it take so long to find Proxima b?
It comes down to an understanding of the star this planet orbits, as well as how data collection has evolved during the last 16 years.
Proxima Centauri is a low-mass red dwarf star, known as an M-class dwarf, that happens to be close to the bright binary star Alpha Centauri AB, which outshines its cool stepbrother, so to speak. All of these stars are within the faint Centaurus constellation, which can't be seen with the unaided eye.
M-class dwarves are not well understood in comparison with other types of stars, Reiners said. Because of that, researchers don't know much about the history of these stars or their radiation in the early days.
"But within the field of exoplants, [researchers] have recently realized that looking for planets around M dwarves is what is going to be the most spectacular, because you can find these plants in the liquid water zone more easily than other stars," Reiners said.
Because it's an active star, Proxima Centauri can behave in varied ways that mimic the presence of a planet, according to the study. Researchers wanted to observe it for a long period of time, so for the first half of this year, telescopes around the world were pointed at Proxima Centauri. The researchers looked for a "Doppler wobble," or back and forth wobble of Proxima Centauri that would be caused by the gravitational pull of a planet in orbit.
This was combined with research, data and published studies of Proxima Centauri dating to 2000.
"The significance of the detection went sky high," Anglada-Escudé said. "Statistically, there was no doubt. We have found a planet around Proxima Centauri."
The research around Proxima b will continue, and the researchers have more questions they want to answer. They don't know whether there is water on the surface or if the planet has an atmosphere, although both are likely. They also don't know whether, like Earth, the planet has a protective magnetic field to help with some of the radiation it receives.
Perhaps one of the biggest questions includes the history of the star and the planet. How did they form?
"What happened during the formation?" Reiners asked. "Was the star more active than the sun is today, and where during that phase was Proxima b located?"
This would indicate whether the plant was rich with water in its early days or started out dry, as well as whether there was any high-energy radiation that could have blasted away an atmosphere during formation of the planet.
A view of the southern skies over the ESO 3.6-meter telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile with images of the stars Proxima Centauri (lower right) and the double star Alpha Centauri AB (lower left).
There is also some debate over whether this planet is Earth-like, which comes with some connotations. Depending on its formation, perhaps it could be like Venus.
Learning the answers to these questions about formation are possible with research. The habitability of a planet like Proxima b is also "a matter of intense debate," according to the study, due to arguments against it: tidal locking, strong stellar magnetic fields, strong flares, and high ultraviolet and X-ray fluxes. But, as they point out, none of those has been proved definitive, either.
Growing excitement
Researchers have long looked to Alpha Centauri for study. Now, they want us to go there.
Programs like Mission Centaur intend to design and build a space mission with a small telescope to point at the star system. It would look for exoplanets by imaging or other techniques that could find more of them around these three stars. Given how long it took us to confirm Proxima b and the fact that the researchers encountered a puzzling extra signal in some of their data and models, it's entirely possible that there are more planets to be found.
It is also the target of the Starshot project, which aims to create and send ultra-fast light-driven nanocraft that would reach the system 20 years after launch and beam home images. This is on the list of Breakthrough initiatives,an effort whose board includes Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg.
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Because Proxima b exists outside our solar system, it doesn't change our well-known roster of planets (and we know some of you are still rather upset over Pluto). But it does add to the field of exoplanet research that's underway, some of which hopes to identify Earth-like planets that future telescopes, such as the James Webb Space Telescope and the European Extremely Large Telescope, can use for observation.
Many researchers hope that we can actually image these planets in the future, getting an idea of their atmospheric makeup and surface composition, and strive to answer the question of "Are we alone in the universe?"
"We know that there are terrestrial planets around stars. The excitement is because it's the nearest one, and we expect to characterize it and maybe visit in a couple of centuries," Anglada-Escudé said.
Mediterraans mysterie: Woonde de mythische beschaving van Atlantis op Sardinië?
Mediterraans mysterie: Woonde de mythische beschaving van Atlantis op Sardinië?
Luchtbeelden die onlangs zijn gemaakt lijken de theorie te bevestigen dat de mythische beschaving van Atlantis mogelijk op het Italiaanse eiland Sardinië woonde. Dat meldt de krant La Stampa.
De Italiaanse journalist Sergio Frau stelt dat Sardinië exact overeenkomt met de beschrijving die Plato gaf: een land dat rijk is aan water en bossen, met een zacht klimaat, waardoor men het hele jaar door kan oogsten.
Tsunami
Plato noemde de inwoners van Atlantis daarnaast ‘torenbouwers’. Op Sardinië staan veel oude stenen forten. Eén van deze monumenten werd gevonden in de gemeente Barumini. Het kostte archeologen 14 jaar om het bouwwerk onder een 12 meter dikke laag modder vandaan te halen.
Uit luchtbeelden blijkt dat vrijwel alle oude bouwwerken die zich vlak boven de zeespiegel bevinden, bedekt werden door modder, terwijl de overige gebouwen buiten schot bleven. Mogelijk was de modderstroom het gevolg van een tsunami, die volgens de legende de inwoners van Atlantis wegvaagde.
Zuilen van Hercules
Plato schreef dat Atlantis 9000 jaar geleden werd vernietigd, maar in die tijd waren er nog geen beschavingen in het Middellandse Zeegebied. Plato bedoelde mogelijk 9000 maanden in plaats van jaren, omdat in zijn tijd vaak in maanden werd gerekend.
In dat geval verwijst Plato naar 1200 voor Christus. In die periode deden zich op het Italiaanse eiland krachtige aardbevingen voor. Het is bekend dat Atlantis zich ten westen van de Zuilen van Hercules bevond. Volgens de legende waren die tot de derde eeuw voor Christus niet in de Straat van Gibraltar, maar in de Golf van Tunis gelegen, tussen Sicilië en Tunesië.
Ligt buitenaards leven dan toch niet zo ver van ons af als we dachten? Gisteren had de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht ESO groot nieuws voor de wereld: er is bewijs gevonden dat rond de meest nabije ster een planeet draait die levensvatbaar kan zijn. Mogelijk is er dus een nabije woonplaats voor leven buiten ons zonnestelsel. Nu ja, zo nabij is Proxima b nu ook weer niet: 4,22 lichtjaar, ofwel 40 biljoen kilometer. Hoe kunnen we ooit zo ver reizen?
Vorig jaar kwam de New Horizons-sonde van NASA aan op Pluto na een trip van 4,8 miljard kilometer. De sonde was negen jaar onderweg geweest en haalde snelheden tot 84.000 kilometer per uur. Mochten we de New Horizons naar Proxima b sturen, dan zou die 54.400 jaar onderweg zijn. Niet echt een optie dus.
Vorige maand haalde de Juno-sonde van NASA, die in een baan rond Jupiter draait, een snelheid van 265.000 kilometer per uur. Met die snelheid komen we weliswaar vroeger aan op Proxima b, maar dan nog zou het 17.157 jaar duren.
In de jaren 90 pakten het Amerikaanse leger en NASA uit met Project Longshot, waarbij een sonde dankzij waterstofbommen snelheden zou halen tot 13.400 kilometer per seconde. Mocht dat ooit lukken, dan zijn we er binnen 100 jaar.
Proxima b bereiken, is dus een werk van heel lange adem, laat staan dat we er ooit voet aan land kunnen zetten. Maar dankzij een nieuwe technologie wordt het misschien mogelijk om Proxima b over 50 jaar te bereiken. Met project 'Starshot' wil miljardair Joeri Milner een sonde de ruimte insturen die wordt voortgedreven door een laserstraal en in 'amper' 20 jaar Proxima b bereikt. Ook Stephen Hawking steunt het project.
Een laserstraal zou, in theorie althans, een flinterdunne sonde met 215 miljoen kilometer per uur kunnen laten reizen. Dat is ongeveer 20 procent van de lichtsnelheid. Het zou nog 20 à 25 jaar duren voor die 'lasersonde' klaar is, dus we moeten toch nog zeker een kleine 50 jaar wachten voor we Proxima b ooit te zien krijgen. Bovendien zou het project zo'n 10 miljard dollar kosten.
10 miljard dollar uitgeven aan een reis naar een verre planeet, is dat wel de moeite waard? Wat als we op een gigantische ontgoocheling botsen?
Een trip naar Proxima b is zeker de moeite waard, dat bewees New Horizons al toen hij aankwam op Pluto. De sonde schoot unieke beelden van de dwergplaneet die we vanop de aarde nooit zouden kunnen genomen hebben. De sonde bezorgde ons een schat aan informatie over Pluto, dus een bezoekje aan de nieuwe Aarde is sowieso de moeite waard.
Ontdekken we over 50 jaar leven buiten ons zonnestelsel? Lees het antwoord hier in 2066.
China hoopt in juli of augustus 2020 een robotjeep naar Mars te lanceren. Het heeft via de staatsmedia een tip van de sluier over de verkenner gelicht.
Het is de bedoeling dat een Lange Mars-5 draagraket van op de nieuwe lanceerbasis Wenchang het tuig meeneemt en op een traject naar de Rode Planeet brengt. Na een reis van ongeveer zeven maanden moet de lander zich van een "orbiter" losmaken en uiteindelijk neerstrijken nabij de evenaar. Dan zal het gedurende een negentigtal dagen het Marsoppervlak en de omgeving bestuderen.
Tweehonderd kilo De jeep zal tweehonderd kilo wegen. Hij zal zes wielen en vier zonnepanelen hebben. Dertien instrumenten doen onderzoek naar sporen van water en ijs.
In het kader van zijn ambitieus ruimtevaartprogramma heeft Peking al een robotjeep op de Maan neergezet, om daar onderzoek te doen. India was het eerste Aziatisch land dat in september een sonde rond de Rode Planeet bracht.
Mislukken De opdracht zou niet gemakkelijk zijn. Zelfs de grote ruimtevaartmogendheden zagen zowat minstens de helft van missies naar Mars, in het bijzonder landingen, mislukken.
België is momenteel met apparatuur op de Europees-Russische sonde en lander ExoMars op weg naar de Rode Planeet.
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‘Aarde Twee': Levensvatbare planeet ontdekt bij buurster van de zon
‘Aarde Twee': Levensvatbare planeet ontdekt bij buurster van de zon
Astronomen hebben bewijs gevonden dat rond de meest dichtstbijzijnde ster een bewoonbare planeet draait. Dat laat de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht (ESO) weten.
De sterrenkundigen ontdekten met behulp van een reuzentelescoop in Chili een aardachtige planeet rond de ster Proxima Centauri. Dat is onze meest nabije buur. De planeet, Proxima b gedoopt, is 1,3 keer zo zwaar als de aarde en bevindt zich in de leefbare zone rond de ster.
Binnen bereik
Er is hoogstwaarschijnlijk vloeibaar water mogelijk op de planeet. Volgens het onderzoeksteam kan er leven aanwezig kan zijn op Proxima b. Er zijn intussen zo’n 200 aardachtige planeten bij verre sterren ontdekt, maar die staan stuk voor stuk op vele honderden lichtjaren.
Proxima Centauri staat op slechts 4,2 lichtjaar en komt langzaam maar zeker binnen het bereik van onze ruimtevaartuigen. Miljardair Joeri Milner wil binnen nu en 15 jaar een zogeheten ruimtezeil naar de ster sturen. Het ruimteschip zal ongeveer 20 jaar over de reis doen.
Een jaar op Proxima b duurt maar 11 dagen omdat de planeet veel dichter bij zijn ster staat dan de aarde bij de zon. Toch is het er niet heel warm, omdat Proxima Centauri een rode dwerg is, die veel koeler is dan onze zon.
Grootste ervaring
“De eerste waarnemingen waren er al in 2013, maar toen waren de waarnemingen niet overtuigend genoeg,” aldus onderzoeksleider Guillem Anglada-Escudé. “Sindsdien hebben we hard gewerkt om meer waarnemingen te doen.”
Hij voegde toe dat de vondst van de dichtstbijzijnde aardachtige exoplaneet de grootste ervaring van zijn leven is. De astronomen hebben hun bevindingen gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Nature.
UFOs Hover Over Vegas While Helicopters buzz past to investigate, Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Hover Over Vegas While Helicopters buzz past to investigate, Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: August 23, 2016
Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Here is an awesome video of some helicopters and planes buzzing past the three UFOs over Vegas. I'm sure radar must have seen these three UFOs...because if it didn't then we need to rethink better radar for protection of air accidents. This is in an area close to a Tall White base at Nellis AFB. Possibly aliens wanting to get as close as possible to the night life in Vegas...and who could blame them, but know, and adult Tall White is over 3 meters tall and would stand out in Vegas...also, if you accidentally touched them, they would take pleasure in your immediate death, so its best to avoid them.
I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of August 23, 2016. The weather has improved greatly even though a wicked storm passed through later in the night. I could hear the wind and hail hitting the windows. Earlier it was actually really nice other than a tad bit of wind and haze. The night started off slowly and then all of a sudden things started happening. I got a short clip of a UFO in the southern valley and then I noticed the amazing UFOs over in the Henderson area. They were in a location where it's very rare to see anything. Once they began to move they ended up in a spot where I see them more routinely. This was just the beginning as I have more footage from the Blue Diamond Hills that I still need to publish.
Glowing UFO Tries To Escape Detection At Space Station, Aug 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Tries To Escape Detection At Space Station, Aug 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date if sighting: August 2016 Location of sighting: Earths orbit at ISS Once again, a UFO has been caught at the space station using the live cam. Streetcap1 had a watchful eye on the cams and was fortunate enough to record it for us. It looks like this UFO didn't want to be recorded, because it was seen moving away and high speed. But this just goes to show, that aliens are not gods or angels, but flawed beings just like us. They are not perfect, they make mistakes, just like this alien pilot made in this video...which will forever be on Youtube to show the world that the alien F#$%ed up. How does that feel aliens...having your flubs on Youtube for all the human race to see, laugh at and comment about? Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Streetcap1 states: Not a clue what this is. Other people must have seen this too. It disappears into the Earth Light and does not reappear. Short sequence repeated several times over. Streetcap1.
The star closest to the sun hosts a planet that may be very much like Earth, a new study reports.
Astronomers have discovered a roughly Earth-size alien world around Proxima Centauri, which lies just 4.2 light-years from our own solar system. What's even more exciting, study team members said, is that the planet, known as Proxima b, circles in the star's "habitable zone" — the range of distances at which liquid water could be stable on a world's surface.
"We hope these findings inspire future generations to keep looking beyond the stars," lead author Guillem Anglada-Escude, a physics and astronomy lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, said in a statement."The search for life on Proxima b comes next." [In Pictures: The Discovery of Planet Proxima b]
A long search
The discovery of Proxima b was a long time in the making.
Astronomers have been hunting intensively for planets around Proxima Centauri for more 15 years, using instruments such as the Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES) and the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), both of which are installed on telescopes run by the European Southern Observatory in Chile.
This artist’s impression shows the exoplanet Proxima b, which orbits the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. The double star Alpha Centauri AB appears in the image between the exoplanet and its star.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
UVES, HARPS and other instruments like them allow researchers to detect the slight wobbles in a star's movement caused by the gravitational tugs of orbiting planets.
Astronomers found hints of such a wobble back in 2013, but the signal was not convincing, Anglada-Escude said. So he and a number of other researchers launched a campaign to ferret out the planet. They called this effort the Pale Red Dot — a nod to Carl Sagan's famous description of Earth as a "pale blue dot," and the fact that Proxima Centauri is a small, dim star known as a red dwarf.
The Pale Red Dot team focused HARPS on Proxima Centauri every night from Jan. 19, 2016, through March 31 of this year. After they combined this new data with UVES observations from 2000 through 2008 and HARPS observations from 2005 through early 2014, the signal of a possible planet came through loud and clear.
Then, after analyzing observations of the star's brightness made by several other telescopes, Anglada-Escude and his colleagues ruled out the possibility that this signal could be caused by the variable activity of Proxima Centauri.
"The conclusion: We have found a planet around Proxima Centauri," Anglada-Escude said Tuesday (Aug. 23) during a news conference. [The Search for Another Earth (Video)]
How did Proxima b remain undetected for so long, in an era when astronomers are finding exoplanets thousands of light-years from Earth?
"The uneven and sparse sampling, combined with the longer term variability of the star, seem to be the reasons why the signal could not be unambiguously confirmed with pre-2016 data, rather than the total amount of data accumulated," the researchers wrote in the new study, which was published online today (Aug. 24) in the journal Nature.
The news confirms rumors first reported earlier this month by German magazine Der Spiegel.
Incidentally, the team also spotted possible signs of an additional Proxima Centauri planet, which would have an orbital period of between 60 and 500 days. But that second signal is much weaker and might be caused by stellar activity, the researchers said.
Artist's illustration of the surface of Proxima b, a potentially Earth-like world that circles the nearest star to the sun.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
An Earth-like world?
The HARPS and UVES data indicate that Proxima b is about 1.3 times more massive than Earth, which suggests that the exoplanet is a rocky world, the researchers said. [6 Strange Facts About Planet Proxima b]
Proxima b lies just 4.7 million miles (7.5 million kilometers) from its host star and completes one orbit every 11.2 Earth days. As a result, it's likely that the exoplanet is tidally locked, meaning it always shows the same face to its host star, just as the moon shows only one face (the near side) to Earth.
For comparison, Earth orbits about 93 million miles (150 million km) from the sun. But Proxima b's relatively tight orbit puts it right in the middle of the habitable zone, because red dwarfs are so much cooler and dimmer than sun-like stars, team members said. Not much else is known about Proxima b, so it's unclear just how hospitable the planet may be to life. In fact, there are reasons to be pessimistic on this front, noted Artie Hatzes, an astronomer at the Thuringian State Observatory in Germany.
Proxima Centauri fires off powerful flares, and the planet therefore experiences a much higher dose of high-energy X-ray radiation than Earth does, Hatzes, who is not part of the discovery team, wrote in an accompanying "News and Views" article in the same issue of Nature.
"Energetic particles associated with the flares may erode the atmosphere or hinder the development of primitive forms of life," Hatzes wrote. "We also don't know whether the exoplanet has a magnetic field, like Earth, which could shield it from the dangerous stellar radiation."
But the higher X-ray flux is not a "showstopper" for life, Anglada-Escude and his colleagues said.
"None of this does exclude the existence of an atmosphere, or of [surface] water," co-author Ansgar Reiners, a professor at the University of Göttingen's Institute of Astrophysics in Germany, said during Tuesday's news conference.
How Proxima Centauri behaved in the distant past is more relevant to the newfound planet's potential habitability than current radiation levels are, Reiners added.
A 'Habitable' Planet Found Around Nearest Star Proxima Centauri
"What is more interesting is the history of the planet — whether in the early ages, the young ages, of this planet the star was so active, and the star emitted so much high-energy radiation, that it blew away the atmosphere and may have blown away the water also," he said.
Other aspects of the planet's history also have a bearing on just how wet Proxima b may be. For example, if the alien world formed far from the star but then migrated inward, it is likely water-rich; if it formed near its present position, it likely started out much drier, study team members said. (But even this latter scenario doesn't preclude the existence of large amounts of water on Proxima b, Anglada-Escude stressed; comet and/or asteroid strikes could deliver the substance, as apparently happened here on Earth, he said.)
Tidally locked planets were once regarded as inhospitable to life — baked too hot on the star-facing side, and freezing cold on the dark side. But recent research suggests that such worlds may indeed be habitable; winds in theiratmospheres could distribute heat, smoothing out temperature extremes.
And if Proxima b is potentially habitable, life-forms have a long time to gain a foothold there: Red dwarfs keep burning for trillions of years, in contrast to stars like the sun, which die after 10 billion years or so.
"Proxima Centauri will exist for several hundreds or thousands of times longer than the sun," Hatzes wrote in his "News and Views" piece. "Any life on the planet could still be evolving long after our sun has died."
The sun is 4.6 billion years old. Proxima Centauri is thought to be slightly older — perhaps 4.9 billion years or so, study team members said.
New Earth Found - Gliese 581c Planet (NASA Documentary)
Proxima b likely does not "transit," or cross the face of, its host star from Earth's perspective, Anglada-Escude and his colleagues said.
That characteristic will make it tougher to study Proxima b further; astronomers can learn a lot about the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets by studying the starlight that passes through them. (NASA's $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch in late 2018, will use this method to look for possible signs of life in the atmospheres of nearby alien worlds.)
But Proxima b is close enough to Earth that scientists may soon be able to image it directly. Indeed, it should be possible to resolve the planet (separately from its host star) using a telescope with an aperture of 11.5 feet (3.5 meters), provided that the scope is outfitted with some advanced technology, such as a starlight-blocking coronagraph, Reiners said. (For perspective, NASA's famous Hubble Space Telescope has an aperture of 7.9 feet, or 2.4 m.)
"We are quite far from it right now, but physics allows us to do it," he said. "And then, you can study the light coming from the planet itself, and that gives you the opportunity to learn about the atmosphere spectroscopically or photometrically, or whatever you want."
This past April, scientists and engineers announced the $100 millionBreakthrough Starshot project, which aims to develop the technology required to accelerate tiny, sail-equipped "nanocraft" to 20 percent the speed of light using powerful lasers.
Breakthrough Starshot team members said they hope to eventually launch flotillas of such postage-stamp-size probes to Alpha Centauri — a binary star system about 4.37 light-years from the sun. (In 2012, incidentally, astronomers analyzing HARPS data announced the discovery of a roughly Earth-size world around the star Alpha Centauri B, but later work suggested that the putative planet does not actually exist.)
Spacecraft traveling at 20 percent the speed of light could make the trip to Alpha Centauri in about two decades, as opposed to thousands of years for conventionally powered probes.
Proxima Centauri lies just 0.24 light-years from Alpha Centauri, and is regarded by some scientists as part of the latter system — so Breakthrough Starshot team members are recalibrating possible mission profiles a bit now.
"With today's announcement, we now know that there's at least one planet, the one orbiting Proxima Centauri, that has some characteristics similar to the Earth," Pete Worden, chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, said during a news conference today.
"Over the next decade, we will work with experts here at ESO and elsewhere to get as much information as possible about the Proxima Centauri planet, perhaps as noted, even including whether it might bear life, prior to launching mankind's first probe towards the star," Worden added. "We also hope to obtain similar data about the other nearby stars, Alpha Centauri A and B."
Project Icarus: Laying the Plans for Interstellar Travel
Project Icarus: Laying the Plans for Interstellar Travel
Andreas Tziolas is drafting a blueprint for a mission to a nearby star. Here, he discusses how we’ll get there — and why we try.
We humans have known for a very long time that going to the stars will be difficult, if not impossible. The motto of NASA, Per Aspera Ad Astra, a latin phrase meaning “through hardship to the stars,” comes down to us all the way from Seneca the Younger, a contemporary of Nero. Even today, when our metaphors of exertion and ambition are many –“swing for the fences,” “go for gold” — when we strain to capture the difficulty of a task, or the enormity of an achievement, “reach for the stars” is the first and most natural phrase that comes to mind. Our hierarchy of the ultimate human accomplishments is in this sense remarkably stable at the top.
And with good reason, because interstellar travel is in fact very difficult. With today’s best propulsion technology, chemical rockets, it would take between 50 and a 100 millennia to reach Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun. The ideas we have about how to expedite such a journey are just that: ideas. They belong to the realm of speculation. Nonetheless, they are beginning to take on an empirical glow. To be sure, the bundle of technologies that could conceivably send a spacecraft to another star won’t be here within the decade, or even within several, but neither are those technologies mere magical realism — indeed, planning for their development has begun in earnest.
In September of last year DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, convened a conference in Orlando, Florida, to discuss and promote one of its newest and most intriguing research projects: The 100 Year Starship Study. According to DARPA, the study is intended to “develop and mature a technology portfolio that will enable long-distance manned space flight a century from now.” To that end, DARPA is now negotiating a grant of $500,000 to ex-astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison, whose personal foundation will team up with Project Icarus, a division of Icarus Interstellar, to seed the plans for an interstellar mission that could span several centuries.
Project Icarus, which will focus on the mission’s technological challenges, is a theoretical engineering study that was launched in 2009 by the British Interplanetary Society with the purpose of designing an interstellar spacecraft. It brings together an international group of volunteer aerospace engineers from government space agencies, universities and the private sector with the purpose of generating technical reports on the engineering layout, functionality, physics, operation, and mission profile of an interstellar probe. You can think of it as a kind of repository for bleeding-edge thinking about interstellar travel.
Project Icarus takes its inspiration from Project Daedalus, a five-year study launched by the British Interplanetary Society in 1973 to determine whether interstellar travel was feasible at all. Project Daedalus ultimately concluded that interstellar was possible, but acknowledged that the technical challenges were significant. Icarus aims to pick up where Daedalus left off, by trying to chip away at some of those technical challenges. Andreas Tziolas, a former research fellow at NASA who holds a Ph.D. in Gravitation and Cosmology, is the Project Leader for Project Icarus. Yesterday I spoke to Tziolas about how and, more interestingly, why we might someday send a mission to the stars.
How did you first get interested in interstellar travel?
Tziolas:I’ve been interested in interstellar travel ever since I was a young boy. I’m not ashamed to say that I was a child of Star Trek. When I was growing up in Greece, I remember Star Trek would come on very early on Sunday mornings, but that didn’t stop me from watching — I never missed an episode. My mother used to joke, “if only you would get up for school with the same excitement that you get up on Sundays.”
When it came time to choose a career, I knew it had to be this, because for something like this to get done someone has to say “I’m going to dedicate my life to this, to this thing that is difficult, this thing that is on the fringe of science, so that we can put down a kind of stepping stone, and the next generation can step on it in order to enter into this interstellar culture.”
And that’s what I’ve been doing these past 25 years. My first degree was in spacecraft engineering, after which I worked on several space missions for NASA. I worked on the Hubble Space Telescope, the Galileo Mission to Jupiter; I worked on the Mars Pathfinder, and on the Mars Polar Lander. And after a pretty intense period of involvement, I realized that from an employment perspective, these projects were kind of tenuous. When you work on a space mission, especially a planetary explorer, you’re generally out of a job once you make it to launch. Maybe two or three people out of the twenty working on the mission will stay on as support staff, with the rest looking for work elsewhere. So it’s not the best way to pursue a career. At the time I was interested in more analytical and computational physics, so I went back and did a Ph.D. in Cosmology at Baylor University. In doing this, I was trying to balance my capabilities, both the theoretical and technical capabilities, and I think it worked, I think it gave me an advantage.
When Project Icarus was first started, one of the main reasons we thought it was important was that people the original Daedalus team, and several of the very important researchers in the field of interstellar engineering had been slowly passing away, or else retiring. Suddenly you had this situation where there wasn’t a new generation of interstellar engineers on the market. There was no one working on this.
When we started up, one of our first objectives was to raise up this new generation of interstellar engineers — we wanted volunteers, anyone, whether they are Ph.D.’s or garage inventors, or just people who are passionate, people who spend every evening reading about interstellar exploration. There are several people around the world who have extraordinary technical expertise, but don’t necessarily look good on paper, and so they don’t have an opportunity to contribute to NASA or ESA or any of the other major space agencies. And so where do those people go? They end up working in I.T. or they end up working as clerks, but in their hearts they have this burning fire to do research. So what we do is corral all of those people with that fire and we organize them, and we organize the research in a detailed way, so that wecan harness the power of inclusiveness in doing this kind of research.In Greek, Daedalus means “cunning worker,” and in Greek mythology of course Daedalus is this master craftsman, the mythical embodiment of man as a maker of technology. But his son Icarus was another story. He’s famous for ignoring his father’s warnings about flying too close to the sun, and for drowning as a result of that. So why Icarus?
Tziolas:Well there are two reasons. First of all Dr. Allen Bond, who was the project leader for Daedalus, left a note to future generations in the final program report for the Daedalus spacecraft. In it he said “we’ve laid down some stepping stones, the first pebbles, and we set a direction, but it will be the sons of Daedalus, perhaps an Icarus, that will have to come through and make this a much more feasible design.” Because remember what Daedalus was trying to achieve was just a feasibility study, a study to see if this was even possible. And the Daedalus reports are very underappreciated. This was the first time in human history that some team proved that interstellar exploration is feasible using the physics of today. That had never been done before by NASA or anyone else. It was a significant milestone.
So that’s why we chose “Icarus,” but besides that we have a clever way of seeing the Icarus myth, which brushes away some of the inhibitions people have. Because we hear it a lot, that we picked the wrong name, that “hey isn’t this the guy who tried to fly with his father’s wax wings and fell into the ocean.” But that was a myth, a myth from 2,500 years ago, and like many myths it’s flexible, especially in a time like ours when we have Hollywood and CGI, which are tools that allow you to reshape a myth. In our version, Icarus falling into the ocean wasn’t the final chapter. We believe that he washed up on a beautiful deserted island, and he looked for his father in the sky and didn’t see him. So he started a fire on the beach, and tried to think about how he might get back to the sky. And at that moment he looked toward the sky and he saw his destiny, and his destiny was to forge new wings of steel and fire so that he could try again. And he wouldn’t repeat the mistakes of his father, who after all had fashioned the original wax wings. He would improve on his father’s design.
A lot of reasons have been offered for why this project, this general project of going to the stars, is important for humanity. Some have said that in the long term the project is necessary as a means of “backing up the biosphere,” that we need to find another planet in order to ensure that humans survive future extinction events on earth. Others point to the potential for scientific knowledge, especially in the areas of cosmology or astrobiology. And then there’s the idea that deep space is a kind of proving ground for humanity, that it provides the ultimate test of our intellectual and creative capacities. In your eyes, what is the most compelling reason we ought to pursue this?
Tziolas: This could be a very long conversation. At Project Icarus we keep adding new reasons and new motivations for going interstellar, as we call it. First is obviously the survival of humankind. If humanity is capable of achieving interstellar flight but does not pursue it, does not pursue a program of seeding other planets and other solar systems, then really we risk receiving a Darwin Award as a civilization. If you can save yourself, but you don’t, for whatever reason — how can you justify that?
“Why do we pay this obsessive attention to backing up a document, which we can reproduce, when we pay no attention to backing up our civilization?”
When you’re working on a sensitive document on your computer, the first thing you do is back it up. You make a copy of it, you email it to yourself, you put it in your dropbox, and your flash drive — sometimes all these things at once. Why do we pay this obsessive attention to backing up a document, which we can reproduce, when we pay no attention to backing up our civilization? There is no greater endeavor than ensuring the survival of humankind.
You also want to push technological boundaries. If you don’t have one of these huge problems to solve, that’s hard, really hard, then you won’t motivate yourself to solve it. If the human population had never risen past one billion people, everyone would live very comfortably, spread out, there might not be high rises, transportation would be different — the whole civilization would be different. The unique problems that come with high populations have given rise to these technologies, to these ways of living. Similarly, had we never decided to go into space, our civilization would be very different. We wouldn’t have cell phones, we wouldn’t have satellite systems, and we wouldn’t have this type of computational power. We would have been fine, but we would be stuck at a certain level of technological advancement.
In order to achieve interstellar flight, you would have to develop very clean and renewable energy technologies, because for the crew, the ecosystem that you launch with is the ecosystem you’re going to have for at least a hundred years. With our current projections, we can’t get this kind of journey under a hundred years. So in developing the technologies that enable interstellar flight, you could serendipitously develop the technologies that could help clean up the earth, and power it with cheap energy. If you look toward the year 2100, and assume that the 100 Year Starship Study has been prolific, and that Project Icarus has been prolific, at a minimum we’d have break-even fusion, which would give us abundant clean energy for millennia. No more fossil fuels. We’d also have developed nanotechnology to the point where any type of technology that you have right now, anything technology-based, will be able to function the same way it does now, but it won’t have any kind of footprint, it will only be a square centimeter in size. Some people have characterized that as “nano-magic,” because everything around you will appear magical. You wouldn’t be able to see the structures doing it, but there would be light coming out of the walls, screens that are suspended that you can move around any surface, sensors everywhere — everything would be extremely efficient.
An artist’s rendering of a blueprint from Project Daedalus (Image courtesy of Nathan Fowkes)
Project Daedalus favored a nuclear fusion pulse engine, in which small pellets of fusion fuel would be injected at high velocity into a reaction chamber and ignited by high-energy electron beams. Is that still the favored propulsion technology?
Tziolas:Project Icarus is focused on a fusion-based propulsion system, but the flavor of fusion is still up for debate. One of the problems with the Daedalus fusion propulsion system is that it runs on Helium3 and Helium3 is very scarce on the surface of the earth. In fact, in order to collect enough Helium3 to visit another star, you’d need to mine the atmospheres of the gas giants like Neptune and Jupiter. So our current thinking is that this is probably not the best way to go to another star if it requires that we mine half of the solar system just to get enough fuel. So, we’re trying to present a new fuel source or a new type of fusion, of which there are several.
There are also other alternatives, such as beam propulsion, which uses a ground station or an orbital station that focuses energy from the sun into a beam, a stream of particles or radiation, in order to push a spacecraft to the other star. The physics and engineering of this are both well understood. We know how light reflects off of surfaces and we have experience with solar panels, so we don’t have the same disconnect that we have with fusion. Because remember we haven’t actually achieved fusion, sustained fusion, in the laboratory. But the major problem is that the beam that you transmit is going to diverge to a certain degree, and as a result you are going to lose some thrust. The other obstacle is the sail you’d need to capture the beam; to complete a mission like the one we’re talking about you’d need a sail that was roughly a hundred square kilometers in area, and that isn’t feasible right now.
The third option is nuclear fission, which Project Orion intends to use, and there you have small-scale nuclear warheads — although we don’t call them that, we use something more diplomatic like “fission pulse units” — and you detonate them behind the spacecraft to push it through space. Freeman Dyson has been an advocate of this approach.
Obviously there would be enormous challenges involved in communicating with a starship at such great distances. What is the latest thinking on how that might be accomplished?
Tziolas: Yes that’s a major concern. If you can’t communicate with the ship then you don’t know what the results are of your mission. It’s an active area of research, and we’re considering several alternatives. One idea is to moderate the fusion pulses in the main engine, and using it to encode signals — but that’s a worst case scenario. We’re also considering point-to-point laser communications, but the challenge there is the power drain would be enormous. It would probably require a second fusion reactor, and that’s fine but you have to design that in.
Another, more interesting option is the use of relays, and this was explored in the previous phase of our research at Project Daedalus. The idea is that when you drop the empty fuel tanks along the way, you design them so that they can double as relay stations. You could power them with small reactors, and use them to relay signals back to earth. We have two studies on this, and one says this could work and the other says it can’t, so we’re working on it.
What are the main considerations involved in choosing a destination star?
Tziolas:Well we’re somewhat limited by the timescale we’ve chosen. We want this to be a hundred year mission, and that puts our maximum range at fifteen light years, using the best estimates about fusion technology. Right now we’re designing around Alpha Centauri because it’s the easiest, and because it’s a double star we expect it to be very interesting scientifically. However, if a terrestrial planet is discovered and it has a few oceans and it’s within 22 light years instead of our maximum of 15, we would button down and make that our mission. Habitability is the prime consideration.
“To us, proliferating the human race must always come first.”
Interesting. I’m surprised it’s that and not extraterrestrial life, but then I suppose they overlap.
Tziolas: If there were two planets: one of them is teeming with life, but it’s not habitable because it’s methane or sulfur based life, and the other is an Eden with an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere and only eighty percent our gravity, so everyone would be a superman, and they’re in opposite directions, where would we go if you had to pick one? To us, proliferating the human race must always come first. We would go to the Eden and not think twice about it.
Do you expect that the current exoplanet fever — sparked by, among other things, the recent data from the Kepler Space Telescope — will lead to more attention and investment in interstellar travel? Are there any other developments, be they cultural or technological, that could give momentum to a serious public desire for a mission to the stars?
Tziolas: The investment in exoplanet research is not going to end any time soon. It’s something you can keep on doing for a very long time, and it’s a nest that astrophysicists will be able to build and nurture, with advances in capabilities on the scale of the great particle colliders on the Earth. You can always go to higher power, you can always go to higher magnification, you can try interferometric methods, better angular resolution, more spacecraft, the James Webb Space Telescope, the list goes on. So once we find this Eden, this beautiful place that is in our solar neighborhood, people are going to want to go there. There will be a push for an interstellar mission and it’s our hope that Project Icarus is in a position to deliver when that happens.
In the meantime we are trying to raise the profile of interstellar travel. It’s something I often think about because I’m in charge of education and outreach for the project. One thing we’re doing is adding courses in interstellar engineering to aerospace programs in the United States and in Europe. We expect the first of those to begin this Fall. But more interestingly, we’re also opening a new gaming division. For a while we’d pictured these as educational games, but when we got to the 100 Year Starship conference, the feedback we got was: “It doesn’t have to be that educational — just make some spaceships that reflect your designs and let people fly around and explore Alpha Centauri.” And so we came back the next week and we started looking into that, and now we’re designing these games that we can use to attract people to the concept of exploring another star.
This is something that is a constant focus for us, because while it’s certainly true that a mission of this kind needs a dedicated engineering program, it also needs mindshare. We need people to believe that interstellar travel is a reality, and we need them to adopt it as the next great space exploration effort that humankind is going to undertake. And to do that we’re going to need a cultural shift in the way that we think about space, and the way we think about the universe.
Have you and your colleagues given any thought to including something like the Golden Record that was stowed away on the two Voyager probes, the disc of sounds and images from Earth compiled by Carl Sagan?
Tziolas:We have, actually. It only took a week after the project began for people to start putting together a new record, and to start thinking about what the content of the record would be, but we haven’t really agreed on what the message would be. After the core design team had the initial discussion, we decided that the message should not be designed by physicists and engineers but rather by a sociologist or an anthropologist, but that was the limit to what we agreed on. We all agreed that what Carl Sagan sent was great; we just need to adapt it to our own time. Since then we’ve been actively trying to recruit anthropologists and sociologists to the team.
One of my concerns is that if we send another golden disc, it might not be well suited to reaching its audience. The chances of an extraterrestrial finding it and reading it are worse than a needle in a haystack; it’s like a particle in a universe. So my preference is to design some kind of module that was more technological than the analog disc, that way you could send it in to orbit around your target star, equip it with solar panels, have it charge up and once every twelve hours or so it gives out a pulse. And that would be just to give this other civilization something to look at, and when they design the capabilities to go check it out, they would, and then inside there would be something static, something like the golden record.
Lillium promises an electric vertical take-off personal jet by 2018
Lillium promises an electric vertical take-off personal jet by 2018
f you live in suburbia and have a long commute to work, wouldn’t it be nice to have your own plane? But, oh yeah, you need a runway and your kids and the neighbor’s kids are always leaving things in the yards and in the streets. What you really need is maybe a helicopter, but they’re harder to fly and so noisy the neighbors won’t be happy (not to mention the FAA and your town zoning board).
Well, get ready to toss your aviator scarf around your neck because startup company Lilium Aviation expects to start selling the Lilium all-electric VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) personal jet aircraft in 2018, according to International Business Times. So start saving. No price has been announced yet, but it will be a lot, so just start saving.
Previously, VTOL aircraft were only for the military. In an effort to bring the technology to the masses, or at least the affluent, engineers and students from the Technical University of Munich founded Lilium Aviation, which is backed by the European Space Agency (ESA). The goal is to design and produce planes that are quiet, environmentally clean, and relatively easy to fly. Oh, and they can go straight up and down as well as forward.
The two-seat Lilium will have a top speed just under 250 mph and a range at cruising speed of about 310 miles. The all-electric plan will have a 320kW battery to power the fan engines, retractable landing gear, fly-by-wire joystick controls, wings doors, and windows all around. You won’t have to worry too much about landing and taking off, the two most troublesome parts of flying, because an onboard computer will handle both. You’ll also have help staying on course with GPS-assisted navigation.The ESA’s plans are for the Lilium to fly only on good days, meaning daytime with good weather, and only up to 3km, about 1.8 miles, where the airspace isn’t very crowded. But not just anyone can fly one. You’ll need a valid pilot’s license and a minimum 20 hours training.
There will be ample storage, Lilium Aviation promises, so if you’re taking your daughter or son to soccer practice (though only one at a time, please), you’ll have plenty of room to store their gear.
What do aliens look like? The clue is in evolution
What do aliens look like? The clue is in evolution
Speculating about what aliens look like has kept children, film producers and scientists amused for decades. If they exist, will extra terrestrials turn out to look similar to us, or might they take a form beyond our wildest imaginings? The answer to this question really depends on how we think evolution works at the deepest level.
Hollywood has given us its fair share of humanoid aliens over the years. Initially this was through necessity, as special effects required someone to clamber into a rubber suit. Ironically, now that CGI makes anything possible, aliens sometimes look even more human in order to help the cinema goer make an emotional connection with them – such as in James Cameron’s Avatar.
At present, the only life forms we can study are here on Earth. These had a single origin around 3.5 billion years ago, but this common ancestor gave rise to perhaps 20m living species of animals alone. These have bodies organised according to about 30 different body plans in major groups called phyla.
But when animals first diversified some 542m or more years ago in the Cambrian “explosion”, there may have been an even greater diversity of fundamental body plans. Consider the five-eyed and trunked Opabina in the image above, or the stalked and almost flower-like Dinomischus alongside our own distant relative, the chordate Pikaia.
Pikaia – an early chordate,the group to which humans belong. Credit: Nobu Tamura/wikimedia, CC BY-SA
Rerunning the tape of life
In a famous thought experiment, biologist Stephen Jay Gouldasked what might happen if we were to rewind the “tape of life” and rerun it. Gould argued for the importance of chance in evolution: change one small thing early on, and the consequences magnify through time. In the version of history we know, Pikaia(imaged below) or something very like it survived and ultimately gave rise to fishes, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and ultimately ourselves. But what if it had perished? Might some other group have given rise to intelligent beings, and might you now be reading this with five eyes rather than the customary two? If our own origins on Earth really turned on such fine hinges, why should aliens – evolving on different planets – even remotely resemble us?
The answer, according to evolutionary biologist Simon Conway Morris, lies in the phenomenon of evolutionary convergence: the process by which distantly related animals come to closely resemble each other. For example, the similar streamlined shape of dolphins, tuna fish and the extinct ichthyosaurs all evolved independently in response to the same selective pressures for moving efficiently through water at speed.
But what aspects of alien biology might we expect? Carbon-based biochemistry is likely given that carbon forms stable backbone chains, and makes stable but readily breakable bonds with other elements. Other elements, notably silicon and sulphur, make less stable bonds at Earth-like temperatures. Water or some other solvent also seems necessary. For evolution to occur there needs to be some mechanism for storing and replicating information with moderate fidelity, such as DNA, RNA or some analogue. Although the first cells appeared on Earth quite early, multicellular animals took nearly 3 billion more years to evolve. So it may well be that life on other planets could get stuck at the single-celled stage.
On an Earth-like planet it is also likely that radiation from the alien sun or suns would be used in biochemical pathways as a source of energy. For moderately large multicellular primary producers, harnessing light efficiently probably necessitates a light gathering system of leaves and branches. Similar shapes and habits have evolved convergently on Earth, so we might expect “plants” with broadly familiar forms on Earth-like planets.
With few exceptions, animals either eat the primary producers or each other, and there are only so many ways of doing this. Pursuing food often necessitates moving with the mouth first, so the animal has a head and tail end. Teeth and probably jaws evolve to hold and tackle food items. Moving against a hard surface requires specialised structures (such as cilia, a muscular foot or legs) at the interface, so that there is a back and front side. Typically, this also imparts bilateral (left/right) symmetry: indeed, most animals belong to a “super-group” called the Bilateria.
The giant weta: one of the largest insects. Credit: New Zealand Department of Conservation, CC BY-SA
Why not giant intelligent “insects”?
But what about the large brained and intelligent creatures that might be capable of crossing interstellar distances? Insects are by far the most species rich group on Earth: why shouldn’t aliens look more like them? Unfortunately, having your skeleton on the outside makes growth difficult, and entails periodic shedding and regrowth. On Earth-like planets, all but relatively small terrestrial animals with external skeletons would collapse under their own weight during moulting, and some critical size may be necessary for suitably complex brains.
Relatively large brains, some degree of tool use and problem-solving abilities appear to be correlated on Earth, and have evolved multiple times: in apes, whales, dolphins, dogs, parrots, crows and octopuses. However, the apes have developed tool use to a vastly greater degree. This is at least partly the result of walking on two legs, which frees up the front limbs, and because of the dexterity of our fingers (which may also be a key to the origins of written language).
Ultimately, the jury is out on the extent to which intelligent aliens – if they exist – would resemble us. It may or may not be significant that humans have just two eyes and ears (just enough for stereo vision and hearing), and just two legs (reduced from the initially more stable four). Many other organs also come in pairs as a consequence of our evolutionarily deep-seated – and perhaps inevitable – bilateral symmetry. Still other elements of our body plan are probably nothing more than chance. The fact that we have hands and feet with five digits is a consequence of the fixation on five in our early tetrapod ancestors – close relatives experimented with seven or eight.
Indeed, most species have been subject to an accidental “locking down” during development – making body plans become stereotyped and inflexible with evolutionary time. Untangling the functional from the accidental is one of the big outstanding challenges in evolutionary biology – and may help us better understand how alien lifeforms could differ from us.
The main way we now search for intelligent life in space is by listening for radio or gamma transmissions. These efforts are increasingly being concentrated on star systems with Earth-like planets, as these are believed to be the most likely to harbour life. After all, it is easier to search for “life as we know it” than life as we don’t.
Since the beginning of human civilization, we have looked up at the stars and wondered in amazement. The vastness of the universe was unknown to early humans, but in recent decades and centuries, we have begun to realize just how incredibly large the universe truly is. With hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy alone, and with hundreds of billions of galaxies in the observable universe, a normal question was bound to arise… Is anyone else out there?
This has fascinated everyone from conspiracy theorists and kings to modern astronomers and Hollywood producers, but back in 1961, a man named Frank Drake came up with an equation that would measure the likelihood of making contact with intelligent life in our galaxy. That is the essential goal of the Drake Equation, and while it has been hotly debated for decades, it remains one of the most concise and trusted methods of estimating an answer to that eternal question: Are we alone in the universe?
The Drake Equation
When Frank Drake first came up with the idea for the Drake equation, he was actually trying to generate a conversation among a “meeting of the minds” regarding the search for extraterrestrial life (SETI). However, the simple and inclusive design of his equation has become the stuff of legend. Before we go into the details of the equation, let’s look at it in simple terms.
The Drake Equation (Photo Credit: meletver / Fotolia)
So, the Drake Equation is:
However, it would be a bit more insightful to know what each of those variables meant. So, without further ado…
N = the number of possible civilizations in the galaxy that could communicate with us
R* = average rate of star formation in the Milky Way
fp = the fraction of those stars that possess planets
ne = the number of planets that could support life around each of those stars with planets
fl = the fraction of planets that could support life that actually do develop life
fi = the fraction of planets with life that develop intelligent life
fc = the fraction of intelligent civilizations that attempt to send communication out into space to be detected
L = the length of time that signal would be sent out into the universe (duration of civilization)
The Drake Equation
( Photo Credit: noeticscience.co.uk)
An Answer to the Drake Equation?
While it seems like a simple enough equation, the problem doesn’t like with generating a final answer (N), but rather in determining what other variables should be included. The first three variables (average star formation rate, planet-possessing stars, and potential to support life on those planet) are relatively easy to determine.
R* – By looking at our own nearby galactic neighborhood and the residual gas clouds from star formation, we can safely calculate that the present rate of star formation is currently about 7 stars per year. This number was far greater in the past, but in the 21st century, that’s a safe bet.
The Orion Nebula, one of our nearest star nurseries (Photo Credit: peresanz / Fotolia)
fp – The fraction of those stars with planets is often assumed to be 1, given that many modern astronomers believe that every star has the capacity to retain orbiting planets, making stars without planets an exception, rather than a rule. However, some other figures place that number at only .4 (4 out of 10 stars will possess planets). This is where the significant differences in variables begin, but it gets even more intense.
ne – The number of planets that could support life around each of those stars is largely derived from our own solar system, where Earth is definitely habitable, but we have yet to determine the habitability of various other moons and planets. Therefore, the number ranges from .5 to 2 in most calculations of the Drake Equation.
Those are the easy ones… and there is far more debate on the last 4 variables, as much of it is conjecture, based on belief, rather than scientific fact or direct observable experience.
fl – The fraction of planets that do develop life is hotly debated and cannot be directly tested, as we haven’t traveled to other exoplanets where the “stuff of life” has been detected. We know that life could develop, but not whether it will. Some say life is inevitable, making this variable equal to 1, while others say it is 1/100, or even smaller!
fi – The fraction of planets with life that develop intelligent life is similarly up for grabs. Many argue that intelligent life is inevitable, using Earth as an example (humans evolved from every other form of life, and eventually became intelligent), while critics say that it was a 1 in a billion chance, as there have been hundreds of millions of non-intelligent species in the history of the planet.
fc – The fraction of those intelligent civilizations that send communication signals suggests a highly technologically evolved culture with the desire to reach out to the stars. This could also be largely conjectural, but a 1/100 estimate was made by Drake, although others say it is a 100% chance, if given enough time.
L – Finally, we come to length of time the signal would be generated. For example, perhaps a civilization rose to prominence 10 million years ago, broadcast the signal, but then destroyed itself before it could connect with us. This is the variable with the most flexibility, from a few hundreds years up to billions (some suggest that eventually, a civilization will discover how to survive in perpetuity, meaning the signal transmission time would be massive.
Maybe they’re just getting a busy signal (Photo Credit: Alexander Pokusay / Fotolia)
NOW….in 1961, Drake estimated with a rather simple range of values, and came up with two values, a minimum and maximum.
The minimum estimation of possible communicative civilizations in our galaxy is 20, while the maximum is roughly 50,000,000. Frank Drake himself believes that the number lies somewhere between 1,000 and 100,000,000.
The Modern Take on Drake
While the debate over extraterrestrial life will never be resolved until we actually find some, we have improved our ability to calculate the variables in the equation. Unfortunately, this hasn’t done much in terms of shrinking the possible range. In fact, our precision has only expanded the range, and current estimates range from 2 to 280,000,000.
The original purpose of the Drake equation, we must remember, was not to determine an accurate number of communicating, intelligent civilizations in our galaxy; it was to stimulate thought in this area, and hopefully guide people to look into the variables and expand the scope of their research. To that end, Frank Drake has been extremely successful. With every successive venture into the cosmos, we get closer to finding life (or not), but with hundreds of billions of stars out there, we’ll likely never know the exact number. However, in terms of extraterrestrial life, I’ll leave it to Fox Mulder….
(VIDEO)‘Human Sacrifice Ceremony’ at CERN investigated by chiefs at world-famous Science Center
(VIDEO)‘Human Sacrifice Ceremony’ at CERN investigated by chiefs at world-famous Science Center
The organization of the world’s leading nuclear research has opened an internal investigation into a chilling incident that occurred on campus.
A video surfaced on the internet shows the moment a woman is allegedly sacrificed near the statue of Shiva at CERN where the Large Hadron Collider is located. The statue of Lord Shiva was installed at the campus in 2004, symbolizing Shiva’s cosmic dance of creation and destruction, was given to CERN by the Indian government to celebrate the research center’s long association with India.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has opened up an internal investigation in response to a video released last week in which a parody is performed allegedly showing a woman bein stabbed as part of a human sacrifice in the ground of the Geneva headquarters reports the Swiss website Swissinfo.
The strange video which popped up on the internet a couple of days ag depicts several individuals in black cloth gather at the main square at one of Europe’s top physics labs ni the appears to be a re-enactment of an occult ceremony.
The chilling video illustrates human sacrifice as a woman is filmed bein stabbed.
‘These scenes were filmed on our premises, but without official permission or knowledge,’ a CERN spokeswoman told AFP in an email. CERN does not condone this type of spoof, which can give rise to misunderstandings about the scientific nature of our work,’ she added.
The image shows a woman being sacrificed at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). CERN Chiefs have already started an investigation into the online video which allegedly shows a woman being sacrificed in a gruesome ritual on their grounds.
She added that the investigation taking place is an internal matter.
The strange video has raised numerous questions involving the security present on CERN’s campus.
The image shows several people preparing for the ritual. A joke that has gone too far.
When asked to detail the security procedure regarding access to CERN’s campus, the CERN spokeswoman responded saying that: ‘CERN IDs are checked systematically at each entry to the CERN site whether it is night or day.’
The spokeswoman further indicated that the individual’s responsible for the occult ‘prank’ had access badges.
‘CERN welcomes every year thousands of scientific users from all over the world and sometimes some of them let their humor go too far. This is what happened on this occasion,’ the email said.
The video, which has already registered over 240,000 views, has caused stupor in the management of CERN where the famous Large Hadron Collider is located.
(VIDEO)‘Human Sacrifice Ceremony’ at CERN investigated by chiefs at world-famous Science Center
(VIDEO)‘Human Sacrifice Ceremony’ at CERN investigated by chiefs at world-famous Science Center
The organization of the world’s leading nuclear research has opened an internal investigation into a chilling incident that occurred on campus.
A video surfaced on the internet shows the moment a woman is allegedly sacrificed near the statue of Shiva at CERN where the Large Hadron Collider is located. The statue of Lord Shiva was installed at the campus in 2004, symbolizing Shiva’s cosmic dance of creation and destruction, was given to CERN by the Indian government to celebrate the research center’s long association with India.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has opened up an internal investigation in response to a video released last week in which a parody is performed allegedly showing a woman bein stabbed as part of a human sacrifice in the ground of the Geneva headquarters reports the Swiss website Swissinfo.
The strange video which popped up on the internet a couple of days ag depicts several individuals in black cloth gather at the main square at one of Europe’s top physics labs ni the appears to be a re-enactment of an occult ceremony.
The chilling video illustrates human sacrifice as a woman is filmed bein stabbed.
‘These scenes were filmed on our premises, but without official permission or knowledge,’ a CERN spokeswoman told AFP in an email. CERN does not condone this type of spoof, which can give rise to misunderstandings about the scientific nature of our work,’ she added.
The image shows a woman being sacrificed at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). CERN Chiefs have already started an investigation into the online video which allegedly shows a woman being sacrificed in a gruesome ritual on their grounds.
She added that the investigation taking place is an internal matter.
The strange video has raised numerous questions involving the security present on CERN’s campus.
The image shows several people preparing for the ritual. A joke that has gone too far.
When asked to detail the security procedure regarding access to CERN’s campus, the CERN spokeswoman responded saying that: ‘CERN IDs are checked systematically at each entry to the CERN site whether it is night or day.’
The spokeswoman further indicated that the individual’s responsible for the occult ‘prank’ had access badges.
‘CERN welcomes every year thousands of scientific users from all over the world and sometimes some of them let their humor go too far. This is what happened on this occasion,’ the email said.
The video, which has already registered over 240,000 views, has caused stupor in the management of CERN where the famous Large Hadron Collider is located.
THE ABOVE TOP SECRET SPACE PROGRAM BUILT WITH REVERSE-ENGINEERED ALIEN TECHNOLOGY
THE ABOVE TOP SECRET SPACE PROGRAM BUILT WITH REVERSE-ENGINEERED ALIEN TECHNOLOGY
In 1993, during a lecture at the UCLA Alumini Center, Ben Rich, former CEO of Lockheed Martin held a very interesting speech about technological advancements in space engineering in a period of forty years. He concluded his speech with the following quote: We now have the technology to take ET home.” – Ben Rich, CEO of Lockheed Skunk Works, 1993
While talking about ET the last image of the slide showed a mysterious black disk-shaped object flying into outer space.
What was Mr Richj telling us with the quote? With the image?
Lockheed has designed and built a series of incredible aircraft including the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-22 Raptor and the F-117 Nighthawk, all of them with state of the art technology that no one else had in their possession. Their aircrafts were unique, fast, and lethal.
Many people believe that Lockheed Martin definitely came into possession of advanced alien technology that they managed to reengineer creating the next generation fighters. Is it possible that Lockheed is responsible for the manned flying saucers? Is it possible that Lockheed combined Tesla’s inventions with re-engineered alien technology which allowed them to create unprecedented aerial vehicles and even spacecraft? Vehicles that have been kept far away from the prying eyes of the public.
As of 2000, if not a bit earlier, people started to think differently, interest in alien life and extraterrestrial technology, governments could keep up with the high interest of the public in those subjects which has probably led to the numerous declassified UFO files made available to the public in recent years.
In an interview with BBC British system administrator Gary McKinnon, the person who hacked his way into 97 U.S. military and NASA computers, said that he had been motivated by the Disclosure Project since “there are some very credible, relied-upon people, all saying yes, there is UFO technology, there’s anti-gravity, there’s free energy, and it’s extraterrestrial in origin and they’ve captured spacecraft and reverse engineered them.”
According to McKinnon, he uncovered numerous files, among them a spreadsheet containing names and details about extraterrestrial officers and fleet logs. McKinnon searched for the ‘extraterrestrial officers’ in the database of the U.S Military and Navy and concluded that those officers were nowhere to be found. He concluded that these mysterious ‘officers’ had to be Space Marines.
McKinnon saw countless UFO images stored in NASA’s computers at the Johnson Space Center’s Building 8 among other highly classified documents. McKinnon was caught in 2002 facing over 50 years in prison and millions of dollars in fines. Luckily, McKinnon who fled to the U.K. was never extradited to the US and managed to avoid prison. McKinnon firmly believes that extraterrestrial vehicles have been captured by governments around the world, and he also believes that mankind was able to reverse engineer that technology creating highly advanced spacecraft which are today fully functional.
According to Jack A. Shulman, president of American Computer; the invention of the transistor may have been inspired by the study of the remains of a crashed alien spacecraft, basically reverse engineered technology.
Alien Technology and humans reverse engineering it was first mentioned in 1997 when, American Computer Company (ACC) suggested the possibility that the study of the remains of a crashed alien spaceship in Roswell in 1947, or another crashed Alien spaceship might have been definitive for the development of the transistor, made in 1948 by Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain doctors in the Research Center of Electronic Circuits at Bell Laboratories.
The basis for such claims are a series of documents and testimonies that supposedly were in possession of ACC. This theory matches the stories of many others, among them, former Lieutenant Colonel Phillip Corso, who in his book; The Day After Roswell, claims being part of the team that handed the remains of the crashed object and delivered parts to different departments of Bell Laboratories .
What Kind of Technology Brought the Ancient Egyptians Into the Grand Canyon?
What Kind of Technology Brought the Ancient Egyptians Into the Grand Canyon?
One of the most intriguing archaeological discoveries in North America comes from the rocky cliffs of the Grand Canyon. What makes it even more interesting is the fact that The Smithsonian covered it up and hid this intriguing discovery of an ancient civilization living below the canyon, a find that has the potential to change bits of our written history.
The World Explorers Club decided to conduct an investigation regarding the authenticity of this discovery and phoned the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. for more details. Their thirst to find out more was due to an intricate article on the front page of the Phoenix Gazette from April 5, 1909. The story offered an accurate description of an expedition led by Professor S.A. Jordan of the Smithsonian that surfaced with great archaeological finds from a remote cave located in the Grand Canyon.
Maybe the most interesting is the attitude of The Smithsonian Museum, claiming to have zero knowledge of this discovery and those involved in finding it. When asked about the newspaper article regarding the Smithsonian excavation in the Grand Canyon where Egyptian artifacts had been found, and whether they could offer more information on this, a staff archaeologist representing the institution said the following: “The first thing I can tell you before we go any further, is that no Egyptian artifact of any kind have ever been found in North or South America. Therefore, I can tell you that the Smithsonian Institute has never been involved in any such excavations.”
No one from the Smithsonian could offer any information of either the discovery, or of G.E. Kinkaid and Professor S.A. Jordan, the presumed discoverers. It was like the entire article from the 1909 Phoenix newspaper was a shameless hoax, but considering the fact that it appeared on the front page, and that it mentioned the famous Smithsonian Institution and some of its archaeologists, coupled with the fact that it contained a very detailed story written on numerous pages, many believe the newspaper was a legitimate source.
So, why would a reputed, official institution cover this up? After all, we are talking about a monumental discovery that would completely change the current belief that there was no form of communication or travel over the oceans in pre-Colombian times. Also, the belief that all American Indians were the followers of Ice Age adventurers who came across the Bering Strait would become questionable.
The idea of ancient Egyptians coming to Arizona in an ancient past is denied even though the Smithsonian Institution seems to have proof of it. Is there a reason for their denial? Is it because this astounding discovery would overwrite current academic teachings? Or maybe because of the interest to preserve their current status as keepers of forbidden knowledge?
The Tower of Ra
Following these events, in the pursuit of finding the truth, historian Carl Hart, editor of World Explorer, acquired a map of the Grand Canyon from a bookstore in Chicago. Looking over the map, he was surprised to find that a considerable portion on the north side of the canyon has Egyptian names. The field around Ninety-four Mile Creek and Trinity Creek had areas named after Egyptian gods like Tower of Ra, Tower of Set, Osiris Temple, Horus Temple or Isis Temple.
Also, the Haunted Canyon area had some unfamiliar places on the map, such as the Cheops Pyramid, the Buddha Cloister, Buddha Temple, Shiva Temple and Manu Temple. Were any of these places related to the other Egyptian findings in the Grand Canyon?
The Isis Temple
The World Explorers Club then called a state archaeologist at the Grand Canyon. He affirmed that those names were just a coincidence and that the early adventurers enjoyed Egyptian and Hindu names. But one thing remains certain – the area was restricted to hikers or other foreigners, because of dangerous caves and unsafe environment.
Could these hidden caverns contain the actual truth and, if so, for how long will it be concealed? If we take a look at the bigger picture, there is a lot of leaked information which points us into a different direction than what we were taught by the public school system and television. We have a different notion of “truth” and we are also aware of all the odd jobs going on that continue to finance the elites and the lies they feed us as reality.
Whatever the case, history has a lot of gaps, and the existing evidence might be a paved road over an otherwise dusty foundation, representing the true history of humankind.
(VIDEO) THE REASON NASA NEVER RETURNED TO THE MOON
(VIDEO) THE REASON NASA NEVER RETURNED TO THE MOON
Have you ever wondered why we haven’t returned to the moon? It appears that NASA is hiding a dark secret from us. One reason appears to be that there’s an alien base on the moon. It seems more and more people are going public with information suggesting that this could in fact be true. Rumors say that there is an alien moon base on the far side of the moon (the side facing away from Earth).
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Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the astronaut who participated in the Apollo 14 mission in 1971, and the sixth man to walk on the moon said, Mitchell was not the only one to speak openly on the topic of extraterrestrial crafts.
Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr., aka ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, former American astronaut and engineer, has also spoken about the UFO phenomenon. Buzz Aldrin was the Lunar Module Pilot during the Apollo 11 mission as well as one of the first humans to land on the surface of the moon, and the second person to walk on it
On Apollo 11 in route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us. There were many explanations of what that could be, other than another spacecraft from another country or another world – it was either the rocket we had separated from, or the 4 panels that moved away when we extracted the lander from the rocket and we were nose to nose with the two spacecraft. So in the close vicinity, moving away, were 4 panels. And I feel absolutely convinced that we were looking at the sun reflected off of one of these panels. Which one? I don’t know. So technically, the definition could be “unidentified.”
Op 17 augustus 2016 vindt er een drama plaats in een gebied in Jamalië, een afgelegen deel van Siberië.
Alhoewel volgens de meteorologen het weer op die locatie prachtig was zonder wolken, vliegt er volgens de autoriteiten een vuurbol een tent binnen en explodeert.
Het volgende is een vreemd verhaal en als het inderdaad zo is gebeurd als dat de autoriteiten en het nieuws ons vertellen, hebben we te maken met een zeer zeldzaam verschijnsel met dodelijke afloop.
De gebeurtenis vindt plaats op 17 augustus 2016 in een gebied dat Jamalië heet, in het Russische Siberië ligt en heel dun bevolkt is.
De bevolking leeft daar in tenten zoals te zien op de volgende afbeeldingen:
In deze tenten woont een volk van herders en de dieren waarmee ze dat doen zijn rendieren.
Volgens de berichten uit Rusland vloog er een vuurbol één van bovenstaande tenten in en explodeerde eenmaal binnenin de tent, waardoor een jongetje van 7 jaar om het leven kwam.
In de tent waren ook nog twee meisjes van 12 en 16 jaar oud. Zij kwamen er vanaf met tweede- en derdegraads brandwonden.
De kinderen behoorden tot hetzelfde herdersgezin. Het jongetje heet Timur en het jongste meisje heet Sabrina en de oudste Sophia.
Klaarblijkelijk stoof de hond op de vuurbol af toen deze de tent binnen kwam, maar helaas heeft het dier tijdens de daarop volgende explosie letterlijk zijn kop verloren.
Hierbij een kort fragment uit de Russische nieuwsuitzending.
Volgens het nationale nieuws hebben we hier te maken met een geval van bolbliksem:
Een bolbliksem is een helder oplichtend bolvormig object met een diameter van maximaal 40 centimeter, dat soms waargenomen wordt in de buurt van een blikseminslag en dan gedurende meerdere seconden zichtbaar is. Het is een atmosferisch verschijnsel waar lange tijd geen afdoende verklaring voor was. Een bolbliksem doet zich meestal voor bij zwaar onweer maar er zijn ook gevallen bekend waarin een bolbliksem optrad tijdens helder weer.
Er was tijdens de gebeurtenis absoluut geen sprake van slecht weer of onweer, dus dan zou het één van die zeldzame gevallen zijn waar bolbliksem voorkomt zonder onweer of in ieder geval bewolking.
Het vreemde toeval wil natuurlijk dat we aan het begin van de maand ook al een vreemd lichtverschijnsel zagen in Siberië, wat ook werd afgedaan als bolbliksem.
In de video hieronder zie het vreemde licht bewegen door het veld. Ook dit zou bolbliksem kunnen zijn, maar dan wordt altijd gesproken over een zeldzaam verschijnsel en dan zouden we er nu al twee hebben indezelfde maand.
A Utah witness at West Jordan reported watching a cylinder-shaped UFO hovering while it changed colors before slowly moving away, according to testimony in Case 78051 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was a passenger in a vehicle at 7000 South and Redwood when the driver first noticed two lights hovering under 500 feet.
“At first I thought it was a plane,” the witness stated.“But the lights weren’t moving, just standing very still.”
The witness was able to describe the object better once they approached it.
“As we got closer, between the two bright, white lights was a cylinder-shaped figure. It turned into a glowing purple, and then slowly turned red, and then blue. As we passed I looked behind me to watch. Then it slowly started moving towards the northern side of Utah while changing into the three colors. Then I looked away. I felt very excited and shocked. I couldn’t believe my own eyes.”
Field Investigator created this illustration of the object based on witness statements.
(Credit: MUFON)
Utah MUFON Assistant State Director Robert Crowe and Field Investigator Cary Crowe investigated and closed this case as an Unknown.
“The witness described the object as being about two car lengths long (two newer Chevrolet Camaros) and the width of a Camaro. A 2014 Chevrolet Camaro is 188 inches in length and 76 inches wide, according to the website, Edmonds.com,” the Crowe’s stated in their report.
The object was first seen hovering above 7000 South and Redwood in West Jordan, Utah.
(Credit: MUFON)
“Witness noticed a door that was centered on the cylinder about 10 feet by 10 feet. She explained the door was the type that rolls up, similar to an airplane. Above the door, there was an orange blinking light that stopped blinking after she saw the object. The cylinder appeared to be rough in texture with black or another dark color as the base color.Witness did not know or did not see a source of propulsion.On the end of the pulsing light domes, which were the size of a large trampoline, were these evenly spaced ‘stringy’ lights. They were spaced about a foot apart where they attached to the sphere. The lights seemed to be solid and appeared to be 6 to 8 feet in length.”
The investigators combed the neighborhood of the sighting area for four hours and were unable to find another witness. The local West Jordan Police Department was also contacted and they had no reports related this this event. Additionally, the South Valley Regional Airport had no reports either.
The object slowly moved away after changing colors several times above 7000 South and Redwood in West Jordan, Utah.
(Credit: MUFON)
Investigator’s Conclusions: “I am unable to conclude the identification of the object reported by the witness. No other sightings of this description could be found in a 1,000-mile radius. Until such time as new information is made available, I must dispose of this case as Unknown.”
Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
White UFO Seen Over Abilene, Kansas In Aug 4, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
White UFO Seen Over Abilene, Kansas In Aug 4, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 4, 2016 Location of sighting: Abilene, Kansas, USA Source: MUFON #78235 This UFO was seen over a small town of Abilene a few weeks ago. Abilene is a secluded town with a low population of only 6,600, so aliens probably thought the odds of being seen were much lower in this particular area. Lucky for us they were wrong. Aliens are not perfect, the do make mistakes and are seen from time to time daily around the globe. They may live thousands or even millions of years, but that doesn't make them gods, just immortals, who are more fortunate than us technologically, that they may have such long lifetimes. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: I was on a walk in a local park when I notice an odd light in the sky moving over me. I was able to record the object for about minute. After the first object was out of sight two other objects appeared heading the same direction, but too far out of range for my camera to see them.
Glowing UFO In Russia Over Farmers Field Same As Colorado And Vegas UFOs, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO In Russia Over Farmers Field Same As Colorado And Vegas UFOs, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: July 2016, but reported in Aug Location of sighting: Novosibirsk, Russia This Glowing UFO was seen during the day time in Russia a few months back, but the person uploaded it to Youtube this week. It shows a UFO moving low over the field and then beyond some trees. Not sure why the camera is held sideways, or that he didnt move around the tree, but we do hear him attempting to move through leaves and then he gives up. Perhaps moving to the left was impossible, so he could only move to the right...but was blocked by the trees.
This UFO is very similar in appearance to glowing orbs seen over the Colorado mountains and over the Las Vegas Mountains. I see no difference in color or intensity of light. This is the same...but has never been seen so close. It has however been seen by a UFO researcher in Vegas called Steven Barone...who watches them almost nightly and records these unpredictable and intense UFOs over the top secret area of an Air Force Base owned land where Tall Whites live at a separate base behind the old firing range...this does look like one of their ships. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
The mysterious object appears when a person experiences, encounters or witnesses an object which cannot be identified. One of the best reasons why UFOs are strange is the fact that most witnesses do not have good evidence to believe that such encounter happened. However, this does not mean that the doors will be closed without examining. While some authorities, even governments, choose to dismiss the sightings, there are still a lot of growing numbers of incidents every day.
A Missouri witness at Lees Summit reported seeing and recording a disc-shaped alien that made a quick descent. It took place on July 21, 2016, at 3:28 p.m. According to the witness, the video lasted for about 39 seconds. Throughout the footage, a flat or disc-shaped vessel traveled from 18:35 to 19:05. The alleged rapid descent formed an angle at 14-degrees. Upon analyzing, he discovered that the angle of elevation upon entering the screen was about 12-degrees, even though it apparently came from a higher angle. Initially, the direction was 350-degrees, and it disappeared in 336-degrees from the camera view. To make the encounter exciting, the witness decided to follow the object’s path. Unfortunately, it disappeared in the western part of the Blue Springs Lake. After that, into another smaller lake. Based on the witness’s analysis, in 16 frames, the vessel covered 3 miles in one-half second or 2,160 mph. Therefore, the witness came to a conclusion that it entered the small body of water. Finally, the 14-degree descent, by projection, has ended northwest at about 320-degrees. This small lake is about 1,600 feet west of the Blue Springs Lake. The objects appear to be closer to 15 feet as opposed to the spheroid vessel.
Since the case was recorded in a database, the Missouri Field Investigator Lawrence Tyree investigated the case. Unfortunately, it was closed as Unknown. Even if the evidence shows a vessel flying at an incredible speed of 2,160 mph, no known technology can do that. This makes it unnatural and mysterious. The description of the movements, its speed, and the video are descriptive of a strange UAV.
Spaceships Stationing on Saturn’s Rings, NASA Scientist Claims
Spaceships Stationing on Saturn’s Rings, NASA Scientist Claims
NASA has made incredible discoveries and innovations in aviation and spaceflight industry. One of these surprising findings is life on another planet. Many would have doubts about NASA finding space alien life, but according to one scientist, planet Saturn has been a home for unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
NASA scientist Normal Bergrun says that alien spaceships have proliferated on rings of Saturn. Bergrun was an engineer at NASA’s Ames Research Center. In various interviews about the solar system situation, he claims that the number of extraterrestrial spaceships has reached critical levels.
Bergrun also worked on top-secret aerospace projects at Lockheed Martin. It was Bergrun who apparently found evidence of extraterrestrial life on the Saturn’s rings.
His discoveries were published in 1986 book “Ringmakers of Saturn.” In the book, Bergrum theorized that UFO had already been found on Saturn’s rings.
He stated that these ET spaceships have been inhabiting Saturn and proliferating as they can also be found on the other ringed planets, Uranus and Jupiter. Bergrun added that he referred them as ringmakers because they are present whenever there are some rings.
According to Bergrun, the rings of these three planets were purposely designed for ET’s source of energy. While NASA has yet to recognize Bergrun’ theories, other pioneers of aerospace technology seemed to agree with him.
Aerospace technology pioneer Herman Oberth stated that flying saucers are real in his thesis, and they are space ships from another solar system. He suggested that intelligent observers, who may have been investigating the Earth for centuries, possibly controlled these UFOs.
Here’s one older UFO footage that was just submitted to MUFON. This happened in Darlington, UK on 26th March 2014.
Witness report:
Travelling East along A66 8 miles from Scotch Corner and witnessed stationary lights in the sky I was travelling East along the A66 approx 8 miles from Scotch Corner when i noticed a cluster of lights on the South West horizon, I think looking towards Skelton. At first i thought the closest resemblance i could think of was a squadron of helicopters with lights on. However after a good few miles they hadn’t moved at all and i managed to take a photograph and video. It wasn’t a great day for visibility and i couldn’t make anything else out other than the lights and their apparent lack of movement. I was mystified at the time and still am, especially after seeing the video again. Lanterns, flares etc have all been suggested but the absolute lack of movement still leaves me skeptical of this explanation. I eventually lost sight as i passed over a hill and couldn’t see the same patch of sky.
Blimp-Like UFO Caught On Video Over A Small City In Kansas
Blimp-Like UFO Caught On Video Over A Small City In Kansas
A man at Abilene in Kansas was shocked to see a blimp-shaped UFO traveling above a local park. He managed to record his UFO sighting on video and submitted a report with the clip to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which then filed as case 78235.
According to the report, the witness was walking in a local park on August 4, 2016, when the odd aerial thing was first noticed.
The object in question appeared to be bright and moving in the sky over the witness, who was able to record it for around a minute and before it went out of sight.
Two other objects then came to the view of the witness. They were reportedly moving in the same direction as the first one, but too far out of range for the camera to catch them.
Becky Landwehr and Larry Jordan of MUFON Kansas are still investigating the case. Abilene is a city in Dickinson County in the State of Kansas with 6,844 population.
Mysterious daytime UFO sighting over Portland, Oregon 20-Aug-2016
Mysterious daytime UFO sighting over Portland, Oregon 20-Aug-2016
Here’s a new daytime footage of bunch of bright UFOs over Portland in Oregon. This happened on Saturday, 20th August 2016.
Witness report:
Group witnessed UFO’s / UAP’s over Oaks Amusement Park, Portland, Oregon A group of people and I witnessed several objects while at Oaks Amusement Park on August 20th, 2016 around 1 PM. At first glance we figured they were balloons, however we noticed they were spiraling in a continuous circle, disappearing and then reappearing, this was during a 100° day with very little wind. I filmed this towards the end of the sighting as I hadn’t thought to pull my phone out until then. We were all very puzzled were trying different explanations for what it was. The clearest view of the objects are in the beginning and the end of the attached video.
5 FASCINATING Archaeological discoveries that have been left out of History Books
5 FASCINATING Archaeological discoveries that have been left out of History Books
Look back in history one hundred years without going back any further. Better yet, look back in history 50 years, and you will see an entirely different historical perspective than what is being presented in history class today. History needs rewriting.
It’s as if history class is limited to only some of the many archaeological discoveries made around the globe.
The truth is that there are so many unprecedented things on planet Earth that we need to reevaluate everything we know about history.
While nearly everyone on Earth knows about The Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx, and the Great Wall of China among other discoveries, the truth is that hundreds of archaeological findings have been omitted by mainstream scholars and consequently by history.
1. Underground tunnels
One of the more recent discoveries that have been made are the underground tunnels spread across the European Continent. Over 12,000 years ago, ancient cultures decided to seek shelter underground and created sophisticated underground tunnels that stretch for thousands of kilometers below the surface of the European continent.
Some researchers refer to these intricate tunnels as ancient highways, even though some of the tunnels are merely 70 centimeters in diameter.
Nevertheless, not many people know these tunnels exist, and it is very likely that this discovery won’t be included in history books anytime soon.
Why? Well, some archaeologists believe these tunnels aren’t of great importance at all. We think otherwise.
2. Longyou Grottoes
One of the most fascinating archaeological discoveries that I never heard of until recently. The Longyou Grotto Caves are massive, man-carved caves that defy logic and explanation.
Interestingly, to date, not a single historical record has been found mentioning the monumental construction process that involved the removal of 1,000,000 cubic meters of rock.
It’s builders remain unknown to history. The mind-boggling underground complex was unearthed by local farmers in 1992. In addition to their humongous size, there is not a single ancient text that describes the underground ‘city’ nor its creation.
Even today, researchers have absolutely no idea who created the impressive underground complex, what its purpose was or when it was made.
3. A 200 Million-Year-Old MASSIVE Footprint
Among the numerous discoveries omitted by mainstream scholars is a massive footprint found in Africa.
Today, many geologists have mixed feelings regarding this incredible feature located in the vicinity of the city of Mpaluzi, near the Swaziland border in the Mpumalanga province in north-eastern South Africa.
The gigantic footprint imprinted into granite is one of the greatest mysteries no one has been able to explain. It obviously looks like a giant footprint left behind by what some believe were GIANTS.
Could it be that this gigantic 200 million-year-old footprint is evidence of these mythological beings?
74Derinkuyu: A Massive underground city that defies logic
One of a fascinating ancient underground cities is without a doubt Derinkuyu.
Located in the Derinkuyu district in the Nevşehir Province, Turkey this fascinating, complex and massive city located below the surface has puzzled researchers ever since its discovery.
Regrettably, it is yet another ancient site that has been omitted in history.
Derinkuyu extends to a depth of about 60 meters underground; it was a highly sophisticated underground shelter. No one knows exactly from what were the people of the underground city hiding; some say war, others climate change, but the exact reason remains a mystery.
5. The underwater city of Yonaguni – Japan
One of my favorite discoveries that mainstream researchers call a natural formation.
This incredible underwater complex was discovered by chance by scuba instructor Khachiro Arataki. The incredibly carved rock sank around 10,000 years ago, much before the Ancient Egyptians built the Pyramids. Mainstream archaeology and science state that 10,000 years ago, mankind was not able to construct such a complex city.
Its complex patterns and flat surfaces are enough evidence for many people that over 10,000 years ago, a sophisticated ancient culture lived on Earth erecting fascinating structures that defy our own capabilities today.
WOMAN CLAIMS 18 ABORTIONS FROM REPTILIAN ALIENS WHO ABDUCT HER
WOMAN CLAIMS 18 ABORTIONS FROM REPTILIAN ALIENS WHO ABDUCT HER
This is a very strange, and interesting story of 41-year-old Giovanna Podda from Italy, a woman who claims she has been abducted by aliens since the age of four.
IS THIS A TRUE ALIEN-HYBRID BABY?
According to Podda, this is her 18th alien-hybrid pregnancy. The fetus, aborted by doctors, doesn’t look like something that should gestate inside of a woman.
She has strange phosphorescing marks on her body, burn holes and implants in her brain. On top of this, she has video and photo evidence of “alien spaceships.”
Podda claims she was abused by aliens and has been forced to flee from her home and her job after neighbors brandished her a liar.
Podda refutes those claims saying that she has been repeatedly abducted, raped and impregnated by a aliens outside of this world. She has released these photos to prove the legitimacy of her claim. What do you think? Is this a true alien-hybrid baby .
NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission Emerges from First Planning Stages
NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission Emerges from First Planning Stages
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
Researchers tested the robotic capture system that could pluck a boulder from an asteroid during NASA's proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission in a full-scale model at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
Credit: NASA
NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) has passed a key design milestone, bringing the project one step closer to snagging a boulder off an asteroid and pulling that piece into orbit around the moon.
The complex mission is currently targeted to launch in 2021, pegged at a cost of $1.4 billion, NASA said in a statement. After launch, the rocket will travel to a large near-Earth asteroid, collect a large boulder off of the asteroid's surface and pull that piece to the moon. Later, astronauts will travel to the boulder to extract and analyze samples. While orbiting the asteroid, the spacecraft can also tug the asteroid off-course using the craft's and boulder's combined gravity (as a proof-of-concept for deflecting a threatening body).
Now, the mission has passed a milestone called Key Decision Point-B (KDP-B) — formally approved Aug. 15 — and it will be able to move on to its Phase B planning stage. To pass, NASA officials "established the content, cost and schedule commitments for Phase B activities," NASA said in a statement. By the end of Phase B, ARM will have an approved baseline mission and design that meets all the agreed-upon requirements, in a process that all NASA missions pass through. [NASA to Pick Boulder Off an Asteroid (Animation)]
NASA tested this prototype electric-propulsion technology at Glenn Research Center in Ohio. Similar technology is planned to propel the Asteroid Redirect Mission's spacecraft.
Credit: NASA
"This is an exciting milestone for the Asteroid Redirect Mission," NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot said in the statement. "Not only is ARM leveraging agency-wide capabilities, [but] it will [also] test a number of new technologies already in development."
The craft would spotlight an advanced electric-propulsion system, operate autonomously on the "low-gravity body" of the asteroid, and touch down on and lift off from the body — all key tests of technology that could be essential for human missions for Mars, NASA said. (Plus, the second part of the mission would feature spacewalking humans gathering samples, another activity relevant to Mars.)
Now that the mission is entering Phase B, NASA will call for proposals from aerospace companies for building mission components, and will work on partnering with other entities that want to fly payloads on the craft, NASA officials said in the statement. (There is cooperation under discussion with the Italian Space Agency in particular, they added.)
The Spacecraft Structures Lab at NASA's Langley Research Center, where researchers are testing a robotic contact-and-restraint system for the Asteroid Redirect Mission's boulder capture.
Credit: NASA
"Since its early formulation, NASA has invited mission-concept feedback and development ideas from the planetary science community, general public, U.S. and global industry, and international partners," Gates said. "With KDP-B under our belt, ARM can now move forward to define partnerships and opportunities for long-term engagement."
During Phase B, NASA will also put together an ARM investigation team that will analyze potential spacecraft and mission designs and conduct research to support the mission's development.
NASA will not have to choose a target asteroid until 2020, but in the meantime the agency has focused on 2008 EV5 as a reference. This 1,300-foot-wide (400 meters) asteroid orbits the sun every 343 days. Observations with radio telescopes suggest that the asteroid has boulders of a variety of sizes that ARM could choose from. The space rock also appears to host volatiles, water and organic compounds for the researchers to investigate once the boulder makes it closer to Earth.
The proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission would use a "gravity tractor" maneuver before leaving the target asteroid, using the spacecraft's own mass and that of a captured boulder to alter the asteroid's orbit before leaving.
Credit: NASA
ARM's original incarnation would have captured an entire smaller asteroid, but in 2015 NASA opted to instead pluck a boulder off of a larger body, avoiding the possibility of reaching a faraway asteroid only to realize it's too large to grapple. The procedure will also make it easier to test a "gravity tractor" procedure, in which the spacecraft and boulder are used to help drag the whole asteroid slightly off course.
Dark Energy Survey: Mapping the Expansion of the Universe
Dark Energy Survey: Mapping the Expansion of the Universe
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
This image was taken with the Dark Energy Camera. It shows the NGC 1398 galaxy, which is packed with more than 100 million stars and lives in the Fornax cluster, some 65 million light years from Earth.
Credit: Dark Energy Survey
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) maps the universe in infrared to figure out the answer to a burning question: why is the universe accelerating in its expansion?
The effort arises from a surprise finding from astronomers looking at far-away supernovae, or star explosions, the DES website says. In 1998, they discovered that the universe is not only expanding, but expanding faster as it grows. It was a surprise given that Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity says gravity should actually slow down the expansion of the universe.
"To explain cosmic acceleration, cosmologists are faced with two possibilities," the DES website says. "Either 70 percent of the universe exists in an exotic form, now called dark energy, that exhibits a gravitational force opposite to the attractive gravity of ordinary matter. Or general relativity must be replaced by a new theory of gravity on cosmic scales." [Amazing Photos From Dark Energy Camera in Chile]
Overview
We've known the universe has been expanding since about the 1920s, when astronomers such as Edwin Hubble tracked the motion of distant galaxies. They saw that galaxies move faster when they are farther away from us. This expansion could be associated with the energy of the Big Bang, which birthed space and time about 13.7 billion years ago. Acceleration, however, is harder to explain.
Dark energy and dark matter — which is believed to account for most of the mass of the universe — remain some of cosmology's most enduring mysteries. The theory goes that the matter that we can see makes up less than 5 percent of the universe. Dark energy is roughly 69 percent and dark matter, 27 percent.
The DES survey is taking place between 2013 and 2018 using the Blanco 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The observatory is located high up in the Chilean Andes, and the project has support from the United States, Spain, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Germany, Switzerland and Australia.
The survey is made possible using the DECam, a 570-megapixel digital camera designed to capture wide swaths from the sky. The project will run for 525 observing nights, looking at 300 million galaxies billions of light-years from Earth (close to the time the universe was formed.)
Over time, the camera is expected to precisely map the movements of galaxies and supernovae to try to figure out "patterns of cosmic structure,” the DES website says. The overall goal is to learn more about the acceleration of our universe's expansion.
If dark energy does exist, the next question is trying to figure out what it is as it can't be sensed by conventional instruments. The DES suggests a couple of possibilities. One is that dark energy is actually the "intrinsic energy" of empty space, sometimes referred to as the cosmological concept. The energy is believed to be a "negative pressure" that makes the universe grow faster.
Another possibility is that it's a so-far unseen type of particle that would be much lighter than the Higgs boson, which was discovered in 2012. This would mean the density of dark energy lessens over time. (If dark energy's density actually gets stronger, this would eventually rip apart galaxies, stars and atoms in a process dubbed"The Big Rip.")
The Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the Blanco telescope in Chile.
Credit: Dark Energy Survey Collaboration.
Results and future work
The biggest result so far came in April 2015, when scientists with the survey released the first dark matter map based on data from the DES. According to a news release from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), the maps will help astronomers understand how dark matter helps create galaxies. Scientists also expect to learn about dark energy by looking at the "clumpiness" of the dark matter. (Fermilab is a DES participant as among other contributions, it built DECam).
Dark matter can't be seen by conventional instruments, but it can be studied through its gravitational effects. A common example is gravitational lenses, “when the gravitational pull of dark matter bends light around distant galaxies,” Fermilab added. The theory goes that galaxies form amid concentrations of dark matter (in other words, in strong gravity). So far — although the first map only includes 3 percent of the sky DES will survey — the observations match the prediction.
In early 2016, DES followed up the map with a huge release of information gathered by the camera between November 2012 and February 2013. The catalog contains information on 25 million objects. As this was very early data,Fermilab said in January 2016, far more information will be released in the future. DES' future work could include findings in gravitational waves, which are believed to occur when huge objects disrupt space-time.
There also have been side benefits to doing the survey. In 2015, both DES scientists and an independent group from the University of Cambridge discovered a rare type of dwarf satellite galaxies using the first year of DES data. Since dwarf galaxies are the smallest known galaxies, Fermilab wrote, "they could hold the key to understanding dark matter and the process by which larger galaxies form." In a separate discovery that year, scientists found eight dwarf galaxies that could be satellites to the Milky Way.
In 2016, NASA quickly denied reports that a theoretical “Planet Nine” — proposed by Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, two planetary scientists from the California Institute of Technology – is tugging on the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn. When the news reports were circulating that April, DES wascited as a possible survey that could help find Planet Nine because it is searching in the same region of the constellation Cetus, where astronomers are looking for the planet.
If we ever came across aliens, would we be able to understand them?
If we ever came across aliens, would we be able to understand them?
If we ever came across aliens, would we be able to understand them?
Many scientists believe that alien civilisations exist. For them, the question is now whether we will encounter them in the near future or a very long time from now, rather than if at all. So let’s imagine that we suddenly stand face-to-face with members of an alien species. What would we do first? Surely communicating that we come in peace would be a priority. But would we ever be able to understand each other?
The one thing we can be confident about exchanging with aliens is scientific information. If the laws of the universe are the same everywhere, then different descriptions of these laws should, in principle, be equivalent. This is the rationale behind initiatives like The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI).
Matters are more complicated when it comes to language, which is the single most important factor in human cooperation. It is by communicating our intentions that we are able to work together in surprisingly large groups. For this reason, it is plausible that any technologically versatile alien civilisation would have something like language.
Can we expect to learn such an alien language? The first hurdle would be its medium. Humans communicate in a 85-255Hz frequency range of sound and in the 430-770 THz frequency range of light. This is unlikely to be true of aliens, who will have evolved differently. Nevertheless, the problem is largely a technical one. Speeded up whale songs that are otherwise inaudible to humans, for instance, show that it is relatively easy to map “alien” stimuli into forms that humans can perceive.
Grammar versus semantics
The more difficult question is whether we would ever be able to learn the internal structure of an alien language. Existing perspectives in the psychology of language give two very different answers.
The generativist approach, which holds that the structure of language is hardwired into the brain, suggests this wouldn’t be possible. It argues that humans come with an inbuilt universal grammar that has a specific number of settings – each corresponding to the acceptable order in which words and parts of words can be arranged in a given language system. The language we hear in early life activates one of these settings, which then allows us to distinguish between valid and invalid ways of combining words.
The key point is that the number of grammars is very limited. Though the rules of human languages can and do vary, proponents of the generativist model argue they can only do so within strict parameters. For example, the “head directionality” parameter determines whether the verbs in a language precede or follow their complements, with English being head-initial (“Bob gave a cake to Alice”) and Japanese being head-final (“Bob to Alice a cake gave”).
For generativists, it is extremely unlikely that an alien species would happen to have the same parameters as human beings. In the words of Noam Chomsky, the leading proponent of this view:
If a Martian landed from outer space and spoke a language that violated universal grammar, we simply would not be able to learn that language the way that we learn a human language like English or Swahili … We’re designed by nature for English, Chinese, and every other possible human language. But we’re not designed to learn perfectly usable languages that violate universal grammar.
The cognitive view, on the other hand, sees semantics (structures of meaning) as being more important than syntax (structures of grammar). According to this view, sentences like “quadruplicity drinks procrastination” are syntactically well-formed but semantically meaningless. For this reason, proponents of the cognitive view argue that grammar alone is not enough to understand language. Instead, it needs to be partnered with knowledge of the concepts that structure how language users think.
We can also look at our own world to see how organisms can have striking similarities, even if they have developed in very different ways and in contrasting environments. This is known as “convergent evolution”. In physical terms, for example, wings and eyes have independently emerged among animals through evolution at several different times over, and birds in ecologically isolated New Zealand have evolved behaviours typically seen in mammals elsewhere. The cognitive view offers hope that human and alien languages might be mutually intelligible.
Some argue that even the most advanced human concepts are built up from basic building blocks that are shared across species, such as notions of past and future; similarity and difference; and agent and object. If an alien species manipulates objects, interacts with its peers and combines concepts, the cognitive approach therefore predicts there might be enough mental architecture in common to make its language accessible to humans. It is implausible, for instance, that an alien species that reproduced biologically would lack concepts for distinguishing between genetically related and unrelated groups.
But is the cognitive view correct? Research on neural networks shows that languages could be learned without specialised structures in the brain. This is important because it means there may be no need to postulate an innate universal grammar to explain language acquisition. Also, it seems there may be human languages that don’t fit in the universal grammar framework. Though these results are far from conclusive (for instance, they can’t explain why humans alone seem to have language), the evidence leans towards the cognitive account.
So, it might be reasonable to assume that humans could learn alien languages. Clearly, there would probably always be aspects of an alien language (like our poetry) that are inaccessible. Equally, some species may occupy such a different mental universe that it is only broadly equivalent to that of humans. Nevertheless, I think we can be cautiously optimistic that universal structures in the physical, biological and social worlds would be enough to anchor human and alien languages in a common semantic framework.
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Why are people starting to believe in Extraterrestrials again?
Why are people starting to believe in Extraterrestrials again?
Why are people starting to believe in Extraterrestrials again?
The 1990s were a high-water mark for public interest in UFOs and alien abduction. Shows like “The X-Files” and Fox’s “alien autopsy” hoax were prime-time events, while MIT even hosted an academic conference on the abduction phenomenon.
But in the first decade of the 21st century, interest in UFOs began to wane. Fewer sightings were reported, and established amateur research groups like the British Flying Saucer Bureau disbanded.
In 2006 historian Ben Macintyre suggested in The Times that the internet had “chased off” the UFOs.The web’s free-flowing, easy exchange of ideas and information had allowed UFO skeptics to prevail, and, to Macintyre, people were no longer seeing UFOs because they no longer believed in them.
Data seemed to back up Macintyre’s argument that, when it came to belief in UFOs, reason was winning out. A 1990 Gallup poll found that 27 percent of Americans believed “extraterrestrial beings have visited Earth at some time in the past.” That number rose to 33 percent in 2001, before dropping back to 24 percent in 2005.
But now “The X-Files” is back, and Hillary Clinton has even pledged to disclose what the government knows about aliens if elected president. Meanwhile, a recent Boston Globe article by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie suggests that belief in UFOs may be growing.
She points to a 2015 Ipsos poll, which reported that 45 percent of Americans believe extraterrestrials have visited the Earth.
So much for reason.
Why does Western society continue to be fascinated with the paranormal? If science doesn’t automatically kill belief in UFOs, why do reports of UFOs and alien abductions go in and out of fashion?
To some extent, this is political. Even though government agents like “Men in Black” may be the stuff of folklore, powerful people and institutions can influence the level of stigma surrounding these topics.
Sociologists of religion have also suggested that skepticism is countered by a different societal trend, something they’ve dubbed “re-enchantment.” They argue that while science can temporarily suppress belief in mysterious forces, these beliefs will always return – that the need to believe is ingrained in the human psyche.
A new mythology
The narrative of triumphant reason dates back, at least, to German sociologist Max Weber’s 1918 speech “Science as a Vocation,” in which he argued that the modern world takes for granted that everything is reducible to scientific explanations.
“The world,” he declared, “is disenchanted.”
As with many inexplicable events, UFOs were initially treated as an important topic of scientific inquiry. The public wondered what was going on; scientists studied the issue and then “demystified” the topic.
Modern UFOlogy – the study of UFOs – is typically dated to a sighting made by a pilot named Kenneth Arnold. While flying over Mount Rainier on June 24, 1947, Arnold described nine disk-like objects that the media dubbed “flying saucers.
” A few weeks later the Roswell Daily Register reported that the military had recovered a crashed flying saucer. By the end of 1947, Americans had reported an additional 850 sightings.
During the 1950s, people started reporting that they’d made contact with the inhabitants of these craft. Frequently, the encounters were erotic.
For example, one of the first “abductees” was a mechanic from California named Truman Bethurum. Bethurum was taken aboard a spaceship from Planet Clarion, which he said was captained by a beautiful woman named Aura Rhanes. (Bethurum’s wife eventually divorced him, citing his obsession with Rhanes.) In 1957, Antonio Villas-Boas of BRAZIL reported a similar encounter in which he was taken aboard a ship and forced to breed with a female alien.
Psychologists and sociologists proposed a few theories about the phenomenon. In 1957, psychoanalyst Carl Jung theorized that UFOs served a mythological function that helped 20th-century people adapt to the stresses of the Cold War. (For Jung, this did not preclude the possibility that UFOs might be real.)
Furthermore, American social mores were rapidly changing in the mid-20th century, especially around issues of race, gender and sexuality. According to historian W. Scott Poole, stories of sex with aliens could have been a way of processing and talking about these changes. For example, when the Supreme Court finally declared laws banning interracial marriage unconstitutional in 1967, the country had already been talking for years about Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial couple who claimed to have been probed by aliens.
Contactee lore also started applying “scientific ideas” as a way to repackage some of the mysterious forces associated with traditional religions. Folklore expert Daniel Wojcik has termed belief in benevolent space aliens as “techno-millennarianism.” Instead of God, some UFO believers think forms of alien technology will be what redeems the world. Heaven’s Gate – whose members famously committed mass suicide in 1995 – was one of several religious groups awaiting the arrival of the aliens.
You’re not supposed to talk about it
Despite some dubious stories from contactees, the Air Force took UFO sightings seriously, organizing a series of studies, including Project Blue Book, which ran from 1952 to 1969.
In 1966, the Air Force tapped a team of University of Colorado scientists headed by physicist Edward Condon to investigate reports of UFOs. Even though the team failed to identify 30 percent of the 91 sightings it examined, its 1968 report concluded that it wouldn’t be useful to continue studying the phenomenon. Condon added that schoolteachers who allowed their students to read UFO-related books for classroom credit were doing a grave disservice to the students’ critical faculties and ability to think scientifically.
Basing its decision off the report, the Air Force terminated Project Blue Book, and Congress ended all funding for UFO research.
As religion scholar Darryl Caterine explained in his book “Haunted Ground,” “With civil rights riots, hippie lovefests and antiwar protests raging throughout the nation, Washington gave its official support to a rational universe.”
While people still believed in UFOs, expressing too much interest in the subject now came with a price. In 2010, sociologists Christopher D. Bader, F. Carson Mencken and Joseph O. Baker found that 69 percent of Americans reported belief in at least one paranormal subject (astrology, ghosts, UFOs, etc.).
But their findings also suggested that the more status and social connections someone has, the less likely he or she is to report paranormal belief. Single people report more paranormal beliefs than married people, and those with low incomes report more paranormal belief than those with high incomes. It may be that people with “something to lose” have reason not to believe in the paranormal (or at least not to talk about it).
In 1973, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics surveyed its membership about UFOs. Several scientists reported that they had seen unidentified objects and a few even answered that UFOs are extraterrestrial or at least “real.” However, physicist Peter A. Sturrock suggested that scientists felt comfortable answering these questions only because their anonymity was guaranteed.
Harvard psychiatrist John Mack came to symbolize the stigma of UFO research. Mack worked closely with abductees, whom he dubbed “experiencers.” While he remained cagey about whether aliens actually existed, he advocated for the experiencers and argued that their stories should be taken seriously.
His bosses weren’t happy. In 1994, Harvard Medical School opened an investigation into his research – an unprecedented action against a tenured professor. In the end, Harvard dropped the case and affirmed Mack’s academic freedom. But the message was clear: Being open-minded about aliens was bad for one’s career.
Reason and re-enchantment
So if Hillary Clinton is running for president, why is she talking about UFOs?
Part of the answer may be that the Clintons have ties to a network of influential people who have lobbied the government to disclose the truth about UFOs. This includes the late millionaire Laurence Rockefeller (who funded John Mack’s research) and John Podesta, the chairman of Clinton’s campaign and a long-time disclosure advocate.
But there may also be a broader cultural cycle at work. Sociologists such as Christopher Partridge have suggested that disenchantment leads to re-enchantment. While secularization may have weakened the influence of traditional churches, this doesn’t mean that people have become disenchanted skeptics. Instead, many have explored alternate spiritualities that churches had previously stigmatized as “superstitions” (everything from holistic healing to Mayan prophecies). The rise of scientific authority may have paradoxically paved the way for UFO mythology.
A similar change may be happening in the political sphere where the language of critical thinking has been turned against the scientific establishment. In the 1960s, Congress deferred to the Condon Report. Today, conservative politicians regularly challenge ideas like climate change, evolution and the efficacy of vaccines. These dissenters never frame their claims as “anti-science” but rather as courageous examples of free inquiry.
Donald Trump may have been the first candidate to discover that weird ideas are now an asset instead of a liability. In a political climate where the language of reason is used to attack the authority of science, musing over the possibility of UFOs simply doesn’t carry the stigma that it used to.
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10 things you should know about the ‘Alien-like’ Sealand Skull
10 things you should know about the ‘Alien-like’ Sealand Skull
There are some really bizarre things that have been discovered on Earth in recent decades.
t’s hard to differ authentic objects from elaborate hoaxes, but some discoveries like that of the Sealand Skull are proof that there are some things out there that simply put, cannot be explained rationally.
The Sealand skull is one of the most controversial skulls ever excavated and has revealed fascinating results that some believe are the ultimate evidence of Alien beings inhabiting Earth ni the distant past.
The Sealand skull is considered as one of the most mysterious skulls ever discovered. While some believe the enigmatic skull belonged to an Alien that visited Earth hundreds of years ago, others speculate it may have belonged to an unknown species that roamed parts of modern-day Denmark hundreds of years ago. Others, however, believe it is just another elaborate hoax.
Tests on the skull apparently revealed fascinating results indicating that the alien-like skull is perhaps one of the few inexplicable skulls ever discovered on Earth.
In this article, we bring you the most important things you should know bout the controversial Sealand skull.
The enigmatic alien-like skull was found in 2007 in Olstykke, Denmark by workers who were replacing sewer pipes.
Interestingly, only the skull has been recovered, the skeletal remains of the body belonging to the skull have never been unearthed. Some say it is because the skeleton of the mystery being was buried somewhere else.
The skull was examined for the first time ever in 2010 at the College of Veterinary Medicine in Denmark. Before that, not a single researcher wanted to examine the skull.
Tests results from 2010 revealed that the skull is one of the most mysterious craniums ever tested since experts were unable to explain what species it belonged to.
Researchers said that: “Although it resembles a mammal, certain characteristics make it impossible to fit into the Linnaean Taxonomy.”
Among the most prominent theories, researchers proposed that the skull may have belonged to a horse, but further tests revealed the skull belongs to an unknown species on Earth.
Since no one could shed light on the strange skull, the cranium was sent to the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. Carbon dating revealed that this mysterious being lived between 1200 and 1280 BC.
Hoping to find out more about the skull, researchers excavated the area where the skull was discovered. Among other things they discovered animal bones, stone axes, and other artifacts that according to researchers originated in the Neolithic period.
Some researchers speculate that due to the large eye sockets and the smooth surface, it is very likely that this being adapted to colder weather. The relative eye size suggests it was a nocturnal creature with giant eyes.
Strangely, the eyes sockets of the Sealand skull seem to extend further to the sides whereas in a human skull eyes are more centered. The nostril of the Sealand skull is very small, and the chin is very narrow.
'Virtual' Particles Are Just 'Wiggles' in the Electromagnetic Field
'Virtual' Particles Are Just 'Wiggles' in the Electromagnetic Field
By Paul Sutter, The Ohio State University
Credit: agsandrew | Shutterstock
There are a few physics terms floating around in the world that are deceptive little buggers. These jargon phrases seem to succinctly describe a topic, encapsulating a complex process or interaction into a tidy, easily digestible nugget of information. But they're liars. The concepts they're intended to communicate are actually radically different from what the jargon would suggest.
Take, for example, "virtual particles." The term is supposed to answer a very old question: How, exactly, do particles interact? Let's say we have two charged particles, and let's call them Charles and Charlene. Let's continue to say that both Charles and Charlene are negatively charged. Maybe they're electrons; maybe they're muons. Doesn't matter. What matters is that if Charlene comes racing toward Charles, they bounce off each other and end up going their separate ways. [5 Mysterious Particles Lurking Underground]
How did that bounce happen? What made it possible for Charles and Charlene to communicate with each other so that they knew to head in a new direction when the collision was all said and done?
This is a fantastically basic question, so it seems that if we could satisfactorily answer it, we could unlock Deep and Important Mysteries of the Universe.
The modern perspective of quantum field theory recognizes photons — bits of light — as the carriers of the electromagnetic force. Charles and Charlene are charged particles, so they interact with light. But obviously, Charles and Charlene aren't shooting lasers at each other, so the trite explanation for their brief dalliance is that "they exchange virtual photons."
What in the name of Feynman's ghost does that mean?
Enter the field
Let's take a step back. Back in the olden-days (i.e., the 19th century) view of physics, each charged particle generates an electric field, which is basically an instruction sheet for how other particles can interact with it. In the case of a particle, this field is strong nearby the particle and weaker farther out. That field also points out in every direction away from the particle. [The 9 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in Physics]
So our Charles particle produces a field that permeates all of space. Other particles, like Charlene, can read this field and move accordingly. If Charlene is super-duper far away from Charles, the field she reads has very, very small numbers, so she barely notices any effect from Charles. But when she gets close, her field reader goes off the charts. Charles' electric field is very clearly saying "GO AWAY," and she obliges.
In this view, the field is just as real and important as the particle. The universe is full of stuff, and the fields tell that stuff how to interact with other stuff.
Revenge of the field
In the early to mid-20th century, physicists realized that the universe is a much, much stranger place than we had imagined. Marrying special relativity with quantum mechanics, they developed quantum field theory, and let's just say the results weren't what anybody expected.
As the name suggests, the field got a promotion. Instead of just being the bookkeeping device that showed how one particle should interact with another, it became — and here come some italics for emphasis — the primary physical object. In this modern, sophisticated view of the universe, the electron isn't just a lonely particle. Oh no. Instead, there's anelectron field, permeating all of space and time like milk in French toast.
This field is it — it's the thing. Particles? They're just pinched-off bits of that field. Or, more accurately, they're excitations (like, wiggles) of the field that can travel freely. That's important, and I'll get back to it soon.
A particle party
Here's where things start to get fuzzy. A particle traveling from one spot to another doesn't exactly stay a particle, or at least not the same kind of particle.
Let's go back to Charles, the charged particle. Since he's charged, by definition he interacts with light, which is the electromagnetic field. So wiggles in the electron field (a field made up of electrons) can affect wiggles in the electromagnetic field. So, literally, as Charles zips around, he spends some of his time as an electron-field wiggle and some of his time as an electromagnetic-field wiggle. Sometimes he's an electron, and sometimes he's a photon — a bit of the electromagnetic (EM) field!
It gets worse. Way worse. Charles-turned-EM-wiggle can become otherwiggles, like muon wiggles. For every fundamental particle in the universe, there's a corresponding field, and they all talk to one another and wiggle back and forth constantly.
It all becomes really nasty mathematically very quickly, but folks like physicist Richard Feynman came up with handy tricks to get some science work done.
Virtually speaking
Now, after tons of backstory, we can get to the main question. The fields wiggle to and fro (and sometimes fro and to). If the wiggles persist and travel, we call them "particles." If they die off quickly, we call them "virtual particles." But fundamentally, they're both wiggles of fields.
When Charles encounters Charlene, they're not like two little bullets ready to slam into each other. Instead, they're complicated sets of wiggles in all sorts of fields, phasing in and out from one type of field to another.
When they do get close enough to interact, it's … messy. Very messy. Wiggles and counter-wiggles, a frenzied mishmash of intermingling. The machinery of quantum field theory — after many tedious calculations — does indeed provide the correct answer (Charles and Charlene bounce off each other), but the details are headache-inducing. [I break it down in more detail in this video.]
So, the shorthand — "they exchange virtual particles" — rolls off the tongue quite easily, a little slip of jargon to package up a very complicated process.
Alien Megastructure? 'Tabby's Star' Continues to Baffle Scientists
Alien Megastructure? 'Tabby's Star' Continues to Baffle Scientists
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Artist's illustration of cometary material crossing the face of a star — one possible explanation for the strange dimming exhibited by "Tabby's star."
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Nearly a year after first making headlines around the world, "Tabby's star" is still guarding its secrets.
In September 2015, a team led by Yale University astronomer Tabetha Boyajian announced that a star about 1,500 light-years from Earth called KIC 8462852 had dimmed oddly and dramatically several times over the past few years.
These dimming events, which were detected by NASA's planet-huntingKepler space telescope, were far too substantial to be caused by an orbiting planet, scientists said. (In one case, 22 percent of the star's light was blocked; when huge Jupiter crosses the sun's face, the result is a dimming of just 1 percent or so.) [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Alien Life]
Boyajian and her colleagues suggested that a cloud of fragmented comets or planetesimals might be responsible, but other researchers noted that the signal was also consistent with a possible "alien megastructure" — perhaps a giant swarm of energy-collecting solar panels known as aDyson sphere.
Astronomers around the world soon began studying Tabby's star with a variety of instruments, and re-analyzing old observations of the object, in an attempt to figure out what exactly is going on. But they have yet to solve the puzzle.
"I'd say we have no good explanation right now for what's going on with Tabby's star," Jason Wright, an astronomer at Pennsylvania State University, said earlier this month during a talk at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in Mountain View, California. "For now, it's still a mystery."
More surprises
That mystery may even have deepened over the past 12 months.
For example, in January, Bradley Schaefer of Louisiana State University determined that, in addition to the weird short-term dimming events, the brightness of Tabby's star had dropped by about 20 percent overall between 1890 and 1989 — a pattern very difficult to explain by known natural means, he said.
Schaefer came to this conclusion after poring over old photographic plates of the night sky that captured Tabby's star. Other researchers suggested that the trend Schaefer saw could have been caused by changes in the instruments used to take those photos over the century-long timespan. However, a new study bolsters Schaefer's interpretation.
In the new work, Benjamin Montet (of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusets) and Joshua Simon (of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington) re-analyzed Kepler observations of Tabby's star from 2009 through 2013. They found that the object dimmed by 3 percent over that span, with a rapid 2-percent brightness dip over one 200-day period.
"Of a sample of 193 nearby comparison stars and 355 stars with similar stellar parameters, 0.6 percent change brightness at a rate as fast as 0.341 percent [per year], and none exhibit either the rapid decline by > 2 percent or the cumulative fading by 3 percent of KIC 8462852," Montet and Simon wrote in the new study, which they uploaded to the online preprint site ArXiv on Aug. 5. "No known or proposed stellar phenomena can fully explain all aspects of the observed light curve."
Schaefer's results, combined with those of Montet and Simon, make the comet hypothesis look less and less likely, Wright said in his SETI talk.
"Why would comets, over a century, make the star dimmer?" he said. "What's going on?" [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]
Alien megastructure?
The sustained dimming of Tabby's star is still consistent with at least some variants of the "alien megastructure" hypothesis, Wright said.
"Some people have sort of facetiously offered that perhaps this is a Dyson sphere under construction: You're seeing lots of material getting built," he said. "In just 100 years, they've blotted out 20 percent of the starlight. That seems kind of fast to me, but, you know, aliens, right?"
It's also possible that the alien megastructure — if it exists — is fully constructed, and some parts are just denser than others, Wright added.
"That would naturally make the star get brighter and dimmer, as dense parts of the swarm came around," he said. "So if I had to invoke megastructures to explain it, that seems consistent. You've got lots of panels of different shapes, different sizes, and the big ones make big dips and the little ones make little dips, and the whole swarm is sort of like a translucent screen that makes the whole thing dimmer."
But Wright and others have always stressed that "E.T. did it" is a very unlikely scenario, and that a more prosaic explanation will probably rise to the top eventually. And indeed, other recent observations throw some cold water on the alien-megastructure idea — and any other hypothesis that invokes some object or phenomenon near Tabby's star.
Any structure surrounding the star, be it alien-made or naturally occurring, would heat up and give off infrared radiation, Wright said. But he and his colleagues saw no signatures of such "waste heat" in data gathered by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Explorer spacecraft. And another research team — which analyzed observations by the Submillimeter Array telescope and Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array-2 instrument, both of which are in Hawaii — also came up empty.
Whatever is blocking the starlight from Tabby's Star is "not surrounding the whole star — it must be along our line of sight," Wright said. "So you can do that if it's in a disk of some kind. And that hopefully will help constrain what the heck is going on."
Wright has a hunch that the answer lies far away from Tabby's star, out in the dark depths of space.
"I think I've all but abandoned circumstellar explanations, and I think now we're going to have to talk about bizarre structure in the interstellar medium, and stuff like that," he said.
Still, Wright hasn't given up on the alien-megastructure hypothesis. While the lack of waste heat is "almost a fatal blow" for the idea, he said, it's still viable if the purported aliens are doing something with the waste heat — turning it into matter, for example, or converting the heat into radio waves for communication purposes.
Astronomers have already searched for such signals coming from Tabby's star using the Allen Telescope Array, a network of radio dishes in northern California operated by the SETI Institute. They found nothing. But Wright and his colleagues plan to conduct another search beginning in October; they've secured time on West Virginia's huge Green Bank Telescope for this purpose.
"This is a 1-in-300,000 object," he said. "People have gone looking for more, and it's the only one. So that also says you're allowed to invoke one really rare thing, because it is a rare phenomenon."
A DESCRIPTION OF ‘HOLLOW EARTH’ ACCORDING TO ANCIENT TIBETAN BUDDHISM
A DESCRIPTION OF ‘HOLLOW EARTH’ ACCORDING TO ANCIENT TIBETAN BUDDHISM
Many ancient texts refer to ‘magical’ and ‘mythical’ lands, which is fascinating, particularly when you consider how much of the writings in ancient Buddhism, Vedic philosophy, or other Eastern traditions is being confirmed by modern day science. Quantum physics in particular has gained a lot of momentum recently.
One great example is the conundrum of consciousness, which is directly correlated with quantum physics and goes hand in hand with other realms of existence. Perhaps this is why some of Nikola Tesla’s ideas were influenced by ancient Eastern philosophy. Not many people know this, but most of our pioneering scientists were also mystics, including Issac Newton, who studied alchemy, among other subjects.
“Broadly speaking, although there are some differences, I think Buddhist philosophy and Quantum Mechanics can shake hands on their view of the world. We can see in these great examples the fruits of human thinking. Regardless of the admiration we feel for these great thinkers, we should not lose sight of the fact that they were human beings just as we are.” – The Dalai Lama.
This is precisely why we shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss other possible knowledge that remains hidden within ancient texts, especially when evidence is increasingly proving the strength of the connection between ancient wisdom and modern day knowledge.
We are surprisingly and inexplicably selective about which parts of ancient writings we hold to be true, and which we dismiss as fantasy. We might take, for example, a description of ancient Greek society written by a philosopher living at the time, such as Plato or Socrates, at face value, yet when confronted with the same philosopher’s description of an advanced ancient civilization, find some excuse to ignore it. We can take Plato’s description of things that are believable to the mind and accept them as fact, but as soon as we are confronted with something outside our known experience, our minds shut down, even in the face of mounting evidence lending credibility to many of these ‘mythical’ stories.
Shambhala Several ancient texts from various traditions mention beings from ‘another world’ that exist within our own. One such world, referenced in Tibetan Buddhist and Hindu traditions, is Shambhala, which is a hidden kingdom within our own planet, a place which we do not understand and is difficult to find.
It’s a “Spiritual” Place According to the Dalai Lama at a speech he gave in 1985 during the Kalachakra Initiations:
Although those with special affiliation may actually be able to go there through their karmic connection, nevertheless it is not a physical place that we can actually find. We can only say that it is a pure land, a pure land in the human realm. And unless one has the merit and the actual karmic association, one cannot actually arrive there.
This closely resembles descriptions of the spiritual principles that once guided Atlantis given by Plato and other scholars. According to Manly P. Hall, author, historian, and 33rd degree mason:
Before Atlantis sank, its spiritually illuminated Initiates, who realized that their land was doomed because it had departed from the Path of Light, withdrew from the ill fated continent. Carrying with them the sacred and secret doctrine, these Atlanteans established themselves in Egypt, where they became its first divine rulers. Nearly all the great cosmologic myths forming the foundation of the various sacred books of the world are based upon the Atlantean Mystery Rituals.
Sambhala, however, although no erudite Orientalist has yet succeeded in locating it geographically, is an actual land or district, the seat of the greatest brotherhood of spiritual adepts and their chiefs on earth today. From Sambhala at certain times in the history of the world, or more accurately of our own fifth root-race, come forth the messengers or envoys for spiritual and intellectual work among men.
Edwin Bernbaum, Ph.D., a lecturer, author, mountaineer, and scholar of comparative religion and mythology, writes that Shambhala is round but depicted as an eight-petalled lotus blossom, which is a symbol of the heart Chakra (left). He also makes it clear in his book, The Way To Shambhala, that the way is not clear. Shambhala is a physical place existing within the human realm, but it’s also a spiritual, even supernatural place, which many also believe exists within another dimension.
Michael Wood, a BBC journalist, based on his research describes it as a lost kingdom buried somewhere in the Himalayas, and writes about how the name Shambhala first appears in a text known as the Kalachakra tantra – or Wheel of Time teaching. This Kalachakra doctrine belongs to the highest level of Buddhist Mahayana teaching.
He writes that in Shambhala, the people live in peace and harmony, and are faithful to the principles of Buddhist. In this land, war, grief and sorrow were completely unknown. According to Michael, one commentator on the Kalachakra tantra puts it like this:
The land of Shambhala lies in a valley. It is only approachable through a ring of snow peaks like the petals of a lotus … At the centre is a nine-storey crystal mountain which stands over a sacred lake, and a palace adorned with lapis, coral, gems and pearls. Shambala is a kingdom where humanity’s wisdom is spared from the destructions and corruptions of time and history, ready to save the world in its hour of need.
The prophecy of Shambala states that each of its 32 kings will rule for 100 years. As their reigns pass, conditions in the outside world will deteriorate. Men will become obsessed with war and pursue power for its own sake and materialism will triumph over all spiritual life. Eventually an evil tyrant will emerge to oppress the earth in a despotic reign of terror. But just when the world seems on the brink of total downfall and destruction, the mists will lift to reveal the icy mountains of Shambala. Then the 32nd king of Shambala, Rudra Cakrin, will lead a mighty army against the tyrant and his supporters and in a last great battle, they will be destroyed and peace restored.
Who Is Down There? What Evidence Do We Have? Who really knows? Legends speak of those who have wandered to the land and never returned, or have died making the journey, while more recently, connections have been made with the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon. You might not know this, but UFOs are commonly tracked on air and ground radar, while simultaneously watched by the pilots who are sent out to intercept them.
Thousands of documents are available for public viewing, and hundreds of high ranking whistleblowers have shared their stories. If you would like to learn more about the UFO/ET phenomenon and see some of this evidence yourself, feel free to explore the exopolitcs section of our website. As former NASA astronaut and Princeton physics professor Dr. Brian O’Leary has said, “there is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time.”
Based on my personal research into UFOs and extraterrestrials, which spans more than 10 years, stories of flying saucers coming in and out of the ocean are quite common. They are referred to as underwater submerged objects, and contactees, which today number in the millions, often speak of beings existing inside of our own planet — spiritual beings, ‘light beings’ of great intelligence.
In addition to these rumours, there are people who claim to have actually experienced this place. Admiral Richard Byrd, a high ranking officer in the United States Navy who received a medal of honour and was the very first man to fly over the South Pole, supposedly journeyed to the hollow Earth. Admiral Byrd also flew directly over the North Pole, writing that he saw an opening in the top. His diary describes his adventure into the opening, where he saw lakes, rivers, green vegetation, and more. He participated in many expeditions to the North Pole, with one being a government-backed program called operation Highjump. Organized by Admiral Byrd, its primary goal was to establish an Antarctic research base. He claims to have been greeted by a flying machine and this is when he first interacted with the beings that existed in a place that is known to many as “Agartha.” The beings told him they were concerned with the development of nuclear weapons and the overall well-being of the planet.
Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947), a well known Russian explorer, also writes of Shambhala being located in the north. He travelled through Mongolia and China to the borders of Tibet, and says that, during a conversation with a Lama, he was told that the great “Shabmhala is far beyond the ocean. It is the mighty heavenly domain. It has nothing to do with our Earth. Only in some places, in the Far North, can you discern the resplendent rays of Shambhala.” He claimed the entrance was deep in the high mountains. The Lama also told Roerich:
Shambhala is ever vigilant in the cause of mankind: he sees all the events of earth in his ‘magic mirror’ and the might of his thought penetrates into far-off lands. Uncountable are the inhabitants of Shamhala. Numerous are the splendid new forces and achievements which are being prepared there for humanity. (Nicholas Roerich, Shambhala: In search of the new era, Rochester, VE: Inner Traditions, 1990)
Based on my research, if there is an entrance, it’s in Antarctica or deep within several mountain ranges, including the Himalayas. And one common theme about Shambhala is that its secrets are well guarded, and cannot be reached unless one is called there. Source: http://www.collective-evolution.com/
Arts schrijft over zijn reis naar het hiernamaals waar hij ‘aartsengelen ontmoette’
Arts schrijft over zijn reis naar het hiernamaals waar hij ‘aartsengelen ontmoette’
Een arts heeft een boek geschreven over zijn reis naar het hiernamaals. De bijna-doodervaring zorgde voor een ‘spirituele ontwaking’ die zijn carrière volledig transformeerde.
In Dying to Wake Up schrijft dr. Rajiv Parti, oud-hoofd anesthesiologie van het Bakersfield Heart Hospital in Californië, over een ervaring die zijn leven voor altijd heeft veranderd. Na deze ervaring gaf Parti zijn villa en luxe auto’s weg, zegde hij zijn baan op en opende hij een wellnesscentrum.
Parti zegt unieke informatie te geven over de hemel, hel, het leven na de dood en engelen. De arts claimt tijdens zijn bijna-doodervaring ontmoetingen te hebben gehad met ‘aartsengelen’ en zijn overleden vader, die hem door de hel loodste.
Wijsheid
Rajiv Parti (Twitter)
Parti zegt dat hij tot op de dag van vandaag met engelen communiceert en ‘hun wijsheid deelt met de levenden’. Hoewel er al vele boeken zijn geschreven zoals dat van Parti, zijn er ook critici. Neuroloog Oliver Sacks gelooft bijvoorbeeld dat bijna-doodervaringen hallucinaties zijn.
In augustus 2008 werd Parti gediagnosticeerd met prostaatkanker. Tijdens een operatie traden er complicaties op waarna hij continu last had van hevige pijn. Hij kreeg pijnstillers voorgeschreven, waar hij al snel aan verslaafd raakte. In korte tijd werd hij ook nog eens gediagnosticeerd met depressie.
Materialistisch
Tijdens een volgende operatie in 2010 had Parti de bijna-doodervaring. Hij zag hoe zijn bewustzijn gescheiden werd van zijn lichaam en bij het plafond zag hij hoe de arts de operatie uitvoerde. Kort daarop besefte dr. Parti dat hij een uiterst materialistisch en liefdeloos leven leidde. Hij wenste dat hij aardiger was geweest en meer compassie had getoond.
Op dat moment keerde hij terug naar zijn lichaam. Zijn ervaring opende de deur naar een nieuwe wereld, één die de materialistische wereld die hij had opgebouwd verving.
Bestaat er een andere versie van jezelf in een ander universum?
Bestaat er een andere versie van jezelf in een ander universum?
Steeds meer wetenschappers zijn van mening dat ons universum één van de vele is; een verzameling parallelle universa die een multiversum wordt genoemd.
Volgens één theorie is ons universum oneindig waardoor materie zichzelf uiteindelijk kan herhalen. Zo kunnen er meerdere universa ontstaan. Een andere theorie stelt dat er meerdere universa zijn met daarin andere aardes en andere versies van jezelf. In elk universum heb je andere beslissingen genomen. Er zijn ook theorieën over andere universa die niet uit materie bestaan, maar uit antimaterie.
Kosmische achtergrondstraling
Ze zijn allemaal gebaseerd op de snaartheorie waarin er tenminste 10 verschillende dimensies zijn. Het is misschien moeilijk om je andere rijken voor te stellen die volstrekt anders zijn dan ons eigen universum. Volgens de wiskunde kunnen ze echter gewoon bestaan.
Achtergrondstraling
Als er meerdere universa bestaan, zouden ze in theorie met elkaar in botsing kunnen komen of zelfs overlappen. Natuurkundigen zoeken op dit moment in de kosmische achtergrondstraling naar bewijs hiervoor.
Eén wetenschapper publiceerde vorig jaar november een paper waarin hij claimde bewijs te hebben gevonden voor interactie tussen ons eigen en een ander universum. Kosmoloog Ranga-Ram Chary bestudeerde gegevens over de kosmische achtergrondstraling die door de Planck-telescoop waren verzameld.
Concreet bewijs
Hij stuitte op een gebied dat 4500 keer helderder is dan je op basis van de huidige gangbare theorieën zou verwachten. Op die plek lekt een ander universum in het onze, aldus Chary.
Hij merkt daarbij wel op dat meer onderzoek nodig is om er zeker van te zijn dat er geen meetfouten zijn gemaakt. Hoewel dit misschien klinkt als sciencefiction, hebben we wellicht binnenkort concreet bewijs dat er meerdere dimensies, universa en versies van jezelf zijn.
NEDERLANDSE CHINOOK HELIKOPTERS OP UFO JACHT? (VIDEO )
NEDERLANDSE CHINOOK HELIKOPTERS OP UFO JACHT? (VIDEO )
Mijn vrouw en ik waren afgelopen week in de buurt van Apeldoorn een midweekje op vakantie.
Wij zaten in de omgeving van Elspeet om iets directer te zijn. Donderdagavond om omstreeks 8 uur was er een abnormale drukte in de lucht boven dit deel van de Veluwe.
Zo begint de reactie van een lezer (dank!) die reageert op een artikel dat wij publiceerden over een waarneming van een lezer uit de buurt van Apeldoorn. Hij gaat verder met zijn verhaal:
Chinook helicopters vlogen af en aan en cirkelde gedurende enkel minuten op dezelfde plek(ken). Ook een vreemde knal die eigenlijk onverklaarbaar was. De knal had niets met een ontploffing te maken of een autoband die knalt.
Mensen op het terras buiten keken op dit moment allemaal in de lucht en de Chinook helicopters leken een bepaalde richting op te gaan. Het leek even rustig te worden, maar na een klein kwartier vlogen de Chinooks wéér over.
Een oudere heer merkte op dat “de Harskamp” in de buurt ligt toen er toch wat verbaasde drukte ontstond op het terras. Verschillende mensen bespraken het gebeuren en de heer die opmerkte dat “de Harskamp” in de buurt ligt kreeg gelijk.
Echter : - Het dienstdoende personeel van het hotel leek ook verbaast. Zij zouden toch gewend moeten zijn aan zulke dingen in de buurt van. Ze hadden géén verklaring voor deze drukte in de lucht.
- De Harskamp is volgens mij een oefenterrein voor de infantrie en panservoertuigen en géén vliegveld. Nu heb ik persoonlijk geen verstand van ons leger (gelukkig) dus weet ik dit niet zeker.
- Er waren die dagen geen voertuigen op de weg van het leger, tenminste niet abnormaal veel. In / op de Veluwe is het normaal dat je af en toe eens een leger voertuig ziet rijden, maar deze dagen niet meer als normaal. Ik heb dus niet de indruk dat het hier een oefening betrof.
De drukte in de lucht hield de hele avond en begin van de nacht aan. Nu weet ik één ding absoluut zeker, deze Chinooks waren van het leger c.q. de luchtmacht en ze vlogen er niet zomaar. Nergens was een heide/bosbrand waar het leger eventueel meehielp blussen, dus mogen we aan nemen dat er een andere reden is geweest.
Na nog een heerlijk biertje op het terras zijn wij rustig gaan slapen en verder heb ik er geen acht meer op geslagen tot ik als trouwe lezer van deze geweldige site dit stukje las,.............
METEEN schiet het voorval op het Veluwse terras door mijn hoofd en de druk heen en weer vliegende Chinooks in de lucht.
Dit kan natuurlijk géén toeval zijn.
Het volgende stond in het originele artikel:
Ik houdt deze mail kort want ik moet eigenlijk zo echt gaan slapen maar niet voordat ik u deze mail heb verstuurd.
Ik zie de hele nacht al dit verschijnsel in de lucht waarvan u een foto vindt in de bijlage die ik heb gemaakt (omstreeks 03.00 uur) met mijn smartphone. (zelf even inzoomen / uitvergroten)
De eerste instantie leek deze vuurbol? Steeds te verschijnen en te verdwijnen op een dezelfde plek. Na een drie tal uren te hebben geobserveerd leek dit niet het geval te zijn en verplaatste het steeds.
Wel gebeurde het verplaatsen niet zichtbaar maar verscheen en verdween op een dezelfde plek om vervolgens na ik schat zo'n tweetal minuten weer elders op te doemen.
De grote vraag luid : wat is het? Locatie foto : Apeldoorn.
Mocht u vragen hebben hoor ik het graag. Misschien is het te verklaren wat het is?..
Een andere lezer (dank!) stuurde het volgende:
Ook ik reed op de snelweg bij Apeldoorn en heb ook een rood licht waargenomen. Dit begon bij Doetinchem en was bij Ede nog te zien. Ik dacht eerst zelf aan een luchtballon.
Nog een reactie van een lezer die ook denkt aan een luchtballon.
Via de website Ufo Meldpunt kwam ik erachter dat er een luchtballon festival is in Barneveld, ook met nachtvluchten. Al vanaf woensdag, en ook vanavond nog.
Het opvlammende oranje licht kan natuurlijk ontstaan doordat de brander onder de ballon even wordt aangezet, dan weer uit. De ballonnen zijn de hele Veluwe (en Gelderland waarschijnlijk) overgezweefd, vandaar de genoemde plaatsen van waarneming.
We hebben even gekeken en dat verhaal klopt niet helemaal, want zoals iemand zegt:
Klopt niet, want de ballonnen van de Nightglow worden alleen verlicht maar stijgen niet op. Dit was absoluut geen ballon!
Ook wanneer je kijkt op de website van de organisatie en het programma dan komen daar geen nachtvluchten voor, wel het volgende interessante spektakel:
Wat we ondertussen wel hebben, is een lezer die zegt te weten wat de oranjebollen zijn die nu al jarenlang door mensen worden waargenomen. Hierbij zijn verklaring (dank!):
Ik ken deze oranje bollen maar al te goed. Het zijn kleine verkenning schepen van een goedaardig buitenaards ras welke van alles in de gaten houden.
Zij komen uit een ander naburig stelsel. Zij hebben een mensachtig postuur, maar het hoofd is katachtig. Nu is dat niet zo gek want ik heb een grote compassie voor katten en elke grote en kleine in het wilt levende katachtige.
Ongeveer 5 jaar geleden heb ik ooit contact gehad met een in formatie vliegende schepen. Dit was in de tijd toen het nog Niburu.nl was. Zij hebben mij telepathisch dingen laten verteld die in het belang zijn van mijn toekomst. Ik voelde meteen dat het zielsverwanten waren.
Ik hecht hier nog steeds waarde aan nu alles aan het veranderen is. Zover ik weet ben ik 1 van de eerste die toen gewaarschuwd is naar hoger gelegen gebied te verhuizen. (Vorige jaar waren er ook zit soort verhalen uit de buurt van Haarlem te vertrekken naar Malaysia)
Achteraf bleek dat zij nog met 2 mensen contact hebben gehad in diezelfde nacht. Ook die zelfde nacht na hun berichten heb ik toen zij doorvlogen mijn beschermengel mogen aanschouwen en zijn terugkomst op foto gezet, ook de 3 oranje bollen.
Dit alles heeft mij toen heel erg aangegrepen, omdat ik al van kinds af aan met ontvoeringen te maken heb gehad, wat geen prettige ervaringen zijn geweest. Volgens hen zou ik nu veilig zijn en ik moet zeggen tot nu toe niets meer van deze ontvoeringen. Wat mij een stuk rustiger leven heeft bezorgd.
Maar ik moet hierbij wel vermelden dat niet alles te vertrouwen is aan wat je ziet in de lucht. Dus dient men wel op te passen als men contact krijgt met andere wezens, want het is een wirwar van goed en kwaad en alle geuren en kleuren.
UFO Hovers Over Clevelands Tallest Buildings On Live Cam, Aug 2016 Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Hovers Over Clevelands Tallest Buildings On Live Cam, Aug 2016 Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: August 19, 2016 Location of sighting: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
A long UFO hovered over the area of Cleveland on Aug 19, going pretty much unnoticed, except for the watchful eye of Orlando Bosca who watches the live cams for anomalies. This long cigar shaped UFO has two glowing orbs on its upper right and left side as it hovers over Cleveland's tallest buildings. Perhaps it is marvelling at the cities massive buildings. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
John Lennon Has UFO sighting At His Home In New York City On Aug 23, 1974, UFO Sighting News.
John Lennon Has UFO sighting At His Home In New York City On Aug 23, 1974, UFO Sighting News.
On This Day In UFO History Aug 23, 2016
John Lennon had a UFO sighting which occurred when he was with his personal secretary, May Pang, in New York. As May Pang recounts in her book, the "large, circular object [was] coming towards us. It was shaped like a flattened cone and on top was a large, brilliant red light... When it came a little closer, we could make out a row or circle of white lights that ran around the entire rim of the craft."
August 23, 1974 - John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in NYC. Lennon's sighting occurred when he was with his personal secretary, May Pang, in New York, at the time when he and Yoko Ono were separated. He refers to the experience on the cover of his album "Walls And Bridges", which was released in 1974, saying that he saw a UFO. May Pang reports in her book, "Loving John".... "We had just ordered up some pizzas and since it was such a warm evening, we decided to step out on the terrace," recalled Pang. "There were no windows directly facing us from across the street, so John just stepped outside with nothing on, in order to catch a cool breeze that was coming in right off the East River. I remember I was just inside the bedroom getting dressed when John started shouting for me to come out on the terrace. I yelled back that I would be right there but he kept screaming for me to join him in that instant. As I walked out onto the terrace, my eye caught this large, circular object coming towards us. It was shaped like a flattened cone and on top was a large, brilliant red light, not pulsating as on any of the aircraft we'd see heading for a landing at Newark Airport. When it came a little closer, we could make out a row or circle of white lights that ran around the entire rim of the craft - these were also flashing on and off. There were so many of these lights that it was dazzling to the mind. It was, I estimate, about the size of a Lear jet and it was so close that if we had something to throw at it, we probably would have hit it quite easily." Eerily the object passed by. "We often had helicopters flying above us but this was as silent as the night and about seventeen storeys above street level." The object flew off but returned later, by which time she and Lennon had set up a telescope through which they could view it in more detail. "The light was so brilliant coming from the craft that no additional details could be seen. We did take a couple of pictures but they turned out overexposed." They also rang a local newspaper to report the sighting and were told at least seven other people had seen the UFO too. "We even called the police, that's how excited we were, and they told us to keep calm, that others had seen it too." During what was left of the evening, John kept saying, "I can't believe it... I can't believe it...
The current leader of the US could reveal the truth of extraterrestrials before he quits the post, conspiracy theorists claim.
Daily Star Online revealed earlier this year how many believe 2016 will be the year the world would see full alien disclosure.
Now UFO disclosure lobbyist Stephen Bassett, executive director of the Paradigm Research Group (PRG), has released a new video suggesting Obama would be talked about for “a thousand years” if he reveals alien secrets.
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THIS YEAR: Barack Obama could reveal the truth about aliens this year
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ET: The CIA also revealed thousands of UFO files this year
“You will leave a legacy more profound than the coming of Christ”
UFO disclosure lobbyist Stephen Bassett
He claims the announcement would be “more profound than the coming of Jesus Christ”.
In the video released by Earth Mystery News, Mr Bassett said: “The first head of state that makes the announcement that extraterrestrial presence is real will be one of the greatest political legacies of all time.
“He will go down in history. For a thousand years he’ll be talked about.
“Disclosure is the most profound event in human history and if you are the head of state that lets it out, the one who brought the truth to the world, you will leave a legacy more profound than the coming of Christ.
LEADER: Revealing the truth about aliens could be "bigger than the coming of Jesus Christ"
“If you think being Jesus Christ is a big deal, being the disclosure president is a bigger deal.”
Earlier this year John Pedestal, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, tweeted how the biggest failure of the past 12 months was “once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files”.
Elk jaar in maart verschijnen ze op het ijs van Lake Baikal, het oudste en diepste meer ter wereld: grote cirkels van vijf tot zeven kilometer doorsnee. De wildste theorieën doen de ronde over wat de oorzaak zou zijn: buitenaardse wezens? Activiteiten van sjamaans? De wetenschap staat nog altijd voor een raadsel.
De cirkels werden voor het eerst door wetenschappers opgemerkt in 2009. Vanuit het internationaal ruimtestation ISS op 350 kilometer hoogte maakte de Amerikaanse astronaut Mike Barratt beelden van Siberië, en ook van het Baikalmeer. Toen hij de beelden doorstuurde naar de aarde, ontdekten zijn collega's iets bizars: een grote, donkere, bijna perfecte cirkel op het ijs, waarmee het meer was bedekt.
Vulkaan Wetenschappers ontdekten vervolgens dat het ijs op de plaats van de ring minder dik was dan elders en vermoedden dat er een soort thermische reactie onder het wateroppervlak plaatsvond. Het enige probleem met die theorie: wat kon zo'n reactie veroorzaken? Een vulkaan onder het wateroppervlak? Die bleek er niet te zijn.
Vervolgens werd de these gelanceerd dat het om methaangas zou gaan van afgestorven planten en dieren op de bodem, maar dat bleek onwaarschijnlijk omdat dat een gigantische hoeveelheid sediment nodig zou zijn om de 1,20 meter dikke ijslaag op het 25 miljoen jaar oude meer te doen smelten.
Hogedrukgebieden Dit jaar kwam de Russische Academie van de Wetenschappen met een nieuwe theorie op de proppen, ondersteund door wiskundigen, fysici en wetenschappers die zich met de studie van binnenwateren bezig houden. Volgens hen zouden de cirkels ontstaan door een soort van cirkelvormige hogedrukgebieden onder water, een beetje zoals de hogedrukgebieden met warme lucht die we kennen van onze weerberichten. "Het is mogelijk dat dit de cirkels veroorzaakt op het ijs", klinkt het. Maar dat moet verder onderzoek nog aantonen.
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The truth IS out there: Hillary Clinton to release ALL mysterious Area 51 Alien files
The truth IS out there: Hillary Clinton to release ALL mysterious Area 51 Alien files
The truth IS out there: Democratic candidate for the presidency Hillary Clinton vows to release ALL documents related to Area 51, Alien life and UFOs.
