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Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

What Is the Likelihood That Europa’s Oceans Harbor Alien Life? We May Soon Find Out.

What Is the Likelihood That Europa’s Oceans Harbor Alien Life? We May Soon Find Out.

What's Going on Under the Ice of Europa?

An artist's concept of water plumes erupting from the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.

Credit: G. Bacon (STScI)

IN BRIEF

Most enthusiasm in exoplanet searches is reserved for so-called "Earth-like" planets —approximately Earth-sized worlds within their star's habitable zone.
But speculation about the life-bearing potential of some of the icy moons of the outer planets may help broaden this narrow, provincial outlook; and proposed missions to Jupiter's moon Europa aim to answer the question of whether there might be life beneath its icy mantle.

DEFINING THE HABITABLE ZONE

It’s one of the most pressing questions in science: is there alien life somewhere out there within the great wide demesnes of the universe—beyond the homely, terrestrial sort that we’re all familiar with?

We’re still searching for the answer, but it seems that each day brings word of some new exoplanetary discovery that may at last resolve the issue—our technology has evolved to the point where we can now detect Earth-sized (note the distinction between “Earth-sized” and “Earth-like”) exoplanets residing in the habitable zones of their parent stars.

But are we restricting ourselves—unnecessarily—with the fetters of a geocentric prejudice? The circumstellar habitable zone (HZ) merely represents that part of a planetary system where temperatures are conducive to the existence of liquid water—in other words, precisely where the Earth currently resides in the Solar System. Certainly, with everything being equal, a planet with these conditions in a star’s HZ would be habitable to terrestrial life as we know it—but whoever said that’s all we’re looking for? Furthermore, we know that the HZ isn’t static in time; as a main sequence star evolves, its temperature increases, and the zone of habitability sweeps further outward—which is something to consider for highly-evolved, red giant stars, as a recent study has shown.

The Sun’s habitable zone, as it is today (top); the habitable zone as it will be in about 7 billion years (bottom). Credit: Wendy Kenigsberg/Cornell University

Putting aside the question of completely alien life, founded upon chemical organizations radically unlike anything we know, it’s not even clear that terrestrial-type life could only evolve upon an Earth-like planet within its star’s HZ. That’s where studying the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn becomes important.

Ever since the Voyager probes winged their way galaxy-ward, there’s been a great deal of speculation that Jupiter’s second moon, Europa, might harbor a warm, liquid ocean beneath its piebald shell of red-and-white ice; recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope even suggest some of that water is escaping into space, in the form of geysers—akin to what we see on Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

THE ICE-COVERED OCEAN

The existence of such an ocean on Europa is attributable to the intricate celestial mechanics of the Galilean Moons; this remarkable dance—choreographed across billions of years between Io, Ganymede, Europa and the prodigious mass of Jupiter—has squeezed and warmed Europa’s mysterious innards through the action of tidal flexure. It’s a bit like what’s happened to twisted, volcanic little Io—only with a far happier and less Dantean result.

Now, it doesn’t necessarily follow that a motley assortment of marine monsters has evolved in Europa’s putative subglacial world-ocean—though we all prefer to believe that’s exactly the case. But there’s certainly reason enough to be hopeful.

Europa, the mysterious moon of Jupiter. Is there life beneath all that ice? (Credit: NASA)

Europa, the mysterious moon of Jupiter. Is there alien life lurking beneath all of that ice? (Credit: NASA)

Life on Earth, for instance, needs water and a source of energy—the Sun, in most cases. But it’s also true that certain organisms, particularly in the deep oceans, derive their energy from purely non-solar sources; it’s even possible that the earliest life on Earth was of just such a type, at a time when the Sun’s radiation was far weaker than it is today.

A recent study has shown that an exothermic chemical reaction known as “serpentinization,” whereby saltwater reacts with rocky minerals to produce heat and hydrogen, may be as common on Europa as in terrestrial oceans. Furthermore, the blistering radiation of Jupiter may be enough to separate oxygen atoms from water molecules in the moon’s icy mantle, with the oxygen then cycling deep into the interior. If correct, it means all the ingredients for a thriving ecosystem are theoretically in place; all that’s needed is the spark of life—unfortunately, ascertaining the likelihood of that happening is beyond our statistical models.

But plans are already afoot to loft a space probe toward distant Europa, this time equipped with a chemical tongue so the probe can pass through any water ice geysers the moon is discharging and “taste” the composition of its inner ocean.

“Observations of Europa have provided us with tantalizing clues over the last two decades, and the time has come to seek answers to one of humanity’s most profound questions,” says John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.

Regardless of what the probe discovers, it’s about time we start expanding our definition of what the “habitable zone” really means—in our own Solar System, as in the myriad exoplanetary systems swimming daily within our ken.

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Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

Scientists Release Incredible Image of a Four Planet System

Scientists Release Incredible Image of a Four Planet System

Gemini Observatory/Lynette Cook

IN BRIEF

A short video shows the movement in a system of planets about 129 light-years away from ours. The planets' orbits seem to be in resonance, producing a wonderful visual effect.
The star system presents an opportunity for more exoplanet research, including the planet-formation process.

Located about 129 light-years from Earth in the direction of the Pegasus constellation is the relatively young star system of HR 8799. Beginning in 2008, four orbiting exoplanets were discovered in this system which – alongside the exoplanet Formalhaut b – were the very first to be confirmed using the direct imaging technique. And over time, astronomers have come to believe that these four planets are in resonance with each other.

In this case, the four planets orbit their star with a 1:2:4:8 resonance, meaning that each planet’s orbital period is in a nearly precise ratio with the others in the system. This is a relatively unique phenomenon, one which inspired a Jason Wang – a graduate student from the Berkeley arm of the NASA-sponsored Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) – to produce a video that illustrates their orbital dance.

Using images obtained by the W.M. Keck Observatory over a seven-year period, Wang’s video provides a glimpse of these four exoplanets in motion. As you can see below, the central star is blacked out so that the light reflecting off of its planets can be seen. And while it does not show the planets completing a full orbital period (which would take decades and even centuries) it beautifully illustrates the resonance that exists between the star’s four planets.

As Jason Wang told Universe Today via email:

“The data was obtained over 7 years from one of the 10 meter Keck telescopes by a team of astronomers (Christian Marois, Quinn Konopacky, Bruce Macintosh, Travis Barman, and Ben Zuckerman). Christian reduced each of the 7 epochs of data, to make 7 frames of data. I then made a movie by using a motion interpolation to interpolate those 7 frames into 100 frames to get a smooth video so that it’s not choppy (as if we could observe them every month from Earth).”

The images of the four exoplanets were originally captured by Dr. Christian Marois of the National Research Council of Canada’s Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics. It was in 2008 that Marois and his colleagues discovered the first three of HR 8799’s planets – HR 8799 b, c and d – using direct imaging technique. At around the same time, a team from UC Berkeley announced the discovery of Fomalhaut b, also using direct imaging.

These planets were all determined to be gas giants of similar size and mass, with between 1.2 and 1.3 times the size of Jupiter, and 7 to 10 times its mass. At the time of their discovery, HR 8799 d was believed to be the closest planet to its star, at a distance of about 27 Astronomical Units (AUs) – while the other two orbit at distances of about 42 and 68 AUs, respectively.

Image of HR 8799 (left) taken by the HST in 1998, image processed to remove scattered starlight (center), and illustration of the planetary system (right). Credit: NASA/ESA/STScI/R. Soummer

It was only afterward that the team realized the planets had already been observed in 1998. Back then, the Hubble Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) had obtained light from the system that indicated the presence of planets. However, this was not made clear until after a newly-developed image-processing technique had been installed. Hence, the “pre-discovery” went unnoticed.

Further observations in 2009 and 2010 revealed the existence of fourth planet – HR 8799 e – which had an orbit placing it inside the other three. Even so, this planet is fifteen times farther from its star than the Earth is from the Sun, which results in an orbital period of about 18,000 days (49 years). The others take around 112, 225, and 450 years (respectively) to complete an orbit of HR 8799.

Ultimately, Wang decided to produce the video (which was not his first), to illustrate how exciting the search for exoplanets can be. As he put it:

“I had written this motion interpolation algorithm for another exoplanet system, Beta Pictoris b, where we see one planet on an edge-on orbit looking like it’s diving into its star (it’s actually just circling in front of it). We wanted to do the same thing for HR 8799 to bring this system to life and share our excitement in directly imaging exoplanets. I think it’s quite amazing that we have the technology to watch other worlds orbit other stars.”

In addition, the video draws attention to a star system that presents some unique opportunities for exoplanet research. Since HR 8799 was the first multi-planetary system to be directly-imaged means that astronomers can directly observe the orbits of the four planets, observe their dynamical interactions, and determine how they came to their present-day configuration.

Astronomers will also be able to take spectra of these planet’s atmospheres to study their composition and compare this to our own Solar System’s gas giants. And since the system is really quite young (just 40 million years old), it can tell us much about the planet-formation process. Last, but not least, their wide orbits (a necessity given their size) could mean the system is less than stable.

In the future, according to Wang, astronomers will be watching to see if any planets get ejected from the system. I don’t know about you, but I would consider a video that illustrates one of HR 8799’s gas giants getting booted out of its system would be pretty inspiring too!

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Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

UNE CIVILISATION ANCIENNE INCONNUE AUPARAVANT DÉCOUVERTE EN AMAZONE

UNE CIVILISATION ANCIENNE INCONNUE AUPARAVANT DÉCOUVERTE EN AMAZONE

Le déboisement rapide en combinaison avec Google Earth a permis de détecter 210 géoglyphes sur 200 sites différents, dans une bande de 250 kilomètres sur 10 kilomètres de large...

Le déboisement rapide en combinaison avec Google Earth a permis de détecter 210 géoglyphes sur 200 sites différents, dans une bande de 250 kilomètres sur 10 kilomètres de large en Amazonie.

Tout comme les lignes de Nazca, les incroyables dessins géométriques, zoomorphes et anthropomorphes de l’Amazonie ne peuvent être vraiment appréciées que dans les airs. La question reste, pourquoi ?

De nombreux restes de ce qui fait évidemment partie d’une civilisation ancienne et jusqu’alors inconnue sont apparus sous les arbres de la forêt amazonienne. Selon les chercheurs, 260 avenues énormes, de longs canaux d’irrigation et des barrières pour le bétail ont été repérées depuis les airs. La découverte a été faite à proximité de la frontière entre la Bolivie et le Brésil

Les ruines ont été découvertes en raison de la déforestation rapide, un processus qui révèle ce qui était précédemment caché sous des couches profondes de végétation. L’idée traditionnelle de nombreux historiens est que, avant l’arrivée de l’espagnol et des portugais au quinzième siècle, et contrairement à l’histoire conventionnelle dans les Andes, il n’y avait pas de civilisations avancées dans la région amazonienne. Mais, compte tenu du fait que la déforestation a révélé une grande partie des secrets cachés de la région, les savants sont convaincus qu’une civilisation avancée habitait la région dans le passé lointain. Les nombreuses images aériennes et satellitaires révèlent un réseau complexe de villes, de routes et de structures qui jusqu’alors étaient restées cachées sous la couche impénétrable de l’Amazonie.

Jusqu’à présent, les chercheurs ont été aidés par Google Earth qui leur a permis d’identifier les structures qui ne sont pas visibles du sol. Jusqu’à présent, de nombreuses découvertes ont été faites, certaines étant des structures carrées ou rectangulaires, tandis que d’autres forment des cercles concentriques ou des figures géométriques complexes comme des hexagones et des octogones, tous reliés par un réseau de larges avenues.

Les chercheurs ont trouvé des tranchées ou des fosses propres, qui mesurent entre 1 et 4 mètres de profondeur, et renversées de 11 à 12 mètres de large. On les trouve dans différentes tailles et dessins: cercles, carrés, rectangles, formes composées, lignes droites et parallèles. En outre, les chiffres sont reliés par ce qui semble être des «routes».

Bien qu’il n’y ait aucune preuve que les anciens habitants de l’Amazonie ont construite des pyramides et développé une langue écrite, comme l’ont fait les anciens Égyptiens, ils ont montré des signes de grande complexité sociale et une aptitude à dompter l’environnement, quelque chose de très différent de ce qu’ils font Aujourd’hui, comme les tribus isolées vivant dans l’amazone d’aujourd’hui ont un agenda social très différent.

Grâce à la fouille, les chercheurs ont découvert des poteries, des pierres sculptées et d’autres éléments qui pointent vers des signes d’habitation humaine, bien que certains sites ne produisent aucun artefact, les chercheurs suggèrent que certains des sites archéologiques pourraient avoir eu des fonctions cérémoniales alors que d’autres pourraient avoir été conçus à des fins défensives.

Les traits dominants de la géométrie et la dimension des géoglyphes révèlent quelque chose de fascinant sur les anciens habitants de la région. Les chercheurs pensaient que les anciens, locaux de la région, n’étaient que des nomades, des chasseurs et des cueilleurs dans le passé lointain, mais le nombre de structures et leur taille pointaient vers une société complexe avec d’énormes capacités dans de nombreux domaines. Les chercheurs estiment que dans certains des sites archéologiques découverts jusqu’à présent, la population était d’environ 70 000.

Les chercheurs savent très peu sur cette civilisation amazonienne, jusqu’à présent, grâce à la poterie découverte au cours des fouilles, les chercheurs ont pu placer la civilisation dans l’histoire il y a 2000 ans.

En parlant aux NYTimes, Denise Schaan, archéologue à l’Université fédérale de Pará au Brésil, qui mène maintenant la recherche sur les géoglyphes, a déclaré des essais de radiocarbone a indiqué qu’ils ont été construits 1000 à 2000 ans et auraient pu être reconstruits plusieurs fois au cours de cette période.

«Si l’on veut recréer l’Amazonie précolombienne, la plupart de la forêt doit être enlevée, avec beaucoup de gens et un paysage géré et hautement productif le remplaçant», a déclaré William Woods, géographe à l’Université du Kansas qui fait partie d’un Équipe étudiant les géoglyphes d’Acre. « Je sais que cela ne va pas bien avec les ardents écologistes », a déclaré M. Woods, « mais que peut-on dire ? »

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Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

Earth just narrowly escaped being hit by an asteroid...AGAIN!

Earth just narrowly escaped being hit by an asteroid...AGAIN!

This asteroid is dubbed 2017 BH30, it is equal to a pickup truck's size and the closest encounter of the asteroid with Earth occurred at 0459 GMT on January 30, 2017 (2359 EST on January 29 2017)

Nupur Jha

Asteroid Lutetia at closest approach.

[Representational image]ESA 2010 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA

On the night of January 29, 2017, a small asteroid, narrowly missed colliding with the Earth.

Also Read: UFO Sighting: Mysterious flying objects spotted along US-Mexico border [VIDEO]

This asteroid, 2017 BH30, was the size of a pickup truck and at 0459 GMT on January 30, 2017 (2359 EST on January 29, 2017), it came the closest to Earth, said astronomers from the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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It passed by Earth at a distance of 51,820 kilometres (32,200 miles) — equal to 13% of the distance between the Earth and the moon.

This space rock is 5.8 metres (19 feet) wide, according to researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

This asteroid was spotted by scientists on January 29, at the Catalina Sky Survey, located in Tucson, Arizona. This space rock's orbit is more elliptical than the Earth's and it takes around 3.8 years to complete one revolution around the sun.

As revealed by the Minor Planet Center, the asteroid gets as close as 0.81 AU to the sun and goes as far as 3.4 AU, space.com reported.

According to researchers, asteroids of this size cause no significant danger to Earth.

This asteroid is small compared to 2017 BH30, the object that came down just outside the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, wounding more than a thousand people, in February 2013, which was estimated to be 20 metres (65 feet) wide.

In order to cause severe devastation on Earth, the asteroid should be at least a kilometre (0.6 miles) in diameter.

