Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
31-12-2019
What we now know (and still don't) about life on Mars
What we now know (and still don't) about life on Mars
By Lauren Kent, CNN
(CNN)For decades, space was the final frontier. But as space exploration advanced, scientists increasingly set their sights on a new frontier: Mars.
The first lander to reach Mars was launched nearly 50 years ago, but much about the red planet remains a mystery. Scientists are still attempting to bring samples of Mars' red soil back to Earth for further study, and human trips to Mars are still years from being feasible.
After decades of roving, research, and taking illuminating photos of the red planet, the biggest question remains: Could there be life on Mars?
Breakdown of a planet
To understand Mars' potential for life, we need to go back in time about 3 or 4 billion years.
At that time, Mars and Earth shared many of the same characteristics. The red planet was warm and wet, with a robust atmosphere -- a far cry from the cold, unforgiving place it is today.
"Mars is a planet that started with all the same raw materials as Earth, but along the way has suffered changes," said the European Space Agency's Director of Human and Robotic Exploration, David Parker. "You could say it's kind of broken down."
Because it was once Earth's sister planet, Parker said scientists must ask themselves, "When life got going on Earth, did it get going on Mars?"
Mars lost its magnetic field, meaning nothing shields the planet (or potential life forms) from radiation. Mars also lost most of its atmosphere -- another deviation from Earth, where the atmosphere supports life by giving us oxygen and acting as a blanket for the planet.
"Mars still has an atmosphere but it's very thin and mostly carbon dioxide, so it's colder," explained Parker.
That means the average temperature on Mars is -81 degrees Fahrenheit, which makes it an unforgiving planet for most life forms.
Signs of life
But just because Mars is cold and unprotected doesn't mean scientists have ruled out finding life.
In 2018, NASA's Curiosity rover found organic matter on Mars, which could mean that the building blocks for life once existed, or still exist, on Mars.
A self-portrait taken by NASA's Curiosity rover taken on Sol 2082 (June 15, 2018). A Martian dust storm has reduced sunlight and visibility at the rover's location in Gale Crater.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
"Organic matter preservation is central to understanding biological potential on Mars through time," wrote NASA researchers in the journal Science. "Whether it holds a record of ancient life, is the food for extant life, or has existed in the absence of life, organic matter in martianmaterials holds chemical clues to planetary conditions and processes."
NASA's rover has also detected methane on Mars, which is considered the most simple organic molecule and could be another chemical clue of life.
"With our current measurements, we have no way of telling if the methane source is biology or geology, or even ancient or modern," said Paul Mahaffy, director for NASA Goddard's Solar System Exploration Division, in a June press release.
Meanwhile, Europe and Russia's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter launched in 2016 with the aim of detecting atmospheric gases that could mean there's active, biological life on Mars. The ESA's Parker said that while the Curiosity Rover found methane on parts of the surface, they have not detected methane all across Mars' atmosphere.
The ExoMars 2016 lifts off on a Proton-M rocket in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. One of the scientific objectives of the collaborative project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Federal Space Agency is to search for signs of past and present life on Mars.
(Photo by Stephane Corvaja/ESA via Getty Images)
"We have not seen methane globally on Mars, which means methane gas is being produced somehow," Parker said. "So is there a methane cycle on Mars?"
The discovery of localized methane presents an exciting breakthrough because a common source of methane on Earth is microbial life, according to NASA.
Water is key
Water and ice on Mars also provide valuable clues that suggest Mars might be more habitable than once thought.
In 2015, NASA scientists thought they found evidence of occasional flowing, salty water flows across the surface of Mars. However, another NASA study in 2017 determined that the flows were most likely grains of sand and dust.
But another breakthrough came in 2018 when the European Space Agency detected a small lake of liquid water beneath the southern polar ice cap of Mars, which the ESA said could further contribute to knowledge about Mars' evolution and habitability.
And this year, NASA's Curiosity rover found evidence in Mars' Gale Crater that there were once ancient salty lakes on the surface -- another hint that the red planet could have once supported microbial life.
"Water is key because almost everywhere we find water on Earth, we find life," wrote NASA on their website.
It's not just liquid water that space scientists are interested in, but also ice. Parker said the ESA is currently working on research about the ice below Mars' surface.
"We're getting more and more information about subsurface water ice ... it's further from the poles thanwe thought," Parker told CNN.
Ice could be further evidence of habitable conditions, and it could also be a valuable resource if space agencies send humans to Mars one day.
Human missions to Mars?
To unravel the more complex mysteries surrounding life on Mars, scientists want to collect samples, which would require a round-trip mission.
"Because the really powerful scientific instruments are huge, we can't take them and never will be able to take them to Mars. So we need to bring Mars back to Earth," Parker said. "By bringing Mars back, we can study it for the next 50 years."
Scientists are still attempting to bring samples of Mars' red soil back to Earth for further study, and human trips to Mars are still years from being feasible. NASA is aiming to send astronauts to Mars by 2035.
(Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Although no space agency has yet figured out how to launch an unmanned craft from the surface of Mars to get samples back to Earth, one way to bring back Martian samples would be for astronauts and cosmonauts to collect them in person.
But reaching Mars, which at its closest point is still about 33.9 million miles away from Earth, would be a feat of engineering.
"It's is an order of magnitude farther away. You're talking about a 3-year round-trip mission," said NASA spokeswoman Stephanie Schierholz.
If reaching the Moon was one giant leap for mankind, reaching Mars would be more like an Olympic long jump. And unlike traveling to the International Space Station (a mere 250 miles above Earth), traveling to Mars would potentially require a lot more packing.
"We send up resupply missions every few months (to the space station)," Schierholz said. "We don't have the luxury of doing that if we go to Mars."
Despite the challenges, NASA is aiming to send astronauts to Mars by 2035. That means the firstlife on Mars could be us.
(U.S. Navy photo by Electrician's Mate 2nd Class Brian J. Hudson)
Last month, the United States Navy confirmed formally that two high profile videos allegedly captured from the nose of an F/A-18 Super Hornet attempting an intercept on an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena were real and notably, weren’t meant for release to the public. The Navy did not suggest that the strange craft shown in the videos was alien in origin, but rather did acknowledge that they truly didn’t know what they were seeing that night in January of 2015.
“I truly thought the official word on these videos would be ‘drones’ or something similar; but explainable,” John Greenewald, Jr, who runs the popular website The Black Vault, told SOFREP at the time. Greenewald was the man that got the Navy to discuss the videos, leading to a landslide of headlines throughout the media in the weeks that followed.
“We have official documents that have surfaced through FOIA that state just that. However, for the Navy to contradict that, and say that this ‘phenomena’ represents something ‘unidentified’ – that’s pretty amazing to me and proves yet again why we can’t lock ourselves into any one way of thinking or assume anything.”
Reports of unusual lights in the sky date all the way back to the beginning of recorded history, but there’s another unusual phenomena that often seems to coincide with these strange sightings that gets far less attention in the press: USOs, or Unidentified Submerged Objects. Like UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects), USO is a sort of catch-all term used to describe anything seen operating beneath the surface of a body of water that defies explanation. Legends of USOs have permeated the maritime community for centuries, and remain a common facet of discussion among UFO researchers to this day. In fact, many UFO witness statements, including those provided by military aviators, have suggested that the unusual crafts they’ve spotted flying in the sky seem to operate just as readily in the far denser medium of water — suggesting that these unusual objects can function beneath the surface of the ocean just as well as they can in the air.
Even Christopher Columbus reportedly had a USO sighting during his 1492 voyage to the Americas. According to Columbus’ log, he spotted “a small wax candle that rose and lifted up, which too few seemed to be an indication of land.” They soon determined that it wasn’t a light source from land, but had instead been out at sea — leading to a centuries-long mystery that stands to this day. A more contemporary sighting near Shag Harbor in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia saw a UFO apparently crashing into the harbor’s waters in front of a number of witnesses in 1967. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police even launched rescue efforts early on, assuming the sightings were of a downed aircraft. Their efforts however, turned up nothing.
If the idea of an unidentified, fast moving craft operating under water seems just a bit too out of this world, you should know that USOs may not even be all that uncommon — the U.S. Navy just doesn’t make a habit of keeping track of them (much like UFOs or UAPs until recently).
Earlier this year, Tylor Rogoway at The War Zone interviewed a number of veteran U.S. Navy submariners, some of whom were SONAR operators with first hand experience spotting these unidentified underwater anomalies. Rogoway was looking for more information pertaining to an unsubstantiated story posted to social media by Tom Delonge, former Blink 182 front man turned UFO researcher and founder of To the Stars Academy — a high profile media think tank that champions disclosure of UFO related materials..
That story can be traced back to UFO researcher Marc D’Antonio, who claimed to be given a courtesy ride on a U.S. Navy fast attack submarine, during which he was present as a sonar operator identified a “fast mover” moving at hundreds of knots under the water in close proximity to the sub. D’Antonio’s story doesn’t quite add up in a number of ways (as one former submariner points out in Rogoway’s piece, “we don’t give ‘rides’ as favors”) but his account of a fast moving, unidentified object spotted by Navy personnel and then disregarded seems to ring true with those that have spent time operating America’s undersea vessels.
I don’t know what they are… We usually logged it as seismic or biologic. We were instructed that nothing is ever ‘unknown.'” Explained a former submariner turned professional gamer that now goes by the name “Jive Turkey.”
“That’s the thing, it’s so quick you can’t measure the speed. In the examples I am thinking of, it is a detection that lasts a few seconds on the towed array. There is no way to measure the speed accurately because there isn’t enough data… I agree it’s odd. There are a lot of odd things in the ocean. Mainly, submariners!”
Jive Turkey’s funny name notwithstanding, he’s not the only former submariner to acknowledge unusual readings from America’s nuclear submarines that suggested they weren’t alone in the water. Unsurprisingly, however, these anomalies tend to go ignored unless they represent a threat to the vessel or an obstacle between the crew and accomplishing their mission. The ocean is vast, full of man made ships and living creatures, and things like sound travel differently through water than they do through air. As a result, living and working beneath the waves comes with a certain acceptance of the eerie as a new “normal.” In other words, strange is just a part of business when you’re operating a fast attack sub.
In the minds of some, these sightings are related to other unexplained ocean phenomena, like the infamous “Bloop” — which was a massive underwater sound recorded in 1997. The sound was so loud that it was recorded simultaneously on underwater microphones located more than 3,000 miles apart. In the years since, the Bloop has been explained away as an underwater earthquake or tectonic shift, but some remain unconvinced.
According to Navy submariners, standard operating procedure doesn’t allow for the exploration of strange readings that pop up on sonar or other systems, and there is no procedure established for the further investigation of these sightings. That means that unusual objects beneath the surface of the ocean largely go unreported altogether, provided whatever is spotted doesn’t appear as though it will interfere with the mission.
Without reporting guidelines and government disclosure, we may never know if USO sightings are highly rare or entirely commonplace, but submariner accounts confirm that weird stuff is normal in the dark depths of Earth’s oceans. Just like with sightings in the sky, weird doesn’t have to mean alien — it just means unexplained… for now.
You never know what you could find in the depths of the ocean. Never-before-seen alien-like organisms are discovered all the time. This time, a diver exploring the depths of a fjord in Orstafjord Norway came across a huge alien blob. The video has captivated the internet with over 491K views to date.
Diver Ronald Raasch with the research vessel REV Ocean was exploring the site of a WWII shipwreck in early October. As a group of divers returned to the boat, Raasch and captain Nils Baadnes came across the blob about 55 feet beneath the surface. Inside, the transparent egg contains thousands of squirming babies.
See the mesmerizing video below:
Later on Twitter, the REV Ocean team posted a Tweet:
#Mystery solved! #REVOcean captain @Nils Baadnes & Ronald Raasch discovered this giant gel ball while diving in Orstafjord #Norway, which is actually an eggmass of 10-armed #squid 🦑👀
REV Ocean@rev_ocean
#Mystery solved! #REVOcean captain @Nils Baadnes & Ronald Raasch discovered this giant gel ballwhile diving in Orstafjord #Norway, which is actually an eggmass of 10-armed #squid
Although the researchers identified the blob as an egg sac produced by a 10-armed squid, that doesn’t identify which species it might be. All squid have ten arms.
Diver Ronald Raasch sees thousands of baby squid inside the sac, Screenshot via YouTube, Ronald Raasch
These alien squid sacs are rarely seen since they are thought to be laid deep down in the ocean, sinking ever-lower to 500 feet. At these depths, the babies hatch and start their lives in the cover of darkness.
Science Alertnoted different squid species have different egg sacs. Scientists suspect the female squids lay a small mass that expands to a larger size.
One species has been seen inflating the egg with water.
“Squids that live in the Norwegian Sea that the fjord connects to include the European flying squid (T. sagittatus) and the much smaller Boreoatlantic armhook squid (Gonatus fabricii). However, another Gonatus species, G. onyx, has been observed actually brooding its eggs, so it may be a less likely candidate.
Interestingly, G. onyx has also been observed pumping seawater into her egg mass to inflate it, so that may be another clue about how the masses get so big.”
The Existence of Reptilians Was Confirmed By Romanian General
The Existence of Reptilians Was Confirmed By Romanian General
Romanian Army General Strainu is an ex counterintelligence officer that before 1989 he was hunting CIA and KGB operatives in Romania. Since 2004, Romania is a full NATO member and a strong ally of the USA. Also, General Strainu is a specialist in radiolocation and a doctor in Geophysical warfare.
General Strainu had access to some of the most terrifying secrets of the cold war and also at classified information about UFO and aliens.
General Strainu claims that the reptilian aliens exist and that they live in huge underground basses.
A good friend of Strainu, an active Romanian Colonel that is also a colonel in NATO, called General Strainu to tell him a story about how he accidentally met with a reptilian. As a side note, this Colonel has served in Iraq, Afganistan, Africa and also South America and because he is still active he asked Strainu to keep his identity confidential.
Near Bucharest.
Colonel X was returning from a short camping trip from Brasov, and around 5 O’clock in the morning, his car was out of gas, and he stopped to refuel at a small gas station right outside of Bucharest, when he noticed a khaki US military Humvee with black windows, parked outside the station with the motor running.
One of the doors was opened and he could see inside a huge reptilian, while a US private was fueling the car. The reptilian had no clothes, only military boots, was completely covered in scales and had a crest on his head. This also confirms that on some special occasions, maybe in some black ops, the US military is cooperating with these reptilians. After refueling, he paid and went to his truck.
After a few kilometers on the road to Bucharest, Colonel X was terrified by what he has seen but the adventure was not over yet. Down the road, he had seen again the same Humvee stationed outside the road, this time with all 4 doors opened and near the car, he saw two dark huge reptilians arguing. He passed by the Humvee and tried to understand what he has just seen.
After this event, he started an investigation on his own to see if there were other witnesses but he found none.
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Not long ago, the world received what seemed like an otherworldly revelation: The Pentagon had been secretly running a UFO research project, despite the fact it had long claimed a lack of interest in flying saucers. Three creepy UFO videos were paraded onto the internet, showing mystery objects caught on military cameras. Out of the shadows emerged the program’s soul-patched former director. He had recently retired from the Defense Department and joined up with a new corporation called To the Stars Academy. Helmed by former Blink-182 member Tom DeLonge, To the Stars is both a UFO research organization and a media company. It had attracted other high-profile figures, too—like the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence and a retired executive from Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, the division that designs planes that seem like they’re from other planets.
Since those initial disclosures, UFOs have kept themselves in the headlines, like celebrities who haven’t made a movie in a decade but show up quarterly on magazine covers. And in the two years since the initial saucer story, the truth has grown complicated. The Pentagon claims the bearded director wasn’t actually the director and, in fact, “had no responsibilities with regard to” the program; it has released documentation showing that the three UFO videos were never authorized for public release; and, most recently, it has claimed that this supposed UFO program didn’t actually deal with UFOs at all.
Despite this turbulence, 2019 was the year that UFOs managed to propel themselves into an uneasy political legitimacy: Washington initiated ufological policy changes, held official UFO briefings, and even signed a research agreement with To the Stars. Some segments of the population have taken the governmental nods as acknowledgment that UFOs are both real and extraterrestrial, but the truth—while out there—is considerably fuzzier.
The first big news came in April, when the Navy said it was drafting new guidelines for reporting run-ins with UFOs. Headlines blared things like “Aliens, Ahoy!” but the military was likely talking about much more mundane encounters, according to explanations that followed about the exigence of the guidelines. “The wide proliferation and availability of inexpensive unmanned aerial systems (UAS), such as commercially available quadcopters, has increasingly made airspace de-confliction an issue,” an official told a reporter, according to redacted emails released via a Freedom of Information Act request. “Consistent with the wide proliferation and availability of inexpensive unmanned aerial systems (UAS), sightings of this nature have increased in frequency from 2014 until now.” In other words, they may have been talking about your cousin’s drone collection. As ever, while “UFO” means aliens in common conversation, in actuality it just means anything a person (or instrument) sees in the sky that that person (or instrument) can’t identify. Other explanations on the table: foreign military aircraft, classified American aircraft, ghost machines resulting from electronic warfare. Personally, I find it difficult to take the extraterrestrial explanation seriously until I have evidence of extraterrestrials, not just a lack of proof it’s not extraterrestrials.
Just as government interest has come and gone and (maybe) come back, the ebbs and flows of the public’s UFO interest are alsocyclical.
Nevertheless, a few months later, in June, UFOs climbed higher up the executive chain. George Stephanopoulos asked Donald Trump about the Navy’s reported UFO incidents. Trump said he’d been briefed, yeah, sure. “People are saying they’re seeing UFOs,” he said. “Do I believe it? Not particularly.”
The president, though, wasn’t the only one to get a briefing. That same month, senators gathered in a “that’s classified” way to learn about military UFO encounters. Spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Daniel Day said the meeting centered “on efforts to understand and identify these threats to the safety and security of our aviators.” Later, Sen. Mark Walker accused the Navy of withholding UFO info, saying, “There is frustration with the lack of answers to specific questions about the threat that superior aircraft flying in United States airspace may pose.”
These responses—about “de-confliction,” pilot safety, and threats—all share the subtext that UFOs represent a national security menace. As the year went on, the military showed the thread of threat held not just for spaceships but also for the earthlings who are into them. In June, a goateed college student created a satirical Facebook event called “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us.”
History suggests that Area 51 is a testing ground for experimental air things, but conspiratorial types believe the country stashes saucers and alien specimens in that two-Delaware-sized region of the desert. The joke-raid was about joke-finding all those secrets. More than 2 million people RSVP’d yes.
The Air Force—apparently having never hosted a party and so not knowing that most RSVPs are aspirational—got serious about protection. “Any attempt to illegally access the area is highly discouraged,” the military said, in patronizing understatement. Acting Air Force Secretary Matt Donovan added later that the base had gotten “additional security personnel, as well as additional barricades.”
Indeed: The week of the event, the remote area swarmed with cops, and extra wire cordoned off the base. But at the appointed late-night hour, just a few dozen people gathered at the gate, taking made-for-YouTube video of themselves getting mock-ready to mock-storm, to “The Final Countdown.”
Just before the Area 51 “raid,” the Navy had dropped a bomb (metaphorically), almost as if it wanted to punk the Air Force, or steal from its share of UFO news: Those objects in the three famous videos? They were UFOs. Or, at least that’s what the headlines about the Navy’s statement said. A Lit 101 close-reading of the statement, though, tells a different story.
“The U.S. Navy designates the objects contained in the 3 range-incursion videos that are currently being referred to in various media as unidentified aerial phenomena,” said spokesman Joseph Gradisher of the Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare in a statement. “[UAP] provides the basic descriptor for the sightings/observations of unauthorized/unidentified aircraft/objects that have been observed entering/operating in the airspace of various military-controlled training ranges. It’s any aerial phenomenon that cannot immediately be identified.”
Gradisher’s definition leaves space for objects that would be identified later, or were simply unauthorized and not necessarily unidentified. That would include falcons that a pilot doesn’t immediately recognize as birds, or your cousin’s drone (again). Those mundane objects would get the same acronymical treatment as a spacecraft from a Steven Spielberg fever dream.
Most people—60 percent, according to a recent Gallup poll—believe all UFO sightings are of objects in the former category. But if you ask the folks at To the Stars, they might point you toward their recently acquired metamaterials, “reported to have come from an advanced aerospace vehicle of unknown origin” (implication: beyond Earth). In October, To the Stars announced a research agreement with the Army to test and characterize the materials.
That seemed like validation. But then came a curveball: On Dec. 6, the Pentagon told researcher John Greenewald—who runs one of Earth’s largest private archives of FOIA’d documents, many only declassified or released at his request—that its “UFO” program didn’t study UFOs. Or UAP. Or anomalies of any sort. It simply studied what the Defense Department usually cares about: weapons. The truth, here, is on the move, the official reversal a reminder that the path of ufology is one of fast turns, steep ascents, and stomach-flipping drops. (If you want a little perspective on those spins, consider a trip to the National Archives Museum in Washington, where until Jan. 16 you can see an exhibit about the Defense Department’s previous UFO research program, Project Blue Book.)
Just as government interest has come and gone and (maybe) come back, the ebbs and flows of the public’s UFO interest are also cyclical: They ran hot in the 1990s, cooled during the 2000s, then reignited this decade. Religious scholar Joseph Laycock offers a few potential reasons why, but perhaps the most compelling is that “disenchantment leads to re-enchantment.” A seminal 1954 paper called “Four Functions of Folklore” suggests something similar: When dissatisfaction or skepticism about a belief arises, it may Phoenix back up with “a myth or legend to validate it.” Maybe the Pentagon’s UFO program is our decade’s myth, here to reenchant us, at least for a while.
There might be cracks in space-time, but humanity's telescopes can't see them.
The cracks, if they exist, are old — remnants of a time shortly after the Big Bangwhen the universe had just shifted from a hotter, more alien state to the cooler, more familiar one we see today. That great cool-down, what physicists call a "phase transition," started earlier in some places than others, the theory goes. Bubbles of cooler universe formed and spread, blooming across space until they met other bubbles. Eventually, all of space transitioned, and the old universe disappeared.
But that old, high-energy state might have lived on at the borders between the bubbles, cracks in the fabric of space-time where those cooling regions met and didn't perfectly fit together. Some physicists thought we might still see evidence of those cracks or defects — known as "cosmic strings" — in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the heat left over from the universe's violent emergence. But according to a new paper, that evidence would simply be too faint for any telescope to ever pick out against the noise.
Cosmic strings are difficult objects to imagine, said Oscar Hernández, a physicist at McGill University in Montreal and co-author of the paper. But they have analogs in our world.
"Have you walked on a frozen lake? Have you noticed cracks laced through the frozen lake ice? It's still quite solid. There's nothing to be afraid of, but there's cracks," Hernández told Live Science
Those cracks form through a similar phase-transition process as cosmic strings.
"Ice is water that has gone through a phase transition," he said. "Molecules of water were free to move as a fluid, and then all of a sudden, somewhere, they start to form into a crystal. … It starts to tile itself in tiles, which are [often] hexagons. Now, imagine having tiles that are perfect hexagons and tiling [the lake] with that. If somebody at the other end of the lake starts to tile [it] again," there's essentially zero chance that your tiles will line up.
Imperfect meeting places on a frozen lake surface form long cracks. In the fabric where space and time intersect, they form cosmic strings — if the underlying physics is correct.
In space, researchers believe, there are fields that determine the behavior of fundamental forces and particles. The first phase transitions of the universe brought these fields into being.
"There could be a field relating to some particle that has to, in some sense, 'pick a direction to freeze and cool in.' And since the universe is really big, it could pick different directions in different parts of the universe," he said. "Now, if this field obeys certain conditions … then when the universe has cooled down there will be lines of discontinuity, there will be lines of energy that cannot cool down."
Today, those meeting points would appear as infinitesimally thin lines of energy through space.
Finding those cosmic strings would be a big deal because they would be another piece of evidence that physics is bigger and more complicated than the current model allows, Hernández said.
Right now, the most advanced theory of particle physics that researchers feel has been conclusively proven is known as the Standard Model. It includes the quarks and electrons that make up atoms, as well as more exotic particles like the Higgs boson and neutrinos.
However, most physicists believe the Standard Model is incomplete. As Live Science has reported previously, there are all sorts of ideas on how to expand on it, from supersymmetric particles (i.e., the "stau slepton") to superstring theory — the idea that all particles and forces can be explained as vibrations of tiny, multidimensional "strings." (Note: The "strings" of superstring theory are not the same sort of thing as cosmic "strings." There are only so many metaphors available and sometimes physicists in different fields reuse one.)
"Many extensions of the Standard Model that people really like — like a lot of superstring theories and others — naturally lead to cosmic strings after [post-Big Bang] inflation takes place," Hernández said. "So what we have is an object that is predicted by very many models, so if they don't exist then all these models are ruled out. And if they do exist, oh my god, people are happy."
Since 2017, there's been a flurry of interest in trying to spot strings in the CMB, Hernández and his co-author wrote in their paper, published Nov. 18 to the arXiv database and not yet peer-reviewed.
Hernández, together with Razvan Ciuca of Marianopolis College in Westmount, Quebec, had argued in the past that a convolutional neural network — a powerful type of pattern-finding software — would be the best tool for spotting evidence of the strings in CMB.
Assuming a perfect, noise-free map of the CMB, they wrote in a separate 2017 paper, a computer running that sort of neural network should be able to find cosmic strings even if their energy levels (or "tension") are remarkably low.
But revisiting the subject in this new 2019 paper, they showed that in reality, it's almost certainly impossible to provide clean enough CMB data for the neural network to detect these potential strings. Other, brighter microwave sources obscure the CMB and are difficult to fully disentangle. Even the best microwave instruments are imperfect, with limited resolution and random fluctuations in their recording accuracy from one pixel to the next. All those factors and more, they found, add up to a level of information loss that no current or planned method of recording and analyzing the CMB will ever be able to overcome, they wrote. This method of hunting cosmic strings is a dead end.
That doesn't mean all is lost, though, they wrote.
A new method for hunting cosmic strings is based on measurements of the expansion of the universe in all directions across ancient parts of the universe. This method — called 21 centimeter intensity mapping — doesn't rely on studying the movements of individual galaxies or on precise images of the CMB, Hernández said. Instead, it's based on measurements of the speed at which hydrogen atoms are moving away from Earth, on average, in all parts of deep space.
The best observatories for 21-cm mapping (so named because hydrogen emits electromagnetic energy with a telltale 21-cm wavelength) aren't yet online. But when they arrive, the authors wrote, there's hope for clearer evidence of cosmic strings in their data. And then, Hernández said, the hunt can begin anew.
Astronomers Discover Exoplanets with Cotton Candy Density in Kepler 51 Star System
Astronomers Discover Exoplanets with Cotton Candy Density in Kepler 51 Star System
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers found three planets in the Kepler 51 star system that are almost as big as Jupiter, but have extremely low density – almost like cotton candy.
The density was found to be less than 100 times the gas giant’s mass or less than 0.1 grams per cubic centimetre of volume, the scientists said in a statement.
“They’re very bizarre,” said the study’s lead author, Jessica Libby-Roberts, in a statement. Fewer than 15 exoplanets of this type have been recorded in the galaxy so far.
“This is an extreme example of what’s so cool about exoplanets in general,” said Zachory Berta-Thompson, one of the study’s co-authors. “They give us an opportunity to study worlds that are very different than ours, but they also place the planets in our own solar system into a larger context.”
The three “super-puff” exoplanets in the Kepler 51 system were “straight-up contrary to what we teach in undergraduate classrooms,” Berta-Thompson added.
The Kepler 51 system is approximately 2,400 light-years from Earth and is approximately 500 million years old. A light-year, which measures distance in space, equals about 9,46 trillion kilometres.
The researchers also attempted to look at the planets’ atmospheres, but ran into issues, as the atmospheres were opaque rather than transparent.
“It definitely sent us scrambling to come up with what could be going on here,” Libby-Roberts continued. “We expected to find water, but we couldn’t observe the signatures of any molecule.”
The team theorized that the exoplanets are mostly comprised of hydrogen and helium, using computer simulations. It’s also probable that it is covered by a “thick haze made up of methane,” which makes them reminiscent of Saturn’s moon, Titan. In June, NASA unveiled a mission that will explore Titan, which could potentially host extraterrestrial life.
The researchers at the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences (APS) at the University of Colorado also discovered that the exoplanets are losing gas rapidly, with the innermost of the three exoplanets putting an estimated “tens of billions of tons of material into space every second.” Such losses could lead to a considerable shrinking of the planets over the next billion years and they might wind up looking similar to “mini-Neptune” exoplanets.
“People have been really struggling to find out why this system looks so different than every other system,” Libby-Roberts said. “We’re trying to show that, actually, it does look like some of these other systems.”
“A good bit of their weirdness is coming from the fact that we’re seeing them at a time in their development where we’ve rarely gotten the chance to observe planets,” Berta-Thompson explained.
POPULAIRE UFO-ONDERZOEKER GEARRESTEERD EN GEMARTELD ( VIDEO )
POPULAIRE UFO-ONDERZOEKER GEARRESTEERD EN GEMARTELD ( VIDEO )
Als de eigenaar van een bekend Youtubekanaal met een miljoen abonnees plotseling niets meer plaatst, dan is dat hoogst verdacht.
Zonder één enkele mededeling verdween Tyler Glockner van Secureteam en niemand wist wat er was gebeurd, tot nu.
Door de jaren hebben ook wij talloze video’s geplaatst van de jonge ufo onderzoeker Tyler Glockner die bekend is geworden met de naam van zijn Youtubekanaal, Secureteam.
Dagelijks verschenen daar nieuwe video’s over vreemde en interessante zaken op het gebied van onbekende vliegende voorwerpen en Tyler dook steeds dieper in de materie. Echter, als je nu kijkt op zijn kanaal dan zie je dat de laatste video enkele maanden geleden is geplaatst en daarna wordt het opeens stil.
En dan krijgen we maandag het volgende bericht van Paul Harmans:
Heb jij de video van Tyler van Secureteam van een paar dagen geleden gezien? De video was na een dag weer verwijderd, ik vermoed door Tyler zelf.
Als je hem niet hebt gezien: Tyler vertelde dat hij al een tijd wordt lastiggevallen en gesommeerd te stoppen met zijn activiteiten. Dat weigerde hij en sinds die tijd is het serieuzer geworden. Hij vertelde dat hij vlak voordat hij de video maakte thuiskwam van een week gevangenisstraf, opgepakt omdat 'iemand' de politie had gebeld met de melding dat hij zijn vrouw had geslagen. Toen de politie bij hem aanbelde wist Tyler van niets en ook zijn vrouw verklaarde dat het niet waar was, ze was niet geslagen. Maar de Amerikaanse politie is resoluut in dat soort zaken en dus arresteerden ze Tyler en voerden hem in handboeien af.
Hij verdween voor een week de cel in en hij vertelde dat hij gedurende die week regelmatig door bewakers in elkaar werd gemept met de boodschap te stoppen met zijn openbaringen. Tyler vertelde in de video dat hij niet stopt en doorgaat. Hij heeft advocaten in de arm genomen en zal inmiddels wel blut zijn. Als ze willen dat hij stopt vinden ze honderden manieren om dat door te zetten en zullen hem net zo lang voor de rechter slepen totdat hij grote schulden heeft.
Ik wilde de video nog downloaden, maar was te laat. Wellicht dat Tyler de video alleen voor een dag op Youtube heeft gezet om zijn volgers even te laten weten wat er speelt.
Tot zover Paul Harmans.
Dit is natuurlijk een heftig verhaal en toont voor de zoveelste keer aan dat het brengen van de waarheid een gevaarlijke bezigheid is. En als je kijkt op het Youtubekanaal van Tyler, dan is de video waar Paul het over heeft inderdaad verdwenen.
Gelukkig zijn wij niet voor één gat te vangen en hebben de bewuste video van Tyler weten op te duikelen.
Wat hem niet duidelijk is gemaakt door zijn belagers is wat nu precies hetgeen is dat dit alles heeft getriggerd. Echter, aangezien hij al eerder waarschuwingen en dreigementen heeft ontvangen is het waarschijnlijk dat het gaat om het totaal van zijn berichten.
Het interview met Bob Lazar, de man die aan buitenaardse ruimteschepen heeft gewerkt, ook mede aanleiding zijn. In een artikel dat wij eind vorig jaar hierover schreven komt zo ongeveer alles aan bod waardoor de befaamde Men in Black op je stoep zou kunnen verwachten en daarom hier nogmaals het grootste deel van dat artikel met aan het einde ervan het bewuste interview met Bob Lazar.
Voor de "normale" wereld bestaat buitenaards leven dan ook nog steeds niet, maar voor de machthebbers achter de schermen is het een ander verhaal. Zij beschikken niet alleen over contacten met buitenaardsen, maar ook over hun techniek. Deze vorm van de buitenaardsen overgenomen techniek heet "reverse engineering" en vormt de basis voor wat wij noemen de geheime ruimtevloot van de Bilderbergers.
Het bestaan van een dergelijke vloot is ook aangetoond door hacker Gary McKinnon die wist in te breken in systemen van de Amerikaanse overheid en daar lijsten met namen aantrof van buitenaardse officieren.
Al met al betekent dit dat het voor ons gewone mensen heel verwarrend is, omdat we nooit met zekerheid weten of waargenomen UFO's nu echt buitenaards zijn of onderdeel vormen van de geheime ruimtevloot. Beiden bestaan en dat maakt het zo moeilijk om ze precies te identificeren.
Om het nog een beetje gecompliceerder te maken weten we van de voormalig Nazi en later Amerikaanse raketwetenschapper Wernher von Braun, dat de machthebbers achter de schermen op een gegeven moment een nep buitenaardse invasie zullen uitvoeren, om er zo voor te zorgen dat de mensheid zich unaniem wil verenigen in een wereldverbond/-regering om zo de dreigingen van buiten de aarde het hoofd te kunnen bieden.
Voorzetten voor dit spektakel dat nog moet plaatsvinden werden destijds al gemaakt door de voormalige Amerikaanse president Ronald Reagan.
De man die alles weet over buitenaards contact en reverse engineering is Bob Lazar. In een eerder artikelschreven wij het volgende over hem.
Lazar heeft persoonlijk gewerkt aan een ruimteschip in een gebied dat heet S4 wat ligt in Area 51. Bob Lazar maakte onderdeel uit van het zogenaamde“reverse engineering” team. Die bouwden een ruimteschip gebaseerd op de kennis van daar aanwezige buitenaardse ruimtevaartuigen.
Eind jaren tachtig werkte Lazar in Area 51 als jong nucleair natuurkundige aan een vliegende schotel met een diameter van 9 tot 12 meter. Het had een bedieningspaneel en de stoelen waren klein, bijna alsof ze voor kinderen waren gemaakt. Er werd hem verteld dat de buitenaardsen afkomstig waren van de vierde planeet van het binaire zonnenstelsel, Zeta Reticuli 2.
Nadat Bob Lazar naarbuiten kwam met zijn informatie via een televisiestation in Las Vegas in 1989, werden onmiddellijk alle sporen die zijn verhaal konden bevestigen, gewist. Zo waren plots al zijn bestanden verdwenen bij bedrijven waar hij eerder had gewerkt, zodat niet meer gecontroleerd kon worden of zijn verhaal klopte.
Zo zegt Lazar ondermeer dat hij begin jaren tachtig heeft gewerkt voor de Los Alamos Nationial Laboratories, maar ook daar was via de officiële route niets te vinden. Echter, zijn naam komt wel voor in een oud intern telefoonboek van wetenschappers die destijds in Los Alamos werkten. Ook in een oude kopie van een tijdschrift, The Los Alamos Monitor, komt Lazar voor met een foto naast een zogenaamde “jet car”. Er zijn bovendien oud personeelsleden die zich Bob Lazar herinneren.
Het is ongeveer dertig jaar stil geweest rondom Bob Lazar, maar er zijn nu nieuwe ontwikkelingen te melden. Er is een film/documentaire in de maak over Bob Lazar die begin december in Los Angeles in première zal gaan.
Het beloofd een film te worden waarin nog veel meer dingen naar buiten gebracht zullen worden door hem. Iemand die al vele jaren een fan is van deze man is Tyler van Secure Team en in onderstaande video kan je niet alleen de trailer van de film zien, maar kondigt Tyler ook aan dat hij niet alleen is uitgenodigd voor de premiere van de film, maar dat hij binnenkort ook een exclusief interview heeft met Bob Lazar.
En tenslotte hier het eerder door ons geplaatste interview met Bob Lazar en wij hopen uiteraard dat Tyler niet verder in de problemen gaat komen, maar vooralsnog ziet het er niet al te goed uit.
Many Witnessed Alien Craft Encounter In The Yukon Territory
Many Witnessed Alien Craft Encounter In The Yukon Territory
1996…….YUKON TERRITORY CANADA
Investigated by Martin Jasek, M.Sc., P. Eng.
The following is as brief a summary that could be made from a complex 22-witness event and still retain a good portion of the impact and scope of what had occurred. More detailed descriptions and vivid quotes from the witnesses can be found in the individual witness testimonies.
Event Summary
Witnesses FOX2 and FOX3 were driving together from Whitehorse to Carmacks in two separate vehicles. As they were travelling northbound on the Klondike Highway adjacent to Fox Lake, they spotted a huge UFO out over the frozen lake.
Fox Lake is on the west side of the highway. Both of them slammed on the brakes stopping about 570 metres (1870 ft) apart from each other. FOX2 got out of his vehicle for a better observation.
The UFO proceeded to slowly drift towards FOX2 and after a few minutes he found himself almost directly underneath the object! FOX3 continued to observe his cousin FOX2; both men were in complete awe!.
The UFO continued to move slowly across the highway and out over the hill to the east and eventually disappeared behind it. Immediately after the sigthing, FOX3 noted that the time was 8:30 pm. Both FOX2 and FOX3 could discern that the lights were attached to a smooth and solid object.
At the very same time that FOX2 and FOX3 were observing the UFO move across the lake, FOX4 and FOX5 were approaching the southern tip of Fox Lake also heading northbound.
What they observed was a huge row, or rows, of lights slowly moving across the lake. There were other lights on and around the UFO as well. Their first thought was that it was a large truck in the distance, but it couldn’t be, it was out over the lake. Their next thought was that a Boeing 747 was crash landing. But that couldn’t be either, it was moving much too slowly to be an aircraft.
It took them about 2 seconds to process these thoughts when they realized that it must be a UFO! They got very concerned. They had a two-year-old son in the back seat and they were travelling towards this thing! After some debate they decided to continue their journey.
After all, they could no longer see the UFO as they approached a hill that obscured their view plus there was some traffic ahead of them. FOX5 looked at the car clock, it was 8:23 pm. None of the witnesses heard any sound coming from the object.
A few minutes later, when FOX4 and FOX5 were passing the Fox Lake campground, they passed by two vehicles that were pulled over with two men outside looking up at the sky. They turned around and pulled over to talk to them.
It was FOX2 and FOX3 carrying on a lively discussion, “What the ‘heck’ was that?”
After a few minutes FOX4 and FOX5 left and eventually stopped at Braeburn Lodge about 34 km (21 miles) further up the highway. FOX4 walked into the lodge and said to Steve Watson, the lodge owner “Steve, I really need a coffee!” Steve replied “Oh, you must have seen what FOX1 saw?” In fact FOX4 recalled seeing FOX1 leaving Braeburn Lodge just as they got there.
About half an hour before the sighting described above (about 8:00 pm) FOX1 was driving along Fox Lake and had noticed a light in the distance which should not have been there. He did not think too much of it but as he got closer to the light, he could tell that it was illuminating a long smooth curved surface.
He then passed some traffic and after his eyes readjusted to the darkness, the curved surface and the light were gone. However, his eye caught a group of rectangular lights moving over and behind a hill to the east.
At this point he got an “exhilarating feeling” and sped up in order to reach a less obscured location in the valley so that he would have a chance to see the UFO again.
He pulled over and got out of his vehicle but didn’t see anything more unusual. He continued his journey and pulled into Braeburn Lodge where he gave Steve a description of what he saw and also made drawings for him. FOX2 and FOX3 eventually pulled into Braeburn Lodge and gave their description to Steve as well.
There was also a 6th witness to the Fox Lake sighting but it is unclear what time she had driven through the area. FOX6 was driving in the vicinity of Fox Lake when she noticed a glow on her dashboard that could not be accounted for by the interior illumination of her vehicle.
She leaned forward to look up through her windshield and observed a large arrangement of multi colored lights.
The interior lights in her car started to go dim and the music from her tape deck slowed down.
At around the same time, between 8:30 and 9:00 pm, the Village of Pelly Crossing (about a 2 hours drive to the north of Fox Lake) was experiencing its own truly incredible UFO sighting. PEL1 was tending his trapline northeast of Pelly when he observed in the distance to the southwest a long row of lights slowly moving over the hills. At first he thought it was a large aircraft coming down. But it was moving much too slowly.
“It’s a UFO!”
As he was walking his flashlight happened to point in the direction of the UFO. As if reacting to his flashlight, the UFO started speeding rapidly toward him.
He instinctively cupped the end of his flashlight. As soon as he completed this gesture, the UFO stopped in its track.
In a matter of less than a second, it was hovering an estimated 300 yards (275 metres) in front of him! PEL1 had to turn his head from one side to the other to take it all in.
Again there was no sound at all coming from the object.
A beam of light emanating from the bottom of the UFO swooped the ground once directly underneath the object. Was it a search beam? Looking for him? The UFO then drifted slowly to the right. There were other beams emanating from the craft as well; a greenish phosphorescent color beam shone horizontally out the front (right); two beams at the back (left) rotated slowly to a horizontal position.
All the beams could be seen clearly as there were ice crystals in the air. PEL1 turned away from the UFO momentarily and ran across a small clearing. When he turned back to look at it, it was gone.
At about the same time, PEL2 and PEL3 were travelling northbound just south of Pelly Crossing. To the north they spotted a huge row of lights slowly moving from left to right.
They pulled over at a gravel pit just south of the Village to get a better look and got out of their vehicle. PEL2 noticed that the Big Dipper was just above the row of lights and compared the length of the lights to the width of the Big Dipper.
They were about the same length! This observation was very important since it established a well-referenced angular size of the UFO from PEL2 and PEL3’s perspective, important for a more accurate triangulation and calculation of UFO size.
The accounts of witnesses PEL1 through 3 were enough to complete a calculation of UFO size. The observations of witnesses PEL4, 5, 6 and 7 about the same time provided a second triangulation. The four women were taking an evening course at a small community college in Pelly Crossing (a satellite school of Yukon College).
They were out on a break on the front deck of the one story building looking towards the west when they too observed the row of lights. The row of lights was travelling slowly almost towards them and slightly towards the north. They recall the object being huge as well; there was no sound at all. It moved slowly over the hill to the north and disappeared behind it.
Then there was the UFO sighting near the Village of Carmacks seen by 9 witnesses. The UFO was observed by two groups of people. CRM1, 2, 3 and 4 were on the highway northbound in a pick-up truck just south of Carmacks; CRM5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 consisted of a husband, wife and their 3 children.
They were watching television when they spotted the row of lights out of their window.
The four men traveling together pulled over near the landfill at the southern edge of the Village to get a better look at the UFO. They watched the noiseless object move slowly to the northeast, curve around them to the south and head up a valley adjacent to the microwave tower south of the village where it just vanished.
At one point the UFO was partially obscured behind a nearby hill and one witness recalls the UFO slowly reappearing on the other side of it. He remembers waiting a long time for the last light to reappear from behind the hill; that’s how slow and large the object was!
The object took up about a 60 to 90 degree horizontal chunk of the sky. CRM1 recalls hearing about the Fox Lake UFO sighting on the radio the next day and surmised that they saw the UFO about an hour and a half earlier, about 7:00 pm.
The family is not exactly sure what time it was when they saw the UFO, just that it was in the evening. They observed the row of lights just to the northwest of them moving slowly to the northeast. The lights were just over the treeline and there was no noise at all.
The lights continued to move until they disappeared one by one behind what appeared to be an invisible wall. There was no mountain in that direction that could account for this.
With the UFO sighting occurring just two weeks prior to Christmas, the three children thought that it was Santa Claus and his reindeer in the sky.
An estimate of the UFO size by triangulation was not possible for the Carmacks UFO sighting, as the geometry of the witness locations in relation to the UFO was less than ideal.
Furthermore, it was unclear whether both the family and the group of four men in the truck observed the UFO at the same time. Perhaps the UFO made more than one pass by the Village that night.
There is also some evidence to suggest that this “sighting event” encompassed an even larger area as UFO reports were heard on CBC North radio the very next day mentioning sightings in the communities of Dawson, Mayo and Watson Lake.
No witnesses from these additional communities have thus far come forward or been identified. NOTE: The above image is CGI.
Disc-shaped UFO arriving through traversable wormhole over Rincon, Georgia
Disc-shaped UFO arriving through traversable wormhole over Rincon, Georgia
Astrange event happened in the sky over Rincon in Georgia when the witness saw a streak of light and a disc-shaped UFO moving in front of it.
Frankie Jackson was taking his wife to work on the early morning of December 30, 2019 around 5.30 am when he saw something streaking through the trees.
The moment he got out of the car he witnessed the strange event in the sky, tried to hurry and captured it with his phone.
There are disc-shaped flying saucer craft and stealth space stations that were jointly developed with the National Reconnaissance Office. More incredible are the “stargates” or traversable wormholes that have been secretly developed and used for decades according to Exopolitics.
Did he witnessed such a disc-shaped craft arriving through a traversable wormhole?
Water on Mars PICTURED: ESA shares incredible IMAGES of Martian ice crater
Water on Mars PICTURED: ESA shares incredible IMAGES of Martian ice crater
The European Space Agency has shared an incredible composite image showing a 50-mile wide crater on Mars that is filled with water ice all year long.
Budding future colonists hoping for a white Christmas on Mars will be somewhat disappointed as the ESA has confirmed that sitting in the Korolev crater is, in fact, a thick block of water ice, not snow. The enormous, 82-kilometer-wide, 2-kilometer-deep “ice trap” could still be good for ice skating though.
Even better, the 2,200 cubic kilometers of water ice – same as the volume of Canada’s Great Bear Lake – could be important for the survival of future colonists, and may even enable them to return back home, as water could be split into hydrogen and oxygen for rocket fuel.
A beautiful #winter wonderland... on #Mars! This ice-filled crater was imaged by our Mars Express spacecraft. Korolev crater is 82 kilometres across and found in the northern lowlands of Mars. More images:
The crater is found in the northern lowlands of Mars near the planet's north pole which is known as Olympia Undae for its wavy, dune-filled terrain. The crater's ice is protected by the topography and by a lair of cold air that shields it from the elements.
The composite image was taken by the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) and was actually formed from five different “strips,” with each strip gathered over a different orbit as the Mars Express probe flew overhead. The 2003-launched mission this month marks the 15-year anniversary of the probe’s orbit insertion at the Red Planet.
The icy crater is named after chief rocket engineer and spacecraft designer Sergey Korolev, known as the father of Soviet space technology and the head of iconic space exploration missions including the Sputnik, Vostok, and Voskhod programs. A lesser known fact is that Korolev dreamt about a flight to Mars for decades and was actually working on a rocket that would have brought a man to the Red Planet – and who knows where this unfinished project might have ended if it wasn’t for the Soviet visionary’s untimely death in 1966.
The discovery of a new, 'impossible' white dwarf suggests they may be more common than once thought.
An artist’s image of a white dwarf passing in front of a red dwarf star. As the white dwarf passes in front of its larger companion, it bends and magnifies the light of the background star.
Scientists have spotted an incredibly weird, 'impossible' white dwarf star in a discovery that suggests these objects are even more common than suspected — or that something even stranger is happening.
White dwarfs are stellar cores left behind by stars like our sun. As these stars run out of fuel, they shed their outer layers and leave behind a core that cools over billions of years. The mass of the white dwarf is based on that of the original star, which in turn reflects its age.
Those relationships mean that researchers can use the mass of a white dwarf to calculate its age. And over the last decade, astronomers have discovered around 100 white dwarfs with masses so low they appear to be older than the 14.8-billion-year-old universe.
So far, astronomers have addressed that conundrum by noting that almost all of these objects occur with a companion star that could be siphoning off some of the white dwarf's mass, making it appear older than it actually is. But a very small handful of these extremely low-mass white dwarfs have no companions to blame for their change in mass, raising the question of how these objects can exist.
In new research, scientists describe finding an extremely low-mass white dwarf that does have a companion, but that star is distant enough that it shouldn't be able to steal the white dwarf's mass. Because the odds of spotting such a pair with the instrument scientists used are so low, the discovery could mean that 'impossible' white dwarfs are far more common than previously imagined.
"This finding suggests that there is something missing in our current understanding of low mass white dwarf formation and/or binary interactions," Kento Masuda, lead author on a new paper describing the research and an astronomer at Princeton University, told Space.com by email.
A white dwarf puzzle
Masuda and his colleagues used data gathered by NASA's famous planet-hunting instrument, the Kepler space telescope. Scientists have found thousands of planets and exoplanet candidates in the data Kepler gathered over its nine-year primary and extended mission. The instrument spots planets as rhythmic dips in a star's brightness. The dimming is caused by the planet slipping between the star and Kepler, called a transit.
But the space telescope has produced a wealth of astronomical discoveries, as well. Last year, Masuda and his colleagues noticed that the G-type star KIC 8145411 brightened regularly, an unusual reversal of transit situations. If a pair of orbiting stars lines up with Earth, their light will change as one star passes in front of the other. Usually, the light dims, because the total light from the system is reduced while one star disappears on the back side.
However, if one of the stars is compact enough, like a white dwarf, it can bend the light of its companion star when it passes in front, acting as a lens to magnify the surface of the less-dense star. This phenomenon, dubbed self-microlensing when it occurs in a binary, would lead to pulses of brightness.
Self-lensing systems have been predicted for some time, but scientists couldn't spot such a pair until Kepler could study thousands of star systems simultaneously over time. The first such system was discovered in 2014; since then, four more have been found, including KIC 8145411.
But the real surprise came when Masuda and his colleagues turned the Subaru telescope in Hawaii and the 1.5-meter telescope at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona on the newfound system.
Their follow-up observations revealed that the white dwarf was about one-fifth the mass of our sun, well within the class of extremely low-mass white dwarfs. But to the scientists' surprise, the companion star orbited too far from the white dwarf to have been able to filch its mass. Something else must be responsible for such a low apparent age for the white dwarf, the scientists concluded.
The big twist
It's possible, they added, that the white dwarf isn't a white dwarf after all. The scientists were only able to determine the object's mass and that it is relatively small; the team doesn't have a firm size estimate. That uncertainty means that the object lensing the star could actually be a denser black hole or neutron star that packs the same mass into less space. There are two arguments against a more exotic origin for the small object, however.
First, white dwarfs are far more common than either black holes or neutron stars, making them statistically more likely to be the mysterious companion. Perhaps more troublingly, astrophysicists don't have a good explanation for how such a low-mass neutron star or black hole might form, Masuda said, and they haven't spotted any tiny examples either, unlike extremely low-mass white dwarfs.
"I admit that this argument might not be totally convincing, given that we don't have a good explanation for how this white dwarf was formed anyway," he said.
If KIC 8145411 orbits with a white dwarf, it could prompt astronomers to take another look at what we think we know about how white dwarfs form and how they interact with companions.
"Single-star evolution cannot explain such an [extremely low-mass] white dwarf, so it's been assumed that interactions with a close binary play an important role," Masuda said. "But again, this binary interaction scenario fails to explain the observed orbit of the KIC 8145411 system, because the orbit is not so close as required for this scenario to work. So some parts of this story need to be modified — although we don't yet know which."
Masuda said he and his colleagues plan to continue the hunt for small white dwarfs in similar binaries to learn more about their properties.
"I hope they will help us to solve the puzzle presented by the KIC 8145411 system, and lead to [a] more complete understanding of white dwarfs in binaries," Masuda said.
The research is described in a paper published Aug. 5 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Dark fluffy thunderclouds don't just fuel dramatic storms, they also produce some of the most energetic flashes of light on the planet — and brilliant sky displays known as ultrasonic "elves." Now, new findings have painted a clearer picture of what's going on in the silent interludes of a stormy sky.
For a long time, scientists have been searching for gamma-ray flashes in the deep folds of the universe. In 1994, while peering out into space in search for these signals, a NASA instrument happened to pick up on gamma-ray flashes that were emitted from somewhere closer to home — earthly thunderclouds.
These flashes, the most energetic natural phenomena on our planet, became known as terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs). They're created when a thunderstorms' strong electric field excites atmospheric particles, which then emit radiation. But not much was known about what causes this high-energy phenomenon.
To figure this out, a group of researchers analyzed data from a European Space Agency instrument called the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) aboard the International Space Station. The ASIM is the first instrument to be used for the purpose of detecting TGFs, rather than their even brighter doppelgängers out in deep space, said Torsten Neubert, the head scientist of the ASIM and lead author of a study published Dec. 10 in the journal Science.
Their measurements showed a very specific sequence of events, lasting only a couple of milliseconds long, during a lightning strike. First, they detected an increase in light, which corresponds to the birth of a lightning bolt. During that process, a cloud creates both an electric field and a leader — a path of ionized air. They then detected a big peak in X-rays and gamma-rays, which correspond to the TGF, and then a huge optical pulse, Neubert told Live Science.
This optical pulse traveled up from the thundercloud to the ionosphere, a region of the atmosphere some 50 to 600 miles (80 to 1,000 kilometers) above Earth's surface. The pulse was "so powerful that it excited the lower region of the ionosphere," which is approximately 100 kilometers far and wide, Neubert said. In other words, it excited free electrons in the ionosphere, which then began colliding with neutral nitrogen and then emitted radiation.
This radiation is defined by another weather phenomenon, similar to auroras, called "elves," in which millisecond-long bursts of visible light and ultraviolet radiation glow in an expanding ring around a lightning strike. These luminous celestial beings, however, are visible only with the most sensitive equipment.
Prior to this study, elves were thought to be unrelated to thunderstorms. Their findings suggest that the same lightning bolt triggers both TGFs and elves, though it's not clear if TGFs have any role in producing the elves, Neubert said. It's also not clear if TGFs and elves happen every time lightning strikes, but it likely happens much more often than we can detect, he added.
Another recent finding, published Dec. 10 in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, suggests that TGFs happen right before visible lightning. These brilliant flashes occur right before a pulse of electricity shoots through the charged cloud, becoming a lightning bolt, according to a statement. Both of these studies were presented this week at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting in San Francisco.
"A lot of stuff is happening within space observations for lightning," some for monitoring weather and some for understanding the phenomenon, Neubert said. "Taken together [there's a] truly magnificent couple of years that are coming up."
The far side of the moon is an attention grabber for many reasons. A new mission idea capitalizes on those reasons in a project dubbed the Farside Array for Radio Science Investigations of the Dark ages and Exoplanets, shortened to this enlightened abbreviation: FARSIDE.
The concept would place a low-radio-frequency interferometric array on the far side of the moon. Jack Burns of the University of Colorado Boulder and Gregg Hallinan of the California Institute of Technology have sketched out a way to execute the mission in a NASA-funded report published last month.
An artist's depiction of Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander. (Image credit: Blue Origin)
According to those materials, FARSIDE would enable near-continuous monitoring of the nearest stellar systems, letting scientists search for coronal mass ejections and energetic particle events at other stars. The instrument would also be able to detect magnetospheres of the nearest exoplanets that could be habitable. FARSIDE would be able to characterize similar activity in our own solar system as well, from the sun to the outer planets, including the hypothetical Planet Nine.
But those are just the highlights. The team explained that FARSIDE could also conduct a range of other tasks. Those applications might include sounding the lunar subsurface and characterizing the interstellar medium in the solar system neighborhood.
The FARSIDE idea encompasses the instrument itself, a deployment rover, the lander and a base station. FARSIDE relies on 128 dipole antennas deployed across 6 miles (10 kilometers) of the lunar landscape by a rover. Tethers connect the antennas to a base station for central processing, power and data transmission to the proposed NASA Lunar Gateway or an alternative relay satellite.
An artist's depiction of the deployment scheme of the FARSIDE array.(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Jack Burns, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder)
FARSIDE would require transportation to the lunar surface, likely on board a commercial lunar lander. The study report uses the Blue Origin Blue Moon lander as a reference for the design.
All told, the team estimated that the budget for FARSIDE, after applying NASA and JPL standard cost reserves of 30% during development and 15% during operations, would be roughly $1.3 billion.
FARSIDE uses the Lunar Gateway, or similar Lunar asset, for communication with Earth. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Jack Burns, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder)
"In the past decade, significant investments have been made by commercial companies to develop the capability to deliver payloads to the surface of the moon, with some companies now on the horizon of success" the team wrote in the report. "NASA shows strong support of these companies through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program (CLPS), which recently awarded the first contract to three companies for payload delivery with a launch target in 2021."
An artist's impression of a habitable planet experiencing a coronal mass ejection (CME) from its host star, an active M dwarf. Detecting coronal mass ejections, energetic particle events and the magnetospheres of candidate habitable planets is a key science goal for the FARSIDE array. (Image credit: Chuck Carter/Caltech/Kiss)
"The study report notes that, because "sky noise" is so limited on the lunar farside, it's the only location within the inner solar system from which observations can be carried out, using frequencies that would best fulfill the promise of FARSIDE."
This study may be of interest to the lunar science community, Burns said, since it describes "how the array of low frequency radio dipole antennas might also be used to probe the subsurface on the lunar farside and as stations for seismic activity."
Leonard David is author of the recently released book, "Moon Rush: The New Space Race" published by National Geographic in May 2019. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.
This video was just submitted to me via our Facebook page. It was filmed over Hot Spring, Arkansas earlier in 2019.
Witness report:
This was taken in hot springs Arkansas a few months back. I’ll have to see if I can get the exact date. I’ll send the full video to you in a bit. I cut it down to what you see this because this was really the best of the footage.
Scientists at the University of Bristol and the Technical University of Denmark have achieved quantum teleportation between two computer chips for the first time. The team managed to send information from one chip to another instantly without them being physically or electronically connected, in a feat that opens the door for quantum computersand quantum internet.
This kind of teleportation is made possible by a phenomenon called quantum entanglement, where two particles become so entwined with each other that they can “communicate” over long distances. Changing the properties of one particle will cause the other to instantly change too, no matter how much space separates the two of them. In essence, information is being teleported between them.
Hypothetically, there’s no limit to the distance over which quantum teleportation can operate – and that raises some strange implications that puzzled even Einstein himself. Our current understanding of physics says that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, and yet, with quantum teleportation, information appears to break that speed limit. Einstein dubbed it “spooky action at a distance.”
Harnessing this phenomenon could clearly be beneficial, and the new study helps bring that closer to reality. The team generated pairs of entangled photons on the chips, and then made a quantum measurement of one. This observation changes the state of the photon, and those changes are then instantly applied to the partner photon in the other chip.
“We were able to demonstrate a high-quality entanglement link across two chips in the lab, where photons on either chip share a single quantum state,” says Dan Llewellyn, co-author of the study. “Each chip was then fully programmed to perform a range of demonstrations which utilize the entanglement. The flagship demonstration was a two-chip teleportation experiment, whereby the individual quantum state of a particle is transmitted across the two chips after a quantum measurement is performed. This measurement utilizes the strange behavior of quantum physics, which simultaneously collapses the entanglement link and transfers the particle state to another particle already on the receiver chip.”
The team reported a teleportation success rate of 91 percent, and managed to perform some other functions that will be important for quantum computing. That includes entanglement swapping (where states can be passed between particles that have never directly interacted via a mediator), and entangling as many as four photons together.
Information has been teleported over much longer distances before – first across a room, then 25 km (15.5 mi), then 100 km (62 mi), and eventually over 1,200 km (746 mi) via satellite. It’s also been done between different parts of a single computer chip before, but teleporting between two different chips is a major breakthrough for quantum computing.
The research was published in the journal Nature Physics.
The oft-delayed space observatory will be worth the wait.
The fully assembled James Webb Space Telescope with its sunshield and “unitized pallet structures” (which fold up around the telescope for launch) are seen partially deployed to an open configuration to enable telescope installation.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is (currently) scheduled to launch in March of 2021, after years of delays and billions of dollars spent over budget. While it's easy to argue that all that time and money has been wasted, this observatory will be the premiere and undisputed champion of infrared wavelengths, giving us unparalleled access to corners of the universe currently inaccessible.
If we want to learn new things about everything from the first galaxies to the chance for life on other planets, the roughly $9.7 billion James Webb is our only hope.
While the James Webb Space Telescope ("JWST" to those in the know) is heralded as the "successor" to NASA's storied Hubble Space Telescope, it kind of isn't. The Hubble is primarily an optical telescope, capturing wavelengths of light similar to the range that the human eye does, and extending past that a little bit into the infrared and ultraviolet (UV) portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. In essence, the Hubble is a giant orbiting space eyeball, delivering stunning pictures that you would see, if your optic nerves were similarly equipped.
But the JWST is different. It will be observing entirely in the infrared, barely scratching the deepest possible reds that a human can see. In other words, the JWST will be studying a universe that is largely invisible to human experience.
One of the major reasons that the JWST is designed to be an infrared scope is that infrared astronomy is, in general, really hard to do from the surface of the Earth. Light pollution is the bane of astronomers, who need their skies crystal-clear and perfectly dark to do their detailed observations and measurements.
And infrared light pollution comes from many different places. Basically, anything warm. Which is, basically, everything. Human bodies generate 100 watts of infrared radiation. The Earth itself is pretty warm, glowing strongly in infrared bands. Even the telescope itself, if it's at room temperature, is aglow in the infrared.
It's not that we can't do infrared astronomy from the ground, it's just that it's frustratingly hard.
Hence, space.
Far from home
The JWST will operate about 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from the Earth, to get it safely far away from our warm, infrared-glowing planet. But even still, there's the sun to contend with. Ever sit outside on a nice summer day, feeling the warmth of our sun on your skin? Yeah, that's infrared radiation, pumped out by the bucketful. And even a million miles away from the Earth, the sun is still a little bit toasty.
To combat this, designers of infrared space telescopes have a couple options. The most common choice is to use an active cooling system, chilling down the telescope to the temperatures needed to properly observe infrared wavelengths. This is great, and utilized by previous infrared space telescopes, but it does limit their lifespans. No more coolant = no more astronomy.
So instead the JWST will deploy a giant, expensive space umbrella, 72 feet (22 meters) long and 36 feet (11 m) wide, made of five layers of extremely reflective material, each layer thinner than a human hair. This massive "sunshield" will keep the telescope itself in constant shade, somewhere south of minus 370 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 223 degrees Celsius), which is ideal for the infrared wavelengths it will be studying.
Although, just for fun, one of the instruments onboard will be chilled with an active cooling system to below minus 433 Fahrenheit (minus 258 C ), which will allow it to access some even longer infrared wavelengths.
All in all, the JWST is massive. In fact, it's so big that it shouldn't be able to fit on a rocket. Besides the gargantuan sunshield, the primary mirror will be 21 feet (6.5 m) across, which is far wider than any rocket fairing currently in use. Duct-taping the mirror to the side of the rocket isn't exactly a workable solution, so instead the clever NASA engineers broke the mirror into 18 smaller hexagonal sections, which will be tucked and folded into the rocket (along with the folded-up sunshield and the rest of the telescope itself).
If everything goes right, just a few days after launch the JWST will head to its observing point, unfold, and start staring.
And what it will see will be — and I'm not using this word lightly — remarkable. One of its main targets will be the early universe, when our cosmos was just a few hundred million years old. The first stars and galaxies to appear on the cosmic scene blazed brightly in the visible spectrum, but over the course of the past 13 billion years the universe has expanded, stretching that light out of the visible range and down into the infrared — right in the sweet spot of the JWST's design parameters.
Since we have no images at all from the epoch of the first stars and galaxies (known colloquially as the "cosmic dawn") this will be our first-ever view into this important age in the history of the cosmos.
Closer to home, the JWST will study anything cool in the cosmos, from protoplanetary disks around newborn stars to molecular clouds, comets, Kuiper Belt objects and more.
And JWST will use a specialized device to block out light from some distant stars, enabling the observatory to snap pictures of any objects orbiting those stars — like exoplanets. Those planets will be glowing in the infrared, and the light from those planets will be modified by the chemicals and elements in their atmospheres, chemicals and elements which might be signs of life.
From ET hunter to cosmic-dawn revealer, the JWST will certainly be worth the wait.
BBC transfers HP Lovecraft drama to site of Rendlesham UFO incident
BBC transfers HP Lovecraft drama to site of Rendlesham UFO incident
By Nic Rigby
The Whisperer in Darkness features actress Jana Carpenter
A podcast based on a 1930 American horror story has been relocated due to fresh inspiration from "rural English mythology" and an alleged UFO sighting.
The BBC Sounds podcast The Whisperer in Darkness features reports by US airmen who claimed to have seen a UFO in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk in 1980.
Writer Julian Simpson visited drama locations in Suffolk with actress Jana Carpenter before penning the series.
His version is loosely based on the novella set in Vermont by HP Lovecraft.
Image captionWriter Julian Simpson and his wife actress Jana Carpenter visited the Rendlesham Forest UFO Trail as part of their research
Lovecraft's story is about strange sightings in the New England area of the USA.
The new BBC drama tells the story of an investigation into witchcraft, the occult and secret government operations - centred on Rendlesham Forest, which was home to the US airbase of RAF Woodbridge when the alleged "Rendlesham Forest incident" occurred in December 1980.
Image copyrightBBC/COLONEL CHARLES HALTImage captionCol Charles Halt, one of the servicemen who claimed to have witnessed the UFO at Rendlesham, is mentioned in the new drama
Simpson said there were parallels between Lovecraft's story and the UFO incident - which has never been conclusively explained.
"The Lovecraft tale is about a guy who lives in the woods. He's being visited by something - a kind of cosmic horror," he said.
"You never find out what is watching him, but there is an inference it is somehow otherworldly.
"Lovecraft was reading people like Arthur Machen and MR James [who set a number of his ghost stories in East Anglia] and was taking in a lot of their rural English mythology and turning it into his own thing."
Image copyrightGEOGRAPH/SIMON LEATHERDALEImage captionThe disappearance of a character in the drama is linked to Rendlesham Forest and dark magic
Jana Carpenter, who plays Kennedy Fisher - one of the two main characters, said: "Basically we just got in the car and drove around to all these places that we were thinking of using. We went to Woodbridge, Dunwich, Aldeburgh, Orford.
"You definitely get the sense that you're in a unique environment and it's not surprising that lots of mythologies can build up in this environment.
"It still feels disconnected, especially when you go to Orford, you have to drive through the forest to get to it."
HP Lovecraft
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionOne of Lovecraft's tales was turned into the film The Dunwich Horror
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was a US horror writer who lived 1890-1937
His fiction which included The Call of Cthulhu and The Rats in the Walls, has achieved cult status, but was admired only by a small circle of friends in his lifetime
He favoured human contact by letter, rarely left his home, and even then, only at night, delighting to walk streets empty of people
Artist HR Giger cited Lovecraft as an influence on his designs for the Alien series of movies
Rock band Metallica released the instrumental Call of Ktulu on their second album
A Scooby-Doo episode featured a misanthropic horror writer named HP Hatecraft
If you're feeling all tied up with obligations this holiday season, perhaps a newly studied galaxy feels the same way.
A new image of NGC 4631, more popularly known as the "Whale Galaxy," shows ropes of magnetic filaments extending above and below the disk of the galaxy. The filaments, which show up in green and blue in the picture, reach far into the galaxy's halo of gas and dust. The green filaments have a magnetic field pointing away from Earth; the blue ones have a field pointing toward our planet.
Also visible is the galaxy's star disk, which is shown in pink.
The researchers behind the image are still trying to understand how the galaxy's magnetic structure works, according to a statement released with the image. They would like to know how common these sorts of magnetic fields are in galactic halos and what shapes the fields take.
Studying such magnetic fields can also help astronomers understand how galaxies develop magnetic fields, and whether fluid motion in a galaxy, which scientists call the dynamo effect, generates the magnetic field.
The observations were made with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, a telescope operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).
"We are a little bit like the blind men and the elephant, since each time we look at the galaxy in a different way, we reach a different conclusion about its nature," co-author Richard Henriksen, an astrophysicist at Queen's University in Canada, said in a NRAO statement.
"However, we seem to have one of those rare occasions where a classical theory, about magnetic generators called dynamos, predicted the observations of NGC 4631 quite well," he added. "Our dynamo model produces spiraling magnetic fields in the halo that are a continuation of the normal spiral arms in the galaxy's disc."
The galaxy lies about 25 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is 80,000 light-years across and has a small companion (NGC 4627). An additional small elliptical galaxy is visible in the new image.
Correction: A previous headline for this article stated the Whale Galaxy was 80,000 light-years from Earth. It is 80,000 light-years across and 25 million light-years from Earth.
Een Chinese wetenschapper die genen van baby’s aanpaste, is veroordeeld tot een gevangenisstraf van drie jaar. Dat meldt het Chinese staatsmedium Xinhua.
Vandaag werd de wetenschapper door een rechtbank in de miljoenenstad Shenzhen veroordeeld voor “het illegaal uitvoeren van genetische manipulatie bij embryo’s, met reproductie als doeleinde”, zegt Xinhua. Naast een celstraf van drie jaar, krijgt hij ook een boete van 3 miljoen yuan (ongeveer 380.000 euro).
He Jiankui maakt in november 2018 bekend dat hij een gentechnologie genaamd CRISPR-Cas9 had gebruikt om de genen van embryo’s van een tweeling, Lulu en Nana, aan te passen. Door de aanpassing werden de twee meisjes resistent gemaakt tegen hiv, het virus waarmee hun vader besmet was. De Chinese overheid had daarop een onderzoek ingesteld.
“Ik voel een enorme verantwoordelijkheid om niet alleen de eerste te zijn, maar ook als voorbeeld te dienen”, zei hij later tijdens een congres. Over het al dan niet toelaten van de omstreden techniek zei hij: “Het is de maatschappij die zal beslissen over de volgende stappen.”
De bekendmaking van He zorgde voor verontwaardiging en afkeuring in de hele wereld. Hij werd kort hierna onder huisarrest geplaatst en ontslagen door zijn werkgever de universiteit in Shenzhen. Chinese autoriteiten lieten in 2018 al weten dat He alleen en op eigen initiatief heeft gehandeld en dat hij zijn eigen financiering regelde. Ook zou hij meerdere richtlijnen hebben overtreden.
One of the top stories of the 2010’s has been the rise – although not the perfection — of the somewhat controversial gene-editing technique known as CRISPR, which is the convenient and deceivingly innocent-sounding abbreviation for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. One of the top stories of 2019 has been the revelation that CRISPR was used to edit human embryos in China, resulting in the birth of twin girls, under the noble cause of trying to prevent them from developing HIV later in life — a goal that may not have been achieved. The researcher who did the editing faced heavy criticism and disappeared for a time, generating conspiracy theories as to his whereabouts. As the year and the decade end, CRISPR and He Jiankui are back in the news one more time.
“Chinese researcher He Jiankui was sentenced to three years in prison and fined 3 million yuan (about 430,000 U.S. dollars) for illegally carrying out human embryo gene-editing intended for reproduction, in which three genetically edited babies were born, a court in south China’s Shenzhen city said Monday.”
Xinhua News reports that the Nanshan District People’s Court of Shenzhen convicted He, who formerly worked as an associate professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology, of illegal medical practice and simultaneously announced that He had edited a third embryo which was brought to term. Two of his non-doctor associates and co-conspirators – Zhang Renli and Qin Jinzhou – were also found guilty and sentenced to two and one and a half years in prison respectively, with Jinzhou’s shorter sentence being suspended.
“(The defendants), in the pursuit of fame and profit, deliberately violated the relevant national regulations on scientific and medical research and crossed the bottom line on scientific and medical ethics.”
Interestingly (and possibly suspiciously), He offered no proof that he actually used CRISPR to create three genetically-modified babies. It seems he was convicted on the fact that he bragged about it at scientific conferences and on the testimony by colleagues that he was certainly capable of doing it and probably did. The trial was held in secrecy to ‘protect the innocent’ and there are no statements from He. Whether one agrees with the ethical fight against human CRISPR editing or not, does this sound like a fair trial? Could it perhaps be a show to keep the rest of the world scientific community from investigating what’s really going on in the gene-editing labs of China?
The New York Times points out that American scientist Stephen Quake, a bioengineer and He’s former academic adviser at Stanford, is under investigation, as is Michael Deem, who was He’s Ph.D. adviser at Rice University and was allegedly involved in the project – something his lawyers deny.
What does this mean for CRISPR in the 2020s? If the human embryo gene-editing cat isn’t already out of the ethics bag, its head, body and half of its tail are and the only thing keeping it in is not ethics but … you guessed it … money. You don’t need to be Baba Vanga or Nostradamus to make this prediction
Of all of the UFO sightings and encounters on record, very few can claim to have been witnessed by more than a few people at a time at best. These are typically very isolated incidents, seen by only small groups of people at most, and this has only further served to generate doubt on the part of skeptics or for those who place no veracity on UFO phenomena as a whole. Yet, every once in a while there is a truly spectacular case of a mass sighting that gets plenty of documentation and exposure, and perhaps one of the most well-known, classic accounts of this occurred in 1997, when thousands of people witnessed something unexplainable in the dark skies over the U.S. state of Arizona.
What has gone on to become one of the most well-known and oft-discussed and debated mass UFO sightings in history is widely accepted as having started on March 13, 1997 in the skies over Henderson, Nevada, in the United States. Here a witness claimed that at approximately 6:55 PM he saw a large, V-shaped object about the same size as a passenger airliner with a formation of six lights along it front edge, which flew across the sky at a good clip with a sort of whooshing noise to disappear to the southeast. This same object would soon after be witnessed by a police officer from Paulden, Arizona at around 8:15 PM, who said that he saw a triangular formation of four mysterious lights trailed by a fifth, and claimed to have watched the strange sight through his binoculars as they travelled south.