In an effort to help the disclosure movement, Hilary Clinton has pledged to release all top secret files about the enigmatic Area 51 facility, said to have been the ultimate hiding place for otherworldly crafts and technology.
May people firmly believe that Area 51 is the most secret government sanctuary for alien technology.
Interestingly, several individuals have come forward in the past revealing the secrets of Area 51. However, top secret documents have remained in the shadows.
Bob Lazar, who was ridiculed because of his sensationalistic claims, states that he worked in the past at Area 51, where top secrets projects are being developed. Interestingly, on several occasions he was subjected to a polygraph: The testing confirmed his statements regarding the secret researcher facilities and alien technology present inside some of the most infamous bases in the United States.
According to Lazar, the so-called “UFO’s” were not built by humans, the cabins inside of the craft were extremely small and only a child could fit into them. Lazar claims that these “Flying saucers” were built and piloted by extraterrestrial beings. Mysteriously, it seems as if the UFO’s were made out of one single piece, they did not have a welding point and were manufactured from a material unknown on Earth.
It is noteworthy to mention that Area 51 was officially recognized by the Central Intelligence Agency only a few years ago, in 2013.
While many believe the facility –part of the Edwards Air Force Base – is used to hide Alien technology, many believe that it used used for experimental weapons and vehicle tests.
The truth behind Area 51 remains obscure, however, if Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination, and becomes president of the United States, the history of Area 51 could drastically change, as she plans on releasing all top secret files related to the facility.
Until now, no one has been able to see the documents said to be the ultimate proof of alien life located at Area 41.
Joseph G. Buchman, who stood up for the declassification of UFO related material, told the New York Times in an interview: “Hillary has embraced this issue with an entirely unprecedented level of interest in American politics.”
In a recent interview, the presidential candidate said she would have to take a look at all of the available information in order to decide whether or not she believes that advanced alien beings are visiting planet Earth.
However, she added: “There’re enough stories out there, and I don’t think everybody is just sitting in their kitchen making them up.”
Many people believe Hilary Clinton is encouraged to tell the truth about Extraterrestrial life since her campaign manager John Podesta has repeatedly asked the United State’s government to release all documents related to Alien life and UFOs.
People are eagerly waiting for Hilary to win the elections and keep her promise to release all documents related to Alien life to the public.
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'IT'S COMING' The UFO truth legacy more profound than Christ which Obama may trigger
'IT'S COMING' The UFO truth legacy more profound than Christ which Obama may trigger
PRESIDENT Barack Obama could be the world leader who is talked about for thousands of years, if, as many conspiracy theorists believe he is about to do, he reveals the existence of aliens to the globe before stepping down.
A growing number of so-called alien disclosure campaigners believe 2016 could be the year we are told the truth IS out there following years of alleged secrecy over a supposed contact between alien visitors and world governments.
Stephen Bassett, the only registered UFO disclosure lobbyist in the US and executive director of Paradigm Research Group (PRG), has spent years campaigning to end what he calls a “truth embargo”.
Express.co.uk revealed back in May how he believed President Obama would end up a Nobel prize winner for making the announcement first this year.
In a new video interview on Earth Mystery News, Mr Bassett said the announcement, if it materialises, would be "more profound than the coming of Jesus Christ.
He said: "The first head of state that makes the announcement that extraterrestrial presence is real will be one of the greatest political legacies of all time.
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Obama (right) greets and alien (left) while Jesus looks on in this mock-up image.
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Steve Bassett talks disclosure at a campaign conference.
If you think being Jesus Christ is a big deal, being the Disclosure President is a bigger deal!
Steve Bassett
“He will go down in history. For a thousand years he’ll be talked about.
“Disclosure is the most profound event in human history and if you are the head of state that lets it out, the one who brought the Truth to the world, you will leave a legacy more profound that the coming of Christ.
“If you think being Jesus Christ is a big deal, being the Disclosure President is a bigger deal!”
In the earlier interview with the Express.co.uk, Mr Bassett said: “We are going to get disclosure this year.
“I think Obama will be the disclosure president. I am 85 percent sure Obama will make the announcement before he leaves office.”
“He will be looking at a Nobel Prize for making an announcement like that.”
Alien disclosure campaigners have been buoyed since the start of the year when Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton vowed to get to the bottom of the UFO mystery if ever elected.
She said Earth may have been visited by aliens and that she would establish a task force to investigate Area 51, the top-secret Air Force base in Nevada where, according to UFO enthusiasts, the government is keeping alien UFOs recovered from crash sites, such as Roswell in New Mexico.
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VIDEO: “Aankondiging over buitenaards contact is meest diepgaande gebeurtenis in de geschiedenis”
VIDEO: “Aankondiging over buitenaards contact is meest diepgaande gebeurtenis in de geschiedenis”
Als president Barack Obama aan de wereld bekend gaat maken dat aliens bestaan, zal er nog duizenden jaren over hem worden gesproken. Dat denkt lobbyist Stephen Bassett, directeur van de Paradigm Research Group (RPG).
Steeds meer mensen geloven dat 2016 wel eens het jaar zou kunnen zijn waarin we na jaren van geheimhouding over vermeend contact tussen aliens en overheden te horen krijgen dat er sprake is van buitenaards contact.
Bassett pleit al jaren voor een einde aan het ‘waarheidsembargo’ zoals hij het noemt. In een nieuwe video zegt hij dat zo’n aankondiging nog meer impact zal hebben dan de komst van Jezus Christus.
Geschiedenis maken
“De eerste regeringsleider die aankondigt dat buitenaardsen echt bestaan, zal één van de grootste politieke erfenissen aller tijden nalaten,” aldus Bassett. “Hij zal geschiedenis maken en er zal nog duizenden jaren over hem worden gesproken.”
“De bekendmaking zou de meest diepgaande gebeurtenis in de menselijke geschiedenis zijn,” zei hij. “Het nalatenschap van de regeringsleider die zoiets naar buiten brengt is van diepgaande betekenis en zal meer impact hebben dan de komst van Christus.”
President Obama en John Podesta (AP)
In een eerder interview zei Bassett dat nog dit jaar zal worden aangekondigd dat de buitenaardse aanwezigheid echt bestaat. “Ik ben er 85 procent zeker van dat Obama de aankondiging zal doen voordat hij het Witte Huis verlaat. Hij komt in aanmerking voor een Nobelprijs als hij een dergelijke aankondiging gaat doen.”
Clinton
Amerikaanse UFO-fanaten kijken daarnaast uitnaar de mogelijke verkiezing van kandidate Hillary Clinton. Zij heeft al meermaals aangekondigd dat ze UFO-stukken die als strikt vertrouwelijk zijn geclassificeerd zal vrijgeven als ze wordt verkozen.
Clinton zei in recente interviews dat ze onder meer informatie zou vrijgeven over Area 51, een militaire basis van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht in de Nevadawoestijn waar volgens sommigen buitenaardse technologie ligt opgeborgen.
Ook haar campagnemanager John Podesta zei in een interview met CNN dat hij de Amerikanen de waarheid over UFO’s wil vertellen.
UFO IN MEXICO ZORGT VOOR VERKEERSOPSTOPPING ( VIDEO )
UFO IN MEXICO ZORGT VOOR VERKEERSOPSTOPPING ( VIDEO )
Velen kennen wel het fenomeen dat wanneer aan de ene kant van de snelweg een ongeluk gebeurt de andere kant ook stilstaat vanwege de “kijkers”, ook wel ramptoeristen genoemd.
Een auto op zijn kant is één ding, maar wat gebeurt er wanneer men vanuit de auto’s opeens een UFO in de lucht ziet?
UFO waarnemingen zijn er in alle soorten en smaken. Maar, de allermooiste zijn nog altijd die waar geen enkele twijfel bestaat over de echtheid van het fenomeen omdat je talloze getuigen hebt.
Niet één of andere obscure Youtube gebruiker op een zolderkamertje die zijn talenten niet anders weet te gebruiken dan voor het misleiden van het publiek, maar gewone mensen van vlees en bloed die met eigen ogen iets vreemds in de lucht zien hangen.
Waarmee dan beelden ontstaan zoals de volgende:
Verkeer wat steeds langzamer gaat rijden en uiteindelijk helemaal stilstaat, omdat men iets vreemds ontdekt in de lucht.
Waar mensen dan vervolgens uit de auto’s stappen en naar de hemel wijzen.
De waarneming vond plaats op 14 augustus 2016 langs de snelweg tussen Mexico City en Pacucha. Duidelijk en voor iedereen zichtbaar verscheen er op een gegeven een vreemd object in de lucht.
Hieronder volgen twee verschillende video’s van de UFO langs de snelweg. Een van de twee opnames is gemaakt door een Mexicaan met de naam Jim Morrison, maar daar trekken we ons maar even niets van aan.
Blue UFO Shoots Around Sky Over Maine, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Blue UFO Shoots Around Sky Over Maine, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 4, 2016 Location of sighting: Maine, USA Here is an interesting report from MUFON talked about by Open Minds. UFOs are actually common during July 4 in America, because aliens wish to observe humans and their rituals...4th of July fireworks are one of them. So if there is a large group of people around, look up at the sky and you might be surprised. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Norman Bergrun - Ringmakers of Saturn - CLIP/NOTES, Video, UFO Sighting News
Norman Bergrun - Ringmakers of Saturn - CLIP/NOTES, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of interview: Unknown Source:http://podcast.sjrdesign.net/files/070_RingmakersOfSaturn.pdf Here is a great interview with Norman Bergun who work in a top secret area inside the US government and has personally witnessed seeing photos directly from NASA that had UFO near Saturn that make the rings around Saturn. He says he has personally seen an increase of alien ship activity among the rings of Saturn over his career. Something has to be done. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
In popular culture, the term UFO–or unidentified flying object–refers to a suspected alien spacecraft, although its definition encompasses any unexplained aerial phenomena. UFO sightings have been reported throughout recorded history and in various parts of the world, raising questions about life on other planets and whether extraterrestrials have visited Earth. They became a major subject of interest–and the inspiration behind numerous films and books–following the development of rocketry after World War II.
FLYING SAUCERS
The first well-known UFO sighting occurred in 1947, when businessman Kenneth Arnold claimed to see a group of nine high-speed objects near Mount Rainier in Washington while flying his small plane. Arnold estimated the speed of the crescent-shaped objects as several thousand miles per hour and said they moved “like saucers skipping on water.” In the newspaper report that followed, it was mistakenly stated that the objects were saucer-shaped, hence the term flying saucer.
Sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena increased, and in 1948 the U.S. Air Force began an investigation of these reports called Project Sign. The initial opinion of those involved with the project was that the UFOs were most likely sophisticated Soviet aircraft, although some researchers suggested that they might be spacecraft from other worlds, the so-called extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH). Within a year, Project Sign was succeeded by Project Grudge, which in 1952 was itself replaced by the longest-lived of the official inquiries into UFOs, Project Blue Book, headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. From 1952 to 1969 Project Blue Book compiled reports of more than 12,000 sightings or events, each of which was ultimately classified as (1) “identified” with a known astronomical, atmospheric, or artificial (human-caused) phenomenon or (2) “unidentified.” The latter category, approximately 6 percent of the total, included cases for which there was insufficient information to make an identification with a known phenomenon.
THE ROBERTSON PANEL AND THE CONDON REPORT
An American obsession with the UFO phenomenon was under way. In the hot summer of 1952 a provocative series of radar and visual sightings occurred near National Airport in Washington, D.C. Although these events were attributed to temperature inversions in the air over the city, not everyone was convinced by this explanation. Meanwhile, the number of UFO reports had climbed to a record high. This led the Central Intelligence Agency to prompt the U.S. government to establish an expert panel of scientists to investigate the phenomena. The panel was headed by H.P. Robertson, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., and included other physicists, an astronomer, and a rocket engineer. The Robertson Panel met for three days in 1953 and interviewed military officers and the head of Project Blue Book. They also reviewed films and photographs of UFOs. Their conclusions were that (1) 90 percent of the sightings could be easily attributed to astronomical and meteorologic phenomena (e.g., bright planets and stars, meteors, auroras, ion clouds) or to such earthly objects as aircraft, balloons, birds, and searchlights, (2) there was no obvious security threat, and (3) there was no evidence to support the ETH. Parts of the panel’s report were kept classified until 1979, and this long period of secrecy helped fuel suspicions of a government cover-up.
A second committee was set up in 1966 at the request of the Air Force to review the most interesting material gathered by Project Blue Book. Two years later this committee, which made a detailed study of 59 UFO sightings, released its results as Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects—also known as the Condon Report, named for Edward U. Condon, the physicist who headed the investigation. The Condon Report was reviewed by a special committee of the National Academy of Sciences. A total of 37 scientists wrote chapters or parts of chapters for the report, which covered investigations of the 59 UFO sightings in detail. Like the Robertson Panel, the committee concluded that there was no evidence of anything other than commonplace phenomena in the reports and that UFOs did not warrant further investigation. This, together with a decline in sighting activity, led to the dismantling of Project Blue Book in 1969.
OTHER INVESTIGATIONS OF UFOS
Despite the failure of the ETH to make headway with the expert committees, a few scientists and engineers, most notably J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., who had been involved with projects Sign, Grudge, and Blue Book, concluded that a small fraction of the most-reliable UFO reports gave definite indications for the presence of extraterrestrial visitors. Hynek founded the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), which continues to investigate the phenomenon.
Aside from Project Blue Book, the only other official and fairly complete records of UFO sightings were kept in Canada, where they were transferred in 1968 from the Canadian Department of National Defense to the Canadian National Research Council. The Canadian records comprised about 750 sightings. Less-complete records have been maintained in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and Greece. In the United States, CUFOS and the Mutual UFO Network in Bellvue, Colo., continue to log sightings reported by the public.
In the Soviet Union, sightings of UFOs were often prompted by tests of secret military rockets. In order to obscure the true nature of the tests, the government sometimes encouraged the public’s belief that these rockets might be extraterrestrial craft but eventually decided that the descriptions themselves might give away too much information. UFO sightings in China have been similarly provoked by military activity that is unknown to the public.
POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS FOR UFO SIGHTINGS AND ALIEN ABDUCTIONS
UFO reports have varied widely in reliability, as judged by the number of witnesses, whether the witnesses were independent of each other, the observing conditions (e.g., fog, haze, type of illumination), and the direction of sighting. Typically, witnesses who take the trouble to report a sighting consider the object to be of extraterrestrial origin or possibly a military craft but certainly under intelligent control. This inference is usually based on what is perceived as formation flying by sets of objects, unnatural—often sudden—motions, the lack of sound, changes in brightness or colour, and strange shapes.
That the unaided eye plays tricks is well known. A bright light, such as the planet Venus, often appears to move. Astronomical objects can also be disconcerting to drivers, as they seem to “follow” the car. Visual impressions of distance and speed of UFOs are also highly unreliable because they are based on an assumed size and are often made against a blank sky with no background object (clouds, mountains, etc.) to set a maximum distance. Reflections from windows and eyeglasses produce superimposed views, and complex optical systems, such as camera lenses, can turn point sources of light into apparently saucer-shaped phenomena. Such optical illusions and the psychological desire to interpret images are known to account for many visual UFO reports, and at least some sightings are known to be hoaxes. Radar sightings, while in certain respects more reliable, fail to discriminate between artificial objects and meteor trails, ionized gas, rain, or thermal discontinuities in the atmosphere.
“Contact events,” such as abductions, are often associated with UFOs because they are ascribed to extraterrestrial visitors. However, the credibility of the ETH as an explanation for abductions is disputed by most psychologists who have investigated this phenomenon. They suggest that a common experience known as “sleep paralysis” may be the culprit, as this causes sleepers to experience a temporary immobility and a belief that they are being watched.
From strange lights in the sky to mysterious aircraft, explore Europe's unreported and unexplained UFO history.Details about UFOs UFO documentary A US pilot vanishes at the height of the Cold War, UFOs are sighted over Germany, and a series of unexplained events shock a Sicilian village.A US pilot vanishes at the height of the Cold War, UFOs are sighted over Germany, and a series of unexplained events shock a Sicilian village.
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This New Equation Could Unite The Two Biggest Theories in Physics
This New Equation Could Unite The Two Biggest Theories in Physics
Dave Jaeger
IN BRIEF
In a recent paper, a Stanford theoretical physicist develops a new equation, one which indicates that the key to finally connecting general relativity and quantum mechanics is found in bizarre spacetime tunnels called wormholes.
One of the most stubborn problems in physics today is the fact that our two best theories to explain the Universe – general relativity and quantum mechanics – function perfectly well on their own, but as soon as you try to combine them, the maths just doesn’t work out.
But a Stanford theoretical physicist has just come up with a new equation that suggests the key to finally connecting the two could be found in bizarre spacetime tunnels called wormholes.
The equation is deceptively simple: ER = EPR.
It’s not made up of numerical values, but instead represents the names of some key players in theoretical physics.
On the left side of the equation, the ER stands for Einstein and Nathan Rosen,and refers to a 1935 paper they wrote together describing wormholes, known technically as Einstein-Rosen bridges.
On the right side of the equation, EPR stands for Einstein, Rosen and Boris Podolsky, who co-wrote another paper that year describing quantum entanglement.
Back in 2013, physicist Leonard Susskind from Stanford University and Juan Maldacena from the Institute for Advance Study at Princeton suggested that the two papers could be describing pretty much the same thing – something that no one else in the field had previously considered, including Einstein himself.
Now Susskind is back to discuss the implications if he’s in fact right.
But first, let’s look at the individual parts of this equation.
First implied by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, wormholes are like tunnels between two places in the Universe.
In theory, if you fell in one side of a wormhole, you’d appear on the other side almost instantaneously, even if it happened to be on the exact opposite side of the Universe.
Quantum entanglement, on the other hand, describes the way that two particles can interact in such a way that they become inexorably linked, and essentially ‘share’ an existence.
This means that whatever happens to one particle will directly and instantaneously affect the other – even if it’s light-years away.
Okay, now let’s combine the two.
In his new paper, Susskind proposes a scenario where hypothetical Alice and Bob each take a bunch of entangled particles – Alice takes one member of each pair, and Bob takes the other, and they fly off in opposite directions of the Universe in their hypothetical hypersonic jets.
Once in their separate positions, Alice and Bob smash their particles together with such great force, they create two separate black holes.
The result, says Susskind, is two entangled black holes on opposite sides of the Universe, linked in the middle by a giant wormhole.
“If ER = EPR is right, a wormhole will link those black holes; entanglement, therefore, can be described using the geometry of wormholes,” says Tom Siegfried over at Science News.
“Even more remarkable … is the possibility that two entangled subatomic particles alone are themselves somehow connected by a sort of quantum wormhole,” Siegfried adds.
“Since wormholes are contortions of spacetime geometry – described by Einstein’s gravitational equations – identifying them with quantum entanglement would forge a link between gravity and quantum mechanics.”
Is Susskind right? It’s impossible to say just yet, because while he’s published his paper on pre-press website arXiv.org to be openly scrutinised by his peers, it’s yet to go through the formal peer-review process.
But, as Siegfried reports, Susskind isn’t the only one going down this path. Earlier this year, a team of Caltech physicists came up with a similar hypothesis when they attempted to show how changes in quantum states can be linked to curves in spacetime geometry.
In a blog post describing the hypothesis, one of the team, Sean M. Carroll, says the most natural relationship between energy and spacetime curvature in this scenario is given by Einstein’s equation for general relativity.
“The claim, in its most dramatic-sounding form, is that gravity (spacetime curvature caused by energy/momentum) isn’t hard to obtain in quantum mechanics – it’s automatic! Or at least, the most natural thing to expect,” he says.
We’ll have to wait and see if ER = EPR or something closely related bears out, but it’s certainly food for thought, and Susskind for one thinks he’s on to something here.
“To me it seems obvious that if ER = EPR is true, it is a very big deal, and it must affect the foundations and interpretation of quantum mechanics,” he writes, adding that if he’s right, “quantum mechanics and gravity are far more tightly related than we (or at least I) had ever imagined”.
Polish astronomers have been able to document fully a white dwarf go from sleeping to erupting in a regular nova.
UNEXPECTED DISCOVERIES
Watching stars go nova or supernova is of particular interest to astronomers. Its an understandable interest that any astronomically large explosion would attract. So you may assume that the steps and the stages stars would go through during one would be well documented. Well, not so much.
What’s amazing was that the astronomers weren’t looking for novas—OGLE is a long-term surveying project that uses microlensing to search for dark matter.
Instead, in 2003, they stumbled on V1213 Cen, or Nova Centauri 2009, a white dwarf star in a cataclysmic variable star system.
DOCUMENTING EVOLUTION
These kinds of star systems are composed of a white dwarf and a low-mass star. Its a binary sort of system, with the distance between them no larger than the Earth-Moon distance. This closeness, coupled with the intense gravity of a white dwarf, means that said white dwarf is actively leeching material from the low-mass star into a disk around the dwarf.
V1213 Cen is an example of a slow version of this process, called “mass theft.” Since it is slow, the material becomes unstable and erupts in small “dwarf novas”. These dwarf novas push material, primarily hydrogen, into the surface of the white dwarf.
Thus, the white dwarf becomes larger until it reaches a certain mass, at which point it erupts into a classic nova. After this, there are several centuries of high-rate mass transfer, then a millennia-long hibernation period, until it ultimately awakes to start the cycle all over again.
Observation of V1213 Cen have yielded the first ever pictures of a single such system evolving from pre to post nova, confirming the model astronomers posited.
Tesla’s Anti-Gravity Research in Use in Dozens of Secretive Military Projects
Tesla’s Anti-Gravity Research in Use in Dozens of Secretive Military Projects
Doctor Richard Boylan, and numerous others have already let the cat out of the bag when it comes to anti-gravity space flight, so why do Boeing and Lockheed, two of America’s largest military industrial contractors, and the recipient of trillions in tax payer ‘black budget’ dollars still hide that they are operating at least 12 anti-gravity aerospace platforms?
It seems that Boeing hides this advanced aerospace technology because it would prove what many free energy enthusiasts have said about Nikola Tesla – that he discovered anti-gravity, and learned how to utilize it as an abundant, if not free, energy source.
Objects can even be levitated easily with anti-gravity, and its numerous applications are just beginning to be understood by the public at large.
The late genius and inventor even explained the fact prior to his death. William R. Lynewrites inOccult Ether Physics (Creatopia Productions), that a lecture Tesla prepared for the Institute of Immigrant Welfare (May. 12, 1938), dealt with his Dynamic Theory of Gravity.
Tesla said in his lecture that he had developed, “one of two far-reaching discoveries, which I worked out in all details in the years 1893 and 1894.”
Indeed, Tesla held a patent in 1928, for a flying machine which resembled both a helicopter and an airplane and is thought to have run with the benefit of anti-gravity.
Boeing has loosely revealed that they have already developed this technology in a veiled admittance that “it is working on experimental anti-gravity projects that could overturn a century of conventional aerospace propulsion technology.”
And Ben Rich, once the CEO of Lockheed Martin, admitted on his deathbed that “aliens were real,” and the “US military already travels to the stars,” explaining where this technology could have been sourced, aside from terrestrial beings like Tesla.
This means that for more than 130 years we have been kept in the dark about a known free energy source so that the powers-that-be can profit from our ignorance.
Every time you see a ‘rocket ship’ go up in space, it is essentially no different from the false flagattempts orchestrated by six media companies controlling the media to alter your perception of reality.
So Where Did All that Research Go?
Theodore C. Loder, PhD, posits in one paper that since the 1950’s (known to some as the brain drain era) almost all research into anti-gravity seems to have disappeared.
None other than Professor Hermann Oberth, considered by some to be one of the fathers of the space age (and who later worked in the US with Wernher von Braun, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and NASA), stated the following in 1954:[3]
“It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system.”
Perhaps of more interest to our present discussion on the secrets Boeing and Lockheed have kept, Oberth states:
“They are flying by the means of artificial fields of gravity... They produce high-tension electric charges in order to push the air out of their paths, so it does not start glowing, and strong magnetic fields to influence the ionized air at higher altitudes. First, this would explain their luminosity... Secondly, it would explain the noiselessness of UFO flight.”
Indeed, you can see the crumbs of government contractor’s special operatives at work when you look into the work of John Hutchison.
He discovered, “highly-anomalous electromagnetic effect which causes the jellification of metals, spontaneous levitation of common substances, and other effects,” which echo Tesla’s findings. These strange effects were later dubbed the Hutchison effect.
As is usually the case when silencing the curious, a Vancouver businessman, George Hathaway heard of the Hutchison effect around 1980, and hired an engineer from Boeing Aerospace to work with the Canadian government to form a company that would promote technology developed from the effect.
They called this company Pharos’ Technology. You likely haven’t heard of what they have created since then.
12 Special Aerospace Platforms Incorporating Anti-Gravity Technology
“At this time, I am aware of the existence of 12 kinds of special-technology advanced aerospace platforms [mil-speak for craft], all incorporating antigravity technology in some form. “These 12 are: the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber, the F-22 Raptor advanced stealth fighter, and its successor, the F-35 Lightning II advanced stealth fighter; the Aurora, Lockheed-Martin’s X-33A, the Lockheed X-22A two-man antigravity disc fighter, Boeing and Airbus Industries’ Nautilus, the TR3-A Pumpkinseed, the TR3-B Triangle , Northrop’s “Great Pumpkin” disc, Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical’s XH-75D Shark antigravity helicopter, and the Northrop Quantum Teleportation Disc.”
Since at least 1956, the press has been trying to manage public awareness by staying hush-hush about anti-gravity research, or discounting those who attempted to show that it was real.
However, a trade press magazine, the Aviation Report, made numerous references to anti-gravity projects, and listed many of the companies pursuing research into anti-gravity technologies.
Quotes from the Aviation Report listed in the Aviation Studies (International) Ltd. report[8] are suggestive of what was truly going on at Boeing, Lockheed and other agencies despite what the public was being told.
What Anti-Gravity Means to the World at Large
Anti-gravity, first and foremost would make petrol-guzzling cars, crumbling electric grids, and other outdated and dirty fuels a total waste of time.
Anti-gravity, as Nikola Tesla made clear, would make space flight to other heavenly bodies as simple as driving your car to a nearby city, today.
It would also turn Einstein’s E=MC2 theory on its head, and it also suggests, as Tesla explained, that the ether is given to us to use responsibly by a life-giving creative force.
In short, everything we need is already out there, in abundant supply. We just need to tap into it and free these technologies from the grip of the military industrial complex.
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Kitezh: the Mythical Invisible City of Russia Could Have Been Real
Kitezh: the Mythical Invisible City of Russia Could Have Been Real
Kitezh is a mythical city of Russia which was once dubbed “the invisible city.” New evidence suggests it could have been more than just a myth.
In past months, the fans of the Tomb Raider franchise received a nice surprise in the form of the latest sequel of this action video game. In the plot of the game Lara Croft, the famous adventure character, ventures into the wilds of Siberia in search of immortality. The key to all her questions lies in the mythical city of Kitezh. Chased by numerous villains, she goes through the unimaginable trouble to reach the invisible city. Is there more to this story than the fiction of a video game plot?
According to rising body of evidence, Kitezh was once a mighty city on the shore of the lake Svetloyar, but it was flooded. For centuries, this city has survived as myth. In 2011, archaeologists found remains of everyday objects, and they believe that they belong to the people who lived in a mystical city of Kitezh.
Tale of Kitezh
The first written documents that mention the Russian Atlantis date back to 1780s and the Old Believers. In 1666, the Old Believers refused to accept the reforms the Orthodox Church adopted and therefore, they separated. In the early 13th century, the Grand Prince of Vladimir, Prince Georgy, founded the city of Little Kitzeh (Maly Kitezh) on the bank of the Volga River in the Voskresensky District of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in central Russia. Today, the city of Little Kitezh carries the name Krasny Kholm, and the settlement Prince Georgy had founded still survives despite all the destruction and wars that plagued it through the centuries. After a while, the Prince discovered a beautiful place on a lake Svetloyar which was further upstream and wanted to make another city on that spot.
Little Kitezh by Ivan Bilibin
This Bolshoy Kitezh or Big Kitezh was considered holy by all its inhabitants because of the large number of monasteries and churches the Prince had built. The origin of the city’s name is the cause of depute between researchers. Some think that the name came from the royal residence Kideksha while others think that it meant ‘obscure‘. The circle-shaped city has made the Russian people proud, and its location was kept secret. Some folk tales even say that the city was visible only to those who were pure of heart. As history has proved on so many occasions, times of peace and prosperity don’t last long.
Russian history is filled with difficulties caused by the Mongol invasions. One such invasion started in 1238 AD and was led by the mighty Batu Khan, the founder of the Golden Horde. The army Batu Khan brought with him was so powerful that they surrounded and besieged the city of Vladimir. After hearing a story about the mighty city of Kitezh, Khan became obsessed with it and determined to destroy it.
After a fierce battle, the Mongol army captured the Little Kitezh and made the Prince Georgy retreat to Kitezh. Even after the defeat, the hopes of saving the Prince’s city were high because Batu Khan didn’t know the location of the city. All of the prisoners were tortured in an attempt to get the information about the secret path that led to the lake Svetloyar. One of the men revealed the information because he couldn’t take the torture anymore.
It is certain that the Golden Hord reached the city and that great Prince died in the battle while trying to protect the Bolshoy Kitezh. Accounts how the events unraveled are very different and most of them come from the folk stories that kept the memory of this holy city alive.
One popular story explains the events that took place once Batu Khan and his Golden Horde reached the lake Svetloyar. They surrounded the city, but to their amazement, they didn’t see the army defending the city. There were no walls or anything else that could protect the city from certain death.
The Invisible Town of Kitezh (1913) by Konstantin Gorbatov
The only thing the Mongol conquerors could see was thousands of city’s inhabitants praying to God. Encouraged by the lack of opposing army, they initiated the attack, but at that moment, fountains of water sprouted from the soil. This caused havoc among the Mongols who managed to retreat to the nearby forest. From there, they watched the city descend into the lake, disappearing from the face of the Earth forever. The mystical flooding of Kitezh became the source of many myths and folk tales that were passed from one generation to another.
In these stories, the city was called ‘The Invisible City‘ that would only reveal itself to those who were pure and had sincere faith in God. On some occasions, people have reported they heard voices from the lake that sang the hymns. Also, those with faith in God could see the lights of the processions that people who still live in the Russian Atlantis hold.
In the second decade of the 21st century, the archaeologists inspired by these legends started looking for evidence that would prove if the city of Bolshoy Kitezh ever existed.
In 2011, the team of researchers found the traces of ancient settlements in the area around the Svetloyar Lake. In addition, they unearthed fragments of traditional Russian pottery. One of the most important discoveries they’ve made so far was that the hill in which the remains of the settlement were found is prone to landslides. This could prove that the people who lived in Russian Atlantis met much less glorious destiny than the one depicted in the myths and folktales of the Russian people. The landslide could have submerged the city, but at this point, the scientific community awaits further findings from the team that is working on this site.
It is less important what actually happened with Prince Georgy’s city than the fact that his city gave the strength to many people that went through the difficult periods of their life. The power of a myth is not in the facts but in the reassurance that impossible things happen if you are righteous.
Venusachtige exoplaneet heeft mogelijk zuurstof in de atmosfeer
Venusachtige exoplaneet heeft mogelijk zuurstof in de atmosfeer
Tim Kraaijvanger
Het is geen pretje om op de exoplaneet GJ 1132b te wonen. Mogelijk is het er net zo warm als in je oven, namelijk zo’n 230 graden Celsius. Wel vermoeden astronomen dat er zuurstof in de atmosfeer aanwezig is.
Astronoom Laura Schaefer en haar collega’s van het Harvard-Smithsonian Center voor Astrofysica bogen zich over een pittige vraag: hoe heeft de atmosfeer van GJ 1132b zich in de loop ter tijd ontwikkeld?
Waarschijnlijk was de atmosfeer ooit rijk aan water. Omdat de afstand tussen de exoplaneet en de moederster slechts enkele miljoenen kilometers is, vangt GJ 1132b veel ultraviolet licht. Hierdoor vallen watermoleculen uit elkaar in waterstof en zuurstof. Deze elementen zijn licht, waardoor de exoplaneet ze ooit gaat verliezen. Toch is er een verschil. Waterstof is namelijk lichter dan zuurstof en zal dus sneller verdwijnen uit de atmosfeer. Dit betekent dat zuurstof blijft hangen.
Gesmolten magmazee Als er zuurstof wordt gevonden in de atmosfeer van deze hete wereld, dan is dat geen teken dat er leven aanwezig is of dat het er leefbaar is. “Het is juist het tegenovergestelde”, zegt Schaefer. Aangezien waterdamp een broeikasgas is, is er sprake van een op hol geslagen broeikaseffect op de exoplaneet. Het oppervlak van GJ 1132b kan miljoenen jaren een gesmolten magmazee blijven.
Deze grote magmazee absorbeert mogelijk een klein deel van de zuurstof in de atmosfeer, maar het gaat hier om slechts tien procent. De overige negentig procent verdwijnt ooit de ruimte in.
Even snuffelen Als er zuurstof in de atmosfeer van GJ 1132b aanwezig is, dan kan dit in de nabije toekomst ontdekt worden. Nieuwe supertelescopen – zoals de James Webb telescoop – zijn in staat om te snuffelen aan de atmosferen van verre werelden. “Wellicht ontdekken we hier voor het eerst zuurstof op een aardachtige exoplaneet buiten de zonnestelsel”, concludeert medeauteur Robin Wordsworth.
Ze zijn er in overvloed: complottheorieën. Het bekendste is misschien wel de theorie dat de maanlanding nep was, maar er zijn er nog veel meer. Zo is er een complottheorie die stelt dat de dood van John F. Kennedy geregisseerd werd door de Amerikaanse geheime diensten. En recenter werd beweerd dat Osama Bin Laden niet door de VS werd gedood, maar al jaren daarvoor een natuurlijke dood stierf (een alternatieve theorie stelt overigens dat hij nog in leven is). En ook omtrent de verdwijning van MH370 doen zich wilde theorieën de ronde.
Eigenlijk zou je wel kunnen stellen dat elke gebeurtenis van wereldbelang tegenwoordig vergezeld gaat door een complottheorie die de gebeurtenis heel anders verklaart. Maar hoe ontstaan zulke theorieën en waarom geloven mensen erin? Moraalwetenschapper Brecht Decoene vertelt er in het boekje ‘Achterdocht tussen feit en fictie‘ alles over.
Hij gunt ons een kijkje in het brein van de complotdenker en benadrukt dat we complottheorieën, hoe belachelijk ze ook klinken, zeker niet moeten onderschatten. Hun invloed kan namelijk verstrekkend zijn. Een schrijnend voorbeeld daarvan is Anders Breivik die in 2011 77 mensen ombracht in Oslo en op het eiland Utøya. Hij was sterk van overtuigd, zo stelt Decoene, van een samenzwering door moslims om Europa te veroveren. “Breivik wilde de Westerse beschaving redden en achtte het daartoe noodzakelijk om diegenen die dit complot zouden kunnen faciliteren met geweld af te stoppen.” Niet elke complotdenker zal naar de wapens grijpen, sterker nog: veel complotdenkers wijzen geweld resoluut af. Maar de geschiedenis leert ons dat complottheorieën aan de basis kunnen liggen van “geweld tegen onschuldigen, de vergoelijking en rationalisering daarvan”.
Dat complottheorieën tegenwoordig vrijelijk over het internet verspreid worden, lijkt dan ook zorgwekkend. Het vraagt van ons om feit en fictie van elkaar te scheiden en op een goeie manier met de rondzwervende theorieën om te gaan. Maar hoe doe je dat? Ook daarvoor biedt Decoene de nodige handvaten in zijn boek.
Complottheorieën zijn fascinerend. En dat is het boek ‘Achterdocht tussen feit en fictie‘ ook. Het boekje is kort en bondig, nuchter en bijzonder relevant in een tijd waar complottheorieën aan de lopende band worden gegenereerd.
Science fiction movies frequently make it seem as though hostile extraterrestrials might be able to sneak through Earth’s atmosphere, emerge from the clouds without warning, and start wrecking shit. But is it really possible that spaceships could suddenly appear out of the vast blackness of space unnoticed by the myriad instruments on the ground? Depending on the aliens’ level of technological sophistication, one can argue that almost anything is possible. Humans have pointed a lot of sensors skyward, but it’s not clear they would really give us a proper heads up before our extraterrestrial guests arrive.
It sort of depends on exactly what we’re looking for. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence, better known as SETI, has been fruitless so far, but we keep investing and more and more money towards projects aimed at answering whether or not we’re alone in the universe. That investigation basically revolves around detecting various signals that point to the existence of technologically advanced extraterrestrials. And that also means the instruments we can use to observe space let us see farther into the universe than ever before. How far exactly? Douglas Vakoch tells Inverse that the answer has more to do with defining “see” than with arriving at a specific number.
A SETI researcher and the president of METI International, Vakoch divides the tools used to do SETI research into two groups: optical, and radio. Optical instruments, which look for lasers or other light patterns that suggest the presence of intelligent aliens, can make decent observations up to about 1,000 light-years away. “Beyond 1,000 light-years, however, it can get more difficult,” Vakoch says. Those instruments include the Boquete Optical SETI Observatory in Panama, and the Owl Observatory in Michigan.
Radio instruments, on the other hand, make a lot more sense for investigating signs of extraterrestrial life. For one, we can listen in on radio waves moving through space from about 10,000 light-years and beyond. Radio waves are also a pretty specific sign of a technologically advanced civilization while a star system may be expressing a strange laser-based signal in the distance, that might also just be an unexplained natural phenomenon (as we’re sort of learning when it comes to Tabbys Star.
Of course, as Vakoch emphasizes, our abilities to listen in on the universe dwindles as the distance increases. Aliens broadcasting themselves 10,000 light-years away will likely avoid detection.
But then again, SETI is a two-way street. When asked whether we currently have a maximum limit from which we can detect alien life, Seth Shostak, the director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, says, “It depends on how much money the aliens have to invest in their own technology.” He’s referring to the fact that intelligent lifeforms might possess technologies that allow them to broadcast their existence to us from farther away and offset the limits of our own instruments.
“In theory, there’s no limit,” he adds.
It’s important to remember that SETI investigations don’t just watch the universe in all direction in hopes we’ll stumble on something. Scientists focus our instruments on certain regions of space that are most promising — i.e. the exoplanets or star systems that possess the best chances for developing habitable environments.
“We start close to home,” says Vakoch, “and look at sun-like stars. As we move the investigation farther out, we start to hone in on stars or star regions that might be useful. For example, a current trend in the SETI community is the study of red dwarf stars, which were historically ignored. The beauty of red dwarfs is that they last a long time,” says Vakoch, sustaining planetary systems that have a much longer chance of developing habitable traits. Red dwarfs make up about 80 to 90 percent of the stars in our own neighborhood within the Milky Way galaxy.”
There’s another big factor to consider. SETI research focuses on finding aliens thatwant to be found — or at the very least, are not actively trying to hide from human detection. If a hostile fleet of extraterrestrial warships were stationed somewhere in the galaxy or was en route to the solar system, they could very well possess a number of highly advanced technologies that could shroud their presence. Space itself is incredibly big anyways — humans don’t have eyes and ears scanning all parts of the universe around us.
Aliens might be able to slip into orbit, but if they were traveling in anything truly large it might be quite difficult for them to do so without severely disrupting our orbital equipment or even taking out a geosynchronous satellite. Still, that’s not an impossible feat.
“If they’re sufficiently intelligent,” says Vakoch, “there’s no reason to think they couldn’t be anywhere.”
It’s been twenty long years since the War of 1996 and the world is slowly rebuilding from the intergalactic pummeling it received from an alien mothership and its 36 City Destroyers. In that time, mankind has applied alien technology to not only weaponry and vehicles, but to appliances as well, creating bladeless fans and touchscreen smartphones. The man tasked with building it all: Jeff Goldblum.
This is the premise of Independence Day: Resurgence — well, part of it anyway — which comes out Friday. In the trailer, president Elizabeth Lanford announces that “we have found the technology to build a stronger and safer Earth” but after a few bwaahh bwaahhs the audience realizes that might not be totally true. What we’ve found is alien technology better than our own. And we’ve reverse engineered it.
The idea that humans would build their own technology from the leftovers of aliens isn’t just something that sprang from the minds of Resurgencescreenwriters Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin, and Carter Blanchard. Humans have longed assumed advanced technologies (a relative term if ever there was one) were the products of some sort of intergalactic intervention. These conspiracy theories break down into three basic types.
1. Aliens as the Source of All Technology
The Antikythera mechanism was discovered in 1901.
The 1984 conspiracy bestseller Chariot of the Gods popularized (with “hard scientific facts!”) the idea that ancient civilization landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, and the Nazca lines in Peru were actually alien-built structures and landing sites. This line of semi-reasoning proved popular because these spots are hard to understand products of ancient engineer. They are not the only ones. The Antikythera mechanism, a device believed to be an astronomical clock, was built by ancient Greeks. Naturally, people have theorized that it was actually created by an advanced (but apparently not too advanced) alien species.
Considered by scientists as the most technologically sophisticated artifact to exist from antiquity, accredited researchers believe the purpose of the device was to tell the user when lunar and solar eclipses would occur and to track the timing of the Olympic games. The authors behind theancientaliens.com don’t buy it:
“While many experts try to offer explanations for how this device could have been conceived, designed, and built, all of their concepts fail the tests of logic. There is only one possible explanation. Beings with advanced knowledge of astronomical bodies, mathematics, and precision engineering tools created the device or gave the knowledge for its creation to someone during the first century B.C.”
To which the researchers behind the Antikythera Mechanism Research Projectworking with the mechanism say: “No, by the same argument that it is not evidence of time travel. It fits within a long tradition of astronomical, mechanical, or general scientific development.”
2. Aliens as the Source of New Materials
Once you dive into the world of alien conspiracy theories, a name that comes up again and again is Philip Schneider. Known as a UFO whistleblower, Schneider claimed to be a geologist and structural engineer once employed by the United States government. Before his death under mysterious circumstances in 1996, Schneider embarked on a series of lectures around America to discuss what he claimed to be the longstanding relationship between the U.S. government and aliens. The point of the relationship? Exchanging new tech.
In this undated video, Schneider is giving one of these lectures. At about three minutes in, he says that he is going to explain “different alien metals that have been produced both in the confines of this planet and in outer-space and are now used in all stealth aircraft.”
Schnieder says that the metal is made of two elements: niobium, which is on theperiodic table, and marinite — an alien element. This metal, he says, comes from alien technology.
Robert Lazarus, who told the media in 1989 that he had been part of a secret military operation that worked on alien technology also claimed he had encountered an alien material: Element 115. Lazarus claimed that this substance allowed aliens to amplify gravity waves, allowing them to fly their spacecrafts. Related: No record of Lazarus’ employment has been found and CalTech and MIT, which he claims to have attended, do not have any record of his admission.
3. Aliens as the Source of Modern Inventions
This category is the broadest and the most frequently cited: The idea that we’re surrounded by technology that was manufactured from alien tech. Sometimes people say this is stuff that we’ve mistakenly interpreted as normal (like circuit boards and microchips and other times this refers to tech that has been kept from the public.
In 2002 British hacker Gary McKinnon was arrested by the United Kingdom’s national high-tech crime unit after allegedly conducting an extensive search into the computer networks of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Department of Defense, and NASA. He told the BBC in 2006 that he was looking for evidence of suppressed alien technology— and found it. Here’s an excerpt of that conversation:
SK: Did you find what you were looking for?
GM: Yes.
SK: Tell us about it.
GM: There was a group called the Disclosure Project. They published a book which had 400 expert witnesses ranging from civilian air traffic controllers, through military radar operators, right up to the chaps who were responsible for whether or not to launch nuclear missiles.
They are some very credible, relied upon people, all saying yes, there is UFO technology, there’s anti-gravity, there’s free energy, and it’s extra-terrestrial in origin, and we’ve captured spacecraft and reverse-engineered it.
McKinnon also claimed that he came across NASA communication in which photographic experts said that they “regularly airbrushed out images of UFOs” from images taken from high-resolution satellites. McKinnon’s claims are in line with those of Lazarus who, before he decided to step away from the alien conspiracy game, said that the U.S. military relied upon alien technology to built their own crafts.
4. The Technologies Aliens Wouldn’t Give Us
In 2013 Canadian ex-Minister of Defense Paul Hellyer told Russia Today that not only is much of the technology we use alien-based, but that they would give usmore technology if we weren’t such assholes. If humankind “would go about it peacefully” they would share the splendor of their tech: Dropping the atom bomb, apparently, was a big sign to extraterrestrials that we’re too sketchy to handle any more gifts.
One piece of tech believers think aliens are holding back from us: Clean energy. Scientists have thrown out the idea that the star KIC 8462853 is surrounded by a Dyson sphere — a hypothetical megastructure that can capture a star’s power output.
The inverse of the aliens-holding-back-tech theory is that they haven’t visited us — but if they did, they would be such super-environmentalists that they would want to destroy us immediately. I’m not sure which idea is more comforting.
Pointing out intellectually redemptive attributes inside of a ham-handed, worn-out science fictions clichés can sort of seem like saying you’re really watching pornography to analyze the super-interesting dialogue. So, with common alien invasion stories – often replete with gratuitous scenes of destruction – it’s particularly difficult to find the deeper stuff. And because so many invasion stories are embedded with a somewhat xenophobic premise, what good can come out of alien invasion stories? Other than critiquing alien invasions inside of alien invasions (like in District 9), can an alien invasion actually be seen as a “good” thing? Can extraterrestrial invaders actually teach us a lesson?
The easiest example of aliens landing, and basically telling us what to do with our dumb Earthling lives, comes from Star Trek. While it’s not established immediately in the original 60’s show, by 1996’s Star Trek: First Contact, we learn that the peaceful, tolerant version of Earth was born out of the Vulcans landing on Earth, and saying hello. The Trek series Enterprise then depicted the ways in which the Vulcans more or less ran the Earth’s government, shared technology, and kind of bossed the military — Starfleet — around.
While all of this makes for some fun philosophical speeches on the show about how pushy and manipulative the Vulcans are, the larger positive and err …prosperous … impacts become obvious. Crime on Earth is gone, everyone is getting along, the economy is getting better, etc. All thanks to the Vulcans puppeteering our government!
In Star Trek, there is also an innumerable selection of other alien species who could have dropped in on us first, all of which would have either been a super bad influence on humanity (the Klingons) or destroyed the Earth entirely (the Borg.) In Trek’s evil alternate dimension – “the mirror universe” – it’s also established that the reason a corrupt and ruthless Empire rises in place of the goody toe-shoes Federation is all down to the moment where humans murder the “invading” Vulcans instead of shaking their hands. True, in all timelines, the Vulcans come in peace, so perhaps they’re not technically invaders. Still, in the “good” version of Star Trek’s future, the reason everything is so peachy is because we essentially let extraterrestrials tell us how to run our society better. Might not be a lasers and saucers invasion, but an ideological one for sure.
Though not technically aliens, this idea of cold, ultra-rational, emotionless beings dictating the peaceful survival of the human race has a precedent in the final section of Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot. Here, in a section entitled “The Evitable Conflict,” humankind is being subtly controlled (and saved) by robot influence. Obviously, this fact is kept from the majority of the human population, for the same reason the Vulcans only later revealed they’d had spies living among the human race for like a century before they formally decided to “land” with their spaceships. In Star Trek, the far future humans adopt this same form of spying, which at several points, makes the human crews of Starfleet ships the “aliens,” walking among indigenous populations, subtly judging what they do and don’t like about these various cultures.
Arthur C. Clarke’s famous novel Childhood’s End also depicts parental alien invaders in the form of Overlords, who, unlike the Vulcans in Star Trek, aren’t subtle at all about telling us what they’re up to. I mean, the name “Overlords,” is a pretty dead giveaway as to what they’re up to.
At the risk of reducing a wonderful and multilayered novel to a few basic themes; one of the more predominant points here is that while a certain amount of peace and stability occurs on Earth thanks to the Overlords being in charge, there’s also cultural, artistic, and general creative stagnation among humankind. With a title like Childhood’s End you can probably see where this is going: eventually a new generation of human beings evolve with abilities (like telepathy) that kind of challenge what the Overlords want.
Still, Clarke weaves a more complicated idea of alien invaders here: the fear human beings have of alien invaders isn’t a reaction to being conquered, but a kind of precognitive awareness of what intellectual fallout results from beingtaken care of on a global scale. In this way, the positive aspects of the alien invasion aren’t so much “good” as a fact of life. At some point this kind of thing was always going to happen, and the evolutionary leap human beings make as a result of this invasion is inevitable.
A manipulated, and wholly staged alien invasion forms one of the various premises of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel The Sirens of Titan. Here, we get a full-on invasion from Mars complete with flying saucers! But here’s the rub: though the saucers come from Mars, they are crewed by human beings, all brain-washed and remote-controlled.
Though it is entirely different in tone than Childhood’s End, Vonnegut’s ultimate aim with the Martian invasion in The Sirens of Titan is to demonstrate just how mercilessly human beings would slaughter “creatures from another planet.” This has the roundabout effect on humankind and allows William Niles Rumfoord to establish the Church of the God of the Utterly Indifferent. The ultimate goal here was to show humankind that an alien invasion actually brought out their worst tendencies and the people they killed, were in fact, people they brainwashed. Vonnegut’s fake Martian invasion then succeeds at being both a literal invasion and a critique of the idea of invasions simultaneously.
If more conventional pop-cultural invasions – like Independence Day – are a reflection of reality, then the evil aliens have sort of taken over a long time ago; otherwise these kinds of films wouldn’t keep coming out. But we haven’t learned anything from this variety of aliens, yet. The ultimate and wholly unlikely twist ofIndependence Day: Resurgence would offer the humans some kind of potential advancement from all this senseless obliteration. But, unless those tentacles can figure out how to form the “live long and prosper” hand sign, or telepathically chide us about our faults, any deeper lessons from the new Independence Day are about as likely as having a relationship epiphany while watching a porno movie.
The premise for the original Independence Day was fairly simple. Aliens in huge laser frisbees attack the largest cities on Earth, working their way down to smaller towns as they attempt to eliminate mankind. This is a simple, easy-to-understand premise for a film but it is a really fucking stupid strategy. Like any other battle, the battle for Earth would be determined by one side’s ability to outmaneuver the other. Given that, why the hell weren’t the aliens targeting communications equipment or the electrical grid?
This was apparently not a group of deep space traveling geniuses.
Clever aliens — and aliens capable of locating intelligent life in a very big universe would likely be pretty smart — wouldn’t target humanity in general. They’d focus on infrastructure. The best bet to bringing about humanity’s end destroying the large physical structures and networks necessary for ensuring the survival and safety of humans and delivering essential services. The perfect targets would be remote, vulnerable, and vitally important. Unfortunately for us humans, they would also be myriad.
Here’s what smart aliens would actually attack in America.
Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Arizona
PHOENIX - OCTOBER 19: The Palo Verde Nuclear generating plant, the nation's largest nuclear power plant, is seen October 19, 2005 in Phoenix, Arizona. The Arizona Public Service Co was forced to shut down Units 2 and 3 on October 11 when the company could not prove to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the cooling system in the units would operate correctly in case of an emergency. Units 2 and 3 of the plant are expected to be back online and at full capacity by the end of the week. Unit 1 had previously been shut down for maintenance. (Photo by Jeff Topping/Getty Images)
This power plant sits about 45 miles west of Phoenix, Arizona close to the town of Tonopah (population of a little less than 3,000). It’s the largest power plant in the United States, capable of an average electrical power production of over 29,000 gigawatts per hour. The 4,000-acre facility produces 35 percent of the electrical power that powers much of Arizona (hey Phoenix!) and Los Angeles and San Diego (as well as other communities in Southern California). In short, a lot of people rely on this power plant to power their homes and businesses. An alien force, however, could pretty easily launch a strike and take it offline without too much trouble. It’s in the middle of the wide-open desert, after all.
And, to boot, a nuclear meltdown would be a pretty gnarly side effect, especially if winds managed to blow the nuclear fallout towards population centers.
Satellites in Geosynchronous Orbit
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with Thales Alenia Space's TurkmenÄlem52E/MonacoSat satellite to a geosynchronous transfer orbit
In this instance, actually, it would be wiser to not strike at the surface at all but to fire up at major communication satellites. In GEO, a satellite will appear stationary at the same point in the sky at all times — at least to observers on the ground — which means it would conceivably possible to take out some hardware with a laser gun. The thing that renders objects in GEO vulnerable is also the thing that makes them work: pseudo-static positioning is optimal for commotions instruments since an antenna on the ground does not need to move in order to retain communication. Most of our critical communications equipment is tied to these satellites.
Humans currently have no way of really protecting satellites in GEO. So if I were an alien bent on eliminating our species, I would make GEO a pretty great place for orbital target practice.
Houston’s Water Supply
A view of the Houston skyline at dusk,
Water is life. And making sure our major metropolitan areas have enough water to drink and use for other day-to-day activities is vital to our society. Different communities have different sources for getting water, but some are more vulnerable than others. In the fourth biggest city in the United States, Houston, residents get their water from a mix of underground wells and surface.
Unfortunately, that water infrastructure is crumbling fast. Basic structures like pipes and mains are prone to breaking naturally. All an alien force would have to do is apply a little bit more strain to the existing technology and watch the whole thing fall apart. Before you know it, over two million people are scrambling to find fresh water in one of the hottest and driest states in the nation.
Interstate 5 Through the Central Valley, California
Vehicles drive by a 134-foot-high electronic sign displaying a temperature of 110 degrees Fahrenheit on July 23, 2014 in Baker, California.
California’s Central Valley farms grow a lot of food. And I mean, a lot of foods. The state is responsible for 99 percent of artichokes, 99 percent of walnuts, 97 percent of kiwis, 97 percent of plums, 95 percent of celery, 95 percent of garlic — and so forth. And most of this farmland is, obviously, located in a sparsely populated section of the state.
If aliens wanted to decimate not just food yields for California, but for the rest of the country, they would need to look no further than the Central Valley and begin attacking and scorching the crops located in this region. The effects would devastate the United States’ food production and in all likelihood force us to resort to other means to keep populations well-fed.
Ships in the Florida Strait
A container ship moves past the United States Coast Guard Cutter William Flores.
Transportation by the high seas is still the most cost-effective way to ship goods back and forth between places. The Florida Strait remains one of these key locations that allows ships to pass from the Atlantic Ocean into the Gulf of Mexico and access the Caribbean and Central and South American countries.
As you can imagine, there’s a lot of oil that moves through this transportation hub. While the Florida Strait is not an isolated place, it’s certainly far and wide enough that a rag-tag group of extraterrestrials would just need to create a steady stream of attacks to significantly affect the transport of vital resources.
The Mississippi River Levee System
New Orleans is ringed by hundred of miles of levees to protect against flooding.
Humans aren’t the best at deciding on safe places to build communities. Coastlines are a great example. It used to be essential to be next to a waterway, no matter the disadvantages when it came to flooding and storms. These days, with increased water elevations and more frequent supercell storms, being next to the coast is a liability — yet we continue to stick around and just board things up with levees and dykes, imagining they’ll last forever.
A smart alien force would know this. Just take the 3,500-mile levee system around the Mississippi River that protects 4 million people from devastation via flood. If a hostile invasion wanted to wreak havoc, all it would need to do is impact the levees at key areas during a major storm event and watch the waters do the rest.
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Are black holes truly black? A new laboratory experiment points toward "no."
Using a simulated black hole made from soundwaves, scientists have observed a phenomenon known as Hawking radiation: a faint energy emission that, in theory, is created right at the edge of a black hole's event horizon, or the point beyond which even light cannot escape.
If Hawking radiation comes from astrophysical black holes (not just those created in a lab), it would mean these objects are not entirely dark. It could also help scientists solve a paradox posed by black holes, and perhaps shed light on one of the most significant problems facing modern physics. [The Strangest Black Holes in the Universe]
Jeff Steinhauer, an experimental physicist at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology in Israel, and lead author on the new study, told Space.com.
According to Steinhauer, earlier calculations bycosmologist Stephen Hawking (who came up with the theory that bears his name) combined the theories of quantum physics and gravity. The current experiment tests those calculations, providing the first strong evidence that they are correct, Steinhauer said.
"A black hole is a testing ground for the laws of physics," Steinhauer said.
Swimming against the current
There's a tricky concept in physics that says that pairs of particles constantly blink into existence throughout space. One is a particle of normal matter and the other is its exact opposite, or antiparticle, so the two annihilate one another, and there's no change to the universe's energy balance sheet. These are called virtual particles. When this happens near the edge, orevent horizon, of a black hole, the particles can avoid complete destruction; one can fall inside while the other escapes.
But observing such interactions in nature has remained difficult, the Hawking radiation around a black hole (if it exists) is so faint that it can't be seen from Earth around known black holes (most of which are very far away). In addition to the distance, the Hawking radiation is likely overwhelmed by radiation from other sources, Steinhauer said.
"It makes it seemingly almost impossible to see this very slight radiation coming from the black hole," he said.
The same problem applies in a laboratory, where any heat can create background radiation that overwhelms the lab-produced Hawking radiation. To eliminate that problem, Steinhauer's experiment ran at less than a billionth of a degree above absolute zero.
In the analogue black hole, a line of cold rubidium atoms stream from a laser to create a form of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate. The cold gas flows faster than the speed of sound in one direction, so that a sound wave trying to go against the flow can't manage to move forward. In this respect, the slower moving sound wave is like a particle trying to escape from a black hole.
"It's like trying to swim against the river," Steinhauer said. "If the river is going faster than you can swim, you go backwards, even though you feel like you're going forward."
The upstream attempt is analogous to light in a black hole trying to escape, he said. Sound waves trying to move forward instead fall backward. If two virtual particles were created near the edge of the event horizon, one particle could be consumed by the black hole (the fast-moving stream), while the other escapes, avoiding destruction. The escaping particles are called Hawking radiation.
A method of creating a black hole using sound waves was proposed in 1981, and since then scientists have struggled to simulate Hawking radiation in the lab. Two years ago, Steinhauer performed an experiment that measured Hawking radiation after something was deliberately crashed into the event horizon of the analogue black hole. This new experiment took more of a wait-and-see stance, waiting for the particle-antiparticle pair to appear without external stimulation, more like what happens in the depths of space.
Just as Hawking theorized, the simulated black hole spit out the predicted particles, a sign of Hawking radiation.
"What I saw suggests that a real black hole might emit something," Steinhauer said.
The new finding also has larger implications for the field of physics, he said. One of the biggest mysteries in physics is why Einstein's theory of gravity (which describes large-scale interactions in the universe) doesn't seem to be compatible with quantum mechanics (which describes very small-scale interactions).
"Combining gravity with quantum physics is one of the main goals of physics today," Steinhauer said. "Hawking made the first steps toward that."
The simulated black hole tested Hawking's equations.
"His calculations predicted there should be light from a black hole," Steinhauer said. "It turns out his calculations were correct."
Solving a paradox?
One intriguing result of the artificial black hole involved insight into theinformation paradox. According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, everything that crosses the event horizon of a black hole is consumed, including information. As the escaping particle steals energy from a black hole, the massive object can shrink over time, eventually evaporating into nothing. Of course, this assumes it has stopped consuming nearby materialand thus isn't putting on new weight. Theoretically, a black hole can shrink into nothing, taking with it the information carried by or about the particles it consumed.
"Information has vanished," he said. "It's like it goes into the black hole and disappears."
Since quantum mechanics suggests that information can't be lost, that raises a paradox.
According to Hawking's calculations, the surviving particles contain no useful information about how the black hole formed and what it consumed, suggesting that information vanished with the black hole itself.
Steinhauer's black hole revealed that the higher energy particle pairs remained entangled, even after one was swallowed by the event horizon. Entangled particles are able to share information instantaneously, even when they are separated by great distances, a phenomenon sometimes described as "spooky action at a distance."
"Some of the solutions to this [paradox] probably rely on entanglement," Steinhauer said.
Scientists not associated with the research who were interviewed by Nature News and Physics World both said that while the experiment appears to have measured Hawking radiation, it does not necessarily prove that Hawking radiation exists around black holes in space.
The research was published online in the journal Nature Physics.
This Martian Landscape Looks Like the American Desert
This Martian Landscape Looks Like the American Desert
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
Murray Buttes, a series of sandstone features on the surface of Mars, was imaged by the Curiosity Rover on Aug. 5, 2016.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
A panoramic view from the surface of Mars shows brown and copper-colored plateaus and buttes, reminiscent of desert regions in the southwest United States.
NASA's Curiosity Rover took this panorama on Aug. 5, the fourth anniversary of its nail-biting landing on the Red Planet. The view is comprised of more than 130 images taken by the rover's Mast Camera (Mastcam), according to a statement from NASA.
The flat region in the foreground of the image is known as the Murray formation, while the collection of buttes a little further ahead is informally known as Murray Buttes. The region was named after planetary scientist Bruce Murray, a former director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who passed away in 2013. (The Curiosity mission is managed by JPL).
The buttes are eroded sandstone formations that sit on top of lower Mount Sharp (the distant bump on the left-side of the image is upper Mount Sharp). The formations are now covered in a layer of rock that keeps them fairly well preserved, the statement said. Curiosity studied the softer layer of sandstone, called the Stimson formation, earlier this year. The flat Murray formation, formed from "lakebed mud deposits," according to the statement.
NASA's Curiosity rover — the centerpiece of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission — landed on Mars Aug. 5. How much do you know about Curiosity and its mission?
For a sense of scale, the wide plateau to the left of Curiosity's robotic arm is about 300 feet (90 meters) from the rover. The mesa is about 50 feet (15 meters) tall, while the horizontal ridge that runs horizontal across the top is about 200 feet (60 meters) long. To see the rover's location when this image was taken, check out this aerial map of its route.
Curiosity's primary mission goal was to study the surface of Mars and look for signs that it may have once been hospitable to life. In its extended mission, the rover is looking for clues as to how this portion of lower Mount Sharp evolved from a (possibly) hospitable water environment to its current, inhospitable condition.
In 1981, the Voyager 2 space probe took intriguing images of Saturn’s rings as it passed by the giant planet on its way to Uranus.
The images showed what looked like ghostly “spokes” moving on the rings, much like the spokes of a bicycle wheel as it turns. After some head-scratching, scientists realized that the Saturnian spokes most likely were tiny specks of dust moving around the rings due to electric and magnetic forces. These forces result from electrically charged gases known as plasma.
Even though you might not realize it based on our daily experiences, researchers think that 99 percent of the matter in our universe is in a plasma state. Many processes that occur in the universe are due in part to the presence of plasma.
Here on Earth, industry uses techniques that involve manipulating these ionized gases for microchip production, as well as for welding materials such as aluminum. Research facilities study plasma in hope of hitting on an efficient nuclear fusion process for energy production. In all these instances micron-size dust is present – which can be a good or a bad thing, depending.
The presence of dust in plasma makes it tricky to study them in a laboratory setting. Here at Baylor University’s Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics and Engineering Research (CASPER), we’ve built a sophisticated experimental facility to investigate these dusty plasma systems. We hope to answer fundamental questions related to dust-plasma interactions both on Earth and in space, in the process advancing our understanding of physics and astrophysics. Our investigations will allow us to untangle issues like the role of dust buildup in super-high-speed crashes in space, the formation of planets, and even areas belonging to life sciences, such as double-helix molecular interaction.
Solid swimmers in an electrical sea
Dusty plasma, also called complex plasma, contains small, solid particles distributed throughout the ionized gas. These particles can have the shape of a sphere, a rod or an irregular “pancake.” The reason dusty plasma are very interesting, and even technologically valuable, comes down to the fact that the dust particles themselves can become electrically charged.
We can think of dust particles as swimmers in a sea of electrons and ions – negative and positive charges, respectively. Electrons are so tiny compared to the dust that they easily stick to the particles' surfaces. When that happens, a dust particle will become negatively charged.
Because like charges repel each other, that bit of dust will now feel a push from other negatively charged dust particles. Likewise, that same negatively charged dust particle will feel a pull by the positive ions in the plasma, because charges of opposite signs attract each other. The net result is that dust particles will be pushed and pulled in many different directions, making them move in complex and fascinating ways.
Dusty plasma ‘in the wild’
One place to find dusty plasma is in Earth’s atmosphere, where they’re generated when meteoroids enter the atmosphere’s upper layers at speeds of several kilometers per second. Researchers study them with specialized radars that can detect the ball of plasma that forms around the meteroids as they heat up due to friction with the air.
Photo taken by astronauts of noctilucent clouds in Earth’s atmosphere above the midnight sun (above the blue layer).
Credit: NASA
At high geographic latitudes (between 50° and 70° north and south of the equator) an intriguing phenomenon occurs. Clouds made of tiny ice crystals and dust appear at an altitude of about 80 kilometers during the summer months. Known as noctilucent clouds, they are too thin to be visible in daylight, but they glow before sunrise or after sunset when the sun is below the horizon.
The clouds' icy dust particles are thought to play a role in the chemical composition of the atmosphere at those altitudes. In particular, their presence may be related to depletion of sodium and potassium. And since noctilucent clouds reside in an ionized region of the atmosphere (specifically, the lower ionosphere), their icy dust particles become electrically charged by electrons. These conditions give rise to a variety of electromagnetic phenomenaresearchers are actively investigating.
Artist’s concept of a comet, with solar wind blowing back the coma into a tail.
Credit: NASA, CC BY-ND
Farther from home, but still within our planetary neighborhood, comets can put on an amazing showthanks to dusty plasma effects. As a comet approaches the sun, the sun’s heat transforms part of the comet’s ice into vapor. This vapor, which contains many tiny dust grains, engulfs the comet nucleus to form a “coma.” The solar wind, which is a plasma made mostly of electrons and protons, pushes the cometary coma away from the sun and forms the spectacular tail with which we are familiar.
Even farther from us still, at distances of hundreds of light-years, dust particles embedded in huge, donut-shaped gas clouds move in orbits around young stars. These disks, known as protoplanetary disks, arewhere planets are formed. Portions of protoplanetary disks may be electrically charged and perhaps threaded by magnetic fields. The dust grains that have been detected in many of these disks are small enough to soak up plasma electrons, and it’s likely that grain charging affects how easily grains can grow to form planet precursors.
Illustration of a star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech, CC BY-ND
Astronomers detect these dusty plasma in space by capturing the light dust particles re-emit after being illuminated by stars. It requires extremely sophisticated instruments, such as the Hubble Space Telescope. From these observations, one can infer things like the dust size and chemical composition.
Dusty plasma in the lab
From a long distance, we can obtain only a limited amount of information about natural dusty plasma. By carrying out controlled experiments in laboratories, we can learn more about dusty plasma properties. For example, by directly manipulating the amount of ionization, we can control the arrangement of the dust particles. In contrast, at this time it is generally not possible to infer the precise arrangement of dust particles in space from telescopic observations.
To experimentally study dusty plasma, a lab must be capable of producing, confining and manipulating an ionized gas – that is, one that contains electrically charged particles. This is possible here at Baylor’s CASPER, where we use advanced instrumentation to investigate the behavior of dusty plasma. For example, we use an instrument called an inductively driven plasma generator – basically a wind tunnel containing electrically charged gases – to study a plasma’s interaction with lunar dust.
We’re also interested in what happens in the plasma when very fast dust particles collide with different targets. Understanding more about these collisions could help with designing better protection for spacecraft from micrometeorite impacts.
CASPER is one of a very few experimental facilities in the world that has three operating complex plasma cells – the chambers into which different gases can be injected to be ionized. Two are Gaseous Electronics Conference radio-frequency reference cells, a standardized plasma-producing chamber. The third is a custom-built device designed here that allows for the formation of much larger complex plasma systems than normally possible. The laboratory within which these cells reside was built from the ground up specifically for them. It’s a highly stable environment with regard to temperature and vibration, making it possible to produce extremely low-noise systems.
A typical experimental setup for studying dust structures in plasma.
Credit: Truell W. Hyde, Jie Kong and Lorin S. Matthews
A typical experiment looks like this: a glass box can be placed between two electrodes to create an electric potential that will confine the dust-plasma system. The dust particles, which are made of melamine formaldehyde and have a diameter of less than 9 micrometers (about a thousandth of a centimeter in size), are introduced into the box through a dust shaker. Once the system power is turned on, the electric forces will change the arrangement of the dust particles, which will form linear or helical chains, depending on the amount of power used. Images of the dust structures can be captured by telescopic cameras.
Top and side views of different dust structures formed in a Gaseous Electronics Conference radio-frequency reference cell.
Credit: Truell W. Hyde, Jie Kong and Lorin S. Matthews
These experiments open a window into the way the universe works, whether we are looking for improved efficiency of industrial processes or trying to understand how our solar system formed.
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Een opname die nu ongeveer viraal lijkt te gaan, laat een vreemd wezen zien van ongeveer drie meter hoog in een woestijn in Portugal.
Op een gegeven moment verdwijnt het achter een bosje en komt niet meer tevoorschijn.
Natuurlijk zijn er regelmatig allerlei grappenmakers die de meest waanzinnige dingen verzinnen om maar aandacht te krijgen en dus is voorzichtigheid altijd geboden.
Wanneer er dan een video-opname publiek wordt van een alien ergens in een Portugese woestijn, is er een gerede kans dat je te maken hebt met een nepopname en zijn commentaren te verwachten zoals de volgende:
“Het is Donald Trump” en “dit is net zo betrouwbaar als de pornosite die mij verzekert dat er talloze vrouwen in de buurt smachtend op mij zitten te wachten”.
Scott Waring echter, van Ufo Sightings Daily, is ervan overtuigd dat we hier wel degelijk met een buitenaards iemand te maken hebben.
Het ziet er in ieder geval zo uit.
Scott zegt dat de buitenaardsen zo ver gevorderd zijn met alles dat ze zelfs in staat zijn om onze gedachten te lezen. Zo zegt hij dat de buitenaardse in dit geval weet dat hij wordt gadegeslagen en dat hij daarom achter het bosje kroop. Niet om zich als zodanig te verbergen, maar wel om zichzelf naar een andere plek te “beamen”.
Volgens Waring is het heel goed mogelijk dat deze buitenaardsen een basis hebben op vier tot vijf kilometer onder de grond.
Dat ook hier sprake zou zijn van een lift die onder de grond gaat zoals destijds het geval in Italië in een zaak die bekendstaat als de Friendship zaak, waarover dadelijk meer.
Nu eerst de opname in de Portugese woestijn:
In een eerder artikel schreven wij over die Friendship zaak in Italië onder andere het volgende:
In Italië vond in de vijftiger en zeventiger jaren contact plaats tussen mensen en buitenaardsen.
Het contact begon in 1960 nadat Gaspare de Lama in het blad Settimana afbeeldingen had gezien van drie vliegende objecten die boven de kust van Pescara in Italië waren verschenen. Hij schreef de redactie een brief waarin hij zijn hoop uitsprak dat de wezens naar de Aarde waren gekomen om de mens te helpen. Enige dagen later werd hij gebeld om een afspraak te maken.
Teleportatie
De eerste ontmoeting vond plaats door middel van teleportatie. Filmrolletjes materialiseerden in de lucht en vielen op de grond. Deze videoboodschappen bevatten meestal een groet of een aanwijzing.
Bruno Ghibaudi van Settimana vroeg Gaspare een kleine radio aan te schaffen. Hij plaatste het apparaat op de tafel waarna er een blauwe vlam van een halve meter uit kwam. Soms spraken Sigir of andere leden van de buitenaardse groep door de radio.
Op een dag liet Bruno weten dat ‘ze een cadeau voor hem hadden’ en Gaspare mocht een locatie uitkiezen. Hij koos voor een plaats bij Milaan alwaar ze een video en foto’s maakten van een vliegende schotel.
De buitenaardsen spraken niet alleen via de radio maar konden ook zien wie in de kamer aanwezig waren en waar de betrokkenen aan dachten. Ze wisten het dialect van de aanwezige personen exact te imiteren. Soms zei afgezant Dimpietro tegen Gaspare dat hij aan iets anders moest denken omdat zijn gedachten negatief waren.
Sigir, Dimpietro, Gallarate en anderen van de buitenaardse groep, die door de getuigen W56 werd genoemd, brachten veel wijsheid over. In het begin twijfelen mensen, want anders zouden ze te naïef zijn. Op de lange termijn vertrouw je op jezelf omdat je vibraties leert onderscheiden.
Vertrouwen
Wanneer je twijfelt kun je eindeloos vragen blijven stellen, maar vertrouwen komt spontaan. De buitenaardsen brachten dit gevoel over. Je kunt geloof achterwege laten, maar vertrouwen is belangrijk. Je kunt niet in God geloven, je kunt enkel ‘liefde’ zijn.
De afgezanten van W56, ongeveer drie meter lang, hadden een bepaalde hoeveelheid liefdesenergie nodig om te overleven. Ze kregen dit echter niet van de groep omdat de leden niet met elkaar in harmonie waren. Gaspare zegt dat ze nog steeds op Aarde zijn.
De spirituele boodschap van de buitenaardse afgezanten was dat een betere wereld geen utopie is, maar reeds bestaat. De afgezanten waren hier het levende bewijs van.
Gaspare heeft het gevoel dat zijn groep gefaald heeft omdat de leden er niet in slaagden liefdesenergie over te brengen aan de buitenaardsen. Een liefde die ze onderling gedeeld zouden moeten hebben om deze vervolgens uit te stralen naar de afgezanten toe.
Wanneer je zegt dat de maan hol is en een kunstmatig gemaakt object, dan zullen velen je meewarig aankijken en Minister Schippers bellen om je op te laten pakken als verward persoon.
Zelfs wanneer ESA (European Space Agency) verklaart dat één van de manen die om Mars draait hol is, gaat er bij niemand een belletje rinkelen.
In plaats van president van Amerika zou het een hele goede zet zijn om Hillary Clinton baas van NASA te maken. Van iedere drie woorden die ze zegt, zijn er minstens twee gelogen, dus de perfecte kandidaat om een organisatie als NASA te leiden.
NASA, Never A Straight Answer, is optimistisch uitgedrukt als je bedenkt hoe ze keer op keer het publiek bedonderen.
Zoals je ziet heeft Phobos een soort metallic glinsterend oppervlak. De foto is net ontdekt, maar al op 28 maart 2016 gemaakt.
Scott Waring zegt er het volgende over:
“Ik vond deze foto van de Mars maan Phobos en is het een hele ongewone foto. Ik heb de natuurlijke kleuren iets verbeterd en ontdekte dat het links paars is, zilverkleurig in het midden en groen aan de rechterkant. Het is een metallic oppervlak.
Deze foto is genomen met een soort telescoop volgens Scott en laat ons de werkelijke vorm en natuurlijke kleuren zien van Phobos.
Het is duidelijk, zegt Scott, dat NASA ook nu weer liegt, want normaal gesproken laten ze ons Phobos zien als een soort aardkleurige eivorm zoals in de hiernavolgende afbeelding van ESA toen deze in 2013 verklaarde dat Phobos hol was.
Dat Mars een hol en kunstmatig object heeft dat rond de planeet draait, moet toch wel her en der wat belletjes doen rinkelen. Maar niet dus, want de wereld draait gewoon door en iedereen heeft het veel te druk met het feit dat Albert van der Linde na 15 jaar stopt bij RT Boulevard, dat is pas echt nieuws.
Het prestigieuze Europese Ruimtevaartbureau ESA heeft verklaard dat Phobos, de geheimzinnige maan van Mars, kunstmatig is gemaakt. Hij is minimaal voor eenderde hol en de oorsprong is niet natuurlijk.
De astrofysicus Dr. Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky was de eerste die de bewegingen van de omloopbaan van deze Mars satelliet berekende. Hij kwam tot de conclusie dat deze kunstmatig en hol is en dat het in feite niets anders is dan een gigantisch ruimteschip is.
De Russen hebben altijd al veel belangstelling gehad voor de kunstmatige maan Phobos en hebben daar ook de nodige avonturen meegemaakt zoals wij schreven in een artikel van mei dit jaar:
In juli 1988 stuurden de Russen twee onbemande ruimteschepen richting Mars, de Phobos 1 en de Phobos 2. Het doel van de missie was om onderzoek te doen naar de geheimzinnige maan van Mars, Phobos.
Na twee maanden verloor men alle contact met Phobos 1 en verdween deze voor altijd uit beeld. Ook Phobos 2 ging uiteindelijk verloren, maar niet nadat er een aantal vreemde zaken waren voorgevallen.
In januari 1989 arriveerde Phobos 2 veilig bij Mars en begon haar omloopbaan om de planeet. De volgende stap was om het ruimteschip in een zodanige baan te brengen waardoor hij in feite in tandem zou vliegen met de maan Phobos. Hierdoor zou men dan de mogelijkheid creëren om deze maan met geavanceerde apparatuur te onderzoeken.
In eerste instantie ging alles goed, totdat men probeerde Phobos 2 uit te lijnen met de maan Phobos. Op 28 maart kwam het Russische controlecentrum met het bericht dat er communicatieproblemen met het ruimteschip waren. Verder dat Phobos 2 niet langer communiceerde nadat hij een dag daarvoor een rondje had gemaakt rond de maan Phobos. Ook werd het contact later niet hersteld waardoor ook de Phobos 2 als verloren werd beschouwd.
Echter, net voordat het contact volledig werd verbroken stuurde de Phobos 2 een aantal vreemde beelden naar de aarde. De volgende foto laat een ongewone schaduw zien op het maanoppervlak.
Wat het ook was dat deze schaduw veroorzaakte, de experts waren het erover eens dat het niet om iets natuurlijks ging. De grootte van de schaduw op het oppervlak van Mars geeft aan dat het object ergens tussen de 20 en 25 kilometer lang moet zijn.
Dan blijft het een lange tijd stil. Totdat de vroegere Russische kosmonaute Marina Popovich een persconferentie geeft in 1991 waar ze met de volgende geheime foto komt. Het is de allerlaatste infraroodfoto die Phobos 2 naar de aarde heeft gestuurd.
Als je bedenkt dat de totale lengte van de maan Phobos ongeveer 22 kilometer is dan zie je dat dit vreemde object eveneens een lengte heeft van ergens tussen de 20 en 25 kilometer, even groot als de schaduw van het object op het oppervlak van Mars.
Volgens Don Eckerwrote in een artikel in UFO Mag op 25 maart 1989 is de Phobos 2 door deze UFO uit de lucht geschoten omdat de Russen voorbereidingen aan het treffen waren om een krachtige laserstraal richting de maan Phobos af te vuren.
In een eerder artikel schreven wij reeds dat nu ook het Europese Ruimtevaarbureau (ESA) toegeeft dat de maan Phobos kunstmatig is gemaakt en voor een deel hol is. Dan is het wellicht ook heel logisch dat dit een soort buitenaards station is en dat toen het erop leek dat de Russen met hun laserstraal daar misschien grote schade zouden toebrengen, men via een groot moederschip heeft ingegrepen.
De Russen hebben verder nooit iets losgelaten, maar dat het wemelt van leven op en rondom Mars, zoveel lijkt zo langzamerhand wel duidelijk.
.Cloaked UFO Orb Moves Around House Security Cam In Peru, Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Cloaked UFO Orb Moves Around House Security Cam In Peru, Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: August 2016 Location of sighting: Peru UFOs come in all shapes and sizes. Baseball size UFOs have been seen, reported and even photographed...I witnessed one 4 meters away once on a roof. This one is cloaked. The security cam is equipped with an infrared LED lights that allow it to see at night, but also can see anything thats normally invisible to the naked eye, like this cloaked orb. Awesome catch. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Secret UFO Police Spotted In Florida? Alien Fleet Over The Bronx & More! 8/18/16, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Secret UFO Police Spotted In Florida? Alien Fleet Over The Bronx & More! 8/18/16, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 2016 Location of sighting: Florida & Bronx, NY This video was made by SecureTeam10 of Youtube and its really cool. Some Police spot some glowing UFOs in an area of Florida thats just mind-blowing. There are hundreds of reports every year from police officers around the world that have visual confirmation of UFOs. Here is a great sighting in Florida that is just one of the many around the globe. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
David Wilcock & Corey Goode on the Secret Space Program's 'Alliance for Disclosure', Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
David Wilcock & Corey Goode on the Secret Space Program's 'Alliance for Disclosure', Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Here is an interesting talk about a lot of things that makes me wonder...how the heck does he know this stuff he is saying is true? Well, you got me on that one, but he has some interesting things to say, and it does sound legit. Some of it is from Star Trek...no doubt, but he states he gets death threats about this? I doubt it. One thing I would like to know is...how the heck does he know all this? If its true, then they could easily tell us, but they don't discuss the source of the info. Thats what we need to confirm its real...so till then, stay vigilant on this. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com EMN News states: Amongst the most controversial presenters at Contact In The Desert 2016 in Joshua Tree California this year has to be the combination of David Wilcock and Corey Goode. In this public presentation Wilcock and Goode reveal stories related to an alleged Secret Space Program or SSP and an ‘Alliance for Disclosure.’ Sitting in the audience behind the camera, a small group of attendees are trying to grasp some of the themes discussed by Wilcock and Goode. One person raises the question to the friend beside her loud enough for the people around to hear: “Would a secret space program actually refer to themselves as the ‘Secret Space Program’?'” While healthy scepticism is abundant concerning anything ET, UAP, or anything about clandestine government programs, there is no doubt thousands of people embrace the message brought to light by Wilcock and Goode. If this information is true, this may be a fascinating resource that only genuine whistleblowers bring to public awareness. But if their message is not the real deal, it damages the credibility for all the other genuine researchers and whistleblowers coming out to unveil the hidden mysteries going on around us. A number of people have recently come out publicly to share experiences similar to Corey Goode’s. Collectively, these accounts would be foolish to ignore. Individually, while some stories are highly insightful, others would be more credible if there was better evidential proof. That said, whistleblowers in general offer perspectives that may be hard to embrace initially, but with time, almost always reveal their revelations as truth. EMN is presently negotiating to have exclusive interview access with a never-before-seen whistleblower who is now willing to share his story publicly. The more people “come out” to share their direct Contact experiences, the more pieces to the truth embargo puzzle will be revealed. To learn more about whistleblower Corey Goode and the Secret Space Program, his accounts can be seen on GAIA and across the web.
Constellation-Like UFOs Flying Very Low Above Pennsylvania
Constellation-Like UFOs Flying Very Low Above Pennsylvania
A man from Pennsylvania reportedly spotted a fleet of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) when he was heading out to his vehicle and happened to look up. He recorded the bright UFOs using his phone camera as they traveled the night sky.
The witness reported the strange event he encountered to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which posted the witness’ account along with the video to their database on August 11 and filed the report as case 78125. Based on the witness’ reaction on the video, he was awestruck of his sighting.
According to the report, the UFO sighting occurred on July 31, outside the home of the man in the small city of Bristol in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. A low-flying airplane first caught the attention of the witness in the sky.
When he looked north, he noticed five objects flying straight, but not maneuvering. The report continues that the mysterious objects were moving away from each other. The witness said that these UFOs were flying very slowly underneath the clouds. He also noted that planes were flying around them and across from them, and he found it weird to see a lot of planes flying around at that time.
He went on saying that the objects were brilliant and very close to him. He describes the five UFOs as looking like a constellation in the sky, but just way lower. The witness was able to see the fleet of UFOs for around five minutes before they became out of sight behind some clouds.
The video of the sighting was also posted to YouTube.
NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission will map and study the asteroid Bennu before bringing a sample home.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
In 2023, a bit of the primordial solar system will return to Earth. That's when NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission will return a sample of the asteroid Bennu, a carbon-rich rock hosting traces of the early solar system. While there, the mission will conduct an in-depth study of the rocky body, learning more about how sunlight can shift its position, before gathering a small sample to return to Earth.
Visiting an asteroid
After its September 8, 2016, launch, the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-Rex, will spend two years traveling through space to arrive at Bennu in 2018. The second mission in the world to bring back a bit of an asteroid, OSIRIS-Rex will follow in the footsteps of Japan's Hayabusa, which in 2010 became the first spacecraft to bring a bit of an asteroid back to Earth. It will be the first U.S. asteroid sample return mission.
The bits and pieces left over from the formation of the planets, asteroids carry the blueprints of the early solar system. Studying them allows scientists to see what the early solar system was like, and get a handle on how planets formed.
NASA's Dawn mission visited the asteroid Vesta before moving on to the dwarf planet Ceres. In contrast, OSIRIS-Rex will bring home a piece of Bennu for in-depth laboratory studies not possible while orbiting in space. The team hopes to collect at least 2 ounces (60 grams) of material to achieve their scientific goals.
Understanding how asteroids form will not only provide insight about the early solar system, but also help scientists better understand their makeup today. That could be helpful should any space rocks threaten to collide with Earth. It could also assist in future efforts to mine asteroids.
"The mission will develop important technologies for space exploration that will benefit anyone interested in exploring or mining asteroids, whether it's NASA or a private company," Dante Lauretta said in a statement. Lauretta, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, Tucson, is the principal investigator for OSIRIS-Rex.
OSIRIS-Rex will also help astronomers study the Yarkovsky effect on asteroids. Heat from the sun provides a tiny push that can affect the movement of an asteroid. Although the push is minimal, it can build over time, helping to change the path a space rock travels. But the effect can be a challenge to study, as it varies based on the shape of each asteroid.
"The knowledge from the mission will help us to develop methods to better track the orbits of asteroids," Jim Green, director of NASA 's Planetary Science Division, said in a statement.
Sampling an asteroid
Once OSIRIS-Rex reaches Bennu, five instruments on board the spacecraft will study, map and analyze the asteroid in unprecedented detail.
OSIRIS-Rex Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS) — By measuring visible and near-infrared light, OVIRS will hunt for organics and other minerals.
OSIRIS-Rex Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES) — Using the thermal infrared, OTES take Bennu's temperature and map mineral and chemical abundances. Together, OVIRS and OTES will map Bennu over a wave of interesting wavelengths to help select the best site to sample the asteroid.
OSIRIS-Rex Camera Suite (OCAMS) — A three-camera suite will help map Bennu. PolyCam, the largest, will acquire the first images of Bennu from 1.2 million miles (2 million kilometers) and capture high resolution images of the sample site. MapCam will hunt for satellites and dust plumes around the asteroid, map it in color, and take the photographs to create topographic maps. SamCam will document the collection of the sample and its capture.
OSIRIS-Rex Laser Altimeter (OLA) — By scanning the entire surface of Bennu, OLA will create highly accurate 3-D shape models of the asteroid.
Regolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) — Studying X-ray emissions of Bennu will help provide an elemental abundance map of its surface. Unlike other imaging instruments, REXIS will examine the composition of the asteroid at the level of individual atomic elements.
Once the asteroid has been studied in significant detail, scientists will identify a region to sample. That's where the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM) will come into play. As OSIRIS-Rex draws closer to the asteroid, TAGSAM will blast a sample of pure nitrogen gas at the surface. Regolith (dust and broken rock) blasted from the surface will be pushed into the chamber of the sampler.
To complete all of the planned science, OSIRIS-Rex needs to collect at least 2 ounces (60 grams). The goal is to collect 5 ounces (150 g) to account for any errors in measurement. Three bottles of nitrogen gas allow for multiple collection attempts, and TAGSAM can carry as much as 70 ounces (2,000 g). To weigh the sample in the low-gravity environment, scientists will measure the angular acceleration of the spacecraft before and after the sample is collected.
Although OSIRIS-Rex will sample Bennu, it will never actually land on the surface. Contact during the collection process will be brief, lasting only a few seconds.
"We kiss the surface," OSIRIS-Rex principal investigator Mike Drake, of the University of Arizona, told reporters.
After scooping up the sample OSIRIS-Rex will return to Earth, arriving home in 2023.
NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission will spend 2 years mapping an asteroid before returning a sample to Earth.
Credit: NASA
Meet Bennu
Originally known as 1999 RQ36, the rock OSIRIS-Rex will visit was renamed Bennu by 9-year-old Mike Puzio in a 2013 contest. Bennu is an Egyptian god usually depicted as a gray heron. Puzio chose the name because he thought TAGSAM and the solar panels resembled the bird god's neck and wings.
Bennu is one of several thousand Near-Earth Objects orbiting within 120 million miles (190 million kilometers) of Earth. Among those, Bennu was one of less than 200 whose orbit was well known and sufficiently Earth-like. It orbits the sun every 436 days, and comes very close to Earth every six years.
It's also relatively large, about 1,650 feet (500 meters) wide. Rocks smaller than 650 feet (200 m) spin too rapidly to allow a spacecraft to safely land on them. Only a handful of the asteroids in appropriate orbits were large enough to allow a visit.
Among those deemed appropriate, the asteroid has just the right composition. Bennu is relatively rich in carbon-based material. The asteroids that may have brought water and organic material to Earth that helped kick off life would look like Bennu.
"We're going for something rich in organics, which might have had something to do with life getting started," Drake said.
"That's the idea — time capsule, containing probably the building blocks of life."
Bennu's close orbit also makes it a potentially hazardous object, but unlike some media reports, it isn't a definite threat. NASA scientists calculated that there is an 0.037 percent (or 1-in-2,700) chance that it will strike Earth in the last quarter of the 22nd century. For that to happen, the asteroid would need to have its orbit altered in its 2135 flyby of Earth. Studying Bennu today will help them further calculate the orbit, potentially ruling it out.
If the asteroid does collide with Earth, it won't destroy the planet, though it will wreak havoc wherever it touches down. Experts say that the size of the asteroid would likely devastate the local area, but won't cause mass extinctions. In order to cause a global catastrophe, a space rock must be at least twice as large, at 0.6 miles (1 km) wide. Still, the advanced warning provided by OSIRIS-Rex could help scientists take preventative measures long before the potential impact.
No, That Ancient Mausoleum Is Not the 'World's 1st Pyramid'
No, That Ancient Mausoleum Is Not the 'World's 1st Pyramid'
By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor
The ruins of a 3,000-year-old mausoleum were discovered in Kazakhstan. The mausoleum's burial chamber had been robbed.
Credit: Photo copyright Viktor Novozhenov
The discovery of a 3,000-year-old pyramid-shaped mausoleum in Kazakhstan has gone viral over the past 24 hours, with several media outlets proclaiming the structure to be the world's first pyramid. But archaeologists say the structure, which contains a series of five walls that gradually get higher toward the center, is not nearly as old as these news reports claim.
The mausoleum is 6.6 feet (2 meters) high and about 49 by 46 feet (15 by 14 m) long, said Viktor Novozhenov, an archaeologist with the Saryarka Archaeological Institute at Karaganda State University in Kazakhstan who helped excavate the mausoleum. "It's made from stone, earth and fortified by slabs in the outer side," Novozhenov told Live Science. A number of media outlets that reported the discovery did not include the size of the structure, which, compared to Egypt's royal pyramids, is very small.
While the exact age of the structure is uncertain, it likely was built during the late Bronze Age, more than 3,000 years ago, Novozhenov said. This is more than 1,000 years after the Egyptians built the step pyramid of Djoser, Novozhenov said, so it is not the "world's first pyramid." [In Photos: Egyptian Pyramid Predates Giza Landmark]
Scientists have been analyzing some of the ceramics found near the mausoleum to help determine the age of the mausoleum.
Credit: Photo copyright Viktor Novozhenov
The mausoleum's burial chamber had been robbed, although graves found near the mausoleum yielded the remains of pottery, a knife and bronze objects, Novozhenov said. Before the mausoleum was robbed, it would have held the burial of a clan leader, and not a pharaoh as has been stated in some online accounts of the discovery, Novozhenov said.
The design of the mausoleum, with its five walls that gradually get higher, is similar in some ways to the step pyramid of Djoser, built about 4,700 years ago at the site of Saqqara in Egypt, Novozhenov explained. The Djoser pyramid, which is far larger than the recently discovered Kazakhstan mausoleum, has six layers piled on top of one another to form a flat-topped pyramid.
While the mausoleum isn't the world's first pyramid it is nevertheless an interesting find said Novozhenov who notes that a lot more work needs to be done. "We need a lot of additional analyses and hard work for interpretation."
Novozhenov said that excavation of the mausoleum is being led by Igor Kukushkin, who is also from the Saryarka Archaeological Institute at Karaganda State University in Kazakhstan.
NASA-wetenschapper: “Saturnusringen gemaakt door reusachtige UFO’s”
NASA-wetenschapper: “Saturnusringen gemaakt door reusachtige UFO’s”
De gerespecteerde wetenschapper dr. Norman Bergrun bestudeerde in het Ames Research Center van de NASA foto’s van de planeet Saturnus die waren gemaakt door Voyager 1 en 2. De NASA-wetenschapper kwam tot de conclusie dat de ringen van Saturnus niet natuurlijk zijn.
Volgens dr. Bergrun zijn de Saturnusringen het resultaat van reusachtige mobiele objecten die rond de zesde planeet draaien en die worden aangestuurd door een bepaalde intelligentie. Hij zei dat de objecten waarschijnlijk ook de maan en de aarde hebben bezocht.
“Dit zijn geen conclusies die je normaal gesproken zou verwachten van iemand met mijn achtergrond,” zei dr. Bergrun, die studeerde aan de Cornell-, LaSalle Extension- en de Stanford-universiteit. “Maar tijdens mijn onderzoek naar de Satursnusringen stuurden de feiten me steeds weer in de richting van een aantal onontkoombare conclusies.”
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Vreemde gedeeltelijke ring rond Saturnus (NASA)
Bergrun werkte onder meer voor Lockheed Missiles and Space Company en Douglas Aircraft voordat hij in 1971 zijn eigen onderzoeksbedrijf oprichtte. Hij bestudeerde foto’s die Voyager 1 op 12 november 1980 van Saturnus maakte en beelden die Voyager 2 op 26 augustus 1981 terugstuurde. Hij ontdekte een aantal opvallende verschillen.
“De meesten van ons hebben geleerd dat de ringen van Saturnus natuurlijk zijn en bestaan uit overblijfselen van uit elkaar gevallen manen,” legde dr. Bergrun uit. “Een aantal jaar geleden begonnen astronomen en natuurkundigen te theoretiseren dat deze ringen slechts 100 miljoen jaar oud waren. Maar op één paar foto’s is binnen vijf minuten een verandering te zien!”
Bergrun ontdekte onverklaarbare lichtpuntjes op de foto’s. Met behulp van een microscoop zag hij dat het ging om gigantische cilindervormige objecten die sporen achterlieten. Volgens dr. Bergrun zijn de objecten in ieder geval ten dele verantwoordelijk voor het ringensysteem van Saturnus.
Gedeeltelijke ringen
Hij concludeerde dat de ringen niet natuurlijk zijn, maar een soort vervuiling als gevolg van de objecten die rond Saturnus draaien. Bergrun berekende dat de objecten ongeveer één tot drie keer zo groot zijn als de aarde.
De aanwezigheid van de cilindervormige objecten zou kunnen verklaren waarom zich in het ringensysteem ook enkele gedeeltelijke ringen bevinden. Dr. Bergrun merkte ook op dat de cilindervormige objecten verantwoordelijk kunnen zijn geweest voor de onverklaarbare Toengoeska-explosie in Siberië in 1908 en massa-extincties op aarde.
Norman Bergrun staat niet alleen. Er zijn inmiddels honderden wetenschappers, politici, hooggeplaatste militairen en astronauten geweest die soortgelijke beweringen hebben gedaan.
VREEMDE VERSCHIJNSELEN IN DE LUCHT BOVEN NEDERLAND EN ENGELAND ( VIDEO )
VREEMDE VERSCHIJNSELEN IN DE LUCHT BOVEN NEDERLAND EN ENGELAND ( VIDEO )
Wat is de kans dat in dezelfde week een getuige in Nederland en in Engeland precies hetzelfde soort fenomeen in de lucht waarnemen?
Iets dat lijkt op een vuurbol, maar het ook weer niet is, ook geen ster is, vervolgens verdwijnt om even later weer iets verder op te duiken?
De eerste gebeurtenis speelt zich in de nacht van donderdag op vrijdag af in de buurt van Apeldoorn.
Een lezer (dank!) schrijft het volgende:
Ik houdt deze mail kort want ik moet eigenlijk zo echt gaan slapen maar niet voordat ik u deze mail heb verstuurd.
Ik zie de hele nacht al dit verschijnsel in de lucht waarvan u een foto vindt in de bijlage die ik heb gemaakt (omstreeks 03.00 uur) met mijn smartphone. (zelf even inzoomen / uitvergroten)
De eerste instantie leek deze vuurbol? Steeds te verschijnen en te verdwijnen op een dezelfde plek. Na een drie tal uren te hebben geobserveerd leek dit niet het geval te zijn en verplaatste het steeds.
Wel gebeurde het verplaatsen niet zichtbaar maar verscheen en verdween op een dezelfde plek om vervolgens na ik schat zo'n tweetal minuten weer elders op te doemen.
De grote vraag luid : wat is het? Locatie foto : Apeldoorn.
Mocht u vragen hebben hoor ik het graag. Misschien is het te verklaren wat het is?..
Op 13 augustus heeft een Engelsman uit Shrewsbury een ervaring die veel lijkt op die van de lezer uit de buurt van Apeldoorn.
Ook hij beschrijft en filmt een orjanje-achtig iets in de lucht en ook daar verdween het object om even later weer ergens anders op te duiken.
Ook hier kan geen sprake zijn van een ster, vanwege de bewolking. De Engelsman dacht eerst misschien met een zogenaamde Thaise ballon te maken te hebben, maar vond zelf ook later dat dit niet kon omdat het licht als het ware uitdoofde om later weer te verschijnen.
Ook is hij ervan overtuigd geen drone te hebben gefilmd.
Zijn deze objecten gerelateerd aan de oranje bollen waarover wij al jaren schrijven en die nog steeds regelmatig aan de hemel worden waargenomen?
En, het meest belangrijke van alles: Na al die jaren hebben we nog steeds geen antwoord op de vraag wat er daar in 's hemelsnaam rondvliegt?
Tips en suggesties zijn, zoals altijd, welkom.
En dan, nog een bericht uit Apeldoorn, toeval?
Op 18 augustus om 11 uur nibiru gezien samen met een buurtbewoner die zich hier ook in herkent. De plaats was Apeldoorn. Geen foto gemaakt niet bij ons was na 5 minuten weg.
What do aliens look like? The clue is in evolution
What do aliens look like? The clue is in evolution
Speculating about what aliens look like has kept children, film producers and scientists amused for decades. If they exist, will extra terrestrials turn out to look similar to us, or might they take a form beyond our wildest imaginings? The answer to this question really depends on how we think evolution works at the deepest level.
Hollywood has given us its fair share of humanoid aliens over the years. Initially this was through necessity, as special effects required someone to clamber into a rubber suit. Ironically, now that CGI makes anything possible, aliens sometimes look even more human in order to help the cinema goer make an emotional connection with them – such as in James Cameron’s Avatar.
At present, the only life forms we can study are here on Earth. These had a single origin around 3.5 billion years ago, but this common ancestor gave rise to perhaps 20m living species of animals alone. These have bodies organised according to about 30 different body plans in major groups called phyla.
At present, the only life forms we can study are here on Earth. These had a single origin around 3.5 billion years ago, but this common ancestor gave rise to perhaps 20m living species of animals alone. These have bodies organised according to about 30 different body plans in major groups called phyla.
The five-eyed fossil Opabinia could have given rise to five-eyed animals today.Nobu Tamura/wikimedia, CC BY-SA
But when animals first diversified some 542m or more years ago in the Cambrian “explosion”, there may have been an even greater diversity of fundamental body plans. Consider the five-eyed and trunked Opabina in the image above, or the stalked and almost flower-like Dinomischus alongside our own distant relative, thechordate Pikaia.
Rerunning the tape of life
In a famous thought experiment, biologist Stephen Jay Gouldasked what might happen if we were to rewind the “tape of life” and rerun it. Gould argued for the importance of chance in evolution: change one small thing early on, and the consequences magnify through time. In the version of history we know, Pikaia(imaged below) or something very like it survived and ultimately gave rise to fishes, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and ultimately ourselves. But what if it had perished? Might some other group have given rise to intelligent beings, and might you now be reading this with five eyes rather than the customary two? If our own origins on Earth really turned on such fine hinges, why should aliens – evolving on different planets – even remotely resemble us?
Pikaia – an early chordate, the group to which humans belong.Nobu Tamura/wikimedia,CC BY-SA
The answer, according to evolutionary biologist Simon Conway Morris, lies in the phenomenon of evolutionary convergence: the process by which distantly related animals come to closely resemble each other. For example, the similar streamlined shape of dolphins, tuna fish and the extinct ichthyosaurs all evolved independently in response to the same selective pressures for moving efficiently through water at speed.
But what aspects of alien biology might we expect? Carbon-based biochemistry is likely given that carbon forms stable backbone chains, and makes stable but readily breakable bonds with other elements. Other elements, notably silicon and sulphur, make less stable bonds at Earth-like temperatures. Water or some other solvent also seems necessary. For evolution to occur there needs to be some mechanism for storing and replicating information with moderate fidelity, such as DNA, RNA or some analogue. Although the first cells appeared on Earth quite early, multicellular animals took nearly 3 billion more years to evolve. So it may well be that life on other planets could get stuck at the single-celled stage.
On an Earth-like planet it is also likely that radiation from the alien sun or suns would be used in biochemical pathways as a source of energy. For moderately large multicellular primary producers, harnessing light efficiently probably necessitates a light gathering system of leaves and branches. Similar shapes and habits have evolved convergently on Earth, so we might expect “plants” with broadly familiar forms on Earth-like planets.
With few exceptions, animals either eat the primary producers or each other, and there are only so many ways of doing this. Pursuing food often necessitates moving with the mouth first, so the animal has a head and tail end. Teeth and probably jaws evolve to hold and tackle food items. Moving against a hard surface requires specialised structures (such as cilia, a muscular foot or legs) at the interface, so that there is a back and front side. Typically, this also imparts bilateral (left/right) symmetry: indeed, most animals belong to a “super-group” called the Bilateria.
Why not giant intelligent “insects”?
But what about the large brained and intelligent creatures that might be capable of crossing interstellar distances? Insects are by far the most species rich group on Earth: why shouldn’t aliens look more like them? Unfortunately, having your skeleton on the outside makes growth difficult, and entails periodic shedding and regrowth. On Earth-like planets, all but relatively small terrestrial animals with external skeletons would collapse under their own weight during moulting, and some critical size may be necessary for suitably complex brains.
The giant weta: one of the largest insects.New Zealand Department of Conservation, CC BY-SA
Relatively large brains, some degree of tool use and problem-solving abilities appear to be correlated on Earth, and have evolved multiple times: in apes, whales, dolphins, dogs, parrots, crows andoctopuses. However, the apes have developed tool use to a vastly greater degree. This is at least partly the result of walking on two legs, which frees up the front limbs, and because of the dexterity of our fingers (which may also be a key to the origins of written language).
Ultimately, the jury is out on the extent to which intelligent aliens – if they exist – would resemble us. It may or may not be significant that humans have just two eyes and ears (just enough for stereo vision and hearing), and just two legs (reduced from the initially more stable four). Many other organs also come in pairs as a consequence of our evolutionarily deep-seated – and perhaps inevitable – bilateral symmetry. Still other elements of our body plan are probably nothing more than chance. The fact that we have hands and feet with five digits is a consequence of the fixation on five in our early tetrapod ancestors – close relatives experimented with seven or eight.
Indeed, most species have been subject to an accidental “locking down” during development – making body plans become stereotyped and inflexible with evolutionary time. Untangling the functional from the accidental is one of the big outstanding challenges in evolutionary biology – and may help us better understand how alien lifeforms could differ from us.
The main way we now search for intelligent life in space is by listening for radio or gamma transmissions. These efforts are increasingly being concentrated on star systems with Earth-like planets, as these are believed to be the most likely to harbour life. After all, it is easier to search for “life as we know it” than life as we don’t.
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What Species Would Become Dominant On Earth If Humans Died Out?
What Species Would Become Dominant On Earth If Humans Died Out?
In a post-apocalyptic future, what might happen to life if humans left the scene? After all, humans are very likely to disappear long beforethe sun expands into a red giantand exterminates all living things from the Earth.
Assuming that we don’t extinguish all other life as we disappear (an unlikely feat in spite of our unique propensity for driving extinction), history tells us to expect some pretty fundamental changes when humans are no longer the planet’s dominant animal species.
So if we were given the chance to peek forward in time at the Earth some 50m years after our disappearance, what would we find? Which animal or group of animals would “take over” as the dominant species? Would we have a Planet of the Apes, as imagined in popular fiction? Or would the Earth come to be dominated by dolphins, or rats, or water bears, or cockroaches orpigs, or ants?
The question has inspired a lot of popular speculation and many writers have offered lists of candidate species. Before offering any guesses, however, we need to carefully explain what we mean by a dominant species.
Let’s Stick To The Animal Kingdom
One could argue that the current era is an age of flowering plants. But most people aren’t imagining Audrey Two in Little Shop of Horrors when they envision life in the future (even the fictional triffids had characteristically animal features – predatory behaviour and the ability to move).
So let’s keep the discussion to animals. This is for practical rather than philosophical reasons: by some standards the world is now and always has been dominated by bacteria despite the nominal end of the “age of microbes” some 1.2 billion years ago. This was not because bacteria ceased to be, or declined in prevalence, but rather because in our myopia we tend to place more importance on the large multi-cellular organisms that came after.
By some accounts four out of five animals is a nematode (a roundworm), so from all these examples it’s clear that neither prevalence, abundance nor diversity is the prime requisite for being a “dominant” form of life. Instead our imaginations are captured by large and charismatic organisms.
There’s an undeniable degree of narcissism in the human designation of dominant species and a strong tendency to award the title to close relatives. The Planet of the Apes imagines that our closest primate relatives could develop speech and adopt our technology if we gave them the time and space to do so.
But non-human primate societies are unlikely to inherit our dominance of the earth, because the apes are likely to precede us to extinction. We are already the only living hominid that’sconservation status is not endangered or critically endangered and the kind of global crisis that would extinguish our species is unlikely to spare the fragile remaining populations of the other great apes. In fact, any extinction event that affects humans will probably be most dangerous to organisms that share our basic physiological requirements.
Even if humans succumb to a global pandemic that affects relatively few other mammals, the great apes are precisely the species that are most at risk of contracting any new diseases that drive us from the Earth.
Will another, more distant, relative (primate, mammal, or otherwise) develop intelligence and human-like society? That too seems unlikely. Of all the species that were arguably dominant animals at some stage in the history of the Earth, humans are alone in their remarkable intelligence and manual dexterity. It follows that such traits are neither requirements for being dominant among animals, nor particularly likely traits to evolve. Evolution does not favour intelligence for its own sake, but only if it leads to higher survival and reproductive success. Consequently it’s a profound mistake to imagine that our successors are likely to be especially intelligent or social creatures, or that they will be capable of speech, or adept with human technology.
So what can we safely speculate about the dominant species, some 50m years after humanity? The answer is both dissatisfying and thrilling all at once: while we can be reasonably confident that it won’t be a talking chimpanzee, we otherwise have no idea what it will look like.
The world has seen a number of mass extinction events in the course of its history. The diversification of life following each eventwas relatively rapid – and the “adaptive radiation” of new species produced new forms including many unlike the ancestral lineages that spawned them after surviving the prior extinction. The small shrew-like creatures that scurried beneath the feet of dinosaurs in the late Cretaceous period looked very different to the cave bears, mastodons and whales which descended from them during the age of mammals. Likewise, the reptiles that survived the late Permian extinction some 250m years ago, which killed off 90% of marine and 70% of terrestrial species did not clearly foreshadow the pterosaurs and dinosaurs and mammals and birds that descended from them.
In Wonderful Life: the Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, the late Stephen J. Gould argued that chance, or contingency, as he called it, played a great role during the major transitions of animal life. There is room to argue about the relative importance of contingency in the history of life, which remains a controversial subject today. However Gould’s insight that we can hardly foreshadow the success of modern lineages beyond a future extinction is a humbling reminder of the complexity of evolutionary transitions.
So while it may be possible that, as many have speculated, the ants will take over the Earth from us, we can only imagine what their dominant ant descendants will look like.
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Incredible story of how a disc-shaped UFO “escorted” a police car for almost two hours
BYPIOTR CIELEBIAŚ , PHILIP MANTLE
A new book by a renowned UFO expert and published for the first time in English has revealed a string of close encounters in Poland
UFOs over Poland
Piotr Cielebiaś is a Polish writer, publisher and journalist dealing with fringe science and paranormal phenomena.
His new book has been translated by UFO expert Philip Mantle who publishes books on strange unexplained sightings.
Here he extracts some of the stories he has translated from the book.
Polish policemen rarely report their UFO encounters but when they do, their reports are astonishing ones.
On January 8th a pair of police officers from in southwestern Poland were returning from a night intervention.
Piotr Cielebiaś
Artists impressions of UFOs over Poland
Their task had been to calm down an aggressive drunkard in one of the villages lost amongst forested farmlands.
When the job was done, they began to head back to their station located dozen kilometers away.
It was about 4am when their Kia Ceed was calmly running lone road.
All of a sudden they noticed some bright lights in the distance that hovered over nearby forest. This prologue may sound prosaic but the rest of the story is much more extraordinary… and complicated.
At first they took it for mobile tower but the luminous object was apparently approaching their car.
Soon it stationed over a groove of trees located about a kilometer from the road.
Orange-yellow in colour the object began morphing and changing colors.
One officer recalled that several minutes before seeing the light his partner had told him 'Something is in the air'.
He said: “She had repeated this sentence several times before the light appeared.
“When the object appeared in the horizon, we decided to stop and go out of the car to examine it.
Piotr Cielebiaś
Author Piotr Cielebiaś has written about a string of UFO sightings
“From the distance it looked like a ball and then changed shape into crescent-like.”
He added that just a while before he could feel as if time slowed for a moment. But it was a matter of seconds.
During the next stage of the encounter Mrs. M. and his partner were totally conscious.
The officers stopped and watched the light maneuvering over a nearby field.
The officer recalled: “It was moving soundlessly, with no noise that should be generated by engine or rotor of the flying machine.
“At some point the object began ejecting something resembling ‘balls of light’.
“Some were disappearing in their way down to the ground, other were returning to the UFO.
“Suddenly from the below of the craft there emanated a ‘flash’ resembling that of a stroboscope.”
According to the officer it was possible to distinguish the shape of the craft hull.
But darkness, strange feelings and appearance of exotic object forced the witnesses to drove off the scene.
To their amazement, after a while UFO began to move in parallel with their car, staying in the constant distance of about a kilometer.
Despite strong concerns and unnatural fear the officer stopped the car in the next village trying to record the object with his mobile phone camera.
He said: “The UFO was in shape of a disc, with a kind of small ‘dome’ on the top.
“It was emitting blinding, yellow light (occasionally turning orange). At the bottom, three smaller white-bluish ‘balls’ could be seen.
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“In my opinion they were ‘engines’ but there were no sounds at all.”
It was 4.32 am when the officer took a short video showing a dim light in the distance.
It’s the only one visual documentation of the incident.
The officer said: “The situation was totally unexpected and we weren’t prepared for UFO encounter. I wish I could go closer to that object. It is clear to me now, when all the emotions ceased.”
The UFO recording of was made public but in muted version due to witnesses’ request.
In the original material it is possible to hear excited voiced of both officers commenting the “UFO” appearance.
They also tried to open the car window to check whether the object emits any noticeable sounds but only dog barking could be hear in the distance.
The officers said that during the incident they considered notifying colleagues or other patrol cars about the strange object.
He said: “After short discussion with my partner we decided to stay calm.
“Too many units could hear our report so everyone can imagine the consequences.
“People are rather skeptical and we don’t want more problems”
It was another instance of the taboo UFO encounters made by staff of emergency services is.
The Polish sighting is a very rare case of public servant who decided to reveal his experiences, despite his concern about the consequences.
It’s also interesting that during three stops when the witnesses decided to inspect the object closer, the UFO seemed to withdraw deeper over the fields.
In his opinion the object hovered about 60 meters over the ground but exact size of the craft was hard to estimate.
It was said to be at least dozen of meters in length but it was hard to find any reference points.
In the whole affair there is another one mystery. The witness stated that they observed the craft for about 90 minutes but it seemed too long comparing with the time necessary for them to pass the distance to their home station.
The patrol lost UFO from view when the disc withdrew over nearby fields and then disappeared over the horizon.
About 6 am, when both policemen returned to their station, they decided to report their experience to principals but as Mr. M. said, the duty officer at first burst with laugh and then neglected their story:
The officer said: “He said that I’m dog-tired and hallucinating. The same was with other high officers. They tried to persuade us that we saw balloons or birds.”
Nevertheless, the strange report about exotic “thing” probably induced some concern amongst senior officials but after some time the case was hushed up as if nothing had happened.
Polish national media and web portals usually don’t report UFO incidents although it is a very popular topic.
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Police footage of the UFO over Poland
UFO reports from Polish police officers are also rarity but the case from Opole region showed that many other encounters may be not disclosed due to witnesses’ fear of ridicule.
But the real cause of tabooing UFO reports amongst policemen is that there is no official procedure concerning unidentified objects and phenomena.
In other words, an ordinary officer who sees UFO doesn’t know how to react.
However following publicity around the close encounter other officers came forward with stories.
One of them wrote us a report concerning his UFO sighting in vicinity of Otmuchowskie Lake in 2008.
He recalled: “At about 2 am, over Sarnowice, I saw a row of about 15 red lights.
“Along with my partner I decided to hide our car in darker spot so the object could not to see us.
“But then some of the lights went off and other ones change their positions and began to move away in various directions.”
Another story from police officer recalled an event which took place in Opole region, precisely in Daniec area.
The witness said: “It was June or July 1997. From the duty officer we got a call that some drunken man was sticking people with an axe in a village in Opole area.
“It was an emergency, so we rushed with the siren going.
“Just before we arrived my partner had to answer a call of nature so I stopped the car on the side of the road.
“I also got out to straighten my neck.
“Suddenly I saw those objects and in the same moment my colleague screamed: ‘UFO!” I saw two bright orbs flying in the air 300 meters away from the car.
“They weren’t discotheque lights or lanterns. They were flying with high speed, stopping, accelerating and making sharp turns.
“We stood there in awe. I was glad I wasn’t there alone. During the sighting one of the orbs neared us and stayed dozen of meters away.
“The other one remained over the field and then - as if answering a command - both of them departed in just a second. I know that they were intelligent.”
Another report from former officer of Polish state police said: “It was winter 1978 but the exact date got lost in my mind.
“It was about 2am and I was patrolling area between Ornontowice and Chudów checking if the stores were properly shut down.
“I was on my way from Ornontowice to Chudów.
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“The night was beautiful, with no clouds in the sky. Temperature was below freezing and I was standing on the roadside when my attention was drawn to my dog's strange behavior. Automatically I looked up hearing also some unfamiliar sound.”
The officer reported that he saw a black, oblong object with some “windows”. He also got feeling that someone is staring at him.
He added: “It wasn’t a plane. It looked like a hull of Antonov An-22 but without wings.
“There were no sounds at all, despite slight ‘whirring’. Then I saw it against the sky background, from different perspective.
“Afraid that it could be a damaged plane that is going to crash, I rushed to local bakery to phone to the duty officer from Gierałtowice.
“But he also scoffed me saying that I must be drunk.”
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(VIDEO) Bodies Of Strange Creatures Were Found In The Basement Of An Old House In London
(VIDEO) Bodies Of Strange Creatures Were Found In The Basement Of An Old House In London
In 1960 in London at the time of clearing the site for construction of a new residential neighborhood, the old long-abandoned mansion belonged to Thomas Theodore Merlin was sent for demolition.
In the basement of the home builders have discovered several thousand small wooden boxes tightly sealed.
Imagine their surprise when they began to find inside the bodies of strange mythical creatures, which seemed to have been living only in fairy tales.
Ouder dan Stonehenge: Mysterieuze steencirkels in Schotland uitgelijnd op de zon en de maan
Ouder dan Stonehenge: Mysterieuze steencirkels in Schotland uitgelijnd op de zon en de maan
Voor het eerst hebben onderzoekers bewezen dat oude Britse steencirkels precies zijn uitgelijnd op de bewegingen van de zon en de maan, 5000 jaar geleden. Het onderzoek is verschenen in hetJournal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
“Niemand heeft ooit eerder statistisch bewezen dat een steencirkel werd gebouwd met het oog op astronomische verschijnselen,” zei hoofdonderzoeker dr. Gail Higginbottom van de Universiteit van Adelaide in Australië.
500 jaar ouder
Callanish (Wikicommons)
De onderzoekers ontdekten dat de oudste steencirkels in Schotland (Callanish op Lewis en Stenness op Orkney) precies zo staan gericht dat ze de bewegingen van de zon en de maan volgen. Beide cirkels zijn zo’n 500 jaar ouder dan Stonehenge.
Pakweg 2000 jaar later werden in Schotland nog steeds soortgelijke monumenten gebouwd die waren uitgelijnd op de zon of de maan. Deze cirkels waren alleen een stuk eenvoudiger.
Complexe relatie
De stenen blijken niet alleen te zijn verbonden met de zon en de maan. De onderzoekers ontdekten ook een complexe relatie tussen de manier waarop de stenen zijn uitgelijnd, het omliggende landschap en de horizon en de bewegingen van de zon en de maan.
“Dit onderzoek bewijst eindelijk dat de oude Britten de aarde door middel van hun steencirkels verbonden met de hemel,” zei dr. Higginbottom. “Deze mensen kozen ervoor om de stenen op zeer specifieke plekken in het landschap neer te zetten in relatie tot de astronomische kennis die zij hadden. Het vertelt ons iets over hun sterke verbinding met de omgeving en hoe belangrijk die verbinding voor ze moet zijn geweest.”
Astronomy is one of the oldest disciplines of science. Many prehistoric monuments are aligned with stars and planets, giving us clues as to the importance of ancient forms of astronomy. As a result, astronomers remain one of the leading groups responsible for the serious investigation of the UFO phenomenon.
Caracol (The Observatory) in Chichén Itzá, Mexico. The lines of this Mayan temple line up with at least 20 separate astronomical events.
(Credit: Daniel Schwen/Wikimedia Commons)
Astronomer UFO Sightings During the Renaissance
Jean-Charles Houzeau portrait from Popular Science Monthly in 1891. (Credit: Popular Science Monthly)
Hundreds of years ago astronomers were observing objects which can still not be definitively identified. Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck chronicle many reports of anomalous aerial objects throughout history in their book, Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times. One of these mysterious observations was by the famous astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini.
In 1672, Cassini spotted a small object close to Venus. At first he only took note, but did not share the discovery. He then saw it again in 1686 and decided to announce it as a possible discovery of a new moon of Venus. His sightings continued over the next few decades but were sporadic. In 1884, a former director for the Royal Observatory in Brussels, Jean-Charles Houzeau, proposed the idea that the object observed by Cassini may be another planet. He also named the object Neith, after an Egyptian Goddess. In 1887, the Belgian Academy of Sciences suggested that Neith was just a group of stars near Venus.
In 1686, a much more mysterious sighting was reported by astronomer Gottfried Kirch, the director of the Berlin Observatory. His sighting took place in Leipzig, Germany on July 9 at approximately 1:20 a.m. Kirch said that he saw an extremely bright fireball with a tail that was a quarter the size of the Moon, hovering in the sky for fifteen minutes. He said that people in towns as far as eleven miles away also reported seeing the object. Kirsh explained that eventually the object darted off to the right and left two “globules” that could only be seen by telescope.
Astronomers and Modern UFO research
Cover of the book Wonders in the Sky by Vallee and Aubeck.
(Credit: Tarcher/Penguin Publishing)
UFO sightings by astronomers are often taken more serious than those by the general public, due in part because astronomers are trained to observe and identify astronomical objects and spend a lot of time looking up into Space. Understandably, UFO reports from renowned astronomers helped boost the public’s fascination at the inception of the modern UFO era.
Prior to World War II, UFOs were not as prevalent a topic as they are now. In fact, the term “UFO” was not even coined until the early 1950s during the U.S. Air Force investigation of the phenomenon. Sightings were abundant in the 1950s, and they often made media headlines. It was at this time that Life magazine put together a compelling story that included the accounts of two well-known astronomers. The Life article described the first of these men as “one of the U.S.’s top astronomers.” He wanted to remain anonymous for the magazine story, but it was later discovered that this was Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, a leading scientist in the study of meteors.
In the article, Dr. LaPaz described a sighting that he and his family had on July 10, 1947 at 4:47 p.m. He, his wife, and their two teenage daughters were driving from Clovis, New Mexico to Clines Corners, New Mexico, when they all noticed a strange luminous object that hovered in the sky. Instinctively, Dr. LaPaz began estimating distances in order to make calculations about the object, and his entire family followed suit.
Dr. LaPaz described the object as follows:
[It] showed a sharp and firm regular outline, namely one of a smooth elliptical character much harder and sharper than the edges of the cloudlets . . . The hue of the luminous object was somewhat less white than the light of Jupiter in a dark sky, not aluminum or silver-colored . . . The object clearly exhibited a sort of wobbling motion . . . This wobbling motion served to set off the object as a rigid, if not solid body.
Dr. Lincoln LaPaz on the cover of the University of Wichita Alumni Magazine.
(Credit: University of Wichita Alumni Magazine)
Dr. LaPaz’s family watched the object for thirty seconds before it moved behind a cloud. The object reappeared soon after, but they eventually lost sight of it as it moved behind the clouds again. Dr. LaPaz said, “This remarkably sudden ascent thoroughly convinced me that we were dealing with an absolutely novel airborne device.”
Life Magazine, April 7, 1952. The UFO story in this issue included UFO sightings from prominent astronomers, and alerted the public that UFOs was considered by many as a credible issue.
(Credit: Life Magazine/NICAP)
Dr. LaPaz estimated that the object was 20 to 30 miles away and that it was a solid elliptical object approximately 165 to 245 feet long and 65 to 100 feet from top to bottom. He also estimated that it moved at between 120 and 180 mph horizontally and 600 to 900 mph vertically. His family agreed with his calculations. He did not believe that the object was of an astronomical nature, an illusion, a rocket, or a missile.
Later in the article, Dr. LaPaz commented on the mysterious nature of hundreds of green fireballs seen throughout the Southwest, mostly in New Mexico, in the late 1940s and early 1950s. One green fireball incident referred to a sighting of a large fireball seen by over a hundred-fifty people in Arizona in November 1951.
The sightings of green fireballs became so frequent that the U.S. Air Force established Project Twinkle in order to investigate them. Dr. LaPaz was one of the experts that investigated the phenomenon, and he felt that whatever was being seen were not meteorites.
The Life article explained:
[Dr. LaPaz] points out that normal fireballs do not appear green, they fall in the trajectory forced on them by gravity, are generally noisy as a freight train, and leave meteorites where they hit. The green New Mexican species does none of these things. Neither do the green fireballs appear to be electrostatic phenomena—they move too regularly and too fast.
The second sighting by an astronomer covered in the Life article was that of Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto. At around 11:00 p.m., while sitting in his backyard in Las Cruces, New Mexico, with his wife and mother-in-law, they all saw an object dart across the night sky. They agreed it appeared to be oval shaped and had a blue-green glow. Tombaugh said it “seemed to trail off at the rear into a shapeless luminescence.” Tombaugh alleged that he also saw what appeared to be half a dozen windows on the front and the side of the craft.
Project Blue Book Report on UFOs and Astronomers
The Life article popularized the UFO phenomenon at the time and exhibited the highly credible nature of some of the witnesses. Its effect on the U.S. Air Force’s official UFO investigation, Project Blue Book, was evident in a report put together by their consulting astronomer, Dr. J. Allen Hynek. The report referenced the Life article and may have even inspired it altogether.
A still from Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s cameo appearance on Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
(Credit: Columbia Pictures)
Hynek is often considered the father of modern UFO research. He was a professor of astronomy at Ohio State University when he began consulting for the air force on identifying UFOs. At the time he began working with the air force he said he thought the topic of UFOs was just a fad and referred to it as “utterly ridiculous.” However, his opinions eventually changed, and he began to take the topic very seriously.
Hynek is infamous for trying to explain away a famous rash of UFO sightings in Michigan in 1966 as an effect of swamp gas. However, he is more fondly remembered for coming up with the close encounters classification system for UFO reports.
In 1952, Hynek began to surmise that there was more to the UFO phenomenon than he had previously thought. In August, he submitted a report to the air force titled, “Special Report on Conferences with Astronomers on Unidentified Aerial Objects.” Hynek had decided it would be valuable to get the opinions of astronomers on UFOs and assist in the air force’s investigation into UFOs. In order to get the astronomers’ true opinions, Hynek did not tell them he was involved with the air force. He told them he was just a traveling astronomer visiting observatories to talk about scientific issues. He spoke to forty astronomers at various observatories.
Front page of Hynek’s astronomer report in the USAF Project Blue Book files. Click the image to view the entire report in pdf.
(Credit: USAF)
For the most part, Hynek kept the names of the astronomers anonymous, except for those that had already revealed their names in the Life article or had done so to the media in some other fashion. The opinions among the astronomers he spoke to varied. Some thought the topic was a waste of time; others thought that government secrecy on the issue was “stupid.” One astronomer said that if he had seen something he would not tell anyone unless he could remain anonymous and he knew the information was going to a group of scientists for serious research.
Among those who shared their UFO sightings, one had said that he and another astronomer had sighted a group of five “ball-bearing-like” objects moving rapidly during the day. Two years later, he saw a singular similar object. Another astronomer reported that he had seen a light zoom across his field of view that went too fast to be a plane and too slow to be a meteorite. This astronomer pointed out that it is important that scientists do not “fall into the error of believing we understand all physical phenomena.”
Professor Clyde Tombaugh
Tombaugh and LaPaz were also part of Hynek’s report. Hynek reported that besides the sighting Tombaugh reported to Life, he also shared another sighting that took place at White Sands Proving Grounds just outside of Las Cruces. Tombaugh said that while he was looking through his telescope he saw a luminous object traveling from the “zenith to the southern horizon in about three seconds.”
Tombaugh also offered up the use of his telescope at White Sands to help the U.S. Air Force investigate UFOs. He told Hynek that he would just have to ask the general in charge, but Hynek never divulged whether that request was made.
Hynek wrote that he also asked the astronomers about LaPaz’s findings in regards to the green fireballs seen in the Southwest. Many thought the objects were most likely natural objects, but Hynek said questioning revealed that many of them had little knowledge of the details of the sightings. Hynek agreed with LaPaz that given the descriptions and frequency, the green fireball phenomenon did not exhibit characteristics of astronomical objects.
In conclusion, Hynek found that of the forty astronomers he interviewed, five had reported sightings. Hynek noted that this is a higher percentage than the rest of the population. He speculated that this is perhaps because astronomers watch the sky more often, but also noted that astronomers are less likely to misidentify aerial objects.
Hynek observed that the astronomers he spoke to weren’t particularly hostile towards the idea of UFO investigations. He said that when he described the details of the more mysterious reports, they seemed genuinely interested. He felt their “lethargy” toward the subject was mostly due to a lack of good information. Hynek said their biggest fear seemed to be getting branded as questionable scientists as a result of any association with the UFO topic.
Hynek recommended that the U.S. Air Force officially give UFOs the status of a scientific problem and that a group of reputable scientists be allowed to examine sightings. He felt that such an effort would not only lead towards more answers, but also lend dignity to the issue. He continued to push for serious scientific investigationinto UFOs.
The UFO Experience Bookcover
Three years after the air force closed down official UFO investigations in 1969, he published his first book on UFOs, The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry. In his book, he released his close encounters scale and shared another story on astronomers’ opinions on UFOs. He recounted the story of a reception at which “several hundred” astronomers were in attendance, and where it was reported that there was a UFO being seen outside making strange maneuvers. He said people laughed and made some jokes as usual, but not a single astronomer went outside to investigate. His problem with this was that the lack of investigation didn’t exhibit a true scientific inquisitiveness. He quoted physicist and philosopher Erwin Schrödinger who wrote, “The first requirement of a scientist is that he is curious. He should be capable of being astonished and eager to find out.”
In 1973, Hynek founded the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), an organization of scientists and technical experts. In 1980, they conducted a poll (which included eighteen hundred members of various amateur astronomer associations) and found that 24% responded that they had “observed an object which resisted [their] most exhaustive efforts at identification.”
The Sturrock Report
The U.S. Air Force stopped investigating UFOs based in large part on a study by the University of Colorado in Boulder which was issued in 1969. The study concluded that there was no scientific value in the investigation of UFOs. This report has been dubbed the “Condon Report” in reference to the lead scientist of the investigation, Dr. Edward Condon. In 1970, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AAIA) released its own report that was the result of a multi-year study by one of the organization’s subcommittees. The AAIA disagreed with Condon stating, “[we] did not find a basis in the report for his prediction that nothing of scientific value will come of further studies.” In fact, they suggested further study was warranted.
UFO Enigma Bookcover
In his book, The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence, Dr. Peter Sturrock, a professor of applied physics at Stanford University, noted that the AAIA report made him wonder if perhaps scientists would be more interested in reports by other scientists. He conducted a small survey amongst the members of the San Francisco chapter of the AAIA, and the results were published in their monthly journal in 1974. Of the twelve hundred members responding, 5% said they had UFO sightings.
Encouraged by the results, Dr. Sturrock sought to perform a larger survey and was given permission by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) to poll their membership. Dr. Sturrock wrote that he was pleased to receive a 52% response rate, with only a few rude remarks. In fact, the responses were overwhelmingly supportive. Similarly to his previous study, 5% of AAS members admitted having unexplainable sightings. However, Dr. Sturrock was even more satisfied with the results of this study because they indicated that there was significant interest among astronomers in continued research into the UFO phenomenon. Sturrock summarized: “Each respondent was asked to state his opinion on whether the UFO problem deserves scientific study: 23% replied ‘certainly,’ 30% ‘probably,’ 27% ‘possibly,’ 17% ‘probably not,’ and 3% ‘certainly not,’ which represents a positive attitude among 53% of the respondents, as against a negative attitude among 20%.”
The high number of positive responses surprised Sturrock, as he was expecting the opposite. He had also asked how the AAS members would like to receive information on this subject, and the response was overwhelmingly through scientific journals. However, Dr. Sturrock and his colleagues always had problems getting their papers regarding UFOs printed in mainstream journals. This contradiction prompted Sturrock to help start a new organization called the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE), which publishes a peer-reviewed journal. Of the dozen or so professors that helped found the SSE, seven were astronomers. The SSE is still going strong with a large membership of doctorates. The organization’s website defines it as “a professional organization of scientists and scholars who study unusual and unexplained phenomena. Subjects often cross mainstream boundaries, such as consciousness, unidentified aerial phenomena, and alternative medicine, yet often have profound implications for human knowledge and technology.”
Astronomers and UFOs Today
Interest in the UFO phenomenon hasn’t been a passing fad, and astronomers continue to show interest in UFO research today. In 2011, Irish astronomer Eamonn Ansbro made news when he claimed that he was tracking UFOs. Ansbro said that he is convinced that what he is tracking are extraterrestrial spacecraft. He has even given lectures on the topic to the French government, and his studies have been published by the European Space Agency. He has named his project the Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (OSETI).
He told his local paper, the Roscommon Herald, “We haven’t proven our discovery to the scientific community yet and don’t have the resources but we can show that extraterrestrial space craft are on specific orbital tracks around the earth.”
Interest in the phenomenon also continues in other parts of the world. Astronomers at Canada’s David Dunlop Observatory in Richmond Hill, Ontario, have been holding lectures on UFOs. The lecturers include astronomers Dr. Ian Shelton and Dr. Tuba Koktay, a husband and wife team, who both worked at the observatory in the past. Dr. Koktay is now a researcher, and Dr. Shelton teaches astronomy at the University of Toronto. Shelton told www.yorkregion.com, “We try to be open-mined and honest, we don’t just dismiss, because we [scientists] don’t knoweverything.”
The ground of the David Dunlap Observatory.
Closer to home, Dr. Derrick Pitts, the chief astronomer and planetarium director for the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and a nationally renowned astronomer, recently told Lee Speigel of the Huffington Post that he was supportive of serious research on the nature of the UFO phenomenon.
I can speculate about what many astronomers would say if you ask them that question. Many of them would say, “I haven’t seen anything, so I can’t say that they exist. I can’t say that this five percent are alien spacecraft.” But if you ask them in the same breath, “Would you be willing to engage in a research project to figure out what these things are,” I don’t know what that answer would be. I’d say, yeah, let’s find out, let’s take a look at it, because here we have a phenomenon that causes a tremendous amount of interest. Why not try to understand what it is?
Astronomer Derrick Pitts
(Credit: Franklin Insitute)
The notion that astronomers are not interested in UFOs is false. Hynek, the U.S. Air Force’s own astronomer, who eventually became a pioneer in civilian UFO research, probably had it right when he observed that often scientists are just not informed of the important details. Even Dr. Pitts said his interests were piqued when he read the credible and mysterious UFO cases presented in Leslie Kean’s book, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record.
Historically, astronomers were the leading force behind investigating and reporting on the UFO phenomenon, and they continue to be the driving force into the research into the UFO phenomenon. Their interest adds credibility to the field and demonstrates that there is at least a sliver of interest in UFOs in mainstream science.
A version of this article originally appeared in Open Minds Magazine Issue 26 June/July 2014.
Schoch was het eens met de mensen die hem op die plek wezen dat dit alleen veroorzaakt kan zijn door een enorme hittebron van minstens 1000 graden Celsius.
Robert Schoch gelooft in de theorie dat de aarde in een ver verleden is geraakt door plasmastralen van de zon. Hij denkt dat deze plek bij de piramides misschien ooit is geraakt en dat dit het kalksteen heeft doen smelten.
Daarnaast wordt er via sociale media druk gespeculeerd wat een andere eventuele oorzaak zou kunnen zijn voor dergelijke hoge temperaturen die kalksteen doet smelten.
De explosie van een kernwapen heeft onmiddellijke gevolgen: de hittestraling (ongeveer 4000 °C) die gebouwen in brand zet, en bij mensen brandwonden veroorzaakt of hen soms zelfs volledig laat verdampen in enkele seconden.
Voldoende hitte dus voor het smelten van kalksteen.
Dat er in het verleden op aarde kernexplosies hebben plaatsgevonden, hebben wij beschreven in een aantal eerdere artikelen.
Maar, ook onze voorouders hebben ons al laten weten wat er ooit op deze aarde is gebeurd. Daarom een deel uit één van die eerdere artikelen:
We schreven al eerder een artikel over de waarschijnlijkheid van een kernoorlog in het oude India (zie hier). En ook dat de piramiden veel ouder zijn dan eerst werd gedacht. Daarnaast schijnen piramides ook nog “toevallig” de besteschuilkelders te zijn die je je kunt wensen in geval van nucleaire fall-out.
Nu vallen er weer een paar puzzelstukjes op hun plaats. Wetenschappers hebben sporen gevonden van een substantie die ze “melt-glass” noemen. Dit ontstaat wanneer zand heet genoeg wordt om te smelten en vervolgens te koken, ongeveer tussen de 1700 en 2000 graden Celsius. Dit soort temperaturen wordt bereikt bij een nucleaire explosie.
Dit materiaal werd gevonden in rotsafzettingen in Pennsylvania en Noord Carolina (Amerika) en in Syrië. Testen hebben uitgewezen dat het materiaal niet kosmisch, niet vulkanisch en niet door mensen gemaakt is. In Syrië werd het “melt-glass” ontdekt in een oud dorp in de vallei van de rivier de Eufraat. Dit dorp was bedekt me een laag houtskool, een indicatie dat alles wat daar aanwezig was is verbrand.
James Kennettt, een professor uit Santa Barbara schrijft de vorming van deze substantie toe aan een meteorieteninslag, maar zegt daarbij: ”De extreme temperaturen die nodig zijn om dit te vormen zijn gelijk aan die van een kernexplosie; temperaturen die hoog genoeg zijn om zand te smelten en te doen koken”.
Als je je dan bedenkt dat de leeftijd van die rotspartijen ongeveer 12.000 jaar is, dan komt dat aardig overeen met de tijd dat de piramides werden gebouwd, ongeveer 10.000 jaar voor Christus. Ook valt dat weer "akelig" nauwkeurig samen met de eerste verzen op de Sumerische kleitabletten. Een duidelijker verhaal over de na-effecten van een nucleaire-oorlog kun je niet krijgen.
De mensen uit die tijd die de kleitabletten gemaakt hebben, verzonnen deze verhalen niet. Het zijn min of meer onze oudste “geschreven” documenten. Zij beschreven wat er daadwerkelijk gebeurd was. Met het bewijsmateriaal wat in feite voor ons voor het oprapen ligt, vraag je je af wat de reden kan zijn dat men de werkelijke geschiedenis van de mensheid niet wil weten. Wellicht is het historisch ontstaan, omdat de feitelijke geschiedenis van onze aarde lijnrecht indruist tegen kerken, religie en bijbel.
De kleitabletten beschrijven een Kwade Wind. Net zoals wij die misschien uit Fukshima zullen krijgen als daar niets aan wordt gedaan.
Hieronder de vertaling van de eerste verzen van de Sumerische kleitabletten:
De woorden van de Heer Enki, eerstgeboren zoon van Anu die regeert op Nibiru.
Met een bezwaard gemoed uit ik dit klaaglied; een klaaglied wat een bitter gevoel in mijn hart geeft.
Hoe geslagen ziet het landschap er uit; de mensen overgeleverd aan de Kwade Wind, de stallen verlaten, de schaapskooien zijn leeg.
Hoe geslagen zien de steden er uit; de lijken van de inwoners hoog opgestapeld, getroffen door de Kwade Wind.
Hoe geslagen zien de velden er uit, de gewassen verschrompeld, geraakt door de Kwade Wind.
Hoe geslagen zijn de rivieren, er zwemt niets meer, helder bubbelend water, veranderd in vergif.
De zwarthoofdige inwoners van Sumer zijn weg, alle leven is weg.