On January 7, scientists discovered an asteroid, 2017 AG13. It passed close to Earth on January 9, 2017 at around 192,500 kilometers (119,500 miles), according to an IBTimes report.

That asteroid was estimated to be as wide as 34 meters (111 feet), according to astronomers at the Minor Planet Center.

What's common, and scary, about these asteroids is that they are spotted only a short period before they pass by Earth.

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Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

UFO Spotted: A couple reveals seeing cops and a jet plane following a UFO in California!

UFO Spotted: A couple reveals seeing cops and a jet plane following a UFO in California!

According to the woman's statement to Mutual UFO Network investigators, the movement of the UFO was being tracked by the police from the ground, while an air force plane followed the UFO in the sky

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Snapshot of the video shot by the woman in Santa Rosa, California.MUFON

Another mysterious UFO sighting took place last weekend in Santa Rosa, California and a couple were spectators.

Also Read: UFO Sighting: Mysterious flying objects spotted along US-Mexico border [VIDEO]

According to the woman's statement to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) investigators, the movement of the UFO was being tracked by the police from the ground, while an air force plane followed the UFO in the sky.

This strange incident occurred at 6:45 pm local time, when the couple was on their way back home in their car. They spotted a luminous object in the sky getting closer to them, as reported by Daily Express.

"Before we knew it, it was flying directly over our car and it was so close we could see details underneath the craft," the woman said, as quoted by Science World Report.

This bizarre incident left the woman baffled, she first thought that the object was a missile. She and her boyfriend tried to figure out what just happened, but were clueless.

They could still see the UFO from their house, along with police cars and a jet plane tracking the unidentified craft.

"When we got home we could still see the craft hovering in the sky from our house. It seemed to go higher in the sky. It hovered in the same spot for about 10 minutes, then it started going back in the direction it initially came from," she said.

"I couldn't believe what I was seeing and both of us still can't comprehend what happened. We finished driving home and saw some police cars headed towards the direction of the scene. It was then the plane became involved," she added.

It's not clear why the information regarding the incident has not been conveyed to the public as yet. Some instances of UFO sightings have been covered up on social media, which has infuriated conspiracy theorists.

These strange happenings are likely to remain a mystery till space agencies such as NASA say they didn't happen, a Daily Star report stated.

Do check out these latest UFO sightings in 2017:

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Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

From UFOs and spy tricks, you can now read the CIA's once-secret files online

From UFOs and spy tricks, you can now read the CIA's once-secret files online

By Glenn Garvin Miami Herald

OLIVIER DOULIERY, SIPA USA

Millions of pages of once-classified CIA documents are now available for the first time on your home computer after the agency moved one of its databases online.

MIAMI – If you ever wanted to know the CIA’s secret recipe for invisible ink, how to spot spy messages hidden in suspicious fruit, or which top American spy was asked to appear in Penthouse magazine, you’re in luck. Millions of pages of once-classified agency documents are now available for the first time on your home computer after the agency moved one of its databases online.

The documents run the gamut from classic espionage (a Cold War mission to tunnel into East Germany to tap the Soviet Union’s military telephone system) to borderline-goofball research (trying to see whether “psychic” Uri Geller could read the minds of intelligence officers half a mile away) to tediously mundane housekeeping tasks (the opening of the agency’s new child care center).

Most of the documents have been declassified for decades or even longer. But they were available for viewing only on a handful of computers at an outpost of the National Archives, in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. After years of wrangling with open-government advocates, ranging from lawsuits to a mocking Kickstarter campaign to pay for photocopying that was intended to shame the CIA, the agency finally relented this month.

“Now you can access it from the comfort of your own home,” Joseph Lambert, the CIA’s longtime director of information management, said grandly as the database — known as the CIA Records Search Tool, or CREST — went online.

That may sound a bit overblown, but researchers across the United States saluted Lambert. “I’ve been using that database for years, but it’s not easy flying to Washington and driving out to Maryland to get on their computers,” said Jeffrey T. Richelson, the Los Angeles-based author of several well-regarded academic studies of intelligence. “The last few days, I’ve been finding all kinds of things on it that I didn’t even know existed.”

None of them, at least so far, have been blockbusters, though the bits of intelligence run from the oddly fascinating (East Germany, in the summer of 1973, faced a daunting shortage of barbers) to the monumentally incorrect (a breezy pronouncement that Iran’s Muslim clergymen didn’t constitute “a well-organized threat to the regime,” made barely years before they toppled the government and put the country on a disastrous collision course with the United States that persists to this day).

There are even tantalizing hints of James Bondish bang-bang. Who drew that hand-drawn map of an explosives plant in Romania, including a diagram of the wiring of its electronic security gate, and why? Will an answer turn up as journalists and academics plow through the 12 million pages on the database?

But a few days spent sifting random documents reveals a couple of unexpected things. One is the indefinably vast expanse of the CIA’s interests. There are large numbers of documents about UFOs, psychic research and any number of other subjects that would excite a New Age Wiccan priestess.

Some are so peculiar as to defy comprehension. What on Earth prompted a CIA officer to even pick up a leaflet advertising the (now defunct) Buffalo Bill Wax Museum and its “107 life-size wax figures” of Bill, Wyatt Earp and Butch Cassidy’s Hole in the Wall gang (“in living wax!”) — much less to preserve it in an agency file — will likely remain a cryptic secret for generations to come.

What is very clear is that the CIA’s declassification team has the come-on coquetry of a striptease dancer and the piquant sense of humor of the editors at the Onion. The title of one document — “Clarifying Statement to Fidel Castro Concerning Assassination” — sent journalistic hearts pounding across the world. It turns out to be an unremarkable 1977 exchange of notes between then-CIA director Stansfield Turner and an agency press public affairs officer about getting a transcript of a television interview of Fidel Castro by Barbara Walters.

At the bottom of the 26-page file, though, is a payoff of sorts: a letter from the porn magazine Penthouse, requesting an interview. Four decades later, the idea of Turner — a legendarily straight-laced Christian Scientist who didn’t drink, smoke or swear — agreeing to an interview to be sandwiched between Penthouse’s nakeder-than-naked photo displays still makes CIA veterans giggle four decades later. “It would have been hysterical, if he had done it, which I’m sure he didn’t,” said one former agency official. Apparently not; the letter got no reply.

Another wisecrack title is attached to a package of files on the CIA’s interest in UFOs: “Top 5 CIA Documents Mulder Would Love To Get His Hands On,” a reference to Fox Mulder, the FBI agent on TV’s The X-Files who believes the world is secretly governed by space aliens.

Those files, and many others, detail an interesting trajectory in CIA attitudes toward UFO reports. The minutes of a secret 1952 meeting of senior agency officials — conducted at a time when reports of flying saucer-sightings were popping up all over the world — recount a discussion about directing the CIA’s physics and electronic division to investigate.

CIA spies complied enthusiastically, filing report after report about flying saucer sightings around the world, including behind the Iron Curtain, where an East German defector reported having seen a UFO crew poking around on the ground — though, technically speaking, it was really a flying “frying pan” by his account.

But by the next year, a group of distinguished physicists convened by the CIA was dismissing tales of flying kitchen accoutrements of all types, arguing in a report that even talking about UFOs would result in “mass hysteria and greater vulnerability to possible enemy psychological warfare.”

Anyway, the report added, even if space aliens were prowling the skies and streets of the United States, so what? “Extraterrestrial artifacts, if they did exist, are not cause for alarm.” The report conceded that at least one member of the panel disagreed, arguing that any verified evidence of space invaders would be “of immediate and great concern not only to the U.S. but to all countries.” But the report dismissed him as a paranoid war hawk: “Nothing like a common threat to unite peoples!”

The real threat, concluded the report, was not from flying saucers but the people who reported seeing them, who might be pursuing “subversive purposes.” Groups that urged more serious government investigation of UFOs, the report added, “should be watched.”

The CIA’s interest in flying saucers, and even the minutes of the two meetings, have long been known to UFO researchers, said Mark Rodeghier, scientific director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies. But he’s happy the documents are finally available on the internet where they can be easily accessed.

UFO researchers — for decades among the most aggressive users of the federal Freedom of Information Act to force government documents out into the open — have been eagerly combing the new database, Rodeghier added, but so far they’ve found no blockbuster revelations, and don’t really expect to: “One of the things the CIA is really good at is never releasing anything that means anything.”

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Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

X-COM: UFO Defense free for a limited time at the Humble Store

X-COM: UFO Defense free for a limited time at the Humble Store

By Boyd Chan

Deviating from the racing-oriented offerings we've seen given away for free on the Humble Store in the form of DiRT Showdown and GRID, we now find ourselves offered a game plucked out of the strategy genre from the stable of MicroProse Software.

X-COM: UFO Defense was originally released in the early 1990s for PC as a DOS title but was later re-released with support for Windows 2000, XP, and Vista. Given the game's age, formal game reviews on the web are somewhat scarce compared to modern releases, however, X-COM: UFO Defense for PC still pulls off an admirable GameRankings score of 93.6%.

Normally, the game goes for $4.99 on both the Humble Store and Steam but you can put your wallet away and grab the game for nothing for a limited time.

As always, with Humble Store purchases, head on over to the website and click on the 'Get it Free!' button. You'll then be prompted to log in with your Humble account credentials (or go through the process to create one) before completing the transaction.

Once checkout has been completed, you can click through to obtain your complimentary Steam key which you can then instantly redeem via the Steam client. However, don't wait too long as the offer to obtain X-COM: UFO Defense for free remains available for roughly the next 34 hours. Furthermore, your key must be redeemed by 10:00 am Pacific on Wednesday, February 15th, 2017 otherwise it will disappear from your Humble Store account.

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Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

The science of alien encounters: Researchers reveal what really happens during an 'abduction'

The science of alien encounters: Researchers reveal what really happens during an 'abduction'

By Neil Dagnall, Ken Drinkwater

The theory that alien abductions are hoaxes may be true in a few cases, but there is no reason to assume that the majority of 'experiencers' are frauds. Photo / Getty Images

Accounts of mysterious flashing lights in the sky, spacecrafts and encounters with 'real' aliens reflect high levels of public interest in UFOs and the belief that there is "something out there".

However, many psychologists are less convinced, and think they can provide more down-to-earth, scientific explanations.

Belief in aliens has increased steadily since the birth of modern alien research in the 1940s and 1950s, following the news surrounding a classified US military project at Roswell Air Force Base, New Mexico.

Surveys in Western cultures estimated belief in aliens to be as high as 50 per cent in 2015.

And despite the fact that it is considered rare, a significant number of people also believe they have experienced alien abduction.

Present day awareness of alien abduction dates to the 1961 case of Betty and Barney Hill, who witnessed odd lights and experienced 'missing time' and 'lost memories' while driving.

The reported consequences of abduction are often loss of memory, missing time, and problems such as sickness, sleepwalking, nightmares and psychological trauma.

Following their experience, Betty and Barney experienced psychological problems and subsequently sought therapy.

Although the accuracy of the numbers is questioned, a poll by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research conducted 30 years after this account said that around 3.7m Americans believed that they too had experienced alien abduction.

Sceptics argue that alien-related encounters are merely hoaxes created for financial gain or social advantage.

Perhaps Roswell is the most famous example.

A classified US military project at Roswell Air Force Base, New Mexico, has raised alien questions. Photo / Getty Images

Initial reports from the 1940s left sufficient gaps of explanation for Ray Santilli to release in 1995 what he claimed was film footage showing an alien autopsy from the time, further confusing the issue.

He later admitted it was a hoax.

The incident sparked controversy and prompted claims that an alien craft had crash-landed in the New Mexico desert and that US authorities were involved in a cover-up.

The theory that alien abductions are hoaxes may be true in a few cases, but there is no reason to assume that the majority of 'experiencers' are frauds.

In fact, psychologists have come up with a number of plausible, scientific explanations for people's supposed alien encounters.

One explanation is that when people believe they have had an experience of alien abduction, they have misinterpreted, distorted and conflated real and imagined events.

Hence, sceptics of alien encounters explain them away in terms of psychological processes and personality characteristics.

Several studies report that experiencers do not typically differ from non-experiencers on objective psychopathological measures - those that assess psychological well-being and adjustment - and have no history of mental instability.

Sceptics argue that alien-related encounters are merely hoaxes created for financial gain or social advantage. Photo / Getty Images

However, one characteristic that is associated with abduction experiences is a proclivity for fantasy.

Mixed evidence supports the theory that fantasy-prone people engage in elaborate imaginings and often confuse fantasy with reality.

There are also other psychological explanations, such as dissociation - where an individual's mental processes detach from each other and from reality, often in response to extreme or stressful life events.

A tendency towards being fantasy-prone and dissociation has been linked in studies to childhood trauma and hypnotic suggestibility.

Psychologists argue that hypnosis encourages the creation and recall of detailed fantasies.

For example, Betty and Barney Hill's account was typical of reported alien encounters: medical examinations or procedures, communication with alien captors, a powerful, mystical feeling, tours of spaceships and journeys to other planets before being returned to the car.

And it was under hypnosis that these 'missing memories' were 'recovered'.

It's for these reasons that it's believed alien abduction experiences may arise from a combination of personality characteristics and susceptibility to false memories.

Studies suggest that neuropsychological theories, particularly sleep paralysis and temporal lobe sensitivity, also could explain claims of alien abduction.

Sceptics argue that alien-related encounters are merely hoaxes created for financial gain or social advantage. Photo / Getty Images

Sleep paralysis is a feeling of being conscious but unable to move, which occurs when a person passes between stages of wakefulness and sleep.

Experiencers' claims share characteristics with sleep paralysis: a sense of being awake, not dreaming, and realistic perceptions of the environment.

The inability to move, a feeling of fear or dread, and the sense of another presence - perhaps evil or malevolent - are common symptoms.

Also common are a feeling of pressure on the chest and difficulty breathing, and of being held or restricted to a lying position: most sleep paralysis attacks occur while the individual is lying on their back.

Sceptic Michael Shermer once collapsed from sleep deprivation following an 83-hour bike race and his support team rushed to his aid.

Shermer was caught in a 'waking dream' and so perceived them as aliens from the 1960s television series The Invaders.

It also explains some ghost sightings, such as the 'night hag', often experienced by those who suffer from sleep paralysis.

Temporal lobe sensitivity is a theory that suggests the temporal lobes of some people's brains are more vulnerable to influence from low-level magnetic frequencies.

Michael Persinger, a neuroscientist at Laurentian University in Canada, is among those who believes that increased temporal lobe activity can explain paranormal experiences such as alien abduction.

His theory is that magnetic fields stimulate the temporal lobes, resulting in hallucinatory experiences similar to those reported by alien abductees.

None of this is to say that many people who believe they have experienced alien abduction are liars, merely that their accounts and experiences can be explained through recourse to theories with a scientific basis.

There are many logical, plausible scientific explanations, none of which rely upon the existence of aliens.

However, it should also be noted that not all reported alien abduction experiences can be easily explained by any of these scientific theories - and this throws up many more questions.

- Daily Mail

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The science of alien encounters: Researcher reveal what REALLY happens during an 'abduction' - and say sleep paralysis could be to blame

The science of alien encounters: Researcher reveal what REALLY happens during an 'abduction' - and say sleep paralysis could be to blame

Surveys in Western cultures estimated belief in aliens to be as high as 50%
Accounts of encounters with aliens reflect public interest in UFOs
But many psychologists think they can provide more down-to-earth explanations
Fantasy-prone people can create imaginings and confuse fantasy with reality
Studies suggest that neuropsychological theories, particularly sleep paralysis and temporal lobe sensitivity, also could explain claims of alien abduction

By Ken Drinkwater And Neil Dagnall For The Conversation

Accounts of mysterious flashing lights in the sky, spacecrafts and encounters with 'real' aliens reflect high levels of public interest in UFOs and the belief that there is 'something out there'.