This would be the beginning of one of the most famous UFO cases there is. Before long there were sightings coming in of something strange in the sky coming in from the area of Prescott, Arizona and the Prescott Valley. Many of the witnesses at the time described it as solid, blocking out the stars and the sky as it passed over, and it was mostly explained as being rather enormous. One witness who saw the boomerang-shaped object said it was massive, at least a mile wide, stating:
We don’t have anything that big. It was totally silent. I’ve never seen anything even close to the colors from the exhaust that propelled that thing. It was as big as downtown Prescott and completely blocked out the stars.
The object or objects was usually described as being a V-shaped or wedge-shaped formation of red or orange lights, with the leading light being a bright white, usually said to be embedded within a solid object but descriptions varied, and they were sometimes claimed to be separate lights moving independently. At the time there were dozens of witnesses from all ages and walks of life observing it as it made its way inexorably towards Phoenix to the southeast. The lights were also seen from the nearby town of Dewey, around 10 miles away, and as they drew closer to the greater Phoenix area there would be a deluge of people seeing whatever it was that had come in from out of the unknown.
The phenomenon reached Phoenix at around 8:30 PM, after which it hovered around the area for around two hours, being seen by thousands of people in the process. During this time it seems that there were actually two separate events going on over the region at the same time, with one being the massive V-shaped group of lights moving through the air, and a second formation of lights south of Phoenix that seemed to be stationary or moving very slowly. These lights, which wuld go on to collectively be known as the “Phoenix Lights,” were seen by people from all walks of life, including police officers, pilots, military personnel, and even the governor, none of who could come up with any explanation for what was going on. While most of the reports described some massive solid object, an interesting aspect of it all is that witness descriptions of the phenomena tended to vary to quite a wide degree, of which UFOlogist Peter B. Davenport has said:
Witnesses were reporting such markedly different objects and events that night that it was difficult for investigators to understand what was taking place. Some witnesses reported five lights, others seven, or even more. Some reported that the lights were distinctly orange or red, whereas others reported distinctly white or yellow lights. Many reported the lights were moving across the sky at seemingly high speed, whereas others reported they moved at a slow (angular) velocity, or they even hovered for several minutes.
An image of the Phoenix Lights
The objects were being seen all over the place at the time, seen in places as far away as Las Vegas, New Mexico, and northern Mexico, always inspiring awe and dread. In the meantime, the media didn’t really seem to show much interest in it, and officials seemed to treat it as a big joke, with Arizona Governor Fife Symington III holding a press conference on the situation flanked by an aide wearing an alien costume. However, when the story hit USA Today it blew up into national news, appearing all over newspapers and TV shows. The USA Today piece was quite sensational, including the line, “The incident over Arizona was the most dramatic I’ve seen. . . . What we have here is the real thing. They are here,” and people ate it up. Before long the Phoenix lights were being talked about and widely discussed all over the nation, with theories being thrown about as to what the phenomena could have been, which is made somewhat complicated by the fact that it seems that there were two separate phenomena going on at the same time, the large moving object and the hovering lights.
One of the main ideas put forward was that at least the second event concerning the stationary lights was simply flares dropped by the military during a nighttime training exercise, but this has been challenged by many. Curiously one of the main opponents of the flare theory was the governor himself, who would end up later changing his tune entirely, claiming to have seen the lights himself, and he would say of this:
As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man made object I’d ever seen. And it was certainly not high-altitude flares because flares don’t fly in formation. It was enormous and inexplicable. Who knows where it came from? A lot of people saw it, and I saw it too. It was dramatic. And it couldn’t have been flares because it was too symmetrical. It had a geometric outline, a constant shape. I’m a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies. It was bigger than anything that I’ve ever seen. It remains a great mystery.
Symington also found it odd that his attempts to get more information from the government on what was going out out there were shot down with basically “no comment,” and that no government agency had made any effort to seriously investigate. Another opponent of the flare theory was UFO enthusiast Jim Dilettoso, who claimed that he had done a full spectral analysis of the lights in one of the videos and determined that they could not have possibly come from a manmade source. However, considering that such an analysis on video footage images would be inaccurate, this had been criticized as an incomplete analysis at best. It has also been pointed out that the wind direction and speed at the time were consistent with flares as to the movement seen with the pattern of lights, which also supports the flare theory, as does the fact that the lights seemed to dip over the horizon and disappear, very much as flares would do. With regards to at least this aspect of the event, even UFOlogists have conceded that it could have been flares in this case.
Photo of the Phoenix Lights
The first event, which covers that huge, light studded craft moving over the state and blocking out the stars, has been more difficult to explain. Skeptics say that it was just a formation of high altitude aircraft flying in formation on a classified mission, the blackened sky just an illusion. This has been corroborated by amateur astronomer Mitch Stanley, who claims that on the night of the incident he had observed the large V-shaped craft through a telescope to find that it was unambiguously aircraft, specifically a formation of five planes that were either A-10s or possibly T-37 fighter-trainers. However, many of the thousands of witnesses have denied that this could have been the case, the planes were apparently not picked up on radar, and the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson did not assert that they had any aircraft in the air at the time. In the end, it all remains a curious oddity, of which one investigator with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) has said:
Do we have evidence that it was an extraterrestrial event? No. We have evidence that it was an extremely bizarre event. We can’t put a label on it other than it was an anomaly.
Interestingly, there have been reemergences of the lights in later years that have been explained as flares. On February 6, 2007, almost exactly the same thing was seen over Phoenix and military officials were quick to admit that it was flares they had dropped, and on April 21, 2008, there was another wave of sightings of the lights, this time found to be flares attached to balloons. Yet, the sightings that remain the most well known is the original 1997 incident, and whatever was behind it all, the Phoenix Lights have continued to have a place among the greatest, most extensively seen and documented UFO sightings ever, and still remain mostly a mystery.
Underground Bases / Drones / Direct Energy Weapons / The Deep State Plan
Underground Bases / Drones / Direct Energy Weapons / The Deep State Plan
That’s one of my most referred videos the drones that were designed at MIT in 2013 and the militarized and tested in China Lake Naval Weapons Test in California in 2016. I have mentioned that so many times.
Then military.com said they don’t believe that technology existed tonight when it was featured, graphically in the movie Angel Has Fallen, and I’m like bull. I’ve been showing it for three years. John Wick
Thanks Matthew, this things always remind me of the Veteran director that was making a movie to warn us about the destruction of America from inside, he’s name was David crowley from Colorado, he was killed and all of his film seized by the FBI.. Alima
Snowmageddon Warnings in North America Come from Tropics More Than Arctic Stratosphere
Snowmageddon Warnings in North America Come from Tropics More Than Arctic Stratosphere
Winter weather patterns in North America are dictated by changes to the polar vortex winds high in the atmosphere, but the most significant cold snaps are more likely influenced by the tropics, scientists have found.
A team led by the University of Reading conducted the first ever study to identify how the four main winter weather patterns in North America behave depending on the strength of the stratospheric polar vortex. This is a ribbon of wind and low pressure that circles the Arctic at heights of 10-50km, trapping cold air inside. The four US weather regimes (clockwise from top left): Pacific Trough, Arctic High, Alaskan Ridge, Arctic Low. Red indicates warmer conditions and blue colder conditions
The four US weather regimes (clockwise from top left): Pacific Trough, Arctic High, Alaskan Ridge, Arctic Low. Red indicates warmer conditions and blue colder conditions
Credit: Simon Lee
It is already well established that the vortex wind strength influences weather in Europe and Asia, and the study revealed it also has a strong effect on three out of the four main winter weather patterns in North America, giving forecasters an additional tool to understand potentially high-impact weather during winter.
The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, also revealed that, unlike in Europe, the most extreme cold snaps affecting the whole of North America are not most likely to occur after a weak vortex. Instead, the shape of the vortex and conditions in the tropics were identified as stronger influences of these conditions.
Simon Lee, atmospheric scientist at the University of Reading and lead author of the study, said: “Despite the most extreme cold snaps experienced in North America often being described as ‘polar vortex outbreaks’, our study suggests vortex strength should not be considered as a cause.
“We know that a weakened polar vortex allows cold air to flood out from the Arctic over Europe and Asia, but we found this is surprisingly not the case the other side of the Atlantic.
“In fact, our work suggests we should actually look south to conditions around the equator, rather than north to the Arctic, for the causes of these widespread freezing conditions in North America.
“Our results did reveal that the polar vortex strength provides useful information on the likelihood of most weather patterns over the US and Canada further in advance, including some potentially disruptive temperature changes or heavy rain. The more accurate information populations have about upcoming changes in weather, the better they can prepare.”
Conditions seen during the Alaskan Ridge regime — which is associated with the most extreme, widespread cold in North America.
Conditions seen during the Alaskan Ridge regime -- which is associated with the most extreme, widespread cold in North America.
Credit: Simon Lee
One of the clearest suggested effects of a strong vortex was a 10-15% likelihood of extremely cold conditions in western parts of North America, including Alaska, but milder conditions in central and eastern parts of the US.
Another weather pattern found to most often follow neutral or strong vortex wind speeds brings temperatures 5°C above normal and wetter weather in the eastern US.
The exception in the results was that the weather pattern associated with the highest chance of the most widespread extreme cold in North America, in which average temperatures in the central US are more than 5°C below normal, was not found to have a strong dependence on a weaker vortex, as it does in Europe.
They found widespread extreme cold is more common when an area of high pressure extends up to Alaska, and the polar vortex stretches down towards North America – pushing cold Arctic air southward in the lower atmosphere.
The scientists say the influence of the stratosphere on weather patterns, as well as how this interacts with long-term weather patterns in the tropics like El Niño, should be studied further and incorporated into forecasts to improve their accuracy.
Contacts and sources:
Pete Bryant
University of Reading
Citation:
Wintertime North American Weather Regimes and the Arctic Stratospheric Polar Vortex S. H. Lee J. C. Furtado A. J. Charlton‐Perez Geophysical Research Letters https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019GL085592
Space Weather: Nightside Barrier Gently Brakes ‘Bursty’ Plasma Bubbles
Space Weather: Nightside Barrier Gently Brakes ‘Bursty’ Plasma Bubbles
An image from a magnetohydrodynamic simulation by the Gamera project at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory shows bursty flows (in red and brown) in the plasma sheet. Rice University space plasma physicists developed algorithms to measure the buoyancy waves that appear in thin filaments of magnetic flux on Earth’s nightside.
Credit: K. Sorathia/JHUAPL
The solar wind that pummels the Earth’s dayside magnetosphere causes turbulence, like air over a wing. Physicists at Rice University have developed new methods to characterize how that influences space weather on the nightside.
It’s rarely quiet up there. The solar wind streams around the Earth and cruises off into the night, but closer to the planet, parcels of plasma get caught in the turbulence and sink back toward Earth. That turbulence causes big ripples in the plasma.
A magnetohydrodynamic simulation by the Gamera project at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory shows bursty bulk flows (in red and brown) in the plasma sheet approaching Earth on the nightside. Rice University space plasma physicists have developed algorithms to measure the buoyancy waves that appear in thin filaments of magnetic flux on the nightside.
Courtesy of Gamera/JHUAP
With the help of several spacecraft and computational tools developed over the past decade, Rice scientists led by space plasma physicist Frank Toffoletto can now assess the ripples, called buoyancy waves, caused by the turbulence.
These waves, or oscillations, have been observed in the thin layer of magnetic flux along the base of the plasma sheet that tails away from the planet’s nightside. The Rice theory is the first to quantify their motion.
The theory adds another element to the Rice Convection Model, an established, decades-in-the-making algorithm that helps scientists calculate how the inner and middle magnetosphere will react to events like solar storms that threaten satellites, communications and power grids on Earth.
The new paper in JGR Space Physics by Toffoletto, emeritus professor Richard Wolf and former graduate student Aaron Schutza starts by describing the bubbles — “bursty bulk flows” predicted by Wolf and Rice alumnus Duane Pontius in 1990 — that fall back toward Earth through the plasma tail.
An image from a magnetohydrodynamic simulation by the Gamera project at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory shows bursty flows (in red and brown) in the plasma sheet. Rice University space plasma physicists developed algorithms to measure the buoyancy waves that appear in thin filaments of magnetic flux on Earth’s nightside.
Credit: K. Sorathia/JHUAPL
Functionally, they’re the reverse of buoyant air bubbles that bob up and down in the atmosphere because of gravity, but the plasma bubbles respond to magnetic fields instead. The plasma bubbles lose most of their momentum by the time they touch down at the theoretical, filamentlike boundary between the inner plasma sheet and the protective plasmasphere.
That sets the braking boundary into a gentle oscillation, which lasts mere minutes before stabilizing again. Toffoletto compared the motion to a plucked guitar string that quickly returns to equilibrium.
“The fancy name for this is the eigenmode,” he said. “We’re trying to figure out the low-frequency eigenmodes of the magnetosphere. They haven’t been studied very much, though they appear to be associated with dynamic disruptions to the magnetosphere.”
A simulation by Rice University space plasma physicist Frank Toffoletto shows buoyancy wave oscillations in a magnetic field, due to bursty bulk flows drawn toward Earth on the nightside.
Courtesy of Frank Toffoletto7
Toffoletto said the Rice team has in recent years discovered through simulations that the magnetosphere doesn’t always respond in a linear fashion to the steady driving force of the solar wind.
“You get all kinds of wave modes in the system,” he said, explaining that bursty bulk flows are one such mode. “Every time one of these things come flying in, when they hit the inner region, they basically reach their equilibrium point and oscillate with a certain frequency. Finding that frequency is what this paper is all about.”
As measured by the THEMIS spacecraft, the periods of these waves are a few minutes and the amplitudes are often bigger than the Earth.
“Understanding the natural frequency of the system and how it behaves can tell us a lot about the physical properties of plasma on the nightside, its transport and how it might be related to the aurora,” he said. “A lot of these phenomena show up in the ionosphere as auroral structures, and we don’t understand where these structures come from.”
Toffoletto said the models suggest buoyant waves may play a role in the formation of the ring current that consists of charged particles that flow around Earth as well as magnetospheric substorms, all of which are connected to the aurora.
He said that no more than a decade ago, many magnetosphere simulations “would look very uniform, kind of boring.” The Rice group is collaborating with the Applied Physics Laboratory to include the Rice Convection Model in a newly developed global magnetosphere code called “Gamera,” named after the fictional Japanese monster.
“Now, with such higher-resolution models and much better numerical methods, these structures are starting to show up in the simulations,” Toffoletto said. “This paper is one little piece of the puzzle we’re putting together of how the system behaves. All this plays a big role in understanding how space weather works and how that in turn impacts technology, satellites and ground-based systems.”
The Rice Convection Model itself was refreshed this month in a paper led by recent Rice alumnus Jian Yang, now an associate professor of Earth and space sciences at the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
The new study was supported by a NASA Heliophysics Supporting Research grant.
Over 100 Stars Vanish From the Sky, Providing Yet More Evidence of Alien Civilizations Harvesting Stars to generate Antimatter Fuel That Can Power FTL Drives
Over 100 Stars Vanish From the Sky, Providing Yet More Evidence of Alien Civilizations Harvesting Stars to generate Antimatter Fuel That Can Power FTL Drives
As part of my “Oblivion Agenda” lecture series, I described how non-Earth civilizations harvest entire stars to generate antimatter fuel that powers FTL (Faster Than Light) warp drives. FTL travel is necessary to traverse the galaxy, given the enormous distances involved (even at 1000 times the speed of light, it would take 120 years to travel from one end of our Milky Way galaxy to the other).
Now, mainstream science news is writing about a bombshell discovery: Over 100 stars have vanished from the night sky in just the last 50 years. They’re literally gone. As I’ve explained in my lectures, this is because our galaxy no doubt hosts “star eaters” — advanced alien civilizations that consume entire stars to create antimatter fuel. This idea is beginning to achieve mainstream status, by the way. As CNET.com now reports:
“Unless a star directly collapses into a black hole, there is no known physical process by which it could physically vanish,” explains a new study published in the Astronomical Journal and led by Beatriz Villarroel of Stockholm University and Spain’s Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. “The implications of finding such objects extend from traditional astrophysics fields to the more exotic searches for evidence of technologically advanced civilizations.”
The project team believes their search for vanishing stars could be useful in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) by identifying “hot spots” in space where an unexpectedly large number of stars seem to be missing.
“Zooming in on the (hot spots) in our SETI (or technosignature) searches, we can identify the most probable locations to host extra-terrestrial intelligence,” they write.
The idea here is that a very advanced alien civilization may be able to construct a hypothetical megastructure called a Dyson sphere that completely encompasses a star in order to capture a large portion of its energy.
Here’s the image of vanishing stars. The left panel was taken in the 1950s. The right panel is from 2019. Notice how the large star in the center of the rectangle has vanished?
Importantly, these stars vanished many thousands of years ago, depending on their distance from Earth. Through normal space, light travels at a known constant speed (when gravity is not distorting space, see below), and we know the distance of these stars thanks to parallax measurements from Earth. Thus, we can easily determine how long ago these stars vanished, given that their light takes a certain amount of time to each us.
This vanishing of stars has no explanation in mainstream astronomy, but it is explained by the existence of “star eaters” — alien civilizations that consume entire stars to power the FTL warp drives on their ships. Stars can be harvested into antimatter fuel which can then be used to project gravity distortion fields that accelerate ships to speed that far exceed the speed of light.
This is exactly what I’ve described in my Oblivion Agenda lectures, which are available at OblivionAgenda.com. I also gave a live lecture on this topic to thousands of people in Branson, Missouri, which was recorded and is available on this DVD set from GenSix Productions.
Steve Quayle himself, founder of GenSix, said this live talk was the best live presentation he’s ever seen. I continue to receive feedback from people saying it changed their entire view of reality.
Yes, the speed of light can be radically altered by bending the space through which light travels
Naturally, people who think they know a little something about physics will immediately scream, “But the speed of light cannot be exceeded! It is an absolute limit!”
That’s not true at all. The speed of light is limited according to the spacetime “grid” through which light is passing, so if that grid is stretched via projected gravity fields, then light itself can more quickly traverse that grid. In other words, if you bend spacetime by a factor of 10, stretching it out to where the “grid” of space is now ten times more elongated, then light can appear to travel at ten times the “speed of light” to an outside observer, even though within the grid itself, the speed of light is still constant compared to the grid.
Put another way, the speed of light varies according to the distortion of space by gravity, which is why the observed speed of light by scientists all around the world is not a constant. Small variations in the speed of light have been routinely observed literally thousands of times by dozens of different labs around the world. These speed variations are due to gravity waves washing over our planet, causing variations in the curvature of space itself (which is how gravity works, of course).
Listen to my short podcast on this topic here:
In fact, variations in the observed speed of light are so common that the scientific community had to cheat to fix the speed of light to a constant. They did this through circular logic, by defining the speed of light as a component of how long it takes light to travel one meter, while defining one meter as the distance traversed by light in a given amount of time. These definitions are circular, which is why the speed of light is a “constant,” even when it isn’t in reality. (This is just one way the scientific community deceives the world with fake science and fake math. It’s more common than you might suppose…)
I don’t have the space here to do a full science paper on this for those who are still stuck in Newtonian physics, but the simple explanation is that gravity not only bends light, but gravity bends the space through which light travels. If you didn’t know that gravity bends the space through which light travels, then you aren’t even up to speed on the most basic astrophysics principles used by mainstream university lab all around the world. Yes, gravity bends light indirectly, by bending the space through which light travels, and that explains why large masses such as stars, black holes and planets, create a “lensing effect,” bending the light of stars that travels near those masses as the light makes its way to Earth. This is why stars appear to shift around the perimeter of the sun as observed during a total eclipse.
So the key to traveling faster than the speed of light is found in bending space, not accelerating in standard space. You can never accelerate to the speed of light in standard space, because there isn’t enough energy in the universe to achieve that goal. But you can, if you have the tech, bend space itself by projecting strong gravity fields that distort spacetime. An entire ship can then be propelled to speeds in excess of 1000 times the speed of light by traversing this space distortion, which can be projected as a spheric bubble around a spacecraft.
Projecting gravity fields, as you might suspect, requires enormous amounts of energy. The kind of energy that would have to be harvested from entire stars.
From my Oblivion Agenda slides, I explain why FTL technology is commonplace in the cosmos:
This slide explains how NASA-linked scientists are well aware that FTL travel can be achieved by projecting gravity fields using high density fuel such as antimatter:
This isn’t science fiction, by the way. It’s a serious subject that’s being studied by serious scientists connected with NASA as a form of future space flight. It turns out you actually can travel faster than light by bending space using antimatter, which means you aren’t violating the absolute speed limit of light, even as you are moving from point A to point B at a velocity that would appear to be faster than light to a stationary observer.
This is the subject of study of a NASA-linked project called “Project Eagleworks,” and here’s a video of Harold “Sonny” White from Eagleworks laboratories, explaining his ongoing research into this exotic “advanced propulsion” technology:
As I mention on OblivionAgenda.com, alien spacecraft can appear to “teleport” by applying a 100 x C (100 times the speed of light) spacetime warp bubble for one microsecond (one millionth of a second), which would propel a craft 30 km faster than the blink of a human eye. Importantly, the occupants of the craft would feel nothing.
Harold White is the same scientist, by the way, who has calculated that warp bubbles which achieve 10 x C (ten times the speed of light) could be achieved using the energy found in 200 kg of antimatter fuel.See his research summary document here, which explains:
Additionally, the lab is implementing a warp field interferometer that will be able to measure spacetime disturbances down to 150nm. Recent work published by White [1] [2] [3] suggests that it may be possible to engineer spacetime creating conditions similar to what drives the expansion of the cosmos. Although the expected magnitude of the effect would be tiny, it may be a “Chicago pile” moment for this area of physics.
There are many fascinating areas of research to consider in all this, and I’ve lectured about many of them at OblivionAgenda.com. For example, I’ve proposed that gravity wave detectors could be placed on the moon and used to detect visitations from alien craft which are using projected warp bubbles, since any disturbance in the gravity warping of spacetime ripples out at the speed of light and can be detected by ordinary sensors. This is how Earth can easily detect when non-Earth civilizations are using warp bubble drives anywhere near our solar system. (My guess is that NASA already has these sensors on the moon and is already well aware of all this.)
Additionally, I’ve proposed ideas on harvesting pulsars and magnetars to produce antimatter fuel which would be necessary to power warp bubble projection systems. This also explains the economics of the cosmos and why pulsars and similar collapsed stars are so valuable as the “cosmic oil wells” for intragalactic travel.
Why alien civilizations need to consume entire stars to power their cosmic conquest
Notice that in the passage above, I was talking about “star eater” operations, where entire stars (pulsars, magnetars, etc.) are consumed in the production of antimatter fuel to power spacecraft at speeds vastly exceeding the speed of light.
Here’s the slide from my presentation that talks about intergalactic travel and why the vast distances are so great that even traveling at 1000 times the speed of light would take 25 years just to reach the nearest neighbor galaxy:
This is why traveling from one galaxy to another in any practical way would require travel speeds of 10,000 or even 100,000 times the speed of light. Projecting such strong gravity distortions would require the energy of entire stars, perhaps requiring one star to be consumed for a single trip to a neighboring galaxy at 100,000 times the speed of light.
This may explain why the stars are vanishing at an alarming rate. In fact, it’s the best explanation for why stars are vanishing from the night sky. Alien civilizations are literally consuming them as energy sources, or what I call “cosmic oil wells” in my Oblivion Agenda presentation.
Antimatter is spontaneously generated in storm clouds in the atmosphere, by the way. Positrons (positively-charged electrons, which are one form of antimatter) can also originate with the decay of potassium-40, which is found inside our own bodies. (Yes, your body is generating very small amounts of antimatter, too.)
When synthesizing antimatter — and this is crucial to understand — it currently requires 1 billion times more energy to make antimatter than can be released by it, using Earth technology. Imagine charging a battery, but having to expend one billion times more watts of power than the battery can ever release. That’s the inefficiency currently found in antimatter generation. If alien civilizations can improve the efficiency of this process by a million times, it would still require one thousand times more energy to make antimatter than is released by it.
In other words, synthesizing antimatter requires enormous amounts of energy — the scale of energy that must be harvested from stars.
Once this antimatter is created, it can be physically stored in “fuel cells” which are transported and distributed to the spacecraft that consume them to project gravity fields that distort spacetime (and thereby achieved FTL travel).
The amount of energy required to distort spacetime is not linear
Now, a person who doesn’t understand the nature of reality might think that distorting spacetime by a factor of 100 would require only ten times more energy than distorting spacetime by a factor of 10. However, the energy expenditures are not linear.
Although we don’t yet know the exact shape of the energy expenditure curve, I’m going to take an educated guess and propose that the amount of energy required to distort spacetime has a squared relationship with the severity of the distortion. In other words, distorting the spacetime field by a factor of 100 would require 100 times the energy as distorting it by a factor of 10. That’s because 10 squared is 100.
And if you needed to travel at 1000 times the speed of light, that would require ten thousand times more energy than traveling at 10 times the speed of light.
I explain all this in more detail in my Counterthink lecture shown here:
This energy must be constantly expended for the full duration of the journey in order to maintain the gravity distortion around the ship. The moment the energy expenditure stops, the “shape” of spacetime collapses back to normal space, and your travel speed collapses back to normal velocities.
This same relationship, by the way, is found throughout physics, such as the inverse square rule of radiation exposure vs. distance from the source. Nature loves squared relationships.
This should not be an odd idea, given that even here on Earth, flying airplanes at very fast speeds — such as supersonic speeds — requires far more energy than flying at subsonic speeds. In fact, the current speeds achieved by commercial airliners such as Boeing jets is determined entirely by fuel efficiency, not maximum achievable speeds. Yes, engineers at Boeing can build planes that fly at Mach 2, for example, but the fuel expenditures are more than ten times greater than the fuel expended at 450 mph, which is roughly the current commercial air travel speed used across the industry.
If you want to go fast, in other words, it’s going to cost you dearly. And the same is true on a cosmic scale, too. Traveling at just the speed of light itself, by the way, is no doubt considered “slow” by cosmic travel standards. Even 100 times the speed of light is painstakingly slow, given the extreme distances between stars even in our own galaxy. Don’t forget that Earth is 27,000 light years away from the center of our own galaxy. That’s 270 years in a spacecraft if you’re traveling at 100 times the speed of light, and you haven’t even left your home galaxy yet.
Stars are fuel stations for any civilization willing to destroy them along its path of travel
Advanced alien civilizations could travel at perhaps 1000 or 10,000 times the speed of light as long as they could consume stars along the way, transforming entire stars into antimatter energy to power their warp bubble drives (gravity projection systems).
Naturally, this also means destroying the entire local star system in the process, causing orbiting planets to descend into freezing cold lifelessness.
But think about it: If humans had the ability to turn entire stars into energy, do you really think any sense of morality or ethics would stop humanity from destroying anything in its path of conquest and riches? Human greed tells you everything you need to know about this issue. Conquering alien civilizations have zero respect for other life forms, and they will destroy anything required to achieve their goals of territory expansion and resource capture.
What, did you think greed was only limited to humans? Just thank God humanity hasn’t yet figured out how to eat stars, or we might just eat our own in order to prop of the stock price of the latest Elon Musk delusion.
Here’s Episode 5 of the Oblivion Agenda lecture series. It covers more discussions on FTL travel and why it’s commonplace in the cosmos:
We now have physical evidence that aliens are consuming stars in our own galaxy
The upshot of all this is that we now have physical evidence that aliens are consuming entire stars in our own galaxy. Of course, the establishment astrophysics community is forced to downplay any possibility of little green men. Via CNET:
“But we are clear that none of these events have shown any direct signs of being ETI,” says co-author Martin López Corredoira in a statement. “We believe that they are natural, if somewhat extreme, astrophysical sources.”
In other words, Corredoira is saying that stars are vanishing for reasons that astrophysicists can’t yet explain. Yet we already have an explanation that makes perfect sense: They’re being harvested as energy sources by alien civilizations that are using the energy to power FTL travel as part of their conquest, colonization and strategic dominance of the real estate of our galaxy.
Given the average lifetime of a star — billions of years — it is statistically impossible for 100 prominent stars to vanish from our night sky in just 50 years. And those are merely the stars they’ve noticed. At this rate, we’re talking about 2 stars per Earth year, and the real number is likely much higher… perhaps 20 stars per year.
Has anybody wondered whether our own sun might be the next start to be harvested by a dominant civilization that sees us as little more than “stupid apes” who inhabit a planet that we’ve already half destroyed?
Get informed and upgrade your knowledge about cosmic reality. Watch my lectures at OblivionAgenda.com.
This photo was taken my the Mars Spirit rover on its 106th day on Mars. The object I found is a structure that has been made recently. The smoothness and lines of it all indicate that something is living in this small structure right now. Yes, I said small. The creatures that reside here are about 1-2cm tall. The structure itself is about 24cm tall by 35 cm wide. The life forms might only be insect like or a small animal, but nevertheless its made by a life form. Much how termites create standing and spiral mounds. Scott C. Waring
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Possible UFO Fleet Scanning Grid Patterns Across The US To Find Something. UFO Sighting News.
Possible UFO Fleet Scanning Grid Patterns Across The US To Find Something. UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: December 1-30, 2019 Location of sighting: Colorado + Nebraska, USA Many are calling these objects drones, but its also possible its not a drone fleet but a UFO fleet. You see Colorado is famous for its glowing white round balls of light flying from the mountains during the day and night. If this is an alien fleet, that would explain why its seen all over the USA, not just one location. I mean UFOs can change speeds fast and could easily travel from Colorado To Nebraska in a few seconds. And since I have not found any raw footage of a drone fleet anywhere...I rule that out. Nothing could do that in such a widespread area unless it has alien technology in it. Lots of reports and not one photo or video of a drone fleet. Thats odd. The sheriff states that the drones were seen flying in a grid patter, following a square shaped area path, scanning it, then moving on to the next grid. Often seeing 17 or more at once, they have appeared every night from 7pm to 10 pm, yet not a single video of them exists. Clearly the flying objects were searching for something, something below the ground, something of importance. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
This video is one of the best computation of UFO movements on the Moon recorded by sky-watcher BruceSeesall.
In the video, Bruce reads part of transcripts of astronauts Neil and Buzz while supposedly on the surface of the moon as we watch some of his findings, like the several UFO movements, structures on the moon and some surface shots that are very revealing.
Did astronauts see anything on the Moon like UFO's? I think Bruce has already given the answer by showing his own proof of UFOs on the lunar surface.
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NASA's 'Treasure Map' of Water Ice on Mars Shows Where Humans Should Land
NASA's 'Treasure Map' of Water Ice on Mars Shows Where Humans Should Land
The annotated area in this animation of the Red Planet is where NASA spacecraft have found near-surface water ice that would be easy for astronauts to dig up.
NASA's wish to follow the water on Mars just got a helping hand.
Scientists have released a new global map showing water ice that is as little as 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) below the Red Planet's surface.
With data in hand, the research team located at least one promising landing spot for future astronaut missions: a big zone in the northern hemisphere's Arcadia Planitia. This area has a lot of water ice close to the surface and is in the ideal location for a human Mars mission, because it is in a temperate, midlatitude region with plenty of sunlight, the research team wrote in a new study describing the findings.
This map shows where the underground water ice is located on Mars. Cool colors represent water ice that is closer to the surface than the areas in warm colors, and black zones indicate areas where a visiting spacecraft would sink into fine dust on the surface. The area outlined in white represents the ideal region to send astronauts for them to dig up water ice.(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU)
"You wouldn't need a backhoe to dig up this ice. You could use a shovel," lead author Sylvain Piqueux, who studies planetary surfaces at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, said in a statement. "We're continuing to collect data on buried ice on Mars, zeroing in on the best places for astronauts to land."
Further study of the "treasure map" could unlock more landing locations, too, according to NASA. Water is a precious resource for future astronaut missions to Mars, where the space agency wants to land in the 2030s. The hope is that, instead of hauling all of the water astronauts will need from Earth to the Red Planet, astronauts could get their drinking water and the components of water (oxygen and hydrogen) for rocket fuel from Mars itself.
The new map is based on data from two long-running spacecraft: NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Odyssey. Each spacecraft used heat-sensitive instruments to find the ice, because buried ice changes the temperature of the surface. To be sure that it was ice they were seeing, the scientists cross-referenced their work with other data — like ice seen in radar instruments and Mars Odyssey's gamma-ray spectrometer, which is optimized for spotting water ice deposits.
The surface of Mars is a desert; water is scarce. That's because liquid water evaporates quickly in the thin atmosphere of the Red Planet. There have been reports of briny water flowing on crater walls, but some scientists say those streams are more likely dry dust flows. Notably, there is plenty of water ice locked up in the Martian polar caps. But this wouldn't be a viable solution for a lengthy mission because it would get too cold and dark at the poles for a good part of the year.
Could mysterious flashing lights among the stars be signals of extraterrestrial life?
Astrophysicists aren’t ruling it out. In a new paper, they’ve theorized that a number of inexplicable flickering lights observed over the decades may be “interstellar communication lasers,” used to send messages from one end of outer space to the other.
They say the blinking lights are most likely derived from “natural, if somewhat extreme astrophysical sources,” adding that the finding could change the study of astrophysics forever.
“The implications of finding such objects extend from traditional astrophysics fields to the more exotic searches for evidence of technologically advanced civilizations,” the authors write in their report, recently published in the Astronomical Journal.
Researchers pulled publicly accessible images, such as old military records, dating back to the 1950s. By comparing historical observations with current surveys of the sky, they were able to pinpoint instances of stars seemingly disappearing from the Milky Way. They call these vanished objects “red transients.”
“Finding an actually vanishing star — or a star that appears out of nowhere! — would be a precious discovery and certainly would include new astrophysics beyond the one we know of today,” says lead author Beatriz Villarroel, in a Stockholm University press statement.
As scientists understand the death of a star, their light dwindles to become a white dwarf, or they die in a sudden explosion called a supernova. But signs of a point of light in these images vanishing altogether may also tell of a new, as-yet undocumented astrophysical phenomenon, or, potentially, extraterrestrial activity.
Some have theoretically predicted the existence of “failed supernovae,” or when a massive star implodes into a black hole, but without an outward explosion. Those, still, would be very rare, scientists say.
A more sci-fi explanation for the strange lights could be that they’re lasers meant for communication via extraterrestrial structures built by some advanced alien civilizations — what scientists call Dyson spheres, that can harness the energy in stars.
Still, neither theory is proven through any observable evidence.
The project, called Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) is ongoing as just 15 percent of unexplained objects in their source images have been thoroughly investigated. So far, Villarroel and her team have noted 100 disappearing stars, adding they are “very excited” about the current discovery.
As they continue to research, they hope to involve other astronomy enthusiasts and stargazers to help parse the remaining 150,000 examples of these unexplained lights.
“We hope to get help from the community to look through the images as a part of a citizen science project,” says study researcher Lars Mattsson. “We are looking at ways to do that right now and that will be something we will be able to talk more about at a later date.”
A new study of the atmospheres of known giant exoplanets suggests that water – an essential ingredient for life – may be common on other worlds in our Milky Way galaxy. At the same, there may be less of it than astronomers once expected.
Artist’s concept of a gas giant exoplanet orbiting close to its star. The new study suggests water vapor is common on such worlds, but maybe in lesser amounts than thought.
Water – needed for life as we know it – has turned out to be common in our solar system. Besides Earth, of course, there are moons in the outer solar system with oceans beneath their icy surfaces. Ice can be found almost everywhere in our neighborhood of space, even on the moon and Mercury! But what about in other solar systems? A new study, led by researchers from the University of Cambridge, suggests that water may be at the same time both plentiful and scarce, depending on the type of planets involved.
The new findings were announced by Cambridge on December 11, 2019, and the peer-reviewed paper was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on the same day.
The researchers studied atmospheric data from 19 known exoplanets to learn more about their chemical and thermal properties. These planets ranged from mini-Neptunes (nearly 10 Earth masses) to super-Jupiters (over 600 Earth masses). Temperatures on these worlds range from 20 degrees Celsius (about 70 degrees Fahrenheit) to over 2,000 degrees Celsius (3,600 F). These planets are similar to the gas and ice giants in our solar system, but they orbit a variety of different types of stars. Study leader Nikku Madhusudhan, of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge, said:
We are seeing the first signs of chemical patterns in extra-terrestrial worlds, and we’re seeing just how diverse they can be in terms of their chemical compositions.
Based on what we know about the giant planets in our own solar system, these kinds of exoplanets were predicted to have similar high abundances of certain elements such as hydrogen, oxygen and water. So what did they find?
The results showed that 14 of the planets had an abundance of water vapor, as well as an abundance of sodium and potassium in six planets each. This suggests that there is a depletion of oxygen relative to the other elements and that the planets may have evolved with little accretion of ice. As Madhusudhan noted:
It is incredible to see such low water abundances in the atmospheres of a broad range of planets orbiting a variety of stars.
Comparison of exoplanet Kepler-186f with Earth (artist’s concept). Some of these Earth-sized rocky worlds should also be able to have liquid water on their surfaces, although that research was not part of this particular study, which focused on giant gas and ice planets.
Image via NASA Ames/ SETI Institute/ JPL-Caltech/ Ars Technica.
This means that exoplanets can be more diverse than previously thought in terms of atmospheric composition and water content, which challenges several theoretical models of planet formation. Different chemical elements can no longer just be assumed to be equally abundant in planetary atmospheres.
It’s not easy measuring how much water there is in the atmospheres of planets so far away, but it can even be challenging for planets much closer to home. Jupiter is a prime example of this. According to Luis Welbanks, lead author of the study:
Measuring the abundances of these chemicals in exoplanetary atmospheres is something extraordinary, considering that we have not been able to do the same for giant planets in our solar system yet, including Jupiter, our nearest gas giant neighbor.
Since Jupiter is so cold, any water vapor in its atmosphere would be condensed, making it difficult to measure. If the water abundance in Jupiter were found to be plentiful as predicted, it would imply that it formed in a different way to the exoplanets we looked at in the current study.
Determining the amount of water vapor in the atmospheres of the giant planets even in our own solar system can be challenging. This is Jupiter as seen by the Juno spacecraft on April 1, 2018.
Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ SwRI/ MSSS/ Gerald Eichstad/ Sean Doran/ Newsweek.
As already mentioned, the sample size of planets in the study is quite small, so researchers want to expand on it in the future. Madhusudhan commented:
We look forward to increasing the size of our planet sample in future studies. Inevitably, we expect to find outliers to the current trends as well as measurements of other chemicals.
It should also be noted that this current study did not include smaller rocky super-Earth or Earth-sized planets, which are now known to be quite common in our galaxy. Those are the kinds of worlds where the amount of water would have the most consequence in terms of the potential habitability of a planet.
As Madhusudhan said:
Given that water is a key ingredient to our notion of habitability on Earth, it is important to know how much water can be found in planetary systems beyond our own.
While this study may be limited regarding the types of exoplanets known to exist, it provides an important insight into how much water could be expected to be discovered among a large population of such worlds. This will help scientists better understand how these planets formed, and perhaps provide clues as to how many potentially habitable planets there may be as well, when combined with additional future studies of rocky worlds more similar to Earth.
Bottom line:A new study from the University of Cambridge shows that water vapor is common in the atmospheres of at least some larger exoplanets, but in lesser amounts than expected.
SAN FRANCISCO — If there are creatures swimming in the buried oceans of the outer solar system, they're probably not related to us, new research suggests.
Some scientists believe that life has hopped from world to world around the solar system, aboard chunks of rock blasted into space by comet or asteroid impacts. Indeed, there's a school of thought that the life teeming here on Earth is actually native to Mars, which likely boasted habitable conditions earlier than our own planet did. (This rock-riding idea is known as "lithopanspermia," a subset of the broader panspermia notion, which envisions spread by whatever means, either natural or guided by an intelligent hand.)
But what are the odds that such putative pioneers could colonize the habitable real estate much farther out — specifically, the Jupiter moon Europa and the Saturn satellite Enceladus, both of which harbor big oceans of salty liquid water beneath their ice shells?
Purdue University geophysicist Jay Melosh tackled this question and presented the results last week during a talk here at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
Melosh used computer models to follow the fates of 100,000 simulated Mars particles launched off the Red Planet by an impact. He modeled three different ejection speeds: 1, 3, and 5 kilometers per second (about 2,240 mph, 6,710 mph and and 11,180 mph, respectively).
In the simulations, a tiny percentage of the particles ended up hitting Enceladus over the course of 4.5 billion years — just 0.0000002% to 0.0000004% of the number that impacted Earth. The numbers were about 100 times higher for Europa; that moon got 0.00004% to 0.00007% of Earth's particle share.
We know that about 1 ton of Mars rocks that are fist-size or larger rain down on Earth every year. Using that figure, Melosh calculated that Europa gets about 0.4 grams of Mars material per year, and Enceladus receives just 2-4 milligrams. These are averages, he stressed; the moons' Mars mass almost certainly comes from very infrequent arrivals of decent-sized rocks, not a steady flow of small stuff.
The numbers are similar if the source of the rocks is Earth rather than Mars, Melosh said.
These results might seem to bode well for life's spread; after all, it might take just one impact of a microbe-bearing rock to turn Europa or Enceladus from habitable to inhabited. But there are more factors to consider, and they tamp down the optimism.
For example, Melosh found that the median transit time for a Mars meteorite that ends up hitting Enceladus is 2 billion years. Microbes are tough, but that's a long time to endure the harsh conditions of deep space. And the simulations indicated that these incoming Mars rocks would hit Enceladus at between 5 and 31 km/s (11,180 mph to 69,350 mph). The lower end of that range might be survivable, but it's hard to imagine anything living through those more extreme impacts, Melosh said.
"So, the bottom line: If life should be found in the oceans of Europa or Enceladus, it is very likely that it’s indigenous rather than seeded from Earth, Mars or (especially) another solar system," Melosh said during his AGU talk. (His calculations peg the probability of an exoplanet meteorite impacting Earth over the past 4.5 billion years at just 0.01%. The chances are much lower for Europa and Enceladus, he said.)
That's exciting news, if viewed from a certain perspective. Europa and Enceladus — and other potentially habitable worlds in the outer solar system, such as Saturn's huge moon Titan — may well have remained uncontaminated for eons, providing ample opportunity for native life-forms to take root and evolve. So, our solar system may boast many different types of life, rather than one widespread one. (Of course, seeing how Earth-like life would evolve over billions of years in a frigid, buried ocean would be pretty exciting, too.)
And if we discover just one such "second genesis" in our solar system, we would know that life is no miracle and must be common throughout the cosmos.
We may be on the verge of answering some of these profound questions. For example, NASA is developing a mission called Europa Clipper, which will characterize the satellite's ocean and scout out potential touchdown sites for a future life-hunting lander mission, among other tasks. Clipper is scheduled to launch in the early to mid-2020s, but the lander's future is murky; though Congress has ordered NASA to develop the surface mission, it's unclear if the funding will come through to make that happen.
Another NASA mission, called Dragonfly, will launch in 2026 to study Titan's complex chemistry. This robotic rotorcraft could potentially spot signs of life in the big moon's air, if any are there to be found. And over the longer haul, researchers are looking into ways to get a robot through the ice shells of Europa and Enceladus and into their possibly life-supporting oceans. No such mission is on the books, but one could get off the ground in the 2030s if we're lucky.
There will be serious astrobiological action closer to home soon, too. NASA plans to launch a life-hunting rover to Mars next summer, as do the European Space Agency and Russia, which are working together via a program called ExoMars. Both of these wheeled robots will focus on finding signs of ancient, not currently existing, Red Planet organisms. (Of course, chances are decent that Martians, if they exist, are related to us.)
Exoplanets are part of the picture as well. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which is due to launch in 2021, will be able to sniff the atmospheres of nearby alien worlds for potential biosignatures, as will three giant ground-based observatories scheduled to come online in the middle to late 2020s — the Giant Magellan Telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope and the Thirty Meter Telescope.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated byKarl Tate), is out now. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter@Spacedotcom orFacebook.
Researchers found a brand new mineral tucked in a tiny meteorite. It's never been seen in nature before
Researchers found a brand new mineral tucked in a tiny meteorite. It's never been seen in nature before
By Scottie Andrew, CNN
The Wedderburn meteorite contains edscottite, which occurs in iron smelting. But it has never occurred in nature until now, when researchers sliced the meteorite open and found it hidden there.
(CNN)Between 2015 and 2019, researchers discovered 31 new carbon minerals, most of them vividly colorful. Edscottite is one of the least flashy new finds, but it's also the one that's set geologists abuzz.
Edscottite is one of the phases iron goes through when it's cooling down from a high temperature, as it's smelted into steel. But the edscottite discovered in a tiny meteorite and officially named this year is the first to occur in nature.
The Wedderburn meteorite's been sitting in Museums Victoria in Australia since it was found nearby in 1951, and researchers have sliced it open to search its contents just as long.
"We have discovered 500,000 to 600,000 minerals in the lab, but fewer than 6,000 that nature's done itself," Stuart Mills, Museums Victoria's senior curator of geosciences, told Melbourne newspaper The Age.
It's named for Ed R.D. Scott, a cosmochemist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and pioneering meteorite researcher. He first identified the unique iron carbide in 1971 while studying the meteorite, but technology hadn't advanced far enough for him to characterize its structure.
It might have formed in space
Researchers Chi Ma of Caltech and Alan Rubin at UCLA examined a slab of the meteorite and were surprised to find edscottite under an electron microscope.
Just how it formed is still unclear. Geoffrey Bonning, a planetary scientist at the Australian National University who was not involved with the study, speculated to The Age that it was blasted out of the core of another planet.
The hypothetical planet, he said, formed when asteroids clumped into one big planet. The planet heated up during its formation, and hot metal dripped into its core.
"This meteorite had an abundance of carbon in it. And as it slowly cooled down, the iron and carbon came together and formed this mineral," Mills said.
Eventually, the planet might've been struck by another astronomical body and destroyed, flinging the debris across the solar system.
The debris, Bonning posited, became the Wedderburn meteorite. The edscottite might've been created when all that metal heated up in the former planet.
Christmas Eve has come and gone and NORAD has stopped tracking a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer. However, no one in a position of authority can explain why the North American Aerospace Defense Command, with headquarters in Colorado Springs, isn’t tracking those mysterious giant drones which continue to fly nightly over a remote area of northeastern Colorado. Well, perhaps there’s someone in Nebraska who’s concerned enough to investigate because new reports say the drones have crossed the border into the Cornhusker State. What is more mysterious (or nefarious) – the giant drones or the seeming lack of government and military concern?
“I had reports of anywhere from 6 to 12. One person believed it to more than 12, close to 30. It seemed like several of them were flying together, in 3 or 4 pairs.”
Sheriff Jon Stivers of Washington Country in the northeast corner of Colorado told Fox News Denver of the reports he’s been getting about the giant (6-foot wingspan) drones flying in formation in his area of jurisdiction. The 30-drone sighting appears to be the largest formation yet – the previous reports from Phillips County topped out at 17. So, the size of the nighttime (7 pm to 10 pm regularly) drone formations is growing … and now they’ve spread across the northeastern border into Nebraska.
“Britton said he has spoken with a sheriff’s deputy in neighboring Deuel County, Neb., who has been chasing drones in his state the past few days. The Deuel County sheriff could not be reached Friday to comment.”
The Denver Post says Sedgwick County Sheriff Carlton Britton (Sedgwick is the most northeastern county of Colorado) heard that his counterpart across the way in Deuel County is also getting drone reports. However, there seems to be no media coverage of them in Nebraska and no indication that any government, military or other officials of authority are looking into them.
These strange drones have been flying their suspicious nighttime missions for over a week now. Why the silence? The FAA, Air Force, DEA, U.S. Army Forces Command and other authorities maintain they’re not involved. Meanwhile, legal experts continue to maintain that the nighttime drone flights are perfectly legal. No one seems to have followed them – giving the excuse that it’s dark and they’re flying with lights off. No one has taken any photos, even at dusk, for the same reason. While the sheriffs continue to warn that shooting one down is illegal and dangerous, conspiracy theorists are calling for some kind of action – legal or not.
Everyone seems to feel the same way as Lincoln County Sheriff Tom Nestor, who told The Denver Post:
“I would love for someone to break it wide open. I don’t know what it is, but I would like it not to be in my county.”
Not in my backyard. Let someone else do it. When it comes to the mysterious drones of Colorado and now Nebraska, the prevailing mood of the 2010’s is crossing the border into the 2020’s.
We’ll continue to keep watch on this developing story.
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This is basically the area where the sightings are occurring. It's largely uncontrolled airspace with a very sparse population.
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Here you can see the relationship of the area of activity in relation to Denver and nearby Nebraska.
UFO Researcher Set Up And Arrested He Claims, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Researcher Set Up And Arrested He Claims, UFO Sighting News.
Todays a sad day for UFO researchers. I heard that Tyler from Secureteam10 Youtube channel was recently arrested on domestic violence, probation and assault charges. The channel has over two million subscribers and once brought in over a quarter million US dollars per year. Tyler uploaded a video titled, "I've been set up," causing two million subscribers to get notifications of the video, but he soon took it down. However other Youtubers copied the video and put on their own channels to share with the UFO community. Over a dozen other channels uploaded his video and included other things such as his mug shot, legal charges and such.
Tyler has been a bit mysterious this year, often disappearing from Youtube leaving his channel hanging for up to 6-8 weeks without a single video uploaded. But this time...its very odd. He says he was set up, arrested and beaten behind bars. That its all because of his Youtube channel and that he was told to keep quiet about it. His followers have begun to complain and leave, thinking he cares little for them.
I do know that UFO researchers do get followed, do get threatening emails and messages. Some UFO researchers have even been killed in the last few years to keep them from revealing more evidence. Its a dangerous field to be in and one I do not recommend. He was a world famous UFO researcher once and suddenly crashed. Hopefully he will not give up. Everyone makes mistakes and we don't truly know the circumstances or the pressures he was under at the time. He's got a good channel with over 1000 videos he made, most getting hundreds of thousands and even millions of views. Scott C. Waring
NASA Confirms and Accepts The Existence of UFOs on Earth Throughout History
NASA Confirms and Accepts The Existence of UFOs on Earth Throughout History
At last, NASA confirms the existence of UFOs throughout the history of humanity. The statement has been released in a document published on its official website.
The author of the document says that ancient observers of mysterious objects spotted in the sky could not assign it to natural causes. Moreover, he says that at least some of the strange phenomena witnessed in the sky by our ancestors were very similar to the UFOs that appear nowadays.
Witnesses, thousands of years ago, made use of a military language – at least in the terms that we understand it today – in order to deal with those incidents.
As you know, military terminology reflects the most advanced technology of a specific time, so when we talk about “military language” referring to the time of our ancestors we need to contextualize the term and apply it to that specific historical period.
This terminology is also used in our days to speak about UFOs in an attempt to rationalize the phenomenon and describe it in the most accurate way.
The author of the document lists numerous “military objects” spotted by ancient witnesses.
If you want to have a look at them, or if you want to know more about the subject, please read the full report “Unidentified flying objects in classical antiquity” posted by NASA here:
NASA’s InSight lander has been collecting data from Mars since the end of November 2018. The NASA probe was designed to investigate the inner workings of the Red Planet by creating a 3D map of its interior and by measuring the planet’s seismicity. But the scientists analysing the treasure trove of information collected by InSight have uncovered an unusual set of data. The researchers found a series of magnetic pulses occurring every day around midnight, local time on Mars.
The Mars probe comes equipped with a sensitive magnetometer instrument to pick up variations in the planet’s and the lander’s magnetic field.
The instrument detected “long pulsation trains” lasting as long as two hours, with wave periods of just one minute.
The findings were presented in a paper at the European Planetary Science Congress and the American Astronomical Society meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.
The paper reads: “During nighttime conditions near midnight local time, long pulsation trains are occasionally detected in the magnetic field.
NASA news: The InSight lander on Mars is studying the planet's interior
(Image: NASA)
NASA news: The lander has been exploring Mars since November 2018
(Image: NASA)
The researchers believe all of the measurements have strong implications for future exploration efforts.
They wrote: “The strong magnetisation seen in the surface rocks indicates that much can be learned about the dynamics of the crust from magnetometers carried on rovers.
“We strongly encourage a cross-disciplinary approach to studying the surface of Mars.
“Mars magnetisation could revolutionise our understanding of the emplacement of the crust of Mars in much the same way as the magnetic surveys of the Earth’s oceans have revolutionised our understanding of terrestrial tectonics.
NASA mystery: Strange magnetic pulses at midnight baffle scientists studying Mars
NASA mystery: Strange magnetic pulses at midnight baffle scientists studying Mars
NASA’s InSight lander has been collecting data from Mars since the end of November 2018. The NASA probe was designed to investigate the inner workings of the Red Planet by creating a 3D map of its interior and by measuring the planet’s seismicity. But the scientists analysing the treasure trove of information collected by InSight have uncovered an unusual set of data. The researchers found a series of magnetic pulses occurring every day around midnight, local time on Mars.
The Mars probe comes equipped with a sensitive magnetometer instrument to pick up variations in the planet’s and the lander’s magnetic field.
The instrument detected “long pulsation trains” lasting as long as two hours, with wave periods of just one minute.
The findings were presented in a paper at the European Planetary Science Congress and the American Astronomical Society meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.
The paper reads: “During nighttime conditions near midnight local time, long pulsation trains are occasionally detected in the magnetic field.
The researchers believe all of the measurements have strong implications for future exploration efforts.
They wrote: “The strong magnetisation seen in the surface rocks indicates that much can be learned about the dynamics of the crust from magnetometers carried on rovers.
“We strongly encourage a cross-disciplinary approach to studying the surface of Mars.
“Mars magnetisation could revolutionise our understanding of the emplacement of the crust of Mars in much the same way as the magnetic surveys of the Earth’s oceans have revolutionised our understanding of terrestrial tectonics.
Astronaut Christina Koch sets new record for longest single space flight by a woman
Astronaut Christina Koch sets new record for longest single space flight by a woman
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
Astronaut Christina Koch, launched to the International Space Station on March 15, marks her 289th day in space Saturday, breaking retired astronaut Peggy Whitson'sworld record for the longest single space flight by a woman.
Along the way, Koch has participated in four spacewalks, joining astronaut Jessica Meir for history's first all-female excursion in October. She plans to venture back outside twice more in January, again teaming up with Meir, to complete the installation of new solar array batteries for the station's solar power system.
Astronaut Christina Koch floating outside the International Space Station on October 18, 2019 during the first all-female walk in space.NASA
When Koch returns to Earth February 6, her time in space will stand at 328 days, just 12 days shy of retired astronaut Mark Kelly's U.S. record, set in 2016. The all-time single flight record — 438 days — was set by cosmonaut Valery Polyakov in 1995. Whitson still holds the U.S. record for total time in space — nearly 666 days — over five flights.
"It's a huge honor," Koch said early Friday in an interview with "CBS This Morning." "Peggy is a heroine of mine who's also been kind enough to mentor me through the years. You know ... it's not so much how many days you're up here, but what you do with each of those days. That reminds me to bring my best every single day."
Koch holds a master's in electrical engineering, is a veteran of multiple research tours in Antarctica and Greenland, and helped design instruments at the Goddard Space Flight Center for NASA science probes in orbit around Earth and Jupiter. She and Meir were selected for NASA's astronaut corps in 2013, joining a class made up of four men and four women.
"It's a wonderful time for human spaceflight because I think we finally recognize that it's not worth going unless we go together, that it's important to not turn away any innovative idea, that everyone has a role and everyone has a place at the table as we move forward," Koch said.
Space station astronaut Christina Koch chats about her record-setting mission with "CBS This Morning."NASA TV
"If we're going to go for all humanity and to support humanity's love for exploration, then we have to do it with all humanity. And I think we're seeing that as our plans unfold for going back to the moon, seeing the first woman walk on the moon in 2024, and just recognizing that we have to go together if we're going to go, and we're going to do it right."
Koch became the 14th woman to walk in space last March 29 when she and Nick Hague worked to install a second set of solar array batteries. She originally was expected to venture outside with astronaut Anne McClain for the first all-female spacewalk, but Hague took McClain's place because of a spacesuit sizing issue.
The all-female spacewalk finally happened on October 18 when Koch and Meir, the 15th woman walk in space, ventured outside to replace a faulty battery charge-discharge unit. It was the first EVA by two women in the 54 years since the late Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov carried out history's first spacewalk in 1965.
Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space during an excursion with a male cosmonaut in 1984. NASA astronaut Kathryn Sullivan followed suit later that year, joining astronaut David Leestma for a shuttle spacewalk.
"My class was ... the first class that's half female and half male, and we were never held to any different standards or expectations," Koch told "CBS This Morning." "Highlighting the fact that it was the first all female EVA, spacewalk, is important because seeing those milestones be broken sort of tells people where we're at and where we think that the importance lies.
"I think it's inspiring because future space explorers do need to see people that remind them of themselves to kind of bring that inspiration home. I know that was certainly true for me and my background. So to have the opportunity to do that for future space explorers is a real honor."
Jessica Meir, left, and Christina Koch pose in the space station's airlock holding the power tools they used in the first all-female spacewalk.NASA
Asked about her most memorable moments in space, Koch said she enjoyed looking down on Michigan and North Carolina where she grew up, "but I would say the most awe-inspiring thing that I've ever seen is the Northern Lights or Southern Lights from above on a planetary scale."
"I've had the opportunity working in Antarctica and the Arctic to see them from below and the beautiful, shimmering lights taking over the whole sky," she said. "But to look down on the Earth and see the entire shape of the aurora as they form near the poles was truly an amazing sight and just literally took my breath away."
Koch said she hopes setting a new single-flight endurance record will serve as a milestone to motivate others while pushing the boundaries of science because "that's important for our future exploration ... going to Mars and also returning to the moon and going there to stay."
"But overall, I'd have to say that my number one hope for this milestone is that the record is exceeded again as soon as possible," she said. "Because that means that we're continuing to push the boundaries."
Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that Saturday, Dec. 28, is Koch's 289th day in space, not her 288th.
A summary of decades of research on a rather 'out-there' idea involving viruses from space has recently been published, and it's raising questions on just how scientific we can be when it comes to speculating on the history of life on Earth. This may sound weird and strange but its serious.
It's easy to throw around words like crackpot, rogue, and maverick in describing the scientific fringe, but every now and then a paper like this comes along, leaving us blinking owlishly, unsure of where to even begin. A total of 33 names are listed as authors on this review, which was published by Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. The journal is peer reviewed and fairly well cited. So it's not exactly small, or a niche pay-for-publish source. Science writer Stephen Fleischfresser goes into depth on the background of two of the better known scientists involved: Edward Steele and Chandra Wickramasinghe. It's well worth a read. For a tl;dr version, Steele is an immunologist who already has a fringe reputation for his views on evolution that relies on acquiring gene changes determined by the influence of the environment rather than random mutations, in what he calls meta-Lamarckism. Wickramasinghe, on the other hand, has had a somewhat less controversial career, recognised for empirically confirming Sir Fred Hoyle's hypothesis describing the production of complex carbon molecules on interstellar dust. Wickramasinghe and Hoyle also happened to be responsible for another space biology thesis. Only this one is based on more than just the origins of organic chemistry. The Hoyle Wickramasinghe (H-W) thesis of Cometary (Cosmic) Biology makes the rather simple claim that the direction of evolution has been significantly affected by biochemistry that didn't start on our planet. In Wickramasinghe's own words, "Comets are the carriers and distributors of life in the cosmos and life on Earth arose and developed as a result of cometary inputs." Those inputs, Wickramasinghe argues, aren't limited to a generous sprinkling of space-baked amino acids, either.
Rather, they include viruses that insert themselves into organisms, pushing their evolution into whole new directions. The report, titled "Cause of Cambrian Explosion – Terrestrial or Cosmic?", pulls on existing research to conclude that a rain of extra-terrestrial retroviruses played a key role in the diversification of life in our oceans roughly half a billion years ago. "Thus retroviruses and other viruses hypothesised to be liberated in cometary debris trails both can potentially add new DNA sequences to terrestrial genomes and drive further mutagenic change within somatic and germline genomes," the authors write. Let that sink in for a moment. And take a deep breath before continuing, because that was the tame part. It was during this period that a group of molluscs known as cephalopods first stretched out their tentacles from beneath their shells, branching into a stunning array of sizes and shapes in what seemed like a remarkably short time frame. The genetics of these organisms, which today include octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish, are as weird as the animals themselves, due in part to their ability to their ability to edit their DNA on the fly. The authors of the paper make the rather audacious claim that these genetic oddities might be a sign of life from space. Not of space viruses this time, but the arrival of whole genomes frozen in stasis before thawing out in our tepid waters. "Thus the possibility that cryopreserved squid and/or octopus eggs, arrived in icy bolides several hundred million years ago should not be discounted," they write. In his review of the paper, medical researcher Keith Baverstock from the University of Eastern Finland, concedes that there's a lot of evidence that plausibly aligns with the H-W thesis, such as the curious timeline of the appearance of viruses. But that's just not how science advances. "I believe this paper justifies scepticism of the scientific value of stand alone theories of the origin of life," Baverstock argues. "The weight of plausible, but non-definitive, evidence, great though that might be, is not the point." While the idea is as novel and exciting as it is provocative, nothing in the summary helps us better understand the history of life on Earth any better than existing conjectures, adding little of value to our model of evolution. Still, with solid caveats in place, maybe science can cope with a generous dose of crazy every now and then.
Journal editor Denis Noble concedes that 'further research is needed', which is a bit of an understatement. But given the developments regarding space-based organic chemistry in recent years, there's room for discussion. "As space chemistry and biology grows in importance it is appropriate for a journal devoted to the interface between physics and biology to encourage the debates," says Noble. "In the future, the ideas will surely become testable." Just in case those tests confirm speculations, we recommend being well prepared for the return of our cephalopod overlords. Who knows when they'll want those eggs back?
Open a tightly-sealed bottle that’s been hiding in the back of the office refrigerator for a year and the first thing you probably notice is the smell, followed by some weird stuff growing inside. Open a tightly-sealed container that’s been hiding underground for 2 billion years and a bad smell will come as no surprise. But stuff growing inside? That’s the hope of a group of researchers who put a drop of water taken from a sealed pocket in a 2-mile-deep gold mine in South Africa under an electron microscope and saw something that could be … that looks suspiciously like … life! If it is, a lot of other people are interested in it – especially NASA, which thinks this is the same way it will find life on Mars. Will anyone really notice or care if they also find gold on Mars?
“The recent discovery of near saturated brines 3 km below land surface in the South African gold mine, Moab Khotsong (26.98 S, 26.78 E), presents an opportunity to characterize microbial life in potentially ancient brines hosted within the 3.1-2.9 Ga Witswatersrand Supergroup.”
In a presentation at the recent Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union entitled “B11K-2202 – Abiotic (Prebiotic?) Organic Chemistry in a Potentially Ancient Hypersaline Brine: New Insights on the Limits of Microbial Life Inhabiting 3.1 km Deep Fracture Fluid in South Africa,” Princeton University graduate student Devan Nisson unveiled the results of the geophysical equivalent of opening a bottle hidden for a year in the back of your refrigerator. In this case, the ‘refrigerator’ is the Moab Khotsong gold and uranium mine, located in the northern part of South Africa, which claims to have the world’s deepest mine shaft at 3,000 meters (9,800 ft). From those depths, Nisson and her fellow researchers probed deeper with boreholes and eventually hit pockets of pressurized water. Samples were taken back to Princeton, where Inside Science reports that the electron microscope showed something unexpected:
“When they examined the material under a scanning electron microscope, they saw rodlike shapes that appeared to be bacteria or similar-looking microbes called archaea. One of the cells was pinched in the middle, apparently in the process of dividing.”
Did Nisson run out of the lab like Dr. Frankenstein yelling “It’s alive!”? Not yet. She admits that the shapes could be minerals and plans DNA testing to determine if they’re animal, vegetable or mineral. The tests will also verify whether the water has been untapped for 2 billion years or if it was contaminated recently by fissures from mining. What they do know already is that a pocket at that depth contains water that is about seven times saltier than seawater and reaches temperatures of up to 129 degrees Fahrenheit – really hot and salty but still capable of supporting life. It also contains small organic acids and nitrate and sulfate ions that could feed microbes and provide energy.
That’s the same environment NASA expects to find when deep boreholes are drilled into Mars on future missions – hence its interest in what Devan Nisson found when she dug deep into the depths of Moab Khotsong and opened a 2 billion-year-old bottle of salty water. Is it life, life-lite, life-like, like Mars … or just a really deep rabbit hole? We’ll soon find out.
There has been a long debate on whether brains can be fossilized and that question may finally have an answer. Scientists claim to have discovered incredibly well preserved fossilized brains in 500-million-year-old bug-like creatures.
The inky stains were found in fossils from an arthropod called Alalcomenaeus that lived during the Cambrian period – between approximately 543 million and 490 million years ago. The bug-like creature’s exoskeleton was well preserved in addition to the soft tissue from the brain and nerves. In their study, which was published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B (and can be read in full here), researchers described finding two Alalcomenaeus fossils in which the brains were still preserved.
Co-author of the study, Javier Ortega-Hernández, who is an invertebrate paleobiologist at Harvard University and curator of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, explained, “What we are dealing with in the fossil record are exceptional circumstances. This is not common — this is super, super rare.”
Alalcomenaeus had a nervous system similar to scorpions.
Paleontologists previously found one Alalcomenaeus fossil which was believed to have had preserved nervous tissue; however, there was much controversy over the discovery. But now with two more specimens, it’s pretty convincing proof that nervous tissue in arthropod fossils from the Cambrian period can indeed be fossilized. In fact, all three specimens were discovered buried in similar deposits which allowed the brain tissue to fossilize.
The two Alalcomenaeus fossils were found in the Great Basin in Utah. Ortega-Hernández and his co-authors described the fossils as having symmetrical stains that were found along its mid-line that looked like the nervous system that’s found in modern arthropods like spiders, scorpions, and horseshoe crabs. Additionally, the stains contained carbon which is an important element found in nervous tissue. “The nervous system and the gut kind of cross each other, which is really funky but common in arthropods nowadays,” Ortega-Hernández told Live Science. Pictures can be seen here.
But not everyone is convinced that they in fact found a fossilized brain. Jianni Liu, who is a professor at the Early Life Institute in the Department of Geology at Northwest University in Xi’an, China, wrote an email to Live Science and argued that the inky stains found in the fossils could have been a “slightly random effect of the decay process” instead of being brain tissue.
Liu and her colleagues studied around 800 fossilized specimens and discovered that almost 10% of them had inky stains around the head. They found that while nervous tissue decays quite rapidly, bacteria from the gut can persist and “produce these so-called biofilms as radiating [stains] which look a bit like parts of a nervous system,” they wrote in a 2018 study.
Nicholas Strausfeld, who is a regents professor in the department of neuroscience at the University of Arizona, explained that when the creatures are buried underneath strong pressure, the remains become flattened out. And since there is a lot of fat found in nervous tissue, it repels water and “have some resistance against decay”.
There is still a lot of work and studying that needs to be done in regards to brain and nervous tissue fossilizing, but these are definitely interesting developments.
Watch NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover go for a test drive in preparation for landing on Martian soil
Watch NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover go for a test drive in preparation for landing on Martian soil
NASA engineers witnessed their newest Mars rover take its first steps in preparation for its next mission that will search for fossilized remains of ancient life on the red planet.
The test took place inside the Spacecraft Assembly Facility clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Engineers clad in white bunny suits—special cleanroom attire worn in order to keep the rover’s delicate instruments very, very clean—watched the yet-to-be-named rover inch forward as part of the crucial pre-flight test, which lasted just over 10-hours.
“Mars 2020 has earned its driver’s license,” Rich Rieber, the lead mobility systems engineer for Mars 2020, said in a news release. “The test unambiguously proved that the rover can operate under its own weight and demonstrated many of the autonomous-navigation functions for the first time. This is a major milestone for Mars 2020.”
During the test, NASA engineers noticed no problems, as the six-wheeled rover successfully performed all its required tasks: it rolled forward and backward and even pirouetted. According to NASA, the rover’s systems, all working in concert, enabled it to steer, turn and drive with ease.
The testing of the vehicle’s autonomous navigation system went well. Since these systems performed perfectly under Earth’s gravity, engineers expect them to perform just as well under Mars’ gravity, which is only 38% of what we experience on Earth.
The test went so well that NASA says the “next time the Mars 2020 rover drives, it will be rolling over Martian soil.” The Mars 2020 rover is scheduled to launch in July 2020, followed by a landing in Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021.
“A rover needs to rove, and Mars 2020 did that,” John McNamee, project manager for Mars 2020, said in a statement. “We can’t wait to put some red Martian dirt under its wheels.”
During its initial test drive, the rover crept forward in small, 3-feet ( 1-meter) increments, enabling the engineers to properly assess its movement and steering abilities. The rover also drove over small ramps designed to simulate uneven Martian terrain.
Engineers were also able to collect data from the vehicle’s Radar Imager for Mars’ Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX)—an instrument that uses radar waves to scan the ground below the rover. Depending on the terrain, once on Mars, RIMFAX will penetrate the ground, probing the red planet’s subsurface to depths of more than 30-feet (or 10-meters).
Engineers have outfitted the Mars 2020 rover with more durable wheels. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Curiosity, the Mars 2020 rover’s predecessor currently roaming around on Mars, is predominantly commanded by people back on Earth. However, the rover does have the ability to autonomously choose where to fire its laser spectrometer. As part of its onboard science arsenal, the instrument—called ChemCam—is designed to analyze the chemical composition of nearby rocks and soil.
Mars 2020, on the other hand, will be more independent than any of its predecessors. Equipped with advanced auto-navigation software, the rover will drive with the help of a dedicated onboard computer operating on data collected from the vehicle’s high-resolution, wide-field color cameras.
NASA engineers estimate that the rover will travel an average of 650 feet (200 meters) per day. For comparison, Curiosity’s current distance record for a single day is 702 feet (214 meters), although that’s not typical. The Mars 2020 rover will also be sporting more durable wheels. Curiosity’s wheels are visibly worn after seven years on the Martian surface; engineers hope Mars 2020’s wheels will hold up better.
NASA’s Mars2020 rover will explore Jezero Crater in search of life. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Once on Mars, the rover will land at Jezero Crater—a former lake bed, rich in mineral deposits known for preserving microfossils here on Earth. In this crater, the rover will search for any signs that life may have once existed on Mars.
While acting as a remote scientist, the rover will unlock clues about the planet’s climate and geology as well as collect samples that will be returned to Earth sometime in the future.
Following the loss of the Opportunity rover, Curiosity has been the sole robot roaming the Martian surface. That will change in 2021, but they won’t be the only ones.
They will be joined by another: The European Space Agency is teaming up with Russia to send their version of the Mars 2020 rover. The Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover will arrive on Mars at a soon-to-be-announced location, in 2021.
As the Latin proverb goes, Homo homini lupus – “man is wolf to man,” which is rather unfortunate as wolves are also wolves to men. Sitting in the kind embrace of modern civilization, it’s easy to forget a lineage fraught with fears of bloodthirsty creatures hidden in the dark.
Tool usage and organized social behaviors landed humanity a spot as the apex predator of the animal kingdom across the globe early on in our history, but there are still many creatures that prove a substantial threat under the wrong circumstances. While humans killing humans is a significant source of death around the world, it “only” accounted for about 560,000 deaths in 2016 — a number that pales in comparison to a single entry on the list of deadly animals.
1. Polar bears
Most animals attack humans intruding upon their territory as an instinctual act of self-preservation. Though many of these attacks prove deadly, it’s rare that other predators seek out human beings as prey. Polar bears, on the other hand, are one of the few animal species that will attack human beings for food, if desperate. Lacking an instinctual fear of humans due to a lack of natural exposure, polar bears see humans as an easily overpowered small mammal, and attacks often prove fatal.
2. Emus
Emus do not prey on humans but are characterized by a curiosity towards people moving in their surroundings as they may follow us simply to observe. Emus have earned a spot on the list as tenacious opponents of human conquest. In the winter of 1932, Australian settlers found acquired lands encroached upon by emu migrations numbering in the tens of thousands. The large presence of emus made agriculture nearly impossible and sparked what was known as “The Great Emu War.” Machine guns, bounties, and organized parties proved no match for the flightless birds, who regularly evaded attacks and left settlers with an awkward truce and miles of barrier fencing.
3. Funnel-web spiders
The list wouldn’t be complete without due respect to the many deadly creatures of the Outback or one of the most common human fears. Australian funnel-web spiders are the most toxic species of spiders. These arachnids are attracted to water and are often found near swimming pools. Most attacks result from the aggression of wandering males, and the bite of an Australian funnel-web spider can kill a child in hours or an adult in one day. Funnel-web spiders were a significant cause of death during early human colonization of their habitats, though anti-venom treatments are fast and effective. Since the widespread availability of funnel-web anti-venom, no deaths have been reported.
4. Hippopotamuses
“River horses” are aquatic herbivores that live in herds. The dense mammals are so heavy that they can walk underwater. Hippopotamus calves are frequent targets of crocodiles, and adults have been observed engaging in anti-predator behaviors. In combination with the fierce territoriality of bulls, these behaviors make the creatures a substantial threat to wandering and fishing humans, with death tolls ranging from 500 to 3,000 per year. Hippopotamuses are most dangerous when they perceive threats to their young or the females are in heat.
5. Mosquitoes
The deadliest creature to human beings doesn’t bear fangs, claws, or a machine gun but, rather, fragile wings and a thread-like proboscis. A 2016 report from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation showed that mosquitoes are responsible for the largest number of human deaths related to animals. Carrying diseases as diverse as dengue fever and Zika virus, the most lethal disease that mosquitoes spread in the developing world is malaria with approximately 212 million cases in 2015 and 429,000 deaths.
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The December 26, 2019, annular or ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse was viewed across a narrow track that started at sunrise in Saudi Arabia and ended at sunset over the North Pacific Ocean.
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Progression into and out of yesterday’s annular eclipse, from Tumon Bay, Guam. Eliot Herman reported: “It was a beautiful day in Guam to observe the eclipse mostly clear blue skies with a little marine haze on the coast. These images were captured with a Questar telescope and a Nikon D850 camera using a Baader solar filter.” Thank you, Eliot!