Er is geen vee meer in Sumer, geen schapen, je hoort niet meer het brommende geluid van melkkarnen.
In haar glorieuze steden hoor je alleen het huilen van de wind, het enige wat je ruikt is de dood
HET MEEST OVERTUIGENDE BEWIJS VOOR REUZEN OP AARDE ( VIDEO )
HET MEEST OVERTUIGENDE BEWIJS VOOR REUZEN OP AARDE ( VIDEO )
Tijdens een patrouille in een afgelegen gebied van Afghanistan staat een aantal Amerikaanse militairen oog in oog met een reus van tussen de vier en vijf meter hoog.
Er zijn meerdere getuigen die hetzelfde verhaal vertellen over een reus met rood haar en zes tenen en vingers.
Het is misschien wel het meest vreemde verhaal dat tijdens de lange oorlog uit Afghanistan is gekomen. Een Amerikaanse patrouille die slaags raakt met een reus en deze uiteindelijk doodt.
Normaal denk je dat dit weer een kletsverhaal is, maar deze gebeurtenissen wordt bevestigd door meerdere bronnen, waardoor het een uniek verslag wordt.
Uiteindelijk is het lijk van de reus opgehaald door een helikopter en overgebracht naar Amerika voor verder onderzoek.
In de video hieronder zie je hoe de onderzoeker L.A. Marzulli praat met een militair die onderdeel uitmaakte van de bewuste patrouille.
Het verhaal speelt zich af in 2002 in een zeer afgelegen deel van Afghanistan. De patrouille waar de getuige deel van uitmaakt, is op pad gestuurd om te kijken wat er gebeurd was met een eerdere patrouille, waarmee contact was verloren.
Op een gegeven moment komen ze op een lager gelegen plateau en zien daar beenderen liggen en iets hoger gelegen een grot.
Dan opeens komt er uit die grot een enorme reus, die volgens de getuigen ongeveer 500 kilo weegt en ergens tussen de vier en vijf meter lang is. Hij heeft lang rossig haar, zes tenen en dito aantal vingers.
De reus valt de soldaten aan en spiest één van hen aan zijn speer, terwijl de soldaten met alles wat ze bezitten op hem vuren.
Ze mikken op zijn gezicht en op een gegeven moment moet de primitieve reus het onderspit delven en sterft.
Vervolgens komen er een aantal helikopters, waaronder een grote Chinook om de reus weg te halen. Hij wordt daarna verder vervoerd met een C-130 transportvliegtuig en in de video is ook de getuigenis te horen van één van de piloten van dat toestel.
Toen de soldaten eenmaal waren teruggekeerd, kregen ze uitdrukkelijk opdracht om niet te praten over wat ze hadden meegemaakt en werden ze allemaal gedwongen om geheimhoudingsverklaringen te tekenen.
Onduidelijk is wat er met de originele patrouille is gebeurd, maar wel dat die tweede patrouille een bijzonder soort mens heeft gedood.
Het verhaal van de reuzen op aarde is niet nieuw, al lang geleden liepen ze hier rond. Voor dat verhaal navolgend een deel uit een eerder artikel:
Er wordt gezegd dat er ooit een tijd op aarde was dat hier reuzen rondliepen. Ze worden de “Nephilim” genoemd of ook wel “De gevallen Engelen”.
Is er bewijs dat deze reuzen ooit daadwerkelijk op aarde hebben geleefd?
De eerste aanwijzing dat er hier inderdaad reuzen hebben rondgelopen vind je in de bijbel, zoals het volgende:
Genesis 6:1-4
"Toen de mensen zich op aarde begonnen te vermenigvuldigen en hun dochters geboren werden, zagen de zonen Gods, dat de dochters der mensen schoon waren, en zij namen zich daaruit vrouwen, wie zij maar verkozen. En de Here zeide: Mijn Geest zal niet altoos in de mens blijven, nu zij zich misgaan hebben; hij is vlees, zijn dagen zullen 120 jaar zijn. De reuzen waren in de die dagen op de aarde, en ook daarna toen de zonen Gods tot de dochters der mensen kwamen, en zij hun (kinderen) baarden; dit zijn de geweldigen uit de voortijd mannen van naam".
Naast in de bijbel, duiken de reuzen ook op in de verhalen van alle oude volkeren op aarde. Rond de Middellandse-zee, bij de indianen in Noord-Amerika en Canada, in Zuid-Amerika, in Tibet en in Australië. In de mythologieën van Oost en West in de sagen over Tiahuanacu en in de heldendichten van de Noormannen en Eskimo’s. De oude Chaldeeën hadden het over de reus Irdubar, in India sprak men van de Danawa en Daita en op Ceylon van Rakshasa, om zo maar een paar voorbeelden te noemen.
Voor wie meer wil weten over hoe het nu precies zit met de Nephilim, de reuzen of de Gevallen Engelen (boeklink) raden wij de volgende zeer informatieve documentaire aan van Trey Smith.
De naam van de documentaire is “Origin of Genetic Evil” en hij neemt je mee op reis langs de menselijke genetica, de langwerpige schedels, de Nephilim schedels, oude schedels, de reuzenschedels en dat allemaal in het licht van exacte Hebreeuwse, Babylonische, Sumerische en Egyptische verslagen alsmede het boek van Henoch.
Nauwkeurige verslagen over de Nephilim, Anunnaki, buitenaardsen en Demonen, Gevallen Engelen en zelfs de vader aller leugens, satan. Van de diepten van de onderwereld en Lucifer tot de Bijbelse onthullingen en profetieën.
Een reis van de hemel naar de hel en de genetische hybriden en entiteiten daar tussenin.
Two Long UFOs Seen Over Las Vegas, NV, August 7, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Two Long UFOs Seen Over Las Vegas, NV, August 7, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 7, 2016 Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Source: MUFON It looks like this UFO was seen during sunset. The light from the setting sun is hitting the UFOs at just the right angle to light them up. Normally the UFOs would not be seen, camouflaged in the clouds, but the setting sun is having its way with those stealthy craft. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: I just left my home and turned left on the nearest street heading South. Immediately, two highly reflective objects caught my eye moving rather slowly at first. I immediately identified them as something I have never seen before flying in the sky. I have much experience growing up on military bases for the first 20+ years of my life, including living on SAC alert bases. I have much experience witnessing all types of military aircraft and familiar with their flight capabilities. What I saw yesterday on 08/07/16 was not military and not civilian. I immediately thought, take out cell phone. I tried to first to capture a picture, which I did, but the object was hard to focus on. I immediately switched from static pictures to video using my Samsung Note 5. I was inside my Jeep Wrangler with family. All 4 of us saw the object including my retired Army father. We watched the object fly N then switch to a NE direction heading towards Nellis AFB. At first, there were two objects. However, once the objects moved towards the NE, the second object disappeared and I could only see the first and larger object.
This lights up on and off like a ship. Meteorites do not often do that, nor do they change colors so much. If this was a meteor, it would have a tail the stretches hundreds of meters behind it, yet we see nothing. This is a UFO. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states: Mysterious lights, possibly a “fireball,” were seen streaking across the sky in San Diego Monday night, according to several NBC 7 viewers. One resident reported spotting the lights between 9:35 p.m. to 9:37 p.m. in the sky over the 3300 block of El Cajon Boulevard in City Heights. An NBC 7 viewer – who spotted the mystery lights above and around the San Diego International Airport and Liberty Station – described the sight as a “strange aircraft with lights on bottom.” San Diegan Ruben Quintana spotted the lights from Eastlake Monday night and said they appeared to be traveling west. He told NBC 7 the stream of light “began as a single blur then expanded into a straight line” before vanishing. “It repeated a few times,” he added. “I’m not sure where it was over.”
UFO hunters went into an overdrive yet again after a video claiming to have caught a UFO sighting has surfaced online. The clip shows a small black disc-like object floating at a distance, above the clouds, in New Zealand. The UFO disappears after an apparent explosion.
According to the reporting witness, the incident took place on August 2. UFO enthusiasts believe that most UFO sightings have been happening around the time of sunset because of the position of the setting sun.
In the video, the disc first appears just a dot from a distance. The footage also shows a small explosion above the cloud. After the clip was digitally magnified to get a better view, a black dot could be seen as a black disc.
The UFO could still be seen floating above the clouds after the first explosion. Then another burst of bright light in the sky took place shortly before the UFO went out of sight.
Another UFO sighting occurred in New Zealand in March. The event at Tauranga Bay of Plenty involved a glowing object with lights that lit up the entire community. The witness said he noticed a shimmering star changing colors in the sky, so he went ahead and got his binoculars to get a clearer picture of the aerial thing.
He first thought of the object as just a glittering star, but his entire room lit up. Out of curiosity, he looked out from his two-story window and spotted a massive bright glowing orb UFO coming up from a southeast direction.
Also in March, a UFO was spotted near Nelson at Tasman Bay. The mysterious object was seen descending at a speed faster than any known aircraft, but slower than a meteor.
Cryptic Disappearance of Sheep From A Filed In Lincolnshire Linked To UFOs
Cryptic Disappearance of Sheep From A Filed In Lincolnshire Linked To UFOs
About 1,500 sheep mysteriously disappeared in a field near Louth, and a documentary filmmaker has speculated that UFOs could be the reason behind the mystery.
YouTube user dot luter uploaded a footage to the video sharing site, featuring an investigation of UFO sightings across the East Lindsey area. One witness claimed to have observed a massive spherical object floating in the sky of Alford.
The disappearance of the sheep took place at Stenigot overnight in September 2011, but no witness has come forward about seeing or hearing anything.
Arrests were made, but no one ever charged or prosecuted, the documentary video claims.
The documentary video shows a man named Eric Goring from Brinkhill, saying he had encountered hundreds of sightings of what he described as “the black triangle” nearby at the time.
Goring said he spotted balls of light, but he wasn’t confident about the color. It could be white, orange or yellow balls, according to Goring.
The balls of light went round and round and lit up brightly. When they got nearer to the witness, Goring could see the black triangle.
He claimed to have seen the black triangle hundreds of times and at a maximum of 40 per night.
Mr. Goring estimated these triangle objects to be approximately 30 feet long on each side. He had seen them going down to the ground at incredible speeds, about thousands of miles per hour. He said they went straight to the ground and up again after looping. It floats without noise, according to Goring.
A taxi driver testimony is also featured in the documentary footage. The maker of the documentary believes that the sightings could be linked to the disappearance of thousands of sheep in one night in the sparsely populated area.
Solid egg-shaped UFO photographed over Maryland 16-Jul-2016
Solid egg-shaped UFO photographed over Maryland 16-Jul-2016
Here are some new daytime photos of metal egg-shaped UFO in the sky above Maryland. This happened on 16th July 2016.
Witness report:
Looked like a black egg very small unusual flight pattern We were in the back yard in the swimming pool and I noticed a black football shaped object at the edge of the clouds. I told my son to get my binoculars and after viewing the object with the binoculars I had him get my camera. It would fly left then right, hoover and go in the clouds then come back (which is what made me think it was a drone). After viewing the object in my binoculars I was sure it was not a drone, UAV, or a weather balloon. It was very exciting because my whole family got to witness it and look at it. Once we looked at the pictures on the computer it really got us to wonder exactly what was this we just viewed. Finally it went into the clouds and we did not see it again. I would be very interested in finding out if anyone else saw the same thing we did and what it was. I have showed the pictures to several Naval pilots and others who work in aviation here at PAX river and they encouraged me to submit these photos. I also work in the aviation industry.
Solid egg-shaped UFO photographed over Maryland 16-Jul-2016
Solid egg-shaped UFO photographed over Maryland 16-Jul-2016
Here are some new daytime photos of metal egg-shaped UFO in the sky above Maryland. This happened on 16th July 2016.
Witness report:
Looked like a black egg very small unusual flight pattern We were in the back yard in the swimming pool and I noticed a black football shaped object at the edge of the clouds. I told my son to get my binoculars and after viewing the object with the binoculars I had him get my camera. It would fly left then right, hoover and go in the clouds then come back (which is what made me think it was a drone). After viewing the object in my binoculars I was sure it was not a drone, UAV, or a weather balloon. It was very exciting because my whole family got to witness it and look at it. Once we looked at the pictures on the computer it really got us to wonder exactly what was this we just viewed. Finally it went into the clouds and we did not see it again. I would be very interested in finding out if anyone else saw the same thing we did and what it was. I have showed the pictures to several Naval pilots and others who work in aviation here at PAX river and they encouraged me to submit these photos. I also work in the aviation industry.
Solid egg-shaped UFO photographed over Maryland 16-Jul-2016
Solid egg-shaped UFO photographed over Maryland 16-Jul-2016
Here are some new daytime photos of metal egg-shaped UFO in the sky above Maryland. This happened on 16th July 2016.
Witness report:
Looked like a black egg very small unusual flight pattern We were in the back yard in the swimming pool and I noticed a black football shaped object at the edge of the clouds. I told my son to get my binoculars and after viewing the object with the binoculars I had him get my camera. It would fly left then right, hoover and go in the clouds then come back (which is what made me think it was a drone). After viewing the object in my binoculars I was sure it was not a drone, UAV, or a weather balloon. It was very exciting because my whole family got to witness it and look at it. Once we looked at the pictures on the computer it really got us to wonder exactly what was this we just viewed. Finally it went into the clouds and we did not see it again. I would be very interested in finding out if anyone else saw the same thing we did and what it was. I have showed the pictures to several Naval pilots and others who work in aviation here at PAX river and they encouraged me to submit these photos. I also work in the aviation industry.
A man in Las Vegas, Nevada witnessed, pictured, and videotaped two cigar-shaped UFOs on August 7, 2016. He reported his UFO sighting to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which filed the report as Case 78283.
According to the report, the witness was heading south at 7:45 pm when two highly reflective objects caught his attention. Both of the objects were moving slowly at first, as the witness observed. In his report, he claimed to have identified them immediately as something he had never seen flying in the sky.
The witness said he has experience on military bases for over 20 years, including living on SAC alert bases. On this note, the witness apparently has much experience of seeing all types of military aircraft and their flight capabilities. But on August 7, 2016, the witness was certain that he saw something not military and not civilian aircraft.
This was the time the witness decided to shoot a photo of his UFO sighting using his cellular phone, but the objects seemed difficult to focus. From static pictures, he switched to video using his Samsung Note 5. The witness was inside a Jeep Wrangler with family, and all four of them saw the mysterious aerial things, including his retired Army father.
As the family continued to watch the event, both UFOs flew north and then to a northeast direction, moving towards Nellis AFB.
The case is still under investigation with Nevada MUFON.
Filer’s Files # 34 – 2016 Alien Life May be on Nearby Worlds - PART I
UFO taken over Mississauga, Ontario, Canada on August 8, 2016
Filer’s Files # 34 – 2016 Alien Life May be on Nearby Worlds - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding and UFOs, Planetary Defense, Alien Life May be on Nearby Worlds, Bosnia House Struck 5 Times by Meteorites, and The Tubes on Mars May Hide Cities
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Utah and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, International Space Station, Ireland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding and UFOs
“More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any “scientific” explanation… I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on Earth. I can therefore see no alternative to accepting the theory that they come from some extraterrestrial source.” I think that we must resist the tendency to assume that they all come from the same planet, or that they are actuated by similar motives. It might be that the visitors from one planet wished to help us in our evolution from the basis of a higher level to which they had attained.”1954, London’s Sunday Dispatch
In 1936, Dowding was appointed commanding officer of the RAF Fighter Command, where he conceived and oversaw the so-called Dowding System” for the air defense of Great Britain using the new technology of radar, which the English were just developing for the first time. Quoting from his biographical profile from rafweb.org.
“He helped develop eight gun fighters (Hurricane and Spitfire), and radar for the detection of enemy aircraft. He was given command of the newly formed Fighter Command in July 1936. He immediately set about developing a system able to make best use of his limited resources. He established the coastal chain of radar stations and a reporting and control system which allowed his aircraft to be placed in the right location and altitude to meet the threat.” Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain where Nazi bomber forces were defeated.
After Dowding retired he wrote books on spiritualism, and investigated UFOs with Prince Phillip, and Lord Mountbatten. Thanks to Antonio Huneeus a long time friend
Planetary Defense
An enormous asteroid that could strike the Earth in 2028 made its first pass near us last month and doomsayers are using it as proof we need to build a planetary defense system. The potentially killer space rock measures about a mile in diameter and passed safely outside the moon’s orbit, but it’s scheduled to return again sometime in 2028 when it will be much closer to Earth.
Dubbed 1997 XF11, the meandering asteroid passed close to 27 million miles from Earth along with several other space rocks scheduled to come near the planet. Next time, however, its orbit will be much more erratic, making it more likely to strike the planet and cause an extinction level event.
NASA’s Near Earth Object Program tracks asteroids that pass close by every day, but the U.S. space agency can’t see them all coming, astrophysicist Jose Ramon Valdes told the Express. “There are many, but few reach the ground, however we must be prepared for a big one, because they are fatal and would finish a city.” Late last month, an asteroid came extremely close to striking the Earth. The fireball it created as it skipped through the atmosphere was seen over five states and Mexico where its shockwaves shook local houses, Puebla resident Eduardo Bravo told the Express.
“The sky was lit up as if lightning had struck and a few seconds later we saw an orange object like a rocket.”
Conspiracy theorists went crazy over the event, thinking aliens had finally decided to reveal their presence, and that forced NASA to hold a press conference explaining the earthly nature of the event. “The trajectory of big asteroids can be seen and monitored; the problem is the small ones that we cannot see.”
In April, NASA discovered 72 new asteroids approaching Earth as part of its NEO program designed to track potentially killer space rocks. NASA thinks there are about 10,000 giant rocks floating in space that could potentially at some time strike the Earth, but the space agency admits it can only track about 10 percent of the asteroids.
So far, the Earth has no planetary defense system, but there are several countries working on systems to protect the planet from a doomsday type event including the U.S. and Russia. Russia is planning to shoot missiles at any asteroid near enough to threaten the planet. It’s the country most affected by falling space rocks; almost every 50 years Russian cities have been damaged by asteroids. The last one came in 2013 when a 65-foot-wide rock dropped out of the Chelyabinsk sky and injured more than 1,000 people, causing thousands of dollars in damage.
The U.S. is also investing in planetary defense technology; the plan includes landing robots on smaller asteroids and remotely piloting them into the larger killer asteroid to save mankind from extinction. Neither country’s technology is ready for deployment. SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s plans to send a manned expedition to Mars by 2028. The billionaire, who also founded Tesla, may be our best hope for a quick response to a dangerous asteroid. I saw his impressive facilities on Vandenberg Air Force Base. Starting in 2017, Boeing and SpaceX will become the first private companies to send NASA astronauts into orbit. Thanks to Express http://www.express.co.uk
Alien Life May be on Nearby Worlds
Coburn Palmer reports, that a second Earth like planet has been s spotted nearby. European scientists have discovered a batch of alien worlds out in deep space that could support extraterrestrial life including one orbiting the star closest to our Sun.
Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have spotted a faraway rocky and potentially habitable Earth-like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star 4.25 light years from the Sun.
An astrophysicist at the ESO broke the discovery of the alien world to the German magazine Der Spiegel, although the observatory is waiting for confirmation before it makes an official announcement later this month. “It was hard work finding the tiny celestial body. We were at the limits of what is technologically possible when it comes to measurements.”
The unnamed exoplanet is .24 light years away from the two stars of Alpha Centauri and is considered part of that system; the constellation is mainly visible from the southern hemisphere.
The faraway alien world circles a small cool red dwarf star, so it most probably exists in constant twilight and any plants and animals living on its surface would look drastically different from those on Earth.
The planet sits in the habitable “goldilocks” zone and should therefore be able to support liquid water on its surface, but because of the darkness, trees and shrubs on the surface would probably be pitch-black in color. The darkly colored leaves would enable the alien plants to use photosynthesis to survive.
The alien planet is several million years older than Earth, so it could contain higher life forms, similar to humans, but its star tends to erupt with violent solar storms, so it’s also possible all the rivers, lakes, and oceans evaporated a long time ago, according to Der Spiegel.
“Never before have planet-hunters come upon another possible Earth that is so nearby.” The still nameless planet is believed to be Earth-like and orbits at a distance to Proxima Centauri that could allow it to have liquid water on its surface — an important requirement for the emergence of life. Never before have scientists discovered a second Earth that is so close by.”
Another 20 potentially Earth-like planets with potential for water were discovered using NASA’s Kepler space telescope. They could contain alien life or one day be suitable for human colonization.
“It’s exciting to see the sheer amount of planets that are out there. [It] makes you think that there is zero chance of there not being another place where life could be found.” We might know more about the existence of extraterrestrial life on these distant alien planets when Stephen Hawking and Silicon Valley billionaire Yuri Milner finish building their fleet of nanocraft that are capable of reaching 30 percent the speed of light. The project, called Breakthrough Starshot, uses small wafer-thin spacecraft that are outfitted with special solar sails capable of catching lasers fired from Earth to accelerate into deep space. Once launched into space, the tiny ships could reach Alpha Centauri in 15 years where hopefully they woulddiscover more alien worlds, USC’s Professor Phillip Lubin told Universe Today.
Most of the nearby stars have exoplanets around them that may be able to support life.
GORNJA LAMOVITE — Radivoje Lajic believes he is under attack from outer space. A Bosnian man whose home has been hit an incredible five times by meteorites believes he is being targeted by aliens. Experts at Belgrade University have confirmed that all the rocks Radivoje Lajic has handed over were meteorites. They are now investigating local magnetic fields to try and work out what makes the property so attractive to the heavenly bodies. But Mr. Lajic, who has had a steel girder reinforced roof put on the house he owns in the village of Gornja Lamovite, has an alternative explanation.
He said: “I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don’t know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense. “The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit five times has to be deliberate. The strikes always happen when it is raining heavily, never when there are clear skies. He said: “I have had them all confirmed as meteorites by experts at Belgrade University.”I am being targeted by aliens. They are playing games with me.” Website
The Tubes on Mars May Hide Cities
Mars has often been hit by asteroids, therefore the Martians have apparently gone underground or at least developed protected tunnels or tubes for transportation and building of cities. As you can see in this NASA image of evidence drawn from MOC strip E12-03186, we can see giant tube evidence developed inside the bottom of a crater.
The top or northern most tube is the most fully formed and borders on what appears at first view to be natural adjacent terrain. The tubes here are a part of the much larger cohesive tube system to the immediate and adjacent south. You can see the sunlight reflections gleaming off of the top surface of the main top tube system. These lighter streaks paralleling the tube could also be the reflection of light from highways running inside the tubes.
Notice also the many vague light color spots all over the tubes and their not well defined but still uniform spacing as well as size and shape appearance. The appearance of these spots tends to encourage speculation that these spots are something under and/or within the tubes. The bottom tube encourages speculation that the flattened area of the mass may collect air and/or water. Many NASA images have shown water collecting at the bottom of craters. What little atmosphere detected on Mars would also tend to move to the bottom of craters making them an ideal place to construct living quarters?
Notice too that the light gleam and reflection reveals the edges of a narrow band of depression indentation that runs the entire longitudinal length of the main tube top surface and note it is fairly uniform in its width. This looks very much like something due to fairly recent expansion stress. This factor may be an indicator that this entire giant tube system may have undergone an enlarging expansion as to its width and girth after it was already fully formed. Notice also the vague darker streaks on or inside the main tube that may be structure support.
According to the MSSS supplied statistics, the strip on the top is 2.98 km wide or almost 2 miles wide and the strip on the bottom is 2.94 km wide. Remember that the tubes in both strips extend from one side edge to the other and off the strip with no signs of diminishment in size. They actually span a crater and may continue underground. Note that this is a total of 5.92 km or 3.68 miles in just the tube length we can see in the two strips.
However, you can also visually see that the space gap between the two strips is at the very minimum 3.0 km wide and probably more. When you add this minimum figure, you get 8.92 km or 5.54 miles of tube length. However, we can also reasonably assume that there is still plenty of tube system unseen off the left or west edge of the E12-03186 strip and off the right or east edge of the E11-03408 strip. Note that the dark area spread on the crater floor that is mostly the tube mass tends to confirm a much greater mass size beyond the limitations of the strip views and therefore probably substantial more tube length. So, we’re talking about a colossal tube system substantially longer than 5.5 miles and in fact many kilometers or miles longer than that could easily hide cities.
This image is from a different E11-03408 strip but is a section of the same tube system but this scene is a little further right or east. The combined strips reinforce the fact that this giant tube system is many kilometers long and that knowledge gives us a little better insight of the huge colossal scale we are really looking at here. Here again we have light reflections off of the tube’s top surface and this is again is strong evidence that the surface of these tubes is very smooth to the point of being slick like glass. A second tube is underneath and parallel to the main full blown top tube perhaps carrying water or air. There appears to be a colossal arched dome like top surface? Could these be the tops of buildings or some sort of vegetation, such as for example huge tree tops?
In this strip, you can also see the meandering streaks on or inside the main tube a strong indicator that the streaks are something formed inside the interior of the tube curling back around on itself in loops represents the activity of life of some kind. These giant kilometers long tubes could hold entire cities. I am fully satisfied that they at minimum represent the activities of life of some kind but we just can’t yet be sure as to what form of life. The most obvious speculation is that these are artificial construct hollow covers providing protective habitat and therefore may represent intelligent civilized life.
It must also be remembered that these tube shapes are very self contained and isolated and do not appear to mix with the immediate crater terrain they sit in. Dust is blown around Mars but these tubes are very unlikely to be formed by loose dust sediment piles.
So, we are talking about this monstrous dense mass standing elevated in a great uniformly rounded height taller than most skyscrapers and, if it was hollow, you could fly a number of 747s abreast down its inside length and never come close to the interior sides. It is able to support itself in a rounded elevated form. Pressurized air could theoretically hold the tubes up or it may have an intricate structure supporting it with a thermal heat fused exterior skin surface. Even with much less gravity on Mars we are looking at a huge construction project! Thanks to Joseph P. Skipper, Investigator
The UFO Meet-Up Group that meets at the Cinnaminson Public Library in New Jersey on August 22, 2016, will have Major George A Filer III (me) as the speaker.Website
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Filer’s Files # 34 – 2016 Alien Life May be on Nearby Worlds - PART II
Filer’s Files # 34 – 2016 Alien Life May be on Nearby Worlds - PART II
Sightings in the United States
California Orb
I went outside early morning and took several pictures of the sky.
One looks like a triangle Ufo on August 13, 2016.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Apopka – There were four bright lights in sky over my house. Each one has two or three big faces coming out of the worm hole portal star gate last October 2015, I was looking at the stars in the sky and observed several bright stars moving back and forth and changing direction. On every clear night I have taken pictures and zoom my X16 camera and the pictures show a blue disk. Within the last month, I have observed 4-5 bright lights in the sky directly over head my house. On August 13, 2016, I took five still pictures and three videos of each bright light at 9 PM, I see pig faces coming out (Canon A590IS camera in X16 zoom) of the worm hole portal star gate in the sky. I believe that the bright lights are at the elevation between 150,000-300,000 feet. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Orb
Edinburg — Visitors were seen on August 13, 2016. This picture was taken this evening at 8:37 pm. It’s just hard to believe that people around here don’t even notice the different moving objects in the sky. Another one was visible on August 2, 2016. I guess they’re not interested like I am. Hope you are well. Take Care Pam Stark
Indiana Lights
Indianapolis— Around 1 AM my sister and I were on my patio looking up at the stars and we could see the stars with clarity in the city. We saw a few shooting stars and I noticed what look like stars in a triangle formation. I even made a wisecrack about it being a UFO and we decided to go to the front yard once again and we saw the triangle lights. Then I looked out and what do I see almost directly in front of me but orb like lights that seemed to hover there. Zooming in and you could see one was spinning almost just completely weird. I’m convinced that that wasn’t an airplane.
Note: These lights are not military “triad” satellites. The sighting was outside the satellite visible window and the lights are blinking. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
Maryland Disc
Baltimore County — I was investigating storm drain locations for a drainage study I was doing for work when I found this object in the sky while scrolling through the Google Earth Street View.
You can find the object in Google Earth by going to the cul-de-sac (end) of Wolverton Road and zooming down to street view.
Slowly scrolling out of the cul-de-sac you will see the object in the sky for one frame. Scrolling one frame forward or backward from the object frame and the object disappears.
It looks like a disc shaped object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Baltimore — I saw a spherical object resembling a soccer ball with five exterior lights on July 8, 2016.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nebraska Sphere
Bellevue — My son and I were running an errand and he was driving on July 25, 2015. We stopped at a stoplight at a crossroads at Cornhusker and 36th. I glanced right and noticed a sphere moving smoothly and steadily eastward. It was pretty big and moving, and reflective, which is why I noticed it. It was not a plane or balloon. It was moving in too smooth a fashion and struck me as mechanical. I thought “drone” but saw no evidence of propellers. I grabbed my iPhone 6 and took shots as I told my son to look. He saw what I saw. We understood we were seeing a UFO of some kind but neither of us was especially upset or excited. We saw that there were two objects moving in a steady, smooth way, lowering itself, then speeding slightly, until their speeds once again synced up. When the light changed, we drove away from the objects.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey UFO Takes on Water
Mt. Arlington— I was at my son’s house at 9:30 pm on July 10, 2016, we were watching fireworks when I noticed a red light to my right. It was making sharp angle turns and then hovered over the water. It looked like it was pulling water out of the lake for about 20 minutes. I thought it might be a helicopter. I was in the military for 15 years and never seen an aircraft do this ever.
I was amazed and shocked. I recorded it on my phone and showed the family. The next morning the recording was missing. Then the object shot off in a high rate of speed from a standstill and was gone. My son said he has seen unusual sightings before. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Mexico Light
Albuquerque — We were traveling and we stopped at the rest stop, just east of the New Mexico/Arizona border, to use the facilities on July 2, 2014. My wife was driving when we arrived at the rest stop and I had been taking pictures of the scenery along the way. After stopping, I took a few more pictures with my cell phone. The sun was directly above us and I got a good look at the pictures with the glare from the sun. When we reached our final destination, in Albuquerque, I uploaded the pictures to the computer and noticed something reflective in one of the pictures.
I enlarged the photo and I was stunned to see that it was a metallic looking object with no wings, propellers or rotors. I never saw the object with my eyes. I wasn’t taking a picture of a UFO it just appeared in the picture. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Light
Manorville — I honestly believe that this is one of the most amazing videos ever recorded…from a scientific stand point…there is so much knowledge that could come from this video captured on August 11, 2016! I heard thunder outside in a beautiful blue sky, so I went outside to try and tape it with my phone. I was looking at the actual cloud and saw a flash of light that at first I thought was lightning. I braced for the thunder, which never came. I put the video on the computer and I saw the other black object fly by before the flash of light. I slowed it down on the computer enough to see it…it’s actually skipping frames. I mean you can actually close your eyes and hear it! I just feel overwhelmed about what I have on video.In the video, .the object comes from the left at incredible speed and goes slightly up…followed by a line of light that goes straight across the screen and appears to also come from the left. Both make a noise of something swooshing by, it’s clearly coming from the objects as they pass by! Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Object
Charlotte — I had just gotten home from work on August 10, 2016, and I happened to look up at the sky because it was getting late and I love to watch the sunset. That’s when I saw the object. There were bright lights that changed colors frequently on this vehicle. It hovered for a while, turned counterclockwise, then moved rapidly to the left and then back to the right. It descended fairly quickly.
When I first saw it, it was so high up that I thought it was a plane but the colors were strange. Then it stopped moving so I definitely knew at that point that it was some type of UFO. I assumed it was a drone but I’m still unsure. I did not see it land because it was far way. The guy who cuts our grass was there as well and he was shocked just like I was. He actually tried to get a better view once it descended by running into someone’s backyard but it was gone by that time. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Orb
Willoughby – I was watching another sunset on the shore of Lake Erie on August 12, 2016, when an object just appeared and. I’ve watched thousands of sunsets and I’ve never seen anything like this. It stayed around hovering from above the horizon to moving closer in towards us over the water. I have no explanation of what this intriguing object was. Glowing orange and red orb that was above the horizon hovering to the left of the setting sun. Then the orb moved in closer to us and was on the right side of the sun still over the water. The orb then moved back to the left side of the sun but was still over the water and not above the horizon. We observed the orb for more than 7 minutes before it faded into the lake and the sun was still above the horizon and it set 10 minutes later. I was amazed by the object and couldn’t believe what we were seeing. When you see something like this with your own eyes it is very intriguing and needs an explanation. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Light
Sherwood — Here is my UFO report for Sunday, July 31, 2016. I went outside at 4 PM, and looked up to see a white stationary object. I knew from experience it was a UFO and went to get my binoculars and camcorders. Through my high power binoculars I could see up close a fat saucer shaped object tilted 45 degrees and not moving. One half of the object was white in color and the other half clear transparent. I also could see evenly spaced ridges running around the rim. The object rotated very slowly over time. It looked to be about 10,000 feet high and was as big as an airliner?
The wind at upper levels was blowing from NW to SE and 10+ knots with no effect on the object. It was moving slow as to appear stationary. It took three hours to go from Sherwood to the east to the Tualatin area. My neighbor was also a witness. NUFORC reports, at 2 PM in Canby, not far from Sherwood a parachute shaped object was seen for two hours before I saw the same UFO here. It is not a weather balloon. Channel 12 news had a UFO report of a white object between 5 and 6 PM to the east? This object is not likely a weather balloon because the winds aloft would have kept the balloon to the south.
Update – Aug 11, 2016: The witness sent winds aloft and Doppler weather radar animations confirm that the winds were from the west to northwest. The Doppler weather radar did not show any unusual returns. The radar was in clear air mode and normally picks up birds, insects, etc. in this mode. The direction of movement suggests the object was moving with the very slow with the wind. There were several witnesses to the sighting and the object may have been visible for up to 5 hours. Thanks to William Puckett, DirectorWebsite
Utah Triangle
Salt Lake City — My family and I (myself 37 years of age, sister 24, brother 27 and my two boys 10 and 8) were driving up Interstate 15 on August 11, 2016. I was the first to notice a black object in the sky which seemed to be about three miles away, about 1500 feet off the ground. I made a joke to my boys to look there was a UFO. My sister said, “It’s just a cloud to which I responded, I know I’m just trying to trick the boys”. I did think it was weird that there was a single low black cloud and not all that far away. We watched as it got closer and had more defined edges and seemed solid. I decided to take pictures, but they did not turn out well zoomed to the max. After taking several pictures and looking through what I took I looked up and there were now three black classic UFO shape objects. Then two and then one again, but I did not see them separate or come back together. It then seemed to pick up speed continuing north and within seconds was gone. My brother and I both thought the object was about 500 yards across and about half that tall. The three were evenly spaced 600 yards apart and the kids were scared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
Camping outside my house, my wife pointed to it that was at least four times brighter then the North Star on August 15, 2016. It hovered blinking a blue and red light. Then it lowered its light intensity and then it changed direction and just faded out right in front of me. I felt vilified in my belief in something more than human life. I scrambled for my camera, which later was a mistake because days later when I started reviewing the footage I was visited by something that had only sound, feelings and demonstrations of power only. As I said earlier it just disappeared right in front of me like it was still there, but no longer wanted to be seen. And you can’t ask my wife either because for the past 6 years she’s been afraid of the recurrences. I have so much footage that I had to put it in my alternate server because it keeps disappearing off my computer drives and the web. I’m unable to handle such large files of what’s left of the footage I have accumulated. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Reports
Australia Orb
Cervantes — I found on Google Earth a triangle shaped object that looks like the TR3 B. It appears to be 375 feet on a side. At 30°30’38.88″S 115°22’56.23″E on March 7, 2004.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Orb
Cheticamp, NS — On July 31st, 2016, I was taking pictures of the sunset and I turned and noticed these two objects moving without making a sound. There was no trail behind them like a jet. They were moving fast at the same speed about two miles apart and kept that distance until disappearing behind the mountain. I took of few pictures
My car starter stopped working. I could not unlock my car with the remote, and then it started working well two days later. My cell phone was still working. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mississauga — I was driving to a friend’s barbeque with my husband and I always take pictures while he drives.
That day I was trying to get a picture of two buildings very famous in Mississauga and almost missed because at that point we were turning; so I attempted to take the picture.
I was checking my photos and when I opened them, and I noticed this object on the upper corner. When I zoomed in the picture looks like a non identity object.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
International Space Station
I was watching the International Space Station live from home through the internet on August 13, 2016, looking for anomalies, or space junk.
I saw the object as at changed direction. The UFO came out from earth and changed direction in outer air space.
It was a surprise in space. Original video is on YouTube/ND5dTQuC3Wc?t=4h14m16s can see in 4h14m18s.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ireland Object doing 180
My cousins and I were sleeping at the roof top after testing our new cameras. I had Fujifilm hs10 compact version. For fun we took a few shots with flash of the dark sky on November 28, 2011. The results: only captured dust and complete black in pictures. A few minutes later I saw a moving object that had same size as a star in the sky, but moved really fast. I asked my cousins do you see what I’m seeing?
They were shocked and asked me what is this? I love physics and study a lot about astrophysics and satellites, so I told them it’s probably a satellite. Then we saw the object go fast from right to left and suddenly turn back 180 degrees very fast. I told them no human or aircraft can handle this force of Gs. We observed the object repeat that move making a 180 degree turn. After turning the lights off, I realized that the object was near not that far up in the mesosphere Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kashan— It was partly cloudy, I was walking near 8:30 PM, and I saw, there was a light column like cone in north sky. Its direction was to the east, that means its pointed side was on the right and its base was on the left (west). Step by step the object moved to the west slowly and came out behind the cloud and turned south. It was a little bigger and brighter than the moon.
I just stared at object. After a minute it spun like whirligig top and its spinning speed grew faster, and dropped clouds around itself to its sides. There was a hole without a cloud in the sky and the object was at center of this circle.
Then suddenly it disappeared and for several minutes clouds were moving and going far away from that circle from where the object was located and it disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Portugal Lights
Charneca de Caparica — In my nights of observations I got the reward of seeing UFOs on August 13, 14 and 15: Tenacity paid off, the weekend for all UFOs. I saw blue orbs pulsating, first along the coast, then over my house. I start to interact with a flashlight and I got the attention of a blue orb as you can see on the clip. Then on 14 August all UFOs get loose. A red UFO started to hover and fly all-over the valley even after planes. I tried to interact making flash light signals, and he approached and it changed from red to a flashing copper-green.
I have a cam in one hand and the flash light in the other and do the best I can. On Day 14, I see a blue orb and one hour later I got a shower of fireflies all over plan see a blue pulsating orb crossing the sky NW, much faster than a bullet. I was military 5 years and I know the speed of trace bullets. I would like to create a dynamic in the planet by watching these UFO movements. Please help me saying and proving that what I see every day all year is manmade.
I got much more info and data about proved patterns and my aim is about recording all I can. This is where planes make the turns before landing. I am a passionate amateur Astronomer and an Ufologist since the 80s. It’s the greatest show on earth. Thanks to Manuel Salvador
Puerto Rico Mothership
The Rain Forest area of Puerto Rico (I believe it is the Western end of the island) has much Star Visitor activity as I understand! The crystalline bed would certainly act as a beacon and a navigational tool for the Visitors. A good friend who was a senior physicist at Lockheed told me of visiting a Lockheed facility in Puerto Rico about 15 years ago. The facility was located in a valley – he chose to take a break from work towards sunset by walking along the ridge line of the facility which was some distance below him in the valley. Well, he told me it was still quite sunny and unexpectedly he noticed being immersed in sudden shadow – since there were no clouds in the sky he was most curious, when he looked up he saw an immense mothership (his term) which was not ours slowly gliding over the valley! What truly shocked him was that this mothership completely covered the entirety of the valley both length and wide and dwarfed the huge Lockheed facility down below! He said it seemed to have taken several minutes before the craft passed completely over the valley once again allowing sunlight to bath both he and the Lockheed facility in the valley below. This fellow was no stranger to the craft of Star Visitors but told me he had never seen a craft of such enormous proportions previously!
It has been suggested that Puerto Rico could have been a part of ancient Atlantis – perhaps someone else may be able to provide further detail and insight. Thanks to Frank Chille
Romania Lights
Deva — I was out in my garden on August 12, 2016, and saw lights and a plane. It went in the night sky south at a higher speed than a plane. The lights had a strange way of flashing that I have never seen before on a plane or any other object.
I took a photo because I thought it was interesting. I went back in the house to see the photos and I enhanced every image of the stars. I felt normal and started Googling what I saw. It went out of sight like any other normal object in the night sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/ England Object
I was in the park when I saw a weird looking black oval in the sky on August 14, 2016. It looked like a drone but was obviously bigger. When I got a closer look it had a curved rectangle on the front changing from blue to green.
It also had two cuboids dangling down vertically from the oval. I was very scared at first then it vanished completely. But around 15-20 minutes later it was back going in multiple directions. I got a photo of it this time but it was much further away.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Our technologies may be more powerful than ever, but what is the real threat to our future? Here, Oxford Artificial Intelligence professor Nigel Shadbolt investigates.
THE AGE OF THE AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is enjoying one of its periodic moments in the limelight. Why this interest now? Some of this we can put down to the ongoing fascination Hollywood seems to have with AI. From Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, Stephen Spielberg’sArtificial Intelligence to Alex Garland’s Ex Machina; Hollywood has made enjoyable films and good money out of AI.
These films have inspired generations of AI students. Indeed AI was once described as making computers that behave like the ones in the movies! However, Hollywood invariably takes a dystopian view of the subject. The computers and robots are usually mad, bad and dangerous to know. Yet this doesn’t seem to hinder AI’s popularity.
A second reason that AI is in vogue, is that some of the planet’s greatest scientists and innovators have been telling us to take care. Stephen Hawking is worried that super smart computers could spell the end of the human race. Elon Musk donated $10million to keep AI beneficial. And a year ago we saw the publication of an open letter from leading Artificial Intelligence experts, arguing for vigilance so as to ensure that this fast developing field benefits humanity.
A third reason that AI is much talked about is because our machines seem to be getting ever more prescient, even anticipating our needs. This is what struck Stephen Hawking when he upgraded the system that enables him to write and communicate despite his motor neuron disease. What the computer could do surprised him – just how smart it was – seeming to anticipate what he wanted to write next. This set him thinking about just how intelligent computers were becoming and how quickly that was happening.
The fact is that our computers just get better and better. Propelled by the exponents that drive the science and engineering of hardware and software, our devices become twice as powerful every eighteen months or so. The machines my students use are now one million times more powerful than those I used when I began my studies in AI.
These more powerful machines have more data to access using more sophisticated algorithms; they contain more sensors that deliver more functionality. And, of course, they can draw on even more power and data from the Cloud. The result is a supercomputer in our pockets that sometimes acts as a phone, but can also recognise speech, faces, and patterns of all kinds. A device that can connect to the colossal repository of human knowledge that is the World Wide Web and answer questions on anything from Genghis Khan to the weather in Houston, current traffic conditions in London to a book I might like to read given my reading preferences over the past few years.
AI research has exploited the increased power of computers and the access to huge amounts of data to write programs that can “learn”, “understand” and “anticipate”. This is why when you ask your phone “When did Michelangelo die?” certain brands will answer in synthesised speech “Michelangelo died the 8th of February 1564 aged 88”. It will also provide you with a screen full of additional information about the Italian genius and polymath.
This kind of response is now accepted as normal and routine.
AI has delivered many components of smart behaviour. If we think about it, we don’t expect that they really “learn”, “understand” or “anticipate” in the way we humans do. There is no attempt to cognitively emulate the task; to build a system that recognises faces or speech in the way humans do. They deliver on tasks that were once seen as the high frontier of AI. It is worth remembering that the programs on our phone have no interest or sense of pride in a task well executed.
IS THERE SOMETHING TO FEAR?
Nevertheless, AI systems, with their unnervingly swift and accurate responses, lead us to assume a formidable intelligence sat behind this performance. The US features a hugely popular game show called Jeopardy, in which contestants are presented with general knowledge clues in the form of answers, and must phrase their responses in the form of questions.
If you watch a YouTube clip of IBM’s computer Watson playing Jeopardy, we see it ultimately beat the best human players. It is easy to think of Watson as a super intelligent machine. It is smart at playing Jeopardy. But it couldn’t suddenly start playing Go or Monopoly. It is good at a particular task.
The imminent arrival of a general AI was also much discussed in the late 1990s when a computer beat the world chess champion Gary Kasparov. That machine’s performance psychologically undermined Kasparov; he has convinced it was reading his mind. Deep Blue played chess by looking deep into millions of possible moves, by having databases with huge numbers of opening moves, the end stage of a game and so on.
But Deep Blue could no more transfer its skills to Jeopardy than Jeopardy could use its methods and algorithms to play chess. We have no real idea how to endow our computers with overarching general intelligence. We have no real idea how to build an intelligence that is reflective, self-aware and able to transfer skills and experience effortlessly from one domain to another.
That doesn’t mean that the achievements of AI should be diminished. I have mentioned a few of the services we now enjoy thanks to AI research. I could have included machine translation, robotics and software agents. We have new variants of machine learning that can achieve super-human levels of behaviour on specific tasks with only a few hours training. But our programs are not about to become self-aware or decide that we are redundant. The threat as ever is us; not artificial intelligence but rather our own natural stupidity.
We most certainly need to think about the limits of ever more capable autonomous systems, whether pilotless drones or automated trading systems. We need to consider what limits we place on these systems. We most certainly need to consider the restraints and safeguards that we need to engineer into the hardware, software and deployment policies of our current AI systems. But the next self-aware computer you encounter will only be appearing at a cinema near you.
By Nigel Shadbolt. Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Principle of Jesus College, Oxford, and Chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Extinction Event: Evidence of Supernova Blast Found in Fossils
Extinction Event: Evidence of Supernova Blast Found in Fossils
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IN BRIEF
German scientists have found remnants of a supernova, in the form of iron-60, in fossils left by magnetotactic bacteria. The scientists are also looking at the timing of the supernova, which coincides with an extinction event that effected mollusks.
MAGNETOFOSSILS
Fossils are one of the major ways scientists can have windows to what happened in the past. The biology and chemistry of ancient Earth is locked up in these primitive time capsules, giving great insight into what was going on millions of years ago.
Still, no one expected a case of ancient astronomy with the use of fossils. German scientists have found remnants of a supernova encased in the fossilized chains of “magnetofossils,” extracted from two Pacific Ocean sediment cores.
The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, located traces of iron-60, a mildly radioactive kind of iron that supernovae expel in huge quantities. Naturally occurring iron-60 isn’t as common, so most traces found are normally attributed to supernova activity.
The iron-60 was found encased in biologically produced nanocrystals of magnetite. To be specific, they were created by microbes known as magnetotactic bacteria.
Image Credit: Ludwig, et al./Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
ANCIENT EXPLOSIONS
The supernova that expelled the iron-60 is believed to have occurred at least 325 light-years away from Earth, around 2 million years ago.
These kinds of explosions are estimated to generate massive amounts of iron-60—five to 10 times the mass of the sun. Natural processes that generate iron-60 only make up to one-tenth as much, which is why supernovae are the most likely source when the isotope is found in the Earth or on the moon.
The timing of the supernova is particularly interesting. Iron-60 first appears in the core samples around 2.6 million – 2.8 million years ago, bombarding the Earth for nearly 800,000 years. This corresponds with an extinction event which occurred in that timeframe, affecting mollusks such as marine snails and bivalves. There was also a global cooling at the same time.
This leads to the question of whether the supernova and the extinction event are related or a mere coincidence.
To landlubbers centuries ago, the prospect of getting on a ship and crossing an ocean was probably just as murky a concept as today’s belief that spaceships can be sent into outer space to build colonies and land on asteroids to extract minerals. New generations of swashbuckling spacemen will soon come back to earth with amazing stories about the new frontier.
Scientists believe they can get enough raw materials resources and minerals from asteroids that mining them will be economically viable. With a current cost of $10,000 to launch just 1 pound of material into space, advocates of asteroid mining believe profits are possible.
Raw materials would include metals, volatile compounds, water, and more. One of the risks and challenges in choosing an asteroid is determining if it has enough valuable materials to make the mining profitable. Another possible destination for mining is the hydrocarbon lakes that can be found on Saturn’s moon Titan.
According to asteroid mining experts such as Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries, asteroids are most likely to be mined in orbit or after being redirected to the moon where mining can take place, natural resources extracted, and fuel and spare parts manufactured with the raw materials that have been obtained. Some scenarios will involve mining for natural resources as an asteroid is moving at thousands of miles an hour.
According to NASA, materials that are frozen in asteroids “can be used in developing the space structures and in generating the rocket fuel that will be required to explore and colonize our solar system in the 21st century.”
The first big asteroid mining event is set to occur in 2023 when NASA launches the OSIRIS-REx mission that will return a sample from the asteroid Bennu. This will give scientists their first opportunity to study materials that were created early in the life of our solar system.
The following video is an announcement of a $227 million investment from Luxembourg in asteroid mining.
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Sergeant: “Ik werd naar plekken gestuurd waar UFO’s met aliens aan boord waren gecrasht”
Sergeant: “Ik werd naar plekken gestuurd waar UFO’s met aliens aan boord waren gecrasht”
Onlangs werd Clifford Stone aan de tand gevoeld over zijn betrokkenheid bij een topgeheim programma van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht rond UFO’s en de communicatie met buitenaardsen.
De gepensioneerde sergeant was tussen 1968 en 1990 werkzaam in het Amerikaanse leger. Hij werd naar eigen zeggen ingezet om contact te maken met buitenaardse wezens. Stone was als kind al geïnteresseerd in UFO’s en had telepathisch contact met aliens. Om die reden werd hij gerekruteerd door de luchtmacht.
Het klinkt als een aflevering van een sciencefictionserie, maar Stone is bloedserieus. Hij heeft zelfs geheime informatie opgediept om zijn uitspraken te staven.
Tijdens een recente aflevering van het programma Cosmic Disclosure op zender Gaia ging hij dieper in op incidenten die plaatsvonden gedurende zijn tijd in het leger. Een duidelijk geëmotioneerde Stone vertelt dat hij op een avond met een groep soldaten naar een crashplek in het reservaat Indiantown Gap werd gestuurd en tot zijn verbazing een schijfvormig object uit de grond zag steken.
Geheime projecten
Hij liep op het object af en zag aan de zijkant een luik zitten. Toen hij het luik opende zag hij een zogenoemde Grey, een wezen dat ongeveer een meter lang was. “Breng me een officier,” stamelde Stone.
De dag erop werd het object weggehaald door het leger. De soldaten kregen te horen dat het een experimenteel onbemand toestel was en dat niemand erover mocht praten.
Hij claimt te zijn getraind op Fort McClellan in Alabama, waarna hij regelmatig werd opgeroepen om te helpen gecrashte UFO’s te bergen. Door middel van Wob-verzoeken heeft Stone documenten en memo’s boven water weten te krijgen over geheime projecten zoals Moon Dust en Blue Fly, die in het leven waren geroepen om wrakstukken van UFO’s op te ruimen. De informatie gebruikt hij om zijn beweringen te staven.
57 buitenaardse soorten
Tijdens de uitzending vertelt Stone verder dat hij op een geheime missie naar Vietnam werd gestuurd, waar hij wezens zag die niet konden worden uitgeschakeld met conventionele wapens. Ook zegt hij een buitenaardse ‘gast’ te hebben bevrijd uit de handen van het leger.
Van een kolonel kreeg hij naar eigen zeggen een lijvige handleiding met informatie over 57 buitenaardse soorten die bekend waren bij het Amerikaanse leger.
“In een aantal gevallen werden we naar plekken gestuurd waar schotels waren neergestort,” zei Stone in een eerder interview. “In een aantal gevallen waren er ook lichamen. Sommige wezens waren nog in leven. We vertelden de Amerikaanse bevolking en de rest van de wereld steeds dat er niets aan de hand was.”
Bekijk hier een fragment van de aflevering. Lees hier het transcript.
Official NASA Video of “The Boomerang” UFO is One of the Best Evidence We Have of Alien Activity
Official NASA Video of “The Boomerang” UFO is One of the Best Evidence We Have of Alien Activity
An official NASA video reveals the moment a bright UFO performs an impossible maneuver in space, right near the STS-114 mission.
Two and a half years after the tragic loss of Space Shuttle Colombia on February 2013, NASA had finally improved the safety measures and was ready to launch another mission intended to test the new technical characteristics and equipment.
On July 26, 2005, Space Shuttle Discovery was launched into space and was about to perform an almost two weeks journey on the outskirts of planet Earth. Its novel improvements were documented by a series of new and upgraded ground-based cameras, a radar system and airborne cameras aboard high altitude aircraft.
However, the STS-14 mission didn’t go without problems. After takeoff, analysts at NASA saw that a piece of foam had dropped from the external tank. After Commander Eileen Collins executed the first Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver, which literally flipped the shuttle over, crew members were able to take photographs of the underside of Discovery that immediately confirmed the alleged problem seen after the launch.
Astronaut Steve Robinson was assigned to carry out the necessary repairs. Using an extensive robotic arm, he was able to remove the protruding debris, thus allowing for Discovery to dock with the International Space Station and carry on with its initial mission. At this point however, a bizarre object was caught on the installed cameras while performing a law-defying maneuvers (at least impossible in regards to our earthly standards).
The spontaneous flip of the craft caught a glimpse of the object that seemed to deliberately stay out of range from the installed cameras. The UFO appeared white and shined bright in contrast to the blackness of space. It flew relatively close to the shuttle, at a distance that would allow for a clear view of what was going on, and it would have passed as a mere piece of space debris unless it performed an impossible turning maneuver that, for now, can’t be explained by our existing laws of physics. Have a look at the video below and see for yourself:
To highlight the anomaly, let’s have a look at Newton’s Laws of Motion that state the following: “An object set into motion in the vacuum of space will continue forever in the same course, unless acted upon by an outside force.” The above video clearly breaks this notion, as the UFO is seen changing its course. Because of the curved trajectory it follows, it has been nicknamed “The Boomerang”, and although NASA has been aware of this peculiar catch, a thorough analysis of the event has failed to make it into the public view. In fact, the space agency decided to focus on other ‘relevant’ facts regarding the STS 114 mission by simply debunking the curious UFO as being a piece of wandering space debris from a satellite. But is NASA to be trusted? Does this prove that the renowned space agency has more knowledge of UFO activity on our planet than they’re letting us know?
According to the UFO community, the object appears to be intelligently controlled, and it’s easy for anyone to realize this because of the circular trajectory the speeding object takes. Until this day, the STS 114 UFO remains one of the best (official) evidence of otherworldly visitors we have. Could this be an authentic example of an alien craft surveilling our earthly activity in space? Or rather a natural occurring phenomenon that has been misinterpreted from the beginning?
Whatever the case, this video stands alongside other relevant examples of unidentified objects near NASA’s official missions, both in space and on the Earth.
New Mexico witness wonders if UFO responded to LED lights
New Mexico witness wonders if UFO responded to LED lights
A New Mexico witness near Roswell reported watching a light flash response in the sky after setting off an LED light sequence on the ground, according to testimony in Case 77936 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness and her brother were about 41 miles outside Roswell and stopped along Pine Lodge Road at 9:30 p.m. on July 3, 2016, when the incident occurred.
The witness was flashing LED lights and got a response from the night sky about 41 miles outside of Roswell, NM.
(Credit: Google)
“We were standing in front of Chuck’s pick-up truck facing southeast,” the witness stated. “Altair (brightest star in the constellation Aquila and the twelfth brightest star in the night sky) was in our clear vision in front of us. I had tried to focus my mini cam on the area when we first arrived, but because there was no moon there wasn’t enough light for the camera. Chuck was sitting on the tailgate of his truck and noticed a single flash to the northwest. He thought it was a meteor coming straight in but never saw additional evidence of this. Chuck thought the flash could have been an iridium flare but never saw additional evidence of this either.”
The two began to star gaze.
“There was no moon, so the sky was dark with the Milky Way clearly visible overhead, but slightly to our front vision. After just a few minutes, Chuck said, ‘I’m going to try something,’ He took his remote for his truck grill LED lights out of his pocket and hit the button. The first sequence was an on-off, on-off, on-off. Chuck decided to try the next sequence which was four flashes, pause, one flash. We never expected to get a response.”
But the two did get a response.
“The response was flash, flash. Chuck looked at me and said, ‘Did you see that?’ I replied, ‘yes.’ We both laughed. I said, ‘hit it again’ and he did. We never expected it, but got a second response, flash, flash. Chuck said, ‘I can’t believe I’m seeing this’ as he looked at me in shock. Chuck said, ‘what do you think?’ I said, ‘hit the remote again!’ Chuck did and we got a double flash third response.”
Star map showing where the light source seemed to be coming from.
(Credit: MUFON)
The two tried to consider an explanation for the light response.
“Chuck kept saying, ‘It’s got to be a plane from behind the clouds.’ I said, ‘there are no clouds, that’s the Milky Way!’ Chuck decided to keep hitting the remote while I looked frantically in the area of the light for a plane, helicopter, satellite, iridium flare, anything. After the first three return double light flashes there were no more responses.”
The two continued to look for clues.
“I checked the star charts from my iPad app to best determine what area the flashes came from (Altair) and noted the time (9:30p.m.). At 10:30 p.m.: The cows in the field across the road began to moo and coyotes began to howl. Chuck had taken his night vision binoculars out a few minutes before to look at the Milky Way. He thought the flash we had seen had come from behind a cloud, but I assured him there were no clouds – just the Milky Way. The night vision binoculars proved that. We were looking at a section of the Milky Way, no clouds in our field of view. The night vision binoculars worked at first for just a few minutes, then quit. While Chuck was working on them discovering that the batteries were drained, his truck dash lights came on without any action from either of us. We were not in contact with the truck. EMF and animal reaction was now present.”
The two decided to move out of the area.
The witness was stopped along Pine Lodge Road (Route 246) about 41 miles outside of Roswell, pictured.
(Credit: Google)
“Time: 10:45p.m. (One and-a-half hours after light that flashed). With the EMF effects present we decided it was time to go back to Roswell. It had been one and-a-half hours since the light flashed. We were approximately 40 minutes from town and something was causing EMF and animal reaction. We were worried about the truck electronics going out and the two of us stuck all night on the side of the road. The locals had told us of a road they feared and wouldn’t drive at night because of ‘strange goings on.’ We weren’t sure if this was the road, but thought it was time to leave. Besides, if ET wanted to visit us they obviously from the flashing light response, knew where to find us. We both agreed that the EMF was most likely coming from an outside more local source that was monitoring us being watched. Note:A dark pick-up truck passed us heading towards Roswell just before the EMF effect. Chuck also saw a red SUV. It traveled down the road we were parked at the base of approximately a quarter-mile and stopped. We had only seen one vehicle prior. One was seen right after we arrived and then two more at approximately 10:30p.m. The area is very rural.”
New Mexico Field Investigator Matthew Loveland is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Blimp-like-UFO-videotaped-over-Kansas Blimp-like UFO videotaped over Kansas
Blimp-like UFO videotaped over Kansas
A Kansas witness at Abilene reported watching and videotaping a blimp-shaped UFO moving over a local park, according to testimony in Case 78235 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video.
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The witness was outside on a walk in a local park when the object was first seen on August 4, 2016.
“I noticed an odd light in the sky moving over me,” the witness stated.“I was able to record the object for about minute.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video.
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The witness saw three different objects.
“After the first object was out of sight two other objects appeared heading the same direction, but too far out of range for my camera to see them.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video.
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Kansas MUFON Field Investigator Becky Landwehr and Assistant State Director Larry Jordan are investigating. Abilene is a city in and the county seat of Dickinson County, Kansas, population 6,844. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Ruimtesonde Cassini heeft een fraaie foto gemaakt van twee van Saturnus’ maantjes. De maantjes lijken op de foto wel buren, maar zijn in werkelijkheid 1,5 miljoen kilometer van elkaar verwijderd.
Ruimtesonde Cassini maakte de foto eerder deze week. Links zie je Tethys, rechts schittert Hyperion. Op het moment dat Cassini de foto maakte, was deze ongeveer 1,2 miljoen kilometer van Tethys verwijderd.
Tethys is ongeveer 1071 kilometer breed. Hyperion is met een diameter van 270 kilometer aanzienlijk kleiner. De foto suggereert dat de maantjes bij elkaar in de buurt staan. Maar op deze foto zijn ze maar liefst 1,5 miljoen kilometer van elkaar verwijderd.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
We hebben alle reden om foto’s zoals deze te koesteren. De missie van Cassini loopt namelijk op zijn einde. Volgend jaar september zal de sonde opdracht krijgen zich in de atmosfeer van Saturnus te boren. Een opvolger die Saturnus en zijn maantjes in de gaten gaat houden, is er nog niet. Dus zullen we na die tijd nog lang moeten wachten alvorens we weer op zulke mooie kiekjes van de gasreus en omgeving getrakteerd gaan worden.
Wetenschappers menen dat het huidige universum 13,7 miljard jaar geleden in één keer ontstond door een oerknal. Alle materie voor planeten en sterren ontstond in één keer. Of niet? Wat was er eigenlijk voor de oerknal? Fysicus Roger Penrose heeft bewijs gevonden dat er voor de oerknal een universum was, en daarvoor nog een universum. Kortom: de oerknal was niet het begin.
Penrose verwacht dat de uitbreiding van het universum ooit stopt. Het heelal dijt continu uit, waardoor een zwarte leegte ontstaat. Zwarte gaten kunnen geen sterren meer verorberen en verdampen. Hierdoor begint het heelal te krimpen en is het klaar om een volgende oerknal te starten.
De fysicus vindt bewijs voor zijn theorie in de kosmische achtergrondstraling. In theorie zouden de temperatuurvariaties in de kosmische achtergrondstraling willekeurig moeten zijn, maar Penrose en zijn collega’s beweren dat er duidelijke concentrische cirkels zichtbaar zijn. Zij denken dat dit gebieden zijn met hogere temperaturen. Deze cirkels zijn volgens Penrose bewijzen van de zwaartekrachteffecten van botsingen van zwarte gaten in het vorige universum, oftewel het universum vóór de oerknal.
Het is een wild idee, maar mogelijk zit er een kern van waarheid in. Wat denkt u? De PDF van Penrose’s paper is te lezen op de wetenschappelijke website arXiv.org.
NASA treft laatste voorbereidingen voor lancering OSIRIS-REx
NASA treft laatste voorbereidingen voor lancering OSIRIS-REx
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Nog een week of drie en dan kiest OSIRIS-REx het luchtruim. Hoogste tijd voor NASA om de laatste hand te leggen aan de prachtmissie.
Op dit moment wordt de lancering van OSIRIS-REx voorbereid. Zoals het er nu naar uitziet, kiest de ruimtesonde donderdag 8 september het luchtruim. Eindbestemming? De planetoïde Bennu.
De missie Het belooft een prachtige missie te worden. OSIRIS-REx zal eerst uitgebreid onderzoek doen naar Bennu en vervolgens afdalen naar het oppervlak van de planetoïde om wat materiaal te verzamelen. Vervolgens wordt dat materiaal weer op aarde afgeleverd voor verdere analyse. Onderzoekers hopen dat de missie onder meer inzicht geeft in hoe planeten tot stand zijn gekomen en hoe het leven op aarde begon.
Zeven jaar Naar verwachting komt OSIRIS-REx in 2018 bij Bennu aan. De op Bennu verzamelde monsters zullen in 2023 weer op aarde arriveren. “De lancering van OSIRIS-REx is het begin van een zeven jaar durende reis bedoeld om ongerepte materialen van planetoïde Bennu te halen,” stelt hoofdonderzoeker Dante Lauretta. “Het team heeft een geweldig ruimtevaartuig gebouwd en we zijn goed uitgerust om Bennu te bestuderen en een wetenschappelijke schat terug op aarde te brengen.”
OSIRIS-REx beschikt over diverse camera’s en spectrometers. Laatstgenoemde instrumenten zullen gebruikt worden om chemische elementen, mineralen en organisch materiaal op Bennu te detecteren en identificeren. Daarnaast bezit OSIRIS-REx een robotarm voor het verzamelen van monsters en een met parachutes uitgeruste capsule. De verzamelde monsters zullen in deze capsule worden opgeslagen en terugkeren naar de aarde.
The Giant Pyramid Hidden Inside a Mountain Dwarfs the Great Pyramid In Giza
The Giant Pyramid Hidden Inside a Mountain Dwarfs the Great Pyramid In Giza
This temple at Cholula dwarfs the Great Pyramid at Giza, yet it went unnoticed by Spanish invaders. Why?
They arrived in their thousands. Hardened by months of war with ferocious natives, near-starvation and exotic diseases, Hernan Cortez and his Spanish army marched into the great city of Cholula expecting a fight.
But this was a sacred city. Instead of investing in weapons, its inhabitants built temples; it was said they had a holy pyramid for every day of the year. After such generosity, their gods would surely protect them.
This was a grave error indeed. As the army stormed its streets, religious treasures were looted and the precious pyramids went up in smoke. Within three hours they had murdered 3,000 people. October 12th 1519 was a bloodbath on an unprecedented scale, leaving 10% of the city’s population dead.
Eventually the Spaniards settled in Cholula (now part of Mexico), erecting enough of their own buildings that the city is now known for having a church for every day of the year. The final touch – a symbol of their Christian conquest – is the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remediosa, built on what they thought was a large hill.
This view of the pyramid was taken in the early 20th century (Credit: Getty Images)
But not all is as it seems. Beneath the tiny church, hiding under tufts of grass, trees and soil, is an ancient pyramid of truly gigantic proportions. Standing 450 metres wide and 66 metres tall, from end to end the Great Pyramid of Cholula is equivalent to nine Olympic sized swimming pools.
For an obscure temple no one’s heard of, Cholula holds an impressive array of records: it’s the largest pyramid on the planet, with a base four times larger than the Great Pyramid at Giza and nearly twice the volume.
Never mind the largest pyramid – it’s the largest monument ever constructed anywhere, by any civilisation, to this day. To locals it’s aptly known as Tlachihualtepetl (“man-made mountain”). Thanks to the church on top, it’s also the oldest continuously occupied building on the continent.
The story goes that until the locals began construction of an insane asylum in 1910, nobody knew it was a pyramid. Certainly, by the time Cortéz and his men arrived, it was already a thousand years old and entirely concealed by vegetation.
Early excavations revealed a series of gruesome findings, including the deformed skulls of decapitated children.
Where did it come from? And why did it stay hidden for so long?
When the pavement was dug up in 2013 to enter the city’s drainage system, at least 63 skeletons were found from pre-colonial times (Credit: Getty Images)
Despite its enormous size, very little is known about the pyramid’s early history. It’s thought construction began around 300 BC; by who exactly remains a mystery. According to myth it was built by a giant. Most likely, the city’s inhabitants – known as the Choluteca – were a cosmopolitan mix. “It appears to have been multi-ethnic, with a great deal of migration,” says David Carballo, an archaeologist at Boston University, Massachusetts.
Whoever they were, they probably had a lot of money. Cholula is conveniently located in the Mexican highlands and was an important trading post for thousands of years, linking the Tolteca-Chichimeca kingdoms in the North with the Maya in the South.
Cortez called it “the most beautiful city outside Spain”. By the time he arrived, it was the second-largest city in the Aztec empire, though it had already exchanged hands numerous times.
And here there are even more surprises. In fact it’s not one pyramid at all, but a great Russian doll of a construction, consisting of no less than six, one on top of the other. It grew in stages, as successive civilisations improved on what had already been built.
“They made a conscious effort to maintain and in some cases display previous construction episodes. This is pretty novel, and shows deliberate efforts to link to the past,” says Carballo.
The pyramid was built to appease the “feathered serpent” god (Credit: Diego Delso/ Wikimedia Commons)
According to legend, when they heard the conquistadors were coming, the locals covered the precious temple with soil themselves. In fact it may have happened by accident. That’s because, incredibly, the largest pyramid in the world is made of mud.
“Adobe” bricks are made by mixing mud with other materials such as sand or straw, and baking it hard in the sun. To make the pyramid, the outer bricks were smoothed with more earth to create a painting surface. In its prime, the temple was covered in red, black and yellow insects.
In dry climates, mud bricks are extremely durable – lasting thousands of years. In humid Mexico, the mud creation was a fertile platform for tropical jungle. “It was abandoned sometime in the 7th or 8th Century CE. The Choluteca had a newer pyramid-temple located nearby, which the Spaniards destroyed,” says Carballo.
The pyramid also had topography in its favour; the pyramid rests on a natural platform in an area which is almost completely mountainous.
Today the city has reclaimed their pyramid, which can be explored via over five miles of tunnels constructed in the early 20th Century. Nearly 500 years after the colonial conquest, the city must contend with a new invasion: tourists.
This artist’s concept of HD 1885 Ab, the first known planet to reside in a triple-star system, would have a similar sunset to KELT-4Ab. Both systems host a pair of stars distantly orbiting the planet-hosting single sun.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Eat your heart out, Tatooine: A newly discovered alien planet has not one, not two, but three suns in its sky.
While scientists know of many planets with two suns, a planet with three bright stars in its sky is much rarer. The newly found distant world, known as KELT-4Ab, orbits one star. That star in turn is orbited by a nearby pair of stars. The twin stars are close enough to the planet to appear about as bright as the full moon in the sky, new research has revealed.
In addition to providing an example of a solar system very different from Earth’s, the strange arrangement may help provide insight into how gas giants that lie close to their parent star — known as “hot Jupiters” — evolve.
A triple sunset
KELT-4Ab, which is about as massive as Jupiter, orbits the single star KELT-A once every three days. Nearby, the stars KELT-B and KELT-C orbit one another once every 30 years, and together they travel around KELT-A and its planet every 4,000 years or so.
Jason Eastman, a research associate at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is the lead author of a study that used the two robotic telescopes that make up the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT), located in Arizona and South Africa respectively, to identify the system that includes the single star KELT-A, the more distant pairing KELT-BC and the overheated planet.
While the composition of the planet’s atmosphere isn’t yet known, Eastman told Space.com that standing in the atmosphere above the planet (since you can’t stand on its surface), the single star would appear to be about 40 times as large as the sun appears in the sky on Earth. Each member of the binary star pair would be almost as bright as the full moon, though without a good telescope they would look like dots of light about a pinky-finger-width apart in the sky.
“Those two stars would orbit each other every about 30 years, and every 4,000 years they’d make one orbit around KELT-4A,” Eastman said.
Planets around triple stars are rare; KELT-4Ab is only the fourth known system to contain three stars. Of these, KELT-A is the brightest host star, not only because it is a hotter star than the ones in the other three systems, but also because it lies so close to Earth — only 680 light-years away.
“Hot Jupiters aren’t supposed to exist. None of them,” Eastman said.
“Gaseous planets the size of Jupiter are supposed to form much farther out [from their parent star] and stay there, like our own Jupiter did,” he said. “Exactly how they got so close is an outstanding question, but one theory is that it migrates due to hot interactions with a third body — in this case, the third and fourth bodies KELT-BC.”
When astronomers developed the first theories of planet formation, all they had to work with was the solar system. When the first exoplanet discoveries were gas giants that orbited their stars in a handful of days, it turned the existing theory on its head and sent scientists scrambling to understand how the newly observed systems could exist. Most scientists seem to agree that the massive worlds traveled to their current position after they finished forming, driven by companion planets, stars or other processes, Eastman said.
“The binary system KELT-4BC may be what ultimately drove the planet KELT-4Ab so close to its star,” Eastman said.
Using a survey produced by KELT, the scientists identified the potential planet KELT-4Ab, then confirmed its existence with several other instruments. Like the more well-known NASA Kepler spacecraft, KELT relies on the transit method to detect exoplanets, observing how the amount of light from a star drops as the planet passes between it and Earth.
“KELT is different in several ways [from other transit surveys],” Eastman said. “It has a smaller telescope, a larger field of view and a larger pixel scale than other mature transit surveys.”
These features deliberately bias the instrument toward brighter stars, which Eastman said allows a broader range of observations and characterizations. Among those is the ability to determine if the planet’s orbital plane appears edge-on as seen from Earth, or whether the plane is tipped, and this process allows scientists to more precisely calculate the star’s mass.
Looking to the future
When the KELT-4 system was originally observed in 1973, it was thought to host only two stars. Not until Eastman observed the system almost 40 years later was one of the single stars resolved into two individuals.
“In all previous observations, KELT-4B and KELT-4C were blended together and looked just like one star,” Eastman said.
This is a recurring challenge for scientists observing binary systems — resolving close-orbiting stars into binary pairs. Eastman said that many known planets may live in unknown triple systems. One reason the twin stars in the KELT-4 system were so easily identified as two individual stars instead of one was because of the system’s close proximity to Earth.
The European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite, currently engaged in a five-year mission, will observe the triple system in the coming years. These observations will enable a more precise measurement of the distance to KELT-4A, providing more detailed measurements of its mass and radius, which will result in more precise measurements of the mass and radius of the planet.
“But more exciting, Gaia will be able to measure the motion of the KELT-4BC binary pair around KELT-4A,” Eastman said.
Measuring the path of the pair of stars will help improve models of how they could have affected the migration of the planet, shoving it closer to its parent star. In doing so, it will help scientists understand how hot Jupiters manage to form so close to their parent stars.
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Mystery over fleet of Boeing 737s seen flying in and out of secretive Area 51 base in Nevada
Mystery over fleet of Boeing 737s seen flying in and out of secretive Area 51 base in Nevada
BYSTEPHEN JONES
The isolated desert location - which has sent UFO and Alien conspiracy theorists' imaginations wild for 70yrs - is at the centre of a new mystery that would baffle even Fox Mulder
The mystery Janet Boeing 737-600 with the red stripe spotted over Area 51
Rumours are mounting over a fleet of Boeing 737s seen flying in and out of the US Air Force 's most secretive military base every day - Area 51.
The isolated location in the Nevada desert - which has sent UFO and Alienconspiracy theorists' imaginations wild for almost 70 years - is once again at the centre of a new mystery that would baffle even Fox Mulder.
Flight Club reports that a new 'airline' called Janet is operating a number of red-striped Boeings based at Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport on a daily basis.
The name is the call sign being used when the planes travel in civilian airspace.
Others have speculated it is an acronym standing for 'Just Another Non-Existent Terminal'.
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The so called Extraterrestrial Highway near Area 51 in Nevada regularly attracts conspiracy theorists
But investigations have shown it's impossible to buy tickets to travel on Janet.
And there's no chatter about it online - so those who aren't sharing what they are up to.
But their destination - or departure from - always appears to be the Nevada National Security Site at Area 51, which is so secretive the US only admitted its existence in 2005.
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One of the Janet 737-200 spotted departing from McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas
The conspiracy theorists have posited for decades that this is the US's secret location for testing UFO technology which has crashlanded.
Nearby is the Nevada Test and Training Range at Groom Lake.
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A satellite image of Area 51 in Nevada shows the truth is out there
Flight Club claims Janet flights fly "multiple times daily during the work week".
The Janet planes often fly to Tonopah Test Range Airport at another secret site - Area 52.
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Glowing Orange UFO Over Small town In UK In Aug 13, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Orange UFO Over Small town In UK In Aug 13, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: August 13, 2016 Location of sighting: Shrewsbury, UK Here is an interesting video of an orb in the sky. The UFO is not a perfect orb, but seems to have a diamond-like shape to it. We know its not a star because of the immense cloud cover seen. Most the time, the mystery in the sky, remains a mystery. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Certainly not the drone I filmed later. There is some possibility it was a Chinese lantern , but it's interesting that it suddenly disappears from sight. There may be explanations for this, such as the lantern burning out, or it disappearing in cloud, but it didn't reappear once, so my feeling is that that explanation is unlikely. I usually capture one or two white orbs at the Shrewsbury Flower Show, but saw none this year.
UFO Appears at Beach On Live Cam In Poland During Sunset! Aug 16, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Appears at Beach On Live Cam In Poland During Sunset! Aug 16, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 16, 2016 Location of sighting: Poland Guys, live internet cams are an untapped tool that needs more focus by UFO researchers. Live cams let you be in thousands of places with just glimpse. This UFO was cloaked but seen during sunset on cam due to the suns angle of setting. Amazing catch. I enhanced the natural colors of the photo to make it stand out more. Most UFOs do originate from underwater bases...its just logic guys, since 75% of Earth is covered in water. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Hi All, Some more Huge Objects near the Sun at Sunrise in Europe.. Concentrated on thew weird UFO Disk Shaped objct in the Sopot, Poland Skyline Webcam & the Nea Roda Chalkidiki Skyline Webcams for this series of images & videos. A section of the videos has been sped up for time value.. Most of the h=Highlights are the single to a few multiple images between the Video Segments.
Dark UFO Over Mexico Causes Traffic To Slow Down, Aug 17, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Dark UFO Over Mexico Causes Traffic To Slow Down, Aug 17, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 17, 2016
Location of sighting: Mexico
This dark orb was seen over roads in Mexico this week and caused the cars to slow down to get a better view. There seems to be a lot of eyewitnesses to the event here, so I hope to see more videos of it and will update this post if they appear online. Till then, these two will have to due. First one has mind blowing detail.
UFO Caught On Video Over Brownsville, Texas Increases Speculations Of Underwater Alien Base Nearby
UFO Caught On Video Over Brownsville, Texas Increases Speculations Of Underwater Alien Base Nearby
A UFO was captured on video hovering over Brownsville, Texas, causing supposition that it could be from a nearby underwater base as it was reportedly floating over water, just off the Gulf of Mexico. The witness of the odd sighting reported it to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). He described the mysterious aerial thing as bright, oval shape moving slowly from left to right. The sighting took place when the witness was on his way back from a fishing trip.
The witness also noted in his report that a small object was trailing the big oval object, but that particular scene wasn’t captured on the video. The quality of the video may be poor and shaky, but it seems that’s all needed to start the discussion among UFO enthusiasts as to what the object might be and where it possibly originated.
Many claims have surfaced about the underwater UFO base off the coast of Cuba at Guantanamo Bay, near to where the strange object was spotted and filmed. A retired Marine reported early in March about his various UFO encounters just off the Cuban coast when he was stationed at the U.S. base in Cuba from 1968 to 1969. He recalled that those UFOs would surface out of the water or vanish into the waves of the Caribbean.
HAT WILL IT TAKE TO CONVINCE PEOPLE THAT UFOs ARE IMPORTANT?
WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO CONVINCE PEOPLE THAT UFOs ARE IMPORTANT?
Joseph Burkes MD
UFO historian Richard Dolan has described the initial reaction of many people to his passionate involvement with the subject. They express interest, might even describe something they saw on TV concerning the phenomenon and then after a few minutes of his well informed explanations, their eyes gloss over and they are clearly bored.
THE ROLE OF AUTHORITY FIGURES
Yes it’s true; opinion polls indicate the public is interested in UFOs. Advertising executives have long known this, but the fascination is for most part quite superficial. Why is this? I suspect partly because of the massive denial of authority figures that say, “There is nothing to it.”
After all, the world is so complex; we rely on authorities to put to use vast amounts of data to make what we hope are reasonable decisions. Most people have little understanding of the technological “miracles” that science has achieved, but they are grateful and trust the devices, like planes, autos and computers to work reliably.
Needing to trust leaders I suspect might be built into our biology. For a million years before civilization was established, hunter-gatherers worked in small groups to survive. Shamans that could use primitive psi abilities combined with careful observations of nature played a decisive role. Leadership was a question of life and death and those clans that had the best leaders, the “shamen” and “sha-women” that knew how best to kill the animals or find the healing herbs and deliver the babies, played a critical role in survival. So most of us have a strong tendency to “follow the leader” and when this becomes extreme “We the People “become ”we the sheeple.”
LINKING UFOs TO SOLUTIONS FOR MAJOR PROBLEMS
For the UFO question to have a truly major impact on the mass consciousness it will need to be transformed from an entertaining diversion and become a way of addressing the seemingly insurmountable problems our planet is facing. This is already being attempted by those within the UFO community that discuss the possibility of downloading into our technological culture the secrets of the energy propulsion systems of flying saucers. So-called “free energy” in one fell swoop might eliminate poverty and pollution, thus possibly reversing global warming and ending world hunger.
Of course in order for the so-called ETs to give us such devices they might understandably insist on a peaceful transformation of our planet to replace what UFOlogist Stanton Friedman has called our perpetual state of “tribal warfare.” This is going to be a hard sell when the mass media and academia in service to their corporate masters repeatedly insist, “There is nothing to it.”
HE WHO PAYS THE PIPER CALLS THE TUNE
From the control groups’ point of view, those of the clandestine forces determined to keep a lid on the UFO issue, an important strategy would be to recruit authority figures to block any significant discussion of flying saucers. Opinion makers who step out of line would find that their access to funding has been cut off. This is all done behind the scenes and is quite effective in my opinion.
In the USA the National Academy of Sciences has made it perfectly clear that UFO studies are not part of the “legitimate” agenda for professional science. Scientists that step out of line will find themselves unable to secure grants thus ending their careers.
In broadcast journalism, talk show hosts that might attempt to inform the public in a detailed way would likely find themselves without corporate sponsors. The major newspapers are controlled through their editorial boards that in turn are dependent on corporate sponsors to continue publishing.
This analysis is not a conspiracy theory. I describe the way power works. In the former Soviet Union it was the political dictatorship of the Communist Party that attempted to regulate almost every aspect of people’s lives. That social experiment failed miserably. In the West however social control is far more sophisticated, decentralized and uses the knowledge of social psychology called “public relations” to effectively manipulate the masses.
RESISTANCE TO CHANGE ALSO COMES FROM WITHIN
On the individual level our tendency to identify with our thoughts leads to a profound attachments to old ideas. This resistance to changing one’s point of view flows from the ego itself. People strive to defend their religion, political ideology, or moral customs to the point where some would even kill to maintain them. Just look at the present situation in Syria, or at the millions killed centuries ago during the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
Something similar in my opinion applies to acknowledging the high probability that the ET explanation for the flying saucer phenomenon is true. Such a realization threatens to radically change the conceptual paradigm of our entire civilization. Since humans so strongly identify with their present beliefs it is understandable that many reject such a brave new worldview in which we might have to accept an ET presence.
UFO INTELLIGENCE HAS A TIGER BY THE TAIL.
What about the intelligence responsible for flying saucers? Could “they” (whoever they ultimately turn out to be) simply fill the sky with structured craft? Or stage the proverbial “landing on the White House Lawn?” Such actions would certainly convince the masses that flying saucers are of the greatest importance. In my judgment this scenario is the least likely to ever take place. Given the militaristic mindset of our civilization, a sudden realization of the reality of UFOs could be catastrophic. My guess is that careful gradual efforts to alert us of their importance is the game plan of the intelligence responsible for the phenomenon and possibly within some elements of the establishment as well.
So what will it take to change mass public opinion on the flying saucer question? If the alleged ETs continue the present pattern of interactions, millions of individual sightings yearly, interspersed with occasional massive waves, I imagine that there will be opportunities to slowly build public awareness by a responsible program of education.
RESPONSIBLE PROGRAM OF PUBLIC EDUCATION
This will require UFO enthusiasts to discipline the crazies in our midst, think creatively and most importantly of all build stable, well-financed organizations to carry out the educational campaign. All this will need to be done in the face of powerful opposition by corporate groups that have great experience in controlling public opinion, the economy and their political operatives that run governments.
“TURNING PAGES IN A PLAY BOOK
Can we trust UFO intelligence to follow what we imagine is their existing “game plan?” I suppose not. UFO researcher Michael Lindemann once said that we should never assume that we can think like the so-called “aliens.” Nevertheless the ever-changing pattern of interactions, as pointed out by UFO researcher Grant Cameron, appear to be as if the aliens are turning the pages of a “play book.” This can be seen as “Men in Black” in the 1960s, so called “abductions” in the 70s, crop circles in the 80s and continuous past and present mental interactions with millions of experiencers. Many of which are instilled with a sense of mission and are striving to convince their fellow Earthlings that we should look up and accept what our “lying eyes” are seeing.
My guess is that UFO intelligence will present us with infinitely creative new ways of waking us up from our collective stupor concerning their “wonders in the sky.” I am of the opinion that their presence is non-harmful and very likely to be beneficial to mankind. Bringing others to this hopeful perspective I imagine is a challenge that UFO activists will continue to face for some time.
About the author: Dr Burkes volunteered as a Working Group Coordinator for the CE-5 Initiative from 1992 till 1998. He has continued to study the flying saucer phenomenon working with MUFON and the Peruvian contact network now called Rahma. Dr Burkes retired from the Southern California Pemanente Group after thirty years service in 2008. He is a board certified internal medicine physician and is licensed to practice in California.
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What’s hidden in the Vatican Secret Archives?
What’s hidden in the Vatican Secret Archives?
Some believe it houses evidence of extraterrestrial life. Others, ancient texts that disprove the existence of Jesus. Perhaps dark truths that would discredit and destroy the Church?
A mistranslated Latin word may be responsible for the conspiracy theories about the Vatican Secret Archives. In fact, the actual contents can stand on their own without delving into the absurd.
The archives, or Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Vaticanum, contains historical records chronicling intriguing historical events. Its contents, once plundered by Napoleon and moved to Paris, span 12 centuries.
There’s the document that began the Protestant reformations: Pope Leo X’s 1521 decree excommunicating Martin Luther.
A 1530 petition from 85 English clergymen and lords asks Pope Clement VII to annul King Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon. The seals of many of the signatories were affixed to the petition, each held in place by red ribbon. This is considered the source of the term “red tape.” Clement refused, of course, leading to the establishment of the Anglican Church.
Michelangelo penned a letter to the pope warning that Vatican guards hadn’t received paychecks in three months, and that they were threatening to walk off the job.
A year after Columbus landed in what became North America, Pope Alexander VI issued Inter Cetera, the 1493 papal bull that split the New World between Spain and Portugal.
There are letters from Abraham Lincoln as well as Jefferson Davis, who wrote to try to convince Pope Pius IX that the South was an innocent victim of Northern aggression. Neither man was Catholic.
The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, the notion that Mary was conceived without original sin, was articulated in 1854 on a piece of parchment that’s in the archives.
Famous Vatican trials were recorded with handwritten transcripts that are housed there, including cases against the Knights Templar in the early 14th century and astronomer Galileo Galilei in the 17th, who was tried by the Vatican for heresy and forced to spend the rest of his life under house arrest.
When Sweden’s Queen Christina abdicated in 1654, she converted to Catholicism from Lutheranism, moved to Rome, and today she is one of the few women buried in St. Peter’s Basilica. There’s a letter to the pope announcing her conversion.
Interesting, sure, but hardly the stuff of Dan Brown novels.
See photos of items in the Vatican’s archives here.
Secretum, the Vatican says, translates more accurately to “personal” than to “secret” and refers to the private letters and historical records of past popes. In fact, the archives haven’t been secret since 1881, when Pope Leo XIII opened them up to scholars.
Pope Paul V created the Secret Archives in 1612. Four hundred years later, the Vatican celebrated by making 100 items available for public viewing for the first time. The exhibit, Lux in Arcana, shed some light on the papal past and provided some color to events that shaped history.
David Kertzer spent years researching in the Secret Archives for his recent book, The Pope and Mussolini. He writes that Pope Pius XI, and his secretary of state, who became Pope Pius XII, made deals with Mussolini to protect the Church’s interest in exchange for silence on state-sponsored anti-Semitism, a conclusion at odds with the Church’s account.
“People talk, scholars talk. Are there things that aren’t being made available because they’re seen as unflattering from a Church point of view?” Kertzer, an anthropology professor at Brown University, said.
Still, Kertzer said, the Secret Archives are staffed by professionals, and “there’s an appreciation of serious historical scholarship.”
That’s not to say that the holdings are easily accessible.
Scholars enter through the Porta Sant’Anna, pass Swiss Guards, walk through the Cortile del Belvedere, and present credentials that must be renewed every 6 months. Journalists, students, and amateur historians aren’t welcome.
Once admitted, there’s no browsing. Instead, researchers request specific documents, using bulky catalogues, some handwritten in Italian or Latin. They can request up to three folders each day.
If in just a few minutes they realize that what they’re seeking isn’t in the requested folders, they’re forced to pack up for the day - a challenge for scholars on a deadline or those who have traveled long distances.
Computers are allowed, but photos aren’t, which means long sessions in the third-floor reading room typing notes.
What’s next?
The sitting pope decides when to expand the archives.
Pope Francis is considering when to open the full archives of Pope Pius XII, the man dubbed “Hitler’s Pope” by some, but whose cause for canonization is championed by Church traditionalists who say he hid Jews from the Nazis.
For the Vatican, mystery and palace intrigue come with the territory. But for a department whose official name includes the word secret, there is transparency around many items known to be housed there.
Een grondantenne van het Europees Ruimtevaartbureau ESA heeft een signaal ontvangen van de Amerikaanse Saturnus-verkenner Cassini. Dat is vandaag bekendgemaakt.
Het volgstation van New Norcia in Australië kreeg het signaal van 1,44 miljard km ver, meteen een afstandsrecord voor een ESA-station. De aan lichtsnelheid bewegende radiosignalen deden er 80 minuten over om die afstand te overbruggen.
De ontvangst kaderde in een serie tests om meerdere grondstations van ESA voor te bereiden op radio-experimenten van de Cassini die later dit jaar starten.
Het station van New Norcia herbergt een antenne met een diameter van 35 meter en die 630 ton weegt.
Wetenschappers hebben bewijs gevonden dat Titan - de grootste maan van Saturnus en de op één na grootste maan van ons zonnestelsel - de juiste samenstelling zou kunnen hebben om er leven mogelijk te maken.
Computermodellen tonen dat de waterstocyanide die bestaat op Titan de juiste chemische reacties zou kunnen uitlokken die nodig zijn om de warmte van de zon te absorberen.
Titan heeft sowieso al een landschap dat sterk op dat van de aarde doet denken, compleet met meren en zeeën die bestaan uit water en ammoniak. Die worden bedekt door een laag ijs van koolwaterstof, een van de basiselementen van petroleum en aardgas. Ze zouden bewoonbaar kunnen zijn voor een heel nieuwe vorm van leven.
VIDEO's Werelds langste vliegtuig, de Airlander 10 meet 92 meter, heeft gisterenavond zijn eerste testvlucht overleefd. Heel wat enthousiaste vliegtuigspotters konden de vlotte landing in het Engelse Bedfordshire aanschouwen.
De Airlander 10 is deels een vliegtuig, deels een helikopter en deels een zeppelin. Maar het toestel valt vooral op door de bijzondere vorm. Dankzij zijn ronde achterkant kreeg het de bijnaam 'De Vliegende Kont'. Het toestel werd origineel ontwikkeld als onderdeel van een project van het Amerikaans leger, maar na besnoeiingen in het budget moest de Airlander 10 beschikken. Het bedrijf Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) bracht het in 2013 naar Groot-Brittannië, waar het werd omgebouwd voor civiel gebruik.
Voor de eerste testvlucht waren heel wat toeschouwers naar Bedfordshire getrokken. De menigte juichte als het toestel uit de hangar kwam. Topman bij HAV Stephen McGlennan zei dat het team moest wachten op de juiste weersomstandigheden voor het opstijgen. "Maar het toestel kan ook vliegen bij 80 knopen. Denk aan een grote helikopter, dit toestel heeft dezelfde mogelijkheden. De Airlander kan meer mensen en goederen vervoeren zonder dat er een landingsbaan nodig is. Het toestel is groener en goedkoper dan een helikopter. Het is een geweldige innovatie."
MARS IN BEELDDe Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter cirkelt al sinds 2005 rond Mars en trekt geregeld kiekjes van de rode planeet. De lading foto's die NASA deze maand lostte, is extra groot en dat levert wonderlijke beelden op van onze buurplaneet. Een kleine selectie toont alvast het gevarieerde en wonderlijke reliëf van Mars.
Het gebeurt geregeld dat de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) foto's aflevert, maar de huidige lading van 1.035 foto's is uitzonderlijk groot. Alfred McEwen, directeur van het Planetary Image Research Laboratory, vertelde aan Popular Science dat daar twee redenen voor zijn: enerzijds is er elke 26 maanden een optimaal moment voor het verzenden van data tussen de Aarde en Mars, anderzijds beleefde Mars in juli zijn herfstequinox, waardoor de MRO het meest volledige en verlichte beeld van de planeet voor de lens kreeg.
De beelden werden geregistreerd door HiRISE, een camera met hoge resolutie die wetenschappers toelaat om het oppervlak van Mars in detail te bestuderen. Die beelden kunnen bijvoorbeeld helpen om landingsplaatsen uit te zoeken voor toekomstige missies.
U kan alle beelden terugvinden via deze database, maar hier hebt u alvast een kleine voorproefje van de enorme variatie aan wonderlijke foto's.
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Disc UFO caught on Missouri camera
Disc UFO caught on Missouri camera
A Missouri witness at Lees Summit reported watching and photographing a disc-shaped UFO that made a rapid descent, according to testimony in Case 77979 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
In the image above, one sees the direction of the flight of the craft from frames 18:35 to 19:05. (Credit: MUFON)
The event occurred at 3:28 p.m. on July 21, 2016.
“I took a random video that lasted 39 seconds,” the witness stated. “At 15:28 DST – during the video a flat or possibly disc-shaped craft travelled from frame 18:35 to 19:05, or one-half of a second. The angle of rapid descent was at 14-degrees from the right side of the frame to the left. Nothing else was seen in the remainder of the video.”
The witness then analyzed the video.
“The angle of elevation when it entered the screen was 12-degrees, although it clearly came from much higher. The direction of initial view was 350-degrees or nearly north, and it disappeared from the camera view at 336-degrees or north-northwest– although it continued in a straight line ending at about 320-degrees or northwest where it likely ended its flight.”
From right to left, location of entry, departure from view in camera, and the final descent location.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness followed the object’s flight path.
“It disappeared on the west side of Blue Springs Lake, interestingly, into another much smaller lake. Analysis: In 16 frames, the craft covered a distance of .3 miles in one-half of a second, which converts to 2,160 mph. Most likely it entered the small body of water, although not actually seen doing so. The direction of the 14-degree descent, by projection, ended northwest at 320-degrees. This small lake is about 1,600 feet west of Blue Springs Lake. The size of the object appears to be close to 15 feet when compared with the spheroid craft from MUFON Case # 61730.”
Craft from frame 18:47.
(Credit: MUFON)
The case was investigated by Missouri Field Investigator Lawrence Tyree and closed as an Unknown.
“The video evidence shows a craft flying at an incredible speed of 2,160 mph heading straight to the Earth within three-tenths of a mile,” Tyree stated in his report.“The physics of such flying make it impossible to do with known technology if it were a human vehicle. This makes it to be of unknown origin, and not natural or human made.The description of the movements of the object, its speed on approach to the land, and the video evidence are descriptive of an Unknown UAV.”
Enhanced view of frame 18:47.
(Credit: MUFON)
Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Editor’s note: The video was not uploaded to MUFON with the report, only the still images were included.
Animal abduction and mutilations are nothing new around the world, and are still commonly seen, especially in South America region, but here we have 1,500 sheep the disappear together which is very odd indeed. For a UFO to take them, it had to be huge, unless it had some kind of shrinking technology to transport things more easily. This should be of national importance to the UK and needs deeper investigation into it. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: A documentary film maker has questioned whether the disappearance of 1,500 sheep from a field near Louth was the result of UFOs. Footage, uploaded to YouTube by an account called dot luter, has investigated possible UFO sightings across the East Lindsey area with one witness claiming to have seen a huge spherical object hovering in the sky at Alford. The 1,500 sheep mysteriously disappeared from the field at Stenigot overnight in September 2011. No one in the area claimed to see or hear anything. Arrests were made at the time in connection with the disappearance but the documentary footage claims no one was ever charged or prosecuted. In the documentary, UFO spotter Eric Goring from Brinkhill, told the video he had seen hundreds of sightings of what he called "the black triangle" not far from the area at the time. He said: "I saw these white or orange or yellow balls of light which turned out to be the black triangle. "They were out on the fields going round and round lit up bright and then when they got closer I could see the black triangle. "I've seen the black triangle hundreds of times and up to 40 in one night." Mr Goring said the triangular objects were around 30ft long on each side. "I have seen them come down to the ground at thousands of miles an hour. They come straight to the ground, they loop out and then go up again. "It floats and it makes no noise," he said. "It was very dark, no luminosity, but it had legs and there were lights just above the legs." Taxi driver Morag Taylor, from Alford, told the video maker she had once seen a similar triangular sighting on a drive from Skegness to Louth in the early hours of the morning. She said: "There was a thing hovering in the sky with lights, it was too big to be a star. "Then it just shot away at speed. I thought it was much faster than a Harrier jet. "It was quite low - probably about three storeys high. "It was quite big, probably the size of an articulated lorry. "It was very dark, no luminosity, but it had legs and there were lights just above the legs. It was triangular." Another witness who spoke on film, said he once saw a huge spherical object in the sky while he was driving between Alford and Mablethorpe. He said: "I came round a corner and my little girl, who was in the back, screamed. "The car in front stopped. There was a grey, egg shaped thing. "I would say it was three times longer than the width of the road. "It was stopped right above the road. It was absolutely huge, bigger than a plane. "All of a sudden it shot back in the opposite direction it came from." The documentary maker said he believed the alleged sightings could be linked to the disappearance of the huge number of sheep. He said: "I don't think any open minded person would doubt there is something perculiar going on in the skies near this sparsely populated area."
Glowing Orange UFO Over Small town In UK In Aug 13, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Orange UFO Over Small town In UK In Aug 13, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: August 13, 2016 Location of sighting: Shrewsbury, UK Here is an interesting video of an orb in the sky. The UFO is not a perfect orb, but seems to have a diamond-like shape to it. We know its not a star because of the immense cloud cover seen. Most the time, the mystery in the sky, remains a mystery. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Certainly not the drone I filmed later. There is some possibility it was a Chinese lantern , but it's interesting that it suddenly disappears from sight. There may be explanations for this, such as the lantern burning out, or it disappearing in cloud, but it didn't reappear once, so my feeling is that that explanation is unlikely. I usually capture one or two white orbs at the Shrewsbury Flower Show, but saw none this year.
Does an Earth-Like Alien Planet Orbit the Sun's Closest Neighbor?
Does an Earth-Like Alien Planet Orbit the Sun's Closest Neighbor?
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Hubble Space Telescope image of the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, which lies just 4.25 light-years from the sun.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
Astronomers have found a rocky and possibly Earth-like planet circling the star closest to the sun, according to the German magazine Der Spiegel.
On Friday (Aug. 12), Der Spiegel reported that the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) La Silla Observatory in Chile had spotted evidence of a rocky, potentially habitable world orbiting Proxima Centauri, a small, dim star that lies just 4.25 light-years from the sun.
Scientists with the ESO will announce the find later this month, according to Der Spiegel, which cited an unnamed astrophysicist on the discovery team as its source. [In Images: The 1st Earth-Size Alien Planets Ever Found]
ESO officials neither confirmed nor denied the report.
"We were surprised to see the article in Der Spiegel and do not know the source," ESO spokesman Richard Hook told Space.com via email. "ESO has no further comment to make at present."
Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf, a star much smaller and cooler than the sun. About three-quarters of all stars in the Milky Way galaxy are red dwarfs.
Proxima Centauri lies just 0.24 light-years from the two stars of Alpha Centauri, and many astronomers regard the red dwarf as part of the latter system.
Earth-sized Planet Found Orbiting the Sun's Nearest Neighbor
In 2012, astronomers announced that La Silla's High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher instrument, or HARPS, had spotted a rocky, roughly Earth-size planet around Alpha Centauri B. This world, known as Alpha Centauri Bb, circles its host star once every 3.2 days, and is therefore much too hot to support life, discovery team members said at the time.
However, a 2015 study found that the detected signal of Alpha Centauri Bb was merely an artifact and that the planet almost certainly does not exist.
To date, astronomers have discovered more than 3,200 confirmed alien planets, with NASA's Kepler space telescope responsible for about two-thirds of the finds. Kepler's work suggests that, on average, every star in the Milky Way hosts at least one planet.
Mars-Like Environment Lies Deep Beneath Earth's Surface
Mars-Like Environment Lies Deep Beneath Earth's Surface
By Samantha Mathewson, Staff Writer
Walls of the Boulby Mine boast salty honeycomb-like hexagonal patterns that are similar to those that rovers like Curiosity have observed on Mars.
Credit: Charles Cockell
While NASA discusses how to one day send humans to Mars, a group of scientists has delved more than a half-mile (1.1 kilometers) beneath the Earth's surface to study nearby environments that resemble those of the Red Planet.
For the last four years, astrobiologists with Mars Analogues for Space Exploration (MASE), a program that is funded by the European Science Foundation, have been studying the underground environment of England's Boulby Mine — a place that appears to bear some similarities to Mars.
The new work, which includes analyzing salty features on the walls of the mine, will help scientists understand where to look for life on the Red Planet and how to explore the Martian environment when humans eventually get there, Charles Cockell, scientific coordinator of the MASE program, told Space.com. [Amazing Mars Photos by NASA's Curiosity Rover (Latest Images)]
Signs of an ancient sea
The Boulby Mine is a very large underground system that stretches for more than 621 miles (1,000 kilometers) out under the North Sea. The walls of the mine are coated in salty honeycomb-like hexagonal patterns that are believed to have formed 250 million years ago, after a giant inland sea (the Zechstein Sea) dried up. Similar evidence of a long-gone ocean has been found in other places on Earth, including Death Valley.
The prominent hexagonal features found on the walls of the mine resemble those that rovers like Curiosity have observed on Mars. This is the first time that Cockell and his team have collected samples of the salty features.
The MASE team collected multiple samples from deep inside the mine, which they will analyze for signatures of life over the course of the next two or three months.
Credit: Charles Cockell
"On Mars, areas of salt have also been observed and they have similar sorts of features," said Cockell, who is also a professor of astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh. "So, this is indicative of large salt deposits on Mars that have dried out."
When seawater dries up, it leaves behind an oxygen-deprived environment in which only microorganisms tolerant of high-salt conditions can live, Cockell explained.
"We're interested in trying to isolate novel microbes from extreme environments and then use them to understand the limits of life in anaerobic, oxygen-free conditions," said Cockell. "Going into deep, subsurface [environments] is a good place to look for these kinds of deep-dwelling microbes."
The MASE researchers have collected multiple samples from deep inside the mine and will be analyzing the samples for signatures of life over the course of the next two or three months. The six-member team consisted of researchers from the Spanish Center for Astrobiology and the University of Edinburgh. While the MASE team was cultivating salty rock samples, a team of researchers from the University of Leicester was also in the mine developing new instruments for detecting minerals on Mars.
"The main thing is they [Mars and the Boulby Mine] are similar environments, and what we are really trying to do is understand as much as we can about Mars by looking at these types of environments on Earth," Cockell said. "[The Boulby Mine] is one of the best environments we have to do these kinds of comparisons."
Saturn Goes Psychedelic in Crazy, Colorful Infrared Photo
Saturn Goes Psychedelic in Crazy, Colorful Infrared Photo
By Hanneke Weitering, Staff Writer-Producer
This false-color view of Saturn's northern hemisphere shows details of the planet's cloudy atmosphere that are otherwise invisible to the human eye.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Kevin M. Gill
A new photo of Saturn taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft depicts the planet's northern hemisphere as a swirling mess of green, blue and purple clouds. What looks like a colossal oil slick on the otherwise yellow-tinted planet is actually a matter of wavelength.
The funky-colored clouds in the Saturn photo are the result of the spectral filters on Cassini's camera. These filters can selectively reflect or transmit specific colors of light.
Kevin Gill, an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and amateur space-imaging enthusiast, produced the false-color image by combining several photos captured by Cassini's wide-angle camera on July 20. [More Amazing Saturn Photos by Cassini]
Gill used a combination of spectral filters that are sensitive to infrared light at wavelengths of 750, 727 and 619 nanometers. The human eye can typically see light only in the range of 390 to 700 nanometers, so using the spectral filters allows people to view what is otherwise invisible to the naked eye. This type of infrared filter allows researchers to study how Saturn's atmospherereflects and absorbs specific wavelengths of sunlight.
The Cassini spacecraft has been in orbit around Saturn since 2004 to study the planet and its moons, and is expected to do so until the mission ends, in September 2017.
Greetings, Earthlings! 8 Ways Aliens Could Contact Us
Greetings, Earthlings! 8 Ways Aliens Could Contact Us
By Tia Ghose, Senior Writer
Credit: NASA/NOAA/GOES Project
INTRO: Beyond Earth
From a few subtle radio signals to alien monsters bombing the White House, science fiction is replete with depictions of aliens making contact with mere mortals.
While some of those depictions are far-fetched, it turns out that scientists have spent countless hours thinking about just how extraterrestrial civilizations could contact humans. Some of their ideas are nearly as fantastical as Hollywood's wildest tales.
Of course, signs of intelligent life don't have to be tiny objects — they could also be really, really big ones. Some scientists have argued that alien megastructures could be like a giant "come here" sign pointing other civilizations to their presence, Grinspoon said. In fact, scientists recently kept their eye on the star KIC 8462852, which dimmed and brightened mysteriously over the past several years. Some have argued that the star is surrounded by an alien megastructure that is occasionally blocking light from the star — though other explanations include a swarm of exoplanets or a planet-forming disc.
In December 2015, scientists reported a complete lack of communication from the region.
"We found no evidence of an advanced civilization beaming intentional laser signals toward Earth," study co-author Douglas Vakoch, president of METI International in San Francisco, said in a statement.
Credit: LLNL/NIF/NASA/E. Kowaluk (LLE)
7. Laser pulses
Repetitive laser pulses could also be a sign of an alien race trying to get in contact with us, because, in theory, lasers could send signals or messages across vast distances, Grinspoon said. To find those laser pulses, researchers have zeroed in on extremely bright flashes of light, which are less likely to be caused by natural phenomena.
So far, however, they've found no sign of alien signals.
Credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech
6. Robot probes
Alien signals may not be traveling in electromagnetic waves at all. Instead,signs of intelligent life may be very small objects that advanced civilizations send out to explore the universe.
"Most of the solar system is still unexplored, so for all we know, there could be alien probes orbiting on the asteroid belt or somewhere on the surface of Mars," Grinspoon said. "They could be quite miniature. Who knows what alien technology is capable of — they could be the size of golf balls."
Finding these objects could rely on the same technology scientists could use to sample those regions, Grinspoon said.
Credit: SETI Institute
5. Radio waves
In a 1959 paper in the journal Nature, physicists Philip Morrison and Giuseppe Cocconi argued that scientists should scour radio waves for signs of extraterrestrial life. That's because radio waves travel relatively undisturbed through the universe, not being absorbed or re-emitted by celestial objects. Thus, the duo reasoned, any extraterrestrials hoping for their message to be relayed across long distances would logically resort to this medium, said David Grinspoon, an astrobiologist at the Planetary Science Institute.
For decades, that's been the predominant way to search for aliens. For instance, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has scoured telescope data for signal-like radio waves.
Of course, the whole search rests on the assumption that aliens are thinking just like us, which may not be the case.
"Aliens don't necessarily read Nature magazine," Grinspoon told Live Science.
Credit: Bibi Saint-Pol (Wikimedia)
4. Radiating away
Of course, not all aliens will be on a mission to find other creatures in the big, lonely universe. Some may be more like hermits, hoping to hide their existence. If that's the case, they'd make no attempts to broadcast their existence.
However, theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson has argued that even celestial hermit kingdoms might develop technology to siphon energy from a nearby star using an orbiting object known as a Dyson sphere.
"It doesn't have to be a sphere at all," Dyson previously told Live Science, "just any place where aliens happen to be generating a lot of energy."
These Dyson spheres would then throw off waste heat, an inescapable byproduct of harnessing star power, in the form of infrared radiation. Already, researchers at the Allen Telescope Array and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer(WISE) space telescope are scouring the skies for signs of such waste radiation.
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
3. Star dance
Others have proposed that highly advanced civilizations could be advanced astro-engineers, moving stars into bizarre or highly geometric alignments that are unlikely to occur by chance, Grinspoon said.
"They could construct something that would be visible from a huge distance across the galaxy, or even from another galaxy, that would be obviously artificial," Grinspoon said. "Nobody's seen anything like that."
Others might actually harness star power to create messages. For instance, if aliens could spin small and extremely dense stars called neutron stars in just the right way, they could make these stars emit light as a kind of flashing beacon, Grinspoon said.
In fact, when neutron stars were discovered, scientists thought they might be messages from "little green men." (That discovery earned astronomer Antony Hewish the Nobel Prize in physics; his graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who first discovered the star, was passed up for the high honor.) [Nobel Would-Bes: 6 Scientists Who Were Passed Up for the Prize]
Credit: Mark Garlick/University of Warwick
2. Needle in a haystack
Even if aliens are trying to make contact, there's no guarantee we'd receive their messages. The universe is 91 billion light-years across, and messages could come from anywhere.
To narrow the search, some argue that aliens are likelier to send messages our way if they know we're here. A study published in February 2016 in thepreprint journal arXivfound that there are 82 stars we know of in Earth's transit zone, or an area of the sky that has a direct line of sight to Earth.
"Along this line, there is a very small band— a strip of less than a degree from where extrasolar observers would see the Earth transiting the sun," said study co-author René Heller, an astrobiologist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany.
Heller and his colleague Ralph Pudritz at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, predicted that there may be up to 100,000 stars within this zone of the sky — some of which could have planets teeming with life orbiting them.
One advantage of this approach is that the tiny slice of the sky is relatively easy to search.
"You could just skim or scan the whole Earth transit zone over the course of maybe a few dozen nights or so, depending on how large the field of view of your radio telescope is," Heller told Live Science.
If these hidden exoplanets harbor life, they'd also be in the same galactic neighborhood — just a few hundred light-years away at most.
Credit: Dreamstime
1. Part of space exploration
The search for intelligent life-forms may not need dedicated megaprojects, Grinspoon said.
"We're going to send spacecraft out to these places to explore," Grinspoon said, referring to spots like the asteroid belt. "So while we explore the solar system, we should at least be aware of the possibility of finding something really anomalous that would be artificial."
Either way, if there are smart creatures in the universe, odds are, they know exactly what to do to make contact.
"Mathematically, it's pretty easy to show, and logically, it makes sense that they would be much more advanced," Grinspoon said. "We're such babies as a civilization; anybody that is outside trying to contact us probably has a much longer relationship with science and technology."
So, if aliens are trying to contact us, it's probably our fault that we're missing their signals, Grinspoon said.
Lab-Grown Black Hole May Have Just Proven That Hawking Radiation Exists
Lab-Grown Black Hole May Have Just Proven That Hawking Radiation Exists
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IN BRIEF
Physicist Jeff Steinhauer spent the last seven years perfecting a method to replicate black holes in a quest to find whether Hawking radiation exists. His laboratory simulation of a black hole showed entangled particles breaking apart as one falls back into the black hole and the other dissipates into "space," consistent with Hawking'stheory.
LAB-GROWN ACOUSTIC BLACK HOLE
A few months ago, someone started working on building a black hole in a laboratory in a quest to find out whether Hawking radiation could really exist. It took physicist Jeff Steinhauer, of the Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa seven years to single-handedly perfect his method torecreate black holes. And now the results have been published in Nature Physics.
Jeff Steinhauer single-handedly imitates black holes in a lab. Credit: Nitzan Zohar, Office of the Spokesperson, Technion.
His lab-grown black hole implies that Hawking was right.
In 1974, Hawking theorized that, contrary to the belief that a black hole would continuously and infinitely suck in everything around it, energy could in fact, seep out of it in the form of radiation. This eventually became known as “Hawking radiation.” This causes a black hole’s eventual demise, as the energy seeps out and the black hole dissipates into nothing.
Recent findings did confirm that there are some things that could escape a black hole’s supposedly inescapable pull, such as light.
And this time, Steinhauer’s lab-grown black hole simulation showed what is the closest evidence we could find (as of now) of Hawking radiation, emanating from its event horizon.
4,600 TIMES TO BE SURE
Steinhauer cooled rubidium atoms to a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero to cause them to enter a quantum state of matter, behaving like clones of each other and clumping together to form a “super particle” known as Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). This process of recreating black holes was proposed in the 1980s but nobody bothered to try building it until 2009.
Lasers are then used to force the atoms to move at supersonic speeds, causing sound waves to get trapped inside the quantum fluids.
Steinhauer ran his experiment a staggering 4,600 times, and as Hawking predicted, pairs ofphonons, or packets of sound energy, appeared spontaneously at the even horizon. One of them is then expelled away and the other falls back into the black hole. This separation of the pairs is consistent with Hawking radiation’s description of entangled particles annihilating each other unless they exist in either side of a black hole’s event horizon.
Credit: IOPscience.
While this is quite a remarkable achievement in demonstrating the feasibility of Hawking radiation, other physicists say that it’s not enough to win Hawking a Nobel prize. Some doubt that what Steinhauer generated were in fact, credible BECs, and that several replications must be made in order for this to stand strong. Physicists also say that only a direct observation from a real black hole could confirm his theory—something that would most probably not happen within Hawking’s lifetime, or possibly any of our’s.
Physicists Just Confirmed Evidence of A Possible Fifth Fundamental Forc
Physicists Just Confirmed Evidence of A Possible Fifth Fundamental Force
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IN BRIEF
A deeper look into studies that were previously conducted by Hungarian physicists has recently uncovered evidence of a fifth fundamental force of nature. If confirmed, it could stand as an explanation for dark matter.
FORCES OF NATURE
To date, there are four conventionally known fundamental forces that hold the universe together—gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. But a closer look at previous studies conducted by Hungarian physicists, which hinted at a new force, has led a team of scientists to evidence that the anomaly in the data could actually be a fifth force of nature.
It should be noted that the groundbreaking claim is still a very long way from being confirmed, but the current data available is enough to push research into what this new force-carrying particle is (or may be).
“If true, it’s revolutionary,” Jonathan Feng said, who leads the research team from University of California. “If confirmed by further experiments, this discovery of a possible fifth force would completely change our understanding of the Universe, with consequences for the unification of forces and dark matter.”
SUBATOMIC PARTICLE
The anomalous data was first spotted when the Hungarian Academy of Science team fired high-energy beams of protons at lithium-7. The fall-out created a distinct energy signature of a super-light subatomic particle, which they concluded to be a type of boson—30 times heavier than an electron—that can’t be explained by the Standard Model.
“The experimentalists weren’t able to claim that it was a new force,” Feng said. “They simply saw an excess of events that indicated a new particle, but it was not clear to them whether it was a matter particle or a force-carrying particle.”
Image Credit: APS Physics
Based on this original data, the team from University of California dove into the work to try and verify the potential findings. And they assert that they did uncover theoretical evidence that suggests it may really be the boson for the fifth force of nature—which could explain dark matter or many other unexplained things in the universe.
The particle has been dubbed protophobic X boson, which interacts exclusively with electrons and neutrons within a very small range, thus making it extremely hard to detect. According to researchers, no other boson has exhibited the same characteristics.
Once the existence of a fifth force is verified, it could mean that we could one day produce a “super fundamental force” that allows interaction between the dark sector with its own matter. Unfortunately, we have yet to confirm whether or not this could actually be the fifth force of nature, but it’s a hypothesis that’s certainly worth following up on.
Top 15 Places You’re NOT Allowed To Visit on Earth
Top 15 Places You’re NOT Allowed To Visit on Earth
They say ‘Free World’… but the truth is that its not as free as you may think.
In fact, there are over a dozen places on our planet which you CANNOT gain access to.
From top-secret military bases to exclusive clubs and Armageddon bunkers.
In this article, we take a look at the FIFTEEN most restricted places on the surface of out planet.
1. RAF Menwith Hill. UK.
One of the most secretive complexes in Europe, and one of the most peculiar looking one’s as well. These fascinating and somewhat weird structures provide communication and intelligence support to countries like the UK and the Us.
This complex is so vast; it has been cataloged as the BIGGEST electronic monitoring station on the entire planet.
2. The Bohemian Groove
This one is really strange. It’s something nearly out of a Hollywood cult-like movie. The Bohemian Groove is a –forbidden— 2,700-acre rural location located ‘somewhere’ in California. The land is believed to be owned by a private San Francisco-based arts club called the Bohemian Club.
In the past, presidents such as Richard Nixon and Herbert Hoover have attended. Women are not allowed.
It turns out that every summer, the Bohemian Club hosts a two-week camp in the woods were the most influential people in the world gather. Are they worshiping reptilian gods?
3. Snake Island
A place you cannot access and a place where you really don’t want to go. Snake Island is a small Island located off the coast of Brazil and contains 4,000 of the DEADLIEST snakes on the planet. Their venom is so powerful that it can MELT human flesh.
The Island has been deemed so dangerous that the Brazilian Government banned visitors from accessing it.
4.The Coca-Cola Vault
Have you ever wondered the true recipe of Coca Cola? It turns out that the secret formula behind the Coca Cola recipe is one of the most heavily guarded secrets on the planet.
In order to protect their recipe, the Coca-Cola Company has a high-tech vault that holds the recipe and protects it from prying eyes.
Only a couple of people knows the actual formula.
5. Fort Knox
Fort Know is a reserve that holds the United States Gold Bullion Reserve and a number of other national treasures. It is considered as one of the most secure places on the planet.
It is protected by around 30,000 soldiers and a flotilla of attack helicopters.
The Gold-Vault is allegedly protected by a 22-ton blast-proof door, and visitors are STRICTLY forbidden.
6. The Svalbard Seed Vault
Another really cool place that you cannot gain access to. It was constructed to store the seeds that could be utilized in the event of a catastrophic environmental disaster.
Only a couple of people are allowed access to the vault.
In fact, not even countries that have lend seeds are allowed access to the site. The vault is located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago.
7. The Vatican’s Secret Archive
No its not just a really old library. The Vatican Library is one of the largest and most secretive libraries on the planet. In fact, only a sacred few have access to the wonders that the vaults contain.
From ancient Maya codices to ancient books that ‘allegedly’ are proof of alien contact, the Vatican Secret Archive is said to have it all and is another place on Earth you cannot access.
8. Pine Gap Australia
Meet Australia’s version of Area 51. One Gap is located in Central Australia and is operated by the Australian Government and the Central Intelligence Agency.
It is the only place in Australia that is strictly designated as a no-fly zone and is used as a monitoring station.
The secret facility is said to operate a number of drone stripe programs.
9. The Lascaux Caves, France
The Lascaux Caves in France contain ancient cave paintings that are believed to be over 17,000 years old, created by early humans depicting animals and curious geometric shapes.
The caves are a no-access zone since 1963. The caves have since been threatened by a strange fungal invasion that threatens the integrity of the paintings.
10. The Mormon Church Secret Vault
The Secret Vault was constructed into the side of a mountain and is a secret, heat-controlled vault.
According to reports, it continues over 3 BILLION pages of data on genealogy and family history of Americans.
Even though tours are given once in a while, most of the vault is completely off limits.
11. Room 39 North Korea
Obviously located in North Korea, the Room 39 is also commonly referred to as Bureau 39.
It is a secretive organization whose goal is to find ways to obtain foreign currency fo Kim Jong-un, Chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea. It was established in 1970.
The secretive organization has been described as the ‘kingpin’ of North Korea’s ‘court economy’.
There is very limited data on Room 39, but it is believed to be an organization that has over 20 bank accounts in Switzerland and China and are used for money laundering operations and other illegal operations.
The secretive group has over 130 trading companies that are under its jurisdictions and directly controlled by Kim Jong-un.
Very little is known about what happens within its perimeters.
12. Mezhgorye, Russia
Mezghorye is believed to be a Russian secret nuclear missile site. It is one of the most protected places in Russia, where two battalions permanently guard the base, preventing anyone from accessing it.
The base is said to contain automatic ballistic missiles which van be remotely activated in the event of a nuclear strike which can be detected by seismic, light and pressure sensors.
13. Disney Club 33
One of the most expensive clubs on the planet. Not many people know about it but Club 33 At Disneyworld has a 14-year long waiting list. If you happen to get on the list, a $40,000 initiation fee is required. Plus, you have to be the annual fee of $27,000.
The Club is entirely of limits from the public. Its members include Presidents of the United States, business leaders, and actors.
14. Google Datacenter
Google eRuns the internet and its Data Center is as guarded as Area 51 is. It is a high-security location that contains trillions of records of our DATA.
You cannot access it, ever.
15. Area 51
Now that we mentioned Area 51, it is also one of the most secretive and well-protected locations on the surface of the planet.
This military base is located in Nevada, some 80 miles from downtown Las Vegas.
Giant Killed by US Soldiers in Kandahar Afghanistan? Via L.A. Marzulli & Steve Quayle (Video)
Giant Killed by US Soldiers in Kandahar Afghanistan? Via L.A. M-
During an interview on Coast to Coast some years ago, Steven Quayle talked about a giant that was shot and killed by the US military in Kandahar Afghanistan.
It is said that the soldiers noticed something in a cave and while inspecting the cave they encountered a giant 12-15 feet tall being having red hair, 6 fingers, 6 toes, and a double row of teeth.
What followed was that the soldiers opened gunfire at the moment the giant attacked the team. According to a witness of the horrible event, one soldier was killed by the giant and it took about 30 seconds to kill the being.
After the giant was dead it seems they have loaded it on a transport pallet and flew it to an unknown location in the US for further investigation.
Since this story raises many questions, L.A. Marzulli recently did an interview with a member of the US military who was present at the shooting of the Kandahar Giant!
Below a segment of this interview, whereby the witness goes into details about the encounter with this giant in Kandahar Afghanistan. This is an absolutely incredible interview!
NASA Claims: Over 30 ADVANCED civilizations have COLLAPSED before us – Are we next?
NASA Claims: Over 30 ADVANCED civilizations have COLLAPSED before us – Are we next?
A NASA-funded study has found that ADVANCED ancient civilizations that existed on Earth thousands of years ago were as susceptible to collapse as WE are today.
Is there a mysterious, chaotic pattern within civilization?
How many times have you heard in history books that a superpower in the distant past became so advanced and uncontrollably powerful that it eventually collapsed?
You may think you haven’t heard of that in history books at all, but you may be wrong.
If we look back at our history books –which by the way are totally incomplete— you will notice that in the distant past, looking at the 18th century, for example, there were countries like France who were considered a world superpower.
Their mighty culture developed at such rate that they eventually felt supremacy and acted irresponsibly in turn.
With vast territories overseas, spending money uncontrollably, eventually lead to catastrophic budget deficits which in turn caused them to enter into debts and their currency was devaluated, chaos followed.
Even though France did not disappear entirely from history, it is evidence of a small chaotic pattern present in modern-day society. This chaotic way researchers believe has been present in civilization for thousands of years.
The truth is that even before that, there were numerous cultures and civilizations that just as France and other countries, were the makers of their own collapse.
If we look back in history 3000–5000 years, we will find a historical record that clearly shows us how advanced and sophisticated civilizations were just as susceptible to collapse as we are today.
While lifestyles were much different in the distant past than they are today, it turns out that there is an ongoing pattern encrusted into humanity that raises numerous questions about our sustainability as a civilization which ultimately challenges our ability to stay ‘afloat’ as a complex society and culture.
If we look back in time over 10,000 years, we will discover that numerous advanced civilizations that predate the Inca, Olmec, and Egyptian civilization existed on Earth which mysteriously vanished without a trace.
Look back at the Ancient Maya for example. The Ancient Maya were one of the most advanced and sophisticated ancient civilizations ever to rule on Earth.
This ancient Civilization, which flourished in the jungles of present-day Mexico(south), Guatemala and Belize is noted for the Maya script, the only known developed writing system of the Pre-Columbian Americas.
In fact, the ancient Maya were so ahead of other societies even in Europe, that they had perfected the use of rubber creating various products from it 3000 years before people in the Old World even knew what it was.
The Maya created fascinating monuments, pyramids, ancient cities, writing techniques and strangely, like many other great civilizations, they too disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
But in addition to the Ancient Maya, researchers around the globe have found similar patterns in other civilizations that just as the Maya, collapsed and vanished.
Many scientists argue that it is difficult to overlook the sheer number of repeating patterns in most of these civilizations, and a study partially funded by NASA provides us with evidence that there are certain (chaotic) characteristics present in ancient cultures that lived on Earth thousands of years ago and eventually disappeared.
This is considered by many people as a sign that clearly states that ancient civilizations have reset a number of times.
In the report, applied mathematician Safa Motesharri and his “Human and Nature Dynamical” model claims that “the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history.”
“The fall of the Roman Empire and the equally (if not more) advanced Han, Mauryan, and Gupta Empires, as well as so many advanced Mesopotamian Empires, are all testimony to the fact that advanced, sophisticated, complex, and creative civilizations can be both fragile and impermanent.”
In the study, we find that“Technological change can raise the efficiency of resource use, but it also tends to raise both per capita resource consumption and the scale of resource extraction, so that, absent policy effects, the increases in consumption often compensate for the increased efficiency of resource use.”
Boek: Russische marine heeft geregeld aanvaringen met onderwateraliens en UFO’s
Boek: Russische marine heeft geregeld aanvaringen met onderwateraliens en UFO’s
De commandanten van Russische onderzeeërs maken al sinds de Sovjettijd melding van onverklaarbare fenomenen onder het wateroppervlak. Het Kremlin bewaart de documenten over de ongeïdentificeerde objecten achter slot en grendel, meldt de Britse Daily Mirror.
Een aantal waarnemingen van de onverklaarbare objecten is echter uitgelekt. Experts Paul Stonehill en Philip Mantle schrijven er in hun nieuwe boek over. Zij menen dat de Russische overheid getuigen die in de openbaarheid treden doelbewust in diskrediet brengt en bewijs achterhoudt.
‘UFO’ in de Oostzee
De commandanten zeggen getuige te zijn geweest van onbekende levensvormen, mysterieuze duikboten en UFO’s die schepen in zee dumpen. De meest merkwaardige meldingen hebben betrekking op vreemde wezens die ook wel ‘De Zwemmers’ worden genoemd. Het gaat om drie meter lange mensachtige wezens die op 50 meter diepte in de ijskoude wateren rond Siberië zouden leven.
Enorme vuurbal
Stonehill en Mantle vertellen hoe de Russische generaal-majoor V. Demyanenko zijn bemanning waarschuwde voor de wezens na een aantal vreemde waarnemingen in 1982. Marineduikers probeerden één van de wezens te vangen, waarna ze door een mysterieuze kracht naar het oppervlak werden geduwd.
Vanaf de stoomboot Raduga werd in 1965 in de Rode Zee een enorme vuurbal gezien die opsteeg vanuit de oceaan. Het object bleef ongeveer 150 meter boven het wateroppervlak hangen voordat het weer in zee dook.
Moederschip
Admiraal V.A. Domislovsky, inlichtingenhoofd van de Russische Pacifische Vloot, zag een 900 meter lang object in de Grote Oceaan. Er kwamen kleinere objecten uit die onder water verdwenen om even later weer terug te keren naar het moederschip.
Schout-bij-nacht Yury Beketov claimt als commandant van een kernonderzeeër UFO’s te hebben gezien in de Bermudadriehoek. Op zijn radarscherm zag hij hoe de objecten zich met een snelheid van 400 kilometer per uur voortbewogen onder het wateroppervlak.
Oud-militair: “Agenten van Area 51 gaven me mee aan aliens”
Oud-militair: “Agenten van Area 51 gaven me mee aan aliens”
Bill Brooks ging in 1968 bij het Britse leger en claimt te zijn ontvoerd door aliens terwijl hij was gestationeerd op een nucleaire basis bij het Duitse Sennelager. Dat schrijft de Daily Star.
Pas op 44-jarige leeftijd kwamen de herinneringen naar boven borrelen. Na een optreden zag de man, die inmiddels muzikant was geworden, een UFO waarna de herinneringen terugkwamen.
Volgens Brooks werd de basis bij Sennelager gedeeld met een aantal Amerikaanse agenten van Area 51, de geheimzinnige basis in de Nevadawoestijn. Hij was er naar eigen zeggen getuige van hoe soldaten werden ontvoerd. Het leek alsof ze gehypnotiseerd waren, aldus de ex-militair.
Man in het zwart
Bill Brooks (ET Newsroom)
Brooks werd door een man in het zwart gedwongen achter zijn collega’s aan te lopen. Wat er daarna is gebeurd weet hij niet meer. Naderhand kreeg hij te horen dat hij er niet over mocht praten en ook moest hij een geheimhoudingsverklaring ondertekenen.
Hij claimde ook te zijn onderworpen aan een aantal experimenten met mind control. Die zouden zijn uitgevoerd op de militaire basis Porton Down bij Salisbury. Hij heeft zijn ervaringen opgeschreven in een nieuw boek getiteld ’44: Based on an Ex-Soldier’s True Story of Life-Long Encounters Involving Alien Abduction’.
Brooks weet niet in hoeverre aliens en overheden samenwerken, maar denkt dat ingewijden ‘bang zijn voor wat ze kunnen doen’. Hij denkt dat de geheime diensten op de hoogte zijn van zijn ervaringen met aliens.
Geheimzinnigheid
Op de vraag of buitenaardse rassen een bedreiging vormen voor de mensheid, antwoordde hij: “Ik heb geen flauw idee, maar vanwaar al die geheimzinnigheid?”
In 1960 werd Brooks naar eigen zeggen als 10-jarig jongetje benaderd door vier zogenoemde Nordics; lange, blonde mensachtige wezens. Ze zeiden tegen hem dat ‘de aarde in gevaar was’ voordat ze hem meenamen aan boord van hun vaartuig.
Hij kreeg eerst te zien hoe hij zijn gedachten kon gebruiken om kleine bollen te verplaatsen. Daarna probeerden ze hem uit te leggen hoe hun aandrijfsysteem werkte. Later zou Brooks ook contact hebben gehad met de zogeheten Greys.
Las Vegas witness captures two cigar UFOs on video
Las Vegas witness captures two cigar UFOs on video
A Nevada witness at Las Vegas reported watching and videotaping two cigar-shaped UFOs moving overhead, according to testimony in Case 78282 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness had just left his home and turned onto the nearest street heading south at 7:45 p.m. on August 7, 2016, when the incident occurred.
“Two highly reflective objects caught my eye moving rather slowly at first,” the witness stated.“I immediately identified them as something I have never seen before flying in the sky.”
The witness has past experience around military bases.
“I have much experience growing up on military bases for the first 20+ years of my life, including living on SAC alert bases. I have much experience witnessing all types of military aircraft and am familiar with their flight capabilities. What I saw yesterday on August 7, 2016, was not military and not civilian.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness then thought to shoot video.
“I immediately thought, take out cell phone. I tried to first capture a picture, which I did, but the object was hard to focus on. I immediately switched from static pictures to video using my Samsung Note 5. I was inside my Jeep Wrangler with family. All four of us saw the object, including my retired Army father.”
The witness and family members continued to watch the object.
“We watched the object fly northand then switch to a northeast direction heading towards Nellis AFB. At first, there were two objects. However, once the objects moved towards the northeast, the second object disappeared and I could only see the first and larger object.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
Nevada MUFON is investigating. The witness included one video clip with the report, which was filed on August 8, 2016. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Niet alleen wij krijgen steeds vaker meldingen van mensen die een planeet nabij de zon met het blote oog waarnemen; over ter wereld komen dit soort dingen nu steeds vaker voor.
Waar voorheen vaak nog speciale filters nodig waren om de planeet Nibiru en haar metgezellen te ontdekken, zo is dat nu vaak niet meer nodig.
Volgens de laatste nieuwsbrief van Nancy Lieder en de Zeta’s komt het mini zonnestelsel nu snel dichterbij en worden er steeds vaker waarnemingen gedaan met het blote oog.
De volgende afbeeldingen van een tweede zon zijn afkomstig uit die nieuwsbrief.
De eerste opname is genomen in Laval in Quebec, Canada, op 1 juni dit jaar tijdens zonsopkomst. Omdat op de foto de tweede zon gedeeltelijk is verborgen achter een lantaarnpaal weten we dat hier niet met een lensflare te maken hebben.
Iets dergelijks werd ook waargenomen boven Griekenland op 4 augustus jl. Op de foto zijn duidelijk twee verschillende lichtbronnen te zien tijdens zonsopkomst.
Wat er ook te zien is rondom de zon als heldere bollen zijn wat men bij de Zeta’s maankolken noemt. Ze worden vaak in verwarring gebracht met Nibiru zelf, maar het is een apart fenomeen. Nibiru heeft een hele serie manen en ruimtepuin op sleeptouw. Deze manen draaien niet om de planeet, maar komen er als een soort sliert achteraan zweven, waardoor een soort draaikolken ontstaan. Doordat zonlicht door de lange buis schijnt die wordt gevormd door de kolk, wordt het licht geïntensiveerd en komt aan het eind van die tunnel tevoorschijn als bij een zaklantaarn. Deze maankolken en de lichtbollen die ze vormen zijn veel feller dan het licht van Nibiru zelf.
Om dit soort dingen goed te zien, wordt meestal wel een filter gebruikt, zoals te zien is in de volgende opnames die met een zogenaamd Mylar filter zijn genomen in april dit jaar.
Volgens Nancy Lieder is de planeet Nibiru sinds 2003 in ons zonnestelsel en zijn sinds die tijd ook opnames gemaakt van de planeet en omringende manen. Waarnemingen met het blote oog echter, is iets dat eigenlijk nog maar sinds vrij kort plaatsvindt.
Navolgend een aantal opnames die voornamelijk tot stand zijn gekomen via webcams, zoals de volgende in Italië:
Een gebied waar nu ook meer en meer waarnemingen worden gedaan met de webcams die de FAA daar geplaatst heeft voor piloten, is Alaska.
Eerder waren er al opnames gemaakt via de Selawik webcam, maar ze verschijnen nu ook via de Kivalina webcam, waarvan de volgende twee opnames voorbeelden zijn.
Een fotograaf die bij de Zeta’s vaak wordt gepubliceerd, heet Alberto en hij fotografeert dit mini zonnestelsel al jaren met speciale filters.
Op de onderstaande opname zie je Niburu op de rechterafbeelding op de zogenaamde "vijf uur" positie.
Ook wij krijgen regelmatig foto’s opgestuurd van lezers en vaak zitten daar helaas ook lensflares tussen. Blijft ze in ieder geval opsturen ook al weet je het niet zeker. We zijn altijd geïnteresseerd in iedere waarneming die is gedaan met het blote oog.
Want, als de Zeta’s gelijk hebben, zullen er ook binnenkort blote oogwaarnemingen in onze streken moeten plaatsvinden.
Tabby's Star The Alien Dyson Sphere - Shocking NASA Scientists KIC8462852, UFO Sighting News.
Tabby's Star The Alien Dyson Sphere - Shocking NASA Scientists KIC8462852, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: Aug 2016 Location of discovery: KIC8462852 Conspiracy Files of Youtube reports that a Dyson Sphere called KIC8462852 has been found. This is 100% proof that aliens are advanced enough to harness the power of the sun. Sadly, this fact may be of interest to the public, but soon ignored as people lose attention on other more immediate needs. This is an incredible historical discovery that has only one solution...its a Dyson Sphere. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Conspiracy Files states: Tabby's star shows evidence that there is an alien civilization building a Dyson Sphere aroundit. KIC8462852 truth of the Alien conspiracy .Has an alien civilization much more advanced than our own, built giant structures to orbit its own sun? After exhausting the energy supply of its home planet, did an alien race build a structure to capture more of its energy? These structures are known as Dyson spheres. A Dyson Sphere is a giant hypothetical structure built to surround a star and reflect back its energy. They were named after the physicist Freeman Dyson. If these aliens needed to harness the energy of their home star, they might construct enormous solar panels by the millions. Send them into orbit to beam starlight down to their planet’s surface. From earth NASA's Kepler telescope might see the star flicker in irregular ways as the giant panels circled around it. It’s very hard to describe how massive something like this would have to be.
Think of it this way. Science fiction of course right? Complete fantasy? Not so fast. Consider this.. KIC8462852. It has recently become the primary subject of much ongoing research. Also known as the The strange fluctuations in this star’s light are what caused Yale astronomer Tabetha (Tabby) Boyajian, who first discovered the star to describe it as… “The most mysterious star in the universe. We’d never seen anything like this star. It was really weird. Astronomer Bradley E. Schaefer from Louisiana State University's findings had suggested a long-term dimming of the Tabby star. A brightness decrease by 20 percent over the last century. That is highly difficult to explain by natural means. But it is consistent with the idea that aliens were gradually converting the material in the star’s planetary system into giant megastructures. Schaefer’s study has now been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed Astrophysical Journal. Schaefer said that independent measures by astronomers show that Tabby’s star has indeed faded. The dips found by Kepler are real. Something seems to be transiting in front of this star, and we still have no idea what it is!”
Schaefer took a hard look at this mysterious star not only using the Kepler telescope data, but using a collection of roughly 500,000 sky photographs in the archives of Harvard College Observatory. Two independent sources now show Tabby Star is displaying unique and inexplicable photometric variations. These findings have scientists scratching their headOf course none have wanted to say that it is solid evidence of intelligent aliens. That's how you lose research grants. Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University has stated "Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider. But this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build, We need to consider that perhaps we’ve caught an advanced alien civilization in the process of building something massive near KIC8462852.”
Could this be some sort of Dyson Sphere type mega-structure built by a highly advanced civilization? How likely is it for 648,000 giant-comets to exist around one star? And to have their orbits orchestrated so as to all pass in front of the star within the last century? This century-long dimming is a strong argument against the comet hypothesis to explain the Kepler dips. It has been going on for as long as we’ve had telescopes to point at the sky. The comets would have to be the size of a separate solarm system to explain it. Dr. Schaefer says that is “completely implausible.” As observed by the Kepler spacecraft, everyone agrees that Tabby Star's light can appear strongly and weirdly irregular. Anywhere from a fraction-of- a-percent to around 20 percent of the star’s light sometimes is apparently blocked. That’s why astronomers began talking about alien megastructures, the Dyson spheres. These vast structures are the best explanation for what might be periodically blocking the star’s light.