However, many psychologists are less convinced, and think they can provide more down-to-earth, scientific explanations.

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The theory that alien abductions are hoaxes may be true in a few cases, but there is no reason to assume that the majority of 'experiencers' are frauds

Surveys in Western cultures estimated belief in aliens to be as high as 50% in 2015.

And despite the fact that it is considered rare, a significant number of people also believe they have experienced alien abduction.

Present day awareness of alien abduction dates to the 1961 case of Betty and Barney Hill, who witnessed odd lights and experienced 'missing time' and 'lost memories' while driving.

IS IT A GOOD IDEA TO GET IN CONTACT WITH ALIENS?

If there are any intelligent alien life forms out there, Stephen Hawking thinks we're playing a dangerous game by trying to contact them.

The physicist believes if aliens discovered Earth, they are likely to want to conquer and colonise our planet.

'If aliens visit us, the outcome could be much like when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans,' he said in an interview.

But co-founder and former director of the Seti Institute, Jill Tarter, doesn't think this will be the case.

She argues any aliens who have managed to travel across the universe will be sophisticated enough to be friendly and peaceful.

'The idea of a civilisation which has managed to survive far longer than we have...and the fact that that technology remains an aggressive one, to me, doesn't make sense,' she said.

The reported consequences of abduction are often loss of memory, missing time, and problems such as sickness, sleepwalking, nightmares and psychological trauma.

Following their experience, Betty and Barney experienced psychological problems and subsequently sought therapy.

Sceptics argue that alien-related encounters are merely hoaxes created for financial gain or social advantage.

Perhaps Roswell is the most famous example.

He later admitted it was a hoax.

The incident sparked controversy and prompted claims that an alien craft had crash-landed in the New Mexico desert and that US authorities were involved in a cover-up.

The theory that alien abductions are hoaxes may be true in a few cases, but there is no reason to assume that the majority of 'experiencers' are frauds.

In fact, psychologists have come up with a number of plausible, scientific explanations for people's supposed alien encounters.

One explanation is that when people believe they have had an experience of alien abduction, they have misinterpreted, distorted and conflated real and imagined events.

In 1961, the alien abduction story of Betty and Barney Hill (pictured) captured the public's imagination. They claimed to have spotted a UFO while driving from Montreal to New Hampshire and arrived home later than expected, unable to account for the previous two hours

Hence, sceptics of alien encounters explain them away in terms of psychological processes and personality characteristics.

Several studies report that experiencers do not typically differ from non-experiencers on objective psychopathological measures – those that assess psychological well-being and adjustment – and have no history of mental instability.

However, one characteristic that is associated with abduction experiences is a proclivity for fantasy.

Experiencers' claims share characteristics with sleep paralysis: a sense of being awake, not dreaming, and realistic perceptions of the environment

Mixed evidence supports the theory that fantasy-prone people engage in elaborate imaginings and often confuse fantasy with reality.

There are also other psychological explanations, such as dissociation – where an individual's mental processes detach from each other and from reality, often in response to extreme or stressful life events.

A tendency towards being fantasy-prone and dissociation has been linked in studies to childhood trauma and hypnotic suggestibility.

Psychologists argue that hypnosis encourages the creation and recall of detailed fantasies.

And it was under hypnosis that these 'missing memories' were 'recovered'.

It's for these reasons that it's believed alien abduction experiences may arise from a combination of personality characteristics and susceptibility to false memories.

Studies suggest that neuropsychological theories, particularly sleep paralysis and temporal lobe sensitivity, also could explain claims of alien abduction.

Sleep paralysis is a feeling of being conscious but unable to move, which occurs when a person passes between stages of wakefulness and sleep.

Experiencers' claims share characteristics with sleep paralysis: a sense of being awake, not dreaming, and realistic perceptions of the environment.

The inability to move, a feeling of fear or dread, and the sense of another presence – perhaps evil or malevolent – are common symptoms.

THINK YOU'VE BEEN ABDUCTED BY ALIENS? IT MAY BE SLEEP PARALYSIS

Some individuals believe they have experienced alien contact but don't remember.

For example, a person may have 'seen' a UFO then after having a 'missing time' experience, notices bruising on their body.

These are sometimes known as 'bedroom invader' incidents and they may be explained by sleep paralysis - the temporary inability to move for a few seconds just as you are about to fall asleep or wake up.

While this is relatively common and a bit disconcerting, some people suffer from rare forms, which cause them to 'feel' an evil presence or hallucinate by seeing lights or grotesque faces, hearing voices and feeling like they're being dragged out of bed.

Scientists have a relatively good understanding on why sleep paralysis is caused.

During deep, or rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which is associated with dreaming, the body's muscles are paralysed, perhaps to stop people acting out their dreams.

Sleep paralysis is caused when the mechanisms controlling the sleep cycle go wrong so it's as if the brain is working and the body has yet to catch up.

This means creepy imagery, perhaps involving aliens, creeps through into a person's wakeful consciousness, perhaps inducing terror or a belief in abduction.

Sceptic Michael Shermer once collapsed from sleep deprivation following an 83-hour bike race and his support team rushed to his aid.

Shermer was caught in a 'waking dream' and so perceived them as aliens from the 1960s television series The Invaders.

It also explains some ghost sightings, such as the 'night hag', often experienced by those who suffer from sleep paralysis.

Temporal lobe sensitivity is a theory that suggests the temporal lobes of some people's brains are more vulnerable to influence from low-level magnetic frequencies.

Michael Persinger, a neuroscientist at Laurentian University in Canada, is among those who believes that increased temporal lobe activity can explain paranormal experiences such as alien abduction.

His theory is that magnetic fields stimulate the temporal lobes, resulting in hallucinatory experiences similar to those reported by alien abductees.

There are many logical, plausible scientific explanations, none of which rely upon the existence of aliens.

However, it should also be noted that not all reported alien abduction experiences can be easily explained by any of these scientific theories – and this throws up many more questions.

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

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Most remarkable UFO sightings in January 2017

Most remarkable UFO sightings in January 2017

Most remarkable UFO sightings in January 2017 by www.Latest-UFO-Sightings.net.

January 2017; bright lights – Goodyear, Arizona

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January 2017; bright objects – Japan

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9th January 2017; triangular formation – Gosport, UK

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23rd January 2017; triangle UFO – National City, California

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24th January 2017; UFO exits a volcano – Mexico

HLN.be - Het Laatste Nieuws ( NL)

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Ingenieuze schoonmaker die ruimteschroot rond onze planeet moet opkuisen in de problemen - HLN.be

Ingenieuze schoonmaker die ruimteschroot rond onze planeet moet opkuisen in de problemen - HLN.be

Bron: Belga

De Kounotori-6. © ap.

Het Japanse ruimtevaartbureau Jaxa heeft vandaag laten weten problemen te hebben om zijn experimentele ruimteschoonmaker te laten werken. Het betreft een daarvoor speciaal uitgeruste onbemande cargo om de omgeving van onze planeet te bevrijden van de rommel die erom heen draait.

Een computersimulatie van JAXA toont de technologie die het ruimteschroot moet opruimen. © JAXA.

Een in december naar het Internationaal Ruimtestation ISS gelanceerde Japanse cargo heeft zich zaterdag weer van het complex losgemaakt voor een uniek experiment voor het opruimen van ruimteschroot.

Elektromagnetische effecten
Bedoeling was een 700 meter lange elektrodynamische kabel van staal en aluminium te ontplooien. Die moet dan dankzij elektromagnetische effecten rondom onze planeet wentelende rommel zoals afgedankte satellieten of rakettrappen zodanig verplaatsen dat zij in een lagere baan terechtkomen en uiteindelijk in de atmosfeer opbranden.

Poging mislukt
Een poging om zaterdag de kabel te ontplooien mislukte echter. Het Jaxa probeert uit te zoeken waarom het misliep en hoe te remediëren. Het Japanse ruimtevaartbureau geeft zichzelf tot 4 februari de tijd. Twee dagen later brandt de Kounotori-6 op in de atmosfeer.

18.000 brokken
Er draaien zowat 18.000 brokken ruimteschroot van minstens tien cm rondom onze planeet. Zij vormen een risico voor het ISS of andere satellieten. Er hebben zich reeds botsingen voorgedaan, met als gevolg dat de omvang van het schroot nog toenam.

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US NAVY PHOTO OF ALIEN UFO LANDING ON AIRCRAFT CARRIER IS GENUINE

US NAVY PHOTO OF ALIEN UFO LANDING ON AIRCRAFT CARRIER IS GENUINE

An alleged photo of a flying saucer landing on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is genuine, according to William Tompkins, a retired aerospace engineer who had a four decade career with leading U.S. corporations up until 1984.

William Tompkins reveals a pact between the American military and the nordic aliens and that this pact lasts from this World War II when the North American aliens allied with the American military to defeat the reptilian aliens who aid the Nazis.

He also tells us that while working on the secret projects of building a space fleet, he worked at that time with two female aliens who advised him on spacecraft projects

As for the photo of the ship placed in the port, he assures it is true and represents a ship of the Nordic aliens who came to fetch the admiral of the fleet for a meeting in the ship of the Nordic aliens

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Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

THREE PERFECTLY ALIGNED, MASSIVE TOWERS DISCOVERED ON THE SURFACE OF MARS

THREE PERFECTLY ALIGNED, MASSIVE TOWERS DISCOVERED ON THE SURFACE OF MARS

The Martian surface is brimming with surprises for eagle-eyed space fanatics who devote their time to scouring the Red Planet for unusual details and anomalies. While most of the so-called ‘revelations’ can easily be attributed to pareidolia (the human tendency to attribute familiar patterns and structures to random objects), others cannot be dismissed quite so easily. Falling firmly into the latter camp is the discovery of three towers in the Terra Meridiani region of Mars.

The perfectly aligned tower like structures was spotted by UFO researchers investigating the possibility of alien bases on Mars. Interestingly, the three towers resemble almost exactly the positioning of the pyramids of Giza which are suspected to have been placed in homage to the three main stars in the constellation of Orion. The Ancient Egyptians’ astrological knowledge and incredible capacity for engineering have long baffled scientists and archaeologists with some people suggesting that these ancient people were given a helping hand by an advanced alien race. Could it be possible that the same race of aliens that helped the Ancient Egyptians was responsible for building these structures on the Martian surface?

As of yet, there is no clear evidence to suggest a definitive link between the pyramids built by the Ancient Egyptians and the trio of towers on Mars. However, UFO researchers such as Jose Luis believe that owing to the peculiar features of the towers it is certain that they are of ‘artificial origin’.

There are dozens of theories abounding about alien colonization of the red planet, but perhaps the most compelling come from Dr. John Brandenburg of the University of California, an expert in theoretical plasma physics. According to Dr. Brandenberg, there is clear evidence that advanced alien civilizations once existed on Mars but that they were wiped out by nuclear attacks. Dr. Brandenberg supports this theory by pointing to the evidence, including unusually high levels of uranium and thorium, which suggests that Mars was the victim of at least two major nuclear blasts in the distant past. While Dr. Brandenberg says, it is likely that they were attacked by a separate hostile species. He has warned that the same thing could happen to Earth if human beings are not properly prepared for an alien attack.

However, it is equally feasible that ancient Martians managed to wipe themselves out in a planet-wide nuclear war. Given the current agitated and highly tense international landscape at this current time, Mars could provide an example of what can happen to a planet if nuclear weapons are allowed to proliferate without restraint.

Check out the RAW image of the structures here:

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Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

SECRET NWO ISLAND HEADQUARTERS DISCOVERED AT SUBANTARCTIC ISLAND

SECRET NWO ISLAND HEADQUARTERS DISCOVERED AT SUBANTARCTIC ISLAND

Despite being the most remote location upon the planet Earth, completely uninhabited according to the CIA's World Factbook, the subantarctic volcanic island called 'Bouvet Island' is home to the top-level internet country domain code .bv and is located in the direct vicinity of several recent unsolved mysteries.

This uninhabited island which is situated near the continent of Antarctica and belongs to Norway has been referenced because bizarre facts have occured in it.

A nuclear explosion that was detected a few years ago by a satellite but that was promptly muffled until an anomaly discovered by a conspiracy theorist and that will be able to see in the video below until the cyber attacks from this uninhabited island that they rival the attacks of china and other countries.

Norse that monitors the cyber attacks in real time even gave a simpolo to this island represented an exagón, what this means?

Please share your thoughts.

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Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

DYING CIA AGENT REVEALS AREA 51 ON CAMERA

DYING CIA AGENT REVEALS AREA 51 ON CAMERA

Over the years reports of UFO sightings have been reported by individuals in the world. There have also been former CIA agents who have come forward revealing information about the incident at Roswell and Area 51.

However, some of these reports have been laughed at by nonbelievers who feel that these individuals are just trying to get fifteen minutes of fame by giving stories. But what if it was someone who was dying who was revealing such a story? In other words, a death bed confession.

CIA AGENT REVEALS ALIEN COVER UP

Let's face it when a person is dying they tend to tell all they know if they feel the public has a right to know, after all, what is left for them to lose? Turns out this is exactly what happened, a CIA agent who worked under the Eisenhower Administration has now come forward to tell all in an online interview. Although this man has chosen to remain anonymous no doubt to protect those he leaves behind after death, he did indeed tell what he was privy to when it came to the notorious place known as Area 51.

In the video that is now available online this man close to dying discussed in grave detail about the activities on this base that many in the public over the decades have suspected. This included the alien autopsy that also somehow leaked out. So, why would there still be a cover-up if there was already those who suspected we had been visited by aliens from other planets? Maybe to prevent mass panic, maybe not to lose creditibility with those who chose to cling to the belief that there were no aliens out there.

But over the years, the irony is that even those in higher positions have had to disculose more to the public. Perhaps because technology was getting us to the point where there was just to way to try to keep people in the dark any longer. Yes, now there are reports such as the one from NASA that now says that there is a possibility that there is life forms out there as close as on the moon Enceladus which is now being deemed habitable. Astronomers have now reported to the actual public that there are many planets out there beyond our solar system that could be habitable. But notice that so far none have wanted to come out and say yet that there is proof of aliens from other planet. That includes the crash at Roswell and Area 51.

Again, why, the public isn't dense about this. Over the centuries many have suspected this, and some have been revered for the theories they have had that we are far from alone in this vast galaxy, these individuals include notable author Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. The thing is those of us who were open to the idea of life on other planets have always believed these visitations to be true, and suspect all along there was a cover-up. The thing is the truth is out there, well online that is in many places including wikileaks where many documents can be found. For further proof the very detailed video of a dying former CIA agent can also be viewed, and it is hard to dispute the words of a dying man.

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Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

ALIEN LIFE WILL BE DETECTED BY 2040, RESEARCHER SAYS

ALIEN LIFE WILL BE DETECTED BY 2040, RESEARCHER SAYS

Intelligent extraterrestrial beings are out there, and we’ll be meeting them shortly – perhaps within the next 25 years, according to one scientist.

A researcher for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence says humanity will detect aliens by the year 2040, LiveScience.com reports.

By 2040, astronomers will have scanned enough star systems to give themselves a great shot of discovering alien-produced electromagnetic.

A three-path race to discover life in space

The look for alien life does not concentrate exclusively on mechanical social orders, obviously. Numerous different researchers are entering in on straightforward living things, which must be appropriated considerably more ordinarily all through the universe.

The main proof of microbial life on earth, for example, dates from 3.8 billion years prior — only 700 million years after our planet framed. However, it took another 1.7 billion years for multicellular life to develop. People didn't rise until 200,000 years back, and we've turned into a genuinely innovative animal groups in simply the most recent century or thereabouts.The race may come last possible minute, as Shostak thinks every one of the three methodologies could prove to be fruitful in the following couple of decades.