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Nikunj Rawal wrote from Jamnagar, Gujarat, India: “… 73% maximum eclipse at 09:17 a.m. at Jamnagar, India on December 26. Was worth experience to witness and capture the phenomenon using a long-focal-length telephoto lens with well planned preparations of 2 weeks on top of the Gop Hills Mountain. The annular phase of this solar eclipse was not visible here, unlike South Indian states. This sequence is a combination of 2 consecutive exposures taken with the same camera using the same settings — one taken of the landscape and another of the background of sun using 3.8mm Baader filter.” Thank you, Nikunj!
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Kandaswamy Natarajan wrote from Chennai, Tamilnadu, India: “This morning solar eclipse clicked through my Huwaei mobile camera.” Note that the sun is much too bright to show the eclipse, but Kandaswamy captured it via the lens flare – an internal reflection from his camera – on the photo. Thank you, Kandaswamy!
Annular Solar Eclipse as seen from Chennai, India. 26th December 2019 Visibility : Partial Maximum Eclipse approx 85% of Sun's disk around 9.30 A.M@the_hindu@IndianExpress@timesofindia
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Kannan A wrote from Singapore: “On this day – December 26, 2019 – in Singapore, we got to see the annular solar eclipse. It was a very rare moment on this day which coincided with Boxing Day and the 15th anniversary of the 2004 Tsunami in Banda Aceh. During the maximum phase of the eclipse, the clouds formed momentarily allowing stargazers to view the eclipse without the use of specialized equipment, but with precautions taken to protect the eyes. In the north of Singapore, Woodlands, however, I did not get to see the ring of fire but got a pleasant Christmas C!” Thank you, Kannan A!
Bottom line: Photos from the EarthSky Community of the December 26, 2019, annular or “ring of fire” solar eclipse. The annular eclipse was viewed across a narrow track that started at sunrise in Saudi Arabia and ended at sunset over the North Pacific Ocean. Outside that track, many more viewed a partial eclipse.
An Alien Race colonized the Solar System by building Pyramids on Mars and the Moon
An Alien Race colonized the Solar System by building Pyramids on Mars and the Moon
In several photographs of the Moon and Mars it is possible to see buildings of various types including the pyramids. But a question arises: has an alien race built buildings, pyramids and underground bases in the solar system? Well … surely one or more extraterrestrial races have built pyramidal structures and other buildings on Earth, on the Moon, on Mars and on other planets in our star system. The many images that can be found on the Internet and in some rare publications are usually censored and not officially released and show the presence of alien structures in the solar system.
For NASA, everything related to alien structures discovered on other planets does not have to be in the public domain. For conspiracy theorists, there is no doubt that the Moon, Mars and other planets of the solar system hide ancient vestiges belonging to ancient space travelers, that is, a technologically evaded race (perhaps the Amunnaki?) Who colonized and built artificial structures that would not have been difficult to detect.
The theory of the presence of artificial structures built by an intelligent alien race on the moon is not new. Over the years, countless photos of strange lights and other abnormal structures such as pyramids and other buildings have attracted the attention of ufologists, who have identified buildings with complex architectures that would not have been built by primitive Earthmen.
For example, the “Clementine” space probe was able to capture high resolution photos of the Moon’s surface. So during over 300 orbits, he had the opportunity to collect significant data. Those who waited to see high resolution images from Earth were however very surprised when the United States Navy that ran the Climentine mission published their first series of images. They were heavily pixelated, modified in low resolution Gif format, as if few details had been extracted from the images, which should have been made available to the public instead.
Many areas of lunar interest had been intentionally darkened, as if NASA and the Navy were hiding something big. This can be clearly seen in the case of the images relating to the “Rainer Gamma” region, a high albedo area 40 miles west of the Reiner crater. The official explanation of the darkened area would be the “data loss”, but we all know that this is not the case.
Region: “Rainer Gamma”
This deliberate suppression becomes even more evident in the famous photos of the moon towers and beyond. Even the images of Mars have been modified and many obscured to suppress the truth about the presence of inexplicable structures.
A very interesting discovery on Mars concerns that in which many structures with clear signs of construction made by technologically advanced beings are visible. These are ancient alien ruins. If they had been found on Earth, people would have no hesitation. However this is Mars, and since knowing that alien life existed so close to Earth would have really shaken the whole world. This is why NASA doesn’t want the world to know about it.
NASA wants to keep it secret to see if they could find any kind of alien technology that could be useful to the United States. Imagine finding a broken computer on Mars … and bringing it back, only to find that the computer has an alien version of artificial intelligence. NASA downloads the program and integrates it into modern technology today, using it to control the world. Well this would be the most likely scenario.
Alien structure on the moon but clouded by NASA
3D photography of the surface of Venus highlights a mysterious structure
There is photographic evidence that something was artificially built on the Moon, Mars, Venus and other planets in the solar system. There are structures on the surface of the Red Planet and structures on Venus, found in countless images taken from space probes, such as the NASA MRO that has long been mapping the whole red planet.
Pyramid on Mars
From Apollo’s mission to the International Space Station, there are enough images to create a strong argument when it comes to visits by extraterrestrial races. There are things that even science cannot explain. Whether it’s the Earth, the Moon or Mars, the UFO phenomenon (now better Extraterrestrial Reality) is everywhere, and one of the puzzling and most interesting statements made in recent years comes from General Albert Stubblebine, a major general who was also the commander General at the commands of the Security Command (INSCOM), more exactly, at the head of the US Army Intelligence.
General Stubblebine declared before his death that alien structures connected to underground tunnels exist on Mars
In his latest interview, Stubblebine stated: “ there are constructions on the surface of Mars, on the Moon and on other planets in the solar system that are the work of an ancient technologically advanced alien race. There are buildings and other structures on Mars that are connected with underground areas of unimaginable size. There are also machines on the surface of Mars. Structures below the surface of Mars obviously cannot be seen by probe cameras such as the 1976 Voyager. I also say that there are machines on the surface of Mars and there are machines below the surface of Mars that you can look at but only through the “Signs” of their presence. “.
“You can only find out in detail, you can see what they are, where they are, who they are and many details about them. The rovers on Mars are sent only to make people believe that Mars is just a desolate planet. True yes, but only in part but there are some areas where vegetation still exists and in some photographs taken by the MRO probe you can see them. Under its surface are hidden secret bases and ancient alien bases and on the surface there are pyramids and domes that have also been photographed and often photographs hidden or manipulated by NASA. “
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Forbidden Discoveries Documentary 2019 Impossible Devices, Out of Time Technology and Artifacts
Forbidden Discoveries Documentary 2019 Impossible Devices, Out of Time Technology and Artifacts
Of all the many unexplained phenomena and objects in the world, the ones that hold a great deal of fascination for us are what can be categorized as ancient anomalies. There have been many of these strange out of time discoveries, many more than geologists, archaeologists, and other scientists care to admit. We will look at the existence of puzzling artifacts, inexplicable monuments, human-made marvels and baffling finds regarding to our ancient and prehistory and ask the question, are we missing pieces of the puzzle with regards our past?
Watch eye-opening, thought-provoking, awesome, educational documentaries by subscribing and of course hit the bell button in the top right to stay informed of our latest releases. We will make each film expand the viewer's horizons, especially those open to learning more about the world. We hope you will become aware of facts you may have been previously unaware of in the excellent forbidden ancient discoveries documentary.
The sun is right there in the name of NASA's Parker Solar Probe, but a second mission of opportunity may make the spacecraft just as vital to Venus scientists as to those studying our local star.
Parker Solar Probe launched in August 2018, destined to spend seven years looping ever closer to the sun in hopes of sorting out some of the hottest mysteries about our star. But to do so, the spacecraft needed a carefully choreographed trajectory, one that included seven flybys of Earth's evil twin, Venus. And Venus scientists, who haven't had a dedicated NASA spacecraft since the mid-1990s, were not about to let that opportunity fly past them.
"The Venus flybys are like, if you have like a 48-hour layover in Paris, not leaving the airport," Shannon Curry, a planetary physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, told Space.com. "It would be crazy not to turn on [the instruments]." Curry and her colleagues made her case, and the Parker Solar Probe will gather its second batch of Venus data today (Dec. 26), as the probe makes its closest approach to the planet at 1:14 p.m. EST (1814 GMT).
Of course, Parker Solar Probe's instruments are designed to study a star, not a planet. They focus mostly on plasma, the hot mess of charged particles that makes up the sun. Traditionally, planetary scientists want very different instruments on their spacecraft: radar devices to map the surface, spectrometers to identify chemicals and the like. But that doesn't make plasma data superfluous.
Two dedicated Venus missions have carried plasma detectors to the world: NASA's Pioneer Venus Orbiter and the European Space Agency's Venus Express. But those spacecraft were built decades ago. "The stuff that they were able to put on [Parker] Solar Probe takes measurements faster, better, stronger, like the whole deal," Curry said.
And she and her colleagues have plenty of questions about Venus that plasma data could help answer. For today's flyby, the team is particularly interested in a feature called the bow shock, where the planet's neighborhood meets the solar wind of charged particles that constantly stream off the sun.
The precise location of the bow shock varies based on how active the sun is, which changes over the course of the 11-year solar cycle. "We're not positive it'll cross the shock or not, but that's actually important because it'll tell us physically where the shock is at this point in the solar cycle," Curry said. "It tells us a lot about what the sun's doing, and the shock is a nice gauge of that."
And the environment on either side of the bow shock differs dramatically. Outside the shock is the pristine solar wind and the effects of solar storms. But if Parker Solar Probe crosses inside the shock, scientists should be able to better understand how quickly Venus is losing its atmosphere.
"The magnetic fields pile up and actually sort of drag the atmosphere off. It's almost like a slingshot," Curry said. "That's one of the biggest ways the atmosphere of Venus gets removed, the sun's magnetic field lines."
Venus scientists are interested in a more detailed measurement of atmosphere loss, because atmospheric pressure affects what state water takes; it's Earth's even 1 bar of pressure that helps keep our oceans liquid. "At some point, maybe liquids could exist again [on Venus], or maybe they did before and we just don't know," Curry said.
But the Venus atmospheric-loss measurements will really crank up during Parker Solar Probe's next two flybys, in July 2020 and February 2021. These two visits will carry the spacecraft right through what scientists call the tail of Venus, which is where the atmosphere slips away from the planet.
"Those are going to be the super-important ones. I think these first two are almost — not like dress rehearsals, but it's really important to make sure we get everything right," Curry said. "Flybys 3 and 4 will tell us mountains about atmospheric escape at Venus and then a lot of other dynamics we just don't understand."
Curry said that Parker Solar Probe may be able to solve a long-standing mystery about the surface of Venus: whether the planet sports small, patchy crustal magnetic fields. So far, Mars is the only planet where scientists have seen this phenomenon. "It's like a little magnetic rash on its belly, like little bubbles with magnetic fields," Curry said. But no one's gotten a close enough look at Venus to check for them. "We might not [see them], and they might not even be there. We just don't know."
The results of the first Venus flyby, which took place in October 2018, prove the importance of practice. During the pass, the spacecraft ended up shutting its instruments down, convinced that they were pointing straight at the sun, which they aren't meant to do.
"We're just looking at Venus, not the sun. Venus is just a superbright planet the way it reflects," Curry said. "That's why the instruments got confused." Now, Curry said, the project team believes it's figured out how to keep that error from happening again.
And the Venus work is benefiting from a science bonus discovered by the main Parker Solar Probe team, which realized that the spacecraft could gather and send back more data than originally anticipated. Curry had been willing to fight for even just an hour of data on a flyby; during the first maneuver, the team got about 10 hours of observations.
Curry is hoping to build similar Venus collaborations with the European and Japanese team running the BepiColombo mission en route to Mercury and with Europe's Solar Orbiter mission. Like Parker Solar Probe, both of these spacecraft also need to make Venus flybys to reach their targets.
"These are the only measurements of Venus we're going to have for, frankly, it might be the next decade," Curry said. "We have nothing planned to go to Venus." And the missions NASA is considering don't carry plasma instruments like Parker Solar Probe does, so questions like atmospheric loss might go unanswered even then.
Combine those two factors, and the mission's accidental planetary science looks even more precious. "With Venus science," Curry said, "anybody who gets data is a hero."
As 2019 comes to a close, it's time to review some of the biggest space science stories of the year.
From a world with three suns in its sky to lots of possibly habitable real estate, the past year has seen some incredible exoplanet discoveries. Here are 10 of the most memorable.
This graphic shows a comparison of the habitable zones of several alien planets, and how the Teegarden's Star planets measure up. (Image credit: C. Harman)
In June 2019, researchers reported that they had found two Earth-like exoplanets circling a red dwarf known as Teegarden's Star, which lies only 12.5 light-years from Earth.
The newfound worlds complete one lap around their host star in just 4.9 and 11.4 Earth days, respectively. Despite these close orbits, they're still thought to reside in the "habitable zone" — the range of distances from a star that can support the existence of liquid water on a world's surface — because Teegarden's star is so dim.
From the data collected so far, scientists believe there might be more exoplanets to find in this system too.
9. Ploonets
An artist's illustration of a potentially habitable exomoon orbiting a giant planet in a distant solar system. Such worlds could get stripped of their host planets and orbit stars independently, becoming "ploonets." (Image credit: NASA GSFC/Jay Friedlander and Britt Griswold)
Who said space isn't adorable? In a preprint paper published on the website arXiv in July 2019, scientists gave a fanciful name to a class of wandering exomoons. In the scenario described in the paper, these exomoons were ripped from the gravitational pull of their host planet and pulled toward their host star.
No longer just a moon, but still not quite an exoplanet, these weird exomoons needed a special name. Previous research had thrown around "moonmoon," but the paper published in July landed on the much cuter "ploonet."
Ploonets are purely theoretical right now, but the paper showed how their journeys (and subsequent slow deaths) around their host stars might leave recognizable light signals. The researchers think that this light signature might explain some previously unexplained astronomical observations.
8. Three suns!
An artist's depiction of the view from a moon's surface of a gas giant and three suns. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Thanks to a little help from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), scientists discovered a strange new exoplanet in a three-star system with a surface temperature around 320 degrees Fahrenheit (160 degrees Celsius.) The exoplanet, called LTT 1445Ab, is 22.5 light-years from Earth and, despite having stars in triplicate, appears to make an orbit around one of them every five days. The other two red dwarfs simply loom in the exoplanet's sky.
In addition to its novel setup, scientists say that the exoplanet would be a perfect candidate for future atmospheric exploration thanks to its positioning between the stars and Earth. Scientists believe this would make it possible for even ground-based Earth telescopes to make observations about the exoplanet.
7. Gassy preteen with two suns
An illustration of Kepler-47, an exoplanet that, like DS Tuc Ab, orbits, two suns. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle)
In March 2019, scientists used TESS data to discover a gassy, preteen exoplanet that researchers believe to be a mere 43 million years old. The exoplanet, called DS Tuc Ab, orbits one star in a two-star system once every eight days.
And because DS Tuc Ab is still relatively young, scientists are interested in learning more about what this world's history could tell us about the formation of planets in our own solar system. For example, DS Tuc Ab still experiences considerable losses of its atmospheric gas due to radiation from its host star. Scientists hope to extrapolate this knowledge about DS Tuc Ab to imagine what might happen to Earth and other planets closer to home if they were to lose their atmospheres.
In July 2019, scientists used TESS data to find yet another treasure trove of possibly habitable exoplanets. The data identified three exoplanets in the dwarf star system GJ 357, which lies 31 light-years from Earth.
Two of the planets — GJ 357 c and d — can be classified as "super-Earths," worlds slightly bigger than our own. Meanwhile, GJ 357 b is something called a hot Earth, meaning that, while its size might be Earth-like, its surface gets much hotter (about 490 degrees Fahrenheit, or 254 degrees Celsius) than that of our own planet.
GJ 357 d in particular has grabbed a lot of attention, because it may well fall into the coveted habitable zone. This planet completes one lap around the host star every 55 Earth days.
5. A snowball's chance
An artist's impression of a "snowball Earth." (Image credit: NASA)
Scientists have been peering into Earth's baby book to learn a little more about a kind of exoplanet deemed a "snowball." At certain points in their lives, snowballs can become tidally locked with their host star, always showing it the same face, and as a result develop huge, eyeball-like icy oceans on that face.
Earth itself went through its own snowball phases as a younger planet. Because of this fact, scientists have speculated that snowball exoplanets may well be capable of sustaining life — and research published in July 2019 suggests they might even be better at it than originally imagined.
The paper focused on what might be happening on the land of these snowball planets instead of just their oceans. The study found that snowball planets would likely have relatively temperate inland zones, where temperatures hover around 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius) and above — something that Earth-like life could easily handle.
4. Football-shaped world
The top of WASP-121b's atmosphere is heated to a blazing 4,600 degrees Fahrenheit (2,500 Celsius), hot enough to boil some metals. (Image credit: G. Bacon (STSci)/NASA/ESA)
In August 2019, scientists reported finding a strange, football-shaped exoplanet shedding its atmosphere at a rapid rate — and losing heavy metals like iron and magnesium along with it. This big, puffy exoplanet, called WASP-121b, is something called a "hot Jupiter," and it orbits so close to its sun that its temperature is hotter than any other known planet — a whopping 4,600 degrees Fahrenheit (2,538 Celsius) in the upper atmosphere.
The proximity to its star not only heats up the exoplanet but also causes its football-like bulge as the star's gravity literally threatens to tear the exoplanet apart. Scientists were able to make this original observation using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope but hope to investigate the exoplanet further using the agency's James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch in 2021.
3. Exoplanet water-vapor drama
A clash over exoplanet data ruffled a few feathers in September 2019 as scientists raced to be the first to report findings of alien-world water vapor.
The data in question was collected by a Université de Montréal-led team in 2016, 2017, and 2018 and suggested that the air of an exoplanet called K2-18 b features water vapor and clouds — a huge point of excitement for those searching for signs of alien life. But a team from University College London posted an analysis of this data around the same time the Canadian researchers did.
While such scientific scooping is not illegal — the data was open-access — some astronomers saw it as poor form. And the Canadian team leader said he wished the London team had consulted him about their plans.
The two studies interpreted the data somewhat differently, but both concluded that there is water vapor in K2-18 b's atmosphere. And that's a good thing, all the drama notwithstanding.
Planets orbit a supermassive black hole named Gargantua in the 2014 sci-fi blockbuster "Interstellar." A new study suggests that thousands of starless planets could orbit every such black hole. (Image credit: Paramount Pictures)
Using a computer model, scientists determined in October 2019 that starless, Neptune-like planets could form around and orbit supermassive black holes. Instead of calling a cozy solar system home, these exoplanets would live on the edge of, or about 10 to 30 light-years away from, a light-eating black hole and would be comprised of icy dust left in its wake. Based on their model, the scientists said that such voracious black holes could be host to tens of thousands of planets.
At least in theory, anyway; detecting such exoplanets would be extremely challenging. For example, astronomers couldn't use the most prolific planet-detection strategy, the transit method, to find such worlds. The transit method looks for dips in light that result when an exoplanet passes in front of its host start. But, because black holes eat light instead of emitting it, this obviously wouldn't work. So, scientists might have to rely on models and indirect methods for now.
1. Exoplanet collision?
(Image credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook)
Scientists have been observing a lot of warm dust in the star system BD +20 307, which is about 300 light-years from Earth. And they're starting to get excited, because this dust might be evidence of a fairly recent planetary collision. The observations were first made a decade ago and then reaffirmed in April 2019.
For scientists, this exciting possibility represents an opportunity to learn more about how such impacts affect the formation and evolution of planetary systems. This hits close to home, as it's believed that Earth's moon formed after a giant impact.
Editor's note:This story has been corrected to reflect the correct distance to the exoplanets of GJ 357. The correct distance is 31 light-years from Earth, not 31 million light-years.
Of the many and varied documents that have surfaced under the terms of the U.S. government’s Freedom of Information Act, one of the most fascinating is a 33-pages-long report on psychic phenomena titled “Paranormal Phenomena — Briefing on a Net Assessment Study.” Written in January 1973 by P.T. Van Dyke and M.L. Juncosa (of RAND) for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), it makes for notable reading. It should be noted that over the years and decades, U.S. military- and intelligence-agencies have (A) tried to use dogs to psychically locate landmines on battlefields; (B) studied out-of-body phenomena; (C) attempted to determine if both animals and people have souls; and (D) studied the possibility of that psychic phenomena can cause heart-attacks. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. But, now, let’s get back to that “Paranormal Phenomena — Briefing on a Net Assessment Study.”
Without doubt, the most intriguing section of the document is the one that is titled Possible Military Applications. The section is split into four different parts. The first is titled “Long- and Short-Distance Information Transfer.” It states: “For a variety of reasons, including apparent violations of some basic principles of communication theory, the probability of long-distance telepathic communication being confirmed as a real phenomenon appears rather low; however, these considerations may not apply with equal force to the possibility of short-range information transfer by telepathic means (of the order of a few meters). It should be noted, though, that long-distance telepathic phenomena occupy a paramount place in modern experimental research, but that their confirmation and theoretical explanation would require a modification of known laws of physics.”
The second part goes by the heading of “Equipment Control and System Damage.” It provides the following: “It would not be conceptually difficult, for example, to imagine the utility of psychokinesis (if feasible) in disrupting the electrical systems associated with an ICBM’s guidance program.” This is particularly intriguing as, in some ways, it ties in with some of the incredible claims that have been made concerning how, in decades past, UFOs have been able to disable ICBMs and affect nuclear-missile-launch facilities. Now, let’s move on.
Part-three has an eye-opening title: “Man-Machine Interactions.” We are told that, “These entail an application of both telepathy and psychokinesis to produce a quasi-symbiotic relationship between man and, say, computing equipment on a more intimate basis than is presently feasible.” Although I don’t buy into the story that the late Philip J. Corso presented in his 1997 book, The Day After Roswell, he certainly addressed this matter: “Were all of this to be true, could it not be argued that the silicon wafers we recovered from Roswell were the real masters and space travelers and the EBE creatures their hosts or servants? Once implanted successfully on Earth, our culture having reached a point of readiness through its development of the first digital computers, would not the natural development stream, starting from the invention of the transistor, have carried us to the point where we achieve a symbiotic relationship [italics mine] with the silicon material that carries our data and enables us to become more creative and successful?”
“Body Control and Healing” is the title of part-four. In relation to those “possible military applications,” Van Dyke and Juncosa said: “One may envision an application of both autogenic phenomena (voluntary control of the autonomic nervous system) and what is traditionally known as ‘faith healing’ to battlefield injuries. There is, in fact, some evidence that certain individuals may accelerate organic healing processes through various psychosomatic effects. The ability to resist normally intolerable conditions, such as torture or brainwashing in captivity, might be another application of these phenomena.”
The conclusions were driven by the concerns that the Soviets might have gotten ahead of the U.S. The “general conclusions” of Van Dyke and Juncosa were as follows: “Over forty years of research in the United States have failed to significantly advance our understanding of paranormal phenomena; in several areas, U.S. research is beginning to track Soviet research; there is much Soviet interest in U.S. work, especially in possible military-oriented research; visible U.S. and Soviet levels of effort appear roughly equal; there is some evidence of Soviet government funding of certain areas of research; published information on Soviet experimental design and analysis tends to be vague and incomplete; Soviet research is much more oriented toward biological and physical theorizing than is U.S. research; if paranormal phenomena do exist, the thrust of Soviet research appears more likely to lead to explanation, control, and application than is U.S. research.
As if Elon Musk needs yet another reason for people to hate his guts, here’s one more that has nothing to do with Teslas, Mars, cave rescues, politics or the dangers of artificial intelligence. Beginning in January, Musk’s SpaceX will conduct regularly-scheduled launches of batches of 60 communications satellites at a time, with a goal of about 1500 by the end of the year, joining the two batches of 60 launched in 2019. Those two raised the ire of astronomers and star-gazers – especially the second batch which are in a low 280 km orbit and clearly visible in the night sky. (Video here and here.) If astronomers think 60 is bad and 1,500 is worse, SpaceX already has approval for a total of 12,000 satellites and has filed paperwork to launch 30,000 more. THIRTY-THOUSAND! No wonder they’re angry.
Radio telescope
Dhara Patel, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, vented disdain to the BBC. Dr. Dave Clements, an astrophysicist from Imperial College London, explained that the moving satellites will mess with telescopes that are taking large surveys of the sky, comparing it to “like someone’s walking around firing a flashbulb every now and again.” The bright lights will also hide anything and everything behind them “whether that’s a nearby potentially hazardous asteroid or the most distant Quasar in the Universe.”
@jengolbeck If you saw a row of UFO like lights in the sky in IL, IA, MI (like this but spaced out), that was SpaceX Starlink Satellites! You’ll be able to see them in the next few days, too! Check here for a map (and set the time back to see their track today) https://t.co/wtkU9xSFY9
This still sucks.
Who will win this fight for the skies? SpaceX claims it is working on a special coating to make the satellites less reflective, although less is still more when you’re talking 42,000 satellites. The UK company OneWeb is looking to put as many as 2,000 satellites in orbit. While touting its work with astronomers to minimize their influence on the skies, Ruth Pritchard-Kelly, vice president of OneWeb, may have given the best answer to the “Who will win?” question:
“There is no question that the entire world is entitled to be connected to the internet…. So it’s going to happen. And probably three or four of these systems are going to happen.”
So … it’s going to happen. Perhaps Musk can make peace with astronomers by giving them and their telescopes a free trip to nearly-satellite-free Mars.
Groot Maya-paleis van 1.000 jaar oud ontdekt in Mexicaanse jungle:
Groot Maya-paleis van 1.000 jaar oud ontdekt in Mexicaanse jungle: "Dit is nog maar het begin"
Archeologen hebben in Mexico de overblijfselen van een groot Maya-paleis van 1.000 jaar oud ontdekt. Volgens de eerste aanwijzingen dateert het paleis uit de periode 600-1.050 na Christus, tijdens het hoogtepunt van de Maya-beschaving.
Hanne Decré
Het paleis werd ontdekt op de archeologische site van de oude stad Kuluba, vlak bij Cancún, in het uiterste oosten van het schiereiland Yucatán. Het was een belangrijke plaats tot de komst van de Spaanse ontdekkingsreizigers. De afmetingen zijn indrukwekkend, het paleis was maar liefst 6 meter hoog, 55 meter lang en 15 meter breed.
Foto's van het eeuwenoude paleis. Bron: Mauricio Marat, INAH.
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Foto's van het eeuwenoude paleis. Bron: Mauricio Marat, INAH
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Volgens het INAH (voluit Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia) zijn er aanwijzingen dat het paleis gedurende twee lange periodes tussen 600 en 1.050 na Christus gebruikt werd. Vermoedelijk werd het paleis bewoond door de elite van Kuluba.
Dit is nog maar het begin, we zijn nog maar net begonnen met de ontdekking van een van de grootste structuren op de site
Archeoloog Alfredo Barrera
"Dit is nog maar het begin, we zijn nog maar net begonnen met de ontdekking van een van de grootste structuren op de site", vertelt archeoloog Alfredo Barrera.
Naast het paleis zijn archeologen ook bezig om vier andere structuren te verkennen op het centrale plein van Kuluba, onder meer een altaar, overblijfselen van twee woningen en een ronde structuur (waarschijnlijk een oven). Er wordt ook bestudeerd hoe de historische site beschermd kan worden tegen schade van de wind en de zon.
Er wordt overwogen om delen te herbebossen. Mogelijk wordt de site binnenkort opengesteld voor het publiek. Er werden op de site ook verschillende beenderen teruggevonden. De skeletten zullen nu worden onderzocht om onder meer de leeftijd en het geslacht te bepalen.
Een archeologe aan het werk.
Bron: Mauricio Marat, INAH
Een belangrijke link met Chichén Itzá, de Maya-stad bij uitstek
Kuluba had belangrijke linken met Maya-steden als Ek'Balam en - nog crucialer - Chichén Itzá. De regio viel onder de invloed van Chichén Itzá en maakte deel uit van het handelsnetwerk. De naam van de site zou van het Maya-woord K'ulu' afkomstig zijn. Een K'ulu' is een soort wilde hond die daar leefde.
Tussen 250 en 900 na Christus was de Mayabeschaving op haar hoogtepunt. Voor de Spanjaarden de regio veroverden, heersten de Maya's over grote delen van wat nu Mexico, Honduras en Guatemala is.
De Maya's bouwden steden (waarvan Chichén Itzá waarschijnlijk de bekendste is), bedreven landbouw, hadden een volledig ontwikkeld schrift, bedreven rituele ceremonies, en waren ontwikkeld in kunst, architectuur, astronomie en wiskunde. Ze hadden ook een eigen kalender, en Mayapriesters interpreteerden die om er de toekomst mee te voorspellen. De onderzoekers hopen dat de ontdekking meer over het leven van de Maya's zal onthullen.
The Mayan palace was discovered in the archaeological zone of Kulubá, Yucatán. The construction, located within this pre-Hispanic Mayan city, is approximately 55 meters long (180.5 ft) by 15 meters (49.2 ft) wide and 6 meters (19.6 ft) tall.
YUCATÁN, Mexico (Times Media Mexico) – 37 kilometers southeast of the city of Tizimin in Yucatan, Kulubá is located. It is quite an interesting Mayan archaeological site since everyday something new shows up.
The name Kulubá, according to the Maya language specialist William Brito Sansores (La escritura de los mayas, 1981), is allegedly formed by the words “K’ulu”, which refers to a kind of wild dog, and “ha”, water.
The archaeological zone of Kulubá, in Yucatán, is home to a 55-meter-long palace, according to the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).
“This work has confirmed the existence of a palace to the east of the main square of Group C, through the liberation and recognition of the base, the stairways and a crossing with pilasters, at the top, which would have been used by the elite of the place,” the INAH explained in a statement.
The construction, located inside this pre-Hispanic Mayan city, is approximately 55 meters long by 15 meters wide and 6 meters high.
Kulubá Yucatan, Palace Photo: INAH
The construction materials indicate that there were two phases of occupation: one in the Late Classic period (600-900 AD) and another in the Terminal Classic period (850-1050 AD).
“In the Terminal Classic is when Chichén Itzá became a prominent metropolis in the current Yucatán,–and– it extended its influence over sites like Kulubá,” explained archaeologist Alfredo Barrera.
Along with this palace, the experts explored four other structures in the plaza of the so-called architectural Group C: an altar, two vestiges of living spaces and a round construction that is believed to have been an oven.
Kulubá is an archaeological zone located 37 kilometers from the municipality of Tizmín that is still being studied and recovered.
Archeologists at Kulubá Yucatan, Palace Photo: INAH
The people in charge of the work of the multidisciplinary project are specialists in archaeology and restoration.
“Throughout the 20th century, Tizimín ceded most of its forest land to agricultural and livestock use. This means that the experts who are now restoring the Mayan buildings to their former glory not only live alongside spider monkeys and other species of flora and fauna, but also give priority to the fact that the archaeological zone is distinguished by its natural and cultural balance” said INAH.
Kulubá Yucatan, entrance to the palace Photo: INAH
“All these exploratory and conservation actions are the beginning of the work that the INAH carries out to recover, research and disseminate among the public the cultural and natural heritage of Kulubá, a place that increases its heritage attraction and regional sustainability” concluded the INAH.
Archaeologists found an ancient Mayan palace that was probably used by elite members of society over 1,000 years ago. The palace was discovered in the ancient city of Kuluba which is not far from Cancun, Mexico.
The large structure was found in the eastern part of the Kuluba archaeological zone which is a pre-Hispanic site located in the Yucatán state. Excavations at the site revealed the large palace that measured 180 feet long by 50 feet wide and 20 feet in height. According to the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), it was inhabited by locals during two lengthy time periods between 600 and 1050 A.D.
In addition to the palace, four other structures were discovered. They found an altar, remains of two residential buildings, and a round shaped structure which they think was an oven. There is still much more work that needs to be done, though. “This work is the beginning, we’ve barely began uncovering one of the most voluminous structures on the site,” archaeologist Alfredo Barrera said in a video statement.
Chichen Itza
According to the INAH, conservationists are looking to reforest certain parts of Kuluba in order to protect the site against sun and wind damage.
The ancient city of Kuluba had very important connections with other Maya cities like Ek’ Balam and Chichen Itza as it was part of their network of trade and territory.
The Mayan civilization prospered in Central America for approximately 3,000 years – reaching their peak between 250 and 900 A.D. Today, their descendants still live throughout different Maya areas. The Mayans created very advanced architecture and art in addition to having the only completely developed written language in that area during that time.
Mayan calendar
They are also famously known for their astronomical and mathematical systems. In fact, they had extensive knowledge of the stars and relied on astrological cycles in order to figure out when to plant their crops. It is believed that they even built their cities to coincide with the stars. The pyramid at Chichen Itza, for example, was constructed in accordance to the position of the sun during the spring and fall equinoxes. When the sun sets on those two days, the pyramid casts a shadow upon itself which aligns perfectly with the head carving of the Mayan’s serpent god. The serpent’s body is created by the shadow which makes it look as though it’s crawling towards the ground during the setting of the sun.
This new discovery of a Mayan palace is just one of the many astonishing remains that have been found throughout the years created by an incredibly fascinating civilization. Pictures of the palace can be seen here.
It looks like Russian President Vladimir Putin got what he wanted from Santa for Christmas – a working hypersonic missile that can travel at up to 27 times the speed of sound. At that speed (33339.6 km/h or 20716.3 mph), which arrived on Putin’s roof first – Santa or the missile?
“The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin on setting up on December 27 from 10:00 on combat duty the first missile regiment armed with the latest strategic missile system with the Avangard hypersonic planning winged warhead.”
Interfax reports that the first Avangard missile is in the Yasnensky Missile Division, which is deployed in the Orenburg region at the southern end of the Ural Mountains in southwestern Russia. That’s very close to Europe, although its range is likely to be farther than that. The Moscow Times reports that the Avangard was tested in December 2018 and hit a practice target 6,000 km (3,728 miles) away. But the Avangard is much more than just the world’s fastest missile. It’s a ‘boost-glide’ system, which means it’s launched like a ballistic missile but then quickly re-enters the atmosphere at a lower trajectory and glides unpowered for thousands of kilometers.
It was there a blink of an eye ago.
But wait … there’s more!
“It is not so much the speed of the hypersonic weapon alone that counts. It is its extraordinary maneuverability as it glides towards its target. This poses a huge problem for existing anti-missile defense systems. Indeed the glide vehicle’s trajectory, “surfing along the edge of the atmosphere” as one expert put it to me recently, presents any defensive system with additional problems. Thus, if Russia’s claims are true, it has developed a long-range intercontinental missile system that may well be impossible to defend against.”
Jonathon Marcus, the BBC’s defence correspondent says the Avangard could put Russia ahead of both China and the U.S. in this technology. As Vladimir Putin himself put it:
“Not a single country possesses hypersonic weapons, let alone continental-range hypersonic weapons. The West and other nations were “playing catch-up with us.”
Being the nice guy that he is, Putin allowed a team of U.S. inspectors to see a demonstration of the Avangard as part of transparency measures under the New START nuclear arms treaty with the U.S., which is up for renewal in 2021. According to Aljazeera, U.S. defense secretary Mark Esper says the Pentagon is working on the development of hypersonic weapons but it will be “probably a matter of a couple of years” before one is tested – after the New START treaty is renewed … or not renewed.
Say it again — who’s Number 1?
What does Russia’s deployment of the Avangard mean? Jonathon Marcus puts it bluntly.
“With a whole new generation of nuclear weapons at the threshold of entering service, many believe not just that existing agreements should be bolstered, but that new treaties are needed to manage what could turn into a new nuclear arms race.”
New Theory Explaining The “Dark Energy” Phenomenon
New Theory Explaining The “Dark Energy” Phenomenon
Does the Universe have borders?
The International Journal of Modern Physics has published an article by the IKBFU Physics and Mathematics Institute Artyom Astashenok and the Institute’s MA student Alexander Teplyakov. The article refers to the issue of the “Dark Energy” and an assumption is made that the Universe has borders.
Artyom Astashenok said, “The fact that our Universe is expanding was discovered almost a hundred years ago, but how exactly this happens, scientists realized only in the 90s of the last century, when powerful telescopes (including orbital ones) appeared and the era of exact cosmology began. In the course of observations and analysis of the data obtained, it turned out that the Universe is not just expanding, but expanding with acceleration, which began three to four billion years after the birth of the Universe”.
Credit: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
For a long time, it was believed that space is filled with ordinary matter – stars, planets, asteroids, comets and highly rarefied intergalactic gas. But, if this is so, then accelerated expansion is contrary to the law of gravity, which says that bodies are attracted to each other. Gravitational forces tend to slow down the expansion of the Universe but cannot accelerate it.
Artyom Astashenok says: “And then the idea was born that the Universe is filled for the most part not with ordinary matter, but with some “dark energy”, which has special properties. No one knows what is it and how it works, so it named “Dark Energy” as something unknown. And 70% of the Universe consists of this Energy”.
There are many theories of what the “Dark Energy” is, and the IKBFU scientists presented their own theory.
“The so-called Casimir effect (named after the Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir), which consists in the fact that two metal plates placed in a vacuum are attracted to each other, has long been known. It would seem that this cannot be, because there is nothing in the vacuum. But in fact, according to quantum theory, particles constantly appear and disappear there, and as a result of their interaction with plates, which indicate certain boundaries of space (which is extremely important), a very small attraction occurs. And there is an idea according to this, approximately the same thing happens in space. Only this leads, on the contrary, to additional repulsion, which accelerates the expansion of the Universe. That is, there is essentially no “Dark Energy”, but there is a manifestation of the boundaries of the Universe. This of course does not mean that it ends somewhere, but some kind of complex topology can take place. You can draw an analogy with the Earth. After all, it also has no boundaries, but it is finite. The difference between the Earth and the Universe is that in the first case we are dealing with two-dimensional space, and in the second – with three-dimensional”.
The published article, which, as explained by Artem Astashenok, develops the ideas presented in the thesis of Alexander Teplyakov, presents a mathematically sound model of the universe in which additional repulsion occurs, and where there is no contradiction between the fact that the expansion of the Universe accelerates and the law of universal gravitation.
Contacts and sources:
Sergey Bulanov
Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
Citation:
Some models of holographic dark energy on the Randall–Sundrum brane and observational data A. V. Astashenok and A. S. Tepliakov International Journal of Modern Physics D
Linda Moulton Howe: Alien Agendas That Are Hostile Enemies
Linda Moulton Howe: Alien Agendas That Are Hostile Enemies
Professional controlled remote viewers, who have worked for the CIA and DIA, report that this universe is teeming with life and consciousness. Alien agendas that are hostile enemies.
Emmy and Peabody Award-winning investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe has received insights from several whistleblowers and scientists. Join Linda for this exclusive opportunity to learn where the celestial battle lines are being drawn.
Linda Moulton Howe is a graduate of Stanford University with a Masters Degree in Communication. She has devoted her documentary film, television, radio, writing and reporting career to productions concerning science, medicine and the environment. Ms. Howe has received local, national and international awards, including three regional Emmys, a national Emmy nomination and a Station Peabody award for medical programming.
Linda’s documentaries have included A Strange Harvest and Strange Harvests 1993, which explored the worldwide animal mutilation mystery. Another film, A Prairie Dawn, focused on astronaut training in Denver. She has also produced documentaries in Ethiopia and Mexico for UNICEF about child survival efforts and for Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta about environmental challenges.
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Cultural Evolution Caused Broad-Scale Historical Declines Of Large Mammals Across China
Cultural Evolution Caused Broad-Scale Historical Declines Of Large Mammals Across China
Local extinction of 5 megafauna taxa from much of China over the past 2 millennia were found to be closely linked to filtering effects driven by cultural evolution rather than climate change.Cultural evolution has been the dominant driver of range contractions in megafauna taxa across China since the beginning of Common Era, with little or no direct importance of climate. A research team led by Aarhus University along with collaborators from Nanjing University analyzed maps of megafauna distribution dynamics and societal development based on Chinese archival records alongside data on climate across China from 2 to 1953 CE.
Human activities are now playing a dominant role in driving changes in Earth’s biodiversity and are responsible for the incipient sixth mass extinction, but the historical processes leading to this situation are poorly understood, often without emphasis on cultural evolution as a potential key process underlying anthropogenic impacts. A team of researchers from Aarhus University and Nanjing University has now shown that cultural evolution overshadowed climate change in driving historical broad-scale biodiversity dynamics.Map of the northern boundary of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) in the study area over the past four millennia, based on multiple archaeological and historical sources. The distribution dynamics were inconsistent with the trend of mean annual temperature across the study area. Oracle bone scripts were used for divination by a cultural group recognized as Chinese ancestors ruling much of the North China Plain. The significant similarity between these scripts and their modern forms for the large mammals supports the past wide distribution of these taxa in ancient China.
Credit: Shuqing Teng
By mining the deep Chinese administrative records in relation to culturally important wild megafauna species as well as sociocultural development, the researchers identified the millennia-long spread of agricultural land and agricultural intensification, as well as the specific expansion of the Han culture, as the main cause of the extirpation of five megafauna species from much of China, with little or no direct importance of climate.
Cultural evolution, not climate change, as the main driver
“China’s well-preserved written records for more than 2000 years provide a unique opportunity to reconstruct long-term dynamics of culture-nature interactions across large geographical extents,” says senior author Professor Jens-Christian Svenning, director of Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Aarhus University. The five studied megafauna taxa include Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus), Asian rhinoceroses (Rhinoceros sondaicus, R. unicornis and Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), tiger (Panthera tigris), Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus), and brown bear (Ursus arctos), all of which were widely distributed across the study area and have played an important role in ancient China’s cultural activities.
The Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) was widely distributed in eastern China in historical times, but was extirpated due to increasing human pressure — and process that has continued to the present day in its remaining range in southeast Asia, threatening to cause the complete extinction of this species, with likely less than 80 individuals surviving, all in Indonesia.
“Ancient China used to host a highly biodiverse assemblage of large mammals even in its nowadays densely populated areas such as the North China Plain and the Middle-Lower Yangtze Plain. Our research shows that the relatively recent loss of this rich megafauna in large part can be attributed to the southward expansion of intensified agricultural practices with the Han culture, which originated in North China,” explains postdoc Shuqing Teng from Aarhus University and Nanjing University, the first author of the study.
Regional extirpation of these taxa from the study area were consistent with the sociocultural dynamics described above, but inconsistent with climate change. There were at least two conspicuous cooling-warming cycles during the last two thousand years, including the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age, with fluctuations of mean annual temperature around 1 to 1.5 °C, but neither had a conspicuous effect on the megafauna range dynamics.
Importance of cultural filtering
The study provides clear evidence that cultural evolution historically has overshadowed past climate change in shaping broad-scale megafauna patterns, in contrast to the common belief that human societies were unimportant in driving biodiversity dynamics at such large spatiotemporal scales until recent time frames such as the Industrial Revolution or the Great Acceleration of the 20th century.
This finding highlights the importance of culture’s role in filtering current ecological assemblages from historical species pools. Perspectives through the lens of cultural filtering should also stimulate thoughts on what is natural – notably helping to overcome the Shifting Baseline Syndrome, the tendency to accept an already degraded state as natural due to lacking recognition of earlier declines – and which natural world we aim to conserve or restore.
Furthermore, modification of cultural filters will be key to respond to the challenges of the Anthropocene biodiversity crisis, as it is fundamentally culturally driven, as shown by this study of historical China, and how to achieve this is an important research challenge.
Contacts and sources:
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Citation:
Long-term effects of cultural filtering on megafauna species distributions across China Shuqing N. Teng, Chi Xu, Licheng Teng, and Jens-Christian Svenning. PNAS first published December 23, 2019
Here is a great video taken from the NASA satellite recording our sun. It happened back in 1999, but the evidence is still on the Helioviewer site today. Found by Youtuber Wireeye, these object are obviously not solar material from the sun, but instead seem to be heading towards our sun. Its an entire UFO fleet. Some of the ships are incredibly huge and unusual in shape...three like a butterfly or winged creatures.
Its refreshing to see something I have not seen before...here are a few ships together that demonstrate that alien fleets do exist in our solar system, flying together for safety.
500 Meter Long UFO Over Kazakhstan, Dec 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
500 Meter Long UFO Over Kazakhstan, Dec 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:December 2019
Location of sighting: Kazakhstan
A passenger in a plane over Kazakhstan caught sight of a glowing disk in the distance. The disk is above the cloud ceiling. Even a low cloud ceiling is about 6000 meters high or 6km high. So its impossible that this was a roof of a building. This was recorded at sunset and as I have said before, most UFO sightings occur during sunset. Even cloaked UFOs will become visible at this time due to the angle of the sun, person and UFO...makes the UFO visible for a few seconds to a few minutes. This is such an example and the UFO looks to be very long, about 1/2km long or 500 meters across. Incredible and absolute proof that aliens are flying over us, quietly recording and observing our activities.
Rex Finfgeld, experienced an NDE in 2011 when he fell 26 feet and landed, head first, on concrete. Sometime while comatose and crashing, he had an NDE.
He says, "I experienced my own pure being. I was still me but I was also pure being itself. For a moment I was the all of everything. I was pure love, life, and the mind and imagination that gives rise to all of creation."
Since his NDE, he now sees and thinks in ways he never thought possible -- especially regarding consciousness, divinity, the unified field, and a prospective multi-universal reality.
The Denver Post first reported themon December 23rd. Most expected the organization or people behind them to be discovered and hopefully revealed by the authorities within a day or so. Nearly five days later, the mysterious fleet of at least 17 large non-Christmas-present drones with six-foot wingspans continues to fly in formation every night over a sparsely populated area spanning Yuma and Phillips counties in northeast Colorado. Unleash the conspiracy theories!
“They’ve been doing a grid search, a grid pattern. They fly one square and then they fly another square.”
Phillips County Sheriff Thomas Elliott observed the drones and reported them to the FAA (no information) and the U.S. Air Force (not ours). The Denver Post called the Drug Enforcement Administration (not ours either), the U.S. Army Forces Command (unaware of any military drones in that area) and the Department of Defense (no response). Undersheriff William Myers witnessed eight drones flying near the intersection of U.S. 385 and County Road 54 and received calls at the same time of one hovering motionless 25 miles away over Paoli and eight more ten miles from Paoli over Haxtun. They appear to be at an altitude of 200 feet to 300 feet, fly at steady speeds of up to 40 mph, appear regularly at about 7 pm and disappear by 10 pm. While all of this sounds pretty suspicious, Undersheriff Myers is cautiously openminded.
“They do not seem to be malicious. They don’t seem to be doing anything that would indicate criminal activity.”
He also warns any residents who see the giant drones not to shoot them down – while the drones themselves don’t appear to be breaking any local or federal laws, destroying one is a federal crime and can cause a fire … or worse, if it’s some sort of secret weapon.
While Denver-based aerial photographer, drone pilot and drone school operator Vic Moss thinks it’s probably a local drone company, he’s suspicious that they haven’t notified local authorities – something he claims all of the ones he knows would do. Tyler Rogoway over at The Drive, who keeps a close watch on suspicious military activities, is especially doubtful about this being routine land surveillance.
“The airspace where this is occurring is peculiarly desolate, as well, making it ideally suited for such a task, but the flights are not legally occurring, which makes the whole affair quite suspicious. The fact that the activity is happening after sundown is even more intriguing and adds to the notion that whoever is doing this knows it is outside the bounds of FAA regulations.”
He points out that this could be a nefarious group rehearsing for a drone operation similar to the “game-changing attack on Saudi oil facilities in September” and points out that drones with 6-foot wingspans are capable of carrying weapons and explosives. They’re extremely difficult to follow or track because they can fly without lights – illegal but possible. He also notes that seventeen drones could swarm one location or hit up to 17 separate targets.
Uh-oh.
Colorado is home to numerous military bases, the U.S. Air Force Academy … and a number of people who like to hide out in the mountains. These suspicious giant drone operations have been going on for five days without ending and with no resolution. They’re worth keeping an eye on.
In 1997 I interviewed the well-known British UFO investigator, Jenny Randles, regarding a strange series of events she found herself in, back in late 1986 (you can find the story in Randles’ From Out of the Blue book). It was a very curious saga involving allegedly classified documents, dead aliens, crashed flying saucers, and much more. It all began in October 1986, when Randles came into contact with a man who had then recently left his employment with the British Army. According to the man, he had in his possession a large stash of still-classified material on UFOs that he had acquired under very controversial circumstances. The story that “Robert” told was as remarkable as it was inflammatory. Roughly a year or so earlier, an American individual, employed by the U.S. military and working at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, came across the computerized files while engaged in repairing one particular system at the base. And we’re not talking about just a few pages of material. According to what Robert told Randles and Hough, the number of pages was huge. The man allegedly printed around six hundred pages of material, which wasn’t even anywhere near the overall total. It turns out that – allegedly – the man in question was friends with Robert’s commanding-officer in the British Army; the two having met on an exchange-program. Fearful about what he had got himself into, the computer-specialist gave the hundreds of pages of material on those aforementioned crashed saucers and alien autopsies to the CO. From there, they reached Robert.
One of the papers referenced the autopsy of a strange body. Randles also said: “There was a lot of material about Roswell, including photographs of the UFO and of the aliens. One of the most detailed files was an autopsy report – that ran close to 200 pages in length – of the bodies recovered from the Roswell crash. Robert remembered the name of the doctor who had written it. His name was Dr. Frederick Hauser, a name I’d never seen connected with UFOs in any way whatsoever. Robert said that there was a very detailed account that was mostly filled with medical jargon about the autopsy which he didn’t understand, and there was a photograph of this entity with a slit right down the middle from the neck to the navel.”
And there was still more to come, as Jenny Randles demonstrated to me: “One of the first things Robert said was that the aliens were very human-looking. He said that the head was completely bald, but the most unusual feature of the face was the nose, which was almost flush into the face, almost unnoticeable. He couldn’t tell from the photographs, but the autopsy report made it clear that the beings were slightly smaller than average human size – about five feet in height.” Time to look into that Dr. Hauser, methinks. So far, I’ve not seen anyone dig deep into the man and his life.
Moving on, there’s the matter of an undeniably controversial document that surfaced in the 1990s from UFO researcher, Timothy Cooper. He, Cooper, claimed to have received a large number of old, secret documents that were focused on crashed UFOs, dead aliens, and the usual UFO conspiracy fodder. As for that document, it is titled the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit Summary. It states that on “…3 July 47, radar stations in east Texas and White Stands Proving Ground, N.M., tracked two unidentified aircraft until both dropped off radar.” Still with the IPU summary paper, we are told the following concerning the bodies: “From what descriptions the team was able to learn and from photographs taken by intelligence photographers, the occupants appear in most respects human with some anatomical differences in the head, eyes, hands and feet. They have a slight build about five feet tall, with grayish-pink skin color. They have no hair on their bodies and clothed with a tight fitting flight suit that appears to be fire proof (some of the bodies looked as if they had been burned on head and hands). Their overall stature reminds one of young children. It is believed that there were male and female genders present, but hard to distinguish.”
The descriptions of the aliens in the IPU document sound very similar to those contained in Robert’s files, suggesting a possible (maybe likely) connection between the two, in terms of their origins. The same document states that, “…Dr. Detlev Bronk has been asked to assist in the autopsy of one well preserved cadaver .” As for Bronk, there’s this from The Majestic Documents website: “A native of New York City, Bronk was born on 13 August 1897, attended Swarthmore College, the University of Michigan, and from 1929 to 1940 was Professor for Medical Physics at the University of Pennsylvania. Later in 1940 he was appointed Professor of Physiology and Bio-physics at Cornell Medical School, NYC. Favorable investigations were undertaken of Bronk by the FBI for government-related work in both 1941 and 1947. According to FBI papers of 1961 on Bronk, ‘…he is a member of the President’s Science Advisory Committee and has been President of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, NYC, since 1953. He has served on many government committees in a consultant capacity and is recognized throughout the country as one of the nation’s top scientists.’ During his working life, Bronk also served as Chairman of the National Science Board, President of the National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council.”
Personally, I don’t believe that the IPU document is a real, government document – mainly because I don’t believe aliens crashed at Roswell. Either it’s a sophisticated hoax or carefully crafted disinformation to muddy the Roswell waters. So, I think we can write-off Bronk as having been involved in the autopsy of an alien in the 1940s. Maybe, though – for those who cling onto the belief that there were some real autopsies of aliens back then – it’s perhaps time to dig into the life of the mysterious Dr. Hauser, whose name popped up in those files that Jenny Randles’ was told of by her British Army source in 1986.
In an interview with New York Magazine, U.S. Navy pilot Chad Underwood finally came forward for the first time and spoke about his encounter with the infamous tic-tac shaped UFO that was filmed off the coast of California in 2004. The incident has been widely recognized as the “Nimitz UFO encounter”.
The bizarre footage of the unidentified flying object was captured on Underwood’s radar pod on the F/A-18 Super Hornet that he was flying that day. As for why it took fifteen years for Underwood to come forward with his story, he said that “at no point did I want to speculate as to what I thought this thing was – or be associated with, you know, ‘alien beings’ and ‘alien aircraft’ and all that stuff. I’m like, ‘No. I do not want to be part of that community.’”
He did, however, admit to seeing something very mysterious and unexplained that day back in November of 2004. “It is just what we call a UFO. I couldn’t identify it. It was flying. And it was an object. It’s as simple as that,” he said. Part of the reason why the encounter was so bizarre was that the object was flying at approximately 50,000 before suddenly dropping down to around a hundred feet above sea level in just a few seconds without making a sonic boom or expelling any exhaust plumes. He added that the craft had “no method of propulsion that was keeping it airborne: no wings, no heat, keeping it airborne or aloft.”
One of the many theories circulating is that they witnessed a bird, but Underwood said that it’s not possible. “You don’t see birds at 5,000 or 10,000 or 20,000 feet. That’s just not how birds operate,” he explained.
As for the theory that it was a top-secret military test craft, Underwood claimed that if it was a test aircraft, he had the clearance to know about it. “You know, I’ve got top-secret clearance with a ton of special-project clearances. So, it’s not like I wasn’t cleared to know. But, as I’m sure you’ve found in your research, to have clearance to know something, you have to have both the clearance that it’s elevated to and you have to have the ‘need to know’ it. And, clearly, whatever it was, if it was a government project, I did not need to know.”
In addition to that, there is no known aircraft on this planet that could have maneuvered in that manner. “The thing that stood out to me the most was how erratic it was behaving. And what I mean by ‘erratic’ is that its changes in altitude, air speed, and aspect were just unlike things that I’ve ever encountered before flying against other air targets,” he said, adding, “Because, aircraft, whether they’re manned or unmanned, still have to obey the laws of physics. They have to have some source of lift, some source of propulsion. The Tic Tac was not doing that. It was going from like 50,000 feet to, you know, a hundred feet in like seconds, which is not possible.”
The entire interview that New York Magazine conducted with Chad Underwood can be read in full here.
So, what exactly was the tic-tac shaped object? Nobody seems to know and the military even spent weeks attempting to figure out for themselves what Underwood and his co-workers saw that day. The mystery continues…
China heeft vrijdag een satelliet in een baan rond de aarde gebracht. De aandacht ging echter vooral naar de raket waar de communicatiesonde in zat. Die Lange Mars 5 moet volgend jaar namelijk een verkenner naar Mars lanceren, een ambitieus project.
De lancering van vrijdag gebeurde vanaf het lanceercomplex Wenchang op het zuidelijke eiland Hainan. Volgens de autoriteiten was ze “een compleet succes”. De vorige lancering van een Lange Mars 5, in juli 2017, mislukte nog. Daardoor werd de reis naar Mars uitgesteld, van dit jaar naar komende zomer. Een nieuwe tegenslag zou nog meer vertraging hebben veroorzaakt.
De Marsverkenner van volgend jaar heet Huoxing-1. Hij moet onder meer zoeken naar moleculen in de bodem van Mars om te kijken of er sporen van leven zijn.
De Lange Mars 5 moet eind volgend jaar ook een missie naar de maan lanceren. Die robot, Chang’e 5, moet bodem en stenen van de maan ophalen en terugbrengen naar de aarde.
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Tom Horn & LA Marzulli: The Secret Alien Agenda
Tom Horn & LA Marzulli: The Secret Alien Agenda
What happens when you put three of the brightest Christian minds together in one room to discuss the strange and supernatural events in the Bible? Sparks fly as Gary Stearman interviews fellow UFO experts, Tom Horn and LA Marzulli on the darkest and most confusing of subjects for many believers. The Alien Agenda is a comprehensive review of the biblical fallen angels and their Luciferian agenda.
Beginning with the fall of Lucifer, this trio of experts delves into Genesis 6 and explains the fallen angels nightmare like you’ve never heard it explained before. You’ll hear about their dastardly deeds as angels took human wives and created a race of hybrid giants. When Joshua, Caleb and the other 10 spies entered the Promised Land to scout out the territory for the first time, they saw the offspring of these fallen angels and proclaimed, “We were like grasshoppers in their sight.”
These genetic hybrids interfered with both the human genome as well as the animal kingdom, creating a race of gigantic, hybrid animals as well. Because of their rebellion, God was forced to destroy all living creatures in Noah’s flood, saving only Noah and his family, referred to as “perfect in their generations, and 1 of each undefiled animal, male and female. Today, with the massive proliferation of UFO sightings, mysterious crop circles, blatant and demonic cattle mutilations and genetic tampering in laboratories across the world, we felt it was necessary to address these phenomenon from a biblical perspective.
Nothing is held back as Gary, Tom and LA share their insights from many years of research and personal insight. From Lucifer, to alien abductions, angels and demons and the coming UFO deception; it’s all in here. The prophecies of Apollyon and Revelation 9 and the war with Satan in Revelation 12 take on new meaning in The Alien Agenda.
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Tom Horn: Wormwood! Right Out of the Book of Revelation! Andromeda Strain Alien Micro Organism Heading Toward Earth
Tom Horn: Wormwood! Right Out of the Book of Revelation! Andromeda Strain Alien Micro Organism Heading Toward Earth
In this final part of the month long WORMWOOD investigative series, Dr. Thomas Horn discusses the terrifying “hitchhiker” possibility on the Apophis asteroid that could poison one-third of the Earth’s waters.
Long time television and radio personality, author and publisher, Thomas Horn, serves as the Chief Executive Officer of SkyWatchTV. At the dawn of the Internet, Horn launched two news services where coverage of latest-breaking news and information on cutting-edge stories covering religion, discovery, and the supernatural through in-depth investigative reports led to his network of writers being referenced and interviewed by the biggest names in broadcasting, including:
Coast to Coast AM, the LA Times Syndicate, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, Time, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, BBC, MSNBC, Michael Savage, SciFi Channel, History Channel, Hannity & Colmes, Sid Roth’s “It’s Supernatural”, The Jim Bakker Show, Celebration Daystar TV, FaithTV, WorldNetDaily, NewsMax.com, White House Correspondents, and dozens of other newsmagazines and press agencies around the globe.
When the Russians take decisive action, it is usually for a reason. As you will see below, the Russians have suddenly decided that now is the time to create an organization that will be tasked with detecting, tracking and potentially destroying incoming asteroids. Are they doing this now because they have finally decided that this is a good idea, or has something gotten their attention? Of course they are not likely to publicly admit if they have come to the conclusion that a gigantic space rock is heading directly toward us. Just like the U.S. government, the Russian government is very interested in maintaining social order, and so they would probably delay telling the public about a potential asteroid impact for as long as possible.
In life, what people do is far more important than what they say, and the new center that the Russians have just created will not just be watching giant space rocks. According to Futurism, this new organization will be in charge of making sure “they don’t collide with Earth”…
Russian space agency Roscosmos is creating a center devoted to monitoring meteors, comets, and asteroids to ensure they don’t collide with Earth — even it means having to blow them up in space.
“As part of the creation of a monitoring system and information support for the safety of space activities in near-Earth space, we plan to launch the Russian Center for Small Celestial Bodies, whose main task will be to detect and track celestial bodies approaching Earth,” Igor Bakaras, a senior official at Roscosmos subsidiary TsNIIMash, told Russian-owned news agency Sputnik.
Certainly nobody can fault the Russians for allocating resources toward this purpose.
Our solar system is full of potentially dangerous giant space rocks, and a big enough impact could literally end our civilization.
But why now?
According to a British news source, this new organization will be evaluating whether it is better “to destroy celestial objects or steer them on to new trajectories and away from Earth”…
Roscosmos, the Russian equivalent of Nasa, wants to work out if it’s possible to destroy celestial objects or steer them on to new trajectories and away from Earth.
This could involve slamming a ‘kinetic impactor’ craft in the rock or using a satellite to drag it onto a new course. Nukes could also be sent into space to blow up the rocks.
A new department at Roscosmos called the Russian Centre for Celestial Bodies will be tasked with looking into space to find comets and asteroids approaching Earth.
Once again, nobody can argue with the value of such a major project, but isn’t NASA already doing all this?
Couldn’t the Russians just sit back and let us Americans do all the work?
I wish someone would ask Vladimir Putin that question.
In 2018, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a new report titled the “National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan”.
The 18-page document outlines the steps that NASA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will take over the next 10 years to both prevent dangerous asteroids from striking Earth and prepare the country for the potential consequences of such an event.
Maybe U.S. officials suddenly decided last year that having a plan for incoming giant space rocks was a great idea, and maybe the Russians decided that it was such a great idea that they should copy us.
Or maybe both governments know something that they aren’t telling us yet.
Of course the truth is that NASA has not even identified most of the giant space rocks that are floating around out there. For example, back in July a very large asteroidcame very close to hitting us…
A 427-foot-wide asteroid whizzed within 45,000 miles of Earth on Thursday.
While that may sound far away, 45,000 miles is what astronomers consider a close shave: It’s less than 20% of the distance between Earth and the moon. This was the closest we’ve come to an “Armageddon”-like scenario in at least a few years.
If that asteroid had actually hit our planet, it would have been the worst disaster that any of us have ever seen by a very wide margin.
Travelling at 55,000mph and measuring 426 feet by 187ft (130m x 57m), NASA only realised 2019 OK was coming 24 hours before it passed.
Experts say that had it hit, it would have devastated an entire city like London with over 30 times the energy of the atomic blast at Hiroshima.
So the truth is that we could be hit by a giant space rock at any time, and none of us may have any idea that it is even coming.
With that being said, there are a couple of enormous asteroids that scientists do know about that could potentially be major problems over the next decade.
The first one that I want to discuss is 2007 FT3. That is not a fancy name, and not that much is known about the asteroid, but apparently there is a chance that it “might hit the planet on Oct. 2, 2024”…
In the case of 2007 FT3, Sentry reported that the asteroid could hit Earth between the years 2024 and 2116. During these years, Sentry recorded a total of 164 potential Earth impacts caused by the asteroid. As noted by the monitoring system, there’s a chance that 2007 FT3 might hit the planet on Oct. 2, 2024.
By the way, Rosh Hashanah begins on the evening of October 2nd, 2024. I don’t know if that is important, but I thought I would throw that out there.
Based on the data collected by Sentry, the asteroid has an estimated diameter of about 1,115 feet, which makes it almost as tall as the Empire State Building. The monitoring system noted that it could breach Earth’s atmosphere and hit the planet at a velocity of around 46,000 miles per hour.
Given the asteroid’s speed and size, it is certainly capable of causing high levels of destruction if it ends up colliding with Earth. Upon impact, it would create a crater that’s several miles long. The energy that will be released from the asteroid’s explosion would be powerful enough to level an entire city as well as its neighboring areas.
2007 FT3 is not getting much publicity at all, but a slightly larger asteroid that could potentially hit us in 2029 is getting far more attention.
On April 13th, 2029, it is being projected that Apophis will pass by our planet at a distance that is “ten times closer than the moon”. The following comes from Wikipedia…
The closest known approach of Apophis comes on April 13, 2029, when the asteroid comes to within a distance of around 31,000 kilometres from Earth’s surface. The distance, a hair’s breadth in astronomical terms, is ten times closer than the moon, and even closer than some man-made satellites.[23] It will be the closest asteroid of its size in recorded history. On that date, it will become as bright as magnitude 3.1[22] (visible to the naked eye from rural as well as darker suburban areas, visible with binoculars from most locations).[24] The close approach will be visible from Europe, Africa, and western Asia. During the approach, Earth will perturb Apophis from an Aten-class orbit with a semi-major axis of 0.92 AU to an Apollo-class orbit with a semi-major axis of 1.1 AU.
NASA insists that it will not actually hit us, but other independent researchers are skeptical.
And if Apophis doesn’t hit us then, NASA has listed ten other future dates when it potentially could…
In what sounds like an elevator pitch for an Armageddon sequel, Russian scientists announced that they’ve developed intercontinental ballistic missiles that aim to destroy asteroid Apophis, which is going to swing by Earth in 2036.
Also referred to as 99942 Apophis,it measures 210-330 meters (690-1080 feet) in diameter. According to a Slate article by astronomer Phil Plait an encounter with Earth would mean not so fun times for our planet; “it would release the energy equivalent to more than 1 billion tons of TNT exploding, at least 20 times more than the largest nuke ever detonated!”
But for now, both American and Russian scientists are assuring us that everything is just fine and that there is no reason to panic.
Do you believe them?
Maybe they are telling us the truth.
Maybe there is nothing to be concerned about at all.
But of course both governments have a long track record of being loose with the truth, and it wouldn’t be much of a surprise at all if they weren’t exactly being straight with us.
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Why is there NO Record of Ancient Humans? - Randall Carlson
Why is there NO Record of Ancient Humans? - Randall Carlson
Randall Carlson is a master builder and designer, a geologist, anthropologist and historian. He specializes in sacred geometry, ancient civilizations, climate and environmental change, myths, legends, cosmic cycles and catastrophes.
He is a proponent of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, and has theorized about the extinction of historical advanced human civilizations.
Dailygrail explains that the video below takes the audio (and some video) from one of Randall's lectures, and combines it with illustrations and stock video footage to bring what he's saying to life.
In the lecture Randall discusses the fact that there have been many 'apocalyptic' events over the last 150,000 years - the period of 'modern humans' - and that they appear to happen in a regular, cyclic manner.
For the reasons he outlines in the lecture, this means that we today are walking around amongst the ruins of many lost civilisations.
We literally have built our own world in our own social system on top of and out of the wreckage of former worlds.
Young Pilot Mysteriously Disappeared After Reporting A UFO Sighting
Young Pilot Mysteriously Disappeared After Reporting A UFO Sighting
Frederick Valentich
Aerial travel to an island off Tasmania resulted in a terrifying radio call and a disappearing pilot. Forty years later, there’s still no explanation.
Pilot Frederick Valentich mysteriously disappeared without a trace after saying, “it is hovering, and it is not an aircraft.” After those words, his radio cut off, and he, as well as the aircraft he was piloting, was never seen again.
A 20-year-old Valentich rented a single-engine plane out of Moorabbin Airport in Victoria on October 21, 1978, with plans heading to King Island in Tasmania to catch seafood.
Things got a terrifying twist when he noticed another aircraft tailing him.
It has been 40 years since the mysterious disappearance of the young Aussie pilot over the Bass Strait. No one has come any closer to figuring out what took place until today.
The only evidence of the incident was a radio conversation between Valentich and Steve Robey, the Melbourne Airflight Service Controller.
It was 7 pm when the pilot radioed in to ask if there were any aircraft in the area, just after something zoomed above him.
Robey answered that there was no known traffic in the area. He then inquired as to what type of plane the pilot was noticing.
Valentich said that he could not affirm, but he described it as something with four visible bright lights. He added that the aircraft just passed over him at least a thousand feet above.
Things got even unnerving after Valentich reported that the unknown craft was playing with him some game. He said that the UFO was flying over him two, three times, at speeds he could not identify.
The controller tried to get more information about the object as their conversation continues.
Valentich further described the thing as long, metallic, and with a green light. He added that the aircraft vanished at one point before suddenly reappeared on his other side. At this point, Valentich said his final words: “It is hovering, and it is not an aircraft.” After 17 seconds of silence, the transmission suddenly cut off.
An extensive search of the water and any surrounding land was conducted, but any indication of a crash site nor Valentich was ever found.
A plaque at Otway lighthouse is all that remains now of Valentich’s mysterious disappearance.
NASA has released never-before-seen photos of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov during its closest approach to the sun earlier this month. The Hubble Space Telescope captured the breathtaking photographs that include the most recent one on December 9th.
This is a one-time visit that 2I/Borisov is making to our solar system. It is travelling at a tremendous speed of 100,000 miles per hour. In fact, it is travelling at such a high speed that the sun’s gravity won’t have any effect on it, meaning that it will leave our solar system and continue on its way.
Comet 2I/Borisov is the second interstellar object that has been seen in our solar system (along with Oumuamua) and has been tracked for the past several months by the Hubble telescope. It was first discovered on August 30, 2019 by Crimean amateur astronomer, Gennady Borisov.
Oumuamua
The Hubble took a photograph of Comet 2I/Borisov on October 12th when it was 260 million miles from Earth. Then on November 16th, another image was taken when the comet was 203 million miles from our planet. This photo, however, was even more exceptional as it was passing in front of a distant spiral galaxy. The most recent photograph, taken on December 9th, shows the comet travelling at its closest approach to the sun and 185 million miles from Earth. Comet 2I/Borisov will make its closest approach to Earth later this month at a distance of 180 million miles before making its way out of our solar system. Images of the comet captured by the Hubble Space telescope can be viewed here.
Scientists say that the comet’s nucleus is made up of a mixture of ice and dust and is probably no bigger than 3,300 feet (or one kilometer) in diameter. David Jewitt, who is a UCLA professor of planetary science and astronomy, stated, “Hubble gives us the best upper limit of the size of Comet Borisov’s nucleus, which is the really important part of the comet,” adding, “Surprisingly, our Hubble images show that its nucleus is more than 15 times smaller than earlier investigations suggested it might be. Our Hubble images show that the radius is smaller than half-a-kilometer.”
Comet (Not 2I/Borisov or Oumuamua)
He went on to say, “Knowing the size is potentially useful for beginning to estimate how common such objects may be in the solar system and our galaxy.” “Borisov is the first known interstellar comet, and we would like to learn how many others there are.”
Even though only two interstellar objects have been discovered so far, scientists think that they in fact visit our solar system on a regular basis. It’s hard to detect them because they travel exceptionally fast and are often quite dim.
Nasa building supersonic plane that goes as fast as Concorde – without the sound
Nasa building supersonic plane that goes as fast as Concorde – without the sound
This undated illustration released by NASA on December 16 shows the completed X-59 QueSST
AFP
The plane will be the first large scale, piloted X-plane that Nasa has launched in more than 30 years when it is finally put together
Nasa's X-59 space plane, capable of flying faster than the speed of sound without the loud boom that comes with supersonic flight, is finally nearing completion, reports The Independent.
The plane will be the first large scale, piloted X-plane that Nasa has launched in more than 30 years when it is finally put together.
It could also herald a new era in fast space travel, as it attempts to overcome the problems that have blighted previous attempts like Concorde.
Normally, supersonic planes create a loud boom when they reach the speed of sound and have as a result been banned from flying over populated areas – but the creators of the X-59 claim it will be almost silent.
And the space agency has announced that it is cleared for final assembly and "integration of its systems" after being looked over by senior managers.
The plane – which has the full name X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) – is being put together by Lockheed Martin, which will now work to complete it ahead of testing.
It should be approved for its first flight in 2020, and the actual launch will come a year after that.
“With the completion of KDP-D we’ve shown the project is on schedule, it’s well planned and on track. We have everything in place to continue this historic research mission for the nation’s air-traveling public,” said Bob Pearce, Nasa’s associate administrator for aeronautics, in a statement.
Nasa says that the new plane will make a boom that will only be audible as a "gentle thump", or might be entirely silent. It is able to do because of its precise shape, which looks something like an even more sharp version of the Concorde.
It will fly nearly as fast as its lookalike, with a cruising speed of 1.42.
That will be put to the test when the plane is ready to fly. The trials will see it sent over "select US communities" in test flights that will allow Nasa to measure it using sensors and people on the ground who will "gauge public perception" of the sound of the plane.
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Indonesian Cave Art Demands Human Cultural Evolution Overhaul
Indonesian Cave Art Demands Human Cultural Evolution Overhaul
A major discovery has been made in a limestone cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia - the earliest known hunting scene in the world has been identified on a hard to reach cliff face. At least 43,900 years ago someone decided to climb up into the cave and depict a group of human-like figures hunting pigs and buffaloes. Unlocking the meaning behind the artist’s symbolic system is near-impossible without access to a time machine, but there is much that can still be learned from the Indonesian cave art .
The panel of art was discovered in the Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 cave and the researchers wrote in the journal Nature that “This hunting scene is—to our knowledge—currently the oldest pictorial record of storytelling and the earliest figurative artwork in the world.” That means it’s a pretty big discovery for people interested in human cultural evolution.
Sulawesi hunting scene.
(Credit: Ratno Sardi)
Human-Like Figures on a Hunt
What they found is a 4.5-meter-wide (14.76 ft.) panel of cave paintings depicting eight small human-like figures armed with spears or ropes accompanied by two Sulawesi warty pigs and four dwarf buffaloes known as anoas, which the researchers have described as “small but fierce bovids that still inhabit the island’s dwindling forests.” It appears to be a hunting narrative. All of the beings seem to have been painted with the same artistic style and technique and dark red pigment.
When Ancient Origins contacted Adam Brumm, study co-author and associate professor from the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE), to find out more about the discovery and what it may have meant to the prehistoric artist or artists who created it, he stated that there are indications that the cave art “could reflect the handiwork of a single artist, but we can’t intuitively rule out the involvement of other individuals at this stage.”
The anthropomorphic figures are referred to as therianthropes because they have some animalistic features such as long lower faces which resemble snouts or muzzles. One of the researchers, PhD student Adhi Agus Oktaviana, explained their appearance in more detail in a Griffith University press release , stating, “The hunters represented in the ancient rock art panel at Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 are simple figures with human-like bodies, but they have been depicted with heads or other body parts like those from birds, reptiles, and other faunal species endemic to Sulawesi.”
Cave Art for Ritual or Spiritual Purposes?
When asked about the significance of the location of the painting, Brumm said:
“The cave itself shows no other signs of human habitation apart from the paintings. This observation, and the fact that it is located in a difficult-to-reach spot in a cliff face several metres above the ground. This could possibly suggest the cave site itself (and/or the act of creating art in what would appear to be a liminal location) had some sort of special cultural/ritualistic significance and meaning.”