The SETI Institute is seriously researching the possibility that this stellar system might be home to an advanced civilization!!! To investigate this idea, scientists have been using the Allen Telescope Array to search for non-naturalm radio signals from the direction of the mystery star. This effort is looking for both narrow-band signals as well as somewhat broader transmissions that might be produced, for example, by powerful spacecraft. The world’s top astronomers of the SETI program have refused to rule out the possibility of an extraterrestrial mega structure orbiting the Tabby star. They have stated that they were unable to mdisprove the theory that a massive artificial structure is causing the mysterious light patterns spotted around the distant star. Here is Tabby's TED Talk, it's awesome!
I caught this UFO sitting over the mouth of the volcano last night. Its shape is perfect and its size is 1.5-2 miles across. UFOs are often seen near this particular volcano in Mexico. The UFO is making its own cloud cloak, so as not to frighting anyone that sees it. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
UFO Caught On Video Over Brownsville, Texas Increases Speculations Of Underwater Alien Base Nearby
UFO Caught On Video Over Brownsville, Texas Increases Speculations Of Underwater Alien Base Nearby
A UFO was captured on video hovering over Brownsville, Texas, causing supposition that it could be from a nearby underwater base as it was reportedly floating over water, just off the Gulf of Mexico. The witness of the odd sighting reported it to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). He described the mysterious aerial thing as bright, oval shape moving slowly from left to right. The sighting took place when the witness was on his way back from a fishing trip.
The witness also noted in his report that a small object was trailing the big oval object, but that particular scene wasn’t captured on the video. The quality of the video may be poor and shaky, but it seems that’s all needed to start the discussion among UFO enthusiasts as to what the object might be and where it possibly originated.
Many claims have surfaced about the underwater UFO base off the coast of Cuba at Guantanamo Bay, near to where the strange object was spotted and filmed. A retired Marine reported early in March about his various UFO encounters just off the Cuban coast when he was stationed at the U.S. base in Cuba from 1968 to 1969. He recalled that those UFOs would surface out of the water or vanish into the waves of the Caribbean.
Daytime flying saucer in the sky above Knoxville, Tennessee 16-Jun-2016
Daytime flying saucer in the sky above Knoxville, Tennessee 16-Jun-2016
Here’s one new daytime photo of a disc-shaped object hovering in the sky above Knoxville in Tennessee. This was taken on 16th June 2016.
Witness report:
High altitude White roundish non moving object. On June 16, 2016 I was taking a break from mowing and sat in a chair in my driveway (which faces approx. 250 degrees SW) when I observer a white round object at about 240 degrees SW and about 70-75 degrees elevation ( I have a compass ap on my cell phone)What caught my attention was that it was not moving at all. At first I thought it was a weather ballon but I did not see any kind of trailing material. There were high thin clouds ( see photos ) out that day but the object was plainly visible I watch for about 15 minutes and it still did not appear to move. I keep a pair of binoculars in my PU truck so I got them and tried to seethe object more clearly. I was not able to steady these binoculars so I went into the house and got another pair (I like to bird watch so I have lots of binoculars) This did not work to my satisfaction (again not able to hold steady enough to improve my visibility) I then got out my Sony a77 digital camera that is fitted with a Sony 2.8/16-50 ssm lens. I also used a Sony 4.5-5.6/75-300 telephoto lens. I took a few pictures with the 2.8 lens and then installed the telephoto lens and a Quantaray 2X teleconverter. I then took more photos but was having difficulty focusing the lens I then tried to focus on trees and other objects closer by to see if I could the maximum distance focus function to work I took 4 or five pictures and did not realize that when I used the zoom in feature on the camera I had a reasonably clear picture of the object hat appeared to be the shape of a blood cell in white and it appeared to have numerous windows around the periphery of the disc. I attempted to repeat the focus adjustment. At this point Around 10:30 am the clouds increased (although not significantly)and I was no longer able to see the object. I thought about getting my tripod to help steady the camera, but after waiting another 15 minutes or so the object was no longer visible even though the clouds had dissipated. So that is what happened. I watch the local news and scanned the newspaper for a couple of days afterwards but saw no mention of anyone seeing this object.
Are we ready for contact with extraterrestrial intelligence?
Are we ready for contact with extraterrestrial intelligence?
The SETI project scientists are known for tracking possible extraterrestrial signals, but now they are also considering sending messages from Earth telling of our position. A researcher from the University of Cádiz (Spain) questions this idea in view of the results from a survey taken by students, revealing the general level of ignorance about the cosmos and the influence of religion when tackling these matters.
The Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project is an initiative that began in the 70s with funding from NASA, but that has evolved towards the collaboration of millions of Internet users for the processing of data from the Arecibo Observatory (Puerto Rico), where space tracking is carried out.
Now the members of this controversial project are trying to go further and not only search for extraterrestrial signs, but also actively send messages from Earth (Active SETI) to detect possible extraterrestrial civilisations. Astrophysicists, such as Stephen Hawking, have already warned of the risk that this implies for humanity, since it could favour the arrival of beings with more advanced technology and dubious intentions.
The ethical and sociological implications of this proposal have been analysed by the neuro-psychologist Gabriel G. de la Torre, professor at the University of Cádiz and participant in previous projects such as Mars 500 or space psychology topical team project financed by the European Space Agency, who wonders: “Can such a decision be taken on behalf of the whole planet? What would happen if it was successful and ‘someone’ received our signal? Are we prepared for this type of contact?”
To answer these questions, the professor sent a questionnaire to 116 American, Italian and Spanish university students. The survey assessed their knowledge of astronomy, their level of perception of the physical environment, their opinion on the place that things occupy in the cosmos, as well as religious questions – for example, “do you believe that God created the universe?” – or on the likelihood of contact with extraterrestrials.
The results, published in the journal ‘Acta Astronautica’, indicate that, as a species, humanity is still not ready for trying to actively contact a supposed extraterrestrial civilisation, since people lack knowledge and preparation. For this reason, SETI researchers are recommended in this study to look for alternative strategies.
“This pilot study demonstrates that the knowledge of the general public of a certain education level about the cosmos and our place within it is still poor. Therefore, a cosmic awareness must be further promoted – where our mind is increasingly conscious of the global reality that surrounds us – using the best tool available to us: education,” De la Torre emphasised. ”In this respect, we need a new Galileo to lead this journey”.
It was deduced from the questionnaires, which will soon be available to everyone on line, that university students and the rest of society lack awareness on many astronomical aspects, despite the enormous progress of science and technology. It also revealed that the majority of people consider these subjects according to their religious belief and that they would rely on politicians in the event of a huge global-scale crisis having to be resolved.
“Regarding our relation with a possible intelligent extraterrestrial life, we should not rely on moral reference points of thought, since they are heavily influenced by religion. Why should some more intelligent beings be ‘good’?,” added the researcher, who believes that this matter should not be monopolized by a handful of scientists: “In fact, it is a global matter with a strong ethical component in which we must all participate”.
References:
Gabriel G. De la Torre. “Toward a new cosmic consciousness: Psychoeducational aspects of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations”.Acta Astronautica 94 (2): 577–583, 2014.
It’s a cosmic game of hide-and-seek. A team of astronomers say that the next search for advanced extraterrestrial civilisations should look for stars – or even galaxies – that have vanished without a trace, as anything so unexplainable could only be due to life far more intelligent than us.
Beatriz Villarroel at Uppsala University in Sweden says this crazy idea has been gnawing at her since her first year of graduate studies. Now she and two undergraduates have finally taken the plunge. They scoured multiple surveys of the night’s sky by eye in order to see if any of nearly 300,000 light sources disappeared from one survey to the next.
So far the results are mixed. The team found one interesting artefact that looks like it might have vanished, but they can’t be sure. “It was a depressing case in the sense that we neither could reject it and neither could we say that it was a real candidate,” says Villarroel. Although the team checked for so-called false positives, throwing out hundreds of similar disappearing objects, this one withstood all tests – but only just.
Even if the disappearance is real, there could still be an astrophysical explanation. Quasars – the bright centres of galaxies powered by supermassive black holes – can shut down in less than a decade and drop drastically in brightness. Stars, too, can be highly variable.
Video – Impossible vanishing stars could be signs of advanced alien life
That’s why Villarroel and her colleagues plan to search for this missing object (and any others found in the future), on the largest telescopes. If it is still not visible, then they will be able to rule out most astrophysical phenomena and say with more likelihood that it has vanished. Only then will they begin speculating about extraterrestrial causes
“I think it’s a very reasonable thing to do,” says Jay Olson at Boise State University, Idaho. “It’s a deliberate search for something very unusual, which could be hiding in existing data across time. At this stage of the game, it’s a very limited search, but it illustrates well what can be accomplished.”
Unlike Tabby’s Star, a baffling star that dips in brightness and made headlines last year when astronomers suggested that “alien megastructures” could be the culprit, these objects would have no physical culprit behind their sudden disappearance – it’s just not possible for something to suddenly vanish from the universe without a trace. Instead, Villarroel and her colleagues invoke Arthur C. Clarke’s third law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
So while other teams search for possible signatures of astro-engineering like the one suspected around Tabby’s star, Villarroel and her colleagues are searching for things that seem impossible. If they confirm a star that has vanished without an accompanying supernova explosion or a galaxy that has disappeared from view, there’s simply no physical explanation – save for aliens.
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If we ever came across aliens, would we be able to understand them?
If we ever came across aliens, would we be able to understand them?
If we ever came across aliens, would we be able to understand them?
Many scientists believe that alien civilisations exist. For them, the question is now whether we will encounter them in the near future or a very long time from now, rather than if at all. So let’s imagine that we suddenly stand face-to-face with members of an alien species. What would we do first? Surely communicating that we come in peace would be a priority. But would we ever be able to understand each other?
The one thing we can be confident about exchanging with aliens is scientific information. If the laws of the universe are the same everywhere, then different descriptions of these laws should, in principle, be equivalent. This is the rationale behind initiatives like The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI).
Matters are more complicated when it comes to language, which is the single most important factor in human cooperation. It is by communicating our intentions that we are able to work together in surprisingly large groups. For this reason, it is plausible that any technologically versatile alien civilisation would have something like language. Can we expect to learn such an alien language?
The first hurdle would be its medium. Humans communicate in a 85-255Hz frequency range of sound and in the 430-770 THz frequency range of light. This is unlikely to be true of aliens, who will have evolved differently. Nevertheless, the problem is largely a technical one. Speeded up whale songs that are otherwise inaudible to humans, for instance, show that it is relatively easy to map “alien” stimuli into forms that humans can perceive. The more difficult question is whether we would ever be able to learn the internal structure of an alien language. Existing perspectives in the psychology of language give two very different answers.
The generativist approach, which holds that the structure of language is hardwired into the brain, suggests this wouldn’t be possible. It argues that humans come with an inbuilt universal grammar that has a specific number of settings – each corresponding to the acceptable order in which words and parts of words can be arranged in a given language system. The language we hear in early life activates one of these settings, which then allows us to distinguish between valid and invalid ways of combining words.
The key point is that the number of grammars is very limited. Though the rules of human languages can and do vary, proponents of the generativist model argue they can only do so within strict parameters. For example, the “head directionality” parameter determines whether the verbs in a language precede or follow their complements, with English being head-initial (“Bob gave a cake to Alice”) and Japanese being head-final (“Bob to Alice a cake gave”).
For generativists, it is extremely unlikely that an alien species would happen to have the same parameters as human beings. In the words of Noam Chomsky, the leading proponent of this view: If a Martian landed from outer space and spoke a language that violated universal grammar, we simply would not be able to learn that language the way that we learn a human language like English or Swahili … We’re designed by nature for English, Chinese, and every other possible human language. But we’re not designed to learn perfectly usable languages that violate universal grammar.
The cognitive view, on the other hand, sees semantics (structures of meaning) as being more important than syntax (structures of grammar). According to this view, sentences like “quadruplicity drinks procrastination” are syntactically well-formed but semantically meaningless. For this reason, proponents of the cognitive view argue that grammar alone is not enough to understand language. Instead, it needs to be partnered with knowledge of the concepts that structure how language users think.
We can also look at our own world to see how organisms can have striking similarities, even if they have developed in very different ways and in contrasting environments. This is known as “convergent evolution”. In physical terms, for example, wings and eyes have independently emerged among animals through evolution at several different times over, and birds in ecologically isolated New Zealand have evolved behaviours typically seen in mammals elsewhere. The cognitive view offers hope that human and alien languages might be mutually intelligible.
Some argue that even the most advanced human concepts are built up from basic building blocks that are shared across species, such as notions of past and future; similarity and difference; and agent and object. If an alien species manipulates objects, interacts with its peers and combines concepts, the cognitive approach therefore predicts there might be enough mental architecture in common to make its language accessible to humans. It is implausible, for instance, that an alien species that reproduced biologically would lack concepts for distinguishing between genetically related and unrelated groups.
But is the cognitive view correct? Research on neural networks shows that languages could be learned without specialised structures in the brain. This is important because it means there may be no need to postulate an innate universal grammar to explain language acquisition. Also, it seems there may be human languages that don’t fit in the universal grammar framework. Though these results are far from conclusive (for instance, they can’t explain why humans alone seem to have language), the evidence leans towards the cognitive account.
So, it might be reasonable to assume that humans could learn alien languages. Clearly, there would probably always be aspects of an alien language (like our poetry) that are inaccessible. Equally, some species may occupy such a different mental universe that it is only broadly equivalent to that of humans. Nevertheless, I think we can be cautiously optimistic that universal structures in the physical, biological and social worlds would be enough to anchor human and alien languages in a common semantic framework.
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‘Sensationele vondst': Eerste piramide ontdekt in Kazachstan
‘Sensationele vondst': Eerste piramide ontdekt in Kazachstan
In een afgelegen gebied op de steppe van Kazachstan is een nog onbekende piramide ontdekt. Het bouwwerk moet ooit sterk hebben geleken op de Egyptische piramides. De piramide die in Kazachstan is gevonden, is alleen een stuk ouder.
Archeologen hebben de piramide vorig jaar ontdekt, maar hielden hun ‘sensationele vondst’ stil. Wetenschappers gaan de komende dagen een nog ongeopende grafkamer van het piramidecomplex verkennen.
Machtige stam
De piramide is meer dan 3000 jaar geleden jaar geleden gebouwd in Saryarka voor een leider van een machtige lokale stam, aldus archeoloog Viktor Novozhenov. Alles wat de onderzoekers gaan aantreffen wordt overgebracht naar het archeologiemuseum van de Staatsuniversiteit van Karaganda.
Piramide van Djoser (Wikicommons)
“De vorm van dit schitterende bouwwerk doet ons denken aan de beroemde Piramide van Djoser in Egypte,” zei Novozhenov. In de Sovjettijd werden politieke ballingen verscheept naar Karaganda.
Eerste
Er zijn in de regio inmiddels 27 constructies gevonden die dateren van verschillende tijdperken. Het grootste gebouw bestaat uit vijf stenen trappen. De grafkamer is ruim zeven meter breed. Hoewel er eerder al piramides zijn aangetroffen in Egypte, Mexico en China, is dit de eerste die in Kazachstan is gevonden.
De Britse egyptoloog Toby Wilkinson beargumenteerde in The Guardian dat piramides altijd gericht zijn naar de Poolster en op basis van hun vorm kunnen worden gezien als lanceerplatform voor de reis van de farao naar het hiernamaals tussen de sterren. Hij voegde toe dat de oude Egyptenaren hun inspiratie voor de piramides mogelijk uit de ruimte haalden.
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‘Platform-like’ UFO spotted hovering near Arkansas nuclear plant
‘Platform-like’ UFO spotted hovering near Arkansas nuclear plant
An Arkansas witness at Dover reported watching a “bright, flashy, platform-like object” hovering near the nuclear plant in Russellvillle, according to testimony in Case 61651 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The object was noticed beginning about 1 a.m. on November 8, 2014, which was about 20 miles from the witnesses’ home.
“It emitted multi-colored lights as it stay stationary in the sky,” the witness stated. “For the next following two hours I would check on it periodically.”
The object moved at about 3 a.m.
The witness saw the object hovering near the nuclear power plant near Russellville, AR.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
“It ascended a flight path over my house and was completely out of view within three minutes. Object had no sound and had a strange electromagnetic-like feeling pulsate through my body as it flew over me.”
The witness has tracked other objects in the area and has experience flying aircraft.
Russellville is about 75 miles northwest of Little Rock, Arkansas. (Credit: Google)
Arkansas Nuclear One (ANO) is a two-unit pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant located on Lake Dardanelle just outside Russellville, Arkansas. It is the only nuclear power plant in Arkansas. It is owned by Entergy Arkansas and operated by Entergy Nuclear.
Please remember that most UFO sighting can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
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Une «seconde Terre» découverte, l'exoplanète la plus proche connue à ce jour
Une «seconde Terre» découverte, l'exoplanète la plus proche connue à ce jour
ESPACE Elle se trouverait dans la zone « d’habitabilité », où de l’eau à l’état liquide peut exister...
Proxima du Centaure photographiée par Huble en 2013. C'est autour de cette étoile que la nouvelle exoplanète observée serait en orbite.
ESA/Hubble & NASA
Elle n’a pas de nom, et sa découverte n’a même pas encore été officialisée, mais l’exoplanète apparue récemment dans le viseur des astrophysiciens agite déjà la communauté scientifique. Cette « seconde Terre », comme elle est déjà surnommée, à cause de ses caractéristiques voisines de notre planète, se trouve en effet tout près de nous, à « seulement » 4,24 années-lumière, soit la bagatelle de 40 milliards de kilomètres.
« Jamais les scientifiques n’avaient découvert une "seconde Terre" si proche », s’enthousiasme le magazine allemand Der Spiegel, selon lequel les astrophysiciens de l’Observatoire européen austral (ESO) doivent annoncer fin août la trouvaille. Pour mettre cette proximité en perspective, rappelons que Kepler 452b, dont la découverte a été annoncée l’été dernier, et considérée jusque-là comme l’exoplanète « la plus semblable à la Terre », se trouve à environ 1.400 années-lumière de chez nous.
« Nous étions aux limites de ce qui est techniquement possible de mesurer »
La nouvelle planète, qui orbite autour de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du système solaire, se trouverait, selon l’hebdomadaire, dans la zone « d’habitabilité » où de l’eau à l’état liquide peut exister, ce qui constitue une condition importante à l’existence de la vie.
Mais ses découvreurs se montrent pour l’instant extrêmement peu diserts. Un porte-parole de l’ESO, Richard Hook, a indiqué avoir pris connaissance de l’article, mais s’est refusé à confirmer ou démentir. « Nous ne faisons pas de commentaires », a-t-il simplement déclaré à l’Agence France Presse. « Trouver ce corps spatial était un travail très difficile, a confié un astrophysicien à Der Spiegel, sous couvert d’anonymat. Nous étions aux limites de ce qui est techniquement possible de mesurer. »
Cassini Images Just Captured Deep Liquid-filled Canyons on Titan’s Surface
Cassini Images Just Captured Deep Liquid-filled Canyons on Titan’s Surface
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI
IN BRIEF
Not only does Titan have deep seas, but it now appears to have a network of deep canyons that are filled with liquid hydrocarbons. Scientists published a paper analyzing data gathered by NASA's spacecraft Cassini.
WHAT CHANNEL?
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has ventured to Saturn’s moon, Titan, and discovered canyons with steep sides filled with liquid hydrocarbons. This discovery is the first evidence of the existence of liquid-filled channels as well as deep canyons reaching up to hundreds of meters below the surface of the moon.
A paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters shows the analysis of the data gathered in May 2013 when the spacecraft passed close to Titan. The flyby made in 2013 focused on getting images of the channels that originated in the northern sea, Ligeia Mare.
The observations from Cassini’s radar instrument reveals that the network of channels called Vid Flumina are narrow canyons that are roughly a kilometer (less than half a mile) wide with slopes at least 40 degrees steep and around 240 to 570 meters (790 to 1870 feet) deep.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI
NETWORK OF HYDROCARBONS
The images from Cassini show the channels as dark areas, similar to Titan’s methane-filled seas. This made the scientists believe that the channels are also filled with liquid hydrocarbons. They have no way to prove this until recently.
In previous missions Cassini was used as an imager. This time around, it was used as an altimeter to measure the height of the features of Titan. The radar detected a glint in the channels, indicating a really smooth surface just like in the Titan seas. Radar echoes were also used to measure the channels’ depth.
In the future, scientists will focus on the other channels in the Saturnian moon, exhausting other methods for a more comprehensive understanding of how the Titan’s landscape came to be.
These 4 Alien Species are Really Keen on Harming Humanity!
These 4 Alien Species are Really Keen on Harming Humanity!
The myriad of sightings and abduction cases have allowed us to differentiate the alien species that are currently involved in altering mankind’s development without our consent. Below you will find 7 of the most manipulative and dangerous of them all.
The Anunnaki
A large number of astronomers believe there exists a 12th planet in our solar system. The aptly-called Planet X is identified with Nibiru, the home world of the Anunnaki. Located behind the orbit of Pluto, this planet revolves around the sun in an elliptical orbit and, unlike other planets, it moves counterclockwise. Proponents of alternative history believe Nibiru once collided with a solar system planetoid called Maldek and gave birth to Earth.
The planet’s inhabitants are said to have landed on Earth some 400,000 years ago and colonized it with the intention of stripping it of its precious gold and minerals. For a while, the Anunnaki lived in an idealistic society and acted as mankind’s creators (or genetic engineers) and mentors. They needed an able workforce to do the heavy lifting so they employed in vitro fertilization and genetic engineering to create a new species, Homo sapiens.
It is said the Anunnaki never left Earth and have been secretly guiding (some would rather say hindering) mankind’s development. Almost every aspect of early human life is said to be an inherited trait from them. Our engineered DNA contains the markers of their male dominated, violent and vengeance-inclined typology.
The Anunnaki are believed to be involved in a conflict with the other contender for Earth domination, the Draconians.
The Draconians
Vile and deeply corrupt creatures, the Alpha-Draconians permeated human society eons ago and have kept a tight grip on it ever since. The oldest reptilian race in the Milky Way galaxy, the Draconians came to Earth from Alpha Draconis but their original home world is believed to be in another universe altogether.
Like other reptilians, the Draconians multiply by laying eggs. Unlike other reptilians, they employ the use of a battle hormone to speed up the birthing process and ensure that their spawn exhibits warlike characteristics. Alien theorists surmise that the dualistic nature of mankind is a remnant of Alpha-Draconian domination. In their society, females are not allowed to participate in war. Their role is to produce more soldiers.
A truly giant species, the Alpha-Draconian can measure anywhere from 14 to 22 feet tall and weigh approximately 2,000 pounds. Their massive bodies are covered in dark, leathery scales and some accounts describe them as winged creatures. Perhaps this is what gave rise to the ‘devil’ concept. A highly intelligent species, they are the only lineage of their kind that survived. They eliminated all the other ones.
The Alpha-Draconians are divided into two castes: the giant ones are part of a royal clan called Ciakar while the smaller ones are organized into an effective warrior caste.
Contactee Alex Collier says he was permitted to share some of the knowledge imparted to him by an Andromedan being named Moraney:
The Draconians are the force behind the repression of human populations everywhere in this galaxy, instilling fear-based belief systems and restrictive hierarchies. […]they’re extremely clairvoyant and extremely clever, and they can also be extremely sinister.”
The vain Alpha-Draconians consider themselves the first intelligent species to have appeared in our galaxy. They are ambitious and their expansionist policy led them to conquer many worlds. Their ego is as massive as their size, so they truly believe their rule over lesser evolved worlds is the only valid one. We are seen as an inferior species, so they continue to exploit us.
The Native Reptilians
Not to be confused with the smaller (!) Alpha Draconian warrior caste, the native reptilians are believed to be indigenous to Earth. They also have a long history of interaction with the human society but their preferred method of collaboration usually involves using us as a resource. They have a hand in most upper echelon dealings and occupy positions of power that allow them to rule from the dark.
Described as 8 foot-tall bipedal lizards with humanoid traits, the native reptilians are covered in green scales and emit a foul body odor. They see the world through large eyes with vertical pupils, a trait that is shared by other reptilian species.
Very few information about their kind is known but most accounts identify them as a pioneering race employed by the Alpha-Draconians in their earliest attempts to dominate Earth. They are present in the mythologies of ancient cultures from all over the world and the descriptions match regardless of age or continent: malevolent beings with an increased hostility towards man and his kin.
Hardcore conspiracy theorists will tell you they infiltrated human society to its bone, manipulating the elite into doing their bidding. Our institutions, organizations and financial system were created and are continuously influenced by these reptilians that call Earth home.
The Tall Greys
Bold, bald and pale, the Tall Greys proudly stand 8 feet tall. Considered masters of technology, they act as emissaries in most meetings between man and alien. Their lead position allows them to. They are the genetic engineers of the Short Greys, the species most commonly associated with abductions. Involved in various experiments, they are rumored to have designed human-grey hybrids that walk freely among us. Their preferred MO includes mind control techniques and striking lucrative diplomatic agreements with the global ‘shadow government.’
Most accounts claim they originated somewhere in the Orion constellation but some speculate their advanced technological level could mean they traveled to our universe from another one.
Although they are the real masterminds behind most human abductions and experiments, the Tall Greys rarely show their faces during their unethical procedures. Instead, they prefer to rely on their trusted minions, the Short Greys. One particularly intimidating scenario identifies their intentions as decidedly malicious: they want to develop a solid human-grey race of hybrids, one they consider worthy to become the Earth’s new keepers.
A progressive, egocentric species, the Tall Greys see us as mostly worthless, save for our scientific purposes. For them, the sons and daughters of man are nothing but a commodity. See that you never cross paths with them.
(VIDEO)Scientists Consider that We Could be Living in a Sophisticated Simulation
(VIDEO)Scientists Consider that We Could be Living in a Sophisticated Simulation
We may have to revise our concept of reality, because numerous prominent scientists consider that there is a chance for our world to be a refined hologram, and everything we perceive to be in fact blips of data on a cosmic screen.
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of America’s most acclaimed evolutionary astrophysicists. He has worked in New York City as the Director of the Hayden Planetarium for two decades. He also often participates in television shows, like The Colbert Report or Real Time with Bill Maher.
Even though Dr. Tyson has made some afflicting comments on theism (and also theists) in the past years, he is not an atheist; Tyson is agnostic: he admits that he is “someone who doesn’t know” and “hasn’t really seen evidence for” [i.e., God], but “is prepared to embrace the evidence” if it will ever come to light.
Interestingly, Dr. Tyson recently made some unusual comments during the 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate at the American Museum of Natural History regarding the nature of the Universe. As stated by Dr. Tyson, “the likelihood of the universe being a simulation ‘may be very high.’” Some media organizations stated that Tyson indicated “it’s not too hard to imagine that some other creature out there is far smarter than us. Perhaps we’re just some sort of alien simulation.”
Dr. Tyson went so far as to state, “It is easy for me to imagine that everything in our lives is just the creation of some other entity for their entertainment. I’m saying, the day we learn that it is true, I will be the only one in the room saying, I’m not surprised.”
Isn’t it quite baffling what atheists and evolutionary agnostics will believe and what they will not? Dr. Tyson is a well educated scientist who appears to have absolutely no problem in imagining that aliens made our Universe simply for their pleasure. Still, apparently Tyson does not hold enough data to reach the conclusion that “God actually created the Universe for His own glory” (Psalm 19:1-4; Isaiah 43:7) “and to be inhabited by his human creation” (Isaiah 45:18), “who are made in His image” (Genesis 1:26-27).
The one thing that Dr. Tyson did imply is that everyone should freely admit based on the presented evidence: “[I]t is easy for me to imagine that everything in our lives is just the creation of some other entity” (emp. added). In truth, Creation makes sense. “For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God” (Hebrews 3:4, emp. added). “The heavens declare the glory of the eternal, omnipotent Creator” (Psalm 19:1). Wistfully, men just as Dr. Tyson appear so open to the idea of “super” aliens, still not to The Supernatural Creator, Who will judge our actions. (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14).
Undoubtfully, our universe seems real, but during the past years an increasing number of scientists have started to question if it is all only a refined simulation. So, are we and everything that sourounds us nothing but points of data in an infinite cosmic hologram?
A group of acclaimed scientists, along with Neil deGrasse Tyson, gathered at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History on a Tuesday night for a serious discussion of what may appear more like a sci-fi movie than our reality. Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lisa Randall, a theoretical physicist at Harvard University; Zohreh Davoudi, a theoretical physicist at MIT; David Chalmers, a professor of philosophy at New York University; and James Gates, a theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland, all joined Tyson in this gathering.
Therefore, what do you think are the chances of the universe being a compelx simulation? Tegmark believes it’s about 17 percent, and Randall said zero. In the meanwhile, Chalmers concluded that, “We’re not going to get conclusive proof that we’re not in a simulation, because any proof would be simulated.”
Whatever the case, there’s a chance that Neil deGrase and the other proponents are right, with the percentage being irellevant. After all, this rapid shift in technology provided by the 21st century is offering humanity a novel and never-before experienced perspective over life and reality.
Amazing video reveals the mystery behind the Black Knight Satellite
Amazing video reveals the mystery behind the Black Knight Satellite
The Black Knight Satellite is perhaps one of the most controversial ‘objects’ to orbit our planet. The enigmatic ‘Satellite’ believed to be of Alien origin has caused major media uproar since the late 50’s and has become one of the most discussed topics in recent years.
The ‘Alien’ satellite became famous when the St. Louis Dispatch and The San Francisco Examiner wrote about the “Satellite” on May 14th, 1954.
Even the time Magazine wrote about it on the seventh of March, 1960. Here is what they said about it.
Three weeks ago, headlines announced that the U.S. had detected a mysterious “dark” satellite wheeling overhead on a regular orbit. There was nervous speculation that it might be a surveillance satellite launched by the Russians, and it brought the uneasy sensation that the U.S. did not know what was going on over its own head. But last week the Department of Defense proudly announced that the satellite had been identified. It was a space derelict, the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray. Read the complete story by visiting the Time Magazine website.
On August 23, 1954, the technology magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology released a story about the enigmatic Black Knight Satellite. The story allegedly angered the Pentagon, who tried hard to keep the information about the satellite a secret.
Even Nikola Tesla is said to have intercepted a radio transmission fro the Black Knight. Tesla observed unusual signals from his receiver; Tesla concluded that these signals might be signals that have originated somewhere in space.
He mentioned these signals in a letter to reporter Julian Hawthorne at the Philadelphia North American on 8 December 1899 and in a December 1900 letter about possible discoveries in the new century to the Red Cross Society where he referred to messages “from another world” that read “1… 2… 3…”.
It was believed to be a Russian Spy Satellite at first, however, later studies revealed inconclusive results. But perhaps the biggest question is how long has it been there and who put the mysterious satellite into orbit, and not just any orbit but Polar Orbit.
Interestingly, during the flight of Sputnik 1 in 1957, an Unidentified Flying Object was seen following the spacecraft. Later reports indicated that the enigmatic object seen shadowing the Sputnik was in Polar Orbit, however, in 1957, neither the United States nor the Russians had the necessary technology to maintain a spacecraft in Polar Orbit. This fact raised numerous questions as to what the object was, and who was able to put it into a polar orbit at a time when the two most powerful countries on the surface of the planet, could not. The first Polar-orbiting satellite was launched in 1960.
This video tells us a lot about the mysterious Black Knight Satellite.
What is fascinating is the fact that in modern times, polar orbits are often used for earth-mapping, earth observation, capturing the earth as time passes from one point and reconnaissance satellites. This would put the Black Knight in the category of an observational Satellite.
The Black Knight was extremely impressive, not only for media but for governmental agencies and private corporations. On September 3, 1960, seven months after the satellite was first detected by radar, a tracking camera at Grumman Aircraft Corporation’s Long Island factory took a photograph of the Black Knight satellite.
Three years after the mystery object was tracked on radar, in 1963, Gordon Cooper was launched into space, and on the last orbit, the American astronaut reported seeing a mysterious object with a green glow in front of his capsule, moving towards him. The Muchea tracking station, in Australia, which Cooper reported the object to, picked up this Unidentified object on Radar travelling East to West.
What the Black Knight Satellite remains a great mystery for some, and while many have rejected the existence of the satellite, many believe the object exists but is nothing more than space debris floating around.
Amazing video reveals the mystery behind the Black Knight Satellite
Amazing video reveals the mystery behind the Black Knight Satellite
The Black Knight Satellite is perhaps one of the most controversial ‘objects’ to orbit our planet. The enigmatic ‘Satellite’ believed to be of Alien origin has caused major media uproar since the late 50’s and has become one of the most discussed topics in recent years.
The ‘Alien’ satellite became famous when the St. Louis Dispatch and The San Francisco Examiner wrote about the “Satellite” on May 14th, 1954.
Even the time Magazine wrote about it on the seventh of March, 1960. Here is what they said about it.
Three weeks ago, headlines announced that the U.S. had detected a mysterious “dark” satellite wheeling overhead on a regular orbit. There was nervous speculation that it might be a surveillance satellite launched by the Russians, and it brought the uneasy sensation that the U.S. did not know what was going on over its own head. But last week the Department of Defense proudly announced that the satellite had been identified. It was a space derelict, the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray. Read the complete story by visiting the Time Magazine website.
On August 23, 1954, the technology magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology released a story about the enigmatic Black Knight Satellite. The story allegedly angered the Pentagon, who tried hard to keep the information about the satellite a secret.
Even Nikola Tesla is said to have intercepted a radio transmission fro the Black Knight. Tesla observed unusual signals from his receiver; Tesla concluded that these signals might be signals that have originated somewhere in space.
He mentioned these signals in a letter to reporter Julian Hawthorne at the Philadelphia North American on 8 December 1899 and in a December 1900 letter about possible discoveries in the new century to the Red Cross Society where he referred to messages “from another world” that read “1… 2… 3…”.
It was believed to be a Russian Spy Satellite at first, however, later studies revealed inconclusive results. But perhaps the biggest question is how long has it been there and who put the mysterious satellite into orbit, and not just any orbit but Polar Orbit.
Interestingly, during the flight of Sputnik 1 in 1957, an Unidentified Flying Object was seen following the spacecraft. Later reports indicated that the enigmatic object seen shadowing the Sputnik was in Polar Orbit, however, in 1957, neither the United States nor the Russians had the necessary technology to maintain a spacecraft in Polar Orbit. This fact raised numerous questions as to what the object was, and who was able to put it into a polar orbit at a time when the two most powerful countries on the surface of the planet, could not. The first Polar-orbiting satellite was launched in 1960.
This video tells us a lot about the mysterious Black Knight Satellite.
What is fascinating is the fact that in modern times, polar orbits are often used for earth-mapping, earth observation, capturing the earth as time passes from one point and reconnaissance satellites. This would put the Black Knight in the category of an observational Satellite.
The Black Knight was extremely impressive, not only for media but for governmental agencies and private corporations. On September 3, 1960, seven months after the satellite was first detected by radar, a tracking camera at Grumman Aircraft Corporation’s Long Island factory took a photograph of the Black Knight satellite.
Three years after the mystery object was tracked on radar, in 1963, Gordon Cooper was launched into space, and on the last orbit, the American astronaut reported seeing a mysterious object with a green glow in front of his capsule, moving towards him. The Muchea tracking station, in Australia, which Cooper reported the object to, picked up this Unidentified object on Radar travelling East to West.
What the Black Knight Satellite remains a great mystery for some, and while many have rejected the existence of the satellite, many believe the object exists but is nothing more than space debris floating around.
Amazing video reveals the mystery behind the Black Knight Satellite
Amazing video reveals the mystery behind the Black Knight Satellite
The Black Knight Satellite is perhaps one of the most controversial ‘objects’ to orbit our planet. The enigmatic ‘Satellite’ believed to be of Alien origin has caused major media uproar since the late 50’s and has become one of the most discussed topics in recent years.
The ‘Alien’ satellite became famous when the St. Louis Dispatch and The San Francisco Examiner wrote about the “Satellite” on May 14th, 1954.
Even the time Magazine wrote about it on the seventh of March, 1960. Here is what they said about it.
Three weeks ago, headlines announced that the U.S. had detected a mysterious “dark” satellite wheeling overhead on a regular orbit. There was nervous speculation that it might be a surveillance satellite launched by the Russians, and it brought the uneasy sensation that the U.S. did not know what was going on over its own head. But last week the Department of Defense proudly announced that the satellite had been identified. It was a space derelict, the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray. Read the complete story by visiting the Time Magazine website.
On August 23, 1954, the technology magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology released a story about the enigmatic Black Knight Satellite. The story allegedly angered the Pentagon, who tried hard to keep the information about the satellite a secret.
Even Nikola Tesla is said to have intercepted a radio transmission fro the Black Knight. Tesla observed unusual signals from his receiver; Tesla concluded that these signals might be signals that have originated somewhere in space.
He mentioned these signals in a letter to reporter Julian Hawthorne at the Philadelphia North American on 8 December 1899 and in a December 1900 letter about possible discoveries in the new century to the Red Cross Society where he referred to messages “from another world” that read “1… 2… 3…”.
It was believed to be a Russian Spy Satellite at first, however, later studies revealed inconclusive results. But perhaps the biggest question is how long has it been there and who put the mysterious satellite into orbit, and not just any orbit but Polar Orbit.
Interestingly, during the flight of Sputnik 1 in 1957, an Unidentified Flying Object was seen following the spacecraft. Later reports indicated that the enigmatic object seen shadowing the Sputnik was in Polar Orbit, however, in 1957, neither the United States nor the Russians had the necessary technology to maintain a spacecraft in Polar Orbit. This fact raised numerous questions as to what the object was, and who was able to put it into a polar orbit at a time when the two most powerful countries on the surface of the planet, could not. The first Polar-orbiting satellite was launched in 1960.
This video tells us a lot about the mysterious Black Knight Satellite.
What is fascinating is the fact that in modern times, polar orbits are often used for earth-mapping, earth observation, capturing the earth as time passes from one point and reconnaissance satellites. This would put the Black Knight in the category of an observational Satellite.
The Black Knight was extremely impressive, not only for media but for governmental agencies and private corporations. On September 3, 1960, seven months after the satellite was first detected by radar, a tracking camera at Grumman Aircraft Corporation’s Long Island factory took a photograph of the Black Knight satellite.
Three years after the mystery object was tracked on radar, in 1963, Gordon Cooper was launched into space, and on the last orbit, the American astronaut reported seeing a mysterious object with a green glow in front of his capsule, moving towards him. The Muchea tracking station, in Australia, which Cooper reported the object to, picked up this Unidentified object on Radar travelling East to West.
What the Black Knight Satellite remains a great mystery for some, and while many have rejected the existence of the satellite, many believe the object exists but is nothing more than space debris floating around.
VIDEO: Heeft Rusland bewijs voor buitenaards contact?
VIDEO: Heeft Rusland bewijs voor buitenaards contact?
Het kosmisme, het geloof dat de menselijke beschaving uit de kosmos komt en ooit zal terugkeren naar de ruimte, stamt uit Rusland. Velen geloven dat de opkomst van het communisme heeft geleid tot een muur van geheimzinnigheid rond buitenaards contact in het land.
Al sinds het moment dat Joeri Gagarin in 1961 als eerste mens de ruimte in ging, hebben astronauten en kosmonauten onverklaarbare visioenen en ervaringen in de ruimte gehad.
“Een anonieme kosmonaut zei dat hij samen met een andere kosmonaut in de ruimte iets tegen hem hoorde praten in zijn hoofd,” zegt historicus Richard Dolan.
Niet klaar
“De kosmonauten kregen te horen dat het hun verre voorouders waren,” zegt schrijver David Childress. “Ze kregen ook te horen dat ze terug moesten gaan omdat Rusland niet klaar was.”
Schrijver Paul Stonehill merkt op dat kosmonauten alleen onder elkaar spraken over hun ervaringen uit angst om hun baan te verliezen. Ze kwamen tot de ontdekking dat er veel meer kosmonauten waren die dergelijke ervaringen hadden, aldus Stonehill.
Op 12 juli 1984 zagen drie kosmonauten aan boord van Saljoet 7 een vreemde oranje gloed rond het ruimteschip. “Ze dachten in eerste instantie aan een gaslek. Plots werd het hele ruimteschip omringd door de gloed,” vertelt Nick Pope, die jarenlang werkzaam was voor het Britse ministerie van Defensie. “Langzaam veranderde de gloed in een vorm.”
Gevleugelde wezens
De kosmonauten zagen naar eigen zeggen 10 minuten lang zeven engelachtige wezens. Op aarde concludeerden functionarissen dat het drietal had gehallucineerd als gevolg van zuurstofgebrek en drukverschillen. Later die zomer arriveerden er nog drie kosmonauten bij Saljoet 7. Alle zes zagen ze opnieuw de gevleugelde wezens.
Eind 2012 zei de toenmalige Russische premier Dmitry Medvedev tijdens een live televisie-interview met journalisten van de vijf belangrijkste Russische televisiekanalen dat hij niet bekend wilde maken hoeveel buitenaardse wezens zich op aarde bevinden omdat dat voor paniek zou zorgen.
“Samen met de koffer met nucleaire codes, krijgt de president van dit land een speciale map,” zei hij. “Deze map bevat ultrageheime informatie over de buitenaardse wezens die onze planeet bezochten. Daarbij krijg je ook een rapport van de absoluut geheime speciale eenheden die de controle uitoefenen op de buitenaardse wezens in onsland.”
Astronomische sensatie: “Tweede aarde ontdekt bij dichtstbijzijnde ster”
Astronomische sensatie: “Tweede aarde ontdekt bij dichtstbijzijnde ster”
De Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht (ESO) in Chili gaat eind deze maand naar alle waarschijnlijkheid de vondst bekendmaken van een nieuwe planeet die een zusje kan zijn van de onze. Dat sensationele bericht brengt het Duitse bladDer Spiegel.
De exoplaneet draait rond Proxima Centauri, de dichtstbijzijnde soortgenoot van de zon. De planeet zou zich in de bewoonbare zone rond de ster bevinden en er zou ook vloeibaar water kunnen zijn. In theorie zouden er zelfs levensvormen kunnen voorkomen op het oppervlak van de planeet.
Zeer moeilijk
Astronomen hebben nog nooit een zusterplaneet van de aarde gevonden die zo dichtbij was. Het is namelijk de dichtstbijzijnde planeet buiten ons zonnestelsel. Woordvoerder van de ESO Richard Hook zei geen commentaar te willen geven op de ontdekking. Een anonieme astrofysicus vertelde het blad dat het zeer moeilijk was om de planeet te vinden.
Met één van de telescopen van de ESO hebben astronomen gekeken of Proxima Centauri kleine, regelmatige schommelbewegingen vertoont. Die zijn een teken dat er een planeet om de ster draait. Volgens Der Spiegel zou bij de zoekactie zijn vastgesteld dat er een kleine planeet om de ster cirkelt. Er wordt zelfs gesproken van een ‘tweede aarde’.
Kepler
Vorig jaar kondigde de NASA de ontdekking van een andere zusterplaneet van de aarde aan. Kepler 542b bevindt zich op 1400 lichtjaar van de aarde en is waarschijnlijk een rotsachtige planeet met een dichte atmosfeer en grote hoeveelheden water.
A Washington witness at Deming reported watching a triangle UFO moving down the side of Mount Baker in a rapid motion with bright lights, according to testimony in Case 78088 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first noticed bright lights over the top of Mount Baker, pictured.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The witness was outside cooling off at 9:45 p.m. on July 27, 2016, when lights in the distance caught his eye.
“My eyes caught a light coming over the top of Mount Baker traveling to the west I thought,” the witness stated. “Then it changed direction and started coming down the side of the mountain very, very rapidly. Several thousands of feet per minute I think.”
The witness watched the object as it moved downward.
“It leveled off and headed toward Bellingham Bay to the southwest. As it leveled out I could see that it was a triangle with bright lights and maybe red-orange lights on the sides.”
The case was investigated by Washington State Section Director Timothy Ward and closed as an Unknown.
The object began a rapid descent down the side of Mount Baker, pictured.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Ward noted in his report that the weather was 68F, Dew point 60F, Winds 4 mph out of the south.
“The witness stated after the sighting he walked down to a neighbors to see if they saw anything,” Ward stated. “A neighbor two houses down said he did see something, but wasn’t sure what it was, but said he saw the same object, but didn’t see the triangle shape, but did see a light leaving to the southwest.”
Ward concluded the case.
“I will be concluding this as a UAV because of the triangle shape and rapid descend before changing direction. No known aircraft except a F-117 could do this and none known to fly in this area or this way. No noise was heard and witness stated that it was bigger than a drone.”
The witness could make out the triangle shape. Pictured: Deming, WA, looking toward Mount Baker.
(Credit: Google)
Deming is in Whatcom County, Washington, population 353. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
VOORSPELLING VAN EDGAR CAYCYE LIJKT TOCH UIT TE KOMEN ( VIDEO )
VOORSPELLING VAN EDGAR CAYCYE LIJKT TOCH UIT TE KOMEN ( VIDEO )
“Door Rusland zal de hoop voor de wereld komen”, zo zei Cayce. “Niet door wat men soms noemt Communisme of Bolsjewisme. Nee, maar vrijheid, vrijheid”.
Er is een reden dat Rusland nu wordt gedemoniseerd en dat alles voert terug naar een tijd en een volk dat door sommigen wordt vergeleken met een virus.
In een gebied wat nu Oekraïne en de Krim is, woonde in vroegere tijden een volk dat men de Chazaren noemde.
De Chazaren hadden een steppengebied tussen de rivieren de Wolga en de Dnjepr en de zuidelijke Kaukasus, ten noordoosten van Moskou en de bovenloop van de Wolga. Het rijk bestond van 552 tot 967 en in het begin bestond het uit verschillende Turkse stammen. Toen het groeide kwamen ze de Göktürken tegen. Na hun veroveringen onderwierpen zij deels de Altyn Oba-horde en hun bewoners gingen uiteindelijk inelkaar op.
Pas toen er een einde kwam aan de onderdrukking van de Göktürken in 766 waren zij toch nog met zoveel om in gevecht te kunnen gaan met de omliggende grootmachten, het Islamitische Kalifaat van de Abbasiden en het Christelijke Byzantijnse Rijk. Toen Cyrillus de Chazaren aanbood hen tot het Christendom te bekeren, gaven zij de voorkeur aan een vorm van Jodendom, omdat er Joden in dit nomadenvolk waren opgegaan met wie ze veel handel dreven".
Evert Jan Poorterman zei over dat volk het volgende:
Die gebruikt de doorgaans minder bewuste mensen in het Midden-Oosten om op te marcheren en Europa te ontregelen, maar achter de schermen heeft Enlil zeer ingenieuze handlangers; de Chazaren/Khazaren (Askhenazi, jooddietsen of de jiddische joden). Die hebben geweldige kwaliteiten; intrige, manipulatie, hebzucht en de drang naar geld en rijkdom en macht. Zij zijn de genen die achter de meeste tegen de blanken gerichte acties zitten. Dat mag gezegd worden. Dat is de afgelopen decennia steeds duidelijker geworden. We wisten het vroeger niet; maar nu wel - ze stammen niet af van de stam van Juda, maar zijn slechts aan de Turken en Perzen verwante volken die het ‘joodse geloof’ hebben aangenomen. Maar daarmee zijn ze nog geen Joden; wel ‘joden’ met een kleine j.
Chazarenrussenjoden met bontmutsen:
De Chazaren worden door auteur en onderzoeker Katherine Frisk vergeleken met een virus dat zich overal weet binnen te wurmen en zich voordoet als iets wat ze niet zijn.
Zij heeft uitgebreid onderzoek gedaan naar deze Chazaren en dan zie je uiteindelijk waarom Rusland op dit moment aan alle kanten wordt gedemoniseerd door het Westen.
Het einddoel van de Chazaren is de onderwerping van Rusland, de controle van Centraal Azië en de bezetting van de Zijde Route die al duizenden jaren een belangrijke handelsweg is van oost naar west. Wanneer ze ook dit alles in handen hebben, hebben ze in feite de door hen uiteindelijk gewenste wereldcontrole.
Wat inmiddels bekend is, is dat een deel van de Chazaren zich bekeerde tot het Jodendom en vanaf dat moment Joods was, maar ook is er een deel naar West Europa getrokken, waar velen zich bekeerden tot het Rooms katholieke geloof. Deze infiltratie van Chazaren in de katholieke kerk gebeurde in de periode tussen de 8e en de 12e eeuw.
In diezelfde periode trok een deel van de Chazaren naar het Midden Oosten en bekeerde zich tot voornamelijk Soennitische moslims. Het is dan ook rond deze tijd dat het verhaal van de Mahdi verschijnt, de Sjiitische afstammeling van Mohammed. Deze Mahdi zal de krachten bundelen met Jezus en samen zullen ze de Antichrist bestrijden.
Daarmee waren er nu drie verschillende groepen Chazaren. De eerste die zich had bekeerd tot het Jodendom, de tweede die katholiek was geworden en de derde die zich tot de islam had bekeerd.
Alledrie de groepen hadden een gemeenschappelijk doel; de vernietiging van de christelijk orthodoxe kerk.
De Chazaar Joden trokken onder andere naar Venetië waar ze hun woekerbanken vestigden. Met de medewerking en assistentie van het Vaticaan contracteerden en financieren ze kruisvaarder huurlingen om de christelijk orhtodoxe kerk in Griekenland, het gebied dat nu West Turkije is, te vernietigen.
De totale vernietiging werd uiteindelijk voor elkaar gekregen door de Chazaren die in de 15e eeuw waren bekeerd tot Soennitische moslims. Hierna ging een combinatie van de Chazaar Joden en de Chazaar moslims verder om het Ottomaanse Rijk te bouwen.
Vervolgens ging de islam in het Midden Oosten op een beestachtige wijze tekeer in wat nu Syrië is en wat ooit onderdeel vormde van het christelijk orthodox Byzantijnse rijk. De christenen werden afgeslacht en hun kerken vernietigd.
Ze gingen verder met deze politiek door het gehele Midden Oosten en door geheel Noord Afrika dat eveneens grotendeels orthodox christelijk was.
In de 19e eeuw ging een Chazaar Jood uit Turkije naar Arabië, trouwde daar met een moslim vrouw, bekeerde zich tot de islam, slachtte vervolgens alle leiders van lokale stammen af en installeerde zichzelf als alleenheerser. Dit werd later de koninklijke Saoedische familie.
De Chazaar bankiersfamilies trokken van Venetië naar Bologna en van daaruit door naar Duitsland, waar ze Napoleon financierden met als enig doel de onderwerping van Rusland en de vernietiging van de Russisch Orthodoxe kerk. Deze kerk was na de vernietiging van Constantinopel (Istanboel) verhuisd naar Moskou.
In Duitsland richtten ze de Illuminati op en ontwierpen de politieke concepten van facisme en heerschappij door bedrijven (corporate ownership). Volgens Frisk gebeurde dit alles in samenwerking met de Jezuïeten die zoals we in een eerder artikel schreven, zijn opgericht door tot katholieken bekeerde Joden. Aangezien er ook Chazaarse Joden naar Spanje zijn getrokken en zij bekendstaan als mensen die zich heel gemakkelijk tot een ander geloof of identiteit bekeren, zijn ook de tot katholieken bekeerde oprichters waarschijnlijk Chazaarse Joden.
Bij de oprichting van de Illuminati maakten ze ook weer gebruik van een bekende tactiek. Ze namen de identiteit van hun vijanden aan. Ze gebruikten de symbolen en gewoontes van de vrijmetselaars en pasten deze aan. Eén van die takken staat bekend als de Vaticaan P2 loge.
Velen van hen infiltreerden in de loges van de vrijmetselarij en creëerden de hogere graden, waar ingewijden trouw zweren aan de Zionisten, de Paus en de koninklijke Saoedische familie.
Waar ze ook gaan, ze infiltreren en worden de mensen die ze willen vernietigen, zoals een virus. Volgens Katharine Frisk zijn de Protocollen van Zion een plagiaat van de eed van de Jezuïeten en vormen ze een spiegelbeeld van dezelfde filosofie.
In combinatie met deze infiltratie moedigen ze de vernietiging aan van moraal, waarden en normen. Ze zullen altijd pornografie ondersteunen, maar ook prostitutie, pedofilie, abortus, drugs, gokken en ieder ander mogelijk corrupt sociaal gedrag.
Ze weten dat wanneer ze erin slagen om de gezinsstructuur te ontwrichten, ze een clan systeem kunnen afbreken en dit centraliseren onder één enkele autoriteit. Op deze manier kunnen ze landen vernietigen en mensen omvormen tot slaven. Door de eeuwen heen zijn ze er steeds beter in geworden en tegenwoordig hebben ze natuurlijk de beschikking over de media en het internet.
Ze hebben controle genomen van de City van Londen, voornamelijk door de invloed van de Rothschild familie en het Vaticaan; allemaal één pot nat. Van daaruit hebben ze controle gekregen over Amerika middels de oprichting van de Federal Reserve Bank (FED).
In plaats van een federale republiek, staat Amerika nu onder controle van Washington D.C. en het Federal Reserve woekerbanksysteem.
Tijdens de laatste eeuw hebben ze het Amerikaanse leger gebruikt voor één enkele doelstelling en dat is de vernietiging van Rusland en alles wat daar nog over is van de orthodox christelijke kerk.
Dan de huidige situatie: Het volgende stuk is afkomstig uit een mainstream artikel twee jaar geleden toen Poetin hulpgoederen naar het oosten van Oekraïne zond en wat veel verraad over de achtergronden zoals hierboven beschreven.
Vorige maand kreeg het Russische ‘humanitaire’ konvooi voor de ogen van de internationale pers kort voor vertrek nog de zegen van een Russisch-orthodoxe priester. Dat was niet toevallig. President Poetin zoekt en vindt steeds nadrukkelijker de steun van de Russisch-orthodoxe kerk voor zijn politieke handelen. Van scheiding tussen kerk en staat is in Rusland amper nog sprake. Nog zorgwekkender is de vermenging van een agressief imperialisme met de orthodoxe theologie. De explosieve ideologische mix bedreigt vooral Europa.
Op 20 augustus 2000 werd het laatste – in 1918 door de communisten vermoorde – Russische tsarengezin heilig verklaard door de Russisch-orthodoxe kerk. Minder dan een jaar voordien was Poetin, als opvolger van de plotseling afgetreden Jeltsin, voor het eerst aangetreden als president van Rusland. Het waren gebeurtenissen die een stevige vervlechting van kerk en Kremlin aankondigden: inmiddels trekken Patriarch Kirill van Moskou (de leider van de Russisch-orthodoxe kerk) en Poetin gezamenlijk op in hun gedeelde afkeer van het Westen. De politieke gevolgen daarvan beginnen we steeds nadrukkelijker te zien.
Het soort commentaar dat je kunt verwachten bij de door de Chazaren gecontroleerde media.
Onze eindconclusie is dan ook dat Rusland en met het land ook de president Vladimir Poetin geen onderdeel vormt van de kliek die de New World Order op poten wil zetten.
Dat Rusland en haar Orthodoxe kerk één van de laatste bolwerken zijn die staan tussen een wereld volledig in handen van de Chazaren en vrijheid.
Waarbij dan de bekende profeet Edgar Cayce toch gelijk gaat krijgen en de New World Order uiteindelijk het onderspit zal delven. (Feestje!)
Het volgende is een deel uit een artikel dat wij schreven een dag na het neerhalen van vlucht MH17 boven het oosten van Oekraïne.
In deze “endgame” waarin wij ons op dit moment bevinden, gaat het om niets anders dan de totale wereldheerschappij (NWO). Iemand die zich daar niet bij heeft neergelegd en dit ook niet zal accepteren is Vladimir Poetin en zijn Rusland. Sterker nog, niet alleen werkt hij niet mee aan de voorgenomen wereldheerschappij van Amerika/Israël, hij ligt zelfs volkomen dwars, zoals vorig jaar ook bleek in Syrië.
“Echter, waarschijnlijk heeft een Amerikaanse topdiplomaat, Christopher R. Hill, de spijker op z'n kop geslagen door te zeggen dat Rusland de “New World Order” heeft verraden, een Order waar zij volgens Hill de laatste 25 jaar onderdeel van hebben uitgemaakt.
Volgens Hill bestond voor Rusland de weg naar de New World Order uit Russische deelname aan de westerse systemen, instituten, markteconomieën en een parlementaire democratie. Met andere woorden, een New World Order geleid door de Jezuïeten met als voornaamste uitvoerende macht de bankiers en megabedrijven.
Zo zegt Hill dat het toegeven en meewerken van Rusland aan deze New World Order één van de belangrijkst behaalde mijlpalen was in het tijdperk na de Koude Oorlog. Eigenlijk is hij een beetje verbaasd dat Rusland al die voordelen van de The New World Order laat voor wat ze zijn en volkomen maling schijnt te hebben aan het “grotere doel”.
Poetin zelf heeft aangeven niet te zullen bezwijken onder druk, opgelegd door anderen, zoals we schreven in een eerder artikel:
In maart 2012 hield Vladimir Poetin na zijn verkiezing tot president met tranen in zijn ogen in Moskou een historische toespraak voor het Russische volk.
In die toespraak waarschuwde hij voor krachten die erop uit waren op Rusland “op te slurpen” en dat er niets en niemand is die aan Rusland zijn wil gaat opleggen. Na ongeveer anderhalve minuut in onderstaande korte video kun je dit horen:
De vraag waarom dit alles gebeurt in de Oekraïne is daarmee beantwoord. De echte hamvraag is of Poetin zal afwachten en alle voortdurende provocaties zal blijven slikken. Of zal hij omdat hij uiteraard ook weet wat de uiteindelijke uitkomst zal zijn, besluiten om zelf eerder in actie te komen.
Op een hoger niveau is het een strijd tussen licht en duister. Zoals we schreven in een eerder artikel in verband met het Derde geheim van Fatima:
Er wordt ook gezegd in Rusland dat Poetin één van de “zeven speciale kinderen” is van de nationale orthodoxe kerk. Kinderen die zijn geselecteerd, opgevoed en beschermd door de kerk gedurende de afgelopen honderd jaar. Poetin zou van deze zeven de laatste zijn en voorbestemd om Rusland te leiden naar wat wij de eindtijd zouden noemen.
Het is dan ook waarschijnlijk dat de door Poetin met buitenaardsen gesloten overeenkomst met volledige instemming en medewerking van de Russisch orthodoxe kerk is gebeurd. Ook dat Poetin het spel met het satanische westen heeft meegespeeld tot het moment dat de tijd rijp werd geacht om te breken. Te oordelen naar de toespraak uit begin 2012 zal dat ergens kort voor die datum hebben plaatsgevonden.
Dat de door Amerika en de daarachter opererende satanische krachten uiteindelijk niet zullen zegevieren, werd al in de jaren dertig van de vorige eeuw voorspeld door de beroemde “slapende profeet” Edgar Cayce, zoals wij schreven in een eerder artikel:
In de jaren dertig deed Cayce een voorspelling over de “zonden” van wat hij noemde de “key nations”, de belangrijkste landen ter wereld.
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Hij zei in die voorspelling verder dat Rusland het baken van hoop voor de wereld zal worden.
Cayce voorspelde zowel het begin als het eind van de Eerste en Tweede Wereldoorlog. In de jaren '20 waarschuwde hij voor de komende rassenonlusten in Amerika en hij voorspelde de dood van twee presidenten.
“Door Rusland zal de hoop voor de wereld komen”, zo zei Cayce. “Niet door wat men soms noemt Communisme of Bolsjewisme. Nee, maar vrijheid, vrijheid. Dat ieder mens zal leven voor zijn medemens. Dat principe is daar geboren. Het zal jaren duren voordat dit zich zal uitkristalliseren, maar toch zal vanuit Rusland de hoop van de wereld weer komen”
I found this photo of the Mars moon Phobos and its very unusual. I only enhanced its natural color and found that its pink on its left, silver at its center, and green on its right. Its a metallic surface! Its actually ingenious, but NASA used the micro imager to take a distant view of the moon...using it like a telescope. I have seen them do this a few times with distance mars structures, but never a moon. This is the natural color and shape of Phobos. What NASA normally shows us is a fake brown soil color egg shaped moon, which is not what we are seeing here. Obviously NASA has lied about it and I believe its because Phobos is not a moon, but a hollow space station.
ESA illustration above.
I remember a ESA report from 2013 that stated that Phobos was hollow and they even had an illustration of its interior. The stated, "We conclude that the interior of Phobos likely contains large voids,” states the ESA report. This explains why its orbit is mathematically impossible and why astronomers say its not a natural moon, or a captured moon, but an alien ship that put itself in orbit to protect Mars...and looking at the surface of Mars...its seems to have failed. In 1989, Russia sent a satellite to inspect Phobos...it made it all the way there, and took its first photo, which captured a long UFO right below Phobos...then all went black. The Russian satellite was totally obliterated from existence. One photo made it back...nothing more. Click here to view that photo of the UFO near Phobos. This is an old well known fact among UFO researchers...Phobos was intelligently made, but for what purpose? To monitor possible threats to Mars, or from Mars? Or to house survivors of the Mars war or solar explosion that destroyed Mars? Does it really matter? The fact is...Phobos is an alien made space ship. Lets get it...we sure as hell could use it to get off this planet.
Two Cylinder UFOs Over California During Sunset, July 31, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Two Cylinder UFOs Over California During Sunset, July 31, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 31, 2016
Location of sighting: Cheticamp, California, USA
News source: MUFON #78448
These UFOs were caught during sunset which makes them easier to see. They are both cylinder shaped and following one another. This is an amazing catch, and clearly they are both similar objects, as you see from the close ups I made. These look similar to UFOs that have been reported over Vegas and Denver over the last few years.
On July 31st, I was taking pictures of the sunset. Right after I've noticed behind me when I turned these 2 objects moving without making a sound, no trail behind them like a jet. They were moving fast. I took of few pictures. these objects were moving at the same speed and about 2 miles apart and kept that distance until disappearing behind the mountain. My car starter stopped working. I could not unlock my car with the remote, then it started working well 2 days after. My cell phone was still working.
A fast moving, bright sphere UFO at Ocala in Florida was caught on video traveling toward the ground level, according to MUFON Case 78114. The reporting witness was with his friend outside a porch to observe an approaching storm system at around 8:30 pm on July 31, 2016, when they noticed the unidentified flying object hovering in place before moving.
The witness stated that the mysterious flying sphere was initially moving into them fast from the distant sky to the south. He noted the color as bluish tint but didn’t seem to cast light in any direction.
As the object moved closer to the witnesses, it stopped abruptly and hovered for several minutes. At this point, the reporting witness started to video it with his cell phone. Then after around 90 seconds, the unknown aerial object flashed off and left a pulsating or blinking red light.
For a better look, the reporting witness’ friend took down the road to get another or better view of the strange flying thing. When the UFO became a blinking red light, the witness saw other red lights from far away. He recorded a few minutes more of the flashing red before it started moving again. He saw it making several circular patterns before returning to fully illuminated state.
At this point, the object moved away, descended below some trees, started moving from right to left and disappeared to his view. He heard car horns honking and dogs barking after the UFO disappeared. When his friend came back from down the street, she reported same things he observed, including the hovering, changing of color, and descending out of view. She said that the strange object was much bigger than a drone and no characteristics of a helicopter.
MUFON Florida chief investigator John A. Gagnon stated that the object wasn’t a Chinese lantern as the witness said the object traveled between 2,000 and 2,500 mph. In his investigation, he found that the witness has a four-year history of military service with the U.S. Air Force. Gagnon did not rule out drones as they can be dressed up with LED light kits and might be moving faster than their actual speed at night without a frame of reference. However, he can’t find concrete evidence that the UFO was a drone, so he closed the case as unknown.
Daytime UFO activity in the sky above Cheticamp, Canada 31-Jul-2016
Daytime UFO activity in the sky above Cheticamp, Canada 31-Jul-2016
Here are some interesting photos of a possible unidentified flying objects in the sky above Cheticamp in Nova Scotia, Canada. This happened on 31st July 2016.
Witness report:
On July 31st, I was taking pictures of the sunset. Right after I’ve noticed behind me when I turned these 2 objects moving without making a sound, no trail behind them like a jet. They were moving fast. I took of few pictures. these objects were moving at the same speed and about 2 miles apart and kept that distance until disappearing behind the mountain. My car starter stopped working. I could not unlock my car with the remote, then it started working well the 2 days after. My cell phone was still working.
Secret army of UFOs is plotting war against us from under the SEA, new book claims
BYPHILIP MANTLE , PAUL STONEHILL
Everyone has heard the term UFO but few have heard of its underwater counterpart USO -unidentified submersible object - but a new book lifts the lid on the phenomenon
An artist's impression of an unidentified submerged object
It has often been said that we know more about the surface of the Moon than we do about the world’s seas and oceans.
The study of USOs (Unidentified Submersible Objects) is a case in point.
For years, strange phenomena have been reported by people at sea, especially by Naval personel.
Many of the reports lie in the USO files of the Soviet and Russian Navy and remain secret however some have filtered out.
In their new book authors Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle reveal stories of strange encounters by the Soviet and Russian Navy with unexplained objects.
The two experts say most of these stories have never been told outside of Russia but they provide yet more evidence that we are not alone.
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The Russian Navy have had encounters with strange objects
Indeed, they suggest a permanent presence of something unusual in the depths of Earth's large bodies of water.
Here Philip describes the pair's findings:
For decades now these mysterious underwater UFOs have been observed in the Earth’s oceans and lakes and the one country in the world that seems to have had more such sightings is Russia.
The Soviet Union's military fleet commanders guarded its secret of the USO subject and those witnesses who tried to go public were swiftly ridiculed and their sightings were officially debunked.
But despite their best efforts USO reports were made public and no matter what the Soviet officials tried to do the USOs will not simply go away.
Our knowledge of the depths of the seas and oceans and large lakes is very limited - it is said that we know more about the surface of the moon than the depths of the oceans - but these are some of the sightings which hint at a world beneath the waves.
THE SWIMMERS
Philip Mantle
An artist's impression of The Swimmers
One of the most peculiar of all such underwater encounters is one known as ‘The Swimmers’.
In the summer of 1982 Mark Shteynberg, along with Lt. Colonel Gennady Zverev Soviet Navy), conducted periodic training of the reconnaissance divers from the Turkestan and Central Asian military regions.
Some of these training exercises took place at the Issyk Kul Lake in Krygyzstan.
Quite unexpectedly, the officers were paid a visit by a very important official, Major-General V. Demyanenko, commander of the Military Diver Service of the Engineer Forces of the Ministry of Defence.
He informed the local officers of an extraordinary event that had occurred during similar training exercises in the Trans-Baikal and West Siberian military regions.
There, during their military training dives in Lake Baikal, the frogmen had encountered mysterious underwater swimmers, very human-like, except that their size was much larger--almost three meters tall.
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The 1955 film Revenge of the Creature told of a strange animal under the sea
Despite icy-cold water temperatures and a depth of fifty meters, they were dressed only in tight-fitting silvery suits with neither scuba diving equipment, nor any other equipment - only sphere-like helmets concealing their heads.
The local military commander, who was quite alarmed by such encounters, decided on a plan to capture one of the creatures.
To complete the mission, a special group of seven divers, under the command of an officer, had been dispatched.
Apparently, as the Soviet Navy frogmen tried to cover the creature with a net, a powerful unknown force threw the entire group out of the deep waters and up to the surface
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Members of the Russian navy who speak out about USO are not welcomed by the State
RED SPHERE IN THE RED SEA
In August 1965, the crew of the Soviet steamship Raduga, while navigating in the Red Sea, observed a remarkable spectacle.
At around two miles away from their vessel, a fiery sphere dashed out from under the water and hovered over the surface of the sea illuminating the ocean in every direction.
The sphere was estimated to be sixty meters in diameter, and it hovered above the sea at an altitude of 150 meters.
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The Baltic Sea Anomaly is one mystery which has long bewitched UFO enthusiasts and tells of a alien spacecraft at the bottom of the sea
A gigantic pillar of water arose as the sphere emerged from the sea and then collapsed some moments later.
This observation was mentioned in a number of Russian publications and was taken very seriously by the Soviet authorities. It is yet another typical example of a USO report
SILVER BEEHIVE
In the 1970s, reports issued by Admiral V.A. Domislovsky, chief of the Pacific Fleet’s Intelligence Department, described an unknown, gigantic cylindrical object sighted by Soviet Navy in “faraway” regions of Pacific Ocean.
The object was 800-900 metres long.
When it hovered over the ocean, smaller objects exited from one of its ends - like bees from a beehive - and descended into the waters.
Some time later they re-entered the gigantic UFO.
After the smaller objects thus “loaded” inside, the UFO flew away and disappeared over the horizon.
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The so-called Bermuda Triangle has been the sight of many strange events
BERMUDA TRIANGLE
According to a report on MosNews.com former Rear Admiral and nuclear submarine commander Yury Beketov saw USO activity inside the famous the Bermuda Triangle .
He said: “We repeatedly observed that the instruments detected the movements of material objects at unimaginable speed, around 230 knots (250 mph).
It’s hard to reach that speed on the surface – only in the air is it readily possible.
'The beings that created those material objects significantly exceed us in development.”
Russian Naval intelligence expert and Captain 1st Rank Igor Barklay also noted that the unidentified objects were most often spotted in deep water near where military forces are concentrated – off the Bahamas, Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the east coast of the United States.
THE DEVIL'S SEA
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In the UK the Loch Ness monster mystery has sometimes been linked to aliens
Captain 1st Rank (now retired) Yuri Vinogradov who had served in the Soviet Navy from 1975 to 2000 also had a story to tell.
Vinogradov was a top expert in his field, had been involved in a number of submarine search and recovery operations; a veteran of “high-risk” units, and a participant in four long-range missions.
He had been to the Devil’s Sea; also know as the Dragon Triangle which is located between Japan, Guam, and northern Philippines.
Some call this area the "Pacific Bermuda Triangle".
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The Russian Navy' have had a few close encounters
In the 1980s, Vinogradov had participated in the search and rescue operations involving the Soviet Pacific Fleet.
Twice he and other officers had observed, on the sonar screen, a USO that had moved at great speed, and had disappeared in to the depths never to be seen again.
Philip Mantle is an international UFO researcher, lecturer and broadcaster. His books have been published in six different languages around the world. He is the former Director of Investigations for the British UFO Research Association.
His book RUSSIA’S USO SECRETS is out now and available from Amazon.
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NASA Promises To ‘Find Alien Civilizations By 2025’ – The Drip Feeding Of Disclosure?
NASA Promises To ‘Find Alien Civilizations By 2025’ – The Drip Feeding Of Disclosure?
“We are on the cusp of discovering alien civilizations”, NASA’s top scientists have said. They have very recently predicted that we are just one generation away from finding something in our Milky Way neighbourhood, which is bustling with environments conducive to life…….let the Drip Feeding of Disclosure begin!
The NASA Scientists made their comments at a panel discussion Tuesday, the scientists predict that the first discoveries will definitely come within a decade. Chief scientist Ellen Stofan believes we’ll have “definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years,” as “in most cases we have the technology, and we’re on a path to implementing it. And so I think we’re definitely on the road.” Ellen Stofan has been asked about UFO’s and Aliens before but always kept quiet when asked….
“I think we’re one generation away in our solar system, where it’s on an icy moon or on Mars, and one generation [away] on a planet around a nearby star,” former astronaut John Grunsfeld said at the session.
“Sometime in the near future, people will be able to point to a star and say, ‘that star has a planet like Earth’,” said Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and physics at MIT.
“Just imagine the moment, when we find potential signatures of life,” concurred Matt Mountain, a top space telescope boffin. “Imagine the moment when the world wakes up and the human race realizes that its long loneliness in time and space may be over – the possibility we’re no longer alone in the universe.”
“I think in the next 20 years we will find out we are not alone in the universe,” added NASA astronomer Kevin Hand.
NASA has made some huge strides in both spotting distant worlds and analysing their chemical composition. Stofan said: “We know where to look.” Indeed, the Kepler mission has found no shortage of rocks that could support life, while icy moons in our own galaxy have long been suspected to hold incredible secrets deep beneath their own icey crust – among them Jupiter’s enigmatic moons – especially Europa, where a gargantuan body of water rages beneath the thin surface and water vapour’s are literally sprayed 200 km upward, giving clues to life-supporting minerals beneath. This while Ganymede is thought to have more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined!
Simulated View from Europa’s Surface (Artist’s Concept)
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
The same can also be said of Saturn’s satellite Enceladus. Scientists found evidence to suggest that, like our more distant galactic neighbours, Mars also harboured entire oceans, the cracks and scars on its surface appearing to be made by raging water currents full of salt. All of these scenarios makes the Milky Way quite “a soggy place,” according to the director of NASA’s Astrophysics Division, Paul Hertz.
“We can see water in the interstellar clouds from which planetary systems and stellar systems form,” he says. “We can see water in the disks of debris that are going to become planetary systems around other stars, and we can even see comets being dissipated in other solar systems as [their] star evaporates them.”
The now well known Mars rover Curiosity, which is actually stationed on the Red Planet, continues to dazzle scientists daily with intriguing new finds. Just two weeks ago, it discovered organic molecules containing carbon and “fixed” nitrogen – elements which are central to ALL known life. The mars Rover has also got many people talking about NASA hiding images from Mars which prove that there was once life on the Red Planet!
The Mars Rover ‘Curiosity’ Searching for life on Mars!
The Kepler mission’s amazing success has also been a godsend – its lens measuring the very tiniest changes in the light intensity of a star, as a planet passes by it. With its robotic eye, it showed us that life and rocky worlds should be far more common in our galaxy than the likes of gassy Saturn and Jupiter!
Numerous advances in both technology and our ability to implement it means that we are also accelerating the pace more than ever. One US company has recently just been given a grant for its plasma rocket to reach Mars in JUST 39 days, while NASA itself is already hard at work on developing a new Mars lander that resembles a Flying saucer and promises to make it possible to “safely land heavier spacecraft” on alien planets!
NASA’s Flying Saucer style Craft
It has become very clear that Humanity is now facing two major separate challenges in space: the first one is finding signs of intelligent life, the other is identifying potentially habitable environments. While one may rush to tie the two together, the latter is a considerably easier proposition to make.Stofan is all but certain the manned mission to Mars will emerge with spectacular discoveries, which kind of confirms the conspiracy theories that are going around about their being signs of ancient civilizations on Mars, something which NASA has been accused of trying to cover up: “I’m a field geologist; I go out and break open rocks and look for fossils,” she said. “Those are hard to find. So I have a bias that it’s eventually going to take humans on the surface of Mars — field geologists, astrobiologists, chemists — actually out there looking for that good evidence of life that we can bring back to Earth for all the scientists to argue about.”
Dr. Ellen Stofan
Europa will see us much sooner than that. As soon as 2022, our $2.1 billion will get to work on probing the mysteries of its oceans. And then there are the water vapours, spotted in the region next to the southern pole….Could there be life lurking under those deep under the Ice Oceans?!
Water, methane and carbon monoxide have been detected in the atmosphere of exoplanet HR 8799 b
These exciting discoveries are accompanied by huge strides in lens technologies NASA says will be central to finding alien life within at least two decades. Already there are several contenders for the next King of telescopes, their tech specs threatening to leave the famed Hubble far behind; among them the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which cost the space agency a fat $8.8 billion. The technology on-board the impressive Telescope is strong enough to peer at distant ‘super-Earths’ and analyse the possible chemical composition of those worlds, the gasses they spew out being strong indicators of life. For direct signs, however, we still need to take good old photos of the rocks, according to Hertz. That is why NASA is hard at work on the next generation of telescopes – one that will feature a coronagraph. The device is invaluable for blocking out the glare of the host stars of the exoplanets, giving us a clear view of the celestial bodies. It’s set to launch sometime in the mid-2020s….just imagine being able to stare out at and see other potential civilized worlds buzzing with life, but if we can see them one things for sure, somebody out there has already seen us!
The OFFICIAL Drip Feeding Of Disclosure ~ U.I.P Summary
Well here it is people the news that we all wanted to hear, NASA admitting firstly that there IS Alien life out there and secondly confirming that we will find ‘where’ the Aliens are!
This piece of important news gets the alarm bells ringing with people shouting out loud “Disclosure Disclosure!” and yes this is a great piece of Drip Feeding Disclosure, building us up to the inevitable that Aliens exists not too far from us (in the greater scheme of things!). It’s clear to many of us that we are being visited by Alien Beings, and if we know and have seen like a lot of us have NASA know this very well too! NASA and the Governments of this world know A LOT more than they are letting on…..do you think it’s a coincidence that Aliens are making the News nowadays? NO! Is it a coincidence that Scientists are firing up the Large Hadron Collider again? NO! These two key areas are VERY important in discovering the Truth!
It is clear that NASA and the Scientists of this world KNOW that we are not alone…and are seeking ways to travel beyond the stars just like our ET friends……but at what risk to mankind!?
These are exciting times and as we always state here at U.I.P Science Fiction is now becoming Science FACT! So lets keep digging for the truth.
Closest Earth-like Planet Found 4.5 Light Years Away
Scientists at the La Silla Observatory in the outskirts of a Chilean desert, have made an unfathomable discovery of an unknown earth-like planet! The planet revolves around our closest star Proxima Centauri, a star which is actually part of a trinary star system.
Artist’s impression of a sunset seen from the surface of the Earth-like exoplanet.
Credit ESO/L. Calcada
Proxima Centauri revolves around the two stars Alpha Centauri A and B at a greater distance away, while Alpha Centauri A and B revolve around eachother very closely, the distance between the sun and Uranus.
The fact that this star system is so close it could potentially be reached by humans in a single life-time, is what makes this find so amazing. In a recent mission called the Kepler mission, scientists combed deep space looking for Earth-like exoplanets capable of supporting life, ones within their Habitable Zone and having liquid water.
The mission was successful at finding several hundred planets believed to be similar to Earth, with 216 also found within their parent star’s Habitable Zone(aka. “Goldilocks Zone”). However, the Kepler mission focused on planets hundreds of light years away, and seemed to overlook our nearest star, Proxima Centauri.
If all is found to be true, this would be the closest habitable world to the Earth!
Is there life there? Not likely, although it would be the best place to consider spreading the seeds of humanity!
In April of this year, Stephen Hawking himself just unveiled “Project Starshot”, a mission to send a space probe to Alpha Centauri in just 20 years. Yuri Milner, a Russian Billionaire who has teamed up with Mark Zuckerberg and Stephen Hawking, plans to send a laser driven craft to our closest neighboring trinary star system. They predict that the craft could reach 20% of the speed of light with new laser-sail technology. Project Starshot now has a good chance to be re-routed to Proxima Centauri.
Professor Phillip Lubin, the brains behind Project Starshot said to Universe Today in an email;
Do you believe there is life living on other planets? Are you excited about this interstellar discovery of a possible earth-like exoplanet, within a 20 year reach of humanity? Let us know in the comments section below!
Black-eyed children have been the talk of many para groups and curious readers who wonder – just what is going on here?
I cannot tell you if black-eyed kids exist, but I can say that there have been a lot of witness accounts and they seem to have many features that ring familiar among them. Sometimes, when I have not had a personal encounter with a subject, it's best for me to just say “if this happened, how did it happen?” What are black-eyed children? Well, some say it started as an urban legend, but with steadily more and more reports of seeing them. This reminds me of the shadow people phenomena. It was not widely spoken of until more modern times, but those who have seen them are in great numbers! You have to eventually begin to take these reports under study. Black-eyed children follow a scenario: They are children, with no whites to their eyes, pure black eyes, and pale skin. They are often soul-less in personality (think of Men in Black). BEKs approach adults in public places or even knock at your door and ask to be let in or ask for assistance, but the adult feels uneasy and as if there is something not right about the child. The child tries to avert his or her eyes so you don't see them. And, they are sometimes said to possess some level of mind control or mesmerizing qualities. Perhaps the best way to look at this phenomena is to listen to a witness encounter and then knock around some possible explanations.
(my art piece – more on that below)
(Source link for full story) A man was going to camp alone in Michigan for some quiet time away from his busy life. He stopped at a rest stop bathroom before he was going to head out on the trail. What he encountered changed his mind quickly. He entered the bathroom to hear some kids murmuring. When they looked up, he was shocked -
“The god damn kids have completely black eyes. No whites to their eyes at all…This is a pretty small bathroom and they were not more than three feet away. At first I can’t do or say anything. I am literally frozen with fear. The water runs over my hands, but I can’t feel it. I’m so deep inside my head at this moment that all I can hear are my thoughts, which were something like `Ahhhhhh!.' All joking aside, I was petrified…It was only when one of the kids, a brown haired boy that I would guess was around twelve took a step toward me that my fight or flight instincts took over control from my fear. I turned off the water, why I bothered I don’t know habit I guess, and moved a step back from the kids and toward the door. Seemingly sensing my fear the boy didn’t take another step toward me. Instead he stopped, on retrospect I can guess he was trying to keep from frightening me too much – didn’t work kid! `Can you help us?' That’s what the boy said when one of us finally spoke….”
The man said he couldn't and rushed to his car to drive off and away from a feeling of utter threat and dread. This feeling of dread is a continued theme among BEKs and also in the presence of shadow people. Considering the human body is a fair barometer of “weirdness,” “paranormal activity,” and “threat,” these two beings producing similar reactions is telling.
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Possible explanations
Alien: Understandably, when something seems otherworldly, aliens become the “catch-all” explanation. But why would an alien need to masquerade as a child who is asking for assistance? If an alien could do such shapeshifting, why would they pretend to be children? Why not imitate your wife and walk right in the door? There are some holes in the idea of them being an alien, the greatest being motivation. Why? What could they accomplish in a child form? No one has reported an end goal of the interactions. Spirit of a murdered child: In this explanation, the fact that they are children makes sense. We would equate a ghost of a child to be child-sized. We would not necessarily equate them with being able to hitch rides, tug on someone's jacket to get attention, or hang out in places a dead child's spirit would not hang out (like the rest stop story above). They do ask for assistance or want entry into a car or home, but they do not seem to be in any distress and they often come in pairs or groups, which is a most odd behavior for a specter. As these beings repeat questions and seem almost automated, they do not show signs of having ever been human, just an automaton. Demon: The black figures, odd size, and feels they elicit make people jump to the demon explanation immediately. They do not seem to have a deadly agenda, just an unsettling one. A demon would surely get right to the point of its intentions if such a thing exists. The fact that these little people are insistent but rather passive does not show a lot of signs of true threat, only implied because they are so odd. Shadow person: I will throw this one out there. There is another 3-4 foot tall being that is purely black among us – shadow people. Shadow people seem to curiously want to watch us but freak out when we see them. What if one donned a human skin appearance? The only thing on them that would remain black is in the eye sockets. They could move among us without suspicion or detection as something “other.” And would carry that sense of dread and doom we have when we run into shadow people or BEKs. Well, it's a consideration…. Ultimately, like many other unexplained activities, we can't even prove that BEKs exist, so all we can do is suppose – if they do exist, what are they? The study of their behaviors and detailed witness encounters help give us many clues to understanding.
This is a very interesting and detailed BEK encounter -
Here's some scary BEK stories -
“Eleanor, Edward and Emily” My BEK-inspired giant ghost mirror I created for myself.
But, I made a small tri-panel set of hanging mirrors for sale in my Etsy shop -
I was aboard the USS Williamson (Destroyer) in early 1943 during WWII. The weather was clear with calm seas. The night was very black. At the time of the sighting, we were patrolling the Bering Sea north of the Alaskan Peninsula, bearing north at about 20 knots. I was on watch at the starboard 20mm gun, second deck (galley deck). It was around 2300. My gun turret was above the deck house and there were no obstructions hindering my field of vision, allowing me to have a clear 360 degree view of the sea around the ship. There were four of us together at the starboard gun (I can get crew names and captain’s name).
The attention of both port and starboard gun crews was drawn to a row of red lights off the port side, traveling parallel to and slightly forward of the bow. I did not see the lights when they first approached so do not know the direction from which they came, or if they came out of the sea. There were at least eight lights in a row, evenly spaced, canted at about 15 degrees to horizontal. I would estimate the lights were no more than 100 yards from the ship. The lights held their relative position to one another throughout the sighting, and appeared to be about 10 feet apart. I would say that the light closest to the water (the lights were canted diagonal to horizontal at approximately 15 degrees) appeared to be about 30 feet above the water. I estimate that it would require a cantaloupe held at arms length to cover a single light. I could not see a structure associated with the lights as there was nothing but blackness between the lights. The lights were a very deep red and did not cast a beam. The lights moved parallel to our ship, holding their position relative to the ship throughout the entire sighting. The lights continued to pace the ship as I watched. This continued for at least one hour. I was relieved from watch at 2400. When I went below the lights were still visible. I was too tired to stay on deck and went below to sleep. The next day, the midnight gun crew said that the captain turned the ship and “tried” to chase the lights. I don’t know the outcome of this maneuver. I don’t know what the circumstances were when the lights disappeared. But I do know that I have not seen anything like this before or since.
World War II
7 December 1941, found Williamson under overhaul at the Puget Sound Navy Yard. After temporary duty with Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 82, she helped to escort Maryland into the Puget Sound Navy Yard on 30 December. The tender completed her repairs and took on stores in January 1942 and then shifted to the Aleutians to resume her duties as a tender for the PBY’s of Pat Wing 4.
During the early wartime period, the ship performed local escort missions and delivered war materials to Army and Navy bases at Cold Bay, Seattle, Dutch Harbor, and Kodiak. Williamson and her sister tenders also stocked emergency seaplane bases with vital necessities: buoys, gasoline, lubricating oil, ammunition, and bombs. Those temporary sites provided shelter for PBY’s forced down by weather and proved valuable as alternate bases dispersed well enough to prevent a complete disaster if the Japanese attacked the established base sites. In addition, Williamson rescued and salvaged PBY’s closed out of their havens by the “notorious Alaskan fog.”
On 20 May, prior to the Japanese invasion of the Aleutians, Williamson rescued Brigadier General Simon Bolivar Buckner from Kiska, when the general and his party were stranded there by 60-knot winds that prevented seaplanes from taking off after completing an inspection tour of the Near and Rat Island groups. Early in June 1942, when the Japanese occupied Kiska and Attu in the Aleutians, as a diversion from the major Japanese thrust directed at the key atoll of Midway in the Central Pacific, Williamson lay at Umnak Pass, near the newly established Army airstrip there – the westernmost field in the Aleutian chain. Two Japanese planes from one of the carriers supporting the operation (either Ryūjō or Junyō) strafed the ship and wounded six men. Fortunately, there were no fatalities.
NOTE: The above image is real but from a different sighting.
The prominent Soviet cosmonaut Pavel Popovich got the famous Blue Folder from the KGB in 1991. These days Mr. Popovich holds the position of honorary president of the Academy of Informational and Applied Ufology. The folder contains numerous descriptions of UFO flights and reports on some (mostly failed) attempts taken by the military in order to catch the aliens.
Pavel Popovich was given the folder after requesting reports on the cases of UFOs. It was a 124-page compilation of reports about the encounters with UFOs. The reports filed by authorities, military units and eyewitnesses. It took us a long time to get rid of some doubts before making the folder public,” says he. Mr. Popovich saw an UFO only once while flying in a passenger plane from Washington to Moscow.
Anfalov Anton, PhD writes an open letter in Russian to Coordinator “Kosmopoisk”, Chairman of the Union of Russian UFO-BA Shurinovu, To all ufologists:”There is a multi-year cover-up of alien spaceships in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation (one) and three in the United States of America. ”“Back in the 1990s there was a little known, a military base near the town of Odintsovo in the Moscow region where the military and intelligence agencies have covered-up the investigation of the captured alien spacecraft. Odincovo let slip this data in a telephone conversation with me in the mid-to late 1990s. You and your colleagues have taken virtually no tangible and concrete actions or a detailed study and the final publication of this important data for the whole of Russia and the world ofufology.”
My colleagues and I will put an end to your cynical criminal silence and inaction after years of hiding the truth about the alien ship. We are also aware of the three alien disks seized in the United States (two-discs in Arizona in May 1953 and another one in California in the summer 1967) and stored since the 1970s and still in the underground base at Area 12, Rainier Mesa, a Nuclear test site in Nevada. In 1982, I personally talked to the officer, who secretly photographed the rescue disk at the crash site on his personal camera. A cordon of soldiers stood near the 1263rd Engineering Corps arsenal Arsaki. KGB and Soviet Interior Ministry personnel cordoned off the crash site for a rescue disk. e Russians claim to have brought down at least one alien disc shaped craft with their system as shown in the TV movie “The Secret KGB UFO Files’”
This amazing aerial footage shot from a drone shows an apparent crop circle formation that has appeared in a field at Ansty near Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK and discovered on August 12, 2016.
Credit images: MrGiro – Crop Circle Connector.
Several symbols in the circle depict the prime of life with 19 circles and 36 overlapping arches that form a hexagon, like similar mysteriously symbols previously found in ancient cultures?
And what about the outer figures/symbols? What could be the meaning of these symbols? It is a reference to the circle of life? Are you able to decipher these symbols? Let us know!
More photos and information about this crop circle can be found on this Crop Circle Connector link: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2016/Ansty/Ansty2016a.html
Below the remarkable camera work of crop circle research team MrGyro.
Mars Space Station Could Pave Way for 1st Footsteps on Red Planet
Mars Space Station Could Pave Way for 1st Footsteps on Red Planet
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Artist's illustration of the "Mars Base Camp" space station proposed by aerospace company Lockheed Martin.
Credit: Lockheed Martin
Humanity may camp out for a year or so in Mars orbit to get ready for its epic first trek to the Red Planet's surface.
The aerospace company Lockheed Martin recently proposed that NASA work with its international partners and private industry to set up a space station in Mars orbit by 2028. The astronauts working and living aboard this "Mars Base Camp" could help collect information that any future Red Planet explorer would need to know, the project's developers say.
"Before we send people to the surface of Mars, we owe it to that crew, to ourselves, to understand if there's life on the planet and if there's anything that's toxic to humans," said Steve Bailey, the president and chief engineer of the Colorado-based company Deep Space Systems Inc. "This mission will do those two very fundamental things." [The Search for Life on Mars (A Photo Timeline)]
Bailey and Steve Jolly, chief engineer for civil space at Lockheed Martin, discussed the Mars Base Camp idea July 27 during a presentation with NASA's Future In-Space Operations (FISO) working group.
The Mars Base Camp plan
NASA is currently developing a capsule called Orion and the huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to get astronauts to Mars and other distant destinations.
Orion has flown once, on an uncrewed test flight in December 2014. The maiden flight of SLS is currently scheduled for late 2018, when the rocket will blast Orion on an unmanned, weeklong trip around the moon known as Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1).
"SLS is about to become operational; Orion is about to become operational," Bailey said. "What do we do with these vehicles? How do we best utilize those to get the highest bang for the buck for Mars science?"
The answer, according to the Lockheed plan, is to build a 132-ton (120 metric tons) Red Planet space station, the core of which would be composed of two Orions and two habitat modules/science laboratories. (For comparison, the International Space Station weighs about 440 tons, or 400 metric tons.)
Mars Base Camp could support up to six astronauts, who would stay aboard for about a year. These crewmembers would ideally be career scientists who received astronaut training, rather than test pilots taught to do a little geology work, Jolly said.
Mars Base Camp crewmembers would be pretty busy. For example, Jolly said, they would likely analyze samples of Red Planet dirt and rock, poring over them for signs of past or present life.
Such material would presumably be collected by NASA's Mars 2020 roverand/or the European/Russian ExoMars rover, both of which are scheduled to launch in 2020. (There is currently no firm plan in place to get such samples off Mars and into orbit, however.)
From their lofty perch, the astronauts would also operate a dozen or so robotic "surface assets" — wheeled rovers, and perhaps also winged vehicles that would ply the Red Planet's sky. (This gear would be ready and waiting for the astronauts to arrive, having been sent to Mars via SLS in 2026.)
Such near-real-time robot control is not possible today, given the immense distance between Earth and Mars, and it could allow big discoveries to be made, Jolly said.
For instance, the robots could be sent to investigate transient phenomena on Mars, such as plumes of methane (a gas that may be a sign of life) or recurring slope lineae (RSL), intriguing dark streaks that occur seasonally and appear to be caused by liquid water.
"That's really something we're throwing out to the scientists — to imagine that you have this ability," Jolly said.
The Base Camp crew would also get to do some exploring of their own. The Lockheed plan envisions astronauts making two- to three-week sorties toPhobos and Deimos, the two tiny moons of Mars, to collect samples and perform other science work.
Such exploration would likely be accomplished with the aid of long-legged "spider walkers," which would provide stability in the microgravity environment, Bailey said. (Astronauts on Phobos and Deimos would feel just 0.04 percent the gravitational pull experienced here on Earth.)
Graphic showing the proposed steps leading to the launch of Lockheed Martin's envisioned "Mars Base Camp" space station.
Credit: Lockheed Martin
Achievable and affordable?
Making Mars Base Camp happen doesn't require any big technological leaps, Jolly said. The plan should be affordable as well, he added, given the amount of money NASA will spend in the near future in an attempt to get astronauts to Mars — the chief long-term goal of the agency's human-spaceflight program.
"Between the $4 [billion] to $9 billion a year that NASA will spend on exploration missions — and that includes both EM stuff and, obviously, [the International] Space Station — then, over a 10- or 15- or 20-year period, they will have spent $50 to $80 billion in total expenditures," Jolly said. ("EM stuff" refers to EM-1 and a series of other test flights involving Orion and SLS.)
Mars Base Camp would also stretch those dollars via reuse, Jolly said.
"We envision a series of missions using the same architecture, and the next one, or the one right after that, goes to the [Martian] surface," he said. "We're not ready to talk about that today, but we wanted to make sure that the community listening realizes this wasn't a one-off concept."
Stratolaunch Paul Allen (Image Courtesy Stratolaunch Systems http://aerospace.vulcan.com/)
Howard Hughes built his “Spruce Goose” in 1947, the largest airplane of his time. Today, Microsoft co-founder, CEO of Vulcan Aerospace, billionaire, owner of the Seattle Seahawks, and serial entrepreneur Paul Allen is building the world’s largest airplane, the Stratolaunch, a twin-fuselage airplane with wings as long as a football field.
The purpose of the Stratolaunch, part of Vulcan’s “NextSpace” vision, is to carry rockets tethered to the underside of its fuselage to 35,000 feet at which time the rocket will be released, fire its engines, and launch into orbit. The aim of Stratolaunch is similar to Elon Musk’s increasingly successful attempts to make rocket engines reusable by returning them to the launch pad. Allen has a different solution for “reusability,” in that a plane that will do the heavy lifting, thereby saving costs on the initial launch.
The main problem with current technology is that 80% of a rocket’s mass is fuel while the payload is just 6%. A great amount of money and energy goes to waste when the rockets holding this fuel are jettisoned.
Stratolaunch, being built at the Mojave Air & Space Port in California, has 28 wheels and weighs more than 1.3 million pounds when fully loaded. Allen’s new baby is powered by six 747 engines and will require more than 60 miles of wiring to complete.
Reports suggest Stratolaunch is near completion with new progress announcements coming over the next several months and test flights within the next year.
Stratolaunch (Image Courtesy Stratolaunch Systems www.vulcanaerospace.com)
Stratolaunch (Image Courtesy Stratolaunch Systems www.vulcanaerospace.com)
Stratolaunch (Image Courtesy Stratolaunch Systems www.vulcanaerospace.com)
Stratolaunch (Image Courtesy Stratolaunch Systems www.vulcanaersopace.com)
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A meteorite, which landed in Canada back in 2000, is now being said to be from the Kuiper Belt. NASA's New Horizons mission may be able to collect samples from the outer solar system to compare.
It’s taken us 16 years, but we might finally know the origin of one of the strangest meteorites to ever collide with Earth’s surface.
Astronomers have found evidence that the Tagish Lake meteorite, which crash-landed in Canada back in 2000, came from the Kuiper Belt – all the way in the outskirts of the Solar System, past Neptune.
In January 2000, a fiery meteorite plummeted into the frozen Tagish Lake of northwestern British Columbia, the fireball vaporising much of the car-sized space rock, but leaving enough debris on the icy surface for scientists to collect.
“These primitive meteorites are very fragile, more like clods of dirt than hard rocks, and often burn up and shatter,” Clark Chapman from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, told New Scientist at the time of the discovery.
“Even in this case, only a few kilograms have been recovered from an object that was 5 metres across when it hit Earth’s atmosphere.”
At the time, Chapman and his team suspected that the Tagish Lake meteorite – which looks nothing like any other meteorite found on Earth – might be the most ancient chunk of the Solar System we have.
“Its composition is very much like the Sun itself (minus the gaseous compounds) and it shows even less alteration of its minerals than is typical for these kinds of meteorites,” Chapman explained.
As part of a huge, bustling Universe, it’d make sense that Earth is coming into contact with space rocks from all corners of the galaxy, but in reality, things from outside our immediate neighbourhood don’t visit us all that much.
In fact, of the millions of meteors and meteorites that have made it here, each has been traced to the asteroid belt – which sits just between Mars and Jupiter – except one, the Tagish Lake meteorite.
Photo: Karen Bean, ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Southwest Research Institute has just come up with a new hypothesis about the origins of this strange meteorite, and say it could have gotten mixed up in a planet fight some 4 billion years ago.
Based on several simulations of the early Solar System, when the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune were all jostling each other for position, they suggest that their gravitational pulls might have tossed rocks inward, from the Kuiper Belt into the much closer asteroid belt.
Did our long-lost fifth gas giant seed the asteroid belt with objects from the distant Kuiper Belt?
“For a short time in the Solar System’s history, you have giant planets encountering one another while surrounded by this big sea of comets,” one of the team, Bill Bottke, told Nola Taylor Redd from New Scientist. “Things were very dramatic for a short time.”
Their hypothesis is backed up by previous research that has suggested that the Tagish Lake meteorite is a piece of D-type asteroid – a class of asteroid with compositions unlike most others found in the asteroid belt, but similar to objects found in the vicinity of gas giants.
“Only a handful of the unusual class of rock lurks in the asteroid belt, though the dark samples are abundant around gas giants,” says Taylor Redd.
The good news is we might not be speculating for much longer – NASA recently approved a New Horizons mission to visit the Kuiper-belt object, 2014 MU69, so we could soon have some Kuiper Belt material from the source to compare.
The CASTC is beginning advanced research on combined cycle engines that can takeoff from an airport's landing strip and fly straight into orbit. Claimed to have operating status by 2030, this pace plane could enable space tourism.
Beginning advanced research on a high tech and more efficient successor to the retired Space Shuttle, the CASTC aims to build hybrid combined cycle engines that can takeoff from an airport’s landing strip and fly straight intoorbit.
CASTC
Zhang Yong, a CASTC engineer, claimed that China will master the spaceplane’s technologies in the next three to five years, and a full-scale spaceplane would then enter service by 2030.
The hybrid space plane’s combined cycle engines would use turbofan or turbojet engines to takeoff horizontally from a landing strip. Once airborne, the engine then shifts to ramjet propulsion and, as speed increases, adjusts into a scramjet engine with supersonic airflow. At the scramjet stage, the hybrid spaceplane would enter hypersonic flight in ‘near space.’ Finally, the hybrid spaceplane would use its rocket motors to push out of near space and into orbit.
Reported to be able to exponentially reduce space launch costs, and enable us to tour the space, the successful development of this spaceplane could definitely reset the 21st century’s space race—giving China the upper hand.
At the ECETI Ranch near Mount Adams in Washington state, James Gilliland has been gathering people and calling in Starships for many years. He has had thousands of guests visit the ranch, from filmmakers like Danny Dyer to other celebrities, military generals, scientists, and many many skeptics.
Almost every night at the ECETI Ranch, so called “UFOs” fly-by, flare up, and even fly into and out of the Mountain itself. Even the most intense skeptics tend to change their tune after experiences at the Ranch.
Coming up September 29th to October 2nd, you can join a series of speakers at ECETI Ranch and experience extraterrestrial contact yourself.
Visit the ECETI Site to register for this event, which is hosted by Laura Eisenhower, the great granddaughter of President Dwight Eisenhower. Speakers include Adam Apollo, a well known leadership ambassador who has spoken at the White House and United Nations on the future of human technology and consciousness, and James Gilliland, who has led thousands of groups in viewing extraterrestrial craft in many places, including a series of events in Australia.
Check out some of the experiences at ECETI and see some of the sightings for yourself in the Contact Has Begun video on Gaia.
This is the story of James Gilliland. From UFOs and ETs, to orbs and near death encounters, James has led an incredible life. He tells us his personal story, leading us through account after account of encounters with other-worldly beings of all types. His story not only tells the journey of one man through an incredible life, it also tells the story of a mankind to come.
While many people are skeptical about the nature of these visits, those at ECETI Ranch and many of their visitors are certain that these are extraterrestrial spacecraft, and many of them have had some kind of “direct contact” or communication experience. Many of the speakers at the ECETI event in September will share personal stories of their contact experiences, and their research into different extraterrestrial species through personal and transpersonal studies.
One thing is for certain: if you doubt something exists, the best way to find out is to go somewhere where many others have had that experience, and find out for yourself!
Steeds meer mensen zijn ervan overtuigd dat de aarde plat is: “NASA en wetenschap liegen tegen ons”
Steeds meer mensen zijn ervan overtuigd dat de aarde plat is: “NASA en wetenschap liegen tegen ons”
Volgens de zogenoemde ‘Flat Earthers’ liegen de NASA en de wetenschap ons allemaal voor. Toen Malachi Henderson ging skydiven, viel het hem op dat de aarde zelfs vanuit het vliegtuig plat leek.
“Hoe hoger we kwamen, hoe platter de aarde leek,” vertelde hij aan nieuwssite Mic. De groep Flat Earthers wint in de Verenigde Staten rap aan populariteit. Ze geloven dat er een enorme samenzwering aan de gang is die ons doet geloven dat de aarde rond is en dat iedereen bij de NASA en andere ruimtevaartorganisaties liegt tegen het volk.
Henderson stelt dat de zwaartekracht een kracht is die niet bestaat. “Het is gewoon een theorie die nooit bewezen is,” zegt hij. “Geloof jij dat water aan een draaiende bol blijft kleven? Als we echt zo snel zouden ronddraaien, zouden alle zeeën wegspatten.”
Sommigen van hen zien de ronde aarde als een complot van de nazi’s. Enkele nazi-wetenschappers kregen immers na de Tweede Wereldoorlog hoge posities binnen de NASA, aldus de Flat Earthers.
Zij stellen dat ook de maanlanding onzin is. “De NASA liegt tegen ons over heel veel dingen,” stelt Walt Johnson. “Als Neil Armstrong als eerste mens voet op de maan zette, wie heeft hem dan gefilmd?” vraagt hij.
Satanisten
Volgens de Flat Earthers zat Galileo ernaast. Zij geloven dat de aarde een schijf is met in het centrum de Noordpool. Antarctica is geen continent, maar een ijsmuur die zich rond de aarde bevindt, zo is de gedachte.
Flat Earther Ben Long gelooft dat de aarde een eindpunt heeft. “Na de ijsmuur is er niets meer,” zegt hij. Anderen menen juist dat de aarde eindeloos is. Er zijn ook mensen die zeggen dat de aarde plat is ‘omdat God dat zo zegt’. Er zouden 75 verwijzingen naar de platte aarde in de Bijbel staan.
Veel Flat Earthers zijn van mening dat wetenschappers als Galileo en Newton en veel NASA-astronauten satanisten waren die lid waren van de vrijmetselarij. Er wordt bijvoorbeeld gezegd dat er niemand is omgekomen bij de ramp met spaceshuttle Challenger in 1986 en dat drie bemanningsleden nu lesgeven op een universiteit.
Verbazingwekkende graancirkel ontdekt bij Stonehenge
Verbazingwekkende graancirkel ontdekt bij Stonehenge
In de buurt van Shaftesbury in het Engelse graafschap Dorset is een graancirkel gevonden die door sommige graancirkelonderzoekers wordt omschreven als de beste die ze ooit hebben gezien.
De formatie ligt pal naast de Ansty Farm Shop. Eigenaresse Karren Price zei dat haar familie nooit op vakantie gaat, maar dat ze op de ochtend na een vijfdaags uitstapje naar Devon plotseling een reusachtig patroon in het tarwe ontdekten.
Astrologische symbolen
De graancirkel heeft een doorsnee van liefst 100 meter en bevat 20 astrologische symbolen rond een centrale mandala. Een Facebookgebruiker omschreef de formatie als een triquetra op een levensbloem.
Ansty bevindt zich vlak bij Stonehenge, in een gebied waar sinds de jaren zeventig geregeld graancirkels zijn verschenen. Met name sinds de jaren negentig worden er veel formaties ontdekt.
Veel interesse
Foto’s van de graancirkelformatie hebben veel interesse bij cerealogen gegenereerd, mensen die zich bezighouden met het onderzoeken van graancirkels. Veel van hen hebben de formatie al bezocht en foto’s gemaakt met behulp van drones.
Karren zei dat bezoekers entree moeten betalen als compensatie voor gederfde inkomsten. Wat overblijft wordt gedoneerd aan lokale goede doelen.
Large cylindrical UFO captured over Mudgee N S W Australia 13 08 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Large cylindrical UFO captured over Mudgee N S W Australia 13 08 2016, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: Aug 13, 2016 Location of sighting: Mudgee, Australia This rectangle UFO was seen by Anna Toth of Australia this week. It has no wings, not tail no jet engines of any kind keeping it flying, and yet, its there. This rectangle cube is moving at a steady speed across the sky, invisible to the naked eye, but Annas IR converted camera keeps an eye on it well. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
I found this photo of the Mars moon Phobos and its very unusual. I only enhanced its natural color and found that its pink on its left, silver at its center, and green on its right. Its a metallic surface! Its actually ingenious, but NASA used the micro imager to take a distant view of the moon...using it like a telescope. I have seen them do this a few times with distance mars structures, but never a moon. This is the natural color and shape of Phobos. What NASA normally shows us is a fake brown soil color egg shaped moon, which is not what we are seeing here. Obviously NASA has lied about it and I believe its because Phobos is not a moon, but a hollow space station.
ESA illustration above.
I remember a ESA report from 2013 that stated that Phobos was hollow and they even had an illustration of its interior. The stated, "We conclude that the interior of Phobos likely contains large voids,” states the ESA report. This explains why its orbit is mathematically impossible and why astronomers say its not a natural moon, or a captured moon, but an alien ship that put itself in orbit to protect Mars...and looking at the surface of Mars...its seems to have failed. In 1989, Russia sent a satellite to inspect Phobos...it made it all the way there, and took its first photo, which captured a long UFO right below Phobos...then all went black. The Russian satellite was totally obliterated from existence. One photo made it back...nothing more. Click here to view that photo of the UFO near Phobos. This is an old well known fact among UFO researchers...Phobos was intelligently made, but for what purpose? To monitor possible threats to Mars, or from Mars? Or to house survivors of the Mars war or solar explosion that destroyed Mars? Does it really matter? The fact is...Phobos is an alien made space ship. Lets get it...we sure as hell could use it to get off this planet.
UFO Fleet Flying In Formation Witnessed In Different Cities Across Florida
UFO Fleet Flying In Formation Witnessed In Different Cities Across Florida
The sightings in several cities in Florida took place between 8:40 and 9:15. Witnesses say the fleet was flying in the direction of a thunderstorm with one witness reported to MUFON that the fleet was traveling towards Wesley Chapel, where storm clouds spotted low at that time.
One witness at Dunedin filed a report with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). According to Case 41685 of the network’s witness reporting database, the witness was driving southbound with two other people on Keene Road, north of Sunset Boulevard at around 8:40 pm when the sighting happened. The witnesses noticed lights traveling towards them, and when the lights came closer, the witnesses realized that those lights were coming from four massive aerial objects.
The reporting witness pulled over to watch the mysterious aerial activity. He then decided to record it on video, but his phone camera produced poor quality footage. The reporting witness estimated that the largest of the four could be about 200 to 300 feet across with four blinking lights and several lights that shone constantly.
Another witness at Odessa (Case 41677) claimed to have observed a fleet of four lights hovering above on the night of August 11, 2012. He heard a light humming noise, but not an engine sound. He noted that they were flying into a thunderstorm.
Also reported the same sighting was the man in Lutz (Case 41650). He apparently observed four UFOs with bright blinking lights traveling in triangular formation approximately a mile on the night of the same date.
Another witness was at Wesley Chapel (Case 41657). He spotted a small fleet of UFOs between 9 pm and 9:30 pm on August 11, 2012.
An Alien Invasion Every 3600 Years - We Are Not Alone
An Alien Invasion Every 3600 Years - We Are Not Alone
Published on Jun 1, 2016
What if we're right? Non humans that control humans until they're found out about and then destroy the mass majority to 'start all over' while the rest comfortably in their underground cities? Food for thought, human. It's about the information. In trying to make the videos' shorter, I dare say, jam packing them full of information takes a lot more time than I expected. Made for content. The visual is to stimulate the minds eye. The evidence in history seems to imply just such the further back you look. Leave a comment below, and let the debate begin. :)
- They were depicted in two different ways - one, as humanoid, - the other, as some kind of ''bird-man''... - the most ancient of all Chinese texts is the mysterious 'I Ching' which describes how humans were genetically modified by a Goddess known as 'Nu Kua,' she was a reptilian, who's descendants became the Emperors of China. - Even the ancient Shaman spoke of them. - An apparent race, back in history, also, lost control of planet earth to a vicious race of reptiles with dragon faces. - the further one looks into history they continue to find mention of a returning race of reptiles with dragon faces driving circular spaceships. -Scientists speculate that if we ever did encounter aliens from outer space, they would we more like intelligent dinosaurs, as cunning and smarter than humans. -The Dropa Stones are, estimated, to be 12,000 years old and date back to the age of Atlantis. They contain more claims of people traveling in space ships. The spiral grove is actually composed of tiny hieroglyphs that tell the incredible stories of spaceships from some distant world that crash landed into the mountains (is there any wonder why the Dropa stones disappeared?). - 'The Kabbalah' is a collection of texts which are forbidden to be studied before the age of 40, and teaches that there are different, invisible parallel universes that intersect with our own reality . - Sumerian cuneiform tablets and cylinder seals made in ancient Iraq, the former Kingdom of Babylon, tell the story of two extra terrestrial star Gods coming to earth and genetically manipulating mankind. These aliens star gods were called Enlil and Enki. There alien race was called the 'Annu-naki,' which, roughly, translated means: 'prince's of the royal genetic seed. - On every continent of the planet earth there are giant temples which are aligned with the stars of the planets. - I could continue onward with this list into the thousands, and all from history older than you, or any one you know, and as far back as they, or you, can think into history.
I leave further research up to you.
Made for content, critique, debate, and intrigue. I hope you enjoy.
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MIT Scientists Create Smart Window that Can Shut Out Light
MIT Scientists Create Smart Window that Can Shut Out Light
IN BRIEF
A team of researchers at MIT has found a way to create a smart window that can turn from transparent to almost black. Compared to other systems, this new technology responds fast and requires low power to work.
THE SNAPPY SMART WINDOW
Three researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a self-shading window that switches quickly from transparent to dark.
The smart window is made from electrochromic materials, which can change their properties under the influence of an electrical voltage. Compared to photochromic materials (those found in eyeglasses and lenses that darkens upon exposure to bright light), electrochromic materials respond and change opacity faster.
Electrochromic materials have been used in windows of the Boeing 787 aircraft, although they also take a few minutes to change color.
Electrochromic materials are used to produce the windows of Boeing 787.
In their paper published in the journal Chem, the MIT team reported that they were able to make the process work faster by using a porous compound called metal-organic frameworks(MOFs), which can conduct electrons and ions at high speeds, allowing for a quick overall reaction speed.
The research team had worked on MOFs in their prior studies and had made a material that could turn from clear to shades of blue or green. In order to accomplish a coating that can turn from clear to almost black, they blended two complementary colors (green and red).
ENERGY SAVER
While most existing eletrochromic materials require continuous voltage input to work, this smart window — once it has changed its color — can maintain its state with little to no power, and will only need electricity to turn it back to its former state (clear or opaque).
Mircea Dinca, the MIT professor of chemistry of the trio, said in a statement that “the new windows have the potential to do much more than just preventing glare. These could lead to pretty significant energy savings by drastically reducing the need for air conditioning in buildings with many windows in hot climates. You could just flip a switch when the sun shines through the window, and turn it dark, or even automatically make that whole side of the building go dark all at once.”
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We May Have Just Found An Earth-Like Planet, And It Orbits Proxima Centauri
We May Have Just Found An Earth-Like Planet, And It Orbits Proxima Centauri
ESA
IN BRIEF
A report discloses that scientists have discovered an exoplanet similar to Earth just outside our Solar System and that the European Space Observatory is to reveal their finding at the end of August.
THE BEST CANDIDATE
Recently, a study revealed 20 potential ‘second Earth’ candidates from the Kepler list — making the search for life beyond our planet seem quite manageable.
Now, it could be a bit more manageable.
A report from German weeklyDer Spiegel claims (although citing anonymous sources) that European astronomers have found a new Earth-like planet that is just near our home planet. The planet (still unnamed) was discovered to be orbiting Proxima Centauri — the closest star to our Solar System — and within the habitable zone that could allow the planet to hold liquid water on its surface.
SO NEAR, YET SO FAR
Proxima Centauri. ESA/Hubble
Proxima Centauri is part of the Alpha Centauri system, which is the nearest stellar system to our Solar System, with a distance of about 4.35 light-years away.
But even though the planet was reported to be spotted “so close by,” it’s still too far for our modern technology to reach. Take note: One light-year is the distance light travels in oneyear, and light travels at about 300,000 km (186,000 mi) per second
But then again, the universe is a vast space. Studying an exoplanet within the vicinity of our neighbor star is probably the best shot we can ever get to finding life outside the Earth.
Der Spiegel was rather thrifty on details about the discovery but said that the European Southern Observatory (ESO) will announce the finding at the end of the month.
However, although aware of the magazine’s report, ESO spokesman Richard Hook neither confirmed nor denied it.
Оn the overtime section of The Common Sense Show, that we call the Red List News, I interviewed Paul Martin regarding three false flag stories, in their early stages, that are just beginning to get legs. These three stories are at different levels of being verifiable. However, I have known Paul for years and I can accurately state, that he has the best sources in the business and he has never given me a bad tip.
The following recording covers three areas of concern:
A warning delivered to an Austrialian immigrant stating that America was going to get bombed and she returned home.
The massive infestation of the Zika virus in the South East and the Eastern seaboard of the United States which will morph into a depopulation event
The discovery by an Eastern Colorado rancher of railroad tracks illegally put on his land. The railroad tracks emptied into an underground vault in which he saw ovens. His immediate and subsequent encounter with the Feds was frightening to say the least.
In July of 1952 the world was electrified by large newspaper headlines and photos of squadrons of UFOs flying repeatedly over the nation’s Capital in Washington, DC. Four months later WW II General Dwight Eisenhower was elected President.
The same month President Eisenhower took office (January, 1953), the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) was ordered to determine if UFOs were interstellar vehicles. OSI convened the Robertson Panel of scientists, which recommended expansion of an Air Force study of UFOs, Project Blue Book.
A year later, in April, 1954, as documented by Gerald Light, President Eisenhower made a secret trip to Muroc Field (now Edwards Air Force Base), in the California desert, accompanied by generals, reporter Franklin Allen of the Hearst Newspapers Group, Los Angeles Catholic Bishop James McIntyre, and others.
The President had previously arranged to be in nearby Palm Springs, CA, purportedly for a golfing vacation. He “was spirited over to Muroc one night,” while reporters were fed the cover story that the President had a toothache and needed to see a dentist.
While at Muroc Air Field, Eisenhower was present while an extraterrestrial disc landed. Several Star Visitors emerged to converse with the President and the generals. The extraterrestrials requested that Eisenhower make the public aware of extraterrestrial contact with Earth forthwith.
The President protested that humans were not ready, and needed time to be prepared for adjusting to this stupendous reality.
By the end of the following month, May, 1954, President Eisenhower’s CIA Director, Walter Bedell Smith, Prince Bernhard of Netherlands, David Rockefeller and other top world financiers, Later-Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Later-British Minister of Defense Denis Healey, and other Western power leaders convened the inaugural meeting of the Bilderberg Group, “a means of Western collective management of the world order”. [5]
One of the early items on the Bilderberg agenda was extraterrestrial contact. Shortly after establishing itself, the Bilderberg Group collaborated with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), another international policy body devoted to world management. They discussed the problem of adjusting humankind to extraterrestrial presence.
Bilderberg and CFR decided jointly in the mid-1950s to enter into an arrangement with the extraterrestrials: The ETs were given an island in French Polynesia as a base on Earth.
This arrangement afforded them an opportunity to monitor closely Earth cultures and behavior; and it permitted Earth governments a way to monitor extraterrestrial culture and behavior.
“It became an on-going experiment,” as my former-NSA informant put it.
He added that when official public announcement of the extraterrestrial presence occurs,
“they will be the ones introduced to Earthlings; ’Oh, by the way, we want to welcome our neighbors from the Pleiades, who by the way have been here since [the beginning of Earth] time, but [are] actually living in our place, date, space and time.’”
“They are the diplomatic corps.”
Jesse reported that the U.S. particularly held out for many concessions before agreeing to the arrangement.
He did not specify what those concessions were, but history subsequent to 1954 suggests that what the U.S. obtained was the lion’s share of extraterrestrial scientist consultants, to assist American scientists in understanding and adapting exotic ET technologies into such devices we now know as the:
computer chip
fiber optics
lasers
gene-splicing therapy
cloning
night-vision equipment
super-tenacity fibers (such as Kevlar lightweight armor)
aerospace ceramics
Stealth technology
particle-beam devices
gravity-control flight
NSC’s Dr. Michael Wolf has previously revealed in his book The Catchers of Heaven that he worked with ETs as part of his governmental duties.
“I met with extraterrestrial individuals every day in my work, and shared living quarters with them,” while doing research at extremely-classified underground government research laboratories.
He added,
“Zetas work in underground facilities, as requested by the U.S. Government. The ETs are not breaking the U.S. Government- Zeta treaties, but the Government has broken treaties by mistreating ETs, and trying to fire on UFOs.”
Dr. Wolf also described working with very human-appearing races dubbed the Nordics and Semitics. He said,
“The Semitics and Nordics [ETs] come from Altair 4 and 5 and from the Pleiades [star systems].”
Wolf also disclosed that in 1954 the U.S. had four extraterrestrial corpses in the “Blue Room”, Hanger 18 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. These bodies came from a series of retrievals of downed UFOs.
“The first UFO came down in 1941 into the ocean west of San Diego, and was retrieved by the Navy.” [6]
Between that and the first publicly-announced Roswell UFO crash in 1947, Wolf says there was another crash in 1946, as well as two other crashes in 1947.
The following additional revelation will permit you to ignore those Boeing commercials and NASA press releases about how America currently is building its own first manned space station.
ex-NSA informant revealed that there has been a manned “deep space platform” in orbit above Earth for over thirty years!
“It [has] had three-man [American] crews as well as Russians ’on’ since ’68!”
He further states that since 1973, the space station received additional extremely-high technology, “and has had upgrades since.”
His disclosure confirms reports I had heard previously from former military officers about a secret space platform in orbit. This disclosure makes clear that the Cape Canaveral Space Shuttles launches, and the “first” American space station being assembled by NASA’, are just government “cover” programs.
Such programs have served to deflect the public from becoming aware before now of the existence of a black-project military space station, and of classified military craft which can go well past orbit into deep space.
Jesse furnished me additional details about its operation. The space station has been serviced by secret military spacecraft long before the first American Space Shuttle flew in 1981. In 1988 previous models of spacefaring military vehicles were superseded by the “Nautilus”, a spacecraft with a rounded delta shape built jointly by special projects divisions of Europe’s Airbus Industry and U.S.’s Boeing Corporation.
Nautilus has a propulsion system which utilizes magnetic pulsing. Nautilus-type craft make twice-weekly trips up into space and back, to service the secret international space station. The Nautilus is based in Utah.
My informant would not identify the base, but said that it was positioned within a mountain so stealthfully that you could drive by and never know it was there. He also stated that the principal headquarters of the U.S. Space Command has been relocated from Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado to this underground installation in Utah. [7]
Look for further significant disclosures in the weeks and months ahead, as the current U.S. Administration tries to disentangle itself from 50 years of Cold War secrecy. And as it does so, those who have felt all alone with their personal experience of contact by Visitors from the stars, (who have been deeply involved in our society and its evolution), should feel less isolated.
De Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht ESO zou eind deze maand de vondst bekendmaken van een nieuwe exoplaneet die een zuster kan zijn van de onze. Dat zal het Duitse blad Der Spiegel morgen melden. Het hemellichaam zou wentelen rond Proxima Centauri, de dichtst tot ons zonnestelsel staande ster.
De nog naamloze planeet zou zich in de levensvatbare zone rond de ster bevinden en er zou vloeibaar water (een belangrijke voorwaarde voor het bestaan van leven) kunnen zijn.
De planeet bevindt zich op een afstand van slechts 4,24 lichtjaar, astronomen hebben nog nooit een "zuster" van de Aarde gevonden die zo dichtbij was.
Woordvoerder Richard Hook van ESO vertelde aan het persagentschap AFP kennis van het artikel te hebben genomen maar hij wilde geen commentaar geven.
Op voorwaarde van anonimiteit vertelde een astrofysicus het blad dat het zeer moeilijk was de planeet te vinden, tegen de technische limieten aan.
Ongeveer een jaar geleden heeft het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA de ontdekking van een zusterplaneet van ons bekendgemaakt, maar die bevindt zich op 1.400 lichtjaar van ons. De diameter van Kepler 542b is zestig procent groter dan die van de Aarde. Er bestaat een zeer goede kans dat het een gesteenteplaneet betreft, met een dichte atmosfeer en grote hoeveelheden water.
Dit is de Airlander 10, een immens gevaarte met halve zeppelin -en halve vliegtuigallures. Het tuig is 's werelds langste vliegtuig en luistert ook naar de welklinkende bijnaam 'The Flying Bum' of 'De Vliegende Kont'. Waarom hoeven we u niet te vertellen. Dit weekend verliet de Airlander 10 voor het eerst zijn immense hangar aan Cardington Airfield in Groot-Brittannië, ter voorbereiding van zijn eerste testvlucht.
Het Britse bedrijf Hybrid Air Vehicles gelooft dat de Airlander 10, die stiller en minder vervuilend is dan traditionele vliegtuigen, dé toekomst van de luchtvaart kan worden.
Zaterdag in de vroege uurtjes werd het voluptueuze gevaarte uit de grootste hangar van Groot-Brittannië gesleept. Voor de Airlander 10 echt voor het eerst kan opstijgen, moeten er nog verschillende grondtesten buiten worden uitgevoerd.
Door het hybride karakter (enerzijds zeppelin, anderzijds vliegtuig) kan de ongeveer 92 meter lange en 26 meter hoge Airlander 10 tot vijf dagen lang in de lucht blijven.
Het werd origineel ontwikkeld als onderdeel van een project van het Amerikaans leger, maar na besnoeiingen in het budget moest de Airlander 10 beschikken. Hybrid Air Vehicles bracht het in 2013 naar Groot-Brittannië, waar het werd omgebouwd voor civiel gebruik.
Volgens de BBC hoopt het bedrijf 12 tuigen per jaar tegen 2018 te bouwen. Hybrid Air Vehicles ziet een rol als passagiersvliegtuig, maar ziet de 'De Vliegende Kont' evenzeer ook als nuttig voor de kustwacht, voor humanitaire missies, voor militair en burgerlijk toezicht en voor academisch onderzoek.
De aarde is rond, wij draaien rond de zon en de appel valt op de grond omdat hij onderhevig is aan zwaartekracht. Het zijn theorieën die iedereen als waar en vanzelfsprekend neemt. Iedereen behalve de zogenaamde 'Flat Earthers' dan. "NASA en de wetenschap liegen tegen ons allemaal", klinkt het daar. En dit is waarom ze dat geloven.
Toen Malachi Henderson een paar weken geleden ging skydiven, viel het hem op dat de aarde plat leek, zelfs vanuit het vliegtuig. "Hoe hoger we klommen, hoe platter het leek", vertelt hij aan Tech.Mic. Hij is een van de mensen die zichzelf een 'Flat Earther' noemt, een groep die steeds populairder wordt in de Verenigde Staten. Sommigen komen vanuit een religieuze achtergrond, anderen vanuit een wetenschappelijke overtuiging, maar ze geloven allemaal min of meer hetzelfde: er is een enorme samenzwering aan de gang die ons doet geloven dat de aarde rond is, en iedereen bij NASA en andere ruimtevaartorganisaties liegt tegen de bevolking.
Nazi's en de maanlanding Sommige 'Flat Earthers' zien de ronde aarde als een groot complot van de nazi's. Toen NASA na WOII werd opgericht, werden immers ook enkele Duitse wetenschappers aan boord gehaald met een nazi-achtergrond. Geen al te geloofwaardig begin, vinden de Earthers.
De maanlanding is volgens hen dan ook complete onzin. "NASA liegt tegen ons over heel wat dingen", benadrukt Earther Walt Johnson. Een van de bewijzen die daarvoor aangehaald wordt, is een video waarbij je wolken achter de maan kan zien. "Dat is toch onmogelijk als de maan 405.500 km van ons verwijderd is?" De verklaring dat het zonlicht dat weerkaatst op de maan zo fel is dat het lijkt alsof objecten zich achter de maan bevinden, terwijl ze eigenlijk gewoon ervoor staan, verwerpt de groepering volkomen. "Trouwens, als Neil Armstrong als eerste een voet op de maan zette, wie heeft hem dan gefilmd?"
Eindeloze aarde Galileo, de man die zijn leven gaf omdat hij bleef volhouden dat de aarde rond de zon draait, is volgens de Earthers een praatjesmaker. "Hij had het mis. Wij geloven dat de aarde een schijf is waarbij de Noordpool in het centrum ligt. Antarctica is geen continent, maar een ijsmuur die zich rondt de aarde bevindt. Er is ook helemaal geen zonnestelsel. "Natuurlijk bestaat de zon en de maan, die kunnen we zien. Maar andere planeten zijn onzin." De zon draait volgens hen ook rond de aarde. "De zon en de maan bevinden zich op dezelfde afstand van de aarde, en ze zijn even groot. Dat kan je toch gewoon zien in de lucht?"
Niet alle Earthers zijn het echter eens over de grootte van de aarde. Sommigen, waaronder Ben Long, geloven dat de aarde een eindpunt heeft. "Na de ijsmuur is het gedaan en is er niets meer". Anderen zijn er dan weer van overtuigd dat de aarde eindeloos is. "De ijsring is gewoon te moeilijk om voorbij te raken. Maar daarna spreidt de aarde zich eindeloos uit."
Zwaartekracht vs dichtheid "Zwaartekracht is een kracht die niet bestaat", aldus Henderson. "Het is gewoon een theorie die nooit bewezen werd." Newton zocht het volgens de Earthers veel te ver. "Alles kan perfect verklaard worden als je de dichtheid van dingen mee in achting neemt. Is de dichtheid kleiner dan lucht? Dan stijgt het object. Is de dichtheid groter, dan daalt het. Waarom zou iets lichts als een heliumballon anders aan de zwaartekracht ontsnappen?"
Ook de theorie dat de aarde zo snel draait dat we er niets van merken, wordt snel verworpen. "Geloof jij dat water aan een draaiende bal blijft kleven? Als we echt zo snel zouden draaien, zouden alle zeeën wegspatten. En wij ook."
De bijbel Volgens de religieuze tak van de Earthers kan alles dan weer verklaard worden door de bijbel goed te lezen. "De aarde is plat omdat God dat zo zegt. Er zijn 75 verwijzingen naar de aarde in het boek, en telkens is die plat." Volgens sommigen is de aarde zelfs een rechthoek of een vierkant, en geen schijf. "Er wordt duidelijk gesproken over 'de vier hoeken van de aarde'."
Wetenschappers als Galileo en Newton waren volgens veel Earthers 'satanisten' die ook deel uitmaakten van de vrijmetselarij. Hetzelfde geldt voor veel astronauten bij NASA, klinkt het. "Als je goed kijkt naar foto's van astronauten kan je de vrijmetselarijring aan hun handen zien." Er zijn dan ook helemaal geen ruimtevaarders omgekomen bij de crash van de Challenger. "Drie van hen geven nu les aan een universiteit."
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‘Ongelooflijk!’ Eén van de grootste Maya-tombes ooit ontdekt in Belize
‘Ongelooflijk!’ Eén van de grootste Maya-tombes ooit ontdekt in Belize
Archeologen hebben een meer dan 1000 jaar oude Maya-tombe ontdekt die nieuwe inzichten biedt in de mysterieuze ‘slangendynastie’. In de graftombe zijn onder meer schatten, hiërogliefen en een menselijk lichaam aangetroffen, zo schrijft The Guardian.
De ontdekking is gedaan in Xunantunich, een oude Mayastad in Belize die rond het jaar 750 na Christus werd verlaten. De stad bestaat uit zes pleinen met 25 tempels en paleizen. Het gaat om één van de grootste koninklijke graftombes die ooit is ontdekt.
“Het lijkt erop dat de tempel bewust is gebouwd voor de tombe,” vertelde archeoloog Jamie Awe aan The Guardian. “Enkele uitzonderingen daargelaten, is dit erg ongewoon.”
Nog nooit
Het lichaam is atletisch en ‘erg gespierd’. Het behoorde volgens de archeologen toe aan een man van 20 tot 30 jaar oud. Ze troffen ook keramisiche vazen, messen van vulkanisch glas en botten van herten en jaguars aan.
Archeologen aan het werk (Jaime Awe)
Deze tombe is extra speciaal omdat het één van de grootste Maya-tombes is die ooit is gevonden in Belize. De tombe is 4,5 meter lang en 2,4 meter breed. “Het bijzondere aan de ontdekking van deze tombe is dat we weten dat archeologen al sinds de jaren 1890 aan het werk zijn in Xunantunich,” zei Awe.
“Ze verrichten er dus al meer dan een eeuw opgravingen, maar er is nog nooit een tombe gevonden,” vervolgde hij. “Deze tombe is opvallend omdat het één van de grootste grafkamers is die we ooit hebben gevonden.”
Slangenkop
De hiërogliefen in de tombe verwijzen naar de zogeheten slangendynastie, een familie die zo’n 1300 jaar geleden over het Mayarijk heerste en een slangenkop gebruikte als symbool. De archeologen hopen dat de hiërogliefen meer informatie zullen geven over de slangendynastie, de geschiedenis van de koninklijke familie en mogelijk de val van het gehele Mayarijk.
BUITENAARDSEN PROBEREN PROBEREN CONTROLE OVER MENSELIJK RAS TE KRIJGEN ( VIDEO )
BUITENAARDSEN PROBEREN PROBEREN CONTROLE OVER MENSELIJK RAS TE KRIJGEN ( VIDEO )
Langzaam maar zeker wordt de mensheid verder geïnfiltreerd door een nieuw soort hybride die niet te onderscheiden is van “gewone” mensen.
Het doel van buitenaardsen is om door deze hybriden zich te laten vermengen met de menselijke bevolking uiteindelijk het volledige menselijke ras onder controle te krijgen.
Iemand die zich al lang bezighoudt met onderzoek naar buitenaardsen en hun activiteiten op deze aarde is Dr. David Jacobs.
Al in 1998 verscheen er een boek van hem getiteld: The Threat, waarin Jacobs uitgebreid uit de doeken doet wat de plannen van de buitenaardsen zijn voor de toekomst van de aarde.
In dat boek vertelt hij over veranderingen die zullen komen: een toekomst waarbij mensachtige hybriden zich in het dagelijks leven spoedig zullen vermengen met mensen.
“We zullen snel weer allemaal samen zijn”, zeiden de buitenaardsen. “Spoedig zal iedereen gelukkig zijn en zijn plek weten”.
In 2015 kwam er een nieuw boek uit van Dr. Jacobs met de titel: Walking among us: The Alien Plan tot Control Humanity.
In dit boek vertelt Dr. Jacobs over een schokkend fenomeen dat hij in 2003 ontdekte. De integratie van buitenaardsen met mensen is in een hogere versnelling terechtgekomen. Het aantal ontvoeringen van mensen door buitenaardsen neemt toe en ook hun betrokkenheid in ons dagelijks leven.
Een stille en verraderlijke invasie van ons leven is begonnen. Ze zijn getraind door mensen die ze hebben ontvoerd, waardoor ze geleerd hebben hoe ze voor mens kunnen doorgaan en hoe ze zich ongemerkt kunnen vermengen met ons ras. Dit doen ze zo goed dat bijvoorbeeld je buurman een buitenaards iemand kan zijn zonder dat je daar iets van merkt.
Jacobs is een voorzichtige onderzoeker die niet zomaar wat van de daken schreeuwt. Hij heeft meer dan 1.150 gevallen van buitenaardse ontvoeringen onderzocht, evenals de ervaringen van 150 van die ontvoerde mensen gedocumenteerd.
Volgens Jacobs is het een programma waarbij buitenaardsen een soort mensachtig uitziende hybriden creëren.
Ze zijn daarmee zó ver dat Jacobs een nieuw soort hybride heeft geïdentificeerd die hij “hubriden” noemt. Deze lijken meer dan ooit op gewone mensen.
In het interview hieronder met Dr. Jacobs vertelt hij over zijn eigen onthutsende persoonlijke ontmoetingen met zogenaamde security hybriden die probeerden zich te bemoeien met zijn speciale werk van het de-programmeren van de mind control van slachtoffers van buitenaardse ontvoeringen. De ontvoerde mensen worden zodanig geprogrammeerd dat ze de traumatische gebeurtenissen volledig zijn vergeten.
Naarmate Jacobs dieper doordrong in het onderbewuste van de slachtoffers vond hij lagen van weerstand, waar de ontvoerden hem vertelden dat ze niets mochten vertellen over de geheime technieken die worden gebruikt om hun geheugen te blokkeren.
De security hybriden begonnen uiteindelijk ook Dr. Jacobs te bedreigen en dat niet alleen hij een hoge prijs zou betalen voor wat hij doet, maar ook de ontvoerde mensen die met hem meewerken.
Een ander probleem waar Dr. Jacob mee te maken heeft, is dat er geen enkele wetenschapper is die aan dit soort dingen wil werken omdat ze bang zijn voor hun reputatie. Volgens Jacob heeft de wetenschappelijke wereld dit fenomeen volledig afgeschreven en er van alles aan gedaan om dit onderwerp zo belachelijk mogelijk te maken.
Terwijl er nog ieder jaar duizenden mensen zijn die zelf ervaringen hebben of de buitenaardse schepen waarnemen. Ook het aantal ontvoeringen wordt volgens Jacobs allesbehalve minder.
Dr. Jacobs zegt dat omdat de mainstream-media nooit eerlijk en open over dit soort dingen zullen berichten, de buitenaardsen in het geheim rustig verder kunnen gaan met hun plannen tot het totaal domineren van de mensheid.
Mountain Climbers Snap A UFO From A Summit of Mount Washington
Mountain Climbers Snap A UFO From A Summit of Mount Washington
Climbers at the Mount Washington summit in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the U.S. reportedly took two pictures that appear to show an unidentified flying object (UFO).
The images were sent to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for scrutiny. The unnamed reporting witness said that he noticed the mysterious aerial object in the background of two pictures when he zoomed in on them.
The climbers captured their victorious moment in photos and accidentally snapped a UFO that seemed to watch them from the distance.
It seems that UFOs like to observe people who think outside the box, just like most mountain climbers, seeking and chasing adventure. Moreover, meeting an alien would be quite challenging and adventurous too.
The latest sighting in the mountain peak could remind UFO enthusiasts on world famous mountain climber Reinhold Messner, who claimed to have witnessed a moon-sized object during his climb in the Himalayas in 1981 above Katmandu, Nepal.
Italian Messner said he watched the UFO with the same size of a full moon for nearly three hours while doing his climb in the Himalayas. He spotted the UFO drifting into Nepal from Tibet over the snowcapped mountains.
Filer’s Files # 33 – 2016 Russia and US Join Space Forces - PART I
Soviet KGB released photo of possible alien craft
Filer’s Files # 33 – 2016 Russia and US Join Space Forces - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: President Reagan Chased UFOs, Russia and the US join forces, Who is in those Flying Saucers? Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS), Battle Space Awareness, Lockheed Martin to build a $914 million Space Fence Radar
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over, Argentina, Canada, France, India, Italy, Korea, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The weekly intelligence report provides you with information on the latest sightings and UFO news that you need to understand the world situation. The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force and Prince Phillip told me of his personal interest in UFOs. The US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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President Reagan Chased UFOs
Ronald Reagan claimed to have seen UFOs on at least two occasions. Allegedly, before he was governor of California, he and Nancy were on their way up the Pacific coast highway to a dinner party. They arrived half an hour late and distraught saying they had seen a UFO and that was why they were late. They did not explain the time delay and may have had a life-altering experience for the two of them if not an actual abduction experience. Later when Governor of California, he asked his pilots to chase a UFO that was flying near their aircraft. While President Reagan often made references to UFOs and received daily briefings about their activities.
He alerted the Navy to one of his sightings, and he and Nancy believed that Egyptian hieroglyphics referenced extraterrestrial flying crafts.
The Stargate series has similarities to the Star Wars system proposed by President Reagan. In Reagan’s March 23, 1983, “Star Wars” speech, Reagan announced, “I call upon the scientific community who gave us nuclear weapons to turn their great talents to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.” In a surprising statement, “He also offered to share the technology with the Soviets.”