This video contains more details about an amazing discovery which scientists have demonstrated the possibilities of finding and living with Alien ln 2040

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Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

A FORMER AIR FORCE PILOT CLAIMS: 'I TOUCHED A UFO'

A FORMER AIR FORCE PILOT CLAIMS: 'I TOUCHED A UFO'

When it comes to Air-Force pilots and UFOs, it is actually not uncommon to hear reports of pilots coming back from operations with reports of seeing UFOs and other unexplained phenomena, out there in the sky.

NOTHING IN MY TRAINING PREPARED ME FOR WHAT WE WERE WITNESSING

One can argue that flying through the air at speeds that require you to perform specialized breathing techniques may lead to seeing unreliable, however, a number of pilots that report similar sitings has to add some credence to the claims.

Some of the different claims by Airforce members have been that the objects look like a transparent flying disc and a triangular craft with mysterious markings, or a triangular craft in a clearing in the woods with blue and yellow lights swirling around the exterior.

There have been interviews given by prominent members of the government and air force such as Fife Symington, a former governor of Arizona and air force pilot who said "We want the US government to stop perpetuating the myth that all UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth, conventional terms, "When he saw a UFO in 1997.

Finally, this brings us to James Penniston, a retired US Air Force pilot who claims he saw and touched a UFO when he was in Woodbridge stationed on a British military base overseas.

James said "Nothing in my training prepared me for what we were witnessing, "he saw an inexplicable triangular craft in a clearing in the woods with "blue and yellow lights swirling around the exterior".

The UFO was "warm to the touch and felt like metal" Penniston said.

He goes on to further claim that one side of the craft had pictorial symbols and "the largest symbol was a triangle, which was centered in the middle of the others" .

The most interesting part of James' claim is that after 45 minutes the light from the object "began to intensify" and it then "shot off at an unbelievable speed" before 80 Air Force personnel he said. "In my logbook, I wrote speed: impossible."

The unfortunate thing about claims like these is you can never verify them and always have to take them at face value, we can only hope that in the future we will have a verifiable piece of evidence that a UFO has visited or a UFO that we could all touch one day.

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Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

The universe is just a big hologram, astrophysicists claim

The universe is just a big hologram, astrophysicists claim

There is as much evidence for the holographic universe as there is for traditional explanations, researchers said

Andrew Griffin

A photographer looks at the sky at night to see the annual Geminid meteor shower near Provenzales' rock, in Maira Valley, northern Italy on December 6, 2016 AFP

What we see of the universe might be compared with what it's like to watch a 3D film at a cinema, even though those are not made with holograms. Just like those films, we experience the depth of the image – even though we know that it really all comes from a flat screen.

Our universe may just be a more convincing version of the same thing – meaning that we can touch the objects and they look and behave as if they are real.

The idea that our universe is a hologram was first proposed in the 90s. It suggests that all of the information – what we think is our 3D reality, and time – is actually just contained on a flat surface on its boundaries.

"Imagine that everything you see, feel and hear in three dimensions (and your perception of time) in fact emanates from a flat two-dimensional field," said Kostas Skenderis, a professor of mathematical sciences at the University of Southampton. "The idea is similar to that of ordinary holograms where a three-dimensional image is encoded in a two-dimensional surface, such as in the hologram on a credit card.

"However, this time, the entire universe is encoded."

The research could unify two of the most central parts of our understanding of physics – general relativity, which explains it at the biggest scale, and quantum theory, which explains it at its very smallest.

"Holography is a huge leap forward in the way we think about the structure and creation of the universe," said Professor Skenderis. "Einstein's theory of general relativity explains almost everything large scale in the universe very well, but starts to unravel when examining its origins and mechanisms at quantum level.

"Scientists have been working for decades to combine Einstein's theory of gravity and quantum theory. Some believe the concept of a holographic universe has the potential to reconcile the two. I hope our research takes us another step towards this."

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Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

Astrofysici: Het universum is niets meer dan een groot hologram

Astrofysici: Het universum is niets meer dan een groot hologram

Het is goed mogelijk dat het universum een reusachtig en complex hologram is en dat de driedimensionale wereld om ons heen slechts een illusie is.

Dat zeggen astrofysici die onderzoek hebben gedaan naar de kosmische achtergrondstraling, de warmtestraling die kort na de oerknal is uitgezonden.

De wetenschappers stellen bewijs te hebben gevonden dat ons universum holografisch is.

3D-film

Er is net zoveel bewijs voor deze vreemde theorie dan bewijs voor de traditionele verklaringen, aldus de astrofysici van de Universiteit van Southampton.

Wat we waarnemen in het universum kan worden vergeleken met het kijken naar een 3D-film in de bioscoop.

We nemen diepte waar, hoewel we weten dat de beelden afkomstig zijn van een plat scherm.

Plat oppervlak

Ons universum is mogelijk een overtuigendere versie van zo’n scherm. We kunnen de objecten aanraken en ze zien er echt uit.

In de jaren negentig werd voor het eerst geopperd dat ons heelal een hologram is. Volgens deze theorie is alle informatie opgeslagen langs de rand van een plat oppervlak.

“Stel je voor dat alles wat je ziet, voelt en hoort in drie dimensies in werkelijkheid voortkomt uit een plat tweedimensionaal veld,” zei professor Kostas Skenderis.

Verenigen

Op geld of creditcards staan ook hologrammen, waarbij een echt driedimensionaal beeld gecreëerd wordt via fotografische projectie. Stel je nu eens voor dat het hele universum zo’n hologram is.

Het onderzoek kan de algemene relativiteitstheorie, de beschrijving van de zwaartekracht, verenigen met de kwantummechanica.

Stap

“Wetenschappers proberen al tientallen jaren de relativiteitstheorie van Einstein en de kwantumtheorie te combineren,” aldus Skenderis.

“Sommigen menen dat een holografisch universum de twee met elkaar kan verzoenen,” vervolgde hij. “Ik hoop dat ons onderzoek ons een stap dichterbij brengt.”

Het onderzoek is verschenen in Physical Review Letters.

[Independent]

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CIA: Zes vliegende schotels waargenomen boven India, Nepal en Bhutan

CIA: Zes vliegende schotels waargenomen boven India, Nepal en Bhutan

De CIA houdt waarnemingen van vliegende schotels boven India en haar buurlanden nauwlettend in de gaten, zo blijkt uit de 930.000 documenten die de spionagedienst onlangs vrijgaf.

In een rapport uit april 1968 worden zes waarnemingen van onbekende vliegende objecten genoemd boven India, Bhutan en Nepal.

De CIA en de Amerikaanse luchtmacht namen vliegende schotels zo serieus dat er een speciaal panel in het leven werd geroepen dat het fenomeen moest gaan bestuderen.

Enorm schijfvormig object

Het document verhaalt over ‘felle objecten die gezien zijn boven het zuiden van Ladakh, het noordoosten van Nepal, het noorden van Sikkim en het westen van Bhutan’.

Op 25 maart 1968 werd in Kaski in Nepal een felle vuurbal gezien die ‘uit elkaar viel’.

In het document staat dat in een krater op enkele kilometers van de stad Pokhara een ‘enorm metaalkleurig schijfvormig object werd gevonden’.

Harde knallen

In Ladakh werd op 4 maart 1968 een wit licht gespot, waarna twee harde knallen werden gehoord. Er verscheen ook een rood licht dat witte rook achterliet.

Er werden op 4 en 25 maart ook andere objecten gesignaleerd boven Ladakh. Het object dat op 25 maart werd waargenomen ‘leek op een raket’ en liet op een hoogte van zes tot zeven kilometer een wit-geel-wit spoor achter.

Op 19 februari 1968 werd een helder object gezien dat met grote snelheid over het noordoosten van Nepal en het noorden van Sikkim vloog. Het object ‘veranderde nacht in dag’.

Interplanetaire ruimteschepen

Boven Thimphu, de hoofdstad van Bhutan, werd op 21 februari 1968 een ‘blauwkleurig object’ opgemerkt. Het maakte geen geluid en deed het hele gebied oplichten.

In het rapport wordt niet duidelijk gemaakt wat de experts van de CIA dachten over deze waarnemingen.

Na een aantal UFO-waarnemingen in de jaren veertig en vijftig overwoog de CIA dat het ging om interplanetaire ruimteschepen.

Geen bedreiging

Het panel dat de CIA had gevormd om UFO-waarnemingen te bestuderen, moest vooral nagaan of de objecten een gevaar vormden voor de nationale veiligheid.

In januari 1953 concludeerde het panel dat ‘er geen bewijs is dat deze fenomenen een directe fysieke bedreiging vormen voor de nationale veiligheid’.

Desondanks bleef de CIA UFO-waarnemingen nauwgezet volgen.

In de geopenbaarde stukken wordt gesproken over UFO’s boven Zuid-Korea, Iran, Marokko, Kazachstan, Spanje, Uruguay, Rusland en Frans-West-Afrika.

[Hindustan Times]

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Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

IS DE AARDE BEZIG UIT ELKAAR TE SCHEUREN? ( VIDEO )

IS DE AARDE BEZIG UIT ELKAAR TE SCHEUREN? ( VIDEO )

Het is bekend dat door het schuiven van de tektonische platen op aarde er dingen gebeuren zoals aardbevingen, maar niet dat overal scheuren ontstaan in de aarde waar je die niet zou verwachten.

En de straling van de zon schijnt wel degelijk veranderd te zijn en is nog veel feller dan wij dachten.

Enkele dagen geleden schreven wij een artikel over hoe de straling van de zon zo intensief geworden schijnt te zijn, dat koraalriffen onder water verbleken evenals nummerborden op auto’s.

Naar aanleiding van dat artikel ontvingen wij een aantal interessante reacties (dank!) met aanvullende informatie.

Hier volgen enkele:

De eerste:

Poeh, het is veel erger dan in jullie artikel van vandaag vermeld staat (over alleen de invloed van UV straling op het Great Barrier Reef).

Kijk maar eens op You Tube naar de kanalen: Higher Truth Channel en ook BP Earth Watch. Met name het eerst genoemde kanaal toont met keiharde, objectieve grafieken aan (dus geen eigen interpretaties!) hoe erg de mensheid dagelijks in toenemende mate gebombardeerd wordt door met name helium en lithium (wat die sterke roze ochtend en avondluchten geeft, ochtend en avondrood bestaat niet meer), beide afkomstig van 'Nemesis'/de bruine dwerg van het zonnestelsel, dat zo'n destructieve invloed heeft (en nog krijgt) op met name onze planeet en op alles wat daarop leeft.

Alsof we met z'n allen iedere dag naar het ziekenhuis gaan voor een X-ray ... Hij legt precies uit hoe dit in z'n werk gaat, in combinatie met de zon en geeft ook adviezen, bijv. om uit de zon te blijven, ook huisdieren, welke supplementen je kunt innemen om de schade zoveel mogelijk te beperken (maar goed, het is toch dweilen met de kraan open, een echte oplossing is er niet voor) etc.. Ga er maar eens voor zitten ...

De tweede:

Naar aanleiding van het artikel over het bleken van kleuren op onze planeet aarde wil ik u graag een korte reactie geven. Ik woon in Bolivia en hier is het een algemeen bekend verschijnsel dat de zon heter wordt! Mensen weten dit en ook de regering maakt er geen geheim van. Het verschijnsel van soms extreem verbleekte kleuren is me al eerder opgevallen. Maar zoals met zoveel dingen, je ziet het en vergeet het daarna weer. Het zijn slechts momenten en het leven gaat verder. Ik vond de video dan ook heel goed. Het verschijnsel benoemen en uitleggen maakt je ervan bewust dat dit proces naar alle waarschijnlijkheid speelt op veel plekken in de wereld.

De derde:

Op deze site is de stijging per dag te vinden. Dit is al een behoorlijke tijd aan de gang. Mensen hebben er last van. De klachten die je dan krijgt zijn bijv. Ik ben zo moe, ik heb al maanden griepverschijnselen. Ik kan niet slapen...... Dit is naar mijn mening het antwoord op jullie stijging van het licht. Spiritueel zien wij dat de mensen aan het veranderen zijn. Gevoeliger, liefdevoller, meer verbonden met elkaar.

Ik wil je deze kijk graag meegeven.

Lees maar eens op mijn blog Spiritual Rose of Silence.blogspot.com daar lees je de veranderingen waar de mensen steeds mee te maken krijgen.

Succes met jullie site. Lees hem al jaren met veel belangstelling en maak er veel mensen op attent.

De vierde:

Het stuk over de zon gelezen.

Ik heb al een paar jaar geleden op een ochtend gezien dat de zon totaal veranderd is. De zon was zo vreselijk fel, dat ik haast tegen de grond sloeg toen ik uit een winkel stapte. Ik was echt van slag, maar vervolgens, bij navraag, bleek niemand verder van slag te zijn.

Het gebeurt nu regelmatig zeker in de vroege ochtend zo tussen 9 en 10 uur. De kracht is enorm en de uitstraling niet van deze wereld. Ik bedoel dat je die kleur en kracht normaal niet ziet.

Ik vind de zon in de middag afnemen in kracht vergeleken met een tijd geleden.

Ik neem aan dat het ervaringen zijn, die voor een ieder anders zijn. Mensen, die gevoelige ogen voor kleuren hebben, zullen het wel zien, maar anderen niet. Ook moet de pijnappelklier zijn werk doen.

Ik ben er inmiddels aan gewend en moet soms gewoon gaan liggen, omdat vele kleuren mij te veel zijn. Na een tijdje trekt het weer weg en zie ik normaal. Het heeft geen enkele zin naar een oogarts te gaan, daar ben ik al 14 jaar(voor een andere kwaal), maar die weet het ook niet. Het is meer iets neurologisch zegt zij

Ik zie duidelijk alles verbleken, maar dat komt omdat de kleuren die ik af en toe zie zo levend en warm zijn, dat verder alles er bij verbleekt.

Misschien zijn er meer mensen die er last van hebben?

Tot zover reacties.

Mensen die nog steeds denken dat de aardveranderingen die momenteel plaatsvinden, worden veroorzaakt door de mens, willen wij vragen nog eens goed logisch na te denken over een aantal zaken.

Je komt een eind met de theorie dat de vervuiling van de mens dusdanige gevolgen heeft dat de temperatuur op aarde daardoor stijgt. Die theorie zou waarschijnlijk ook stand kunnen houden, ware het niet dat er natuurlijk nog veel meer tekenen zijn die wijzen op heftige aardveranderingen.

De tektonische platen van de aarde zijn permanent in beweging en daardoor krijgen we ook regelmatig te maken met bevingen en scheuren op plaatsen waar twee of meerdere van die platen elkaar ontmoeten.

Op het volgende plaatje zie je de tektonische platen en de grenzen daarvan in het rood. Dan wordt ook duidelijk waarom er veel aardbevingen voorkomen op de zogenaamde Ring van Vuur en waarom landen rond het Middellandse Zee gebied regelmatig in het nieuws te vinden zijn wat dat betreft.

xxx

De plekken waar die tektonische platen samenkomen zijn dan ook de lokaties waar je zou kunnen verwachten dat er zich dingen voor doen zoals scheuren in het aardoppervlak.

Maar, wat als die op plekken voorkomen waar je dat helemaal niet zou verwachten, zoals nu het geval is? Dit zijn dingen die tien jaar geleden niet op deze schaal zich voordeden.

En of we het nu leuk vinden of niet, alles wijst erop dat er krachten werkzaam zijn op aarde die wij niet zomaar kunnen verklaren en dat het niets te maken heeft met wat de mens wel of niet doet.

Of het nu in de lucht is met de zon en de straling of de aarde die op sommige plekken letterlijk uit elkaar lijkt te vallen, een "normale" verklaring is er niet.

Nog niet, misschien wel aan het einde van het jaar als we inderdaad twee zonnen hebben zoals door sommigen wordt voorspeld.