The cave art panel.
(Credit: Kim Newman)
This idea is further promoted by the depiction of therianthropes, which the study authors suggest in the press release “may also be the oldest evidence for our ability to imagine the existence of supernatural beings , a cornerstone of religious experience.” Or, the archaeologists suggest the images show the artist was probably pondering the human-animal connection, possibly in a spiritual frame of mind.
In the press release, Brumm explored this notion even further, “The images of therianthropes at Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 may also represent the earliest evidence for our capacity to conceive of things that do not exist in the natural world, a basic concept that underpins modern religion,” he said and continued:
“Therianthropes occur in the folklore or narrative fiction of almost every modern society and they are perceived as gods, spirits, or ancestral beings in many religions worldwide. Sulawesi is now home to the oldest image of this kind – earlier even than the ‘Lion-man’ from Germany, a figurine of a lion-headed human, which, at 40,000 years old, was until now the oldest depiction of a therianthrope.”
Therianthrope figure of a human with a tail.
(Credit: Ratno Sardi)
In the Nature article the authors reject the suggestion that the human-like figures were meant to depict camouflaged hunters because “this would have the improbable implication that hunters were disguising themselves as small animals such as birds.” Instead they write:
“The conspicuousness of therianthropes in the oldest recorded hunting scenes also offers hints at the deeply rooted symbolism of the human–animal bond and predator–prey relationships in the spiritual beliefs, narrative traditions and image-making practices of our species.”
Cave Popcorn for Painting Dates
Brumm informed Ancient Origins that while the cave art’s location itself wasn’t appropriate for archaeological excavations, “There is not anywhere to excavate inside the cave art site Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 as an archaeological deposit did not form within it,” he said “But we have excavated some other cave art sites in the nearby region. Unlike Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4, these sites are located at ground level and our excavations have revealed abundant archaeological evidence dating back to the time of the earliest rock art .”
Hollow bone tube (top) with red and black pigments, made from the long bone of a bear cuscus, may have been used as an ‘air-brush’ to create human hand stencils on rock surfaces (bottom).
That means that there were no artifacts to use to help date the cave art which was discovered in 2017 but is appearing now in the Nature article. However, they had another method – and it involved something the researchers refer to as ‘cave popcorn.’
The Griffith University press release states that the researchers used Uranium-series analysis to date the ‘mineral growths (‘cave popcorn’) that had formed on the cave painting ’ and obtained results ranging from 35,100 to 43,900 years ago. As a comparison, the dates for Upper Paleolithic cave art in Europe are generally given as between 21,000–14,000 years ago.
Professor Aubert expressed the importance of thinking about how artistic culture evolved in the press release, “The cave painting from Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 suggests that there was no gradual evolution of Palaeolithic art from simple to complex around 35,000 years ago –at least not in Southeast Asia. All of the major components of a highly advanced artistic culture were present in Sulawesi by 44,000 years ago, including figurative art, scenes, and therianthropes.”
Therianthrope – human figure with bird features.
(Credit: Ratno Sardi)
Local Views and Next Steps
Professor Brumm also worked with fellow Griffith University archaeologist Professor Maxime Aubert, and Sulawesian archaeologist and Griffith University PhD student Basran Burhan. Brumm told Ancient Origins a little about the local perspective on the caves where the paintings are located, he said:
“The local Bugis-Makasar people are generally all devout Muslims but they still have a rich and presumably centuries-oldfolklore associated with the many limestone caves and rock-shelters in this part of Sulawesi. Most often the caves are viewed as the abode of ghosts or spirits and many people avoid entering them if possible. Local religious specialists (dukun) are often still called in to conduct rituals in the caves to ward-off spiritual dangers before we excavate or do other scientific research in them.”
Brumm told Ancient Origins that there are plans to continue exploring the area around where the cave art was discovered “this Maros-Pangkep limestone karst region is a very rich rock art province and it is likely there are many more spectacular cave paintings awaiting discovery,” he said.
Maxime Aubert and Adam Brumm with the Indonesian cave art.
(Kinez Riza)
As is the case in many areas in the world, the archaeologist also expressed concern that the team is racing against time in their search. In this situation it’s the natural elements and their role in deteriorating the cave art which is the main source of worry. But Brumm expressed the hope “to learn as much as possible about the people who created it, through careful study and dating of the imagery itself and also by excavating the cave art sites to further unlock the mysteries of this ancient artistic culture ” by continuing to explore the rich prehistoric art which may still be awaiting discovery in the region.
Top Image: The Indonesian cave art hunting scene panorama. Source: Credit: Adam Brumm, Agus Oktaviana
When a Mega-Tsunami Drowned Mars, This Spot May Have Been Ground Zero
When a Mega-Tsunami Drowned Mars, This Spot May Have Been Ground Zero
The 75-mile-wide crater could be something like a Chicxulub crater for the red planet.
An artist’s impression of how Mars may have looked about four billion years ago, with an ocean in its northern hemisphere.Credit...ESO/M. Kornmesser
By Robin George Andrews
Today, Mars is a cold, dry world, home to dust devils and robotic explorers. But many scientists suspect it was once waterlogged.
A new study, published last month in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, suggests that a 75-mile-wide impact scar in the Martian northern lowlands is to the red planet what the Chicxulub crater is to Earth: the mark of a meteor that generated a mega-tsunami when the planet was relatively young. If accurate, the finding adds evidence to the hypothesis that Mars once had an ocean, and would have implications for our search for life there.
Whether Mars was ever warm and wet enough to retain a long-lived liquid water ocean has long been debated by planetary scientists. Several climate models have indicated that it was probably too cold. But other researchers point to ancient river deltas and other geological evidence of a northern ocean some 3.7 billion years ago.
Additional evidence includes hints of mangled, buried coastlines visible from orbit; these suggest that mega-tsunamis with skyscraper-high waves inundated parts of Mars’s northern shores around three billion years ago. On a world believed to have lacked Earthlike plate tectonics, any tsunamis were probably triggered by a meteor slamming into a huge body of water.
The area where the northern ocean was thought to exist also contains what are called thumbprint terrains, found on the landward side of those suspected ancient shorelines. These terrains may have been etched by the chaotic and violent flow of water in the aftermath of the mega-tsunamis. But which craters were tied to the impacts responsible for those mega-tsunamis was long a mystery.
In 2017, a team led by François Costard, a planetary geomorphologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research, used computer modeling to reproduce the mega-tsunamis most likely to have created those thumbprint terrains. That narrowed it down to a handful of impact craters.
For the new paper, Dr. Costard and his colleagues examined these candidate craters and ultimately zeroed in on Lomonosov, which was likely forged by a 9-by-12 mile meteor in just the right place at just the right time.
Scientists believe Mars’s Lomonosov Crater, which is about 75 miles wide, might be the site of the impact that caused a mega-tsunami.Credit...JPL/NASA
Its rim is also roughly the same height as the estimated depth of the ocean. Crucially, it physically resembles Earth’s marine craters, suggesting — if not definitively demonstrating — that it was created in a shallow ocean.
Another clue is the hole in the crater’s southern section. The plains there are tilted up toward the southern highlands. It’s possible that the ocean, displaced by the impact, would have rushed back most aggressively from this direction, bursting through the crater’s southern rim.
Alexis Rodriguez, a Mars geomorphologist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., and co-author of the new study, said the remnants of this Martian ocean may be a good target in the search for evidence of life on the red planet.
The ocean may have been fed by catastrophic floods from underground caches of liquid water. If so, sediments in the north “may be a window into the subsurface habitability of Mars,” Dr. Rodriguez said. If they contain geochemical signatures of ancient microbiology, then the liquid aquifers thought to exist beneath Mars’ surface may still be reservoirs for life today.
Of course, all this depends on whether a northern ocean actually existed — a conclusion challenged by studies of the red planet’s ancient climate. Dr. Rodriguez calls this one of the “core paradoxes” of Martian planetary science.
Paul Byrne, a planetary geologist at North Carolina State University who was not involved with the study, agreed: “It’s fair to say that we don’t yet fully understand the history of Mars’s climate, and certainly, the climate models we use will continue to be improved.”
Despite compelling geological evidence, he said, scientists still don’t have unambiguous proof of a northern ocean. “So the climate models might not be wrong,” he added — but more data is needed to say one way or the other.
ThinkstockFoto ter illustratie. De nu ontdekte fossielen zijn ongeveer 140 miljoen jaar ouder dan de eerste dinosaurussen die over de aarde zwierven.
WETENSCHAP In een oude steengroeve in het plaatsje Cairo in de Amerikaanse staat New York zijn restanten ontdekt van een bos van 385 miljoen jaar oud. Het is daarmee de oudste voetafdruk van een landschap ooit op aarde gevonden.
Christopher Berry, paleobotanist aan de Universiteit van Cardiff in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, was aanvankelijk sceptisch over de vondst en dacht dat een recente boom in de rots was gegroeid en weggehaald. Eenmaal ter plaatse erkende hij dat de fossielen ” heel, heel veel ouder” waren. Het onderzoeksteam veronderstelt dat het bos door een catastrofale overstroming is vergaan. Bij de grootste bomen zijn ook fossielen van vissen gevonden.
De ontdekking biedt een momentopname van een van de grote overgangsperioden van de planeet, tussen een aarde zonder bossen en een aarde die bedekt is met bossen, zegt Berry. De nu ontdekte fossielen zijn ongeveer 140 miljoen jaar ouder dan de eerste dinosaurussen die over de aarde zwierven. Het oudst bekende insect leefde ongeveer 400 miljoen jaar geleden.
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2010 - 2020: Wat hebben we geleerd? 16 wetenschappelijke lessen uit het afgelopen decennium
2010 - 2020: Wat hebben we geleerd? 16 wetenschappelijke lessen uit het afgelopen decennium
Beeld Hilde Harshagen
Het klimaat begint voelbaar te veranderen en insecten leggen massaal het loodje. Traditiegetrouw zetten we aan het eind van elk jaar de opmerkelijkste lessen op een rij – deze keer blikken we meteen maar terug op het hele decennium. Er is ook vrolijker nieuws: de duurzame revolutie komt op gang, traumatherapie werkt echt en we gaan niet meer dood aan ziekten die tien jaar geleden nog fataal waren.
Ziekten waaraan patiënten tien jaar geleden nog overleden, zijn – soms dankzij biomedische hoogstandjes – ineens niet meer dodelijk.
Beeld Hilde Harshagen
Les 5: Kunstmatige intelligentie is de mens steeds vaker te slim af
Kunstmatige intelligentie kan steeds beter diagnoses stellen, creditcardfraude detecteren, muziek componeren en teksten vertalen. Is AI op weg de mens te overvleugelen?
Les 6: Insecten leggen massaal het loodje
Een Duits-Nederlandse studie zette de dramatische afname van het aantal insecten op de kaart. En nu is de klimaatverandering eens niet de grootste verdachte.
Les 7: Onze natuurwetten staan stevig op hun sokkel (maar dat is niet per se goed nieuws)
Terwijl het standaardmodel van de deeltjesfysica bijna alle fundamentele natuurkrachten beschrijft, is er nog wel één grote ontbrekende: de zwaartekracht.
Les 8: Een radicaal nieuwe supercomputer wordt eindelijk werkelijkheid
Les 9: Microplastics zijn niet te vermijden, maar we weten nog niet hoe schadelijk ze zijn
Ze komen het lichaam binnen via de lucht, drinkwater, voedsel of cosmetica. Er zijn verontrustende signalen over wat microplastics daar doen, alleen is niet bekend wat die waard zijn.
Beeld Hilde Harshagen
Les 10: Na een hartoperatie kun je binnen een dag thuis zijn
Les 11: De schaduwzijde van de geschiedenis komt steeds meer in het licht
Tien jaar geleden was er nog geen Zwarte Pietendebat, geen discussie over termen als de Gouden Eeuw of figuren als J.P. Coen. Kunt u het zich nog voorstellen?
Opeens was er ‘Crispr-Cas’, een vervreemdende genetische techniek die de wereld op zijn kop zet. Verwacht mensdieren, genetisch gemanipuleerde baby’s en wondergenezingen op maat. Of wacht: die zijn er al.
Les 16: Therapeuten kunnen trauma’s al in één sessie genezen
Wat nog altijd niet lukt bij depressies, burn-outs en fobieën, lukt wel bij ptss. Emdr-therapie verhelpt trauma’s snel en bewezen effectief. Een revolutie, zegt psycholoog Ad de Jongh.
Kunstmatige intelligentie kan steeds beter diagnoses stellen, creditcardfraude detecteren, muziek componeren en teksten vertalen. Is AI op weg de mens te overvleugelen?
Wie het archief van de Volkskrant erbij pakt, ziet hoe snel het is gegaan. In 2010 is het aantal keren dat ‘kunstmatige intelligentie’ in de krant wordt genoemd op een hand te tellen. En dan valt de term telkens ook nog heel terloops, zoals in een boekbespreking waarbij de recensent kunstmatige intelligentie betitelt als een ‘ontspoorde incrowd-fantasie’.
Tegenwoordig valt de term te pas en te onpas. Kunstmatige intelligentie, slimme algoritmes, machine learning, neurale netwerken: in een paar jaar tijd zijn dit soort begrippen ons vocabulaire binnengeslopen.
Nepvideo’s
De overkoepelende term kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) is de techniek die statistische berekeningen doet op basis van grote hoeveelheden data. Hiermee kunnen patronen worden ontdekt die mensen niet kunnen vinden. Al lerend is AI in staat voorspellingen te doen: hoe een auto moet rijden, of iemand kredietwaardig is, hoe een verdacht vlekje zich tot kanker ontwikkelt, hoe de beurshandel zich beweegt of wanneer er vermoedelijk sprake is van creditcardfraude. Ook kan AI zelf muziek componeren, teksten vertalen of nepvideo’s (deepfakes) maken én detecteren.
De vorderingen zijn indrukwekkend. Daar is iedereen het over eens. Maar waar kenners het niet over eens zijn, is hoe slim de ontworpen intelligentie nou écht gaat worden. Is het allemaal een trucje op basis van statistiek of is AI in staat de mens op alle vlakken te overvleugelen?
De laatste uitvinding
De grootste techoptimisten zijn ervan overtuigd dat Artificial General Intelligence er gewoon komt. Dat is AI die de mens op elk terrein de baas is. Wiskundige Irving John Good speculeerde al in de jaren zestig op deze mogelijkheid met zijn stelling dat de eerste ultra-intelligente machine tegelijk de laatste uitvinding van de mens zal zijn. Ook tegenwoordig zijn er invloedrijke denkers die deze superintelligentie voorzien. In de recente documentaire iHuman zegt natuurkundige Max Tegmark: ‘Het is vanaf het begin de heilige graal geweest: het maken van AI die in alles beter is dan wij. We maken in feite een god.’
Hun boodschap: we kunnen er maar beter op voorbereid zijn. Een andere, nuchterder groep vindt dit allemaal vooral voer voor Hollywoodfilms. Intelligentie behelst volgens hen meer dan het uitvoeren van rekentaken. Een computer die bewustzijn heeft? Ondenkbaar. Maar op nauw omschreven taken kan AI de mens wel degelijk voorbijstreven, zien ook zij. De voorbeelden zijn legio. Een greep.
WAT HEBBEN WE GELEERD? 16 WETENSCHAPPELIJKE LESSEN UIT HET AFGELOPEN DECENNIUM
Het klimaat begint voelbaar te veranderen en insecten leggen massaal het loodje. Traditiegetrouw zetten we aan het eind van elk jaar de opmerkelijkste lessen op een rij – deze keer blikken we meteen maar terug op het hele decennium. Er is ook vrolijker nieuws: de duurzame revolutie komt op gang, traumatherapie werkt echt en we gaan niet meer dood aan ziekten die tien jaar geleden nog fataal waren. Bekijk hier de zestien lessen.
I. Gezichts- en objectherkenning
Voer een netwerk met veel plaatjes van katten en uiteindelijk ‘herkent’ hij een kat. Wie een programma als Google Photo gebruikt, benut zonder dat het te weten de mogelijkheden van AI. Voer ‘kat’ in, en Google Photo komt met alle kattenfoto’s op de proppen. Sneller dan een mens dat zou kunnen. Ander voorbeeld uit de praktijk: slimme deurbellen die de pakjesbezorger herkennen.
Zo onschuldig is het niet allemaal. De steeds bredere inzet van slimme camera’s in openbare ruimten bijvoorbeeld gaat gepaard met privacyproblemen. Een ander probleem is ‘bias’, ingeprogrammeerde vooroordelen. Een voorbeeld is de studie waaruit zou blijken dat een zelflerend systeem criminelen kan herkennen op basis van een foto van het gezicht. Probleem hierbij was dat het systeem was getraind met politiefoto’s van criminelen en LinkedIn-foto’s van niet-criminelen. Het AI-systeem ontdekte hierop een patroon. Glimlach en das? Geen crimineel. Onzin natuurlijk, maar een logisch gevolg van vervuilde trainingsdata.
II. Bordspelen
Een stuk onschuldiger: computers die een spel spelen. De snelle ontwikkeling van AI kan goed worden geïllustreerd via de vorderingen met het eeuwenoude bordspel Go. Lang nadat de beste schaker ter wereld was verslagen door een computer, gold Go als een onneembare vesting. Het spel zou te complex en te intuïtief zijn voor AI. Nog maar drie jaar geleden slaagde de Koreaanse Go-speler Lee Sedol erin een potje van AlphaGo te winnen, ’s werelds beste Go-systeem. Het bracht de nummer één van de wereld ertoe om smalend over AlphaGo te doen: de computer zou geen kans maken. Kort erna werd AlphaGo vervangen door een verbeterde versie: AlphaGo Zero. Deze verpulverde zijn voorganger met 100-0. AlphaGo Zero leerde Go door eindeloos veel potjes tegen zichzelf te spelen. En Lee Sedol? Die heeft vorige maand afscheid genomen als professioneel Go-speler. Hij heeft geen zin in een bijrol.
III. Diagnose
Een veelbelovende toepassing voor AI is radiologie. ‘Overal waar je mensen naar foto’s laat kijken, kun je ook computers gebruiken’, vertelde Bram van Ginneken, hoogleraar functionele beeldanalyse aan de Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen, aan de Volkskrant. Een voorbeeld is het bekijken van CT-scans van longen. Dit werk kan gedeeltelijk worden overgenomen door AI. Bijvoorbeeld bij het bekijken van scans naar aanwijzingen op kanker. Vergelijkbare toepassingen: speuren naar alzheimer op basis van MRI-scans.
Ook hier zijn de verwachtingen soms te hooggespannen. Zo zouden goede resultaten zijn geboekt bij de analyse van moedervlekken en het voorspellen van kanker. De resultaten leken fantastisch, totdat later bleek dat het AI-systeem aansloeg op de aanwezigheid van een liniaal op de foto’s. Die linialen worden door dermatologen gebruikt als ze toch al onraad vermoeden.
IV. Zelfrijdende auto’s
Veel lastiger is de zelfrijdende auto. Zelfs de grootste optimisten moeten toegeven dat de vorderingen tegenvallen. Anders dan de mens valt een zelfrijdende auto niet in slaap, maar zodra er iets onverwachts gebeurt, is het een ander verhaal.
Onlangs nog werd duidelijk dat een Uber-auto die een vrouw aanreed, moeite had met voetgangers die een straat oversteken buiten een zebrapad. En kunstenaar James Bridle dreef de spot met systemen die niets anders kunnen doen dan braaf regels opvolgen. Hij plaatste een zelfrijdende auto in een cirkel met doorgetrokken streep. Resultaat: de auto kwam niet op het idee om de cirkel te verlaten.
Geen begrip
Heeft een AI-systeem begrip van de wereld om zich heen? Vermoedelijk niet. Schrijver Gary Marcus gaf onlangs tijdens een lezing dit voorbeeld: een systeem kan een plaatje zien van een hond die gewicht heft. Het zal daar keurig de labels ‘hond’ en ‘halter’ aan hangen. Maar het snapt niet dat dit een raar plaatje is.
Effectief en krachtig is AI wel. En de gevolgen kunnen groot zijn, nu AI steeds vaker wordt ingezet om belangrijke beslissingen te nemen. De stokoude wet van computerwetenschapper Roy Amara kan nog steeds uit de kast: ‘We zijn geneigd de impact van nieuwe technologie op de korte termijn te overschatten, maar op de lange termijn te onderschatten.’
Two years ago Sunday, the New York Timesbroke the stunning story of a secret Pentagon program to study unidentified flying objects. That story led me to delve into this strange world. I've learned some interesting stuff about UFOs ("unidentified aerial phenomena," or "UAP," as the Pentagon refers to them) since then. But there's one problem.
The United States government makes it very hard to figure out what and where UFO-related stuff is going on.
Is that because the government is behind some great conspiracy to cover up the proof of alien visitation to Earth? Is it because the government is in cahoots with alien species to create human-alien hybrids?
Perhaps, but I suspect not.
What I believe is really going on here is that the few individuals in the U.S. government who know about this issue believe the phenomena might be a threat. And that they don't know how to deal with it.
So, what informs the government's fear?
Well, first off, the nuclear issue.
If you ask a Pentagon representative about a specific UFO incident, as I did most recently last week, you'll get a boring response like: "Our aviators train as they fight. Any intrusions that may compromise the security of our operations, tactics, or procedures is of great concern. As the investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena sightings is ongoing, we will not discuss individual sighting reports or observations."
By "aviators," the Pentagon is referencing the particular frequency with which UFOs tend to interact with U.S. naval aviators operating off aircraft carriers. But what the Pentagon is leaving out is why the UFOs tend to run into those naval aviators. And that cuts to the heart of why the Pentagon is concerned about UFOs.
Because the government's assessment, though they won't admit it, is that the UFOs are popping up near the aircraft carriers due to those carriers being nuclear-powered. Note also that UFOs also like to pop up near nuclear submarines and Air Force nuclear weapons bases. Now recognize that this paradigm has been occurring since the Manhattan Project operations at Los Alamos, New Mexico, and also at nuclear sites in the Soviet Union and Russia.
Oh, and as Robert Hastings documents, these UFOs have sometimes even temporarily shut down U.S. nuclear weapons systems. Interesting, right?
Now recall what I just said: The modern UFO phenomena really gets going at exactly the same time as the Manhattan Project. Has humanity's perfection of nuclear energy piqued someone or something's curiosity in us?
Don't get me wrong.
This isn't to say that these UFOs are hostile (although it must be noted that the diverging shapes, behaviors, and capability patterns of UFOs suggest more than one originating source). On the contrary, UFOs appear to be quite friendly, except when rather ill-advised Russian aircrews attempt to engage them.
But pretend you're a senior military or intelligence officer.
You see the nuclear connection point, and you're struck by something odd going on. Now, add to the nuclear issue that some UFOs are intelligently operated machines capable of instantaneously reaching hypersonic speeds. Oh, and that they're also anti-gravity and invisibility capable, and they have been tracked moving in and out of Earth orbit, the atmosphere, and underwater. Suddenly, you have something that is making the U.S. military's most advanced capabilities, and those of every other military on Earth, look like an absurd joke in comparison.
You're left with an unpleasant conclusion: If whatever is controlling these things intends harm, we don't have a chance.
Again, put yourself in the military officer's shoes. Something has repeatedly shown it can easily find carrier strike groups, which are designed and operated to be hidden in the far oceans, and to find nuclear ballistic missile submarines running near totally silent deep under the water. Something can penetrate the most securely guarded areas of the most important areas in the U.S. military and render our most critical deterrent platforms improbable. For Pentagon planners, this is Armageddon-level stuff.
But the truth is clear: If it wanted to, something strange could defeat America without raising a sweat.
The extension is that even if the U.S. government believes, as it does, that these UFOs aren't Chinese or Russian, publicizing the issue itself risks another danger. Namely, that if the U.S. shares what it knows about UFOs, China or Russia (the Russian government has long been very interested in UFOs) might learn enough to replicate the associated technologies behind UFOs for themselves. And seeing as those technologies are almost certainly built around space-time manipulation, if Beijing or Moscow figures it out before the U.S. does, we have a rather large problem.
This isn't to say that the U.S. government is sitting idle. Whatever one thinks about the claims of those such as Bob Lazar, who says he worked on crashed UFOs at Area 51, and I'm not convinced of his story, civilian and military government agencies retain active programs to ascertain the source, capabilities, and intent of UFOs. Indeed, at least some material from crashed UFOs is in U.S. government possession.
Just don't count on the military to share more of what it knows anytime soon. Their understanding of the phenomena and professional instincts weigh heavily toward more secrecy.
What of the politicians?
President Trump has admitted he has been briefed on UFOs, and Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama likely were too. Interestingly, when asked about it, both former presidents jump to joking nondenials. But seeing as they have few good answers, they likely believe there's no point in scaring folks and scarring social norms absent a solution.
Where does this leave us?
We'll need to keep pushing the issue. But also with confidence. It will take time, but we'll get to the truth eventually. After all, the UFOs keep popping up. And considering their ability to cloak, there's only one obvious answer as to why they let themselves be seen.
Zijn dit de echte redenen waarom de Amerikaanse overheid zo geheimzinnig doet over UFO’s?
Zijn dit de echte redenen waarom de Amerikaanse overheid zo geheimzinnig doet over UFO’s?
Lange tijd werd er lacherig gedaan over UFO’s. Toen bleek ineens dat het Pentagon jarenlang in het geheim onderzoek had gedaan naar UFO’s en daarover had gelogen.
Politiek journalist Tom Rogan denkt te weten waarom de overheid al die tijd heeft gelogen.
Deze objecten worden namelijk niet gemaakt door mensen.
Antizwaartekracht
“Ze bereiken snelheden van honderden knopen onderwater en halen in een oogwenk hypersonische snelheden,” zei hij op Fox News.
Daarnaast maken ze gebruik van antizwaartekracht.
We hebben het hier over technologieën waar de Verenigde Staten, China of Rusland niet over beschikken, zei Rogan.
Staan voor een raadsel
“De mensen in het Pentagon weten niet precies waar ze mee te maken hebben,” vervolgde hij.
“Ze hebben geconcludeerd dat ze hier niet vandaan komen,” zei de journalist.
Ze staan dus voor een raadsel, benadrukte hij.
Andere dimensie
Er zijn volgens Rogan twee mogelijkheden: ze zijn buitenaards of komen uit een andere dimensie.
Hij wees erop dat dezelfde soort objecten tijdens de Koude Oorlog een aantal Amerikaanse en Russische intercontinentale raketten hebben uitgeschakeld.
Intelligente machines
“Het zijn hoe dan ook intelligente machines,” besloot hij.
Onlangs schreef Rogan voor de Washington Examinereen opiniestuk over de echte redenen waarom de Amerikaanse overheid zo geheimzinnig doet over UFO’s.
Pole Shift: NASA Contractor Has Dire Warning of Magnetic Pole Reversal, North Pole Has Passed Prime Meridian
Pole Shift: NASA Contractor Has Dire Warning of Magnetic Pole Reversal, North Pole Has Passed Prime Meridian
Mr. Allison is currently the Program Manager for the Huntsville Alabama L5 Society (HAL5) High Altitude Lift-Off (HALO) Program, and as President of the High Altitude Research Corporation (HARC). In these capacities Mr. Allison is actively developing cheap access to space technologies.
Earth’s Magnetic North Pole Is Moving Faster Than Ever, Leaving Scientists Baffled
Mr. Allison has worked on the International Space Station Program for Grumman as a systems engineer specializing in robotics, for the Mevatec Corporation as an electrical power systems integration engineer, and for Teledyne Brown Engineering as a payload integration engineer for external space station experiments.
Mr. Allison is currently working for Hernandez Engineering as a safety and product assurance engineer on such projects as Orbital Space Plane, X-37 and HyTEx. Mr. Allison also studies means to defend Earth from asteroids, and the construction of large-scale space stations.
Scientists have discovered remnants of the world’s oldest fossil forest in a sandstone quarry in Cairo, New York.
It is believed the extensive network of trees, which would have spread from New York all the way into Pennsylvania and beyond, is around 386 million years old.
This makes the Cairo forest around 2 or 3 million years older than what was thought to be the world’s oldest forest at Gilboa, also in New York State and around 40 km away from the Cairo site.
Credit: Cardiff University
The new findings, which have been published today in the journal Current Biology, have thrown new light on the evolution of trees and the transformative role they played in shaping the world we live in today.
A team led by scientists at Binghamton University, New York State Museum and Cardiff University have mapped over 3,000 square meters of the forest at the abandoned quarry in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains in the Hudson Valley.
Their investigations showed that the forest was home to at least two types of trees: cladoxylopsids, primitive tree-fern-like plants, which lacked flat green leaves, and which also grew in vast numbers at Gilboa; and Archaeopteris, which had a conifer-like woody trunk and frond-like branches which had green flattened leaves.
A single example of a third type of tree was also uncovered, which remained unidentified but could possibly have been a lycopod.
All these trees reproduced using only spores rather than seeds.
The team also reported a ‘spectacular’ and extensive network of roots which were more than eleven meters in length in some places which belonged to the Archaeopteris trees.
It is these long-lived woody roots, with multiple levels of branching and small, short-lived perpendicular feeder roots, that transformed the interactions of plants and soils and were therefore pivotal to the co-evolution of forests and the atmosphere’, the researchers state.
Until this point in time, trees such as the cladoxylopsids only had ribbon-like and mostly unbranched roots which had to be constantly replaced as the plant above ground grew.
They believe the forest was eventually wiped out by a flood due to the presence of many fish fossils that were also visible on the surface of the quarry.
“It is surprising to see plants which were previously thought to have had mutually exclusive habitat preferences growing together on the ancient Catskill delta,” said co-author of the study Dr Chris Berry from Cardiff University’s School of Earth and Ocean Sciences.
“This would have looked like a fairly open forest with small to moderate sized coniferous-looking trees with individual and clumped tree-fern like plants of possibly smaller size growing between them.”
The research team say that the Cairo forest is older than the one at Gilboa because the fossils were lower down in the sequence of rocks that occur in the Catskill mountains.
“In order to really understand how trees began to draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, we need to understand the ecology and habitats of the very earliest forests, and their rooting systems.” continued Dr Berry.
“These remarkable findings have allowed us to move away from the generalities of the importance of large plants growing in forests, to the specifics of which plants, in which habitats, in which types of ecology were driving the processes of global change. We have literally been able to drill into the fossil soil between the trees and are now able to investigate geochemical changes to the soil with our colleagues at Sheffield University.
“We are really getting a handle on the transition of the Earth to a forested planet.”
I’ve written a few articles over the course of the past week, and into this week, on the matter of what have rapidly become known as “simulated UFO abductions.” The theory is that these “abductions” – primarily in the 1950s onward – were not the work of aliens, but the work of intelligence agencies, possibly to determine how easy (or difficult) it might be to fabricate an alien encounter. After all, if you can hoax an E.T. incident then maybe you can fabricate something amazing on the battlefield and, in the process, freak out the enemy. In that sense, perhaps the abductions amounted to forerunners of bigger, far grander plans. We’re talking about the likes of the CIA’s controversial MKULTRA “mind-control” program. One person who read my article of December 23 asked if agencies, in the 1950s, had the ability to pull something like this off – and to do so 100 percent successfully. The guy asked: “Didn’t the CIA’s MKultra not start til early-middle 50s? Would they have time [to pull such a thing off]?” Well, yes, that’s a very good point. But, it’s a lesser known fact that the CIA’s mind-control ops actually kicked off at the very start of the 1950s. Also, further programs, run by other agencies, began back in the 1940s! Let’s see what history tells us all about that.
It was during August 1977 that The Senate MKULTRA Hearings were organized by what became known as the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on Human Resources. It turns out that as the committee dug deeper it found that there were similar programs which predated MKUltra. They were Artichoke and Bluebird. The Committee revealed what it had uncovered: “The earliest of the CIA’s major programs involving the use of chemical and biological agents, Project Bluebird, was approved by the Director in 1950. Its objectives were: (a) discovering means of conditioning personnel to prevent unauthorized extraction of information from them by known means, (b) investigating the possibility of control of an individual by application of special interrogation techniques, (c) memory enhancement, and (d) establishing defensive means for preventing hostile control of Agency personnel.”
CIA headquarters
As for Artichoke, there are these words for the committee: “As a result of interrogations conducted overseas during the project, another goal was added – the evaluation of offensive uses of unconventional interrogation techniques, including hypnosis and drugs. In August 1951, the project was renamed Artichoke. Project Artichoke included in-house experiments on interrogation techniques, conducted ‘under medical and security controls which would ensure that no damage was done to individuals who volunteer for the experiments. Overseas interrogations utilizing a combination of sodium pentothal and hypnosis after physical and psychiatric examinations of the subjects were also part of Artichoke. Information about Project Artichoke after the fall of 1953 is scarce. The CIA maintains that the project ended in 1956, but evidence suggests that Office of Security and Office of Medical Services use of ‘special interrogation’ techniques continued for several years thereafter.”
A special procedure, designated MKDelta, was established to govern the use of MKUltra materials when specifically utilized in overseas operations. Such materials were used on a number of occasions. According to the Committee: “Because MKUltra records were destroyed, it is impossible to reconstruct the operational use of MKUltra materials by the CIA overseas; it has been determined that the use of these materials abroad began in 1953, and possibly as early as 1950.” The Committee revealed more on MKDelta: “Drugs were used primarily as an aid to interrogations, but MKUltra/MKDelta materials were also used for harassment, discrediting, or disabling purposes. According to an Inspector General Survey of the Technical Services Division of the CIA in 1957 – an inspection which did not discover the MKUltra project involving the surreptitious administration of LSD to unwitting, non-volunteer subjects – the CIA had developed six drugs for operational use and they had been used in six different operations on a total of thirty-three subjects. By 1963 the number of operations and subjects had increased substantially.”
The Committee discovered that the U.S. Army had been working on such programs, too. In its 1977 report, the Committee revealed the following: “There were three major phases in the Army’s testing of LSD. In the first, LSD was administered to more than 1,000 American soldiers who volunteered to be subjects in chemical warfare experiments. In the second phase, Material Testing Program EA 1729, 95 volunteers received LSD in clinical experiments designed to evaluate potential intelligence uses of the drug. In the third phase, Projects Third Chance and Derby Hat, 16 unwitting non-volunteer subjects were interrogated after receiving LSD as part of operational field tests.”
Moving on, there is what the committee learned about an operation called Chatter: “Project Chatter was a Navy program that began in the fall of 1947. Responding to reports of amazing results achieved by the Soviets in using truth drugs, the program focused on the identification and the testing of such drugs for use in interrogations and in the recruitment of agents. The research included laboratory experiments on animals and human subjects involving Anabasis aphylla, scopolamine, and mescaline in order to determine their speech-inducing qualities. Overseas experiments were conducted as part of the project. The project expanded substantially during the Korean War, and ended shortly after the war, in 1953.”
MKNaomi was yet another operation on which the committee found a lot. It was designed: (a) To provide for a covert support base to meet clandestine operational requirements; (b) To stockpile severely incapacitating and lethal materials for the specific use of TSD [Technical Services Division]; (c) To maintain in operational readiness special and unique items for the dissemination of biological and chemical materials; (d) To provide for the required surveillance, testing, upgrading, and evaluation of materials and items in order to assure absence of defects and complete predictability of results to be expected under operational conditions.”
Under an agreement reached with the Army in 1952, the Special Operations Division (SOD) at Fort Detrick was to assist CIA in developing, testing, and maintaining biological agents and delivery systems – some of which were directly related to mind-control experimentation. By this agreement, the CIA finally acquired the knowledge, skill, and facilities of the Army to develop biological weapons specifically suited for CIA use. The Committee also noted: “SOD developed darts coated with biological agents and pills containing several different biological agents which could remain potent for weeks or months. SOD developed a special gun for firing darts coated with a chemical which could allow CIA agents to incapacitate a guard dog, enter an installation secretly, and return the dog to consciousness when leaving. SOD scientists were unable to develop a similar incapacitant [sic] for humans. SOD also physically transferred to CIA personnel biological agents in ‘bulk’ form, and delivery devices, including some containing biological agents.”
In addition to the CIA’s interest in using biological weapons and mind-control against humans, it also asked SOD to study use of biological agents against crops and animals. In its 1967 memorandum, the CIA stated: “Three methods and systems for carrying out a covert attack against crops and causing severe crop loss have been developed and evaluated under field conditions. This was accomplished in anticipation of a requirement which was later developed but was subsequently scrubbed just prior to putting into action.”
The Committee concluded with respect to MKNaomi that the project was “…terminated in 1970. On November 25, 1969, President Nixon renounced the use of any form of biological weapons that kill or incapacitate and ordered the disposal of existing stocks of bacteriological weapons. On February 14, 1970, the President clarified the extent of his earlier order and indicated that toxins – chemicals that are not living organisms but are produced by living organisms – were considered biological weapons subject to his previous directive and were to be destroyed. Although instructed to relinquish control of material held for the CIA by SOD, a CIA scientist acquired approximately 11 grams of shellfish toxin from SOD personnel at Fort Detrick which were stored in a little-used CIA laboratory where it went undetected for five years.”
Given that Project Chatter was quietly created way back in 1947, it’s not at all impossible that by the mid-to-late 1950s those “simulated UFO abductions” couldn’t have been working very well and convincing people they had been abducted when they weren’t – or, at least, not by extraterrestrials.
Dark UFO Seen During Sunset As Scream Is Heard, Dec 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Dark UFO Seen During Sunset As Scream Is Heard, Dec 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 24, 2019 Location of sighting: Syracuse, New York, USA Source: MUFON This dark UFO was recorded passing over the trees and over a lake in Syracuse yesterday. The UFO was seen during sunset and the video is a bit blurry and difficult to make out detail. I am a bit surprised that people today still use phones from 5 years ago or older. Even my son has an iPhone 7 which is 4 years old but takes better video than this. Also, must UFOs are seen during sunset. Odd, but true fact. Scott C. Waring
Orb Fleet Over Rochester, New York During Day On Dec 25, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Orb Fleet Over Rochester, New York During Day On Dec 25, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 25, 2019 Location of sighting: Rochester, New York, USA Source: MUFON These orbs were recorded flying around the white clouds during the day over Rochester. The person was able to get a little bit of video using a phone, but there was no sound. These are defiantly controlled objects and they are also very similar to the white orb UFOs that news recorded over the area about 9 years ago. Absolutely amazing that they are back! Scott C. Waring
While searching through a Mars photo I found a rugged area of terrain that seemed to have been dug up from mining. Then I found a huge structure along a hillside, with other structures nearby. There was also the capital letter B on a hillside. The B might be an entire word in their language or an important symbol. This is absolute proof that intelligent aliens lived, thrived and died on Mars. Scott C. Waring
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Black UFO Hovers Near Power Lines In New York! Dec 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Black UFO Hovers Near Power Lines In New York! Dec 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:Dec 24, 2019 Location of sighting: Rome, New York, USA Source: MUFON
Here is a great UFO video that was reported to MUFON today. The black UFO is not a disk, but more of a flying cylinder. The UFO was seen for for a few minutes near a power line before the eyewitness pulled out a phone and recorded a bit. Absolutely 100% proof that aliens are interested in New York. Scott C. Waring
Plane passenger films weird rectangular glow above the clouds in Kazakhstan
Plane passenger films weird rectangular glow above the clouds in Kazakhstan
During a flight from the city Almaty to Petropavlovsk in Kazakhstan on December 23, 2019, a passenger noticed a strange rectangular glow above the clouds on which he decided to film it.
It is unclear what the strange glow could have been but it is quite possible that it was a tall building sticking out of the cloud formation.
The tallest building in Kazakhstan is Emerald Towers 1 in Nu-Sultan which is 240 meters high, the Esentai Tower in Almaty is 200 meters high. The construction of both towers as well as other tall buildings are similar to the rectangular glow.
The exact location, the altitude of the plane as well as the altitude level of the cloud formation at the moment the passenger noticed the glow is unknown but could it be that he has filmed the roof of a tall building reflected by the sunset or was it something else?
This day in UFO history: The 1980 UFO Landings In Rendlesham Forest
This day in UFO history: The 1980 UFO Landings In Rendlesham Forest
England holds one of the most compelling UFO landing accounts. In late December 1980, invasion of unidentified flying objects over a period of several nights took place in the joint air bases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge, situated within the vast Rendlesham Forest in late December.
Description of alien beings added to the controversial stories of the twin air bases. The hype took into another level with anomalous radar readings, electromagnetic effects, and surrealistic atmospheric conditions. Professionals, deemed to be credible, have been coming forward revealing their knowledge of the real alien event on the Bentwaters and Woodbridge Air Force Bases.
Uncorrelated object showed on the radar screens at RAF in Norfolk shortly after midnight on December 27, 1980. The thing then suddenly vanished in the area of the Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk. Bentwaters RAF radar also picked up the object.
The bases were allegedly housed a large stockpile of nuclear weapons, and the Woodbridge was the base of the 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron.
The radar operator that night, Mal Scurrah, said that they did not have any idea of what they captured on their radar. They checked the air traffic agencies and found out that there should have been nothing in the vicinity at the time. They sent a jet aircraft to investigate, and the pilot reported seeing a dazzling light in the sky in front of them after getting within about a quarter of a mile.
They saw on radar the object was stationary and it moved off in seconds. In just five minutes the UFO reached 90,000 feet and higher, and they had lost it in the radar scope.
The Woodbridge/Bentwaters started their extraordinary events with the sighting of a massive glowing object by three security guards of the twin bases. They followed the lights into the forest with initial thought that it was a commercial or military aircraft that crash landed.
The patrol was stunned to see a saucer-like craft with small beings with large heads suspended by a type of beam from the bottom of the craft. The beings reportedly performing a repair to their craft unaware of the three men watching their activities.
The guards radioed the base headquarters and requested emergency help. Assistance reportedly arrived headed by senior officers of the base. Later, there would be off record reports that they encountered strange anomalies, such as reality-bending, time displacement, and surreal atmospheric conditions.
Some of the senior officers allegedly communicated with the alien beings.
Called out on the second night of the sightings was then the now famous Colonel Halt. The group of Colonel Halt was reportedly one of the groups to chase the glowing UFO in the forest. He made an audio recording of the details of his trek into the woods.
Patrolmen Jim Penniston, John Burroughs, and Larry Warren later co-wrote a book about the incident, titled Left at East Gate.
Other men who were present during the encounter later revealed that there was an underground theater where soldiers were interrogated, sworn to secrecy and threatened. They also revealed that they were shown several films featuring UFO recoveries around the world. It was also reported that an alien being was there in one of the meetings.
Theformation of the solar system is a deeply perplexing puzzle. We're left with clues all over the place: the positions and sizes of the planets, the members of the asteroid belt, Kuiper Belt, and Oort Cloud and the populations of moons around the planets. But how did we get to this from a vague disk of gas and dust billions of years ago?
Simulations and models lead the way, and recently researchers have turned to the asteroid belt for more help: the asteroids living closest to the sun actually preserve a memory from when the solar system was still evolving, and might even offer clues to the hypothesis that we once had five giant planets.
Billions of years ago, our solar system was just a bunch of random gas and dust floating around as a nebula. As it collapsed, it formed a rapidly spinning merry-go-round of a flat disk around the young and hungry proto-sun. Over the course of 100 million years, that disk somehow became the planets and other smaller denizens of our home system.
Computer simulations of the disk-to-planet process are fantastically difficult, due to all the rich and complex physics involved, but they have a few general features. The innermost worlds tend to be small and rocky, while the outermost planets tend to be big and gassy and/or icy. Plus the process of formation leads to a bunch of random junk floating around.
Another general feature is that newborn planets tend to move quickly into resonant motion, meaning that orbits become integer multiples of each other. For example, Mars might orbit four times for every Jupiter orbit, and Jupiter might orbit twice for every turn around the sun that Saturn gets.
And when it comes to our solar system in particular, in simulations the giant planets tend to form much closer together, and much closer to the sun, than they are today.
So then the question becomes: Once we've got a batch of baby planets formed from our protostellar disk, how do we get those planets in their modern-day positions?
Enter the Nice Model, named after the city in southern France where a few sun-baked researchers cooked up the idea in 2005. In the bare-bones version of the model, the too-close-for-comfort giant planets are surrounded by a disk of leftovers: tiny planetesimals that never got to play the planet game and had to hang out in the outskirts of the solar system.
But not for long. Every so slowly, over the course of 100 million years, the outermost giant planet (usually thought to be Neptune, but in some versions of the model it's Uranus) drifts close to one of those leftovers. Close enough to interact gravitationally, doing a little orbital dance where the planet pulls the bit of rock inward to a smaller orbit, and in exchange sends itself farther out.
And then that little scattered rock encounters the next planet in and does the same thing. And then it approaches Saturn and repeats the process again, going ever sunward and spreading out three of the giant planets.
And then that plucky little planetesimal finds Jupiter, who is generally in no mood for games and doesn't like to be told what to do. Instead of nudging the rock inward, the massive bulk of our system's largest planet just sends that unlucky bit of debris out of the solar system altogether. That doesn't come without a price, however; the energy needed to eject the planetesimal reduces Jupiter's own orbit, sending it slightly closer to the sun.
This model is able to explain in large part the modern-day positions of the planets, and how they were able to get there from their birthplaces. And since 2005, more sophisticated versions of the Nice Model have appeared, trying to explain finer details of our system's makeup, including the possibility that we once were home to a fifth giant planet that got lost in all the gravitational reshuffling.
Look to the asteroids
But all versions of the Nice Model have a particular problem with the asteroid belt. All that orbital dancing in the outer system can have big impacts on the inner worlds and their own population of planetary leftovers. The on-again-off-again gravitational resonances that the outer planets experience as they migrate to and fro in the outer reaches destabilize members of the nascent asteroid belt, scattering them into all sorts of crazy orbits.
In particular, the various versions of the Nice Model tend to send the innermost belt members (the chunks of rock within 2.5 astronomical units) into orbits with high inclination, meaning that they're angled with respect to the rest of the solar system. (One astronomical unit, or AU, is the average Earth-sun distance — about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.) And yet, we find most asteroids are on an even keel with the major planets, so we must be getting something wrong in our models.
Recently, a team of researchers took a more refined approach to the simulations, looking especially at the interactions of Jupiter and Saturn as they waltzed together in the early days of the solar system. The scientists found that during the process of planetary migration, Jupiter and Saturn approach a 5:2 resonance, meaning that Jupiter orbits five times for every two orbits of Saturn.
They don't stay in that resonance for long. But the details of Saturn's orbit while near the resonance give it just the right gravitational effect on the inner system to clear away any high-inclination wannabes in the asteroid belt.
And what about the more exotic models, like early solar systems including a fifth giant planet? It too has an effect on all the resonances, which means that the modern-day asteroid belt may actually be a fossil record, remembering what the young system was like. And the more we study those little leftover asteroids, the more we can learn about our own origins.
SAN FRANCISCO — NASA's Curiosity rover may have just taken a big step toward cracking at least part of the Mars methane mystery.
Curiosity's measurements show that methane levels cycle seasonally inside the Red Planet's 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater, which the rover has been exploring since August 2012. The six-wheeled robot has also detected several big surges of the gas, which is a possible (though far from definitive) sign of Mars life.
But here's where the mystery comes in: The view from above is very different. The European-Russian Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), which was designed to sniff out low-abundance gases such as methane, has found the Martian air to be virtually free of the stuff.
For example, TGO recorded an upper limit of 0.012 parts per billion (ppb) methane during its first four months of full science operations, which lasted from April through August 2018. That's about 35 times lower than the background methane levels Curiosity measured inside Gale over the same period.
And neither TGO nor Mars Express, a European probe that has been orbiting the planet since December 2003, spotted the most recent methane spike that Curiosity detected. During that event, which occurred on June 19 of this year, methane concentrations at the rover's location rose to a whopping 21 ppb — the highest levels that Curiosity had ever recorded. (Mars Express did, however, independently observe the first methane surge that Curiosity spotted, in June 2013.)
The discrepancy between ground measurements and orbital data has the Curiosity team "mystified, just like everyone else," mission principal investigator Ashwin Vasavada said here last week during a media roundtable at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Perhaps something in the Martian atmosphere destroys methane very quickly, scrubbing away most of the gas that rises above Curiosity and therefore leaving little for TGO or Mars Express to detect, said Vasavada, who's based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. But that's not the only possible explanation.
"Maybe the expansion and contraction of the atmosphere every day from solar heating is responsible," he told Space.com after the roundtable.
Curiosity's previous methane measurements — which the rover makes using its Sample Analysis at Mars instrument, or SAM — have been gathered at night, Vasavada said. That's not surprising, considering how busy the rover is during the day studying rocks in minute detail and/or driving across the rugged Red Planet landscape. But it means that Curiosity had sniffed only when the atmosphere was relatively dense and the methane concentrated as a result.
During the day, as the atmosphere expands, the methane becomes more mixed and diffuse — perhaps diffuse enough to explain, at least in part, why the orbiters' observations are so different.
The Curiosity team is testing this idea. Over this past weekend, the rover was scheduled to make its first-ever detailed daytime methane measurement.
"This rare experiment is a chance to get some exciting science observations, but we'll need time after the experiment to analyze the data; we don't expect to have any takeaways right away," science team member Catherine O'Connell, a planetary geologist at the University of New Brunswick in Canada, wrote in a mission update on Friday (Dec. 13).
The results, whatever they may be, will not solve the entire Mars methane mystery, for it's a multilayered one. For example, scientists don't know how the gas was produced. Most of the methane in Earth's air was emitted by living creatures, but the stuff can be created abiotically as well — specifically, by reactions involving hot water and rock.
And even if Mars' methane is biogenic — a very big if — there's no guarantee it's a sign of active life. The gas may have been generated billions of years ago in underground pockets, from which it's now slowly seeping, mission team members have said.
The Curiosity team also recently announced intriguing results about another possible biosignature gas. The rover's measurements show that oxygen levels rise considerably higher than expected in the spring and summer and drop below predicted concentrations during the Gale Crater winter.
"As it always has been, both methane and oxygen are a mystery," Vasavada said during the AGU roundtable. "It's telling us that there's things about the atmosphere that we don't understand. How methane and oxygen are produced, and how they're destroyed — both are not fitting our current models of atmospheric chemistry."
The main goal of Curiosity's $2.5 billion mission involves assessing the habitability of Gale Crater. The rover has already accomplished that objective, finding that Gale hosted a long-lived lake-and-stream system in the ancient past.
Since September 2014, Curiosity has been picking its way up Mount Sharp, the 3.4-mile-high (5.5 kilometers) mountain that rises from Gale's center, searching for clues about Mars' long-ago transition from a relatively warm and wet world to the cold, dry planet it is today.
A brother and sister alien hunting team have discovered a “UFO highway” across America along which hundreds of unexplained events have taken place - from cattle mutilations to alien abductions.
Chuck Zukowski and Debbie Ziegelmeyer have spent years travelling across the US investigating hundreds of UFO sightings and other paranormal occurrences.
It was during one cattle mutilation investigation that Chuck realised that many of the unexplained events he had looked into had taken place on the 37th latitude.
He called his sister - who noticed the same with her investigations in Missouri - and the pair began researching the phenomenon, discovering that there are clusters of unexplained events taking place across the same latitude line.
The pair believe that the 37th latitude line is a kind of UFO or paranormal “highway” along which extra terrestrial craft enter and exit the earth.
Their theory is now the subject of a book called the 37th Parallel - and is about to be made into a Hollywood blockbuster in the next few months.
Chuck told Sun Online: “Back in 2006 I was looking at my cattle mutilation investigations - there were huge similarities between them all - most of them were laying on their right side, they’re laying east to west and then I noticed that lots of them were on the 37 degree latitude.
“I called my sister at midnight and I said, ‘Didn’t you have cattle mutilations on the 37 degree latitude in Missouri?'
"And she said, 'Yes' and we started looking more into it. We soon realized it wasn’t just cattle mutilations – there were all kind of events.
"We we're up until 2:30 in the morning going through all these cases and started seeing these amazing patterns.”
The 37th latitude line runs from California through Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and across to Virginia.
Examples of cases along the line include the Joplin Spook Lights - unexplained balls of light that have been appearing in Hornet, Missouri since the 19th century; The Aztec, Nevada incident of 1948 when a flying saucer allegedly crashed; and Piedmont, Missouri where 500 people reported UFO sightings in 1973.
The infamous Area 51 in Nevada - and the Dulce Base - an alleged underground alien base - are also located on the line.
"For the next month or so I start looking at all these cases and I had all this data," Chuck explained.
"All these GPS co-ordinates, everything from Native American sites to underwater caves.
"I released it all on my website and I mentioned it during an appearance on the Science Channel's Unexplained Files - then for the next season of that show they asked me to expand on the theory so I did a whole episode on it for them.
"The bottom line is the 37th latitude is like a UFO highway or paranormal highway across the continent.
"We seem to think that this highway is a major highway that these crafts use - they seem to exit and enter here."
After his appearance on the Science Channel a Hollywood producer got in touch and told Chuck his theory would be a great idea for a book and movie.
The book 37th Parallel, by New York times best selling author Ben Niezrich, came out last year - and a screen play is currently being written.
"In 2015 I signed a life-rights contract with Flint Pictures - it got picked up by New Line Cinema - Warner Brothers before the book was even written - just on the idea," Chuck said.
"The book came out last year. The screen play is being written by a Hollywood screenwriter who has written movies for Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Robert Downey Jr and should be ready in the next month.
"We’ll know in October if the movie is going ahead but they already have some big name actors following the project already."
Debbie said she is now investigating what incidents have occurred on the 37th latitude around the world - particularly over water.
Athens, Greece, sits on the line - and it's also the the dividing line between North and South Korea.
Debbie has even witnessed UFOs herself on the 37th latitude after a party at her family's lake house near Farmington, Missouri - which lies on the line - last year.
"I have an app on my phone that you can use to look up and it tells you what planets and constellations are visible," she said.
"And then all of a sudden we saw four stars in a formation. They were small stars which kept getting brighter and brighter - so apparently whatever it was was coming into the atmosphere then the one on the top left hand corner shot fast, straight up, and the top right and bottom left did the same - and the bottom right one went right across the horizon.
"I spoke to other experts to see if we have any military or government projects that could do that and they said no - they had no idea what it could be."
Chuck and Debbie say they have investigated hundreds and hundreds of paranormal cases - and it's not just UFOs - the pair also investigate ghost and Bigfoot sightings.
"I get three or four people a week getting in touch with me through my website - sightings, photos and videos - I always have a backlog," Chuck said.
"We started off as crash retrieval investigators but then you gather all this equipment like geiger counters, Electro Magnetic Fields (EMF) instruments, night vision goggles and then people get in touch.
"Lots of Bigfoot sightings are associated with UFO sightings - and ghost investigations started coming up because I had all this equipment.
"We use EMF instruments to look for trace evidence to look for crafts or entities because they leave electronic signatures - well it turns out ghosts leave electronic signatures too.
"Sometimes where they have had ghost sightings the orbs they see might not be ghosts but UFOs.
Hans-Peter Marshall, associate professor at Boise State University, and Andy Gleason, Senator Beck Snow Safety Director, push toward the upper reaches of Senator Beck Basin with a Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar held between them during SnowEx 2017. Credit: NASA / Andrew Hedrick, USDA Agricultural Research Service
It's the most wonderful time of the year—the time NASA's SnowEx campaign hits the skies and ground of the world's snowy places, measuring snow properties to understand how much water is contained by each winter's snowfall.
Snow is a vital source of water for drinking, agriculture and electrical power in the western United States and other locations around the world. To know how much water will be available the following spring, water resource managers and hydrologists need to know where snow has fallen, how much there is and how is characteristics change as it melts. Measuring snow water equivalent, or SWE, tells them how much water is contained within the snowpack.
NASA currently has no global satellite mission to track and study SWE. SnowEx's airborne measurements, ground measurements and computer modeling are paving the way for future development of a global snow satellite mission. Here are some things they will be watching for in the 2020 campaign.
In the air …
Snow is challenging to measure because its characteristics change depending on what terrain it falls on, how deep it is and whether it is melting. No one tool or measurement can measure all types of snow all the time, the team said.
"The research gaps in snow remote sensing can be grouped by snow climate classes—tundra snow, snow in forests, snow in maritime areas—and by how snow evolves over time," said Carrie Vuyovich, a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and SnowEx 2020's current deputy project scientist. "Different snow characteristics impact the measurements differently."
Tracking snow-water equivalent (SWE) across the season helps hydrologists and water resource managers know what water will be available when it melts in the spring, as well as plan for possible floods or droughts.
SnowEx’s airborne measurements, ground measurements and computer modeling are paving the way for future development of a global snow satellite mission. Credit: NASA / Jon Sunderman, Naval Research Laboratory
"It's not so much the depth of the snow—that's the measure most people are probably familiar with," said Ed Kim, a research scientist at Goddard and SnowEx's former project scientist. "You know, in the winter, if it snows and you've got to shovel your driveway, you want to know how many centimeters of snow you have to shovel. But we're after the water equivalent: How much water that snow represents and what it means for floods and droughts."
The SnowEx airborne campaign will fly radar and lidar (light detection and ranging) to measure snow depth, microwave radar and radiometers to measure SWE, optical cameras to photograph the surface, infrared radiometers to measure surface temperature, and hyperspectral imagers to document snow cover and composition. Some of these instruments work better than others across different types of terrain, vegetation and snow conditions, and seeing where and when each performs best will help snow scientists decide how different combinations of instruments would provide useful measurements for a potential satellite mission.
SnowEx 2020 will first test the instruments near Grand Mesa, Colorado, which includes both flat snow and forest. This year's campaign will also include a time series of flights across Colorado, Utah, Idaho and California as snow melts in the spring, documenting changes between locations and seasons. The team began flights in December 2019 and will finish in May 2020.
"The last campaign was a snapshot in time," said Vuyovich. "We did not see a lot of change in snow conditions over the three-week period in 2017, and some techniques we are interested in use a change detection method."
The time series campaign will test and validate a SWE measurement method using L-band interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), measured with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's UAVSAR instrument.
"The UAVSAR instrument is very reliable—it's flown often for non-snow applications such as deformation of the earth surface after earthquakes or volcanoes," said HP Marshall, an associate professor at Boise State University, Idaho and researcher with the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab, and SnowEx 2020's project scientist. "In our preliminary tests in 2017, we got some pretty promising results that correlate with snow depth and SWE, but there wasn't a very big change, so we couldn't test over a wide range of conditions. In 2020, we will make InSAR measurements weekly to bi-weekly during a time series experiment, from snow-free conditions through transition into the wet spring snowpack."
SnowEx will also test the Snow Water Equivalent Synthetic Aperture Radar and Radiometer (SWESARR). SWESARR was developed at NASA Goddard, and its combination of active and passive microwave measurements allows it to measure characteristics of the snow as well as the soil underneath, which can affect the microwave signal.
In order to know if the instruments are taking accurate measurements, the team also collects data on the ground. In 2020, ground teams will measure snow depth, density, accumulation layers, temperature, wetness and grain size — the size of a typical particle. Credit: NASA / Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University
SnowEx includes partners from universities, private institutions and other government agencies who bring additional expertise and instruments—such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's airborne gamma instrument and the University of Alabama's FMCW radar. These instruments cannot be used in space, but they will help the snow science community advance their understanding of snow across various conditions.
The team will also compare their data to NASA's ICESat-2 and the European Space Agency's Sentinel 1A and 1B satellites, and high-resolution optical imagery from NASA WorldView and private imaging companies.
… and on the ground
In order to know if their algorithms are accurate, the team also collects data on the ground. SnowEx 2020's ground teams will measure snow depth, density, accumulation layers, temperature, wetness and snow grain size—the size of a typical particle. Measuring these characteristics lets them see how different locations and on-the-ground characteristics impact the airborne data.
This year, real-time computer modeling will be integrated into the campaign as well.
"Our snow modeling group has been working to understand where we see the greatest uncertainty in model simulations of SWE," said Vuyovich. Here, "uncertainty" refers to the range of estimates from a number of simulations. The team assembled a twelve-member ensemble of different models and atmospheric data to simulate nine years' worth of snow seasons across North America, pinpointing areas where uncertainty was highest.
"Evaluating the data real-time will help us understand what is driving the uncertainty." Vuyovich said. "Next, we'll start looking at how assimilating different remote sensing observations can help improve our estimates."
The empire of Aztec was formed after the three ruling cities Tenochtitlan, Texcoco and Tlacopa joined the forces 1428. Tenochtitlan, also known as Mexica-Tenochtitlan, became the most dominant military power and buried all evidence of past civilisations. But after an archaeologist made an unexpected discovery in Mexico it helped to expose an entire lost Aztec city.
In Amazon Prime's recently released series showed how a team of workers came across a gigantic oval stone in 1978 near a cathedral in Tenochtitlan. This finding led the archaeologists to a theory that Mexico city was built on the top of an early Aztec city.
The archaeological finding below Mexico city
The narrator of the series stated that the archaeologist, assigned excavate in this area, was Eduardo Matos Montezuma and from the many relics he discovered, scientists are now able to imagine how the magnificent ancient capital might have looked. He also mentioned that it was the ancient vestiges of Tenochtitlan.
In addition, the narrator said, "The centre of Tenochtitlan was situated between the cathedral and the Palacio Nacional, on the ground plaza of the zocalo, it was mainly a place of worship, full of temples erected on the tops of pyramids with their characteristic steep stairways and colourful wall paintings."
The excavation work was continued for five years and after the completion, 7,000 objects, including sculptures, small artefacts, votive offerings and the skulls of sacrificed victims were discovered from that particular area.
Aztec Sun stone depicting their concept of the universeWikimedia commons
The lost Aztec city
It should be mentioned that the ancient city was located at an elevation of over 6,500 feet and it was surrounded by hills, mountains as well as lakes and was connected to the mainland with many causeways and interlaced with navigable canals. In its prime, the settlement was known as a great metropolis with over 1,200,000 inhabitants.
The archaeologist, Dr Montezum found thousands of relics buried below which allowed him to map the old city, which had many temples dedicated to important gods at the ceremonial centre, Teocalli.
"The most imposing was the Templo Mayor, the religious heart of Tenochtitlan, the destination for pilgrims and home for priests and divinities. Priests were allowed to climb to the top of the pyramid and enter the two temples and on either side of the temple, there were two other sacred constructions dedicated to the Gods Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca," said the narrator of 'Secrets of Archaeology.'
Aztec pillarWikimedia commons
The lost city structure
It was revealed that the lost city of Aztec, Teocalli had dwellings reserved for those in the priesthood and playgrounds for an Aztec ballgame which had more of spiritual meaning than a sporting one and the priests used to play there.
The archaeologist also found a famous alter of the skulls, called Tzompantli, where the craniums of human sacrifice victims were displayed. As per the experts, religious sacrifices were necessary to seek blessings from deities.
The Aztec Empire
'Aztec' refers to the 'people of Aztlán' and the ancestral home of the Aztecs thought to be in northern Mexico or the southwestern US. In 1426, when the Tepanec ruler died, his son Maxlatzin inherited the throne. He sought to reduce Aztec power but was defeated by the former ally.
The Aztecs didn't directly rule the region in the same way like Romans did. Rather than direct control, they subjugated nearby city-states but left the local rulers in charge, then demanded regular tribute.
It should be mentioned that they used to believe in more than 200 gods, who were divided into groups, such as for the weather, agriculture and warfare.
In his book, "Forbidden Science 4," Dr. Jacques Valle explains how he came in possession documents showing that forced "UFO abductions" were conducted by the CIA as psychological warfare experiments.
Reflect On:
This field really requires a lot of critical thinking, and a lot of research. It's no doubt filled with disinformation and misinformation that seems to plague the mainstream UFO community today.
Throughout history, the field of ufology and the examination of the extraterrestrial hypothesis has, without a doubt, been overcome with a plethora of disinformation. Those who have dived into the depths of ufology know this best, as it’s well documented that ‘outsiders’ from intelligence agencies and governments have infiltrated the field for the purposes of deceiving researchers and people who are interested in the topic for one simple reason, to keep them away from the truth. On top of these disinformation campaigns, which still seem to be in operation today, there has long been an “official campaign of ridicule and secrecy” (Roscoe Hillenkoetter, Ex CIA director) associated with the subject. This is why I encourage all those reading who dive into this subject to stick with facts, data, and evidence rather than entertain what seem to be outlandish claims that in no way, at all, can be verified.
I’d like to draw your attention to Dr. Jacques Vallee, who holds a master’s degree in astrophysics and a Ph.D. in computer science. The subject of UFOs first attracted his attention as an astronomer in Paris. He subsequently became a close associate of Project Blue Book’s J. Allen Hynek and has written several books on the UFO enigma. He is currently a venture capitalist living in San Francisco. Vallée co-developed the first computerized map of Mars for NASA in 1963. He later worked on the network information center for the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, as a staff engineer of SRI International’s Augmentation Research Center under Douglas Engelbart.
He’s a researcher that’s had a very interesting life, to say the least, with regards to researching the topic of UFOs. He’s come into contact with and had meetings with most experts in the field, politicians from around the world, high ranking military personnel and much more. His journey into the subject has led him to investigate an uncountable amount of case reports regarding UFOs and supposed extraterrestrial beings, and he’s been a major player with regards to bringing the mainstream scientific community forward to look at the evidence and data that’s involved with such a serious subject, that, in his time, was largely ridiculed. He is an important reason why the phenomenon has gained as much credibility as it has today.
Valle is one of many who have written about and documented the startling evidence that well-constructed hoaxes and media manipulations have misled UFO researchers, diverting them from the UFO phenomenon itself, what’s really going on.
In one of his latest books, Forbidden Science 4, he shares a record of his private study into unexplained phenomena between 1990 and the end of the millennium, during which he was traveling around the global pursuing his professional work as a high-technology investor. It’s a bit of a diary, documenting his experiences and encounters/meetings as he tries to examine and explore the phenomenon.
In an entry dated Thursday 26 March 1992, Valle writes:
I have secured a document confirming that the CIA simulated UFO abductions in Latin America (Brazil and Argentina) as psychological warfare experiments.
Reading this line from his book triggered me back to earlier in his book when he mentions one of many conversations he’s had with Ron Blackburn.
On Monday 16 April 1990, he writes:
Over lunch again with Colonel Ron Blackburn (Air Force) at the Gatehouse in Palo Alto he revealed that the “Secret Onion” group started in 1985 in the classified tank located in his basement at the Lockheed Skunk Works. Colonel John Alexander had brought him a list of the people in the inner circle. They divided the world into layers of concentric trust and ability. John introduced Blackburn to Ed Dames. Blackburn and I have a firmed up our plants to ravel to New Mexico on May 4th, up the high mesa – supposedly to meet some Aliens.
It’s interesting to note that Colonel John Alexander army writes about Blackburn in his book, “UFOs, myths, conspiracies and realities.”
Among the people I met was Dr. Ron Blackburn, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel who was then working at the Lockheed Skunk Works in Burbank. It was Blackburn who first asked me if I had ever heard of the infamous Area 51. In the early 1980s, this facility was still not widely known inside the military, let alone the general public, even though it had been functional for decades…Among areas of common interest between Blackburn and me were UFOs. We discussed many possibilities related to who might be in charge of UFO research. We both thought that there was some organization, probably within the U.S. Air Force, which had the responsibility. But we acknowledged that whoever had the ball, there must be a an interagency effort as well. Our assumption was that somebody must be in charge, and we were well aware of all the prevailing stories and rumours. Roswell, we assumed, was a real UFO event.
Fast forward to Friday, May 4th, 1990, Valle writes about Blackburn:
“I’m convinced the government is working on UFOs,” he told me. “What are the chances some witnesses are being fooled by special effects developed by psychological warfare?” I countered. Thinking of cases like Bentwaters in the UK or Cergy-Pontoise in France. “They’re pretty good,” he admitted. “Suppose you shine a week infrared laser into people’s eyes; it won’t hurt them but may induce a hallucinatory state. Experiments have been done where you send a microwave beam through someone’s brain; you pick up the transmitted energy pattern. You can influence people this way, even make them hear things. Holograms have been used too,”
fIt’s interesting to note the conversation Valle had with Blackburn in 1990, and then in 1992 writes that he had received a document that the CIA had been involved with staging UFO (alien abductions). Combine this information with Blackburn mentioning that holograms have been used, and technology exists to produce “hallucinatory” states.
This is just one of many examples and pieces of evidence many researchers in the field point to suggesting that there are staged abductions happening for reasons unknown, and that it’s continuing today. It’s not surprising either if you’ve ventured down the road of CIA mind controlled tactics, programs like MK ultra and their desire to manipulate the perception of the masses with regards to various topics. It’s not surprising if you’ve looked into the black budget world, a world that’s far more advanced that the mainstream world with regards to technology.
Dr. David Jacobs, a retired university professor, is one of many experts who has hypnotically regressed people who claim to have had ET abduction experiences. After thousands of people, they all share the same story. Many filled with forced impregnation, and ‘hybrid’ children, among other things. Could many of these forced abduction experiments simply be deep black projects that are being conducted by rogue government agencies? Now we know that yes, many of them could be. Are all of them? There are stories floating around out there without much evidence, like the idea that Eisenhower made a deal with certain extraterrestrial groups, that they could abduct a certain amount of humans for the exchange of technology. Based on the idea that that forced abductions may be military operations, this supposed meeting is called into question.
Valle writes of Jacobs in his book:
I am trying to read Jacob’s Secret Life.’ The author appears obsessed with what he views as a massive Alien invasion, his analysis is no longer balanced.
This may explain why there is a whole array of people who claim to have had experience with beings from somewhere else, but these experiences did not involve forced abductions, but rather, simple contact experiences. Remember, the key nuance here is we’re talking about human and ET contact, vs forced abductions which are often quite aggressive or terrifying for people.
I’ve written previously about the work of Jacobs, you can read that article here. I’ve been in this field for more than a decade now and the more I learn, the more I have to unlearn and consider other possibilities. I wrote that article being aware that many abduction cases could be military operations, but I did not mention it. I’ve come across the work of many who have interviewed abductees and, from their experiences, there also seems to be a military component as well, or a feeling of military personnel appearing as ‘Aliens.’
How Deep Does The Misinformation Go?
Richard Doty is also mentioned multiple times in Valle’s book. He is a retired Air Force Special investigations officer (AFSIO), and his job was to spread disinformation about the UFO subject during his time with the Air Force. Spreading disinformation about the reality of UFOs is no secret, and in Doty’s case, he admitted to infiltrating UFO circles along with his colleagues to feed ufologists and journalists lies and half truths so that they would never understand any real truth.
So, as you can see, this type of narrative has many interesting sources. You can read more about Doty and watch an interview with him here.
Regardless, There Is Something Going On Here
Valle, and all others in this field are quite aware that something real is going on, and something quite possibility extraterrestrial and inter-dimensional. This article is not meant to shed doubt on the phenomenon itself as well as the extraterrestrial hypothesis. Credible information with regards to sightings, crash retrieval, and possible bodies and contact experiences with ‘aliens’ are out there and can be examined. That being said, there is obviously a lot of disinformation out there as well, ridiculous claims as well as charlatans who are in the field spreading lies and fake stories for the purposes of making money, or perhaps to do what Doty was once tasked with, to spread disinformation, are out there.
With all that being said, the fact remains that:
There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations….This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.
– Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (source)
Over the last few days there has been a significant amount of online debate about alien abductions, mind-altering technologies, and the possibility that some alien abductions may have been the work of the CIA and not of extraterrestrials. In his December 19, 2019 article (titled “Vallee Declines to Substantiate Claim of CIA Simulating UFO Abductions”) Jack Brewer wrote the following: “Dr. Jacques Vallee declined to attempt to fully substantiate the assertion contained in his book, Forbidden Science – Volume Four, that he secured a document confirming the CIA simulated UFO abductions in Brazil and Argentina. ‘I felt a duty to call attention to the issue,’ Vallee explained in a Dec. 17 email, but chose not to share the document or address pertinent questions surrounding its circumstances.”
Jason Colavito said at his blog: “A few months ago, Jacques Vallée, the longtime UFO researcher and scientific advisor to space-demon-hunting billionaire Robert Bigelow, published the fourth volume of his diaries, Forbidden Science, covering the 1990s. In that book, Vallée made the shocking allegation that the CIA staged fake alien abductions in Latin America and that there were documents that supported the allegation: ‘I have secured a document confirming that the CIA simulated UFO abductions in Latin America (Brazil and Argentina) as psychological warfare experiments.'”
And, there’s my own article on this subject, here at Mysterious Universe. The article is titled: “Simulated Alien Abductions: the CIA, a Hot Hooker, and Secret Experiments.” As I say: “There’s a distinct possibility (maybe, even, a probability) that this all relates to a very weird and highly controversial affair that went down in Brazil way back in the 1950s. Antonio Villas Boas was a Brazilian man who claimed, in late 1957, to have had wild sex with an equally wild babe from the stars, after having been kidnapped and taken on-board a UFO. An early alien abduction? Yep. Or maybe not. In the late-1970s, UFO researcher Rich Reynolds had contact with a man named Bosco Nedelcovic, who had links to the world of intelligence, who spent time working in South America, and who claimed that the Villas Boas affair was not what it appeared to be. He told Rich that, in reality, Villas Boas was the unwitting player in a new and bizarre experiment. According to Nedelcovic, the UFO that Villas Boas saw over his family’s property was really a helicopter. Not only that, Villas Boas was supposedly hit by some kind of mind-altering aerosol spray that quickly placed him into an altered state, after the pilot of the helicopter flew right over him and at a low level. As for the girl from the stars, she was said to have really been a hooker, a girl hired to take Villas Boas on the closest encounter of all. But, it was all a ruse: a mind-bending event designed to fabricate a UFO incident.”
All of this brings me to another famous alien abduction case: the October 11, 1973 alien abduction of Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker at Pascagoula, Mississippi. The case has become a classic in UFO research circles. It’s a little-known fact, though, that just a few miles from where Parker and Hickson were taken is a stretch of land called Horn Island. It looks pleasant and inviting, which it is. But, that wasn’t always the case. When the Second World War was still raging, Horn Island was home to top secret research in the fields of chemical- and biological-warfare. Less than a decade later, the U.S. Army’s Chemical Corps used the island for its early research into hypnosis, mind-control, and psychedelics – in essence, to see how the human mind could be altered, and radically so, too.