The Star Wars program became the largest and most expensive weapons program in the US defense budget costing 8.5 Billion dollars per year. Although, we’re are told it is designed to destroy incoming nuclear missiles, it may also be an effective weapons system to protect the United States against limited UFO threats as Reagan inferred on several occasions. In 1984, the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) was established to oversee the program, which was headed by Lt. General James Alan Abrahamson USAF, a past Director of the NASA Space Shuttle Program. Initially, the program focused on large scale systems designed to defeat a Soviet offensive strike. Is it possible that there is a secret war going as former enemies’ are now allies. A Navy press release says that Tenth Fleet is in charge of “space planning and operations” and “missions across the cyber, electromagnetic and space domains. Of course the question is why spend billions for a task force in space? President Reagan stated in remarks made to the 42nd General Assembly of the United Nations, September 21, 1987, “In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us realize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, IS NOT AN ALIEN FORCE ALREADY AMONG US?”
Only a few people knew the answer was yes there is an alien force among us. Reagan received regular intelligence data on UFO activities including UFO landings.
Presidents Gorbachev and Reagan signing agreements.
Russia and the US Join Forces
Gorbechev stated on Italian Radio Channel RAI TRE, show Che Tempo Che Fa, on October 29, 2006,”
“And I remember during a walk by the villa garden where we met, President Reagan stopped and said, ‘But, listen to me, President Gorbachev. If we were attacked from Space, would we come together? I answered him, ‘I do not know what you think about it, but I propose to come together, that we join forces.’
Thanks to http://www.ufodigest.com/news/1206/gorbachev.html we unite?’
Today both US astronauts and Russian cosmonauts are together aboard the International Space Station. There is strong evidence there are additional space ships where we are working together to fight off aggressive alien attacks. Since 1995, the US military has used the Russian-made RD-180 rocket motor engines on Atlas V rockets, which are often employed to send Air Force and other satellites into space.
Hundreds of reports of abductions were reported in the Soviet Union and the United States. The abductees reported the aliens continuously warned of the dangers of nuclear weapons and would prevent their use. Soviet Cosmonauts were reporting UFOs; fighters were being launched to chase them. If fired upon the fighters would be destroyed. Rumors persist from high ranking Soviets that Gorbachev himself was visited by an alien and given a stern warning. On July 28, 1989, the arrival of an UFO spread panic among the personnel of a military unit stationed in the vicinity of Kapustin Yar, in the Astrakhan region. Corporal Valery Voloshin was on duty in the communications center at the time. He filed the first report on the case. The KGB developed documents in the Blue Folder that reports on hundreds of cases and is an invaluable source of information.
Soviet Communist KGB sources claim during the late 1980s large triangular craft were attacking Soviet installations. These drawings were provided to me by a Soviet Colonel who felt this was the real cause of the demise of Soviet Communism. I said, “We were told financial weakness was the cause.” He indicated the Soviets were in better financial shape than in many previous years with the production and lucrative selling of gas and oil.”
The Soviet Union mysteriously gave up its position as one of the world’s greatest powers and splintered into multiple nations. Its leader at the time was Mikhail Gorbachev who has made several public statements about the reality of a covert extraterrestrial presence visiting Earth.
Gorbachev stated, “The phenomenon of UFO’s does exist, and it must be treated seriously.'”
The prominent Soviet cosmonaut Pavel Popovich got the famous Blue Folder from the KGB in 1991. These days Mr. Popovich holds the position of honorary president of the Academy of Informational and Applied Ufology. The folder contains numerous descriptions of UFO flights and reports on some (mostly failed) attempts taken by the military in order to catch the aliens.
Pavel Popovich was given the folder after requesting reports on the cases of UFOs. It was a 124-page compilation of reports about the encounters with UFOs. The reports filed by authorities, military units and eyewitnesses. It took us a long time to get rid of some doubts before making the folder public,” says he. Mr. Popovich saw an UFO only once while flying in a passenger plane from Washington to Moscow.
Anfalov Anton, PhD writes an open letter in Russian to Coordinator “Kosmopoisk”, Chairman of the Union of Russian UFO-BA Shurinovu,
To all ufologists:”There is a multi-year cover-up of alien spaceships in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation (one) and three in the United States of America.”
“Back in the 1990s there was a little known, a military base near the town of Odintsovo in the Moscow region where the military and intelligence agencies have covered-up the investigation of the captured alien spacecraft. Odincovo let slip this data in a telephone conversation with me in the mid-to late 1990s. You and your colleagues have taken virtually no tangible and concrete actions or a detailed study and the final publication of this important data for the whole of Russia and the world of ufology.”
Soviet KGB released photo of possible alien craft
My colleagues and I will put an end to your cynical criminal silence and inaction after years of hiding the truth about the alien ship. We are also aware of the three alien disks seized in the United States (two-discs in Arizona in May 1953 and another one in California in the summer 1967) and stored since the 1970s and still in the underground base at Area 12, Rainier Mesa, a Nuclear test site in Nevada.
In 1982, I personally talked to the officer, who secretly photographed the rescue disk at the crash site on his personal camera. A cordon of soldiers stood near the 1263rd Engineering Corps arsenal Arsaki. KGB and Soviet Interior Ministry personnel cordoned off the crash site for a rescue disk.
e Russians claim to have brought down at least one alien disc shaped craft with their system as shown in the TV movie “The Secret KGB UFO Files’” with myself as the first character on screen and Roger Moore . The video of the alien ship cost the producer’s over $100,000. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=770zi9UGUqI
53T6 Short Range Anti-Ballistic Missile System – NATO: ABM-3 Gazelle –
The Russian have built their own anti-missile-missile system that remains in operation today as the upgraded A-135 anti-ballistic missile system. The A-135 (NATO: ABM-3) is a Russian military complex deployed around Moscow to counter enemy missiles targeting the city or its surrounding areas. It became operational during 1995. It is a successor to the previous A-35, and compliant with the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty from which the US unilaterally withdrew in 2002. A newer missile has replaced it. The system is operated by the 9th Division of Anti-Missile Defence, part of the Air Defence and Missile Defence Command of the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces.
A-135 consists of the Don-2N battle management radar and two types of ABM missiles. It gets its data from the wider Russian early warning system which is sent to the command centre which then forwards tracking data to the Don-2N radar. (NATO: ‘Pill Box’) The Don-2N radar is a large battle-management phased-array radar with 360° coverage. 68 launchers of short-range 53T6 (NATO: SH-08 ‘Gazelle’) endoatmospheric interceptor nuclear-tipped missiles at five launch sites with 12 or 16 missiles each. Designed by NPO Novator, similar to US Sprint missile. US military artist’s concept of the Don-2N (‘Pill Box’) ABM radar. The successor system, dubbed ‘Samolet-M’ (and more recently A-235) supposedly will employ a new, conventional, variant of the 53T6 missile to be deployed in the former 51T6 silos. Thanks tohttps://en.wikipedia.org/
Who is in those Flying Saucers?
Introducing Your Galactic Neighbors! Sheldan Nidle’s
Thousands of sightings of wingless unidentified craft have been sighted. Credible sources have come forward with their stories. TV shows with evidence of “Ancient Aliens” have become popular. So WHO is in those craft? Where are they from? What do they look like? We would like to introduce some of our Galactic Neighbors. To learn about their histories, locations, physical appearances, & spacecraft just click on the following link:
Members include Andromedans, Arcturians, Procyons, Sirians and many more!
Since childhood, Sheldan Nidle has received information about Earth’s hidden history, planetary science, culture and spirituality with face-to-face contacts with galactic entities. Now, in this book, he reveals that knowledge to you. In it, you will find facts on 22 off-world civilizations that belong to the Galactic Federation of Light. He describes 8 human galactic societies, 14 non-human ones, with the amphibians, reptilians, cetaceans and other mammalians that inhabit these wondrous worlds. He outlines each star-nation’s history, chronicles its path through horrendous galactic wars to peaceful co-existence, and reveals its populations heartfelt desire to introduce themselves to us on Earth. For more info about the book see: http://www.paoweb.com/ygnoffer.htm
Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS)
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station – Lockheed Martin has announced Space Based Infrared Systems GEO-1 Satellite marks the Dawn of a New Era in Persistent Overhead Surveillance, The spacecraft’s highly sophisticated scanning and staring Sensors will deliver unprecedented global, persistent, infrared Surveillance capabilities to the United States and its allies. Infrared is an ideal medium for picking up UFOs or Fast Walkers as they are often called.
Battle Space Awareness
The SBIRS constellation will deliver comprehensive infrared data to Combatant Commanders, Joint Task Force Commanders and other users to help characterize battle space conditions supporting force protection, strike planning and other missions. The SBIRS team is led by the Infrared Space Systems Directorate at the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. Lockheed Martin is the SBIRS prime contractor. The SBIRS architecture consists of hosted sensor payloads in Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO), dedicated Geosynchronous Earth Orbiting (GEO) satellites, to receive, process, and deliver the infrared information to key decision makers. The mission of Tenth Fleet is to serve the Cyber Command and exercise operational control of assigned Naval forces; to coordinate with other naval, coalition and Joint Task Forces to execute the full spectrum of cyber, electronic warfare, information operations and signal intelligence capabilities and missions across the cyber, electromagnetic and space domains.
Editor’s Note: High interest objects in space would be intercontinental ballistic missiles and alien UFOs. Note the discs in Lockheed’s drawing. Remember the Stealth fighter was kept secret for over ten years. SBIRs will operate with a Highly Elliptical Orbit (egg shaped orbit going comparatively deep into space.) The various leaks are painting an interesting picture of advanced capabilities to protect Earth. Only these commanders know of the existence of UFOs Apparently hidden within one of the ten unified combatant commands of the U.S. military, Strategic Command has a highly classified fleet of aircraft carrier sized antigravity vehicles that operate in outer space.
Lockheed Martin Building a $914 million Space Fence Radar
The U.S. Air Force selected Lockheed Martin’s Space Fence solution as an advanced ground-based radar system, will enhance the way the U.S. detects catalogs and measures more than 200,000 orbiting objects. With better timeliness and improved surveillance coverage, the system will protect space assets against potential crashes that can intensify the debris problem in space.
Lockheed Martin will deliver up to two advanced S-Band phased array radars for the Space Fence program. The Space Fence radar system will greatly improve Space Situational Awareness. Construction of the new Space Fence system on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands began in early 2015 to meet the program’s 2018 initial operational capability goal.
Data collected from a new space fence’s sensors would potentially feed into the joint space operations center mission system, which is used to track objects orbiting the earth, monitor space weather and assess foreign launches. Operators at the 614th Air and Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base,California, keep a watch on spacearound the clock. A new Space Fence is envisioned to be a system of two or three S-band ground-based radars designed to perform detection, tracking and accurate measurement of orbiting space objects which include UFOs. Several uncorrelated UFO targets (FastWalkers) not in the data base are tracked each week entering and leaving our atmosphere.
. The Space Fence is intended to replace the Air Force Space Surveillance System, or VHF Fence. The United States has organized its military forces into ten unified combatant commands and appoints a very few of those who have a strict need to know. Six of the unified commands span the globe in terms of different geographical areas. In addition, there are outer space operations by the U.S. military. In June 2002, Space Command merged with four functional commands where specialized military activities are run by a single “Combatant Commander.” From 1985 to 2002 Space Command was responsible for another of the functional commands – Admiral Cecil D. Haney is Commander, United States Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. which is responsible for a range of space, satellite, missile, nuclear and intelligence activities. An underground facility may direct space operations.
William Tompkins Testimony
In the Jeff Rense Radio Show William Tomkins revealed that due to his excellent memory and model building skills he was assigned to Naval Intelligence on World War II working for Admiral Rick Abatta. According to Tompkins, his unit had a series of US Naval spies who returned from Germany who had discovered that the Germans were working on advanced wingless aircraft or types of discs apparently with the help of extraterrestrials. According to Tomkins, Adolph Hitler was working with Reptilian aliens and building early models of UFOs. The Reptilians had large caverns in Antarctica and numerous scientists were transferred to Antarctica to build advanced craft. The SS allowed a group of personnel to build UFOs in Germany and attempted to develop their own… Tomkins job was to take this information to various aviation companies, universities and research organizations. He often flew to Naval Development Center in Warminster, Maryland. Tompkins explained, the Germans started in 1939, building and importing equipment into a massive cavern in Antarctica that was tied to extraterrestrial operations. They were building large transport submarines and anti gravitational UFOs. These craft allegedly flew Hitler and large numbers of Nazis to Argentina and Antarctica in the last stages of the war. Tomkind clsimd with the help of German scientists and aliens we have built a fleet of space ships to protect Earth from the Reptilians.
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Filer’s Files # 33 – 2016 Russia and US Join Space Forces - PART II
Filer’s Files # 33 – 2016 Russia and US Join Space Forces - PART II
Sightings in the United States
California Lights
Beaumont— I’m a regular skywatcher and film with full spectrum of night vision in the ultraviolet ranges. Through the month of July and on July 27, 2016, I caught sight of some kind of triangle formation, which appeared to be de-cloaking when meteors passed near. This video shows things passing through the triangle, at incredible speeds, possibly some kind of a portal or stargate? Using the security camera as reference, I estimate it to be flying at several thousand feet in altitude, but it has no FAA required strobes, and its shape is odd. Also of note are the many lights that appear in the same area as the glowing triangle, so it should be associated with this high altitude event. There was no sound. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Clovis — I was near the Wal-Mart Shopping Center on August 4, 2016, when I looked up and saw a triangle shaped flying object. It had three lights at each corner and a center red light. I like to study UFO’s and I can generally tell if something is more manmade instead of alien. When ever I’ve heard about Black Triangle sightings, most say that the UFO doesn’t make noise or a very light hum. I’d say the noise I heard was a light hum with a rumble. I do believe in aliens but this did seem more of a manned military vessel, but it looked just like a black triangle UFO. I was excited to see it but was quickly skeptical to conclude that it was extraterrestrial. But I and two others spotted it as it then flew away out of sight. I managed to get a photo with my cell phone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Green Orb
St Cloud — I just had the thought to start taking photographs of the sunset on August 6, 2016. We were on our way towards Canoe Creek to do some fishing so I took a few shots with my HTC 10 out my friend’s car while he was driving to the creek. I noticed a green most translucent thing after I looked at the photos/ I’m just looking for answers; I don’t know if it was a UFO that’s why I sent the pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kansas Object
Oak Hill — I was taking pictures of the lightning between 2 am and 3 am on August 5, 2016. When going through the pictures I had taken I noticed a few pictures with an object in them. There is one photo by itself that clearly shows an object over the trees. The other set of pictures is a burst of 12 pictures taken within a few seconds of each other. Most of the pictures appear dark and not much can be seen. The other pictures though show an object that appears to go into the cloud and back out again. The object can be seen in the cloud in a couple of the pictures, but it can clearly be seen in two of the pictures. I took the pictures on my cell phone with an application that is designed to take pictures of lightning. I did not see the objects or hear anything other than thunder. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Abilene — I was on a walk in a local park on August 4, 2016, when I notice an odd light in the sky moving over me.
I was able to record the object for about a minute. After the first object was out of sight two other objects appeared heading the same direction, but too far out of range for my camera to capture them. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri UFO Sightings Increase
The Missouri chapter of the Mutual UFO Network has received 54 UFO sighting reports over the past three months.
Lawson — I was taking pictures of an odd looking cloud formation on July 9, 2016, and took several in a row as it grew dark. When I looked back at pictures it was in the pictures with a lot of odd energy in the pictures on the ground afterword. I never saw it with my naked eye. I did not hear anything but the air felt odd afterwards.
Kansas City, On August 5, 2016, multiple witnesses describe orbs or balls of light, and different shaped objects in the skies over the Lake of the Ozarks.
St. Louis and many other locations across the state report objects varying from blimps, spheres, discs, oval, triangular and rectangular. The balls of light are described as bright white or orange or yellow fireballs. On August 2, 2016 a witness captured cell phone video of a strange large pulsating light above the St. Louis Arch. The light was also captured by a surveillance video camera as reported on Fox 2 Now in St. Louis. This case is being covered heavily in the media due to the photographic evidence. This case is being investigated by Chief Investigator Joe Palermo. On May 3, 2016 a witness captured photos of a large UFO hovering over a Cardinals game, as reported in UFO Sightings Daily.
Belle witness reports that his family and neighbors have observed multiple unidentified objects in the skies directly over their house during the past several months. The witnesses have observed white balls of light, a large disk shaped dark object at tree-top level with beams of light coming from it that did not appear to hit the ground.
Laurie witnesses report seeing UFO’s over the past 16 weeks as well as an entity, which climbed a tree and entered a hovering craft. One witness noticed a bright ball of light that moved out of the trees and stopped just 20 feet from the witness. Curious, one witness attempted to take picture with his cell phone, but when the flash went off, the object shot straight up and stopped, then started flashing blue and red, and moved quickly further away. Since then many different shapes of objects that are a dark grey color, or white, and a round disk shape with square block shapes on the bottom. Some have a jet like sound, others produce no sound. The witness called Whiteman Air Force Base to report his sightings because it seemed that the objects were starting to get hostile. One chased him as he drove down the road and he became very afraid that something would happen. Whiteman AFB referred the witness to MUFON. These cases are being investigated by Assistant State Director Margie Kay.
These cases are being investigated by Assistant State Director Margie Kay.
Sunrise Beach s large triangular shaped craft and a round craft with a row of lights around the center were reported in June. None of the objects created a sound or emissions. Jean Walker is working on this case.
During the month of July, 2016 Missouri MUFON received 29 case file reports with multiple witnesses seeing strange unexplained objects. Missouri has been a hot bed of UFO activity for many years. Missouri MUFON encourages witnesses to file their UFO report and any photos obtained at www.missourimufon.org. An investigator will contact witnesses. Thanks to Margie Kay, Assistant State Director for Missouri MUFON at 816-833-1602 or margiekay06@yahoo.com.
Montana Orb
Glacier National Park — I was on vacation on July 31 2016, staying in a cabin and went outside to take a few pictures of the mountains. I took two with my cell phone and 1 with my camera. Two days later as we were driving to Yellowstone, as a passenger, I had time to look over my photos and noticed this green thing in my pictures. I must say, I kind of freaked out. I zoomed in on the picture on my camera. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
I know the sun is going down and was shining right in my lens when I took the picture. But I definitely see a face in that green thing. When I was out there taking the pictures, there was absolutely nothing that I saw, nothing reflecting from the sun that I saw. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Disc
Yerington–The object was taken on June 10, 2016.
The object in the picture was observed until after the event and was not witnessed with the naked eye. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Las Vegas — I just left my home heading south on August 7. 2016 and immediately two highly reflective objects caught my eye. They were moving rather slowly at first. I immediately identified them as something I have never seen before flying in the sky. I have much familiarity with aircraft growing up on military bases for the first 20+ years of my life. What I saw on August 7, 2016, was not military and not civilian. I took out my cell phone and tried to capture a picture. I switched from static pictures to video using my Samsung Note 5. I was inside my Jeep Wrangler with family. All 4 of us saw the object including my retired Army father. We watched the objects fly northeast heading towards Nellis AFB as the second object disappeared and I could only see the first and larger object. I contacted Fox news and shared it with them and they published my video on their website. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Mexico Disc
Clovis – I watched it hover for about five minutes, then it just dropped towards the ground like a rock. It was purple in color
Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Dakota Light
Velva — On my camera I picked up three small vertical objects in the sky west of Velva, on Highway 52 on August 4, 2016, at 15:45. The photos before and after do not show the same objects. There should be three small objects in the upper and left side. In the event I uploaded the wrong picture to the general public. MUFON called me before by phone on other sightings. My roommate was witness to another sighting. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tennessee Light
Morristown – On August 9, 2016, was watching some small cloud formations when I noticed a strange object hovering that appeared to be standing still. I got my wife and friend and our son to look at it when my friend ran to get binoculars and a telescope.
We begin studying the object as it changed from what appeared to be a circular object to a triangle shape, then to a square with four circular shapes inside. We notified WVLT about the object and emailed them pictures of the object. After about an hour and a half the object slowly disappeared over the horizon. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Cylinder
Brownsville – My brother was driving back home on August 2, 2016, after a fishing trip off Highway 48 when he noticed a bright oval shape object. It was moving slowly from left to right then stopping and hovering. The sky was cloudless at that time of day, and you can see the sunset on the background of the video he recorded. There was a small object that was trailing the big oval object and was absorbed by the large object, but was not captured on the video. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
Pasco — The event started out as one craft with the red light came out of the one at the base on July 27, 2016.
Then very rapidly it turned into the V shape. There was no sound. They left just as rapidly. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Argentina Triangle and Orb
Buenos Aires– A triangular UFO was observed prowling the city on August 8, 3016. It is the second time I have seen the triangular UFO in two months.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Lomas de Zamora— Last Saturday on August 6, 2016, my wife took some pictures of sunrise with her mobile phone from my car. She took several pictures and one was published in Facebook.
One of her friends sent us a message reporting that she saw a strange object in the photo. We reviewed all the photos and we believe that my wife took pictures of an atmospheric phenomenon or and UFO.
We believe that you will be able to establish what type of thing was photographed. Best regards. Ruben Corvalan and Thanks to MUFON CMS
Bolivia Object
Tiahuanaco — I was visiting an old archeological site on the border of Titicaca lake on January 8, 2015. I only realized the UFO was there many months later when I was looking the photos. The object was very far away in the direction of the mountains. It was out of airways path of La Paz international airport that is dozens of miles from there. It doesn’t look or behave like an airplane. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Triangle
Sainte-Adele — At 2:38 am, I took my dog when a silent object that can only be described as a black triangle ufo flew over heading north-west. It flew following a straight and steady trajectory. The craft had three larger soft steady white lights forming a triangule, with a smaller pulsating red light at the center. It flew at a speed comparable to a Cessna plane. The silent encounter lasted roughly two minutes, before it disappeared beyond the tree line. I have never seen such a craft in my life. I’m attaching a sketch that I found on Google, as a representation of what I saw. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Clouds
Clermont Ferrand— The objects were very luminous like the sun, very big above city on July 25, 2016, running north to southwest very slowly.
You can see small trails behind the objects. Thanks to MUFON CMS
India Triangle
Shahjahanpur — I saw three orbs and a red light on the right side attached to it on August 3, 2016, I became more suspicious, and started noticing it more precisely. Its shape was like a boomerang, and we were able to see it’s body outline, with light on below. It had wings with two red orbs attached to each wing ends, and when it flew overhead we heard a buzzing noise It was a jet sound of low frequency, but the speed was very very slow. We were able see its base lights and one of the red orbs suddenly twisted to left side and detached itself from the main UFO, and flew northeast. And the rest of the UFO flew straight southeast and disappeared. It was a mind blowing experience. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Italy Cylinder
Como – Please zoom in there are about ten UFOs in the photo taken in June 2016.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Korean Air Force Close Encounter with an Alien Craft
Korean F-4
Two Korean Air Force combat jets evidently engaged an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) in 1980, according to a documentary program aired on JTBC on Sunday. The incident was reported to top commanding officers of the Korean Air Force at the time, but they decided not to investigate the matter as it was not within their area of expertise. According to the documentary, Lim Byeong-seon, a reserve Major General and a former Korean Air Force pilot, was flying a combat aircraft for a Korea-U.S. combined military exercise named Team Spirit on March 31, 1980. Korea at the time was in distress after a military coup had taken place on Dec. 12, 1979. Lim was flying at night with three other pilots to Gangneung, Gangwon, where the combined exercise was taking place, when they detected a floating object that was not picked up by their radars. Lim reported that “an unidentifiable object is coming towards us,” and in response, the ground air controller ordered Lim to pursue the object. As ordered, Lim started pursuing the object but when his aircraft blocked its path, the object stopped and vertically ascended to an altitude of 33,000 feet. The two pilots observed the object floating at 33,000 feet while circling it at a distance of about 200 meters (656 feet).
The object had a rounded appearance with bright lights and was as big as three combat aircraft combined. Soon after, the object vanished from the pilots’ visibility. The documentary also revealed UFO data from the Korean War that lists multiple sightings of unidentifiable aerial objects over the Korean Peninsula. There are 42 cases related to UFO sightings reported by pilots, sailors, servicemen and radar operators during the Korean War. Dr. Richard Haines, a research scientist, also claimed that three American servicemen during the Korean War were sick with various symptoms after witnessing a strange aerial vehicle in the vicinity of Cheorwon County, Gangwon. JTBC’s documentary concluded that UFOs have been frequently sighted during wars or when societies were unstable. It also cited Hillary Clinton’s interest in the matter and her half-joking remark, made on a talk show in March, that she will reveal the truth behind UFOs when she is elected as the president. NOTE: The above image is my CGI. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJwww.worldufophotos.org
UK England Triangle
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Dragons and Magical Dirt: Legendary 'Great Flood' Left Real Evidence
Dragons and Magical Dirt: Legendary 'Great Flood' Left Real Evidence
By Kacey Deamer, Staff Writer
The Guanting Basin would have been under water the height of one-third the Empire State Building during China's "Great Flood."
Credit: Wu Qinglong
With the help of a channel-digging dragon and magical, water-absorbing dirt, the legendary Emperor Yu is said to have saved China from a Great Flood that lasted thousands of years. While this tale is the stuff of myths, with plenty of embellishments added through the years, geologists are finding that at least part of the story is based in reality.
The ancient Chinese legend holds that a devastating flood of the Yellow River forced people from their homes and washed away farmland, leading to famine. Emperor Yu is said to have tamed the floodwaters by dredging the river bed. The heroic emperor went on to establish the Xia Dynasty, the first in Chinese history.
Until now, a lack of geological evidence for such a flood left some scholars questioning whether the legend tells the story of a real disaster or if it was propaganda used to justify imperial rule. [Top 10 Deadliest Natural Disasters in History]
Now, a team of scientists has provided geological evidence for adisastrous flood that occurred around 1920 B.C., which could be the origin of the legend. The research, published today (Aug. 4) in the journal Science, reconstructed ancient events along the Yellow River — including an earthquake, a landslide and a dam burst — that led to a catastrophic flood.
If this ancient flood is in fact what came to be known as the Great Flood, then Emperor Yu's Xia Dynasty likely started several centuries later than historians had thought, the researchers said.
"Because this flood happens at a critical turning point in the development of Chinese civilization, this geological event takes on even greater significance," said study co-author David Cohen, an archaeologist at the National Taiwan University. "This is because the flood dates to the likely time period for China's legendary Great Flood, and this is the first time a flood of the scale large enough to account for it has been found."
The study shows that an enormous flood surged down the Yellow River after a dam broke. In their research along the Yellow River, in China's Qinghai province, the scientists found remains of a landslide, dam and outburst flood sediments downstream that allowed them to reconstruct the flood's size.
"The flood was about 300,000 to 500,000 cubic meters per second [about 10,600,000 to 17,650,000 cubic feet per second]. To put that into perspective, that's roughly equivalent to the largest flood ever measured on the Amazon River, the world's largest river," said study author Darryl Granger, a geologist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. "It's more than 500 times larger than a flood we might expect on the Yellow River from a massive rainfall event."
The researchers were able to determine the flood year by dating human remains from people who died in the same earthquake that triggered the landslide that dammed the river. Granger said the remains of children, because they grow so quickly, their bones give an accurate and reliable age at the time of their death. This allowed the researchers to narrow the time frame in which the flood would have occurred.
Given the timing of this flooding event, plus information from historical texts and astronomical evidence, the researchers said the Xia Dynasty likely began around 1900 B.C., with Emperor Yu starting his reign in 1914 B.C.
Much of Chinese dynastic history is dated as a "floating chronology," Cohen said. Evidence drawn from ancient documents has allowed historians to determine the duration and order of the reigns, but not necessarily specific years. Especially in the case of the Xia Dynasty, which was originally thought to have begun in 2070 B.C., the historiographic evidence was lacking, he said.
Cohen explained that the basic calculations for each reign was based on a "leapfrogging" approach, the historians would move backward from a known point to determine each predecessor's reign.
"There has to be an anchor point somewhere in that," Cohen said.
This flood, if it is indeed the legendary "Great Flood," could be the Xia Dynasty's anchor point, the researchers said. Beyond supporting the legend of Emperor Yu's flood, the new research could offer researchers a greater understanding of China's ancient history, they said.
Think of a traditional robot and you probably imagine something made from metal and plastic. Such "nuts-and-bolts" robots are made of hard materials. As robots take on more roles beyond the lab, such rigid systems can present safety risks to the people they interact with. For example, if an industrial robot swings into a person, there is the risk of bruises or bone damage.
Researchers are increasingly looking for solutions to make robots softer or more compliant — less like rigid machines, more like animals. With traditional actuators — such as motors — this can mean using air musclesor adding springs in parallel with motors. For example, on a Whegs robot, having a spring between a motor and the wheel leg (Wheg) means that if the robot runs into something (like a person), the spring absorbs some of the energy so the person isn't hurt. The bumper on a Roomba vacuuming robot is another example; it's spring-loaded so the Roomba doesn't damage the things it bumps into.
But there's a growing area of research that's taking a different approach. By combining robotics with tissue engineering, we're starting to build robots powered by living muscle tissue or cells. These devices can be stimulated electrically or with light to make the cells contract to bend their skeletons, causing the robot to swim or crawl. The resulting biobots can move around and are soft like animals. They're safer around people and typically less harmful to the environment they work in than a traditional robot might be. And since, like animals, they need nutrients to power their muscles, not batteries, biohybrid robots tend to be lighter too.
Tissue-engineered biobots on titanium molds.
Credit: Karaghen Hudson and Sung-Jin Park, CC BY-ND
Building a biobot
Researchers fabricate biobots by growing living cells, usually from heart or skeletal muscle of rats or chickens, on scaffolds that are nontoxic to the cells. If the substrate is a polymer, the device created is a biohybrid robot — a hybrid between natural and human-made materials.
If you just place cells on a molded skeleton without any guidance, they wind up in random orientations. That means when researchers apply electricity to make them move, the cells' contraction forces will be applied in all directions, making the device inefficient at best.
So to better harness the cells' power, researchers turn to micropatterning. We stamp or print microscale lines on the skeleton made of substances that the cells prefer to attach to. These lines guide the cells so that as they grow, they align along the printed pattern. With the cells all lined up, researchers can direct how their contraction force is applied to the substrate. So rather than just a mess of firing cells, they can all work in unison to move a leg or fin of the device.
Tissue-engineered soft robotic ray that's controlled with light.
Credit: Karaghen Hudson and Michael Rosnach, CC BY-ND
Biohybrid robots inspired by animals
Beyond a wide array of biohybrid robots, researchers have even created some completely organic robots using natural materials, like the collagen in skin, rather than polymers for the body of the device. Some can crawl or swim when stimulated by an electric field. Some take inspiration frommedical tissue engineering techniques and use long rectangular arms (or cantilevers) to pull themselves forward.
Others have taken their cues from nature, creating biologically inspired biohybrids. For example, a group led by researchers at California Institute of Technology developed a biohybrid robot inspired by jellyfish. This device, which they call a medusoid, has arms arranged in a circle. Each arm is micropatterned with protein lines so that cells grow in patterns similar to the muscles in a living jellyfish. When the cells contract, the arms bend inwards, propelling the biohybrid robot forward in nutrient-rich liquid.
More recently, researchers have demonstrated how to steer their biohybrid creations. A group at Harvard used genetically modified heart cells to make a biologically inspired manta ray-shaped robot swim. The heart cells were altered to contract in response to specific frequencies of light — one side of the ray had cells that would respond to one frequency, the other side's cells responded to another.
When the researchers shone light on the front of the robot, the cells there contracted and sent electrical signals to the cells further along the manta ray's body. The contraction would propagate down the robot's body, moving the device forward. The researchers could make the robot turn to the right or left by varying the frequency of the light they used. If they shone more light of the frequency the cells on one side would respond to, the contractions on that side of the manta ray would be stronger, allowing the researchers to steer the robot's movement.
Toughening up the biobots
While exciting developments have been made in the field of biohybrid robotics, there's still significant work to be done to get the devices out of the lab. Devices currently have limited lifespans and low force outputs, limiting their speed and ability to complete tasks. Robots made from mammalian or avian cells are very picky about their environmental conditions. For example, the ambient temperature must be near biological body temperature and the cells require regular feeding with nutrient-rich liquid. One possible remedy is to package the devices so that the muscle is protected from the external environment and constantly bathed in nutrients.
Another option is to use more robust cells as actuators. Here at Case Western Reserve University, we've recently begun to investigate this possibility by turning to the hardy marine sea slug Aplysia californica. Since A. californica lives in the intertidal region, it can experience big changes in temperature and environmental salinity over the course of a day. When the tide goes out, the sea slugs can get trapped in tide pools. As the sun beats down, water can evaporate and the temperature will rise. Conversely in the event of rain, the saltiness of the surrounding water can decrease. When the tide eventually comes in, the sea slugs are freed from the tidal pools. Sea slugs have evolved very hardy cells to endure this changeable habitat.
Sea turtle-inspired biohybrid robot, powered by muscle from the sea slug.
We've been able to use Aplysia tissue to actuate a biohybrid robot, suggesting that we can manufacture tougher biobots using these resilient tissues. The devices are large enough to carry a small payload — approximately 1.5 inches long and one inch wide.
A further challenge in developing biobots is that currently the devices lack any sort of on-board control system. Instead, engineers control them via external electrical fields or light. In order to develop completely autonomous biohybrid devices, we'll need controllers that interface directly with the muscle and provide sensory inputs to the biohybrid robot itself. One possibility is to use neurons or clusters of neurons called ganglia as organic controllers.
That's another reason we're excited about using Aplysia in our lab. This sea slug has been a model system for neurobiology research for decades. A great deal is already known about the relationships between its neural system and its muscles — opening the possibility that we could use its neurons as organic controllers that could tell the robot which way to move and help it perform tasks, such as finding toxins or following a light.
While the field is still in its infancy, researchers envision many intriguing applications for biohybrid robots. For example, our tiny devices using slug tissue could be released as swarms into water supplies or the ocean to seek out toxins or leaking pipes. Due to the biocompatibility of the devices, if they break down or are eaten by wildlife these environmental sensors theoretically wouldn't pose the same threat to the environment traditional nuts-and-bolts robots would.
One day, devices could be fabricated from human cells and used for medical applications. Biobots could provide targeted drug delivery, clean up clots or serve as compliant actuatable stents. By using organic substrates rather than polymers, such stents could be used to strengthen weak blood vessels to prevent aneurysms — and over time the device would be remodeled and integrated into the body. Beyond the small-scale biohybrid robots currently being developed, ongoing research in tissue engineering, such as attempts to grow vascular systems, may open the possibility of growing large-scale robots actuated by muscle.
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Photos: Orb UFO hovers at 500 feet near Pennsylvania witness
Photos: Orb UFO hovers at 500 feet near Pennsylvania witness
A Pennsylvania witness at Monroeville reported watching and photographing an orange orb-like object that hovered and moved at 500 feet, according to testimony in Case 78094 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Cropped and enlarged version of witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness and a co-worker were sitting outside on a porch smoking cigarettes at 8:56 p.m. on July 31, 2016, when the incident occurred.
Cropped and enlarged version of witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
“Humming through the air changing colors,” the witness stated.“Stopped fast in mid-air, and went right after a couple of seconds, and then shot west, stopped, and then shot off the rest of the way.”
Cropped and enlarged version of witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
Pennsylvania MUFON State Section Director Sam Colosimo Jr. investigated for Pennsylvania MUFON and closed this case as an Unknown.
Cropped and enlarged version of witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
“They saw a light to the southeast and watched it move from the southeast to the south and stop and hover for 20 seconds or so,” Colosimo stated in his report.“It moved toward the two men and stopped when it was ‘five houses’ away. A vertical height of 500 feet. It moved away back toward the southeast at a high rate of speed. Orange Orb in shape. The object had one flashing/blinking light. It blinked every 10 seconds or so. As the object zoomed away, it made a humming noise. The object seemed to be the size of a ‘house.’Witness felt as if the object was able to know that he and his co-worker saw it. Witness felt as if the object approached he and his co-worker because he and his co-worker called it in by talking about it.”
Cropped and enlarged version of witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
Cropped and enlarged version of witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
Monroeville is a borough with home rule status in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, population 28,386. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
VOORSPELLEN OUD BABYLONISCHE TEKSTEN ONZE TOEKOMST? ( VIDEO )
VOORSPELLEN OUD BABYLONISCHE TEKSTEN ONZE TOEKOMST? ( VIDEO )
Oud Babylonische teksten van meer dan 2500 jaar geleden voorspellen volgens de Nazi's niet alleen de komst van Hitler, maar vertellen ook dingen over onze toekomst.
"Het derde beeld dat ik u wil geven, laat zien dat zoals toen er een nieuwe koning in de verte opkomt. Hij is van ons bloed. Zijn naam is hoop".
Eind juli publiceerden wij een artikel met de titel: Het Derde Rijk slaat terug, dat was geschreven door een lezer.
In navolging van dat artikel, volgt hier een tweede van zijn hand (dank!):
Ik wil het vorige artikel graag nog aanvullen met de voorspellingen omtrent de Derde Wereldoorlog en de Duitse Flugscheiben. Ik refereerde ernaar zonder tekst en uitleg te geven en vind dat jullie en de bezoekers van jullie site recht hebben op deze vrij onbekende mythes en voorspellingen. We hebben namelijk allemaal recht op de waarheid, dit zijn mijn eigen bevindingen en ik vind het zelf redelijk aan een sluitende informatie, en ik hoop dat iedereen er wat aan heeft.
De Untersberg
De Unterberg ligt in het zuidoostelijk puntje van Duitsland op de grens met Oostenrijk. Deze berg is op zich al een eigen artikel waard omdat er vele vreemde dingen zijn gebeurd en er vele sagen en mythes over zijn. Ook heeft de Untersberg haar eigen eindtijdvoorspelling.
Een van de grootste mythes is dat een Keizer Karel in het binnenste van de berg ligt te slapen en als hij wakker wordt de "jongste dag"/"dag des oordeels" zal zijn, een voorspelling die deels overeenkomt met een Babylonische voorspelling van meer dan 2.500 jaar geleden (Sajaha 12:2 en 15, zie verder onder).
Er zijn vaak mensen verdwenen in de vele deels nog niet onderzochte grotten waarbij tijdsverschuivingen plaatsvonden. Mensen verdwenen, maakten wat wonderbaarlijks mee (dwergen, gnomen, binnenaardse wereld e.d.) en dachten enkele uren weg te zijn geweest terwijl er weken of zelfs maanden waren vergaan. Een groepje mensen is zelfs verdwenen en maanden later in Egypte weer boven water gekomen.
Direct tegenover de Untersberg ligt de Obersalzberg met op de top het Adelaarsnest van Hitler. U zult het ongetwijfeld met mij eens zijn dat dat geen toeval is. De leiders van het Derde Rijk waren occultisten die zich veel bezighielden met voorspellingen, Germaanse mythologie, maar ook die van de rest van de wereld (zie de vele expedities naar o.a. Tibet, Zuid-Amerika enz.). In deze samenhang wil ik ook even de Externsteine (die op dezelfde breedtegraad liggen als Stonehenge(!)) en "Heinrich Himmler's" Wewelsburg benoemen. Beiden spelen kennelijk ook een rol in dit verhaal, maar welke is mij nog niet duidelijk. In sommige Duitse kringen gaat de theorie rond dat de Ariërs het eigenlijke uitverkoren volk en daarmee de echte Joden zouden zijn.
Meer informatie over de Externsteine is hier en hier te vinden.
Wewelsburg
Interessant is ook de opmerking van een getuige, "het waren niet dezelfde soort SS'ers als de kampbewakers":
Het frappante is dat de Untersberg ook heel duidelijk terugkomt in het boek van Sajaha, een kleine verzameling Babylonische teksten die meer dan 2.500 jaar oud zijn. Delen van het boek worden geciteerd in de documentaire "UFO, das Dritte Reich schlägt zurück?" (waar ik dus al eerder over schreef) waarin min of meer smalend gezinspeeld wordt op de komende Derde Wereldoorlog en de beduidende rol van de Duitse Flugscheiben. Dit geeft tevens aan dat de makers van deze documentaire zeer diep hebben gegraven in de mysteries van het occulte Derde Rijk en de nationaal socialisten deze voorspellingen kenden, net als die van de Untersberg en misschien ook wel andere voorspellingen waar wij geen weet van hebben.
Er zullen nu misschien heel veel mensen afhaken als ik zeg dat de geschiedenis rondom het Derde Rijk dringend aan revisie toe is. Hitler is de meest gehate man ter wereld, waarom? Vanwege de Holocaust natuurlijk!
Ook de redactie van Niburu volgt ook vaak de officiële lezing van de tweede wereldoorlog die altijd van Engelstalige bronnen komen.
De EU is geen voortzetting van het Derde Rijk, maar de uitwerking van de plannen die in de protocollen van de wijzen van Zion staan beschreven. Het bewijs daarvoor kun je terugvinden in de symboliek, het alziende oog en de piramide vind je namelijk niet terug in de symboliek van de nationaal socialisten.
Zijn er andere redenen waarom de anti-Hitler propagandamachine na meer dan 70 jaar nog steeds op volle toeren draait? Ik wil mezelf geen holocaustontkenner noemen, de Jodenvervolging heeft wel degelijk plaatsgevonden, maar ik plaats wel een hoop vraagtekens bij de officiële lezing. Daar moet iedereen zelf maar onderzoek naar doen.
Ik vermoed dat het namelijk een hele andere redenen heeft, redenen die de gemiddelde bezoeker van Niburu heden ten dage maar al te goed kent. Namelijk dat Hitler een opstandeling was en een gevaar vormde voor de gevestigde orde, die van het bankwezen en de grote multinationals, net als nu ook nog steeds het geval is. Een goed voorbeeld is Qadhafi, waarover Niburu zelf ook al over heeft geschreven.
Hitler bestreed succesvol de verloedering die het kapitalisme met zich mee had bracht en vandaag de dag ook met zich meebrengt. Hij bracht de welvaart en geluk naar het volk (vakantiebestemming Prora, de Volkswagen Kever, enz., enz.), was het gezin de hoeksteen van de samenleving (Hitler voerde o.a. de kinderbijslag in) en stonden dieren- en natuurbescherming hoog in het vaandel. Een van de doelen van de "Wohlfühldiktatur" (voel-goed-dictatuur) was het "Brechung der Zinsknechtschaft" (Breken van de renteslavernij).
Drie video's:
De situatie voor en nadat Hitler aan de macht kwam:
De situatie toen was net zoals die waar we ons nu overduidelijk in bevinden: (de vertaling klopt voor de volle 100%)
Hier een videootje over de bouw van de Reichsautobahn. Vanaf 5:35 gaat het erover hoe de Autobahn (uiteindelijk) in samenwerking met milieubeschermers in Harmonie met de Natuur gebouwd werd. "We leven in een technisch tijdperk, en hoe meer we dat in ons bezit krijgen, om zo meer streven we terug naar de natuur" Deze uitspraak geeft in mij ogen toch duidelijk aan dat de Duitsers zeer geïnteresseerd waren in milieuvriendelijke, ofwel alternatieve technologieën met in het bijzonder die van Viktor Schauberger.
Wat heeft dit met het Boek van Sajaha te maken? De opkomst en ondergang van Hitler komt voor in dit boek.
Citaat 9:8 "Das dritte Bild, das ich euch heute geben will, zeigt, wie abermals ein neuer König sich in der Ferne erhebt. Und er ist unseres Blutes. Sein Name ist "Hoffnung". Denn er verschließt die Quellen des Bösen. Und jedes Himmelszeichen schenkt ihm ein Jahr; die erste Hälfte davon im Frieden und die zweite in Krieg. Doch die Quellen des Bösen brechen wieder auf, und sie überschütten den jungen König mit Blut und Feuer von oben und unten und von allen Seiten. So geht er zugrunde. Und der Name "Hoffnung" fällt mit ihm."
Vertaling:
"Het derde beeld dat ik u wil geven laat zien dat zoals toen een nieuwe koning in de verte opkomt. Hij is van ons bloed. Zijn naam is hoop. Want hij sluit de bronnen van het kwaad. En ieder hemellichaam schenkt hem een jaar, de eerste helft in vrede, de tweede in oorlog. Doch de bronnen van het kwaad breken open en overspoelen de koning met bloed en vuur van boven en onder en van alle kanten. Zo gaat hij ten gronde. En met hem valt de naam hoop"
Tien planeten, plus de zon en de maan is twaalf hemellichamen. Hitler was twaalf jaar aan de macht, 6 jaar in vrede, 6 jaar in oorlog. Op zich al zeer opmerkelijk, maar er is nog veel meer.
In Sajaha 10 wordt verwezen het begin van het watermantijdperk, naar het Rijk in het Noorden en de Nordberg, ofwel Mitternachtsberg waarmee ongetwijfeld de Untersberg wordt bedoeld, en de rol die ze spelen met betrekking tot de dag de oordeels. In Sajaha 12:1 gaat het om de dag des oordeels en dat de Derde Sargon, het nieuwe Babylon in het land van het noorden gebouwd zal gaan worden.
Sajaha 12:2 is een "pareltje", hierin wordt de huidige tijd heel goed beschreven en het voorspelt dat in Chaldäa (het huidige Iran) de eerste vonk van het nieuwe zal ontspringen, naar de hemel op zal stijgen en deze door plotseling verschijnende wolken (Flugscheiben?) naar het noorden gebracht zal worden. Daar zal uit de geschonden aarde de wreker opstaan, de Derde Sargon!
Van noord tot zuid zullen de eenzamen en gerechten opstaan en als een storm het vuur aanwakkeren dat al het slechte zal uitbranden/uitbannen (deze eenzamen en gerechten die in stilte hun moment afwachten komen veelvuldig voor in het boek in samenhang met de aanloop naar de jongste dag, mogelijk een deel van wat wij tegenwoordig indigo's noemen, die dan zullen ontpoppen als strijders van het goede).
Sajaha 12:3 Ook hier weer een verwijzing naar de eenzamen en de dapperen gerechten die niets gelden/waard zijn, en hoe ze het kwaad zullen verslaan. Dan zal de Wreker met zijn vurige strijdwagen (Flugscheiben?) over de aardkring donderen en flitsen gooien (Laserwapen of iets dergelijks?) tegen de machten van het duistere.
Daarna komt alles goed op aarde, kleine bevolkingsgroepen zullen in harmonie op aarde leven en weer een verwijzing naar de berg.
Sajaha 13:5 "Lange bleibt es so. Bis in der Stille einer sich einen gewaltigen Speer herstellt, in Verborgenheit vor den anderen Menschen, die sich bloß fürchten und nicht zu kämpfen wagen. Der eine jedoch baut seinen Speer, und Ischtar selbst hilft ihm zu stärken die Waffe, und Bel rüstet ...
(Ende des Bruchstücks)"
(Er wordt in het geheim aan een groots wapen gewerkt, verborgen voor de mensen die bang zijn en niet durven te vechten (voor hun vrijheid). Die ene bouwt toch zijn speer (wapen) en (de God) Ishtar helpt hem het wapen te versterken (buitenaardse hulp aan/samenwerking met de Duitse afzetbeweging?).
Sajaha 15
Sajaha 15, ofwel Marduks Speer is een van de "mooiste" teksten uit het boek. Ik zie hier een duidelijke overeenkomst met de Keizer Karel die in het binnenste van de Untersberg, ook lijkt het erop dat er iets opmerkelijks staat te gebeuren met betrekking tot onze dimensie/frequentie waarin wij nu leven.
Marduk's Speer
1 Auf dem Gipfel des Götterberges waltet Marduk der Zeit. Schlimmes sieht er kommen, kann über lange Zeit dieses Kommen nicht verhindern. Fest steckt seines Speeres Schaft in der gläsernen Decke des Berges. (Op de gevel van de berg verdrijft Marduk de tijd, Slechte dingen ziet hij komen, kan lange tijd het komen van dit slechte niet verhinderen. Vast zit de speer in het glazen plafond van de berg.)
2. Dunkeles zieht auf, herrscht über das Lichte. Das Mitternachtsland liegt in Bedrängnis gefangen. Die Leichen gefallener Helden vermodern am Fuße des heiligen Berges. (Duisternis heerst over het licht. Het "Mitternachtsland" ligt in het nauw gevangen (Duitsland wordt ook wel Avonland geoemd), de lijken van gevallen helden liggen aan de voet van de heilige berg te verotten.)
3. Der Finsternis Heer drängt von Westen heran; wild wälzt sich von Osten heran die Menge der Sprachlosen. Babylon ist nicht mehr zu retten, Assur ist nicht mehr da, um zu helfen - gelähmt liegt darnieder des Nordlandes Kind. (De duisternis dringt van het westen op, wild walsen van het oosten de spraaklozen, Babylon is niet meer te redden, Assur is er niet meer om te helpen, verlamd ligt noordland's kind.)
4. Einsam trauert Marduk auf des Weltenberges Gipfel. Verloren ist die Heimat der Götter. Nicht singen sie mehr, nicht feiern sie Feste, noch rüsten sie stürmisch zum Kampf. Selbst ihre Gedanken liegen in Ketten. Und Ischtar weint um ihr Volk. (Eenzaam treurt Marduk op de gevel van de wereldberg, verloren is het thuis van de goden, ...., zelfs hun gedachten liggen aan de ketting, en Ishtar huilt om haar volk.)
5. Da hebt Marduk den Blick empor bis an die Grenzen des höchsten Lichtes, wo Ischtar weinend steht. Und er hört Ischtars Stimme zu sich klingen: Herr Marduk! Beschirmer des Mitternachtsbergs! Schleudere deinen Speer gegen den Feind! Errette doch unser Volk! (Marduk kijkt naar boven tot aan de grenzen van het hoogste licht, waar Ishtar huilend staat, en hoort Ishtar's stem klonken: Heer Marduk, beschermer van de Mitternachtsberg! Slinger je speer tegen de vijand! Red ons volk!)
6. Da sprach Marduk und antwortete ihr: 0 Ischtar! Wie gerne täte ich, was du zu mir sagst! Doch das Volk liegt darnieder, zermalmt ist das Reich, zahllos ist die Gewalt unserer Feinde - und der neue Sargon, der Befreier, der Rächer, der ist noch nicht da. (Daar sprak Marduk en antwoorde: Oh Ishstar! Hoe graag zou ik doen wat je me zegt! Maar het volk ligt op de grond, het rijk ligt in gruzelementen, ontelbaar is het geweld van onze vijanden - en de nieuwe Sargon, de bevrijder, de Wreker, hij is er nog niet.)
7. Ischtar aber sah ihn an und sprach: O Marduk! Siehe, was von unten gekommen ist, herrscht auf der Erdenwelt und beherrscht unser Volk, das von oben einst kam. Dulde nicht, daß noch länger das Unten das Oben beherrscht! Schleudere deinen Speer! Derjenige, der ihn auffängt von den Unsrigen, der wird der neue Sargon sein! (Ishtar keek hem echter aan en sprak: Oh Marduk, zie wat van onderen is gekomen, heerst op de aardenwereld en beheerst ons volk, dat eens van boven kwam (mens buitenaardse oorsprong?). Duld niet, dat nog langer het onder het boven beheerst! Slinger je speer! Diegene die hem opvangt van de onzen, die zal de nieuwe Sargon zijn!)
8. Da riß Marduk den Speer aus dem Boden heraus, hob ihn hoch und warf ihn mit Wucht auf die Erdenwelt nieder. Und während Marduk dies tat, befahl Ischtar den Gestirnen, ein neues Licht auszustrahlen, unsichtbar. (Daar rukte Marduk de speer uit de bodem, hief hem omhoog en wierp hem met kracht op de aardenwereld neer. En terwijl Marduk dat deed, beviel Ishtar het gesternte en nieuw licht uit te stralen, onzichtbaar (frequentieverhoging?).)
9. Auf der Erdenwelt tat Marduks Speer seine Wirkung: Einen neuen Willen gebar er dem Volk, eine neue Wut und Waffe - ein neuer Sargon erstand dem Volk; und der ergriff bald Marduks Speer. (Op de aardenwereld deed Marduks speer zijn werking: Een nieuwe wil baarde hij het volk, een nieuwe woede en wapen (Flugscheiben?) - een nieuwe Sargon stond uit het volk op; en hij greep binnen korte tijd Marduks speer.)
10. Und ein gewaltiges Ringen begann - bis das Unten besiegt war und das Oben erhöht, und erbaut war das neue Babylon. All dies ist zu schauen in ferner Zeit, all dies wird sein. (En een geweldig gevecht ontstond - tot het onder overwonnen was en het boven verhoogt, en gebouwd was het nieuwe Babylon. Al dit is te zien in de verre toekomst, al dit zal zijn.)
Tot slot nog een liedje, UFO's van Erich Kemper. Dit gaat over, de onderdrukking van Duitsland en de Duitse Flugscheiben die wachten op de dag des oordeels.
UFO Seen On Moon Live Stream, Dark Disk Near Earths Moon, Aug 10, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Seen On Moon Live Stream, Dark Disk Near Earths Moon, Aug 10, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 2016
Location of sighting: Earths Moon
As luck would have it, this UFO was caught on live stream when they were checking out the moon. It was caught by SpaceImaging Kieth of Youtube. The UFO is not a satellite, which would travel in a straight line. This UFO zig zags as it moves forward. It is not a balloon, because a balloon does not zig zag as it travels and this was out to sea. Dark disks have been seen traveling over the moon many times before. This is not the first, nor will it be the last.
The most memorable dark disk was a UFO that measured over 5 miles across and was caught by an amateur Italian astronomer while cleaning his optics on his telescope and had it on record at the time. I will place some links below and a video at the bottom of this post for you to compare.
Disclosure, The Most Profound Event In Human History - Stephan Bassett, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Disclosure, The Most Profound Event In Human History - Stephan Bassett, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of video: August 2016 Maker of video:Earth Mystery News Disclosure of the existence of many alien species will not happen fast unless hackers find vulnerable systems and leak out the truth to the public. There is no other fast track other than that. Presidents say anything to get elected, do anything. There is no ethics or morality in politics, so stop relying on them. Instead rely on yourself to find the truth, and you will. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: Political activist and consultant known worldwide as the Disclosure lobbyist and advocate to end a government imposed truth embargo of the facts surrounding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race, Stephen Bassett, tells EMN why President Barack Obama is the Disclosure President. In this one-on-one exclusive EMN video interview Bassett unabashedly proclaims that "the first head of state that makes the the announcement that the extraterrestrial presence is real will be one of the greatest political legacies of all time." Bassett continues, "You’ll go down in history. For a thousand years you’ll be talked about." "Disclosure", asserts Bassett, is the most profound event in human history, and if you are the head of state that lets it out, the one who brought the Truth to the world, will leave a legacy "more profound than the coming of Christ!" Bassett cuts to the chase in this video unlike ever before. "If you think being Jesus Christ is a big deal, being the Disclosure President is a bigger deal!" But there's a twist that may ruin Obama's opportunity. Bassett flags that concern as a very serious possibility.
ALIEN THREAT! THE UFO HUBRID INFILTRATION - DARK, Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
ALIEN THREAT! THE UFO HUBRID INFILTRATION - DARK, Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of video: August 2016 Maker of video:DarkJournalist Humanity never evolved from monkeys, although we have a lot of similarities to them. humanity was created by aliens, and then every few hundred thousand years, our DNA was changed, to allow aliens to study us at each stage of evolution. We were an experiment of theirs, to learn from hard evidence of the past. We all have some alien DNA in us, some more than others, but there are a few that have significant amounts of change. Those were deliberately taken and changed by the aliens to see how their own traits in a human body would react. Perhaps to they could be among us more easily, or perhaps as a way to help humanity evolve quicker. Either way, it creates an unpredictable calculation in the human genome. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: Hubrids Unmasked In this mind-blowing part 2 episode Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt interviews Temple University history professor, David Jacobs, PhD on his new book, 'Walking Among Us: The Alien Plan to Control Humanity', based on three decades of research, studying over 1,150 abduction events experienced by 150 people. As the title suggests, Jacobs is not a proponent of the idea of "friendly ETs". His lifework has led him to the conclusion that an alien-controlled program to create alien-human hybrids is now reaching a new stage of completion: the integration of hybrids into human society. Security Hybrids Dr. Jacobs uses the term “Hubrids” to identify a new breed of hybrid that is closer to acting and living like a human being than ever before. In this rare interview he reveals unique and fascinating details of his own disconcerting personal encounters with ‘security hybrids’ that were trying to intefere with his special work of de-programming Alien Abductees from the mind control instructions placed in their minds to forget the traumatic experiences. As he continued doing sessions and penetrated deeper into the subconscious minds of the abductees he found layers of resistance where the subject would tell him that they weren’t supposed to reveal the secret techniques used to block their memories. Finally, in a unique display of open hostility, the security hybrids began to threaten Dr. Jacobs and suggested that not only would he pay a heavy price for discovering their methods but that the abductees he was working with may as well. Controversial UFO Research Dr. Jacobs says the basic pattern of alien abduction has always included intense sexual and reproductive aspects even in the early cases like Betty and Barney Hill, although it was intentionally covered up due to being too controversial at the time. He recounts the powerful 1957 Brazilian UFO case of Villas Boas a law student that was abducted on his parents farm and forced into bizarre sexual encounters with female hybrid onboard a UFO. The obsession the aliens have for human reproduction is an unexplained aspect of the phenomena and seems to be at the root of their intense need for secrecy and the brainwashing of their test subjects. The State of Abduction Investigations Since the deep investigations of Budd Hopkins and Harvard Professor John Mack into the Alien Abduction syndrome two decades ago, there has been a major plunge in the number of professionals publicly identifying themselves in any way with the alien abduction topic for fear of their reputation. According to Dr. Jacobs, The academic and scientific community has completely written off this global phenomena and has tried to ridicule it with absurd notions like ‘sleep paralysis’ or ‘hyperactive imagination'. Yet thousands of cases of UFO sightings are still reported every year and as the work Dr. Jacobs demonstrates the abduction cases continue unabated. Since the mainstream media cannot be trusted to approach the subject with an open mind, Jacobs fears that the single most important thing happening in our world today will be overlooked by a rigid and controlled scientific and educational establishment, leaving the covert forces behind these worldwide events completely uninhibited to complete their program for the domination
UFO Over London Has Many Similarities To A USAF TR3B, Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over London Has Many Similarities To A USAF TR3B, Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: Feb 2016
Location of sighting: London, England
I just found this, although its a few months old, its new to me and I though some of you would like to hear about it. I do believe its real, but I also believe this is alien technology used by the USAF. Its a new generation TR3B USAF craft. It has the three glowing orbs just as the TR3B has. The US military puts 98% of its top secret test flights outside of the US, so that no one will know who created them. Be we do, don't we? Just like in the 1980-90s, the US flew an alien craft over England called the Aurora Project. Its nothing new here, but I just wanted to shed some light on it, and I hope it helps.
We videoed this from our flat in ponders end, Enfield, London, UK. At first glance you might think this object was a star if you didn't know what your looking for, but it's not, which I could see when I videoed with my tablet and was able to zoom in fully then I noticed what it is. I was taking pics of it before from my mobile zooming then screen shooting then zooming again to see it up close. I showed people and some of them trying to tell me maybe its a helicopter, I told them I never seen a helicopter dismantle itself and reattach itself in mid air before have you? But a lot of people are more stunned at what we have filmed. Our comments: No noise from a helicopter is detectable - so that idea can be ruled out, and going by the recording we initially see spheres, then what is perhaps a domed-top craft. Of course this may be an optical illusion, (such as caused when viewing something from an extreme distance , or even an unusual angle), but to our eyes it's as if 'windows' are sometimes visible on whatever this thing is! before it changes shape into something that's almost triangular. So, could this in fact be distorted views of the ISS - International Space Station? Well, we've done a bit of research about this and according to the astronomy sites that we have referred to, there were no visible passes of the ISS when this footage was taken, and it was in view for more than the usual 2-3 minutes which is the stated time that we can normally get a sighting opportunity of the ISS from the UK.
UFO Seen By Trail Cam As It Examines Fox On July 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Seen By Trail Cam As It Examines Fox On July 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: July 24, 2016 Location of sighting: unknown Most UFOs have cloaking technology, but most UFOs can be seen a little or a lot depending on the infrared light source. Here the trail cams tiny LED infrared flash light caught the UFO as it was coming down over the fox to study it. The UFO may be only a drone, but understand, that there are small aliens that do fly smaller craft, but it is my assumption its a drone, since its safer for an alien to examine from afar. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: This video was sent into BEAMS 24/07/2016 titled "Unexplained Lights in Garden" but with no further details or message attached. Even though we don't have any other background info about the recording, we thought this was worth posting here to see if anyone knows what the mystery aerial 'thing' is/might be. A row of lights/bars can be seen to swoop down from top-right at about 00:40 Notice how the fox seems to look up at something at the same time. Is this simply some kind of glitch in the video or something more interesting? we are not sure... fascinating to watch though.
What Conspiracy Theorists Say About the Square-Shaped Black Patch Around the Sun
What Conspiracy Theorists Say About the Square-Shaped Black Patch Around the Sun
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) reportedly took an image of the Sun with a massive square-shaped black patch, which sparked debate and wild speculation among UFO conspiracy theorists. Some space enthusiasts suggest NASA uses a black square to hide or block a large alien spacecraft orbiting and drawing off energy from the Sun.
Other UFO hunters believe that the black cube is Borg cube alien spacecraft, derived from science fiction movie series “Star Trek.”
Skeptics say the dark square-shaped patch found in the SOHO image could be just pixelation flaws in the digital device or a NASA device used as an occulting disk.
Meanwhile, the believers argue that NASA might be using the occulting device to block out from view a massive UFO around the sun.
There have been several reports in the past on alien spacecraft seen around the Sun and thought to refuel energy from it. Moreover, many theories are suggesting extraterrestrial races would use any star as a power source.
But for some believers, the black square isn’t a UFO, but a NASA cover-up to hide a massive alien spacecraft orbiting around the Sun to harvest solar energy.
Meest bizarre ster ooit is zojuist nog mysterieuzer geworden
Meest bizarre ster ooit is zojuist nog mysterieuzer geworden
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Wetenschappers hebben ontdekt dat KIC 8462852 – Tabby’s ster – over een periode van vier jaar geleidelijk aan steeds minder helder is geworden.
Er zijn maar weinig sterren die zo de gemoederen bezig blijven houden als KIC 8462852. Het begint allemaal met observaties van ruimtetelescoop Kepler. Deze telescoop tuurt langdurig naar sterren in de hoop er getuige van te zijn dat hun helderheid regelmatig afneemt. Zo’n regelmatige dip in helderheid kan namelijk wijzen op de aanwezigheid van een planeet die zo af en toe een deel van het licht van de ster tegenhoudt. Ook bij de ster KIC 8462852 worden twee dipjes in helderheid geconstateerd. Alleen zijn ze zeer onregelmatig, zowel qua timing als qua grootte. De ene keer neemt de helderheid met vijftien procent af. De andere keer met 22 procent. Wat is hier aan de hand?
Exo-kometen of aliens? Direct wordt er druk gespeculeerd. Hadden aliens een megastructuur gebouwd die zo af en toe een deel van het licht van KIC 8462852 tegenhielden? Of blokkeerden exo-kometen zo af en toe een deel van het licht? Of werden de twee dipjes misschien veroorzaakt door een planetaire botsing?
Mysterieus Hoewel inmiddels wel uitgesloten lijkt dat aliens verantwoordelijk zijn, is nog steeds onduidelijk wat er precies rond KIC 8462852 aan de hand is. De ster wordt dan ook wel de meest mysterieuze ster in ons sterrenstelsel genoemd. Want zoiets als KIC 8462852 hebben astronomen nog nooit gezien!
Afname in helderheid En de bizarre ster is zojuist weer een stukje vreemder geworden. Wetenschappers hebben zich over gegevens van ruimtetelescoop Kepler gebogen en ontdekt dat de helderheid van de ster in een periode van vier jaar geleidelijk aan is afgenomen. In de eerste 1000 dagen nam de helderheid met zo’n 0,34 procent af. In de 200 dagen erna nam de helderheid versneld af (met zo’n 2 procent). In de periode daarna nam de helderheid weer net zo geleidelijk af als in de eerste 1000 dagen. De onderzoekers vergeleken de gegevens van KIC 8462852 met die van honderden andere sterren. Maar ze vonden geen enkele ster die zich zo gedroeg. Het zal je dan ook niet verbazen dat onderzoekers eigenlijk niet weten hoe ze de afnemende helderheid van de ster moeten verklaren.
Wat is er aan de hand met Tabby’s ster? Er is eigenlijk maar één manier om daar achter te komen. De ster langdurig observeren. En dat is precies wat astronomen – met dank aan crowdfunding – van plan zijn.
'Venus was mogelijk de eerste leefbare planeet in ons zonnestelsel
'Venus was mogelijk de eerste leefbare planeet in ons zonnestelsel
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Voor zover we weten is de aarde vandaag de dag de enige leefbare planeet in ons zonnestelsel. Maar miljarden jaren geleden was dat wellicht wel anders…
Vandaag de dag is Venus allesbehalve een aangename plek om te vertoeven. Het is er ontzettend warm, er is geen water te vinden en de atmosfeer is giftig. Kortom: onleefbaar. Maar in het verleden is dat wellicht heel anders geweest, zo stellen onderzoekers in een paper met de veelzeggende titel ‘Was Venus the First Habitable World of our Solar System?‘.
Simulaties Om een antwoord op die vraag te kunnen geven, moeten we eigenlijk weten hoe Venus er miljarden jaren geleden uitzag. Maar dat is nog niet zo eenvoudig. De vulkanische activiteit op de planeet is indrukwekkend en verandert het oppervlak voortdurend. Dat oppervlak kan dus niet meer onthullen hoe de planeet er miljarden jaren geleden uitzag. Hoe kunnen we daar dan achterkomen? De onderzoekers besloten hun toevlucht te nemen tot klimaatsimulaties. Tijdens die simulaties lieten ze zich onder meer leiden door gegevens verzameld door ruimtesonde Magellan. Tevens moesten de onderzoekers een aantal – onderbouwde – aannames doen. Zo gaan ze er in hun simulaties vanuit dat Venus in het verleden een oceaan bezat die ongeveer 60 procent van het oppervlak van Venus bedekte. Dat is geen wilde gok: in de atmosfeer van Venus zijn aanwijzingen gevonden dat de planeet ooit een grote hoeveelheid water bezat.
Venus.
Afbeelding: Galileo / JPL / NASA / Calvin J. Hamilton.
Zonlicht en rotatie De onderzoekers simuleerden het klimaat van Venus vier keer en veranderden elke keer de variabelen iets. Zo gingen ze er tijdens enkele simulaties vanuit dat Venus in het verleden net zo snel roteerde als vandaag de dag. Maar er vond ook een simulatie plaats waarbij de planeet zestien keer sneller draaide dan de aarde. Ook de hoeveelheid zonlicht die Venus in vroeger tijden ontving, was in de ene simulatie anders dan in de andere.
Leefbaar En de simulaties suggereren dat Venus in het verleden echt wel leefbaar kan zijn geweest. Zo rolt uit één simulatie een gemiddelde temperatuur van 11 graden Celsius. Heel aangenaam, dus. Of het ook echt zo geweest is op Venus blijft natuurlijk gokken. Het is eigenlijk van twee dingen afhankelijk: de rotatiesnelheid van de planeet en de topografie. Als Venus er 2,9 miljard jaar geleden topografisch net zo uitzag als het moderne Venus en ook net zo snel roteerde dan kunnen de temperaturen gemiddeld op zo’n 11 graden Celsius zijn uitgekomen. Maar als Venus 2,9 miljard jaar geleden net zo snel roteerde als de moderne Venus, maar dezelfde topografie had als de aarde, zou de temperatuur tussen de -13 en 46 graden Celsius zijn uitgekomen. En als Venus 2,9 miljard jaar geleden er topografisch net zo uit zou hebben gezien als het moderne Venus, maar zestien keer sneller zou hebben gedraaid dan de aarde, dan zouden de temperaturen tussen de 27 en 84 graden Celsius hebben gelegen. “We ontdekten dat deze wereld – ondanks dat deze meer zonlicht ontving dan de aarde vandaag de dag – wellicht gematigde temperaturen had, mits Venus een rotatiesnelheid had die trager was dan 16 aardse dagen,” zo stellen de onderzoekers.
Vier simulaties: vier heel verschillende uitkomsten. Afbeelding: Geophysical Research Letters.
Lang En de planeet is wellicht ook heel lang leefbaar geweest. “Met de huidige rotatiesnelheid van 243 dagen kan het klimaat van Venus tot zeker 715 miljoen jaar geleden leefbaar zijn geweest, zolang de planeet een ondiepe oceaan bezat.”
Missie naar Venus Of Venus daadwerkelijk leefbaar is geweest, blijft gissen. Maar het is zeker niet onaannemelijk. Er is echter maar één manier om te bevestigen dat de planeet ooit een aangenaam en stabiel klimaat had: een missie naar Venus organiseren. Helaas staat er nog niets concreets op de planning.
Het onderzoek vertelt niet alleen meer over het verleden van Venus, maar heeft ook implicaties voor onze zoektocht naar leefbare planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel, zo stellen de onderzoekers. Want als Venus ooit leefbaar was, zijn andere planeten die heel dicht bij hun ster staan en nu als onleefbaar worden bestempeld dat wellicht ook.
LIGO-Detected Black Holes May Be the Origin of Dark Matter
LIGO-Detected Black Holes May Be the Origin of Dark Matter
Alain R/Wikimedia
IN BRIEF
Two papers in the Physical Review Letters hold that the black holes detected by LIGO may be primordial black holes, and they may explain the nature of dark matter.
UNEXPECTED EXPLANATIONS
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has been one nifty new astronomical tool. In its brief existence, it has been able to detect several of the elusive gravitational waves. Previously, these had just been the stuff of speculations.
Now, these new discoveries could be key to identifying another astronomical speculation: dark matter. Two papers published in Physical Review Letters posit that the black holes that produced the first LIGO-detected gravitational waves could explain the nature of dark matter in the universe.
Dark matter is the speculative substance that astronomers say makes up most of the mass of the universe and is what holds galaxies and clusters together. Conventional theories say that this matter is made up of unidentified particles. But the data from LIGO may prove that it actually originated in primordial black holes.
A FEW THEORIES
Primordial black holes are those that are not formed by collapsing stars, but dense regions of the early universe that collapsed in on themselves.
Earlier this month, a Japanese team reported that the black holes LIGO detected may be primordial, and that they may make up some portion of the universe’s dark matter– although this would make up but a small fraction of dark matter. Back in May, a team from John Hopkins discovered that the rate of black hole mergers LIGO estimated was the same as that of the primordial black hole dark matter.
Previous research has shown that the primordial black hole dark matter could only be possible for a very specific set of masses. But that range of masses corresponds neatly with the masses of the black holes LIGO found. The John Hopkins team saw that if primordial black holes were thesource of dark matter, the estimated rate of LIGO seeing merging primordial black holes was the same as LIGO’s estimated detection rate. Although both estimates have large errors, their agreement indicates that dark matter may be composed of primordial black holes.
Ultimately, more LIGO detections would have to be made in order to confirm these theories.
New Theory Suggests Black Holes Are “Back Doors” to The Universe
New Theory Suggests Black Holes Are “Back Doors” to The Universe
NASA/JPL-Caltech
IN BRIEF
A team of researchers propose an alternative explanation to what a black hole contains, one that deviates from Einstein's theory of gravity. They propose that a simple, rotational, electrically charged black hole contains new geometric elements, like those of crystals and graphene, with a spherical center point.
SPAGHETTIFIED PEOPLE
Scientists believe that in the middle of a black hole is a one-dimensional point that contains a huge mass despite its infinitely small space. And in this point, the density of matter becomes infinite, the whole fabric of space-time breaks apart, physics no longer applies, and basically, everything blows into chaos and nothing makes sense. This theoretical point of madness is called the gravitational singularity.
Much like everything else about black holes, the gravitational singularity is a source of endless debate. One interesting theory is that if you, for some crazy reason, end up in this hellhole, you will be stretched and squeezed in different directions, infinitely—a process technically called (yes, technically) spaghettification.
“Spaghettification” looks like fun, but it’s probably not. Credit: Katherine Streeter for NPR
“The gravity wants to sort of stretch you in one direction and squeeze you in another,” says Joe Polchinski, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Since very little is known (much less definitively proven) about black holes, the floor is open to exploration of concepts beyond general relativity. A team of researchers are trying to look at the singularity in an entirely different light.
They propose that perhaps the gravitational singularity were an imperfection in the geometric structure of space-time, with geometric structures like that of a crystal or graphene.
“Just as crystals have imperfections in their microscopic structure, the central region of a black hole can be interpreted as an anomaly in space-time, which requires new geometric elements in order to be able to describe them more precisely. We explored all possible options, taking inspiration from facts observed in nature,” the team explains.
DE-SPAGHETTIFICATION
In a model following their theory, the new geometries would imply that the center point would be a very small spherical surface—consistent with that of a wormhole in a simple, rotational, electrically-charged black hole.
“Our theory naturally resolves several problems in the interpretation of electrically-charged black holes”, says Gonzalo Olmo, one of the researchers from the Institute of Corpuscular Physics, Universitat de Valencia. “In the first instance we resolve the problem of the singularity, since there is a door at the center of the black hole, the wormhole, through which space and time can continue.”
This model would also make the spaghettification process possible (yay?), and would allow a hypothetical traveler to go through the wormhole, and come out of it in their normal, pre-spaghettification size (phew!, yay).
That sounds okay. That is, until you hear Neil DeGrasse Tyson describe that journey in graphic detail.
Unlike Einstein’s theory of gravity, which requires unusual properties such as a negative energy pressure or density (which have yet to be observed), the team’s wormhole is much more feasible: “In our theory, the wormhole appears out of ordinary matter and energy, such as an electric field,” says Olmo.
This “backdoor” would also address the information paradox, because nothing is lost but instead comes out the other end. Where and what is in that other end, however, is another “black hole” of questions.
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has been taking images of Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, since December 2014. As Dawn’s orbit brought it closer to the dwarf planet’s surface, a mystery appeared: Ceres has bright spots. Over 130 separate areas on Ceres, reaching up to 6 miles wide, shine out from their dark surroundings. After months of study and speculation, scientists have confirmedthat the brightest spots are made of sodium carbonate, making Ceres’ Occator Crater the largest deposit of this sort of mineral ever found beyond Earth.
Since images of the bright spots were released, scientists and the public alike have speculated about what they could be: NASA even created a poll to gather opinions. At first, the leading theory suggested that the bright spots were expanses of water ice, either brought to the surface by volcanic activity or revealed by an impact. Even as evidence mounted that the spots were made of some sort of mineral salt, more and more ideas, ranging from the plausible theory that Ceres was covered in an ice mantle just below the surface to the fanciful notion that the spots could be a shining alien city.
Until June, no clear answer revealed itself. According to Andreas Nathues of the Max Planck Institute in Germany, “The main problem we had [analyzing the bright spots] during approach phase was that our spatial resolution was too low.” Because Dawn’s instruments were calibrated based on Ceres’ darker surface, the images didn’t capture any detail in the bright areas. “In June, we divided our exposure times for the bright spots and the dark surface. Then the spatial resolution started to become sufficient to identify what the spots are,” Nathues said.
As Dawn and its newly-calibrated cameras approached Ceres, details of the bright spots came into focus. “Dawn has transformed what was so recently a few bright dots into a complex and beautiful, gleaming landscape,” said Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer and mission director. Now, two new studies, published in Nature and Nature Geoscience, have concluded that Ceres’ bright spots are sodium carbonate and that Ceres is much drier than previous observations led scientists to expect.
On Earth, sodium carbonate is primarily found in hydrothermal environments, where hot water leaks from the planet’s crust. Similarly, the sodium carbonate on Ceres appears to
have welled up from deeper inside the planet, suggesting that its interior may be warmer than scientists previously thought. The sodium carbonates also serve as a clue that Ceres once had liquid water below its surface: author of the Nature study and Dawn scientist Maria Cristina De Sanctis said, “These minerals can be formed only in a liquid water environment.”
However, the study found no evidence for water in any of Ceres’ craters: if there was a subsurface ocean (or subsurface puddles) there, it either froze or disappeared millions of years ago. Ceres even has less ice than expected, according to the study in Nature Geoscience, led by Michael Bland of the US Geological Survey. “Before Dawn’s arrival there was this expectation that Ceres would be relatively ice-rich,” Bland said, but when the spacecraft got there it found topographical features indicating that Ceres’ subsurface isunder 40 percent water ice by volume. That could be enough water to aid in the formation of carbonates, but it would have to be liquid and Ceres has a temperature of -105 degrees Celsius.
As Nathaus expressed, “it’s very hard to explain carbonates in these amounts. This is still a mystery.” The results published in these two studies “are two pieces of the puzzle, and . . . there’s still work to be done to link them together,” Bland said. The Dawn spacecraft will continue to collect puzzle pieces for the remainder of its mission, as NASA recently decided that it will remain at Ceres rather than moving on to other objects in the asteroid belt.
“It’s amazing how much we have been able to learn about Ceres’ interior from Dawn’s observations of chemical and geophysical properties. We expect more such discoveries as we mine this treasure trove of data,” said Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator for the Dawn mission. The data will keep pouring in; it’s up to scientists to piece it together.
Niet panikeren, maar wetenschappers hebben een mysterieus zwevend voorwerp ontdekt in ons zonnestelsel en ze hebben geen flauw idee wat het zou kunnen zijn.
Is het Superman? Of zijn het buitenaardse wezens die de mensheid willen uitroeien? Niemand weet het zeker. Wat we wel zeker weten, is dat wetenschappers en vlek net voorbij Neptunus ontdekt hebben, en het is 160000 keer zwakker dan de verste planeet van de zon. Volgens de website New Scientist gedraagt het voorwerp zich erg vreemd: het draait achterwaarts om de zon en gaat iedere dag iets hoger vliegen.
De ruimtevlek kreeg de naam Niku, wat ‘rebel’ betekent in het Chinees. Astrofysicus Matthew Holman laat weten dat Niku het bewijs is dat er in ons zonnestelsel veel meer gaande is dan we beseffen. Andere astronomen zijn benieuwd naar wat het voorwerp volgens theoretische analisten zou kunnen zijn.
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The Dragon’s Triangle, Resting Place of a Now-Defunct Underwater Alien Base?
The Dragon’s Triangle, Resting Place of a Now-Defunct Underwater Alien Base?
There is a place off the coast of Japan that has the same markings as the Bermuda Triangle but is not as famous as the world’s favorite anomalous zone. The Japanese call it Ma-no Umi, the Devil’s Sea. That’s a pretty clear indicator of what’s going on there.
One of the twelve Vile Vortices we’ve discussed in a previous article, this loosely triangular area is located just 60 miles south of Tokyo. The weird occurrences it accommodates and probably generates have determined paranormal authors to call this watery irregularity the Bermuda Triangle of the Pacific.
Just like in the case of the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil’s Sea—which is also known as the Dragon’s Triangle—does not show up on any official cartography documents or maritime maps. It is a place that officials prefer not to openly discuss. Interestingly enough, its geographical location might offer a clue as to why it shares similarities with the triangle of the Bermudas: the Devil’s Sea is located almost exactly on the other side of the planet. Coupled with the notion that the Bermuda Triangle is what remained of Atlantis, this has given rise to speculations that the location might be its magnetic antagonist, an anti-Atlantis, if you will.
A rather large number of ships and planes of all sizes have reportedly gone missing when flying over or sailing across the trembling waters. Electronic equipment oftentimes malfunctions without reason and without warning. Witnesses report seeing strange lights and eerily glowing orbs trailing commercial vessels. People describe curious and unexplained instances including disappearances, reappearances and the missing time phenomenon. Fishermen like to add tall tales about ghost ships and their ghastly crews while the modern ufologist is quick to spot a resurgence of the UFO phenomenon in the Devil’s Sea and the neighboring area.
Weather changes are sudden and volatile. Strong whirlpools appear out of nowhere and disappear without leaving a trace. A strange, thick fog sometimes makes its presence felt, filling spectators with unease as it clings to objects. Natives fear it because they believe it is the medium through which one can pass in between dimensions.
Legends of local fishermen dating back to at least 1000 B.C.E. provide an etymological explanation to the dragon part in the name Dragon’s Triangle. According to Chinese folklore, a huge dragon once built its palace under the waves, dragging unsuspecting victims, ships and all to their watery graves. And, depending on how you look at it, there might be historical data to back up this wild hypothesis.
In the 13th century AD, Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan set his eyes and mind on conquering Japan. He wasn’t successful, but it wasn’t for not trying. On two different occasions, he attempted to cross the water separating Japan from mainland China but ended up losing his entire naval force in the process. In the first attempt alone, he lost over a thousand ships and 40,000 crewmen. The Japanese firmly believed this had been an act of divine intervention and attributed the victory to the Celestial Wind that guarded their empire.
Can a dragon be responsible for this tide-turning intervention? Or is the dragon a metaphor for something else?
A central figure in many Asian cultures, the dragon makes an interesting appearance in the story of China’s mythical Yellow Emperor. According to legend, Huang-Di came down to earth in a “dragon with metal scales.” The character that is said to have established astronomy in the old empire could summon this dragon at will and whilst riding it, he could traverse the expanse of space and time in a very relativistic manner. One particular tale even mentions how one of his advisers came back an old man after taking it for a spin. Once his dealings with the earthlings had come to fruition, the Yellow Emperor called the dragon one last time and left for Xuanyuan, his home world. Astronomers identified Xuanyuan as Alpha Leonis, a star system located 79 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Leo.
If we transpose this dragon of olden legends into the modern world, we can extract many similarities with modern UFOs. If we venture and make this assumption, what can we say about the aquatic ‘palace’ the dragon built for himself? Can we assimilate it into a notion that accepts the existence of underwater bases in our planet’s seas and oceans, built and operated by extraterrestrials?
There is another legend that supports this theory: the tale of Utsuro-bune. The earliest account can be traced back to 1803, when two strange tales began circulating in Japan. As the story goes, Japanese sailors encountered a hollow ship floating aimlessly in the Pacific. Circular in shape, the ship was covered in glass windows. Naturally, the sailors towed the ship to shore and were amazed to find a very beautiful woman sitting inside, clutching a chest. Pale and red-haired, the woman spoke a strange language and wore equally strange garments. Unable to initiate any meaningful communication, the traveler made a hand gesture encompassing the sea and left the sailors dumbfounded when she returned to her ship and sailed away. Utsuro-bune, as she was nicknamed, would go on to make appearances along the entire coast of Japan in the following year. No-one knows who she was or where she came from but speculations about her otherworldly origins are abundant. Her proximity to the Dragon’s Triangle could indicate she was a refugee or an outcast that left the underwater base in an escape pod. If this is the case, the contents of her box must have been very valuable.
In recent years, the most extensive investigation into the Devil’s Sea was attempted by author Charles Berlitz. In The Dragon’s Triangle, Berlitz reported dozens of disappearances solely in the 1952-1954 time period. According to his sources, the Japanese military had lost five vessels and a combined crew of over 700 but were keeping a tight lid on things. The lurking danger determined the Japanese government to label the area a shipping danger zone. In 1952 they launched a research project aimed at uncovering the source of these disappearances but the Kaio Maru No. 5, the very ship that was sent in search of answers disappeared itself, along with its crew of 31 people.
In the last decades, the place has gotten a little more quiet. Is this evidence that the dragon’s palace is now deserted?
Not everyone is content with supernatural explanations for these strange incidents. Natural explanations such as magnetic anomalies and methane gas deposits on the bottom of the ocean could account for some of the disappearances, but none can quell the mystery once and for all.
Official Apollo mission transcripts reveal fascinating details about Aliens
Official Apollo mission transcripts reveal fascinating details about Aliens
“…03 08 20 42 CMP Boy, there must be nothing more desolate than to be inside some of these craters, these conical ones. 03 08 20 50 CDR People that live in there probably never get out…”,”…Oh God, look at that Moltke; he’s my favorite … Look at that son of a bitch. You see all those roads – triangular roads leading right past him?…”
Millions of people around the globe firmly believe UFOs and Aliens are a real phenomenon. But is there any real evidence to support their belifs? The following NASA transcripts may be considered by many as enough proof to suggest Apollo mission astronauts saw ‘alien’ things on the moon.
While we still have not found conclusive evidence of their existence –we haven actually witnessed a UFO land, and aliens walk around saying hi, ew come in piece— at least not officially, there are many highly ranking government officials, military officers and even astronauts who have spoken out about alien life and the UFO phenomenon indicating that it is real as it gets.
In addition to numerous people finally speaking out in the name of the disclosure movement, recently, hundreds of declassified documents have become available to the public detailing UFO sightings, mysterious phenomenon, and alien life.
One of the most fascinating documents comes from the FBI archive and indicates that:
Part of the disks carry crews; others are under remote control.
Their mission is peaceful; the visitors contemplate settling on this planet.
These visitors are human-like but much larger in size.
They are not excarnate Earth people but come from their own world
The disks posses some type of radiant energy.
They do not come from any “planet” as we use the word, but from an etheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us.
The bodies of the visitors, and the craft also, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter.
They re-enter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without a trace.
The region they come from is NOT the astral plane but corresponds to the Lakas or Talas. Students of esoteric matters will understand these terms.
But the document from the FBI isn’t the only that has been made available to the general public.
If we look back in history at one of NASA’s most successful space programs, we will find numerous clues that according to many indicate how astronauts of the Apollo missions were followed by UFO’s and that there are ‘alien’ structures on the surface of the moon.
The following NASA transcripts come fro the Apollo missions and make some fascinating references:
Note: All of these transcripts can be verified at NASA’s website.
03 08 20 23 CDR Did you shoot some pictures while you were over there?
03 08 20 25 CMP No, it’s Just going by – we’d better get it later; there will be better times. If the damn antenna isn’t in the way –
03 08 20 42 CMP Boy, there must be nothing more desolate than to be inside some of these craters, these conical ones
03 08 20 50 CDR People that live in there probably never get out.
03 l0 55 20 CMP Oh God, look at that Moltke; he’s my favorite … Look at that son of a bitch. You see all those roads – triangular roads leading right past him?
03 12 22 39 I2_P Really an interesting one. Huh? That one … looks like … got a rugged one right out here – with the central peaks.
03 12 23 02 CDR …
03 12 23 05 I_l° Sure does. Really got a very complex central structure.
03 12 23 08 CR_° It’s got one of the biggest central peaks a_ound. It’s a very unusual crater. But there are some dark areas in it that Farouk has gone on record as saying they are dikes.
03 12 23 37 CMl° High Sun. That’s one right down there; Just shows how it dominates the whole photograph. Just an extremely bright crater. Sun angle Just isn’t high enough for you to see it here …. Yes,they’re mining it, I think.
NASA Scientist Admits Portals Are Opening Around Earth – Proof that Project Pegasus is Real?
NASA Scientist Admits Portals Are Opening Around Earth – Proof that Project Pegasus is Real?
Many people believe the Universe can be explored in almost a blink of an eye, using energetic portals and our consciousness. The Ancients knew about these means of traveling to other Star Systems, but also to the inner Earth using crystals, pyramids, and other earthen structures aligned with the ley lines of our planet.
Alice’s rabbit hole. The tornado in the Wizard of Oz. The ‘Gate of Hell’ in Dante’s Inferno. Fantasy literature is full of symbolism referring to portals that allowed the passage to inconceivable worlds.
Within this scheme we can look at the work of a NASA scientist who disclosed that everyday, portals open and close every day. Such gateways can be found within Earth’s magnetic field, falling in a direct line to the Sun’s atmosphere 93 million miles away.
NASA hasn’t tagged them as portals, instead opting to call them Boom Tubes, electron diffusion regions or ‘X’ points, their existence being due to magnetic resonance. It’s truly a shame “real” scientists are paid to dismiss their presence in our scope.
Jack Scudder, a NASA plasma physicist from the University of Iowa, refers to X-points as:
“Places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun. These portals can be elusive, however, so if one were to imagine utilizing them for space travel, they would have to be an expert in space geography and mathematics to time them correctly.”
Andrew D. Basiago is a former active member of DARPA’s Project Pegasus (1968-1972), claiming that the military had successfully achieved Tesla-based quantum teleportation and time travel in the time-space hologram, initiating the U.S. program of time-space travel called “Chrononauts”.
Since the 1970s, the military has been crossing worlds, and for more than 10 years, Basiago has been spreading the word to the oblivious citizens about portal-based time travel, many already familiar with the famous “Stargate” series.
Not only did Basiago talk about time travel, but he also claims that the CIA has a program named Mars-jump-room which grants our military units the ability to build their own bases on Mars. He also claims that even though he has worked with some of the leaders in quantum physics, the information disclosed by him is considered dissentive not only by the military but also by mainstream physicists.
According to Basiago, he engaged in two – allegedly – secret military programs. He claims he was one of the great deal of American children chosen to take part in experiments involving time travel. His reports on his experiences are determined based on logic alone and it is hard to disregard his tales as being sheer fantasy. It is, by all means, for the best that the US military keeps this kind of technologies secret, since they can be turned into weapons. This is no secret, ever since Rumsfeld has declared that one of the advantages of research done within Project Pegasus is the capacity to use teleportation in order to deliver troops to the proper place on the battlefield.
“Radiant energy is a form of energy that Tesla discovered that is latent and pervasive in the universe and has among its properties the capacity to bend time-space.” – Andrew Basiago
While passing through this veil of energy, Basiago would enter a “vortal tunnel” that would send him to his destination. The other teleportation devices included a “plasma confinement chamber” in New Jersey and a “jump room” in El Segundo, California. There was also some kind of “holographic technology,” that allowed them to travel “both physically and virtually.”
However advanced, this unconventional transportation process had its pitfalls. One of Basiago’s colleagues, Alfred Webre recalls an incident during which one of the young chrononauts was teleported without his legs.
Basiago’s admission is controversial, to say the least. The technology he describes could solve a lot of mankind’s problems, but it could destroy us just as well. Collectively, we don’t even know what time is, why it is or why it flows the way it does. The human mind finds it hard to wrap around concepts like time travel and the paradoxical consequences of altering past timelines. But then again, there is nothing in Einstein’s General Relativity that can sink the notion of time travel.
You’d Better Steer Clear of these 12 Vile Vortices!
You’d Better Steer Clear of these 12 Vile Vortices!
There are places in this world where things just don’t seem to follow the rules of physics, places where strange energies are and have always been present. They are marked by unusual phenomena, unexplained disappearances and instilling violent behavior in humans and animals alike. They are called Vile Vortices, and you’ll be better off if you simply avoid them.
Even if you haven’t heard the term vile vortex, you surely know about the most infamous of them: the Bermuda Triangle. This enigmatic place is but one of the dozen enigmatic places plotted by biologist and writer Ivan T. Sanderson, founder of the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained and one of Charles Fort’s earliest followers.
In 1972, Sanderson wrote a piece for Saga magazine entitled The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World in which he plotted the global disappearance of planes and ships, underlining 12 areas that stood out in particular. Although not all are equally famous, each vile vortex is characterized by magnetic anomalies and abnormal occurrences. Roughly resembling lozenges, these sites are believed to be rifts where space-time folds in upon itself and everyday physics no longer applies.
Ten of Sanderson’s vortices can be found in tropical climates; five along the Tropic of Cancer and five along the Tropic of Capricorn, with the other two being located at the Earth’s North and South Poles. The twelve points are equidistant and together, they form the twelve tips of an icosahedron (think of a 20-sided dice).
The Vile Vortices:
Karachi (Pakistan), home to Mohenjo-daro, one of the world’s earliest major cities and supposedly, ground zero for the detonation of ancient nuclear weapons;
Hamakulia, east of Hawaii and believed to have once been a high-energy volcano, hence the anomaly;
Bermuda Triangle
Algerian Megalithic Ruins, located south of the Malian city of Timbuktu
Devil’s Sea, south of Tokyo – Confirming age-old legends, ships and planes routinely disappear here;
Zimbabwe Megaliths, massive stone structures that required a high level of masonry expertise. Some say this vortex is connected to the mysterious plane disappearances over the Sahara desert.
Easter Island
South AtlanticAnomaly, an area where the innermost Van Allen radiation belt dips very close to the Earth’s surface;
New Hebrides Trench, between the islands of Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Its depest point reaches a depth of over 25,000 feet (7,600 meters);
Wharton Basin, another deep sea region that has seen little exploration;
The North and South Poles
While Sanderson himself banked on the fact that the mysterious disappearances might have been caused by hot and cold air along with sea currents, his idea was quickly picked up and further developed by other believers in the preternatural.
In 1973, Soviet scientists Nikolai Goncharov, Vyacheslav Morochov, and Valery Makarov published an article called “Is the Earth a Large Crystal?” in which they forwarded the idea that strange energies operate in certain points on our planet. They wrote that the Earth’s cosmic energy matrix was divided into twelve pentagonal plates, and at the intersection of any three plates, surges in said energy were responsible for the appearance of unusual life forms, as well as enigmatic ancient civilizations. The scientists also posited that our planet is actually a gigantic crystal that resonates at 7 Hz with harmonic focal points at specific equidistant points.
Other writers argue that the vortices are connected to subtle matter energy and ley lines. In Mapping the World grid, author David Hatcher Childress wrote that “we are speaking about an intelligent geometric pattern into which, theoretically, the Earth and its energies are organized—and possibly in which the ubiquitous megalithic sites are also positioned.”
Naturally, theories related to the vile vortices have been met with a great deal of skepticism. Some of the reported disappearances were found to have mundane causes such as underwater eruptions or instruments failing (I wonder why?) but the fact of the matter remains that, throughout the world, there are strange places, forming a pattern. The implications are up to you to decide.
Mysterieuze kubus gespot bij de zon: NASA beschuldigd van cover-up
Mysterieuze kubus gespot bij de zon: NASA beschuldigd van cover-up
Op woensdag is een opvallende kubus bij de zon gespot. Het object, dat is vastgelegd door twee verschillende camera’s, lijkt een stuk groter te zijn dan de aarde, schrijft de Britse Daily Star.
Het object is vastgelegd met de camera’s EIT 195 en EIT 171 aan boord van het zonneobservatorium SOHO van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA.
UFO-jagers stuitten op de mysterieuze kubus en plaatsten de beelden op het internet, waarna complottheoretici suggereerden dat het een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object is dat rond de zon draait.
Verbergen
Het is volgens de krant niet de eerste keer dat zo’n vierkant bij de zon tot controverse heeft geleid. Op 28 juni 2011 werd ook al een kubus ontdekt op foto’s die met ruimtesonde SOHO van de zon waren gemaakt.
Volgens Scott C. Waring van UFO Sightings Daily zijn de foto’s bewijs dat de kubus niet is veroorzaakt door pixellatie. “Dit is bewijs dat de kubus echt bestaat en dat het een groot blokvormig object is dat groter is dan de aarde,” zei hij. “De kubus bevindt zich op beide foto’s op dezelfde plaats.”
Velen claimen nu dat de NASA de zwarte vierkanten gebruikt om UFO’s te verbergen voor het gewone publiek. Op foto’s die op de website van SOHO zijn te downloaden is echter geen spoor van de kubus meer te bekennen. Sceptici beschuldigen de UFO-jagers van bangmakerij.
ISS
Afgelopen maand werd de NASA nog gedwongen te reageren op een vreemd object dat werd gespot bij het ISS. Op beelden was te zien hoe een witte lichtbol langzaam afdaalde naar de aardatmosfeer, waarna de livestream plotseling werd stopgezet.
Woordvoerder van de NASA Tabatha Thompson ontkende dat het ruimteagentschap met opzet de livestream stopzet als er ongeïdentificeerde objecten in beeld komen.
Extra veel vallende sterren de komende nachten dankzij zeldzaam fenomeen
Extra veel vallende sterren de komende nachten dankzij zeldzaam fenomeen
Augustus is elk jaar een waar meteorenfestijn. In deze periode kunnen we genieten van de Perseïden-meteorenzwerm. Dankzij Jupiter zijn er dit jaar extra veel vallende sterren te zien.
De Perseïden vormen een wolk van stofdeeltjes die is achtergelaten door de komeet Swift-Tuttle. Die was hier voor het laatst in 1992 en komt in 2126 pas weer terug. In de jaren negentig was men bang dat de komeet in botsing zou komen met de aarde.
Compacter
Het maximum bereiken we vannacht rond 03.00 uur: dan zijn er onder ideale omstandigheden tot wel 200 (!) vallende sterren per uur te zien. De meteoren zijn helder en snel en hebben nalichtende sporen.
Jupiter doet er 12 jaar over om rond de zon te draaien en doorkruist zo dus maar eens in de 12 jaar de meteorenzwerm. Door de zwaartekracht van de planeet is de meteorenzwerm dit jaar compacter en komen er dus meer meteoren in de baan van de aarde terecht. In 2004, toen Jupiter ook voor extra meteoren zorgde, was er een extra piek ruim 16 uur voor het reguliere maximum.
Lichtspoor
Om de meteoren waar te kunnen nemen heb je geen telescoop of verrekijker nodig. Het volstaat om met het blote oog naar een willekeurige plaats aan de nachtelijke hemel te kijken. Ondanks de naam hebben vallende sterren eigenlijk niet echt iets met sterren te maken. Het zijn eerder stofdeeltjes die door de verbranding in de atmosfeer een lichtspoor achterlaten.
Het Jet Propulsion Laboratory van de NASA voorspelt dat rond het maximum tot wel 200 meteoren per uur zijn te zien. De meteoren komen met een snelheid van bijna 60 kilometer per seconde in botsing met de dampkring van deaarde.
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Texan recounts close encounter with sphere UFO
Texan recounts close encounter with sphere UFO
A Texas witness at Keltys recounted a 1969 UFO encounter with a low flying sphere-shaped object, according to testimony in Case 78077 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness and a friend were “spot lighting racoons” off 103W between Lufkin and Crockett alongside a river at 1 a.m. on July 20, 1969, when the incident occurred.
The witness and a friend saw a low flying light in 1969 in Keltys, which is now part of Lufkin, TX, pictured.
(Credit: Google)
“We were staying the night at his grandparent’s house,” the witness stated.“We were in a large field, maybe 20+ acres, surrounded by old growth woods and with small pines in the center. We were driving my friend’s truck inside the perimeter fence. I was shining the light out the passenger window in the truck, up and down trees trying to see raccoon’s eyes, when my friend said, ‘turn off that light.’”
The driver saw something odd in the nearby woods.
“Up ahead at ground levelthe woods were lit up, and we suggested that maybe his cousins were coming in the Jeep, although it was not moving, to hunt with us.”
The two watched the light.
“While we sat and watched, the light rose up fairly quickly to above the treetops, and it appeared to be the moon – only huge. It was very scary and my friend turned the truck around and drove with the intention of leaving. When we got to the other side, headed toward the entry gate to the field, I told him to stop and asked, ‘where did it go,’ as it was no longer in sight.”
But they quickly found the light again.
“While we sat there looking out the front windshield into a cloudless sky, it reappeared just like a falling star that did not burn out, but fired directly at us, immediately growing huge once again.”
The witness almost fired his gun at the object until his friend stopped him. Pictured, Lufkin, TX, pictured.
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The event caused the witness to go for his gun.
“It startled us so much, that I began to raise the shotgun at my side. My friend slapped it back down and said, ‘No, don’t shoot it,’ and attempted to back up, but he popped the clutch too fast and the truck died. He restarted it and took off backwards.”
But the witness wanted to see the object again.
“As we were backing toward the river, I told him to stop. The object did not move again, and in every way appeared as the moon, although very huge and bright. If anyone saw it at this point, they would only have said, ‘Wow, look how big and bright the moon is.’ We sat only for a minute or two, and then he drove off toward the entrance. When we went through the gate and started into the woods, I looked back through the rear window and it was still not moving. But, as I realized only later, that it could not have been all that high, because we actually passed under it.”
The witness has never forgotten the events of that evening.
“My friend and I have discussed this event over and over throughout the years, and I have given it much thought. I have no idea what we saw, but it certainly was not the moon. I believe that it could even be human descendants of a culture with new and different technologies and abilities to create magician-like optical illusions to be able to hide in plain sight. Maybe illusions like those bomb worshipers in Planet of the Apes. I only know that we both saw the same thing and discussed it as it happened, and it most definitely was unexplainable.”
The witness and his friend drove under the object at one point. Pictured: Lufkin, TX, pictured.
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Keltys, Texas, now a part of Lufkin, was once a separately incorporated town near the junction of the Angelina and Neches rivers and the Cotton Belt railroads in northwestern Angelina County, with an estimated population of about 800.Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
A Pennsylvania witness at Bristol reported watching and videotaping a series of star-like objects slow moving in a straight line across the sky, according to testimony in Case 78125 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first noticed the object due to their brightness and began videotaping. Pictured: Bristol, PA.
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The witness stepped out a back door to a vehicle at 9 p.m. on July 31, 2016, when a low flying airplane was first noticed.
“I looked north and noticed five objects—I don’t want to say hovering, but flying straight; not maneuvering, but also moving away from each other,” the witness stated. “They were going at a slow pace underneath the clouds.”
Cropped and enlarged frame from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness also noticed planes in the sky.
“Planes were flying around them and across from them. There were a lot of planes in the sky at that time—it seemed abnormal to me. Other than that, they were going real slow, but they didn’t look like airplanes.”
The brightness of the objects first triggered the witness to notice them.
“I first noticed the object because of how bright they were and how close they were at the beginning. It looked like several stars (a constellation in the sky but it wasn’t that high) when I first noticed it.”
Cropped and enlarged frame from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness had a feeling to look at the objects.
“I felt like I always feel, when I felt a feeling like ‘look here,’ instead of looking the direction I normally look because whatever there was there. Like a feeling of ‘look before it’s too late.’ It’s weird, I don’t know. Followed them for about five minutes before it looked like they disappeared from view based on the cloud cover.”
Bristol is a borough in Bucks County, PA, population 9,726. Pennsylvania Field Investigator Bob Luther is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Mysterious UFO doing a CRAZY LOOP around our solar system, Scientists have no idea what it is!
Mysterious UFO doing a CRAZY LOOP around our solar system, Scientists have no idea what it is!
Scientists have found a mysterious object orbiting just beyond Neptune, and it’s breaking all the rules. Astronomers have nicknamed it “Niku,”#1 Most Viewed UFO Youtube Channel Thirdphaseofmoon Shares Your Incredible UFO Videos To the World! Upload your UFO Video To Youtube, Then Copy Paste The Link To My Email! cousinsbrothersproductions@gmail.com Keep Your Eyes on the Skies! We are not Alone!
Als mensen wat meer naar boven zouden kijken, dan zouden ze soms de meest fantastische dingen kunnen zien.
Natuurlijk worden er veel UFO’s en dergelijke waargenomen boven landen zoals Mexico, maar ook de lage landen worden regelmatig bezocht door buitenaardsen.
De laatste jaren is er een verschijnsel waar wij uitgebreid over hebben geschreven en dat zijn wolken die geen wolken zijn, maar vermomde moederschepen of dimensieportalen naar andere dimensies of beide.
Prachtige opnames daarvan in bijvoorbeeld Mexico, maar ook getuigenverklaringen uit eigen land, waarover later meer.
Nu doet zich een vergelijkbaar verschijnsel voor ergens boven België. De exacte locatie is onduidelijk, maar wat te zien is, is zonder meer indrukwekkend.
We zien weer, zoals meestal in dit soort situaties, een wolk die eigenlijk niet thuis hoort in de lucht zoals de er op dat moment uit ziet.
Aan de randen van de wolk, verschijnen ronde UFO’s, die als het ware de basis verlaten en op verkenning gaan.
Aan de bovenkant van de UFO/wolk verschijnt een soort gloeiende staaf, een beetje vergelijkbaar met een periscoop van een onderzeeër.
Wat het ook moge zijn, duidelijk is dat het hier geen normale wolk betreft en dat er UFO’s zichtbaar zijn.
Bovenstaande beelden gecombineerd met de getuigenis van een dame uit Friesland uit oktober 2014 geven een verbluffende gelijkenis:
Lees het verhaal van onze lezeres (dank!), een nuchtere Friese dame, die 's avonds op haar fiets stapt. >>"Het is dinsdagavond 7 oktober en om 20.30 stap ik op de fiets vanuit Lytse Geast,(een dorpje een kleine tien kilometer ten zuid-oosten van Leeuwarden).
Mijn weg voert door de weilanden over een afgelegen pad en als het even kan zorg ik er voor dat ik niet in mijn eentje in het donker nog op pad ben. Vandaag ben ik al te laat en de laatste schemering gaat al over in duister.
Ik ben nog maar net buiten, of het begint te regenen en hard te waaien. Schuin voor me zie ik een paar flitsen, en het rommelt in de verte, precies tussen mij en Leeuwarden, waar ik naar op weg ben. Onweer dus, ook dat nog.
Voor me is een brede, langgerekte, vrij laag hangende wolk. Dat is waar ik de hemel op zie lichten. Er komen witte bollen uit de wolk. Twee gaan naar links en twee gaan naar rechts. De afstand van de ene bol tot de andere blijft steeds gelijk, alsof ze met een touwtje aan elkaar vast zitten. Ze bewegen langzaam.
Ik weet niet, wat het is, dat ik zie... zijn dit vliegtuigen? van de basis? En waarom zijn die geïnteresseerd in een onweerswolk? Ja, het zijn vast vliegtuigen. Het licht pulseert ook, zoals bij een vliegtuig. Flits aan, flits uit. Ja maar, bij een vliegtuig zie je dan altijd ook een rood licht aan en uit flitsen. dat is hier niet. Alleen wit. Melkwit.
De twee bollen rechts zijn verdwenen, die van links zijn opeens weer terug boven de wolk. Verbeeld ik me nu dat ze sneller pulseren dan zo net? Nee, dat verbeeld ik me niet. Het lijken wel sterren en het licht is niet meer zozeer wit, als wel koud. Zoals bij sterretjes voor kleine kinderen. Het zijn nu dus geen witte bollen meer, maar steeds sneller aan- en uit flitsende 'sterren'.
Dan zijn ze weg. Een paar minuten is er niks meer te zien en dan opeens zijn er wel twintig. Allemaal onder, boven, naast of uit de wolk. En allemaal flitsen ze aan en uit, nu in een heel hoog tempo. In een ijzig wit licht dat zo fel is dat het mij verblindt. Je zou zeggen dat ze er plezier aan beleven, zoals ze om en door de wolk heen duiken. Er in, er uit, om de wolk heen, achter elkaar aan... Net zo plotseling als ze verschenen zijn ze nu weer weg.
En komen niet meer terug. En ik ben bijna bij de eerste huizen van de stad. Het regent niet meer en de wind gaat ook liggen. Hoe lang dit al met al geduurd heeft? Twintig minuten à hooguit een half uur. Ik kan me niet voorstellen, dat er niet meer mensen geweest zijn die dit gezien hebben. Er was echt een hele lichtshow in de lucht.
Wat me achteraf ook nog wel frappeert, is dat er eigenlijk alleen die ene enorm grote wolk was, verder was er vrijwel geen bewolking.
Jesus Statue On Mexico Church Startles Congregation By Opening Eyes On Video! Aug 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Jesus Statue On Mexico Church Startles Congregation By Opening Eyes On Video! Aug 2016, UFO Sighting News
Date of video: Aug 4, 2016 Location of event: Coahuila, Mexico
This week a statue of Jesus at a church in Coahuila, Mexico did something that should be impossible...it opened its eyes. This video is very remarkable and I couldn't see any obvious glitches or evidence of it being a computer generated fake. A UFO researcher Dr. Frank Stranges (Book, Stranger In The Pentagon) who was a priest who met the US president back in the 1960s, said that he talked to Val Valiant Thor from Venus and Val told him Jesus was not only real, but a close personal friend of his on Venus. So, Jesus is mixed in with our alien beliefs. Although this Jesus statue could have been made to open its eyes on purpose once a day or every few days, I cannot be sure, because the detail of the video around the eyes is not very clear. I don't believe its CGI, so I think I have to believe this one is real. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
It looks like Bakersfield is of interest to an alien species out there. What convinced me that this sighting is 100% real, was the fact that at 1:29 into the video you see a flash, but its not a flash, but is actually two more glowing orbs signaling the lower orb. One makes itself visible, so the others can remain at a safer location not noticed by humans. Makes it safer if shot at by a deer rifle, or some military jets try to attack. Bakersfield is located in the desert and many species of aliens prefer this climate to build their bases below the ground, less rain underground. (i.e. Friendship Case, Rocca Pia). Underground bases are so large, they have their own weather system. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News States: Several neighbors living off Alderpointe Street near Panama and Gosford in southwest Bakersfield say they first witnessed a mysterious blue light in the sky back in February, and again in March. Both times they saw it on the 14th. "I was taking the recycling out to the trash can, and I saw this blue light in the sky, and I thought, that's kinda bright to be a star, I've never seen a blue star be that bright," said Kelly Castruita. "Watched it for about 10 minutes, just doing weird stuff, it would turn on and off and it would disappear," added Kelly's husband Jeff. Neighbors said the blue light was about the size of a dime, and started off just above the skyline, and then migrated northwest. "It pretty much flew, stopped, then started doing some upward motion and downward motion, so I've never seen anything like it," said neighbor Randy Gabriel. "We'll see the police helicopters once in a while, or an airplane go by, but nothing like this," said Ricardo Pantoja, who has been living in the neighborhood for 23 years. 23ABC's Lindsey Adams took the videos to Senior Deputy Victor Keesey with the Kern County Sheriff's Department, whose office works closely in conjunction with neighboring Meadows Field Airport. "I'm not aware of any calls that we've received regarding any blue lights, or strange lights in that area. Very seldom, if ever, have I seen anything like it. However, we are in the age of drones now, obviously we have military drones, but we have civilian drones now and drones for purchase, so that is a possibility," said Senior Deputy Victor Keesey. "It looked way too high up in the sky to be a drone," mentioned witness Kelly Castruita. "It wasn't a regular airplane or a drone, it was much bigger than what a drone would be, especially at that distance," added neighbor Ricardo Pantoja. 23ABC got in touch with public affairs at Edwards Air Force Base, and we were told they have not received any calls about the light, but officials mentioned it could be a possible aurora in the sky, or possible testing from Vandenberg.
4 Major UFO Sightings Caught On Camera & Still Unexplained By Open Minds, Aug 2016, UFO Sighting News.
4 Major UFO Sightings Caught On Camera & Still Unexplained By Open Minds, Aug 2016, UFO Sighting News
Here are four very interesting sightings that you might not have heard about. All have video evidence, and all have many witnesses, and have never been disproven. Awesome video, by Open Minds, and very enlightening. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com 1. Bakersfield, California In 2015 unidentified flying objects were spotted in the skies for a period of three months. 2. Denver, Colorado UFO's were seen at the mile city of Denver when one was caught on video by a local TV station. 3. Puerto Rico The homeland security footage just might make you a believer. 4. Phoenix, Arizona 1997.
I was searching for UFO news and accidentally discovered a UFO behind a MUFON expert doing an interview in Michigan. The UFO is a round orb and holds its position over a small hill on the upper right side of the screen. I enlarged it and you can clearly see that its a round UFO orb, similar to the three UFO orbs that were on CNN during the Shuttle Atlantis landing delay years ago.
This actually happens a lot. An expert is looking one way, and a UFO shows up behind them. Its happened to me when I had a camera on a tripod on an 8th floor roof, and suddenly saw it 3 meters from me, and during the 2 seconds it took me to flip the camera around, it shot 40 meters away (baseball size, translucent). So, I feel for the guy in the interview, and its a bit funny the News casters never even noticed it or anyone else in the city that watched the news cast on TV. One thing I believe is that alien evidence is all around us, but often we are too focused on ourselves to notice it. The truth is within our grasp.
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (WXYZ) - Do UFOs exist? Many people say yes and many people say no.
UFO hunters spend their time investigating to figure out the correct answer.
In our state, more than 300 strange sightings were reported to the Michigan Mutual UFO Network. The director, Bill Konkolesky, says hunters can identify about 80% of them, but the remaining 20% falls into the "unknown" category.
“Some stuff could be experimental aircraft, other stuff seems like it must’ve come from somewhere else. Where it would’ve come from, we don’t know,” says Konkolesky. “I think there’s something going on here that’s a lot bigger than just us here on Earth. I’d love to wake up one day and have all the answers, but we’re not quite there yet.”
2 linked UFOs over Wilmington, California 31-Jul-2016
2 linked UFOs over Wilmington, California 31-Jul-2016
Here’s one interesting footage of a two bright UFOs hovering in the night sky above Wilmington in California. This was seen and filmed on 31st July 2016.
Bright UFO flying over Charlotte, North Carolina 10-Aug-2016
Bright UFO flying over Charlotte, North Carolina 10-Aug-2016
Check out this interesting footage of a bright unidentified flying object in the sky above Charlotte in North Carolina. This happened on 10th August 2016.
Witness report:
There were bright lights that changed colors frequently on this vehicle. It hovered for a while, turned counterclockwise, then moved rapidly to the left and then back to the right.I had just gotten home from work and i happened to look up at the sky because it was getting late and i love to watch the sunset. Thats when i saw the object. There were bright lights that changed colors frequently on this vehicle. It hovered for a while, turned counterclockwise, then moved rapidly to the left and then back to the right. It descended fairly quickly. When I first saw it, it was so high up that I thought it was a plane but the colors were strange. Then it stopped moving so I definitely knew at that point that it was some type of ufo. I assumed it was a drone buy im still unsure. I did not see it land because it was far way. The guy who cuts our grass was there as well and he was shocked just like I was. He actually tried to get a better view once it descended by running into someones backyard but it was gone by that time.
Uproar In The UFO/Alien Community After NASA Announces Its Plan To Shut Down ISS Live Stream For Good
Uproar In The UFO/Alien Community After NASA Announces Its Plan To Shut Down ISS Live Stream For Good
NASA announcement that it is shutting down the live video feed of the International Space Station (ISS) forever has caused an uproar in the UFO and alien community. Many UFO researchers think that the decision is the last ditch effort to cover-up UFO evidence.
NASA published the announcement on its website on July 29 saying that NASA Television’s Space Station Live program will be phased out and discontinued in August and on September 1 respectively.
Some enthusiasts think that the move to shutting down the live stream would allow NASA to edit things rather than just take them out. They further noted that the people own those cams and that NASA has no right to deprive the public of knowing the truth out there.
An enthusiast commented that space agency tried the same thing before, but forced to put the live feed back online because the public had opposed the decision.
However, some believe that there was never a live feed and NASA just make it appear a live stream using CGI.
There are multiple reports of UFO sightings in the ISS live feed. In July, alien researchers claimed to have discovered a video recording featuring an astronaut who seems to mention the code word for aliens (gospel). Some viewers of the video think the astronaut is talking about an exopolitical meeting between astronauts and aliens.
Alien hunters also accused NASA of interrupting live transmissions each time UFOs appear on the video screen. Shutting down the live stream permanently, according to some UFO hunters, would save the space agency from the trouble of having to close down the live stream when a UFO appears.
This video was filmed in February 2016 in the sky above London, United Kingdom.
Witness report:
We videoed this from our flat in ponders end, Enfield, London, UK. At first glance you might think this object was a star if you didn’t know what your looking for, but it’s not, which I could see when I videoed with my tablet and was able to zoom in fully then I noticed what it is. I was taking pics of it before from my mobile zooming then screen shooting then zooming again to see it up close. I showed people and some of them trying to tell me maybe its a helicopter, I told them I never seen a helicopter dismantle itself and reattach itself in mid air before have you? But a lot of people are more stunned at what we have filmed.
Thousands of meteorites weighing about a pound are thought to fall to Earth every year, but many of these events go unnoticed, because the small rocks land in uninhabited forests or open ocean waters.
Credit: K. Paterson
Pieces of natural space debris — typically rocky shards of comets or asteroids — occasionally survive their journeys through Earth's atmosphere and strike the ground, but how often does an event like this actually occur?
While large impacts are fairly rare, thousands of tiny pieces of space rock, called meteorites, hit the ground each year. However, the majority of these events are unpredictable and go unnoticed, as they land in vast swathes of uninhabited forest or in the open waters of the ocean, Bill Cooke and Althea Moorhead of NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office told Space.com.
In order to understand meteorite impacts on Earth, it is important to know where the chunks of rock come from. Meteoroids are rocky remnants of a comet or asteroid that travel in outer space, but when these objects enter Earth's atmosphere, they are considered meteors. [Photos: Fireball Drops Meteorites on California]
Most (between 90 and 95 percent) of these meteors completely burn up in the atmosphere, resulting in a bright streak that can be seen across the night sky, Moorhead said. However, when meteors survive their high-speed plunge toward Earth and drop to the ground, they are called meteorites.
The Perseid meteor shower — one of the most popular meteor showers of the year — is expected to put on a particularly breathtaking show Aug. 11 and 12, when the Earth passes through the trail of debris created by Comet Swift-Tuttle. However, viewers should not expect to find any meteorites lying on the ground after this spectacular meteor shower.
"Perseids come from Comet Swift-Tuttle and are very fragile, being an ice-dust mix," Cooke said. "They are not strong enough to survive passage through the atmosphere at 132,000 mph (212,433 km/h) and so never produce meteorites — they are totally vaporized by the time they make it to 50 miles (80 km) altitude." [Perseid Meteor Shower 2016: When & How to See It]
Unpredictable catastrophes
Most meteorites that are found on the ground weigh less than a pound. While it may seem like these tiny pieces of rock wouldn't do much damage, a 1-lb. (0.45 kilograms) meteorite traveling upward of 200 mph (322 km/h) can fall through the roof of a house or shatter a car windshield.
When the Grimsby meteorite landed in Ontario, Canada in 2009, for example, it broke the windshield of an SUV. In another incident, meteorites crashed into the back end of a Chevy Malibu in Peekskill, New York, in 1992, Cooke and Moorhead said. Thankfully, no one was injured during these events.
However, the pieces of rock falling from the sky are not even the greatest concern regarding meteor impacts, Cooke said.
"What causes the most damage is the shock wave produced by the meteor when it breaks apart in [Earth's] atmosphere," Cooke said. "So, you don't have to watch for the falling rocks — you have to worry about the shockwave."
For example, the Chelyabinsk meteor — an asteroid the size of a six-story building that entered Earth's atmosphere in February 2013 over Russia — broke apart 15 miles (24 km) above the ground and generated a shock wave equivalent to a 500-kiloton explosion, Cooke said. It injured 1,600 people.
This is a sample of a meteorite that was found following the Chelyabinsk event in Russia in 2013. Several small stones were found in the area after the massive impact.
Credit: Qingzhu Yin, Univ. California-Davis
Another major collision was the Tunguska meteorite, which was larger than Chelyabinsk and 10 times more energetic. The meteorite exploded over the Tunguska River on June 30, 1908, and flattened 500,000 acres (2,000 square km) of uninhabited forest. Because of its remote location, the event is an example of a meteorite that would have gone undetected had it not been so large, Cooke and Moorhead explained.
Generally, astronomers are unable to predict meteorite impacts, largely because meteoroids traveling in outer space are too small to detect. However, even large meteorite events that originate from asteroids, which can be tracked in space, are unpredictable.
Fortunately, between 90 and 95 percent of meteors don't survive the fall through the Earth's atmosphere to produce meteorites, Moorhead explained. This is because most meteorites are believed to come from comets, which are more fragile than asteroids.
"Only those meteoroids that happen to be made of stronger material produce meteorites," she said. For example, "if the [meteoroid] is a chunk of an asteroid, instead of a chunk of a comet, it's likely to be a little denser, a little stronger and more likely to produce a meteorite."
Also, if the meteor is approaching Earth at a slower speed, the rock will likely survive its collision with Earth's atmosphere, Moorhead added. In other words, the meteor will not burn up completely, and some remnant meteorites will fall to the ground.
"We actually get a few meteorites from the moon and Mars," Moorhead said. "These [meteorites] are actually chucks of the moon and Mars that have been blown off those planets by impacts and then spent a long time in space before finally hitting Earth as a meteorite."
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Although predicting these events is nearly impossible, there are a couple different ways in which researchers can measure how many meteorites fall to the Earth. For example, in uninhabited areas like the Sahara Desert or atop glaciers in Antarctica, it is fairly easy to find meteorites on the ground and date them based on the amount of weathering they've experienced, Moorhead explained. Because these areas are largely undisturbed, the meteorites that lie there provide scientists with a general idea of how many of the space rocks might have hit the Earth over a period of time.
While skywatchers will not be able to hunt for meteorites after this week's Perseids meteor shower, the dazzling trail left behind by Comet Swift-Tuttle will provide spectacular light show, which can best be seen in clear skies of the Northern Hemisphere on the nights of Aug. 11 and 12.
Comet Swift-Tuttle: The Icy Parent of the Perseid Meteor Shower
Comet Swift-Tuttle: The Icy Parent of the Perseid Meteor Shower
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
Comet Swift-Tuttle, the source of the annual Perseid meteor shower, is seen in this false color view captured by astronomer Jim Scotti of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. Scotti took this image through a Spacewatch telescope at Kitt Peak on Nov. 24, 1992 during the comet's last close approach to Earth.
Credit: Images by Jim Scotti, University of Arizona
The spectacular Perseid meteor shower, peaking Thursday night (Aug. 11–12), lights up Earth's sky every summer as Earth passes through the trail left by Comet Swift-Tuttle, a miles-wide behemoth that swings by Earth every 133 years.
Swift-Tuttle, whose nucleus is 16 miles (26 kilometers) wide, is the largest solar system object to pass close to Earth repeatedly, NASA has said, and researchers once thought it was likely to hit Earth in 2126 — but the last time it passed Earth, in 1992, astronomers took more precise measurements and calculated that its next pass wouldn't be so dangerous after all.
"Its orbit passes very close to the Earth's orbit, so that it has been viewed as a hazardous object over the years," Paul Chodas, NASA's manager for the center of near-Earth object studies, told Space.com. "Now, we know its orbit very well, well enough to say that we are safe from an impact for many thousands of years." [Perseid Meteor Shower 2016: When & How to See It]
Astronomer Jim Scotti of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory remembers observing Comet Swift-Tuttle in 1992 (between late November and early December) through the lab's 36-inch Spacewatch telescope atop Kitt Peak.
"That was a fun comet to observe," Scotti told Space.com. "It's hard to believe it was that long ago now."
Astronomer Jim Scotti captured this series of images of Comet Swift-Tuttle, the source of the annual Perseid meteor shower, between Nov. 25 and Dec. 1 in 1992 during the comet's last close approach to Earth.
Credit: Images by Jim Scotti, University of Arizona
Scotti tracked the comet over the course of nearly a week with the telescope. "It was relatively bright so it was fairly easy to observe."
Like all comets, sometimes called "dirty snowballs," Swift-Tuttle is a ball of dust, ice, rock and dark organic material. It was discovered in July 1862 independently by both Lewis Swift and Horace Parnell Tuttle.
The comet orbits the sun, but follows a very steep incline as compared to the solar system planets — diving down into the solar system to whip around the sun and back out again. So when the comet passes Earth it's traveling at great speed, Chodas said.
Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle approaches Earth every 133 years during its oblique orbit around the sun. It last approached Earth in 1992, and will return in 2126. Its path of debris causes the annual Perseid meteor shower.
Credit: NASA/JPL
And its dust and debris, which create the Perseid meteor shower as they burn up in Earth's atmosphere, are traveling quickly, too — at around 37 miles (59 km) per second. And even though the comet only passes by Earth every 133 years, the meteor shower occurs every year when Earth moves through the trail of its orbit.
"The debris is coming in faster than many other comets because it's a very elongated orbit … so that makes the show a little more spectacular because of the speed," Chodas said.
For viewers in the Northern Hemisphere, the Perseids are one of the best meteor showers of the year — and NASA has called it the "fireball champion" of annual meteor showers for its record-breaking number of extra-bright meteors, called fireballs. Those fireballs are visible even in light-polluted areas like cities (still, there are many more faint meteors that are only visible if you go to a darker area).
Despite its brilliance, this year's conditions aren't ideal, because there's a bright, waxing moon in the sky around the shower's peak. So if you're planning to look Thursday night, wait until the constellation Perseus has risen and the moon has set (around 12-1 a.m. in most locations).
"Go to a sky that is as dark as possible, and then get comfortable, and dark-adapt your eyes and be patient — the average rate is something like one a minute, but some of them are faint," Chodas said. "Since they appear to radiate out of the constellation Perseus, which doesn't rise until late, this meteor shower is better seen in the wee hours of the morning when that constellation is higher in the sky."
And if you miss the meteor shower's peak, or want to look a few days early, don't worry — you can still see meteors before and after the peak.
"The meteor shower lasts several days, because it's a wide cloud of debris that the Earth is passing through," Chodas said.
Editor's note: If you have an amazing photo of this year's Perseid meteor shower you'd like to share for a possible story or image gallery, please contact managing editor Tariq Malik at spacephotos@space.com.
Wow! Northern Lights Glow in Breathtaking Image from Space Station
Wow! Northern Lights Glow in Breathtaking Image from Space Station
By Greg Uyeno, Staff Writer
The northern lights as seen from the space station over Quebec
Credit: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center
The bright, ethereal lights of the auroras. The surface of Earth, pockmarked with impact craters. A faint glow emanating from the planet's upper atmosphere. All of these amazing sights were captured in a single nighttime photograph taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.
The photo was originally taken in February 2012, and included a glimpse of the space station, but NASA's Earth Observatory recently released a cropped, labeled version of the stunning scene.
The striking tableau represents a view from the International Space Station as it flew over Quebec, Canada. The astronaut was able to capture the bright streaks of light from the auroras as the orbiting outpost passed overhead. [Aurora Photos: See Breathtaking Views of the Northern Lights]
The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are caused by the collision of charged particles with the Earth's atmosphere. When photographed from space, the natural light show — though still beautiful — is perhaps less overwhelming and more easily understood as an atmospheric phenomenon.
The photograph also shows a golden halo, known as airglow, around the rest of the planet. Airglow is another result of the interaction between the sun's radiation and Earth's atmosphere, according to NASA's Earth Observatory.
In addition to a wealth of natural sights, the photo shows the human footprint on the landscape. Artificial lights mark the locations of some northern settlements, including Labrador City and Goose Bay (both in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada), which are labeled in the newly released image.
Wintry conditions also make some features of the Quebec landscape visible 237 miles (382 kilometers) below. The ring-shaped Manicouagan crater was created by an asteroid impact 214 million years ago, according to the Earth Observatory. The massive crater measures 37 miles (60 km) across, and its outline is clearly visible in the lower third of the photograph.
Watch Northern Lights Glow From Space in NASA's New High-Def Footage
The Perseids, the most widely observed and dependable of the annual meteor displays, will peak during the overnight hours of Thursday, Aug. 11 into the morning of Friday, Aug. 12, and this year has all the earmarks of being a spectacular show.
First, there is the situation regarding the moon. At first glance, it appears that the viewing conditions aren't very good, as the peak night coincides with a waxing gibbous moon, 63-percent illuminated. Its bright light no doubt will wash out all but the very brightest of these swift streaks, which chiefly will emanate from out of the northeast part of the sky. However, there is some very good news: Early Friday morning (Aug. 12), the moon will set near 1:00 a.m. local time. Dawn breaks at about 4:20 a.m. around the mid-northern latitudes. Between those two times, there will be a nearly 3.5-hour "window" during which the sky will be totally dark.
Most meteor showers evolve from comets. The cometary parent of the Perseids is a comet known as Swift-Tuttle. This comet takes approximately 130 years to make one trip around the sun. It was discovered in 1862 and last appeared in our skies in 1992. (It's due back in 2126.) Comets are composed chiefly of frozen gases, and meteoroids that are mixed in with that gas — the bits and pieces that have flaked off from the comet's solid center or nucleus.
Like all comets, Swift-Tuttle leaves behind streams of tiny particles ranging in size from large grains of sand to small pebbles, but with the consistency of cigar ash. They're invisible to people on Earth until, upon entering our atmosphere with immense velocity — 37 miles per second (60 kilometers per second) — they blaze up within the span of a heartbeat and streak across the sky in a brief, blazing finale. Comet Swift-Tuttle probably has passed the sun hundreds of times to produce the present stream of Perseid meteors.
The 2016 Perseid meteor shower will peak overnight on Aug. 11 and 12. They appear to radiate out of the constellation Perseus, from which they take their name.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The meteoroids have become distributed all around the comet's elongated elliptical orbit, which takes them out beyond the realms of Pluto and ultimately brings them back to intersect Earth's orbit at almost a right angle, producing a fairly predictable meteor display that lasts for several days in mid-August.
The Perseids intersect the orbit of Earth more or less directly, but on their way in toward the sun, they also pass other planets. In the case of the most massive planet in the solar system, Jupiter, there is no direct encounter; the dross of Comet Swift-Tuttle passes well above this giant world, never coming any closer than about 160 million miles (257 million km) at 11.8-Earth-year intervals — the time it takes for Jupiter to make a complete orbit around the sun.
But on those occasions when it's passing closest to Swift-Tuttle's trail of debris, Jupiter's powerful gravitational field can still slightly perturb the comet particles just enough to nudge them about 930,000 miles (1.5 million km) closer to Earth. The result is usually a noticeably brighter and stronger Perseid display, producing more than the usual complement of meteors.
Most years when the Earth encounters the Perseids, observers in areas where the sky is very dark and clear might count as many as 60 to 90 meteors per hour. (But here's a necessary disclaimer: If you live in an area where haze, smoke and bright city lights proliferate, or tall obstructions block large areas of the sky, you will likely see a lot fewer.)
When Jupiter has had an influence on the Perseid orbit, the meteor numbers tend to ramp up to above-normal levels. That's exactly what happened in 1921, 1945, 1968, 1980 and, most recently, in 2004.
As it turns out, Jupiter recently passed closest to the orbit of Comet Swift Tuttle in November 2014. But an additional 22 months must then pass for the meteoroid zone affected by Jupiter to arrive in the vicinity of Earth. That indicates that the 2016 Perseids could be another "prime year" for the Perseids; they could indeed prove to be unusually numerous. [Top 10 Perseid Meteor Shower Facts]
What do the Perseid pundits say?
In the 2016 edition of the "Observer's Handbook" of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Margaret Campbell-Brown and Peter Brown noted that, "Some models predict an enhancement in activity from the Perseids in 2016about 7 hours before the traditional peak, but this is from older trails unlikely to produce more than a moderate increase in rates." On their table of meteor showers for 2016, they highlighted the Perseids in bolddue to the possibility of this outburst.
The outburst in question is being forecast by French meteor expert Jeremie Vaubaillon. It shows the Earth moving along in its orbit and encountering a small, albeit concentrated, zone of comet material at around 1 a.m. EDT (0500 GMT) on Aug. 12 that would favor the eastern portions of the U.S. and Canada. But Vaubaillon is cautious. "This trail of material dates is over nine centuries old, making the forecast for a possible outburst less certain," he told me in an email. "Certainly I would look for it, but just keep in mind the uncertainties."
You can see a map charting that interaction here:
In this diagram, French astronomer Jeremie Vaubaillon has charted the interaction of the Earth through this year's stream of Perseid meteoroids. Earth's orbit is plotted in orange. Dates are indicated as Day/Month (Example 11/8 = 11 August at 0 hour UT). Notice the small "blob" of debris that directly encounters Earth's orbit at roughly 1 a.m. EDT (0500 GMT) on Aug. 12. Presumably, that material was shed by Comet Swift-Tuttle in A.D. 1079. If it's still intact, it might produce a sudden outburst of bright meteors. But if it has dispersed significantly, nothing out of the ordinary will be seen.
Credit: Jeremie Vaubaillon
Another noted meteor expert, Mikhail Maslov of Russia, forecasts higher-than-normal Perseid meteor rates: "In 2016, Jupiter will cause a significant increase up to 160-180 meteors per hour. Earth will encounter the perturbed part of the Perseid stream, which was shifted closer to the Earth's orbit by Jupiter's gravitation. This means we have to expect heightened Perseid activity." His complete description, including more technical details, can be found here: http://feraj.narod.ru/Radiants/Predictions/Perseids2016eng.html
The "clumping effect"
This year is an auspicious occasion for me, as it marks the 50th summer in which I have watched out for the Perseids. What I (and others) have noted over the years is what some have called the "clumping effect" — that the Perseids appear to come in rapid succession; several or more within a minute or two, followed by a lull of several minutes before the sky suddenly bears fruit once again. Interestingly, while many observers have stated that the Perseids seem to come in bunches, when hourly Perseid observations have been carefully examined using the Poisson distribution formula (explained in statistics textbooks), it has been determined that, more often than not, a random distribution of arrival times has been inferred. Therefore, the "clumping" or bunches may be merely an illusion.
Have a Perseid party
Why not consider organizing a "Perseid party," and have a number of people watching different parts of the sky?
To observe the Perseids, you may need to dress warmly, bring a reclining chair and watch the sky. You need no other equipment. Find a dark observing spot, preferably with a low horizon, and look in any direction. Use this light-pollution map (http://tinyurl.com/zrk7qju) to find dark locations near you.
The Perseids get their name from their apparent radiation from the northern constellation of Perseus. At dusk, the uppermost part of this star pattern is grazing the northern horizon. Not until 11 p.m. local time is this group high enough in the northeast to be conspicuous. At 4 a.m., when Orion has risen, Perseus has reached a lofty perch and is nearly overhead; that's also when you're likely to see the most meteors.
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But it is not necessary to continuously stare at Perseus itself if you are looking for these shooting stars. A Perseid may appear in any part of the sky, but its trail, if mentally traced backward, invariably leads back to Perseus.
Typically, they appear as bright, swift streaks. A few outstandingly bright meteors (fireballs) occasionally may be seen. Fainter meteors appear white or yellow; brighter ones green, orange or red. About one-third leave luminous trains, which may be spectacular and can persist for many seconds; the most outstanding meteors often end in flares or bursts (called "bolides") and are even capable of casting shadows! Those are the kind of meteors that tend to elicit screams of delight from Perseid watchers.
You can also contribute valuable observational data. If you decide to do so, use the techniques suggested by the International Meteor Organization (IMO) (http://www.imo.net/visual/major). This way, your data will be in a standard format, which can readily be used for analysis. Send your data to the IMO athttp://www.imo.net/visual/report/electronic.
Good luck and here's to clear skies!
Editor's note: If you have an amazing photo of this year's Perseid meteor shower you'd like to share for a possible story or image gallery, please contact managing editor Tariq Malik at spacephotos@space.com.
Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for Natural History magazine, the Farmer's Almanac and other publications, and he is also an on-camera meteorologist for News 12 Westchester, New York. Follow us@Spacedotcom,Facebook andGoogle+. Original article onSpace.com.
A comet with a death wish met a truly fiery end today (Aug. 4) when it was destroyed by the sun after diving toward the star at a truly jaw-dropping speed. It is one of the brightest sungrazing comet events in over two decades, one scientist says.
Video of the comet's death dive into the sun was captured by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) between Aug. 2 and Aug. 4. It shows the comet zooming toward the sun at nearly 373 miles per second (600 kilometers per second). That's a mind-boggling 1.34 million mph!
Comets like the one swallowed by the sun are known as Kreutz sungrazers, and are characterized by orbits that take them incredibly close to the sun. Kreutz comets are believed to be fragments from a single large comet that broke up into smaller pieces thousands of years ago when it got close to the sun and the ice binding it together evaporated.
"This is one of the brightest Kreutz sungrazers we've seen over the past 21 yrs. Awesome!" astronomer Karl Battams tweeted. Battams also said that the comet was the "fastest object in the solar system" when it was destroyed by the sun.
This animated image shows a sungrazing comet hurtling toward the sun at a mind-boggling 1.3 million mph as seen by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Joy Ng
Battams, who operates the NASA-funded Sungrazing Comets Project, provided regular updates on the sungrazer's recent encounter with the sun, which ended with the comet being vaporized.
"This comet didn't fall into the sun, but rather whipped around it – or at least, it would have if it had survived its journey," Sarah Frazier of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland wrote in a statement. "Like most sungrazing comets, this comet was torn apart and vaporized by the intense forces near the sun."
You can see another video of the comet from SOHO here. The view also includes a view from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (another sun-watching spacecraft) as the moon crossed in front of the sun as seen by the observatory.
Kreutz comets travel along what is called the Kreutz path, a single orbit that takes 800 years to complete. Kreutz comets pass by the sun and disintegrate almost every day, and while most go unnoticed, larger fragments such as the recent sungrazer can be spotted more easily, according to Spaceweather.com.
SOHO has been keeping a close eye on the sun's activity for more than 20 years. The satellite is a joint mission between NASA and the European Space Agency. While the mission's intended goal was to better predict space weather — such as solar flares and auroras — the satellite has made several discoveries about the sun and spotted thousands of these sungrazer comets.
The sun as seen on May 23, 1967. A powerful flare erupted from the bright area in the top-center of the solar disk.
Credit: National Solar Observatory historical archive
A powerful solar storm nearly heated the Cold War up catastrophically a half century ago, a new study suggests.
The U.S. Air Force began preparing for war on May 23, 1967, thinking that the Soviet Union had jammed a set of American surveillance radars. But military space-weather forecasters intervened in time, telling top officials that apowerful sun eruption was to blame, according to the study.
"Had it not been for the fact that we had invested very early on in solar and geomagnetic storm observations and forecasting, the impact [of the storm] likely would have been much greater," Delores Knipp, a space physicist at the University of Colorado Boulder and the study's lead author, said in a statement. "This was a lesson learned in how important it is to be prepared." [The Sun's Wrath: Worst Solar Storms in History]
Frightening false alarm
The storm began brewing on May 18, 1967, when researchers noticed a big group of sunspots with strong magnetic fields clumped on one part of the solar disk.
Sunspots — dark, relatively cool areas on the sun's surface — serve as launching pads for powerful bursts of high-energy radiation known as solar flares, as well as eruptions of solar plasma called coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which almost always accompany strong flares.
Intense flares that hit Earth can disrupt radio transmissions and satellite communications, among other effects. Earth-directed CMEs can be even more damaging; big ones can spawn "geomagnetic storms" that blow out transformers in power grids, for example.
On May 23, 1967, the sun fired off a flare so powerful that it was visible to the naked eye, and began emitting radio waves at a level that had never been seen before, study team members said.