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Geschreven door peter om 18:30 Stuur door

Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

Dark UFO Over California This Week, Jan 30, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Dark UFO Over California This Week, Jan 30, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: January 30, 2017
Location of sighting: California, USA

Secureteam10 is reporting this dark UFO over California this week. The UFO has sharp edges and is easily hidden in the smoggy sky. The UFO almost looks like a b2 stealth bomber on its back end, but that jet cannot perform such a manoeuvre. Excellent catch.
Scott C. Waring

Geschreven door peter om 18:08 Stuur door

Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

UFO-Hunting Aerospace Firm Testing Secret Space Station

UFO-Hunting Aerospace Firm Testing Secret Space Station

Brett Tingley

Bigelow Aerospace has created an agreement with NASA to continue its secretive testing of an experimental new module aboard the International Space Station (ISS). While the recent press releases announcing these tests have been made public, the ultimate purpose of the module still remains a mystery. The company has been tight-lipped about the module and its use aboard the space station, only stating they will announce details at a later date. The module is called the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), and is essentially an inflatable orb-shaped space station which can dock onto the ISS. It was flown to the space station aboard a SpaceX Dragon last year.

BEAM modules can easily attach to standard ISS ports.

When the first BEAM/ISS tests were announced, it was stated that no ISS astronauts would enter the module except for four pre-scheduled times throughout each year of its two-year test period in order to ensure that all systems were working properly. With no NASA astronauts allowed on board, it makes you wonder: what could be going on inside the module? With so many UFO sightings occurring in and around the ISS, and given Bigelow’s past UFO-related dealings, it’s not too much of a leap to assume that the UFO-obsessed Robert Bigelow might want to search for UFOs from space.

The BEAM module can be fitted with any number of systems for...you know, space stuff.

The BEAM module can be fitted with any number of systems for…uh, you know, space stuff.

See, Bigelow Aerospace has been accused of shadowy, or at least secretive backroom dealings related to UFO research in the past. Those theories were fueled in part by several policy announcements made by America’s Federal Aviation Administration, who have instructed pilots and personnel to direct UFO reports straight to Bigelow’s many research organizations no less than three times:

Persons wanting to report UFO/unexplained phenomena activity should contact a UFO/ unexplained phenomena reporting data collection center, such as Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) (voice: 1-877-979-7444 or e-mail: Reporting@baass.org), the National UFO Reporting Center, etc.

In 2009, Bigelow partnered with MUFON to create a rapid-response unit that could respond to “high value UFO cases” within twenty-four hours of a sighting. While there was much speculation that Bigelow was attempting to capture and de-engineer a UFO, MUFON contends that these accusations were nothing but harmful conspiracy theories:

Unfortunately, dissident UFO buffs quickly came up with nonsense conspiracy theories about the cooperative agreement and spread malcontent and disinformation about it across the Internet.

Those speculative internet writers, when will they learn? Until they do: could this new module be related to the numerous UFO sightings surrounding the ISS and Bigelow’s rapid response UFO team? As with all things Bigelow Aerospace, this one remains a mystery.

Viewers of the ISS live feed constantly spot UFOs, most of which are likely orbital debris.

Viewers of the ISS live feed constantly spot UFOs in the background beyond the station. Maybe that’s why NASA is phasing out the live feed…or they’re just debris and satellites.

TAGS: Astronomy, Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, Conspiracy, mufon, Mutual UFO Network, nasa, NASA experiment, Robert Bigelow, Science, Secret UFO Base, space, technology, UFO research

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Geschreven door peter om 01:00 Stuur door

Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

UFO Sighting: Mysterious flying objects spotted along US-Mexico border [VIDEO]

UFO Sighting: Mysterious flying objects spotted along US-Mexico border [VIDEO]

A fleet of seven to eight UFOs was flying right over the border control post at Tijuana, a border city in Mexico just south of California.

by Nupur Jha

A new UFO sighting took place lately between the US and Mexico border.

YouTube screenshot/ secureteam10

A new UFO sighting was reported along the United States' border with Mexico. Eyewitnesses claim that a fleet of seven to eight UFOs flew right over the border control post at Tijuana.

Also Read: Alien hunting 2017: Focus will be on Europa and Enceladus moons

According to reports, hundreds of people were stunned at the bizarre sight. The crowd also included customs and border protection officers.

"The footage was captured on the Tijuana border, on the Mexican side. The clip captures what can best be described as a fleet, or an extremely large grouping, of UFOs that look like they are stopping traffic or at least slowing it down," said Tyler from UFO monitoring group Secureteam, according to the Sun.

The video of these strange flying objects was uploaded on Instagram, and garnered over 30,000 views and 200 comments. The post has since been removed.

"Even border patrol agents can be seen with their cameras, eyes up, focusing on these objects that seem to be just littering the clouds. This was posted on Instagram, but then the page was removed. The footage has been taken down. This is actually really strange," Tyler added.

Instances of such controversial videos and images are often found to go missing off the internet. On November 28, 2016, a group of UFOs was seen hovering in the skies over Istanbul, Turkey.

The videos and images created quite a stir on Twitter. The hashtag #UFOAttacktoTurkey also started trending on Twitter, but the website tried censoring the incident, which left people infuriated.

Four of these UFOs can be seen aligning taking a rectangular form in this screenshot.

YouTube/secureteam10

Tyler claims that the video is genuine. The footage shows around seven or eight mysterious luminous objects hovering in the sky. Four of these 'UFOs' can be seen aligning into a rectangular form. One of the UFOs emitting light can be seen going dark in the video.

"At first they are random, but towards the end four of them align in a rectangular formation so they can't be balloons. Whatever they are, even the border control agents were focusing on them," Tyler said.

You can check the video footage here:

YouTube/secureteam10

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Geschreven door peter om 00:53 Stuur door

Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

Area 51 Revisited

Area 51 Revisited

Area 51 goes by a lot of other names these days, such as Dreamland, Groom Lake, Homey Airport, Paradise Ranch, Home Back and Waterland. Area 51 was developed in 1955 primarily for U-2 spy plane testing.

Area 51 is a detachment of Edwards Air Force Base, and is located about 83 miles north, north-west of Las Vegas. It is a restricted area by land and by air.

The use of Area 51 has been dominated by the CIA, along with the Air Force. Over the years, Area 51 has been a testing ground for top-secret aircraft, new weapon systems and foreign technology evaluation.

area 51 sign We used Area 51 to evaluate aircraft that was shot down or captured from USSR. So the tools and ability of breaking something down and finding out what makes it tick, was already built into Area 51.

If the US Government ever captured, or found a UFO, Area 51 is the most likely place it would end up, under the control of the CIA. The amount of information the United States government has been willing to provide regarding Area 51 has generally been minimal.

In July 2013, following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in 2005, the CIA publicly acknowledged the existence of the base for the first time.

Area 51 and the UFO connection

Its secretive nature and connection to classified aircraft research, together with reports of unusual phenomena, have led Area 51 to become a focus of modern UFO and conspiracy theories. For Example:

The storage, examination, and reverse engineering of crashed alien spacecraft.
The study of UFO occupants (living and dead).
The manufacture of aircraft based on alien technology.
Meetings or joint undertakings with extraterrestrials.
The development of exotic energy weapons for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or other weapons programs.
The development of means of weather control.
The development of time travel and teleportation technology.
The development of unusual and exotic propulsion systems related to the Aurora Program.
Activities related to a supposed shadowy one world government or the Majestic 12 organization.

There is so much information about Area 51, much of it conspiracy related.

The one thing I know for sure is that the US Government has a tendency to manipulate public opinion, and anyone who even tries to get at the truth of Area 51 is subject to being publicly ridiculed, and considered at nut-job.

NASA Spin-off Advancements

I am not changing the subject here, because I am considering the fact that NASA has claimed a lot of spin-off technology, based on their advancements in space exploration.

Seems like a lot of it is medical related, such as:

Infrared ear thermometers
Ventricular assisted devices
Artificial limbs
Light-emitting diodes in medical therapies
Invisible braces
Scratch-resistant lenses
Space blankets
Plus a lot more.

Other areas of advancements are in :

Consumer, home, and recreation
Environmental and agricultural resources
Computer technology
Industrial productivity
And a lot more.

Seems to me that if NASA has developed all of these new discoveries and advancements, why then was NASA defunded by Obama? Why would you remove or discontinue something that brings so many advancements into the world? Unless – Maybe these advancements didn’t actually come from NASA.

Maybe they came from Area 51 and the reverse engineering of UFOs or collaboration with aliens. I know how this sounds, but just look at all the advancements during the past 60 years.

Is it my imagination, or did man-kind advance super fast during the last 6 decades. It took us thousands of years to go from riding horses, to the invention of motor powered vehicles. Look where we have gone during the past 60 years. From looking at the moon to visiting the moon.

Did we do that on our own? Or did we have help? I know one thing for sure, if our government did have help, they would never admit it. The question that a lot of UFO conspiracy people have is: How much of this is related to UFO or alien technology?

What I think is going to happen during the next few years.

I think the defunding of NASA will come back to bite the government on the ass. For the history of our country, NASA has been the organization responsible for space exploration. Now private companies are getting into the game, with private launches of satellites.

With virtually everyone having a smart phone that is capable of taking photos and sharing them instantly online. Social Media is giving everyone in the world a voice and connection to others. This is going to make keeping something top-secret, very hard to do.

People are starting to trust Social Media over news outlets. My opinion is this is justified because of news outlets only providing stories that suit their agenda.

I understand that there are a lot of crazy people online, but generally speaking, I tend to trust images, and video that comes from places like Twitter. Twitter, Facebook, You-Tube and other social media platforms gives people the ability to by-pass the news organizations, and government cover-ups.

I think we will discover and accept that we are not alone in the universe, and that maybe we have had visitors in the past. That would explain a lot of things.

If you have comments or ideas about this, I would love to hear them!

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Geschreven door peter om 00:42 Stuur door

Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

The real story behind Close Encounters

The real story behind Close Encounters

Everyone remembers “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” The movie was released in 1977, written and directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss. What you may not know is that the US Air Force and NASA decided not to cooperate on the film. In fact they were totally against the release of this movie.

NASA reportedly sent a 20-page letter to Spielberg, telling him that releasing the film was actually dangerous. The question remains “What were they trying to hide?” Although the movie was created by Spielberg, just the idea of a government cover up made a lot of people nervous.

Maybe it’s because they are really covering up encounters.

During the 1940s a person by the name of Donald Keyhoe investigated flying saucers for True Magazine. Keyhoe believed that flying saucers were from outer space, and were on a scouting mission. Keyhoe claimed that his information came from Air Force and Navy intelligence.

Project Sign, based at Air Technical Intelligence Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and its successors Project Grudge and Project Blue Book were officially tasked with investigating the flying saucers. Keyhoe started a civilian investigation group called NICAP and asserted that the US Government was lying about UFOs and doing everything they could to cover them up. Now on the surface you might think, ok so he found some kooks to agree with him, but where is the real evidence?

Consider this fact: Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter was a Rear Admiral and an influential board member of NICAP, and Hillenkoetter was also the first director of the CIA. You got to ask the question” If this was all BS, then why would the director of the CIA be involved?

Roswell Daily Record

Probably the best example of a UFO government cover up was the 1947 Roswell incident. The United States Air Force actually issued a press release stating that a “flying disk” had been recovered near Roswell, New Mexico. This information was quickly withdrawn and replaced by claiming that a weather balloon was simply misidentified.

About a year later, in 1948 an Air Force pilot by the name of Thomas Mantell was killed in an air accident while in pursuit of an aerial artifact he described as “a metallic object…of tremendous size.” The official government story claims that Mantell had been chasing the planet Venus, a conclusion which was met with extreme skepticism, and later changed to a Skyhook balloon.

Over the years there have been many UFO sightings, and each time the government is quick to discredit the story and in some cased even the person who reported the encounter. Even people who have no reason to lie about something like this are quickly discredited.
Many airline pilots have spotted UFOs over the years, but very few report it because of ridicule and the possibility of being fired. According to the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena, (NARCAP) there have been over 3,500 documented sightings of “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” by military, commercial, and civilian pilots.

Captain Jim Courant, a commercial pilot for over 31 years spoke to the National Press Club, and said “It is almost astounding how many people are in the know on this subject.” Captian Courant also said “There are many more sightings that are just not reported.” Since Captian Courant was so out spoken and willing to talk to the press, many commercial and military pilots have opened up to him, also claiming to have had encounters with UFOs.

Where did the term “Close Encounter” come from?

The meaning of a close encounter is an event in which a person witnesses an unidentified flying object. This terminology and the system of classification was started by J. Allen Hynek, a astronomer and UFO researcher. It was first suggested in his 1972 book “The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry.”
Allen came up with 7 kinds of encounters:

Visual sightings of an unidentified flying object.
A UFO event in which a physical effect is alleged.
UFO encounters in which a creature is present.
A UFO event in which a human is abducted by a UFO or its occupants.
A UFO event that involves direct communication between aliens and humans.
Death of a human or animal associated with a UFO sighting.
The creation of a human/alien hybrid, either by sexual reproduction or by artificial scientific methods.

Hynek’s scale became well-known after being referenced in a 1977 film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which is named after the third level of the scale. Posters for the film recited the three levels of the scale, and Hynek himself makes a cameo appearance near the end of the film.

A question that has come up since 2010: With everyone having a video camera with them most of the time, why hasn’t there been more UFO sightings?

I think I can answer that questions. First of all, there are a ton of sightings, many of them have been documented on You-Tube and other social media sites. So why aren’t more people talking about this? I think it’s a matter of trusting the videos. Yes, it’s true, just about everyone has a video camera with them at all times with the use of smart phones, however with the increased technology of these devices, we are also have the ability to fake videos. Anyone can do computer generated Images (CGI) now days.

This means that even though you might be viewing an actual image of a UFO you are more skeptical than ever before. If you go back to those earlier films, back in the 1970s or 80s, it was much harder to fake videos. Most people didn’t have the equipment or ability to fake a video, so the images were more believable.

It seems that we have come full circle. Going back before film, people claimed to see UFOs and their only proof was their word. Now that we have the ability to fake encounters on video, we are going back to someone’s word of honor.

I look at it this way, there are a lot of people who have nothing to gain, and are in a position that commands respect, who are claiming to have encountered a UFO in their past. People like airline pilots, very high-ranking military personnel, astronauts, even the President of the United States, Jimmy Carter claims to have seen a UFO.

At some point you have to admit, something is out there.

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Geschreven door peter om 00:31 Stuur door

Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

Private Lunar Landers Are Coming, and They’re Like Nothing You’ve Seen Before

Private Lunar Landers Are Coming, and They’re Like Nothing You’ve Seen Before

WRITTEN BY BECKY FERREIRA

The race to become the first private entity to land a robot on the Moon is heating up, as five teams close in on the Google Lunar XPrize. The final heat of candidates were winnowed down from dozens of contenders that couldn’t clear hurdles or meet deadlines for the prize, which included designing and building original spacecraft, meeting flight regulations, and securing a launch contract scheduled to blast off by the end of 2017.

The last groups standing were announced on Tuesday: They are (drum roll) Moon Express, SpaceIL, Team Indus, Hakuto, and Synergy Moon. All five teams are tentatively on track for launches this year.

Established in 2007 by the nonprofit XPrize organization, the Google-sponsored Lunar XPrize is an open challenge to create a robot that can voyage to the Moon, travel at least 500 meters on its surface, and send high-resolution visuals back to Earth. A total of $30 million in prize money is at stake, two thirds of which will be awarded to the first team to successfully meet the contest’s requirements.

The impetus for the Lunar XPrize was to stimulate innovation in the global space community, and by that standard, the contest is already successful. The hopeful companies advancing into the 2017 home stretch have wildly different lunar exploration strategies and goals, plus they hail from all around the world. Here’s a quick rundown of the five penultimate lander concepts.