The history books state that all such work on Horn Island was halted in the 1960s – amid rumors that some of the locals ended up in altered states of mind after being accidentally hit by powerful aerosol-based hallucinogenic substances carried by the wind. But try asking the locals about when things really ended and you’ll get a very different response. There are tales of the Army secretly employing the use of BZ in the area, in the early 1970s. And what might BZ be?Known as “Buzz,” it’s a powerful, mind-mixer, the official title of which is 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate. Graphic hallucinations are typical. As are states of unreality. Cognitive dysfunction soon sets in. As does incapacitation. H.P. Albarelli, Jr., in his 2009 book, A Terrible Mistake (on the controversial death of a bacteriologist named Frank Olson, who was an expert in the field of mind-altering drugs, including LSD) states the following: “In Mississippi, Olson made one visit, along with several other researchers, including Dr. Gerald Yonetz, to Horn Island, ten miles off the small town of Pascagoula, Mississippi.”
The city of Pascagoula, Buzz, alien abductions, Frank Olson at Pascagoula, and more all make for a heady brew, indeed.
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A Sign? Strange green lights moving in the sky over Long Beach and Willow Creek, California
A Sign? Strange green lights moving in the sky over Long Beach and Willow Creek, California
Images and a video showing strange green lights seemly flying in the sky over Long Beach and Willow Creek in California.on December 24, 2019.
While the witness in Long Beach captured images of several green and yellow objects in the sky, the witness in Willow Creek managed to take a video of many green lights moving around at high altitude.
I have no idea what these objects could be, but instead of thinking of UFOs or alien probes could it be static electricity?
Some scientists think that static electricity in the earth's atmosphere may be the key to predict large earthquakes.
They suggest that Earth’s crust may give hints before it ruptures, in the form of charged particles from deep below the earth migrate to the surface into the atmosphere that occur days before an earthquake.
Although other scientists have yet to agree on a mechanism by which the crust could create static electricity signals, maybe it is a good idea to keep an eye on these strange greenish particles in the sky.
Why The Ark of the Covenant Is The Most Extraordinary Ancient Artifact in History
Why The Ark of the Covenant Is The Most Extraordinary Ancient Artifact in History
COAST TO COAST AM - The Ark of the Covenant has to be one of the most extraordinary artifacts in history. In the latter half of the show, historical detective Graham Phillips presented evidence that this remarkable relic really existed and was discovered by the crusader knights, the Templars, during the Middle Ages and brought back to Europe and Phillips now believes he knows where it’s located.
“I think there’s enough information, enough evidence that there was a historical artifact that was considered holy by the ancient Israelites,” he said. Phillips detailed the biblical story of the origin of the Ark, which was purportedly built by the Israelites to house the Ten Commandment tablets.
Why The Ark of the Covenant Is The Most Extraordinary Ancient Artifact in History
Secret Space Program Antigravity Programs Are Real and Active
Secret Space Program Antigravity Programs Are Real and Active
COAST TO COAST AM – Author and lecturer Mike Bara discussed the alleged secret space program, as well as anti-gravity propulsion programs, secret flying saucer crafts developed by the military, and anti-gravity breakthroughs.
Early in his research, Bara says that he encountered what appeared to be a secret U.S. space program separate from NASA that was begun within the “military intelligence complex.” He believes this was done because the government was afraid that we might find evidence of extraterrestrials on the moon or other planets.
Bara asked the listeners to consider that UFOs may have technology that is not thousands or hundreds of years ahead of us, but possibly only fifty.
Massive UFO Recovered Intact with Occupants in Aztec NM, Major Cover-up, Latest
Massive UFO Recovered Intact with Occupants in Aztec NM, Major Cover-up, Latest
You hit the nail right on the head Rex…..Awesome job, in search of the TRUTH! I’m right on board with you with what I’ve studied! The little Grays are just A/I, who worked for the mothership, with low IQ’s.
The Nazi’s were more involved with the Dracos, who guided them with alien technology in the making of the glock and flying saucers! The little people seem like they were interdimentional, and were a peaceful species! Charleen Sampson
Got to love it when a Channel actually talks about different things, oppose to beating a dead horse (Roswell re told over n over 😂.) Keep up the great work, I love tuning in. This was a good one. Later man, u got my thumbs up 👍🏾SB
Secret Base near possible crashed object close to the Heritage Range in Antarctica
Secret Base near possible crashed object close to the Heritage Range in Antarctica
We know that the government is covering up many things in Antarctica but now the ice melts it is really hard for them to cover it up anymore.
Near the Heritage Range in Antarctica seems to be a large base that is completely blurred out.
A large trail from the station leads to a huge strange object that at first sight looks like it crashed there a long time ago.
Without claiming that the object is a crashed UFO, we may wonder why the people who work at the station pay a lot of attention to the object, so what the government is trying to hide?
The base is about 470 x 260 meters. The bigger (black) part of the object is about 90 x 40 meters. Google Earth coordinates: 80°17'24.11"S 81°53'15.22"W
Untouched for 1,000 years, over 150 ritual artifacts were found in the cave at Balamku. (Karla Ortega, Great Mayan Aquifer Project, INAH)
A sealed and untouched Mayan “ritual” cave has been discovered in a truly momentous find. Sometimes you start out looking for something and, in the process, you find something else. That’s what happened to a group of archaeologists who were looking for a sacred well underneath the Mayan city of Chichen Itza, according to National Geographic.
While they were searching for the well, they found a collection of over 150 ritual objects that were hidden away for a millennium. The objects were hidden in a system of caves known as Balamku, ‘the Jaguar God.’ The discovery of the cave system was announced in Mexico City last March, by the National Institute of Archaeology and History.
Interestingly, it’s not the first time that anyone has found the cave system. It was first rediscovered in 1966 by local farmers. At the time, and archaeologist named Victor Segovia Pinto went in and took a look around, even going as far as writing a report that noted that there were a large number of artefacts the caves, but rather than being an excavation, Pinto had the farmers seal the entrance again, and any records related to the discovery disappeared.
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#Maya ritual cave of Balamku (Cave of the Jaguar God) ‘untouched’ for 1,000 years stuns archaeologists. More than 150 artifacts found there reveals ancient Maya religious practices: https://on.natgeo.com/2NIfuqS Images: Karla Ortega - National Geographic
It remained unknown and undisturbed until 2018, when it was rediscovered again. This time the Balamku was found by an explorer from National Geographic, along with his team. They were part of the Great Maya Aquifer Project, and were trying to find the water table beneath the Mayan city.
While he was creeping his way through a series of small tunnels, the explorer, Guillermo De Anda, suddenly came upon a sizable cache of vases, incense burners, and many other objects that had been left as offerings by the ancient people of Chichen Itza. Even more of a surprise, the collection was in a remarkable state of preservation, despite being surrounded by stalagmites.
Since De Anda found that first cache, seven chambers holding ritual offerings have been discovered in the caves. The chambers are deep under the city, and can presently only be accessed by traveling through a long series of tunnels, many of which are so narrow and low that researchers have to go through on their stomachs.
Despite the difficulty of getting to the chambers, the first archaeologist to visit the caves back in the ‘60s also clearly made the trip. His original report was finally found not very long ago by an archaeologist from University of California. That report noted that there were more than 150 objects in the cave, many of them bearing images of the Toltec rain god and other sacred symbols.
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Mexican archaeologists discover cave filled with near perfect Mayan ceramics. https://buff.ly/2H1fzpe
A similar cave was found not far away, back in 1959. It also held sacred objects, but less than half as many as at this site. That find was also more accessible. De Anda thinks that’s important. He remarked that while quantity isn’t more important than information, he found it telling that such a huge repository of artifacts was located in a place that was so hard to get to.
De Anda’s rediscovery of the find means that Modern archaeologists who specialize in Mayan culture may be able to learn some new things about the level of contact and interaction between different Mesoamerican cultures of the time, and other information about the history of the Mayan people prior to the city’s fall. None of that answers the question, however, of why Pinto decided to reseal the caves back in the ‘60s, rather than study them.
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Mexican archaeologists discover cave filled with near perfect Mayan ceramics. https://buff.ly/2H1fzpe
A similar cave was found not far away, back in 1959. It also held sacred objects, but less than half as many as at this site. That find was also more accessible. De Anda thinks that’s important. He remarked that while quantity isn’t more important than information, he found it telling that such a huge repository of artifacts was located in a place that was so hard to get to.
De Anda’s rediscovery of the find means that Modern archaeologists who specialize in Mayan culture may be able to learn some new things about the level of contact and interaction between different Mesoamerican cultures of the time, and other information about the history of the Mayan people prior to the city’s fall. None of that answers the question, however, of why Pinto decided to reseal the caves back in the ‘60s, rather than study them.
Historians do know that among the Mayan people, a ritual cave was considered entrances to the underworld, and were thus considered extremely sacred, even to the extent that they played a role in social organization and site planning, according to Mayan archaeology expert Holley Moyes.
The technology available to scientists has improved dramatically since the middle of the last century, which means that they may be able to get a lot more useful information by using methods like 3-D mapping. That information could help answer questions about not only the sorts of rituals that went on in the caves, but also about the city above them.
According to De Anda, it’s not currently known why Chichen Itza declined and fell, but Balamku should be able to help answer that question with its collection of artifacts and organic matter. It’s been speculated that the area was devastated by severe droughts. Some researchers further believe that the extreme weather cycles in the area were exacerbated by deforestation further south.
Once the contents of Mayan ritual cave have been fully catalogued and analysed, the actual circumstances of the time will be much clearer. In fact, it may even offer some insights into the sustainability of cultures during periods of environmental instability, which has modern-day applications, despite its historic roots.
Alien hunters have gone into a frenzy after spotting the pyramid shape in a huge crater on the Moon. The structure appears to have three sides and does look as if it could be man-made. YouTuber Pacitto Dominique spotted the pyramid in NASA satellite images of the Moon and quickly uploaded it to his channel.
Since then, it has attracted the interest of conspiracy theorists who are convinced the Moon structure holds connections to the Egyptian pyramids.
Prominent UFO enthusiast Scott C Waring described it as “convincing evidence of the existence of intelligent life on our moon.”
Mr Waring wrote on the ET Database: “A pyramid that sat in the centre of a giant crater. It was a three sided pyramid with a single dark window going along one side.
“So the question remains, is this definitive proof that the pyramids in Egypt were built by aliens from our moon? It seems so.”
Pyramid seen in NASA images of Moon -conspiracists CONVINCED it means aliens came to Egypt
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This is not the first time a Moon-like structure has been found on the lunar surface.
Some conspiracy theorists claims the Moon could be occupied by aliens and that is the reason NASA has not returned since the Apollo missions ended in the Seventies.
They suspect findings such as this pyramid and other anomalies could be monuments built by an ancient alien civilisation similar to the pyramids and other structures on Earth.
However, sceptics and NASA say the pyramid and other similar findings are just the effects of pareidolia – a psychological phenomenon when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar objects or shapes in patterns or textures such as a rock surface.
At the cosmic dawn, black holes grew big and strong by gobbling up gas for breakfast.
Gas halos surround some of the earliest galaxies in the universe, providing a reservoir of cool gas that fuels the growth of supermassive black holes.
Using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers observed these gas halos around galaxies that formed more than 12.5 billion years ago. The cool gas contained in these halos would be the perfect food for supermassive black holes, which are believed to lie at the center of most galaxies.
"We are now able to demonstrate, for the first time, that primordial galaxies do have enough food in their environments to sustain both the growth of supermassive black holes and vigorous star formation," Emanuele Paolo Farina, lead author of the study from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, said in a statement. "This adds a fundamental piece to the puzzle that astronomers are building to picture how cosmic structures formed more than 12 billion years ago."
An artist's impression of a gas halo surrounding a quasar in the early universe. The quasar has a supermassive black hole at its center and two powerful jets. The gas halo surrounding the quasar consists of cool, dense hydrogen gas. (Image credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser)
Black holes feed on dust and gas from their surrounding galaxies, allowing them to grow in size. Therefore, observing the halos of cool gas around these distant galaxies may help explain how supermassive black holes were able to grow so large, so quickly in the early universe, according to the statement.
"The presence of these early monsters, with masses several billion times the mass of our sun, is a big mystery," Farina said, adding that astronomers have not previously found a reservoir of gas and dust large enough to support the rapid growth of primordial black holes.
Using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO's VLT, the astronomers studied 31 quasars — extremely bright objects powered by an active supermassive black hole in their centers — that formed 12.5 billion years ago, during the early years of the universe.
Twelve of those quasars were surrounded by reservoirs of cool, dense hydrogen gas stretching about 100,000 light-years from their central black holes. These gas halos, which are billions of times the mass of the sun, are believed to be tightly bound to their galaxies, making them "the perfect food source to sustain both the growth of supermassive black holes and vigorous star formation," ESO said in the statement.
"In a matter of a few hours per target, we were able to delve into the surroundings of the most massive and voracious black holes present in the young universe," Farina said in the statement.
Science journal Naturejust released its "Ten People Who Mattered in Science in 2019" list, and it features some people who you should get to know. There are also some people who aren't on the list but we thought it would be a good idea to include.
1.Quantum computer builder - John Martinis
Physicist John Martinis works both at Google and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has spent the last 17 years fine-tuning the hardware that is Google's first quantum computer — Sycamore.
Sycamore is comprised of superconducting units known as qubits. They are quantum systems that can simultaneously represent zeros, ones, or any point in between. The vast power of quantum computing will someday allow computers to do things that are not possible today, such as searching previously unsearchable databases and cracking encryption.
2. Protector of the Amazon - Ricardo Galvão
Ricardo Galvão is a fusion physics professor who, until July 2019, was head of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in São Paulo. The organization uses satellite imagery to gauge the amount of deforestation in the Amazon River Basin.
After INPE released a report on July 19, 2019, Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, accused its scientists of lying, and Galvão of being in cahoots with environmentalists. The 72-year-old Galvão was stunned by the accusation.
Weeks later, just as the burning season began in the Amazon, Galvão was relieved of his position. Farmers burn the rain forest to clear land for agriculture, and President Bolsonaro’s anti-environmental stance has allowed them to do it with impunity.
Figures released by INPE on November 18, 2019, showed that 9.762 square kilometers (3769 sq miles) of land had been cleared just between August 2018 and July 2019.
Since being fired, Galvão has returned to doing fusion research at the University of São Paulo.
3.The first image of a black hole - Katie Bouman
When the 2014 movie Interstellar came out, audiences were blown away by the image of the black hole at the heart of the story. Far from being entirely black, this black hole was surrounded by halos of light, and it was the brainchild of visual effects company Double Negative VFX and the astrophysicist Kip Thorne. Thorne was one of the recipients of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.
A year before Interstellar came out, a group of some 200 researchers began trying to image a black hole using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of 8 radio telescopes scattered around the globe.
Joining that group was a 23-year-old Ph.D. student in computer science and artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) named Katie Bouman. Bouman was tasked with creating an algorithm that would analyze the data coming from the various telescopes and turn it into an image of a black hole.
In April 2019, the result of all that hard work was announced when the first image of a black hole popping up on Bouman's computer screen was released to the world. And, just as predicted by Thorne, the black hole was outlined by light.
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IMAGE: Reaction of Katie Bouman, who led the creation of an algorithm to produce first image of black hole.
In southern British Columbia sits CHIME, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment. It sounds like it has a pretty prosaic intent, mapping hydrogen emissions from distant galaxies, but it is actually doing something much more interesting.
CHIME is searching the Universe for fast radio bursts (FRBs), which are mysterious flashes of radio energy. So far, CHIME has discovered hundreds of bursts, more than any other telescope.
The first FRB wasn't discovered until 2007, and in 2013, four more flashes were found. Kaspi, whose area of expertise is neutron stars, and who is an astrophysicist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, realized that CHIME could not only study fast-rotating neutron stars, it could also detect FRBs.
But first, CHIME would have to be upgraded because 16,000 different frequencies would have to be gathered 1,000 times per second. Kaspi went to work networking and seeking additional funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
In 2016, for her efforts, Kaspi was awarded Canada's highest science prize, the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. She used the $760,000 prize money to hire students and postdocs for CHIME.
In 2019, Kaspi landed a $2.4 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to build additional "outrigger" telescopes 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) away from CHIME to aid in pinpointing FRBs.
5. Bringing brains back to life - Nenad Sestan
In 2016, researchers at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut were working with dead pigs' brains in an effort to learn how to better preserve human brain tissue for research.
The researchers infused the dead pigs' brains with ice-cold preservatives and oxygen, and amazingly, the organs began to show widespread electrical activity, which might indicate consciousness.
Sestan immediately shut down the experiment and contacted the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funds his research, and bioethicists at Yale. Before restarting the experiment, Sestan's team anesthetized the pigs' brains to prevent neurons from firing in unison, a precursor to consciousness.
Sestan's research showed that brains that suffer oxygen deprivation are not damaged nearly as badly as previously thought. Despite concerns from animal-rights activists, Sestan wants to continue his research, but he says any future research will be decided by a committee. Sestan told Nature, "When you explore uncharted territory, you have to be very, very thoughtful."
6. Protecting the world's biodiversity - Sandra Díaz
On May 4, 2019, Sandra Díaz, along with 144 other scientists, announced their findings on the world's biodiversity. The conclusions of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) were explosive: due to human activities, 1 million species are heading toward extinction.
As one of the group's three co-chairs, Díaz, who is an econologist at Argentina’s National University of Córdoba, coordinated the work done by experts in 51 countries.
Their conclusion states that nations must make huge changes in their economies. Díaz told Nature, "We cannot live a fulfilling life, a life as we know it, without nature." Díaz remains optimistic however, because she says, "there is no Plan B."
7. Ebola warrior - Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum
As a young man in 1976, Muyembe Tamfum traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in response to an outbreak of a new disease.
Around him, nurses were dying, and Muyembe Tamfum noticed that when he took blood samples from patients, the punctures continued to bleed. Welcome to Ebola.
In August 2018, a new outbreak of the disease began that has since killed over 2,200 people. In July 2019, Muyembe Tamfum was assigned to lead a response.
Muyembe Tamfum's approach is to get communities to trust him, to respectfully bury the dead in a way that minimizes the spread of infection, and to search for effective drugs and vaccines.
His most recent breakthrough is the use of antibody-based drugs, especially mAb114, which is derived from a survivor of a 1995 Ebola outbreak.
Before he retires, Muyembe Tamfum wants to find one last puzzle piece — the animal that serves as Ebola's vector. A vector is a living organism that transmits an infectious agent from an infected animal to a human or another animal. Vectors are frequently arthropods, such as mosquitoes, ticks, flies, fleas, and lice.
8. Shaking our family tree - Yohannes Haile-Selassie
In February 2016, a goat herder found a jawbone in the northern Woranso-Mille area of the Ethiopian desert. Following right behind the goat herder was Yohannes Haile-Selassie, a palaeoanthropologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Ohio.
Lying 3 meters away from the jawbone was a skull, and together, they formed a nearly complete hominin skull dating to 3.8 million years ago. Most importantly, the skull and jawbone belonged to the oldest and most elusive of all known human relatives — Australopithecus anamensis.
Announced to the world in August 2019, the skull, known as MRD, is from the Pliocene Era, between 5.3 million and 2.6 million years ago, a period that was empty of fossils, and MRD has shaken up our family tree.
Previously, researchers had thought that Lucy, the 3.2-million-year-old fossil of species Australopithecus afarensis had evolved from Australopithecus anamensis, but MRD's features suggest that A. anamensis and A. afarensis overlapped for at least 100,000 years.
Haile-Selassie has celebrated MRD's discovery by getting a license plate with that designation.
9. Climate warrior - Greta Thunberg
On December 12, 2019, President Donald Trump put out the following tweet about Swedish 16-year-old Greta Thunberg: "Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old-fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!"
What's making Thunberg, who has Asperger's syndrome, angry is climate change. In September 2019, Thunberg addressed a U.S. Congressional hearing on climate change, telling the Congressmen: "I don’t want you to listen to me, I want you to listen to the scientists. I want you to unite behind the science and I want you to take real action."
In July 2019, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Thunberg's protests "drove us to act" when Merkel announced sweeping measures to reduce carbon emissions. In December 2019, Time Magazine named Thunberg its Time Person of the Year, and placed her on its cover.
This possibly rankled President Trump who has long displayed a fake Time Magazine cover featuring himself at several of his golf clubs, including Doral, Florida, Loudoun County, Virgina, Doonbeg, Ireland, and Turnberry in Scotland.
Thunberg's greatest contribution has been her mobilization of young people to protest climate change. Thunberg organized a "school strike for the climate," and on March 15, 2019, an estimated 1.4 million students from 112 countries joined Thunberg and walked out of their classrooms for a day.
Students marched across Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Philippines, India, Mauritius, Nigeria, Kenya, Luxembourg, Italy, France, Sweden, Spain, Iceland, Ukraine, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Chile, Poland, the Czech Republic, Israel, and South Africa.
10. CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing system - Hongkui Deng
In 2019, at his laboratory at Peking University in Beijing, Hongkui Deng showed that CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing can be used to create immune cells impervious to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
Doctors had determined in the 1990s that those people who have a genetic mutation that disables CCR5, a protein that HIV uses to infect immune cells, were immune to HIV. Deng decided to try to edit CCR5 directly using CRISPR–Cas9.
Deng's test on a patient showed that CRISPR–Cas9 edited cells were safe when included in bone-marrow transplants and that the modified cells persisted in the patient's blood.
A biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, Fyodor Urnov, announced that he thought that Deng's approach was premature, but Deng hopes to continue his work.
11. Making sure transplants are ethical - Wendy Rogers
In February 2019, Wendy Rogers, who is a bioethicist at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, blew the lid off the practice of using non-consenting donors for organ transplants in China.
Rogers' team's report prompted Chinese researchers to retract more than two dozen reports of transplants that had been published in professional journals. The journal PLoS ONE retracted 19 of the 21 papers it published, and the journal Transplantation retracted 7.
Rogers activism stemmed from a 2016 conference at which the documentary Hard to Believe was screened. It showed forced organ donations by political prisoners in China. Rogers and her team found over 400 instances in which organs from prisoners were probably used between the years 2001 and 2017.
Image captionSome astronomers suggest the star was two bright objects 'in conjunction'
It might seem churlish to dissect such an enduring image of Christmas as the star of Bethlehem, but a quiet astronomical debate has been bubbling away for decades. Could some real cosmic event have drawn "three wise men" on a journey to find a newborn king?
This debate requires one very big assumption - that the story of the star and the journey is true.
Having spent many years studying the astronomical explanations and reviewing the associated biblical stories, he is now an expert on the subject.
But there are some intriguing historical parallels.
The three kings were religious scholars known as the Magi - revered Babylonian astronomers and astrologists. They studied the stars and planets, interpreting the meaning behind cosmic events.
Anything very unusual was considered an omen, so the star must have been both rare and visually spectacular. And, says Hughes, it would have had a very clear message for the Magi.
This leads the astronomer to conclude that the star of Bethlehem was probably not a star at all, and that it was more than one single event.
"If you read the Bible carefully," says Hughes, "the Magi saw something when they were in their own country - [probably Babylon] - so they travelled to Jerusalem and had a word with King Herod."
According to the story, the Magi told Herod of the sign they had seen and, says Hughes, "when they left Jerusalem [for] Bethlehem, they saw something again".
Hughes's best explanation for this series of events is something known as a triple conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn - with the two planets coming close together in the sky three times over a short period.
"[This happens when] you get an alignment between the Sun, the Earth, Jupiter and Saturn," says Hughes.
Tim O'Brien, associate director of Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, suggests this would have looked striking. "It's remarkable how much your attention is drawn when two very bright objects come together in the sky," he explains.
And once the planets lined up in their orbits, Earth would "overtake" the others, meaning that Jupiter and Saturn would appear to change direction in the night sky.
"At that time, people would have set great store by the motions of the planets," says O'Brien.
Even more significantly, the event is believed to have been in the constellation Pisces, which represents one of the signs of the zodiac.
"You would [only] get a triple conjunction like this about every 900 years," he says, so for astronomers in Babylon 2,000 years ago, it would have been a signal of something very significant.
"A triple conjunction of this kind ticks all the boxes."
The second favoured explanation is a very bright comet.
While certainly spectacular and ethereal in appearance, comets are essentially "big, dirty snowballs" flying through space.
"When they come close to the Sun, this ice melts - solar wind blows this material out into space, so you get a tail of matter coming off the comet," explains O'Brien.
Image captionComets can appear to "stand over" the horizon
This tail, which points away from the Sun, is one of the things that has made the comet idea popular, explains Hughes.
"Quite a few people have said that comets seem to 'stand over' the Earth, because of their coma and tail sometimes looking like an arrow," says Hughes.
The most timely record was of a bright comet appearing in the constellation of Capricorn in 5BC, which was recorded by astronomers in China.
A less likely, but more famous candidate was Halley's comet, which was visible around 12BC.
Those who favour this theory point out that the 5BC comet would have been in the southern sky as seen from Jerusalem, with the head of the comet close to the horizon and the tail is pointing vertically upward.
"Quite a lot of people liked the comet idea, so it crops up in quite a lot of Christmas cards," says Hughes.
"The snag is that they're not that rare. They were also commonly associated with the 'four Ds' - doom, death, disease and disaster," he suggests. "So if it did contain a message, it would have been a bad omen."
Another theory is that the star was light from the birth of a new star, or nova.
There are records - again from astronomers in the Far East - of a new star in the small, northern constellation of Aquila in 4BC.
Hughes says: "People who like this theory say this new star would have been [positioned] directly over Jerusalem."
A new star, or nova, could have given the three wise men something to follow
"It can 'appear' as a new star in a constellation, and fade again over the following months," he explains.
"It is also not too bright, explaining why we don't have any records of it in the west." Cockcroft suggests that this might also have given the three wise men something to follow.
While other "omens" would have been needed to cause the Magi to set out on their journey west to Jerusalem, he says , it would take them months to get there, "by which time Aquila [and the new star could have] risen in the sky to appear in the south.
"Bethlehem lies due south of Jerusalem, so that Magi could 'follow' the star to Bethlehem."
Other more improbable but entertaining theories have been proposed over the years, says Hughes.
The Star of Bethlehem – nowadays often just called the Christmas Star – is a major seasonal symbol throughout the world.
Image captionSome astronomers suggest the star was two bright objects 'in conjunction'
Imagine, if you will, the silhouettes of three regally attired men on camels. They are gazing across gently rolling hills or dunes of white, to a tiny solitary building in the distance. The night is dark, and one exceedingly bright star appears to hover over the small building, sending a bright shaft of light earthward to illuminate its outline. Another light glows gently inside.
Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, Italy: The Three Wise Men (named Balthasar, Melchior, and Gaspar). Detail from 6th-century Mary and Child surrounded by angels mosaic, by the so-called “Master of Sant’Apollinare”.
That is the picture most of us have of the Christmas Star, but it’s an image derived more from imagination and greeting cards than from the Bible. In fact, the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament is the only place this “star” is mentioned in the Bible (Matt 2:2, 7-10, King James Version). Even there, information on the star is sparse. The most telling reference is Matt. 2:9:
When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
For anyone inclined to insist on the literal truth of scripture, this verse solves the question. If this verse is literally true, then the Star of Bethlehem could not have been any known natural phenomenon, simply because none would move that way.
However, if we grant the author of Matthew – who assuredly was not an eyewitness at the Nativity – a little artistic license, the “star” might not have appeared literally in the way described. In that case we can consider some natural, astronomical possibilities. In fact, there is some uncertainty about the use of the word for star in the Greek manuscript. Some contend that the word could have meant or implied an object other than a physical star.
Aaron Robinson caught this Geminid meteor on December 14, 2018, in Ririe, Idaho.
Some artistic depictions show what appear to be a bright meteor or “falling star.” Although exploding meteors, sometimes called bolides or fireballs, can be startling and truly impressive, they last only seconds. They can occur at any time. People far more aware of the night sky than the modern city dweller is likely would not have placed much significance in them. Such transient phenomena could not possibly have “led” the wise men (the Bible never calls them “kings”) to Bethlehem.
There are other astronomical objects or events that might have seemed more significant, but there are problems. First off, we don’t know for sure when Jesus was born. Due to an error by a Church cleric hundreds of years later, the birth of Jesus was thought to be at least four years later than it really was. So today we know that the birth was no later than 4 B.C., and it could have been a little earlier. And it certainly was not on December 25. The Bible does not say, leaving us few clues. One clue we do have, however, is the reference that shepherds were out in the field “keeping watch over their flock by night” (Luke 2:8), something the scholars say was likely only done in the spring when lambs were born. Thus the birth was likely in the spring, probably between 7 and 4 B.C.
Few astronomical records were kept at the time, except by the Chinese and Koreans. They did record what might have been comets in 5 and possibly again in 4 B.C. The main problem here is that comets were generally regarded as omens of evil and bad fortune by the Chinese and likely also by the magi-astrologers the New Testament calls “wise men.” Rather than follow such a cometary “star,” they likely would have gone the other way.
Another possibility is that the Christmas Star was a nova or supernova, a previously unseen star that suddenly brightens in a big way. Indeed, one such star was recorded by the Chinese in the spring of 5 B.C, and was seen for more than two months. However, its position in the constellation Capricornus meant that it likely would not have seemed to “lead” the wise men in the manner implied in the Bible.
For some, the star was not really a star at all, but a planet, Jupiter. Or more precisely, it was the conjunction or close meeting of Jupiter with two other planets, Saturn and Mars. Planets were “wandering stars” to the ancients, and to many they bore great astrological or mystical significance. Astronomers know that there was a series of such conjunctions in 6 and 5 B.C., occurring in the constellation Pisces (the Fishes), said by some to be the astrological “sign of the Jews.” To add more credence for later Christian writers such as Matthew, the sign of a fish later became the secret sign for Christians.
Mosaic pavement of a 6th century synagogue at Beth Alpha, Jezreel Valley, northern Israel. It was discovered in 1928. Signs of the zodiac surround the central chariot of the sun (a Greek motif), while the corners depict the 4 “turning points” (“tekufot”) of the year, solstices and equinoxes, each named for the month in which it occurs- tequfah of Tishrei, tequfah of Tevet, tequfah of Ni(san), tequfah of Tamuz.
Unless some major and indisputable archaeological discovery is found to settle the question once and for all, the mystery of what the Christmas Star was will remain in the realm of faith. Science cannot explain it as any known physical object; history offers no clear record; and religion offers only an untestable miraculous apparition. But although there may be no agreement on the nature of the star or even its actual sighting two millenia ago, all sides can agree on the message the Christmas star heralded: “… on earth peace, good will toward men.” (Luke 2:14).
Bottom line: Some possible astronomical explanations for the Star of Bethlehem or Christmas star.
'It wasn't behaving within the normal laws of physics': Navy pilot who shot the famous 'Tic Tac' UFO video breaks his silence 15 years after the encounters near USS Nimitz
'It wasn't behaving within the normal laws of physics': Navy pilot who shot the famous 'Tic Tac' UFO video breaks his silence 15 years after the encounters near USS Nimitz
Retired Navy pilot Chad Underwood spoke out in interview on Thursday
He is the one who shot the famous 'Tic Tac' UFO video over Pacific in 2004
Unusual objects had been tracked by the USS Nimitz carrier group for days
Pilots of Navy Super Hornet fighter jets subsequently made visual contact
They described the object as a white oblong shape with no wings or windows
The former Navy pilot who shot famous video footage of a UFO encounter near the USS Nimitz carrier group has broken his silence 15 years after the incident.
Chad Underwood spoke out in an interview with New York Magazine published on Thursday, detailing for the first time his experiences over the Pacific in November 2004.
Underwood is the one who coined the description 'Tic Tac' for the oblong, wingless object, and it was his in-flight video that caused a sensation in 2017 when the Pentagon confirmed that the footage was authentic.
In the new interview, Underwood gives a detailed description that backs up other personal accounts of the incident, and admits that to this day he can't be sure whether the object he encountered was from this world or another.
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Chad Underwood spoke out in an interview with New York Magazine published on Thursday, detailing for the first time his experiences over the Pacific in November 2004
The incident unfolded during carrier group exercises in the Pacific, off the coast of Mexico.
For about two weeks, the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Princeton, part of Carrier Strike Group 11, had been tracking mysterious aircraft intermittently for two weeks on an advanced AN/SPY-1B passive radar.
The radar contacts were so inexplicable that the system was even shut down and restarted to to check for bugs — but operators continued to track the unknown aircraft.
Then on November 14, Commander David Fravor says he was flying in an F/A-18F Super Hornet when he made visual contact with the object, which seemed to dive below the water, resurface, and speed out of sight when he tried to approach it.
As Fravor landed on the deck of the Nimitz, Underwood was just gearing up to take off on his own training run.
Fravor told Underwood about the bizarre encounter, and urged Underwood to keep his eyes open. Underwood replied that the Princeton's radar crew had already reported an object that they wanted the fighters to attempt to track.
'So, we go out to where our designated training area is. We’re not necessarily looking for something, but the Princeton had a specific object that they wanted us to hunt, for lack of a better word. And all of a sudden, I got this blip on my radar,' Underwood recalled in the new interview.
Underwood was flying in an F/A-18F Super Hornet as part of the USS Nimitz (above) carrier group when he encountered an 'unidentified aerial phenomena'
Navy Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Commander Jim Slaight had been flying about 100 miles off the coast of San Diego (pictured) in each of their F/A-18F Super Hornets (pictured) when they encountered an unidentified flying object described as a 'Tic Tac'
Underwood estimated the object was about 20 miles away, and he was able to pick it up on his infrared gun-pod camera (FLIR).
'The thing that stood out to me the most was how erratic it was behaving. And what I mean by “erratic” is that its changes in altitude, air speed, and aspect were just unlike things that I’ve ever encountered before flying against other air targets,' Underwood told the magazine.
'Because, aircraft, whether they’re manned or unmanned, still have to obey the laws of physics. They have to have some source of lift, some source of propulsion. The Tic Tac was not doing that. It was going from like 50,000 feet to, you know, a hundred feet in like seconds, which is not possible,' he said.
'If it was obeying physics like a normal object that you would encounter in the sky — an aircraft, or a cruise missile, or some sort of special project that the government didn’t tell you about — that would have made more sense to me. The part that drew our attention was how it wasn’t behaving within the normal laws of physics,' Underwood continued.
'Normally, you would see engines emitting a heat plume. This object was not doing that. The video shows a source of heat, but the normal signatures of an exhaust plume were not there. There was no sign of propulsion,' he said.
Underwood said that the object was flying far to high to be birds, and dismissed the notion of a weather balloon because of its erratic and sudden movements.
Underwood estimated the object was about 20 miles away, and he was able to pick it up on his infrared gun-pod camera
(FLIR)
Underwood joins Fravor as well as these former Nimitz and Princeton crew members in speaking out about the unexplained encounter in 2004
The Navy flyer also scoffed at the notion that it was some kind of weather event, given the multiple radar and visual contacts made by both the Princeton and multiple Hornet pilots.
Underwood wasn't able to rule out the notion that the object was some kind of highly advanced, classified U.S. military project — but he did note that he was not given a debriefing warning him of the secret project, as he had in other scenarios as a pilot when he'd accidentally encountered classified planes.
To this day, Underwood isn't sure what the object was, and he refuses to speculate.
'I’ve never said that this is what I think it was or speculate as to what I think it was,' he said. 'That’s not my job. But I saw something. And it was also seen, via eyeballs, by both my commanding officer, Dave Fravor, and the Marine Corps Hornet squadron commanding officer who was out there as well.'
'At no point did I want to speculate as to what I thought this thing was — or be 'associated with, you know, “alien beings” and “alien aircraft” and all that stuff. I’m like, “No. I do not want to be part of that community.” It is just what we call a UFO. I couldn’t identify it. It was flying. And it was an object. It’s as simple as that,' he said.
'I’ll let the nerds, like, do the math on what it was likely to be. I just happened to be the person that brought back the video.'
Het gedroeg zich niet volgens de normale natuurwetten. Straaljagerpiloot verbreekt na 15 jaar stilte over UFO
Het gedroeg zich niet volgens de normale natuurwetten. Straaljagerpiloot verbreekt na 15 jaar stilte over UFO
Straaljagerpiloot Chad Underwood legde in 2004 een onbekend vliegend object (UFO) vast en zweeg hier jarenlang over.
De piloot heeft nu besloten de stilte te doorbreken, schrijven onder meer RTL Nieuws en De Telegraaf op basis van een interview met Underwood in New York Magazine.
De UFO-beelden die hij had gemaakt, gingen in 2017 de hele wereld over.
Onmogelijk
Ze maakten zoveel los, dat zelfs de Amerikaanse marine erop reageerde. Die bevestigde de authenticiteit van de beelden.
De straaljagerpiloot spotte de UFO tijdens een oefenmissie toen hij gestationeerd was op een vliegdekschip voor de kust van de staat Californië.
Underwood stelt dat de UFO vloog op een manier die volgens de natuurkundige wetten eigenlijk onmogelijk is.
Buitenaards
“Het [object] ging in enkele seconden van een hoogte van ruim 15 kilometer naar een hoogte van zo’n 30 meter,” zei hij.
“Dat is eigenlijk onmogelijk,” voegde hij toe.
Underwood wilde niet ingaan op de vraag of het misschien een buitenaards object was.
12 meter lang
“Het was gewoon een UFO,” zei hij. “Ik kon het niet identificeren.”
De commandant van het squadron waar Underwood deel van uitmaakte, David Fravor, zag het onbekende object als eerste.
Well, well, well. Yet more proof that, if nothing else, the universe has a deep and savage sense of irony. “Swamp gas” went from a dismissive write-off of UFO encounters to a ubiquitous running joke among the UFO community and public at large. Even if you know absolutely nothing about UFOs you know they’re all either balloons or swamp gas. Now a new study has found that phosphine, the toxic chemical that makes swamp gas so nasty, is a definite indicator of anaerobic life (life that doesn’t use oxygen) and could be one of the best signs of extraterrestrial life. It all comes full circle, eventually.
Phosphine is a foul-smelling, highly flammable, and generally unpleasant toxic gas found in dung piles and in putrid bogs and swamps. It might also be the best biosignature of alien life. According to a press release from MIT, researchers found that there are only two ways phosphine can be produced. In the intensely high-pressure storm systems of gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn, and by anaerobic life. According to the researchers, finding phosphine on a rocky alien planet would be a definite indicator that there was life there.
Lead author of the new paper, MIT researcher Clara Sousa-Silva says:
“Here on Earth, oxygen is a really impressive sign of life. But other things besides life make oxygen too. It’s important to consider stranger molecules that might not be made as often, but if you do find them on another planet, there’s only one explanation.”
Clara Sousa-Silva and colleagues at MIT have amassed a database of over 16,000 possible alien biosignatures. Most of these biosignatures are unreliable and could be the byproduct of other forces besides life. But Sousa-Silva has spent the last 10 years studying phosphine in particular, and now concludes that phosphine would be a definite indicator of life.
Phosphine exists on Earth in bogs, swamps, and other unpleasant places.
Phosphine was discovered in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn in the 1970s. Due to its composite elements, phosphine is a molecule that won’t come together by chance except in the high-energy, high-pressure, violent storms that swirl through gas giants.
Sousa-Silva wondered if phosphine was could be produced here on Earth, specifically by life on Earth. Sousa-Silva says:
“So we started collecting every single mention of phosphine being detected anywhere on Earth, and it turns out that anywhere where there’s no oxygen has phosphine, like swamps and marshlands and lake sediments and the farts and intestines of everything. Suddenly this all made sense: It’s a really toxic molecule for anything that likes oxygen. But for life that doesn’t like oxygen, it seems to be a very useful molecule.”
Sousa-Silva and her team spent the last several years trying to figure out if anything besides life can create phosphine. They found that, on a rocky planet like Earth, there are no forces powerful enough to create the molecule besides life. She says:
“At some point we were looking at increasingly less-plausible mechanisms, like if tectonic plates were rubbing against each other, could you get a plasma spark that generated phosphine? Or if lightning hit somewhere that had phosphorous, or a meteor had a phosphorous content, could it generate an impact to make phosphine? And we went through several years of this process to figure out that nothing else but life makes detectable amounts of phosphine.”
Finding out aliens smell like a putrid swamp wouldn’t be great for our ego as a species.
Sousa-Silva and her team determined that if phosphine was produced by alien life on some faraway rock, it would be detectable even if it was at the quantities produced here on Earth. That means that although phosphine is an indicator of anaerobic life, detecting it may lead researchers to an alien ecosystem as varied as ours. Or at least a big swamp.
Now the real question is when UFO and alien sightings were first being dismissed as swamp gas, were they really being dismissed? What if the aliens have actually been swamp gas this whole time.
Footballing legend Diego Maradona has claimed he was once abducted by a UFO and went missing for three days.
The 59-year-old retired midfielder had also said he lost his virginity aged 13 'in a basement with an older lady' who was reading a newspaper at the time.
He recently made the comments in an interview with Argentine sports channel TyC Sports.
Footballing legend Diego Maradona, 59, has claimed he was once abducted by a UFO and went missing for three days
Interviewers had asked Maradona if he believed in UFOs, with the ex-Napoli star saying: 'Why make things up? Once, after a few too many drinks, I was missing from home for three days.
'I got home and said that UFOs had taken me. I said "They took me, I can’t tell you about it".'
In a rather revealing interview, he was also asked when he lost his virginity.
'At 13 years old, in a basement with an older lady. I was on top and she was reading a newspaper,' said the star, according to the Sun.
Maradona retired his playing career in 1997, and has moved into management, currently coaching Gimnasia de La Plata in his native Argentina
Maradona retired his playing career in 1997, and has moved into management, currently coaching Gimnasia de La Plata in his native Argentina.
But during his time on the pitch he also revealed that he had played 'several times' without having slept the night before.
He also added that his ideal guests for a dinner party were Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Lula (a former Brazilian President), Nestor Kirchner (former Argentine President), Alberto Fernandez (former Argentine President), and Cristina Kirchner (former Argentine President).
When you’re known worldwide by one name, it generally means you’re a famous entertainer or a star athlete, usually in the field of football (soccer). Say the name “Maradona” anywhere in the world and you’ll generally get a look of recognition followed by a favorite memory of the Argentine soccer star – winning the 1986 World Cup or kicking the “Goal of the Century, to name a few. Is the name Maradona known beyond Earth? In a recent interview, the diminutive former star, now a manager, admitted to being abducted by a UFO. If so, he’s not the only one-named athlete with this tale. If not … well, everyone also remembers his adventures with adult substances. Which one was it?
“Why make things up? Once, after a few too many drinks, I was missing from home for three days. I got home and said that UFOs had taken me. I said, ‘They took me, I can’t tell you about it’.”
Is there a Universe Cup? Was some team from Alpha Centauri looking for a playmaker? In an interview with the Argentine sports channel TyC Sports, ‘Diego Armando’ Maradona was asked if he believed in UFOs and he blurted out his surprise answer. Well, Maradona was a well-known abuser of cocaine and alcohol during his playing days but the UFO part was a surprise. It doesn’t appear that he’s ever made any other references to UFOs or aliens. However, he seems sincere (although typically jovial) in his other responses about his sex life and memories of the game and fellow players, so there’s at least a possibility he’s sharing a real close encounter, not a blackout excuse.
Another one-name athlete who revealed many close encounters is Ali – that’s Muhammad Ali. On September 7, 1973, he appeared on The Tonight Show with host Johnny Carson and brought up his UFO experiences, which began on a training run in 1970. According to UFO investigator Timothy Green Beckley, by the time Ali died in 2016 he had 16 UFO sightings, many while training.
“I happened to look up just before dawn, as I often do while running, and there hovering above us was this brilliant light hanging as if by an invisible thread.”
While ‘Canseco’ never reached the one-name level of Maradona or Ali, there’s only one Jose Canseco, and earlier this year he talked about his knowledge of time travel which he claimed was given to him by aliens. He also said he’d considered running for president but aliens told him he was better suited for fighting the ‘aliens’ in government as a private citizen/celebrity.
It’s often said that aliens choose to communicate with creative people like artists because they’re more open to unusual possibilities, or perhaps that openness allows creative types to see aliens, spirits and like which are already in our midst. Should an active imagination be ridiculed — “She’s just a daydreamer. What are you smoking?” — or respected? While they may not follow sports, extraterrestrials might seek out creative athletes who have one-name status in hopes that they are believable spokespersons. Is that the case with Maradona, Ali and Conseco?
As a follow-up to the current controversy concerning Jacques Vallee and bogus alien abductions in South America, I thought I would share with you a couple of cases that suggest such things haven’t just been performed in South America. Consider the following: On May 5, 1980, Myrna Hansen was driving to her Eagle’s Nest, New Mexico, home from a trip to Oklahoma with her young son. Hansen suddenly found herself in a nightmarish world. Under hypnosis she recalled a classic alien abduction in which she was taken on board a UFO, undressed, and subjected to a physical examination. While on board, she also witnessed a “struggling cow sucked up into its underside in some sort of ‘tractor beam.’” More controversially, Hansen stated that after the abduction, she had been taken to an underground base, had seen “body parts” floating in vats, and felt that some sort of “device” had been implanted in her body so that the aliens could monitor and control her thoughts.
When details of Hansen’s description of the underground base were relayed to Kirtland Air Force Base security personnel, they immediately recognized that Hansen was describing a fortified, highly classified section of one of its facilities: the Manzano Weapons Storage Complex, which, at the time, was the largest underground repository of nuclear weapons in the Western world. I find it highly unlikely that aliens would have abducted Hansen to Kirtland Air Force Base (to say the least!), but maybe a military unit – engaged in a faked alien abduction scenario – might have done exactly that.
An example of a case of alleged alien abduction that appears to have been part of a sophisticated mind-control operation is described by Alison, a woman from Arizona, who lives on a ranch not too far from the city of Sedona. From the age of twenty-seven to thirty-one, Alison was subjected to at least five kidnappings that bore all the hallmarks of the classic alien abduction scenario. On each occasion, she was in her living-room, either reading or watching TV, when her two pet dogs – Lucy and Summer – began to act in a distressed fashion, pacing around the room and whimpering. At that point, things always became a blur, and Alison would later find herself in a different part of the house with several hours of time having passed. She would always awake feel groggy, and with a pounding headache and dry mouth.
For days after the weird experiences, she would dream of the moment when things would begin to go awry – which always resulted in a complete loss of electricity inside the house, a deep humming noise emanating from outside the large living-room window, and powerful and intensely bright lights enveloping the room. In her semi-conscious state, Alison would see small shadowy figures scuttling around the room. They would then carry her outside onto a small craft where she was subjected to a gynecological examination and some form of nasal probing. She would then be returned to another part of the house and the aliens would leave. It was only after the aliens had departed that the intense humming noise would cease.
On what Alison believes to have been the fifth abduction, however, the mysterious humming sound abruptly came to a sudden halt, only a few seconds after her cosmic visitors had entered the room. At that point, Alison recalled – significantly, not in a later dream on this occasion but in real time – she began to slowly regain her senses. And, very surprisingly, so did the aliens. In their place was not a group of frail-looking bald-headed, black-eyed “Grays,” but a number of large and burly men wearing what looked like suspiciously like black military fatigues. According to Alison, the men then suddenly started to back away slowly. And, as Alison began to regain her senses, one of them held his hand up “as if to say ‘stay where you are,” and continued to do so until they had exited the ranch house. Alison made her still-slightly-groggy way to the living-room window – just in time to see the group men jump climb aboard not a state-of-the-art extra-terrestrial spacecraft, but instead a very terrestrial-looking black helicopter. At a height of several hundred feet, a powerful lamp was suddenly turned on by someone aboard the helicopter that lit up the dark sky around her property.
Today, Alison has cast aside her ufological beliefs, and firmly believes that as a result of a combination of subliminal hypnosis, mind-altering technologies, and perhaps even non-lethal weaponry designed to temporary disable her nervous system and bodily movement, she was ingeniously made to think she was an alien abductee. But that in reality, she was merely the guinea-pig for the testing of sophisticated weaponry designed to affect and manipulate both mind and body. These are just two examples of several dozen similar cases I have on file. They all suggest that at least some alien abduction events are nothing of the sort. They are far more down to earth in nature.
I was searching a Mars photo and found this face smack in the center of it. The face really looks human-like. It has a chin, upper and lower lips, nose, nose nostril, eye, brow, hair or hat, cheeks and jaw line. It just seem so old. Sure its a sculpture made from the materials there, but maybe this object was smooth and beautiful when it was made, but over thousands or millions of years degraded. This is 100% proof that not only did intelligent aliens exist on Mars, but...they looked similar to humans. Scott C. Waring
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Strange anomalies caught flying through space
Strange anomalies caught flying through space
Two unknown anomalies have been caught on camera while flying through space. Both anomalies would have been invisible to human eyes.
Wilbur Allen who captured the objects respectively on December 18 and 21, 2019 believes that the anomalies could be "cloaked" spaceships referring to the tic tac anomalies since several files associated with these anomalies support this assumption.
The so-called enormous 300-foot object has gained attention over the internet after the discoverer, and popular YouTuber shared it online. A bizarre, mysterious object has been reportedly discovered on Google Earth in the middle of Antarctica.
The alleged large dark object seems to be different from anything else found nearby. The discoverer and YouTuber MrMBB333 pointed out in a video that the object could measure 277 feet across and around 260 feet high. MrMBB333 further speculated that the melting glaciers in the area might have made the strange object to appear.
One conspiracy theory believer commented on the video saying there’s something strange going on down there, and because of it, the world’s government has made Antarctica off-limits, and only very few individuals can go to certain parts for scientific research.
Another one suggested the massive object was spotted on the unedited Google Earth application and would not be surprised if the object won’t be there anymore when Google updates Google Earth.
Others pointed out the snow being disturbed in front of the unusual object, leading some to speculate it could a crash landing or secret hanger.
Surprisingly, over the course of most of humanity’s existence, we had no idea that other galaxies even existed. All we could see was our own little corner of the universe. It wasn’t until the early 1900’s that the nature of the so-called “Andromeda nebula” was discerned. Edwin Hubble settled the galaxy vs. nebula debate in 1925, and it was finally revealed that this “nebula” was actually a galaxy containing some 400 billion stars and not simply an extension of our own galaxy. Almost 100 years later, our reality (and relative insignificance) is well known, as we are now aware of the fact that the universe contains several BILLION large galaxies, many of which are similar to our own (current estimates guess that there are 100 to 200 billion galaxies in the Universe). With that revelation, we’ve learned that galaxies come in all shapes and sizes too. “So what other kinds of galaxies are there,” you might ask?
First and foremost, we have elliptical galaxies: the largest (and arguably most dull) of the bunch. Generally, galaxies of this type are older and have no overly defined structure (they usually resemble an American football, and are about 6 million light-years across). In addition to this, they don’t contain many star forming regions, as they have used the bulk of their stellar material early in their formation. The massive size of galaxies of this type can be attributed to several galactic mergers, an event prone to advancing star formation activity. During these mergers, many massive stars are formed, which typically live fast and die hard, ejecting mass quantities of heavy metals into the interstellar medium.
Spiral Galaxies:
Next, we have spiral galaxies. Our galaxy, and our closest neighbor (Andromeda), are among this type. Galaxies of this type tend to be structured similar to a pinwheel, with a large central bulge, expansive disks, and a halo. They have bright central regions, where intricate filaments of stellar materials extend from. Some of their arms can extend several hundreds of thousands of light-years across (the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across, all in all), and they have stars of various ages scattered about. The material is organized in a way that is conductive to star formation, as something called “density waves” cause the material to circulate through the spiral arms like circling waves, where they ultimately squeeze and collapse, giving life to new stars.
Oddly enough, this classification has two flavors. There are ordinary spiral galaxies and barred spiral galaxies. The Milky Way was long thought to merely be a spiral galaxy, but recently, we found that the Milky Way is actually a barred spiral galaxy. This means that in our central region, we have a large bar near the nucleus where the spiral arms (one contains our solar system) branch out from. Barred-galaxy types usually have spiral arms that are tightly wound. Whilst the ordinary spiral galaxies are looser and less defined.
Lenticular Galaxies:
A lenticular galaxy is the love child of spiral and elliptical galaxy, usually containing a central bulge with no spiral arms (sometimes, they are even referred to as “armless spiral galaxies” (take from that what you will). Many astronomers believe they are the evolutionary bridge between a spiral and elliptical galaxy. They can often be misidentified as either/or, depending on our frame of reference (if we are seeing the galaxy edge or face-on)
Irregular Galaxies:
All galaxies are separated by large expanses of empty interstellar space, but most are anchored together by immense gravitationael forc. Because of this, galaxies that are millions of light-years apart can be drawn toward one another, eventually coming within several thousands of light-years of one another. Some of these galaxies merely interact, before one darts off. Whilst others actually merge, forming newer (more spectacular) galaxies. The result of such a collision is almost always beautiful, but they still leave lasting scars.
As such, many galaxies that have interacted or merged do not have predictable structures. They come in many flavors. Some resemble birds or cigars (like M82, or the Cigar Galaxy), while others look like giant blobs of glowing dust (like the one seen here). Following this similar classification, irregular galaxies often look very similar to peculiar galaxies. Only some of them can develop unusual features (such as jets emanating from the central region in two opposite directions).
Dwarf Galaxies
Lastly, we come to the smallest rung on the latter: dwarf galaxies. There might be TRILLIONS of them in the universe, most in orbit around other galaxies. The Milky Way may have as many as 26 of them bound to it (The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds were once thought to be, but recent observations indicate that the small galaxies are traveling to fast to be anchored to us.)
In 2004, Navy pilots spotted something extremely unusual off the West Coast — groups of objects flying in erratic, inexplicable flight patterns.
Years later, the puzzling UFO encounter was revealed by TheNew York Times, withmultipleeyewitnesses stepping forward over the years to describe what they saw.
One of three infrared videos, recorded in 2004 and shared by the Times in 2017, shows an odd oblong unidentified object, garnering it the nickname “Tic Tac.”
Now Chad Underwood, the Navy pilot who recorded the video at the time, talked to New York Magazine’sIntelligencer about what he saw in a new interview.
“You’re not going to see it with your own eyes until probably 10 miles, and then you’re not going to be able to visually track it until you’re probably inside of five miles, which is where [commanding officer, who first made visual confirmation of the UFO,] Dave Fravor said that he saw it,” Underwood told Intelligencer.
“The thing that stood out to me the most was how erratic it was behaving,” he added. “It was just behaving in ways that aren’t physically normal. That’s what caught my eye. Because, aircraft, whether they’re manned or unmanned, still have to obey the laws of physics.”
What puzzled Underwood the most was that the “Tic Tac” bore no resemblance to any conventional aircraft.
“Well, normally, you would see engines emitting a heat plume. This object was not doing that,” he said. And it certainly was no bird. “You don’t see birds at 5,000 or 10,000 or 20,000 feet. That’s just not how birds operate.”
The European Space Agency has successfully launched its CHEOPS space telescope, the 1st of 3 planned missions to study distant exoplanets in greater detail than ever before.
Artist’s concept of the just-launched CHEOPS space telescope, which will study hundreds of exoplanets in greater detail than ever before.
After a one-day delay, the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched its CHEOPS mission last week, on the morning of December 18, 2019, from the spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. CHEOPS is the first ESA mission dedicated to studying exoplanets, those distant worlds orbiting other stars. NASA’s planet-hunting space missions, first Kepler and now TESS, have been finding new exoplanets. CHEOPS will study hundreds of exoplanets already known to exist – out of 4,000-plus now confirmed – to determine their sizes, masses, densities and possible atmospheres.
In this way, CHEOPS will take us some steps along the road of finding out what many exoworlds are actually like, not an easy task.
CHEOPS stands for CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite. The telescope will reside in a sun-synchronous orbit around Earth at an altitude of more than 400 miles (700 km).Kate Isaak, CHEOPS project scientist, said in a statement:
We are very excited to see the satellite blast off into space. There are so many interesting exoplanets and we will be following up on several hundreds of them, focusing in particular on the smaller planets in the size range between Earth and Neptune. They seem to be the commonly found planets in our Milky Way galaxy, yet we do not know much about them. CHEOPS will help us reveal the mysteries of these fascinating worlds, and take us one step closer to answering one of the most profound questions we humans ponder: are we alone in the universe?
Watch the launch below:
Heike Rauer, Director of the DLR Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin, said:
More than 4000 exoplanets have been discovered in the Milky Way, yet we still know far too little about these distant worlds in our cosmic neighborhood. We are all eager to see which ‘faces’ the planets characterized by CHEOPS will show us.
So how does CHEOPS observe these planets?
Like some other telescopes, it will watch as the planets transit in front of their stars, as seen from Earth. As Juan Cabrera Perez, Head of the Extrasolar Planets and Atmospheres Department at the DLR Institute of Planetary Research, explained:
We could describe this fluctuation in brightness as a ‘mini stellar eclipse’, as the transiting exoplanet reduces the intensity of the light from the star for a short time. This fluctuation can be measured and analyzed – an area in which we can contribute suitable tools and many years of experience.
CHEOPS will focus on some of the most common exoplanets discovered so far, ranging in size from Earth to Neptune, or about approximately 6,000 to 30,000 miles (10,000 to 50,000 km) in diameter. Using data from the transits, CHEOPS can determine the size, mass and density of the planets. All of these are important in order for scientists to figure out the planets’ compositions. Some will be rocky like Earth, while others will have deep, gaseous atmospheres like Neptune or even Jupiter or Saturn. Knowing this will also help scientists determine which of these worlds might be potentially habitable. Of course, rocky planets similar in size to Earth, or a bit larger – super-Earths – would be the most interesting in this regard. Nicola Rando, CHEOPS project manager, said:
Both CHEOPS instrument and spacecraft are built to be extremely stable, so as to measure the incredibly small variations in the light of distant stars as their planets transit in front of them. For a planet like Earth, this amounts to the equivalent of watching the sun from a distant star and measuring its light dim by a tiny fraction of a percent. Now we are looking forward to the first part of the operational activities, making sure that the satellite and instrument perform as expected, ready for scientists to perform their world-class science.
CHEOPS will also be able to find out which of these planets do have atmospheres and whether they have clouds. This will help differentiate between deep, gaseous primordial atmospheres with no real solid surface beneath them, and thinner atmospheres like those on terrestrial planets such as Earth, Venus or Mars.
CHEOPS is just the first of three planned ESA missions to study exoplanets.
The Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) space telescope, expected to launch in 2026, will focus on searching for “Earth-like” planets, ones that are rocky and about the same size as Earth orbiting in their stars’ habitable zones. So far, most such worlds have been found orbiting red dwarf stars, the most common type of star in our galaxy. CHEOPS, however, will look for these planets around sun-like stars. It will also be able to determine the age of these planetary systems with more accuracy than possible before.
A couple of years later, in 2028, ESA will launch the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (ARIEL) mission, which will study the atmospheres of exoplanets. As well as atmospheric composition, this will help scientists develop a comprehensive catalog of exoplanetary orbits, radii, masses, densities and ages.
All three of these exciting missions, and others, will greatly increase our knowledge of these exotic, far-off worlds.
View larger. | Timeline of ESA and NASA exoplanet missions, including CHEOPS.
CHEOPS will take exoplanet science to a whole new level. After the discovery of thousands of planets, the quest can now turn to characterization, investigating the physical and chemical properties of many exoplanets and really getting to know what they are made of and how they formed. CHEOPS will also pave the way for our future exoplanet missions, from the international James Webb Telescope to ESA’s very own PLATO and ARIEL satellites, keeping European science at the forefront of exoplanet research.
The CHEOPS mission is a partnership between ESA and Switzerland with additional contributions from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the U.K. More than 100 scientists and engineers are involved. The nominal mission is expected to last 3 1/2 years. While the CHEOPS science team has the bulk of observation time, 20% of the time is reserved for other scientists from around the world.
CHEOPS and the coming follow-up missions will open an exciting new chapter in exoplanetary study. What fascinating discoveries will they make?
Bottom line: ESA has successfully launched its CHEOPS space telescope to study hundreds of exoplanets in more detail than ever before.
The Juno spacecraft’s last perijove – or closest point to Jupiter – resulted in a treasure trove of images. Its next perijove is coming up on December 26. Get updated here, and view Juno’s latest amazing images.
Jupiter’s south pole as seen from the Juno spacecraft on November 4, 2019. These swirling spots are cyclones at Jupiter’s pole. The whole hexagonal arrangement of cyclones is large enough to dwarf the Earth. The central cyclone can be compared to the continental U.S. The smallest one, in the lower right – a new one, seen for the first time in November – can be compared to Texas.
Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ SwRI/ ASI/ INAF/ JIRAM.
The Juno spacecraft – which has been orbiting the giant planet Jupiter since July of 2016 – acquires close-up images of the planet at every perijove, or closest point to Jupiter. That happens about every 53 days. The batch of images acquired by the craft in early November, when it swung to within 2,175 miles (3,500 km) of the cloudtops at Jupiter’s south pole, are particularly mind-blowing. The big news for the November flyby … the craft discovered that Jupiter’s south pole has seven large, well defined cyclones now, instead of the six seen previously. These cyclones appear in a hexagonal (six-sided) pattern at Jupiter’s pole, rather than the pentagonal (five-sided) pattern seen previously.
When Juno first arrived at Jupiter in July 2016, its infrared and visible-light cameras discovered giant cyclones encircling the planet’s poles – nine in the north and six in the south. Were they, like their Earthly siblings, a transient phenomenon, taking only weeks to develop and then ebb? Or could these cyclones, each nearly as wide as the continental U.S., be more permanent fixtures?
With each flyby, the data reinforced the idea that five windstorms were swirling in a pentagonal pattern around a central storm at the south pole and that the system seemed stable. None of the six storms showed signs of yielding to allow other cyclones to join in …
Then, during Juno’s 22nd science pass, a new, smaller cyclone churned to life and joined the fray.
Alessandro Mura, a Juno co-investigator at the National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome, said:
Data from Juno’s Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper [JIRAM] instrument indicates we went from a pentagon of cyclones surrounding one at the center to a hexagonal arrangement.
This new addition is smaller in stature than its six more established cyclonic brothers: It’s about the size of Texas.
Maybe JIRAM data from future flybys will show the cyclone growing to the same size as its neighbors.
Jupiter’s pentagon turns hexagon. In this annotated infrared image, 6 cyclones form a hexagonal pattern around a central cyclone at Jupiter’s south pole. That’s in contrast to the 5 cyclones in a pentagonal shape seen previously.
To give some sense of the immense scale of cyclones arranged in a hexagonal pattern at Jupiter’s south pole, an outline of the continental United States is superimposed over the central cyclone and an outline of Texas is superimposed over the newest cyclone. The hexagonal arrangement of the cyclones is large enough to dwarf the Earth. This JIRAM image was obtained during the 23rd science pass of the Juno spacecraft over Jupiter, on November 4, 2019.
Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ SwRI/ ASI/ INAF/ JIRAM.
NASA said the flyby:
… also marked a victory for the mission team, whose innovative measures kept the solar-powered spacecraft clear of what could have been a mission-ending eclipse.
To understand what happened, you have to go back to Juno’s entry into orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. It was meant to enter an initial 53-day orbit, then reduce the size of its orbit a few months later, in order to shorten the period between science flybys to every 14 days. But the project team recommended to NASA to forgo the main engine burn due to concerns about the spacecraft’s fuel delivery system.
Now Juno is carrying out its mission, NASA said, although it’s taking longer than originally plannned. But Juno’s longer life at Jupiter is what led to the need to avoid Jupiter’s shadow. Steve Levin, Juno project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, explained:
Ever since the day we entered orbit around Jupiter, we made sure it remained bathed in sunlight 24/7. Our navigators and engineers told us a day of reckoning was coming, when we would go into Jupiter’s shadow for about 12 hours. We knew that for such an extended period without power, our spacecraft would suffer a similar fate as the Opportunity rover, when the skies of Mars filled with dust and blocked the sun’s rays from reaching its solar panels.
View larger. | In this image, you can see a shadow on Jupiter, cast by its moon Io. Io’s shadow can be seen on Jupiter through earthly telescopes, and many pictures have been taken of it from space as well, but this is the first from such a close distance, just 8,450 miles (13,600 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloudtops. JunoCam acquired this image on September 12, 2019.
Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ SwRI/ MSSS. Image processing by citizen scientist Tanya Oleksuik.
NASA explained that, without the sun’s rays providing power, Juno would be chilled below tested levels. The space scientists believed that – during this time – Juno’s battery cells would be drained beyond recovery. So the navigation team set devised a plan to “jump the shadow,” maneuvering the spacecraft just enough so its trajectory would miss the eclipse. NASA said:
The navigators calculated that if Juno performed a rocket burn weeks in advance of November 3, while the spacecraft was as far in its orbit from Jupiter as it gets, they could modify its trajectory enough to give the eclipse the slip. The maneuver would utilize the spacecraft’s reaction control system, which wasn’t initially intended to be used for a maneuver of this size and duration.
On September 30, at 7:46 p.m. EDT (4:46 p.m. PDT), the reaction control system burn began. It ended 10 ½ hours later. The propulsive maneuver — five times longer than any previous use of that system — changed Juno’s orbital velocity by 126 mph (203 kph) and consumed about 160 pounds (73 kilograms) of fuel.
Thirty-four days later, the spacecraft’s solar arrays continued to convert sunlight into electrons unabated as Juno prepared to scream once again over Jupiter’s cloud tops.
Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, explained:
The combination of creativity and analytical thinking has once again paid off big time for NASA … While the team was trying to figure out how to conserve energy and keep our core heated, the engineers came up with a completely new way out of the problem: Jump Jupiter’s shadow.
It was nothing less than a navigation stroke of genius. Lo and behold, first thing out of the gate on the other side, we make another fundamental discovery.
As you read this, Juno is heading toward its next perijove on December 26, 2019. Watch for news and new images shortly after the new year dawns!
View larger. | Swirls and storms in Jupiter’s clouds. This image of a vortex on Jupiter, taken by the Juno mission camera, JunoCam, captures the amazing internal structure of the giant storm. Original image taken on November 3, 2019, at an altitude of approximately 5,300 miles (8,600 km) and a latitude of about 48 degrees north on Jupiter.
Image processing by citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt/ Seán Doran.
In this amazing Juno image, south is up. The original image was captured by JunoCam on September 12, 2019.
Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ SwRI/ MSSS/ JunoCam. Image processing by citizen scientist Prateek Sarpal, who titled this “A mind of limits, a camera of thoughts.”
Bottom line: On its last flyby close to Jupiter – on November 4, 2019 – the Juno spacecraft discovered a new small cyclone at Jupiter’s south pole.
SPECULATION is rife over the secretive death of a US test pilot. Details of the case are classified, but conspiracy theories have emerged.
THE tragic death of Lieutenant Colonel Eric Schultz last week on a weapons testing range in Nevada has attracted an inordinate amount of interests.
And it’s because of what we don’t know.
The US Air Force has pointedly refused to reveal what aircraft he was at the controls of when the fatal accident occurred. It also took them three days to even admit his death.
This is in stark contrast to another accident, at the same range, in the same week. Details of an accident involving two A-10 ground-attack jets which forced their pilots to eject were released within hours.
So what could possibly cause such reluctance to reveal the circumstances of Schultz’ death?
“I can definitely say it was not an F-35,” Chief of Staff of the Air Force General David L. Goldfein stated at the weekend.
A Joint Strike Fighter F-35 flies during the Avalon Airshow on March 3, 2017 in Avalon, Australia. Technical hurdles remain to be solved before the type is fully combat capable.
He was responding to speculation that this accident involved the highly controversial stealth fighter, and that this was being covered-up to protect its already bruised reputation.
The F-35 Lightning II has recently suffered several engine fires — one of which injured a pilot. It has also been the subject of warnings surrounding its ejection seat which — when combined with the weight and shape of its advanced helmet — could break the neck of its pilots.
But it wasn’t and F-35.
So what was it?
The USAF is remaining tight-lipped.
All we know is the unspecified aircraft crashed about 6pm some 200km northwest of Nellis Air Force Base in the Nevada Test and Training range. This range is also home to the extremely secretive “Area 51” research and development facility.
Everything from crashed alien spacecraft to the next-generation Blackbird ultra-fast surveillance jet are said to be housed here.
But we don’t actually know. It’s secret.
The USAF also admitted the unknown aircraft was being operated by the Air Force Materiel Command. This is the unit that funds and operates aircraft research — and facilities like Area 51 (Groom Lake).
So analysts have been pouring through declassified reports into activities in the Nevada area to glean whatever clues they can.
A US Air Force F-117 Stealth fighter breaks apart in midair during the Chesapeake Air Show in 1997. At least one is back in service, at Area 51. Picture: APSource:AP
STEALTH COUNTERMEASURES:
It was reported last year that the famous F-117 Nighthawk attack jets — used to eliminate Saddam Hussein’s air defences in the opening minutes of Operation Desert Storm in 1990 — had been brought back from retirement. Aviation enthusiasts captured its distinctive shape in the air, and on the ground, around the Groom Lake (Area 51) facility. Analysts speculate examples of the aircraft may have been reactivated to further test stealth technologies amid fears new Russian and Chinese sensors may have already negated much of the ultra-expensive F-35’s stealth advantage. But the return of the F-117 has not yet been admitted by the USAF.
Australian F/A-18 Hornet Aircraft with Indonesian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30 & Su-27 Flanker aircraft. Picture: ADF Source:Supplied
THREAT EVALUATION:
There is evidence the United States may have gotten its hands on one of Russia’s most capable combat jets — the Su-27P. While it first entered service in 1985, this jet is the basis upon which many of Russia’s current frontline warplanes have been built. These are widely regarded to be more manoeuvrable than equivalent Western aircraft, such as the F-15 Eagle and F-18 Hornet. At least one of these was seen engaged in a mock dogfight with a USAF F-16 Falcon near Area 51 late last year. The presence of these Russian-built aircraft has not been officially admitted, however, and explaining away a fatal crash involving one could prove an unwanted embarrassment for the Pentagon.
Concept art released by the Pentagon showing Northrop Grumman's B-21 stealth bomber design
Source:Supplied
NEXT-GENERATION BOMBER:
In January 2016, the Pentagon announced it had chosen a design to replace its ancient fleet of B-52 bombers, as well as its 1980s-era B-1B Lancer bombers. The $55 billion Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider is supposed to be a cut-price stealth design, building upon the technology already established by the B-2 Spirit. But everything about the project — including its true budget — is top secret. Whether or not a flying prototype of the B-21 exists is uncertain, but there was speculation in 2015 that Northrop Grumman had taken the gamble of building one to help it win the lucrative deal. Such a prototype would almost certainly undergo secretive testing in a location like the Nevada range.
The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight
The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight
By Alexander Rose
One of the two massive bronze cast sculptures that flank Hoover Dam’s Monument Plaza.
(Photo by Alexander Rose)
On the western flank of the Hoover Dam stands a little-understood monument, commissioned by the US Bureau of Reclamation when construction of the dam began in 01931. The most noticeable parts of this corner of the dam, now known as Monument Plaza, are the massive winged bronze sculptures and central flagpole which are often photographed by visitors. The most amazing feature of this plaza, however, is under their feet as they take those pictures.
The plaza’s terrazzo floor is actually a celestial map that marks the time of the dam’s creation based on the 25,772-year axial precession of the earth.
Marking in the terrazzo floor of Monument Plaza showing the location of Vega, which will be our North Star in roughly 12,000 years.
(Photo by Alexander Rose)
I was particularly interested in this monument because this axial precession is also the slowest cycle that we track in Long Now’s 10,000 Year Clock. Strangely, little to no documentation of this installation seemed to be available, except for a few vacation pictures on Flickr. So the last time I was in Las Vegas, I made a special trip out to Hoover Dam to see if I could learn more about this obscure 26,000-year monument.
Monument Plaza with access road on left.
(Image courtesy of US Bureau of Reclamation).
I parked my rental car on the Nevada side of the dam on a day pushing 100 degrees. I quickly found Monument Plaza just opposite the visitor center where tours of the dam are offered. While the plaza is easy to find, it stands apart from all the main tours and stories about the dam. With the exception of the writing in the plaza floor itself, the only information I could find came from a speaker running on loop, broadcasting a basic description of the monument while visitors walked around the area. When I asked my tour guide about it, he suggested that there may be some historical documentation and directed me to Emme Woodward, the dam’s historian.
Hansen laying out the axial precession.
(Image courtesy of US Bureau of Reclamation)
I was able to get in touch with her after returning home. As she sent me a few items, I began to see why the Bureau of Reclamation doesn’t explain very much about the monument’s background. The first thing she sent me was a description of the plaza by Oskar J. W. Hansen, the artist himself, which I thought would tell me everything I wanted to know. While parts of it were helpful, the artist’s statement of intention was also highly convoluted and opaque. An excerpt:
These [human] postures may be matched to their corresponding reflexes in terms of angle and degree much as one would join cams in a worm-gear drive. There is an angle for doubt, for sorrow, for hate, for joy, for contemplation, and for devotion. There are as many others as there are fleeting emotions within the brain of each individual who inhabits the Earth. Who knows not all these postures of the mind if he would but stop to think of them as usable factors for determining proclivities of character? It is a knowledge bred down to us through the past experience of the whole race of men.
It is pretty hard to imagine the US Bureau of Reclamation using this type of write-up to interpret the monument… and they don’t. And so there it stands, a 26,000-year clock of sorts, for all the world to see, and yet still mired in obscurity.
Markings on the floor showing that Thuban was the North Star for the ancient Egyptians at the time of the Great Pyramids.
(Photo by Alexander Rose)
While I may never totally understand the inner motivations of the monument’s designer, I did want to understand it on a technical level. How did Hansen create a celestial clock face frozen in time that we can interpret and understand as the date of the dam’s completion? The earth’s axial precession is a rather obscure piece of astronomy, and our understanding of it through history has been spotty at best. That this major engineering feat was celebrated through this monument to the axial precession still held great interest to me, and I wanted to understand it better.
The giant bronze statues being craned into place.