Notes on the region of the sun where the May 1967 solar flare occurred, from May 18, 20, 21, 23, and 28.
Credit: National Solar Observatory historical archive
That same day, all three of the Air Force's Ballistic Missile Early Warning System radar sites in the far Northern Hemisphere — which were located in Alaska, Greenland and the United Kingdom — appeared to be jammed.
Air Force officials initially assumed that the Soviet Union was responsible. Such radar jamming is considered an act of war, so commanders quickly began preparing nuclear-weapon-equipped aircraft for launch. (These newly scrambled aircraft would have been "additional forces," according to the study authors; the U.S. kept nuke-bearing "alert" planes aloft pretty much continuously throughout the 1960s.)
"This is a grave situation," Knipp said. "But here's where the story turns: Things were going horribly wrong, and then something goes commendably right."
Those additional forces never launched. So what happened? Solar forecasters at the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) — a joint U.S.-Canadian effort that looks out for incoming missiles and other possible threats — and elsewhere figured out that the flare, not the Soviets, had disrupted the radars. (The U.S. military had begun keeping tabs on solar activity, and its effects on Earth, in the 1950s; by 1967, NORAD was getting daily updates on the subject, study team members said.)
Knipp and her colleagues think this information made it in time to Air Force commanders and other high-ranking officials — including, perhaps, President Lyndon Johnson.
"Oftentimes, the way things work is, something catastrophic happens, and then we say, 'We should do something so it doesn't happen again,'" Morris Cohen, an electrical engineer and radio scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, said in the same statement. "But in this case, there was just enough preparation done just in time to avert a disastrous result," added Cohen, who was not involved in the new study.
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A solar superstorm
The flare on May 23, 1967, was accompanied by a CME, which hit Earth about 40 hours later. (CMEs travel through space at millions of miles per hour — fast, but not nearly as fast as solar-flare radiation, which, of course, moves at the speed of light.)
The CME triggered a powerful geomagnetic storm, which disrupted American radio communications for nearly a week, study team members said. This storm also ramped up the northern lights, making them visible as far south as New Mexico.
"As a magnetospheric disturbance, the 25-26 May event ranks near the top in the record books," Knipp and her colleagues wrote in the new study, which has been accepted for publication in the journal Space Weather.
You can read the abstract of the paper for free here.
The top spot in the record books, incidentally, likely belongs to the famous Carrington Event of September 1859. That geomagnetic storm caused telegraph systems to fail all over North America and Europe, and the northern lights were visible as far south as the Caribbean.
A Carrington-like storm today would likely be devastating, given how much more dependent the world is on technological infrastructure such as power grids and satellite networks, experts have said.
Bacteria Could Aid Search for Creatures On Other Planets
Bacteria Could Aid Search for Creatures On Other Planets
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Massive composite stromatolites from Carbla Province.
Credit: Erica Suosaari
Could there be a way to find bacterial structures on another planet? And if so, how important might these bacteria be in making a planet life-friendly? These are some of the questions that could be answered through studies onstromatolites, which are mounds of calcium-carbonate rock that are built up through lime-secreting cyanobacteria (bacteria that use photosynthesis for energy).
The research into the life-giving potential of these "living fossils" is based on small microbes in Australia, but the results could help us identify fossil evidence of life on other planets, in particular Mars, said Erica Suosaari, a science fellow for Bush Heritage Australia, a non-profit conservation and land management organization. Suosaari is based at Hamelin Station Reserve, Western Australia, a 500,000-acre property that borders one of the world's most diverse and abundant examples of marine stromatolites, the Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve.
"Looking for evidence of life in the rocks is like finding a needle in the haystack," wrote Suosaari in an e-mail. "If stromatolites have definitive bio-signatures — such as self organized morphologies that are indicative of life processes — then it may be possible to look for that 'signature' in rocks on the surface of other planets and significantly reduce the size of that haystack." [10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life]
Bands of seif stromatolites at low tide located in Booldah Province on the southwestern margin of Hamelin Pool.
Funding for the collaborative research was provided by a consortium of oil companies (Chevron, Shell, Repsol and BP) who are interested in modern microbial carbonate environments to develop models for subsurface reservoirs and source rocks. Additional support for genomics analyses was provided by the Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology element of the NASA Astrobiology Program.
Composite stromatolites from Carbla Province.
Credit: Pamela Reid
Learning more about ancient structures
On Earth, microbial communities responsible for creating stromatolites were essential in making the planet life-friendly. These stromatolite-forming cyanobacteria were the first living organisms to generate energy from the Sun using photosynthesis while creating oxygen as a byproduct. Over billions of years, cyanobacteria have changed Earth's atmosphere from 1 percent oxygen to more than 20 percent oxygen, a composition that has allowed complex life evolve.
Suosaari's research zeroes in on the stromatolites of Hamelin Pool, the most abundant and diverse modern assemblage of these microbial structures, which dominate nearly the entire 135 km of the coastline. Previous research into stromatolites identified them by the types of microbial mats colonizing the surface of the structure, a direct response of where the stromatolite resides in the tidal zone. Each lamination recorded in the stromatolite is thereby a record of a former surface mat. Her team instead classified stromatolites by their shape, revealing that certain shapes prefer to cluster in certain areas of the pool. Their investigation also showed that modern stromatolites have more in common with ancient stromatolites than previously thought.
"Modern marine stromatolites are often regarded as poor analogs of ancient stromatolites as a result of their grainy internal textures, which contrast with the fine grained nature of most ancient stromatolites," Suosaari said.
Elongate nested stromatolites colonized by pustular mat in the Spaven Province on the western margin of Hamelin Pool.
Credit: Pamela Reid
By contrast, her team found out that in Hamelin Pool, the microbial communities commonly produce a fine-grained limestone known as micrite (microcrystalline calcite) creating stromatolite structures that are similar to the ancient stromatolites seen in the fossil record.
Furthermore, the stromatolite types in Hamelin Pool are dominated by a coccoid cyanobacterium that traces its lineage back 2 billion years to an ancient form of this cyanobacteria, called Eoentophysalis. This provides yet another similarity back to ancient times, Suosaari said. This means that standing along the shorelines of Hamelin Pool and gazing out onto the stromatolites, we are essentially looking through a window to early Earth at microbes of the same ancient lineage, pumping out oxygen and continuing to undertake processes that have been happening for billenia. There is not another place on the planet where this can be observed at such a scale.
Elongate nested stromatolites colonized by smooth mat in the Spaven Province on the western margin of Hamelin Pool. Taken from the boat on a flat-calm day.
Credit: Erica Suosaari
Applications for Mars
The stromatolites studied were in a small region of Australia, but Suosaari said that as a whole, similar microbial communities could potentially be exported to other places — such as Mars — to make other locations in the Solar System more life-friendly to humans.
Suosaari said she thought of stromatolites when reading about SpaceX founder Elon Musk's plans to bring life to the planet Mars. She suggested that because these stromatolite-building microbial communities produce oxygen, they could potentially make the Red Planet more life-friendly.
"Obviously with Elon Musk's plans, we don't have billions of years to shape the atmosphere if he is planning to move life there in the coming years, and Mars has less than 1 percent of the atmosphere of Earth," she acknowledged. "But I begin to think about photosynthesizing microbial mats and how they have prevailed for billions of years; it's a kind of resilience and longevity that our species hasn't yet achieved. Perhaps we should look to these microbial communities to generate oxygen on the Red Planet at a small scale."
‘CIA Allowed Me To Go Inside An Alien UFO Spacecraft At Area 51’: Senior Canadian Official’s Death Bed Confession [Video]
‘CIA Allowed Me To Go Inside An Alien UFO Spacecraft At Area 51’: Senior Canadian Official’s Death Bed Confession [Video]
Paul Hellyer, a former Canadian Minister of National Defense, told a panel of UFO researchers and disclosure experts at a recent hearing that he was called to listen to a death bed confession by a former Canadian Chief of Emergency Measures.
The dying official told Hellyer that the CIA allowed him to enter an alien UFO spacecraft at the top-secret Area 51 military base.
Hellyer, 92, former Canadian Minister of National Defense from 1963 to 1968, and former Deputy Prime Minister in 1969, is a well-known to members of the UFO disclosure community. He claims that while he served in senior government positions, he saw evidence that extraterrestrial beings have visited Earth.
He told the panel at the Alien Cosmic Expo’s “Hearing on ET Disclosure,” held on Saturday, June 25, 2016, in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, that an unnamed former Canadian Chief of Emergency Measures who was dying due to a neurological illness called Lou Gehrig’s disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS) expressed the wish to make a death bed confession to Hellyer.
Hellyer said a friend in the Air Force phoned him and told him about the official’s request.
Hellyer then made an appointment with the dying official and interviewed him. The official gave a detailed account of his experience at the top-secret U.S. Air Force base, Area 51.
“I made an appointment with him and my buddy phoned me up and told me ‘You better get in touch with him right away because he is right on the edge.’”
“I phoned him and he gave me a full report of what he saw,” Hellyer said. “He felt that he could now tell, and I would be a good one to tell.”
The dying official told Hellyer that when he visited the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, CIA officials asked him if he would like to see inside an alien spacecraft. They then flew him to Area 51 and allowed him to enter one stored inside a secret hangar at the top secret facility.
Hellyer suggested that the “current [Canadian] chief of emergency measures” would also have access to relevant information about alien spacecraft at Area 51.
“The reason I know is I interviewed the previous one, who is now deceased, and he went to Langley and the CIA asked if he would like to see one of these crafts,” Hellyer declared.
He suggested that the reason why the former emergency measures official was allowed to see and inspect the UFO was to prepare him to respond effectively if an alien UFO crashed within Canadian territory.
“I guess, presumably, [that he was allowed to see the alien spacecraft at Area 51 so that he would be able to] cope with it if one crashed here [Canada],” Hellyer said.
But according to Hellyer, before the CIA allowed the Canadian official to see the alien spacecraft, he was required to “sign an oath” of secrecy.”
“But before he was allowed to go he had to sign an oath of secrecy and not tell anyone, and during his life he didn’t tell anyone including his wife,” he said.
Hellyer’s statements support claims by some UFO researchers that the U.S. government is secretly storing alien spacecraft recovered from UFO crash sitesinside secret hangars at the Area 51 facility.
Although UFO researchers claimed for years that the U.S. government was running a top secret base in the Nevada desert where debris recovered from UFO crash sites was being kept, their claims were dismissed as “conspiracy theories.”
But the “conspiracy theories” gained some credibility after the U.S. government finally admitted the existence of a secret facility in the Nevada desert in 2013.
But the government did not admit that it was keeping alien spacecraft or extraterrestrial technology at the facility.
Hellyer is well-known among members of the UFO disclosure movement as one of the most senior former government officials to have volunteered disclosure statements. He attracted the attention of the international media recently when he claimed that several alien species have contacted world governments and that governments are covering up information about extraterrestrial life.
He testified at the hearing in Brantford that he saw sighting reports when he was the Canadian Minster of Defense, but did not pay attention to them because he was not interested in the subject at time. He was not interested in UFOs at the time because he was too busy “trying to combine all the military branches of the Canadian military into one combined force.”
But he claimed that if he had been interested and had requested to see classified UFO files he would not have been refused.
“This completely contradicts the conspiracy belief held strongly in the UFO research community that some Wizard of Oz or deep black cabal actually runs the government and that elected officials are simply puppets pretending to be in charge,” Earth Mysteries News commented.
The dying official told Hellyer that the CIA allowed him to enter an alien UFO spacecraft at the top-secret Area 51 military base.
Hellyer, 92, former Canadian Minister of National Defense from 1963 to 1968, and former Deputy Prime Minister in 1969, is a well-known to members of the UFO disclosure community. He claims that while he served in senior government positions, he saw evidence that extraterrestrial beings have visited Earth.
US NAVY sent to explore ALIEN MEGASTRUCTURE in Atlantic Ocean !!!
US NAVY sent to explore ALIEN MEGASTRUCTURE in Atlantic Ocean !!!
July 2016 - Atlantic ocean. Leaked video from US Navy shows military forces sent to explore alien megastructure reported in the middle of Atlantic ocean .
In Invisible Residents: The Reality of Underwater UFOs (1970), renowned zoologist, Ivan T. Sanderson hypothesized that an advanced aquatic non-human civilization may have evolved right here on the Earth. This parallel, aquatic civilization could be twice as old as mankind, Sanderson proposes, and may well have developed space flight long before us. Sanderson even goes as far as suggesting that such a civilization could be behind many of the mysterious disappearances in the Bermuda triangle as well as UFO sightings. Interestingly, more recently Sanderson’s ideas have been echoed somewhat in Mac Tonnies’ last book before his untimely passing in 2009 TheCryptoterrestrials.
While the ETH or extraterrestrial hypothesis has become synonymous with the UFO phenomenon in popular culture, many serious UFO researchers give the cryptoterrestrial hypothesis equal kudos. There are plenty of USO (Unidentified Submerged Object) reports and many UFO sightings where an object is seen over water, so who knows? And as the saying goes, we arguably know less about the deep ocean than we do about the Moon or Mars.”
Buiten de baan van Neptunus bevindt zich een ongeïdentificeerd object dat niemand kan verklaren
Buiten de baan van Neptunus bevindt zich een ongeïdentificeerd object dat niemand kan verklaren
Ik hoop dat iedereen zijn gordel heeft omgedaan want het buitenste deel van het zonnestelsel is zojuist een heel stuk vreemder geworden. Dat twitterde astronoom Michele Bannister van de Queens-universiteit in Belfast maandag.
Ze verwees naar de ontdekking van een Transneptunisch object (TNO), een object dat zich buiten de baan van Neptunus bevindt. Het bevindt zich boven het vlak van het zonnestelsel en beweegt steeds verder omhoog. Dat maakt het een vreemd object.
De baanhelling van Niku, zoals het object is genoemd, bedraagt 110 graden. De baan staat dus meer dan loodrecht op die van de planeten. En als je het zonnestelsel pal van boven bekijkt, dan zie je dat Niku, wat Chinees is voor ‘rebels’, in de verkeerde richting om de zon draait.
Planeet X
“Het impulsmoment zorgt ervoor dat alles dezelfde kant opdraait in het zonnestelsel,” zegt Bannister. Een object dat niet in het vlak van het zonnestelsel of in tegengestelde richting om de zon draait, moet dus door iets uit koers zijn gebracht.
“Dit wijst erop dat er meer gaande is in het buitenste deel van het zonnestelsel dan we kunnen zien,” zegt Matthew Holman, één van de ontdekkers van Niku.
Het object lijkt onderdeel te zijn van een groep objecten die in een sterk gehelde baan om de zon draaien. Het team van Holman testte of hun objecten mogelijk worden beïnvloed door de aantrekkingskracht van Planeet X, een nog onontdekte planeet die mogelijk 10 keer zo zwaar is als de aarde en ver voorbij Pluto staat.
Verwarrend
Volgens het team bevindt Niku zich te dichtbij om te kunnen worden beïnvloed door de planeet en dus moet er een andere verklaring zijn. “We weten het antwoord niet,” zegt Holman.
“Ik vind het geweldig dat het allemaal zo verwarrend is,” zegt Bannister. “Ik ben benieuwd waar dit toe zal leiden.”
Vondst 2000 jaar oude magische spreuken stelt archeologen voor raadsel
Vondst 2000 jaar oude magische spreuken stelt archeologen voor raadsel
In Servië proberen archeologen magische spreuken op kleine zilveren en gouden rolletjes te ontcijferen. De rolletjes zijn gevonden bij 2000 jaar oude skeletten.
“Het alfabet is Grieks, dat is duidelijk,” zei hoofdarcheoloog Miomir Korac. “De taal is Aramees. Dit is een mysterie voor ons.”
De skeletten zijn ontdekt bij een enorme elektriciteitscentrale in Kostolac in het noordoosten van Servië. Er worden opgravingen in het gebied verricht voordat kan worden begonnen met de bouw van een tweede centrale op de resten van de oude Romeinse stad Viminacium.
Demonen
Eén van de rolletjes (archeologisch instituut Belgrado)
Vorige week stuitte het team van Korac op twee amuletten die kleine zilveren en gouden rolletjes met symbolen en letters bleken te bevatten. De archeologen menen dat het om magische spreuken gaat.
“We zijn de namen tegengekomen van enkele demonen die verbonden zijn met het gebied waar nu Syrië ligt,” zei archeoloog Ilija Dankovic. Het is goed mogelijk dat het mysterie rond de kwetsbare rolletjes nooit helemaal zal worden ontrafeld, schrijft The Guardian.
Meer tijd
Vroeger kregen vooral personen die een gewelddadige dood stierven spreuken mee in het graf. Men geloofde destijds dat de ziel van dergelijke personen meer tijd nodig had om rust te vinden en ze zonder de spreuken sneller in de handen van demonen terecht zouden komen.
Het is voor het eerst dat dergelijke voorwerpen in Servië zijn gevonden, hoewel ze lijken op amuletten die in andere landen zijn ontdekt, aldus de krant.
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Canary Islands Mass UFO Sighting, 1976
Canary Islands Mass UFO Sighting, 1976
UFO sightings observed by many witnesses are typically the best, most noteworthy cases, as the multiple witnesses’ testimony provides corroborating evidence. Although most sightings are not mass sightings, there are several high-quality cases involving many credible witnesses, and some of these mass sightings paint the best picture showing the mysterious reality of UFOs. One such sighting occurred in 1976 in the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of Africa.
The Canary Islands
(Credit: Oona Räisänen/Wikimedia Commons)
In the mid-1990s, philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller financed a report that provided an overview of major UFO events and the evidence surrounding the UFO phenomenon. This report was intended to educate government officials about UFOs, and as such, it was sent to the White House and members of the U.S. Congress. The report, titled “Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence,” was drafted by Don Berliner, an aviation journalist and long-time ufologist. UFO journalist Antonio Huneeus and Marie Galbraith, the wife of investment banker Evan Galbraith (who was the U.S. ambassador to France during the Reagan administration, the Republican candidate for New York governor in 1994, and the chairman of William Buckley’s political magazine, National Review) also participated in the creation of this document. One of the incredible cases presented in the document is the mass UFO sighting that took place in the Canary Islands.
According to newspaper headlines, thousands of residents of the Canary Islands observed an unidentified luminous phenomenon on the night of June 22, 1976. The event was reported by witnesses on at least three different islands. The Spanish Air Force thoroughly investigated the incident. Although the files associated with this investigation were declassified in 1994, they had already been leaked back in 1976. For whatever reason, the classified air force reports were given to journalist Juan José Benítez in October 1976 by an air force general. Benítez included these in his book, UFOs: Official Documents of the Spanish Government.
Records indicate that the commanding general of the Spanish Air Force’s Canary Islands Air Zone assigned an investigative adjutant to the case on June 25, 1976. Depositions were taken of at least fourteen witnesses. The air force divided these witnesses into four categories, ranking them from most credible to least credible. People found to be mentally challenged, illiterate, or under the influence of drugs or alcohol were put into the very unreliable category, while people like astronomers, pilots, and aeronautical engineers were placed in the most credible category. The sighting reports, like the witnesses, were grouped into four levels to evaluate the quality and quantity of evidence for each.
The witness depositions and a review of the evidence allowed the investigative adjutant to piece together what transpired on June 22, 1976. Based on his report, the first UFO sighting of the night occurred at 9:27 p.m. The unidentified object was observed by the entire crew of the Spanish Navy vessel, the Atrevida, which at the time, was located near the coast of Fuerteventura. According to the Atrevida’s captain, he and his crew observed “an intense yellowish-blue light” moving from the island’s shore towards the ship. They initially assumed the object was an aircraft with active landing lights, but the UFO stopped and hovered in the sky. The captain further described that the light “went out and a luminous beam from it began to rotate. It remained like this for approximately two minutes. Then an intense great halo of yellowish and bluish light developed, and remained in the same position for 40 minutes, even though the original phenomenon was no longer visible.”
The Spanish navy vessel Atrevida.
(Credit: José Juan Medina Cobacho/Wikimedia Commons)
The captain explained that, minutes after this “halo” of light appeared, he observed the following:
[T]he light split into two parts, the smaller part being beneath, in the center of the luminous halo, where a blue cloud appeared and the part from which the bluish nucleus had come, vanished. The upper part began to climb in a spiral, rapid and irregular, and finally vanished. None of these movements affected the initial circular halo in any way, which remained just the same the whole time, its glow lighting up parts of the land and the ocean, from which we could deduce that the phenomenon was not very far away from us, but was close.
The ship’s first officer echoed the captain’s statements. And the officers also confirmed that the ship’s surface radar detected nothing at the time of the sighting.
The depositions of the naval officers were considered to be some of the most-credible testimony regarding the UFO sighting. The deposition of a physician, however, was among the more strange accounts collected during the investigation. Dr. Francisco Padrón León was in a taxi on his way to see a patient in the town of Las Rosas on Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands. He explained that, when he had almost arrived at his destination, the taxi’s lights hit a luminous sphere hovering motionless just off the ground. He described that the sphere was electric blue in color and constructed of a “transparent and crystalline-like material.” He estimated that the UFO had a radius of approximately one hundred feet. Inside the sphere, Dr. Padrón saw a platform that looked like it was made of metal, and what appeared to be three control consoles. He also claimed to have seen two tall humanoid figures inside the sphere, whom he estimated were between eight and a half feet and ten feet tall. They wore brilliant red outfits and some type of head gear.
When the taxi arrived at the patient’s home, Dr. Padrón continued watching the sphere. He described it as follows:
I [then] observed that some kind of bluish smoke was coming out from a semi-transparent central tube in the sphere, covering the periphery of the sphere’s interior without leaking outside at any moment. Then the sphere began to grow and grow until it became huge like a 20-story house, but the platform and the crew remained the same size; it rose slowly and majestically and it seems I heard a very tenuous whistling.
The doctor raced into the patient’s house to inform the residents about the mysterious sphere. Everyone came outside to see the object that had ascended high in the sky. The UFO quickly accelerated, shooting away at an incredible speed. The doctor described that it “dissolved into a bluish spindle-shape with red underneath.” Similar to the description provided by the navy officers, Dr. Padrón said “a brilliant white halo was formed close to the object, which bit by bit was forming another very brilliant blue halo.”
A sketch of the sphere and its occupants as described by Dr. Francisco Padrón León.
(Credit: Spanish Air Force/Antonio Huneeus)
Although bizarre, the doctor’s testimony was corroborated by the taxi driver, as well as by witnesses at the patient’s house. But the investigative adjutant reportedly still debated whether he should accept the doctor’s deposition. It was his belief that the witnesses of the humanoid figures in the sphere, “facing the presence of an unusual phenomenon in the sky, narrated what their ‘minds’ made them see, mutually influencing each other.” He goes on to say in the records that he “doesn’t have the slightest doubt about their seriousness and sincerity. They told what they unquestionably ‘believed’ to have seen.”
Notably, there are other reports from the 1970s of sphere-like objects containing occupants. In 1970, a boy in East Aurora, New York reportedly witnessed a silent yellowish sphere moving slowly through the sky. According to his report, he clearly saw two occupants at the craft’s control panel. In 1973, a witness in Manchester, New Hampshire reported seeing an orange and gold globe that was “not totally opaque but had a peculiar translucent quality about it.” She claims that she saw a humanoid figure standing at the controls of this UFO. In 1978, a witness in San Antonio, Texas reported seeing a strange, “globular,” amber-colored object with a transparent section through which the witness claims to have seen two “creatures.”
In addition to the witness depositions, the Spanish Air Force’s file related to this case contains more than one hundred pages of questionnaires, illustrations, and other documents. The file also includes a color photograph of the UFO that was taken by a tourist. According to the lab where this photo was developed, “no trickery or modification of any kind was added.”
Photograph of the phenomenon over the Canary Islands on June 22, 1976.
(Credit: Spanish Air Force/Antonio Huneeus)
Following the investigation, and after reviewing all the available information, the investigative adjutant concluded that there was no aerial traffic or military exercises at the time of the incident that could account for the phenomenon, and that what witnesses observed on June 22, 1976 was, indeed, an “Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.”
Similar phenomena were witnessed in the Canary Islands around the same time period. One of these other sightings occurred in November 1976 and was witnessed by the commanding general of the Spanish Air Force’s Canary Islands Air Zone while he was aboard a transport aircraft. Interestingly, a large halo also accompanied this sighting. Personnel at an air base on the island of Gran Canaria and the crew of a Spanish navy ship also witnessed this phenomenon.
The investigative adjutant assigned to the November 1976 sighting in the Canary Islands concluded that, after looking at all of the similar cases around the islands from that time period, “we should have to think seriously of the necessity of considering the possibility of accepting the hypothesis that a craft of unknown origin, propelled by an equally unknown energy, is moving freely over the skies in the Canaries.”
This article originally appeared in Open Minds Magazine Issue 26 June/July 2014.
A Nevada witness at Las Vegas reported watching a white, triangle-shaped object in the afternoon sky, according to testimony in Case 78272 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was driving southbound along Las Vegas Boulevard near the Blue Diamond intersection about 3:45 p.m. on August 3, 2016, when the incident occurred.
The object stopped in mid-air while the witness watched on August 3, 2016, near the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Blue Diamond, pictured.
(Credit: Google)
“Had just left a work meeting,” the witness stated.“There were clouds all over the valley that afternoon, some of them really big puffy clouds, some grayer clouds, some thinner clouds, but also lots of sun.”
Lightning caught the witnesses’ eye.
“I noticed a lightning bolt which I don’t see very often in Vegas directly south several miles. That drew my attention to a white object moving toward the north and to my left – basically over Henderson and 10 degrees to the southeast from my southerly direction.”
The object appeared to be triangular or crescent in shape. Pictured: Las Vegas Boulevard at Blue Diamond intersection.
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The witness watched the object.
“It was moving through the clouds. It then stopped in mid-airmaybe a couple of miles up, as a complete guess. I thought that seemed strange. It was smaller than an airplane. My first thought was maybe it’s a helicopter. But it was solid looking, no rotor and all white. The white didn’t appear to be from any lights or from sun reflection as best I could tell. It was somewhat triangular-shaped, but really it was more crescent-shaped that, instead of being rounded off, came to a point at its head.”
The witness considered known objects.
“Next thought – it must be a drone. Then the object started flying from its midair stop to next moving from my left to my right and moving directly west. At this point, I was still thinking it’s a drone. It was sort of moving erratically, but not particularly fast. It stopped near one of the large puffy clouds for a moment and now positioned off to my right. Maybe over the Southern Highlands area 10 degrees to the southwest from my southerly direction. I was at this point parked near my home.”
The object then began to move away.
“Then suddenly, the object slowly moved directly into that big cloud. I waited around outside for several minutes to see if I could spot it again, but was unable to and it was a tad bit hot out! But it was an unusual looking object that stopped in midair, flew a somewhat erratic pattern, and then seemed to intentionally go directly into a cloud. The whole sequence maybe lasted 10 minutes.”
The object moved into a cloud and disappeared. Pictured: Las Vegas Boulevard at Blue Diamond intersection.
(Credit: Google)
Nevada MUFON is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
UFO sighting Regina Saskatchewan July 15th 2016 | Epic UFO sighting 2016 | UFO-USA Horn Lake
UFO sighting Regina Saskatchewan July 15th 2016 | Epic UFO sighting 2016 | UFO-USA Horn Lake
an UFO sighting occurred on July 15th, 2016 in Regina Saskatchewan, Canada at the intersection of Arens Road and University Park Drive.
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RODE BARON SCHOOT UFO NEER TIJDENS DE EERSTE WERELDOORLOG
RODE BARON SCHOOT UFO NEER TIJDENS DE EERSTE WERELDOORLOG
Velen zullen de bijnaam van de legendarische Duitse piloot Manfred von Richthofen uit de Eerste Wereldoorlog kennen.
Naar nu blijkt, heeft deze man niet alleen 80 vijandige vliegtuigen uit de lucht geschoten, maar was nummer 81 een UFO die vervolgens een noodlanding moest maken.
Bovengenoemd verhaal is naar buiten gebracht door de Duitse Bild.
Aangezwengeld door een boek dat geschreven is door Nigel Watson, getiteld: “The UFO’s of the First World War”.
In dat boek komt een verhaal voor dat zou zijn verteld door een collega (wingman) van Von Richthofen, Peter Waitzrick.
Het is 13 maart 1917 als Manfred von Richthofen, commandant van Jasta 11, een vroege ochtendpatrouille uitvoert boven het westen van Frankrijk. Hij vertrekt van een vliegveld in België samen met zijn wingman Peter Waitzrik.
De twee zijn niet alleen op een verkenningsmissies, maar ook op zoek naar geschikte prooi. In plaats daarvan krijgen ze echter op een gegeven moment een UFO in het vizier met een diameter van zo'n 125 meter.
Omdat ze nog nooit zo iets hebben gezien, denken ze dat ze te maken hebben met een nieuw Amerikaans wapen. Volgens Waitzrick was het object zilverkleurig en had het de vorm van een klassieke retro vliegende schotel.
De baron, die volgens het verhaal in de bekende rode Fokker driedekker vliegt, zoekt een positie zodat hij kan aanvallen met de zon in de rug en er minder kans is dat hij wordt gezien.
Waitzrick: “Wij waren doodsbang. We hadden nog nooit eerder zoiets gezien”.
Vraag niet hoe het kan, maar klaarblijkelijk slaagt Von Richthofen erin om de UFO zodanig te raken dat deze wordt gedwongen om een noodlanding te maken. Na de landing zien de vliegers enkele buitenaardsen richting het bos rennen.
Fascinerend verhaal en volgens de alom bekende ufoloog Scott Waring is het mogelijk dat Von Richthofen de antenne boven op de koepel geraakt zou kunnen hebben, waardoor het technische gezien mogelijk is dat het schip onbestuurbaar werd.
Dit heeft hij dan weer gehaald uit de informatie zoals die door Bob Lazar naar buiten is gebracht. Een wetenschapper die jarenlang in het beroemde Area 51 heeft gewerkt en waarover wij eerder een artikel schreven.
Dit verhaal is niet alleen te vinden bij de Bild, maar bijvoorbeeld ook in Oostenrijkse publicaties waarin wordt gesteld dat Waitzrick pas heel laat met die informatie naar buiten is gekomen omdat hij niets wist van buitenaardse ruimteschepen op aarde.
Volgend voorjaar is die gebeurtenis precies 100 jaar geleden en dat betekent uiteraard dat Peter Waitzrick niet meer in leven is.
Dus gaan we op zoek naar meer informatie over deze Peter Waitzrick en proberen uit te vinden wanneer en tegen wie hij dit verhaal verteld zou hebben. Dat moet dan jaren geleden zijn, want als hij ten tijde van de gebeurtenis 25 jaar oud was, dan zou hij nu bijna 125 geweest zijn.
Er blijkt helemaal niets bekend te zijn over deze Peter Waitzrick. Hij is niet terug te vinden op lijsten van piloten van de Jasta squadrons en verder schijnt niemand iets over hem te weten.
Wat we wel vinden in een krantenartikel uit 1999 waar dit verhaal voor het eerst wordt gepubliceerd.
Het stond dus in een krant van 31 augustus 1999, dus zal het wel waar zijn.
Behalve als die krant de Telegraaf heet of Weekly World News want dan heb je te maken met een soort Fabeltjeskrant.
The Weekly World News was a largely fictional news tabloid published in the United States from 1979 to 2007, renowned for its outlandish cover stories often based on supernatural or paranormal themes and an approach to news that verged on the satirical.
Waar we dus mee te maken hebben is een soort Amerikaanse Speld. Heel amusant, maar allemaal fabeltjes. Voor wie toch publicaties zoals Weekly World News wil geloven:
De rode Fokker driedekker waarin de Rode Baron die dag zou hebben gevlogen werd pas in oktober 1917 voor het eerst aan de Duitse Jasta’s geleverd.
De teller voor Manfred Von Richthofen blijft dan ook op 80 steken.
This UFO was found in the SOHO/NASA index by Streetcap1 of Youtube. The UFO shows a dome on top and bottom, with a wide disk like edges that get thinner at their ends. This is why I believe it to be a giant disk. There is also smaller UFOs moving around the top area of the smaller one. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Streetcap1 states:
UFO Hiding In Cloud Shoots Out Smaller UFOs Over Belgium, July 28, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Hiding In Cloud Shoots Out Smaller UFOs Over Belgium, July 28, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 28, 2016 Location of sighting: Belgium UFOs are often seen during sunsets, as you see in the video below. In the video we see a long UFO stick out from the top of the cloud and shoot out smaller orbs that move away in pairs. I have seen this exact same thing happen with a giant UFO cloud over a Russia freeway about 5 years ago. It also had several orbs shoot out, but no one else noticed it but me back then. This cloud is glowing too much, more than a normal cloud, which shows that there is some reflective metallic material inside the cloud that causes it to light up from inside. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Not-so-little green man: Alien face seen in the Northern Lights
Not-so-little green man: Alien face seen in the Northern Lights
He said: ‘I can’t describe with words what I feel when I see the Northern lights, but in my opinion it is the most amazing phenomenon we can witness.
‘I wish everybody could see it at least once in their life.
Hidden face: The green stretch of light could be confused for a cosmic invasion as it bizarrely resembles the face of the space creature
Snapped: Landscape photographer Iurie Belegurschi captured the sighting by chance in the spectacular Reykjanes peninsula of Iceland
‘I didn’t see the alien face during shooting, but when I came home I checked my photographs on the computer and I saw it! It’s unbelievable, I couldn’t believe my eyes.’
The 29-year-old native Moldovan used a Canon 5D Mark III to shoot the spectacle.
Self-taught Iurie moved to Iceland in 2006 to follow his biggest passion, the Northern Lights.
He is now waiting for the solar max in 2013-2014 to capture more aurora activity.
Magnetars, Black Holes, Quasars And Pulsars (#Mind Blowing Documentary)
Magnetars, Black Holes, Quasars And Pulsars (#Mind Blowing Documentary)
Published on Jun 14, 2016
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Sitting on my shelf next to my computer is an array of dog-eared books and white papers, that I had as a kid on space, robots and UFO’s—nostalgic reminders of the exciting ideas that whisked my mind away to other places and other possibilities. As I became more educated and experienced in our little sliver of the Universe I realized that a grave injustice is being waged in UFOlogy. Please consider the following carefully. It is an excellent starting point to make yourself impervious to UFOlogy nonsense.
Human beings are obsessed with the possibility of life on other planets. Countless movies, books, and television shows are centered around alien civilizations, and there is an entire subculture of people devoted to the idea that aliens not only exist, but have already visited our planet for the inexplicable purpose of livestock mutilation and the molestation of the barely-literate. Up to 90% of all UFO/Alien cases can immediately be thrown out due to the extreme improbability that they could and would never happen. Take for example the fact that almost all UFO cases that are reported involve humanoid aliens.
Three things are generally intrinsic about human beings:
3. We need things to be about us in order to care.
Thus, in most of our stories about aliens, the aliens come because of us (be it to kill, enslave, or steal our women) or to take resources that are dear to us. Never mind the gaunt, nearly skeletal figure with the long talons and the scorpion-like tail and the mouth full of razor teeth. Never mind the little green or gray men with oversize craniums and oversize eyes and tiny mouths. Never mind the cat-men or lizard-men or dog-men or people with blue skin and strange, tattoo-like markings or odd brow ridges or pointier ears. Why would an alien look that similar to us?
I blame movies and TV for such unimaginative insights into what is possible in the Universe. I also blame the sorry state of education in science. In science fiction movies and TV shows, intelligent aliens are usually the same basic shape as humans: two arms, two legs and a head. But why would creatures that evolved on a completely different planet look so similar to us?
The truth is, aliens tend to look like us in science fiction for a couple of basic reasons: budget, and relatability. When it comes to film and TV, it’s problematic to make a race of aliens that does not resemble humans. Actors have to play these roles. What aliens look like in the real world will depend on where they evolved. An alien that evolved in interstellar space would have very different needs from an alien that evolved on an Earthlike planet.
“Most aliens in SF are humanoid because humans produce SF,” says Michael H. New, an Astrobiology Discipline Specialist at NASA. “While we are interested in the ‘other,’ our conception of otherness is often limited.”
Most if not all Exobiologists firmly agree that aliens would not look at all like humans. For example, life that evolved elsewhere would look totally different from us — and in fact, if you “reran the tape” from the beginning of life on Earth, you wouldn’t end up with humans on this planet either. The emergence of humanoids on Earth is a totally random event that was a fluke, even with the exact conditions that we arose from.
We have to contemplate the nature of a life form that has evolved on a completely separate planet. Even that statement is limiting. Life may be able to evolve on moons, nebula, or on planets that are bombarded with strange sources of radiation. They may exist and function on different time scales based on the gravity that they evolved in. Special relativity makes for very strange bedfellows. It is possible that they could be here already just beyond our perceptual ability. There truly is more things in heaven and earth then is dreamed in our collective philosophy.
It is intellectual ignorance to think the nucleotides A.G.C.T. are the only alphabet lettersof life. Assuredly the letters, language, and syntax of life will be unknown to us. Truly alien. That is what would be expected by isolated evolution.
But that is not what we are seeing in UFOlogy. The overwhelming consensus of alien reports in the media and in first hand accounts predominantly highlight humanoid type aliens. Aliens that are structurally similar to our construction is what is usually reported. They may be grey, blue, green, scaled, tall or short, but a humanoid nonetheless.
Consider that on our planet our human physical form is the same one that we share with the great apes. Humans and the other great apes only account for less than a dozen different types of species. We share the humanoid form with our closest primate brothers but that is essentially it. Interestingly Mother Earth has an estimated 8.7 million species with still up to 80% still to be found, according to Nature magazine. So the percentage of life forms on Earth that are humanoid in form only accounts for 0.0000003793% of all currently known life. By any measure and consideration that is an impossibly small number. So the logical conclusion to draw is that the humanoid form is exceedingly rare even on Earth.
So what really is the odds that a alien race would evolve on a different planet then us, find us in the vastness of space, in this sliver of time, and look anything like us? It would be a probability that so infinitesimally small that it would be in the ballpark of a googolplex raised to the power of a googolplex to one. That is a number a thousand orders of magnitude larger than the total amount of elementary particles (2.5 x 10^89) in the entire Universe. Just think about that for a moment.
Now if we think of different planetary systems, the environment, chemistry and the strength of forces there might not have any resemblance to Earth at all. I would go as far as to say, we do not even have a rigorous definition of what constitutes a “living system”. But for beings with “intelligence” to understand and explore the universe, give them a few million years of evolutionary head start than humans (which is insignificant by universal time scales) and they would do all sorts of things which we cannot even start contemplating. They might not even restrict their “consciousness” to their original physical bodies and found out ways to immortalize themselves through machine entities, preserve and operate the “brain” without any bodily requirement and discovered novel ways of “reproduction”. Although not well-regarded for their wits as individuals, the remarkable “hive minds” of bees and ants could point to another manner in which alien intelligence arises — across many individuals acting collectively, rather than as discrete beings.
With the immense grandeur of the Universe still only scratched by our limited intellect makes us a very uninformed species. Life we truly encounter it will not be a mutated version of ourselves. It will be more strange, unexpected and probably terrifying to our primate brains. If you look at all the cases in modern UFOlogy you will soon realize that almost all of them have humanoid type aliens. You can immediately discard them as wish fulfillment or down right delusional.
I understand that the ideas in this article are the equivalent to intellectual heresy in the UFO field and represent a major flaw in modern UFOlogy. This major failing can be fixed by using critical thinking when assessing a UFO report. For UFOlogy to regain respectability it must appeal and make sense to the non-true believers. We must strive to eliminate the giggle factor and drive toward sense and sensibility. A good first step in that intellectual crusade is to know humanoid aliens are nearly impossible in probability.
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A cell phone video and surveillance camera footage of a UFO hovering over the famous Gateway Arch straddling the Mississippi River in St. Louis have been traveling around the Internet and media sites for nearly a week with no explanation yet. Do aliens take summer vacation road trips? Would you recognize one in the crowds at Disneyworld?
According to various St. Louis media sites, Chase Rhoads, an “independent cleaning consultant” at the Casino Queen (“Home of the Loosest Slots!”) in East St. Louis (that’s on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River) was on his smoke break at around 2:30 am on August 2nd when he saw something strange over the arch.
I’ve been out there for a little over a month now and I’ve never seen anything above that arch. I was sitting on my break just smoking a cigarette as normal and looked at the arch and the strobe light appeared. It just appeared.
Rhoads has the presence of mind (and desire for fame) to record the blinking UFO and send it to a local TV station which showed it on a news report. That prompted an unnamed quick-thinking employee at the Malcolm W Martin Memorial Park (“Home of the Gateway Geyser and the Mississippi River Overlook!”), also in Illinois, to check the surveillance footage from its Gateway Arch camera (“Best View of the Loosest Slots!”) and found five minutes of footage of the same UFO.
Not wanting to pass up a good marketing opportunity, park officials posted the video on their Facebook page (“We guarantee you will be perplexed if you watch all 5 minutes of this surveillance footage!”) where speculations on what it might be piled up (“Home of the Best Comments on the Gateway Arch UFO!”)
As of this writing, there have been no confirmed explanations of the UFO. Spokespersons from the FAA and the nearby Scott Air Force Base say it’s not theirs.
There are a few interesting things about this UFO. The park camera got a clear shot and also showed a second light descending. It’s not the first UFO captured by that park’s surveillance camera. On July 14 2016, it reportedly recorded a daytime UFO, although no other information or the video seem to be available. Mike Buehlhorn, director of the Metro East Parks and Recreation District, commented on the August 2nd UFO:
There’s something weird with that one.
What struck him as weird? He didn’t say, but Chase Rhoads agreed.
It’s definitely odd, to be dead center over a national monument like that. If that was the White House, people would be all over that.
If it’s aliens, they’ve probably already visited the White House. Why go there again when you can visit the “Home of the Loosest Slots” instead?
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A recent piece of nighttime footage, which appears to show an unidentified triangular aircraft passing over Virginia, has recently appeared online, offering what may be some of the clearest video of such an aircraft to-date.
According to Roger Marsh at OpenMinds, the object was observed hovering near Route 29 shortly before 9 PM local time, in the vicinity of Charlottesville, Virginia. The footage depicts the object as it slowly began to move after the initial observation, and can be seen passing over the observers as they film the craft.
The footage was submitted to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and has been filed under case number 77904, Marsh reported.
Features of the object in the video appear to be consistent with dozens of similar reports of triangular aircraft gathered over the years, which have been observed mostly at night, and in numerous areas of the world.
The primary features can be seen in the enhanced photo at the top of this page, which shows the white points of light marking the three corners of the object, paired with an intermittent flashing red light in the center of the craft’s underside.
The observers speculated that the object may have been some variety of drone as they filmed it, and noted that it appeared to be moving “very fast.”
In 2013, similar reports of triangular light formations received attention from Fox News affiliates in the area, after video footage of one of the apparent aircraft was captured by resident David Levy, as seen in the video below:
Other notable past observations include a “wave” of reports of a triangle-shaped aircraft seen over Belgium in the early 1990s. Less than a decade later, several police officers from different jurisdictions in St. Clair County, Illinois, reported observing and following a large, triangle-shaped aircraft as it passed slowly over region. Skeptics have argued that the St. Clair County UFO was merely a blimp operated by the American Airship Company, which may have been giving “a VIP tour.” However, the time the officers observed the aircraft was during the early morning hours (an odd time for a VIP tour, for which no records were ever produced). Additionally, each of the officers commented on the distinctly triangular shape of the aircraft they observed, which seems inconsistent with a typical dirigible.
Once again, a similar object was filmed and uploaded by YouTube user Ceejay Hott, who filmed an object similar to the Virginia MUFON footage last year over Inwood, West Virginia:
A similar video depicting an unusual aircraft with a triangular shape can also be seenhere.
Although there are minor variances in shape, flight characteristics, and lighting patterns, the objects nonetheless appear to be roughly consistent, while depicting objects that do not easily match known varieties of aircraft, military or otherwise. A variety of interpretations about their design and function have been offered, ranging from stealth aircraft, to some variety of “platform blimp”, as suggested with observations of much larger aerial vehicles bearing this signature triangular shape.
Perhaps, in the years to come, new details may be revealed about these aircraft, either through official channels (Air Force, Military, etc), or with the help of new advancements in camera and other technologies that will allow greater clarity and detailed observation when, and where, the objects appear.
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Mars’ Ancient Lakes: Further Proof The Red Planet Once Had Water
Mars’ Ancient Lakes: Further Proof The Red Planet Once Had Water
JPL/NASA
IN BRIEF
Planetary scientists infer the dark, narrow streaks found on Mars were formed by flowing water on the Red Planet. A new study offers the latest substantial evidence to corroborate the hypothesis.
ABUNDANT WATERS
The Curiosity rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since the year 2012 to determine whether life ever existed on the Red Planet. Since NASA first released an announcement confirming strong evidence that liquid water flowed on Mars, scientists have exerted extra efforts to investigate the mysterious streaks found on the planet’s surface.
Source: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Researchers at the Open University and University of Leicester recently published a study inMeteoritics & Planetary Science providing stronger evidence to support this hypothesis. They used the Curiosity rover investigations as their basis for the study and concluded that the mineral veins found in Mars’ Gale Crater were formed by the evaporation of ancient lakes as sediments from these lakes were buried, heated to about 50°C, and corroded.
NURTURING LIFE
The study suggests that the waters from this area would have been habitable, although the water’s taste would be unpleasant, “with about 20 times the content of sulphate and sodium than bottled mineral water…,” according to Professor John Bridges of the University of Leicester, Department of Physics and Astronomy.
The findings enthused the professor, though. He raised the fact that “some microbes on Earth do like sulphur and iron-rich fluids because they can use those two elements to gain energy. Therefore, for the question of habitability at Gale Crater the taste of the water is very exciting news.”
As for Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity Project Scientist from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, “these results provide further evidence for the long and varied history of water in Gale Crater. Multiple generations of fluids, each with a unique chemistry, must have been present to account for what we find in the rock record today.”
This little mummified monster has been found in a diamond mine north of SiberiaSiberian Times
A bizarre mummified creature has been discovered at the heart of a diamond mine in the Sakha Republic, in northern Siberia. This ancient "monster" could date back to between 252 and 66 million years ago.
The Siberian Times reports that the miners who found the remains had been working at the Udachnaya pipe diamond deposit, an open-pit diamond mine located just outside the Arctic Circle.
The Udachnaya pipe diamond deposit is an open-pit diamond mine located just outside the Arctic Circle.Siberian Times
The site was discovered in 1955 and since then yielded 350 million tonnes of ore containing rough diamonds. There has also been a number of unusual discoveries such as that of a mystery red rock full of diamonds.
However, no find has been as strange as the mummified monster that has just been uncovered. Its origins are particularly puzzling because no one is capable just yet to say what this species is – it is like nothing ever found before in the region.The miners believed they had just stumbled upon the remains of a previously unknown species of dinosaurs.
Their theory has yet to be proven. The creature will therefore be taken for more analysis to the regional capital Yakutsk, a city 1,686km south of the Udachnaya diamond pit.
The miners believed the creature to be an ancient unknown dinosaurSiberian Times
Other hypothesis about the little monster's potential origins are that it might have bee the ancestor of the wolverine, a carnivorous mammal resembling a small bear or of the marten – another slender, agile mammal living in the snow forests of Siberia.
Closer analysis of the mummy's morphology, bones, and of possible DNA samples should yield more clues about its origins and give a more precise approximation of the time it lived at.
The Black Knight Satellite: Remnant Of Ancient Anunnaki Technology?
The Black Knight Satellite: Remnant Of Ancient Anunnaki Technology?
What if the mysterious object belonged to the ancient Anunnaki and acts as a spy satellite? Is it possible that the enigmatic Black Knight Satellite is one of the many pieces of ancient alien tech found on planet Earth? The enigmatic object which circles our planet in polar orbit has gripped the interest of millions of people for over 60 years.
The truth behind the Black Knight satellite is as mysterious as it gets according to many.
Many believe the anomalous object, said to be locked in polar orbit around our planet is, in fact, an extraterrestrial satellite, sent to Earth to monitor mankind and that the alien civilization behind it are the ancient Anunnaki.
While many believe that the object which is orbiting Earth in a polar orbit is nothing more than space debris, others firmly believe the Black Knight Satellite is an alien probe that has been orbiting Earth for at least 13,000 years.
Over 50 years ago, it was thought to be a Russia Spy Satellite, and ever since its discovery, the mysterious object has gripped the interest of millions worldwide.
Interestingly, the Story about The Black Knight Satellite can be traced by to the 1940’s when the St. Louis Dispatch and The San Francisco Examiner wrote about the “Satellite” on May 14th, 1954.
St. Louis Dispatch and The San Francisco Examiner, Article about the unidentified satellite
However, the Time Magazine also wrote about it in an article on the seventh of March, 1960. Here is what they said about it:
Three weeks ago, headlines announced that the U.S. had detected a mysterious “dark” satellite wheeling overhead on a regular orbit. There was nervous speculation that it might be a surveillance satellite launched by the Russians, and it brought the uneasy sensation that the U.S. did not know what was going on over its own head. But last week the Department of Defense proudly announced that the satellite had been identified. It was a space derelict, the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray. Read the complete story by visiting theTime Magazine website.
So what is this mysterious object?
If it is just another piece of space debris (thermal blanket as many suggest) then why have numerous governments and agencies shows so much interest in the enigmatic satellite?
The mysterious object gripped worldwide interest in the 50’s.
On August 23, 1954, the technology magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology released a story that angered the Pentagon, who were trying to keep the information secret. The short article stated:
Pentagon scare over the observance of two previously unobserved satellites orbiting the earth has dissipated with the identification of the objects as natural, not artificial satellites. Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, expert on extraterrestrial bodies from the University of New Mexico, headed the identification project. One satellite is orbiting about 400 miles out, while the other track is 600 miles from the earth. Pentagon thought momentarily the Russians had beaten the U.S. to space explorations.
In the 1960’s the Black Knight was located once again in Polar Orbit. Astronomers and Scientists calculated the objects weight to be over 10 tons which would be at that time the Heaviest Artificial Satellite to orbit our Planet. The Black Knight’s Orbit was unlike any other object orbiting Earth, as it was moving twice as fast when compared to any other man-made Spacecraft.
We find it fascinatnig that the Grumman Aircraft Corporation showed interest in the alleged Alien Satellite as well.
In fact, on September 3, 1960, seven months after the satellite was first detected by radar, a tracking camera at Grumman Aircraft Corporation’s Long Island factory took a photograph of the Black Knight.
At that point, people all over the world started identifying the object in the sky, which could be seen as a red light moving at higher speed compared to other satellites in an East to West orbit.
But who or what could have been behind the mysterious satellite and what is it even doing in polar orbit around Earth? Is it a real satellite or is it in fact just a thermal blanket as many argue?
But if it is just a thermal blanket as many suggest, then what about the enigmatic signals the alleged satellite has been sending out?
Rumors are that it was Nikola Tesla the first man to “intercept” a signal from the black knight satellite in 1899 after building a high-voltage radio device in Colorado Springs. However, since the 1930’s Astronomers worldwide have been reporting strange radio signals which allegedly come from the “Black Knight.”
And what if the Black Knight satellite is in fact a spy satellite left behind by the Ancient Anunnaki who visited Earth in the distant past, coming from Nibiru, creating a slave race on Earth in order to extract precious minerals from our planet, which eventually allowed them to save the atmosphere from their home planet Nibiru.
What if the Black Knight Satellite is just one of the many pieces of ancient technology that have been left behind by the ancient Anunnaki when they arrived at Earth in the distant past?
What if the Black Knight satellite was left on purpose in a polar orbit around Earth, allowing its creators to keep an eye on our planet and its development.
In fact, polar orbits are often used for earth-mapping, earth observation, capturing the earth as time passes from one point and reconnaissance satellites. This would put the Black Knight in the category of an observational Satellite.
Observational Alien satellite may sound farfetched for many, and we agree, the claims are sensational. However, there are a number of strange things associated with the mysterious object and its origin. As always you decide truth or fiction.
Interestingly, not long ago, scientists from the University of Edinburgh said there are possibilities that “self-replicating” robotic alien spacecraft are venturing into our solar system. In their work, Duncan Forgan and Arwen Nicholson affirm the possibility that highly advanced alien races are taking advantage of the gravitational field of the stars to speed up “their” spacecraft traveling through space.
The scientists said: ‘We can conclude that a fleet of self-replicating probes can indeed explore the Galaxy in a sufficiently short time…orders of magnitude less than the age of the Earth.’
VIDEO: Florida witness says bright UFO ‘stopped on a dime’ and hovered
VIDEO: Florida witness says bright UFO ‘stopped on a dime’ and hovered
A Florida witness at Ocala reported watching and videotaping a fast approaching, bright sphere UFO that hovered in place before moving away toward the ground level, according to testimony in Case 78114 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness and a friend stepped outside onto a porch to watch an approaching storm system about 8:30 p.m. on July 31, 2016, when the incident occurred.
“I noticed a look on her face that caught my attention and immediately upon looking south I noticed a very brightly lit ‘sphere’ moving towards us rather quickly from the distant sky to the south,” the witness stated.“It was so bright and moving so quickly that it gave the appearance of being close. The color was a bluish tint but did not appear to be casting light in any direction.”
The witness was alarmed at the speed that UFO moved. Pictured: Ocala, Florida.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The object then moved closer to the witnesses.
“As the object got closer it abruptly stopped and hoovered perfectly still for multiple minutes. At this point I began recording with my cell phone. After about 90 seconds, the sphere flashed off and left just a blinking, or pulsating red light.”
The friend then left the property for a better look.
“At this point my friend took off down the road to try and get a different view and possibly see what size the object was. When the craft went to a blinking red light I could see several other red lights further away. I recorded a couple more minutes of the flashing red before it began moving again. It did a couple circular patterns before returning to its fully illuminated state.”
The object appeared to move away.
“At this point it descended below the tree level and began moving from right to left. I could see it through the trees before it disappeared out of sight. I kept the camera rolling because I noticed a strange amount of car horns honking and dogs barking after the craft disappeared until my friend came back from down the street. She reported the same things I saw from the house to include the hovering, changes of color, and the apparent descent down out of view. She said that it was much bigger than a drone and had no apparent characteristics of a helicopter.”
The witness felt that the object had unusual characteristics.
“I want to mention that the red flashing appeared very distant and dim, but the illuminating glow was shockingly bright making it hard to judge distance. I had a strange feeling that what we were seeing wasn’t meant to be seen and it even made me feel afraid. Heavy breathing and very high heart rate during the 10-minute ordeal.”
The case was investigated by Florida Chief Investigator John A. Gagnon and closed as an Unknown.
The witness stated that the object ‘stopped on a dime’ and hovered in place before moving on. Pictured: Ocala, Florida.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Gagnon summarized and concluded the case.
“At first thought, Chinese Lanterns came to mind,” he stated in his report.“That is, until, during the interview the witness estimated the speed at which the object approached was between 2,000 and 2,500 mph. Witness has a four-year history of military service with the U.S. Air Force. During that time, he worked in areas where he was in the vicinity of different types of airplanes. He states he is familiar with different types of fighters, cargo planes and their flight characteristics. He described this object as a sphere that was light itself. There did not appear to be an actual object there, just light. The light did not project out from the object. Witness also stated that as the object came zooming toward him at approximately 2,000 – 2,500 mph, it suddenly stopped on a dime, and then hovered for a few minutes before starting a descent behind some trees. He watched as it moved just above ground behind some trees. It then disappeared.”
Gagnon did mention the case for a drone in his report. “There are known cases of a person flying a small drone during a thunderstorm to try to get great video shots. Drones can be dressed up with LED light kits. At night, without a frame of reference, an object might appear to be moving much faster than it is.”
The case was closed as an Unknown.
“That said, this case will show a disposition of Unknown UAV.”
Ocala is a city in northern Florida, population 57,468. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
VIDEO: Florida witness says bright UFO ‘stopped on a dime’ and hovered
VIDEO: Florida witness says bright UFO ‘stopped on a dime’ and hovered
A Florida witness at Ocala reported watching and videotaping a fast approaching, bright sphere UFO that hovered in place before moving away toward the ground level, according to testimony in Case 78114 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness and a friend stepped outside onto a porch to watch an approaching storm system about 8:30 p.m. on July 31, 2016, when the incident occurred.
“I noticed a look on her face that caught my attention and immediately upon looking south I noticed a very brightly lit ‘sphere’ moving towards us rather quickly from the distant sky to the south,” the witness stated.“It was so bright and moving so quickly that it gave the appearance of being close. The color was a bluish tint but did not appear to be casting light in any direction.”
The witness was alarmed at the speed that UFO moved. Pictured: Ocala, Florida.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The object then moved closer to the witnesses.
“As the object got closer it abruptly stopped and hoovered perfectly still for multiple minutes. At this point I began recording with my cell phone. After about 90 seconds, the sphere flashed off and left just a blinking, or pulsating red light.”
The friend then left the property for a better look.
“At this point my friend took off down the road to try and get a different view and possibly see what size the object was. When the craft went to a blinking red light I could see several other red lights further away. I recorded a couple more minutes of the flashing red before it began moving again. It did a couple circular patterns before returning to its fully illuminated state.”
The object appeared to move away.
“At this point it descended below the tree level and began moving from right to left. I could see it through the trees before it disappeared out of sight. I kept the camera rolling because I noticed a strange amount of car horns honking and dogs barking after the craft disappeared until my friend came back from down the street. She reported the same things I saw from the house to include the hovering, changes of color, and the apparent descent down out of view. She said that it was much bigger than a drone and had no apparent characteristics of a helicopter.”
The witness felt that the object had unusual characteristics.
“I want to mention that the red flashing appeared very distant and dim, but the illuminating glow was shockingly bright making it hard to judge distance. I had a strange feeling that what we were seeing wasn’t meant to be seen and it even made me feel afraid. Heavy breathing and very high heart rate during the 10-minute ordeal.”
The case was investigated by Florida Chief Investigator John A. Gagnon and closed as an Unknown.
The witness stated that the object ‘stopped on a dime’ and hovered in place before moving on. Pictured: Ocala, Florida.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Gagnon summarized and concluded the case.
“At first thought, Chinese Lanterns came to mind,” he stated in his report.“That is, until, during the interview the witness estimated the speed at which the object approached was between 2,000 and 2,500 mph. Witness has a four-year history of military service with the U.S. Air Force. During that time, he worked in areas where he was in the vicinity of different types of airplanes. He states he is familiar with different types of fighters, cargo planes and their flight characteristics. He described this object as a sphere that was light itself. There did not appear to be an actual object there, just light. The light did not project out from the object. Witness also stated that as the object came zooming toward him at approximately 2,000 – 2,500 mph, it suddenly stopped on a dime, and then hovered for a few minutes before starting a descent behind some trees. He watched as it moved just above ground behind some trees. It then disappeared.”
Gagnon did mention the case for a drone in his report. “There are known cases of a person flying a small drone during a thunderstorm to try to get great video shots. Drones can be dressed up with LED light kits. At night, without a frame of reference, an object might appear to be moving much faster than it is.”
The case was closed as an Unknown.
“That said, this case will show a disposition of Unknown UAV.”
Ocala is a city in northern Florida, population 57,468. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
ZAL HET UNIVERSUM DE WERELD BEHOEDEN VOOR EEN RAMP ? ( VIDEO )
ZAL HET UNIVERSUM DE WERELD BEHOEDEN VOOR EEN RAMP ? ( VIDEO )
Misschien wordt de wereld op het laatste moment gered van de ondergang, doordat het universum ingrijpt.
Het gaat dan over de vele vreemde verschijnselen rondom Hillary Clinton, waaruit men zou kunnen afleiden dat er fysiek wel het één en ander mankeert aan deze “dame”.
Het belangrijkste argument om nooit aan onsterfelijkheidstechnologie te beginnen is Hillary Clinton. Kun je je het vreselijke lot van de mensheid voorstellen als dit onmenselijke monster het eeuwige leven zou hebben?
De enige realiteit waar we ons voor de toekomst van het menselijk ras aan vast kunnen houden, is het feit dat het leven van Hillary Clinton ook zal eindigen, net zoals dat van iedereen. En zelfs de elite heeft nog geen manier gevonden (redactie: volgens Mike Adams) om haar leden die zich een leven lang bezighouden met liegen, moorden, bedriegen en vernietigen als beloning het eeuwige leven te geven.
Uit die werkelijkheid kunnen we nu troost putten in de zekerheid dat op een goede dag deze wereld verlost zal zijn van de vloek van Hillary Clinton en al de pijn, het lijden, de dood en verderf die ze moedwillig tegen de mensheid heeft uitgevoerd. Totdat die dag komt, moeten we proberen deze demente psycho-heks uit het Witte Huis te houden en ervoor te zorgen dat ze niet nog meer mensen kwaad zal berokkenen.
Duidelijke taal van Mike Adams.
De tekenen die Hillary publiekelijk vertoont, lijken veel op een soort toevallen/beroertes, meestal gevolgd door hoestbuien die ze niet meer onder controle lijkt te krijgen.
En dan beelden zoals de volgende:
Maar, het wordt erger, want ook gewoon een trap oplopen schijnt haar niet meer te lukken.
Wat ook steeds meer begint op te vallen, is dat ze de laatste tijd een permanent een soort medicus in de buurt heeft die klaarstaat met een pen, waarmee diazepam kan worden geïnjecteerd. Dit is een middel wat vaak wordt gebruikt bij patiënten die last hebben van toevallen. Naast als medicus gedraagt hij zich ook als handler van Hillary.
Dan zijn er natuurlijk nog de vele speculaties rondom de tong van Hillary. Daarop is een vreemd soort gat te zien, wat volgens ingewijden ook kan wijzen op een ernstige medische conditie.
Hillary gaat nu dusdanig over de tong met die tong dat er een speciale Twitter hashtag voor in het leven is geroepen (Twitter hashtag #HillarysTongue)
Voordat de afgelopen dagen bekend werd dat het ernaar uit ziet dat Hillary Clinton serieuze gezondheidsproblemen zou hebben, ontvingen wij vorige week deze e-mail van een lezer (dank!).
En wat betreft heks Clinton heb ik een tijdje geleden gelezen dat een prominente helderziende had gezegd dat ze a.s. november zou afhaken vanwege een groot gezondheidsprobleem, nl een tumoraandoening in de hersens.
Toen ik laatst dat filmpje van Clinton zag, waarin ze een soort toeval kreeg, moest ik onmiddellijk aan die voorspelling denken.
En in dezelfde trant is ook voorspeld dat Obama zijn ambtstermijn voortzet vanwege een martial law decreet, vanwege een oorlogssituatie of dat Clinton moet afhaken en Obama voorkomen wil dat Trump president wordt b.v.
Tot zover de lezer.
Het scenario waarbij Obama vanwege het uitroepen van de Martial Law langer president blijft en er voorlopig geen verkiezingen komen, hebben wij al beschreven in eerdere artikelen, zoals in maart van dit jaar.
Men gaat er in de wereld gemakshalve maar even van uit dat er in de loop van dit jaar presidentsverkiezingen zullen worden gehouden in Amerika.
Echter, mocht het bijvoorbeeld tot een oorlog komen met Noord Korea dan zou Obama waarschijnlijk de noodtoestand afkondigen en zichzelf (officieel) tot dictator benoemen.
Dan nog een merkwaardig toeval. Het gat in de tong van Hillary komt overeen met die in de tong van een reptiel.
Maar, dat zal wel op toeval berusten, of misschien toch ook weer niet?
Binnen het leger maakt men zich ook grote zorgen en geen enkele illusie. Zo is er een artikel verschenen, geschreven door een zogenaamde voormalige Green Beret uit het leger die zegt dat iedereen er serieus rekening mee moet houden dat degene die zware kritiek hebben geleverd op Hillary Clinton zo meteen onherroepelijk op een zwarte lijst terecht zullen komen, mocht ze onverhoopt toch worden gekozen tot president.
Hij zegt letterlijk: “Iedereen die kritiek heeft op Obama en waarschuwt voor Clinton is een doelwit en ze zijn gemarkeerd”.
“Als Hillary Clinton president wordt, betekent dit het einde van de Verenigde Staten”.
De hele wereld is het moorden van dit doodzieke mens zo zat dat Wikileaks een beloning heeft uitgeloofd voor inlichtingen die kunnen helpen om de moord op één van haar slachtoffers op te lossen. Ook dat zou een manier kunnen zijn om de wereld te redden van dit monster.
Naar nu net bekend wordt, is er waarschijnlijk een goede reden voor dat Wikileaks deze beloning uitlooft. De vermoorde Seth Rich was hoogstwaarschijnlijk de Wikileaks bron binnen de DNC.
Dit is bekend geworden na een interview vanavond in het programma Nieuwsuur waar een interview plaatsvond met Julian Assange.
Het volgende is wat de NOS erover zegt:
Assange wil niet onthullen wie de mails heeft gelekt, maar lijkt te suggereren dat het een staflid van de Democratische partij zou kunnen zijn. "Onze klokkenluiders lopen serieus risico's om ons van materiaal te voorzien. Een 27-jarige man, Seth Rich, die werkte voor de DNC, is onlangs vermoord. Het is niet bekend waarom. Hij liep op straat in Washington."
Hij zegt het dan niet direct, maar wanneer Wikileaks een beloning uitlooft voor de moord op deze man is de kans heel erg groot dat Seth Rich de man was die Wikileaks van informatie voorzag.
Assange kondigde verder aan na de Olympische Spelen met meer belastende informatie omtrent Hillary te komen. Allemaal erg spannend.
White Disk Seen Over Mountains of Bolivia Near Ancient Ruins, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
White Disk Seen Over Mountains of Bolivia Near Ancient Ruins, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 1, 2015 (reported today) Location of sighting: Tiahuanaco, Bolivia Source: MUFON #78304 This UFO was reported today to MUFON and it shows a mysterious white disk with a white orb center in it. The photo was taken in a desolate location as you can see from the photo below. UFOs are seen more frequently in low populated areas like this. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: I was visiting Tiahuanaco, an old archeological site on the border of Titicaca lake. I've only realized about the UFO many months later when I was looking the photos I shot there. The object was very far in the direction of the mountains, out of airways path, cause the SLLP or La Paz international airport is some dozens miles from there, it doesnt look or behave like an airplane. Well the photo is attached. It says everything.
TWO NASA Cameras Catch UFO Cube Near Sun Bigger Than Earth! Aug 2016, 2 Videos, UFO Sighting News.
TWO NASA Cameras Catch UFO Cube Near Sun Bigger Than Earth! Aug 2016, 2 Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 7-8, 2016 Location of sighting: Earths Sun Green Camera 1: Aug 8, 2016 01:13 (EIT 195) Blue Camera 2: Aug 8, 2016 13:00 (EIT 171) This UFO cube was seen at our sun again and these two different cameras caught it. The fact that two different cameras saw it is 100% proof that this is not a computer glitch. This is evidence that the cube is really there and is a large solid object bigger than Earth. The cube is in the same location in both photos. The two different videos below were made by two different UFO researchers, but they fit perfectly. The two cameras are EIT 195 and EIT 171 and they took photos 25 hours apart, yet the cube is in the exact same place! Its sucking away the suns Chromosphere (surface) and maybe the next layer of the Photosphere for some kind of energy that it needs for power. Natures fuel for aliens, but it may be taking it to deliver to an alien world in our solar system, because we see it often around our sun. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
A massive UFO in gold color was spotted hovering over the earth’s atmosphere in a video clip that some conspiracy theorists think NASA does not want the public to see.
Some UFO enthusiasts suggest the clip is the latest evidence that humanity is not alone in the vast universe. Most of the supposed proofs of aliens or UFOs are grainy footage, but a few are recorded in high definition cameras, including this one.
A YouTube user posted the video, which thought to be from high definition cameras onboard the International Space Station. The footage shows an apparent out of this world gold orb hovering in the clouds over the Earth. But, just like many instances in the past wherein a UFO seems to fly by across the camera screen, the footage mysteriously cuts out after a few seconds with a message from NASA saying: “Please stand by.”
According to the uploader, he noticed something strange first, so he thought of recording it, but to his surprise, NASA cut the transmission. He believes the unknown thing has to be large and hundreds of miles long.
A witness in Jacksonville, Florida reported his UFO sighting to MUFON along with a video of multiple spheres that seemed to be under intelligent control. His testimony can be accessed in Case 77814 of the Mutual UFO Network’s witness reporting database.
According to the report, the witness was driving home from work at 10:30 in the evening on April 23, 2016. He was going north along Monument Boulevard when the sighting took place.
The witness first saw a perfect bow-like formation of aerial objects. At first, he believed they were helicopters, but he noticed no blinking red and white lights, which are common in helicopters. Additionally, he heard no sound at all even if they appeared to fly below than a helicopter normally does.
The witness estimated the speed of the mysterious lights to be at around 50 mph, but he noticed only two of these orb-like objects that remained stationary. As he traveled south, he observed two more orbs, which disappeared while flying slowly in the northeast direction. Then two more showed up and vanished in front of him at approximately a mile.
The witness tried to record another video in an open area from a park nearby as a comparison. He saw multiple airplanes and helicopters flying and heard engine sounds from them no matter how far.
MUFON investigator Thomas Branham stated that the video shows UFOs were stationary and did not flicker, ruling out Chinese Lanterns. Since they have no sound or blinking lights, they cannot be helicopters. Braham closed the case as unknown after completing an investigation of the case.
Team of Scientists Releases Video of UFOs over Brown Mountain, North Carolina
Team of Scientists Releases Video of UFOs over Brown Mountain, North Carolina
A team of scientists has released video evidence showcasing the famous Brown Mountain Lights in all their glory.
Few UFOs are as legendary as the lights that make appearances over North Carolina’s Brown Mountain. Over the years, this strange phenomenon puzzled experts and amateurs alike and no explanation was in sight. Now we are one step closer to uncovering this mystery, as a team of scientists from the Appalachian State University managed to provide video evidence of this anomalous luminous phenomenon.
Over the past century or so, the popularity of the Brown Mountain lights has steadily increased, as did the incidence of these as of yet unexplained orbs. From ghost lights to ethereal UFOs, multiple explanations have been forwarded but none is conclusive. The only thing that is certain is that the lights are real, appear on a sporadic schedule and disappear just as suddenly as they showed up.
Intrigued by their peculiar behavior, Appalachian State University physicist Daniel Caton assembled a team of equally curious scientists and set up a viewpoint overlooking Brown Mountain. Two cameras were turned on during the night and the video stream was wirelessly sent over to the team’s laboratory back at App State. That was two years ago and since then, the team would pour over every night’s video, hoping to find evidence that could offer an explanation for the unexplained shining orbs.
The two cameras allowed scientists to eliminate false readings such as camera glitches or flares; if an object showed up on just one camera, it could have been an artifact or malfunction. But if it was visible from both angles, the team had reasons to certify its authenticity. On the night of July 16, the team finally caught their first break.
The YouTube description for the video above reads:
“Dusk-to-dawn 30-second images. Mostly cloudy, especially early, with early lightning. Some clearing late, with stars rising at angles ** ANOMALISTIC light appears high above ridge, at ~ 0:18, 0:25, 0:34, and 0:43 in. This appears on BOTH CAMERAS and does not change position over the timer interval, meaning it is not a star. It is too high to be a town light.”
The video above is the first recording where both cameras picked up an object at the exact same time. Though excited, the scientists meticulously analyzed the images and determined the object was indeed physical, or at least visible. The Brown Mountain Lights are still there.
The first written mention of the bright orbs comes from a 1913 article published in the Charlotte Observer.
“The mysterious light that is seen just above the horizon almost every night form Rattlesnake Knob, near Cold Spring, on the Morganton road, about seven miles from here, is still baffling all investigators. All theories as to its origin or nature have either been exploded or fall through from lack of evidence to support them.”
Back then, the lights would appear quite regularly and the U.S. Geological Survey even sent experts to investigate. They concluded that the lights were caused by a combination of car and locomotive headlights, strange air currents and other assorted phenomena. But when a flood struck the area in 1916, the strange orbs kept appearing. The flood had been devastating, with more than 50 homes completely destroyed, railroads damaged and covered in debris, bridges collapsed and swept away along with the roads and power lines. With no headlights and no electricity in the area, a different explanation for the Brown Mountain luminous phenomenon had to be found.
In 1922 a second investigation was attempted and could only find natural causes for the lights, although those who saw them insisted the orbs showed intelligent behavior and certainly weren’t optical illusions.
From will-o’-the-wisp to ghost of an innocent woman to swamp gas and giant fireflies, many strange theories attempted to solve the enigma but none offered definitive proof. And how could one do that? Besides photographic and video evidence, nothing can be done; you can’t trap a glowing orb that may or may not be from this world.
More than 100 years have passed since people first began hearing about the weird lights on Brown Mountain and our knowledge on the subject is still slim. Perhaps videos like this one will arouse the interest of the scientific world and one day some real investigations can be done.
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Study Shows Why We Are Made of DNA and Not RNA
Study Shows Why We Are Made of DNA and Not RNA
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IN BRIEF
The most important distinction between DNA and RNA is DNA's ability to morph when its bases experience chemical damage. DNA can dynamically accommodate base pairs in either Watson-Crick or Hoogsteen configurations, RNA stiffens and falls apart.
Although it has been more than a century since DNA was first identified, scientists continue to learn more about this complex molecule and why we regard it as “the source code of life itself.”
Now, research led by Hashim Al-Hashimi from Duke University provides the most recent milestone in DNA history, showing why DNA, and not RNA, forms the blueprint for life. But first, let us review the basic properties and differences between DNA and RNA.
Source: DifferenceBetween.net
UNDERSTANDING DNA AND RNA
DNA and RNA are both nucleic acids (long biological macromolecules consisting of smaller molecules called nucleotides).
DNA is a double-stranded molecule, with two nucleotide strands consisting of a phosphate backbone, deoxyribose sugar, and has adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine as bases; whereas RNA is a single-strandedhelix consisting of shorter chains of nucleotides, a phosphate backbone, ribose sugar, and has adenine, guanine, cytosine, and uracil bases.
But perhaps the most important difference between the two, as is shown in Al-Hashimi’s study, is that DNA is capable of shapeshifting in a way that RNA can’t, making DNA a more resilient and a better repository of our genetic code. Specifically, it has to do with Hoogsteen base pairs, which is when one of the nucleic acids is flipped 180 degrees. Ultimately, this causes the whole double helix structure to bend or “kink,” meaning that DNA can accommodate damage by turning in this manner. RNA molecules are incapable of forming Hoogsteen pairs, and so they fall apart—completely unraveling when they encountered the methyl group that the team introduced.
Al-Hashimi tells The Washington Post, “if our genomes were made up of RNA, there’s a very good chance that they wouldn’t be able to sustain chemical damage that’s inflicted on them all the time. It seems like DNA’s ability to absorb damage is one reason why we evolved DNA-based genomes.”
There is still a lot left to discover about our DNA, but we are coming closer to understanding why it is so effective and resilient.
Evidence Suggests That Life May Have Once Evolved On Venus
Evidence Suggests That Life May Have Once Evolved On Venus
IN BRIEF
A group of researchers has found evidence that the hot and arid Venus that we know of today may have harbored life (and a plethora of water) some billion years ago.
Our planet is like Venus in a number of ways. The two are exceedingly similar in size and mass, for example; however, despite being so identical in relation to these measurements, Venus has high temperatures—reaching up to 427°C (800°F), which would kill most all life on Earth. Venus also has very little water, about 100,000 times less than the Earth’s water. Ultimately, this makes Earth’s “sister planet” incapable of harboring life.
But some researchers say that this hasn’t always been the case.
VENUS MAY HAVE BEEN A WATERWORLD BEFORE
Venus Express —the spacecraft launched by European Space Agency to Venus — has confirmed that the planet, over the course of its evolution, has lost large quantities of water into space via ultraviolet radiation that eradicated water through the atmosphere.
It has also shown that deuterium, a heavy form of hydrogen, was abundant in Venus’ atmosphere, which suggests that the planet once consisted of great amount of water that was lost over time. As such, researchers say that is possible that Venus had large bodies of oceans that made it habitable in previous eras.
Michael Way, at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, noted in a statement that the evidence is intriguing, but not yet conclusive, “There’s great uncertainties in understanding Earth, not only its climate history but the history of how life began. There’s no reason that life on this world would not have existed in these oceans [Venusian oceans]. But that’s about all you can say.”
EXPLORING VENUS FURTHER
Artist’s concept of the Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy (VERITAS) spacecraft, a proposed mission for NASA’s Discovery program. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech
In order to determine exactly how much water the planet previously had, and whether or not it could have sustained life at any point, NASA is planning a number of different missions.
One such mission would involve actually traveling to the surface of the planet—dropping a probe through the clouds—and the other would orbit around the planet and image its surface to search for relevant signs.
Specifically, NASA plans to send VERITAS to investigate how similar Venus is to our home planet and, as NASA notes, create “global, high-resolution topography and imaging of Venus’ surface and produce the first maps of deformation and global surface composition.”
Alien bodies from Roswell UFO as no one has ever seen
Alien bodies from Roswell UFO as no one has ever seen
Death-Bed Confessions What was Found at ROSWELL UFO Crash in 1947. Bodies of the Roswell Aliens found in the UFO Crash in New Mexico in 1947. The Dead Alien Bodies as noone has ever seen.
VIDEO: Is er direct bewijs voor buitenaards contact?
VIDEO: Is er direct bewijs voor buitenaards contact?
Het is duidelijk dat er iets gaande is, maar is er ook direct fysiek bewijs dat de mensheid is bezocht door buitenaardse wezens? Historicus en schrijver Richard Dolan, kerngeleerde Stanton Friedman en ‘abductee’ Travis Walton probeerden tijdens de Alien Cosmic Expo 2016 ET Disclosure Hearing in Canada een antwoord te geven op deze vraag.
Dolan beargumenteert dat een document fysiek bewijs is en dat een overheidsdocument dat in het archief ligt onderdeel is van de geschiedenis. Historici als Dolan en anderen proberen wijs te worden uit de informatie die uit deze documenten kan worden gehaald.
Friedman merkt op dat van de meeste geheime documenten die worden vrijgegeven door de diverse overheidsagentschappen zoals de NSA, grote delen tekst zijn zwart gemaakt. “Als ze niets te verbergen hebben, waarom doen ze dat dan?” vroeg hij. “Je kunt niet ontkennen dat ze informatie achterhouden.”
Walton deelde zijn eigen ervaringen als steun voor de bewering dat er sprake is van buitenaards contact. De abductee zag op 5 november 1975 naar eigen zeggen een ruimteschip, ging de lucht in en raakte het schip aan. De energie die daarbij vrijkwam, zou hem zes meter de lucht in hebben gegooid.
Daarna werd hij binnengelaten in het ruimteschip, kreeg hij medische verzorging en dat redde zijn leven. Hij was vijf dagen lang vermist en zag er na zijn ervaring uit alsof hij in de Vietnamoorlog had gevochten.
VIDEO: Mysterieuze graancirkel verschenen bij Witte Paard in Wiltshire
VIDEO: Mysterieuze graancirkel verschenen bij Witte Paard in Wiltshire
Afgelopen week is een mysterieuze graancirkel verschenen in Westbury in het Engelse graafschap Wiltshire. Op donderdag verscheen een graanformatie in de vorm van een bloem in een weiland bij het Witte Paard.
Graancirkelonderzoeker en fotograaf Matthew Williams, die al 20 jaar materiaal verzamelt voor de website Crop Circle Connector, besloot de formatie te onderzoeken. “We zagen een bericht op Facebook en besloten er naartoe te gaan,” zei hij. “Pas toen we bovenaan het Witte Paard stonden, wisten we dat er echt een graancirkel was verschenen.”
“Ik weet niet hoe de formatie is ontstaan, maar als aliens oogleden hadden zouden ze knipogen,” vervolgde hij. “De meest voor de hand liggende verklaring is dat de formatie is gemaakt door kunstenaars die geïnteresseerd zijn in graancirkels.”
Hoe dan ook maakt de graancirkel de tongen los, aldus Williams. Hij voegde toe dat er momenteel veel wordt gesproken over een Australische arts die zegt buitenaardse gezichten te kunnen zien rond graancirkels.
Graancirkels, die gemaakt zouden worden door landende UFO’s, worden al sinds de jaren 1600 gemeld. Sceptici stellen dat ze worden gemaakt door mensen die met plankjes door het weiland lopen. Bekijk hieronder een filmpje over de formatie:
Its possible that the Red Barons two front machine guns could have damaged not the UFO, but the airier antenna on the top center of the craft. Not all craft have this antenna, but Area 51 UFO nuclear engineer Bob Lazar said it controls steering of the craft. If this antenna was hit by the Baron, then yes, a UFO would lose control and be forced to land to make repairs. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
German News states: He was already a living legend: ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, also known as the "Red Baron" - because of its bright red painted aircraft. He is 80 victories as the best fighter of the First World War. Was UFO his 81st launch? But perhaps it was even 81 kills, as now the BILD newspaper speculates citing statements from a fellow aviators Richthofen. This would be the "Red Baron" the world's first aviators ever, the something is ever succeeded. The assertion is Nigel Watson in his book "The UFO's of the First World War" (in German: "UFOs in World War I") on. Richthofen's Mate Peter Waitz Rick makes it such statements - he claims to have accompanied Richthofen on this patrol. Large silver and disc-shaped object As the morning broke up two in the spring when the weather from their airfield on a reconnaissance flight, said to have discovered von Richthofen a large silver disc-shaped object that was also lit in orange. Without long to torches took von Richthofen chase - and shot the UFO from heaven. Two aliens should be then fled into a forest, writes the Bild newspaper. With the history of Comrade von Richthofen's probably gone so late to the public because he did not know that it could have acted as an alien craft.
UFO During Sunset Over Brownsville, Texas On Aug 2, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO During Sunset Over Brownsville, Texas On Aug 2, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 2, 2016 Location of sighting: Brownsville, Texas, USA Source: MUFON As I have said before, the most common time to see a UFO is during sunset. That is because the angle of the sun and the UFO adversely effect the visibility of the cloaked craft. This video is a great example of what I am saying. Also combined with the fact that this UFO appears to be over the ocean which could lead us to assume that the UFO came from an underwater base not far away. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: My brother was driving back home after a fishing trip on Hwy 48 when he noticed a bright, oval shape object moving slowly from left to right then stopping and hovering. The sky was cloudless at that time of day; you can see the sunset in the background of the video he recorded. The object had a small object that was trailing the big oval object and was absorbed, but was not captured on the video.
Strange right cigar-shaped UFO over Brownsville, Texas 2-Aug-2016
Strange right cigar-shaped UFO over Brownsville, Texas 2-Aug-2016
This cylindrical UFO was seen and recorded hovering in the sky above Brownsville in Texas on 2nd August 2016.
Witness report:
My brother was driving back home after a fishing trip on Hwy 48 when he noticed a bright, oval shape object moving slowly from left to right then stopping and hovering. The sky was cloudless at that time of day; you can see the sunset in the background of the video he recorded. The object had a small object that was trailing the big oval object and was absorbed, but was not captured on the video. As with most videos, there is a possibility that the object may be of terrestrial origin.
How to Access Alien Worlds via Astral Projection and O.B.E.
How to Access Alien Worlds via Astral Projection and O.B.E.
Veritas Radio with David McCready: How to Access Alien Worlds via Astral Projection and O.B.E.
For humans to physically travel to alien worlds in order to meet and interact with their inhabitants has, at least up to the early part of the 21st century, been technologically beyond humankind’s capability. There are, of course, close encounters with alien beings and their UFOs, but these are inevitably brief and very little about their worlds and cultures has so far emerged. Humankind has found itself effectively imprisoned like some caged animal in a zoo. Where other beings can visit us, we cannot physically escape Earth and visit them. The result of this confinement is that humans know very little about extraterrestrials, whilst they know a great deal about us. Unsurprisingly, the alien beings who do visit us are of the opinion that humans are currently still in a primitive state.
Fortunately, there are plenty of alien beings who are enthusiastic about assisting Earthlings to discover more about other advanced beings in the universe. Metaphorically speaking, the human species is being offered a chance to improve itself and join an inter-galactic club of highly advanced species.
Is there a way to communicate with alien beings and even visit their worlds? David McCready says it is possible via astral projection and out of body consciousness and he will tell us how.
At the ECETI Ranch near Mount Adams in Washington state, James Gilliland has been gathering people and calling in Starships for many years. He has had thousands of guests visit the ranch, from filmmakers like Danny Dyer to other celebrities, military generals, scientists, and many many skeptics.
Almost every night at the ECETI Ranch, so called “UFOs” fly-by, flare up, and even fly into and out of the Mountain itself. Even the most intense skeptics tend to change their tune after experiences at the Ranch.
Coming up September 29th to October 2nd, you can join a series of speakers at ECETI Ranch and experience extraterrestrial contact yourself.
Visit the ECETI Site to register for this event, which is hosted by Laura Eisenhower, the great granddaughter of President Dwight Eisenhower. Speakers include Adam Apollo, a well known leadership ambassador who has spoken at the White House and United Nations on the future of human technology and consciousness, and James Gilliland, who has led thousands of groups in viewing extraterrestrial craft in many places, including a series of events in Australia.
Check out some of the experiences at ECETI and see some of the sightings for yourself in the Contact Has Begun video on Gaia.
This is the story of James Gilliland. From UFOs and ETs, to orbs and near death encounters, James has led an incredible life. He tells us his personal story, leading us through account after account of encounters with other-worldly beings of all types. His story not only tells the journey of one man through an incredible life, it also tells the story of a mankind to come.
5 Cryptid Sightings that Could Prove Dinosaurs Still Exist
5 Cryptid Sightings that Could Prove Dinosaurs Still Exist
The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event is the most famous case of mass destruction because it was greatly popularized by mankind’s vested interest in dinosaurs. While the scientific consensus is that no dinosaur survived to our times, there are multiple cryptid sightings that would suggest at least some of them might still be around. Below you will find five of the strangest sightings related to this subject.
Some 66 million years before our time, the Earth was struck by a 6 mile wide space rock that was going 45,000 miles per hour. The devastating impact was more than two million times more powerful than the Tsar Bomba, the biggest explosive device mankind ever built.
But it wasn’t the blunt force of the hot that killed off the majority of our planet’s animal life. In the period following the asteroid hit, the world was engulfed in flames, shook by earthquakes and drowned in emissions from volcanic eruptions. The unrelenting global acid rain that followed, coupled with the atmospheric ash blocking sunlight resulted in plant life being greatly diminished. As the plant eaters died, they determined the fall of the entire food chain, rapidly causing the extinction of the behemoths that ruled the planet for over 160 million years. The dinosaurs were gone forever. Or were they?
Mokele Mbembe
The deepest river in the world is the African Congo and the surrounding jungle is the world’s second largest. Modern humans have explored only a fraction of the Congo rainforest so it is pretty clear that there are countless secrets still left to discover.
Since times immemorial, tribes who make their home in the Congolese forests have been religiously passing down a legend that makes them shiver. They unwillingly talk about Mokele Mbembe, a beast whose name literally means “the one who stops the flow of rivers.” Tribe members who swear they’ve seen it describe a fearsome creature with the body of an elephant, a long tail and a neck ending with a small head. Although the cryptid feeds on plants, it is said to be highly territorial and therefore aggressive.
Mokele Mbembe prefers resting its cumbersome body in deep waters and would sometimes flip over and drag under any boat that dared cross certain river bends.
This description fits an animal that resembles extinct sauropods such as the Diplodocus orArgentinosaurus.
The earliest expedition to go in search of this fabled beast took place in 1776. While the members of the expedition failed to discover the creature, they did bring back caster prints. The circumference of Mokele Mbembe’s paws measured over three feet, lending further credence to the idea that it is indeed a dinosaur. Over the course of the following centuries, more than 30 official expeditions attempted to capture the cryptid or its image, but they could neither prove nor dismiss its existence. All the while, the tribal stories about Mokele Mbembe still strike campfire fear in the hearts of those who d by Revcontent
Thunderbirds
Pterosaurs or winged lizards were commonplace in the world of dinosaurs. Their specialized wings allowed them to traverse vast distances of the Cretaceous without expending too much effort. The largest pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus had a wingspan the size of a bus and could easily pick up a human and swallow him whole.
Between 2001 and 2002, several Pennsylvanians forwarded reports detailing their encounters with a huge, long-necked flying creature that resembled a bird but had one key distinction: it lacked feathers. The witnesses description was reminiscent of a wave of sightings that occurred in Texas in 1978 and 1982.
Similar sightings have been reported halfway around the world, in the Congo River basin, where locals told tales of a creature making its nest in the high hills. The large flier reportedly had such a bad attitude towards boats and their passengers that it was nicknamedKongamato, meaning the Overturner of Boats. It was most active at dusk, when it probably went out to feed. Cryptozoologists are convinced ts smooth skin and teeth-packed beak are a clear indicator that the animal could very well be a pterosaur.
A 1988 expedition that went looking for the enigmatic creature turned up nothing except for a quick glimpse that revealed a huge black shadow with white stripes gliding in the distance. Short as it was, the sighting was enough to cement the idea that the majestic Quetzalcoatlus might not be so extinct after all.
Giant Snakes
No, snakes weren’t dinosaurs but they were already here when the dinosaurs arrived. And while palaeontologists haven’t been able to figure out what metabolism dinosaurs had, we do know that snakes slither the same way they did 200 million years ago. But they did grow bigger. Way bigger.
The largest snake to have undulated his body on the face of the Earth was Titanoboa cerrejonensis, which is synonym with 40 feet of pure, constricting terror. That is the biggest specimen according to fossil records that were discovered, but we would be perfectly safe in assuming they could grow even longer.
As over-the-top as that might seem, the South American continent is home to legends of even larger snakes. The Amazon’s murky waters could, in theory, offer them the cover to reach over 150 feet in length. Locals call the giant snake Yacumama, Mother of the Water. No official sighting exists but those who’ve seen it swear on their lives the animal is real.
The longest recorded Anaconda measured roughly 25 feet in length but that doesn’t even come close to the Yacumama’s reported size. If rumors of its existence are true, this serpent could be an undiscovered species of Anaconda or even a surviving T. cerrejonensis. Either way, it doesn’t look like it enjoys publicity so we might never get to see one.
Ngoubou
Stories about this African cryptid have only surfaced in recent years, and only by accident. While researching legends about Mokele Mbembe in Cameroon, two cryptozoologists heard a rumor about another massive beast. Members of a local tribe said it footsteps made the earth tremble and its roar scared off predators.
Although smaller in size, the animal was well equipped and aggressive enough to fight rhinos and elephants over territory. Hunters who came face to face with Ngoubou said it looked vaguely similar to a rhino but had six horns arranged in a semicircular manner around a bony frill. You don’t need to be Roy Chapman Andrews to recognize a Triceratops-type dinosaur (like Styracosaurus) when you hear its description.
The cryptozoologists became convinced they were onto something when they showed the tribesmen pictures of dinosaurs. When showed a triceratops, the men said it looked just like Ngoubou, only it had fewer horns. They took the issue very seriously and insisted they weren’t mistaken.
Burrunjor
Above: Aboriginal cave painting depicting a Burrunjor. Below, a plaster print recovered by ranchers.
Photo Credit: Rex Gilroy
In their heyday, dinosaurs like T. rex and Allosaurus were the top dogs. If they would have been present when man made his first appearance, it would have probably been the last one. Nowadays, it seems apex predators such as these guys are only present in movies and our imagination. And don’t forget Australia.
The Aboriginal people of Australia huddle around the fire to sing legends about an enormous reptile that is basically a pair of giant jaws walking around on two feet. Its only shortcoming are its two tiny arms.
During the 1950s, it seems this creature made a leap from legends into reality when ranchers looking for their missing cattle found its tracks in the dirt. The footprints were far too large to have been left behind by any known Australian creature so, naturally, the farmers recoiled in fear when they heard commotion near the river. Ignoring the loud, guttural grunts, one of them decided to investigate but came back running when he spotted the silhouette of a humongous bipedal lizard disappearing into the scrappy bushes.
The next day, their missing cattle turned up. Some bitten in half, others in smaller pieces, all very dead. That sounds like a perfect description of T. rex behavior.
Strange as they are, sightings such as these ones are far from being isolated events. Encounters with scaly and feathery beasts resembling dinosaurs come from many places and times. Legends involving the Loch Ness monster and its Icelandic counterpart, Lagarfljótsormur date back centuries. Native Americans in modern-day Canada have been retelling stories about Ogopogo since their oral history can remember. Strange things might be lurking in Earth’s dark forests and deep oceans, things that are eerily-reminiscent of the saurian form.
5 Cryptid Sightings that Could Prove Dinosaurs Still Exist
5 Cryptid Sightings that Could Prove Dinosaurs Still Exist
The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event is the most famous case of mass destruction because it was greatly popularized by mankind’s vested interest in dinosaurs. While the scientific consensus is that no dinosaur survived to our times, there are multiple cryptid sightings that would suggest at least some of them might still be around. Below you will find five of the strangest sightings related to this subject.
Some 66 million years before our time, the Earth was struck by a 6 mile wide space rock that was going 45,000 miles per hour. The devastating impact was more than two million times more powerful than the Tsar Bomba, the biggest explosive device mankind ever built.
But it wasn’t the blunt force of the hot that killed off the majority of our planet’s animal life. In the period following the asteroid hit, the world was engulfed in flames, shook by earthquakes and drowned in emissions from volcanic eruptions. The unrelenting global acid rain that followed, coupled with the atmospheric ash blocking sunlight resulted in plant life being greatly diminished. As the plant eaters died, they determined the fall of the entire food chain, rapidly causing the extinction of the behemoths that ruled the planet for over 160 million years. The dinosaurs were gone forever. Or were they?
1. Mokele Mbembe
The deepest river in the world is the African Congo and the surrounding jungle is the world’s second largest. Modern humans have explored only a fraction of the Congo rainforest so it is pretty clear that there are countless secrets still left to discover.
Since times immemorial, tribes who make their home in the Congolese forests have been religiously passing down a legend that makes them shiver. They unwillingly talk about Mokele Mbembe, a beast whose name literally means “the one who stops the flow of rivers.” Tribe members who swear they’ve seen it describe a fearsome creature with the body of an elephant, a long tail and a neck ending with a small head. Although the cryptid feeds on plants, it is said to be highly territorial and therefore aggressive.
Mokele Mbembe prefers resting its cumbersome body in deep waters and would sometimes flip over and drag under any boat that dared cross certain river bends.
This description fits an animal that resembles extinct sauropods such as the Diplodocus orArgentinosaurus.
The earliest expedition to go in search of this fabled beast took place in 1776. While the members of the expedition failed to discover the creature, they did bring back caster prints. The circumference of Mokele Mbembe’s paws measured over three feet, lending further credence to the idea that it is indeed a dinosaur. Over the course of the following centuries, more than 30 official expeditions attempted to capture the cryptid or its image, but they could neither prove nor dismiss its existence. All the while, the tribal stories about Mokele Mbembe still strike campfire fear in the hearts of those who d by Revcontent
2. Thunderbirds
Pterosaurs or winged lizards were commonplace in the world of dinosaurs. Their specialized wings allowed them to traverse vast distances of the Cretaceous without expending too much effort. The largest pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus had a wingspan the size of a bus and could easily pick up a human and swallow him whole.
Between 2001 and 2002, several Pennsylvanians forwarded reports detailing their encounters with a huge, long-necked flying creature that resembled a bird but had one key distinction: it lacked feathers. The witnesses description was reminiscent of a wave of sightings that occurred in Texas in 1978 and 1982.
Similar sightings have been reported halfway around the world, in the Congo River basin, where locals told tales of a creature making its nest in the high hills. The large flier reportedly had such a bad attitude towards boats and their passengers that it was nicknamedKongamato, meaning the Overturner of Boats. It was most active at dusk, when it probably went out to feed. Cryptozoologists are convinced ts smooth skin and teeth-packed beak are a clear indicator that the animal could very well be a pterosaur.
A 1988 expedition that went looking for the enigmatic creature turned up nothing except for a quick glimpse that revealed a huge black shadow with white stripes gliding in the distance. Short as it was, the sighting was enough to cement the idea that the majestic Quetzalcoatlus might not be so extinct after all.
3. Giant Snakes
No, snakes weren’t dinosaurs but they were already here when the dinosaurs arrived. And while palaeontologists haven’t been able to figure out what metabolism dinosaurs had, we do know that snakes slither the same way they did 200 million years ago. But they did grow bigger. Way bigger.
The largest snake to have undulated his body on the face of the Earth was Titanoboa cerrejonensis, which is synonym with 40 feet of pure, constricting terror. That is the biggest specimen according to fossil records that were discovered, but we would be perfectly safe in assuming they could grow even longer.
As over-the-top as that might seem, the South American continent is home to legends of even larger snakes. The Amazon’s murky waters could, in theory, offer them the cover to reach over 150 feet in length. Locals call the giant snake Yacumama, Mother of the Water. No official sighting exists but those who’ve seen it swear on their lives the animal is real.
The longest recorded Anaconda measured roughly 25 feet in length but that doesn’t even come close to the Yacumama’s reported size. If rumors of its existence are true, this serpent could be an undiscovered species of Anaconda or even a surviving T. cerrejonensis. Either way, it doesn’t look like it enjoys publicity so we might never get to see one.
4. Ngoubou
Stories about this African cryptid have only surfaced in recent years, and only by accident. While researching legends about Mokele Mbembe in Cameroon, two cryptozoologists heard a rumor about another massive beast. Members of a local tribe said it footsteps made the earth tremble and its roar scared off predators.
Although smaller in size, the animal was well equipped and aggressive enough to fight rhinos and elephants over territory. Hunters who came face to face with Ngoubou said it looked vaguely similar to a rhino but had six horns arranged in a semicircular manner around a bony frill. You don’t need to be Roy Chapman Andrews to recognize a Triceratops-type dinosaur (like Styracosaurus) when you hear its description.
The cryptozoologists became convinced they were onto something when they showed the tribesmen pictures of dinosaurs. When showed a triceratops, the men said it looked just like Ngoubou, only it had fewer horns. They took the issue very seriously and insisted they weren’t mistaken.
5. Burrunjor
Above: Aboriginal cave painting depicting a Burrunjor. Below, a plaster print recovered by ranchers.
Photo Credit: Rex Gilroy
In their heyday, dinosaurs like T. rex and Allosaurus were the top dogs. If they would have been present when man made his first appearance, it would have probably been the last one. Nowadays, it seems apex predators such as these guys are only present in movies and our imagination. And don’t forget Australia.
The Aboriginal people of Australia huddle around the fire to sing legends about an enormous reptile that is basically a pair of giant jaws walking around on two feet. Its only shortcoming are its two tiny arms.
During the 1950s, it seems this creature made a leap from legends into reality when ranchers looking for their missing cattle found its tracks in the dirt. The footprints were far too large to have been left behind by any known Australian creature so, naturally, the farmers recoiled in fear when they heard commotion near the river. Ignoring the loud, guttural grunts, one of them decided to investigate but came back running when he spotted the silhouette of a humongous bipedal lizard disappearing into the scrappy bushes.
The next day, their missing cattle turned up. Some bitten in half, others in smaller pieces, all very dead. That sounds like a perfect description of T. rex behavior.
Strange as they are, sightings such as these ones are far from being isolated events. Encounters with scaly and feathery beasts resembling dinosaurs come from many places and times. Legends involving the Loch Ness monster and its Icelandic counterpart, Lagarfljótsormur date back centuries. Native Americans in modern-day Canada have been retelling stories about Ogopogo since their oral history can remember. Strange things might be lurking in Earth’s dark forests and deep oceans, things that are eerily-reminiscent of the saurian form.
SpaceX Is Partnering With NASA For a 2018 Mars Mission
SpaceX Is Partnering With NASA For a 2018 Mars Mission
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Retro-thrusters could bring SpaceX's unpiloted Red Dragon capsule gently down to the Martian surface.
IN BRIEF
SpaceX has reached a cooperation agreement with NASA for its 2018 Mars mission. This deal will see NASA providing technical support to the company, and SpaceX sharing data on the performance of its spacecraft.
AN OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD PARTNERSHIP
If you are a leading space exploration institution, it seems that your current target is Mars. NASA wants to get there, but it’s going to take a lot of work. Which is why it sought out a partner. SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company, has struck a deal with NASA, who has pledged to support SpaceX in preparing and executing its 2018 unmanned mission to Mars.
SpaceX is looking to launch the Red Dragon Mars mission by 2018, one that will see testing of important systems needed for a manned Mars mission. Elon Musk has been cagey with details, but is expected to say more during a global space conference in Mexico in September.
In the deal, SpaceX will be able to use NASA’s Deep Space Network to communicate and guide its spacecraft. Interplanetary navigation experts at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will be the ones plotting the course of the craft.
Other than that, NASA will be helping SpaceX determine the best landing sites for the craft, guide and analyze the Red Dragon during entry, and evaluate the different systems in the craft. Included in the deal is certifying the planetary protection standards of Red Dragon.
MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL
For its trouble, NASA will mainly be getting data. The agency is interested in the supersonic retro-propulsion Red Dragon will be using for entry into Mars. This system is billed as one of the two most important technologies for a manned Mars mission; the other is precision landing.
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Supersonic retro-propulsion basically involves using thrust from large rocket engines to do a parachute’s job. This is said to be key for larger payloads and vehicles if they want to enter Mars’ atmosphere. This is the same technology that has allowed the Falcon 9 rocket to land successfully. Of particular interest is how this system performs in the different dynamics of Martian atmosphere.
If all goes successfully, the next step will be getting humans to the Red Planet.
NASA Made A “Mars Rover” Game to Celebrate Curiosity’s 4th Anniversary on Mars
NASA Made A “Mars Rover” Game to Celebrate Curiosity’s 4th Anniversary on Mars
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IN BRIEF
"Mars Rover" is a game that allows players to drive around the Red Planet and search for water, collecting points and exploring the rocky surface to see just how habitable the planet really is.
It’s been four years since Curiosity first landed on Mars—and NASA has just released a free game called Mars Rover, in collaboration with GAMEE, in celebration of the fourth anniversary of the rover’s arrival on the Red Planet.
The game lets you drive Curiosity on your mobile device as you navigate Mars, collect samples, and earn points along the way. The player will also search for underground water, just as NASA’s second rover will do when it gets launched in 2020.
Michelle Viotti, manager of Mars public engagement initiatives at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory believes that the game is more than just for mere entertainment. She said in a statement, “using social networks, the user can share the fun with friends. The interest that is shared through gameplay also helps us open a door to deeper literacy in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.“
The First Reprogrammable Quantum Computer Has Been Created
The First Reprogrammable Quantum Computer Has Been Created
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IN BRIEF
Researchers have published a paper demonstrating how they were able to create the first fully programmable and reprogrammable quantum computer in the world. Other quantum computers in existence at the moment can only run one type of operation.
THE BEGINNING OF REPROGRAMMABLE QUANTUM COMPUTERS
While several other teams and companies, including computer technology giant IBM, are in on the race towards quantum computing, all the quantum computers presented thus far can only run one type of operation—which is ironic, seeing as quantum computers can theoretically run more operations than there are atoms in the universe.
Finally, a team of researchers from the University of Maryland say they have developed the first ever fully programmable and reprogrammable quantum computer. It is made up of just five ytterbium atoms standing as quantum bits or qubits of information, which are electrically charged in a magnetic field. “Until now, there hasn’t been any quantum-computing platform that had the capability to program new algorithms into their system. They’re usually each tailored to attack a particular algorithm,” said study lead author Shantanu Debnath, a quantum physicist and optical engineer at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Four segmented blade electrodes are used to trap a linear chain of atomic ions. Credit: Emily Edwards
The ions are manipulated using lasers through a process called “optical pumping” in order to set them into the desired quantum energy state. The researchers program and reprogram the ions with a variety of algorithms using lasers to infuse them with precise amounts of energy, which dictates how they interact with each other.
The five-qubit quantum computer was tested on three algorithms previous quantum computers were able to execute quickly: the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm, the Bernstein-Vaziranialgorithm, and the quantum Fourier transform algorithm. The system scored 95%, 90%, and 70% in each of the algorithms respectively.
BABY STEPS TOWARDS SOMETHING COLOSSAL
While “five qubits” sounds cute—like we’re being taken to a journey back to primitive computer technology, the implications of this development are huge.
Quantum computing follows the Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment which dictates that a particle is simultaneously in all possible states. This means that in quantum computing, every qubit can be in superposition (both one and zero at the same time), unlike the binary system wherein each bit can only be either 1 or 0. This leads to an exponentially faster computing power.
Quantum mechanics is a very strange field, and quantum computing is theoretically very powerful, if we only knew how to wield its full capacity. And this development is a huge step forward in realizing that theoretical power and possibly transforming it into something usable. It is a development that gives us a preview of a system that researchers the world over are hoping to turn into the new era for computers.
The researchers will be using this new reprogrammable quantum computer for more tests that would hopefully lead to further developments in quantum computing.
”We’d like this system to serve as a test bed for examining the challenges of multiqubit operations, and find ways to make them better,” Debnath said.
De roemruchte Apollo 11-missie wordt gezien als de grootste technologische prestatie van de 20e eeuw. Het Apolloprogramma was echter van korte duur: na Apollo 17 in 1972 zijn we nooit teruggekeerd naar de maan. Dat meldt tv-zender History.
“Kan dat zijn omdat we daar iets of iemand zijn tegengekomen?” vraagt de zender. “Wat als de maan geen natuurlijk object is?”
Ongeïdentificeerde objecten op NASA-beelden wijzen mogelijk op buitenaardse structuren op de maan. Sommigen suggereren zelfs dat de maan in feite een kunstmatig object is, dat duizenden jaren geleden door ruimtewezens in een baan om de aarde is gebracht.
Kunstmatig object
In 1970 publiceerden de Russische overheidswetenschappers Michael Vasin en Alexander Shcherbakov na jarenlang onderzoek een artikel in het tijdschrift Sputnik, waarin ze concludeerden dat de maan waarschijnlijk is gecreëerd door aliens.
“Natuurkundigen kwamen met het idee dat de maan een kunstmatig object is,” zegt Alan Butler, schrijver van het boek Who Built the Moon? “Ze baseerden hun ideeën op het feit dat het leek alsof de maan hol was.”
Op basis van de maximale diepte van de maankraters, kwamen de twee wetenschappers tot de conclusie dat het maanoppervlak hooguit vier kilometer dik kon zijn.
Logisch
In maanstof werd vooral chroom, titanium en zirkonium aangetroffen, precies de elementen die je zou verwachten als je een kunstmatige satelliet wilt beschermen tegen extreme temperaturen, kosmische straling en meteorieten.
“De theorie van deze Russische wetenschappers luidt dat de maan een ruimteschip is en motoren bevat,” zegt George Noory, presentator van Coast to Coast AM. “Het is een vergezocht idee, maar als je een schip aan het oog wilt onttrekken klinkt het allemaal erg logisch.”
VIDEO: Mysterieus licht boven Gateway Arch in St. Louis doet iedereen versteld staan
VIDEO: Mysterieus licht boven Gateway Arch in St. Louis doet iedereen versteld staan
Een vreemd licht dat afgelopen week boven de Gateway Arch in de Amerikaanse stad St. Louis verscheen, maakt veel los op social media. Op beelden die dinsdag op Facebook zijn geplaatst, is een mysterieus object te zien boven het beroemde bouwwerk.
“We garanderen dat je versteld zult staan als je dit vijf minuten durende filmpje bekijkt,” aldus het Malcolm W. Martin Memorial Park, waar de beelden zijn gemaakt. De video is al zo’n 800.000 keer bekeken.
Klaarlichte dag
Fox 2 News kreeg ook beelden binnen van ene Chase Rhoads, die zei dat hij dinsdagochtend iets vreemds had gezien boven de boog. De Scott Air Force Base heeft in het gebied geen vreemde dingen gezien. Een woordvoerder van de National Park Service, het agentschap dat alle nationale parken beheert, zei dat er geen ongewone waarnemingen zijn gedaan.
Het is niet de eerste keer dat er een mysterieus object is gespot bij de boog. Het Malcolm W. Martin Memorial Park legde vorige maand op klaarlichte dag ook al een onverklaarbaar object vast.
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Eerder dit jaar zorgde een mysterieus object in de omgeving van een legerbasis in Ohio voor deining op het internet. En afgelopen maand werd een vreemd object gespot in de lucht boven delen van het westen van de Verenigde Staten. Later bleek het om een Chinese raket te gaan die opbrandde in de atmosfeer.
In januari, tijdens de première van het nieuwe seizoen van The X-Files, richtte de CIA de aandacht op een reeks geheime UFO-stukken die de Amerikaanse spionagedienst in 1978 openbaar had gemaakt.
UFO Fleet Taking Military Formation Over Memphis, Tennessee On Aug 7, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet Taking Military Formation Over Memphis, Tennessee On Aug 7, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 7, 2016 Location of sighting: Memphis, Tennessee, USA This UFO was captured by Chris Potter of Youtube this week. The video clearly shows three or more UFOs in triangle formation, flashing and moving about. It does look like these UFOs are in a military protective position to watch out for one another. The UFOs are all around this area. If you look at the video in full screen you will notice another to the lower right and more to the upper left. Amazing footage. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
UFO 3X Bigger Than The Plane Its Following Is Seen Over City, Aug 8, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO 3X Bigger Than The Plane Its Following Is Seen Over City, Aug 8, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 8, 2016 Location of sighting: Unknown This UFO was recorded recently and it was near a plane in the sky keeping the same distance away from the plane. The UFO is a glowing white, cloaked as a long cloud, but no cloud could move that fast. Its keeping up with the plane! Amazing video, and I asked for the location so I will update this soon. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Fast UFO filmed over Tver region, Russia 7-Aug-2016
Fast UFO filmed over Tver region, Russia 7-Aug-2016
Here’s one interesting footage of a very bright and fast object flying across the sky above Tver region, western of Moscow in Russia. This was filmed on 7th August 2016.
Witness report:
This night (August 07 2016) i watched satellites and meteors in the night vision device. Suddenly i saw this very bright elongated object. Brightness of it is similar to the ISS. As usual, I checked it out on the basis of data Stellarium. This object is not in the Stellarium database Therefore, it is 100% UFO. Perhaps this is secret military satellite.
Seemingly Massive UFO Over New York Baffles Motorists Across New York
Seemingly Massive UFO Over New York Baffles Motorists Across New York
Another Independence Day-esque UFO hung in the sky over New York City. Puzzled motorists spotted it and filmed the bizarre aerial scene. The video shows a large, black object floating above the city, which also observed from nearby New Jersey.
UFO investigators Secure Team 10 uploaded the clip to YouTube after an unnamed witness sent it to their YouTube channel.
One of the Secure Team representatives said that the one who recorded the huge unidentified flying object revealed they had felt vibrations before noticing the aerial object. It reportedly stayed in one place for hours.
Tyler of Secure Team said they had received a lot of emails about the strange object. One of them was from Staten Island, who stated that he started hearing a faint, static sound that appeared to increase in volume to the point where the source or witness could faintly feel vibrations.
The source of the video that Secure Team posted to the video sharing site reportedly made it clear that they first thought of it as one of those banners towed behind planes for advertisements.
However, they soon realized it was too large for it to become a banner and they also noticed no plane nearby. The sender of the video also reportedly said that this aerial thing was just hanging out in the sky.
Stellar Desert: Central Milky Way Lacks Young Stars
Stellar Desert: Central Milky Way Lacks Young Stars
By Samantha Mathewson, Staff Writer
This is an artist's impression of the large stellar void stretching 8,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way. Astronomers of the new research found no young stars called Cepheids in this vast region.
Credit: The University of Tokyo
A vast tract of space near the center of the Milky Way — in an area called the inner disk — is completely devoid of young stars, new research shows.
The Milky Way, which hosts Earth's solar system, is a spiral galaxy containing billions and billions of stars. By measuring the distribution of these stars, astronomers can better understand how the Milky Way formed and developed over time.
Young stars called Cepheids are good growth markers because they regularly pulsate in brightness and the pulsations are tied to their overall luminosity. This means astronomers can monitor the duration of bright periods and estimate the stars' distance from Earth based on how bright they appear. But in the Milky Way's inner disk, which extends for 8,000 light-years from the galactic core, researchers haven't found any of those young stars, and that observation challenges current theories on Milky Way formation, officials said in a statement from the Royal Astronomical Society. [Our Milky Way Galaxy's Core Revealed (Photos)]
"The current results indicate that there has been no significant star formation in this large region over hundreds of millions years," Giuseppe Bono, co-author of the new research and astronomer at the Rome Observatory, said in the statement.
This lack of Cephids had not been seen before, because thick, light-blocking cosmic dust in the inner regions of the Milky Way block astronomers' view from Earth and make it difficult to spot the pulsating stars. But by using near-infrared data from a Japanese-South African telescope, the researchers were able to get a clearer view.
Previous studies found Cepheids in the heart of the Milky Way, said Noriyuki Matsunaga, lead author of the new work from the University of Tokyo. "Now, we find that outside this there is a huge Cepheid desert extending out to 8,000 light years from the center," he said in the statement.
Milky Way
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With the Milky Way itself measuring about 100,000 light-years across, the researchers noted that this stellar desert comprises a lot of empty space.
"Our conclusions are contrary to other recent work but in line with the work of radio astronomers who see no new stars being born in this desert," Michael Feast, co-author of the new research and astronomer from the South African Astronomical Observatory, said in the statement.
The new work was published June 27 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Curiosity team members had modeled this novel technique repeatedly using computers, but it had never been tested fully here on Earth, let alone employed on the surface of another world. [Curiosity Team Highlights 4th Year on Mars (Video)]
Still, everything worked perfectly at crunch time, and Curiosity soon began exploring the interior of Mars' 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater. The discoveries came fast: The rover found that the area near its landing site harbored a lake-and-stream system long ago, showing that at least some parts of the Red Planet could have supported microbial life in the ancient past.
The main goal of the $2.5 billion Curiosity mission is to answer that very question.
"It was just an early home run that kind of took the pressure off, and allowed us to expand on that [discovery] for the next few years," Curiosity project scientist Ashwin Vasavada, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, told Space.com.
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After finishing up work near its landing zone in July 2013, Curiosity began the roughly 5-mile (8 km) trek to the base of Mount Sharp, which rises 3 miles (5 km) into the sky from Gale Crater's center.
Mount Sharp's foothills had been Curiosity's ultimate science destination since before the mission's November 2011 launch. Mission team members want the rover to climb up through the mountain's lower reaches, reading a history of Mars' changing environmental conditions in the rocks as it goes.
Curiosity began doing just that when it reached Mount Sharp's base in September 2014, and the results so far are exciting, Vasavada said. The rover quickly came across a layer of mudstone, a type of rock formed by sediment accumulation at the bottom of a lake. And Curiosity is still examining that same layer, despite traveling about 100 vertical feet (30 meters) up the mountain.
While mission team members don't know the exact rate at which the mudstone was deposited, the extent of the layer suggests that the Gale Crater lake systempersisted for millions, or perhaps even tens of millions of years, Vasavada said.
"We're talking significant periods of time — periods of time that are even significant for biology, if it ever took hold [on Mars]," he said. "The timescales involved are really kind of mind-boggling."
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has identified three geological "units" above Curiosity that the rover's handlers want to explore before the mission comes to an end. (NASA recently extended Curiosity's mission through at least October 2018.)
One of these rock layers contains the iron-oxide mineral hematite, and another is rich in clays, which form in liquid water. The third unit contains healthy concentrations of sulfates, and could mark the beginning of a transition toward the cold and dry Mars that exists today, scientists have said.
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Curiosity needs to gain another 1,000 vertical feet (300 m) or so to sample all three of these units, Vasavada said. Doing so will likely require putting an additional 5 miles (8 km) on the robot's odometer, he added.
Curiosity has incurred a significant amount of wheel damage since touchdown, but new driving techniques and avoidance of the most rugged terrain should allow the rover to go at least 5.6 more miles (9 km) on the Red Planet, Vasavada said. (Curiosity's odometer currently reads 8.43 miles, or 13.57 km, NASA officials said.)
The rover's science instruments are all still working fine, so Vasavada is eager to see what Curiosity finds over the next few years.
"Hopefully, the big results aren't all behind us," he said. "We still would love to find a really whopping signature of organic molecules, so that we get an idea of what was present on ancient Mars."
Humanity has a lot of finely tuned instruments pointed at the sky. But it's a really big sky.
This post has been updated.
Science fiction movies frequently make it seem as though hostile extraterrestrials might be able to sneak through Earth’s atmosphere, emerge from the clouds without warning, and start wrecking shit. But is it really possible that spaceships could suddenly appear out of the vast blackness of space unnoticed by the myriad instruments on the ground? Depending on the aliens’ level of technological sophistication, one can argue that almost anything is possible. Humans have pointed a lot of sensors skyward, but it’s not clear they would really give us a proper heads up before our extraterrestrial guests arrive.
It sort of depends on exactly what we’re looking for. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence, better known as SETI, has been fruitless so far, but we keep investing and more and more money towards projects aimed at answering whether or not we’re alone in the universe. That investigation basically revolves around detecting various signals that point to the existence of technologically advanced extraterrestrials. And that also means the instruments we can use to observe space let us see farther into the universe than ever before. How far exactly? Douglas Vakoch tells Inverse that the answer has more to do with defining “see” than with arriving at a specific number.
A SETI researcher and the president of METI International, Vakoch divides the tools used to do SETI research into two groups: optical, and radio. Optical instruments, which look for lasers or other light patterns that suggest the presence of intelligent aliens, can make decent observations up to about 1,000 light-years away. “Beyond 1,000 light-years, however, it can get more difficult,” Vakoch says. Those instruments include the Boquete Optical SETI Observatory in Panama, and the Owl Observatory in Michigan.
Radio instruments, on the other hand, make a lot more sense for investigating signs of extraterrestrial life. For one, we can listen in on radio waves moving through space from about 10,000 light-years and beyond. Radio waves are also a pretty specific sign of a technologically advanced civilization while a star system may be expressing a strange laser-based signal in the distance, that might also just be an unexplained natural phenomenon (as we’re sort of learning when it comes to Tabbys Star.
Of course, as Vakoch emphasizes, our abilities to listen in on the universe dwindles as the distance increases. Aliens broadcasting themselves 10,000 light-years away will likely avoid detection.
But then again, SETI is a two-way street. When asked whether we currently have a maximum limit from which we can detect alien life, Seth Shostak, the director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, says, “It depends on how much money the aliens have to invest in their own technology.” He’s referring to the fact that intelligent lifeforms might possess technologies that allow them to broadcast their existence to us from farther away and offset the limits of our own instruments.
“In theory, there’s no limit,” he adds.
It’s important to remember that SETI investigations don’t just watch the universe in all direction in hopes we’ll stumble on something. Scientists focus our instruments on certain regions of space that are most promising — i.e. the exoplanets or star systems that possess the best chances for developing habitable environments.
“We start close to home,” says Vakoch, “and look at sun-like stars. As we move the investigation farther out, we start to hone in on stars or star regions that might be useful. For example, a current trend in the SETI community is the study of red dwarf stars, which were historically ignored. The beauty of red dwarfs is that they last a long time,” says Vakoch, sustaining planetary systems that have a much longer chance of developing habitable traits. Red dwarfs make up about 80 to 90 percent of the stars in our own neighborhood within the Milky Way galaxy.”
There’s another big factor to consider. SETI research focuses on finding aliens thatwant to be found — or at the very least, are not actively trying to hide from human detection. If a hostile fleet of extraterrestrial warships were stationed somewhere in the galaxy or was en route to the solar system, they could very well possess a number of highly advanced technologies that could shroud their presence. Space itself is incredibly big anyways — humans don’t have eyes and ears scanning all parts of the universe around us.
Aliens might be able to slip into orbit, but if they were traveling in anything truly large it might be quite difficult for them to do so without severely disrupting our orbital equipment or even taking out a geosynchronous satellite. Still, that’s not an impossible feat.
“If they’re sufficiently intelligent,” says Vakoch, “there’s no reason to think they couldn’t be anywhere.”
In the upcoming sequel to the 1996 summer blockbuster Independence Day, a massive alien force comes to Earth to avenge losses sustained at Will Smith’s hand 20 years earlier. Aware that this might happen, the planet has spent the previous two decades preparing: creating Earth Space Defense, an international defense program and warning system with bases on the moon, Mars, and Saturn’s moon Rhea, and a lot of laser guns built using repurposed alien technology. The whole thing looks very Hollywood high budget, but, in reality, it represents a paltry effort.
Defending Earth from alien invaders will require a lot more than some outposts and a Hemsworth brother. Still, even that’s better than what we’ve got. As it stands, we possess neither of the two things we’d need to repel an extraterrestrial attack: a system to find and assess alien threats and a means to destroy incoming ships. We’re way closer on the former than the latter.
Believe it or not, planetary defense is a real part of space research and exploration — albeit in terms of protecting the planet against natural threats, like asteroids, comets, surprise solar flares, etc. For NASA, other space agencies around the world, and private companies, planetary defense is basically limited to a discussion of asteroid impact avoidance and deflection, and the development of technologies that allow us to track near-Earth objects that might pose a threat should their travel path ever line up with ours. To that end, NASA has been bolstering its efforts to improve instruments designed to track such rocks zipping through the solar system — most notably through the recent opening of thePlanetary Defense Coordination Office, to better study and characterize different near-Earth asteroids and comets and predict their orbits around the sun in relation to Earth.
Tracking technologies, like the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer space telescope, would let us know if an alien battalion were en route to Earth long before it reached the planet — provided the aliens were in a pretty big ship and traveling slow enough to give us time to parse the patterns. The issue with WISE, from a strategic defense perspective, is just how easy it would be for aliens to destroy. It is a scientific instrument and, as such, not designed to be combat ready.
Unfortunately, we still have no actual way of engaging with an object that’s on a crash course for a pale blue dot. Under the asteroid-focused planetary defense model, NASA is actually supporting a few off-the-wall projects with a bit of R&D funding, such as the gravity tractor. But this isn’t technology we could use to actually defend ourselves against creatures with superior ships. The only technology we have that can really do that is nuclear bombs.
Whether our lives are threatened by an asteroid or extraterrestrials, bombs are likely the best answer we’ve got. If it comes down to saving humanity, you better believe we’ll be launching nukes straight up.
Of course, this is easier said than done. The problem, as the aforementioned movies each discussed, is that you can’t simply launch a nuke or 12 straight into an asteroid. They’ll barely make a dent into the rock, and will hardly affect the trajectory of the damn thing. When it comes to alien invasion, we might have better luck, since a spaceship would need to slow down upon approaching the planet to ensure its safety. At deceased speeds and with a structure that would presumably facilitate interstellar travel (i.e. made to be lightweight with a relatively hollow interior), an alien ship would be a lot more vulnerable to damage by nuclear weapons.
Unfortunately, if an alien civilization is capable of waging wars light-years away from its home, it’s probably already found a way to mitigate or even totally offset damage by a conventional bombs. We’d have to find a way to crack our way in and blow the ship up from the inside.
Meet the Hypervelocity Asteroid Intercept Vehicle, or HAIV: a seemingly conventional spacecraft carrying a nuclear explosive device capable of blowing an object up from the inside out. HAIV is basically two main components — a “kinetic impactor” that bores a hole into the object and creates a hollow path behind it, and an encasement for the nuke.
A diagram describing how HAIV works.
The genius behind HAIV, aeronautics engineer Bong Wie of Iowa State University, conceived of HAIV as a potential way to defend Earth against asteroid threats. Wie, who is also director the university’s Asteroid Deflection Research Center, says his projectile, which would be between 1000 to 2000 kilograms in mass and move at about 5 kilometers per second, contains enough kinetic energy to create a hole or crater about 10 meters deep and 20 meters wide in an oncoming asteroid. The nuclear device would go into that crater behind the spacecraft and, boom goes the dynamite.
If we have at least a 5-year warning time, Wie says, mankind will be able to prep a HAIV mission. A nuclear explosion will then occur in space far outside the lunar distance. “Less than 0.1% of resulting fragments would enter Earth’s atmosphere.”
The reason we would need to design and build HAIV from scratch after we know an asteroid is on its way is because you need to cater the whole thing to destroy the asteroid as optimally as possible. For an asteroid with a diameter of 300 meters, the best kind of nuclear device would probably weigh about 1000 kilograms. A larger meteor will need something bigger; smaller rocks could be crushed with smaller bombs.
Wie and his colleagues were previously awarded two phases of funding through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. “This concept is now further being investigated by a team of researchers from NASA and the national defense laboratories for a possible flight demonstration in the near future,” he says. “However, all previous studies of HAIV were based on conceptual and computational research. No experimental validation or testing of the HAIV concept has been performed yet.”
Wie has never explained whether the HAIV might be a useful system to protect us from aliens, but he has said that the use of nuclear devices is the most cost-effective option for mitigating impact threat.
Wie is loathe to speculate on the potential weaponization of his technology. But this is not a trait universal to space scientists. Igor Ashurbeyli is actively planning to repel an attack. The chairman of the Moscow-based International Expert Society on Space Threat Defense, Ashurbeyli told the audience at the 4th Manfred Lachs International Conference on Conflicts in Space and the Rule of Law, that he was preparing a proposal for an armed, unmanned space platform dedicated to monitoring activity in space and on the Earth and capable of directly neutralizing both.
Artist's rendition of URBOCOP
His concept is called the Universal Robotic Battle Cosmic Platform, or URBOCOP. Exactly what it would look like is hard to say, but Ashurbeyli says URBOCOP would essentially be an autonomously-run system — “free from human bias” — that could identify a variety of threats in advance and defend the planet from them. He lists solar flares, changes to Earth’s magnetosphere, asteroids and comets, man-made space debris, unforeseen effects of climate change, cosmic rays, biological threats from other parts of space — all as potential space threats. This situation reminds one of Russian roulette, he told the audience. “Only with rocks, huge pieces of metal, solar energy and other surprises, acting as bullets and putting all of humanity at fatal risk.”
In addition, Ashurbeyli also thinks URBOCOP could work to defend the Earth against intelligent extraterrestrials, or even man-made threats here on the surface. Imagine two countries warring against one-another and launching missiles back and forth. URBOCOP could very easily strike to shut those launches down before those weapons even get into the air.
All of that raises an enormous number of questions. What kind of A.I. system would be used to make sure URBOCOP doesn’t turn against us or mistakenly destroy civilian equipment or structures? What will this thing look like? If Wie is right and nukes are really the only thing that will protect us from large asteroids, are we prepared to store nukes on a space platform floating in orbit?
Ashurbeyli didn’t answer those questions, or even really outline how URBOCOP would work. That’s all being detailed in a presentation later this year. But he’s striving hard to make discussions of planetary defense technologies move from the outer rim of the scientific community, and closer to the mainstream.
There are few reasons to think he’s being foolish in this regard. Even if the chances of Earth being attacked by aliens is next to nothing, space is a pretty volatile place. You never know what strange shit the sun will spew on a whim; what weird comet or asteroid will appear out of nowhere and make its way towards our neighborhood; and so forth. And in reality, we seem to already possess the tools we need to pick up on dangers, and strike at them. It’s just a matter of refining them and putting them towards ensuring Earth stays a safe place to live — seeing how it’s the only planet we have so far.
While filming the sunset at 5.30pm on August 2, 2016 over Auckland in New Zealand the videographer noticed a strange black object hovering above a cloud formation. Suddenly the object changed into a bright light and disappeared.
Since the object is filmed from a great distance the videographer wonders whether it is a UFO or a fighter jet firing its thrusters/engines.
On August 5, 2016 at around 21.45 hours Galarza journalist Saul was in the center of Mexico City when he noticed a strange green light in the sky. Saul managed to capture the object.
But at the same night, on August 5, 2016 a similar green object is seen flying through the sky in US. Despite the witness did not mentioned the location, she also managed to capture the green light.
Both witnesses wonder whether the object could have been an atmospheric phenomenon or maybe a UFO?
Dr. Steven Greer - Interstellar Travel, X-files and The CIA Plan To Discredit UFOLogy
Dr. Steven Greer - Interstellar Travel, X-files and The CIA Plan To Discredit UFOLogy
Published on Jul 24, 2016
Dr. Steven Greer - Interstellar Travel, X-files and The CIA Plan To Discredit UFOLogy
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China Finished Building Its Alien-Hunting Telescope (Video)
China Finished Building Its Alien-Hunting Telescope (Video)
Pingtang County, southwest of China’s Guizhou Province.
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, took roughly five years to complete and cost $180m; initial plans and location reconnaissance began way back in 1994. Its massive reflector, comprised of 4,450 panels covers the same area as 30 football fields.
It will become operational in September and will be used to search for extraterrestrial life, but don’t expect to hear about FAST aiding in major discoveries right away. Over the next two to three years, the telescope will be subject to adjustments and used for early-stage research by scientists in China. It will then become available to researchers across the globe to use.
According to Xinhua News, FAST will aid in detecting pulsars, gravitational waves and eventually amino acids, which would confirm life on other planets.
What makes world's largest ever radio telescope FAST in SW#China's Guizhou so extraordinary? #XinhuaTV
The telescope is much bigger than the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which was previously regarded as the world’s largest at around 300m in diameter.
In order to ensure total radio silence within a five-kilometer radius around FAST, more than 9,000 people will be moved out of the area surrounding the telescope and resettled in neighboring counties by September.
‘Buitenaardse megastructuur’ nog mysterieuzer dan gedacht
‘Buitenaardse megastructuur’ nog mysterieuzer dan gedacht
Afgelopen jaar kwam ster KIC 8462852 in de schijnwerpers te staan toen astronomen suggereerden dat sterke helderheidsveranderingen die de ster vertoont konden worden veroorzaakt door een buitenaardse megastructuur.
Er werd in eerste instantie geen bewijs voor aliens gevonden rond de ster, maar de dipjes in helderheid bleven voor hoofdbrekens zorgen. Het wordt nu allemaal nog een tikkeltje mysterieuzer.
Ben Montet van Caltech en Joshua Simon van het Carnegie Institute hebben de ster opnieuw bestudeerd en kwamen tot de ontdekking dat KIC 8462852 niet alleen regelmatig 20 procent in helderheid afneemt, maar ook dat de stralingsenergie van de ster afneemt over een periode van vier jaar.
Geen goede modellen
De astronomen analyseerden de gegevens van 500 naburige sterren en stelden vast dat KIC 8462852 uniek is. “Lange tijd probeerden we onszelf ervan te overtuigen dat dit niet echt was,” vertelde Montet aan Gizmodo. “Maar dat lukte niet.”
Eerder ontdekte Bradley Schaefer van de Louisiana State University al dat de ster in de afgelopen 100 jaar liefst 19 procent zwakker is gaan schijnen.
“Dit nieuwe onderzoek stelt dat we geen goede modellen hebben voor dit soort gedrag en daar ben ik het mee eens,” zei Jason Wright, de astronoom die als eerste zei dat om de ster mogelijk een gigantische buitenaardse structuur draait. “En dat is spannend!”
Onverklaarbaar
Astronoom Keivan Stassun van de Vanderbilt-universiteit zei dat de ster onverklaarbaar blijft. “De intrigerende nieuwe bevindingen van Montet suggereren dat geen van de fenomenen die we hebben overwogen de waarnemingen kunnen verklaren,” zei hij.
We kunnen dit mysterie pas oplossen als we de ster beter hebben onderzocht. En dat is precies wat astronoom Tabby Boyajian, de ontdekker van de ster, nu gaat doen.
A Washington witness at Aberdeen reported watching and photographing a square or rectangle-shaped UFO that hovered in place and appeared to wobble as it moved closer, according to testimony in Case 78098 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Cropped and enlarged portion of the witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was standing at a window when something unusual was seen at 8:15 p.m. on July 11, 2016.
“A box kite was the initial reaction, but I quickly dismissed that as it was unmoving, yet started to move a moment later,” the witness stated.“Perfectly still, perfectly vertical, perfectly symmetrical at first. As I watched it,it seemingly wobbled as the opposing side rotated slightly towards me. As it did that and then back, you could see a projection or appendage, same glossy material, same stark sharp lines.”
The witness described the object.
“Appendage protruded at a 30-degree downward angle and appeared to be half the width of the depth of the overall craft. Appendage ended in a 30-degree downward sharp angle. As if it were a 2 x 4 piece of lumber angle cut. Cut portion had sharp lines just like the rest of the craft and matched the line that makes the bottom of the craft, again symmetrical in shape (followed the same line as the bottom and top of the object).”
Cropped and enlarged portion of the witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
The object moved.
“It rotated back to the initial position seen and that was when I went for my cell phone for a photo. Seconds later I was at my window camera ready. It had moved in a line away from the initial sighting, but not quickly in appearance. It had covered some territory.”
The photography attempt was not good.
“The photo taken is not good and shows what was clearly seen by me to be a square, to be not so square, and blurred. Samsung Galaxy 3. Took a second picture, but you cannot distinguish it in that picture as it was being covered by a passing cloud. Twenty to 30 minutes later you could still make out a black speck in the same general area in a break in the cloud formation.”
Cropped and enlarged portion of the witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was able to gain additional details.
“Also, when It was initially turning in front of me, there were some change to its glossy nature on the side that faced me. As it rotated it appeared to have an elliptical irregularity to the surface that drew some attention from me, but, it still somehow appeared flush, flat and black even though the elliptical shape covered fully one-quarter to one-third of that side. More of a line suggesting an oval rather than a protrusion on the surface itself.”
Assistant State Director AletaDeBee is investigating for Washington MUFON. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
PANIEK BIJ NASA VANWEGE ENORME UFO NABIJ DE ZON ( VIDEO)
PANIEK BIJ NASA VANWEGE ENORME UFO NABIJ DE ZON ( VIDEO)
De beelden die nu via NASA naar buiten komen, tonen zoveel dingen die volgens de mainstream maatschappij niet kunnen dat het tijd wordt voor drastische maatregelen.
Er is geen houden meer aan voor NASA en daarom beginnen ze per 1 september aanstaande met het stopzetten van live beelden vanuit het ISS ruimtestation.
Het aantal UFO’s dat tegenwoordig te bewonderen is bij het ISS ruimtestation begint zo langzamerhand te lijken op de avondspits op de Amsterdamse ring.
Nadat vorige week een enorme gouden UFO werd gefilmd vanuit het ruimtestation en NASA heel snel de beelden op zwart moest zetten, is er klaarblijkelijk besloten dat het genoeg was.
Want, pal daarop kwam de mededeling dat ze per 1 september zullen stoppen met de dagelijkse live beelden vanuit het ruimtestation. Dat moet de censuurmensen van NASA een beetje lucht geven, want ook elders gebeuren dingen die niet kunnen.
Wij schrijven al heel lang over enorme UFO’s die energie schijnen te tanken van de zon, zoals in volgende stukje uit een eerder artikel:
Op 11 maart 2012 ging de volgende afbeelding van een grote UFO die energie schijnt te tanken bij de zon de wereld rond.
Top op de dag van vandaag is daar nog nooit een “logische verklaring” voor gevonden.
En omdat toeval niet bestaat, hebben we ook deze week weer een voorval van een grote UFO bij de zon die net als die in 2012 energie schijnt te tanken.
De opname lijkt in eerste instantie op een soort donkere planeet, gedeeltelijk verborgen achter de zon. Maar, even later is net zoals bij de vreemde grote UFO uit 2012 een soort slang te zien.
Iets dat lijkt op de verbinding tussen de UFO en de zon waarmee het mogelijk de nodige energie tankt.
Maar, NASA is ook dat soort opnames zat en dus gebeurt het volgende:
De afbeelding hierna is vorig jaar genomen en afkomstig van één van de ruimtetelescopen van NASA en daarop zie je rechtsboven bij de zon een enorme driehoekige UFO.
Een dag later ziet hetzelfde beeld er als volgt uit. Er is door NASA een keurig plakkertje over de UFO geplaatst en niemand die nog wat ziet.
En dan gebeurt er nog iets enkele dagen geleden. Wederom is er op een foto van de NASA ruimtetelescopen iets opmerkelijks te zien, vlakbij de zon.
De beelden zien er als volgt uit:
Deze ontdekking is gedaan door Scott Waring, die zegt dat hij vaker dit soort grote vierkante ufo’s heeft ontdekt vlakbij de zon.
Waar het echter veel meer op lijkt, is dat we hier weer te maken hebben met één van de vele NASA plakkers en dat de echte UFO ergens daaronder zit verborgen.
Ook hier zie je weer zoals op eerdere afbeeldingen dat ook deze UFO als het ware energie opzuigt uit de zon.
Het bovenstaande wordt uitgebreid behandeld in onderstaande video van Secure Team, met daarnaast nog een aantal andere zeer interessante en mysterieuze zaken.
Pair of UFOs Fly Over Neighborhood In New York on July 31, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Pair of UFOs Fly Over Neighborhood In New York on July 31, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: July 31, 2016 Location of sighting: Peekskill, New York, USA This UFO has a wingman. There are two UFOs here that fly one over the other at the same speed. These UFOs were over Peekskill, New York just last week and moving silently over a small neighborhood. Great video, by Latest UFO UFOvni of Youtube. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
UFO Over Auckland, New Zealand On Aug 2, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Auckland, New Zealand On Aug 2, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: Aug 2, 2016 Location of sighting: Auckland, New Zealand This is a great video. It shows a dark disk moving low from cloud to cloud over New Zealand. This was taken during sunset, which is the most common time to catch a UFO, due to the setting suns position. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: his 'UFO' was captured on 02/08/2016 @approx 5.30pm with my sunset video! What do you think this is? Thanks.
Green Glowing UFO Over Mexico City On Aug 5, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Green Glowing UFO Over Mexico City On Aug 5, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 5, 2016 Location of sighting: Mexico City, Mexico This UFO was caught by a reporter in Mexico City last week. Its a UFO hiding in the clouds, but its propulsion seems to be making this green glow around it. It is triangle shape. This happens more often than you would think. Somethings they are shooting though the clouds, and they notice you on the ground watching them. They move as fast as lightening, but when they notice you they will either stop for a few seconds, or they will circle the sky, sometimes both right above you. Yes, I have experience such an event before. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Galarza journalist Saul captured extraordinary images of a green light in the skies of Mexico City. Located on Madero Street, in the center of the city, he managed to catch the August 5, 2016, around 21:45 hours. Atmospheric phenomenon UFO?