Animation of MX-1E landing on the Moon. Image: Moon Express

Moon Express: MX-1E Lander

Moon Express, a Florida-based company founded in 2010, is the first private entity to be granted clearance to land on the Moon, an achievement it hopes to build on by putting its MX-1E Lander on the lunar surface as soon as possible. The company has a launch contract with Rocket Lab, a US aerospace venture with launch facilities in New Zealand. Their lander is expected to hitch a ride on that company’s lightweight Electron rocket at some point this year, after the Electron has been adequately flight-tested.

The MX-1E represents a significant departure from the traditional “lab-on-wheels” lunar rovers deployed by the American, Russian, and most recently, Chinese space programs. Instead of driving around, the robot will leverage the Moon’s weaker gravity well by executing controlled hops to various locations on the surface.

"Why crawl when you can fly?"

“Why crawl when you can fly?” a Moon Express spokesperson told me over email. “Although rovers have an important place in planetary surface exploration, our business model is to provide lunar access to a wide variety of locations on the Moon.”

Indeed, Moon Express has long-term aspirations to establish mining operations on the Moon and other celestial bodies, so it makes sense for them to focus on vehicles that can examine and prospect several sites over vast areas.

Sparrow model on display in 2015. Image: אמא של גולן/SpaceIL

SpaceIL: Sparrow

The Sparrow lander, developed by the Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL, takes the cake for the most futuristic design concept in play for the XPrize. With its spindly legs and funnel-shaped bus, the spacecraft looks completely different from past lunar rovers. Like the MX-1E, it is designed to hop from place to place, which team leads say will conserve mass and gas relative to its rival rover concepts.

SpaceIL has brokered a contract with SpaceX, and is on track to be bundled into a Falcon 9 rocket launch at some point in 2017. The project was largely developed and executed by volunteers, and the team leads have pledged to invest most of the XPrize to educational programs should they win it.

Concept art of Tesla rover. Image: Synergy Moon

Synergy Moon: Tesla Rover

Synergy Moon is a diverse collective of specialists spanning 15 nations, and is working on developing “at least one rover” in its Tesla series, illustrated above, according to its XPrize page. The rovers are equipped with two identical cameras that provide stereoscopic vision. Synergy Moon aims to make its high-definition view of the Moon to be accessible to anyone online. The group has arranged its launch through Interorbital Systems’ Neptune rocket.

ECA Rover mockup. Image: TeamIndus

TeamIndus: ECA Rover

TeamIndus, a for-profit spaceflight company based in New Delhi, is shooting to land its adorably anthropomorphic 11-pound rover, currently codenamed ECA, in the Moon’s Mare Imbrium region. The team has already won a $1 million Milestone award for its landing technology.

For launch arrangements, the company is joining forces with one of its XPrize rivals, the Japanese group Hakuto. The two teams have arranged to bundle both their landers into the same PSLV rocket, a model developed by the Indian Space Research Organization. The launch is currently scheduled for late December 2017.

Prototypes of Hakuto rovers. Image: Hakuto/XPrize Foundation

Hakuto: Moonraker and Tetris Rovers

Last but certainly not least, meet the Moonraker and Tetris dual rovers developed by the Sendai-based Hakuto. The two-wheeled Tetris is designed to be tethered to the four-wheeled Moonraker like a trailer, which will enable it to be lowered into so-called “skylights” on the Moon. The lunar surface is thought to be riddled with underground caves, tunnels, and basaltic lava tubes, some of which may be accessible through skylight channels. The Hakuto team aims to be the first to explore these tantalizing lunar realms with its unique roving tag-team.

These diverse and innovative concepts herald a crucial turning point in lunar surface operations, which have been on hold since the 1970s (with the notable exception of China’s Yutu rover, deployed in 2013). Previous mobile robots sent to the Moon by the Russia, China, and the US were primarily tasked with studying the alien environment, and to occasionally blast back samples of lunar rock. All of them bundled scientific instruments into a traditional rover design.

The XPrize finalists have broken out of that mould in a few significant ways. Moon Express and SpaceIL may demonstrate that hopping around on alien bodies is a promising alternative transportation method to driving over terrain. This could have big repercussions for future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, especially if hoppers can reliably clear hurdles, like cliffs or extreme terrain, that rovers must avoid.

“Rovers are very slow and cannot travel significant distances,” the Moon Express team told me. “Our robotic spacecraft can re-launch and fly to distant locations for science and exploration diversity. We can deploy rovers in each location—consider the advantage of multiple landings for a single launch.”

"We can deploy rovers in each location—consider the advantage of multiple landings for a single launch."

More broadly, the smorgasbord of objectives and design concepts each team has put forth shows that private groups can greatly diversify avenues of space exploration over a relatively short timespan. Impressively, many of these companies are less than a decade old, and some are based in countries that have never ventured to the Moon before.

It’s difficult to predict which finalist will end up snagging the winning $20 million prize, and at this point, much of it is up to luck. If the novel Electron and Neptune rockets require further testing, or if SpaceX needs to alter its launch manifest for some reason, the teams relying on those vehicles will be held up through no fault of their own.

That said, the fact that these teams have gotten this far distinguishes them all as pioneers. While one of them will likely succeed in cinching the honor of being the first non-governmental group to land on the Moon, explore it, and send back pictures, the runners-up no doubt earn a shout-out in the history books as well.

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Dinsdag 31 januari 2017

Earth Has Been Sneezing Biogenic Oxygen on the Moon for Billions of Years

Earth Has Been Sneezing Biogenic Oxygen on the Moon for Billions of Years

Concept art of Earth from the Moon. Image: DonkeyHotey/Flickr

The Moon may be liberally sprinkled with oxygen created by life on Earth, according to new research published Monday in Nature Astronomy. This opens up the possibility that “the Earth’s atmosphere of billions of years ago may be preserved on the present-day lunar surface,” in the words of the paper’s authors, led by Osaka University planetary scientist Kentaro Terada.

The notion that Earth has been periodically sneezing its sky stuff on the Moon, spraying it with the exhalations of now-extinct lifeforms, is not entirely new. Previous teams have suggested that nitrogen and noble gases embedded in the Moon’s soil originated on Earth.

But Terada and his co-authors are the first to present evidence that oxygen, an essential ingredient and byproduct of terrestrial life, is regularly peppered all over the Moon’s surface.

The team used data collected by the Japanese Kaguya spacecraft in 2008 to show that Earth-brand oxygen ions can make this giant leap during a special five day period in the satellite’s orbit, when Earth is located between the Sun and the Moon.

Concept art showing Earth’s plasma shield and oxygen flow. Image: Kentaro Terada/Osaka Univ./NASA

During this time, Earth’s magnetic plasma sheet protects the Moon from the bombardment of the solar wind, which is a powerful stream of charged particles emitted by the Sun. But our planet’s magnetosphere is filled with its own homegrown energetic particles, and the Kaguya orbiter’s Ion Energy Analyzer (IEA) and the Ion Mass Analyzer (IMA) detected them during those five-day breaks from the onslaught of the solar wind.

“Even when the geomagnetic field was less developed or absent in ancient times, the Earth’s plasma sheets could have existed and led to effective transportation from the Earth’s atmosphere to the lunar surface,” Terada’s team reported. “This mechanism would be enhanced if the distance between the Earth and the Moon was much smaller than today, as it seems it was. A consequence of this finding is that the entire lunar surface can be contaminated with biogenic terrestrial oxygen, which has been produced by photosynthesis over a few billion years.”

If that makes you want to hop on over Moonside in order to excavate the untapped respiratory history of life on Earth, you are not alone (and fortunately, the Moon is becoming a popular destination for landers again).

READ MORE: The Other First Moon Landing

But the paper’s authors warn that it will be extremely challenging to differentiate between the ions embedded into the lunar soil by the solar wind, and those that came from Earth.

“It is the accumulated oxygen over billions years of both the solar wind and the Earth wind that the lunar soil preserves,” Terada told me over email. “To decipher the accumulated oxygen, we need to distinguish which one is recent, and which one is ancient, even in the single grains.”

In other words, it’s not as if the lunar soil’s oxygen ions come with a clear timestamp, or a paper trail about their origins. But Terada said that drilling into the Moon for a deeper core sample, representing older layers of regolith beneath the surface, might help solve the mystery.

In the meantime, however, Terada’s strategy is to look to other worlds for analogous processes. “Very recently, NASA’s MAVEN mission reported that even non-magnetic Mars also has plasma sheets,” he told me. “So, we predict that ancient Mars’ atmosphere is preserved in [the Martian moon] Phobos’ soil."

“I believe that the JAXA Phobos mission in the near future will prove this hypothesis,” he said. This mission is called Martian Moons eXploration (MMX), and is scheduled to launch to Phobos in 2022, where it will collect samples of the moon to be returned to Earth.

So, there you have it: Earth and Mars may have stashed valuable deposits of information about their atmospheric pasts into the soil of their natural satellites. That’s should give you a premium bump of Sagan-level scientific wonder to start off your week.

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Maandag 30 januari 2017

SECRET BASE INSIDE VOLCANO? 'TR-3B UFO' flares into warp speed after 'leaving magma mount'

SECRET BASE INSIDE VOLCANO? 'TR-3B UFO' flares into warp speed after 'leaving magma mount'

ALIEN chasers claim a new video appearing to show a "UFO" burst into a ball of light after "leaving a volcano" boosts their theory extra terrestrials have hidden bases under the ground.

By JON AUSTIN

The strange event was caught by a camera of www.webcamsdemexico.com, which has a series of livestreams continuously monitoring magma mountains across the central American country.

The footage was taken at around 6.46pm local time on January 24, according to YouTube channel Streetcap 1, which broadcast it in a video entitled "Awesome Weird Light leaves Mexican Volcano".

Alien chasers think it could be evidence of an secret base inside the Popocatépetl Volcano in the Puebla region of Mexico.

Others think it could be a secret military base and the UFO was actually an alleged top-secret triangular spy plane known as a TR-3B which can allegedly hit "warp speed" in a ball of light.

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A still from the video and (inset) a CGI image of an alleged TR-3B.

The footage shows a small bright light appear from behind the volcano in the background of the shot, which then moves closer to the camera.

The image suddenly increases in size and intensity of light before going out of shot.

Some alien chasers claim there is much UFO activity around volcanoes, because there are secret alien bases inside.

There appears to be no actual evidence for this madcap theory, and sceptics say the UFOs are just magma, or ash being ejected from the volcano, or even out of focus birds.

But the latest ball of light in this video has set tongues wagging, with claims it was a TR-3B.

Conspiracy theorists, who also believe world leaders capture flying saucers and reverse engineer them before creating their own hi-tech space craft, claim a mysterious US Air Force TR-3B has been developed.

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The TR-3B, pictured here in a CGI impression, is a legend among UFO seekers.

The TR-3B is alleged to be a secret "black project" spy craft of the US Government that can be flown into space.

Allegations include the crafts are created at top-secret military bases like Area 51 in Nevada, by reverse engineering alien technology.

Others claim they are actual UFOs flown by aliens.

The theory claims they are triangular in shape with lights at the corners and a large circular one in the middle that can blast it into warp speed.

Scott C Waring, editor of UFO Sightings Daily, said: "This UFO was caught by Streetcap1 over Mexico coming from a volcano. It starts out far away and quickly grows in size.

"That's one powerfully bright UFO. As you can see from looking at the time, the UFO passes the volcano and then moves behind the camera all in just a few minutes. The moon could not do that."

That's one powerfully bright UFO. As you can see from looking at the time, the UFO passes the volcano and then moves behind the camera all in just a few minutes.

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Viewers of the video were amazed, with many posting on YouTube: "OMG and WTF.”

One posted: "WTF is that?!! OMG, I'm so scared it’s huge!!!"

Another said: "TR3B 100 per cent. I have done a lot of research, which is freely available.

"I was fortunate to see a similar light above my house, I was gobsmacked, all my research made sense

"It's a plasma ball of light in the craft's middle, you will normally see this on black triangle crafts.

"The plasma light extends to cover all the craft and then will normally disappear cloaking the craft.

"These are facts - God knows how long this technology has been available."

Another commented on the speed, saying: "The video is being played at one frame per second, meaning whatever that thing is it's going at very high speeds."

And, Leandro Murta added: "Just wonder how fast it is from volcano to camera in about 50 seconds, very interesting."

Another poster went back to the alien theory, suggesting: "What if extraterrestrials live in volcanoes because they've got tech that can withstand tremendous heat? It would make a good hiding place, you know."

Scott Brando is a sceptical UFO investigator who claims there has never been any inexplicable UFO video or picture taken yet.

He runs the hoax-busting website ufoofinterest.org.

The expert was not phased by the seemingly extraordinary footage and concluded that the bright light effect was caused by the camera having a long exposure, because it was filming at night.

He said it was likely just a standard plane or helicopter.

He told express.co.uk: "Webcams are often set to take images at night with a long exposure, to capture every small source of light. That object is most likely a plane (or a helicopter) with its navigation/landing lights."

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Maandag 30 januari 2017

What REALLY happened? MoD’s 'secret investigation' into mass UFO sightings

What REALLY happened? MoD’s 'secret investigation' into mass UFO sightings

MINISTRY of Defence (MoD) chiefs launched a top-secret probe into one of Britain's most notorious mass UFO sighting cases 40 years ago at the height if the Cold War, it has been claimed.

By JON AUSTIN

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The MoD carried out a secret investigation into UFO sightings, it is claimed.

The 1977 Broad Haven Triangle sightings are being remembered with a special 40th anniversary event.

An explosive novel revealed details of a declassified MoD document which suggests top-ranking officials carried out a covert inquiry into the 1977 sightings in Wales.

The area was gripped by UFO and paranormal fever after several people saw lights and objects hovering in the sky, a being in a metallic space suit, while poltergeists allegedly plagued one family, animals were seen cowering and ghostly figures reportedly peered into farmhouse windows.

Among the witnesses were 14 children who all drew similar pictures of a craft said to have landed near their school.

The book - The Watchers by Neil Spring - is said to be based on "true events" and claims to reveal the truth about what really happened at remote Broad Haven along a strip of rugged coastline in Pembrokeshire National Park near an RAF base.

Mr Spring, who is a key speaker at the event on Saturday, researched the case through documents sent to the National Archives 30 years after the bizarre happenings and after a new witness came forward.

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Neil Spring, author of The Watchers.

At the time, MoD officials expressed no interest in the sightings, saying there was no threat to national security.

However, among the documents was a letter from the head of the MoD's S4 wing to the Provost & Security Service, the RAF's internal police force.

The S4 chief wrote "I have not even told the Minister I am consulting you" and called for a "discreet enquiry" after expressing bewilderment at the number of apparently "level-headed" witnesses to the strange activity.

Mr Spring said: "(The new witness’) testimony rocked the very foundations of the British Government.

"I visited Broad Haven a sceptic, and came away convinced that some of the locals knew far more about the mysterious occurrences of 1977 than they are willing to reveal."

I visited Broad Haven a sceptic, and came away convinced that some of the locals knew far more about the mysterious occurrences of 1977 than they are willing to reveal.

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The disclosures prompted Tory peer Lord Black of Brentwood to call for a full explanation from the MoD of what it uncovered.

The Tory peer has been long involved in getting official government files of UFO sightings and inquiries made public.

Lord Black said: "A number of recently released MoD files leave little doubt that a small number of sightings of aerial phenomena - particularly by military personnel, pilots and air traffic controllers - remain unexplained and unidentified.

"There needs to be further examination of these issues in the hope of learning something new."

Three years ago a former US Navy sailor came forward to say that the cause of the silver-suited being was in fact a US military personal wearing their standard fireproof uniform and the UFOs were new harrier gets being flown.

Since disbanding a unit set up to investigate alleged UFO sightings in 2009, the MoD will no longer comment on the subject.

The Swansea UFO Network is holding a Welsh Triangle 40th Anniversary Conference in Broad Haven from 10am to 5pm.

Dubbed the “West Wales flap” of 1977, the incident was second only to the “Warminster Thing” in British UFO history.