(Image courtesy of US Bureau of Reclamation)
I pressed for more documentation, and the historian sent me instructions for using the Bureau of Reclamation’s image archive site as well as some keywords to search for. The black and white images you see here come from this resource. Using the convoluted web site was a challenge, and at first I had difficulty finding any photos of the plaza before or during its construction. As I discovered, the problem was that I was searching with the term “Monument Plaza,” a name only given to it after its completion in 01936. In order to find images during its construction, I had to search for “Safety Island,” so named because at the time of the dam’s construction, it was an island in the road where workers could stand behind a berm to protect themselves from the never-ending onslaught of cement trucks.
Hansen next to the completed axial precession layout before the terrazzo was laid in.
(Image courtesy of US Bureau of Reclamation)
I now had some historical text and photos, but I was still missing a complete diagram of the plaza that would allow me to really understand it. I contacted the historian again, and she obtained permission from her superiors to release the actual building plans. I suspect that they generally don’t like to release technical plans of the dam for security reasons, but it seems they deemed my request a low security risk as the monument is not part of the structure of the dam. The historian sent me a tube full of large blueprints and a CD of the same prints already scanned. With this in hand I was finally able to re-construct the technical intent of the plaza and how it works.
In order to understand how the plaza marks the date of the dam’s construction in the nearly 26,000-year cycle of the earth’s precession, it is worth explaining what exactly axial precession is. In the simplest terms, it is the earth “wobbling” on its tilted axis like a gyroscope — but very, very slowly. This wobbling effectively moves what we see as the center point that stars appear to revolve around each evening.
Long exposure of star trails depicting how all the stars appear to revolve around the earth’s celestial axis, which is currently pointed close to our current North Star — Polaris. Note that when I say that the stars of the night sky “appear to” rotate around Polaris, it is because this apparent rotation is only due to our vantage point on a rotating planet.
(Image courtesy of NASA)
Presently, this center point lies very close to the conveniently bright star Polaris. The reason we have historically paid so much attention to this celestial center, or North Star, is because it is the star that stays put all through the course of the night. Having this one fixed point in the sky is the foundation of all celestial navigation.
Figure 1. The earth sits at roughly a 23 degree tilt. Axial precession is that tilt slowly wobbling around in a circle, changing what we perceive as the celestial pole or “North Star.” (Image from Wikipedia entry on Axial Precession.)
But that point near Polaris, which we call the North Star, is actually slowly moving and tracing a circle through the night sky. While Polaris is our North Star, Hansen’s terrazzo floor points out that the North Star of the ancient Egyptians, as they built the great pyramids, was Thuban. And in about 12,000 years, our North Star will be Vega. The workings of this precession are best explained with an animation, as in figure 1. Here you can see how the axis of the earth traces a circle in the sky over the course of 25,772 years.
Unfortunately it is a bit difficult to see how this all works in the inlaid floor at Monument Plaza. The view that you really want to have of the plaza is directly from above. You would need a crane to get this view of the real thing, but by using the original technical drawing as an underlay I was able to mark up a diagram which hopefully clarifies it (Fig. 2).
Figure 2. Description overlaid on the original technical drawing for the layout of terrazzo floor.
(Underlay courtesy of US Bureau of Reclamation, color notations by Alexander Rose.)
In this diagram, you can see that the center of the circle traced by the axial precession is actually the massive flag pole in the center of the plaza. This axial circle is prominently marked around the pole, and the angle of Polaris was depicted as precisely as possible to show where it would have been on the date of the dam’s opening. Hansen used the rest of the plaza floor to show the location of the planets visible that evening, and many of the bright stars that appear in the night sky at that location.
By combining planet locations with the angle of precession, we are able to pinpoint the time of the dam’s completion down to within a day. We are now designing a similar system — though with moving parts — in the dials of the 10,000 Year Clock. It is likely that at least major portions of the Hoover Dam will still be in place hundreds of thousands of years from now. Hopefully the Clock will still be ticking and Hansen’s terrazzo floor will still be there, even if it continues to baffle visitors.
A drawing of the terrazzo layout.
Click here for a high resolution version. (Courtesy of US Bureau of Reclamation)
I would like to thank Emme Woodward of the US Bureau of Reclamation for all her help in finding the original images and plans of Monument Plaza. If you have further interest in reading Hansen’s original writings about the plaza or in seeing the plans, I have uploaded all the scans to the Internet Archive.
While it was a milestone for EAST, we’re still a long way from generating sustainable energy on Earth.
Imagine if we could replace fossil fuels with our very own stars. And no, we’re not talking about solar power: We’re talking nuclear fusion. And recent research is helping us get there. Meet the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, or EAST.
EAST is a fusion reactor based in Hefei, China. And it can now reach temperatures more than six times as hot as the sun. Let’s take a look at what’s happening inside. Fusion occurs when two lightweight atoms combine into a single, larger one, releasing energy in the process. It sounds simple enough, but it’s not easy to pull off. Because those two atoms share a positive charge. And just like two opposing magnets, those positive atoms repel each other.
Stars, like our sun, have a great way of overcoming this repulsion … their massive size, which creates a tremendous amount of pressure in their cores … So the atoms are forced closer together making them more likely to collide. There’s just one problem: We don’t have the technology to recreate that kind of pressure on Earth.
But luckily, there’s another way. You can also generate fusion with extreme temperatures. And that’s exactly what devices like EAST do. The higher the temperature, the faster the atoms move around and the more likely they are to collide.
But it quickly becomes a balancing act. If the temperature is too hot, the atoms move too fast and zip passed each other. If it’s too cold, the atoms won’t move fast enough. So, the ideal temperature to generate fusion is around 100 million degrees Celsius. That’s more than 6 times as hot as our sun’s core.
Only a few fusion experiments in the world have surpassed this milestone. And the latest one was EAST. It sustained nuclear fusion for about 10 seconds before shutting down. And while it was a breakthrough for EAST, it’s a long way from generating sustainable energy for the people of Earth.
And that’s actually on purpose. EAST is a tiny reactor. At only a few meters across, it’s not meant to be a full-fledged power plant. It’s an experiment. And right now, its job is to help us design more effective fusion technology that could, one day, power entire cities.
Like ITER, short for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, it’s the world’s biggest fusion project to date. Thirty-five countries have poured billions of dollars into its construction. And it is designed to be the first fusion reactor to ever produce more fusion power than the power used to heat it up.
You see, you need to pour a lot of energy into these machines to get them to work. This recent EAST test, for example, guzzled over 10 Megawatts of power. Enough to power 1,640 American homes for a year. And it didn’t yield even half that amount. Since the entire point of a power plant is to, well, produce power, it’s a pretty important issue to work out.
But it’s worth the effort. Why? Well for one thing, fusion reactors would produce practically no radioactive waste compared to the kind of reaction we see in today’s nuclear fission power plants. But even better. Fusion reactors can run on seawater– a renewable, sustainable resource.
For perspective, the amount of water just on the top inch of Lake Erie is enough to produce more power than all the fossil fuels left on the planet. And unlike other energy sources, it doesn’t need the sun to shine or the wind to blow.
In a time of dwindling resources and worsening climate change, we could sure use it.
Scientists are trying to open a portal to a parallel universe
Scientists are trying to open a portal to a parallel universe
By THE SUN
Noah Schnapp as Will in “Stranger Things.”
(THE SUN) — Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee are trying to open a portal to a parallel universe.
The project — which has been compared to the Upside Down in the Netflix blockbuster “Stranger Things” — hopes to show a world identical to ours where life is mirrored.
Leah Broussard, the physicist leading the experiment, told NBC the plan is “pretty wacky” but will “totally change the game,” ahead of a series of experiments she plans to run this summer.
Broussard’s experiment will fire a beam of subatomic particles down a 50-foot tunnel. The beam will pass a powerful magnet and hit an impenetrable wall, with a neutron detector behind it.
If the experiment is successful, particles will transform into mirror images of themselves, allowing them to burrow right through the impenetrable wall.
This would prove that the visible universe is only half of what is out there, Broussard said, but she also admitted that she expects the test to “measure zero.”
In “Stranger Things,” portals began opening, connecting a US town to a dark alternate dimension called the Upside Down.
In reality, if a mirror world exists, it would have its own laws of mirror physics and its own mirror history, according to NBC.
However, there wouldn’t be an alternate version of you. Current theory, the outlet explains, only hypothesizes that mirror atoms and mirror rocks are possible — and perhaps even mirror planets and stars.
Today is a very big day for human spaceflight, NASA officials said, but it's still unclear what tomorrow will bring.
Boeing'sCST-100 Starliner capsule landed safely at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico this morning (Dec. 22), bringing an end to its truncated debut mission, the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT).
The reusable Starliner thus became the first crew vehicle to touch down on American soil after an orbital trip since the space shuttles retired in July 2011, and the first capsule ever to do so. (NASA's Apollo and Orion capsules have landed in the ocean, as has SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft.)
"It was an absolute bullseye, better than I think anybody anticipated," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said of the landing during a news conference today. "That's good for the agency, it's good for Boeing; that's good for the United States of America."
But not everything went smoothly on OFT. The mission was supposed to last eight days and feature an automated rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station (ISS), demonstrating Starliner's ability to ferry astronauts to and from the orbiting lab and clearing the way for a crewed test flight next year.
But an error with Starliner's onboard timing system, which manifested shortly after liftoff on Friday morning (Dec. 20), nixed that original plan. The timing problem prevented the capsule from properly performing a pivotal engine burn, trapping Starliner in the wrong orbit, NASA and Boeing representatives have said.
So Starliner ended up circling Earth on its own for about 48 hours and then coming home, leaving some original mission objectives unachieved. But that doesn't necessarily mean the capsule will have to refly OFT before astronauts can climb aboard, NASA officials said.
Indeed, going straight to the Crew Flight Test (CFT), which will carry three astronauts to and from the ISS, is definitely still on the table, NASA Commercial Crew Program deputy manager Steve Stich said during today's news conference.
"To me, there's good data out there to suggest that, once we go through it, maybe it's acceptable to go, next step, fly the Crew Flight Test," Stich said. "But we have to go through the data first."
That good data includes a nominal launch and landing, the two most important milestones to check off on a human spaceflight, Stich and Bridenstine both said. And Starliner seems to have performed very well in orbit, Jim Chilton, senior vice president of Boeing’s Space and Launch Division, said during a news conference yesterday (Dec. 21). And today, Chilton estimated that Starliner may end up meeting about 85% of the original OFT objectives, after all data analyses are complete.
But all three men stressed that the NASA and Boeing teams need to perform those analyses before any decisions can be made about Starliner's next flight.
"I think we're into January, pretty deep into January, before everybody has a thorough understanding" of the OFT data, Chilton said today.
CFT is currently targeted for liftoff sometime next year. If it is decided that Starliner must fly another version of OFT first, the CFT timeline would probably shift to the right by at least three months. That's the estimated minimum amount of time it would take for Boeing to get ready for another OFT, Chilton said today.
(The Starliner vehicle that landed today won't fly CFT, by the way. This capsule will perform Boeing's first contracted ISS crew mission for NASA. And the crew of that mission, which will be commanded by NASA astronaut Suni Williams, has named the capsule "Calypso," after the ship of ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau.)
Boeing has been developing Starliner with funding from NASA's Commercial Crew Program, most notably a $4.2 billion contract that was announced in September 2014. That deal also pays for six operational, crew-carrying flights to and from the ISS.
SpaceX got a similar, $2.6 billion contract at the same time. The California-based company's Crew Dragon capsule aced its version of OFT, called Demo-1, this past March. SpaceX is now gearing up for a key in-flight test of Crew Dragon's emergency-escape system next month; if all goes well with that demonstration, Crew Dragon will be cleared to perform a crewed test flight to the orbiting lab.
Getting one of these private vehicles up and running will end NASA's dependence on Russian Soyuz spacecraft for crewed trips to the ISS, which has been total since the space shuttles were grounded more than eight years ago. And having both of them operational is vital to ensure stable, uninterrupted access to space, Bridenstine said.
"We need to have dissimilar redundancy for how we fly astronauts into space," he said.
NASA also wants to be just one of many customers that use private American spacecraft to get to and from low-Earth orbit, Bridenstine added.
"We want to have numerous providers that are competing against each other on cost and innovation, driving down cost and increasing access," he said. "And today was really a great milestone in that eventuality."
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Earth's magnetic north pole, which has been wandering faster than expected in recent years, has now crossed the prime meridian.
Magnetic north has been lurching away from its previous home in the Canadian Arctic toward Siberia at a rate of about 34 miles (55 kilometers) a year over the past two decades. The latest model of the Earth's magnetic field, released Dec. 10 by the National Centers for Environmental Information and the British Geological Survey, predicts that this movement will continue, though likely at a slower rate of 25 miles (40 km) each year.
This model is used to calibrate GPS and other navigation measurements.
Earth's magnetic field is produced by the churning of the planet's iron outer core, which produces a complex, but largely north-south magnetic field. For reasons not entirely understood but related to the planet's interior dynamics, the magnetic field is currently undergoing a period of weakening. That's why magnetic north is drifting.
As of February 2019, magnetic north was located at 86.54 N 170.88 E, within the Arctic Ocean, according to the NCEI. (Magnetic south similarly does not line up with geographic south; it was at at 64.13 S 136.02 E off the coast of Antarctica as of February 2019.)
Scientists release a new version of the World Magnetic Model every five years, so this 2020 update was expected. In February 2019, though, they had to release an update ahead of schedule due to the fast clip of magnetic north's movements. The 2020 model shows the "Blackout Zone" around magnetic north where compasses become unreliable and start to fail because of the proximity of true north. The new maps also show magnetic north east of the prime meridian, a boundary the pole crossed in September 2019, according to Newsweek. The prime, or Greenwich, meridian is the meridian that was set as the official marker of zero degrees, zero minutes and zero seconds in 1884;iIt runs through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich in England.
It's currently unclear whether Earth's magnetic poles are headed for a flip-flop — switching north and south — or whether the magnetic field will soon strengthen again. Both events have happened in Earth's history without any notable effect on biology. However, modern navigation systems rely on magnetic north and will have to be recalibrated as the poles continue to wander. Already, for example, airports have had to rename some of their runways, which have names based on compass directions.
Thirty-two years ago, Supernova 1987A erupted in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud. Astronomers using the ALMA radio telescope now say they’ve found the small, compact neutron star created in this mighty star explosion.
The location of the recently discovered neutron star at the core of the Supernova 1987A remnant.
A team of astronomers at the University of Cardiff, Wales, believe they have discovered the “missing” neutron star at the center of Supernova 1987A (SN1987A), whose detonation was first seen in earthly skies in February 1987. The explosion occurred in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a companion dwarf galaxy to our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The astronomers said they found this supernova’s neutron star using the ALMA telescope in Chile.
The neutron star finally seems to be emerging from a thick cloud of dust which has completely obscured it for the last 32 years.
The discovery was reported in the Astrophysical Journal on November 19. The team – led by astronomer Phil Cigan of Cardiff University – found a particularly bright patch of dust exactly where the neutron star was predicted to be. Cigan commented in a statement:
For the very first time we can tell that there is a neutron star inside this cloud within the supernova remnant. Its light has been veiled by a very thick cloud of dust, blocking the direct light from the neutron star at many wavelengths like fog masking a spotlight.
Astronomer Mikako Matsuura, also of Cardiff University, specializes in the study of dust and molecules in supernova remnants and is a co-author of this latest study. She commented:
Although the light from the neutron star is absorbed by the dust cloud that surrounds it, this in turn makes the cloud shine in sub-millimeter light, which we can now see with the extremely sensitive ALMA telescope. Our new findings will now enable astronomers to better understand how massive stars end their lives, leaving behind these extremely dense neutron stars.
Supernova 1987A was the brightest and closest supernova since Kepler’s supernova of 1604. It detonated on the edge of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Since the supernova is some 168,000 light-years distant, the explosion actually occurred that long ago. Ian Shelton and Oscar Duhalde at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile – and Albert Jones in New Zealand – were the first to spot the supernova in Earth’s skies in 1987.
A blue supergiant star called Sanduleak A had exploded, about which little was known. Astronomers were optimistic that by studying the event they could see if their theories about the death of massive stars were correct. The hope was that the supernova would leave behind a neutron star: better still, an easily detectable pulsar (all pulsars are neutron stars, but not all neutron stars are pulsars). If so, then the chain of events from core-collapse supernova explosion to neutron star could at last be verified. It was seen as something of a golden opportunity to confirm what we thought we knew about Type II supernovae and their aftermath.
But, as the initial glow subsided and astronomers in the Southern Hemisphere watched and waited, there were no radio bursts from a pulsar, no X-ray glow: there was nothing at all. It was soon realized that if there were any sort of star left behind at the center of the supernova remnant, it was behind huge quantities of dust, completely hidden from our view. Astronomers realized with disappointment, and the sense of something intensely valuable slipping from their grasp, that the dust would take a very long time to clear enough to reveal what it was masking. But there were also those who wondered, as the original mass of Sanduleak A was not known, if the reason there was no visible trace of any remnant was simply because what lurked in the dark, behind the wall of dust, was a new black hole.
And there was something quite unexpected about SN1987A, which was not realized until afterwards: about three hours before the explosion was seen in Chile, Japanese neutrino observatories had, between them, detected 25 neutrinos from the event. This was seen as confirmation that the bulk of neutrinos from supernovae are emitted some time before the star detonates. This pre-supernova detection of neutrinos can perhaps lay claim to be the first true multi-messenger astronomical event.
Apart from a brief flurry of excitement a few years after the supernova, as a group of radio astronomers thought they had detected brief pulsar emissions, nothing at the centre of the supernova remnant has been observed. The tentative pulsar signals were not confirmed nor repeated.
But now, at long last, astronomers have verification of their Type II supernova theories. The discovery demonstrates that astronomy is often a long and frustrating waiting game, where events play out over years and decades.
Composite image of Supernova 1987A, via NASA/ ESA/ NRAO.
Bottom line: Astronomers using the ALMA radio telescope in Chile said in late 2019 that they’ve found the small, compact neutron star created in Supernova 1987A.
A comparison of old and new star catalogs shows that some objects seem to have gone missing.
Stars mysteriously disappear in the sky. But where’d it go? The bright star in in the left image taken in the 1950s has disappeared in the new image of the same field. Picture via Villarroel et al.
The universe holds many mysteries that baffle astronomers from dark energy to cosmic rays to our own solar system… We live in a cosmic oddity as shown by the many alien sounds recorded out there. Now in a new science paper, a group of scientists compared star maps from the 1950s with recent images from the same spots, and discovered that 100 previously catalogued stars cannot be found anymore. Pretty baffling, no?
Many Stars Have Disappeared
The new data compiled by project ‘Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO)’ were gathered by comparing mapped stars listed in the U.S. Naval Observatory Catalogue (USNO) B 1.0, dating from the 1950s, with those in the more recent sky catalog of Pan-STARRS Data Release (DR1).
Among the 600 million stars found in the older catalog, 150,000 objects had no readily identifiable counterparts in the new star survey, although the Pan-STARRS can detect much fainter light sources than present in USNO.
The authors visually inspected 24,000 candidates of these 150,000 anomalies and discovered that 100 of these point sources of light had disappeared in the night sky.
How Do Stars Disappear From the Sky?
There are certainly natural phenomena – extremely flaring dwarf planets, failed supernova, or stars that might directly collapse into a black hole – behind the disappearance of several of those stars.
But 100 vanishing stars in less than 50 years is a lot and it would be an amazing surprise if they all can be explained by a natural phenomenon.
The authors themselves discuss the possibility thatthese mysterious disappearances could be the result of unknown phenomena, or the relics of technologically advanced civilizations, particularly the theoretical mega-engineering projects known as Dyson spheres.
What Are These Missing Stars?
Perhaps the missing objects are signs of an advanced civilization. But they’re probably not Dyson spheres.
First, it would be hard to explain why and how such a giant construction project, completely shading out the light of the host star, could be done within the short period of less than a century.
But more importantly, “traditional” Dyson spheres are not gravitationally stable. Even if one could be built near a star like our Sun, it would require more total mass than is available in all our Solar System’s planets, moons, and asteroids.
A few of these missing stars might be explained as flaring stars whose brightness dropped below the detection limit, or stars that collapsed directly into a black hole.
A large portion, however, might represent new stages in the life cycle of certain stars or new stellar phenomena that have not yet been seen. That by itself would be an exciting topic to investigate.
Where Are the Missing Stars?
Are they at the same location, just not emitting light anymore? Or perhaps they’ve moved to some other location.
If the latter, could some of these represent huge starships, the size of moons or planets, that moved outside the field of view?
This, of course, is a highly speculative suggestion. But it would address the hotly discussed Fermi Paradox, and would, in principle, be testable.
If these “missing” light sources represent giant starships, some should appear in new star surveys in some other part of the sky. In an ideal case, we might even be able to track their trajectories through time.
A new direction of future research would be to search for clusters of missing stars, which, if they exist, could be related to new natural phenomena in a particular region of space, or perhaps to activities of an extraterrestrial civilization.
I would on light sources that suddenly appear in new star surveys, and see whether they can be correlated to the stars that vanished. Either way, the authors have turned up something that may become very important for both astrophysical and SETI investigations. Continue reading Strange Sounds or visit Steve Quayle for more extraterrestrial headlines. [ApJ, Air and Space]
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In a new article posted at his The UFO Trail blog (titled “Vallee declines to Substantiate Claims of CIA Simulating UFO abductions“) Jack Brewer wrote, on December 19: “Dr. Jacques Vallee declined to attempt to fully substantiate the assertion contained in his book, Forbidden Science – Volume Four, that he secured a document confirming the CIA simulated UFO abductions in Brazil and Argentina. ‘I felt a duty to call attention to the issue,’ Vallee explained in a Dec. 17 email, but chose not to share the document or address pertinent questions surrounding its circumstances.” As you’ll see from the information contained in the link above, Vallee and Brewer had an interesting discussion about all of this – although at this stage it appears not to have been resolved, in relation to what the “document” is and how all of these matters relate to those “simulated UFO abductions in Brazil and Argentina.”
There’s a distinct possibility (maybe, even, a probability) that this all relates to a very weird and highly controversial affair that went down in Brazil way back in the 1950s. Antonio Villas Boas was a Brazilian man who claimed, in late 1957, to have had wild sex with an equally wild babe from the stars, after having been kidnapped and taken on-board a UFO. An early alien abduction? Yep. Or maybe not. In the late-1970s, UFO researcher Rich Reynolds had contact with a man named Bosco Nedelcovic, who had links to the world of intelligence, who spent time working in South America, and who claimed that the Villas Boas affair was not what it appeared to be. He told Rich that, in reality, Villas Boas was the unwitting player in a new and bizarre experiment. According to Nedelcovic, the UFO that Villas Boas saw over his family’s property was really a helicopter. Not only that, Villas Boas was supposedly hit by some kind of mind-altering aerosol spray that quickly placed him into an altered state, after the pilot of the helicopter flew right over him and at a low level. As for the girl from the stars, she was said to have really been a hooker, a girl hired to take Villas Boas on the closest encounter of all. But, it was all a ruse: a mind-bending event designed to fabricate a UFO incident.
Like it or not, but the fact is that Villas Boas’ own words suggest strongly that he was indeed taken on-board a helicopter. Read Villas Boas’ very own words carefully. The craft, he said, was “like an elongated egg.” On the top of the craft there was, “something which was revolving at great speed and also giving off a powerful fluorescent reddish light” (rotor-blades? Probably, yes). As the craft took to the skies, it made a loud noise, “a sort of beat” (which is a perfect description of the noise associated with a helicopter). Put all those factors together and it sounds very much like Villas Boas was hauled aboard a helicopter. And not onto a flying saucer.
As the Washington Post noted Nedelcovic was “…a linguist with the American Defense College at Fort McNair and a tenacious promoter of building a Utopian society that blended elements of socialism and free market capitalism.” The Post further noted that Nedelcovic died of prostate cancer on December 25, 1999 at the Northern Virginia Hospice. As you will see from this link, Nedelcovic had correspondence with the CIA. Other correspondence between Nedelcovic and the CIA exists, but it is not online – at least, the bulk of it isn’t. For the record, Nedelcovic also told Rich Reynolds that he knew of other simulated/faked cases of alien contact. One of them, said Nedelcovic, involved a man named Arthur Bryant, who claimed a Contactee-type close encounter in April 1965. Bryant died just a few years later from a particularly aggressive brain tumor. The inference was that Bryan’s exposure to microwave-based technology of a government agency had caused the tumor. You can read the whole story in a very strange, but highly readable, 1967 book written by UFO investigator Eileen Buckle. It is called The Scoriton Mystery: Did Adamski Return? Running to slightly more than 300-pages in length, the book is essential reading for those who may want to pursue this whole saga further. It’s pretty rare and not cheap to buy. It will be interesting to see where all of this is going to lead, given the breaking news from Jack Brewer and the words of Jacques Vallee.
One final thing: Rich Reynolds told me a couple of days ago that Jacques Vallee was the first person that he (Rich) mailed the Nedolcovic material to. For the record, that was decades ago. So, while I don’t want to make too many assumptions or guesses, I do think that the document that is being discussed here at Mysterious Universe and at The UFO Trail blog is one of two things: (A) the “document” is something we haven’t seen before; or (B) it’s the package of material that Rich sent to Vallee years ago – and which is very interesting, but which has been discussed in the UFO research community for a number of years. If it’s a CIA document, that is being discussed, it’s a potentially big thing. If, however, it all traces back to Nedelcovic (who is long dead) then it’s down to the claims he made, and which should be pursued.
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Classic Disk UFO Seen Flying Past Black Orb Over Kent, Washington, UFO Sighting News.
Classic Disk UFO Seen Flying Past Black Orb Over Kent, Washington, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 6, 2019
Location of sighting: Kent, Washington, USA
Now this round UFO was recorded a few months ago, however they missed so much more. Several other UFOs shoot past this round black object in the sky. At 58 sec mark a grey metallic disk shoot below and up near the black orb. To see it you must put the video into a slower speed of .25 so that it is easier to see. I don't believe anyone saw it yet. The disk has a round thin hump on its top, signifying it as a classic disk. 100% real, nothing to even argue about here. Its amazing.
Blue UFOs Recorded Over Scottsdale, Arizona On Dec 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Blue UFOs Recorded Over Scottsdale, Arizona On Dec 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: December 17, 2019 Location of sighting: Scottsdale, Arizona, USA The eyewitness caught several blue glowing UFOs over Scottsdale, Arizona last week. The objects were lined up and flashing brightly. You can hear the excitement in the guys voice as he records the UFOs passing over head. When I made a screenshot of one of the objects, I notice that there is a metallic like object at its center. There are no wings, no propellers or visible engines, no windows, nothing that might identify this strange object. I do believe what we are seeing in this video is a genuine UFO fleet over Arizona. Scott C. Waring
Tall White Aliens Recorded Flying Disk Over Las Vegas, Nevada On Dec 19, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Tall White Aliens Recorded Flying Disk Over Las Vegas, Nevada On Dec 19, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
I added contrast to the photo above to see the disk better.
Date of sighting:Dec 19, 2019 Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA I have heard about flying disks and orbs over Las Vegas for over ten years...because people would email me reporting them to me with video and photos. What you are seeing in this recent video is a UFO...from an alien species called the Tall Whites, stationed in an underground base within the confines of the back mountian range of Nellis AFB. What the people don't know is that there is currently a Tall Whites (yes, thats the name the USAF calls them) alien base behind the old shooting range of Nellis AFB. This is on the edge of Las Vegas...along the hills. They are said to walk funny...due to the knee of the alien moving both ways. Some have even said they saw a few go into Las Vegas to play. They are dangerous if you touch one. They also don't like to be laughed at and might kill you for that. They are tall, but one is not considered an adult until after its 400 years old...by then it has grown taller than 2 meters. They have a set lifespan of 700 years...although they could expand it...their culture determined it to be that way. I will put a actual photo I found taken by google by accident of a young tall white visiting a pyramid in Mexico. I will also put Charles Hall video below for you to hear in his own words what he saw and did. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of December 19, 2019. I am making this video to show how incredible this gigantic UFO was. Anyone who watched the entire video must know that this is anything but a helicopter. So far I have at least four witnesses who watched this in detail and described the same thing I did. Nobody heard any sound at all and the UFO could have covered a fifty-mile span in three minutes.
Charles Hall Talks about working with the Tall Whites At Nellis AFB, in video below.
Bizarre flashing UFO lights spotted in the sky over North Dakota
Bizarre flashing UFO lights spotted in the sky over North Dakota
On December 21, 2019 approx. 4.45 pm. when Joshua Studdard was leaving his last tower for the day he spotted a series of weird flashing lights in the sky over North Dakota on which he pulled over to catch a quick video of the lights that vanished moments after the video ends.
It definitely wasn't a plane, helicopter, drone or a flare so what else could it be?
8 Scary Alien & Ufo Encounters Caught on Camera! Join me Rick as we take a look at what some people claim are real Aliens & UFOs. We’ll analyze the footage. Let’s take a close look at this mysterious phenomena.
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Brand-New Type of Explosion in the Solar Corona Discovered
Brand-New Type of Explosion in the Solar Corona Discovered
Scientists have just discovered a brand-new type of explosion in the solar corona, the atmosphere of the Sun.
The ‘forced magnetic reconnection’ could help explain why the corona is hundreds of times hotter than the surface of the Sun.
new kind magnetic explosion detected on the sun. Picture via NASA
The sun is entering a new Solar Cycle. We are entering the Grand Solar Minimum. Up to now researchers had no evidence suggesting an external driver for magnetic reconnection. But now, analysing new available data from May 2012, scientists have observed that it could be forced by solar eruptions.
What Is A Magnetic Reconnection?
Observations in May 2012 showed erupted material from the surface of the Sun, a so-called prominence, slamming into magnetic lines.
The interactions caused a dramatic realignment of the tangled magnetic field lines, releasing energy very quickly and causing an explosion.
The realignment of field lines is a studied featured of the Sun and it is known as magnetic reconnection.
Spontaneous vs Forced Magnetic Reconnection
The spontaneous magnetic reconnection requires very specific conditions.
On the other side, the forced one appears to be less strict so they can happen more often, given that there is something to supply the material.
Solar eruptions, flares and coronal mass ejections could be equally effective in forcing magnetic reconnection.
In other words, scientists believe that forced reconnection is everywhere. But they still have to prove it.
Mystery of the Corona Temperature
Forced magnetic reconnections heat up material to high temperatures more efficiently than the spontaneous counterpart.
This is why, solar scientists suspect it might have something to do with the mystery of the corona temperature.
The surface of the Sun has a temperature of around 5,499°C (9,930°F) but the corona is over 1 million °C (1.8 million °F).
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A video is getting a lot of attention on social media when it comes to attempting to explain what was spotted over the Las Vegas sky this week.
Vegas resident Steve Barone released a videoon Thursday evening of what he says was an unidentified flying object near the Mountains Edge community.
Barone captured the bright object in about a six-minute video in what he shared on his social media accounts.
The video has inspired several comments in just the first few hours of the post, with many sharing their explanations of what they think was caught on camera.
This video comes just a few months after unusual lights were seen above Henderson in what turned out to be a parachute team for pregame festivities at Sam Boyd Stadium.
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Inwoner Las Vegas ziet ‘raadselachtig object’ boven stad. Deze beelden gaan momenteel viraal
Foto: YouTube/UFOs Over Vegas
Inwoner Las Vegas ziet ‘raadselachtig object’ boven stad. Deze beelden gaan momenteel viraal
In de lucht boven Las Vegas is afgelopen week iets vreemds waargenomen. Beelden van het tafereel gingen al snel viraal op social media.
Steve Barone uit Las Vegas plaatste op donderdagavond een filmpje van een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object in de buurt van Mountains Edge in het zuidwesten van de stad.
Barone legde een fel licht vast in de lucht, meldt de lokale zender KTNV.
Druk gespeculeerd
Hij besloot de beelden te delen op zijn social media-accounts. Al snel werd er druk gespeculeerd over het object.
Barone zegt onderzoek te doen naar UFO’s in het gebied rond Las Vegas.
“Wauw! Ik sta nog steeds strak van de adrenaline!” schreef hij op Facebook.
Geen officiële verklaring
Er is nog geen officiële verklaring gegeven voor de lichten die donderdag zijn gezien.
Bekijk de beelden die zijn uitgezonden door KTNV hieronder:
Black Knight Satellite Seen Near Jupiter - Live Recording UFOs On the Moon
Black Knight Satellite Seen Near Jupiter - Live Recording UFOs On the Moon
The next video shows a number of interesting images, including various huge UFOs on and above the moon recorded by BruceSeesall, recently.
One UFO which seems to be parked next to a mega artificial structure is about 25 km long according to Bruce who captured the images with his telescope. (3.40 mark)
Two other UFOs can be seen moving above the lunar surface (11.20 mark).
Antarctica UFO Disclosure: Emery Smith, Biological Craft, Alien DNA
Antarctica UFO Disclosure:Emery Smith, Biological Craft, Alien DNA
Nacht Waffen High Command also still has a presence down in Antarctica as well. Where they are, it’ll be a thousand years before their ice cavern melts. J.D.
Checkout the Youtube series Hellier season 2 , they mention human trafficking , children held captive under ground in cages, child sacrifice, cannibalism, Ufonauts, something about the magnetic Van Allen belt almost touches Somerset Kentucky. Something about the 37th parallel. Wiccan Marine cult, the CIA and Navy too.
Sounds like all the stuff mention in the Q posts, if you’ve heard that stuff. The trickster the Greenman, Pagan rituals , the whole town is involved a woman claims. The strange HUM that people can hear in caves or in areas that drives people crazy. SS
CAPTAIN MARK RICHARDS & THE SECRET SPACE PROGRAM, A REPTILIAN WAR IN THE HEAVENS, WHO'S REALLY RUNNING THE PLANET? TRUMP'S SPACE FORCE(END OF DAYS)
CAPTAIN MARK RICHARDS & THE SECRET SPACE PROGRAM, A REPTILIAN WAR IN THE HEAVENS, WHO'S REALLY RUNNING THE PLANET? TRUMP'S SPACE FORCE(END OF DAYS)
Jo-Ann Richards is the Executive Director of educational non-profit, Earth Defense Headquarters. Her husband, Mark Richards, and his father, Ellis Loyd Richards, were involved with top-level military intelligence operations since World War II, many including on-world and off-world contact and battles with various alien species. Jo-Ann herself got started in this field after she’d been with Mark for several years. He gave her some reports to read related to his involvement with top-secret space and alien-related missions.
In 2004 he suggested she go to a UFO conference. The next year she had a booth at it. Marks’ family history includes some very interesting bloodlines and personal connections. Both of his grandfathers worked with Nikola Tesla. Grandfather Richards worked on the Manhattan Project. Marks’ father spent summers with Tesla, Goddard, and Hubble. Both he and Mark were involved with top-secret things since they were teens. It runs in the family. In 1984, Mark was falsely convicted of murder and has been incarcerated ever since. The family now believes it was to keep him quiet about what he knows and to keep him from fighting the New World Order.
Since approximately 1980, a secret space fleet code named ‘Solar Warden’ has been covertly operating in our skies. In fact, this has been the testimony shared by various whistleblowers and reporters all over the world. Before Solar Warden, there had been multiple “space programs”, dating back to the ’60s.
The next video shows a number of interesting images, including various huge UFOs on and above the moon recorded by BruceSeesall, recently.
One UFO which seems to be parked next to a mega artificial structure is about 25 km long according to Bruce who captured the images with his telescope. (3.40 mark)
Two other UFOs can be seen moving above the lunar surface (11.20 mark).
AMAZING UFO video filmed over Las Vegas, Nevada – December 2019
AMAZING UFO video filmed over Las Vegas, Nevada – December 2019
Check out this amazing footage of a huge craft flying in the sky above LA on 19th December 2019.
Witness report:
I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of December 19, 2019. After reading hundreds of distasteful and tacky comments I decided to try one more time to show people that they are wrong about this amazing UFO being a helicopter. When I mapped out where I thought this began and ended it was approximately a 50-mile trip. If you look at the clock on the video you will notice it made that trip in 3 minutes and that was from a dead stop when it began. A helicopter would have to be going a thousand miles an hour to do that. Let’s just say it only went 25 miles in 3 minutes. That would be 500 miles per hour which is basically the speed you would be traveling at on a passenger jet at 32,000 feet. The bottom line is that this thing was large and it was moving fast. There’s No visible structure to this object like on an actual helicopter and at one point towards the end Of the video, it makes a sharp turn without slowing down.
In the 15 years since Chad Underwood recorded a bizarre and erratic UFO — now called “the Tic Tac,” a name Underwood himself came up with — from the infrared camera on the left wing of his F/A-18 Super Hornet, he’s become a flight instructor, a civilian employee in the aerospace industry, and a father. But he has not yet spoken publicly about what he saw that day, even now, two years after his video made the front page of the New York Times. As he explained before speaking with Intelligencer, Underwood has mostly wanted to avoid having his name “attached to the ‘little green men’ crazies that are out there.”
The story of the Tic Tac begins around November 10, 2004, when radar operator Kevin Day first reported seeing odd and slow-moving objects flying in groups of five to ten off of San Clemente Island, west of the San Diego coast. At an elevation of 28,000 feet, moving at a speed of approximately 120 knots (about 138 miles per hour), the clusters were too high to be birds, too slow to be conventional aircraft, and were not traveling on any established flight path, at least according to Day.
In a military report made public by KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Day would later observe that the objects “exhibited ballistic-missile characteristics” as they zoomed from 60,000 feet to 50 feet above the Pacific Ocean, alarmingly without producing sonic booms. All told, radar operators with the Princeton spent about two weeks attempting to figure out what the objects were, a process that included having the ship’s radar system shut down and recalibrated to make sure that the mysterious radar returns were not not false positives, or “ghost tracks.”
Eventually, David Fravor, commanding officer of the Black Aces, made visual confirmation of one of the objects midair during a flight-training exercise. An hour later, Underwood made his infrared recording on a second flight. “That day,” Underwood recalls, “Dave Fravor was like, ‘Hey, dude. BOLO.’ Like, be on the lookout for just something weird. I can’t remember the exact terms that he used. I didn’t really think much about it at the time. But once I was able to acquire it on the radar and on the FLIR [forward-looking infrared camera], that’s kind of where things — I wouldn’t say ‘went sideways’ — but things were just different.”
The footage appears to depict what Fravor had identified as a 40-foot-long, white, oblong shape (hence “Tic Tac”), hovering somewhere between 15,000 and 24,000 feet in midair and exhibiting no notable exhaust from conventional propulsion sources, even as it makes a surprising dart leftward in the video’s final moments. Of the three UFO incidents captured by U.S. Navy airmen via infrared gun-camera pods, Underwood’s footage remains unique for its lack of cross talk between the pilots — a fact that has led to some speculation about its authenticity. But “there wasn’t anything on it that was protected,” Underwood’s retired former commanding officer Dave Fravor told Intelligencer. The missing audio, he says, “just didn’t make the copy that was taken from the storage drive.”
A former fighter pilot who served on the Nimitz in 2004, who spoke to Intelligencer on condition of anonymity, recalled an exhilarating group screening of the FLIR1 video inside the Nimitz’s Carrier Vehicle Intelligence Center (CVIC): “Debriefs were usually pro forma in the CVIC, but this one in particular was so odd,” the former pilot said. “There weren’t really a lot of skeptics in that room.” Years later, Fravor told ABC News that he didn’t know what the Tic Tac was, but that “it was really impressive, really fast, and I would like to fly it.” In the CVIC that day, the anonymous pilot told Intelligencer, “We all had that. We all wanted to fly it.”
Of the many people to have spotted or recorded the objects, a handful, like Fravor or Princeton’s (retired) Chief Master-at-Arms Sean Cahill, who reported seeing what appeared to be another grouping of the objects from the missile cruiser’s deck, have spoken to journalists or documentarians. Others have not: Lieutenant Colonel “Cheeks” Kurth, a Marine Hornet squadron commanding officer who was also asked to intercept the Tic Tac, still has not done an on-the-record interview. (Three years after the sighting, however, Kurth did take a job as a program manager at Bigelow Advanced Aerospace Space Studies in Las Vegas, whose owner Robert Bigelow has been a well-known private funder of UFO and paranormal research for decades. It was during this same period that Bigelow became a military contractor working on the Pentagon’s once-secret UFO investigation program, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.)
Underwood now joins Fravor, Cahill, and others, in speaking about his experience with the Tic Tac. This conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.
What did you think of Dave Fravor’s appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience?
I’m glad Dave went on Joe’s show. He nailed every detail. At the time of the incident, he was essentially my boss, my commanding officer. I was just a pilot in his squadron. Are you familiar at all with how aircraft-carrier air operations work?
Probably not.
So, usually, we fly for about an hour, hour and a half, and then land. Then there’s the next wave of folks that take off and do their mission, blah, blah, blah. That day, Dave Fravor was landing at the same time I was getting my gear on, and we crossed paths just after he’d seen it. I really don’t want to get into what Dave saw, specifically To summarize Fravor’s eyewitness account to the New York Times, the pilot reported seeing a large submerged object that was causing the ocean to churn. Hovering about 50 feet above that churn, the 40-foot Tic Tac zipped erratically around the submerged object. Fravor observed the Tic Tac as he banked his F/A-18 in a spiral descent to get a closer look. As he told the Times, the Tic Tac “accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen” and left him “pretty weirded out.”, because I didn’t see it with my own eyeballs. But I told him, “The Princeton” — again, which has got a really good sophisticated radar — “is reporting that there’s an object out there that they wanted us to see if we could find and, if we’re able, track.”
So, we go out to where our designated training area is. We’re not necessarily looking for something, but the Princeton had a specific object that they wanted us to hunt, for lack of a better word. And all of a sudden, I got this blip on my radar.
The “Tic Tac.”
The term “Tic Tac,” I actually coined that. So, any time you heard the term, “It looked like a ‘Tic Tac’ out there in the sky,” I was the one that kind of coined that.
Was that named based on what you saw with your own eyes, or from looking at the screen on the camera?
No. I was more concentrated on looking at the FLIRAdvanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) is an optical electric- and thermal-imaging system that was developed for U.S. Navy pilots by Raytheon in the late 1990s, mainly for the detection and identification of tactical targets and the delivery of autonomous precision targeting to smart weapons. In the mid-2000s, as well as today, ATFLIR was capable of detecting and tracking targets within a range of 40 nautical miles. It was inside of 20 miles. You’re not going to see it with your own eyes until probably 10 miles, and then you’re not going to be able to visually track it until you’re probably inside of five miles, which is where Dave Fravor said that he saw it. So, at that point I didn’t see anything with my eyeballs. I was more concerned with tracking it, making sure that the videotape was on so that I could bring something back to the ship, so that the intel folks could dissect whatever it is that I captured.
The thing that stood out to me the most was how erratic it was behaving. And what I mean by “erratic” is that its changes in altitude, air speed, and aspect were just unlike things that I’ve ever encountered before flying against other air targets. It was just behaving in ways that aren’t physically normal. That’s what caught my eye. Because, aircraft, whether they’re manned or unmanned, still have to obey the laws of physics. They have to have some source of lift, some source of propulsion. The Tic Tac was not doing that. It was going from like 50,000 feet to, you know, a hundred feet in like seconds, which is not possible.
And it was doing that during your engagement too?
Yes. That was the thing that was the most interesting to me: how erratic this thing was. If it was obeying physics like a normal object that you would encounter in the sky — an aircraft, or a cruise missile, or some sort of special project that the government didn’t tell you about — that would have made more sense to me. The part that drew our attention was how it wasn’t behaving within the normal laws of physics. You’re up there flying, like, “Okay. It’s not behaving in a manner that’s predictable or is normal by how flying objects physically move.”
From looking at the video at the time and more recently, do you get a sense as to how much heat this thing was giving off?
Well, normally, you would see engines emitting a heat plume. This object was not doing that. The video shows a source of heat, but the normal signatures of an exhaust plume were not there. There was no sign of propulsion. You could not see the thing that the ATFLIR pod should pick up 100 percent of the time: the source of heat and exhaust that a normal object flying would give you. Does that make sense?
Yeah, it does.
Like, no method of propulsion or exhaust — and the exhaust part of it was the thing that kind of made me raise my eyebrows and be like, “Okay, this is interesting.”
Were you approaching the Tic Tac head-on? Some people have suggested that the Tic Tac’s rapid leftward movement toward the end of the video was actually the result of your F/A-18 banking to the right and dragging the camera along with it.
We were pointed nose-on to it. Maybe 10 to 20 degrees of azimuth, either left or right.
Ergo, when the object kind of darts away to the left—
I was not aggressively maneuvering the aircraft in the manner that would make the FLIR pod would do that. But look: At that point, I did not actually see the object aggressively accelerate to the left, as the video shows, to actually prove that.
Because you were at a distance where you couldn’t make visual contact with your own eyes—
Right.
And so what’s happening in the video is a little ambiguous as a result.
Right. Yeah. And that part kind of sucks, because I can’t confirm that the object aggressively accelerated that way. But I have my feelings, based off of my experience with my equipment — and also just logic, when it comes to, you know, physics.
I want to ask you some questions based on theories that America’s armchair skeptics have put forward — like whether it was birds, or whether it was some sort of thermal weather event. I mean, I’m sure you have had enough flight time that you’ve seen birds.
Yup. Birds normally fly close to the surface of the ground. So, for example, you’re not going to see birds flying at 5,000 feet. You’re going to see them more down at like 2,000 feet and below, like down to the surface. That’s just kind of how birds normally operate. And they’re typically not alone. So you can you can physically see them, in a flock or whatever. You don’t see birds at 5,000 or 10,000 or 20,000 feet. That’s just not how birds operate. So birds are out of the question.
And just so that I anticipate your next question: There are weather balloons that people launch, but this was not a weather balloon — because a balloon, it just ascends and floats from low to high altitude; it doesn’t behave erratically. I mean, it’s just a damn balloon. So that was out of the question.
It wasn’t — to the best of my knowledge — a cruise missile or any other kind of test aircraft that we possibly may have not known about, just because of the way it was behaving. Like I said, it was just very erratic. It would go from like 50 feet off the ground, which when you’re out in the open ocean, you know, off the coast of San Diego, it looked like it was just hovering over the water. But there was no method of propulsion that was keeping it airborne: no wings, no heat, keeping it airborne or aloft.
Have you ever seen a weather event on an ATFLIR?
I would say if I captured this object on my sensors independently, like I was the only one that saw it or tracked it, I might have blown it off as something like a weather event. But the amount of people and sensors from other independent sources who found it — given the time period Dave Fravor saw it, and an hour and a half later I went out and saw it, and we captured basically an object with the same description — leads me to believe that a weather event would be unlikely.
Did it surprise you or provide any kind of relief seeing the Navyofficially declare the Tic Tac video genuine and a genuine UAP when that happened in the Washington Post last September?
No, not surprised. Validation for sure.
This might be a good time to talk about what the mood was on the Nimitz after all of this.
Once I landed, I saw one of my buddies from my sister squadron. He said, “Hey, did you see something out there too?,” in a very jokey manner. And I was like, “Actually, MFer, because I know you want to make fun of me, I got it here on video.” Although, I didn’t say “MFer.” I said the actual term. He’s a good friend of mine, so it was in jest. We pop the tapes into the playback machine. I’m like, “Here, this is where it is.” Those little video cuts — that you see of my FLIR recording — were taken there at the intelligence center. What they do with it from there, I don’t have a whole lot to deal with.
When I was still in my flight gear, so probably within about 20 minutes or so, I spoke to someone that I assume was from NORAD. I described it exactly as I just told you. I didn’t get debriefed. The interesting thing was, normally, if you see something out in the middle of the ocean that’s a test project, we would get debriefed on it, one-on-one, in a dark room. Whether it’s from the folks at Edwards test site or something like that. “Hey, yes, we were testing a project. This is what you saw.” Without going into great detail, it will be like, “Yes. This is project ‘Umptysquat’” and, basically, “This is what you saw. Don’t talk about it.” That never happened, which leads me to think that it was not a government project.
Or, at least, not one—
Not one that they wanted to give any acknowledgment of. And, you know, I’ve got top-secret clearance with a ton of special-project clearances. So, it’s not like I wasn’t cleared to know. But, as I’m sure you’ve found in your research, to have clearance to know something, you have to have both the clearance that it’s elevated to and you have to have the “need to know” it. And, clearly, whatever it was, if it was a government project, I did not need to know.
Yeah. Understood. Here’s something I’m curious about, because of this NORAD aspect: Did it come up that this telephone debriefing was maybe involved with something called an Operations Event Incident Report or NORAD’s OPREP-3 reporting system?
Honestly, Matt, I have no idea. Like like what level up to who I was talking to. I just wanted to answer them. I was just basically handed a telephone and said, “Hey. Answer these questions.”
Fair enough. So, Between talking to the NORAD guy and Fravor going public, there’s a several-year period where this is just like a thing that happened in your life. Did it come up very often at all?
There would be associations. I would be sitting at lunch five years later with some of my colleagues. Rumors tend to have legs. “Hey, you were out on the Nimitz in ’04. Someone told me about some alien spacecraft.” And I’m like, “Well, (1) the video that you see is my video. And no, I’ve never said that this is what I think it was or speculate as to what I think it was. That’s not my job. But I saw something. And it was also seen, via eyeballs, by both my commanding officer, Dave Fravor, and the Marine Corps Hornet squadron commanding officer who was out there as well.
When did you find out Fravor was going to go public? Did a lot of people approach you during that reporting or afterward?
It’s funny, seeing your boss’s name and face on the news, given what he was putting out there. You know, obviously, our encounter happened in 2004 — so a while back — but everything that Dave has put out there in the interviews is absolutely, 100 percent, exactly what happened on that day. And we’re still good friends to this day, so I started texting him. We had about a two-hour-long phone call and I’d be like, “Dude. Like what made this pop up?” Like, “Where was this like, you know, 12, 14 years ago?” Now it’s 15 years ago. And, I guess, that was when the Pentagon released — whatever project they called it. I can’t even remember it.
AATIP.
Yeah. AATIP.
Did the New York Times reach out to you? Ask for background just to confirm anything?
No.
Interesting.
Not that I really care. At no point did I want to speculate as to what I thought this thing was — or be associated with, you know, “alien beings” and “alien aircraft” and all that stuff. I’m like, “No. I do not want to be part of that community.” It is just what we call a UFO. I couldn’t identify it. It was flying. And it was an object. It’s as simple as that.
Yeah.
I’ll let the nerds, like, do the math on what it was likely to be. I just happened to be the person that brought back the video.
The funding allocation was confirmed on Friday when the president signed the $738bn (£567bn) annual US military budget.
The launch of the Space Force will be funded by an initial $40m for its first year.
What will the Space Force actually do?
It is not intended to put troops into orbit, but will protect US assets - such as the hundreds of satellites used for communication and surveillance.
It comes as US military chiefs see China and Russia making advancements in the military final frontier.
Vice-President Mike Pence previously said the two nations had airborne lasers and anti-satellite missiles that the US needed to counter.
"The space environment has fundamentally changed in the last generation," he said. "What was once peaceful and uncontested is now crowded and adversarial."
Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett said the Space Force would comprise around 16,000 Air Force and civilian personnel.
It will be led by Air Force General Jay Raymond, who currently runs SpaceCom.
Earlier this month, Russia's President Vladimir Putin suggested US expansion in space posed a threat to Russian interests, and required a response from Russia.
AFPDe CST-100 Starliner moet in de loop van volgend jaar mensen naar de ruimte brengen. De laatste keer dat de Verenigde Staten een bemande vlucht uitvoerden, was in juli 2011, bij de laatste spaceshuttlemissie. Sindsdien zijn de Amerikanen afhankelijk van de Russen.
UPDATEDe geplande reis van de Boeing-ruimtecapsule Starliner richting het internationaal ruimtestation ISS is mislukt. Het tuig zal onverrichterzake terugkeren naar aarde, zo is vandaag op een persconferentie bij NASA gezegd.
De Starliner (CST-100 in het jargon) werd vandaag om 6.36 uur lokale tijd (12.36 uur Belgische tijd) voor een eerste testvlucht gelanceerd richting het ISS, met behulp van een Atlas-V draagraket. Als de test zou slagen, zouden er binnen afzienbare tijd astronauten mee van en naar het ruimtestation kunnen worden vervoerd. Aan boord waren nu dus nog geen astronauten, wel een pop die Rosie werd gedoopt, een knuffel Snoopy, en zowat 300 kilogram aan voorraden en uitrusting voor de bemanning van het ISS. Morgen zou de capsule daar normaal moeten aanmeren, een week later zou het gevaarte weer naar de aarde terugkeren.
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Make sure to tune into Action News Jax at 6:36am. That’s when Boeing’s Starliner capsule is scheduled to launch on top of a Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canveral. It’s an Orbital Test Flight that will eventually take astronauts to the ISS. A mannequin named Rosie is also on board.
The zero-gravity indicator on Rosie’s flight is a flying ace. #AstronautSnoopy is on board! Snoopy's space experience dates back to #Apollo50 and is rocketing into the future on the @NASA_SLS Artemis mission.
De lancering vanop Cape Canaveral in Florida zelf verliep vlekkeloos, de capsule maakte zich ook zoals gepland los van de draagraket. Maar helaas, de verdere reis van Starliner richting het ISS verliep niet probleemloos. Integendeel. Na de lancering kwam het vaartuig in een verkeerde baan rond de aarde terecht. “De ontsteking die nodig was voor de afspraak met het ISS vond niet plaats”, verduidelijkte NASA-baas Jim Bridenstine op Twitter. De capsule was wel “onder controle”.
“Er was een anomalie aan boord van het tuig, waardoor de Starliner dacht dat hij op de goede baan zat. Maar de capsule heeft meer brandstof verbruikt dan voorzien om de controle te behouden. Daardoor kan er niet aangemeerd worden bij het ISS. Op dit moment vliegt de Starliner in een veilige baan”, zo klonk het later op de persconferentie.
Daar werd ook aangekondigd dat ze de Starliner zondag zullen proberen terug op aarde te laten landen. Nadien wordt verder gekeken wat het exacte probleem was.
APDe Boeing-ruimtecapsule zou normaal zaterdag aanmeren aan het ISS en er een week blijven.
SpaceX
Boeing is een van twee ondernemingen die door de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA zijn aangeduid om ruimteschepen te bouwen die zullen worden ingezet tussen de aarde en het ISS. De tweede is SpaceX, waarvan de Crew Dragon in maart een succesvolle onbemande testvlucht naar het ISS ondernam. Zowel Boeing als SpaceX willen volgend jaar voor het eerst een bemande vlucht uitvoeren.
Sinds het einde van de Space Shuttle in 2011 voeren de Amerikanen geen eigen bemande ISS-ruimtevluchten meer uit. Amerikaanse astronauten zijn momenteel voor missies in het ISS aangewezen op de Russische Sojoez als transportmiddel.
Boeing
Het grotendeels mislukken van de testvlucht is de zoveelste tegenslag dit jaar voor het geplaagde Boeing. Na bekendmaken van het nieuws ging het aandeel verder in de min, hoewel dat volgens sommige analisten meer te maken heeft met de problemen rond de Boeing 737 MAX.
Het ene na het andere land sloot in maart van dit jaar het luchtruim voor dit type vliegtuig na een serie dodelijke ongelukken met het toestel waar een softwarefout aan ten grondslag bleek te liggen. Verschillende maatschappijen schrapten hun orders bij Boeing en tot op de dag van vandaag wordt er niet met het toestel gevlogen.
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De bedoeling is dat de capsule binnen afzienbare tijd astronauten van en naar het ruimtestation vervoert.
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Incredible view of the Starliner launch as it passed over #pawleysislandsc including the first stage separation.
E. GALILI AND J. MCCARTHYArcheologen vonden restanten van de muur terug op de bodem van de Middellandse Zee.
WETENSCHAP Zo’n 7.000 jaar geleden werd in Haifa, in het noorden van Israël, reeds een muur gebouwd in een poging het stijgende zeeniveau de baas te blijven. Een vergeefse poging, want archeologen vonden restanten terug van de oude muur – samen met het dorp dat hij diende te beschermen – op de bodem van de Middellandse Zee.
Zeven tot negen millennia geleden steeg het zeeniveau aanzienlijk omdat de gletsjers – die tijdens de ijstijd flink in omvang waren toegenomen – terug aan het smelten waren. De zeespiegel steeg jaarlijks zo’n vier tot vijf millimeter. Omdat ze zich bedreigd voelden door de zeeën die stilaan dichterbij kwamen, probeerde men zichzelf te verdedigen tegen het zoute water. Met muren bijvoorbeeld.
Achter de 7.000 jaar oude muur verschool zich een boerendorpje. Van dat dorpje schieten nu nog wat ruïnes, twee begraafplaatsen en gereedschap over. Dankzij de menselijke overblijfselen in de begraafplaatsen konden archeologen met koolstofdatering bepalen dat het dorp zo’n 7.000 jaar oud moet zijn.
De muur - die inmiddels zo’n vier meter diep in de zee begraven ligt - was in zijn volle glorie ongeveer honderd meter lang en gebouwd met stenen die wel 1.000 kilogram konden wegen. Vermoedelijk zeulden de dorpsbewoners de kolossen van een riviertje, zo’n vier kilometer verderop, helemaal richting de zee.
En al beschermde de indrukwekkende muur hen even tegen zeestormen, moeten “de inwoners na een tijd beseft hebben dat ze daar weg moesten”, gelooft Jim Leary, archeoloog aan de universiteit van New York. Tot slot was de muur niet bestand tegen de groeiende zandduinen en het zoute water dat in hun waterputten sijpelde. “Ze probeerden zich aan te passen. Maar uiteindelijk hadden ze toch niet voldoende middelen om de zee te stoppen”, aldus hoofdonderzoeker en archeoloog aan de universiteit in Haifa Ehud Galili.
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“Mensen reageerden 7.000 tot zelfs 8.000 jaar geleden op precies dezelfde manier als nu”, aldus Amy Gusick, archeoloog aan het Natural History Museum in Los Angeles. “Laat het een les voor ons zijn”, zo stelt ze nog. De meeste dorpjes ‘verdronken’ immers, samen met hun muren.
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VREEMDE VERSCHIJNSELEN IN DE LUCHT ( VIDEO )
VREEMDE VERSCHIJNSELEN IN DE LUCHT ( VIDEO )
Er gaat geen week voorbij of er wordt wel ergens ter wereld iets waargenomen in de lucht wat we niet herkennen als iets bekends.
Voor sommige van die waarnemingen is er een "logische verklaring", voor anderen blijft het een mysterie.
Soms is het interessant om aandacht te besteden aan een aantal vreemde waarnemingen in lucht die ergens in de afgelopen week of weken plaats vonden.
En dan niet om er een bepaald oordeel over te geven, maar om dit over laten aan de lezers die dan zelf kunnen bepalen of het iets bijzonders is of niet.
Zoals de volgende waarneming die enkele dagen geleden werd gedaan door een man uit Wales die ging vissen en daar op een gegeven moment een groot sigaarvormig schip boven de zee zag hangen.
Hangt daar echt iets boven de zee waarvoor geen verklaring is, of hebben we hier te maken met een soort fata morgana?
Kijk naar de video en oordeel zelf.
Het is niet de eerste keer dat er ufo's worden waargenomen bij de lancering van een Space X satelliet. We hebben in het verleden kunnen zien hoe een ufo tijdens een lancering voor een enorme ontploffing zorgde.
Dit keer gebeurt dat niet en de lancering afgelopen maandag 16 december ging goed, maar op het moment dat de satelliet in de ruimte was, verscheen ook daar weer een ufo in beeld.
In de volgende video kan je vanaf ongeveer minuut 3 zien hoe een vreemd object de satelliet passeert.
Niemand kan ontkennen dat daar een object passeert met hoge snelheid en het soort bochten dat niet anders kan duiden dan op intelligent bestuurde objecten. Met andere woorden, het is een object dat onder controle staat van iets of iemand, maar wat het precies is weet op dit moment niemand.
De volgende opname is gemaakt op 10 december dit jaar in de Amerikaanse staat Idaho.
Ene Jose Peña en zijn vriend rijden op een avond in de auto, wanneer ze een paar vreemde lichten zien in de lucht.
Ze staan even stil en besluiten dan de achtervolging in te zetten. Bang zijn ze niet, want ze hebben de grootste lol. Op een gegeven moment verdwijnen de lichten weer net zo snel als ze kwamen.
Wie weet wat daar vliegt mag het zeggen. We kunnen helaas niet verstaan wat de mannen precies zeggen want ze spreken Spaans.
En tot de slot, de meest spectaculaire van alle waarnemingen.
Deze opname is gemaakt op 19 december door iemand in Las Vegas, in zijn achtertuin.
Het is een groot flitsend object en zoals je kunt horen is de man helemaal opgewonden en stroomt de adrenaline door zijn aderen. Hij heeft nog nooit zoiets gezien, weet alleen dat het een heel vreemd en groot object is.
We hebben al vaker hele bijzondere ufo opnames gezien vanuit Las Vegas, met name ook gemaakt door Steven Barone. Las Vegas ligt natuurlijk ook pal naast Nellis Airforce Base, waar zich naar verluidt ook buitenaardsen ophouden.
Kijk en oordeel zelf of we hier met iets bijzonders te maken hebben.
A large space rock has detected by NASA asteroid trackers scraping past Earth in the afternoon hours on Friday the 13th. Dubbed 2019 XO1, the colossal asteroid came close to our planet at around 1:25 pm GMT.
NASA called the flyby an “Earth close approach” of a “Near-Earth Object” (NEO).
NASA said that near-Earth objects have happened in the past, and we should stay alert to the possibility of close Earth approaches in the future.
Asteroid XO1 measures approximately 108.3ft to 242.8ft across.
An asteroid as big as XO1 can slam into the ground with brute force. This asteroid is comparable in width to the wingspan of a Boeing 747, according to the NASA’s estimate. It is also nearly as tall as the Statue of Liberty in NY.
NASA measures the lower end of the asteroid to stand 52ft (16cm) shorter than the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.
Asteroid XO1 approached the Earth at a speed of approximately 7.93km per second or 28,548km/hr (17,739mph).
The XO1 was heading to the planet Mercury after its flyby near the Earth and it will then revisit the corner space of Earth on December 22, 2022.
“The Aetherius Society is an international spiritual organization dedicated to spreading, and acting upon, the teachings of advanced extraterrestrial intelligences,”its members state. They continue with the following words: “In great compassion, these beings recognize the extent of suffering on Earth and have made countless sacrifices in their mission to help us to create a better world. The Society was founded in the mid-1950s by an Englishman named George King shortly after he was contacted in London by an extraterrestrial intelligence known as ‘Aetherius.’”
UFO researchers David Clarke and Andy Roberts say of the organization: “The Aetherius Society were never a huge organization, indeed their numbers rarely totaled more than one thousand members worldwide…The Aetherius Society was not for everyone but, for those seekers who wanted or needed a spiritual dimension to their saucer beliefs, they provided a philosophy, structure and network of sincere like-minded souls.” George King suffered a heart-attack in 1986. He underwent a multiple heart bypass in 1992. And, he died in Santa Barbara, California on July 12, 1997. The Aetherius Society, though, continues to thrive very well. Now, it’s time to address something that is far removed from aliens and UFOs. What that might be? Well, I’ll go ahead and tell you. We are talking about matters relative to atomic weapons, Russia, the U.K.’s Communist Party, and the secret surveillance of ufologists. Maybe even the top secret surveillance of ufologists.
So far as can be determined, at least, George King and his Aetherius Society did not attract the secret attention of the world of officialdom until 1957, specifically in May of that year. It was on the 26th of the month that an eye-catching article appeared in the pages of a weekly U.K.-based publication called TheEmpire News. In an article titled “Flying Saucer Clubs Probe: Peace Messages ‘from outer space,’” the following was revealed to the readers: “‘Warnings’ from outer space against Britain’s H-Bomb tests published in a flying saucer magazine take a similar line to Moscow-inspired propaganda. The ‘warning’ – in a special issue of the magazine – is being scrutinized by Scotland Yard’s Special Branch [the origins of which date back to 1883 and which, in 2006, was absorbed into the Metropolitan Police Service’s Counter Terrorism Command]. It is suspected that a number of flying saucer clubs – and some spiritualists as well – are unwittingly being used by the communists. The warning appears in the magazine of the Aetherius Society, which circulates widely among flying saucer enthusiasts.”
Not only that, The Empire News revealed that George King had, as he put it, received a channeled message from advanced entities from the planet Mars. Its decidedly anti-nuke message went as follows: “Have not the latest peace moves come from Russia? You in the West blame Russia and say it is necessary to make these weapons to protect yourselves from them. You in Britain are in a favorable position to show the larger countries the way.”
It’s hardly surprising that a body like Special Branch would sit up and take notice of (a) this development in the world of the Aetherius Society and (b) the pro-Russian words of the Martians. King wasted no time in contacting Scotland Yard. He demanded to know why, precisely, he and his group were now under surveillance by government authorities. Well, given both the time-frame and the dangerous climate that existed way back in the 1950s, it should have been glaringly obvious to one and all: the authorities saw King’s words (as well as the words of those of his claimed Martian friends) as nothing less than outright propaganda designed to make the U.K. government look very bad and the Russians look very good. In a letter of May 26, King scolded Scotland Yard and did his absolute utmost to try and put things straight. He wrote in his letter that the Aetherius Society was actually “a religious and occult society, which has contact with Intelligences on certain other planets. We are non-political and non-sectarian.”
As history has shown, however, that’s certainly not how the authorities saw things.
Glass Over Meteorit In Museum Mysteriously Rises, Possibly Releasing Alien Tech, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glass Over Meteorit In Museum Mysteriously Rises, Possibly Releasing Alien Tech, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of incident: December 18, 2019 Location of incident: South Ural, Historical Museum, Russia Meteorite: Chelyabinsk meteorite Date fell on Russia:Feb 15, 2013 Now I am going to talk about something I have long considered possible...that fact that some meteorites contains metals that are not just metals. I believe that some of these meteorites may have been alien probes or artifacts floating through space. The condition that makes them appear as rocks may just be age. You see, I believe probes are solid, not hollow objects. Solid objects would withstand the harshest of conditions in space. Such objects will contain super micro technology. Tech that is a thousand times smaller than a grain of sand. I believe something, maybe the electricity in the box containing it, recharged or awoke the fragment of the probe. Then it released some of the tiny micro robots by opening the glass to free them. But I am concerned...If this theory is correct...then they are lose in the Urals with a definite objective of unknown consequences. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan News states:
The dome covering the meteorite in South Ural State Historical Museum spontaneously begins to levitate before freezing at a height of about 10 cm. Also the twin brother of the Chelyabinsk meteorite flew near the Earth recently, perhaps it was responsible.
This Map From 1978 Shows Deep Underground Military Facilities Use Inner Earth Tunnels
This Map From 1978 Shows Deep Underground Military Facilities Use Inner Earth Tunnels
Vast underground facilities, bigger than football stadiums – some buried more than two thousand feet below the surface, fully stocked with food, artificial underground farms, re-directed underground rivers, miles and miles of underground roads large enough for two tractor trailers traveling in opposite directions to pass each other with room to spare. These facilities have vast underground mass-transit systems connecting them to one another.
The facilities are fully self-sufficient, generating their own electric, possessing air filtration systems, water purification systems, and vast supplies of guns and ammunition.
So gigantic are some of these facilities, that full sized U.S. Navy guided missile cruisers, destroyers and even nuclear submarines can approach secret ocean entry points, slide gently onto massive rails, and be gently transported over a hundred miles under dry land, through gigantic tunnels to half a mile underground, or coming to rest in water-filled underground “docks.”
The planning and sophistication of these government bases is almost unfathomable, but they exist. The government refers to these facilities as DUMBS Deep Underground Military Bases & Structures.
Distant Milky Way-like Galaxies Reveal Star Formation History of the Universe
Look at this new radio image covered with dots, each of which is a distant galaxy! The brightest spots are galaxies that are powered by supermassive black holes and shine bright in radio light. But what makes this image special are the numerous faint dots filling the sky. These are distant galaxies like our own that have never been observed in radio light before.Thousands of galaxies are visible in this radio image covering a square degree of sky near the south celestial pole, made by the MeerKAT radio telescope array in South Africa. The brightest spots are luminous radio galaxies powered by supermassive black holes. The myriad faint dots are distant galaxies like our own Milky Way, too faint to have been detected before now, which reveal the star-formation history of the universe. Most galaxies are visible in the central part of the image, where the telescope is most sensitive.
Credit: SARAO; NRAO/AUI/NSF
To learn about the star-formation history of the universe, we need to look back in time. Galaxies throughout the universe have been forming stars for the past 13 billion years. But most stars were born between 8 and 11 billion years ago, during an era called “cosmic noon”.
It has been a challenge for astronomers to study the faint light coming from this era. Optical telescopes can see very distant galaxies, but new stars are largely hidden inside dusty clouds of gas. Radio telescopes can see through the dust and observe the rare, bright starburst galaxies but until now have not been sensitive enough to detect the signals from distant Milky Way-like galaxies that are responsible for most of the star formation in the universe.
Starburst galaxy where stars formed at a rate a 1,000 faster than the Milky Way.
Credit: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
An international team of astronomers using the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) MeerKAT telescope recently made the first radio observation sensitive enough to reveal these galaxies. “To make this image, we selected an area in the Southern Sky that contains no strong radio sources whose glare could blind a sensitive observation,” said Tom Mauch of SARAO in Cape Town, South Africa, who led the team whose results have been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
The team used the 64 MeerKAT dishes to observe this area for a total of 130 hours. The resulting image shows a region of the sky that is comparable in area to five full Moons, containing tens of thousands of galaxies.
“Because radio waves travel at the speed of light, this image is a time machine that samples star formation in these distant galaxies over billions of years,” explained co-author James Condon of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Because only short-lived stars that are less than 30 million years old send out radio waves, we know that the image is not contaminated by old stars. The radio light we see from each galaxy is therefore proportional to its star-forming rate at that moment in time.”Composite view of an observation showing thousands of galaxies in radio light and the MeerKAT radio telescope array in the South African Karoo semidesert. The brightest spots are luminous radio galaxies powered by supermassive black holes. The myriad faint dots are distant galaxies like our own Milky Way, too faint to have been detected before now. Because radio waves travel at the speed of light, this image is a time machine that samples the star formation history of the universe.
Credit: SARAO; NRAO/AUI/NSF
The astronomers want to use this image to learn more about star formation in the entire universe. “These first results indicate that the star-formation rate around cosmic noon is even higher than was originally expected,” said Allison Matthews, a graduate student at the University of Virginia and Grote Reber doctoral fellow at the NRAO. “Previous images could only detect the tip of the iceberg, the rare and luminous galaxies that produced only a small fraction of the stars in the universe. What we see now is the complete picture: these faint dots are the galaxies that formed most of the stars in the universe.”
“Only in the last few years technology has developed to the point that we can build magnificent telescopes like South Africa’s MeerKAT and have the computing power to create images like this one and get a real understanding of how the universe came to be the way it is,” added NRAO astronomer William Cotton. “The next generations of instruments, the Square Kilometer Array and the next generation Very Large Array should be even more spectacular.”
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation, operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.
Army Releases Top 10 List Of Coolest Science, Technology Advances
Army Releases Top 10 List Of Coolest Science, Technology Advances
This year has had its share of science and technology advances from Army researchers. The U.S. Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory, the Army’s corporate research laboratory, has the mission to discover, innovate and transition science and technology to ensure dominant strategic land power.
The lab’s chief scientist, Dr. Alexander Kott, picked the coolest advances to showcase what Army scientists and engineers are doing to support the Soldier of the future with a top 10 list from 2019:
Number 10: Artificial muscles made from plastic
Future Army robots will be the strongest in the world, if visionary researchers have their way. Robots could be armed with artificial muscles made from plastic.
Army researchers collaborated with a visiting professor from Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering to study how plastic fibers respond when they are twisted and coiled into a spring. Different stimuli cause the spring to contract and expand, mimicking natural muscles.
The team’s expertise in polymer science and chemical engineering helped to identify optimal material property values to achieve the desired artificial muscle performance targets, and helped develop and implement techniques to measure those material properties.
Artificial muscles could potentially augment robot performance, allowing our future mechanical partners to buff up, and pump more iron.
Number 9: Monitoring Soldier health and performance with biorecognition receptors
Army and academic researchers are looking at how to monitor Soldier health and performance in real-time, by developing unique biorecognition receptors. These future bioreceptors are small, simple to produce, inexpensive, and robust to environmental stresses.
Credit: U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Once integrated into wearable biosensors, data can be selectively captured from a complex mixture of sources in theater, like blood, sweat or saliva.
“The Army will need to be more adaptive, more expeditionary and have a near-zero logistic demand while optimizing individual to squad execution in multifaceted operational environments,” said Dr. Matt Coppock, chemist and team lead. “It can be envisioned that real-time health and performance monitoring, as well as sensing current and emerging environmental threats, could be a key set of tools to make this possible.”
The Army of the future may use these wearable sensors to monitor environmental biothreats and health diagnostics, all with great benefits to the Soldier. Chemical Reviews published this research (see Related Links below).
Number 8: A water-based, fire-proof battery
Army researchers and their partners at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory have developed a new, water-based and fire-proof battery.
“Our project addresses the risk by allowing high-energy or high-power batteries to be put on the Soldier with no risk of the batteries catching on fire,” said Dr. Arthur von Wald Cresce, an Army materials engineer. “We’re hoping that by designing safety into the battery, this concern goes away and Soldiers can use their batteries as they please.”
These aqueous lithium-ion batteries replace the highly flammable electrolyte in lithium-ion batteries, using a nonflammable, water-based solvent–and also using a lithium salt that is not heat-sensitive, allowing for batteries to be stored and used at a much broader range of temperatures.
Cresce and the team first collaborated with scientists at the University of Maryland to study the properties of a new class of aqueous electrolytes known as water-in-salt electrolytes and published their findings in the journal Science (see Related Links below).
Number 7: Generating power on-demand with hydrogen
Imagine if you could generate power on-demand, using just a tablet and some water.
Army researchers are exploring potential applications for a structurally-stable, aluminum-based nanogalvonic alloy that reacts with any water-based liquid to produce on-demand hydrogen–generating power without a catalyst.