NASA promises ‘definitive evidence’ of alien life by 2025
NASA promises ‘definitive evidence’ of alien life by 2025
We are on the cusp of discovering alien civilizations, NASA’s top scientists have said. They predict we’re one generation away from finding something in our Milky Way neighborhood, which is bustling with environments conducive to life.
Making their comments at a panel discussion Tuesday, the space scientists predict that the first discoveries will come within a decade.
Chief scientist Ellen Stofan believes we’ll have “definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years,” as“in most cases we have the technology, and we’re on a path to implementing it. And so I think we’re definitely on the road.”
I think we’re one generation away in our solar system, where it’s on an icy moon or on Mars, and one generation [away] on a planet around a nearby star,” former astronaut John Grunsfeld said at the session.
NASA has made huge strides in both spotting distant worlds and analyzing their chemical composition. Stofan said: “We know where to look.” Indeed, the Kepler mission has found no shortage of rocks that could support life, while icy moons in our own galaxy have long been suspected to hold incredible secrets beneath their own crust – among them Jupiter’s enigmatic moons – especially Europa, where a gargantuan body of water rages beneath the thin surface and water vapors are literally sprayed 200 km upward, giving clues to life-supporting minerals beneath. This while Ganymede is thought to have more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined.
The same can be said of Saturn’s satellite Enceladus.
Scientists found evidence to suggest that, like our more distant galactic neighbors, Mars also harbored entire oceans, the cracks and scars on its surface appearing to be made by raging water currents full of salt. All of this makes the Milky Way quite “a soggy place,” according to the director of NASA’s Astrophysics Division, Paul Hertz.
“We can see water in the interstellar clouds from which planetary systems and stellar systems form,” he says. “We can see water in the disks of debris that are going to become planetary systems around other stars, and we can even see comets being dissipated in other solar systems as [their] star evaporates them.”
The Mars rover Curiosity, stationed on the Red Planet, continues to dazzle scientists with intriguing new finds. Just two weeks ago, it discovered organic molecules containing carbon and “fixed”nitrogen – elements central to all known life.
The Kepler mission’s overwhelming success has also been a godsend – its lens measuring the tiniest changes in the light intensity of a star, as a planet passes by it. With its robotic eye, it showed us that life and rocky worlds should be far more common in our galaxy than the likes of gassy Saturn and Jupiter.
Numerous advances in both technology and our ability to implement it mean we are also accelerating the pace. One US company has just been given a grant for its plasma rocket to reach Mars in just 39 days, while NASA itself is already hard at work on developing a new Mars lander that resembles a saucer and promises to make it possible to “safely land heavier spacecraft” on alien planets.
Humanity is facing two separate challenges in space: one is finding signs of intelligent life, the other is identifying potentially habitable environments. While one may rush to tie the two together, the latter is a considerably easier proposition to make.
Stofan is all but certain the manned mission to Mars will emerge with spectacular discoveries: “I’m a field geologist; I go out and break open rocks and look for fossils,” she said. “Those are hard to find. So I have a bias that it’s eventually going to take humans on the surface of Mars — field geologists, astrobiologists, chemists — actually out there looking for that good evidence of life that we can bring back to Earth for all the scientists to argue about.”
Europa will see us much sooner than that. As soon as 2022, our $2.1 billion will get to work on probing the mysteries of its oceans. And then there are the water vapors, spotted in the region next to the southern pole.
These discoveries are accompanied by huge strides in lens technologies NASA says will be central to finding alien life within two deacdes. Already there are several contenders for the next King of telescopes, their tech specs threatening to leave the famed Hubble far behind; among them the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which cost the space agency a fat $8.8 billion. The technology onboard is strong enough to peer at distant ‘super-Earths’ and analyze the possible chemical composition of those worlds, the gasses they spew out being strong indicators of life.
For direct signs, however, we still need to take good old photos of the rocks, according to Hertz. That is why NASA is hard at work on the next generation of telescopes – one that will feature a coronograph. The device is invaluable for blocking out the glare of the host stars of the exoplanets, giving us a clear view of the celestial bodies. It’s set to launch sometime in the mid-2020s.
Robotic telescope discovers 3 super-Earths ‘very close’ to us
Robotic telescope discovers 3 super-Earths ‘very close’ to us
Three new super-Earths “unlike anything in our solar system” have been observed close to us, just 54 light years away. The scientists were aided by an advanced automated robotic telescope – a technology expected to yield much more in the coming years.
Let’s not pack our bags yet though – the three celestial bodies actually perform much more daring orbits around their host star than even our Mercury, taking 5, 12 and 24 days respectively. And we all know what happened to Mercury because of its close proximity to the Sun.
“The three planets are unlike anything in our solar system, with masses 7-8 times the mass of Earth and orbits that take them very close to their host star,” Berkeley graduate Lauren Weiss said.
The above findings are presented in the Astrophysical Journal.
Although one planet was discovered back in 2009, only now have the scientists at universities in California, Hawaii, Arizona and Tennessee compiled a workable map of the neighborhood, where all three orbit their host star HD 7924. As with previously-discovered potentially habitable worlds, scientists measured the wobble in light caused by the bodies passing in front of their sun, which allowed them to estimate the size and trajectory of the bodies. To achieve this they used the Automated Planet Finder (APF) Telescope at Lick Observatory in California, the W.M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaii, and the Automatic Photometric Telescope (APT) at the Fairborn Observatory in Arizona.
The news APF facility is lauded by scientists for speeding up the process of planet-finding substantially. This is due to the observatory’s dedicated facility, armed with robotic technologies. The tools can work all night without human oversight and don’t ever get tired.
“This level of automation is a game-changer in astronomy,”astronomer Andrew Howard, based in Hawaii, said. “It’s a bit like owning a driverless car that goes planet shopping.”
Following one of the discoveries in 2009, a further five years of exploring followed. Then the APF Telescope came into play and completed the picture of the particular galactic neighborhood in a matter of a year-and-a-half.
“We initially used APF like a regular telescope, staying up all night searching star to star. But the idea of letting a computer take the graveyard shift was more appealing after months of little sleep. So we wrote software to replace ourselves with a robot,” BJ Fulton, a graduate at the University of Hawaii, was cited as saying.
One may remember the ground-breaking announcement of the Kepler program, which first brought to fruition the concept of measuring the changes in a star’s glow, as possible planets passed in front. Well, the APF continues the job with flying colors. Because, unlike Kepler’s thousands of Earth-like planets found all across the Milky Way, the APF’s discoveries are dramatically close to our own neighborhood.
Scientists on the project are very optimistic about a more thorough analysis of that sector in the near future and anticipate new discoveries.
These robotic observations are just the start of a new search campaign, which is part of Fulton’s doctoral dissertation. The new wave of robotic planet research will become a systematic survey of nearby stars in its own right. Two new Hawaiian facilities dedicated to this are currently being built. The APF is here to stay.
How Would Alien Life Forms Look And Behave On A Habitable Planet Around A Red Dwarf Star?
How Would Alien Life Forms Look And Behave On A Habitable Planet Around A Red Dwarf Star?
The largest population of stars in the galaxy hide in the shadows, too dim to be seen with the naked eye from Earth. Their limited radiance helps to extend their lifetimes, which are far greater than that of the sun. Scientists think that 20 out of the 30 stars nearest to Earth are red dwarfs; however, none of them can be seen with the naked eye. The closest star to the sun, Proxima Centauri, is a red dwarf.
Take the example of the recently discovered planet called Kepler 186f. It orbits a red dwarf star that has only 4% of the sun’s luminosity. It appears to have liquid water and to be habitable and it seems to have gravity similar to Earth. Due to their low luminosity, how do you think lifeforms would look like on a planet like this? There are a lot of factors that need to be considered, and most exoplanets are too far for those factors to be observed directly with current instruments.
Let’s first ponder the possible environments of a planet circling a red dwarf.
What would the sky looks like?
For a blue sky: A planet needs to have a thick atmosphere with an abundance of oxygen, and preferably a clear ocean of water or methane. To have a thick atmosphere the planet will need to have a strong magnetosphere. To have a strong magnetosphere the planet will need to have a large, solid iron inner core rotating quickly within a fluid iron outer core. To have such a core, the planet must be larger than a certain size, and must have been born after a certain amount of time after the big bang, and in a region of space relatively populated by iron dust created largely through supernovae and nucleosynthesis.
For a red sky: consider Mars. Its atmosphere is 1% of Earth’s, and appears red because the ground is red. It’s literally rust. To have such a minimal atmosphere, Mars or any planet would likely have lost its magnetosphere. For that to be the case geological activity and core motion would need to have been dropped nearly to nothing (Mars in fact has some magnetism in the southern hemisphere). To be rust the planet must have a considerable amount of iron, so it needs to have accreted during a period when iron has been nucleosynthesized in abundance, and it needs to have formed in a region of space in which that is the case.
Let’s assume the planet has the same mass as Earth and is in the circumstellar habitable zone which, around Red Dwarfs, would be very close to the star. Tidal-locking would be inevitable, but models predict that atmospheric equilibration is potentially possible between the starward side and its opposite if CO2 and H20 are present. Still, the climate might be pretty turbulent, so expect the need for sturdy shelters capable of thermo-regulation.
The luminosity of a Red Dwarf is no more than 10% of our sun’s, so it will be like living in perpetual twilight. Plants will need to photosynthesize much more efficiently, perhaps via black analogues of chlorophyll.
Life forms could have a very similar metabolisms to earthly organisms. But who knows they might not even be a carbon based lifeforms. Metabolisms are a function of the chemical environment they evolve in. Life that evolve in an ammonia rich atmosphere would be very different than on that evolved in a sulfur rich atmosphere.
I would think that they would evolve big, big eyes or light sensors. It is logical to assume that their visual system would extend into the infrared end of the electromagnetic spectrum, since a red dwarf’s visible light emission peaks in the red portion of the spectrum.
They would not see colors like we do. They could see inside thick dust clouds, obscured galacticcores, and other hidden regions of the cosmos. These unique abilities are thanks to infrared light, a wavelength invisible to the human eye.
Space would look like this to them:
This is how they would see us humans:
How might they observe us?
In infrared our petty reasons for racism and xenophobic behavior completely vanishes.
Looking at us humans in the infrared like these aliens could, it would be impossible for them to understand our human failing of unenlightened racism. They would not see the superficial characteristic of white, black, red or yellow skin. In infrared we would all appear to be the same.
We are all the SAME even when not viewed in infrared but many people still do not understand that.
Their physical size and bodily configuration depends on the gravity of the planet. Massive planet, massive life forms. Smaller planet, thinner lighter life forms. If there are aquatic life forms, they are probably on the level of algae and flagellates. Colors of organisms will be in the white to pale region.
Red Dwarfs are thought to have frequent stellar flares. If you’re caught outside at the start of one, you better have a radiation-resistant coat that will envelop you rapidly.
Check out the free-access special issue on “M star planet habitability” in the journal Astrobiology, http://www.liebertonline.com/toc…, in particular the paper by Tarter et al. NASA and NSF broadly agree, and are funding searches for planets in the M-dwarf habitable zone – have a look at the presentation by Bean at this year’s Exploring Strange New Worlds exoplanet conference – http://nexsci.caltech.edu/confer…
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Extraterrestrial Life Does Exist. Why Should They Be Hostile Towards Us?
Extraterrestrial Life Does Exist. Why Should They Be Hostile Towards Us?
When legendary broadcaster Orson Welles gave his suspenseful 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, it caused a perhaps overblown but nonetheless real panic among Americans who mistook it for news reportage. And while “invaders from Mars” laying waste to the world now seems unlikely, scientists are worried that a similar broadcast in the future could be relating a real alien invasion — and not just one from across our porous southern border.
Astronomers have listened for signals from alien civilizations since 1960, when the Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake co-opted the national observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia, to launch Project Ozma. S.E.T.I Advocates are perhaps driven by frustration after 60 years of listening to the Cosmos and hearing nothing but cosmic crickets. But might our messages serve as a homing beacon for beings less like the cute E.T. and more akin to the rampaging aliens in Independence Day or Darth Vader and his Death Star? That’s the worry.
But is it a worry that is grounded in reality, no matter what Stephen Hawking might proclaim? It makes sense on some levels and then not on others. The only verifiable source of life which we have is our own bubble on Earth. So when reasoning by our own example…be afraid ….be very afraid.
Reason being is that life is very often hostile to other life. Look at the trials of life in nature and the trials of life in the newspapers. Mans inhumanity to man …. All Lives clearly do not matter.
Predators kill their prey. Many herbivores are highly aggressive and will attack and sometimes kill other animals (e.g. boars, hippopotamuses). Many animals fight, injure and potentially kill members of their own species (e.g. males fighting for mating rights). Chimpanzees go to war with other groups of chimpanzees. Anthills to go war with other anthills.
Look at humans. We are pretty damn hostile to other life – we’ve exterminated countless species, and other species we keep enslaved in conditions of horrendous suffering so that we can eat them (e.g. chickens, pigs).
This is not done out of deliberate malice. No one said: “Let’s go wipe out those damned dodos!” It is done out of convenience – an aggregate of small actions and in actions that each serves to make someone’s life nicer in the long or short run.
I saw a chart comparing species by the number of human deaths they’re responsible for in an average year. Sharks weighed in at the bottom of the list, with only 10 human casualties a year. Humans were about tied for first place with mosquitoes, each of them weighing in at close to a million. If you scoped a species like this flying around in the boundless expanse of the universe, wouldn’t your first impulse be to grab a can of Raid and let them have it?
But does it have to be that way?
What about the nature of any (hypothetical) extraterrestrial life? Does brawn win over brains? Does life take life all over the Universe?
Here are a few points to ponder:
1) One hypothesis points out that the incredible level of technology any space-faring species must have achieved indicates that it has successfully navigated its innate tendencies (if any) toward violence, evolving wisdom and social skills. A species like this would welcome with joy a new species — not kill it.
2) Another hypothesis points out that any extraterrestrial species is bound to be so different from us that we could never be able to achieve mutual understanding or even recognition. A species like this might be inimical to our interests — or even our survival — not because of hostility, but because of indifference or unawareness. They might exterminate us the way we blindly make other species extinct when they are under our radar. According to this theory, there is no special reason that they would consider humans (or any other earth species) as interesting — or even visible. In that case, they might bump us off accidentally while they used our atmosphere, for example, for some strange actions only they understand.
3) A third hypothesis suggests that the motives of an extraterrestrial species may be as alien to us as the motives of insects. They might ferociously pursue their horrifying goals of killing us for food or egg chambers or whatever. They may need all our organics, or all our females, or all our air or water. Or they may have inscrutable goals, but instantly fly into a screaming death attack — stopping at nothing, including machine gun fire — if, for example, we try to control the neat stacks of geometric prisms (which exude a deadly toxin) they are placing everywhere.
So extraterrestrial creatures may be benevolent, indifferent, or malevolent. On what basis can we make a prediction? On what evidence would we rely to assert a conclusion?
I can not provide any evidence but what I can provide is a point of view.
I am a firm believer that the more intelligent something is the more avenues, aspects, possibilities one can go through or mull over in any given situation. The smarter one is, the Universe becomes less and less black and white. Infinite shades of probability grey exist which are not available to creatures without advanced perceptions, advanced intelligence. The choice of violence and destruction is just one option in a ever increasing venue of options which is available for the advanced intellect. In that perspective I believe it will always be moreadvantageous to create then destroy. Advanced life will respect life in all its forms and handily work out any conflicts that may arise to create win-win scenarios. In the light of ever increasing accounts of UAP’s. This may be why we are still here and pondering such a question.
YOU must note that I am NOT referring to Humans, I am referring to INTELLIGENT life in the Universe.
We are not it. We have only been out of the proverbial caves for the most fleeting instant of cosmic deep time.
But who knows, I always reserve the right to be wrong…
If an alien species invades Earth and destroys or enslaves humanity, it will most likely not be out of malice but out of convenience. Grand Admiral Gorignax does not hate humans, but he reallywants that third conquest medal. His brother-in-law already has three conquest medals, and Mrs. Gorignax has been nagging him about it to no end. You don’t want little Gorignax Junior to go through the horrors of a divorce and custody battle, do you? I’m sorry, but in order to preserve this family, those humans will have to go.
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Assuming E.T. Can Control Gravity What Other Capabilities Can We Expect Them To Have?
Assuming E.T. Can Control Gravity What Other Capabilities Can We Expect Them To Have?
The actual way that the universe works is the same everywhere, however, every intelligent life form will have a different understanding of it. Not only have our laws of physics changed over time, even today, different people have different interpretations of how things work. The more advanced a civilization becomes the closer their model of reality will match the actual universe.
While eventually any two independently developed set of laws of physics should converge, Their current similarity will depend both on how different they were to start with and how much progress has been made.
We don’t understand how gravity works. We understand the effects. It is an attractive force in three dimensions. The ‘fabric’ analogy is a tool to help us visualize what is happening. Space-Time is not real. It is a tool to help us figure out reality. We say gravity bends space time because we can understand that. In reality, nothing is bent, there is no ‘fabric’, and so far as we have discovered, there is no actual entity that we call ‘time.’ Time is another tool we use to help us figure out our reality and what is happening in our reality. Neither the time particle/wave nor the gravity particle/wave has been confirmed. It has been recently glimpsed but that is notconfirmation. Only the effects have been seen or discovered. Like a shadow, when we see it, we know that there is something blocking the light, but in the cases of time and gravity, when we look, we can not find the actual entity that is causing the effect.
Gravity control and inertia suggest that they might posses some form of reactionless drive. A reactionless drive is a device to generate motion without a propellant, presumably incontradiction to the law of conservation of momentum. The name comes from Newton’s third law, which is usually expressed as, “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” A large number of infeasible devices, such as the “Dean drive”, are a staple of science fiction, particularly for space propulsion. To date, no reactionless drive has ever been validated under properly controlled conditions. Since we do not have theory of quantum gravity it might be possible to construct such drive by an advanced intergalactic intelligence.
Since such feats would require lot of understanding of basic physical laws we can assume that any race with such capability have quantum theory of gravity and can exploit it to practical gains.
Having control over gravity permits interesting industrial processes to become possible. Assuming that one have not limitation over it one can imagine that the aliens could create what is essentially a “matter furnace” using gravity to create something like accretion disk allowing conversion matter to energy – far safer than antimatter power.
To be a master of gravity means you are a master of time as well. Times fiery arrow relentless chugging forward can be stopped in it’s tracks. Time would be putty in the hands of these advanced intelligence’s. They could stop time, stretch it and make it their plaything. They may not age and they may be timeless.
To control gravity is to control the Universe at a level at this time we can only dream of. It brings sources of propulsion and energy that would appear as magic to us hairless apes.
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Simple Solution To The Fermi Paradox
Simple Solution To The Fermi Paradox
Enrico Fermi (1901–1954)
The Fermi paradox asks “if there are other advanced alien species, why haven’t we detected them?”. If you delve into this topic you will find a whole lot of utter nonsense written about Kardashev scales, Von Neumann probes and Dyson spheres as if those were even a thing.
Here’s the deal … Space is a really big place. Really really gi-friggin-normously big! One Light-year is 9.46×10^15m. Let’s call it 10,000,000,000,000 (10 trillion) km give or take.
The first part of the paradox is “why haven’t we heard from them?”
We can only observe objects at interstellar distances by measuring their light and radio emissions, i.e. electromagnetic radiation. EM radiation spreads out in spherically expanding waves, so the Inverse-square law predicts that EM intensity declines with the square of the distance from the source.
If we plug in some numbers we can see that in standard MKS units, if our hypothetical alienbuddies orbiting Proxima broadcast a signal of 1w/m2 toward us here on Earth it would decline to only 0.5×10^-34w/m2 by the time it got here. We can multiply that by any output level we like to get the potential intensity of EM at that distance. For reference, the intensity of theCosmic microwave background radiation is about 3.7×10^−18w/m2.
There are clever tricks that radio astronomers can use with arrays of receivers and by focusing on areas of the radio frequency spectrum that aren’t “naturally occurring”, but even so our alien civilization’s total output would be roughly 13-16 orders of magnitude below the cosmic microwave background. It’s likely none of their signal would be recoverable with our current technology. It is argued that ETs would be blasting a much more powerful signal our way. Perhaps they are, but even if they are shooting megawatts our way, it’s still going to be many orders below the cosmic microwave background when it gets here.
And why would they want to shout at us like that anyway? Here on Earth, there is no need to “shout”. Most of our terrestrial communicationsis broadcast within the atmosphere at signal strengths in the single digit integer watt range (there are spectacular exceptions like the Taldom transmitter in Russia). Very little of our radio noise leaks to space because it is intended for communication on Earth. It’s a safe bet the aliens would also use moderate to low power communications as well – if they even use EM at all. So even if they are “close” we probably wouldn’t notice.
The second part of the paradox is “why haven’t they visited us yet?”
Everywhere looks just like everywhere else in space. We have a hard time even detecting the existence of (Earth-sized) planets in the Goldilocks zone about nearby stars. Our smarter cousins may be better at it than us, but they suffer from the same tyranny of distance. Relativity dictates that nothing physical can travel at (or realistically, even close to) the speed of light. There may not be any aliens zipping along in starships.
At the kinds of speeds we can reach now (0.00023c) any star is more than ten thousand years away from us. If we could go a hundred times faster (say 0.01c), a trip to the Alpha Centauri group is 400-800 years (optimistically) because we have to accelerate and decelerate at the other end. Our ETs have the same physics we do and have to overcome the same limits. They might travel at higher speeds, but unless they are vastly more long lived than we are, they simply won’t survive the trip. But at 0.1c they might be in the ballpark.
Here is another take on this apparent paradox…
Lets imagine that the chance of self-destruction for an advanced civilization is ~100% before they become capable of roaming the universe.
Here are some of the common musings which I think are wrong.
1) The Universe Is A Big Place
That doesn’t work. Whatever method we apply to compute how many life-friendly planets are out there, we always arrive at ridiculously large numbers. Considering time + statistics, that means many alien civilizations should exist right now that are highly evolved. If we take the human progress trajectory into the next 1000 years, it’s obvious that we will find ways to bridge very large distances quickly (much faster than light).
There would be tremendously powerful technology, and the first thing you do with this technology is to search for life. Even we with super-primitive tech know how to search for life (but we are lacking the hardware for expeditions).
2) Advanced Cultures Will Turn Inside, Not Outside
Unlikely. Whatever species wins the millions of years of selection will be expansive and aggressive by nature. This is not going away, ever, because that’s who we (and they) are – because if we wouldn’t, we wouldn’t exist.
The assumptions that advanced civilizations will remove the very core that defines who they are is flawed, people (and aliens) don’t do this. In fact, a conscious mind is very likely to be incapable of removing itself. Statistics and tech trajectories simply can’t explain why the universe isn’t humming with high tech aliens.
Unless we turn our attention to certain inevitable dynamics inside these civilizations. The chance an advanced civilization self-destructs before it reaches universe roaming capability approximates 100%. I call it the self-destruction paradigm.
Here is my reasoning and some number games:
Let’s safely assume that every alien high tech civilization reaches a point where it can easily self-destruct. Humanity reached that point in the 20th century. And it’s getting exponentially worse with every day.
Let’s define self-destruction as a civilizational regression back to a point where high tech space travel becomes difficult – a major set back in terms of science, culture and technology. Like a nuclear war, artificial intelligence nightmare or disintegration of the planetary ecosystem.
Let’s also assume that with increasing technology, the number of people needed to initiate self-destruction becomes exponentially smaller: in 1950, you needed one of 2 major countries to initiate human self destruction. Today, you need not more than a network of 100, maybe 1000 bad guys who hack their way towards a few dozen nukes. In the close future, one hacker who creates a self-conscious, evil artificial intelligence. In his basement might be enough.
Now, let’s consider the time between the point at that a civilization reaches self-destructioncapability, and the point at that it could freely roam and screen the universe for alien life.
It’s very hard to exactly estimate this timeline, but it will be quite significant. Let’s say 10,000 years, assuming truly exponential technology growth.
Now, what are the odds that the civilization will self-destruct within this timeline?
Pretty quickly (given exponential scales), a very small number of people – maybe every single member – of the civilization will have the power to destroy the civilization. To make things easier to compute, let’s assume it’s in average 100 hundred people who have to collude to self-destruct. We can also safely assume perfect connectivity between all members, except for the very first decades.
Let’s also assume, based on humanity, an average population of 100 billion people (we are already at 7 billion, so 100 billion average over the next 10,000 years is quite low).
This means all it takes is 100 people out of 100 billion to collude to self-destruct the civilization – and it only has to happen once during these 10,000 years. Let’s assume it takes one month for the evil group to plot and execute the self-destruction (also very lenient given that most of the time they will have super-artificial intelligence at their disposal).
That’s right: you have to make sure continuously over 10,000 x 12 months = 120,000 months that no group of 100 out of 100 billion people decides to go wild, ever.
It’s also pretty safe to assume that there is no security system in the world to prevent them from doing it, since this level of control is hard to imagine. Maybe there are some safety measures in place to screen for deviants, but at this scale, it’s a problem.
So basically this civilization must reach a level of wisdom, foresight and absolutely flawless caring-for-each-other system that out of 100 billion, there will never be 100 people who are pissed or crazy enough to destroy the civilization.
It might be possible to build a wisdom infrastructure like this, but it’s a herculean task.
And I think that all advanced alien civilizations so far have failed to achieve it.
Humanity is utterly unprepared to live up to this task. Fortunately, it will take another 100 or so years before we reach levels of easy universally accessible self-destruction capability. Unfortunately, 100 years is not a lot of time to invent a new wisdom infrastructure that ensures not a single member of the human race has a reason to go crazy.
You can think about the self-destruction paradigm both theoretically / mathematically and from a concrete threat assessment perspective. Combine exponential biotech, physics engineering, AI and software with terrorism and plot it on a 30 year trajectory from today, and you already get a feeling of the problem. Now do it over the next 100 years, and the problem becomes an existential, high-probability threat.
As I eluded to before – self-destruction doesn’t always mean total annihilation.
But if you get set back 10% of the total every 100 years, you can’t go beyond 1000 years of advancement. And you will never roam the universe freely and scan for aliens everywhere, even though it’s so close on your tech trajectory.
I don’t think the “paradox” is a paradox at all. It is based on wildly optimistic assumptions about the ease of detection of alien signals. SETI has been processing radio-telescope data for decades without a single result. We have reasonable lower bounds for the distance to possible civilizations that are most likely 2-10 times as far as Proxima. There’s no reason at all to believe alien civilizations are just dying to get here and meet us.
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NASA WARNS: Asteroid Could Hit Earth causing ‘Immense Suffering And Death’
NASA WARNS: Asteroid Could Hit Earth causing ‘Immense Suffering And Death’
No, it’s not YET ANOTHER conspiracy theory, Armageddon propaganda or end-of-the-world story, but it seems that NASA is worried about the 500-meter Asteroid which is why the Space Agency will send a probe to visit the potential Armageddon asteroid and study it in detail.
If the Asteroid impacts Earth, it would be similar to setting off 3 BILLION tons of explosive.
An asteroid named Bennu which can be seen from Earth as it crosses our orbit every six years could potentially cause ‘Immense Suffering And Death’, and NASA is planning to build a space probe in order to collect rock samples from the Asteroid in fears it may collide with our planet.
The asteroid which is around 500 meters in diameters and traveling around the sun at 63,000 miles-per-hor will pass between the Earth and the moon in the year 2135.
“That 2135 fly-by is going to tweak Bennu’s orbit, potentially putting it on course for the Earth later that century,” Dante Lauretta, professor of planetary science at Arizona University,told The Sunday Times
“It may be destined to cause immense suffering and death,” he added.
While researchers will have a hard time prediction how close the approach of the asteroid between the Earth and the moon will be and how much its orbit will be affected by the fly-by near Earth, Lauretta estimates that it COULD SHIFT the asteroid onto a COLLISION course with Earth.
‘We estimate the chance of impact at about one in 2,700 between 2175 and 2196,’ said Dante Lauretta.
The OSRIS-Rex space probe is set to launch in September and land on the asteroid in 2018. According to researchers, it will spend one year on the surface of Bennu, and it will collect samples of rock before heading back to Earth in 2023.
If the Asteroid impacts Earth, it would be similar to setting off 3 BILLION tons of explosive.
If the mission goes through successfully, it will be the FIRST to visit an asteroid and return with samples to Earth.
According to Lauretta, samples from the asteroid could provide ‘vital data for future generations’.
In order to pick up a sample and head back to Earth, the spacecraft will ‘hover’ over a targeted area where it will lower itself at 10 centimeters per second and will remain in touch with the surface for only five seconds, while it vacuums the target area collecting samples from the asteroid.
Scientists will take advantage of the asteroid-visiting mission and study the building blocks of life by researching the minerals located beneath the surface of Bennu.
Hopefully, this isn’t anywhere similar to the story of the movie Armageddon, but if it is, will someone please gather the boys and girls from the film and give Bruce Willis a call?
A story is circulating around the Internet that suggests Russia has known about alien civilizations for many decades.
Part of this fantastic tale involves a UFO that allegedly crashed in 1969, was recovered by Russian military (see image below) and a dead alien that was reportedly autopsied, according to TheVoiceofRussia.com.
If this scenario sounds familiar, it’s probably because of the most fabled and legendary story involving an alleged crashed UFO and the subsequent autopsy of its alien crew: Roswell, N.M., where those events supposedly occurred in 1947.
Despite official explanations that it was a secret military spy balloon that came down in New Mexico, the Roswell crash has kept the public enthralled for decades.
Not to be outdone, the nearly identical story emerged from the Soviet Union about an unknown craft that crashed near the former district of Sverdlovsk in 1969.
Maybe it’s just easier to pronounce Roswell vs. Sverdlovsk.
But before we get all excited about the Soviet UFO-autopsy story, it should be pointed out that it’s not new. The twist in this storyline is why the Russian event is suddenly getting more media attention than it has in the past.
This entire alleged incident was actually reported on a 1998 TNT special, “The Secret KGB UFO Files,” and hosted by former James Bond actor Roger Moore. The program showed startling filmed segments of the alleged UFO crash — as well as several minutes of the supposed autopsy of the dead alien.
Most serious UFO researchers consider this story to be a complete hoax.
In his 1998 review of “The Secret KGB UFO Files,” NBC News space consultant, former rocket scientist and UFO skeptic James Oberg pointed out how a disclaimer at the beginning of the program said: “What you are about to see may or may not be true.”
“And at the end,” Oberg writes, “two screens full of warning messages were even more to the point. One paragraph read: ‘The Producers disclaim and do not guarantee the accuracy or truthfulness [of] any of the documentation or materials that have been provided by any source … The materials and opinion presented on this program, including documents, film, photo, or video footage come from the sources and are not the responsibility of the Producers.’
“They couldn’t have been more explicit in their announcement that the whole series of episodes about the recovery of a crashed flying saucer in 1969 near Sverdlovsk, and a subsequent autopsy … was a made-up story with posed footage,” Oberg wrote.
If, indeed, this was all a staged hoax, why would The Voice of Russia — which currently broadcasts to 109 million listeners in 160 countries and is considered one of the top five radio broadcasters in the world — suddenly circulate this story again now?
The Voice of Russia also includes references to unconfirmed reports that a UFO crashed or was shot down near the city of Prohlandnyi, in the USSR on Aug. 10, 1989. Like the previous story, this one included alleged alien bodies.
Those aren’t the only dubious stories involving UFOs and aliens to originate in Russia without any major media fanfare in the U.S. or anywhere else.
Earlier this year, the Russian Internet newspaper, Pravda.ru, suggested that a group of scientists had been in contact with extraterrestrials.
According to Pravda, a retired Ministry of Defense official, Alexey Savin, revealed to journalists that “in the late 1980s, a group of researchers from the Expert Management Unit of General Staff managed to make a contact with representatives of another civilization.”
The Pravda story reported how the Ministry of Defense, in the mid 1980s, “organized a large-scale study of paranormal phenomena. The military training site was not a random choice. Experts have long come to the conclusion that UFOs inevitably appear in places where military equipment and weapons are tested.”
Vasily Yeremenko, a member of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement — and formerly with the Soviet Union’s security agency, the KGB — was quoted by Pravda as saying that “the UFO topic today is ubiquitous. Precisely because of its scandalous nature, serious scientists are not willing to identify their position on this issue.”
Aside from the question of why the 1969 crashed UFO-ET autopsy is making the rounds again, is it a surprise that mainstream U.S. media hasn’t paid more attention to these stories over the years?
The Secret Diary Of A Man Who Saw The Future- The Chronicles Of The Future
The Secret Diary Of A Man Who Saw The Future- The Chronicles Of The Future
It is one of the most incredible things you will probably read for years. The Chronicles of the Future tell the bizarre, incredible and “controversial” experience of Amadeus Dienach Paul, who lived at the beginning of last century in Central Europe. Due to a serious illness, the author was in a coma for a whole year, during which he claims his conscience traveled to the future and entered a different body, allowing him to interact with people of that distant era. Even though this might sound extremely bizarre and many will consider these the texts as a “cheap shot”, Dienach writings about the future have been taken very seriously by certain organizations around the world. Some of those are believed to be the Masons. There are many books that contain alleged prophecies and futuristic visions, but none of those come close to the strange circumstances surrounding the experience of Dienach. Furthermore, only a handful of selected individuals have had the privilege of reading these stories; in fact, there are only few printed copies published in Greece.
In 1921, Dienach fell victim to a sleeping sickness, and, as a result of the disease fell into a coma and remained in that state an entire year in the hospital of Geneva. When he woke, he recorded in his diary that he was awake and alert all the time, but not in the year or the place where his body was.
According to the diary of Dienach, his consciousness had traveled into the body of another man called Andrew Northman, and the year was 3906 AD.
According to Dienach, people noticed that in the year 3906 a different consciousness had conquered the body of Andrew Northman, so they decided to show and explain everything about that era, as well as exactly what happened from the twenty-first century until the beginnings of the fortieth century. They understood through what Dienach was going through.
In the future, people mentioned that a new species of humans called Homo Novus Occidantalis were created, these are the next step in evolution, and a lot of incredible things have happened.
For fear of being treated crazy or exposed to ridicule, both personally and professionally, Dienach did not tell his story to anyone but that changed when he moved to Greece.
So how did the story of Dienach end up being told?
At the age of 36, with a very poor health after recovering from coma, Dienach moved to Greece in the fall of 1922, as a gentler and more mediterranean climate would certainly improve his quality of life. Once there, he took the opportunity to practice and teach in a German university. It was there that he met the student George Papahatzis, who later became the vice president of the National Council of Greece, a founding member of the Philosophical Society, and senior Mason.
After two years, his health had deteriorated once again and Dienach decided to move again, this time to Italy. Before leaving, Dienach confided to his favorite student, Papahatzis, a briefcase full of notes, urging him to read in the future. In 1924 Dienach died of tuberculosis.
George Papahatzis translated Dienach notes gradually over a period of 14 years, from 1926 to 1940. Initially he thought his teacher had written a strange novel, but as Papahatzis ead more and more, he realized that what he was translating were the very memories of his teacher.
World War II and the subsequent civil war in the Hellenic country, made Papahatzis temporarily abandon translations of the notes. Subsequently, in the period from 1952-1966, he tried to track down the relatives of his deceased teacher, even traveling to Zürich on twelve occasions.
Once the translation of the incredibly story of Dienach was complete, Papahatzis shared the notes with a closed circle of fellow Masons. The writings were seized by the secret society as critical to the future of mankind and, among insiders, Dienach received the title of prophet of modern times.
The notes of Dienach were available in philosophical circles of Freemasonry, which believed that such information should not be visible to an audience that would not be prepared to handle it. Papahatzis strongly disagreed and published the diary of Dienach which caused him countless problems. He lost his job, was accused of heresy by the Church, and most copies of the book disappeared quickly. In 1979, when Greece was moving onto democracy Papahatzis decided to try again but with similar results.
The Chronicles of the future will probably, one day, become the ideal script for a Hollywood movie that many of us would love to see in theaters. The incredible stories and information contained inside the “diary” of Dienach, if true, will change history of mankind as we see it, the question is, will this diary, which was never intended to become a book, come to its “unintended” audience across the world.
The following three examples are given to the reader to underline the fact that in certain circles, the subject of UFOs and Alien Life Forms is regarded with something bordering dread and in some cases outright fear and loathing. I had gotten to know the Force Science Advisor at COMNAVAIRPAC (Commander Naval Air Forces Pacific Fleet) based at Naval Air Station North Island(NASNI) in San Diego California. The Science Advisor needed me to cull unwanted incoming message traffic from his office code.
He and I were walking along inside the base and having a chat. He made reference to “Blue Sky Projects” at DARPA (Defense Advance Research Projects Agency) and in response I blurted out “Oh, like Field Propulsion, Anti-Gravity and Electro-gravitics?” In response he said, “you mean like FLYING SAUCERS?” Without missing a beat, I said “Yes like Flying Saucers.” He hesitated a moment and then said…”Yes, I’ve spoken to a lot of PILOTS ABOUT THEIR FLYING SAUCER SIGHTINGS.”
He was pulling away. So I let the matter drop. I wasn’t so much interested in Flying Saucer Reports from Military Pilots as I was in finding out what the Force Science Advisor had heard on the grapevine about the back engineering of Alien Technology and the creation of entire fleets of advanced craft which created their own gravitational fields. I didn’t think he would tell me even if he knew but it was worth a shot.
On another occasion I was in Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix Arizona waiting to catch my flight back to San Diego. I was at the Departure Gate. I got to talking to the guy standing in line in front of me. It turned out the guy was a retired test pilot for an aerospace firm and had served in the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Solomon Islands during World War 2. Being somewhat familiar with that campaign I asked him questions about the various air, sea and naval battles in and around Guadalcanal. I can tell he was really enjoying our conversation. He reminisced about “The Night” when two Japanese battleships shelled Henderson Field. Before too long the P.A. announced Final Boarding for our flight so I decided to ask him a roundabout question regarding UFOs. I asked him “did you or anyone you know see any FOO FIGHTERS?” His expression and demeanor immediately changed. Whereas a moment before, he was enjoying our chat and reminiscing about his experiences on Guadalcanal now he didn’t want anything to do with me. He replied “NO” and then turned around and stood with his back to me. End of conversation.
Foo Fighters was the term American pilots and aircrew used to describe the glowing orbs and balls of light that seemed to follow and pace aircraft from all the warring nations during World War 2. Foo Fighters was a term that stuck. Note that the term “UFO” was never mentioned in the brief conversation I had with this guy. Yet the moment I mentioned Foo Fighters his demeanor abruptly changed and I definitely detected fear in the guy. Since he was a former test pilot and may or may not have retained his security clearances and may have been receiving a pension, I can understand his reluctance to discuss such matters. So this guy who has no qualms about pushing an aircraft to the limits of its performance envelope and survived a night when he was being shelled by Japanese Battleships, becomes frightened at the mere hint of “Foo Fighters.”
When I worked in the telecommunications industry I headed up a small “Major Accounts Department.” I reported to a supervisor but since my supervisor was usually out of commission with fierce migraines and often absent, I was for a time the acting supervisor. Our clients were State, Local and Federal Agencies as well as very large corporations. One of the newer members of our team had recently transferred to our department from the main Call Centre. It turned out this guy was an ex u.s. Marine Aviator who flew the Marine Harrier “Jump Jets” out of Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Yuma in Western Arizona and was hoping to catch on with one of the aviation firms which specialized in transporting cargo. (Many former military pilots hope to land a job flying with the passenger airlines or the cargo airlines after their military careers are over.) Meanwhile he was biding his time doing customer service work in this telecom firm.
On one occasion this ex marine pilot overheard myself and a couple of other members of our department talking about UFOs and Flying Saucers. Seated just a few feet away from me, this ex marine stated, “Don’t include me in this conversation. I don’t want to know. I SIGNED A NON-DISCLOSURE STATEMENT.” So I respected his request and did not ask him to share any stories he may have heard or personally witnessed regarding UFOs during his stint as a u.s. Marine Corps Harrier pilot. I could tell by his facial expression, demeanor and body language that the subject matter of UFOs was causing him some degree of emotional distress.
Why such FEAR if UFOs are not supposed to exist? Note the Force Science Advisor in the first story related above…he openly admitted that he had spoken to a number of military pilots who had seen Flying Saucers (and probably UFOs of various shapes and sizes.) He didn’t mind talking about UFOs if we just discussed pilot sightings but that wasn’t what I was after. I have spoken to former airline pilots, former fighter pilots, former policemen, former military personnel and people from all walks of life both civilian and military who had seen UFOs or had encounters with non-human life forms. The subject of UFOs and Alien Life Forms is STILL the most highly classified subject in the world, the efforts of the so-called “Disclosure Movement” notwithstanding. There has been an ongoing debunking and ridiculing program regarding the existence of UFOs and Aliens since January 1953 at the behest of the CIA. The latter has shaped public perception about the subject of UFOs and Aliens to an extraordinary degree especially among those who are content with letting others do their thinking for them. However, as noted above, there are many people throughout society who know that Alien Space Craft exist. They just don’t want to talk about it.
Wetenschappers: “Zwarte gaten zijn deuren naar andere wereld”
Wetenschappers: “Zwarte gaten zijn deuren naar andere wereld”
Volgens een nieuwe studiezijn zwarte gaten deuren naar andere delen van het universum. Voorheen dachten wetenschappers dat alle materie in een zwart gat wordt vernietigd, maar het nieuwe onderzoek suggereert dat zo’n gat fungeert als een doorgang of een tunnel.
Een zwart gat is een gebied waar materie is samengedrukt en ineengestort. Deze rampzalige instorting zorgt ervoor dat er een enorme hoeveelheid massa in een ongelooflijk klein gebied wordt geconcentreerd.
De nieuwe theorie verwerpt het idee dat alle materie in een zwart gat opgehoopt zit in één punt in het centrum, een zogenoemde singulariteit, en dat alle materie is vernietigd.
Wormgat
De wetenschappers stellen dat het hart van een zwart gat werkt als een ‘wormgat’, een doorgang of tunnel door de ruimtetijd zoals je die in talloze sci-fi films ziet. In de film Interstellar reist een team astronauten door een wormgat om te speuren naar een nieuwe thuisplaneet voor de mensheid.
Het wormgat is volgens de onderzoekers kleiner dan een atoomkern, maar wordt groter naarmate meer elektrische lading wordt opgeslagen in het zwarte gat. Iemand die in het zwarte gat terecht zou komen, zou worden uitgerekt tot een spaghettisliert.
Exotische materie
Volgens Albert Einsteins zwaartekrachttheorie kan een wormgat alleen ontstaan in de aanwezigheid van materie met zeer ongewone eigenschappen, ‘exotische materie’ die nog nooit is waargenomen. “Maar in ons model ontstaat het wormgat uit gewone materie en energie, zoals een elektrisch veld,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Gonzalo Olmo van de Universiteit van Valencia.
This UFO is a metallic grey orb. The UFO is very big, car size when compared to the arch under it. The UFO does not look like its flashing light, but I believe one surface of the UFO is dull grey metallic in nature from what I see in the close ups I made. Its shape is perfectly round. Excellent catch by Chase Rhoads of Youtube. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: A strange light that hovered over the St. Louis Gateway Arch this week is sparking plenty of debate on the internet. Surveillance footage recorded at Malcolm W Martin Memorial Park on Tuesday and posted to Facebook shows the mysterious object hovering over the famous arch. “We guarantee you will be perplexed if you watch all 5 minutes of this surveillance footage!” explained the Park, in a post on its Facebook page. The video has been viewed 615,000 times. Possible explanations for the light suggested by commenters on Facebook include a drone with a unidirectional light or a Chinese lantern. Fox 2 News also received video footage of the odd light from Chase Rhoads, who said that he saw something strange over the arch early Tuesday morning. Scott Air Force Base said there was nothing out of the ordinary to report when contacted by Fox 2 News, and a spokesman for the National Park Service said there were no reports of anything strange on Tuesday. This is not the first time that a mysterious object has been spotted near the St. Louis landmark. Video from the same camera at Malcolm W. Martin Memorial Park also captured an unexplained object that appeared in broad daylight on July 14 2016.
UFO OVNI over Coahuila Mexico July 15, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO OVNI over Coahuila Mexico July 15, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 15, 2016 Location of sighting: Choahuila, Mexico This is a dark UFO thats moving across a overcast sky. The UFO is dark, barrel shape, and has a slight thin dome over its top. Mexico is notorious for its UFO sightings, maybe because they are so close to the ocean where underwater bases existed for thousands of years, or maybe because of all the bases below the volcanos for thousands of years. I believe the ancient Mayans and Aztecs are descendants of one of these alien species that lives in this region. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Pair of UFOs Fly Over Neighborhood In New York on July 31, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Pair of UFOs Fly Over Neighborhood In New York on July 31, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 31, 2016 Location of sighting: Peekskill, New York, USA This UFO has a wingman. There are two UFOs here that fly one over the other at the same speed. These UFOs were over Peekskill, New York just last week and moving silently over a small neighborhood. Great video, by Latest UFO UFOvni of Youtube. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Men In Black Are Suspects of Murdering UFO Researchers
Men In Black Are Suspects of Murdering UFO Researchers
Conspiracy theory on the death of UFO researchers has surfaced after a second person of their field died this month. Paranormal investigator Max Spiers, who had claimed he once took part of a secret government project called supersoldier, was found dead this month in Poland.
Some believe that the investigator was murdered, but the official cause of death has yet to be released.
On Wednesday, news of the passing of fellow UFO researcher Gaurav Tiwari made headlines on several websites. Tiwari was discovered without life in India under an alleged mysterious circumstances. However, in a statement by the authorities, he committed suicide.
Conspiracy theorists have long been suggested that secret services or known as men in black block off UFO chasers who nearly get close to the truth.
Men in Black is allegedly a group of undercover agents in dark glasses and black suits, working under the directive of FBI and CIA. One of their missions is apparently to force witnesses of UFO and alien phenomena not to say something to prevent the truth about space alien visitations to Earth from getting out to the public.
Governments, according to the conspiracy theory, are worried of the truth to be made known to the masses that we are not alone because of the negative impact it may bring to religion and the rule of law.
Last month, there were speculations that a NASA scientist may have been silenced after she was found dead at the back of a shopping mall.
Bright UFO Travels Low Over A Siberian Field In Russia
Bright UFO Travels Low Over A Siberian Field In Russia
Massive, luminous UFO was seen traveling above Russia and gliding low over a Siberian field. The ball of light amazed and at the same time scared locals who witnessed the rare phenomenon.
The shaky footage of the apparent UFO seems to show a glowing object going towards the camera, before turning off into trees close to Siberia’s largest city, Novosibirsk.
However, Russian experts believe it could be ball lightning, which usually associated with thunderstorms. Ball lightning could last longer than the usual split-second flash. It has been reported to appear as a glow during thunderstorms, ranging from a golf ball size to several meters across. Nevertheless, scientists admitted that they still did not fully understood the atmospheric electrical phenomenon.
There have been reports that a ball lightning injured or even killed people and destroyed buildings. It was only widely known to exist in the 1960s, but until today, researchers could not be sure of the cause of the phenomena.
In August 2013, U.S. Air Force Academy researchers in Colorado tried to make and photograph bright white plasmoid balls in their lab to understand ball lightning better. Generated from high-power electric sparks and discharged by electrodes, the balls were submerged in electrolyte solutions. The researchers found elements in the local soil from the balls, including silicon, iron, and calcium. But the researchers were not certain if they had created the ball lightning in their study.
Churchill Covering Up A RAF Close UFO Encounter Over Britain, Personal Bodyguard Confessed
Churchill Covering Up A RAF Close UFO Encounter Over Britain, Personal Bodyguard Confessed
Great wartime prime minister of Britain ordered a special team of Whitehall mandarins known as the Flying Saucer Working Party to know the truth of the increasing number of UFO sightings. The personal bodyguard of Sir Winston Churchill had made a deathbed confession that his boss covered-up a close encounter over Britain with RAF itself.
RAF pilots began reported encounters with an unknown aerial object called foo fighters towards the end of World War 2. Officials thought they were German secret weapons, but the number of sightings even increased after the end of the war.
In July 1952, US Air Force radar detected various unidentified objects flying in a restricted zone above the White House and fighter jets had to be scrambled on two consecutive weekends, causing public panic.
Churchill then sent a memo to his Secretary of State for Air Lord Cherwell requesting an immediate investigation.
A confidante and close friend of the PM, Lord Cherwell, assigned the probe to the Flying Saucer Working Party.
The top secret group was formed two years earlier to investigate UFO sightings. Investigators concluded that though it was impossible to rule out the extraterrestrial involvement of sightings of the unknown aerial object, it was more likely down to terrestrial aircraft, birds, balloons, or other natural phenomena. The group also said that it could even be just optical illusions, psychological delusions, or deliberate hoaxes. That seemed to lay down the subject of extraterrestrial UFO to rest.
However, in 1999, the MoD received a letter from the grandson of a retired RAF officer inquiring on an incident wherein Churchill allegedly prevented the reporting of an unidentified flying object encounter off the east coast of England.
The unnamed officer was the personal bodyguard of Churchill. He claimed that a metallic UFO shadowed a RAF reconnaissance plane off Cumbria from a mission over occupied Europe.
The crew allegedly captured pictures of the mysterious aerial object, which they claimed hovered without noise close to the plane. When Churchill knew about the close encounter, he apparently ordered the incident to stay classified for at least 50 years and should only be released after being reviewed by a future PM. Churchill was allegedly concerned about a mass panic and impact of faith in God.
Mysteriously, all records of the incident, including the cover-up order by Churchill, apparently disappeared. MoD has claimed that all UFO files before 1967 have been destroyed. However, UFO hunters and conspiracy theorists suggest the British Establishment has been hiding proof of alien visits to Earth.
Nieuw onderzoek suggereert dat het veel aannemelijker zou zijn geweest als het leven heel veel later was ontstaan.
Het universum is grofweg 13,8 miljard jaar oud. Onze planeet is veel jonger: deze ontstond pas 4,5 miljard jaar geleden. En vervolgens duurde het weer een tijdje voor er op de aarde leven ontstond. Je zou dan ook – met de lange geschiedenis van het universum in gedachten – kunnen concluderen dat het leven op aarde vrij laat is ontstaan. En dat het aannemelijk is dat het leven op andere – oudere – planeten al veel eerder ontstond. Sommige onderzoekers gaan daar inderdaad vanuit: ze achten het aannemelijk dat eventueel leven op andere planeten miljarden jaren ouder is dan het leven op aarde. Maar is dat wel zo? Een nieuw onderzoek trekt die conclusie ernstig in twijfel en suggereert zelfs dat het leven op aarde prematuur is: het zou veel aannemelijker zijn geweest als het vele malen later was ontstaan.
Het onderzoek Het leven – zoals wij dat kennen – werd ongeveer 30 miljoen jaar na de oerknal in theorie al mogelijk. De eerste sterren voorzagen de kosmos toen van de noodzakelijke elementen: koolstof en zuurstof. Over ongeveer tien biljoen jaar zullen de laatste sterren sterven en behoort leven in de kosmos niet langer tot de mogelijkheden. Wetenschappers hebben nu gekeken hoe waarschijnlijk het is dat leven tussen die twee punten – 30 miljoen jaar na de oerknal en tien biljoen jaar na het heden – ontstaat.
“WIJ HEBBEN ONTDEKT DAT DE KANS OP LEVEN IN DE VERRE TOEKOMST VEEL GROTER IS”
Kans op leven groeit En wat blijkt? De kans dat leven ontstaat is vandaag de dag veel groter dan in de tijd dat het leven op aarde ontstond. En die kans groeit met de dag. In andere woorden: het leven op aarde is wellicht prematuur. “Als je vraagt: ‘Wanneer is de kans dat leven ontstaat het grootst?’ dan zou je heel naïef misschien zeggen: ‘Nu!’,” vertelt onderzoeker Avi Loeb. “Maar wij hebben ontdekt dat de kans op leven in de verre toekomst veel groter is.”
Levensduur van een ster Verschillende factoren zijn van invloed op de kans dat op een planeet leven ontstaat. Maar de levensduur van een ster is veruit de belangrijkste factor, zo stellen Loeb en collega’s. Hoe groter de massa van een ster, hoe korter deze meegaat. Een voorbeeldje: sterren die meer dan drie keer zo zwaar zijn als de zon leggen al het loodje voordat eventueel leven de kans heeft om te ontstaan. Maar naast dergelijke zware sterren zijn er ook kleinere sterren (rode dwergen). Ze wegen aanzienlijk minder dan de zon en kunnen zo’n 10 biljoen jaar gloeien. Op planeten rond deze sterren heeft het leven dus alle tijd om te ontstaan en zich te ontwikkelen. De kans dat je op zo’n planeet leven aantreft, groeit dus naarmate er meer tijd verstrijkt. Sterker nog: de kans dat je er leven aantreft is in de verre toekomst maar liefst 1000 keer groter dan nu.
Prematuur of niet? “Dus dan kun je jezelf afvragen: waarom leven we niet in de toekomst naast een ster met een lage massa?” stelt Loeb. “Eén mogelijkheid is dat we prematuur zijn. Een andere mogelijkheid is dat de omgeving rond zo’n ster met een lage massa gevaarlijk is voor leven.” Want sterren met een lage massa mogen dan lang meegaan: ze zijn ook zeer actief. In hun jonge jaren stoten ze krachtige zonnevlammen en ultraviolette straling uit die de atmosfeer van elke rotsachtige planeet in de leefbare zone kunnen doen verdwijnen.
Maar hoe zit het nu dan? Is het leven op aarde prematuur? Of is het leven rond sterren met een lage massa te gevaarlijk? Om een antwoord op die vraag te krijgen, moeten we nabijgelegen rode dwergen en hun planeten gaan bestuderen en kijken of er op die planeten leven is. Dat is een mooi klusje voor toekomstige telescopen, zoals TESS en James Webb
De Perseïden komen eraan: tientallen vallende sterren per uur te zien!
De Perseïden komen eraan: tientallen vallende sterren per uur te zien!
Caroline Kraaijvanger
We moeten nog even geduld hebben: de meteorenzwerm piekt pas op 12 augustus. Maar nu al zijn er regelmatig ‘vallende sterren’ te zien.
Het is misschien wel de bekendste sterrenregen van het jaar: de Perseïden. En volgende week piekt deze sterrenregen in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag met tussen de 70 en 80 lichtstreepjes per uur.
Nu al meteoren zien In aanloop naar deze piek zijn echter ook al heel wat lichtstreepjes te spotten, dus grijp de komende dagen je kans! Volgens Hemel.waarnemen.com zijn meteoren van deze zwerm tot 12 dagen voor en na het maximum te zien. Wel zijn er meer meteoren te zien kort voor of kort na de piek. Ga je drie dagen voor de piek kijken, dan kun je wel dertig meteoren per uur spotten. Kijk je een dag eerder naar de hemel, dan ligt het aantal zichtbare meteoren zo’n 40 procent lager.
Bewolking en de maan De meteoren – die een snelheid van zo’n 209.000 kilometer per uur hebben – zijn prima met het blote oog te zien. Zolang het maar niet bewolkt is. Een andere mogelijke spelbreker is de maan. Wanneer deze flink verlicht is, zijn zwakkere meteoren niet of moeilijk te zien. Dit jaar kan de maan inderdaad roet in het eten gooien, omdat deze – tijdens de piek – voor 70 procent verlicht is.
Komeet De Perseïden geeft elk jaar acte de présence. De sterrenregen ontstaat doordat de aarde door de baan van de komeet Swift-Tuttle beweegt. Deze komeet heeft in zijn baan stofdeeltjes achtergelaten die in botsing komen met moleculen in de atmosfeer van de aarde. Daarbij komt energie vrij die wij zien in de vorm van lichtstreepjes. De termen ‘sterrenregen’ of ‘vallende sterren’ zijn dan ook wat misleidend: de Perseïden hebben niks met sterren te maken.
Wie de lichtstreepjes graag met eigen ogen wil zien, doet er goed aan een plek met weinig lichtvervuiling op te zoeken. Ook is het belangrijk je warm aan te kleden.
Luke Aikins is a well known, world-renowned skydiver, but his latest stunt is the stuff of legend.
Having been a stuntman in Iron Man 3 and acting as a safety and training advisor for the United States Parachute Association, Aikins is well respected in the skydiving community.
However, 99.9% of skydivers use a parachute when soaring through the skies.
Last week, Aikins became the first person ever to jump out of a plane without a wingsuit or parachute and survive the free fall/landing, thanks to a well-constructed safety net some 25,000 feet below.
After jumping out of the plane at 25,000 feet, Aikins soared down to the 10,000 square foot safety net that would ultimately save his life and help him successfully complete the epic stunt.
Impressively, Aikins utilized a GPS on his way down to land squarely in the net which was located in the California desert.
We are now in a very technologically advanced generation, and as we make progress every single day, the possibility of finding life beyond Earth seems more plausible than ever.
UNIVERSE IS TEEMING WITH POTENTIAL LIFE-BEARING PLANETS
Looking for liquid water – the hallmark sign for life – has been the NASA’s strategy to search for life beyond Earth. A planet must be within the so-called habitable zone, the area around a star in which a planet’s surface is able to hold liquid water.
Since its launch in 2009, the Kepler space observatory has discovered over 4,000 potential exoplanets, of which more than 2,000 have been confirmed.
Kepler was launched on March 6, 2009 in Florida on a mission to explore the structure and diversity of planetary systems.Source: NASA/Kim Shiflett
THE KEPLER LIST NARROWED DOWN TO 20
A study, published in the Astrophysical Journal, from a team of researchers led by Dr. Stephen R. Kane, associate professor of Physics and Astronomy at San Francisco State University, painstakingly studied and cataloged all the exoplanets from the Kepler list to determine which among them is most likely to harbor life.
The research lists down 216 planets found within the habitable zone and, after examining other factors like size and composition, the research team further narrows down the list to 20 planets within a conservative habitable zone having a rocky surface — which are very similar to our planet Earth. The scope of the research does not include finding out whether alien life exists in those 20 Earth-like planets, though.
In an interview, Kane states, “unfortunately we cannot give probabilities that a planet has life at this point since we still only have one data point – the Earth – for which we know life exists. What we can do is focus our efforts on the planets most likely to yield evidence of extraterrestrial life and that is what we hope our work will provide.”
Filer’s Files #32 -2016 Invisible Residents - PART I
Strange cloud kilometer-wide object over filmed over the city of Cartagena, Colombia
Filer’s Files #32 -2016 Invisible Residents - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: UFOs and Major-General Wilfred de Brouwer, Bill Tompkins Revelations, Canada Jets Scrambled at Drone, Ivan Sanderson Invisible Residents, How far you can see, and Soul Leaving Body.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Texas, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Columbia, Denmark, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, and England, and Scotland in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The weekly intelligence report provides you with information on the latest sightings and UFO news that you need to understand the world situation. The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force and Prince Phillip told me of his personal interest in UFOs. The US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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UFOs and Major-General Wilfred de Brouwer, Deputy Chief, Royal Belgian Air Force
The General states,
“In any case, the Air Force has arrived to the conclusion that a certain number of anomalous phenomena has been produced within Belgian airspace. The numerous testimonies of ground observations compiled in this [SOBEPS] book, reinforced by the reports of the night of March 30-31 [1990], have led us to face the hypothesis that a certain number of unauthorized aerial activities have taken place. Until now, not a single trace of aggressiveness has been signaled; military or civilian air traffic has not been perturbed nor threatened. We can therefore advance that the presumed activities do not constitute a direct menace. The day will come undoubtedly when the phenomenon will be observed with technological means of detection and collection that won’t leave a single doubt about its origin. This should lift a part of the veil that has covered the mystery for a long time. A mystery that continues to the present. But it exists, it is real, and that in itself is an important conclusion. “
This is a typical photograph of a triangle taken over Belgium.”
Postface in SOBEPS’ Vague d’OVNI sur la Belgique – UN Dossier Exceptionnel, Brussels: SOBEPS, 1991.
Bill Tompkins Revelations
I would also like to thank the Navy brass for allowing Bill to tell his classified story to the public for the public good. While Charles Hall has been most involved with the Tall White ETs with very useful specific information on the TW technology and culture, Bill because of his high level clearances and positions in NASA and in the defense industry is able to broaden our perspective greatly.
This selection is especially true in regards to military ET threat assessments and the Navy’s technological push into space to counter these threats through the development of fantastic near and deep space battle groups and bases in this solar system and on other solar systems across the universe in alliance with friendly ETs. Bill and the female Nordic ETs played a very large role in conceptualizing and presenting this to the Naval High Command which essentially runs NASA contrary to those that believe NASA is really a public space program. Essentially the conceptualization is copying for earth humans what the Nordic ETs already have operating across part of the Milky Way Galaxy and beyond.
He claims in his book, “Selected by Extraterrestrials,” there is an alien ET threat. He helped the Navy to push into space to counter these threats through the development of fantastic near and deep space battle groups and bases in this solar system and on other solar systems across the universe in alliance with friendly ETs. With the help of mostly female Nordic friendly ETs infiltrated into the secret programs involved, he was able to complete his missions even though hindered by unfriendly Reptilian-Grey groups also infiltrating the secret programs through the management of the defense industry and the larger public sphere of national and global politics and economics. The Reptilians have become masters of manipulation of earth human minds and bodies through our sexuality and baser instincts it would seem.
Through Bob’s eyes we see the struggle from the very beginning of the race into space as part of a proxy war between the Reptilian-Grays who wish to keep earth humanity in bondage and on earth subjugated as property. The other races like the Nordic humans intervene both physically and telepathically to help earth humans develop technologically and spiritually in order carry their own weight in these complex extraterrestrial struggles across the universe and into other dimensions and beyond. As the TW have said to Charles just because you move into space the laws of economics still hold. It would seem that the friendly ETs are spread rather thin across this sector of the Milky Way Galaxy and beyond and are bringing primitive technological worlds up to speed rather quickly in their struggles against those races that wish to violate, enslave and generally prey upon other races.
Sumerian Annunaki god may depict Reptilian Extraterrestrials
With thousands even millions of planets occupied by various Extraterrestrials the situation is extremely complex, but one can see that the military is now beginning to cut through the confusion as to who is friend and who is foe to see the more universal big picture and our place in it. So I think this briefing by Tompkins is not only being allowed by top military brass but is even being supported, because they now understand that every man, woman and child has a stake in this struggle not just in outer space but each inner space of the individual as well. As we can see and this is supported by Bill as well, the battle lines go right through our collective and individual psychology, minds, emotions and our sexuality. As you develop you realize what is at stake and your role in the scheme of things.
You will very much pay much more attention to your own personal development and evolution and the thoughts and emotions you harbor within. If the Extraterrestrials are politically organized and possess a certain culture similar to our own, they may be recognized as an independent people. If they consider our culture to be devoid of political unity, they would have the right to colonize. Of course, this colonization cannot be conducted on classic lines. A superior form of colonizing will have to be conceived, that could be a kind of tutelage, possibly through the tacit approval of the United Nations. You learn how easy it is for advanced predatory ETs and even non-physical intelligences to destructively manipulate people through their destructive emotions like, fear, hate, anger, guilt, despair, depression etc. On the other hand one can see how easily more constructive ETs can manipulate our minds in bodies through love, compassion etc. in a way that counters the psychological threats to our inner and outer worlds. The very fact the world is having constant wars indicates humans are being manipulated. Thanks to Stephen Mera and Phenomena Magazine – April 2016
How far can you See?
With an unobstructed view of the horizon, the average person with an eye height of ~5’7″ (1.7 meters) can see 2.9 miles (4.7 kilometers), a person standing 100 feet (30 meters) off the ground can see 12.2 miles (19.6 kilometers), and a person atop an incredibly high location like the 29,029 foot (8,848 meter) peak of Mt. Everest can see 209 miles (336 kilometers) to the horizon.
Canada Jets Scrambled at Drone
Ottawa, Ontario — Dave Palachik reports NORAD dispatched two CF-18 fighter jets to the skies over Ottawa after a drone was spotted flying near the airport of the nation’s capital last month. • The CF-18s were scrambled from Canadian Forces Base Bagotville in Quebec at about 5:45 p.m. ET on May 25, 2016, after commercial airline operators raised concerns about a suspicious unmanned aerial vehicle near the Ottawa airport.
The largest available drone is only 2 feet in size – highly unlikely to be seen at 1.8Km away ATC would have seen this drone on radar approaching so close to the plane but it just suddenly appeared • The Air Canada flight also saw the “drone” 2000 feet higher and 5900 feet away • Military drones cannot fly at 37-55 kHz • Military drones are not detected by ACT radar • If a homemade drone extremely sophisticated and using hacked drone CPU controls
“DRONE” IS THE NEW BUZZ WORD FOR PILOTS TO OPENLY REPORT UFOs
CF-18s
The drone was spotted by the pilots of WestJet Flight 366, from Toronto to Ottawa, as well as Air Canada Flight 458, also from Toronto to Ottawa. The WestJet pilots flew past the drone as the Boeing 737 plane was descending into the Ottawa airport at about 4:45 p.m. ET.
The pilot’s call to the airport’s air traffic controllers was recorded by the website liveATC.net, which monitors air traffic control communications across the globe. “Just to let you know we just flew pretty close to a drone at 6,700 feet,” a pilot can be heard telling air traffic controllers. • The pilots of the Air Canada flight spotted the drone on their descent in an Airbus A320 just a few minutes after the WestJet flight spotted it. • “I can see the drone,” a pilot can be heard telling air traffic controllers in another recording. The scrambled fighter jets were not able to locate the drone when they arrived and the jets returned to CFB Bagotville, according to DND. The RCMP is investigating on June 6, 2016; nearly two weeks after the incident, Transport Canada filed a report about the sightings of a “large drone” near the flight paths of the two planes. The report says that the WestJet pilots spotted the drone on the plane’s left side at the same altitude of the plane, about 6,700 feet. The Air Canada flight was flying at 8,000 feet when its pilots spotted the drone about 1.8 kilometers to its left, flying about 2,000 feet below the plane’s altitude. The drone headed to the southeast at 37 to 55 km/h on radar and was lost at about 4:55 p.m. ET, the report states.
Facts about drones
Commercial and “pro” consumer drones cannot reach 6700 feet. They are restricted to 1500 feet GEO-mapping in high end drones prevent them from flying in G restricted airspace and near airports The best available drones can only fly for up to 14 minutes while at their maximum altitude and speed 3 – 4 high powered batteries would be required to fly for 25 – 30 minutes seen near the Ottawa airport, according to a Department of National Defence spokesperson. The drone was spotted by the pilots of West Jet Flight 366, from Toronto to Ottawa, as well as Air Canada Flight 458, also from Toronto to Ottawa. The West Jet pilots flew past the drone as the Boeing 737 plane was descending into the Ottawa airport at about 4:45 p.m. ET. The pilot’s call to the airport’s air traffic controllers was recorded by the website liveATC.net, which monitors air traffic control communications across the globe. “Just to let you know we just flew pretty close to a drone at 6,700 feet,” a pilot can be heard telling air traffic controllers. The pilots of the Air Canada flight spotted the drone on their descent in an Airbus A320 just a few minutes after the WestJet flight spotted it. “I can see the drone,” a pilot can be heard telling air traffic controllers in another recording. The scrambled fighter jets were not able to locate the drone when they arrived and the jets returned to CFB Bagotville, according to DND. The RCMP is investigating. MUFON Case 77598 –Thanks to MUFON CMS
Thanks to Patricia Hart. path@mufoncanada.com Thanks to MUFON CANADA PDF
Ivan Sanderson’s Invisible Residents
The professional biologist who founded the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in Columbia, New Jersey, wrote the earth has “Invisible Residents” The Reality of Underwater UFO, was the first UFO book I ever read. He states, “Could the ultimate docking stations for some of the UFOs seen constantly around the world be deep in our oceans? Could these still-operational underwater docking bases have been built in our distant past by extraterrestrials?” Sanderson chronicles hundreds of curious unidentified underwater object incidents, many that emerge from the water to fly through the air, and draws some startling conclusions. He also wrote, “The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World” for Saga magazine in 1972. Reprinted in Paradox, by Nicholas R. Nelson, Dorrance & Co., Ardmore, Penn. 1980.
Sanderson noticed the disappearance of aircraft and ships in certain areas of the world and plotted thousands of mysterious sinking’s and crashes using the latest technology and statistical data analysis. His success was startling. “The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World,” plotted ship and plane disappearances worldwide, focusing attention on 12 areas, equally spaced over the globe, in which magnetic anomalies, UFO sightings and energy aberrations were linked to a full spectrum of strange physical phenomena.
Highest on Sanderson’s statistical priority list was a lozenge-shaped area east of Miami, in the Bahamas, on the western tip of the infamous Bermuda Triangle. This area’s “high profile” of strange events, Sanderson concluded, was mostly due to the enormous flow of air/and sea traffic in the area. Other zones of anomaly, though less familiar, were equally rich in disappearances and space-time shift occurrences. …
Another area of continuing disappearances and mysterious time warps is the Devil’s Sea located east of Japan between Iwo Jima and Marcus Island. Here events have become so sinister that the Japanese government has officially designated the area a danger zone. Often there is no trace of the disappeared ships or craft as if they were moved to a different time zone or dimension.
Sanderson theorized that the tremendous hot and cold currents crossing his most active zones might create the electromagnetic gymnastics affecting instruments and vehicles. His theory is now being balanced against several.” – -Anti-Gravity page 35.
Unlike any other book, because it contains UFO map’s, map’s that plotted UFO Sightings over a year long period, and UFO activity that could be studied…. very scientific techniques and an unbiased approach, learn about ufo mapping, with insights, like: – the straight line connectedness of ufo activity – orthoteny – a must read for any well balanced interest in ufo’s. David Childress has updated this excellent book. https://books.google.com/books?id=_BKYTHMBLj8C&printsec=frontcover&s
Soul Leaving Body
An unnerving piece of security camera footage from a Chinese hospital appears to show a woman’s soul leaving her body after she passed away!
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Filer’s Files #32 -2016 Invisible Residents - PART II
Filer’s Files #32 -2016 Invisible Residents - PART II
Sightings in the United States
Arizona Triangle
Phoenix — I never saw the object with my naked eye. As I was going through my photo’s this morning that I took on the morning of July 29, 2016, of the storm that passed through, I found the object in the very last photo. I took five photo’s, all of which were taken within a 10-15 second period. And this is the only photo the object appears in.
I’m providing the original photo from my camera phone. o filters, no retouches, etc. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Lights
Temecula — I was sitting in my car on the third story parking structure getting ready to head home from work on July 27, 2016. I saw an object flying through the sky out of the corner of my eye that appeared to be on fire. At first I thought it was an airplane on fire. Then on closer inspection it had a long red/flaming trail and as I watched it slowly continue on a straight path.
The object spilt into two objects. Both objects had the bright red flaming trails and continued to stay on the exact same path. They didn’t deter from their course and remained side by side the entire time. I eventually lost the objects behind a building. The event lasted for 1 minute and 20 seconds and right after I saw the objects I heard a helicopter flying over head towards the directions of the objects. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Sun City — My sister and I talked about the two lights in early morning on July 30, 2016, that didn’t belong to what we normally see in sky, I took pictures to see if they were planets or satellites with the flash on my camera. I eventually enhanced the brightness on the pictures to see the two objects?
I was startled to see a sphere and more spheres appear in the photos. I did not see the object(s) until I enhanced the pictures using the brightness feature on the computer. I feel unsure about what is in the sky, yet I believe these are ufos. I just want an explanation if someone knows what it is. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Objects
Poncha Springs— Two UFOs similar in nature were moving erratically and stopping on occasion. It was fading in and fading out, changed directions suddenly, and would go further away and return closer. It would rise and fall in altitude slowly and quickly, almost as if they were monitoring the mountain range. Once the disappeared (about 1.45 hrs) I went back inside and have bee watch for them about every hour.
Nor is this my first sighting in the Rockies, or elsewhere in the world. I lost two hours driving home last Friday night in Poncha Pass from the UFO Watchtower Conference after I had sighted a bright UFO similar to the ones I saw today. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Connecticut Cylinder
North Branford — I was driving home from my job and I looked up to see a cylinder like object moving across the sky on August 3, 2016. It was moving west to east.
I tried to focus to see if I had wings, but saw nothing that’s when I realized it was of the unknown and rushed for my phone and took three pictures.
I was only able to catch it on the third try (lucky) since I was driving in slow traffic that was making it difficult to take a clear picture.
If I’m able to send this to an iPhone it will play a three second video. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Cylinder
Ocala— This incident began after a friend and I went outside on the porch to watch a storm system that was approaching at 8:30 pm as the sun was setting. I noticed a look on her face that caught my attention and immediately upon looking south I noticed a very brightly lit “sphere” moving towards us rather quickly. It was so bright and moving so quickly that it gave the appearance of being close. The color was a bluish tint but did not appear to be casting light in any direction.
As the object got closer it abruptly stopped and hoovered for multiple minutes. At this point I began recording with my cell phone, then the sphere flashed “off” and left a pulsating red light. At this point my friend took off down the road to try and get a different view and possibly see what size the object was. When the craft went to a blinking red light I could see several other red lights further away. It did a couple circular patterns before returning to its fully illuminated state.
At this point it descended below the tree level and before it disappeared car horns were honking and dogs barking. My friend reported the same things I saw and said it was much bigger than a drone. I had a feeling we were not meant to see it and I felt afraid. I had heavy breathing and very high heart rate during the 10 minute ordeal. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Also Has a Bermuda Triangle Area of Mystery
The Nevada Triangle is typically defined as spanning from Las Vegas in the southeast to Fresno in the west, and to Reno at the top. It is said that this moonscape of sparsely populated rugged wilderness has been the site of by some estimates around 2,000 aircraft crashes over the past 60 or so years, with many of these happening under mysterious circumstances, with experienced pilots, without any clear reason, and with wreckage never found. Many pilots who have nearly crashed in the Nevada Triangle near the Sierra Nevada have reported experiencing a deep sense of confusion and profound disorientation during their flights. In the end, no one is quite sure of why so many planes have gone down here, some of them quite large planes rather than light aircraft and with experienced crews under neither ideal conditions, nor even how many planes has actually gone down here, and the area has managed to create an air of mystique around itself.
Many still insist that there are forces beyond our understanding at work here pulling in planes to their doom. Talk of the Nevada Triangle is often punctuated with mentions of Area 51, aliens, or top secret tests of experimental aircraft, as well as the possibility of some form of magnetic anomaly or a vortex of some type. Adding to the mysterious quality of the region is that many of the crashed planes have never been found.
In some cases these have been rather large, rugged military aircraft such as B-24 Liberators or B-17 Flying Fortresses.
This is most likely due to the inaccessibility of the remote area, but sometimes things are stranger. One Army fighter pilot Lt. Leonard C Lydon said he parachuted from his plane when his squadron got hopelessly lost in the mountains here. He claimed to have clearly seen the P-40 fighter go down about a mile from his position, near the Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks, and was sure that he knew where it had crashed.
However, when a search team returned to the area he specified, no sign of any wreckage or the plane could be found. So what is going on here? Is it aliens who are rumored to be in the area, the government covering its top-secret Area 51, magnetic anomalies, or something even stranger? Or are we just dealing with freaky weather that has a penchant for crushing smaller aircraft, coupled with the remote, unforgiving wastelands? There will probably always be tales of places on this planet that disappear people without a trace. We may not ever know the reasons why, or how, but they will always capture our imagination. These places will always lie out there, just beyond our reach and beyond our current capacity to comprehend them. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org
New Jersey Lights
Medford— When I first noticed the UFO I was walking my neighbor’s dog across the dam after visiting the lake on August 2, 2016. It was a little after 10:30 PM on a clear night. I was put on alert when the dog crouched down and started pulling me across the bridge. There was no one around and I hadnt seen a car all night. When I looked up I saw the ship and was trying to reason with myself as to what type of plane it could be. However, I quickly saw that it was too large of an aircraft to be flying so low and further more it had no visible propellants and an odd light formation. I hurried up the street and lost sight of it. A few blocks further I stopped to let the dog pee. When I turned I saw the UFO for the second time. As I watched it, it dipped down closer to the trees and emitted a beam of light. The outside of it was jagged looking, and it appeared to be a very solidly built ship. There were red blinking lights on the sides and unwavering white ones in the front and back. Scared out of my mind, and firmly convinced it was not a government airplane, I sprinted the rest of the way home. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Disc
Onondaga County— I was on a hilltop on July 17, 2016, taking nature photographs. It was on private property. I do not know the owners name but he gave me permission to go onto his property which was the second highest elevation in Onondaga County.
While there I was photographing flowers and the surrounding hills and sky. I was there probably 3 -4 hours. When I got home, I uploaded my photos to my computer and noticed something in the upper left hand corner of one photo. I cropped it to look at it closer. I do not know what it is. A little research into UFOs gave me some information, but not enough to identify the object. Can you tell me what this is? Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Hampshire
Mount Washington — I noticed the object in the background of two photos that were taken of me and my daughter and her friend on the top of Mount Washington on July 27, 2016.
When I zoomed in on them. Both photos were taken by another person at the summit.
Both photos were taken no more than 5 seconds apart.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Dakota Light
Bismarck— I was just sitting outside having a smoke and watching a thunder storm move into the area on June 9, 2016, when I noticed a blue-violet kind of glow rise straight up.
I couldn’t tell what I was seeing, it didn’t make sense. As soon as I could get my phone out this is what I tried to record. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Orb
Yellow Springs — It was about 5:30 PM, in the evening in late July, overcast, and it had been drizzling. I was washing dishes and looked out my kitchen window. I my saw cat sitting on top of a fencepost and thought it looked cute. I went out to take a picture of him. Pictures kept coming out blurry. Took about 5 and gave up. It wasn’t until I downloaded them onto my computer that I found one in focus, and saw the lights. Clearly the object was circling the cat in a clockwise direction. He is looking to his left, which is where he heard it. It’s lights or radiation are reflecting in the Yellow Springs cat’s eyes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Lights
Austin — On August 2, 2016, at 11 pm myself and 7 kids were about 100 feet from our apartment when we saw a huge glowing light coming at us from the northeast. Then it broke apart and became two, a smaller one and larger one that both started blinking red, yellow, and green over and over.
It was hovering over either homes or trees in that area. As we entered our home the bigger one disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
Richland— I am not sure what this is. There are two; they each had three bright lights across the front. They hovered in one spot for awhile then turned around, and I could see they were triangular shaped. They had one red light on the back. They turned and went toward north Pasco. I watched them until I lost sight of them. We were driving on the highway when trying to get photos so they are very blurry. The date was Tuesday, July 26, 2016, around 9:30 PM.
Note: The witnesses did see the objects. Many will claim that the lights are just reflections. One needs to take into account witness testimony when evaluating photos. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Lights
Perth— I was looking at the images from the Solar and Heliospherical Observatory Satellite on 4th June 2016 when I saw two objects near the Sun. I screen captured them, then did a close up analysis. I am amazed to see they’re artificial in appearance.
One in particular seems to be shaped very much as I would imagine a spaceship to be with one bulbous front part and a bigger rear and what looks like a tail section pointing up. Although blurry the artificiality of these structures are evident. They are mere specks next to the sun, but would be enormous in relation to planet Earth. The second object is almost like a ‘lawn roller’ in shape with a big cylinder and a distinct thin appendage coming out the back. Enhancing the image seems to show vapour coming off it. Given the extreme heat near the Sun, I am not surprised. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Boomerang
Prevost — This year has changed meas I know we are not alone. I was shocked by watching them about four hours on April 23, 2016, doing the transformation into another ship and there are other ships in the area close by.
They are there for sure and I’am a pretty smart person. The last picture is through trees. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Columbia Disc
Pasto— I was on the first floor of my house in the kitchen and went to the terrace to see the object on January 22, 2015.
I thought it was a UFO as it was a ball of light with orange lights and turned around, and moved in a straight line. I felt fear during and at the time of the sighting.
It moved to the Galeras Volcano and landed there. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kilometer-wide UFO filmed over the city of Cartagena, Colombia
The strange appearance in the sky has led to many speculations on social networks. Some users say it is a natural atmospheric phenomenon while other users say it is a giant camouflaged UFO Mothership that hides itself behind an artificially generated cloud. Cristian David Ramos Martínez captured the strange UFO
Denmark UFO Observed
Audebo –The time was 12:30 am on May 31, 2016 when my family and I were in our beds. Suddenly a strange bright light appeared outside our curtains and shined through our blinds.We live on a quiet road outside the city and in front of the bedroom there is nothing else than the garden and cows in our fields. I got out of bed to see what caused this sharp strange light that y blinded us through the curtains. We thought it might be a tractor’s headlights, but it turned out to be something different? These strange lights up in the sky sporadically appear. The almost seem to have coded language turned on as the video shows. I filmed as best I could with the phone in one hand and curtain in the other. The sky was all black except for the lights and no lines in the sky indicating a flare or fireworks. The big round light was bright above the middle of the field! Blinding spotlights high up in nothingness. It was not an airplane or fireworks or anything else my family can think of as a logical explanation. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indian Reservation Unceded in Canada
Wikwemikong –- So my family and I are quite sure that it was a UFO that we observed or that observed us this dark night in May. I was told by the witness she was sitting outside on her deck at 5:30 am having coffee. Her daughter came out onto the deck with her coffee; andshe noticed a bright object in the sky. She managed to take two pictures of the object as it flew near the Moon.
She soon came to the conclusion that it was an UFO. The object flew in a straight line with no sound and continued in a southwest direction until it was no longer observed. The mother and her daughter very excited when they first realized what they were seeing and told their friends that they had seen a UFO. They decided to put the picture on Facebook. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Malaysia Lights
Selangor – On August 2, 2016. I was on my way home from Uni. My mum was driving and we were about five minutes away from our condo, and my mum says, “Ann! Look at the sky, there’s something weird!” I got a view of a hovering UFO only 25 to 35 meters away from us. I quickly took out my phone and took a video, zooming into what initially looked like a giant lantern with flashy bright lights which switched colors from purple to blue to a yellowish golden color. I thought to myself maybe it was a drone. That was when my camera stopped recording as we got nearer to the UFO’
It was huge and not a plane as it was really big. It was higher than the trees, an irregular object with an indescribable shape. There were multiple colored LED lights which formed a ring of green, yellow, red, blue, purple, almost like a rainbow, forming a giant circle. These lights were attached to the grayish metallic UFO. It wasn’t that clear because of the bright flashy lights. I immediately called my friend to rush out of her house to look but, she didn’t see anything. She was amazed by my video of changing lights. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Zealand Disc
Queenstown — I was waiting for my plane at Queenstown airport and just took a photo of the airfield with my Pentax digital camera on February 2016.
It was only after I had loaded the memory card to my Mac lap top that I noticed the rather strange formation in the top right of the picture.
Further closer scrutiny seemed to suggest that there are perhaps two or three UFOs in the sky at the trajectory and time. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Portugal Orb
I took the photo because the clouds looked nice on June 29, 2016, and a few days later I noticed the sphere.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Russia Orb
Tyumen – On June 29, 2016, during the shooting of the ISS, I noticed a bright unidentified object which was flying from the southeast. The maximum magnitude of the ISS was about – 2, maximum magnitude of the bright UFO was around -1. A few hours before the event, I watched dozens of UFOs and recorded them on video. I check their position in the sky and time with the Stellarium program, and convinced that these are not satellites. Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Africa Triangle
Struisbaai – I’m a real estate photographer and took pictures of the scenery and especially the sea views from where I was on August 2, 2016. It was just after 12:47 PM, and I didn’t see or hear anything.
Only when I got back home to upload all the pictures did I find the anomaly. I take three rapid shots in about a second for each photo. Three different exposures then merge all three to render as one picture.
The UFO only appeared on the first picture so in a split second it disappeared out of the frame. This must have been super fast. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK England Four Objects
Southampton – I sat in my garden about midday and heard a Chinnock helicopter overhead so decided to try and get a photo of it on my phone on August 3, 2016.
As I zoomed in I could see four unknown objects in front of it travelling in the same direction and moving at the same speed as the helicopter.
Before I could take a second photo the objects had disappeared into the clouds.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK Scotland Orb
Glasgow — Sitting with family when we witnessed a bright starlike object appear over the fields and houses across from us on July 30, 2016.
We are used to seeing aircraft as their is a flightpath to the major airport near us. This craft made no noise so I presumed it was a satellite or the space station. But as it got closer it was obvious the object was in earth’s atmosphere. It slowed for awhile and then deviated away getting brighter and then it just disappeared. On checking the end of my video footage on the second one it appears disc like. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Kap Dwa, the Twelve-Foot-Tall, Two-Headed Giant from Patagonia
Kap Dwa, the Twelve-Foot-Tall, Two-Headed Giant from Patagonia
Stories about giants aren’t exactly rare, but this is one of the few ones where the giant had two heads.
The Fortean world is the epicenter of the world’s the strangest stories, most of them starting out as side show attractions. The notorious politician and showman P.T. Barnum contributed much to this charade, since he was renowned for his skills in taxidermy.
His famous creations were known as gaffs, (the result of rogue taxidermy), offering the world creatures straight out of legends and fiction, shaped by patching together the preserved corpses of various animals emerging into what he would name as the jackalope, dragons, chimeras, or even unicorns.
But from the hands of gaff collectors around the world came to be what we consider as probably the only real and also most intriguing attractions of all fakes, Kap Dwa, the two-headed Patagonian giant.
Although he was over 12 feet tall and had two heads, Kap Dwa was captured in 1673 by Spanish sailors and kept captive in the bowels of their ship. The Spaniards’ constant whipping and pummeling determined him to attempt an escape, but during the battle ensued, he was killed with a pike through his chest.
The following events are not clear, but his mummified remains were finally brought to England in the 19th century, where they passed from the Edwardian Horror Circuit to various freak show attractions, ending up at Weston’s Birnbeck Pier in 1914.
After being displayed the next 45 years in North Somerset, England, old Kap Dwa was acquired by Thomas Howard in 1959, and following a few more hand-offs he ultimately ended up in Baltimore. Nowadays, he can still be found among the collection of oddities at Bob’s Side Show at The Antique Man Ltd. in Baltimore, owned by Robert Gerber and his wife.
Gerber provides a somewhat different past of the giant, although the ending is still the same tragic event. The corpse of the unique Homo giganticus was found on a beach, with a spear protruding from his chest and nothing is certain about his assailant. His body was later mummified and even worshiped by some locals in Paraguay that formed some kind of religion based on his remnants.
The unbelievable rumors about Kap Dwa reached Capt. George Bickle of the English clipper Olive Branch out of Plymouth, leading to Bickle claiming the giant’s remains, but that was no easy task. According to Gerber, Kap Dwa was then taken to England, ending up in the Blackpool museum where he remained for the next several years. Only then was his body eventually embarked on the journey back to Baltimore, Maryland.
The tallest man officially recorded was Robert Wadlow (1918-1940), measuring 8 feet 11 inches tall, and skeptics consider it highly unlikely for Kap Dwa to be real, although it is physically possible for a man to reach the legendary giant’s size. As for his two heads, if he really did have two heads originally, conjoined twins are not exactly uncommon, especially in those days.
Those who have seen the encased giant up-close claim that no seams or stitching are visible and the only piece of string was that of his loin cloth, concluding that no rogue taxidermy had been performed on the unusual exhibit.
The conflicting stories may simply be the product of the natural promotion of such an oddity over so many years of sideshow display.
However unusual, Kap Dwa wasn’t the only giant to come up in anecdotes from the 17th century. Dutch captain Sebalt de Weert (1567-1603) described an incident where he and his crew witnessed members belonging to a race of giants. While passing through the Magellan Strait, de Weert saw seven unusually large rowboats menacingly approaching their ships. The boats were allegedly manned by naked giants with reddish-brown skin and long, red hair. Their stance and demeanor were aggressive, determining de Weert to steer clear of them.
There are also several documents from the same time period attesting the existence of giants. One such writing is the Codex Rios, also known as Codex Vatican A. This manuscript is the 16th century Italian translation of an older document written during the Spanish colonial era. The script features a intriguing full-page illustration of several Aztec warriors overcoming and executing a gigantic man. Annotations provide the giant’s name – Quinametzin, which translates to One of the Old Ones.
This account and many others support the theory that the American continents were once home to an ancient race of red-haired giants. Legend has it that the giants came from a distant island by crossing the ocean on rafts when a cataclysm destroyed their homeland.
If Aliens Landed Tomorrow, How Would We Understand Each Other?
If Aliens Landed Tomorrow, How Would We Understand Each Other?
As scary as it may seem for some, the prospect of an extraterrestrial civilization making contact with us on our home turf is something mankind needs to consider. Because even if the aliens’ intentions are good, we’re still going to have some problems.
The scientific world is divided. Some dismiss the existence of aliens until irrefutable evidence is presented. The others are again divided into two groups: those who believe contact with an extraterrestrial race will occur soon and the others, who surmise the alien connection will only happen in the far future.
It’s obvious mankind could really use some contingency plans just in case aliens decide to drop by. Those plans are certain to exist but civilian access to them is forbidden. So let us construct our own hypotheses and debate what would happen—in terms of communication—if a great big UFO landed where we could all see it.
“Remember where we parked, Zorg!”
For the sake of our argument, let’s assume the alien species would communicate in a manner we could comprehend, either through vocalizations or imagery. If their language consisted of a series of harmonic emissions of ionized gasses, we might not have the organs to detect their ‘spoken words.’ So the first prerequisite for a chat with aliens would be that they developed a form of comprehensible language that could be translated into concepts we could understand. American linguist Noam Chomsky believes it could be possible, although it most certainly wouldn’t be easy:
“The same structures that make it possible to learn a human language make it impossible for us to learn a language that violates the principles of universal grammar,” Chomsky told NY Times reporter John Gliedman. “If a Martian landed from outer space and spoke a language that violated universal grammar, we simply would not be able to learn that language the way that we learn a human language like English or Swahili.”
He is convinced the endeavor would require a different plan of attack, one that would require more brains than an army of hungry sapiosexual zombies.
“We should have to approach the alien’s language slowly and laboriously — the way that scientists study physics, where it takes generation after generation of labor to gain new understanding and to make significant progress. We’re designed by nature for English, Chinese, and every other possible human language. But we’re not designed to learn perfectly usable languages that violate universal grammar. These languages would simply not be within the range of our abilities.”
Be my friend!
The second condition for any meaningful communication to arise would be the existence of reference points both parties would understand. In reality, this wouldn’t be that hard. A civilization that has traveled the vast distances of outer space would most likely share some common grounds with humanity. We’ve heard it time and again: mathematics is the universal language and this holds true, especially when considering the hurdles a space-faring species would have had to overcome. Without an understanding of physics and natural phenomena, they wouldn’t have survived their own stone age, let alone land on an alien (to them) planet.
A species that successfully manipulates the matter around itself would definitely make use of concepts like size, time, similarity and difference, dead or alive. Even though they would be different from us, we could find some common grounds.
But then again, there are multiple instances in the history of mankind where communication channels simply couldn’t be opened. In their conquest for land and riches, humanity’s explorers mercilessly slaughtered entire tribes because of the language barrier. You don’t even have to look back in history to see examples of humans not being able to get a hold of each other.
In the Indian Ocean’s Bay of Bengal lays one of the most isolated places on Earth: North Sentinel Island. The size of Manhattan, this undisturbed island is home to a tribe that has never been contacted by modern man. Although technically in the Stone Age, the Sentinelese tribe inhabiting the island ferociously guard it against any trespassers, even if it means attacking helicopters with wooden spears. So, even among members of the same species, communication can prove impossible if an area of agreement is not demarcated.
A similar thing could happen to us if advanced extraterrestrials decided to make a public appearance. Although you and I and all the rest of the well-meant world would probably militate for a friendly handshake, we are still the minority. Don’t believe me? Watch the reactions of the witnesses of a recent UFO sighting. Although it wasn’t determined the flying lights were indeed extraterrestrial and, even if they were, they exhibited no dangerous intentions, but the crowd still wanted to resort to violence. No matter the issue, mob mentality frequently and quickly makes use of the tar and feather argument.
But in the case of an alien visitation that the populace would mistake for an invasion, we can only hope the aliens themselves are wise and quick enough to quell the masses’ fears. They could only do so if they spoke out loud and clear for everyone to hear. They alone could mitigate the situation they created. The world governments, much like the Sentinelese, would indubitably brandish nukes and other WMDs, even though, in the eyes of advanced aliens, they would look just like stone spears and wooden arrows.
So, if the aliens do come, they better come prepared, because we aren’t.
A Florida witness at Perdido Key reported watching a round craft with red lights moving while a ground-based search light followed it, according to testimony in Case 77923 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness described a round craft with red lights being followed by a ground-based search light on July 6, 2016. Pictured: Perdido Key, Florida, near the Pensacola Naval Air Station.
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The witness was camping in this area on July 6, 2016, just a few miles from Pensacola Naval Air Station.
“Around 11:30p.m., I saw a round craft with red lights go out into the bay with search lights on the ground following it,” the witness stated.“It went to a spot 200-300 feet in the air, it hovered and then circled back to the airstrip. This happened 4-5 times. I had my binoculars and was only 2-3 miles from it.”
The object hovered just 200 to 300 feet in the air. Pictured: Perdido Key, Florida, near the Pensacola Naval Air Station.
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The witness was also able to see the object land.
“When it landed, from what I could see, it seemed a cloud of gas or fog surrounded the object. I got the feeling it was remote controlled because on one of the flights while hovering it bounced up and down while hovering like someone was having some fun with a joystick.”
The witness watched the object land back at the air base. Pictured: Perdido Key, Florida, near the Pensacola Naval Air Station.
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The witness may have been looking at a base-controlled drone.
“In summing it up; it took off, hovered at the same spot and returned to the area it took off from, which was the airbase, over the course of a half of an hour 4-5 times.”
Florida MUFON State Section Director George Williams and Field Investigator Bruce White are investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
DRUK BUITENAARDS VERKEER BIJ AMERIKAANSE LUCHTMACHTBASIS (VIDEO )
DRUK BUITENAARDS VERKEER BIJ AMERIKAANSE LUCHTMACHTBASIS (VIDEO )
Bekend is dat de Amerikaanse overheid overeenkomsten heeft gesloten met een aantal buitenaardse rassen.
Eén daarvan zijn de Tall Whites en op hun basis onder Nellis Airforce Base is druk verkeer waar te nemen van hun schepen.
Wij schrijven regelmatig over de Amerikaan Steven Barone die op een bijzonder plek woont en daar vaak bijzondere opnames weet te maken.
Hij woont in Nevada, vlakbij een beroemde Amerikaanse luchtmachtbasis, Nellis Airforce Base.
Al vele jaren doen verhalen de ronde dat onder een afgelegen deel van dit vliegveld zich een buitenaardse basis bevindt van een ras dat wij de Tall Whites noemen.
Ook enkele dagen geleden was het weer raak bij Steven toen hij een sigaarvormige UFO wist vast te leggen die met enorme snelheid richting aarde schiet.
Waar die UFO terechtkomt is heel bijzonder, want vorig jaar heeft Steven op exact diezelfde plek ook UFO’s waargenomen, wat het verhaal van een buitenaardse basis daar ondersteunt.
En als zich daar inderdaad een basis bevindt, dan is het ook logisch dat ruimteschepen daar af en aan vliegen.
We hebben al eerder uitgebreid geschreven over deze basis en wat zich daar afspeelt. Een deel uit een eerder artikel:
De voormalig Canadese Minister van Defensie, Paul Hellyer, sprak al over de zogenaamde Tall Whites die op aarde verblijven.
Nu zijn er opnames gemaakt van een vreemd object bij een Amerikaanse luchtmachtbasis dat weleens zou kunnen toebehoren aan deze Tall Whites.
Een van de grotere Amerikaanse luchtmachtbasis is Nellis AFB in de buurt van Las Vegas in de staat Nevada.
Er doen al lange tijd veel verhalen de ronde over dat er buitenaardsen zouden verblijven.
Een bekende en prominente persoonlijkheid die veel weet over buitenaards leven is de voormalig Canadese Minister van Defensie, Paul Hellyer.
1) Er zijn minimaal vier verschillende soorten buitenaardsen die de aarde de afgelopen duizenden jaren hebben bezocht.
2) De soorten hebben waarschijnlijk verschillende agenda’s en dienen niet beschouwd te worden als van hetzelfde ras.
3) Een van die soorten is wat men noemt de Tall Whites. Volgens Hellyer werkt dit type samen met de Verenigde Staten.
4) Er leven op dit moment buitenaardsen op aarde.
Volgens ufoloog Scott C. Waring is de plek waar de Tall Whites wonen een ondergrondse basis op het terrein van Nellis AFB.
Bekijk met dat alles in het achterhoofd de video onderaan dit artikel. Het is een opname die enkele dagen geleden is gemaakt bij Nellis AFB. Dan zie je beelden van onbekende vliegende objecten boven de luchtmachtbasis.
Volgens Scott is de maker van onderstaande video erin geslaagd om een vertrekkend of aankomend schip van de Tall Whites vast te leggen.
De maker van de video zegt dat dit niet de eerste keer is dat hij dit soort merkwaardige vliegende objecten vastlegt op die locatie. Hij verbaast zich het meest over de technologie die achter deze schepen moet zitten. De manier waarop ze van een bolvorm plotseling veranderen in een rij van objecten, zich vervolgens verspreiden en wegvliegen.
Zo zegt hij, “Wanneer iemand mij vertelt dat onze luchtmacht hun tijd 25 jaar vooruit is dan zou ik daarop zeggen: meer dan 1.000 jaar en deze opnames bewijzen het”.
Zo blijft de vraag bestaan of we hier te maken heb met een schip van de Tall Whites zoals Scott Waring denkt of met een vliegend object van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht dat misschien onderdeel uitmaakt van de geheime ruimtevloot.
De informatie dat er zich onder Nellis Airforce Base een dergelijke basis bevindt, is hoofdzakelijk afkomstig van Charles Hall.
Hij heeft onder andere vier boeken geschreven, waarin hij verhaalt over zijn ontmoetingen met de Tall Whites op Nellis Airforce Base.
Volgens Hall hebben de Tall Whites een akkoord bereikt met de Amerikaanse overheid voor het vestigen van een geheime basis op dit vliegveld in Indian Springs in Nevada.
Maar, wie beter dan Charles Hall zelf om het verhaal te vertellen over dit bijzondere buitenaardse ras op onze planeet.
Verbazingwekkend dat dit object niet wordt opgemerkt door satellieten, radars en alle andere veiligheidsmaatregelen die door de mensheid zijn bedacht. Of, als ze wel worden opgemerkt, dan wordt dit dus niet bekendgemaakt.
En wanneer NASA merkt dat bovengenoemd ruimteschip in beeld komt, dan is er opeens een technische storing en valt het beeld weg.
Wanneer dat gebeurt, dan weet je honderd procent zeker dat je iets interessants op het spoor bent.
Scientists BAFFLED! Strange Sounds Over Cali, New Moon Mysteries & More! 8/4/16, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Scientists BAFFLED! Strange Sounds Over Cali, New Moon Mysteries & More! 8/4/16, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sounds: Aug Location of sounds: Alhambra, California, USA Secureteam10 states that in Alhambra, CA this week, strange noises are worrying the locals. This is the western side of Los Angeles and its not too far from the ocean. Its very possible that underground bases are being secretly built by the US military 2-3 miles below the surface that may cause cracking or even the use of explosives underground to make the tunnels. Do you remember that in Malibu, CA that an underwater alien base was discovered a few years ago? This might be the work of aliens making an enlarge base. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Earth Size Borg Cube UFO Sucks Solar Material From Our Sun On NASA photo! Aug 4, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Earth Size Borg Cube UFO Sucks Solar Material From Our Sun On NASA photo! Aug 4, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 4, 2016 01:06
Location of sighting: Earths Sun Surface
SOHO camera:EIT 284
I found the cube near our sun again yesterday. It was not just near the sun, but actually pulling part of the sun out to it...sucking the surface into the cube. This may not be a occupied ship, but actually an massive drone that is the size of Earth itself. I have been carefully monitoring this cube for over 5 years, and was the first to report on it. Its till coming, about ever 2-3 months, like its following a cycle or rotation, but then again, there may be thousands of these in our solar system and they may use the solar material to recharge the ship. Also its possible the cube is a space battery of sorts...that recharges with the sun and carries it off to the alien civilization that created it.
Police car in hot pursuit of UFO in Gorey, Ireland On Aug 4, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Police car in hot pursuit of UFO in Gorey, Ireland On Aug 4, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: Aug 4, 2016 Location of sighting: Gorey, Ireland News source:
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/video-emerges-of-garda-car-in-pursuit-of-ufo-in-gorey-1.2745002 Here is something extremely cute and out of this world. A hot pursuit right out of Fast And Furious, of a UFO being chased by a police car in the small town of Gorey, Ireland. Sure its only for fun, and not at all a real UFO, but sometimes you need to kick back, smile and laugh a bit, and this does the trick. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: A video has emerged online appearing to show a low-speed pursuit between a Garda car and a flying saucer on the streets of Gorey, Co Wexford. In the video posted over the weekend on Facebook, a UFO proceeds down the street, closely followed by a squad car with its lights flashing. However, a Garda spokesman told The Irish Times that it was less of a “pursuit” and more of a friendly escort. The “UFO” in this case is actually an installation for a space-themed art show created by local artist Ali Kemal Ali. “The gardaí gave (Ali) a little escort around the town to show the UFO off,” said the Garda spokesman, quelling rumours of an intergalactic invasion. “It was all in good faith,” he said. No aliens have been arrested at this time.
Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io Has a Collapsible Atmosphere
Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io Has a Collapsible Atmosphere
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
Jupiter's volcanic moon Io boasts an atmosphere made from sulfur dioxide gas — when the satellite is in sunlight. For the first time, researchers have observed the atmosphere during the moon's daily pass through Jupiter's shadow, watching that atmosphere temporarily freeze and collapse.
Credit: Southwest Research Institute
Jupiter's active moon Io has a collapsible atmosphere: New views show the satellite's shroud of sulfur dioxide freezing when Io enters its planet's shadow each day and converting back to gas when the moon emerges.
Io, Jupiter's fifth moon, is the solar system's most volcanically active body; plumes of the sulfur dioxide gas bursts from multiple active volcanoes, reaching up to 300 miles (480 kilometers) above the moon's surface at a scalding 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,650 degrees Celsius). The Jupiter moon's surface, on the other hand, is frigidly cold, and gets even colder when Jupiter blocks out the sun — which prompts the atmospheric collapse.
"This confirms that Io's atmosphere is in a constant state of collapse and repair, and shows that a large fraction of the atmosphere is supported by sublimation of sulfur dioxide ice [when it turns to gas]," John Spencer, a researcher at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Colorado and co-author on the new work, said in a statement. "Though Io's hyperactive volcanoes are the ultimate source of the sulfur dioxide, sunlight controls the atmospheric pressure on a daily basis by controlling the temperature of the ice on the surface." [Amazing Photos: Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io]
"We've long suspected this, but can finally watch it happen," Spencer added in the same statement.
The researchers used the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii and the Texas Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrograph (TEXES) to watch Io cross into and out of Jupiter's shadow on two different nights. At the time, Io was more than 420 million miles (675 million km) from Earth. Previous studies were unable to make out Io's atmosphere in the dark, but this new work relied on detecting the atmosphere radiating heat, researchers said in the statement.
In sunlight, Io's surface averages out to minus 235 degrees F (minus 150 degrees C), but once the moon passes into Jupiter's shadow, that temperature drops to minus 270 degrees F (minus168 degrees C). No longer warmed by the sun, the atmosphere of sulfur dioxide gas freezes and turns to frost on the moon's surface.
Io's atmosphere collapses in the dark of Jupiter's shadow, and then re-emerges once the moon returns to sunlight. While the atmosphere is fed by volcanic plumes of sulfur dioxide, its re-emergence comes largely from the previously frozen sulfur dioxide warming and returning to a gas state.
Credit: Southwest Research Institute
Io leaves Jupiter's shadow after 1.7 Earth days, which is 2 hours of Io's day, and the sulfur dioxide sublimates — goes straight from solid to gas — and pumps up the atmosphere once again when the moon re-enters sunlight.
Understanding the volcanic, lava-covered Io is key to understanding the environment around Jupiter, where NASA's Juno spacecraft arrived July 4, researchers said in the statement. "Io spews out gases that eventually fill the Jupiter system, ultimately seeding some of the auroral features seen at Jupiter's poles," said Constantine Tsang, the study's lead author (also at SwRI). "Understanding how these emissions from Io are controlled will help paint a better picture of the Jupiter system."
For the first time ever, a private company has permission to land on the moon.
The U.S. government has officially approved the planned 2017 robotic lunar landing of Florida-based Moon Express, which aims to fly commercial missions to Earth's nearest neighbor and help exploit its resources, company representatives announced today (Aug. 3).
"This is not only a milestone, but really a threshold for the entire commercial space industry," Moon Express co-founder and CEO Bob Richards told Space.com. [Images: Moon Express' Private Lunar Lander]
Previously, companies had been able to operate only on or around Earth. The new approval, while exclusive to Moon Express, could therefore serve as an important regulatory guide for deep-space commercial activity in general, Richards said.
Artist's concept of Moon Express' MX-1 lunar lander on its way to the moon.
Credit: Moon Express
"Nobody's had a deep-sea voyage yet. We're still charting those waters," he said. "Somebody had to be first."
Moon Express submitted an application to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on April 8. The document then made its way through the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Federal Communications Commission, Richards said.
The interagency approval process "took some time, not because anybody was against or averse to this," he said. "It's just that we asked questions that had never been asked before, and that had to be addressed and worked out."
Moon Express can now focus exclusively on the financial and technical challenges of the 2017 moon mission, which will begin with the launch of the company's MX-1 lander atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster. (Moon Express signed a multilaunch deal with Rocket Lab last year.)
The main goal of the maiden launch is to test out the MX-1's performance and capability on the lunar surface. Moon Express representatives also hope to win the Google Lunar X-Prize, a $30 million competition to land a privately funded robotic vehicle on the moon by the end of 2017.
The first team to pull off this landing — and get the vehicle to move at least 1,640 feet (500 meters) on the lunar surface, and beam high-definition video and photos back to Earth — will win the $20 million grand prize. (The second team to achieve all of this gets $5 million, and another $5 million is available for meeting other milestones. At the moment, 16 teams remain in the running.)
"We're still shooting for the end of 2017," Richards said of the maiden MX-1 moon mission. "A lot has to go right, but at least we have a shot at our moon shot, given this regulatory approval."
If all goes according to plan, future Moon Express missions will help assess, extract and exploit lunar resources such as water ice, helping to launch a new era in space exploration, company representatives have said.
"Space travel is our only path forward to ensure our survival and create a limitless future for our children," Moon Express co-founder and Chairman Naveen Jain said in a statement today. "In the immediate future, we envision bringing precious resources, metals and moon rocks back to Earth. In 15 years, the moon will be an important part of Earth’s economy, and potentially our second home."
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have come up with what they see as the best explanation for why we have yet to find alien lifethat equals our own. They say it's because, compared to the rest of the universe, Earthly life is relatively premature.
Our 4.5 billion-year-old planet is relatively young, floating in a universe that is about 13.8 billion years old. The research team, whose study will be published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, believes that life onEarth formed significantly earlier than comparable life would normally emerge on other planets."If you ask, 'When is life most likely to emerge?' you might naively say, 'Now,'" lead author Avi Loeb said in a press release. "But we find that the chance of life grows much higher in the distant future."
Scientists largely agree that the possibility for life emerged about 30 million years ago following the Big Bang, and it's predicted that life in the universe will come to an end in 10 trillion years, once the remaining stars fade away.
Between these two points of reference -- the Big Bang and the extinguishing of the last stars -- Loeb and his team tried to determine the likelihood of when life would form. Key to this is star size. Stars that are larger than about three times our sun's mass will burn out before any kind of life has the chance to develop. The best bet is with small stars, apparently. The smallest stars weigh less than 10 percent of the sun's mass, and they're likely to thrive for 10 trillion years -- which is plenty of time for life to slowly evolve on their planets.
Loeb and his team hypothesized that the chance for life to develop is 1,000 times higher in the far distant future -- since these small stars slowly burn for trillions of years -- than it is right now.
"So then you may ask, why aren't we living in the future next to a low-mass star?" Loeb asked. "One possibility is we're premature. Another possibility is that the environment around a low-mass star is hazardous to life."
Small stars aren't a guarantee that life will safely evolve on their planets over time. The researchers emphasize that, in their early years, low-mass red dwarf stars live for a long time but unfortunately shoot out powerful solar flares and ultraviolet radiation that could burn away the potentially life-giving atmosphere of nearby rocky planets.
The researchers emphasize that it's important to study these red dwarf stars to better understand their relationship to their orbiting planets.
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Elon Musk: The chance we are not living in a computer simulation is ‘one in billions’
Elon Musk: The chance we are not living in a computer simulation is ‘one in billions’
Humanity will eventually produce video games ‘indistinguishable from reality’
Elon Musk has said that there is only a “one in billions” chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation.
Our lives are almost certainly being conducted within an artificial world powered by AI and highly-powered computers, like in The Matrix, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO suggested at a tech conference in California.
Mr Musk, who has donated huge amounts of money to research into the dangers of artificial intelligence, said that he hopes his prediction is true because otherwise it means the world will end.
“The strongest argument for us probably being in a simulation I think is the following,” he told the Code Conference. “40 years ago we had Pong – two rectangles and a dot. That’s where we were.
“Now 40 years later we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it’s getting better every year. And soon we’ll have virtual reality, we’ll have augmented reality.
“If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality, just indistinguishable.”
He said that even if the speed of those advancements dropped by 1000, we would still be moving forward at an intense speed relative to the age of life.
Since that would lead to games that would be indistinguishable from reality that could be played anywhere, “it would seem to follow that the odds that we’re in ‘base reality’ is one in billions”, Mr Musk said.
Asked whether he was saying that the answer to the question of whether we are in a simulated computer game was “yes”, he said the answer is “probably”.
He said that arguably we should hope that it’s true that we live in a simulation. “Otherwise, if civilisation stops advancing, then that may be due to some calamitous event that stops civilisation.”
He said that either we will make simulations that we can’t tell apart from the real world, “or civilisation will cease to exist”.
Mr Musk said that he has had “so many simulation discussions it’s crazy”, and that it got to the point where “every conversation [he had] was the AI/simulation conversation”.
The question of whether what we see is real or simulated has perplexed humans since at least the Ancient philosophers. But it has been given a new and different edge in recent years with the development of powerful computers and artificial intelligence, which some have argued shows how easily such a simulation could be created.
Alien Civilizations May Number In The Trillions, New Study Says
Alien Civilizations May Number In The Trillions, New Study Says
The possibility that we earthlings are not truly alone in the universe has gained some added credibility, thanks to a new study that coincides with NASA’s recent planetary discoveries. The research, published in the journal Astrobiology last week, suggests that more planets in the Milky Way galaxy may harbor advanced civilizations than we previously imagined.
Study co-authors Adam Frank and Woodruff Sullivan looked at recent discoveries of potentially habitable exoplanets andconsidered the odds of whether sophisticated civilizations existed on them in the past or present.
“What we showed was the ‘floor’ on the probability for a civilization to form on any randomly chosen planet,” Frank, a University of Rochester physics and astronomy professor, told The Huffington Post in an email. “If we are the only civilization in cosmic history, then that what we calculated is the actual probability nature has set. But if the actual probability is higher than that floor, then civilizations have happened before.”
“Even if you are pretty pessimistic and think that you’d have to search through 100 billion (habitable zone) planets before you found one where a civilization developed, then there have still been a trillion civilizations over cosmic history!” Frank wrote. “When I think about that, my mind reels — even if there is just a one in a 100 billion chance of evolution creating exo-civilizations, the universe still has made so many of them that we are swamped by histories other than our own.”
NASA/W. STENZEL An artist’s depiction of planetary discoveries by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, which searches for Earth-like planets. The Kepler telescope has discovered thousands of verified planets since it launched in 2009.
In 1961, astronomer Frank Drake — founder of the SETI Institute (SETI stands for “Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence”) —devised what is now known as the “Drake equation” to estimate the number of planets that may be home to civilizations with the ability to communicate beyond their world.
Frank and Sullivan created a new equation, which appears at the bottom of the illustration below. While the Drake equation calculates the number of advanced alien civilizations that could exist in the Milky Way galaxy, Frank and Sullivan’s equation expands the question to calculate the number of advanced civilizations that have existed in our galaxy throughout the whole history of the universe.
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Two equations consider the possibilities of technological alien civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy: At top, the 1961 Drake equation and, at bottom, a more recent equation by Adam Frank and Woodruff Sullivan.
The variable factors that Drake and others consider when attempting to come up with figures about ET-inhabited worlds include:
The rate of formation of stars with planets suitable for intelligent life.
The number of those stars that have planetary systems.
The number of those planets which may have life-sustaining environments.
The number of those planets where life develops.
How many of those planets produce intelligent life.
How many of those intelligent life forms could produce technology, such as radio signals.
“Recent advances in exoplanet studies provide strong constraints on all astrophysical terms in the Drake equation. We set a firm lower bound on the probability that one or more technological species have evolved anywhere and at any time in the history of the observable universe.”
The two scientists address what they refer to as “the cosmic frequency of technological species.”
“The universe is more than 13 billion years old,” Sullivan, of the astronomy department and astrobiology program at the University of Washington, said in a statement. “That means that even if there have been 1,000 civilizations in our own galaxy, if they live only as long as we have been around — roughly 10,000 years — then all of them are likely already extinct. And others won’t evolve until we are long gone.
“For us to have much chance in finding another ‘contemporary’ active technological civilization, on average they must last much longer than our present lifetime,” Sullivan said.
The search for extraterrestrial signals has been ongoing for decades.
“With so many stars and planets filling the cosmos, it boggles the mind to think that we’re the only clever life to have made an appearance,” SETI Institute senior astronomer Seth Shostak told HuffPost in an email. “Frank and Sullivan use new research indicating that roughly one in five stars is orbited by a planet that could nurture biology. After that, it’s just a matter of counting up the tally of stars in the visible universe, and saying that — with all the suitable real estate that’s out there, if we’re the only place with intelligent life, then we’ve really won the mother of all lotteries.”
Shostak cautions against being overly optimistic or pessimistic about the SETI Institute’s searches for intelligent signals from possible outer space neighbors.
“The odds that no one is out there are very, very small. It’s a bit like an ant coming out of its hive, seeing the enormous amount of real estate stretching in all directions and deciding that, if its home is the only ant hill, then its existence is a near-miracle. Or, put another way, the calculation by Frank and Sullivan quantifies Jodie Foster’s statement in [the movie] ‘Contact’ that, if there’s nobody out there, it would be a ‘waste of space,’” said Shostak.
With all the suitable real estate that’s out there, if we’re the only place with intelligent life, then we’ve really won the mother of all lotteries.”Seth Shostak, SETI Institute senior astronomer
Scientists searching for extraterrestrial beings — and, yes, to those beings, we would be aliens — are like archaeologists combing a vast space for treasures and information to learn more about the history of our species.
NASA / REUTERS This colorful deep space image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope was released by NASA in 2014. What’s astonishing about the image is that it depicts a very small portion of the sky but shows approximately 10,000 galaxies, each made up of billions of stars.
“I love the notion of a cosmic archaeological question. I think this puts an important new spin on the question about the rise of technological communicating intelligence,” Penelope J. Boston, incoming director of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute at Ames Research Center, told HuffPost.
“We have only been looking for other intelligences for a few decades in a galaxy of unfathomable proportions,” Boston said. “Of course we haven’t found anybody yet. I think it is childish to imagine that we should somehow have started looking, and bingo, there they are! I have trouble finding my dropped contact lens in the grass. Should I then disbelieve in the reality of my contact lens?”
While scientists had long wondered if there were other planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way galaxy and elsewhere, it wasn’t until the early 1990s that the first extrasolar world was confirmed.
“The existence of planets orbiting stars other than the sun is a 2,500-year-old question that has been entirely answered over the last 20 years,” said Frank. “We now know that every star in the night sky has at least one planet orbiting it, and many of those are in the right place for life to form.
“Ten thousand years from now, no one will remember anything about our era except it was when we discovered this single profound fact: We live in a cosmos of planets.”
Astronomers have long suspected that the atmosphere in Io, Jupiter's frozen moon, would deflate every time the giant planet eclipses it—the absence of the Sun's heat would cause temperatures to plummet further. For the first time ever, they have finally observed the phenomenon, thanks the Gemini North telescope.
ATMOSPHERIC COLLAPSE
Io, Jupiter’s frozen moon, has a thin, toxic atmosphere with the most active volcanoes of all the known bodies in our Solar System. Astronomers have long suspected that its atmosphere deflates whenever Jupiter eclipses it, causing its already cold climate to get even colder.
For the first time ever, astronomers have gained solid visual proof of this phenomenon through the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, with the help of a long-range spectrograph, which monitors the atmospheric composition of Io.
This combination allows them to measure the electromagnetic signatures from Io in real-time, which is how they observed the drop in sulfur dioxide content of the Io’s atmosphere. “This research is the first time scientists have observed this remarkable phenomenon directly, improving our understanding of this geologically active moon,” said lead researcherConstantine Tsang from the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado.
As the giant planet shadows Io, the absence of the Sun’s heat triggers a plummet in Io’s temperature, freezing its sulfur dioxide-rich atmosphere and causing it to collapse to the surface. This happens for two hours on a daily (about 1.7 Earth days) basis.
NEXT-DAY REPAIR…EVERYDAY
The frozen moon’s atmosphere bounces back just as fast as it collapses. As soon as Io moves out of Jupiter’s shadow, the Sun gradually heats it up and gets the sulfur dioxide back out in the atmosphere, which then brings the temperature from -270 degrees Fahrenheit to -235 degrees. “This confirms that Io’s atmosphere is in a constant state of collapse and repair, and shows that a large fraction of the atmosphere is supported by sublimation of SO2 [sulphur dioxide] ice,” says John Spencer, another team member. “We’ve long suspected this, but can finally watch it happen.”
We are guaranteed to learn more about Jupiter and its moons soon, as the Juno spacecraft landed on the giant planet last month. In fact, Juno got a message from Jupiter before it even landed, in the form of a strange welcome noise.
Using near-infrared technology, astronomers were able to see beyond stellar dust, only to find a vast region void of stars. The stellar void stretches 8,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. That void region constitutes around 8% of our galaxy.
SPACE DESERT
In order to find out more about how the universe formed, astronomers are continuously looking for ways to better observe the distribution of stars throughout the galaxy. One obstacle in doing this effectively (apart from the obvious distance challenge) is the fact that interstellar dust is usually in the way, blocking our view and making efforts futile despite significant advancements in telescopes all over the world.
We have come a long way to overcome this difficulty.
One team, led by Noriyuki Matsunaga of the University of Tokyo, used near-infrared observations from a telescope in South Africa to seek out Cepheids in an effort to add them up to our existing map of the Milky Way Galaxy. Cepheids are young stars that are only a few tens of millions of years old that burn and dim periodically, and it is this light that astronomers use to determine their distance from us.
What the team found was completely unexpected: nothing—a vast expanse of nothing. While there are cepheids in the 150 light-year center of the galaxy, it is surrounded by a stellar void stretching out to 8,000 light-years from that center point. This is enormous, considering the Milky Way is 100,000 light-years across. That’s 8% of the galaxy!
Strange void. University of Tokyo.
THE BIRTH OF A NEW…DEBATE!
“The current results indicate that there has been no significant star formation in this large region over hundreds of millions of years,” said team member Giuseppe Bono from the University of Rome II in Italy. “The movement and the chemical composition of the new Cepheids are helping us to better understand the formation and evolution of the Milky Way.”
This desert, called the Extreme Inner Disk, echoes what other previous radio astronomy studies found. “Our conclusions are contrary to other recent work, but in line with the work of radio astronomers who see no new stars being born in this desert,” says Michael Feast, team member of the study from the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
What caused this desert region, however, is another matter altogether, and will definitely be sparking another scientific debate—the floor is now open for wild theories.
10 Historical Treasures That the World Lost in the Past 100 Years
10 Historical Treasures That the World Lost in the Past 100 Years
By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor
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INTRO: Lost Treasures
From the Ténéré Tree, hit by a driver in 1973; to the priceless artifacts destroyed by ISIS; to a bulldozed Mayan pyramid, here are 10 treasures the world has recently lost.
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10. Nimrud
An ancient city in Iraq, Nimrud became the capital of the Assyrian Empireduring the reign of King Ashurnasirpal II (reign 883 B.C. to 859 B.C.). The Assyrian Empire stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea; Ashurnasirpal II's palace was adorned with ivory and stone reliefs, which showed the king hunting, fighting and taking part in religious rituals.
In 2015, the terrorist group ISIS destroyed the city using a combination of explosives and bulldozers. Only a small part of the city— mainly the area containing palaces — had been excavated by archaeologists. One of the explorers who excavated at Nimrud in the 19th century was the British archaeologist Austen Henry Layard. Artifacts found during his expedition can be seen in the British Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. But any other artifacts and historical objects with stories to tell will remain unknown.
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9. Temples in Palmyra
In May 2015, the terrorist group ISIS captured Palmyra, an ancient city in Syria that holds many archaeological ruins. Over the next eight months, ISIS plundered and destroyed a number of archaeological sites, including ancient temples dedicated to the gods Baalshamin and Bel.
The temples date back around 2,000 years and featured several massive, finely decorated columns. At the time the temples were in use, Palmyra was under Roman control. The city was becoming a hub for trade, bringing the city great wealth.
Credit: Copyright Russell L. Ciochon, Univ. of Iowa
8. Peking Man
A series of fossils from a hominid species named Homo erectus pekinensis(more popularly known as Peking Man) were excavated in the 1920s and 1930s at Zhoukoudian cave in China. They dated back about half a million years. In 1937, Japanese troops invaded China; in 1941, the fossils were packed into crates in an attempt to ship them to safety in the United States. What happened afterward is unclear, but many scholars believe that the fossils were lost en route to America.
Despite the loss of the fossils, research into Peking Man is ongoing. A new series of excavations was conducted recently at Zhoukoudian cave, revealing that Peking Man was able to use fire, haft spears, work wood and design clothesthat provided protection during cold weather. The clothing and fire skills would have been particularly important, as research also indicates that Peking Man may have arrived in China as early as 780,000 years ago, when China's climate was colder.
Before it was destroyed, the Tree of Ténéré was an isolated acacia tree located in the Ténéré region of the Sahara Desert in modern-day Niger. The tree was supposedly the only tree growing for hundreds of miles and was arguably the most isolated tree on Earth. The uniqueness of the tree made it a landmark for people navigating the barren landscape.
The tree's roots ran down to the water table, and although the tree's age is not known, researchers presume that it started growing at a time when the Ténéré region was wetter. [What's the World's Oldest Tree?]
The tree met its end in 1973 when a vehicle collided into it. Reports suggest that the driver was drunk, although this claim is unconfirmed. Today, a metal sculpture of the tree stands where the tree once grew.
Two giant Buddha statues stood in niches that were 180 feet (55 meters) and 125 feet (38 m) high at the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan. Dating back more than 1,500 years, they were part of "a large ensemble of Buddhist monasteries, chapels and sanctuaries along the foothills of the valley dating from the 3rd to the 5th century," the UNESCO World Heritage Site listingsays. [Photos of UNESCO World Heritage Sites]
In March 2001, the Buddhas were dynamited and destroyed by the Taliban, which, at the time, controlled most of Afghanistan. The Taliban were pushed out of the region at the end of 2001, and archaeological teams were able to excavate parts of the site that had not been destroyed. A light projection system has been used to recreate the image of the statues in the niches.
The image shows the taller Buddha of Bamiyan before (left) and after destruction (right).
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5. Mar Behnam Monastery
The Mar Behnam Monasteryis located in Iraq near the city of Mosul and dates back to the sixth century A.D. Destroyed by ISIS in 2014, the Christian monastery contained architecture and inscriptions that stretched back over 1,500 years of history.
In 2013, a 100-foot-tall (30 meters) pyramid mound was bulldozed at the Nohmul complex, a ceremonial Maya site in Belize that dates back more than 2,000 years. The Associated Pressreported that it was bulldozed to extract crushed rock for a road-building project. The pyramid stood on private land and was protected by Belize laws that prohibit the destruction of ancient sites.
"They were using this for road fill," Jaime Awe, the head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, told the Associated Press. "These guys knew that this was an ancient structure. It's just bloody laziness."
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3. The Mantle Site
In both Canada and the United States, pressure to build housing and commercial space have led to the destruction of Native American archaeological sites that date back centuries. The Mantle Site— a 500-year-old Native American site in Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario, that held almost 100 longhouses — was excavated between 2003 and 2005. Then, the site was paved over to make way for a subdivision.
While the wooden structures of the longhouses were mostly decayed, theartifactsremained, and archaeologists were able to remove them from the site before it was destroyed. The site was located in Ontario, a jurisdiction that has been criticized for having lax heritage protection laws. Those laws were recently changed; if the new laws had been around in 2003, the site might have been saved, according to the archaeologists who excavated there.
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2. Frauenkirche Dresden
A fantastic cathedral was constructed in the Baroque style during the 18th century in Dresden, in what is now Germany. Designed by architect George Bähr, the dome of the cathedral weighed 12,000 tons. Work began on the cathedral in 1722, and it took decades to complete; the sheer weight of the dome proved difficult to stabilize.
On the night of Feb. 13-14, 1945, the city of Dresden was subjected to a firebombing campaign by allied bombers meant to destroy German military units, installations, factories and workers' homes. The cathedral's wooden pews and galleries burned in the blaze, and the cathedral was subjected to extreme heat. Within two days, the cathedral had collapsed.
Historians have since argued over whether the bombing of Dresden was necessary. A new cathedral has been constructed, and its parishioners conduct extensive peace and reconciliation work.
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1. Amber Room
The amber room was located in Catherine Palace(named for the wife of Peter the Great) in Tsarskoe Selo, near St. Petersburg, Russia. Constructed in the 18th century, the room contained mosaics, gemstones, mirrors, carvings gilded with gold, and panels constructed out of almost 1,000 lbs. (450 kilograms) of amber. The room's ornate decoration and beauty are difficult to describe in words.
Tsarskoe Selo was captured by Germany in 1941 during the invasion of Russia. The amber room was disassembled by German forces and transported westward toward Germany. Although archaeologists and historians have proposed many theories as to its whereabouts, the location of the disassembled amber room is still unknown. Today, a recreation of the amber room is located at Catherine Palace.
A mysterious purple orb found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean stumped NOAA scientists onboard the Nautilus research vessel.
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"Have a look at that dark purple blob on the left, there."
With those words, scientists aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus uncovered a marine mystery: a small purple orb tucked halfway under a rock off the coast of California.
Researchers are so far stumped as to what the colorful, bumpy little ball might be. Their best guess is that it might be a gastropod (a mollusk such as a snail or slug that belongs to the class Gastropoda) called a pleurobranch — and possibly a new species.
The odd little creature, which unfurled into two lobes once it was brought onboard the ship, is about 2 inches (5 centimeters) across. It was found on July 18, during an E/V Nautilusexploration of Arguello Canyon, west of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.
A live video feed captured by cameras on the remotely operated vehicle Hercules shows the muddy ocean floor 5,301 feet (1,616 meters) down, as watching researchers remark on clams and crabs. Suddenly, the purple blob catches the scientists' attention.
"What isthat?" one asks.
"I'm stumped," says another.
The researchers decided to collect the creature with the ROV's suction, briefly fending off a nearby crab. They've since sent the organism to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology for analysis. They also took samples for RNA analysis and plan to conduct a DNA analysis as well.
"Confirming it's a new species will take considerable months," Poulton said.
Expedition, live
It's relatively unusual for the E/V Nautilusteam to discover a completely new species, Poulton said, though they have found organisms that they suspect are unknown to science; it just takes time to confirm that fact. More often, she said, the Nautilus researchers find organisms in areas where no one previously knew the animals lived. It may be that the purple orb is a known gastropod that simply had never been seen in California waters before, Poulton said.
The E/V Nautilus is operated by the Ocean Exploration Trust, a nonprofit organization that was founded by oceanographer Robert Ballard. Since May, the vessel has been exploring the eastern Pacific Ocean, starting off Canada's Vancouver Island and working southward. Currently, the vessel is off the coast of Los Angeles investigating the Southern California continental margin. The research team broadcasts its activities athttp://www.nautiluslive.org/ and issues dive alerts on Twitter.
The live video feeds are a boon to the researchers on board, Poulton said, because scientists around the country tune in and often call their colleagues on the ship, asking them to go back to collect interesting specimens.
"We sort of sail with a science team of hundreds," Poulton said.
Death Spiral: 4th Phase of Life May Signal the End Is Near
Death Spiral: 4th Phase of Life May Signal the End Is Near
By Taylor Kubota, Live Science Contributor
There may be common signs in organisms that signal a spiral toward death.
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Biologists separate life into three phases: development, aging and late life. But a growing body of research now suggests that there is a fourth phase immediately preceding death that scientists have dubbed the "death spiral."
Although most of the "death spiral" research has focused on fruit flies, scientists think these studies can offer valuable insight into the last stage of human life as well.
"We believe this is part of the process of, basically, genetically programmed death," Laurence Mueller, chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine, said in an interview with Live Science. [What Are Your Odds of Dying From …]
Expiring fruit flies
Over the past decade, several studies of fruit flies have suggested this spiral toward death can be seen in the drop in reproductive rate (fecundity), according to a review of this research by Mueller and his colleagues, published earlier this year in the journal Biogerontology. For instance, researchers reporting in 2015 in The Journals of Gerontologyfound that the first day a female fly laid zero eggs was a significant predictor of death: Indicators of fecundity started to decline about 10 days before young female fruit flies laid zero eggs. The researchers think that whatever leads to the flies' deaths also affects their ability to reproduce in their final days.
In the new review, Mueller said that the timing of this decline matchesanother previous estimate of the death spiral's duration. Relative to the average life span of a fruit fly, 10 days could be as much as a third of a fly's life, Mueller said. Research from 2002 on Mediterranean fruit flies, called medflies, found that 97 percent of males began lying upside down about 16 days prior to death. In relative terms, this potential indicator of a death spiral is also approximately equal to the timing of the fecundity decline in the fruit flies. [The Science of Death: 10 Tales from the Crypt & Beyond]
In another study, scientists observed fruit flies, nematodes and zebrafish, to see if their intestines exhibited increased leakiness before death. The researchers tested this leakiness, called permeability, by feeding food dye to each animal. If permeability increased, that dye would leak out into the animal's body, and its body would change color — blue in the flies and fish, and fluorescent green in the nematodes. The research, published online March 22 in the journal Scientific Reports, concluded that this intestinal leakiness was a marker of death in all three species.
A human death spiral?
The hope is that death-spiral research in fruit flies and other organisms could someday tell scientists more about the decline of humans prior to death. [8 Tips for Healthy Aging]
In their review paper, Mueller and his colleagues cited a study from 2008 published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesas evidence that people may experience the death spiral as well. In that study, researchers analyzed data collected on the physical and cognitive abilities of 2,262 Danish people, ages 92 to 100, from 1998 to 2005. They found that the physical and cognitive scores of individuals who died within the first two years of the study were significantly lower than the scores of those who were still alive in 2005. The assessments included measures of grip strength, ability to complete daily activities (such as using the toilet and eating) and exams that helped evaluate cognitive impairment.
Basically, Mueller said, a death spiral in people could be the reason we often see a distinct increase in disability just before a person dies. Humans are challenging study subjects for both ethical and biological reasons, but looking at the death spiral in other organisms could give scientists a window into how this works in humans, the researchers said.
According to Mueller, the next step in this research might be to selectively breed the flies to create groups that experience death spirals of different durations.
"Once you create populations that are genetically different in that way, you can ask, 'What genes were changed in order to reduce the length of the death spiral?'" Mueller said. Using that knowledge, researchers could look at the human genome for similar genetic markers; humans are genetically similar to fruit flies, Mueller noted. According toyourgenome.com, a website of the Wellcome Genome Campus, 75 percent of disease-causing genes in humans are also present in fruit flies.
Mueller said the research isn't about stopping or even delaying death. Rather, he sees it as a way to improve people's quality of life when they are reaching the end and potentially save immense amounts of money in end-of-life health care.
"Even if we don't affect when you die, we'd like to make you fully functional up to the day you die," he said.
New Tech Lets You Watch 3D Movies Without the Funky Glasses
New Tech Lets You Watch 3D Movies Without the Funky Glasses
By Charles Q. Choi, Live Science Contributor
A new prototype display could enable people to watch 3D movies from any seat in the theater, without having to wear 3D glasses.
Credit: Christine Daniloff/MIT
Someday, moviegoers may be able to watch 3D films from any seat in a theater without having to wear 3D glasses, thanks to a new kind of movie screen.
The new technology, named Cinema 3D, overcomes some of the barriers to implementingglasses-free 3D viewing on a larger scale, but it's not commercially viable yet, the researchers said when describing their findings.
Although 3D movies can offer unique perspectives and experiences, one major drawback is the cumbersome eyewear that moviegoers typically have to wear. Although glasses-free 3D strategies already exist, these technologies currently cannot be scaled up to movie theaters. [10 Technologies That Will Transform Your Life]
For example, glasses-free 3D methods for TV sets often use a series of slits known as a parallax barrier that is placed in front of the screen. These slits allow each eye to see a different set of pixels, creating the illusion of depth.
However, for parallax barriers to work, they must be placed at a set distance from viewers. This makes parallax barriers difficult to implement in larger spaces such as theaters, where people can sit at a variety of distances and angles from the screen.
In addition, glasses-free 3D displays have to account for the different positions from which people are watching. This means that they have to divide up the limited number of pixels they project so that each viewer sees an image from wherever he or she is located, the researchers said.
"Existing approaches to glasses-free 3D require screens whose resolution requirements are so enormous that they are completely impractical," study co-author Wojciech Matusik, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, said in a statement.
But in the new method, the researchers used a series of mirrors and lenses to essentially give viewers a parallax barrier tailored to each of their positions.
"By careful design of optical elements, we can achieve very-good-quality 3D content without using glasses," study co-author Piotr Didyk, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University, both in Germany, told Live Science.
"This is the first technical approach that allows for glasses-free 3D on a large scale," Matusik said in a statement.
In addition, the scientists reasoned that instead of displaying images to every position in a theater, they would need to display images only to a relatively tiny set of viewing positions at each theater seat.
"In our solution, we exploit the layout of the audience in a cinema," Didyk said.
The scientists developed a simple Cinema 3D prototype that could support a 200-pixel image. In experiments, volunteers could see 3D versions of pixelated figures from a number of different seats in a small theater.
The scientists cautioned that Cinema 3D is currently impractical to implement commercially. For instance, their prototype requires 50 sets ofmirrors and lenses, but the screen is just barely larger than a pad of paper. The researchers hope to build a larger version of their display and further boost the image resolution.
"It remains to be seen whether the approach is financially feasible enough to scale up to a full-blown theater," Matusik said in a statement. "But we are optimistic that this is an important next step in developing glasses-free 3D for large spaces like movie theaters and auditoriums."
The scientists detailed their findings July 26 at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference in Anaheim, California.
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NASA WARNS: NIBIRU IS HEADED STRAIGHT FOR EARTH?! (video)
NASA WARNS: NIBIRU IS HEADED STRAIGHT FOR EARTH?! (video)
This story has been announced in 10th March 2016. This is shared under the name NASA warns disaster is near: Nibiru is Headed Straight for Earth,
In addition you will see the announcement of NASA.
“Is this the end of the world as we know it? Doomsayers have prophesied for decades about a giant, rogue planet in our solar system – dubbed Planet X or Nibiru – that has the capacity of colliding or passing near Earth, with catastrophic consequences. And of course, NASA has known about the mystery planet for years, but declined to warn us… until now. Finally, after the announcement of “Planet Nine” in January, conspiracy theorists have proved to the skeptics that they have been right this entire time, and NASA finally has to admit its wrongs. The planet, according to Caltech researchers, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and takes about 15,000 years to make a full orbit around the sun – And it’s heading towards Earth, with a collision date of August 21, 2016. Although Caltech researchers have admitted that we are headed for doomsday. NASA continues to tiptoe around the subject…”
This report is proven to be false. This is a lie invented from News4KTLA.
This asteroid is imagined. There aren’t any scientifically proven things. If this story was true, the planet will be visible with naked eye. NASA confirmed that Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax.
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Giant fireball in Novosibirsk region: spectacular video of rare phenomenon
Giant fireball in Novosibirsk region: spectacular video of rare phenomenon
By The Siberian Times reporter
03 August 2016
Like an approaching UFO, the bright white luminous ball glides over a field, before heading into woodland.
'This is fireball lightening, it's the first time I see one in my life.'
Picture here and below: Roman Tregubov
A local caught on camera this unusual example of ball lightning near his dacha (country house) outside Novosibirsk, Siberia's largest city. His grasp of his cell phone was shaky but his analysis of the phenomenon - as heard on the commentary - was accurate, say experts.
'What is it there?' a female voice asks from a distance.
'Fireball lightening,' answered the man with the mobile phone camera, Roman Tregubov, a graduate of the Novosibirsk State Technical University.
'Look, look, what is it?' another man asks.
'Argh it's moving away,' the cameraman says. 'This is fireball lightening, it's the first time I see one in my life. It's going to move away. Lost it. Where it is? There is it. I wonder if it'll blow off soon. Yep, it blew off.'
'The physics of fireball lightening isn't clearly explained yet, but either way I was astonished to see the fireball lightening of such size.'
With huge pride he repeats: 'This is the first time in my life.'