{ http://www.express.co.uk }

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Maandag 30 januari 2017

Monday morning fireball sighting in the Mid-South

Monday morning fireball sighting in the Mid-South

By Spencer Denton, Meteorologist

(WMC) - If you saw a bright flash in the sky around 6:16 a.m., it wasn’t lightning. It was a short trail, exploding fireball that lasted around three seconds.

Check out this still image captured by ArkansasSky.com near Greenbrier, Arkansas. They caught a big flash on their camera in the lower part of the sky between 20 and 30 degrees above the horizon.

There were several sightings in Collierville and scattered reports from Louisville, KY to Austin, TX. Check out the map to see all the sightings as of 9:30 a.m.

Did you see it? Go to my Facebook or Twitter page and let me know.

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Maandag 30 januari 2017

Signs of Alien Air Herald a New Era of Exoplanet Discoveries

Signs of Alien Air Herald a New Era of Exoplanet Discoveries

New efforts hint that nearby world GJ 1132 b may have an Earth-like atmosphere with water and methane

By Mara Johnson-Groh

This artist's rendition shows the Earth-mass planet GJ 1132b circling its parent star. New observations suggest the planet's thick atmosphere may harbor water or methane. Credit: Dana Berry / Skyworks Digital / CfA

For astronomers seeking Earth twins around other stars, the exoplanet GJ 1132 b probably isn’t an identical sibling—but it may be the closest cousin yet found. It weighs in at just over one Earth mass, but circles its star in a warm orbit that could make it more like Venus than our own world. Moreover, its diameter is nearly 50 percent larger than that of Earth, suggesting it possesses a thick atmosphere. Now, after taking the closest-ever look at GJ 1132 b, a European collaboration has confirmed the presence of its atmosphere and found hints it might contain water and methane. The results are currently under review for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.

As mere discoveries of exoplanets become routine, efforts to learn more about them—their compositions, climates and histories—are moving to the fore, with studies of their atmospheres occupying center stage. Although astronomers detected the first exoplanet atmosphere more than 15 years ago, they have only managed to observe a handful ever since, mostly for very hot worlds as big as Jupiter or even larger. With their first glimpse of GJ 1132 b’s alien air, astronomers are now entering a new frontier as they examine the atmospheres of smaller, more Earth-like worlds.

“We have shown that an Earth-mass planet is capable of sustaining a thick atmosphere,” says John Southworth, lecturer in astrophysics at Keele University in England and lead author on the discovery paper. “This is one step towards investigating whether a planet could host life.”

Finding the tenuous atmospheres around other worlds strains the limits of current technology. Luckily, GJ 1132 b has the advantage of being relatively easy to study, because it is only 39 light-years away—just a hop, skip and a jump across our cosmic neighborhood. It also orbits an M-dwarf, the smallest and coolest type of star, which allows astronomers to more readily probe the planet’s atmosphere.

“Detecting the atmosphere of Earth-sized planets around M-dwarfs is an essential step in the search for habitable exoplanets,” says astronomer Julien de Wit, postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology unaffiliated with the study. “The concern, however, is that they may not always be able to sustain an atmosphere because of the potential history of strong activity of their star. Finding one with an atmosphere would provide us with hope.”

The team studied GJ 1132 b’s atmosphere using a variation on the “transit” planet-detection method, in which a world traverses the face of its star as seen from Earth. As the planet crosses its star, it blocks a small portion of the star’s total light and casts a planetary shadow toward our solar system. A planet’s atmosphere will absorb a tiny fraction of starlight around the shadow’s edges, filtering out certain wavelengths in accordance with its composition. Gathering enough light to discern this minuscule effect usually requires observing multiple transits using some of the world’s most powerful telescopes.

Using the MPG/ESO 2.2 meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, the team monitored nine transits of GJ 1132 b across a wide range of wavelengths, from optical to near-infrared. The measurements allowed them to line up a simple spectrum, which shows the amount of light at each wavelength. Their results showed extra absorption at certain wavelengths—indicating the possibility of water and/or methane in GJ 1132 b’s atmosphere in approximately equal proportions as is found in Earth’s air.

Because astronomers have good measures for both the mass and the size of GJ 1132 b, they can estimate the planet’s density—and thus its possible composition. Given that the atmosphere may contain water vapor, one model suggests the planet could be a steamy space oasis with a substantial envelope of water surrounding a rocky core. Other models with rockier compositions are also possible, however, and the mass measurements are not detailed enough to wholly confirm the exact interior makeup. “Our own observations have shown that it has an atmosphere, but we have not been able to put many constraints on what the atmosphere is actually made of,” Southworth says. “The next step is to take observations with bigger telescopes, and space telescopes, covering a bigger wavelength range at a much better resolution.”

Given the limitations of current instruments, it will fall to the next generation of telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to glean more information about the nature of Earth-size exoplanet atmospheres. “The James Webb Space Telescope will be able to measure the spectra of exoplanets in great detail, and perhaps GJ 1132 b will be one of the more interesting exoplanets to be observed extensively” with the JWST, says Renyu Hu, a planetary scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “We will continue to see astronomers pushing the limits, towards better spectra of smaller and perhaps more temperate exoplanets.”

Boasting a mirror some six times the size of the Hubble Space Telescope’s, JWST will be able to efficiently seek out signs of carbon dioxide and oxygen as well as water vapor and methane in some exoplanet atmospheres. Eager planet hunters, however, should not hold their breath for these breakthrough capabilities—JWST will not launch until October 2018, and the telescope has a full docket of other science objectives that will limit any time-consuming observations of exoplanets.

“This is a great start, but we need higher signal-to-noise data and spectral resolution,” Sara Seager, a professor of astrophysics at MIT, says of the results. “We need to await the JWST to make any real progress on small-planet atmospheres.”

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Maandag 30 januari 2017

Website tracks 2016's reported UFO sightings in region

Website tracks 2016's reported UFO sightings in region

Maps: All of last year's reported sightings in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware

BY DANIEL CRAIG
PhillyVoice Staff

Many of us have stories. One night as a kid in the car with my dad in Northampton, Pennsylvania, I remember looking out the window as a beam of light flashed down from the sky, seemingly dissipating as it hit the ground. Unsure if my eyes were deceiving me, I stayed silent for a few moments before my dad looked over from the driver's seat and asked with a hint of anxiety in his voice, "Did you see that?"

For all of our stories of unidentified flying objects, there's one place to put them all together. The National UFO Reporting Center, based in Washington state, has been tracking reported sightings since its founding in 1974.

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Before you start conjuring up images of tin-foil hats, it's important to know that NUFORC doesn't just post every submitted sighting of bright lights or floating objects on its website.

Peter Davenport, director of NUFORC, said in an email that for each submission, there is a "somewhat careful reading of each report, and we then compare it to other reports that have come in from the same area, and/or for the same time period."

"I believe that someone who is experienced in reading UFO reports is able to detect out-and-out hoaxes," Davenport said, noting that many completely explainable phenomenas are often reported as UFOs.

NUFORC filters hundreds of reports each year. For 2016, there were nearly 200 reported sightings in Pennsylvania alone, Patch notes.

Using NUFORC's reports, PhillyVoice's managing editor Jon Tuleya mapped out all of the reported 2016 sightings in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

In the below maps, you can click on the location of each reported sighting to get a date and description, which may sometimes includes notes from NUFORC that point out possible hoaxes or potential explanations.

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Maandag 30 januari 2017

The Truth Is in the UFO Shapes

The Truth Is in the UFO Shapes

ByCheryl Costa

Columnist Cheryl Costa discusses how shapes of UFOs help determine which ones are off-world crafts.

People ask me all the time about the UFOs I report on in stories or talk about in my statistics. They state incredulously “but Cheryl, they can’t all be real!” I always tell them that as Unidentified Flying Objects, they most certain are real. But are they real off-world crafts? That’s the real question My answer to that: The truth is in the UFO shapes.

In the past, people have put out these statistical charts writing off many sightings to common, ordinary things. The numbers these folks use typically denigrate the potentially real off world craft to percentages numbers around 20 percent and as low as 4 percent.

For the past 14 months, my spouse and I have been compiling a book of UFO sighting counts for all 50 states. In that sighting compilation, we’ve taken great care to tabulate the UFO shapes that have been reported from 2001-2015.

For the sake of a new way of looking at UFO sightings, I decided to remove certain classes of UFO Shapes to illustrate a point.

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The chart above lists the top-20 UFO shapes for New York state from 2001-2015. The total number of New York sightings for the 15-year period is 5,141. The top-20 shapes represent 95.6 percent of the shapes reported. Let’s take out the obviously vague and hard-to-pin-down shapes: light, unknown, other, star-like, flash and changing. That exercise just removed 35.24 percent of the undefinable sighting shapes or about 1,811 of the 5,141 sightings.

We kept these shapes that in my opinion couldn’t be easily mistaken for conventional aircraft. These shapes are: circle, sphere, fireball, triangle, oval, disc, cigar, cylinder diamond, formation, chevron, egg and rectangle.

This list represents 60.36 percent of the total New York sighting shapes of unusual silhouettes. The remaining 4.4 percent of shapes with well under 1 percent in each category totals about 226 of the 5,141 sightings.

So if 3,103 UFO sighting reports don’t resemble any conventional aircraft, it begs the question: Are these the genuine articles that everybody wants to believe are off-world crafts?

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Maandag 30 januari 2017

National leader ‘went to UN with proof of UFOs,’ according to Wikileaks cable

National leader ‘went to UN with proof of UFOs,’ according to Wikileaks cable

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National leader ‘went to UN with proof of UFOs,’ according to Wikileaks cable

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Wikileaks has revealed a leaked diplomatic cable with evidence of a remarkable chapter in UN history – when Grenada’s PM ‘showed evidence of UFOs’.

UFO believers think that there’s a huge international cover-up of extraterrestrial visits – so naturally, they love this 1978 hearing.

Grenadian PM Sir Eric Gairy said that he had come before the UN because of a ‘deep personal conviction’ that UFOs were of ‘worldwide importance and significance.’

He said that the UN needed to ‘come alive to its responsibilities and take a serious look at the UFO phenomenon to which planet Earth has been conspicuously exposed’.

The leaked cable said, ‘As anticipated, Grenadian PM Sir Eric Gairy addressed the special political committee on Agenda Item 126, and introduced a resolution (datafaxed), which would establish an expert group to set guidelines for a UN study of UFOS.

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‘He was followed by Dr Friday (Minister for Education) and four other speakers, all of whom argued in favour of a ‘UN clearing house’ for the exchange of data and and coordination of research on UFOs.

‘The speakers were supplemented by a short film which consisted of still and motion pictures spliced together to depict actual sightings of UFOs.

Picture: Open Minds Production/YouTube

Up to 77% of Americans believe that there is evidence aliens have visited Earth, according to a 2014 Harris poll.

Conspiracy theorists believe that the American government has contacted aliens – but has concealed the fact for decades.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, called for the release of UFO files last year, saying, ‘The American people can handle the truth.’

During her campaign, Clinton said, ‘He has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out. One way or another. Maybe we could have a task force go to Area 51.’

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Maandag 30 januari 2017

Witness spots UFO while waiting for rocket launch

Witness spots UFO while waiting for rocket launch

A Florida witness at Titusville reported watching an oval-shaped object crossing the sky “shrouded in the bright, meteor-like light” while waiting for an Atlas V rocket launch, according to testimony in Case 81674 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

Witness illustration.

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The events occurred about 8:15 p.m. on January 19, 2017.

“My husband and I were in the viewing bleachers for the launch of the Atlas V rocket carrying a missile detecting satellite,” the witness stated. “We were in a launch delay. I was standing in the bleachers and others were sitting.”

The witness says she was staring at the sky as she had heard that UFOs sometimes frequent launches.

“I was looking towards the east and suddenly I saw an extremely bright, yellow/green light and it was wide, and it was close. It was horizontal to the ground and it streaked by us. I yelled, ‘Look’ and people in the stands caught a glimpse. It was so fast that many missed it, but some didn’t. The woman behind me who was sitting down and just caught a glimpse said it was a meteor. I said, no, there was something in it.”

The witness saw a light streak by with something metallic in it.

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The witness described what she saw.

“Just before the yellow/green steak of light vanished, for a fleeting bit of a second, I saw part of something metallic. It had a seam and a shape that was rounded. But the yellow/green light obscured all but a small part of the object. I know what I saw and there was definitely something in that light.”

The launch was scrubbed due to a wayward aircraft in the flight path of the rocket.

“We all got on the buses and left. But I was still filled with excitement as I believe that was a UFO. I checked the web and cannot find any record of a meteor on that night.”

The witness said the light obscured all but a small part of the object. Pictured: Titusville, FL.

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Florida MUFON Field Investigator Scott Christopher Schaller is investigating. The witness provided one illustration with the report, which was filed on January 22, 2017. 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 “wayward aircraft” was identified as a Homeland Security plane. That is not to say this is what the witness saw.

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Geschreven door peter om 22:21 Stuur door

Maandag 30 januari 2017

NASA accidentally films the BEST UFO sighting yet

NASA accidentally films the BEST UFO sighting yet

Ivan

Another unidentified flying object was captured on video by NASA’s space cameras. In the video footage, a mysterious object –with a peculiar disk-shaped design—appears to be traveling out of Earth’s atmosphere causing a massive debate on social networks. What was it? Alien vehicle? Space Debris? Optical Illusion, or just Swamp Gas? Some are convinced it is the ultimate evidence Earth is visited by Alien beings while others remain skeptical and still, unconvinced.

Ever since the footage was uploaded to YouTube, it generated great controversy both among those who support the idea that it might be an extraterrestrial object, as among those who are completely skeptical of the subject, and as a joke suggest that “UFO’s that are planning on entering our air space should be registered and pay taxes.”

The truth is that on many occasions only fragments of videos in which these mystery objects are visible are released.

However, the fact that NASA interrupts its live feed transmissions is what arouses more suspicion among those who are eager to find new evidence of the existence of alien life, UFO’s and how we are all part of a massive conspiracy.

One user wrote on YouTube:

“The question isn’t “is this an alien spacecraft?”, but actually “Why NASA didn’t cut or blur this video as they always do with other strange sights?”

According to many people, in today’s era, it isn’t a question anymore whether or not UFO’s are real.

In fact, if we look back into the past we will see numerous fascinating statements made by former astronauts, military officials and scientists about Alien life and the existence of UFOs.

Here are only a few:

“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, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire.

We cannot address the UFO phenomena without mentioning Dr. Edgar Mitchel, one of the best-known Apollo astronauts and the sixth man to walk on the moon; a retired Captain in the US Navy, aeronautical engineer and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) who had much to say about Alien life:

“I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real…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.”

Franklin Story Musgrave, an American Physician, retired NASA astronaut who worked on the design and development of the Skylab Program and the only astronaut to have flown missions on all five Space Shuttles had very interesting things to say about life elsewhere in the cosmos:

“Statistically it’s a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligence, life forms out there. I believe they’re so advanced that they’re even doing interstellar travel. I believe it’s possible that they even came here. It’s logical to presume the universe must have other life in it and by virtue of association that we could be visited at some point.”

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Maandag 30 januari 2017

"Holy Grail" Metallic Hydrogen Is Going to Change Everything

Rendering of metallic hydrogen pressurized between diamonds.

Kastalia Medrano

Two Harvard scientists have succeeded in creating an entirely new substance long believed to be the “holy grail” of physics — metallic hydrogen, a material of unparalleled power that could one day propel humans into deep space. The research was published Thursday in the journal Science.

Scientists created the metallic hydrogen by pressurizing a hydrogen sample to more pounds per square inch than exists at the center of the Earth. This broke the molecule down from its solid state and allowed the particles to dissociate into atomic hydrogen.

The best rocket fuel we currently have is liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, burned for propellant. The efficacy of such substances is characterized by “specific impulse,” the measure of impulse fuel can give a rocket to propel it forward.