“Imagine a squad of future Soldiers on a long-range patrol far from base with dead batteries and a desperate need to fire up their radio,” said Dr. Kris Darling, Army materials scientist. “One of the Soldiers reaches for a metal tablet and drops it into a container and adds water or some fluid that contains water such as urine, immediately the tablet dissolves and hydrogen is released into a fuel cell, providing instant power for the radio.”
Number 6: 3-D printing ultra-strong steel
A team of Army researchers have developed a way to 3-D print ultra-strong metal parts, by adapting an alloy originally developed by the Air Force into powder form.
With a method called Powder Bed Fusion, a 3-D printer’s laser selectively melts the powder into a pattern. The printer then coats the build plate with additional layers of powder until the part is complete.
The end result is a piece of steel that feels like it was forged traditionally, but has intricate design features that no mold could create, and is about 50% stronger than anything commercially available.
“I think it’s going to really revolutionize logistics,” said Dr. Brandon McWilliams, an Army team lead. “Additive manufacturing is going to have a huge impact on sustainment…instead of worrying about carrying a whole truckload, or convoys loads of spares, as long as you have raw materials and a printer, you can potentially make anything you need.”
Researchers say this capability has the potential to replace parts of today’s tanks, or support future, state-of-the-art systems.
Number 5: Human interest detector
Have you ever wanted to get inside a Soldier’s head? Army researchers have developed a human interest detector that can determine where people are looking and decode their brain activity.
By monitoring brainwaves, researchers track neural responses and assess what captures a Soldier’s attention among a myriad of stimuli in threat environments.
Researchers say this will lead to better situational awareness on the battlefield, enable commanders to make better decisions and ultimately improve the ability of the Soldier to team with future AI agents.
Number 4: AI to identify fuel-efficient materials
A new system of algorithmic bots could tackle the most complex challenges beyond human experimental capabilities.
Building on amazing successes in artificial intelligence, which can even win a game like Jeopardy, Army-funded researchers at Cornell University developed a system called CRYSTAL to explore new materials for long-lasting power for Soldiers. CRYSTAL relies on a collective of algorithmic bots that sift through hundreds of thousands of combinations and elements–a number so vast that it’s inaccessible through traditional experimentation.
The system is able to obey the laws of physics and chemistry–where existing machine learning approaches fail–and could identify the next generation of material breakthroughs that will equip Soldiers on the future battlefield.
“The exciting part about basic science research is you can’t always predict where the results will lead,” said Dr. Purush Iyer, division chief, network sciences at Army Research Office. “We funded this research to better understand collective intelligence (wisdom of crowds). While material science application, such as design of novel alloys, were always on the cards, the serendipitous nature of the eventual outcome, that of a catalyst to aid in designing better fuel cells, is solving a problem of immense importance for the Army–battery power in the field–shows the importance of investing in basic research.”
The Materials Research Society Communications published an article (see Related Links below).
Number 3: Robotic arrays for directional communication
An Army team has developed a new way to send directional radio signals in physically complex environments. The team designed small robotic platforms with compact, low frequency antennas and AI to create a system which adaptively self-organizes into a directional antenna array.
Although multi-directional radiation is not possible in low-frequency, this array is configured to emit an omni-directional radiation pattern, creating a directional link on-demand.
A robot with a compact, low-frequency antenna coordinates with other robotic teammates having passive unpowered antennas which help focus the electromagnetic field in a desired direction. Add more robots and the array becomes more focused and has increased range and reliability.
This enables robust and targeted wireless communication at increased ranges through buildings and in challenging urban and subterranean environments.
Number 2: Self-healing material
Imagine a synthetic material that could heal itself when damaged.
Army researchers and their partners at Texas A&M have developed a reversible cross-linking epoxy that is 3-D-printable and is self-healing at room temperature without any additional stimulus or healing agent. The unique chemistry of the material even enables it to be programmed to morph shape when stimulated with temperature.
Army researchers are exploring whether these materials could create reconfigurable Army platforms of the future that could morph shapes on-demand.
Number 1: Soldier-robot teams
How do you train a robot how to think in unknown scenarios–when you don’t know what the future battlefield will look like, and you have no control to modify the environment to meet the robot’s abilities?
Army researchers have been developing new algorithms and capabilities that are unseen in industry–enabling autonomous agents such as robots to operate in these unknown environments such as future battlefields.
These algorithms are creating the brain of robots, to equip them to interact with unforeseen objects and in unknown scenarios, ultimately preparing them to partner with Soldiers on the future battlefield, whatever it might look like.
The CCDC Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is an element of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command. As the Army’s corporate research laboratory, ARL discovers, innovates and transitions science and technology to ensure dominant strategic land power. Through collaboration across the command’s core technical competencies, CCDC leads in the discovery, development and delivery of the technology-based capabilities required to make Soldiers more lethal to win our Nation’s wars and come home safely. CCDC is a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Futures Command.
UFO Seen In NASA Video As Soyuz Capsule Docks At Space Station, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Seen In NASA Video As Soyuz Capsule Docks At Space Station, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 25, 2019 Location of sighting: Earths orbit at Soyuz MS-15 At 2:36 into this NASA video, there is a UFO that is in the upper right hand corner. The UFO shines and reflects light, which is proof of its metallic hull. This is evidence that aliens were there, observing the Russian capsule docking at the space station. Why you ask would aliens care? Because they can take what they have observed and accurately predict the date in which humans will begin to populate other worlds and moons. To predict the date that humanity will expand beyond earth. Scott C. Waring
Did A Secret USAF Project Just Fly Over Costa Rica? Dec 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Did A Secret USAF Project Just Fly Over Costa Rica? Dec 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: December 17, 2019
Location of sighting: Costa Rica
The eyewitness recorded a 44 second video of a metallic classic UFO moving across the sky over Costa Rica. The craft was flying low, below the clouds so it was easy to make out, especially on a clear sunny day. This is an outstanding video of an actual UFO flying through the sky...but is it a top secret military pilot trying to mess with the public or is it 100% alien? I believe its alien, but I cannot rule out that its a secret USAF craft with alien tech infused in it. There are US military bases in nearby islands nations of Cuba and Puerto Rico, and even some in Honduras. So yeah...it could be a USAF pilot messing around with the public from a secret US military base testing the latest alien tech craft.
Unless there is a huge and sudden development in the matter of what happened near Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947 (which I seriously doubt will happen!), this will be my last article on the controversial affair for a long time. My recent Roswell-themed articles were based upon the studies of government documentation, a weird phone call from an old guy, and downright high-strangeness. Today’s article, however, is largely an opinion-driven one. As you’ll see. It primarily revolves around how we might get the definitive answers to Roswell – if those answers can be found, that is. One important issue that I think many overlook is that which revolves around the U.S. Air Force and Roswell. In the 1990s, the Air Force put together two reports on Roswell. One of them – which surfaced in 1994 – was focused on the theory that what came down on the Foster Ranch in Lincoln County, New Mexico was a huge Mogul balloon of the U.S. military. In that same 1994 report, the Air Force stated they did not address the “alien bodies” angle for one, specific reason: Mogul balloons didn’t have crews; human or animal. Fair enough. In 1997, however, the USAF changed its stance and said that bodies – of a kind – were found. But, they weren’t aliens: they were dummies used in high-altitude flights.
There’s no doubt that this change of perspective provoked a lot of people in Ufology – and even in the media – to suspect there was still far more regarding Roswell than met the eye. The Air Force got a lot of flak for its crash-test dummies theory. Even a lot of UFO skeptics didn’t buy into it. However, here’s the important thing: the Air Force did not need to release a second report at all. They could have made life much easier for themselves if they had left things how they were and just referred people to the Mogul report. By changing their opinions across a period of barely three years, the Air Force was opening itself for criticism – and suspicion, too. That the Air Force did release that second report – that was at significant odds with certain portions of the first report – makes me think that the Air Force of 1994 and 1997 had no real knowledge of what really came down on the ranch. They were utterly stumped, but they did their best. I believe that to be the case for today’s USAF, too: they are as puzzled as we are.
All too often, Ufologists jump up and poke their fingers at officialdom in accusing fashion. Sometimes in near-hysterical fashion. Having carefully studied both of the Air Force’s 1990s-era reports, I conclude that the USAF doesn’t know what happened at Roswell. But, I fully believe they made a genuine search. While I think there are certain flaws in the two reports, I’m of the opinion they were compiled honestly and with a real attempt to try and solve the riddle. My view is that whatever happened back in 1947, it was largely buried near-immediately. As a result, most people in government – and just like us – are out of the Roswell loop. You might find it strange that I think the Air Force has no more knowledge about Roswell than we do…but that’s exactly what I think. So, who is hiding the truth? My theory is that Roswell falls under the category of SAPs: Special Access Programs. In other words, if you don’t have the need-to-know, you don’t get in, no matter who you might be. And if you are invited in, you shut the fuck up about it. For the rest of your life.
All of this provokes an important and intriguing question: if Roswell is buried deep within the heart of a largely unknown SAP, how on earth are we expected to get the answers? Can we get the answers? I have my thoughts on this, too. Over the years I have heard stories of people who claim to know where certain files on the case (files that were compiled in the immediate July 1947 period, I should stress) exist outside of the U.S. government and are now in the hands of old-timers who may have secured certain old Roswell papers during the period of chaos that occurred right after the crash. Maybe photos of the site and the bodies, too. One person who Iabsolutely know saw the strange bodies was a man named Conrad Zerbe (his is an almost lost and forgotten saga). I also know that at one point – in the very early 1980s – the USAF approached Zerbe to try and help them figure out what really happened at Roswell – because again, the Air Force didn’t know…but they most assuredly wanted to know. Zerbe was deeply worried and concerned when he got at least several visits from Air Force Intelligence across a period of three weeks. And, he finally clammed up; filled with fear. That’s not quite the end of it though: I have heard fascinating rumors that Zerbe – who was definitely at the crash site – took certain photos with him and did not hand them over to those in the military who were running the containment of the ranch in the hours and days after the crash. Again, it was due to the incredible chaos that occurred when something hit the ground; something with a “crew” aboard, and something that had to be hidden as soon as possible. And forever.
I have been in touch with the families of several “Zerbe-type” people who were in the right place at the right time. Or, depending on your personal perspective, who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. There’s no doubt – based on what I know – that whoever is running that well-buried Special Access Program is extremely concerned that they do not have in their hands all of the old files on Roswell, all of the photos, and of additional data, too. As I see it – and as old people die and the witnesses and even their relatives will soon be no more – it may be the case that the only way we will find the answers is to quit bugging the Pentagon and take a different approach. And stop portraying the Air Force as evil characters who want the truth of Roswell firmly hidden. They don’t. Like us, the Air Force is baffled and dearly wants to know what happened. But, not everyone is baffled. There is a group that is sitting on the truth, but they are fearful that there are some “items” and documents that are out of their hands – and which means they are out of their control.
It’s the old-timers (the few that are left) and their immediate family members who have the answers. You want Roswell resolved? Then don’t waste your time knocking on the collective doors of the Air Force. Leave them the hell alone. Instead, make respectful approaches to those that are sitting on a goldmine, but who are fearful of what they know and what might happen to them if they do choose to speak out. Carefully and tactfully ask them what they were told by their grandfathers, grandmothers and so on. And, of the fading, yellowing documents they have tucked away. That’s how we stand a chance of solving Roswell. And, you know what? The Air Force will thank you. Why? Because they really are outside of the Roswell loop. But, they don’t want to be.
2019 was a year full of UFOlogical developments, especially in the way the phenomenon is being treated by mainstream media. With great fanfare Tom DeLonge’s To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences (TTSA) released their six-part TV series Unidentifiedon the History Channel during the summer; which not only showcased the testimony of Commander David Fravor, and other Navy pilots who have encountered unknown aerial objects during exercise missions on both coasts of the United States, but also explored other military encounters with UFOs –like the famous Rendlesham forest incident.
The narrative TTSA is trying to construct seems pretty clear: Whatever they are and wherever they come from, UFOs (or UAPs, as it is the new PC way to address the subject) constitute a threat. Not only because their aerodynamic capabilities far surpass those of the most advanced jet fighters in the world –which give them carte blanche to intrude into the restricted airspace of the most sensitive installations with total impunity– but also due to the deleterious effect which can be suffered by being directly exposed to these objects. To illustrate this the producers of Unidentified interviewed John Borrows, one of the main witnesses in the Rendlesham incident, who has suffered from a series of serious medical problems which seem directly related to his close encounter in December of 1980.
Yes, the literature is full of numerous cases in which witnesses suffered temporary or permanent health problems caused by exposure to the UFO phenomenon, and those problems range from the very mild ones –skin burns, nausea and irritated eyes– to the life-threatening ones on very rare occasions –like the Cash-Landrum incident, in which one of the witnesses developed cancer (Betty Cash) and eventually died as a result of it. But is that always the case?
As it turns out, UFO researchers also have in their files plenty of cases in which a close encounter proved beneficial to the witness; not only for having the chance of experiencing something which only a rare minority of individuals have encountered firsthand within their lifetimes –and due to the mind-expanding potential of such experiences– but also because in those cases the witness found him- or herself cured of some illness or health condition, by a process which can only be described as miraculous for lack of a better term.
Let us now examine three cases of UFO-induced healings:
Jaume (Jacques) Bordas
The fascinating story of Jaume Bordas Blas was first publicized by Spanish researcher Antonio Ribera in 1971, and was subsequently picked up by Jacques Vallee who included it in Messengers of Deception. Bordas was born on July 20, 1911, and for most of his childhood he was a weakling sick boy; a hormonal deficiency (possibly thyroid related) caused him to suffer from serious weight problems, and his pituitary condition also resulted in slow mental development and impaired attention at school.
One night, when he was 12 years old, Bordas felt the sudden and inexplicable urge to climb to the terrace, where he saw a wondrous vision: A group of small, triangular objects that looked to him like little planes were flying all around, across the sky. Three of the craft –which measured less than nine feet in length– landed near him; one of them opened up like a fan and from it emerged a being no bigger than the young boy, wearing a white suit and a bright white mantle. The entity said this to Bordas:
We have come to see you, because we have taken you under our protection. We know how much you suffer, and we know your dream of becoming a strong man, an athlete. You will realize it, with our help; you will be strong, not only physically but mentally, too. Now that we have adopted you, we will never forsake you. In the future we will come back to you again. In the meantime, as a token of friendship, take this.
The little being showed Bordas what looked like a square piece of dark candy, and told the boy to eat it completely for this would be the beginning of a new life for him. Bordas had obviously never heard of the warnings included in my pal Joshua Cutchin’s book A Trojan Feast (“never accept any food from fairies!”) because he did as he was told; the being went back to his ‘airplane’ and the three objects flew away. The next morning Bordas woke up with a strange taste of tar in his mouth, which showed the amazing encounter had not been a dream.
Jaume Bordas
And if the boy needed further confirmation, the proof came during the next four years as he went through a seemingly impossible physical transformation: he lost all the extra weight and grew to be incredibly strong. His mind had also been equally fortified and he developed a curiosity for scientific topics and mountains; eventually Bordas became an expert mountain climber and accomplished many feats, including being the first Spaniard to climb to the top of the Aiguille Verte in the French Alps, in 1934. In 1937 he crossed the Grand Jura and ascended Grand Chervoz.
Just like the little man had forewarned Bordaz, he had other enigmatic encounters with non-human entities during his lifetime, which we will cover in a future article. Suffice it to say the man lived to be 100 years old –maybe not all fairy food is bad, after all!
“Doctor X” (Pierre Gueymard)
Here’s another remarkable case that was known to English-speaking UFOlogists thanks to the work of Jacques Vallee, who learned of it from his mentor Aimé Michel (Michel used the pseudonym “Doctor X” to protect the witness’s identity, but this year Vallee published Forbidden Science Vol. 4 in which his real name was disclosed). Gueymard was born in 1930 and had a successful medical career which allowed him a comfortable life in a large French villa located on a hillside, where he lived with his wife and fourteen-month-old-son.
It was the baby’s crying which actually woke Gueymard up during the night of November 2, 1968. The man went over to check on the child, walking with some difficulty since three days prior he had suffered a nasty injury in one of his legs, while cutting wood with an ax. His son’s room was dark, except from some bright flashes coming from the window despite the close shutters; the baby was fully awake and pointing toward the window from his crib, yet Gueymard paid no immediate attention to whatever could be transpiring outside his home, and gave the restless toddler a bottle of milk. Later the doctor stepped into a balcony, to witness the most fantastic spectacle he’d seen in his entire life.
From his privileged vantage point Gueymard observed two large, identical disks with a silver-white top, while their bottom sections were glowing with the color of the setting sun. The saucers were perfectly horizontal, and were casting a bright white beam directly beneath them onto the ground; a tall vertical antenna was on top of each object, and on the side they both had a shorter, horizontal antenna from which small sparks started to appear once the disks started to slowly move close to one another.
If that wasn’t incredible enough, what happened next could test the credulity of even the most open-minded UFO believer: the two objects merged into one and the remaining saucer changed course and flew toward the witness, who remained transfixed standing on the balcony. Suddenly, the disk tilted its horizontal axis in such a way that the white beam emanating from its lower half struck Gueymard directly on the chest; there was a loud bang and the object completely vanished, leaving behind only a whitish form like cotton candy (angel hair, perhaps?). The doctor felt a nervous shock and he quickly came back inside, but the surprises were far from over…
Gueymard woke up his wife to tell her what he had just witnessed. To both of their astonishment his leg injury was completely healed and he could now walk without any pain; not only that, but a much older and serious wound he had suffered in Algeria (where he was serving in the Army) had also mysteriously disappeared.
The strange red triangular marking on Dr. X’s abdomen
Over the next few days Gueymard started to suffer some abnormal physical symptoms: he lost weight and suffered from abdominal pain; he also developed a curious red triangle around his navel, which was seconded by a similar shape which appeared in the abdomen of his son. There are many other strange aspects comprising the case of “Doctor X” including encounters with strange visitors, claims of levitation and teleportation, and even the spontaneous appearance of psychic faculties; but for the purposes of this article we’ll leave the matter by noting how, in 1985, an independent medical report corroborated the complete disappearance of the injuries Gueymard had suffered in Algeria in 1958.
Rey Hernandez
The two cases mentioned above are part of the ‘classic’ annals of XXth century UFOlogy, whereas the next one is among the most interesting cases reported in the new millennium, and has been covered in Diana Pasulka’s book American Cosmic as part of her exploration on how UFO experiences can affect religious perspectives (and vice versa).
Rey Hernandez was, according to his own account, a die-hard rationalist and atheist –as well as a very successful lawyer– living happily with his wife Dulce, despite the fact that she remained a very devout Catholic due to her Mexican origin. In March of 2012 Dulce was heartbroken because her beloved pet Niña –an old Jack Russell terrier– was gravely ill and they had finally decided to put her out of her misery. Rey’s wife sought refuge in her faith and prayed to God to save her ‘little girl’, for that’s what ‘Niña’ means in Spanish.
Rey Hernandez
According to Rey’s testimony, her wife woke up very early in the morning to check on the poor dog, which was so sick she could only move from the neck up. Dulce took Niña downstairs and that’s when she saw a glowing object floating four feet off the ground, metallic in appearance and with the domed shape of an inverted ‘U’. Startled by this apparition, Dulce did what probably any good Mexican Catholic with a devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe would do: she went on her knees and pleaded to the luminous object to go away if it was a “bad spirit;” but if it was “an angel of the Virgin Mary” she begged it to stay and not let her dog suffer anymore.
As if it was an answer to her prayers, Dulce then saw green flashes blinking in front of her, which caused her to freak out and yell to her husband for help. Thinking his wife had probably seen a mouse or a cockroach in the kitchen, Rey ignored her at first –there’s a Latino marriage for you!– until Dulce rushed upstairs and practically dragged him out of their bedroom. One of the most interesting aspects of this case is that, when Rey finally came downstairs, what he observed was markedly different to what his wife saw: instead of a metallic object, what was in front of him was a compact, multicolored formation of plasma-like energy which looked like a horizontal cylinder with fuzzy edges. But even more astounding was the reaction of the ‘stalwart rationalist’, because instead of calling 911 or getting a camera he just stared at it for a few moments, thought it was no big deal and went back to bed!
This nonsensical ‘trance-like’ state of his lasted only 15 minutes or so, because the next thing Rey Hernandez remembers, is coming back to his senses and rushing back downstairs to see her wife jumping up and down in joy followed by her happily-barking Niña. The miracle she had asked for had been fulfilled, and the dog was completely cured.
This was the start of a series of incredible experiences which have completely transformed Hernandez’s philosophy of life and his goals. He ended up co-founding the Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters (FREE) along with the late Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild, and Australian researcher Mary Rodwell. FREE’s goals include the scientific study of the close encounter experience and the role that human consciousness plays in the UFO mystery.
Conclusions
So what can we make about these three cases, aside from the fact that there are reports of inexplicable cures in the UFO literature? Many researchers in UFOlogy (and even government scientists) have studied the malignant effects suffered by close encounter witnesses, and suspect it is the result of non-ionizing microwave radiation generated by the objects –which has been of great interest to some countries for its potential to create new weapon systems. But could microwave radiation be used for the opposite goal of healing patients? Among dozens of links addressing the fear about the harmful effects of microwaves, a cursory search on Google shows there have been a few promising experiments in which low-dose microwave radiation can help in the healing of bone fractures, and the use of UV radiation in wound care; yet that could hardly explain the instantaneous recovery experienced by both Pierre Gueymard and Rey Hernandez’s dog.
Perhaps the “candy” offered to young Jaume Bordas managed to alter and rewrite his DNA in ways modern science can only dream of, or maybe it was all just the result of the placebo effect triggered by a vivid dream. But the placebo effect could not be accounted for in the case of “Doctor X,” who wasn’t expecting to be cured of his illnesses as a result of his UFO sighting, and it certainly could not be behind the healing of a dog!
Maybe we still don’t have the necessary scientific framework to understand the mechanisms behind these healing processes. We can only hint at the possibility that perhaps the UFOs’ apparent ability to manipulate both Space AND Time may be behind it. When explaining the concepts of higher dimensions, Carl Sagan once said that a hyperdimensional entity would be capable of putting the whole universe within inside the body of a hapless three-dimensional being; if that is the case, why not use that same power in order to bring back the body to a state in which the illness had yet to be developed?
Alas, I don’t have any scientific training so I’ll leave the figuring out to people smarter than me. What I really want to conclude with is this: Be wary of the people seeking to push just ONE side of the UFO narrative. Whether it is TTSA playing the “UFOs are a threat” card in order to lure the attention of the military industrial complex; the neo-Inquisitors using shoddy techniques to retrieve terrifying accounts of unnatural conjugal union with ‘demonic beings’, who seek to replace us with their hellish hybrid offspring; or the New Age gurus who assure us our “Space Brothers” seek only to guide us into a bright future away from our Earthly sorrows, and that all the cases in which UFOs have shown any type of hostility are the result of ‘military psyops’; the fact of the matter is that the UFO phenomenon is a vast, multifaceted, and terribly complex mystery with many layers, which defies simplistic explanations.
It is only by studying all those layers, not just the ones that suit a particular agenda, that we may have any hope to come closer to the truth.
In bad times, farmers have been known to lose their heads over what to do when their crops won’t grow. Smart farmers in these situations learn to use their heads, not lose them. On Easter Island (Rapa Nui), a place known for its heads, it turns out farmers did both. New research has discovered that by creating and then removing those giant stone heads from a single quarry, the area around it became lush farmland. Will we soon be seeing giant heads coming out of Nebraska?
Easter Island Statue Project
Two Moai are shown during excavations by Jo Anne Van Tilburg and her team at Rano Raraku quarry on Rapa Nui, better known as Easter Island.
“Our excavation broadens our perspective of the Moai and encourages us to realise that nothing, no matter how obvious, is ever exactly as it seems. I think our new analysis humanises the production process of the Moai.”
In a paper published recently in the Journal of Archaeological Science, UCLA researcher Jo Anne Van Tilburg, director of the Easter Island Statue Project on Rapa Nui, described the surprising discovery during a five-year project focusing on just two of the more than 1,000 moai or statues on the island. These two, labeled Moai 156 and 157, are located in Rano Raraku, the volcanic crater where over 90 percent of the statues were quarried. Moai 156 and 157 are unique in two ways – they were placed upright with one on a pedestal and the other sunken into the ground, meaning they were not to be moved; and they were covered with engraved petroglyph motifs, indicating that they had a special purpose for being there. What purpose might that be?
“When we got the chemistry results back, I did a double take.”
Researcher and study co-author Sarah Sherwood of Tennessee’s University of the South, was referring to the soil analysis done on samples taken at the foot of each statue, which were erected between 1510 CE and 1645 CE. Those samples contained evidence of taro (a root vegetable), bananas and sweet potatoes. Further study of the soil in Rano Raraku found it to be a lot more fertile than the barren dirt on the rest of the island, containing calcium, phosphorus and moisture. That means Rano Raraku was much more than just a quarry for stone statues to be moved around the island and baffle visitors to this day.
“That is, these and probably other upright Moai in Rano Raraku were retained in place to ensure the sacred nature of the quarry itself. The Moai were central to the idea of fertility, and in Rapanui belief their presence here stimulated agricultural food production.”
So, which came first – the fertile soil or the belief that the statues helped make it and keep it that way?
“Everywhere else on the island the soil was being quickly worn out, eroding, being leeched of elements that feed plants, but in the quarry, with its constant new influx of small fragments of the bedrock generated by the quarrying process, there is a perfect feedback system of water, natural fertiliser and nutrients.”
I love the smell of fresh taro in the morning.
It sounds like the act of carving out the stone statues contributed to the natural system that made Rano Raraku the Nebraska of Easter Island. Perhaps the foods helped the islanders grow bigger and stronger like the farm boys of Nebraska and gave them the strength to move the giant statues around the island – a process that’s still a mystery.
All the corn does in Nebraska is turn those farm boys into linemen for the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers.
In part 1 of my 3-part recent article on (A) the Roswell affair of 1947 and (B) secret experiments undertaken on people from the 1940s onward, I highlighted the content of a huge, U.S. government document. It is titledAdvisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report. Dated October 1995, it runs to no less than 925 pages and was published by the U.S. Government Printing Office. I also said the following in part 1: “One of the days I’ll share with you the very strange story of how I got my copy and how it’s filled to the brim with annotations from the retired person who provided it to me.” Well, I figured that today is as good as any day to get the story out! So, here it goes: Most important, when it comes to all of the weirdness that went down, is the time-frame. As you will quickly come to see.
In the early 1990s, I corresponded with various U.S. agencies, while I was trying to determine if the notorious MJ12 documents (that tell of a top secret group created in 1947 to hide the truth of the Roswell enigma and to try and understand the alien technology) were the real deal or not. Those agencies included the FBI, the U.S. Air Force, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Admittedly, I was quite excited by the notorious documents when they first surfaced in 1987 (in the pages of Tim Good’s book, Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-Up). Over time, though, I came to believe that the documents were bogus. I should stress that I don’t think the MJ12 documents were someone’s idea of a joke. What I do think, however, is that at least some of the well-known MJ12 papers were the concoctions of Russian intelligence (here’s where you can find more of my thoughts on all of this Russia/MJ12 issue). Moving on…
There’s no doubt that it was during the decade of the 1990s that Roswell – the event – became big news. In 1994, the movie, Roswell, starring Kyle McLachlan and Martin Sheen, was released. In that very same year, the U.S. Air Force published a fairly slim Executive Summary on the Roswell case. The USAF concluded that what came down on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico in early July 1947 was a giant Mogul balloon array. For those who may not know, the Moguls were designed to monitor for secret atomic bomb tests of the Soviets. Then, in July 1995, the Government Accountability Office (which, in 1995 was called the General Accounting Office) published the details of its very own investigation into Roswell. That report, too, referenced the Air Force’s Mogul theory.
After the GAO report appeared and got the UFO research community fired up, yet another Roswell-themed document surfaced from the government. This one was called The Roswell Report: Fact Vs Fiction in the New Mexico Desert. In stark contrast to the two earlier reports (one of the GAO and the other of the USAF) this new report was gigantic in size: it ran to almost 1,000 pages. It was published by the U.S. Government Printing Office. I was very surprised – but pleased – when a copy of the report came my way shortly afterwards. The Air Force had very generously mailed me a free copy of that massive report – probably because I had that aforementioned, earlier correspondence with them a year or two earlier.
In October 1995, the previously mentioned Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report was published – also by the U.S. Government Printing Office. This too is a huge report: it runs to 925 pages. So, we have three intriguing reports published in 1995; two on Roswell and one on “human radiation experiments.” Now, this is where things get weird. In the first week of November 1995 a copy of that giant Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report reached my door. Whereas the Roswell-themed “Fact vs Fiction” report was mailed to me in an official package of the Department of the Defense, the one on human experimentation was not. Rather, it came in a cardboard box covered in scotch tape, with no sender address and with my name and address written in black-marker. When I opened the box and saw the “experiments”-based report inside I was puzzled. After all, I certainly hadn’t ordered a copy. And, this wasn’t an area of research that I was actively looking into.
Around two weeks later (or thereabouts), there was a phone call in the afternoon. I answered it. For about four or five seconds there was nothing but loud static. Thankfully, it went away. What was clearly an old man with a weak voice – and an American accent – asked me if I had “received the report yet?” Or, something broadly along those lines. It was, after all, twenty-four years ago when all of this occurred, and I didn’t record the call. I asked: “Which report?” It was a legitimate question, as I had then recently received two, huge U.S. government reports, both on extremely controversial topics. After I asked that question, the man kind of chuckled, and said, in his very own questioning tones: “Now you have both?” I replied with something like: “I guess I do.” We had a chat for what was only a few minutes; three or four at the absolute very most. He said that if I wanted the truth of Roswell I should carefully read both mighty tomes. The pair, he added, were, in sinister and strange ways, interconnected. At least, in terms of looking for answers to what really happened at Roswell. I dug deep into it all, to the extent that my own copy of the Roswell report is now, today, in a very worn and tattered state.
Despite the passage of a considerable amount of time, answers were apparently still to be found – potentially. I asked the guy how knew that. His far from satisfactory – and admittedly unclear – response was that prior to retiring he worked for the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and he knew of certain things that could open certain doors to the truth of Roswell – and that would explain how the incident was still hidden and under wraps. Yes, it was all pretty vague and concisely worded. In relation to comments connected to budgetary issues, it all rather reminded me of the famous “follow the money” words of Watergate’s Deep Throat.
I never did find out the old man’s identity. Nor did I learn how he knew that I had a copy of that bulging Roswell report. Or why, even, he decided to send the “human experiments report” to me. In terms of looking for answers, approaching the CBO did no good at all. I can only think that my persistent attempts to get to the heart of the MJ12 controversy – and filing significant numbers of Freedom of Information requests on the subject – sparked something somewhere with someone. I wish I could end this article in a satisfactory and clear fashion. Unfortunately, I can’t.
It’s just one of many weird experiences I’ve had when digging into the Roswell puzzle.
'Ok, Google, What Is This?' A Huge Cryptic Entrance 'Reappears' on Maps in Antarctica 12 Years Later
'Ok, Google, What Is This?' A Huge Cryptic Entrance 'Reappears' on Maps in Antarctica 12 Years Later
It seems like fans of conspiracy theories have received a new topic to discuss. Viewers have already suggested that the structure could be an entrance to “hollow earth” or a “military cover-up".
A huge mysterious hole on a remote island in Antarctica has been spotted again on Google Maps, prompting huge online debates.
The discovery, whose authenticity cannot be verified, was made by the authors of the YouTube channel ThirdPhaseFromTheMoon, who posted a video on 14 December showing what looks like a giant cave. Two items keep bugging the channel's hosts – the origins of this bizarre entrance and its impressive size.
Using Google Maps, Blake and Brett Cousins showed that the cryptic hole first appeared in 2007 only to disappear several months later. Another detail that astounded the hosts is that such a giant structure, which is 83 metres high and 75 metres wide, did not exist in 2006.
According to hosts this cave could potentially fit "hundreds, if not thousands of people". Speaking about this enigmatic hole's origins, Brett Cousins said that it could be the result of a natural event.
His co-host pointed to an unusual structure leading to the entrance that looked like a staircase. "It’s big enough for spacecraft and flying saucers or even assets in our military to fly into this massive opening. Is this a base? There’s no indication this is a sinkhole", Brett Cousins said.
Social media users added even more mystery with some suggesting the giant structure could be an entrance for a submarine or a government project that is hidden from the public. Although some users said that it could simply be a melt hole.
‘Ok Google, wat is dit?’ Raadselachtig gat gespot op Antarctica
‘Ok Google, wat is dit?’ Raadselachtig gat gespot op Antarctica
Op Google Earth is op een afgelegen eiland bij Antarctica een mysterieus gat gespot. Op internet wordt druk gespeculeerd over de ontdekking.
Enkele dagen geleden verscheen op YouTube-kanaal thirdphaseofmoon een filmpje over de opening, die doet denken aan een reusachtige grot, schrijft het Russische persbureau Sputnik.
Oprichters van het kanaal Blake en Brett Cousins laten zien dat het raadselachtige gat op Antarctica in 2007 verscheen op Google Maps, om korte tijd later weer te verdwijnen.
Duizenden
Het tweetal schat dat de opening 83 meter hoog en 75 meter breed is.
Je zou met gemak ‘honderden, zo niet duizenden mensen’ in deze grot kwijt kunnen, klonk het.
Brett Cousins zei dat het gat op een natuurlijke manier kan zijn ontstaan.
Basis
Blake wees echter op een vreemde structuur die naar de ingang leidt en die op een soort trap lijkt.
“Het is groot genoeg voor ruimteschepen of militaire toestellen,” zei hij over de opening. “Is het een basis? Het lijkt me in ieder geval geen zinkgat.”
Overheidsproject
Sommigen schreven op social media dat het gat de ingang zou kunnen zijn naar een overheidsproject waar het volk niets over mag weten.
Anderen zeiden dat het simpelweg een smeltgat zou kunnen zijn.
Nieuw ontdekte ruimtelichten zijn mogelijk tekenen van aliens, zeggen deze wetenschappers
Nieuw ontdekte ruimtelichten zijn mogelijk tekenen van aliens, zeggen deze wetenschappers
Vrijwel alle sterren sterven op twee manieren: ze veranderen langzaam maar zeker in een witte dwerg of ze exploderen als supernova.
Sommige sterren lijken tijdelijk te sterven – ze zijn niet langer aan de avondhemel te zien – en duiken later weer op.
Wetenschappers schrijven in een nieuwe studie dat er twee mogelijke verklaringen zijn voor dit vreemde fenomeen: we zijn getuige van een volstrekt nieuw fenomeen of we zien tekenen van buitenaards leven.
Op mysterieuze wijze
De onderzoekers van het zogeheten VASCO-project hebben hun studie gepubliceerd in The Astronomical Journal.
Zij hebben gespeurd naar objecten die in de jaren vijftig nog wel aan de avondhemel waren te zien, maar daarna op mysterieuze wijze zijn verdwenen.
Ze hebben zo’n 100 rode objecten gespot die in de afgelopen 70 jaar van het ene op het andere moment verdwenen en later weer opdoken.
Niet uitgesloten
Coauteur Martin Lopez Corredoira zei in een persverklaring dat het VASCO-team geen rechtstreeks bewijs voor buitenaardse intelligentie heeft gevonden, maar voegde toe dat deze mogelijkheid niet wordt uitgesloten.
Het team overweegt niet alleen traditionele verklaringen, maar ook exotische, aldus Corredoira.
In dat laatste geval gaat het bijvoorbeeld om technologisch geavanceerde beschavingen, klonk het.
MEER BEWIJS VOOR BUITENAARDSE BASIS ONDER MEXICAANSE VULKAAN ( VIDEO )
MEER BEWIJS VOOR BUITENAARDSE BASIS ONDER MEXICAANSE VULKAAN ( VIDEO )
Het is eigenlijk best grappig om te zien hoe buitenaardsen gewoon een basis hebben op aarde en wij "zien" helemaal niets.
Dat wil zeggen, het mainstream nieuws ziet helemaal niets, maar zij die wel kijken, zien heel veel.
Jaar in jaar uit vinden er vreemde activiteiten plaats bij de beroemde Popocatépetl vulkaan in Mexico. In het land zelf wordt daar wel regelmatig aandacht aan besteed, ook op televisie, maar buiten Mexico lijkt dit fenomeen niet te bestaan.
Veel van de vreemde zaken die worden waargenomen zijn geregistreerd door openbare webcams, waardoor de beelden die te zien zijn, redelijk betrouwbaar geacht kunnen worden. Het zijn geen beelden gemaakt door een Youtuber die graag veel hits wil verzamelen.
De volgende opname is dan ook enkele dagen geleden gemaakt door één van die webcams en op die beelden zie je hoe een grote sigaarvormige ufo de vulkaan verlaat. Volgens schattingen is deze zeker 200 meter lang en wederom een stukje bewijs dat er zich onder de vulkaan een buitenaardse basis bevindt.
Dit vertrekken en aankomen van ufo's is een fenomeen dat al jarenlang op regelmatige basis door de webcams wordt vastgelegd.
Iemand die ook altijd op zoek is naar bijzondere dingen rondom deze vulkaan en al meer dan tien jaar daar regelmatig ufo's waarneemt is onderzoeker en speurneus Scott Waring.
Ook dit keer was het hij weer aan het kijken naar webcams en wat hem daarbij opviel is een soort vreemde constructie aan de zijkant van de vulkaan, met daarin een enorme deur. Hij had dat nog nooit eerder gezien daar en volgens hem is het ook alleen zichtbaar onder bepaalde weercondities en wanneer het licht er precies goed opvalt.
Zijn vraag is dan ook of we hier misschien te maken hebben met een soort geheime ingang naar die buiten/binnenaardse basis diep onder de vulkaan.
Om een beetje een idee te krijgen over de vreemde activiteiten rondom die vulkaar, hierna een deel uit een eerder artikel:
Als je dan ook een vreemd object in de lucht ziet, weet je eigenlijk nooit met zekerheid de herkomst ervan.
Echter, wanneer we spreken over ufo's die bij de Mexicaanse vulkaan Popocatepétl op regelmatige basis worden gesignaleerd, dan nemen we eigenlijk aan dat het hier gaat om buitenaardsen. Dit ook omdat er al sinds mensenheugenis verhalen de ronde doen over een buitenaardse basis, diep onder deze vulkaan en ufologen ervan overtuigd zijn dat er zich zo'n 4 tot 6 kilometer onder de grond een buitenaardse basis bevindt.
Maar, echt zeker weten doen we het niet, maar wat we wel zeker weten is dat er al jarenlang onbekende vliegende objecten worden waargenomen bij deze vulkaan en dat niet alleen, je ziet ze gewoon de vulkaan binnenvliegen.
De meeste opnames zijn echt, simpelweg omdat ze zijn gemaakt door webcams, zoals de volgende enkele dagen geleden. We kwamen deze opname tegen bij Scott Waring, één van de ufologen die er 100 procent van overtuigd is dat we hier te maken hebben met een ondergrondse basis.
De opname is op 20 oktober 2019 gemaakt door een webcam en je ziet een object de vulkaan naderen en vervolgens naar binnen verdwijnen.
De meest spectaculaire ufo die is waargenomen bij deze vulkaan is die in het najaar van 2012. Toen verscheen er een cilindervormige ufo die met grote snelheid in de krater verdween en ook die opname was echt, gemaakt door webcams en werd zelfs uitgebreid op de Mexicaanse televisie vertoond.
Onderstaande afbeelding is afkomstig van de weerradar van Intellicast van 27 oktober, de dag dat een Ufo de vulkaan Popocatepetl in vloog. Het beeld bleef de hele dag online tot en met 28 oktober.
Hier zie je heel duidelijk de vorm van de vortex.
Het centrum van de vortex ligt precies op de plaats waar de vulkaan zich bevindt. Dit toeval lijkt ons te groot om geen verband te hebben met de Ufo die op datzelfde moment de vulkaan binnenvloog.
Wetenschappers hebben nog steeds geen idee en een nieuwsbericht van Televisa, het station wat de opname heeft gemaakt, laat weten dat men heeft uitgerekend dat de snelheid waarmee het object naar binnenvloog, groter was dan die van een vliegtuig.
Ufologen wereldwijd zijn van mening dat het óf een basis betreft in de vulkaan, vergelijkbaar met de basis van Marconi in de Andes, óf dat het een ingang betreft naar de
David Wilcock: Extraterrestrial Battles Have Been Raging for Thousands of Years
David Wilcock: Extraterrestrial Battles Have Been Raging for Thousands of Years
COAST TO COAST AM – David Wilcock, who is known for his insights on consciousness science and new paradigms of matter and energy, discussed contact with a higher intelligence behind the UFO phenomenon.
He cited scientific information and data from high-ranking government whistleblowers all suggesting that the Earth is on the front lines of a battle that has been raging with negative extraterrestrials for hundreds of thousands of years.
He says it began with a “builder culture” that left artifacts of “transparent aluminum” on many planets and moons in our solar system and in other planetary systems about 2.5 billion years ago. Sometime in the Earth’s distant past, Wilcock claimed that a group of ETs crash-landed on our world and became marooned here.
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A Race of Giant Humans Existed in North America but the Evidence Disappeared - Coast to Coast AM
A Race of Giant Humans Existed in North America but the Evidence Disappeared - Coast to Coast AM
COAST TO COAST AM – Author Xaviant Haze revealed how giants were a dominant feature of native origin myths as well as extraordinary first-person tales by early explorers. He began by pointing out that Abraham Lincoln was “definitely a believer” in the idea that giants inhabited the ancient Americas.
Haze says that there is evidence for a prehistoric giant race of humans throughout the oral traditions of many North American tribes, who regarded them with dread as cannibals. He described the first books published by the Smithsonian Institution on excavations where giant bones were uncovered in the ancient mound complexes of North America.
By the 1880s though, Haze said that bones and other evidence would be shipped off to the Smithsonian, and that “without fail, that’s where the trail ends.”
Bright anomaly appears out of nowhere during SpaceX launch
Bright anomaly appears out of nowhere during SpaceX launch
SpaceX launched Monday, December 16, 2019 from the Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The satellite was deployed at approximately 33 minutes after liftoff.
This video highlights the unusually change of speed and direction of one bright anomaly coming from top to right of the screen.
The anomaly seems to appear in the distance and fly right by the rocket and satellite in an arch motion.
Even if the change of direction could be explained away by saying the spacecraft rotated, thus objects on the ground appear to change direction. It doesn't explain the change of speed. The rotation of the Earth is going to be the same speed.
UFO Activities Recorded On Videos Traveling Across the Skies of Birmingham and the Black Country
UFO Activities Recorded On Videos Traveling Across the Skies of Birmingham and the Black Country
Mysterious orbs have been observed above Birmingham and the Black Country, prompting speculations from members of the public as to what they might be.
Footage shot in Sparkhill and an area of Wolverhampton have shown strange circular objects moving across the skies.
Resident in Sparkhill captured the footage from Birmingham at around 6:30 pm on November 28, Thursday. It shows one bizarre ball moving across the sky with bursts of light around it.
The 24-year-old Sparkhill resident said that they saw the strange orange looking the ball in the sky from inside the car looking out the window.
They were shocked to see something like it as they haven’t seen it before. They said that it was coming down and then going towards the side.
The object in question started to look fiery orange and went through the cloud. The witness thought it was very unusual as it was not something to expect in the sky. They said that it was a shocking moment.
A witness from the Black Country captured another video. It shows four orbs flying low above houses repetitively in the Merry Hill area of Wolverhampton. The unusual incident reportedly took place on November 24, Sunday, at 5:45 pm.
The 27-year witness from Wolverhampton stated that they were walking back from the takeaway when they spotted what seemed to be four orbs following each other across the sky, low above the houses.
They were supposed to ignore it, but then it happened again and these orbs seemed to weave over the houses, coming back before vanishing for a few seconds, according to the witness.
“Museum CCTV footage shows protective dome over a fragment of Chelyabinsk meteorite rising apparently ‘all by itself’. Museum director & staff insist they or faulty electronics had nothing to do with it.”
Talk about ‘uncovering’ a mystery! Sputnik News and Siberia Times both reported a strange story about a piece of a meteorite seemingly lifting its protective cover into the air for no apparent reason and with no apparent humor or electronic aid at a historical museum in Chelyabinsk, Russia. OK, this isn’t a piece of just any meteorite – it’s a chunk of the one which blasted the skies over Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring 1,500 people and causing over $15 million in damages to structures. A large portion of the rock survived its crash to Earth and was not only recovered from Chebarkul lake but captured on video, a first for meteorites. And now, it makes history on camera again. (Watch the video here.)
“We spoke to all our specialists in electronics and wiring, who said unanimously that it was impossible to have it opening by itself. Yet it happened. Right after it happened I queried what could it possibly be, and there is no answer so far.”
As of this writing, museum spokesman Yuri Bogatenkov has no explanation, but he and the staff seem adamant that it wasn’t an equipment malfunction that lifted the protective dome. Museum employee Aivar Valeev told Sputnik News that the dome was too heavy for a thief to lift and too well-protected for anyone to override the electronic system. That leaves the mystical power of the meteorite as the leading explanation, at least amongst museum employees.
“But jokes aside, our female staff are still a bit shaken.”
What caused the cover to rise over the piece of Chelyabinsk meteorite? Many people believe that meteorites have powers that defy explanation. Meteorite crystals are said to be associated with the third eye and can be used for relieving stress, freeing the mind and other metaphysical treatments as well as healing physical ailments, treating injuries, improving the circulatory system and producing other bodily health benefits. Because they’re from other parts of the solar system (and perhaps even other stars), they are often used in spiritual rituals and for summoning UFOs and extraterrestrials and interdimensional activities. Each of those powers depends on the mineral makeup of the meteorite. The Chelyabinsk space rock is an ordinary chondrite meteorite and contains 10% iron. According to metaphysical meteorite experts, that means it’s good for circulation, stamina and healing. It has a frequency that connects to the third eye and has a strong electrical energy that stabilizes and grounds higher vibrational energies to the magnetic core of the Earth.
Does the Chelyabinsk meteorite have any of these powers? More importantly, does it have the power to lift its own cover? Was it, as some people speculate, trying to escape and return to wherever it came from? As of this writing, there’s no evidence of such powers. However, there’s also no explanation of what happened.
Over the years, Annie Jacobsen has written a number of good bookson the matter of government secrecy. They include Surprise, Kill, Vanish; The Pentagon’s Brain; Phenomena; Operation Paperclip; and Area 51. It’s the latter title that we need to focus our attentions on today. Jacobsen’s Area 51 is a solid, insightful and illuminating study of the history and secret world of Nevada’s infamous, impenetrable base. When Area 51 was published, what really caught the attention of both the UFO research community and the nation’s media were the words that Jacobsen had received on Roswell, the world’s most famous (or infamous) UFO case. It all came from a solitary whistle-blower. In the pages of her book, Jacobsen’s source for the Roswell story is not identified (although he does appear, by his real name, in other sections of the book that specifically don’t deal with Roswell). We know, though, thanks to the digging of UFO researcher Tony Bragalia that the man in question was one Alfred O’Donnell, who died on April 9, 2015, then in his nineties. Bragalia spoke with O’Donnell. Bragalia said of this: “This author has identified and located Annie Jacobsen’s anonymous source. I have also decided, after much consideration, to ‘out’ him. In this article I will openly name him. I have also contacted him very recently. He reluctantly spoke with me for some time. I believe that the source was indeed told this bizarre story by officials.”
Bragalia then goes on to detail O’Donnell’s working career. Also, Bragalia provides us with an interview that he conducted with O’Donnell on the afternoon of May 26, 2011. According to data that Alfred O’Donnell claimed he was exposed to during his time working for EG&G, what came down outside of Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947 was not a UFO from another world. Nor was it a weather-balloon or a Mogul balloon. And, apparently, there was not even a single crash-test dummy anywhere in sight. O’Donnell made the controversial and sensational claim that the craft and its crew originated in the Soviet Union. But, we’re not talking about your average aircraft. The same goes for those who were allegedly aboard it, too. O’Donnell said that Joseph Stalin – the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and Premier from 1941 to 1953 – was the driving force behind what was, supposedly, a diabolical, manipulative plot designed to make the U.S. government and the people of the United States think that an alien invasion was underway. The purpose: to plunge America into a state of overwhelming terror.
O’Donnell said that Stalin had secretly enlisted into the grim plot Dr. Josef Mengele. He was one of the vilest, evil and most deranged and dangerous figures of the 20th century. Mengele spent a great deal of his time at Auschwitz, a complex comprised of more than forty camps in then-occupied Poland, at which more than one million people died in horrible fashions at the hands of Nazi shit. Mengele had a very disturbing fascination with dwarfs, to the extent that he undertook awful experiments on them. By this point, you might have deduced where things are leading. Stalin, said O’Donnell, had a warped plan to have a number of children physically altered by Mengele and his team of doctors (although, calling them “doctors” is a disservice to doctors all around the world and throughout recorded history). They would go from looking like children to resembling something wholly unearthly. Then, there was the matter of the “alien spaceship” that Stalin needed to complete the nightmarish ruse.
So O’Donnell’s tale goes, Stalin brought in a team of experts in the field of aviation and had them create two strange-looking aircraft, both based upon the designs of a pair of aircraft engineers. They were Walter and Reimar Horten, both born in Germany; the former in 1913 and the latter in 1915. There’s no doubt that during the Second World War the pair constructed some very strange aerial vehicles. According to what Annie Jacobsen was told, by 1947 Stalin’s infernal plan was just about ready to go. A glaringly obvious question needs answering: how on Earth could a number of poor, surgically-altered children fly a highly advanced aircraft all the way from Russia to the United States? Well, according to Alfred O’Donnell, they didn’t. He claimed that the vehicle the children were strapped in was actually remotely-controlled – and flown all the way to the United States, no less – by the crew of a second Horten-type craft.
The plot was for the aircraft containing the children to land in a visible location in the United States and then have the children exit the strange-looking craft and present themselves to the highest echelons of the U.S. government. The outcome: a unanimous belief that an alien invasion was about to begin, and widespread chaos and fear across the land would inevitably follow. It didn’t quite work out like that, though. As history has shown, the craft crashed rather than landed, and all of the action went down on the remote Foster Ranch, New Mexico; not on the lawns of the White House, as, perhaps, may have been the plan. And the whole thing was hastily hidden and covered up by a tale of a torn and tattered weather-balloon.
There’s no doubt that this saga is filled to the brim with controversy. But, where did it come from? Yes, we know that Annie Jacobsen was told the story by Alfred O’Donnell. What we don’t know – 100 percent fully – however, is how it all developed. My personal opinion is that O’Donnell got at least some of it from the notorious MJ12/Majestic 12 documents. In my 2019 book, Flying Saucers from the Kremlin: UFOs, Russian Meddling & Cold War Secrets, I provided data that strongly suggests the Soviets were secretly behind at least some of the MJ12 papers. The reason: disinformation, psychological warfare, downright Soviet meddling, and outright mind-fucking. One of those documents, which surfaced back in the 1990s, is titled “Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit Summary.” There are a few points within the summary document that make me think O’Donnell had access to this document – and, probably, to other MJ12 forgeries that we, the public, still have yet to see – and which led to the story he told to Jacobsen.
The IPU summary states that on “…3 July 47, radar stations in east Texas and White Stands Proving Ground, N.M., tracked two unidentified aircraft until both dropped off radar.” So, we have the “two aircraft” scenario that O’Donnell provided to Jacobsen. But, we are not done. Nowhere near. Now, let’s address the matter of the “aliens,” or the altered children – take your pick. Still with the IPU summary paper, we are told the following concerning the bodies: “From what descriptions the team was able to learn and from photographs taken by intelligence photographers, the occupants appear in most respects human with some anatomical differences in the head, eyes, hands and feet. They have a slight build about five feet tall, with grayish-pink skin color. They have no hair on their bodies and clothed with a tight fitting flight suit that appears to be fire proof (some of the bodies looked as if they had been burned on head and hands). Their overall stature reminds one of young children. It is believed that there were male and female genders present, but hard to distinguish.”
It’s important to note that the words “young children” are specifically underlined in the IPU document. I believe, and I conclude, that those words “young children” were underlined in the document for a purpose. They were meant to stand out. My view is that the purpose was to sow the seeds of the rumors that the “crew” just might have been children. Or, at the very least, to have people muse upon that theory, and based on those underlined words. By being underlined, those two words stand out, which – as I see it – was clearly the point. Not only that, as the IPU document gets near to its end there are these words from the unnamed creator of the paperwork: “Our assessment of this investigation rests on two assumptions: 1) Either this discovery was an elaborate and well orchestrated hoax (maybe by the Russians), or; 2) Our country has played host to beings from another planet.” So, we have yet another aspect of O’Donnell’s story brought to the fore: that of the possibility that the whole thing was a “well orchestrated hoax” of the Soviet Union. That, of course, is the absolute thrust of the story told in Annie Jacobsen’s book.
All of the main ingredients of O’Donnell’s story can be found in the “Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit Summary.” Within that summary are (A) the reference to two craft; (B) the conclusion that the “overall stature” of the beings “reminds one of young children;” and (C) the theory (or the possibility) that the Russians had pulled off a strange and very disturbing “hoax.” Moreover, point (C) suggests that those in the know had spent time looking at the Russian hoax scenario. We cannot fail to see that Alfred O’Donnell told a long and winding story to Annie Jacobsen that absolutely mirrored certain key issues contained within the IPU material.
My conclusion is that O’Donnell didn’t fabricate anything. I conclude that he saw the IPU document long before it surfaced into the public domain in the 1990s. I believe he honestly shared his story with Annie Jacobsen as he recalled it. And I believe Annie Jacobsen told the story – 100 percent accurately – as it was told to her. And, taking into consideration the fact that the same document is referred to as only being a “summary,” it makes me think that O’Donnell very likely saw a much bigger and far more detailed report than the 6-page summary that I have quoted from. Somewhere, I suggest, a far lengthier IPU report is hidden away. But, here’s the most important thing of all: it won’t tell any truths. None of the documentation does. And none of it ever will. The IPU papers amount to a complicated and controversial creation of Soviet experts who worked in the fields of psychological warfare, counterintelligence and disinformation. O’Donnell totally bought into the document and its contents, rather than dismissing it as a Soviet-created hoaxed document. Ironically, and somewhat confusingly, U.S. intelligence may also have decided to use the Russian angle, as a means to hide what really happened at Roswell; something else that would have led O’Donnell to conclude that the Roswell enigma had Soviet origins. And, the rest is history, as they say
Part 1 of this 3-part article began as follows, in relation to my research into the Roswell “UFO crash” of 1947.
“Last week I was interviewed on the subject of my 2017 book, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy. It is a follow-up to my 2005 book, Body Snatchers in the Desert. Both books focus on the theory that what happened outside of Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947 had nothing to do with aliens, but everything to do with classified programs connected to high-altitude experiments in New Mexico, exposure to radiation, huge balloons and much more. As for that interview, it was for a new book that the guy is writing on Roswell from the E.T. perspective. As a full-on believer that aliens did come down on the Foster Ranch in forty-seven, he was having none of what I had to say. He basically said there was no way that terrible experiments – of the types described in my books – would ever have been undertaken back in the 1940s. Clearly, he didn’t know his history. I said something to the effect of: “You’re joking, right?” He assured me he was not joking. So, I told him to check out the ultimate report on this angle of “human experimentation” back in the 1940s (and onward). It is titled Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report. Dated October 1995, it runs to no less than 925 pages and was published by the U.S. Government Printing Office. One of the days I’ll share with you the very strange story of how I got my copy and how it’s filled to the brim with annotations from the retired person who provided it to me. But, that’s for another day. Back to those experiments.”
If all of the above is true – that what happened at Roswell, New Mexico in early July 1947 involved not a UFO and an alien crew, but a homegrown, top secret experiment of highly disturbing proportions – then why can’t we prove it? Well, first and foremost, no theory that has been put forward for the incident has proved to be the precise answer. For example, even the U.S. Air Force admitted that it couldn’t state with 100 percent certainty that their conclusions told the correct story. Many of you will know that in 1997 the Air Force presented a theory that the so-called “alien bodies” were really crash-test dummies. Actually, that’s not quite right. If you read the 1997 report on Roswell carefully, you’ll see that the Air Force said that the bodies were “probably” dummies. Yes, probably. That was their word, not mine. That’s because the Air Force couldn’t find any papers that confirmed dummies came down in Lincoln County, New Mexico in July 1947. If even the USAF couldn’t find the files back in 1997, then what chance do we have today? The answer is, to be honest, not much of a chance at all. The same goes for the Mogul balloon theory, for the idea that Roswell was a hoax initiated by the Russians, for Mac Tonnies’ “cryptoterrestrial theory” and for the data in my 2017 book, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy.
Can the data in the 1995 report help us to solve the enigma of Roswell? If, in the late-1940s, people were used against their collective will, and used in experiments that led to the creation of a UFO legend, we could make a case – based on logic – that the files on Roswell should be held deep somewhere in the government’s, mindbogglingly-massive collection of “human experiment” files, rather than in hidden UFO records, right? Yes, that should be the case. Unfortunately, however, the report does not help us to solve Roswell. And why might that be? Almost certainly for one particular, eye-opening reason: numerous files that the Advisory Committee hoped to examine couldn’t be found. Let’s see what the Committee had to say about all of this. Its staff stated: “One of the most difficult tasks before the Committee was determining how many federally sponsored human radiation experiments occurred between 1944 and 1974 and who conducted them. When President Clinton established the Committee, he also directed the Human Radiation Interagency Working Group to provide us with all relevant documentary information in each of the agencies’ files. Teams were formed to identify the hundreds of government sites where relevant documents might be located.We discovered there was no easy way to identify how many experiments had been conducted, where they took place, and which government agencies had sponsored them [italics mine].”
The Committee asked an important question: “What rules or policies, if any, existed, to govern federally sponsored experiments in the pre-1974 period?” The response was: “The prevailing assumption was that, with a few notable exceptions, it was not until the mid-1960s that federal agencies began to develop such policies in any significant way…As we began our search into the past, we found that it was necessary to reconstruct a vanished world. The Committee and the agencies had to collect information scattered in warehouses throughout the country.”
In other words, it wasn’t just a case of examining the old “human experimentation” files; it was also a matter of trying to find them. And, we know that a significant body of old material was not found. Just maybe, if Roswell was a secret experiment, rather than the crash of a UFO, then – for decades- we may have been looking in all of the wrong directions for the answers. Instead of searching for tales of dead aliens, we should be looking outside of the box. By that, I mean if people were used in terrible experiments in New Mexico in July 1947, then the truth of Roswell may be buried somewhere – yes, still, more than seventy years later – in a warehouse that has yet to be addressed and examined that remains overlooked. Perhaps, today, there is no Roswell cover-up. Maybe, the files are just sitting somewhere, out of sight, stored away on a dusty shelf and overlooked. Shades of the final seconds of Raiders of the Lost Ark? Kind of. Just maybe, to get the answers to Roswell we – just like the Committee – need to “reconstruct a vanished world” too.
With this three-part article now at its end, I’ll say this: I’m as certain as I can be that if the files on Roswell still exist, they won’t be found in the UFO archives of the U.S. Air Force, the NSA, the CIA, the DIA, the FBI, NASA, the…well, the list goes on. Where they will be found, I predict, is in a decades-old file that details tales of shocking, secret experiments on people that crossed the line.
There are perhaps no stranger cases among cryptid or alien reports than what have been described as humanoid insect creatures. I have covered this topic before, but there are many other accounts that seem to really go beyond the bizarre to enter realms that are in no way easy to classify or categorize at all. Here we have reports of encounters of what can only be described as walking giant bugs, and they are every bit as completely off-the-wall as you might imagine.
One place where one might expect to see something odd and beyond the explainable would be out in rural or wilderness areas, but nothing likely could prepare some witnesses for their surreal and outlandish experience of seeing an insectoid humanoid in the wilds. This is exactly what allegedly happened to a witness called “Ricky,” who called in his experience on the show Coast To Coast AM on September 27, 2016. He says that at the time he had been on what was supposed to be a fun, family camping trip at the Sequoia National Forest, located in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains of California and known for its towering, ancient giant sequoia trees. With its majestic trees lending it an otherworldly ambiance, this place already looks like something from a dream world, but it would get utterly bizarre one evening after everyone had gone to bed and the witness stayed up gazing upon the flickering embers of the bonfire they had made. He explains:
At about 9 o’clock, everyone decides to go to sleep and my friend and I were left staring at the bonfire. I decided it was a good time to listen to music so I went to my sister’s forerunner and I was opening the back to grab my Ipod. And as I opened the back door, I heard something come out of the tree. It didn’t come out of the tree. It was almost like it was holding on and it fell. And I heard this huge thump. I could feel it. And as I… I had a flashlight on me. I looked over at the tree I heard the fall from and I swear on my life and I swear to God, honest to God, I saw a 6 to 7-foot-tall praying mantis. And as I laid eyes on it, I completely lost breath. I was completely taken aback. It took a step back and it became completely invisible. I could not believe what I saw.
I slammed the door and I ran back to the campfire. I alerted my friend. I woke everyone up and no one would believe me. I was really upset because I knew what I’d seen. So that happened and my friend didn’t believe me. He was laughing at me and then all of a sudden I could hear all these things surrounding us and finally when I brought it to my friend’s attention, he kinda put his ear to it and he heard it too. Finally, I was patrolling the campground with my flashlight and I could just hear these things surrounding us and I heard like this clicking sound, it was like (makes clicking sound). It was really strange. I was so scared.
What was this creature and how can we reconcile it with anything known to exist in those woods? From researcher Albert Rosales we have another account of a camping encounter, this time from the country of Poland. The witness purportedly had been camping out in the remote wilds of Wielkopolska province, Poland, and had her experience as she was walking through a meadow on her way back to the camping site from a hike. As she approached her tent, her attention was drawn to an odd figure squatting down next to a nearby lake. Not knowing what exactly she was looking at and startled that anyone else would be out there in this isolated place, she approached until she was only 8 meters away, as she did realizing that this was not a human being. She would describe it as looking like a humanoid insect, estimated to be around 5 feet tall and with extremely long thin limbs, gray or beige in color, and possessing oversized black eyes that were very much like those of an insect, and thin, fragile looking wings. The witness also expresses that the creature seemed to be surprised that it had been discovered, and would say:
It gazed at me and I knew that it did not know what it would do. Our encounter had no meaning or aim; it appears to have been a total surprise for both of us.
It is unclear what happened after this, but it is certainly not something that anyone wants to run into out in the middle of nowhere in the woods. Another such bonkers report comes to us from the site Phantoms and Monsters, from a witness who says that he has had multiple encounters with some sort of bizarre insectoid, and was just a boy at the time his first. He claims he had lived with his family in a remote mountain area of the wilderness of Ontario, Canada when one day he looked out the window to see something that would leave an indelible impression on his young mind, and which he can clearly remember to this day. He says of what happened:
We had the windows open in the house as air conditioners were not common in 1968. It was a very hot that night. I shared a room with my brother and sister. I woke up during the night and looked out the window into the backyard and in front of a bush about 8 feet away was a small thin creature with shiny black skin. It looked like a small girl but at the same time it kinda looked like an insect. It was crouched on its legs and was leaning forward with one hand on the ground and was looking at me. It had what looked like thin antennas or like needles sticking out from each side of its head and one on top. That’s all I remember and when I told my mom she said it was a dream.
He would have two more sightings of the same creature over the years, each time being told that it was a dream, but he isn’t so sure. Was this all in his head or was there something more to it? The witness himself goes on to say that he feels it might have been an alien presence, and this would certainly fit into numerous reports that seem to definitely be linked to the UFO phenomenon. One report of this kind compiled by Albert Rosales comes from the files of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and describes a very weird encounter that purportedly occurred in April of 2016, in the area of Zygi, Cyprus. The witness explains that she had been hanging out with friends in her yard when they saw a UFO, followed by what they assumed to be its occupant, which was of a decidedly insectoid appearance. She says:
My two friends and I had just finished our meal and were out in the garden talking and drinking (not alcohol). One of my friends had gone into the kitchen to refill their glass, whilst me and my other friend remained outside. After a moment of silence, my friend pointed out an unusually bright ‘star’ moving across the sky, assuming it may have been a comet or something. After a brief moment, I looked up at it again to realize that it was stationary; around 75-100ft above the treeline. I sat there, staring at this ‘thing’, just in complete shock. Every 15 seconds or so it would lower its altitude, until it was only a couple of feet from the tree tops. The weirdest part about this is that absolutely no noise had been emitted thus far. I tried to get out of my chair to hurry inside, but I felt an overwhelming feeling of paralysis, as did my friend. I turned to her and asked her what was going on, but she looked frozen in fear.
After what felt like hours, something appeared from around the trees underneath the triangular craft. It was a humanoid figure, with a head similar to that of an ant, and skin like a crocodile. It had extremely small eyes in proportion to its head, and long, thin appendages. It walked right up to the fence, before sharply turning and sprinting into the darkness of the trees. After a brief moment of complete fear, dread and anxiousness, the craft moved in a linear path towards the West, before becoming no longer visible. During this time, my friend who had gone to refill her glass watched the entire event through the window. She recalls, although neither me or my other friend do, that the creature had some sort of device in its ‘hand’, and that it held it up briefly before its disappearance.
Other reports are really hard to classify as one thing or the other, and serve to be just plain odd. From an episode of Coast to Coast AM comes a report on August 16, 2017, from a caller in a small town called Harwood Heights, just outside of Chicago, Illinois. He says that one evening he came home from work at around 1:30 AM and looked out the widow to see something outlandish looking back at him from the darkness. He says of the incident:
I looked out to the window to across the street and I saw a crypto, if you will, a Mothman-type insectoid; small body, unusually large head normal, no red eyes, and it kept staring. I went to make tea, fed the cats, came back, rubbed my eyes to see if I was tired and seeing things and, sure enough, it was there. One important thing, there was no foreboding fear. None whatsoever. That I found interesting. I was shocked as many people that had seen similar things. I went several times. I would say about four to five times, just peering outside, looking at the window and it just stood there. I live in a small town near Chicago. I figured police would do their rounds or someone would see it. You could hear a pin drop. It’s a very small community, sure enough, no one was around. It did not faze me to take a picture. I did have a smartphone at the time right but overall no fear and absolutely, you’re just there in the shock because you just can’t believe what you’re seeing. You listen to accounts but you never think you will be in that situation. I went back several times. I was listening to your show that night, peering out every now and then. It just kept standing there.
In the morning I went to see any trace of anything. It was gone, so, yeah. Above all, I would say the strangest thing would be I was not afraid at all and it shocks me to even say that now. Thinking back over the several months and years, I talked to friends, they have an interest in it – I kept thinking it was crouching like a runner would be so it could have been taller as many people claim to it being six or seven feet. It was almost as if definitely the body was much smaller and the head came to a point, almost as if, you know the old cartoons from Mad Magazine Spy Vs Spy, with the nose, if you will, comes into like a parrot’s or a bird beak, but there’s no beak, so it is very kind of pointed protruding face, if you will, but again, there were no eyes and there were no facial features, but again, in that humanoid design that’s where the face would be, of course, so yeah, but the head was much bigger than the body.
The Chicago area has several other strange insectoid reports like this that are really hard to classify. One comes again from the files of Albert Rosales, and describes the experience of a witness who had been sleeping on the sofa at a friend’s house in Chicago, Illinois, when he was suddenly roused from his slumber by a crushing sensation of terror, made even worse when he discovered that he was unable to move. When the paralyzed man glanced around the room in terror, he claims he saw looming by the doorway a 7-foot-tall humanoid entity that looked like “a large praying mantis that was wearing something resembling a black and purple cloak.” This horrifying creature apparently then approached the man and reached out to touch his shoulder with a skeletal hand with long, thin fingers, after which the witness lost consciousness. When he awoke the creature was gone.
Another report from Chicago comes from Phantoms and Monsters, and describes some sort of flying insectoid humanoid at Chicago’s Willis Tower. The witness supposedly outside having a cigarette when he looked up to see a winged humanoid figure ominously crouched up on the tower as if perched there like a gargoyle. Then the creature allegedly moved, unfurled its wings, and leapt off the building to go soaring into the sky. It was then that the witness realized that the creature was very insect-like in form, and Lon Strickler says of the report:
The witness states that the being’s outstretched wings were not very large, maybe 6-8 from tip-tip, but were very jagged and insect-like (shaped similar to a moth). The being was also dark green in color and had a body form like that of a mantis. The legs seemed to be human-like and extended beyond the body while flying. He called it a ‘human, insect and bird mix’…that seemed to mutate while in flight.
Joining the ranks of all of this bizarreness is an encounter originally published in the October 8, 2017 edition of Strange Magazine, that supposedly occurred back in 1948 at the shipbuilding port city of Bremerton, in the U.S. state of Washington. One day, a young woman named Virginia Staples was just going about her usual daily household chores, carrying a load of laundry down to the washing machines in the basement of her run-down apartment building. It was a mindless chore she had done countless times before, and there would have been no reason for this time to be any different, but it was to prove to lead to a shocking experience, indeed.
The dim basement was described as enormous, its volumous floor constantly covered with a sheen of water that leaked from the walls and was rumored to come from passageways leading to the nearby sea, but although it all had a rather creepy foreboding atmosphere, Virginia was used to working in this dark and dank place. Yet on this day something was not quite right, as she felt an undefinable sense of unease and dread, as if she were being watched from the ample shadows clinging to everything in there. She tried to cast the odd feeling out of her head, chalking it up to nerves, but it would not abate, indeed becoming stronger the longer she lingered there, graduating to sheer terror for no discernible reason. She would say of what happened next:
It was such a creepy feeling I finally turned around and looked toward the back of the basement and froze. I was so scared I can still feel it. I couldn’t move. In one of the huge holes in the basement there stood this thing. It was horrible! I stand five feet tall and this creature was as tall as I was. It had a bright orange colored body and little spidery thin legs and antennae on its head that kept moving back and in and out. That thing started towards me. I backed out of the basement and got up to my apartment and packed up all my things and moved. I was so scared. I moved over to Seattle to my cousin’s. Really no one would really believe this, but as God is my witness it really happened.
She would say that it looked to her almost like a humanoid shrimp, and that for years afterwards she says she had potent, chronic nightmares. The interesting part of this tale, other than the sheer outlandishness of the entity described, is that this was in the basement of an apartment complex, and not even a remote one out in the boondocks. At the time Bremerton was a bustling Naval port city home to around 80,000 people, so it makes no sense at all that there should be this thing, even if there were passageways to the sea. Where did it come from and why didn’t anyone else see it? The strange abomination was only seen this one time and we are left to wonder just what it could have possibly been or whether it ever really happened at all.
That is a recurring message we are left with in cases like these. Did they ever really happen at all? They are so completely and utterly bizarre that we have to at least accept the possibility that they are hallucinations, misidentifications, or straight up lies. But what if they are real? If that is the case, then what are we dealing with here? Are these aliens, interdimensional interlopers, or something else altogether? How do we even know where to begin? Whatever the answers may be, this is a very outlandish and little known area of humanoid encounters that really lodges out into the outer periphery of the odd, and as long as cases like these come in we are left to wonder what they all mean, if anything.
There’s an interesting new articleover at The Drive, as you’ll see from the title of that same article they have published: “Visitors to Area 51 Have to Wear ‘Foggles.’ That Severely Limit Vision When Moving About.” In part, the article – written by Tyler Rogoway – states: “The term refers to goggle-like eyewear that have fogged-out wrap-around lenses and a notch or bifocal-like area at the bottom that allows a wearer to see what is immediately in front of and below them. With the vast majority of the goggle’s viewing area frosted over, nothing can be made out at any meaningful distance.” There is a particular reason why I say that The Drive’s story is interesting. In July 2006, I interviewed a guy named John who told me that while working out at Area 51 – way back in the early 1970s – he had to wear such goggles when he was in certain portions of the base that were sensitive and secret. I first publicly told the story of John and his weird, vision-limiting goggles in 2006. I also publicized it, with new material, in 2010.
As I said back then: “John spent his days off in Las Vegas, playing the slots and getting to know the ladies of Sin City. Then, when his time away from the base was over, he would be flown aboard a Cessna aircraft to Area 51 – with the window blinds permanently down. On each occasion, the other passengers were always the same: three men who he got to know over the course of the following year. Indeed, they all became good friends, and looked forward to their time off in the big city. Weirdest of all, on each occasion when the team arrived at the base – which was only a short flight from Las Vegas – they were all ordered to put on pairs of goggles. These were not ordinary goggles, however.
Far from it: They had split lenses, the top part being so thick and distorted that it was only possible to see anything out of the lower part. There was clearly method to this seeming madness. By preventing the men from seeing out of the top portion of the goggles, they were forced to look down – pretty much at their feet. This was obviously orchestrated to ensure that the men would not be able to get a good look at the surface portions of Area 51. In single-file, awkward, shuffling fashion they would follow their supervisor to a bus with blacked-out windows.”
While working out at Area 51, John was exposed to documents that told incredible stories of wrecked flying saucers, deceased aliens, the autopsies of extraterrestrial corpses, and the study of alien science – with a goal to try and replicate that very same E.T. science. Rather notably, despite being exposed to a truly astonishing wealth of material out at Area 51, John slowly began to wonder if his whole time spent there was nothing but a ruse. He speculated to me on the possibility that this was all some sort of intricate mind-game: to flood John’s mind with bizarre tales and documents relative to dead extraterrestrials, alien autopsies, and spacecraft from other worlds. Maybe, John suggested, it was a loyalty test: to see if he ran to the Washington Post or to the New York Times. John did neither: he stayed quiet (at least until the 2000s, when he was well into his old age), and as a result of his silence he was offered prestigious positions for another decade.
John also speculated on another possibility, a possibility that involved the Soviets. Although he was somewhat reluctant to address the matter in-depth – which is intriguing – John said he heard a few nuggets of information suggesting there was a small program that was trying to convince the Russians that the United States government had not just alien bodies in its hands, but extraterrestrial technology; even highly advanced, powerful alien weaponry. John wondered if all of this was a game – one designed to scare the Russians into thinking we had something that we never really did, but which the staff at Area 51 were hoping the Russians would come to believe. And to fear.