But a woman says: 'Horror, hide away from it.'
Roman explained he had to stand on bricks to get a view of the ball over a fence and bushes, which is why the footage was shaky.
'Fireball lightening is very rare, yet they can appear anywhere at all,' he said. 'The physics of fireball lightening isn't clearly explained yet, but either way I was astonished to see the fireball lightening of such size - and not just that, but to catch the whole process from the beginning when it appeared until the end.'
Usually associated with thunderstorms, ball lightning lasts considerably longer than the familiar split-second flash.
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Grote vuurbal in Siberië: bijzondere beelden van zeldzaam fenomeen
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Grote vuurbal in Siberië: bijzondere beelden van zeldzaam fenomeen
Een man uit Novosibirsk, de grootste stad in Siberië, heeft een bolbliksem vastgelegd op camera. “Wat is dat?” vraagt een vrouwenstem. “Bolbliksem,” antwoordt Roman Tregubov van de Staats-Technische Universiteit van Novosibirsk.
“Kijk daar, wat is dat?” vraagt een man. “Het verplaatst zich,” aldus Tregubov. “Dit is een bolbliksem. Het is voor het eerst in mijn leven dat ik er één zie.”
De man legt uit dat hij op een stapel stenen moest gaan staan om boven een hek en de bosjes uit te komen en de bol te kunnen filmen. Dat is ook de reden voor de schokkerige beelden.
“Een bolbliksem is buitengewoon zeldzaam, maar kan toch overal opduiken,” zei hij. “Ik was verbaasd over de omvang van de bol.”
Een bolbliksem is een bolvormig object dat soms wordt waargenomen in de buurt van een blikseminslag en dan meerdere seconden zichtbaar is. Het is een atmosferisch verschijnsel dat zich meestal voordoet bij zwaar onweer, maar er zijn ook gevallen bekend waarbij een bolbliksem optrad tijdens helder weer.
A Florida witness at Dunedin reported watching and videotaping a boomerang-shaped UFO 200 to 300 feet across with three other objects close by, according to testimony in Case 41685 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first noticed four objects coming toward him. Pictured: Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video.
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The witness and two others were southbound along Keene Road just north of Sunset Blvd. about 8:40 p.m. on August 11, 2012, when the incident occurred. The case was reported to MUFON on August 12, 2012, and closed as an Unknown.
“We noticed a large group of lights heading toward us,” the reporting witness stated.“There appeared to be four objects. The largest was at least 200 – 300 feet across the front and shaped like a boomerang with three or four lights that blinked and constant lights as well.”
Pictured: Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video.
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The witness described the other objects.
“The second object appeared to be in a very tight wingman position of the left wing of the first object maybe 20 feet apart. The third object looked like the second object with a bright silver strobe, red and green lights, but not in the normal aviation layout as you could see both red and green from the port side. The third object appeared to be tethered to the first object and trailing by a half mile with a single bright white/silver strobe on the tether located about a third of the way from the first object back to the third object in tow.”
The witness pulled over and watched the objects and filmed from a cell phone.
“The first object released orbs from the bottom and they shot west. These objects appeared to be orbs, but were very hard to see as they were a very dim white color and disappeared within 1-2 seconds of being launched. The objects passed us to the west and headed north until approximately Klosterman Road where it banked right or east and headed toward an extremely large thunder storm. This is my second report, but have witnessed dozens of UFOs in the last four years.”
The case was investigated by Florida Field Investigator Bobby Hewitson and Assistant State Director Teri Lynge. Hewitson and Lynge noted several related cases in a 24-hour period: Cases 41677, 41650, 41657, and 41699. No reports from this date in the MUFON CMS for surrounding states (Alabama and Georgia, plus or minus a 24-hour period). Reported to NUFORC: “8/11/12 21:00, Orlando (Near Seaworld/Disney World) FL, Triangle, Unknown, possibly about five. I saw three very red lights hovering in a triangle shape near Sea World, Orlando, Florida, and they disappeared about five minutes later.”
Cylinder UFO hovers 500 feet over Oklahoma highway
Cylinder UFO hovers 500 feet over Oklahoma highway
An Oklahoma retired police officer at Hugo reported watching a cylinder-shaped UFO flying at 500 feet that stopped and hovered before appearing to change shape and shoot directly vertical at high speed, according to testimony in Case 77824 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first noticed a cylinder-shaped object at 500 feet overhead along Indian Nation Turnpike near Hugo, Oklahoma, pictured.
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The witness was riding a motorcycle along Indian Nation Turnpike in southern Choctaw County about 4:15 p.m. on July 20, 2016, when the incident occurred.
“I noticed a long, cylindrical object flying at relatively low altitude – approximately 500feet, in a south-southwest direction,” the witness stated.“At first observation,the object was almost directly overhead, moving at a slow airspeed. It appeared to have no windows or outside structure and was very bright, almost chrome against the blue sky.”
The witness recounts that the weather was mostly sunny with temperatures near 100 degrees.
During the sighting, the object stopped and hovered. Pictured: Indian Nation Turnpike near Hugo, Oklahoma, pictured.
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“The object continued on a straight line plan for another 3-4 miles, until it abruptly came to a hovering position. It remained there for approximately 30 seconds, before what is best described as a split-second flash of white light. At this time, the object no longer had a bright chrome appearance, but was dark in color as well as appeared to have either changed shape to either a smaller circular object, or I was simply viewing it from only one angle (front or rear).”
The object remained hovering for a short period of time before moving again.
“After remaining in the hovering position for no more than 10-15 seconds, the object accelerated vertically at very high speed, until it was no longer visible. At no time, did the object make any exhaust or condensation trail, nor could I make out any sound.”
The witness was not able to photograph or videotape the object.
“I did not stop to retrieve my cell phone from my bike’s saddlebag, simply because I did not want to break visual eye contact. If I had tried to do so, I would have not witnessed the entire event. Having been around all types of aircraft during my career, I have never witnessed this level of advanced flying characteristic. The vertical speed was far beyond that of any aircraft I have seen.”
The object then appeared to be disc-shaped, and shot directly vertical at high speed. Pictured: Indian Nation Turnpike near Hugo, Oklahoma, pictured.
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The area has few airports.
“To note, there are no major airports in the area. There is, however, a small county airport that houses only a few personal fixed wing aircraft and a med-flight helicopter. The nearest military installation is the McAlester Army Ordinance Depot, which was 50-60 miles north of my location. To my knowledge, they house no aircraft. The above statement is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge.”
Hugo is a city and county seat of Choctaw County, Oklahoma, population 5,310. MUFON Oklahoma is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Cylinder UFO hovers 500 feet over Oklahoma highway
Cylinder UFO hovers 500 feet over Oklahoma highway
An Oklahoma retired police officer at Hugo reported watching a cylinder-shaped UFO flying at 500 feet that stopped and hovered before appearing to change shape and shoot directly vertical at high speed, according to testimony in Case 77824 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first noticed a cylinder-shaped object at 500 feet overhead along Indian Nation Turnpike near Hugo, Oklahoma, pictured.
(Credit: Google)
The witness was riding a motorcycle along Indian Nation Turnpike in southern Choctaw County about 4:15 p.m. on July 20, 2016, when the incident occurred.
“I noticed a long, cylindrical object flying at relatively low altitude – approximately 500feet, in a south-southwest direction,” the witness stated.“At first observation,the object was almost directly overhead, moving at a slow airspeed. It appeared to have no windows or outside structure and was very bright, almost chrome against the blue sky.”
The witness recounts that the weather was mostly sunny with temperatures near 100 degrees.
During the sighting, the object stopped and hovered. Pictured: Indian Nation Turnpike near Hugo, Oklahoma, pictured.
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“The object continued on a straight line plan for another 3-4 miles, until it abruptly came to a hovering position. It remained there for approximately 30 seconds, before what is best described as a split-second flash of white light. At this time, the object no longer had a bright chrome appearance, but was dark in color as well as appeared to have either changed shape to either a smaller circular object, or I was simply viewing it from only one angle (front or rear).”
The object remained hovering for a short period of time before moving again.
“After remaining in the hovering position for no more than 10-15 seconds, the object accelerated vertically at very high speed, until it was no longer visible. At no time, did the object make any exhaust or condensation trail, nor could I make out any sound.”
The witness was not able to photograph or videotape the object.
“I did not stop to retrieve my cell phone from my bike’s saddlebag, simply because I did not want to break visual eye contact. If I had tried to do so, I would have not witnessed the entire event. Having been around all types of aircraft during my career, I have never witnessed this level of advanced flying characteristic. The vertical speed was far beyond that of any aircraft I have seen.”
The object then appeared to be disc-shaped, and shot directly vertical at high speed. Pictured: Indian Nation Turnpike near Hugo, Oklahoma, pictured.
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The area has few airports.
“To note, there are no major airports in the area. There is, however, a small county airport that houses only a few personal fixed wing aircraft and a med-flight helicopter. The nearest military installation is the McAlester Army Ordinance Depot, which was 50-60 miles north of my location. To my knowledge, they house no aircraft. The above statement is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge.”
Hugo is a city and county seat of Choctaw County, Oklahoma, population 5,310. MUFON Oklahoma is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
I can see why NASA would want to shut the live feed down. It is teaching the public that aliens exist, and if the public learns that, then NASA is no longer needed. They want the jobs, they want the billions of dollars they are given each year and guess what? You learning about aliens is not what they want to happen. So, they are shutting down the live cams again. Last time was two years ago, and I organised a group of readers heard to tweet to @NASA until they decided to leave the cams up. It worked, but now they are doing it again. I guess the $20 monthly internet charge is to high for them? Or perhaps those two 7 million dollar HD cameras on the space station are really for spying on other countries instead of searching for life? NASA = Never A Straight Answer. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com SonofMabarker states: Looks like NASA has seen enough from us down here on Earth! They have decided to end the live feed from the International Space Station. Many people monitor that feed and then post videos and photos of what they have found. The ending of this live feed is yet another example of why NASA is not to be trusted in telling us the truth. There is really no other reason to do this.
Learn Why UFOs Are Seen Near Volcanos Around The World, Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Learn Why UFOs Are Seen Near Volcanos Around The World, Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of video: July 29, 2016 Maker of video: Tercer Milenio TV UFOs are often sighted and documented in the vicinity of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world? Since the early 90s were observed and recorded many many objects of different sizes and different shapes, near or over the volcanoes. The video that we show below, is a television report presented by the Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan through Tercermilenio TV and talks about the UFO sightings of mysterious lights, spherical and cigar-shaped objects observed in the vicinity of the Mexican volcanoes, such as the famous Popocatepetl. Everyone will remember the famous cigar-shaped UFO, immortalized by the CENAPRED surveillance camera, as it entered the volcanic mouth of Popocatepetl. There are many theories of UFO researchers and experts, advancing svarate assumptions, such as the one that sees a kind of monitoring of volcanic and geothermal by aliens. While other experts put forth the hypothesis that UFOs would underground extraterrestrial bases in the vicinity of volcanoes. Awesome video, and I hope it answers a lot of peoples questions about why UFOs are seen near volcanos so often. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Huge UFO Over Cleveland Lake Erie Awaits Humans To Respond, Aug 3, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Huge UFO Over Cleveland Lake Erie Awaits Humans To Respond, Aug 3, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 3, 2016
Location of sighting: Cleveland, Ohio, Lake Erie, USA
Orlando Bosca states:
The UFO, after making a presentation flight exhibiting from all angles, parked waiting for human response.
This UFO was discovered over Cleveland yesterday on live cam by Orlando Bosca of Youtube. The UFO has a tail area and seems to have slight wings on the edges, but its difficult to say since the focus of the cam is a bit blurry. This is not a blimp. This doesn't have the normal upper and lower back tails that blimps usually have. Also this object does not have the 3 tail wings that the Good Year Blimp has. This UFO is thinner and longer than the Good Year blimp. Also the front section is much thinner and seems to be a separate section than its bottom area. Quite remarkable catch.
Shocking video allegedly shows ‘KGB extracting Mummified Alien in Egypt’
Shocking video allegedly shows ‘KGB extracting Mummified Alien in Egypt’
Reports from the Sci-Fi Channel indicate that forensic experts who analyzed the footage have CONFIRMED it is genuine. The video illustrates what appears to be Soviet military personnel opening an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus said to have been located somewhere in the Giza plateau.
Inside the alleged Sarcophagus were the remains of a so-called Ancient Alien and pieces of otherworldly technology.
According to numerous reports, the video presented here was filmed during a top-secret mission called ISIS which supposedly recovered the remains of a so-called ‘Ancient Astronaut’.
Officially, humanity is STILL waiting for proof of alien life elsewhere in the universe.
While many people claim there is evidence all around us, millions of people remain skeptical when it comes to alien lifeforms and alien technology.
Whether or not advanced alien civilizations exist elsewhere in the cosmos, and whether or not these advanced alien civilizations have visited Earth in the distant past remains hot topic that has been debated continuously for the past 20 years at least.
This alleged video –which we know little about— if proven to be real would make the alleged Roswell UFO crash in New Mexico a small story.
Ancient Aliens?
Today millions of people around the world are firmly convinced ancient civilizations have been visited by beings not from Earth for thousands of years.
These ‘visitors’ were misunderstood by primitive man as Gods when in reality they were nothing more than advanced beings with superior technology.
The video presented in this article –which many claim is ANOTHER hoax— details a top-secret mission called Project ISIS where a number of Egyptologists, members of the Soviet Academy of Science, researchers and military personnel recover thousand-year-old Alien technology from Egypt.
Claims on the internet suggest the footage was obtained by an ‘unnamed’ source which in turn claims to have obtained the clip from the secret archives of the KGB.
The video illustrates what appears to be Soviet military personnel opening an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus said to have been located somewhere in the Giza plateau. Inside the alleged Sarcophagus were the remains of a so-called Ancient Alien and pieces of otherworldly technology.
According to reports, the alleged being was over two meters in height and radiocarbon dating revealed it was around 13,000 years old.
The video further shows Soviet soldiers entering the so-called tomb without protective gear but retreat upon opening the sarcophagus as fumes erupt fro within it.
Soldiers return to the sarcophagus moments later with protective gear.
People who remain skeptical despite seeing the video suggests it’s nearly impossible to conclude whether or not the video is authentic, what the mummy was and where it was filmed.
However, the Sci-Fi TV Channel indicates that forensic experts who have analyzed the footage have CONFIRMED that it is genuine.
A tv documentary suggests that several testimonies from a number of highly ranked KGB officials corroborate the story and point to the fact that the mummy recovered by the military was not from Earth.
Further reports indicate that a Viktor Ivanovich –an alleged Soviet scientist—had access to classified files from the KGB archives.
Ew cannot say for certain whether or not the footage, the so-called secret mission, and the discoveries are real.
However, there are ancient Egyptian texts –also considered as bogus by many sketpics— which indicate what many believe are otherworldly visitations that occur in Ancient Egypt thousands of years ago.
This enigmatic ancient text offers conclusive evidence of a mass UFO sighting that took place in ancient Egypt around 1480 BC, during the reign of Thutmose III. “…they were more numerous than anything. They were shining in the sky more than the sun to the limits of the four supports of heaven […] Powerful was the position of the Fiery Disks…”
The Tulli Papyrus has cited by many as the most important ancient Egyptian texts which document the visitation of Ancient Astronauts to Egypt thousands of years ago.
The Ancient Texts describes with great accuracy, a massive UFO sighting that occurred in Ancient Egypt during the reign of Thutmosis III.
The Tulli Papyrus belonged to the former director of the Egyptian Museum in the Vatican, Professor Alberto Tulli. The document is considered as „the earliest known record of a fleet of flying saucers written on papyrus long, long, ago in ancient Egypt.”
The Papyrus was translated by Prince Boris de Rachewiltz, who declared that the papyrus “was part of the Annals of Thutmose III.” However, nothing in the ancient text refers to the Pharaoh by name, which is unfortunate however not without precedent.
The most mysterious part of the ancient documents are the enigmatic “circles of fire” that flew through the sky of Ancient Egypt on two separate occasions, separated by a few days.
Winston Churchill’s X-Files: Top secret UFO probe revealed
Winston Churchill’s X-Files: Top secret UFO probe revealed
It appears that Sir Winston Churchill may have ordered a highly classified investigation into UFO’s and even covered-up evidence of alien lifeforms.
A number of declassified documents have revealed that Sir Winston Churchill asked a task force of researchers called –the Flying Saucer Working Party – to discover “the truth” behind the significant number of UFO sightings.
Interestingly, the official report explained away numerous observations –including the set of enigmatic objects that overflew the US capital, which were picked up by dozens of military radars.
Adding to the mystery, it is reported that in a deathbed confession, Sir Winton Churchills personal bodyguard revealed that Churchill covered up a umber of UFO sightings over Britain by the RAF itself.
It is well known that towards the end of the second world war, RAF pilots –and pilots all around the wrold— reported encounters with mysterious crafts which were called ‘foo fighters.’
Many people assumed these enigmatic objects were top-secret weapons being developed by the Nazi.
In fact, it is known that the Nazi’s developed a number of strange weapons for years hoping that these would give them the upper hand in the war.
One of the most interesting UFO encounters occurred in July of 1952 when US Air Force fighter jets were scrambled two consecutive weekends after military radar picked up numerous unidentified flying objects over a ‘restricted zone’ over the white house.
In response to the encounter, on the 18th of July, 1052, Sir Winston Churchill wrote to his Secretary of State for Air Lord Cherwell a memo asking an urgent investigation into the matter.
In the letter –which is known as the Churchill Memorandum— he wrote:
“What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to?
“What can it mean? What is the truth?
“Let me have a report at your convenience.”
In response, Lord Cherwell pout together a task force called the Flying Saucer Working Party.
The secret task force admitted it was impossible to rule out ‘flying objects of extraterrestrial origins developed by beings unknown to mankind on lines more advanced than anything we have thought of.’
However, they continued saying that it was much more likely that alleged sightings were regular aircraft, balloons, birds or other natural phenomena, optical illusions, deliberate hoaxes – or “psychological delusions.”
Nothing more was investigated until 1999, when the grandson of a retired RAF officer wrote a letter to the Ministry of Defence inquiring about an incident in which Sir Winston Churchill supposedly banned the reporting of a UFO encounter above the eastern coast of England.
The airman who remained unnamed –who was Churchill’s personal bodyguard— suggests that an RAF reconnaissance aircraft was returning from a mission ver parts of occupied Europ when all of a sudden it was ‘shadowed’ by a ‘metallic UFO’ off Cumbria.
It is said that the crew of the RAF reconnaissance aircraft even photographed the object which they say “hovered noiselessly” in extreme proximity to the aircraft.
It is said that when the UFO encounter was mentioned to Churchill, he supposedly ordered the incident to remain highly classified for over half a century since such report could cause ‘mass panic’ and destroy ‘faith in God.’
It is believed that Churchill was left shocked by the sighting:
“This event should be immediately classified since it would create mass panic among the general population and destroy one’s belief in the Church.”
In 2005, the late Peter Jennings touted his headlined UFO show, ostensibly, as "coming clean" on UFOs... Be not fooled... Cleanliness was not the result where the thrust of the program was a complete if subtle hack job on an entirely honorable Stanton Friedman, et al, by Jennings. He employed all the old prejudices, to wit: making out like ufologists, in general, operate on conflicted faith and that they are either mentally ill, misinformed, or misinforming... "M" cubed for the in-crowd...
Even where this is true, it's not the point... 90% of everything is crap.
Skeptibunkies, on the other hand (Jenning's body language, word choice, and intonation just drooling preference) are "hard-nosed realists with the conviction of real science behind them." Jennings chumped Stanton Friedman and dismissed him, along with Kevin Randle, as addled opportunists!
As a result, the ufological fencesitter was in no way encouraged to ask difficult questions of Government, Institution, or Agency. ET is a "long-shot," credible evidence "does not exist," and they can't get here anyway, "largely because we can't get there...," pride and hubris be damned, oh, and all is right with the world... our arrogant, unwarranted andunjustified self-image is intact.
I was completely disgusted. No points for Jennings, at all...
More on that here... To the contrary, reader. Anyone with uncluttered sense knows who or what Stanton Friedman is. He's probably as close as anyone has gotten to being a household name with regard to UFOs. Even not knowing his name, but seeing his picture, is to automatically go, "Oh yeah... right... ...the 'UFO' guy." Still, Friedman was, as pointed out, unfairly pilloried, fatuously and egregiously, along withsome undeserving others, on the infamous Jennings/ABC flopumentary "exploring" UFOs, where he was faintly accused of behavior so far removed from his actual behavior that it borders on slander. For my money, it crosses the line. To wit: Stanton Friedman is an evidential cherry picker, a self-involved fantasist, and an inventive conspiracy monger/hoaxer. Stanton Friedman is a frustrated old man with delusions of grandeur and a messianic complex. "Stanton Friedman is not real." So would say those who still speak in their "persuasive" proclamation, "mainstream" declaration, "media "decree, and "official" edict. But hold on. The thing about proclamations, declarations,decrees, and edicts is that they don't need to be true; they only have to be compelling. They only have to sow a seed of doubt... ironically nourished by the "information void" they've helped to maintain! It's enough to preclude further action. The goal, to be blunt. Thelocker rupture phenomenon can then take over... Though, wait! Let's try some other "proclamations" on for size... proclamation, contrarily, for which actual evidence abounds in extremis. To wit: Stanton Friedman is real. Stanton Friedman isa tireless historical scholar and rational humanist. Stanton Friedman is a portrait of selfless courage, an assiduous researcher, and an unflinching observer/reporter of that which is decidedly and discomfortingly out of the box... but portending our future and thequality of same... Forgetting, entirely, their polar opposing character, is there any other difference between these preceding proclamation sets? Paul Kimball, once a serious filmmaker with his own production company, has produced some engaging and instructive documentary films providing the requisite basis for just this kind of supposition... later refuted or not! The well-crafted documentaries referenced here include Kimball's "Stanton Friedman Is Real" (a sober examination of Stanton Friedman the 'man') and "Do You Believe In Majic" (A Doc regarding alleged quality documentation indicating, among other astonishing things, very high levels of official interest in the ExtraTerrestrial Hypothesis... as it pertains to UFOs) in the fifties. Such is so. These films show, with some clarity and fairness, where more of the truth in this... very twitchy and ephemeral area... must be! This is forgetting the balanced cameo Kimball provides Stanton Friedman, despite, I do not hesitate to point out, any conflicts of interest possible. I suspect any conjectured conflicts are abundantly accounted for. Kimball's relationship by marriage to Friedman's family has Kimball erring on the side of Friedman's opposition, if anything. It remains that this writer's gut-sense advises that Kimball is legitimately trying to shoot straight-down-the-middle on the issues. Too bad for Friedman's opposition. A 'fair' look makes them look pretty bad. Humiliatingly so. The pros and cons regarding a ufological contribution by Stanton Friedman do not balance in actuality, even as Kimball's films very assiduously give equal time to the positions of both sides... obvious sincerity shown by Kimball, a man trying to arrive at some kind of non-anticipatory conclusion on the matter, or at least a step forward and notback. Which side of the argument doessucceed in outweighing the other? The viewer can make up his or her own mind... but this writer perceives that the 'cons' see far before them what 'pros' leave far behind... The cons have little weight it seems. No draft. Zero substance. Along similar lines, I've heard no protestations from this opposition—no cries of "foul" or angry wounded remonstrations regarding a misrepresentation of their assumptive, biased, canted, and homocentric views; their convenient attitudes; their conflicted opinions. The point is whittled, admittedly, pretty fine. Truly, I've neither read nor heard of same, and both of these films were released some time ago. Perhaps there will be a late protest... The presumption is that, to date, the opposition feels that it was fairly characterized by Kimball's films and that oppositional views, such as they are and have always been (...continue to be!), were squarely portrayed and accurately recounted, one would presume. One would presume! The irony is that it was squarely portrayed and accurately recounted. They got their best shot! In comparison with Stanton Friedman, though, they fall way short; their meager shell won't even clear the gun tube. This is despite the huge amounts of powder provided by the hijacked mainstream to get that round down range. A kid's stomp rocket has more range! This is further illustrated by the ease with which Friedman will dispatch the occasional brave (if haplessly clueless) soul who gathers up the sack required to join the long list of "noisy negativists" crushed, decisively, in debate with him!
There are numerous examples of same on Kimball's films. Dispute Stanton Friedman on the issues, bunky, and scamper from a righteous fray with your tail tucked between your legs making whipped-puppy-Ned-Beatty noises... I digress. Flatly, the arguments of Friedman's opposition make assumptions based on contrived ignorance, intellectual infidelity, obstinate illogic, wishful thinking, denied fear, and rank complacency. They are arguments larded with confident-sounding if baseless assertions based on varying tinctures of the upcoming eight performance indicators more embraced by Friedman, and they only serve to provide for what, in the final analysis, can only be sack-less cowardice—intellectual and otherwise. Such is, and has been, the ongoing prosecution of the arguments from Friedman's opposition. Friedman's pompously ignorant and conflicted detractors ascribes humanistic psychological motives to aliens, facilitating a fallacious relegation of them to dismissible myth. It waxes knowledgeably on the physical impossibilities of alien propulsion systems, then references their superiority later to preclude us from a possibility of even accidentally bringing one of them down... then it blithely leaps back to foregone conclusions on the unlikelihood of alien technologies with which to start. Astonishing! They seem unaware of this strange dichotomy, themselves... It soberly expounds that the already unlikely alien cannot get here because we cannot get there, only inventing a comforting rubric they can use to keep their intellectual distance from them. It is quick to label the ufologically affected individual as a misrepresenter of the facts (a LIAR), a misunderstander of the facts (a DOPE), or as one too mentally incapacitated to appreciate the facts (a NUT). To the opposition, there is, or can be (...of needs!),no 4th possibility. To this klasskurtxian and pelicanistic opposition, people who see UFOs are, unquestioningly and absolutely, "M" cubed (Misleading, Mistaken or Mentally ill), as weare alone in our little corner of the multi-verse, these unblinkingly proclaim. ...Perhaps (...pray hard to your fundamentalist god of choice!), even alone in the whole damn thing... a centerpiece jewel in God's crown of creation, ideally! Intelligent alien beings mightpossibly exist in some other galaxy, or even at the other end of this one... but not here... Oh please, God... not "here." No! No! There is a 4th choice. Verily, there is a plethora... a panoply of "choices"! These are choices that must come as a result of following the data where it leads and not where it can be driven! These are choices that one discovers as one pursues the devil in the details (as Friedman has for four decades!) and still be able to hold that evidentiary demon by reluctantly slippery shirttails! These are choices that remain after one is able to appreciate the vast amount of evidence extant (as Friedman has) that is physical, historical, photographic, anecdotal, and even personal. These are choices one can accept when one sees past the end of a conflicted little nose (as Friedman has), removes oneself from ones convenient and unfounded prejudices (as Friedman has), or objects to and rejects ones self-imbued and pettily contrived ignorance (as Friedman has). Freidman has a long, long history of perspicaciously, perceptively, and intelligently trying to get it down... right. We are not alone. Not now. Not ever. Admitting the preceding is to step into the future. Denying it is an impossible and so disastrous retreat to a lost, and even invented or imagined, past. Paul Kimball is clear in his films that Friedman is very specific and precise about why he says what he says. Not content to sit in a comfy spot and airily spew puerile pronouncements of outdated and discredited "conventional wisdom" like his critics, Friedman chases details that squirm and shift in his grasp, details handily discrediting the 'official' version of puzzling events and/or corrupting, otherwise, what should be a cogent record of same. Rare bird he. We're lucky to have him. Stanton Friedman is thorough. His critics are only thorough enough with regard to their assertions to sow a fallacious seed of doubt or allow for a plausible deniability to obscure the ufological issue du jour. This is not honorable, on any level, and apes the activities of the propagandist, despot, axe-grinder, canted lobbyist, or spin-doctor. Friedman is organized, objective, constructive, and comprehensive. His critics are none of these things and are shot down in flames when they meet him in the air for formal argument on the points of it. Shot down in flames. Friedman is flexible, acceptable, specific, andthoughtful regarding the ufological. His critics prosecute the opposites of these things and use every fallacious trick they can to discounthim, invalidate him, and discredit him. Even his reputation and character have been smarmily attacked, reader! ...Et tu, Peter Jennings, and a black mark onyour legacy, Sir. Point one finger and risk three back at yourself, boyo! Contrarily, Kimball's other compelling film "Do You Believe In Majic," dismissing the recent Jennings/ABC whitewash as patently false and a mockery of what a documentary (...not a "mockumentary"!) should be, is a good case in point. Every point skeptically raised against the verity of the key MJ-12 Documents (...as clear evidence of the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis with regard to UFOs, and an admitted high-level ufological interest in the reality of same...) is dissolved, handily, by citation—chapter and verse by Friedman. Truly, these defensively reflexive protests do not hold up upon examination, Kimball is able to show. They are bluster, illogic, ignorance,complacency, bias, and cant. Friedman, on the other hand, can provide clear and compelling evidence that the documents are, indeed, real. His critics have nothing remaining in their moldy corner but strident, officiously vicious, and patently unsupported negativity. So, in answer to the question asked at the beginning of this essay about differences between the two sets of opposing proclamations, the answer is this: One set is of "proclamations" based on solid reputation, diligent research, painstaking fact-finding, unblemished integrity, tuned intelligence, and verified results. The other set is based on 'mainstream' flatus or klasskurtxian hot air. The reader can judge for themselves which is which. Be that as it may, Stanton Friedman, in a final analysis, ~is~ real, in this writer's view, and one wastes no time, at all, believing in MAJIC. Step forward to the future, reader, not backward to futility. Such can be drawn from Paul Kimball's intriguing, concise, and calmly iterated documentaries. See Friedman's film, here: http://www.redstarfilm.com/order/index.htm
VIDEODe boogbus waar auto's onderdoor kunnen rijden heeft deze week zijn eerste testritje gemaakt. De Chinese oplossing op het fileprobleem legde de driehonderd meter over de snelweg in de provincie Hebei zonder problemen af.
De zogenaamde Transit Elevated Bus (TEB) speelt haasje-over met de auto's die onder hem doorrijden. De bus rijdt op rails die langs de weg worden aangelegd. Er passen driehonderd passagiers in de bus die 21 meter lang is en ongeveer 8 meter breed.
Het gevaarte kan een snelheid van maximaal 60 kilometer per uur halen. 4 TEBs kunnen aan elkaar gekoppeld worden, net zoals treinstellen. "Het grootste voordeel is dat de bus een heleboel ruimte op de wegen zal besparen," zei Song Youzhou, projectleider.
De bus kan hetzelfde als de metro, maar de aanlegkosten zijn minder dan een vijfde van de kosten om een metronetwerk aan te leggen. Één TEB kan 40 bussen vervangen.
VIDEORuimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX heeft onderzocht of een gebruikte raket opnieuw kan ingezet worden voor een nieuwe ruimtemissie. Het bedrijf van Elon Musk liet de eerste trap van een 'tweedehands' Falcon 9-raket 2,5 minuten lang op vol vermogen ontbranden, iets wat indrukwekkende beelden oplevert.
De periode van twee minuten en dertig seconden is ongeveer gelijk aan de tijd die nodig is om de raket tijdens een ruimtemissie te laten ontbranden. Omdat alles schijnbaar succesvol verloopt, lijkt SpaceX voor het eerst te hebben aangetoond dat het daadwerkelijk zijn raketten kan hergebruiken.
Landingen
De bewuste Falcon 9-raket werd eerder dit jaar gebruikt voor een missie waarbij een Japanse communicatiesatelliet in een baan om de aarde werd gebracht. Achteraf slaagde SpaceX erin om de eerste trap van de raket op een droneschip op zee te laten landen. Dat kunstje wist het bedrijf overigens al verscheidene malen te herhalen, al is een gebruikte raket nog niet eerder opnieuw de ruimte in gestuurd. Ondanks de successen gaat het landen nog steeds wel eens fout, zo bleek bij een ontploffing vorige maand.
Kosten drukken
Of SpaceX de geteste raket daadwerkelijk opnieuw de lucht in wil sturen is nog onduidelijk. Wel wordt al geruime tijd gewerkt aan het hergebruik van raketten, omdat dit de kosten van ruimtemissies aanzienlijk kan verlagen. Daarbij krijgt SpaceX overigens concurrentie van andere bedrijven. Zo slaagde Blue Origin van Amazon-oprichter Jeff Bezos er meermaals in een raket weer op Aarde te laten landen. Wel richt Blue Origin zich voornamelijk op ruimtevluchten voor menselijke passagiers, waar SpaceX vooralsnog voornamelijk mikt op vrachtvervoer naar het internationale ruimtestation.
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Gepensioneerde prof: “Buitenaardse ontvoeringen zijn onderdeel van geheim programma”
Gepensioneerde prof: “Buitenaardse ontvoeringen zijn onderdeel van geheim programma”
Mensen die zijn ontvoerd door aliens mogen zich niet herinneren wat er met ze is gebeurd. Dat zegt de Amerikaanse historicus en gepensioneerde professor van de Temple-universiteit dr. David Jacobs in gesprek met Earth Mystery News.
Jacobs heeft naast zijn interesse in de Amerikaanse geschiedenis en cultuur een grote fascinatie voor buitenaardse ontvoeringen. Hij schreef al diverse boeken over het fenomeen.
In 1973 studeerde hij af aan de Universiteit van Wisconsin-Madison. Hij schreef zijn proefschrift over ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten in Amerika. Het werk, getiteld The UFO Controversy in America, werd twee jaar later gepubliceerd door de Indiana University Press en was al snel uitverkocht, wat erg ongewoon is voor een proefschrift.
Bewijs
Dr. Jacobs, die meer dan 25 jaar een vak doceerde over UFO’s in de Amerikaanse samenleving, stelt dat mensen al eeuwenlang contact hebben met buitenaardse wezens en dat die wezens zich onopgemerkt onder ons begeven.
De historicus heeft 150 mensen geïnterviewd die naar eigen zeggen zijn ontvoerd door buitenaardsen. De herinneringen aan de kosmische ontvoeringen komen bovendrijven tijdens ontspanningssessies.
Volgens Jacobs is er bewijs voor buitenaardse ontvoeringen. Mensen maken onafhankelijk van elkaar melding van contact met mens- of insectachtige wezens. Ontvoerden worden meestal in groepen meegenomen, zegt hij. Vreemden herkennen elkaar van hun ervaringen in de ruimte.
Geheim programma
Mensen komen terug met vreemde tekens, verwondingen of littekens, waaronder littekenweefsel dat van de ene op de andere dag is ontstaan, weet Jacobs. “Ik heb het met eigen ogen gezien.”
Dr. Jacobs suggereert dat een buitenaardse ontvoering geen aangename bovendimensionale, spirituele ervaring is zoals veel mensen beweren. Uit het onderzoek van Jacobs door middel van hypnose en regressie blijkt volgens hem dat buitenaardse hybrides betrokken zijn bij een geheim programma om de menselijke samenleving te infiltreren.
“Die hybrides trainen om hier te leven,” merkt Jacobs op. “En zij worden getraind door de ontvoerden.”
Volgens de gepensioneerde hoogleraar willen ze de planeet overnemen door mensachtige hybrides te creëren. “Hoe vaker je hiernaar kijkt, hoe rationeler het wordt,” concludeert hij.
Is realiteit een illusie? Wetenschapper zegt dat we mogelijk in een computersimulatie leven
Is realiteit een illusie? Wetenschapper zegt dat we mogelijk in een computersimulatie leven
In de jaren tachtig ontwikkelde de Amerikaanse filosoof Hilary Putnam het gedachte-experiment ‘hersenen in een vat’, dat is bedoeld om na te denken over de realiteit, waarheid en bewustzijn.
Het idee is dat een wetenschapper iemands hersenen uit het lichaam haalt, in een vat met vloeistof legt en de neuronen van het brein op een zeer krachtige computer aansluit. Deze computer simuleert een virtuele werkelijkheid. De hersenen zouden dezelfde belevenis hebben als wanneer ze zich in een fysiek lichaam bevonden.
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Het experiment is eigenlijk een hedendaagse versie van het argument dat gegeven is door Descartes dat hij zijn eigen waarnemingen niet kan vertrouwen omdat een demon ze misschien manipuleert. Hoe kunnen we er zeker van zijn dat we nu wakker zijn en niet slapen of dromen?
Ook de films The Matrix (1999) en Inception (2010) borduren voort op dit gedachte-experiment. In The Matrix ontdekt hoofdpersoon Neo dat de ‘gewone’ wereld een gesimuleerde realiteit is en dat zijn echte lichaam in een vat met vloeistof ligt.
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Hoewel we er nooit helemaal zeker van kunnen zijn dat de externe wereld eruitziet zoals we die waarnemen met onze zintuigen, kunnen we er wel zeker van zijn dat we bestaan, stelt Laura D’Olimpio van de Universiteit van Notre Dame in Australië. Iedere keer dat we daar aan twijfelen moet er namelijk een ‘ik’ zijn die twijfelt. Of zoals Descartes het in zijn tweede Meditatie omschrijft: ‘Ego sum, ergo existo’ oftewel ‘Ik denk, dus ik besta’.
“Het is dus goed mogelijk dat je brein zich in een vat bevindt en dat de wereld een computersimulatie is, geprogrammeerd door een kwaadaardig genie,” concludeert D’Olimpio. “Maar wees gerust, je kunt tenminste nadenken.”
“Profetie wordt vervuld”: Komt de Dode Zee tot leven?
“Profetie wordt vervuld”: Komt de Dode Zee tot leven?
Door het hoge zoutgehalte is er geen leven mogelijk in de Dode Zee. Dat denken wetenschappers althans. Uit onderzoek blijkt dat er leven is op de bodem van de zee. Er is nu ook leven gevonden aan de kust van de Dode Zee.
Samantha Siegel uit Jeruzalem stuitte tijdens een natuurtocht tot haar verbazing op zoetwaterplekken met vissen in de Dode Zee.
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Het gebied rond de Dode Zee zag er vroeger volgens de Bijbel heel anders uit:
Lot liet zijn blik rondgaan en zag hoe rijk aan water de hele Jordaanvallei was; voordat Sodom en Gomorra door de Heer werden verwoest, was de vallei tot aan Soar toe even waterrijk als de tuin van de Heer en als Egypte. – Genesis 13:10
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Er bestaan ook voorspellingen dat water ten oosten van Jeruzalem in de Dode Zee zal stromen en de zoute wateren zal vullen met vis:
Hij zei tegen mij: Dit water stroomt door de oostelijke landstreek, dan naar benden de Jordaanvallei in, en mondt uit in de Dode Zee. Wanneer het de zee in stroomt wordt het water daar zoet. Het zal er wemelen van levende wezens, overal waar de rivier stroomt komt leven, er zal vis zijn in overvloed. Als dit water in de Dode Zee aankomt wordt het water daar zoet; overal waar de rivier stroomt komt leven. – Ezechiël 47:8-9
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Het waterpeil van de Dode Zee daalt met ongeveer een meter per jaar. De stranden aan de Israëlische kant krijgen steeds vaker te maken met zogenoemde zinkgaten. Siegel ontdekte dat veel van deze gaten gevuld zijn met zoet water en vissen.
In onderstaande video laat ze vissen zien die zwemmen aan de kust van de Dode Zee. Ze neemt ook een duik in een meertje dat wordt omringd door planten.
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In 2011 stuurden onderzoekers van de Ben-Gurion Universiteit van de Negev duikers naar de bodem van de Dode Zee. Door het hoge zoutgehalte weigerde normale apparatuur dienst. De onderzoekers ontdekten enorme kraters op de zeebodem waar zoet water uit stroomde. De wanden van de kraters bleken te zijn bedekt met micro-organismen.
“Dit is een belangrijke ontdekking en eigenlijk is er niemand die erover praat,” aldus Siegel.
5 UFO Sightings That Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy
5 UFO Sightings That Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy
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'Hey Bill Nye, If Humans Colonize Mars, How Will We Evolve?’ #TuesdaysWithBill UFO Sighting News.
'Hey Bill Nye, If Humans Colonize Mars, How Will We Evolve?’ #TuesdaysWithBill UFO Sighting News.
Here is an interesting video by Bill Nye. It discusses how humanity will evolve once on other planets. I believe evolution will happen naturally as well as technologically. Meaning we will grow more intelligent, stronger bodies, and longer lifespans all due to technological advancements. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Video states: Victor: Hey Bill. My name is Victor and I’m from Markham, Ontario. The question I have for you this Tuesday pertains to human evolution and space colonization. I understand that humans are constantly evolving to adapt to the environment around us. For instance astronauts who have gone on long expeditions need to be carried out of their spacecraft after returning back to Earth. So what kind of evolutions do you think we might see in humans if we colonize a planet with lower gravity like Mars? Thank you. Bill Nye: Victor, Victor, Victor. This is an excellent question and I appreciate you asking it. Notice that it is my strong belief that we will not colonize Mars. It’s a very romantic notion. You live in Ontario. I don’t know but it looks like your ancestors came from the west, the left coast of Canada and a lot of people who first colonized Canada were from Europe. And we have this vision that you leave your native country because you’re getting religiously persecuted or someone is making you a good deal on going to a new world where you can start a new life. And the people that came to North America from Europe thought this was great. They were going across North America eating everything, foraging in the forest, cutting down trees, making farms, finding all these remarkable natural resources, especially in Canada all these wonderful mineral resources.
UFOs Streaking Toward the Ground Around Nellis AFB, Spring Mountains and Area 51
UFOs Streaking Toward the Ground Around Nellis AFB, Spring Mountains and Area 51
In a UFO hotspot Nellis Air Force Base, UFO researcher Steven Barone keeps on monitoring the alleged UFO traffic above the area from the backyard of his home in Summerlin, Las Vegas.
UFO bloggers, meanwhile, have claimed that Barone’s series of videos uploaded to YouTube show UFO spacecraft from a secret community of Tall White Aliens, which the U.S. government allegedly hosted at Nellis AFB and Area 51.
The latest footage from Barone, captured on July 28 from his backyard, shows a strange object streaking across toward the ground. The video also features footage from his November capture last year showing three mysterious orbs going down in the nearby Spring Mountains.
According to Barone, he looked out for UFOs on the night of July 28, Thursday, in a stormy city of Las Vegas. Despite the adverse weather conditions, he still decided to record some UFOs as usual. He used a night vision camera to handle a little wind.
However, he ended up witnessing nothing. He then decided to focus his night vision camera to the nearby Spring Mountains because of a previous amazing footage he got over the mountains on November 12 last year, involving a mysterious bright light activity. He said that UFO activity took place after just waiting for just a short period.
Barone’s July 28 video shows a bright UFO or some called it alien lightship, in the direction ofArea 51 facility that streaks down and disappears. It also shows footage from November 12, 2015, recorded over the same mountain. Three distinct orbs apparently land at the base of the mountain.
Many UFO bloggers suggest the UFOs that Barone recorded on videos are Tall White Alien spaceships, making landings at Nellis AFB and not fighter jets from USAF. They believe that the Tall White base is at the end of the Nellis old firing range.
According to the USAF whistle-blower Charles Hall, the Nellis AFB Tall White base has existed since the 1950s.
Interesting footage of a flying saucer over Pasto, Colombia
Interesting footage of a flying saucer over Pasto, Colombia
Here’s one older footage that was just submitted to MUFON. This was filmed over Pasto in Colombia on 22nd January 2005.
What do you think about this disc-shaped object? Please leave your comment below!
Witness report:
With my mother were on the first floor of the house, I heard my brother called me up the camcorder , because there was a UFO in the sky , I went up to the balcony where he stood with the video camera, I looked at the sky a star slightly larger than normal
1. It was on the first floor of my house, drink in the kitchen. 2. I went to the terrace to see the object. 3. I thought it was a UFO 4. It was a ball of light with orange lights and turned around , moved in a straight line . 5. I felt fear during and at the time of the sighting . 6. He moved to the Galeras volcano and landed there .
13 Things 'Star Trek' Gets Right (and Wrong) About Space Tech - PART I
13 Things 'Star Trek' Gets Right (and Wrong) About Space Tech - PART I
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
INTRO Space Tech Fact and Fiction
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In "Star Trek," science often drives the plot forward. Whether characters are beaming to the surface of an alien planet or using warp drive to take a shortcut across the Milky Way, technology is essential for the crewmembers of the USS Enterprise to do their jobs.
"Star Trek" doesn't always get this science and technology exactly right, but viewers shouldn't harp on the franchise's missteps, said David Allen Batchelor, a member of the radiation effects and analysis group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
"'Star Trek' also attracts and excites generations of viewers about advanced science and engineering, and it's almost the only show that depicts scientists and engineers positively, as role models," Batchelor added. "So let's forgive the show for an occasional misconception in the service of an epic adventure."
Below is a list of the technology he analyzes, from A to Z.
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13. Search for life
Astronomers are busy looking for other exoplanets. So far, about 3,400 alien worlds have been discovered, most of them by NASA's Kepler space telescope. Some of these planets are rocky and apparently reside in the "habitable zone" of their parent stars, just like Earth. But researchers have yet to find any signs of life, let alone intelligent aliens such as those that populate the "Star Trek" universe.
Scientists mainly agree that carbon-based life-forms (like those of Earth) could be common in the universe, because carbon is so abundant, Batchelor wrote. Humanoid races like the Vulcans on "Star Trek" are less likely (but then again, actors need to be able to fit into costumes).
"Could half-human/half-alien hybrids ever exist, like Mr. Spock?" Batchelor wrote. "It seems almost impossible, but with recombinant DNA, our scientists have already created interspecies hybrids. Mr. Spock is not totally beyond biochemical reality, but definitely at the edge." [10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life]
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12. Androids
Viewers of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" are familiar with Data, the android being who learns how to deal with emotions through a special chip implanted in his brain. Data may have trouble understanding jokes, but his computing wizardry and eagerness to help made him a favorite among fans.
Today, we can transmit information simply from brain to machine to help paralyzed people move, Batchelor said. Also, NASA's Robonaut 2 can flip switches and do simple tasks aboard the International Space Station.
"Creating 'Star Trek''s Mr. Data would be a historic feat of cybernetics, and it's very controversial in computer science whether it can be done," Batchelor said. "Maybe a self-aware computer can be put into a human-sized body and convinced to live sociably with us and our limitations. That's a long way ahead of our computer technology, but maybe not impossible."
Credit: NASA
11. Artificial gravity
£In "Star Trek," starships use artificial gravity to prevent their crewmembers from floating around like astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) do. There are mechanical ways to create artificial gravity, such as the fictional spinning space station in the famous 1968 movie "2001: A Space Odyssey." It's also possible to generate artificial gravity with magnetic fields, but there would be some problems, Batchelor said.
"Artificial gravity is not about to provide the normal environment of weight that the Enterprise crew experience," he wrote. "Specially designed magnetic fields could do a similar, weaker job, but they would play havoc with metal equipment … Generating artificial graviton particles is imaginable, but there's no way to say how it might be done."
It would be nice if artificial gravity were available for astronauts, though. After months in microgravity conditions, spaceflyers commonly experience decreased bone density, loss of muscle strength and vision problems. [The Human Body in Space: 6 Weird Facts]
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10. Cloaking device
Occasionally, it's useful to hide from the enemy, even if you're in a powerful starship that can blast other ships to pieces. For example, the USS Enterprise hides in the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's biggest moon, in the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot movie.
But what's even more useful is an artificial cloaking device you can carry with you — such as that used by the Klingon Bird of Prey ship in the "Star Trek" franchise.
Such technology is a long way off in real life, however.
"Crude cloaking devices have been developed today, but they consist of cumbersome layers of metamaterials that only hide tiny objects from visibility in a limited range of colors," Batchelor wrote, pointing out that metamaterials are electronic devices that distort the usual reflection and refraction properties of light. "New varieties of metamaterials undoubtedly will produce new, strange effects, but they don't seem capable of providing complete invisibility."
Credit: NASA
9.Miniaturized technology
This was one of the best predictors of "Star Trek: The Original Series." Often, when crewmembers were exploring an alien planet, they would send back reports of their observations to the Enterprise using communicators. In an era when computers were the size of rooms, such miniaturized technology was viewed as incredibly futuristic.
"Cellphones are ubiquitous now, to an annoying extent, and images and videos made with them are now collected and exchanged obsessively," Batchelor wrote. "Landing parties in past 'Star Trek' shows only gave verbal reports, and did not send back images and videos, as today's people would."
Meanwhile, longer-range subspace communications — which Enterprise crewmembers use to send messages to Starfleet — remains a TV idea with no physics to back it up. (In physics, "subspace" refers to the theory that space-time may have 11 or more dimensions, which would involve length, width, depth, time and seven more dimensions "curled up" on the subatomic size scale.)
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8. Computers
The computer on the USS Enterprise is an important tool to help the crew find its way around the universe. During "The Original Series," the computer could do scans of a planet and let the crew know if the planet was M-class, or habitable. In later generations of "Star Trek," the computer could produce fanciful holodecks to play out detective stories.
"Today's computers entertain us with video games and movie special effects that are awesomely more spectacular than the special effects in the original 'Star Trek' show," Batchelor wrote. Examples include searching databases, exploring Mars or creating designs on the fly. Supercomputers have also helped us model weather and the origins of the universe. And while holodecks aren't possible yet, we do have crude virtual-reality headsets available.
"Interestingly, the Internet was not predicted by 'Star Trek' visionaries, who remained focused on large, isolated computers," Batchelor added. But other technology thought of by the writers — such as universal translators — are too complicated and simply "a preposterous shortcut to keep the plot from faltering," he added. [The Top 10 Star Trek Technologies]
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7. Deflector shields and tractor beams
These technologies were useful when the Enterprise encountered other ships. If a Klingon ship fired upon the Enterprise, for example, deflector shields could direct the force of the attack away from the ship. A tractor beam, on the other hand, was useful for capturing a smaller ship.
"We know how to deflect electrically charged objects using electromagnetic fields, and there are concepts for protecting space travelers from cosmic radiation this way. That's the only physics trick we know that resembles the powerful special effects of the Enterprise's shields," Batchelor wrote.
"We can also make big magnets that have some respectable attraction, and with the right electronic circuits regulating the strength of the magnets, we can imagine towing some kinds of metal objects through space," he added. "A beam that is projected at something to attract it is purely imaginary."
13 Things 'Star Trek' Gets Right (and Wrong) About Space Tech - PART II
13 Things 'Star Trek' Gets Right (and Wrong) About Space Tech - PART II
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6. Medical tech
"Star Trek" features various medical devices capable of sealing and healing wounds immediately using some sort of ray (as seen in "Star Trek Beyond," to humorous effect).
While lasers are used today to seal (cauterize) some tissue wounds, or for dentistry, Batchelor wrote that healing rays are "just a medical miracle of the imaginary 24th century." There are some very rough analogues in use today, however. For example, some research shows that weak electric currents can make bones heal faster.
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5. Matter-antimatter generation
The Enterprise relies on this technology for power, and Batchelor calls it one of the best scientific features of the starship. Antimatter and matter are said to be very volatile when they get close to each other, producing an explosion. That's pretty much what actually happens. Dilithium crystals, sadly, are just imaginary.
"Antimatter has been created recently in microscopic quantities and is being studied to advance physics knowledge," Batchelor wrote. "But it isn't possible yet to produce amounts of antimatter that would be useful for fuel or power generation."
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4. Phasers
These are energy blasters commonly used during "away missions," sort of like an advanced gun that is useful for self-defense.
"Phaser" stands for PHASed Energy Rectification, and, according to "Star Trek" writers, were seen as the next generation of lasers. While phasers use fanciful physics, the army does have phaser-like stun weapons that use microwaves on the skin, Batchelor wrote.
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3. Replicators
These were commonly used on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" to give Deanna Troi her favorite chocolate treats, or to provide Jean-Luc Picard with the "tea, Earl Grey, hot" that he favored when relaxing in the captain's quarters.
Today, it is possible to carefully create objects using 3D printers, even aboard the ISS. These machines work by slowly building objects, layer by layer, out of plastic, polymers, metal or other materials.
"We know how to create microchip circuits and experimental nanometer-scale objects by 'drawing' them on a surface with a beam of atoms," Batchelor wrote. "We can also suspend single atoms or small numbers of atoms within a trap made of electromagnetic fields, and experiment on them. That's as close as the replicator is to reality. Making solid matter from a pattern, as the replicator appears to do, is pretty farbeyond present physics." [3D Printing In Space: A New Dimension (Photo Gallery)]
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2. Sensors and tricorders
In "Star Trek," the Enterprise's sensors were often used to search for spaceships and other objects. Tricorders are miniaturized devices to look close-up at an object to determine, say, what kind of injury a crewmember sustained, or what a strange-looking rock was made of. A tricorder could even send an automated distress signal back to the Enterprise.
Today, we have many kinds of sensors such as radar, sonar, laser ranging, vibration, gravimeters, energetic-particle detectors and light-wavelength detectors, Batchelor wrote. It's also possible to peer inside the human body (or other objects) using magnetic fields and radioactive detectors. Tricorders could be seen as a more advanced version of today's MRI machines, but the "Star Trek" sensors are likely not possible since they use (imaginary) subspace fields.
"Here on Earth, the LIGO observatory [Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory] has detected gravitational waves, enabling scientists to study direct observations of faraway colliding stars that had become black holes long ago," Batchelor wrote. "The patterns of waves confirm Albert Einstein’s gravity theory (the general' theory of relativity). This is currently the most awesome kind of sensor in modern technology."
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1. Transportation
"Star Trek" uses many modes of fanciful transportation to get around the universe:
Impulse engines: Rocket engines that run on fusion reactions. Batchelor wrote that this very advanced technology is not possible today, but it could happen in the future.
Ion drives: These engines accelerate ions (charged particles) using electricity. In real life, ion drives have been used on multiple spacecraft, including NASA's Dawn probe, which is currently orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres.
Time travel/wormhole travel: This is a famous "Star Trek" trope; for example, it was used to rescue whales of the 20th century in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home." But the mathematics and physics don't really hold up, Batchelor wrote; such travel would require "untested imaginary models where Einstein's relativity theory is stretched to its ultimate limits."
Transporters: These machines move people and equipment between a planet and a ship by dissolving an object or living being, and rematerializing it perfectly somewhere else. In the real world, atoms and photons have been transported, but nothing more complex yet. Better quantum computing would be needed to improve this technology, Batchelor wrote.
Warp interstellar drives: These engines propel starships between different stars or galaxies extremely quickly. Batchelor wrote that, while the warp drives in "Star Trek" are cool, they "violate known physics to an extent that can't be defended." That's because, he added, they "involve huge discharges of energy and subspace fields that aren't understood in today's science," unless something discovered in quantum theory overrides Einstein's work.
Long-Ago Giant Impact May Have Created Moon's Mysterious Grooves
Long-Ago Giant Impact May Have Created Moon's Mysterious Grooves
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
Grooves and gashes associated with the Imbrium Basin on the moon have long been puzzling. New research suggests some of these features were formed after a protoplanet slammed into the moon long ago.
Credit: NASA/Northeast Planetary Data Center/Brown University
A baby planet at least as large as New Jersey that smashed into the moon billions of years ago might have created the mysterious grooves that score the lunar surface, a new study suggests.
This finding could shed light on a violent era of impacts that once bombarded Earth and the rest of the inner solar system, researchers said.
Scientists investigated the area surrounding Mare Imbrium — Latin for "The Sea of Showers." This dark patch on the northwest quadrant on the near side of moon, the side that faces Earth, makes up the right eye of the "Man in the Moon." [The Moon: 10 Surprising Lunar Facts]
Mare Imbrium lies within the Imbrium Basin, the largest basin on the near side of moon. Previous research suggested that the 720-mile-wide (1,160 kilometers) basin was created by a giant ancient cosmic impact, and was later filled with vast lakes of lava that cooled to become dark rock.
Mare Imbrium is surrounded by grooves and gashes large enough to be seen from Earth even with small telescopes. These features, together known as the Imbrium Sculpture, are concentrated on Imbrium Basin's southeast side.
Many elements of the Imbrium Sculpture radiate from the center of Imbrium Basin like spokes on a wheel. Previous research had suggested that the Imbrium Basin and Imbrium Sculpture were created by a giant asteroid impact about 3.8 billion years ago. This asteroid was apparently traveling from the northwest to the southeast and collided with the moon at an oblique angle rather than straight on, with debris spraying southeast along this trajectory.
However, in addition to features radiating from Imbrium Basin's center, prior work discovered another set of grooves in the Imbrium Sculpture that did not spread out from the heart of the basin. Instead, they apparently came from a region northwest of the basin's center.
Trajectories of debris ejected from the Imbrium impact basin on the moon determined by the orientations of grooves and elongate secondary craters (along with locations of the Apollo landing sites). One set does not converge; rather, it forms parallel trends that correspond to the fragments originating from different portions of the Imbrium asteroid, rather than ejecta from the moon.
Credit: Peter Schultz
"This second set of grooves was a real mystery," study lead author Peter Schultz, an impact specialist at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island,said in a statement. "No one was quite sure where they came from."
But Schultz and co-author David Crawford, of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, may have solved the mystery. Their results suggest that the Imbrium Basin and Imbrium Sculpture were likely formed by a giant asteroid large enough to be classified as a protoplanet, or baby planet.
To learn more about the impact that might have created the Imbrium, Schultz and Crawford performed hypervelocity-impact experiments using the Vertical Gun Range at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. These experiments involved a 14-foot (4.25 meters) cannon that fired small bullets at up to about 11,200 mph (18,000 km/h), while high-speed cameras and impact plates recorded details about the collisions.
The scientists found that, during a low-angle impact, a high-speed projectile often started breaking up after making contact with a surface. The bottom of the projectile would create a crater, while the sides and top of the projectile would shear off and continue traveling at high speeds along the projectile's original trajectory to scour the surface. The grooves from these chunks would appear to originate from a point slightly offset from the crater generated by the bulk of the projectile — a gap about equal to the distance between the bottom of the projectile and its top and sides. [Asteroid Basics: A Space Rock Quiz]
The researchers suggest that the mystery grooves of the Imbrium Sculpture were etched by chunks that sheared off the sides and top of the impacting asteroid when it hit the moon.
"For Imbrium, as much as 25 percent of the asteroid may have detached from the actual collision," Schultz told Space.com. "Some of the fragments actually escaped the moon entirely."
Computer models analyzing these grooves helped the scientists estimate the size of this "Imbrium Asteroid." Previous estimates suggested that the Imbrium Asteroid was only about 50 miles (80 km) wide. But these new findings suggest that the impactor was actually about 150 miles (250 km) across, or about the length of New Jersey.
Comparison of scours produced by the impactor in experiments (above) and those produced in a computational model of a 100-kilometer-diameter asteroid (red pattern, below). Physical processes affecting the fate of the projectile observed in the lab experiments at high speeds also apply at much larger scale.
Credit: Peter Schultz
"That's actually a low-end estimate," Schultz said in a statement. "It's possible that it could have been as large as 300 kilometers [185 miles]."
The scientists also found that several other basins on the moon may have been created by oblique impacts from protoplanets. For instance, they estimated that the Moscoviense and Orientale basins on the moon's far side may have been created by asteroids about 62 and 68 miles (100 and 110 km) across, respectively — larger than previous estimates.
All in all, the researchers suggest that protoplanets may have once been common in the asteroid belt. "The large basins we see on the moon and elsewhere are the record of lost giants," Schultz said in a statement.
Material from protoplanets smashing into thhttp://www.space.com/e moon could help explain why lunar samples that NASA's Apollo missions brought back to Earth had high levels of meteoritic rock. This was especially true of the Apollo 16 mission, which landed downrange from the Imbrium impact.
The scientists added that collisions with these protoplanets might explain many of the impacts that battered the moon and the rest of the inner solar system during a violent era known as the Late Heavy Bombardment between 4.1 billion and 3.7 billion years ago. Thousands of chunks that sheared off the Imbrium Asteroid and other protoplanets would have kept going after impact, flying off into space to continue striking other bodies.
"These chips off the old blocks could have contributed significantly to the impact record we see on the moon and other terrestrial planets," Schultz said in a statement.
Schultz and Crawford detailed their findings online today (July 20) in thejournal Nature.
The FAA-AST has just issued an operator license to Virgin Galactic to operate its SpaceShipTwo. The craft also had a test of its taxiing skills, which coincided with the approval.
Virgin Galactic has been quietly trying to lick its wounds ever since a crash in late 2014 stalled its space ambitions for a few years. But now it has a brand new ship and a lot of high hopes for their future in space travel.
And now, they are a step closer to realizing those ambitions, after getting federal approval for their spacecraft. The US Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA-AST) has just issued an operator license to Virgin Galactic to operate its SpaceShipTwo.
And it celebrated by taking a walk.
Virgin Galactic
The FAA-AST granted the license after an in-depth review of the vehicles system design, safety analysis, and flight trajectory analysis, which made up several years of in-depth interaction with regulatory bodies.
The approval coincides with a SpaceShipTwo taxi test, an important milestone in testing and prepping the ship for launch.
Voyager 1 and 2 are still exploring the solar system, since almost 40 years ago, when the Voyager spacecrafts were first launched back in 1977.
The Voyager spacecrafts have traveled further in space than anything ever, with the Voyager 2 successfully making its way to Uranus and Neptune, and both spacecrafts having flown by Saturn and Jupiter.
In an effort to honor the Voyager space program, Santiago Menghini created the film Voyagers utilizing real photographs and plasma frequencies received by the Voyager spacecrafts.
The result is rather incredible.
Travel along with the Voyager spacecrafts as they traverse the solar system on their planetary expedition spanning over three decades.
This film showcases the images and sounds of the solar system through the real photographs and plasma frequencies received by the Voyager spacecrafts.
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Michael Cooney, the founder of EngNet, worked as a project engineer for many years sourcing equipment. His passion and experience in the industry led to creating EngNet to connect engineers and industry suppliers. You can also find Michael on Google+.
The use of sci-fi technology in war would change the realities of warfare in the future. Scientists and engineers from a British defense giant BAE Systems is researching sci-fi technology. The company believes that in just 25 years from now a lot of game-changing technology will be in use.
Recently, BAE Systems unveiled four futuristic technologies which could revolutionize future warfare.
The first idea involves installing on-board 3D printers: These 3D printers could print crucial metal parts, alloys or mini-drones while in the middle of a mission. The printed drones could be readily deployed during a mission.
The second concept is developing self healing fighter jets that can repair itself in mid air after suffering battle damage. Aircraft using nanotechnology can repair any battle-damage as soon as it happens.
A third revolutionary idea is aircraft using ‘transformer’ technology….aircraft which could split in the air when approaching a warzone. The ‘transformer’ technology will allow a transformer aircraft splitting into several different planes, each with its own mission like dropping supplies, bombing or carrying out surveillance. All split aircrafts could join back the main aircraft after completing their tasks.
The fourth and final technology is a laser weapon that is capable of firing a concentrated beam of energy at the speed of light commonly known as lasers. BAE scientists plan to use directed energy systems (DES) as an attachment weapon for aircraft to engage and destroy attacking missiles.
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UFO Culture and Beliefs….why they’re so significant today
UFO Culture and Beliefs….why they’re so significant today
(photo, courtesy of UFO Culture, The Christian Science Monitor)
Like the overwhelming majority of the world’s astronomers and scientists, I do not discount the possibility that we are not alone in the universe. Most likely we arenot alone, even though we still have no definite evidence for it. (I am talking about already fully developed, sentient intelligent life…….not just micro-organisms).
At the same time, however, the overwhelming, vast majority in the scientific community have been skeptical when it comes to UFOsasconclusiveevidence that we have been (or are being) visited by physical aliens in physical alien spacecraft of any kind.
As far as I am concerned, the bottom line is that we have not yet been presented with any single globally accepted physical, tangible, solid, as well as irrefutable documentary evidence of such, so far.
But all this does not mean that the study of the UFO phenomenon has no intrinsic value.
Ufology is an important study and will continue to be so as long as the “UFO phenomenon” is not conclusively solved.
However, as for myself, I am more interested in the study of its culture and beliefsand the impact of such beliefs on society in general.
Such study (on UFO Culture and Beliefs) is far more interesting and significant than the seemingly illusive, never-ending pursuit of the UFO phenomenon itself.
As I have stated time and time again, the subject of “UFOs” is the most important subject matter that I can think of because it involves everything and even seems to affect one’s worldview.
It is a fascinating study about human psychology and the role of “beliefs” that poses the question “what is reality?”
Yes, “UFOs” have become a social, cultural and psychological phenomenon.
Some even say that such beliefs are much needed for some folks who may feel the urge to believe in something or something that gives them a sense of “hope” (in tandemwith religious beliefs), especially in these troubling, uncertain age of global economic, social and political crises.
Add to all this the role of the Internet. The Internet has revolutionized how information as well as misinformation can be accessed instantaneously. For many gullible folks among a segment of the society (and there are manysuch folks in the so-called UFO Community) the Internet has become a cesspool of totally unfounded “facts” created by hucksters and hoaxters so much so that even college-educated folks seem to fall into it. Such hucksters and hoaxsters have become so skillful in their “art forms” that it is becoming harder and harder for many folks to distinguish what is true information and what is misinformation.
P.S.
A question was raised by a reader: “Norio, as a point of interest – –what evidence supporting extraterrestrial visitation do deem credible?”
My answer is:
The only evidence acceptable would be the revelation of their actual physical spacecraft (i.e., if the phenomenon is fully physical), along with the revelation of its occupants in front of the global press, the global scientific community and the public-at-large at a globally recognized and viewable venue (such as in the lawn of the White House, or in Central Park or any publicly recognized venue), along with the total live global TV simulcast coverage of the revelation.
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FBI Files: Historical Figures & Groups - PART I
FBI Files: Historical Figures & Groups - PART I
The following are FBI files of important people throughout history and important events.
Many of the files are broken into different parts, for easier downloading.
Declassified Historical Figure & Groups FBI Files
Albertson, William – [ 2,563 Pages, 125.3 MB ] – William Albertson, an American communist party leader who in 1964 was the subject of a snitch jacket, an FBI project to forge and plant a fictional report identifying him as an informant for the Bureau. (Source: GovernmentAttic.org)
Alinsky, Saul – [ 462 Pages, 31.7 MB ] – Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was an American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing. He is often noted for his 1971 book Rules for Radicals. In the course of nearly four decades of political organizing, Alinsky received much criticism, but also gained praise from many public figures. His organizing skills were focused on improving the living conditions of poor communities across North America. In the 1950s, he began turning his attention to improving conditions in the African-American ghettos, beginning with Chicago’s and later traveling to other ghettos in California, Michigan, New York City, and a dozen other “trouble spots”. His ideas were adapted in the 1960s by some U.S. college students and other young counterculture-era organizers, who used them as part of their strategies for organizing on campus and beyond. Time magazine wrote in 1970 that “It is not too much to argue that American democracy is being altered by Alinsky’s ideas.” Conservative author William F. Buckley, Jr. said in 1966 that Alinsky was “very close to being an organizational genius”.
Armstrong, Neil – [ 18 Pages, 0.8 MB ] – Neil Alden Armstrong (1930-2012) was a naval aviator and U.S. astronaut. This release consists of 18 pages of FBI file references to Armstrong ranging from 1969 to 1985 relating primarily to requests for FBI name checks in consideration of executive appointment; no derogatory personnel information was found. Redactions were made primarily to protect the privacy of living persons.
Baldrige, Letitia– [ 34 Pages, 1.53 MB ] – Letitia Baldrige (February 9, 1926 – October 29, 2012) was an American etiquette expert and public relations executive who was most famous for serving as Jacqueline Kennedy’s Social Secretary. Known as the “Doyenne of Decorum”, she wrote a newspaper column, ran her own PR firm, and, along with updating Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Book of Etiquette, she published 20 books and appeared on Late Night with David Letterman and the cover of Time Magazine.
Banister, Guy[ 297 Pages, 32.9 MB ] – Banister, Guy – Release #2 [ 335 Pages, 20.3 MB ] – William Guy Banister (March 7, 1901 – June 6, 1964) was an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an Assistant Superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department, and a private investigator. After his death, he gained notoriety from allegations made by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison that he had been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He was an avid anti-communist, alleged member of the Minutemen, the John Birch Society, Louisiana Committee on Un-American Activities, and alleged publisher of the Louisiana Intelligence Digest. He also supported various anti-Castro groups in the New Orleans area: “Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front”; “Anti-Communist League of the Caribbean”; “Friends of Democratic Cuba”. According to the New Orleans States-Item newspaper, “Guy [Banister] participated in every anti-Communist South and Central American revolution that came along, acting as a key liaison man for the U.S. government-sponsored anti-Communist activities in Latin America.”
Barker, Bernard Leon (FBI File)– [ 352 Pages, 23.57 MB ] Barker, Bernard Leon (Secret Service File)– [ 18 Pages, 0.9 MB ]- Bernard Leon Barker (March 17, 1917 – June 5, 2009) was a Watergate burglar. He had a long career as an undercover operative.
Booth, John Wilkes – [ File #1 | File #2 | File #3 | File #4 ] – These records contain correspondence dated 1922-23 of William J. Burns, former Director of the Bureau of Investigation, concerning a theory that Booth lived many years after the assassination of President Lincoln. Also included are the results of a 1948 examination by the FBI Laboratory of a boot said to be worn by Booth on the night of the assassination and a 1977 examination of a diary belonging to Booth.
Bras, Juan Mari– [19 Pages, 14MB ] – Juan Mari Brás (December 2, 1927 – September 10, 2010) was an advocate for Puerto Rican independence from the United States who founded the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP). On October 25, 2006, he became the first person to receive a Puerto Rican citizenship certificate from the Puerto Rico State Department. These documents were obtained, after a FOIA appeal.
Burning Man – [19 Pages, 6.7 MB ] – Burning Man is an annual gathering that takes place at Black Rock City—a temporary community erected in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. The event is described as an experiment in community and art, influenced by 10 main principles, including “radical” inclusion, self-reliance and self-expression, as well as community cooperation, gifting and decommodification, and leaving no trace. First held in 1986 on Baker Beach in San Francisco as a small function organized by Larry Harvey and a group of friends, it has since been held annually, spanning from the last Sunday in August to the first Monday in September (the U.S. Labor Day); for example, Burning Man 2015 took place August 30 – September 7, 2015.
Cooper, D.B. – [ 161 Pages, 27.7 MB ] – D. B. Cooper is a media epithet popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on November 24, 1971, extorted $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1,160,000 in 2015), and parachuted to an uncertain fate. Despite an extensive manhunt and an ongoing FBI investigation, the perpetrator has never been located or positively identified. The case remains the only unsolved air piracy in American aviation history!
Crouch, Paul Franklin– [ 76 Pages, 33.5 MB ] – Paul Franklin Crouch (March 30, 1934 – November 30, 2013) was an American Christian broadcaster. Crouch, along with his wife Jan, and televangelist Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker, founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network in 1973 (TBN).
Darrow, Clarence – [ File #1 ] – Clarence Darrow was a lawyer from the 1900’s to 1930’s. There have been many books on him, an estimated number of fifty. He was the best orator of his time and was coveted at all kinds of debates.Once he had moved from Ohio, he quickly became the most successful lawyer in Chicago, and grew to be the most famous lawyer in all of history. This is Miscellaneous material and correspondence regarding the famous attorney.
Estes, Billie Sol– [ 34 Pages, 4.44 MB ] – Billie Sol Estes (January 10, 1925 – May 14, 2013) was an American businessman; a former financier best known for a business scandal that sent him to jail for fraud multiple times and complicated by his ties to friend and future U.S. President Lyndon Johnson. Estes was living in Granbury, Texas at the time of his death. His body was discovered on May 14, 2013 at his home in DeCordova, Texas.Please note: This was a limited release on his full file, which is estimated to be 77,000 pages in length. I amended my request after some electronic communication with the FBI by stating, “I understand the Estes made some (unfounded) claims about the death of John F. Kennedy towards the end of his life, connecting the murder to LBJ. That’s a small nutshell, but in essence, what I am looking for is anything related to JFK’s assassination and LBJ.”
FBI Undercover Operations and Guidelines – [ File #1 ] – Although not a historical figure file, it does should the history of the FBI and the domestic surveillance programs. I felt it would be a fit here.
Ford, Henry – [ File #1 | File #2 | File #3 | File #4 | File #5 ] – These records consist of seven files involving Henry Ford on various subjects, such as his being the victim of an extortion attempt, kidnapping plots, jury tampering, and a State Department investigation.
Garment, Leonard– [ 338 Pages, 15.26 MB ] – Leonard Garment (May 11, 1924 – July 13, 2013) was an American attorney, public servant, and arts advocate. He served U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the White House in various positions from 1969 to 1976, including Counselor to the President, acting Special Counsel to Nixon for the last two years of his presidency, and U.S. Ambassador to the Third Committee at the United Nations.
Garrison, Jim– [ 160 Pages, 10.13 MB ] – Earling Carothers “Jim” Garrison (November 20, 1921 – October 21, 1992) – who changed his first name to Jim in the early 1960s – was the District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, from 1962 to 1973. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best known for his investigations into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He was played by Kevin Costner in Oliver Stone’s JFK.Requesting additional records on Garrison, other than the above, the FBI informed me that records may haveBEEN DESTROYED. In addition, others may exist at the National Archives. I am awaiting a response.
Hammer, Armand – [ File #1 | File #2 | File #3 | File #4 | File #5 | File #6 | File #7 | File #8 | File #9 | File #10 | File #11 | File #12 ] – Noted entrepreneur and art collector Armand Hammer had extensive import-export dealings with the SovietUnion and personally negotiated with Premier Lenin during the 1920’s. He later went into the oil business and became head of the Occidental Petroleum Corporation.
Hart, Pearl M.– [ 34 Pages, 1.76 MB ] – Pearl M. Hart (1890–1975) was a Chicago attorney notable for her work defending oppressed minority groups. Hart was the first woman in Chicago to be appointed Public Defender in the Morals Court. Most notably, she represented children, women, immigrants, lesbians, and gay men, often without fee or for a nominal fee. She attended The John Marshall Law School and was admitted to the Illinois State Bar in 1914.
Helms, Richard– [ 342 Pages, 190 MB ] – Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 – October 23, 2002) served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from June 1966 to February 1973. Helms began intelligence work with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Following the 1947 creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) he rose in its ranks during the Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy administrations. Helms then served as DCI under Johnson, then Nixon.
Highlander Folk School–[ 1,376 Pages, 64.50 MB ] – The Highlander Folk School was originally established in Grundy County, Tennessee. When Highlander was founded in 1932, the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression. Workers in all parts of the country were met with major resistance by employers when they tried to organize labor unions, especially in the South. Against that backdrop, Horton, West and Dombrowski created the Highlander School “to provide an educational center in the South for the training of rural and industrial leaders, and for the conservation and enrichment of the indigenous cultural values of the mountains.” Horton was influenced by observing rural adult education schools in Denmark started in the 19th century by Danish Lutheran Bishop N. F. S. Grundtvig. During the 1930s and 1940s, the school’s main focus was labor education and the training of labor organizers. (Source: Ernie Lazar)
History of the FBI (30 mb) – [ File #1 | File #2 | File #3 | File #4 | File #5 | File #6 | File #7 | File #8 ] – Although not a historical figure file, it does should the history of the FBI and the domestic surveillance programs. I felt it would be a fit here.
Hoover Institution (HQ1-5)– [ 355 Pages, 39.96 MB ] – The Hoover Institution is a conservative American public policy think tank located at Stanford University in California. Its official name is the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. It began as a library founded in 1919 by Republican Herbert Hoover, Stanford’s self-proclaimed first student, before he became President of the United States. The library, known as the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, houses multiple archives related to Hoover, World War I, World War II, and other world history. (Source: Ernie Lazar)
Hubbard, L. Ron –[ 1,225 Pages, 75 MB ] – Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard and often referred to by his initials, LRH, was an American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology. After establishing a career as a writer, becoming best known for his science fiction and fantasy stories, he developed a self-help system called Dianetics which was first expounded in book form in May 1950. He subsequently developed his ideas into a wide-ranging set of doctrines and rituals as part of a new religious movement that he called Scientology. His writings became the guiding texts for the Church of Scientology and a number of affiliated organizations that address such diverse topics as business administration, literacy and drug rehabilitation.
Jobs, Steve – [ 191 Pages, 3.91 MB ] – Steven Paul Jobs (1955-2011) was a founder and leader of Apple Inc. (formerly Apple Computer Inc.). In 1991, Jobs was considered for an appointed position on the U.S. President’s Export Council. This release consists of the FBI’s 1991 background investigation of Jobs for that position and a 1985 investigation of a bomb threat against Apple.
Keating, Charles– [ 122 Pages, 61.66MB ] – Charles Humphrey Keating, Jr. (December 4, 1923 – March 31, 2014) was an American athlete, lawyer, real estate developer, banker, financier, and activist best known for his role in the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s.
Kennan, George– [ 732 Pages, 55.61 MB ] – George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as “the father of containment” and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. He later wrote standard histories of the relations between Soviet Union and the Western powers. He was also a core member of the group of foreign policy elders known as “The Wise Men”. Additional records on Kennan are considered classifed.
Koresh, David – [ File #1 | File #2 ] – David Koresh (born Vernon Wayne Howell; August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993) was the American leader of the Branch Davidians religious sect, believing himself to be its final prophet. Howell legally changed his name to David Koresh on May 15, 1990 (Koresh being the Persian name of Cyrus the Great (کوروش, Kurosh). A 1993 raid by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the subsequent siege by the FBI ended with the burning of the Branch Davidian ranch outside of Waco, Texas, in McLennan County. Koresh, 54 other adults, and 28 children were found dead after the fire.
LeFevre, Robert– [ 90 Pages, 29.88 MB ] – Robert LeFevre (13 October 1911 – 13 May 1986) was an American libertarian businessman, radio personality, and primary theorist of autarchism. (Source: Ernie Lazar)
Lewis, John L. – [Part 01[1,605 Pages, 81mb] |Part 02[ 1,088 Pages, 45mb] ] – John L. Lewis, leader of the United Mine Workers of America, along with three other mine officials, was investigated on charges of violating Section 51 of Title 18 of the United States Code. Between 1937 and 1941 they were accused of conspiring to oppress employees from the Mine “B” in Springfield, Illinois from exercising their rights secured to them by the National Labor Relations Act. After a full investigation by the FBI, the Department of Justice decided not to prosecute the case and it was closed in 1943.
Mandela, Nelson – [ 344 Pages, 15.77MB ] – Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was South Africa’s first black chief executive, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism, poverty and inequality, and fostering racial reconciliation. Politically an African nationalist and democratic socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1991 to 1997. Internationally, Mandela was Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999.
Marshall, Thurgood – [ 1,409 Pages, 47.17MB ] – Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court’s 96th justice and its first African American justice. Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education, a decision that desegregated public schools. He served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit after being appointed by President John F. Kennedy and then served as the Solicitor General after being appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. President Johnson nominated him to the United States Supreme Court in 1967.
McCone, John – [ 746 Pages, 46.4MB ] – John Alexander McCone (January 4, 1902 – February 14, 1991) was an American businessman and politician who served as Director of Central Intelligence during the height of the Cold War. After the disaster of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, president John F. Kennedy forced the resignation of the CIA director Allen Dulles and some of his staff. McCone replaced Dulles on November 29, 1961.
National Rifle Association (NRA) HQ1 – [ 211 Pages, 24.08MB ] – The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1871 that promotes firearm competency, safety, and ownership, as well as police training, marksmanship, hunting and self-defense training in the United States. The NRA is also one of the United States’ largest certifying bodies for firearm safety training and proficiency training courses for police departments, recreational hunting, and child firearm safety. The organization publishes several magazines and sponsors marksmanship events featuring shooting skill and sports.This release of documents concerned the FBI’s investigation into the NRA through the 1950s and 1960s, and the public outrage. Very interesting to read the letters submitted to the FBI regarding their probe of the organization. (Source: Ernie Lazar)
Nation of Islam – [ 321 Pages, 15.2MB ] – The Nation of Islam (NOI) is an Islamic religious movement founded in Detroit, United States, by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad on July 4, 1930. The Nation of Islam’s stated goals are to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of African Americans in the United States and all of humanity.
National States’ Rights Party – [ 69 Pages, 5.21MB ] – The National States’ Rights Party was a far right, white supremacist party that briefly played a minor role in the politics of the United States.
Pavlick, Richard[ 289 Pages, 16MB ] United States Secret Service File [ 601 Pages, 29.39MB ] Secret Service Release #2[ 9 Pages, 1.7MB ] – Richard Paul Pavlick (February 13, 1887 – November 11, 1975) was a retired postal worker from New Hampshire who stalked U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy, with the intent of assassinating him. On December 11, 1960 in Palm Beach, Florida, Pavlick positioned himself to carry out the assassination by blowing up Kennedy and himself with dynamite, but delayed the attempt because Kennedy was with his wife and children. He was then arrested before he was able to stage another attempt.
Phelps, Fred Waldron – [ 232 Pages, 11.1MB ] – Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr. (November 13, 1929 – March 19, 2014) was an American pastor who headed the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), an independent Baptist church based in Topeka, Kansas. Phelps attained notoriety primarily from his vehemently anti-gay activism and his picketing of funerals of homosexuals and soldiers.
Priebke, Erich (FBI File) – [19 Pages, 24.57MB] Priebke, Erich (Department of State File) Priebke, Erich (Department of State File #2) – [67 Pages, 1.2MB] Erich Priebke (29 July 1913 – 11 October 2013) was a German Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in the SS police force (Sipo). In 1996 he was convicted of war crimes in Italy, for participating in the massacre at the Ardeatine caves in Rome on 24 March 1944. 335 Italian civilians (among them 75 Italians of Jewish ancestry) were killed in retaliation for a partisan attack that killed 33 German soldiers. Priebke was one of those held responsible for this mass execution. After the defeat of Nazi Germany, he received help from a bishop stationed in Rome and fled to Argentina on a Vatican passport, where he lived for over 50 years.
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) – [ 123 Pages, 74.2MB ] – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, PBS is an independently operated non-profit organization and is the most prominent provider of television programs to public television stations in the United States, distributing series such as NOVA, Sesame Street, PBS NewsHour, Masterpiece, Nature, American Masters, Frontline, and Antiques Roadshow.
This FOIA request began with a $300 estimate on fees ($95 for CD-ROM version), which, although I would normally deny, I was graciously given an anonymous agreement that another person wanted the file released, and would pay the fees. So, I agreed to the fees, and the request was to be processed accordingly. Yet, strangely, I was informed there were only 118 pages to be released. Regardless the reason for this mix-up, here is the file in it’s entirety, along with the original quote letter, and final response.
Rosenberg, Anna M.– [ File #1 18.71MB | | File #2 34.90MB | File #3 30.93MB | File #4 19.03MB | File #5 14.24MB | File #6 17.96MB | File #7 23.96MB | File #8 20.64MB | File #9 12.08MB | File #10 4.04MB | File #11 7.53MB | File #12 20.42MB | File #13 1.00MB ] [1,843 Total Pages ] – Anna Marie Rosenberg, (June 19, 1902 – May 9, 1983), later Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, was a public official and businesswoman. Born in Budapest, Anna Lederer immigrated with her family to the US in 1912. In 1919 she married Julius Rosenberg, a Jewish American member of the upper class (not to be confused with nuclear spy Julius Rosenberg). During World War II, she served in numerous government positions including regional director of the War Manpower Commission from 1942 to 1945. She ran a consulting business, with customers that included large businesses and public figures. She was awarded the Medal of Freedom in 1945, and was a recipient of the Medal for Merit in 1947, along with two other women, Mary Shotwell Ingraham and Elmira Bears Wickenden. In late 1950, she was nominated for assistant Secretary of Defense. Joseph McCarthy and his staff launched an all-out campaign to oppose her nomination, but she was recommended by the Senate Armed Services Committee. In spite of all opposition, in November 1950 she was named assistant Secretary of Defense, a post she held until January 1953.
Serial Killers in the United States – 1960 to Present – [ File #1 | File #2 ] – Information on serial killers provided by the FBI’s Training Division and Behavioral Science Unit at Quantico, Virginia.
Shepard, Alan (FBI Release) – [171 Pages, 85.1MB] Shepard, Alan (IRS Release) – [3 Pages, 0.5MB] – 1 responsive record was found and denied in full. Shepard, Alan (IRS Release #2 – Through the FBI) – [19 Pages, 13.9MB] – To my surprise, in June of 2016, a couple years after my request was closed (I thought), I received these files from the FBI after being released by the IRS. Shepard, Alan (Office of Personnel Management / Federal Investigative Services Release) – [37 Pages, 85.1MB] Alan Bartlett “Al” Shepard, Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998), (RADM, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, flag officer, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and businessman, who in 1961 became the second person and the first American to travel into space. This Mercury flight was designed to enter space, but not to achieve orbit. Ten years later, at age 47 and the oldest astronaut in the program, Shepard commanded the Apollo 14 mission, piloting the lander to the most accurate landing of the Apollo missions. He became the fifth and oldest person to walk on the Moon, and the only astronaut of the Mercury Seven to walk on the Moon. During the mission, he hit two golf balls on the lunar surface.
Silkwood, Karen Gay– [ 537 Pages, 33.2MB ] – Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was an American chemical technician and labor union activist known for raising concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety of workers in a nuclear facility. Her mysterious death received extensive coverage and was the subject of a victorious lawsuit against chemical company Kerr-McGee. Silkwood was portrayed by Meryl Streep in Mike Nichols’ 1983 Academy Award-nominated film Silkwood.
She worked at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, United States. Silkwood’s job was making plutonium pellets for nuclear reactor fuel rods. This plant experienced theft of plutonium by workers during this era. She joined the union and became an activist on behalf of issues of health and safety at the plant as a member of the union’s negotiating team, the first woman to have that position at Kerr-McGee. In the summer of 1974, she testified to the Atomic Energy Commission about her concerns. For three days in November, she was found to have plutonium contamination on her person and in her home. That month, while driving to meet with David Burnham, a New York Times journalist, and Steve Wodka, an official of her union’s national office, she died in a car crash under unclear circumstances.
Note: On June 28, 2016, the FBI informed me that additional records (in addition to the above) were destroyed on July 15, 1992. I was informed these records may have pertained to Karen Silkwood, but they are now destroyed. In addition, other records exist at the National Archives, and total 724 total pages; ~647 pages released in full, 39 pages released in redacted form and 37 pages withheld in full. I am unable to purchase them for 80 cents per page, but if anyone would like to, or you are around College Park, Maryland, you can see these files in person, requesting FBI case file 117-HQ-2702, located in the Motion Picture research room.
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FBI Files: Historical Figures & Groups - PART II
FBI Files: Historical Figures & Groups - PART II
Socialist Party – [ File #1 (NYC-3) 23.43MB | File #2 (NYC-4) 28.18MB ] – [ 711 Total Pages ] – Doctor Frederick Charles Schwarz (15 January 1913 – 24 January 2009) was an Australian physician and political activist who founded the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade (CACC). He made a number of speaking tours in the USA in the 1950s, and in 1960 moved his base of operations to California. He was the author of the international bestseller, You Can Trust The Communists (to be Communists) (Prentice Hall, 1960). Dr Schwarz worked with his wife, Lillian Schwarz, from abroad and, in his later years, at their home in Camden, near Sydney, in the Australian state of New South Wales. (Source: Ernie Lazar)
Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation – [ File #1 | File #2 | File #3 | File #4 | File #5 | File #6 | File #7 | File #8 | File #9 | File #10 | File #11 | File #12 ] – [ 3,047 Total Pages ] – The Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (SFSAFBI) is the official world-wide benevolent service organization for former Special Agents of the FBI. In 1972, the Society was called “Mr. Hoover’s Loyal Legion” by Nation Magazine. The Society of Former Special Agents was founded in 1937, and its membership, restricted to former Special Agents of the FBI, has grown to almost eight thousand men and women who previously served as Special Agents of the FBI. Located in Dumfries, Virginia, it has 129 nationwide chapters. Through the Former Agents of the FBI Foundation, created by the Society to further its charitable work, it has established several law enforcement awards, including the “Louis E. Peters Memorial Award,” which is jointly awarded by it and the FBI, and is the highest public service award recognized by the FBI. (Source: Ernie Lazar)
Sturgis, Frank (Watergate Burgler)– [ 112 Pages, 57.4MB ] Sturgis, Frank (Watergate Burgler) Release #2, October 2015 – [ 62 Pages, 17.5MB ] – Frank Anthony Sturgis (December 9, 1924 – December 4, 1993), born Frank Angelo Fiorini, was one of the five Watergate burglars whose capture led to the end of the Presidency of Richard Nixon. He served in several branches of the United States military, aided Fidel Castro in the Cuban revolution of 1958, and worked as an undercover operative.
Wackenhut Corporation – [ File #1 51.0MB | File #2 19.09MB | File #3 30.36MB | File #4 20.36MB ] – [ 1,023 Total Pages ] – The Wackenhut Corporation was founded in 1954, in Coral Gables, Florida, by George Wackenhut and three partners (all former FBI agents). In 2002 the company was acquired for $570 million by Danish corporation Group 4 Falck (itself then merged to form British company G4S in 2004).[1] In 2010, G4S Wackenhut changed its name to G4S Secure Solutions (USA) to reflect the new business model. (Source: Ernie Lazar)
Wheeler, Roger Milton– [1,369 Pages, 56MB ] – Roger Wheeler (February 27, 1926 — May 27, 1981) was an American businessman, the former chairman of Telex Corp. and former owner of World Jai Alai. In 1981, he was murdered at age 55 in his car while preparing to leave Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, following his weekly game of golf. He was purportedly murdered for uncovering an embezzlement scheme that was going on at his business, World Jai Alai. After retiring from the FBI, H. Paul Rico took a job as head of security for World Jai Alai. He saw the perfect opportunity to set up his former confidential informants Whitey Bulger and Steve Flemmi in a skimming operation there. The Winter Hill Gang skimmed $10,000 per week from the parking lot operation at World Jai Alai. Please note: Check out the bookmarks in the PDF file to differentiate between the file numbers and section IDs of this release.
White Supremacist Groups– [ 78 Pages, 10.94MB ] – White supremacy is the belief of, and/or promotion of the belief, that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds and that therefore whites should politically, economically and socially dominate non-whites. The term is also used to describe a political ideology that perpetuates and maintains the social, political, historical and/or industrial dominance of whites. Different forms of white supremacy have different conceptions of who is considered white, and different white supremacist identify various groups as their primary enemy.
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Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Documents on Unidentified Submerged Objects or USOs
Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Documents on Unidentified Submerged Objects or USOs
Background
According to the NAVY, the NCIS has the following mission:
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is the federal law enforcement agency charged with conducting investigations of felony-level offenses affecting the Navy and Marine Corps – that is, crimes punishable by confinement for more than one year.
NCIS also performs investigations and operations aimed at identifying and neutralizing foreign intelligence, international terrorist, and cyber threats to the Department of the Navy.
In addition, it provides warning of threats and specialized defensive force protection support to U.S. naval forces around the world.
Recently, I requested a copy of all NCIS investigations, which involved USOs and other unidentified objects found in the water.
Two Sightings Involving UFOs With Three Rear Lights Happen In The Same Month
Two Sightings Involving UFOs With Three Rear Lights Happen In The Same Month
For the second time in a month, a strange UFO with three rear lights has been spotted once again. UFO investigators are looking at a video that shows a flying object over Route 29 North in Charlottesville, Virginia in the U.S. on Sunday.
The object can be seen with three rear lights while flashing red light in the middle. It was submitted to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for investigation.
The witness, who has not been named, reported to MUFON that he saw the triangle UFO, as well as his mother, at around 8:55 pm on July 24, Sunday over 29 North in Charlottesville, near Kroger and K-mart.
In the video, the UFO initially appears to be stationary before moving to a north-east in a straight-line path and disappearing.
People in the background can be heard discussing whether the UFO is just a drone or something alien.
The UFO sighting is the second sighting of the unidentified flying object with three rear lights reported to MUFON this July.
Just last week, a couple and their son said having seen a UFO, which spun and disappeared earlier this month. The witnesses managed to record their sighting, which took place over Cumberland County, Maine, about 664 miles further north from Charlottesville.
The couple first thought it could be a large advanced drone, possibly from the military. However, they noticed that the mysterious aerial object spun and disappeared when they reviewed the footage.
Daytime UFO activity over Boca Raton, Florida 4th July 2016
Daytime UFO activity over Boca Raton, Florida 4th July 2016
Here’s one new footage of an unidentified flying object flying over Boca Raton in Florida. This was taken on 4th July 2016.
Witness report:
Observed grey-black circular object hovering while dark cube flew straight up right past it I was standing on sidewalk July 4th, 2016 at 2:34 pm in front of Boca Dunes clubhouse when I observed a grayish black round object hovering high in the sky. It was hovering to the West and moved to South-Southwest. A second object which appeared to be a dark cube (surrounded by dark cloud) flew almost straight up right past it incredibly fast (6 seconds into video). The round object continued to move to the Southwest until I lost sight of it. I had observed the round object for approximately 1 minute. I attached the video, 3 screen shots of the cube flying up past the round object, and a zoomed in screenshot of both both objects.
Artist's illustration of NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft preparing to sample the 1,650-foot-wide (500 meters) asteroid Bennu.
Credit: NASA/Goddard
NASA's new asteroid-sampling mission will do a lot of interesting things, but helping prepare humanity for Earth's imminent destruction is not among them.
There is indeed a chance that the 1,650-foot-wide (500 meters) asteroid Bennu — the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch next month — could hit Earth late in the 22nd century.
But, mission officials stressed, that chance is slim, and the space rock is not nearly big enough to pose an existential threat to the planet, despite what some media reports claimed over the weekend. [Potentially Dangerous Asteroids (Images)]
"We're not talking about an asteroid that could destroy the Earth," OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta, of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, told Space.com. "We're not anywhere near that kind of energy for an impact."
Armageddon' asteroid BENNU:Nasa to launch Osiris-Rex probe to Investigate
If all goes according to plan, the $800 million OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) mission will lift off atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Sept. 8.
The spacecraft will spend two years chasing Bennu down, finally rendezvousing with the near-Earth asteroid in August 2018. OSIRIS-REx will then study the space rock from orbit for another two years before grabbing at least 2.1 ounces (60 grams) of surface material in July 2020.
In 2023, this relatively hefty sample should make it back to Earth, where researchers in laboratories around the globe will analyze the material in a number of ways.
The mission team is chiefly interested in learning the role that asteroids like Bennu — dark, primitive and apparently carbon-rich objects — may have played in helping life get a foothold on Earth, Lauretta said.
"Did these kinds of bodies deliver organic material and water, in the form of hydrated minerals like clays, to the surface of our planet that created the habitability and the environments that may have led to the origin of life?" Lauretta said.
"That's the prime mission," to investigate that question, he added.
There are secondary objectives as well, including learning more about the valuable resources that Bennu-like asteroids may harbor, Lauretta said. And then there's the planetary-defense angle, which has gotten a lot of attention in the last few days.
Earth Impact Event: Asteroid BENNU near Earth Returns in 40 years could HIT US.
Bennu is officially classified as a potentially dangerous asteroid. In fact, there's an 0.037 percent (or 1-in-2,700) chance that it will strike Earth in the last quarter of the 22nd century, NASA scientists have calculated.
Specifically, that's the probability that, during an Earthy flyby in 2135, Bennu will hit a special orbit-altering "keyhole" that will send it on a collision course with the planet later in the century.
OSIRIS-REx will help scientists refine those odds, by refining their understanding of Bennu's orbit. (That orbit, by the way, is already the best-known of any asteroid, Lauretta said; thanks to extensive observations since Bennu's 1999 discovery, astronomers have nailed the space rock's orbital radius down to within 20 feet, or 6 m.)
"Our uncertainties will shrink, so that will allow us to recalculate the impact probability," Lauretta said. "We don't know which direction it'll go. It could go down, because we just eliminated a bunch of possible keyholes that Bennu may hit. Or it may go up, because in the area that's left we have a higher concentration of keyholes compared to the overall area of the uncertainty plane."
OSIRIS-REx's work will also help researchers better understand the Yarkovsky effect, which describes how absorbed sunlight, when radiated away as heat, affects an object's trajectory. Such information will improve knowledge not only of where Bennu is headed, but where it came from, Lauretta said.
But to focus on where it's headed — what if Bennu does hit one of those keyholes in 2135, and the space rock squares Earth up for an impact in 2185 or thereabouts? What should humanity expect?
Such an impact would likely devastate the local area but fall short of wiping out civilization or causing a mass extinction, experts have said. Astronomers estimate that a space rock must be at least 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) wide to cause a global catastrophe. (For perspective: The asteroid thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs — or at least to have finished them off — was probably about 6 miles, or 10 km, across.)
But an impact would not be inevitable, even if Bennu had Earth in its sights. Given a decade or so worth of lead time, researchers say, an incoming asteroid could potentially be nudged off course using fly-along "gravity tractor" probes and/or "kinetic impactors." And if time is not on humanity's side, there's always the nuclear option.
The Perseids are here: The dazzling meteor shower's peak of activity is Aug. 12, but you can already see its streaks of light peppering the sky.
Skywatchers are particularly excited about this year's Perseids. Though the meteor shower is an annual event, the Perseids are in outburst this year. That means that rather than 80 meteors per hour, we might see 150 to 200 per hour, according to NASA meteor expert Bill Cooke.
Perseid Meteor Shower 2016 is Set to be the Largest Outburst of Meteors / Eyes on the Skies
"Next, we move into the August Perseids, which is perhaps the most popular meteor shower of all," Cooke told Space.com in our summer meteor shower guide. "This year, they will be in what we call 'outburst' — their rates will double, because we're running into more material left behind by Comet Swift-Tuttle." [Perseid Meteor Shower 2016: When & How to See It]
The Perseid meteor shower occurs when Earth moves through the trail of dust and debris left by Comet Swift-Tuttle as it orbits the sun; the debris hits Earth's atmosphere and burns up, creating the white-hot streaks we see in the sky. Most of the pieces of debris, which move at 37 miles per second (59 kilometers per second), are about the size of a grain of sand, NASA has said.
The 2016 Perseid meteor shower will appear to radiate out from the constellation Perseus as shown in this sky map from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. The Perseids will peak on Aug. 12, 2016.
Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Earth is passing through a particularly dense clump of debris this year — the source of the outburst — caused by the influence of Jupiter's gravity on Swift-Tuttle's trail. The number of meteors is increasing as Earth penetrates the heart of the debris, and it will diminish again once it passes through (after the peak).
The moon will be full six days after the meteor shower's peak, which might wash out the vivid streaks across the sky. So it might be a good idea to look earlier on, before the peak, to see the brightest streaks and fireballs, and to go to the darkest location you can, Cooke said. All of the meteors will appear to stream away from the constellation Perseus — that apparent source is called the shower's radiant — but will materialize all across the sky.
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You don't need a telescope to see the meteors. In fact, because telescopes narrow your field of view, it's much easier to watch a meteor shower with the naked eye, just looking up at the entire sky. It will take around 30 minutes in the dark night for your eyes to adjust, and Cooke suggested to plan for a few hours outdoors, taking in the views. The Perseids will appear most clearly in the Northern Hemisphere after 10 p.m. local time, and the meteor rate will increase each night all the way until dawn.
"If anybody's going to get out and see a meteor shower, it probably should be the Perseids this year," Cooke said. "It is the one I would flag and say you've got to go out to."
Editor's note: If you have an amazing photo of this year's Perseid meteor shower you'd like to share for a possible story or image gallery, please contact managing editor Tariq Malik at spacephotos@space.com.
To date, there has been only one mission to Neptune, the Voyager 2 flyby of 1989. That flyby capped a "grand tour" of the outer planets that took advantage of a unique gravitational alignment to slingshot the spacecraft from Jupiter to Saturn to Uranus to Neptune.
While there is no mission to Neptune currently funded, a Uranus orbiter and probeproposed in the Planetary Decadal Survey of 2013-2022 could be adapted to explore Neptune if the current alignment of Jupiter were more favorable, Amy Simon, a senior scientist for planetary atmospheres at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, told Space.com.
Until another spacecraft can get out there, scientists must rely on ground-based telescopes such as Keck II, and space-based observatories such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Kepler space telescope, to get occasional glimpses of Neptune in between their other duties. This leaves a lot of unanswered questions about the blue planet. Here are some of the top queries raised by Simon.
Credit: NASA
5. Why are the winds so fast?
Neptune is a world of speedy winds. They have been clocked going at 500 meters (1,640 feet) per second, said Simon. This is about four times the speed of the fastest winds measured on Jupiter. At high altitudes, Neptune's winds can go faster than 1.5 times the speed of sound, or 1,100 mph (1,770 km/h), according to NASA.
Also, for some reason, the winds on Neptune are blowing westward, or backward to the rotation of the planet. Research published in the journal Nature in 2013 suggested the winds on Neptune and Uranus would be in thin layers no more than 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) thick. This shallow depth suggests that condensing and evaporating moisture could create the winds.
Credit: NASA
4. Why is Neptune's magnetic field offset?
Uranus and Neptune have relatively similar size, composition and location, soresearchers suspect the two planets have somewhat similar formation histories as well. Uranus and Neptune also both have off-kilter magnetic fields, which distinguishes them from the bigger gas giants, Saturn and Jupiter. Specifically, if you were to overlay a magnet on those planets, the magnet would not line up with the center.
"We have no idea how you even do that," Simon said.
Because magnetic fields are created by moving currents, it is believed that all planets with magnetic fields, including Earth, have conductive material moving in their centers. But because Neptune's magnetic field is tilted at 47 degrees to the planet's rotation, it's clear that rotation and magnetism are not inherently aligned.
"Neptune's magnetosphere undergoes wild variations during each rotation because of this misalignment," NASA wrote on a page about Neptune.
Credit: NASA
3. Why does it shed more heat than it gets?
Neptune receives heat from the sun, like all other planets, but there seems to be something fierce inside the planet that makes it generate more heat than it receives. Simon said scientists want to know why Neptune generates such heat, because this affects weather processes on the planet.
"The temperature difference between Neptune's strong internal heat source and its frigid cloud tops, about minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit [minus 162 degrees Celsius], might trigger instabilities in the atmosphere that drive large-scale weather changes," NASA officials said in a 2011 statement.
Measurements from the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory in the 1990s showed the planet is radiating at minus 351 F (-213 C), roughly 25 degrees F (45 degrees C) warmer than what it should be without an internal heat source
Credit: NASA
2. What happened to the 'Great Dark Spot'?
The "Great Red Spot" is the most famous feature on Jupiter (and the solar system's biggest storm), and for reasons that are still poorly understood, that spot has been shrinking in size for decades. So, scientists were intrigued when they saw a corresponding "Great Dark Spot" on Neptune during Voyager 2's flyby in 1989.
Another detailed observation of Neptune was in 1995, when the new Hubble Space Telescope turned its eye to the other blue planet. By then, however, the spot had mysteriously vanished. It could have dissipated at the equator, but scientists do not know for sure how exactly it disappeared, Simon said. Later that year, Hubble found what might be another dark spot, but it is difficult to determine, because the photo resolution of Neptune is so poor at this distance from Earth.
Credit: Lunar and Planetary Institute
1. What is Neptune's interior made of?
Because astronomers can't see into Neptune, it's difficult to know what its interior is made of. A 2003 model from the Lunar and Planetary Institute suggests an atmosphere of hydrogen, methane and helium. Below that atmosphere is liquid hydrogen, methane and helium, with even lower levels of other materials, including liquid hydrogen compounds, nitrogen and oxygen. The core (if there is one) would be rocky and icy.
It will take measurements of other planets by current NASA spacecraft to better predict the interior composition of Neptune, Simon added. That's one of the prime missions of Juno, which arrived at Jupiter this July. Also, in 2017, the Cassini spacecraft will take a suicidal plunge into Saturn, measuring as much as it can about the atmosphere and interior of that planet before disintegrating.
Rainbow-Colored Shooting Stars May Fly Overhead Someday
Rainbow-Colored Shooting Stars May Fly Overhead Someday
By Laura Geggel, Senior Writer
The Perseid meteor shower.
Credit: SKY2015 | Shutterstock.com
Someday, stargazers may see pink, green and violet shooting stars streak across the night sky, thanks to a startup company that wants to launch tiny, human-made meteors, according to news sources.
The Japanese company ALE plans to create and release artificial meteors into space that emit colorful trails when they burn up in Earth's atmosphere. For instance, a meteor made of copper would burn green; a barium one would burn blue; and potassium, rubidium and cesium meteors would burn various shades of purple.
"As one learns in high school science classes, when a substance burns, the flame emits a specific color; this is called the flame reaction," ALE said on its website. "By loading our satellite with various materials, we are able to turn our shooting stars into any color." [Space-y Tales: The 5 Strangest Meteorites]
Normally, shooting stars form when particles in space — usually much smaller than an inch (just a few millimeters long) enter the atmosphere and burn brightly, in a process known as plasma emission. ALE researchers want to recreate that process, but with human-made particles, they said.
The company plans to launch a satellite carrying about 500 to 1,000 "source particles," which will become the artificial meteors. Once the satellite stabilizes in orbit, operators on the ground can command it to discharge the particles to create the colorful shooting stars.
"The particles will travel about one-third of the way around the Earth and enter the atmosphere," ALE researchers said. "[They] will then begin plasma emission and become shooting star[s]" at an altitude of about 37 miles to 50 miles [60 to 80 kilometers] aboveground.
The mission, dubbed "Sky Canvas Project," will emit dozens, if not hundreds, of particles, showering Earth with rainbow-colored meteor showers, the company said.
Though small, the particles will burn brightly, according to ALE scientists. Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, has an apparent magnitude of minus 1.5. (The lower the apparent magnitude, the brighter the glow.) The artificial shooting stars have an apparent magnitude of about minus 1, at least in a laboratory setting, the researchers said. This means they'll bevisible down on Earth, even in a city, where lights often drown out celestial objects, ALE said. [Fallen Stars: A Gallery of Famous Meteorites]
Space junk
If launched, ALE's satellite would join countless other spacecraft orbiting Earth. However, the company says it will follow international regulations and ensure that its satellite doesn't stay aloft and become space junk, by purposefully crashing it into the atmosphere within 25 years.
"In this case, the used satellite itself will become a very large shooting star," ALE said.
Moreover, the company is taking precautions so that its meteor-emitting satellite won't crash into other satellites. The team created software based on the United States' Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC), which tracks satellites and debris in space. ALE will calculate where other objects are located in space, and prevent the ALE satellite from colliding with them, the company said.
But Moriba Jah, a space-junk expert and the director of the University of Arizona's Space Object Behavioral Sciences program, isn't sure that method will work.
JSpOC's site, space-track.org, largely tracks objects' general movements, but not their precise locations, which makes him "a bit uncomfortable" and unsure if ALE's satellite can effectively stay out of trouble, Jah told National Geographic.
Still, ALE plans to launch its first satellite in the second half of 2017 and service it in 2018, the researchers said. The company plans to launch a new satellite every year after that, and it hopes the project will reveal more about the science of meteors. [Photos: New Kind of Meteorite Found in Sweden]
But it won't be cheap. Each particle is slated to cost about 1 million yen (about $9,620) to produce, and that doesn't include the costs for the satellite or the launch, National Geographic reported.
What's more, ALE dispelled rumors last week that it might stage an artificial meteor shower for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
"While we do intend on providing our shooting stars, once complete, to large-scale events — and we also have mentioned the Olympic Games as an event that we would love to work with (*hint*) in interviews — we have not made an official proposal to the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games and hence do not have any facts or developments to disclose at the moment," the company said in a statement.
VIDEO: Mysterieuze smiley verschijnt in uitbarstende vulkaan op Hawaï
VIDEO: Mysterieuze smiley verschijnt in uitbarstende vulkaan op Hawaï
In de krater van de Kilauea-vulkaan op Hawaï verscheen tijdens een uitbarsting een smiley. Het opmerkelijke tafereel werd vastgelegd door Mick Kalber van Paradise Helicopters.
Het is voor het eerst in drie jaar dat de lava van de vulkaan in het Hawaï Volcanoes National Park het water van de Stille Oceaan in stroomt. Volgens de autoriteiten is er geen gevaar voor dorpen in de buurt. Wel waarschuwen ze toeristen om niet te dicht in de buurt van de lava te komen.
Sommige toeristen sloegen die raad in de wind en bekeken het spektakel op enkele meters afstand. Ze zagen hoe de lava over de steile klippen van het Amerikaanse eiland stroomde, waarna het roodgloeiende vloeibare gesteente in zee stroomde.
De Kilauea-vulkaan barst sinds 1983 vrijwel continu uit, wat het één van de meest actieve vulkanen ter wereld maakt, zo laat de Amerikaanse geologische dienst USGS weten.
An Arizona witness at Mesa reported watching a hovering disc along I-60 with a spinning green light underneath, according to testimony in Case 77772 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first noticed a light hovering in the distance on July 16, 2016, along I-60 at the Ellsworth ramp, pictured. (Credit: Google)
The witness was getting off the ramp at Ellsworth along I-60 on July 16, 2016, when the incident occurred.
“I noticed that a light reflected off an object with no lights on,” the witness stated.“I realized the object (silhouette) was a circular, craft-like object and was hovering in the distance.”
Light reflected off of the object at first. Pictured: I-60 at the Ellsworth ramp.
Credit: Google)
But the witness noticed a light on the object.
“A bright green light then started to spin on the bottom of the craft-like object – like a propulsion-type system. The lights were spinning with great speed and then it darted off directly east from where I was, so fast it left a green trail, and an aura of green light flashed in the distance, almost like it was leaving the atmosphere.”
A spinning green light then appeared under the object. Pictured: I-60 at the Ellsworth ramp.
Credit: Google)
Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, population 439,041. Field Investigator Marianne Robb is investigating for Arizona MUFON. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
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UFO At International Space Station, NASA Quickly Goes To Blue Screen, July 31, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO At International Space Station, NASA Quickly Goes To Blue Screen, July 31, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 31, 2016 Location of sighting: Earths Orbit Source: NASA Live cam This UFO was found by Streetcap1 of Youtube and its a bright, solid orb thats just a meter from the space station. It is monitoring the activity of the astronauts and then at the end of the video the UFO is noticed by NASA and they quickly turn it to blue screen to stop anyone from noticing it. Scott C. Waring 新北市新莊區幸福路, 台灣 www.ufosightingsdaily.com Streetcap1 of Youtube states: Once again transmission was cut, this time 'blue screen' as this is from the lower quality broadcast, not the HD viewer. There are a few intermittent flashes at the center screen, then the camera goes off. Streetcap1.
MASSIVE Golden UFO Orbiting EARTH. HD, Over A Mile Long! Aug 1, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
MASSIVE Golden UFO Orbiting EARTH. HD, Over A Mile Long! Aug 1, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: August 1, 2016 Location of sighting: Earths orbit Source: NASA Live Space Station Cam This UFO was seen on live ISS cam today and was caught by Streetcap1 of Youtube. The UFO is a totally different color that all other surroundings. There is also a dark window area which is probably the bridge of the UFO. It looks big, about 1 mile across big. This thing is just hovering up there, totally ignored by all the satellites, radar and security measures all govs have. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Streetcap1 states: I thought I was seeing things at first then quickly started recording. To my surprise they cut transmission ( attempt at joke ), anyway this has to be huge whatever it is. If it was a building it would be hundreds of miles long. Streetcap1.
Hubble releases an image in honor of the 50th anniversary of Star Trek.
In honour of the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, the Hubble Space Telescope has released an image boldly going where no one has gone before.
Peering through a cluster of galaxies to the very edge of the observable Universe to see the First Galaxies themselves.
The Frontier Field (in honour of Star Trek’s mission to explore the Final Frontier) is a region of the sky no bigger than a dollar coin seen from 100m away. Yet in that region 4 billion light years distant Hubble sees hundreds of galaxies that form Abell S1063, a galaxy cluster, one of the largest objects in our Universe.
While finding a galaxy cluster would usually be the scientific highlight of the story it’s what this cluster allows us to see that’s even more exciting.
The streaks or arcs of light you see in the image are optical illusions of even more distant galaxies warped by gravitational lensing.
The image of these background galaxies are brought into ‘focus’ by the mass of the galaxy cluster. This makes the already incredible Hubble Space Telescope effectively 20 times mores powerful seeing further into the distant universe.
Since it takes light time to reach us from these distant objects we then see them as they were, just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. These galaxies are newborns, when the entire universe was barely a teenager relative to its current age.
Gravitational lensing is an effect of General Relativity predicted by Einstein in which that massive objects like stars or galaxies would bend light around them focusing it like a lens. You can test the physics of gravitational lensing at home with a wine glass.
Simply take a sheet of paper and draw a coin-sized dot on it and fill it in, then place a wine glass over it. By looking directly down the stem of the glass the dot will turn into a ring, and looking to the side will see it distorted into streaks and arcs much like the cluster image.
Gravitational lensing allows us to not only see further behind the objects it also allows us toweigh the ‘lensing’ galaxies themselves as the bending of the light depends on the mass of the object (much as a thicker wine stem of lenses in your glasses will bend the light more).
This reveals that most of the material of the galaxy is in fact invisible, composed of a new form of mass called Dark Matter. While lensing allows us to map the Dark Matter to confirm its nature will require finding it in the lab. Australia has a key role to play in this search with SABRE, the world’s first dark matter detector in the Southern Hemisphere.
As we look deeper into the Universe we are seeing it as it was when the light first left. These distant galaxies revealed by the natural lens of the cluster date back to the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang. In astronomy exploring how the very first galaxies formed is the Final Frontier…
A Futuristic Mars Colony Is Being 3D-Printed In The Mojave Desert
A Futuristic Mars Colony Is Being 3D-Printed In The Mojave Desert
Karan Gandhi
IN BRIEF
A team of design and urban planning experts will use 3D printed technology to create a mock-up of a future city in Mars. It will feature sustainable designs and construction elements
SECRET LIFE OF (FUTURE) MARTIANS
Ever wondered what life in Mars could look like? Well, to get the answers you seek, just ask a “Marschitect,” like Vera Mulyani, who founded Mars City Design – a think tank (of sorts) that is aimed at developing blueprints for the first self-sustaining city on Mars.
Mulyani’s group raised $30,382 on Kickstarter to build 3D-printed three to-scale habitat prototypes of Martian cities at Reaction Research Society’s test area in the Mojave Desert.
Select engineers, designer, and architects from all over the world will gather at a workshop at the University of Southern California in September to plan the exciting features of the first cities on Mars.
Mulyani says their project is “macro to micro,” which means the team will first explore how an entire city would function as a whole then trickle down into individual habitats. They hope to start with a base of four people on Mars and then ultimately grow it to a city of 1,000.
Image source: Quartz
CREATING SUSTAINABLE CITIES
The workshop will be attended by Jim Erickson, project manager of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover, and Madhu Thangavelu, a professor at the Viterbi School of Engineering, and Apollo 11 pilot Buzz Aldrin, among many others.
From 25 design entries, the Mars City Design team shortlisted three finalists with the best prototypes to be 3D-printed. Some of the designs include Neurosynthesis: an urban settlement with a closed river system and an artificial Martian waterfall; Project Dandelion: an autonomous habitat that uses regolith to provide a sustainable source of oxygen, water, energy and nutrition; Vertical Farms: sustainable farming to limit the reliance on sporadic supply runs from Earth; and Instant Structure: a laser explosion technology to rapidly create constructions as immediate solutions to natural disasters or war.
Mulyani says their team sees Mars as an opportunity to think long-term and plan sustainable cities, something we didn’t do with Earth.
Researchers have been using electrons as qubits for the past few years and have been looking for a better option due the unreliability of electrons in keeping noise out. As a nifty solution, they tried out electron holes—the positively charged voids left behind when they remove electrons.
ELECTRONS AS QUBITS: NOT PERFECT
Quantum bits, or qubits, are the units that will be the foundation of quantum computing. Unlike the binary system, wherein bits can only be either 1 or 0, qubits allow the superposition of each unit, meaning each bit can be both 0 and 1 at the same time. This creates exponentially superior computing power that allows calculations to be carried out with less steps than the classical system.
To learn more on the concept of qubits, watch the video below:
Researchers have been using individual electrons as qubits for the past years. An electron is locked in the quantum dot, which is a tiny semiconductor volume, and the spin turns it into a small permanent magnet. The direction of this spin is then used to code information.
The problem, however, is that atoms from its surroundings also generate magnetic fields—and this noise interferes with the external magnetic field and ultimately corrupts the process of programming and reading qubits.
THE FIX
A team of researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the University of Basel, and Lyon University have found a nifty solution to the hurdle: instead of using electrons as qubits, they used the “electron holes.”
Instead of locking individual electrons in the quantum dot, specific electrons were removed, leaving positively charged voids, or electron holes, that also have a spin but, unlike the electrons themselves, are immune from the interference caused by surrounding magnetic fields. “A hole spin may circumvent the nuclear spin noise. In principle, the nuclear spins can be switched off for a pure heavy-hole spin,” the study notes.
The downside, however, is that this can only be applied at low temperatures since these holes have a weakness to warmth. While the technique is still not perfect, it’s a step closer to making quantum computers a reality.
Was Ancient China’s Yellow Emperor an Extraterrestrial Being from Alpha Leonis?
Was Ancient China’s Yellow Emperor an Extraterrestrial Being from Alpha Leonis?
Ancient China’s Yellow Emperor is a legendary hero credited with many feats, such as introducing writing and medicine. But despite his contribution to founding the Chinese civilization, there are ancient texts that suggest he wasn’t even human at all, but an extraterrestrial being from a star system far away.
Throughout mankind’s history, the ruling class has done its best to create and maintain the illusion that kingship is a divine construct, established by the gods themselves. Dynasties of monarchs and majesties claimed the first of their name had been direct descendants of the “gods” and thus justified their own reign as demigods. The king-coming-down-from-heaven-to-assist-mankind-through-his-governance phenomenon is a a staple presence within many cultures, leading some of us to believe that it was a common occurrence for extraterrestrial beings to lend a hand and establish divine bloodlines.
The Yellow Emperor (Huang-Di) lived in the third millennium BC and his rule is traditionally said to have lsted for over 100 years. Many inventions are attributed to his genius, including the introduction of wooden houses, the bow and arrow, carts and boats, Chinese medicine and writing. He is also credited as being the first to mint coins and establish governmental institutions.
An epitome of wisdom and understanding, Huang-Di was a patron of the esoteric arts and considered a cosmic emperor. His rule was a golden age during which he envisioned a perfect kingdom where peaceful inhabitants would live a life of harmony. For someone from 5,000 BC, that’s quite progressive.
It is said he had vast astronomical knowledge and even possessed advanced technology, such as a “cauldron” that he would use to enlist the help of a dragon. Sometimes, this dragon is described as having metallic scales and the Yellow Emperor could summon it whenever he pointed the cauldron at a star known as Xuanyuan. Astronomers have identified this star as Alpha Leonis, located 79 light-years from us, in the constellation Leo.
According to ancient Chinese myths, the same cauldron could store various types of energy for long periods of time and would show moving images of other dragons flying through unfamiliar skies.
Another intriguing object belonging to the Yellow Emperor was his magical chariot, called Changhuan. He would use it to travel quickly to all corners of his empire, bot woe unto him who dared climb aboard without Huang-Di’s permission. When one of his advisers decided to take it for a spin, he returned the same day but being many years older than he had left. This sounds too much like the time dilation effect of faster than light travel to ignore.
Multiple sources claim that after his hundred-years reign ended, the Yellow Emperor simply summoned the metal ‘dragon’ and ascended to the heavens. This could be a metaphor for death or it could literally mean the extraterrestrial emperor climbed aboard his flying machine, waved goodbye to the subjects he had so graciously helped evolve, and went back to his own star system.
It is worth mentioning that Alpha Leonis, also known as Regulus, was seen as an important celestial body in ancient times. The Babylonians called it Sharru (The King) while in India it was called Maghā, meaning The Mighty. Millennia ago, ancient Persian astronomers saw Regulus as one of the four ‘royal stars’ of the monarchy and referred to it as Miyan – The Center.
Being the initiator of the Chinese civilization must have been hard work, so it makes sense for history to sing songs of praise to the Yellow Emperor, but was he human or not? He successfully introduced alien concepts that had never been heard of before him and allegedly owned and operated technological marvels that only an advanced, space-faring civilization could produce.
His birth is said to have been an actual descent from the Xuanyuan star, accompanied by a “thunderclap on a clear day in the skies.” The metallic dragon could have been a flying craft similar to the ones we see today, and we’re left wondering whether UFOs are responsible for the representation of the strongest, wisest mythical creature in Chinese lore.
This is an artistic reproduction of a relief found in a labyrinth on the island Jotuo in China.
The star Huang-Di allegedly came from was held in high regards by many ancient peoples. Could it have been the place of origin of many of mankind’s civilizing heroes, from Gilgamesh to Quetzalcoatl, and from Viracocha to Osiris?
Evidence of life on Mars? Fossilized creatures spotted on Red Planet
Evidence of life on Mars? Fossilized creatures spotted on Red Planet
Researchers have concluded that some 4.1 to 3-7 billion years ago, Mars had enough liquid water to cover the entire surface of the planet with a fluid layer nearly 150 meters deep. It is entirely possible that during that time, life as we know it could have formed on Mars.
Have UFO hunters spotted the remains of ancient sea creatures on Mars? According to a new image, ‘seashell-like’, however, creatures may have just been spotted on the surface of Mars indicating Mars’ ancient ocean was once teeming with life.
Not long ago, researchers from NASA have found out that there was once a vast primitive ocean covering the Martian surface containing more water than Earth’s arctic sea. Now alien hunters believe they have spotted the remains of a creature that may have once inhabited the Martian ocean proving that in the distant past Mars and life.
According to estimates proposed by scientists earlier this year, Mars had once more water that the Arctic ocean on Earth and the Martian ocean existed on the planet for over 1.5 billion years.
Findings on Mars indicate that there was enough water and time for life to thrive on Mars. However, over the last 3.7 billion years, our neighboring planet has lost around 87% of its water turning into a barren and desolate world.
Researchers have concluded that some 4.1 to 3-7 billion years ago, Mars had enough liquid water to cover the entire surface of the planet with a liquid layer nearly 150 meters deep.
A study published in the journal Science concluded that Mars’ northern plains would have had around 20 million cubic kilometers of water, an ocean that would have been as 1.5 km deep in some locations.
Interestingly, scientists believe that Mars had liquid water for a longer time that previously thought which also means it may have been habitable for longer.
In an article about Water on Mars, Dr. Michael Mumma, co-author of the study and Senior Scientist at Nasa Goddard wrote:
“We now know that Mars was wet for a much longer time than we thought before, Curiosity shows it was wet for 1.5 billion years, already much longer than the period of time needed for life to develop on Earth. And now we see that Mars must have been wet for a period even longer.”
The peculiar image of the alleged fossilized creature was discovered in images taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover exploring the Gusev crater.
Skeptics, however, tend to disagree suggesting that these discoveries are just pareidolia doing its thing, making us see familiar shapes in images of the Martian surface.
Scott Warring from UFO Sightings Daily however disagrees.
According to a post published on Mr. Warring’s website:
“I found this shell back in 2012 in Gusev crater in a false color Nasa photo, but came across it again this week but in an all new photo I have never seen before, The sea shell is still there and had not been edited out.”
For nearly four years, NASA’s very own alien robot has been exploring the surface of Mars in an effort to understand the red planet and its long history.
Since the rover touched down on Mars, it has taken countless images of Mars where many UFO hunters have found peculiar images that are very hard to explain.
“The shell is round, and the top of the shell was thinner, so it’s been broken away, but the outer rim still exists,” writes Mr. Waring on his blog.
“The evidence of Mars having an ocean with living creatures grows.”
A HIDDEN message in Da Vinci’s Last Supper painting (video)
A HIDDEN message in Da Vinci’s Last Supper painting (video)
A Milan-based Researcher claims Da Vinci included a HIDDEN message in his famous painting of The Last Supper.
According to researchers, there is a hidden message inside Leonardo da Vinci’s version of the Last Supper that points to the possibility that Jesus was MORTAL.
The last Supper painted by Leonardo da Vinci isn’t the only existing version. However, Leonardo’s version is believed to be far more unique than anyone had ever thought, and a research4re believes he has identified a ‘hidden’ message that Leonardo embedded into the painting.
What if it were true? And what if Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings have, in fact, a mystery or two just as the fictional story of The Da Vinci Code once suggested?
Other paintings depict Jesus and his 13 subjects as saints, but Da Vinci’s paintings are unique, and now a researcher believes he may have discovered the reason why da Vinci decided to leave out the halos surrounding Jesus and his disciples.
According to a researcher, Leonardo Da Vinci left out the traditional ‘halos’ surrounding Jesus and his disciples in order to show Jesus was a ‘common mortal’.
In a video presented by the Smithsonian Channel, Leonardo Da Vinci’s paintings is perhaps the most widely recognized, but it isn’t the only version of the Last Supper.
Other Versions of the painting are eerily similar to one another, but Leonardo’s version has one DETAIL that sets them apart: Leonardo’s paintings does NOT have halos.
In Da Vinci’s version, not only are his disciples portrayed without halos, even Jesus has his halo missing.
The video published by the Smithsonian Channel explains:
“Before Leonardo da Vinci, all versions of The Last Supper showed Jesus and his disciples with halos, in effect, portraying them as saints, but, da Vinci chose to ignore this convention and paint them without halos.”
According to Mario Taddei, the missing halos in Leonardo’s paintings may have been a way of sending a message.
Mr. Taddei is an Italian inventor and expert in Leonardo da Vinci.
According to Taddei, the people Da Vinci depicted in the painting are common simple men and not saints, implying that Jesus too was a mortal.
“I believe that Leonardo never put the halos because he thinks that the people are ordinary people, and this is a genuine secret of Leonardo. There is no extraterrestrial or supernatural object inside the last supper. Leonardo wants to tell us that the thirteen men are simple men. And this said something much more powerful,” explains Mr. Taddei in the video.
The Idea that Jesus was a mortal is a subject of debate that has been proposed many times in the past.
Interestingly, the novel The Da Vinci Code and the film that followed made strong claims that were firmly rejected by the Vatican.
Mr. Taddei explains that“Leonardo da Vinci is communicating a subtle message with his Last Supper, He’s telling us that Jesus was a mortal – a theme echoed in The Da Vinci Code.”
Witnesses in Shock as Massive UFO Event Unfolds Over US Town
Witnesses in Shock as Massive UFO Event Unfolds Over US Town
In case you were eager to see an alien invasion in your lifetime, you might want to take a look at this shocking video.
The UFO and alien fever has reached new heights with so much information at hand revealing never-before known facts about space and life in general. It’s easier now than ever for people to understand that we’re not alone in the universe, but although most of us humans accept the idea, we’re still divided in two groups: those who believe that aliens had already made contact with us, and those who think they are out there, but out of reach between a vast space measuring millions of light years.
In case you’re part of the first category, your interest and excitement when it comes to an alien invasion in the near future is undeniable, and as a matter of fact, they may have already appeared to us. This claim is not without proof, as a man has already recorded a presumed alien invasion, but on a local scale. Even so, the sighting is extremely puzzling and raises tons of question marks.
It all starts with a radiant orange ball of light. Some would say there’s nothing unusual so far, but as the UFO descends, it breaks in midair and releases a handful of bright orbs. Five peculiar dots on the sky aligned in a bizarre formation are now hovering over this small US community. They stop falling in midair, hinting at an intrusive alien invasion. The witnesses are in shock, especially the man who’s filming this alleged apocalyptic scenario. On the background you can even hear a girl screaming, accompanied by other various noises.
The orb from the middle suddenly vanishes, and the others keep changing their color from pale white to orange. At this point, a second orb makes a dip in brightness and two more light up near it. They remain still for a brief moment, further shocking the mesmerized cameraman, then the orbs slowly fade away, leaving behind only three UFOs which start to perform a bizarre ritual. Near the end of the video, the orbs become brighter and then disappear without a trace.
Could this be indeed some kind of alien invasion? Is this video proof of UFO activity on Earth, or does it rather have a more rational explanation? Let’s explore the possibilities and find out:
A heated debate has started on Reddit regarding the origins of this sighting, with the most upvoted theory being a group of skydivers descending with their flares lit up. But does this really explain what we see in this capture? Would a group of divers jump off a plane holding all flares together, then break in a symmetrical formation, change the color of their lights and freeze midair?
Such a scenario would only be possible, in my acceptance, if they would deliberately intend to fake an alien landing. But why would a group of professionals engage in such a troubling, unprofitable operation?
Indeed, the trail left behind by a plane is clearly visible in the first frames of the video, but that’s far from explaining anything, and besides, other lights emerging as the scene unwinds further hints at otherworldly visitors. Could this really be the case?
On the other side of the fence, this theory is gaining ground since the behavior seen in the images is not foreign to the UFO community. The traits of the bright UFOs are in fact common characteristics encountered in orb-UFOs. They are renowned for performing brisk maneuvers, dips in brightness, changing colors and even morphing and multiplying.
Orb UFOs are believed to monitor the activity of our earthly communities, despite their size or location. They are frequently seen during the night as they ‘play’ above secluded villages and even crowded cities.
Doctor Ruehl has investigated numerous such sightings and reached the conclusion that they could be ageless plasmatic entities that travel between dimensions. Whenever they enter our realm they tend to generate a circular energy shield around them, making them look like bright spheres, an appearance that can easily be interpreted by any skeptic in its own desired way.
However, decades-old reports and numerous videos of these orb UFOs undeniably reveal their otherworldly nature. In my acceptance, the military and our world governments are mostly aware of these UFOs, but are unable to interact with them because of their tremendously advanced capabilities.
If an alien invasion would be a positive thing remains another topic of discussion, with an interesting point of view being presented in this comment from worldstar:
“The so called white man hasn’t been able to peacefully coexist with any dark indigenous nation he ever came into contact with on this planet. Every nation came to him with a peaceful hand and he came at them with a sword and these nations belong to the same genetic human race and species as him… you think it’s going to be a peaceful encounter if so called extraterrestrials come here? This devil would send missiles at their spaceship before they even land and try to put them in captivity before they even speak.”
With this rapid shift in technology we can at least hope that one day we’ll be able to reach out to these incredible beings. Until then, it’s best that we study as many cases involving them as possible. A unique example is presented in this article speaking of a very close encounter with these peculiar orbs.
The UFO phenomenon is real, but humanity needs more time to expand consciousness and technology to finally be prepared to interact with them. Share your thoughts and experiences with us, and let us add another piece to the puzzle of UFOlogy.
HET BLIJFT SPOKEN MET VREEMDE DINGEN RONDOM MEXICAANSE VULKANEN ( VIDEO )
HET BLIJFT SPOKEN MET VREEMDE DINGEN RONDOM MEXICAANSE VULKANEN ( VIDEO )
De laatste tijd zijn er op deze website behoorlijk wat berichten geplaatst over de vreemde verschijnselen bij een aantal Mexicaanse vulkanen.
Wij blijven daar nog even, want de dingen die zich daar voor doen, worden met de week vreemder en de wereld reageert maar niet.
Wat is er eigenlijk voor nodig om wat mainstream aandacht te krijgen voor dingen die iedere dag gebeuren, die door talloze getuigen worden waargenomen, die worden gefotografeerd en gefilmd en waarvan iedereen blijft doen alsof ze niet bestaan.
Heeft de bevolking dan zulke grote oogkleppen op of zijn ze zo gedrogeerd en gehersenspoeld dat ze zelfs niet meer waarnemen wat er concreet in hun omgeving gebeurt?
Enkele weken geleden hebben we (weer) uitgebreid bericht over de vreemde sigaarvormige UFO’s die zich keer op keer vertonen bij de Mexicaanse vulkanen en dan in het bijzonder de Popocatépetl vulkaan.
Soms zie je ze met het blote oog, maar op het moment dat je gaat filmen met een infraroodcamera komen er de meest fascinerende beelden tevoorschijn.
Zoals de volgende opnames laten zien, vliegen de sigaarvormige objecten af en aan rond de Popocatépetl.
Naast de Popocatépetl is er in Mexico nog een bekende vulkaan, de Colima, waar regelmatig vreemde objecten worden waargenomen.
Omdat er een goede vergelijking gemaakt kan worden met de krater van de vulkaan heeft men berekend dat deze UFO’s ongeveer 500 meter lang zijn. De grootste van de twee heeft ook een soort metallic-achtige glinstering, wat normaal is, omdat deze opnames gemaakt zijn bij zonsopgang.
Deze vulkaan bevindt zich op ongeveer 500 kilometer afstand van de hoofdstad Mexico City.
De vulkaanuitbarstingen wereldwijd nemen toe en het was dan ook een kwestie van tijd totdat mensen verbanden gingen leggen tussen de toenemende UFO activiteit bij vulkanen en die van vulkanische uitbarstingen.
Tenslotte iets wat misschien niet veel mensen weten, is dat er diverse getuigenverklaringen zijn van reddingswerkers die vreemde wezens hebben waargenomen op de hellingen van de Popocatépetl vulkaan.
De professionele bergbeklimmers (Mountain Rescue) die zich bij en rond de vulkaan bezighouden met onder andere het in veiligheid brengen van verdwaalde toeristen en dergelijke, maken melding van vreemde wezens.
Ze zijn tussen de twee en twee en een halve meter groot en worden waargenomen op de helling van de vulkaan, dichtbij de krater.
Ze zijn lang en dun en beschikken niet over een uitrusting zoals een rugzak of iets dergelijks. Ze hebben niets om zich tegen de barre weerscondities op die hoogte te beschermen.
Deze wezens zijn niet een keer bij toeval waargenomen. Ze worden op regelmatige basis gezien door leden van Mountain Rescue en anderen.
Tot grote verbazing van de bergbeklimmers kunnen de wezens in een heel korte tijd een aanzienlijke afstand overbruggen op de steile gladde berghelling.
Een afstand op de berghelling waar de bergbeklimmers normaal gesproken drie uur over doen, wordt door deze wezens in tien minuten afgelegd.
Guillermo Vidalez is één van de bergbeklimmers die ze met eigen ogen heeft gezien. Hij zegt dat het eigenlijk onmogelijk is voor iets of iemand om een berghelling in zo'n korte tijd te beklimmen, gezien de condities van het terrein en het weer. De wezens zagen er uit als dunne, lange figuren en ze waren te ver van Vidalez verwijderd om contact te kunnen maken.
Grote vraag is natuurlijk: Wie zijn deze wezens en wat hebben ze daar op die helling van de vulkaan te zoeken.
Kortom, er gebeuren dingen rondom de vulkanen in Mexico die volgens de geldende regels “niet kunnen”. En toch gebeuren ze en worden deze vreemde dingen dag na dag vastgelegd op camera’s.
Als je echter denkt dit onderwerp ooit tegen te komen in het aktualiteitenprogramma Een Vandaag, vergeet het.
UFO Close Up Over Wilmington, California On July 31, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Close Up Over Wilmington, California On July 31, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 31, 2016 Location of sighting: Wilmington, California, USA This UFO was caught over California yesterday and the glowing lights changed colors and hovered in place at the eyewitnesses attempted to get it into focus. The UFO also sparks an interesting conversation about the UFO and about a second smaller UFO that is blinking near it. Fantastic proof that aliens do exist in California and are helping revolutionize our tech industry. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
UFO Watches Climbers On Mount Washington Summit, July 26, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Watches Climbers On Mount Washington Summit, July 26, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: July 26, 2016 Location of sighting: Mount Washington Summit, New Hampshire, USA
News source: MUFON #78091 UFOs are often seen around mountain peeks and this sighting is no exception. Some climbers at the Mount Washington summit decided to takes some photos of their victorious moment and accidentally caught a UFO watching them in the distance. I think that UFOs like to observer these people because they are the ones that think outside the box, seeking adventure and chasing it down. Just like meeting an alien would be quite the adventure. This reminds me of a UFO sighting By a world famous mountain climber Reinhold Messner,who saw a moon-sized object while climbing in Himalayas back in 1981 over Katmandu, Nepal Italian Reinhold Messner, one of the world's foremost mountaineers, said he watched a UFO "the size of a full moon" for nearly three hours while climbing in the Himalayas. On his return to Katmandu after an unsuccessful attempt on 24,248-foot Mount Chamlang, he said he spotted the UFO as it drifted south into Nepal from Tibet over the mighty snowcapped mountains. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: I noticed the object in the background of two photos that were taken of me and my daughter and her friend on the top of Mount Washington when I zoomed in on them.Both photos were taken by another person at the summit. Both photos were taken no more than 5 seconds apart.
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA waarschuwt voor een asteroïde die gevaarlijk dicht langs de Aarde zal scheren. Raakt de ruimtesteen uit koers, dan zijn de gevolgen voor de mensheid niet te overzien.
Doorgaans nemen we de waarschuwingen van allesvernietigende asteroïden niet al te serieus. Vaak zijn het halvegaren die complottheorieën verspreiden over het einde van de aarde. Maar, wanneer de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA achter de waarschuwing zit, kan het wel eens waar zijn.
De organisatie maakt zich zorgen over de asteroïde Bennu. NASA stuurt zelfs een sonde naar de ruimtesteen om meer informatie over de steen te verzamelen. Bennu zien we om de zes jaar vanaf de aarde voorbij komen. Maar, in 2135 zal de steen tussen de Aarde en de Maan vliegen. Dit kan mogelijk de baan van de Maan wijzigen, waardoor deze tegen de Aarde kan botsen.
Onderzoekers bij NASA stuurt nu een sonde naar de asteroïde. De sonde zal in 2018 aankomen en de ruimtesteen gedurende twaalf maanden observeren. Zo hopen de wetenschappers de exacte koers van de asteroïde te kunnen bepalen. In 2023 komt de sonde weer aan op Aarde en kunnen wetenschappers de gegevens analyseren.
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lexander McCone (January 4, 1902 – February 14, 1991) was an American businessman and politician who served as Director of Central Intelligence during the height of the Cold War. After the disaster of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, president John F. Kennedy forced the resignation of the CIA director Allen Dulles and some of his staff. McCone replaced Dulles on November 29, 1961.