“People at NASA or the Air Force have told me that if they could get an increase from 450 seconds [of specific impulse] to 500 seconds, that would have a huge impact on rocketry,” Isaac Silvera, the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University, told Inverse by phone. “If you can trigger metallic hydrogen to recover to the molecular phase, [the energy release] calculated for that is 1700 seconds.”

Metallic hydrogen could potentially enable rockets to get into orbit in a single stage, even allowing humans to explore the outer planets. Metallic hydrogen is predicted to be “metastable” — meaning if you make it at a very high pressure then release it, it’ll stay at that pressure. A diamond, for example, is a metastable form of graphite. If you take graphite, pressurize it, then heat it, it becomes a diamond; if you take the pressure off, it’s still a diamond. But if you heat it again, it will revert back to graphite.

Scientists first theorized atomic metallic hydrogen a century ago. Silvera, who created the substance along with post-doctoral fellow Ranga Dias, has been chasing it since 1982 and working as a professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam.

Metallic hydrogen has also been predicted to be a high- or possibly room-temperature superconductor. There are no other known room-temperature superconductors in existence, meaning the applications are immense — particularly for the electric grid, which suffers for energy lost through heat dissipation. It could also facilitate magnetic levitation for futuristic high-speed trains; substantially improve performance of electric cars; and revolutionize the way energy is produced and stored.

But that’s all still likely a couple of decades off. The next step in terms of practical application is to determine if metallic hydrogen is indeed metastable. Right now Silvera has a very small quantity. If the substance does turn out to be metastable, it might be used to create room-temperature crystal and — by spraying atomic hydrogen onto the surface —use it like a seed to grow more, the way synthetic diamonds are made.

Photos via Nature

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Geschreven door peter om 20:59 Stuur door

Maandag 30 januari 2017

Ancient Egypt and Aliens - Forbidden Archaeology!

Ancient Egypt and Aliens - Forbidden Archaeology!

Published on Jan 30, 2017

Egyptian Archaeologist Admits That Pyramids Contain UFO Technology
Actually ancient Egyptian writings very often talk of beings from the sky, the sky opening and bright lights coming down to teach them technology and give them wisdom. Many pictures and symbols resemble UFOs and aliens. POSSIBLY aliens built the Great Pyramid. And these solid long lasting construction techniques were adopted by the Egyptians.
Ancient Egyptian legends tell of Tep Zepi, or the “first time”. This is described as an age when “sky gods” came down to Earth and raised the land from mud and water.
They supposedly flew through the air in flying “boats” and brought laws and wisdom to man through a royal line of Pharaohs.

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Maandag 30 januari 2017

5 wereldrampen die alle leven op aarde zouden vernietigen - HLN.be

5 wereldrampen die alle leven op aarde zouden vernietigen - HLN.be

Bron: theconversation.com; The Independent

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De aarde heeft al heel wat natuurrampen moeten doorstaan, van een meteorietenregen die het einde betekende voor de dinosaurussen tot tsunami's die bijna kernrampen ontketenden. Toch blijft de kleine blauwe bol ondanks al die tegenslag intact tot op heden. En hopelijk blijft dat zo. Maar mocht een van deze vijf rampen de aarde treffen, dan is het waarschijnlijk gedaan met het leven op aarde.

Astronoom Daniel Brown van de Nottingham Trent University legt aan nieuwssite The Conversation uit hoe het leven op aarde in één klap kan worden weggevaagd. Hij haalt vijf rampen aan die elk fataal zouden kunnen zijn.

1. Asteroïde-inslag

Asteroïden betekenden het einde van de dinosaurussen, dus zouden ze ook het einde kunnen inluiden van de mensheid. Technologieën om toekomstige inslagen te vermijden, staan momenteel nog in de kinderschoenen, dus zijn we tegen grote asteroïden kansloos. Hoewel ze niet noodzakelijk de aarde zouden vernietigen, zouden ze wel verwoestende natuurrampen als tsunami's, aardbevingen en branden ontketenen.

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2. Groeiende zon

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We weten zeker dat de zon over 7,72 miljard jaar sowieso een einde zal maken aan het leven op aarde, als we dan al niet zijn uitgeroeid door een andere ramp. Over 7,72 miljard jaar zal de zon haar buitenste atmosfeer afscheiden om een planetaire nevel te vormen. Dat fenomeen zou het leven op aarde uitroeien, maar zover zal het nooit komen omdat de mensheid dan al van de aarde verdwenen zal zijn.

Naarmate de zon ouder wordt, zal ze afkoelen en groeien. Uiteindelijk zal ze zo groot zijn geworden dat ze Mercurius en Venus volledig zal inpalmen. De aarde blijft dan wel voorlopig buiten schot, maar de supersterke zonnevlammen zullen de aarde vertragen. Over 7,59 miljard jaar zal de aarde ergens rond een gigantische zon draaien en zal er geen leven meer mogelijk zijn.

3. Gammastralen

Een uitbarsting van gammastralen, die energie bundelt in een dunne straal, is zo krachtig dat ze de ozonlaag onherroepelijk zou beschadigen. Mocht de ozonlaag worden getroffen door een dergelijke energie-uitbarsting, dan zouden we worden blootgesteld aan UV-straling.

Een uitbarsting van gammastralen kan worden veroorzaakt door twee sterren die rond eenzelfde punt draaien of door ontploffende sterren, beter bekend als supernova's. Astronomen hebben een sterrenstelsel (WR 104) ontdekt dat een gevaarlijke uitbarsting zou kunnen veroorzaken. WR 104 is tussen 5.200 en 7.500 lichtjaren verwijderd van de aarde, wat onvoldoende is om geen risico te vormen.

Het is een raadsel wannneer het sterrenstelsel een uitbarsting zal veroorzaken, maar het is ook perfect mogelijk dat de fatale straal de aarde volledig mist.

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4. Supernova

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Wanneer een ster haar levenseinde heeft bereikt, gaat dat gepaard met een explosie. Dat fenomeen wordt een supernova genoemd. Elke eeuw vinden één of twee supernova's plaats in onze melkweg en gelukkig komen ze vooral voor nabij het compacte centrum van de melkweg. Omdat de aarde ongeveer twee derden van het centrum verwijderd is, lijkt de kan gering dat een supernova ons ooit zal vernietigen.

De ster Betelgeuze vormt nog het grootste gevaar voor de aarde. De ster is aan het einde van haar leven en kan dus nu een supernova veroorzaken. Maar voor hetzelfde geld blijft de ster nog een miljoen jaar intact. Betelgeuze bevindt zich in de Orion-constellatie, 'slechts' 450 à 650 lichtjaren van hier. Omdat een supernova pas gevaarlijk kan zijn vanop 50 lichtjaren, hoeven we ons om Betelgeuze geen zorgen te maken.

5. Bewegende sterren

Een bewegende ster die zich door de melkweg begeeft, kan zo dicht bij onze zon komen dat ze in contact komt met de zogenaamde 'Oortwolk' aan de rand van ons zonnestelsel. De Oortwolk is de bron van onze kometen, dus zorgt een verstoring er mogelijk voor dat een monsterkomeet op de aarde afstevent.

De zon, ook een ster, begeeft zich ook door de melkweg en neemt zo de aarde mee. Momenteel bevinden we ons in een minder compacte bubbel die werd gecreëerd door een supernova, dus we hoeven niet al te veel problemen te verwachten. Wanneer we deze veilige regio verlaten over 20.000 à 50.000 jaar, zal de aarde gevoeliger worden voor veranderingen. Mogelijk zal het klimaat dan zodanig opwarmen dat het voor de mensheid moeilijk, zo niet onmogelijk, wordt om te overleven.

Deze vijf rampen betekenen ooit misschien het einde van het leven op aarde, maar het ziet er niet meteen naar uit dat we snel met een van deze rampen te maken zullen krijgen.

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Geschreven door peter om 20:04 Stuur door

Maandag 30 januari 2017

UFO VLOOT NABIJ AMERIKAANSE GRENS ( VIDEO )

UFO VLOOT NABIJ AMERIKAANSE GRENS ( VIDEO )

Als je geïnteresseerd bent in het UFO fenomeen en buitenaardse zaken, dan is waarschijnlijk Mexico het beste land om te wonen.

Ook nu is er weer druk verkeer bij de vulkanen, waar net zoals in 2012 een object de Popocatépetl vulkaan in duikt en waar UFO’s nieuwsgierig zijn naar de muur van Donald Trump.

Eind oktober 2012 staat de hele wereld verbaasd te kijken naar een programma van de Mexicaanse televisie, waarin te zien is hoe een sigaarvormige UFO met grote snelheid de bekende Popocatépetl vulkaan in Mexico in schiet.

Tot op de dag van vandaag heeft nog nooit iemand hier een “logische verklaring” voor kunnen bedenken.

Het ging om de volgende opname.

Enkele weken geleden, op 21 december 2016, wordt er weer iets dergelijks door een webcam geregistreerd.

Wederom een sigaarvormig object dat linea recta de vulkaan lijkt in te duiken.

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Omdat de webcam waarmee deze opname is gemaakt, maar een beperkt aantal beelden per minuut maakt, is het hele traject van dit object niet goed te volgen. Van de beelden die er wel zijn, lijkt het heel veel op het object dat in 2012 dezelfde vulkaan binnen schoot.

Dan komt er een hele bijzondere opname tevoorschijn van een vulkaan in Mexico, eveneens afkomstig van de webcams en vastgelegd door de inmiddels bekende Streetcap1.

Wat er niet bij staat is om welke Mexicaanse vulkaan het gaat, maar de opname is er niet minder mooi door.

Je ziet in de verte eerst een klein licht vertrekken van de top van de vulkaan dat allengs dichterbij komt omdat het in de richting van de camera vliegt. Dan opeens wordt het een stuk groter en feller totdat het boven in uit beeld verdwijnt.

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Hierna volgt de video-opname en daarbij zie je rechtsboven de datum en tijd. De klok houdt de uren, minuten en seconden bij. Als je ziet in wat voor korte tijd dit licht de afstand aflegt van de vulkaan totdat het boven de camera uit beeld verdwijnt, dan weet je dat het niet een planeet of iets dergelijks kan zijn, omdat die nooit die afstand in zo’n korte tijd kunnen overbruggen. Ook vertoont het geen enkele overeenkomst met een vliegtuig, helikopter of drone.

Mexico, het land waar je over de weg kunt rijden om ineens boven je hoofd een bizarre wolk te ontdekken.

Een speling van de natuur of toch iets anders…. Zeker in Mexico kun je van alles verwachten op het gebied van buitengewone waarnemingen die allemaal wijzen naar buitenaardsen die meerdere bases hebben in dit land.

Dan, enkele dagen geleden bij de inmiddels beroemde grensovergang naar Amerika, aan de Mexicaanse kant bij Tijuana.

Iets dat wordt omschreven als een vloot UFO’s die door talloze mensen wordt waargenomen, inclusief de grenswachten die allen met hun mobiele telefoon proberen opnames te maken.

Een Mexicaanse dame plaatste de beelden op Instagram, waar ze na enkele uren worden verwijderd. Gelukkig heeft Secureteam de beelden bewaard en zijn ze te zien in de volgende video.

Zomaar een paar gewone dagen in Mexico.

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Geschreven door peter om 19:45 Stuur door

Maandag 30 januari 2017

UFO Photographs at Kozakai-Cho, Japan, June 22, 1977, Video, UFO Sighting News.

UFO Photographs at Kozakai-Cho, Japan, June 22, 1977, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: June 22, 1977
Location of sighting: Kozakai-Cho, Japan

Open Minds recently released a video about a sighting back in 1977 from Japan. The photos are magnificent and the description detailed. Not only did he see the object hovering over the building, but he parked his car so he could take pictures. A sight to see.
Scott C. Waring

Report states:
Around 11:30am, on June 22, 1977, thirty-nine-year-old Yukio Ishida was driving along the bank of the Toyokawa Canal in Kozakai-Cho, Aichi Prefecture, when he noticed a strange object flying above a building alongside the canal. He stopped his car and proceeded to capture a sequence of six shots using a Canon F-1 camera with a 55mm lens. According to a report published by editor Hachiro Kubota in the Japanese periodical UFOs and Space “the circular craft was silvery metallic in the center with a greenish metallic flange around it and the center on top was raised into a dome.” After the UFO left the scene. Mr. Ishida sat in his car for a few minutes before continuing his drive. Shortly thereafter he noticed the object again, this time over some power lines and shot the remaining four photos. It was also reported that many witnesses observed a flying disc over nearby Aichi High School.

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Maandag 30 januari 2017

10 Most Compelling Pieces Of Evidence That Prove Time Travel Exists, Video, UFO Sighting News.

10 Most Compelling Pieces Of Evidence That Prove Time Travel Exists, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Video by Lutch Green of Youtube.

Since aliens exist and UFOs are seen hundreds of times daily around the world, and the closest Earth like planet is Proxima b at 4 light years away, then time travel must be real. You see, aliens wont spend 4 years traveling at light speed to get here. Instead they will spend several minutes to travel here. So if they travel faster than light speed, they are also traveling through time. So UFOs not only travel through space, but also time. They can be used as time machines to travel to selected moments in history of any planet anywhere in the universe. Watch the video, and see what you think.
Scott C. Waring

Geschreven door peter om 19:26 Stuur door

Maandag 30 januari 2017

UFO Over London Near Passenger Jet, Nov 9, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

UFO Over London Near Passenger Jet, Nov 9, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: November 9, 2016

Location of sighting: London, England

News source: MUFON #81809

This just came in MUFON a few hours ago. A passenger jet and a UFO came very close to each other. Something very noteworthy is that the planes left no chem trails at the beginning, but after the UFO shot away, the temperature may have changed and the chem trails became more visible.

Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states:

I had just gone out to take photos for desktop wallpaper, using a Fujifilm X-T1 and XF16-55mm f2.8 zoom lens. I noticed the object within 30 metres of leaving home and resorted quickly to manual focus and aperture at 55mm (longest focal length) between f5.6 and f8, trying to zone focus. The wind was about 3 kts gusting 7 kts from around 190 degrees; the object moved almost orthogonally to the wind, heading arround 300 to 330 degrees and varying in altitude. It had a very smooth motion. Towards the end of this sighting the object appeared to occult, although it was quite far away and increasingly difficult to see. While I was changing lenses to a 55-200mm, it rose in the distance and disappeared. Oddly, every high-altitude aircraft in that vicinity started to leave persistent contrails thereafter, as if there had been an ambient temperature change. Two "best shots" are attached, both heavy crops. The A/C in photo 2 is on the "S" curve to the Heathrow flightpath and at that point is at 4000 - 5000 feet up.

Geschreven door peter om 19:22 Stuur door

Maandag 30 januari 2017

UFO exits volcano in Mexico 24-Jan-2017

UFO exits volcano in Mexico 24-Jan-2017

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Here’s one new footage of a huge bright unidentified flying object leaving a volcano in Mexico. This was filmed on 24th January 2017.

What do you think about this footage? Please leave your comment below!

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Geschreven door peter om 19:09 Stuur door

Maandag 30 januari 2017

UFO caught on tape over Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK – December 2016

UFO caught on tape over Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK – December 2016

This UFO video was filmed on 20th December 2016 over Salisbury in Wiltshire, UK.

Witness report:

Pulsing light in sky there for 5-6 hrs. I was standing at my back doors and ofton look at sky it was around 2.30 in afternoon, i saw a bright star looking shape in the sky first of all i thoightit was a plane i walked back inside then an hour later i went for a cog and the light caught my eye again it seemed to be pulsating but seemed so far away it moved very slowley around the sky but not in a triangle shape i made a video on my phone and uploaded as it got darker a strange red cloud cover started to appear and the object as getting bigger disapperared but not big enough to see

Author (source: MUFON)

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