John died in 2013. His widow stated that in his final years John came to believe more and more that what he saw and read out at Area 51 in the early 1970s amounted to a huge mind-game; a fabrication to have the Russians running around like headless chickens, wasting their time on lies dressed up as incredible truths. Ingenious, Cold War-era disinformation, in other words. For John, the whole situation was well and truly fogged. And, it seems, the fogging is still going on.
Last week I was interviewed on the subject of my 2017 book, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy. It is a follow-up to my 2005 book, Body Snatchers in the Desert. Both books focus on the theory that what happened outside of Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947 had nothing to do with aliens, but everything to do with classified programs connected to high-altitude experiments in New Mexico, exposure to radiation, huge balloons and much more. As for that interview, it was for a new book that the guy is writing on Roswell from the E.T. perspective. As a full-on believer that aliens did come down on the Foster Ranch in forty-seven, he was having none of what I had to say. He basically said there was no way that terrible experiments – of the types described in my books – would ever have been undertaken back in the 1940s. Clearly, he didn’t know his history. I said something to the effect of: “You’re joking, right?” He assured me he was not joking. So, I told him to check out the ultimate report on this angle of “human experimentation” back in the 1940s (and onward). It is titled Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report. Dated October 1995, it runs to no less than 925 pages and was published by the U.S. Government Printing Office. One of the days I’ll share with you the very strange story of how I got my copy and how it’s filled to the brim with annotations from the retired person who provided it to me. But, that’s for another day. Back to those experiments.
A careful study of the massive report demonstrates that as far back as the 1940s highly classified experiments were undertaken on people – revolving around the effects of radiation. Although, it’s important to note that the report doesn’t just focus on radiation-based issues. For example, there is a section on the CIA’s “mind-control” program, MKULTRA and other controversial topics. One of the things that I was told by some of my sources was that in the summer of 1947 – when the Roswell affair occurred – there was not just one experiment, but somewhere in the region of seven or eight (maybe more…), all of which failed miserably. They involved massive balloon arrays, lifting body-type craft, and high-altitude activity. Those same sources claimed that prisoners were used in several of those various experiments.
So far, no evidence has surfaced to show that the 1947 experiments near Roswell, New Mexico involved prisoners. There is, however, plenty of data available that shows prisoners most definitely were used in top secret experimentation. Notably, plans (that were ultimately shelved) show that some of those experiments involved then-newly-planned radical aircraft. Chapter 9 of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report states that: “In July 1949 a medical advisory panel met in Washington, D.C., to discuss psychological problems posed by radiation to crews of a then-planned nuclear-powered airplane. During the meeting an Air Force colonel noted that crewmen were concerned about anything physically harmful…” The report continues that although the nuclear-powered plane was never built, the military still had concerns regarding “…space flight, weapons plants, nuclear power plants, and on an atomic battlefield…”
Also from the 1949 panel, there are these eye-opening words: “The Committee is not in a position to make recommendations as to where these tests can be conducted other than that they should be carried out at some federal, state, or Armed Services prison, where life prisoners are incarcerated and where arrangements can be made with the prison authorities to cooperate in the experiment. The selection of the prison is a matter for top military consideration. Continued cooperation of the prison staff and prisoners for a matter of many years will be required.”
As the report also notes, between 1963 and 1973 “…131 prisoners in Oregon and Washington submitted to experimental testicular irradiation with national security and other societal goals, but no potential for therapeutic benefit for the subjects.” The report also states that two, specific studies were initiated: they were run by Carl G. Heller, M.D., and C. Alvin Paulsen, M.D. As the documentation shows, “The government was interested in the effects of ionizing radiation on workers, astronauts, and other Americans who might be exposed, in a nuclear attack for example.” There’s this, too: “Both doctors viewed prisoners as ideal subjects. They were healthy, adult males who were not going anytime soon. In 1963 few if any researchers had moral qualms about using them as subjects, although there seems to have been a consensus in the research community on the rules that should govern such experimentation. By 1973, however, some ethicists, researchers, and others, such as the investigative journalist Jessica Mitford, pointed out that incarcerated people were not well placed to make voluntary decisions.”
And, there’s more: “In 1976, the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research recommended the banning of almost all research on prisoners. Prison experimentation effectively came to an end in this country a few years after the commission offered its recommendations.” Does any of this prove that prisoners may have been used in highly-classified test-flights in New Mexico in the summer of 1947? No, it does not. What it does do, however, is to show that prisoners were used in secret experiments. The idea that some of the New Mexico tests of the summer of 1947 may have involved prisoners no longer seems quite so unlikely, after all.
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Easter Island mystery solved? 'Radical' study cracks meaning behind Easter Island statues
Easter Island mystery solved? 'Radical' study cracks meaning behind Easter Island statues
THE EASTER ISLAND mystery may have just been solved by a group of archaeologists uncovering the ancient secrets and meaning of the Easter Island statues.
The Easter Island statues have stood guard over Rapa Nui or Easter Island, for nearly 1,000 years. The ancient monoliths have long baffled archaeologists who have tried to understand their origin and purpose.
The abundance of foods in the soil around the Rano Raraku quarry suggests the land was an agricultural hotspot for the Rapa Nui.
The Moai were central to the idea of fertility
Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Easter Island Statue Project
Dr Van Tilburg said: “Our excavation broadens our perspective of the Moai and encourages us to realise that nothing, no matter how obvious, is ever exactly as it seems.
“I think our new analysis humanises the production process of the Moai.”
The archaeologist has spent the last 30 years working on Easter Island.
Her most recent discovery was aided by soil specialist Sarah Sherwood and UCLA archaeologist Tom Wake.
Dr Sherwood said: “When we got the chemistry results back, I did a double-take.
“There were really high levels of things that I never would have thought would be there, such as calcium and phosphorous.
“The soil chemistry showed high levels of elements that are key to plant growth and essential for high yields.
“Everywhere else on the island the soil was being quickly worn out, eroding, being leeched of elements that feed plants, but in the quarry, with its constant new influx of small fragments of the bedrock generated by the quarrying process, there is a perfect feedback system of water, natural fertiliser and nutrients.”
The expert believes the discovery points to an agriculturally-minded civilisation that knew to plant different crops in the same spot time and time again.
Dr Van Tilburg added: “This study radically alters the idea that all standing statues in Rano Raraku were simply awaiting transport out of the quarry.
“That is, these and probably other upright Moai in Rano Raraku were retained in place to ensure the sacred nature of the quarry itself,
“The Moai were central to the idea of fertility, and in Rapanui belief their presence here stimulated agricultural food production.”
Getty ImagesVoorstelling van het aardmagnetische veld.
WETENSCHAPDe magnetische noordpool op aarde schuift de laatste jaren sneller op dan de voorbije vier eeuwen en is in september de nulmeridiaan gepasseerd. Het is nog niet duidelijk of de magnetische noord- en zuidpool ook effectief van plaats zullen wisselen, zoals dat sowieso ooit weer zal gebeuren. Moderne navigatiesystemen zullen alleszins opnieuw moeten worden gekalibreerd.
De magnetische noordpool is formeel ontdekt in 1831. Sindsdien heeft hij ongeveer 2.250 km afgelegd. De voorbije twee decennia verplaatst hij zich van het Canadese noordpoolgebied oostwaarts, richting Siberië, met een gemiddelde snelheid van 55 km per jaar. Dat is veel sneller dan het gemiddelde van 14,5 km per jaar voorheen. De recentste wetenschappelijke modellen voorspellen dat dit proces nog enige tijd zal aanhouden, zij het aan een lager tempo van 40 km per jaar.
De verschuiving is van belang voor de accuraatheid van gps - ook kaarten en allerlei kompasafhankelijke apps op onze smartphone - en andere navigatiesystemen. Legers verlaten zich erop voor hun onderzeeërs, vliegtuigen en parachutisten. In de praktijk kunnen vliegtuigen en schepen er hinder van ondervinden. Zo moest de luchthaven van Fairbanks in Alaska in 2009 een startbaan van naam veranderen omdat die gebaseerd was op het veranderende magnetische noorden, waarop een kompas zich oriënteert. In 2033 zullen ze waarschijnlijk opnieuw de naam moeten wijzigen. Hoe dichter bij de noordpool, hoe voelbaarder de effecten van de verschuiving van het magnetisch veld.
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Ook vogels, zalmen en zeeschildpadden, die gebruik maken van het magnetisch veld om zich te oriënteren, zich zullen moeten aanpassen als de magnetische noord- en zuidpool van plaats wisselen.
Stel dat er - zoals in het verleden al vaker gebeurde zonder noemenswaardige biologische gevolgen, én wat sowieso opnieuw zal gebeuren - een ompoling plaatsvindt, dan wijst een kompasnaald niet langer naar het geografische noorden maar naar het zuiden. De laatste keer dat er een gedeeltelijke switch van de magnetische polen voorviel, was 22.000 jaar geleden. Voor een volledige ompoling moeten we al 780.000 jaar terug in de tijd. Mogelijk zit de aarde opnieuw in een periode van omschakeling. Een aanwijzing daarvoor is de huidige verzwakking van het aardmagnetische veld.
Kompas wijst ware noorden aan
Een kompas in Greenwich, de Londense wijk waar de nulmeridiaan doorloopt, duidde in september voor het eerst in 360 jaar (sinds 1660) het “ware noorden” aan, dat bepaald wordt door de aardas. Met andere woorden: het magnetische en het geografische noorden vielen samen.
De nulmeridiaan werd in 1884 voorgesteld als het officiële ijkpunt van nul graden, nul minuten en nul seconden. De geografische noordpool van de aarde ligt in de Noordelijke IJszee, de geografische zuidepool op het continent Antarctica. De voorbije vier eeuwen wees een kompas in Londen westwaarts ten opzichte van het ware noorden. Verwacht wordt dat tegen 2040 alle kompassen oostwaarts van het geografische noorden zullen wijzen.
Dat het magnetische noorden op drift is, komt door een verzwakking in het magnetische veld. Waarom dat zo is, weten onderzoekers niet. Om de vijf jaar lossen zij een nieuwe versie van het World Magnetic Model, vandaar de recente update voor 2020. Door de versnelde verschuiving van het magnetische noorden kwam er uitzonderlijk ook al in februari een tijdelijke update.
Easter Island Statue ProjectJo Anne Van Tilburg en haar team groeven twee moai op in Rano Raraku op Paaseiland.
WETENSCHAPDe mysterieuze moai, het zou een Suske & Wiske-album kunnen zijn. Maar de stenen beelden op Paaseiland zijn géén stripfiguren: ze bestaan écht. Ze werden vermoedelijk tussen de elfde en zeventiende eeuw geboetseerd. Waarom, dat houdt wetenschappers al jaren bezig. Een nieuwe ontdekking uit de recentste studie staaft de hypothese van bodemvruchtbaarheid.
Het nieuwe onderzoek werd geleid door Jo Anne Van Tilburg van de University of California in Los Angeles en teves directeur van het Easter Island Statue Project. Zij werkt al dertig jaar op het afgelegen Polynesische eiland, op zo’n 3.000 km van de Chileense kust.
Haar team bestudeerde twee van de meer dan duizend monolithische beelden in het oosten van Paaseiland of Rapa Nui. Beide moai werden in een periode van vijf jaar opgegraven in de steengroeve Rano Raraku, waar 95 procent van de beelden uitgehouwen zijn. Ze dateren volgens Van Tilburg van ergens tussen 1510 en 1645 - vijftig jaar later stopte de productie door contacten met het westen. De focus lag op moai RR-0001-156, een van de enige drie op het hele eiland die versierd waren met een reeks samenhangende rotstekeningmotieven.
Hoewel ze helemaal niet focuste op de vruchtbaarheid van de grond, liet Van Tilburg toch uit nieuwsgierigheid bodemstalen nauwkeurig onderzoeken. Uit de analyse bleek dat de bodem van Rano Raraku de vruchtbaarste op heel Paaseiland was. Meer nog: het delven zelf van de vulkanische steen zou, in combinatie met de aanwezigheid van een zoetwaterbron, hebben bijgedragen tot de vruchtbaarheid. De constante aanvoer van stukjes grondgesteente zorgde mee voor een natuurlijke bemesting van de bodem die al rijk aan klei was. Er werden in het gebied sporen gevonden voor de aanwezigheid van voedsel als zoete aardappel, fleskalebas, bananen en taro.
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De moai op Paaseiland werden van de elfde tot de zeventiende eeuw gemaakt in opdracht van de heersende elite. De eilandbewoners geloofden dat de monolitische torso’s de landbouwfertiliteit zouden verhogen en dus ook de cruciale voedselvoorraden. Dat is de stelling van het nieuwe onderzoek, dat gepubliceerd werd in de Journal of Archaeological Science.
De vruchtbaarheid van de bodem werd al veel langer geopperd als reden voor de aanwezigheid van de moai’s op Paaseiland. Van Tilburg beweert nu ook wetenschappelijk bewijs te hebben gevonden dankzij de analyse van bodemstalen uit de voormalige steengroeve, die ook een vruchtbaar landbouwgebied bleek te zijn.
De twee opgegraven moai waren rechtopstaande standbeelden. Het ene stond op een voetstuk, het andere was ingebed in de grond. Dat wijst erop dat ze op hun plaats moesten blijven. “Dit onderzoek gaat radicaal in tegen de idee dat alle standbeelden van Rano Raraku gewoon wachtten om te worden getransporteerd”, aldus Van Tilburg. “Dat betekent dat deze en waarschijnlijk ook andere rechtopstaande moai in Rano Raraku daar werden gehouden om de heiligheid van de groeve zelf te waarborgen. De moai stonden centraal in het vruchtbaarheidsidee, en in het geloof van Rapanui dat hun aanwezigheid hier de landbouwproductie van voedsel stimuleerde.”
De ploeg wetenschappers onderzoekt nu ook nog verder de artistieke inkervingen in de enige drie beelden op Paaseiland die ze bevatten.
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A Deadly Mistake Uncovered on UFO Videos from 2019 and How to Avoid It
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“What exactly is chaos? The name “chaos theory” comes from the fact that the systems that the theory describes are apparently disordered, but chaos theory is really about finding the underlying order in apparently random data.
When was chaos first discovered? The first true experimenter in chaos was a meteorologist, named Edward Lorenz. In 1960, he was working on the problem of weather prediction. He had a computer set up, with a set of twelve equations to model the weather. It didn’t predict the weather itself. However this computer program did theoretically predict what the weather might be. One day in 1961, he wanted to see a particular sequence again. To save time, he started in the middle of the sequence, instead of the beginning. He entered the number off his printout and left to let it run. When he came back an hour later, the sequence had evolved differently. Instead of the same pattern as before, it diverged from the pattern, ending up wildly different from the original. Eventually he figured out what happened. The computer stored the numbers to six decimal places in its memory. To save paper, he only had it print out three decimal places. In the original sequence, the number was .506127, and he had only typed the first three digits, .506. By all conventional ideas of the time, it should have worked. He should have gotten a sequence very close to the original sequence. A scientist considers himself lucky if he can get measurements with accuracy to three decimal places. Surely the fourth and fifth, impossible to measure using reasonable methods, can’t have a huge effect on the outcome of the experiment. Lorenz proved this idea wrong.
This effect came to be known as the butterfly effect. The amount of difference in the starting points of the two curves is so small that it is comparable to a butterfly flapping its wings. The flapping of a single butterfly’s wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month’s time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn’t happen. Or maybe one that wasn’t going to happen, does. (Ian Stewart, “Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos,” pg. 141) This phenomenon, common to chaos theory, is also known as sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Just a small change in the initial conditions can drastically change the long-term behavior of a system. Such a small amount of difference in a measurement might be considered experimental noise, background noise, or an inaccuracy of the equipment. Such things are impossible to avoid in even the most isolated lab. With a starting number of 2, the final result can be entirely different from the same system with a starting value of 2.000001. It is simply impossible to achieve this level of accuracy – just try and measure something to the nearest millionth of an inch! From this idea, Lorenz stated that it is impossible to predict the weather accurately. However, this discovery led Lorenz on to other aspects of what eventually came to be known as chaos theory. Lorenz started to look for a simpler system that had sensitive dependence on initial conditions. His first discovery had twelve equations, and he wanted a much more simple version that still had this attribute. He took the equations for convection, and stripped them down, making them unrealistically simple. The system no longer had anything to do with convection, but it did have sensitive dependence on its initial conditions, and there were only three equations this time. Later, it was discovered that his equations precisely described a water wheel. At the top, water drips steadily into containers hanging on the wheel’s rim. Each container drips steadily from a small hole. If the stream of water is slow, the top containers never fill fast enough to overcome friction, but if the stream is faster, the weight starts to turn the wheel. The rotation might become continuous. Or if the stream is so fast that the heavy containers swing all the way around the bottom and up the other side, the wheel might then slow, stop, and reverse its rotation, turning first one way and then the other. (James Gleick, “Chaos – Making a New Science,” pg. 29)
The equations for this system also seemed to give rise to entirely random behavior. However, when he graphed it, a surprising thing happened. The output always stayed on a curve, a double spiral. There were only two kinds of order previously known: a steady state, in which the variables never change, and periodic behavior, in which the system goes into a loop, repeating itself indefinitely. Lorenz’s equations were definitely ordered – they always followed a spiral. They never settled down to a single point, but since they never repeated the same thing, they weren’t periodic either. He called the image he got when he graphed the equations the Lorenz attractor:
In 1963, Lorenz published a paper describing what he had discovered. He included the unpredictability of the weather, and discussed the types of equations that caused this type of behavior. Unfortunately, the only journal he was able to publish in was a meteorological journal, because he was a meteorologist, not a mathematician or a physicist. As a result, Lorenz’s discoveries weren’t acknowledged until years later, when they were rediscovered by others. Lorenz had discovered something revolutionary; now he had to wait for someone to discover him.
Another system in which sensitive dependence on initial conditions is evident is the flip of a coin. There are two variables in a flipping coin: how soon it hits the ground, and how fast it is flipping. Theoretically, it should be possible to control these variables entirely and control how the coin will end up. In practice, it is impossible to control exactly how fast the coin flips and how high it flips. It is possible to put the variables into a certain range, but it is impossible to control it enough to know the final results of the coin toss. A similar problem occurs in ecology, and the prediction of biological populations. The equation would be simple if population just rises indefinitely, but the effect of predators and a limited food supply make this equation incorrect. The simplest equation that takes this into account is the following:
next year’s population = r * this year’s population * (1 – this year’s population)
In this equation, the population is a number between 0 and 1, where 1 represents the maximum possible population and 0 represents extinction. R is the growth rate. The question was, how does this parameter affect the equation? The obvious answer is that a high growth rate means that the population will settle down at a high population, while a low growth rate means that the population will settle down to a low number. This trend is true for some growth rates, but not for every one. One biologist, Robert May, decided to see what would happen to the equation as the growth rate value changes. At low values of the growth rate, the population would settle down to a single number. For instance, if the growth rate value is 2.7, the population will settle down to .6292. As the growth rate increased, the final population would increase as well. Then, something weird happened. As soon as the growth rate passed 3, the line broke in two. Instead of settling down to a single population, it would jump between two different populations. It would be one value for one year, go to another value the next year, then repeat the cycle forever. Raising the growth rate a little more caused it to jump between four different values. As the parameter rose further, the line bifurcated (doubled) again. The bifurcations came faster and faster until suddenly, chaos appeared. Past a certain growth rate, it becomes impossible to predict the behavior of the equation. However, upon closer inspection, it is possible to see white strips. Looking closer at these strips reveals little windows of order, where the equation goes through the bifurcations again before returning to chaos. This self-similarity, the fact that the graph has an exact copy of itself hidden deep inside, came to be an important aspect of chaos. An employee of IBM, Benoit Mandelbrot was a mathematician studying this self-similarity. One of the areas he was studying was cotton price fluctuations. No matter how the data on cotton prices was analyzed, the results did not fit the normal distribution. Mandelbrot eventually obtained all of the available data on cotton prices, dating back to 1900. When he analyzed the data with IBM’s computers, he noticed an astonishing fact: The numbers that produced aberrations from the point of view of normal distribution produced symmetry from the point of view of scaling. Each particular price change was random and unpredictable. But the sequence of changes was independent on scale: curves for daily price changes and monthly price changes matched perfectly. Incredibly, analyzed Mandelbrot’s way, the degree of variation had remained constant over a tumultuous sixty-year period that saw two World Wars and a depression. (James Gleick, “Chaos – Making a New Science,” pg. 86)
Mandelbrot analyzed not only cotton prices, but many other phenomena as well. At one point, he was wondering about the length of a coastline. A map of a coastline will show many bays. However, measuring the length of a coastline off a map will miss minor bays that were too small to show on the map. Likewise, walking along the coastline misses microscopic bays in between grains of sand. No matter how much a coastline is magnified, there will be more bays visible if it is magnified more. One mathematician, Helge von Koch, captured this idea in a mathematical construction called the Koch curve. To create a Koch curve, imagine an equilateral triangle. To the middle third of each side, add another equilateral triangle. Keep on adding new triangles to the middle part of each side, and the result is a Koch curve. A magnification of the Koch curve looks exactly the same as the original. It is another self-similar figure:
The Koch curve brings up an interesting paradox. Each time new triangles are added to the figure, the length of the line gets longer. However, the inner area of the Koch curve remains less than the area of a circle drawn around the original triangle. Essentially, it is a line of infinite length surrounding a finite area. To get around this difficulty, mathematicians invented fractal dimensions. Fractal comes from the word fractional. The fractal dimension of the Koch curve is somewhere around 1.26. A fractional dimension is impossible to conceive, but it does make sense. The Koch curve is rougher than a smooth curve or line, which has one dimension. Since it is rougher and more crinkly, it is better at taking up space. However, it’s not as good at filling up space as a square with two dimensions is, since it doesn’t really have any area. So it makes sense that the dimension of the Koch curve is somewhere in between the two. Fractal has come to mean any image that displays the attribute of self-similarity. The bifurcation diagram of the population equation is fractal. The Lorenz Attractor is fractal. The Koch curve is fractal. During this time, scientists found it very difficult to get work published about chaos. Since they had not yet shown the relevance to real-world situations, most scientists did not think the results of experiments in chaos were important. As a result, even though chaos is a mathematical phenomenon, most of the research into chaos was done by people in other areas, such as meteorology and ecology. The field of chaos sprouted up as a hobby for scientists working on problems that maybe had something to do with it. Later, a scientist by the name of Feigenbaum was looking at the bifurcation diagram again. He was looking at how fast the bifurcations come. He discovered that they come at a constant rate. He calculated it as 4.669. In other words, he discovered the exact scale at which it was self-similar. Make the diagram 4.669 times smaller, and it looks like the next region of bifurcations. He decided to look at other equations to see if it was possible to determine a scaling factor for them as well. Much to his surprise, the scaling factor was exactly the same. Not only was this complicated equation displaying regularity, the regularity was exactly the same as a much simpler equation. He tried many other functions, and they all produced the same scaling factor, 4.669. This was a revolutionary discovery. He had found that a whole class of mathematical functions behaved in the same, predictable way. This universality would help other scientists easily analyze chaotic equations. Universality gave scientists the first tools to analyze a chaotic system. Now they could use a simple equation to predict the outcome of a more complex equation. Many scientists were exploring equations that created fractal equations. The most famous fractal image is also one of the most simple. It is known as the Mandelbrot set. The equation is simple: z=z2+c. To see if a point is part of the Mandelbrot set, just take a complex number z. Square it, then add the original number. Square the result, then add the original number. Repeat that ad infinitum, and if the number keeps on going up to infinity, it is not part of the Mandelbrot set. If it stays down below a certain level, it is part of the Mandelbrot set. The Mandelbrot set is the innermost section of the picture, and each different shade of gray represents how far out that particular point is. One interesting feature of the Mandelbrot set is that the circular humps match up to the bifurcation graph. The Mandelbrot fractal has the same self-similarity seen in the other equations. In fact, zooming in deep enough on a Mandelbrot fractal will eventually reveal an exact replica of the Mandelbrot set, perfect in every detail. Fractal structures have been noticed in many real-world areas, as well as in mathematician’s minds. Blood vessels branching out further and further, the branches of a tree, the internal structure of the lungs, graphs of stock market data, and many other real-world systems all have something in common: they are all self-similar. Scientists at UC Santa Cruz found chaos in a dripping water faucet. By recording a dripping faucet and recording the periods of time, they discovered that at a certain flow velocity, the dripping no longer occurred at even times. When they graphed the data, they found that the dripping did indeed follow a pattern. The human heart also has a chaotic pattern. The time between beats does not remain constant; it depends on how much activity a person is doing, among other things. Under certain conditions, the heartbeat can speed up. Under different conditions, the heart beats erratically. It might even be called a chaotic heartbeat. The analysis of a heartbeat can help medical researchers find ways to put an abnormal heartbeat back into a steady state, instead of uncontrolled chaos. Researchers discovered a simple set of three equations that graphed a fern. This started a new idea – perhaps DNA encodes not exactly where the leaves grow, but a formula that controls their distribution. DNA, even though it holds an amazing amount of data, could not hold all of the data necessary to determine where every cell of the human body goes. However, by using fractal formulas to control how the blood vessels branch out and the nerve fibers get created, DNA has more than enough information. It has even been speculated that the brain itself might be organized somehow according to the laws of chaos. Chaos even has applications outside of science. Computer art has become more realistic through the use of chaos and fractals. Now, with a simple formula, a computer can create a beautiful, and realistic tree. Instead of following a regular pattern, the bark of a tree can be created according to a formula that almost, but not quite, repeats itself. Music can be created using fractals as well. Using the Lorenz attractor, Diana S. Dabby, a graduate student in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has created variations of musical themes. (“Bach to Chaos: Chaotic Variations on a Classical Theme”, “Science News,” Dec. 24, 1994) By associating the musical notes of a piece of music like Bach’s “Prelude in C” with the x coordinates of the Lorenz attractor, and running a computer program, she has created variations of the theme of the song. Most musicians who hear the new sounds believe that the variations are very musical and creative. Chaos has already had a lasting effect on science, yet there is much still left to be discovered. Many scientists believe that twentieth century science will be known for only three theories: relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. Aspects of chaos show up everywhere around the world, from the currents of the ocean and the flow of blood through fractal blood vessels to the branches of trees and the effects of turbulence. Chaos has inescapably become part of modern science. As chaos changed from a little-known theory to a full science of its own, it has received widespread publicity. Chaos theory has changed the direction of science: in the eyes of the general public, physics is no longer simply the study of subatomic particles in a billion-dollar particle accelerator, but the study of chaotic systems and how they work.”
Stunning footage of 11 UFOs Moving around the Sun, 1 UFO even makes a U-turn!
Stunning footage of 11 UFOs moving around the Sun, 1 UFO even makes a U-turn!
What is going on? What are these huge objects moving near/above/around the sun?
On December 15, 2019, sky-watcher Shadab Shaikh from Mangalore, South Karnataka, India was testing his camera, a Canon 700D /Canon 55-250mm with solar filter (10stop ND filter) as a preparation to film and photograph the Annular Solar Eclipse (94%) visible from Mangalore on 26-12-2019.
During the test he shot a 30 seconds video of the sun and after the clip was copied on his PC he noticed 11 circular UFOs moving in front of the sun.
Some of the UFOs appear to be moving fast and some slow. Some in a straight line and some in a curved path and one UFO even passes the sun, then makes a U-turn and moves back in the direction where it just came from.
What could be the reason that so many alien ships show themselves near the sun?
The First Results Are in From NASA’s Closest Flyby of the Sun
The First Results Are in From NASA’s Closest Flyby of the Sun
The Parker Solar Probe sent back its first batch of results and the observations reveal various solar oddities never seen from Earth.
One year ago, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the Sun than any satellite in history and the mission has returned with unprecedented data from the near-Sun flybys about the behavior of the Sun, the Sun’s solar wind, and its magnetic field.
And the findings, collected by the probe between late 2019 and April 2019, are blowing scientists minds.
The Parker Solar Probe is a specialized spacecraft that is capable of getting closer than ever to the Sun’s surface
So what exactly has Parker found that’s got everyone so excited?
From its close vantage point to the Sun, the new data collected has presented the possible source for “slow” solar wind, a phenomenon that has been a long-standing mystery within the scientific community.
Slow solar winds move at speeds less than 500 km per second, and the source for slow solar wind has remained unknown…until now.
By spending roughly a week observing the coronal holes—areas of colder, darker low-density plasma— the Parker Solar Probe was able to strongly correlate coronal holes located near the sun's equator, to the origin of slow solar wind. But that wasn’t even the most surprising part from the brand new information!
Find out more about the other surprising Parker Probe reveals (think magnetic field and cosmic dust, or lack thereof) on this Elements.
Bizarre UFO Sighting Video Sparks Mystery Over California Town
Bizarre UFO Sighting Video Sparks Mystery Over California Town
A UFO was caught hovering over a town for several minutes in the Californian night sky over Menifee town. It seemed to hang in one area with several bright lights on it for a couple of minutes.
Residents were quick to record the UFO while trying to figure out what it was.
One confused onlooker can be heard questioning the identity of the bright UFO. Another witness in the clip wondered whether the lights and the outline in the dark sky could be a group of drones.
A bystander replied that they are too high to be drones. Another one said that it’s the alien.
The video was reportedly recorded in October this year but has recently resurfaced on the internet.
In the caption, the uploader claimed over a hundred witnesses saw the UFO over Menifee.
They also reveal that the bizarre object made no noise whatsoever.
They added that the vast UFO sped up into the night sky after hovering for around five minutes.
Youtube users were unable to agree on an explanation of the UFO sighting video.
VIDEO: Massive UFO sighting over Totowa, NJ 14-Dec-2019
VIDEO: Massive UFO sighting over Totowa, NJ 14-Dec-2019
These really strange formation was seen and recorded in the sky above Totowa in New Jersey, US. Recorded on Saturday, 14th December 2019.
Witness report:
A long large hovering passing cloud passed over my house. Really close. The cloud had a massive size and was moving all together. It was out of the ordinary.
SpaceX and Boeing's Crewed Capsule Race Heats up With Starliner's Friday Test Flight
SpaceX and Boeing's Crewed Capsule Race Heats up With Starliner's Friday Test Flight
The first week of December kicked off a flurry of productivity for NASA Commercial Crew Program partners SpaceX and Boeing. Ahead of crewed astronaut flight in 2020, both partners are working toward the completion of integral test flights of the two crew capsules that will carry astronauts to orbit from American soil for the first time since 2011.
While SpaceX nailed down a firm targeted launch date for the upcoming in-flight abort (IFA) test of its Crew Dragon capsule, Boeing and launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) worked to complete what is known as an Integrated Day of Launch Test (IDOLT) – a standard procedure ahead of human-rated spaceflight.
This type of rehearsal was routinely completed during the space shuttle era – then referred to as Terminal Countdown Demonstration Tests. The IDOLT was a final major step ahead of the orbital flight test (OFT) of the Atlas V and Boeing Starliner capsule. The upcoming flight test will closely reflect procedures completed by SpaceX with the Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon capsule during its version of the orbital flight test referred to as Demonstration Mission – 1 which previously occurred in March of 2019.
Earlier in the week, ULA rolled out its mighty Atlas V rocket topped off with the Starliner crew capsule from the Vertical Integration Facility to the Space Launch Complex – 41 launchpad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Once at the launchpad, the Crew Access Arm featuring a “white room” at the end that secures to the Starliner capsule to allow astronaut entrance was swung to the capsule for the very first timeOn Wednesday, December 4th, ULA and Boeing teams prepared to support the IDOLT, while SpaceX teams worked nearby at Space Launch Complex – 40 to support the CRS-19 resupply mission to the International Space Station. The simultaneous preparations resulted in the unique opportunity to view both rockets slated to support crewed astronaut flights in 2020 on launchpads and essentially prepared for flight.
Exciting times! TWO rockets on the launch pads! Spacex cargo Dragon getting ready to launch and Starliner/Atlas V rehersing for launch. pic.twitter.com/FKeNfMkjm7
While SpaceX ultimately successfully launched and landed a brand new Falcon 9 booster during the CRS-19 mission on Thursday, December 5th, a scrubbed attempt meant a one-day delay of launch which in turn resulted in a one-day delay for Boeing and ULA’s IDOLT and wet dress rehearsal (WDR).
Falcon 9 B1059 lifts off with Cargo Dragon on its December 5th launch debut. (Teslarati – Richard Angle)
Moving the WDR off of today for a Range conflict. Working other vehicle testing instead. #OFT is coming
The scrubbed launch essentially tied up range operations of the 45th Space Wing so that the area around the active launch pads – air, sea, and land – could not be secured for both events to take place on the same day. As the CRS-19 launch was an active operation for both SpaceX and NASA, it took precedence over ULA and Boeing’s rehearsal. Instead, Thursday was used to complete other necessary vehicle testing by Boeing and ULA.
Busy and productive day of testing. Looks like we’ll be able to recycle into the WDR on Friday now that we are on the other side of the Range conflict. #OFT is coming.
Friday’s IDOLT ahead of Starliner’s flight debut for the OFT was a coordinated effort by NASA, Boeing, and ULA teams in multiple locations around the country.
From Florida to Houston, practice during today’s Integrated Day of Launch Test helps us make sure we’re ready! Flight controllers at @NASA_Johnson will give #Starliner a “go” for launch for a safe start to the #OFT mission. Next time all teams are “go,” we will have liftoff! pic.twitter.com/dRPUPPN9i5
The teams went through actual fueling procedures the Atlas V rocket and Centaur upper stage. Atlas V was filled with a type of rocket-grade kerosene propellant, RP-1, on Wednesday ahead of the IDOLT. The Centaur upper stage fully filled with cryogenic propellants – liquid oxygen (LOx) and liquid hydrogen.
Once fueling had completed Boeing’s “Blue Team” entered the pad to begin their synchronized rehearsal portion of the launch day sequence to prepare and secure the Starliner capsule and astronauts flying aboard.
A peek inside the @Commercial_Crew Access Arm white room as our team practices preparing #Starliner for OFT during our Integrated Day of Launch Test. This practice is important. On launch day, this team has to have everything done right on time or we’re not flying. pic.twitter.com/cZoer0Rbj1
Once the Blue Team completed all tasks and were evacuated from the pad, flight controllers from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX gave the “GO” command and proceeded with terminal count until reaching T minus-0 at which point the test concluded. The cryogenic propellants were drained and the vehicle was safed to be safely returned to the Vertical Integration Facility where final steps will be taken to prepare for launch.
The next time the teams will all work together in such coordinated fashion this will be on the day of launch. In mid-2020 the teams are expected to work together once again to support the Crewed Flight Test (CFT) which will send NASA astronauts Col. Mike Fincke, Nicole Mann, and Christopher Ferguson.
Post Wet Dress Rehearsal Ops continues smoothly. Starting day 2 of the Flight Test Readiness Review. #OFT is near…
Until then, however, they will have to settle for the uncrewed test flight. According to ULA president and chief executive officer, Tory Bruno, post-WDR data evaluation and joint flight readiness review conducted by all teams involved are proceeding smoothly. Should all go to plan, the Atlas V and Boeing Starliner OFT will launch at 6:36 am EST on Friday, December 20th.
While ghost hunting is our favourite kind of paranormal investigation, we additionally delight in a very good alien conspiracy. UFO sightings aren’t a modern phenomenon, they aren’t a US-only phenomenon. The most frequently known UFO sighting in the USA is called the Roswell UFO sighting of 1947. Throughout that time period, there were two triangle UFOs sighted in the exact location.
Sightings of UFOs have existed for ages. It’s because of this that sightings of UFOs will certainly peak between over the upcoming few months. It is possible to confirm this sighting at their site. Recently, among the most renowned mass sightings was the Phoenix Lights. As an example, over Midlothian, quite a few sightings are made from January to March. To this day the sightings haven’t been explained. The Tic Tac UFO sighting which took place back in 2004 is among the most famed events as soon as it regards this sensation.
Details of Ufo Sightings
Somewhere beyond all of the tumult lies the reality. There are also a number of witnesses. Before you make a decision as to what you believe, we implore you to comprehend the evidence. To begin with, so many men and women say reflexively that there’s no evidence of an ET presence engaging our planet, when they don’t really know the evidence. There are not many excellent explanations for the majority of the Hudson Valley sightings. The questions are lots! Otherwise, at least it’s an enjoyable topic and one which could generate memorable quotes.
Not many individuals have so far witnessed them, yet just about all of us are conscious of their phenomenon. It’s your responsibility to decide that you would like to trust in the notion of UFO’s or not but it’s true that there are enough believers of this concept to keep this idea animate for the moment. Science is not too superficial. Mimicking science isn’t the exact same as doing science. Hard science will not accept any evidence which is not observable by the five main senses, in addition to being measurable, repeatable, and predictable. It might have been alien technology. The electron clouds which make up the shapes of every atom, for instance has to be in the type of three-dimensional patterns.
The Basic Facts of Ufo Sightings
While readers may be likely to dismiss any claims related to the sky over Nessie’s famous lake due to its notoriety as the scene of different hoaxes, it is very important to remember that numerous reports were not able to be explained away by air space authorities. In addition, there are Twitter authors specializing in tweeting about UFO sightings. A great deal of the stories are consistent with one another, so there’s clearly something going on here.
The majority of the movie is based in Vegas, so there’s an overall atmosphere of gambling. It’s astonishing how many UFO movies online appear to really demonstrate these lanterns. The video has become the fodder for numerous arguments and debates concerning the authenticity of the same. It shows three different sightings of suspected UFOs in three different parts of the world. Inside this era of Youtube and mobile phone cameras, it’s getting more common to observe these sorts of videos. Some video footage implies that the objects move quickly. What earns the video footage even more credible is there is footage taken by different folks in various areas of town.
Tonight on the show: I take 2 amazing excerpts from The Law Of One – Ra ,describing both the firmament and how it works, as well as the Men In Black notoriously encountered all across the globe. They are not the fun, friendly duo that Hollywood portrayed.
The Black Goo and some insights regarding the harvest and the Rapture. As usual, the show trails off deep into the mind of Naughty Beaver covering many various topics. Love you lots! I hope you really enjoy the show.
The Fibonacci Sequence is a mathematical formula that frequently appears in nature. It also makes some really interesting spiral shapes. The sequence was discovered by an Italian mathematician named Leonardo Fibonacci around the 13th century. This might sound strange, but he discovered the phenomenon by studying rabbits. So, what is the Fibonacci Sequence and how is it used?
Leonardo Fibonacci
Leonardo Fibonacci, also known as Leonardo of Pisa, studied math from a young age. He was sent by his father to study under an Arab mathematician, which took him all over the world. During his career, he wrote several books and even became friends with the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II.
In the 12th century, not much was known about Arabic numerals (the number system we use today) in Europe. In his travels to Egypt, Syria, Greece, and Sicily, he was able to study a wide variety of numerical systems and see how they were used. He wrote his first book called “Liber abaci” about how the Arabic numeral system worked, including basic arithmetic; how it could be used with money, weights, and measures; and how to use a few tips for calculations like the ‘rule of three’ and the ‘rule of five’ method for finding proportions. It was a hit and pushed him to the forefront of the mathematical world.
Discovering the sequence
After his initial successes, he began to study math in nature, which led him to his most famous discovery: the Fibonacci sequence. Around 1202, Fibonacci came up with an interesting thought experiment. He wanted to see if he could mathematically calculate how many pairs of rabbits could be produced in one year. Because that’s something everyone wonders at some point, right?
He knew that rabbits could reproduce at one month old, had a one-month gestation, and typically produce two offspring, one male and one female. So, theoretically, if he started with one pair of rabbits, a male and a female, they would have matured by the second month, and in the third month would give birth to another pair. The original pair could mate again in the third month, while the younger pair is maturing. In the fourth month, the original pair would give birth to yet another set of rabbits while the second pair was mating. In the fifth month, both pairs would reproduce while the youngest pair matures, resulting in five sets of rabbits.
If you look at it in terms of numbers by month, the sequence goes like this: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5. Each consecutive number is the sum of the two numbers before it. If you continue the pattern, it would go: 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144. So, in Fibonacci’s original experiment, he would have 144 pairs of rabbits in one year. What he would do with all those rabbits, who knows, but since his initial discovery, the Fibonacci sequence has become known as the Golden Ratio.
The golden spiral
The Fibonacci sequence can also be depicted in the form of a spiral that grows wider as defined by the Golden Ratio. The first arc is in a 1×1 square. A second arc is connected to the original in an adjacent 1×1 square. The next portion of the arc is in a 2×2 square. The next in a 3×3 square, and so on up through the sequence. The result is a spiral that spreads out and gets wider as it goes.
The Fibonacci sequence in nature
Most impressively, this ratio can be found throughout the natural world. The number of petals that grow on flowers is almost always a number in the Fibonacci sequence. Lilies have three petals, buttercups have five, and daisies have 34, just to name a few.
The golden spiral can also be found throughout nature. If you look at the spiral pattern on a shell belonging to a hermit crab, you’ll notice that the spiral starts at a point in the center and widens as it goes outward. Sunflowers and pinecones also follow the golden spiral with their seed patterns. On the larger scale, hurricanes and even galaxies follow the golden spiral pattern as well. These spirals are an exact depiction of the Fibonacci sequence.
Jump to 3:02 into this video and you will see a large white disk about a meter across shoot in a curved trajectory under and past the SpaceX satellite. There is no way an object could curve its path in space. Only an intelligently controlled or living organism could achieve such a curve. This is 100% proof that aliens are watching SpaceX mission so closely that they could touch them. Something I don't understand...why is Ellon Musk keeping this a secret from the public? Has he been threatened by National Security in order to keep Ellon silent on the matter? I guess as a buisness man...Ellon Musk has to make some tough decisions to stay in business. The US Gov could easily close him down over night. That would mean billions down the drain and bankruptcy. Excellent discovery By Youtuber Willease. Scott C. Waring
200 Meter UFO Leaves Volcano On Live Cam, Dec 16, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
200 Meter UFO Leaves Volcano On Live Cam, Dec 16, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
ABOVE SCREENSHOT IS WITH ADDED CONTRAST AND SHADOW TO BRING OUT DETAIL. SCW
Date of sighting: December 16, 2019 Location of sighting: Volcano Popocatepetl, Mexico Source: Live Cam The eyewitness was watching the volcano live cam and caught a giant cigar shaped UFO leaving the side of the volcano. The object comes from within the volcano and is about 200 meters long. The UFO comes out and moves slowly at first to get a good position before shooting away. Many UFOs do this as they leave an underground base. This is 100% proof that alien alien base sits 6km below this volcano. Scott C. Waring -Taiwan
Black Hole UFO Seen Over Black Sea On Dec 15, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Black Hole UFO Seen Over Black Sea On Dec 15, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: December 15, 2019 Location of sighting: Bularia, Black Sea The eyewitness caught a glowing wheel UFO over the Black Sea this week. The object has a huge hole at its center and a shape changing wheel that stands upright. The Black Sea has had many UFO sightings over the last decade. Some of which are disks which show two alien pilots. I believe this UFO came from an underwater base and is waiting in location for the water to drip off, so that it can travel out of our atmosphere. Because if water freezes on the outside of a UFO if that ships jumped to light speed and beyond...the balance might be thrown off and destroy the ship or send it into a totally unwanted location. Scott C. Waring
Short-lived flashes in the night sky that flicker on and off over several decades are baffling scientists.
No suitable explanations have been presented so far, and academics are not ruling out the possibility they were created by alien lasers used for communication.
Ongoing research is trying to decipher what causes the intermittent lights and researchers say 'interstellar communication lasers' may be as good an answer as any.
However the researchers, from the University of Stockholm, say the most likely sources of the lights are 'natural, if somewhat extreme, astrophysical sources'.
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Short-lived flashes in the night sky that flicker on and off over several decades are baffling scientists and they are not ruling out alien communication lasers - but say a natural explanation is more likely
Publicly available data with images of the sky dating as far back as to the 1950s have been used by scientists as part of the the project Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO).
More than 150,000 of the weird lights have been studied, with at least 100 found to be behaving erratically and rapidly flaring up to become several thousands times brighter.
These so called 'red transients' have not yet received an adequate origin story accepted by scientists.
One option is the possibility of an actual vanishing star, which has the potential to rewrite what we know about astrophysics.
'Finding an actually vanishing star - or a star that appears out of nowhere! - would be a precious discovery and certainly would include new astrophysics beyond the one we know of today,' says project leader Beatriz Villarroel, Stockholm University and Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Spain.
Ongoing research is trying to decipher what causes the intermittent lights and researchers say 'interstellar communication lasers' may be as good an answer as any
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WHAT IS SETI'S BREAKTHROUGH LISTEN INITIATIVE?
Breakthrough Listen is a privately funded, decade-long research project based at the University of California, Berkeley.
It has just announced a significant number of new observations.
They examined roughly 1,300 nearby stars using large antennas in West Virginia and Australia.
For each of these star systems, they sifted through several billion radio channels, looking for a signal of the type that only a radio transmitter can produce.
No extraterrestrial radio emissions were detected.
But those 1,300 stars represent only a minuscule sample of the total planetary population.
The alluded to era of a new astrophysics may well include signals produced by extraterrestrial life.
Researchers write in their paper, recently published in The Astronomical Journal, that traditional searches may have to be expanded to include 'more exotic searches for evidence of technologically advanced civilisations'.
Blinking lights are so unusual because normally a dying star gradually changes into either a white dwarf or goes supernova.
Both eventualities can be monitored and witnessed, but for the light to appear and disappear, indicates there must be something different happening entirely.
A vanishing star, believed to be the most likely option, could be an example of an 'impossible phenomenon', according to researchers.
The only explanation for the lights that does not include alien life would be exceedingly rare events called 'failed supernovae'.
A failed supernovae is theoretically predicted to occur when a very massive star collapses into a black hole without any visible explosion.
"Vanishing and Appearing Stars" could be 'interstellar communication lasers' from Aliens
"Vanishing and Appearing Stars" could be 'interstellar communication lasers' from Aliens
If the truth is out there, it might be one we can't yet explain. Researchers are having trouble explaining how to identify the number of flickering lights that have been observed over the past several decades.
A new study published in the Astronomical Journal suggested they could be from a technologically advanced civilization using "interstellar communication lasers."
More than 150,000 of the weird lights have been studied, with at least 100 found to be behaving erratically and rapidly flaring up to become several thousands times brighter.
On December 12, 2019, Kevin Short was on a fishing/camping trip trip in Wales when he noticed a huge object hovering above the sea on which he decided to film it.
Kevin has no idea what the object might have been but after watching the video, the object does not seem to be connected to a ship or platform in the sea.
Given the enormous size of the object, it does not seem to be a blimp either.
Is it possible that he has filmed a huge cylinder UFO whether man-made or extraterrestrial?
Earth Enters Unknown as Magnetic North Pole Continues Push Toward Russia, Crosses Greenwich Meridian
Earth Enters Unknown as Magnetic North Pole Continues Push Toward Russia, Crosses Greenwich Meridian
Earlier this year, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the British Geological Survey (BGS) were forced to update the World Magnetic Model a year ahead of schedule due to the speed with which the magnetic north pole is shifting out of the Canadian Arctic and toward Russia’s Siberia.
The BGS and the US National Centers for Environmental Information has released a new update to the World Magnetic Model this week, confirming that the magnetic north pole, whose coordinates are crucial for the navigation systems used by governments, militaries and a slew of civilian applications, is continuing its push toward Siberia.
“The WMM2020 forecasts that the northern magnetic pole will continue drifting toward Russia, although at a slowly decreasing speed –down to about 40 km per year compared to the average speed of 55 km over the past twenty years,” the US agency said in apress statement.
The data confirmed that this year, the magnetic north pole passed to within 390 km of the geographic North Pole, and crossed the Greenwich (prime) meridian. Compilers also confirmed that the Earth’s magnetic field is continuing to weaken, at a rate of about 5 percent every 100 years.
Global map of declination and the dip pole locations for 2020
The World Magnetic Model is used by everything from smartphone compass apps, maps and GPS services to telecommunications transmission systems, and navigation tools for various agencies, including the Federal Aviation Administration, NASA, the US Defence Department and NATO.
Scientists Still Don’t Know Exactly What’s Driving Pole’s Accelerated Drift
Magnetic north, the point on the planet’s surface toward which your conventional compass points, is created by the churning of molten metal in Earth’s core, which creates huge electrical currents to produce the magnetic field.
Commenting on the freshly-released magnetic north pole data, Dr. Ciaran Beggan, a geophysicist and geomagnetic specialist from the British Geological Survey’s Edinburgh office, told FT that although the movement of the pole has been “much faster” since the 1990s “than at any time for at least four centuries,” scientists “really don’t know much about the changes in the core that’s driving it.”
With the pole passing the Greenwich meridian and continuing its race east, humanity is entering the unknown, scientifically speaking, since, from the time records of the magnetic north pole’s position have been kept starting in the 16th century, the pole had drifted around the Canadian Arctic.
Dr. Phil Livermore of Leeds University’s Institute of Geophysics recently postulated that a ‘jet stream’ of liquid iron flowing in the planet’s core could help explain shifts in the position of magnetic north, but suggested tracking the flows of this liquid iron could be difficult, “because it lies beneath 3,000 kilometres of rock.”
Scientists have previously expressed concerns about the fluctuations in the magnetic north pole and its possible impact on the magnetic field protecting Earth. Without the field, Earth would be left vulnerable to solar flares, which could cause damage to everything from spacecraft to power grids. Even with the magnetic field intact, the planet remains vulnerable. In 2011, the US National Academy of Sciences calculated that a repeat of a solar storm like the one which hit the planet in 1859 could cause as much as $2 trillion in initial damage, and take a decade to repair.
Furthermore, a weakened magnetic field may lead to a potentially cataclysmic process scientists call a “geomagnetic reversal,” in which the Earth’s north and south poles effectively switch places. The last such flip is estimated to have taken place about 800,000 years ago, and some scientists believe that another may be due soon, even though such an event could take centuries to complete.
Het grote onbekende: magnetische noordpool schiet weg richting Siberië, en wetenschappers weten niet waarom
Het grote onbekende: magnetische noordpool schiet weg richting Siberië, en wetenschappers weten niet waarom
Binnen de aarde is iets vreemds aan de hand. De magnetische noordpool van onze planeet lijkt weg te schieten van Canada in de richting van Siberië.
Dat gaat de laatste jaren zo snel, dat experts het zogenoemde ‘World Magnetic Model’ op stel en sprong moesten aanpassen.
Dit model wordt gebruikt voor allerlei vormen van navigatie, van de automatische piloot van een schip tot navigatie op smartphones.
Raadsel
Normaal gesproken krijgt het model eens in de vijf jaar een update, maar nu schuift het magnetisch veld zo snel op dat wetenschappers dit jaar een update moesten uitbrengen.
De meest recente variant moest het tot zeker 2020 uithouden, maar het model bleek dit jaar al te onnauwkeurig te zijn.
Hoe het kan dat de magnetische noordpool zo snel opschuift, is voor wetenschappers een raadsel.
Weinig weten
Geofysicus Ciaran Beggan van de British Geological Survey zei tegen de Financial Times dat wetenschappers nog maar weinig weten over dit fenomeen.
Wetenschappelijk gezien betreden we het onbekende.
Sommige wetenschappers vermoeden dat het de voorbode is van een omkering van het aardmagnetisch veld.
800.000 jaar
De laatste keer dat dit gebeurde, is bijna 800.000 jaar geleden.
Het magnetisch veld van de aarde zou dan in rap tempo verzwakken, waardoor onze planeet kwetsbaar is voor verwoestende zonnevlammen.
The Ancient Cataclysm That Erased Human History via Brien Foerster
The Ancient Cataclysm That Erased Human History via Brien Foerster
Brien Foerster was raised on the west coast of Canada, where he developed a fascination for the Native people, their art, and oral traditions. This led to his becoming a professional sculptor, after graduating with an honours BSc degree from the University Of Victoria.
In 1995, he moved to Maui, Hawaii, and was hired as assistant project manager for the building of the 62 foot double hull sailing canoe (ancestor of the modern day catamaran) and the restoration of the famous Mo’olele sailing canoe. He started an online outrigger paddle business, which flourished internationally.
Peru became his next major area of interest. The study of the Inca culture led to his writing a book, A Brief History of the Incas, and he is now the assistant director of the Paracas History Museum in Paracas, south of Lima.
Fishermen Break up Bizarre Battle Between Bald Eagle and Octopus
Fishermen Break up Bizarre Battle Between Bald Eagle and Octopus
Fishermen on Canada’s Vancouver Island have filmed the moment they rescued a bald eagle from the grips of an octopus’s tentacles after the bird of prey tried to attack it. The footage shows the fisherman removing the bird from the octopus’s tight hold, before they release it back to safety.
The octopus is a soft-bodied, eight-armed mollusc of the order Octopoda. Around 300 species are recognised and the order is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish and nautiloids.
U.S. Government Anti-Gravity Fleet is Operational Today - These are not UFO Sightings - This is military technology
U.S. Government Anti-Gravity Fleet is Operational Today - These are not UFO Sightings - This is military technology
Note:This is the first clear video available that shows one of the United States Space Fleet docking with the Space Station. Your tax dollars at work. This would never be allowed unless it was part of a disclosure program.
The following article is curated from Dr. Boylan’s website so that it does not vanish. This technology is at least 35 years old. Every rocket launch you see is just for theatre. We can only imagine what they use today.
As a behavioral scientist and clinician, I have been working for over 15 years with persons who report having had an encounter with an extraterrestrial intelligent life form, a Star Visitor. During the course of this work I have felt it necessary to learn as much as possible about the veridical reality of UFOs, and what the government already knows about these visitors from afar.
As information on Star Visitors and their encounters with humans piled up, I began to publish my findings, presenting them at national and international conferences, in specialty journals, and in media interviews. This in turn brought me to the attention of certain figures, currently or formerly in highly-classified sectors of government and the military ad intelligence agencies. These individuals decided to leak certain additional information to me, knowing that I would thus serve as a conduit to bring such leaked information to the attention of the portion of the public interested and ready for such information.
Because the existence and operations of various undeclared or secret government installations related to Star Visitor matters are not going to be plumbed without field research, I made it my task, starting in 1992, to reconnoiter, observe, and in some instances penetrate many of the most important of these installations. I reasoned that the knowledge I gained could be very helpful to the experiencers who consult with me, to help them feel secure that they had not hallucinated, but that such advanced technology exists, and in fact, the American government is in possession of some of this technology.
Additionally, the hundreds of experiencers of encounters shared with me information they possessed, including about advanced U.S. craft, either by reason of being told such things by the Star Visitors, or by being kidnapped by rogue military-intelligence units and taken aboard one of these craft to one or other of these installations, or viewed such craft once they arrived. This added to my store of information and data on advanced U.S. antigravity craft.
While I have gathered, or been entrusted by others with, considerable information on special American aerospace craft, I do not purport to know everything that is in the U.S. arsenal, nor everything about the operations and capabilities of the craft that I am about to identify. What I know is presented here. I have held nothing back.
At this time, I am aware of the existence of 12 kinds of special-technology advanced aerospace platforms [mil-speak for craft], all incorporating antigravity technology in some form. These 12 are: the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber, the F-22 Raptor advanced stealth fighter, and its successor, the F-35 Lightning II advanced stealth fighter; the Aurora, Lockheed-Martin’s X-33A, the Lockheed X-22A two-man antigravity disc fighter, Boeing and Airbus Industries’ Nautilus, the TR3-A Pumpkinseed , the TR3-B Triangle , Northrop’s “Great Pumpkin” disc, Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical’s XH-75D Shark antigravity helicopter, and the Northrop Quantum Teleportation Disc.
Before we examine these 12 exotic aerospace craft, a brief overview of the different forms of generating antigravity fields is in order.
The most primitive antigravity technology is electrogravitic. This involves using voltages in the millions of volts to disrupt the ambient gravitational field. This results in an 89% reduction in gravity’s hold on airframes in such vehicles as the B-2 Stealth Bomber and the TR3-B Astra triangular craft. And given the considerable ambient ionization field I observed around the X-22A, it is reasonable to assume that extreme-voltage electrogravitics is also employed with these craft.
The next level up of sophistication is magnetogravitic. This involves generating high-energy toroidal fields spun at incredible rpm’s, which also disrupts the ambient gravitational field, indeed to the extent that a counterforce to Earth’s gravitational pull is generated . The early British aeronautical engineers called this dynamic counterbary . This may have been used in some earlier American saucers and prototypes, but I have only been told that the secret Nautilus spacefaring craft uses magnetic pulsing , which appears to utilize this technology.
The third level of sophistication, that used in the more modern American antigravity craft, is direct generation and harnessing of the gravitational strong force. Such a strong-force field extends slightly beyond the atomic nucleus of Element 115, an exotic element donated by Star Visitor scientist-consultants to human scientists at S-4, a secret base south of Area 51. By amplifying that exposed gravitational strong force, and using antimatter reactor high energy, and then directing it, it is possible to lift a craft from the Earth and then change directions by vectoring the shaped antigravity force field thus generated. Important information about this third technology is available on Bob Lazar’s website.
(1.) This information is also described on the Bob Lazar video. Lazar worked on extraterrestrial technology at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Area 51’s Site S-4.
(2.) All of these technologies are primitive in comparison with the Star Visitors, whose craft utilize field propulsion powered by harnessing Zero Point Energy. Let us now examine these 13 advanced craft in more detail. The amount of information available for each varies; in some cases more is known, in other cases very little.
1) The B-2 Stealth Bomber is manufactured Northrop-Grumman. The Air Force describes it as a low-observable, strategic, long-range heavy bomber capable of penetrating sophisticated and dense air-defense shields. The Stealth Bomber has navigation and guidance systems directed by a classified Artificial Intelligence (AI) program. This AI is exotic, involving the connecting together of PCR-copied extraterrestrial brain tissue cells with advanced integrated circuits to fashion hybrid living “neuro chips”. The B-2 gets extra lift in-flight by the turning on of electro-gravitic fields along its wings and fuselage to partially neutralize the pull of gravity. Now you begin to see why why our 21 Northrop B-2s cost about a billion dollars each. (3.)
2) The F-22 Raptor advanced stealth fighter is built by a joint effort of the Lockheed-Martin Skunk Works and Boeing’s Phantom Works. In crude imitation of extraterrestrial starcraft, the guidance system of this aircraft incorporates special Artificial Intelligence (AI), meaning that Star Visitor genetic material is incorporated into the semi-alive and autonomously-functioning guidance system mated with the aircraft. In addition the F-22 has antigravity field propulsion capability, which is exercised selectively by the pilot who is in mental connection with the AI guidance system, which activates the antigravity propulsion as needed in coordination with the F-22’s conventional jet engine thrust, to effect the maneuvering of the F-22 Raptor. I have personally witnessed a F-22 stop on its tail in mid-air and dance slowly and gently about without regard for gravity’s pull.
3) The “next generation” F-35 Lightning II advanced stealth fighter is built by Lockheed-Martin, Northrop-Grumman and BAE. The F-35 also incorporates quasi-alive Artificial Intelligence and antigravity field propulsion, (recovered reworked Star Visitor technologies), in addition to jet thrust.
4) The Aurora is a moderate-sized spacefaring vehicle. The late National Security Council scientist Dr. Michael Wolf (4.) of NSC’s unacknowledged Special Studies Group subcommittee, (formerly called MJ-12), has stated that the Aurora can operate on both conventional fuel and antigravity field propulsion systems. He further stated that the Aurora can travel to the Moon. Wolf had also disclosed to me that the U.S. has a small station on the Moon, and a tiny observation post on Mars (5). Thus I doubt that Dr. Wolf would characterize the Aurora thus, unless it was a vessel already used in making such trips. He disclosed additionally that the Aurora operates out of Area 51, (Groom Dry Lake Air Force Station), at the northeast corner of the Nellis AFB Range, north of Las Vegas, Nevada.
5) The Lockheed-Martin X-33A military spaceplane is a prototype of Lockheed’s other spaceplane, the single-stage-to-orbit reuseable aerospace vehicle, the National SpacePlane. Lockheed-Martin does not say too much about its winged, delta-shape X-33 VentureStar, except to say that we are building it. To be at that stage of development for its public-program SpacePlane, clearly Lockheed-Martin has already long since built prototypes, as well as an unacknowledged military version, which I have dubbed the X-33A. The ‘A’ suffix stands for antigravity.
Colonel Donald Ware, USAF (ret.) told me that he had recently learned from a three-star General that the VentureStar X-33 has an electrogravitics (antigravity) system on board (6.). This virtually assures that the unacknowledged military antigravity version, the X-33 A, must surely also have electrogravitics on board. It is possible that what I have called the X-33A is the Aurora craft which Dr. Wolf described.
6) the Lockheed X-22A is a two-man antigravity disc fighter. The late Colonel Steve Wilson, USAF (ret.), stated that military astronauts trained at a secret aerospace academy separate from the regular Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, CO. These military astronauts then operate out of Beale and Vandenberg Air Force Bases, Northern California From those bases, these military astronauts regularly fly trans-atmospherically and out into space (7). One of the aerospace craft they use, Colonel Wilson reported, is the X-22A.
Another informant, ‘Z’, aka ‘Jesse’, who formerly worked at the NSA, told me that the Lockheed X-22A antigravity fighter disc fleet is equipped with Neutral Particle Beam directed-energy weapons, that it is capable of effecting optical as well as radar invisibility, and that it is deployable for worldwide military operations from a new U.S. Space Warfare Headquarters, located in Utah. (8).
Recently I also heard from an Army engineer, formerly TDY’ed to NASA, who shall remain unnamed at his request. He also confirmed that Lockheed had made the X-22A, the two-man antigravity fighter disc which I had seen test-flown in a canyon adjacent to the main Area 51 operations zone. He explained why I had seen the X-22A so nervously flown during that test flight. He said that the original X-22A had had a standard altimeter hard-wired into it, but that such an instrument would give faulty readings in the craft’s antigravity field, which bends space-time. He had recommended that they instead use a gradiometer, which would function better. Apparently his suggestion was finally taken up, since in more recent years I have seen the X-22As flying more smoothly and confidently at high altitudes over and near Area 51.
Another informant who wishes his identity kept private related operational details about military deployment of antigravity disc craft which sound like the X-22A. He reports: ‘During operation Desert Storm a close relative of mine was in charge of a Marine Division right on the front. In the first days film footage and especially video-cams which a large number of G.I.s had were impounded, so they wouldn`t capture any sensitive material. Iraq was pumped up and Gung-Ho, since they had well over 50,000 troops ready to charge us, [and] since we only had about 3500 they knew of, and they knew [that], because of the close proximity of troops we couldn`t nuke them, so, they were assuming piece of cake . Wrong.
‘Two pictures my relative confiscated from one of his officers showed: 1. a large disc-shaped craft slightly in front of our men with a high intensity beam of light emitting out of it; then, 2. where men, equipment, etc. was [had stood], there only remained dark charcoal-like spots on the desert floor. We have had this technology for quite a while.’ The described disc was clearly an antigravity, levitating, aerial-weapons platform in the U.S. arsenal. Quite possibly it was the Lockheed X-22A two-man discoid craft, the real DarkStar, of which the unmanned drone X-22 DarkStar is but an aircraft ‘cover’ program to disguise the existence of this manned antigravity fighter disc, the X-22A.
Further, as ‘Z’ noted, the real manned discs come equipped with the latest Neutral Particle Beam weapons, which take apart the target at the molecular level. Star Visitor craft do not incinerate humans. Only human military fighters are so deployed. So the above report does not deal with any extraterrestrial event.
7) The Nautilus is another space-faring craft, a secret military spacecraft which operates by magnetic pulsing (9.). It operates out of the unacknowledged new headquarters of the U.S. Space Command, deep under a mountain in Utah. It makes twice-a-week trips up to the secret military-intelligence space station, which has been in deep space for the past thirty years, and manned by U.S. and USSR (now CIS) military astronauts. The Nautilus also is used for superfast surveillance operations, utilizing its ability to penetrate target country airspace from above from deep space, a direction not usually expected. It is manufactured jointly by Boeing’s Phantom Works near Seattle and EU’s Airbus Industries Anglo-French consortium. During travel to Washington State several years ago, I had a conversation with a former Boeing executive who worked in their Phantom Works, Boeing’s black projects division, (roughly the equivalent of Lockheed’s Skunk Works). The executive confirmed what I had earlier learned from an intelligence insider: that Boeing had teamed up with Europe’s Airbus Industrie to manufacture the Nautilus.
8) The TR3-A ‘Pumpkinseed’ is a super-fast air vehicle. The ‘Pumpkinseed’ nickname is a reference to its thin oval airframe, whose contours resemble that seed. It may be the craft identified as using pulse detonation technology for propulsion in a sub-hypersonic regime, and also uses antigravity technology for either mass-reduction or complementary field propulsion at higher speed levels. As air breathers, these Pulse Detonation Wave Engines (PDWEs) could theoretically propel a hypersonic aircraft towards Mach 10 at an altitude in excess of 180,000 feet. Used to power an trans-atmospheric vehicle, the same PDWEs might be capable of lifting the craft to the edge of space when switched to rocket mode.
9) the TR3-B ‘Astra’ is a large triangular anti-gravity craft within the U.S. fleet. Black projects defense industry insider Edgar Rothschild Fouche wrote about the existence of the TR3-B in his book, Alien Rapture (10).
The TR3-B does not depend solely or principally on its hydrogen-oxygen rockets. It is a highly reduced-gravity aerospace craft manufactured in secret “black programs” by Humans. The antigravity field produced reduces the vehicles weight by about 90% so that very little thrust is required to either keep it aloft or to propel it at Mach 9 speeds, or higher.
The TR-3B vehicle’s outer coating is electro-chemical reactive and changes with electrical RF Radar stimulation and can change reflectiveness, radar absorptiveness, and color. This is also the first US vehicle to use quasi-crystals in the vehicle’s skin. This polymer skin, when used in conjunction with the TR-3Bs Electronic Counter Measures and, ECCM, can make the vehicle look like a small aircraft, or a flying cylinder – or even trick radar receivers into falsely detecting a variety of aircraft, no aircraft, or several aircraft at various locations.
A circular, plasma filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disrupter, surrounds the rotable crew compartment and is far ahead of any imaginable technology. Sandia and Livermore laboratories developed the reverse engineered MFD technology. The plasma, mercury based, is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres at a temperature of 150 degrees Kelvin, and accelerated to 50,000 rpm to create a super-conductive plasma with the resulting gravity disruption [reduction of almost all of the pull of gravity and effects of inertia].
The MFD generates a magnetic vortex field, which disrupts or neutralizes the effects of gravity on mass within proximity, by 89 percent. The MFD creates a disruption of the Earth’s gravitational field upon the mass within the circular accelerator. The mass of the circular accelerator and all mass within the accelerator, such as the crew capsule, avionics, MFD systems, fuels, crew environmental systems, and the nuclear reactor, are reduced by 89%. The current MFD in the TR-3B causes the effect of making the vehicle extremely light, and able to outperform and outmaneuver any craft yet constructed – except, of course, those back-engineered total-antigravity craft which the government does not admit exist. To see the 13 known antigravity craft of US manufacture, see: www.drboylan.com/xplanes2.html
The TR-3B is a high altitude, stealth, reconnaissance platform with an indefinite loiter time. Once you get it up there at speed, it doesn’t take much propulsion to maintain altitude.
With the vehicle mass reduced by 89% the craft can travel at Mach 9, vertically or horizontally. My sources say the performance is limited only the stresses that the human pilots can endure. Which is a lot, really, considering along with the 89% reduction in mass, the G forces are also reduced by 89%. The crew of the TR-3B should be able to comfortable take up to 40Gs.
The TR-3Bs propulsion is provided by 3 multimode thrusters mounted at each bottom corner of the triangular platform. The TR-3 is a sub-Mach 9 vehicle until it reaches altitudes above l20,000 feet – then who knows how fast it can go! The reactor heats the liquid hydrogen and injects liquid oxygen in the supersonic nozzle, so that the hydrogen burns concurrently in the liquid oxygen afterburner. The multimode propulsion system can operate in the atmosphere, with thrust provided by the nuclear reactor, in the upper atmosphere, with hydrogen propulsion, and in orbit, with the combined hydrogen/oxygen propulsion. The engines are reportedly built by Rockwell.
10) The Northrop antigravity disc , (designation unknown), is manufactured by Northrop Aircraft Corporation. I have dubbed it the ‘Great Pumpkin’ from its brilliant ruddy golden-orangish glow. I first saw these craft operationally test-flown in 1992 above the Groom Range ridge line at Area 51, Nevada. Later I saw the same intensely burning-bright orange-gold craft that I had seen above Areas 51 being test-flown sixty miles north of Los Angeles, in the Tehachapi Mountains east of Edwards Air Force Base. There the Northrop has its secret saucer manufacturing works buried deep within the mountains. I saw the same intensely burning-bright orange-gold craft test-flown above Northrop’s mountaintop test bed there as I had seen above Areas 51/S-4 (11). When energized these discs emit their characteristic intense glow. It is reasonable to assume that this is due to strong ionization, and that electrogravitics is the methodology of their field propulsion.
11) The XH-75D or XH Shark antigravity helicopter is manufactured by Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical Corporation of San Diego (now part of Northrop-Grumman). USAF Colonel Steve Wilson reported that many of these XH-75Ds were assigned to the Delta/National Reconnaissance Organization Division which retrieves downed UFOs. That Division is also implicated in mutilating cattle as a psychological warfare program on the American public, to try to get citizens to fear and hate extraterrestrials through assuming that aliens are the ones cutting up the cattle. The XH-75D is also used in MILABS kidnappings of innocent civilians, who are drugged, hypnotized, and flown off in these silent antigravity craft and given the impression that they are aboard a “flying saucer”. Colonel Wilson USAF leaked the existence of the XH-75D “Shark”. (See photo of XH-75D under wrapping at: https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net…_7005776_n.jpg )
12) The Northrop Quantum Teleportation Disc. Are the above antigravity-field propulsion craft the current state-of-the-art in advanced aerospace craft? No. There have been advances beyond “mere” antigravity field propulsion. Quantum physics is now being used to update a variety of aerospace craft and their weapons systems.
On a 09/16/05 field trip to the boundary of Area 51, during a middle-of-the-night observation, I saw first one, then another, and finally six brightly-lit objects suddenly appear at approximately 1000′ (305 meters) height above the desert floor. The intensely-glowing, ruddy, golden-orangish ionization field surrounding these craft appeared identical to the field around the Northrop antigravity disc. But in the 13 years since I had last observed the Northrop discs above Area 51, and at their Tehachapi Mountains manufacturing site, considerable progress has been made.
In 1992, the Northrop antigravity disc slowly rose vertically from its flight pad and gradually reached flight altitude. But in 2005 the Northrop Quantum Teleportation Discs are able to depart from their flight pad and suddenly appear at flight altitude without any visible ascent. And it is not a matter of their ionization field having been turned off during ascent for stealth purposes. The ionization field comes with electrogravitic field propulsion. If the ionization were turned off, the craft would have fallen from the sky. Rather what appears to be going on is that the Northrop engineers have incorporated quantum physics principles into the propulsion. Simply stated, Northrop appears to have harnessed quantum entanglement to achieve quantum teleportation. To the observer the craft simply ceases to exist on the flight pad and instantly begins to exist at, (in this case), 1000 feet altitude. If the interpretation of this observation is correct, then there exists an 12th entry in the U.S. antigravity arsenal, the Northrop Quantum Teleportation Disc.
If the black-budget scientists keep advancing along these lines, we could foresee the day when a fleet of Air Force craft suddenly “cease to exist” on the air base runway and instantly appear at 35,000 feet altitude over a target city halfway around the globe, using quantum principles of Non-locality and Entanglement.
America has used its enormous wealth to become the global super-power. The TAW-50 is but one example of its exotic, unnecessarily proliferative, and highly-destructive arsenal. The world awaits the day when America finds its soul, and pays more attention to matters of spirit, mind, and metaphysical development, and withdraws from its addiction to war toys.
It has been said that if the American people knew what the military had in their arsenal today, they wouldn’t believe it, and would think that someone was fantasizing about a George Lucas Star Wars movie episode.
But it’s not science-fiction. The future is already here.
The implications of these advanced antigravity craft, back-engineered by humans, are several. All of the antigravity technology is in the control of the organization conducting the UFO Cover-Up. This organization is so heavily infiltrated by Cabal types that Dr. Michael Wolf regretfully concluded that the Cabal had effective control of it. He should know; he was a high member of that Special Studies Group, [formerly MJ-12 ], buried within the National Security Council.
Since the Cabal effectively control the development and special uses of these craft, there remains a very high danger that the Cabal will use its growing antigravity fleet to try to repel the Star Visitors and even conduct Space War. Elements within the U.S. Air Force and the Naval Space Command are making preparations for such a Space War. (Added by goodetxsg: Air Force & Navy struggle over some aspects of Space control even with a unified agency)
What can we do about this as lightworkers, Star Kids, Star Seed adults or other humans of good will?
First is to keep ourselves informed about dangerous and evil uses which antigravity (and quantum) technology can be applied to.
Second is to contact our political representatives to oppose policies and weapons systems development that is oriented towards space warfare.
Third is to encourage the release of this technology into the civilian sector, where it can revolutionize transportation, energy generation, large construction projects, and other peaceful uses.
Fourth, the existence of this human technology is a two-edged sword for the Cabal. Not only is the existence of antigravity technology starting to get out to the public, but also the very existence of a massive worldwide organization conducting the UFO Cover-Up and confiscation of Star Visitor technology. As the public becomes aware that the Cabal have unfairly monopolized this technology for 50+ years, the public will become incensed at the Cabal for their greed and selfishness. This then becomes the opportunity to expose and discredit the Cabal, the Number One obstacle to human safety and progress.
Secret Space Program Worker Finally Reveals What He Witnessed in These Facilities
Secret Space Program Worker Finally Reveals What He Witnessed in These Facilities
Join Emery Smith as he takes you on a journey through his life before the Projects. Emery discusses encounters with extra-terrestrial beings at a young age, the strange testing he had to complete, and the programs that led him to moonlight for classified underground facilities.
Emery touches on his first experiences in the projects and will present a slide show of artist rendition visuals that most accurately depict what he witnessed in these facilities. Be there as Emery reveals just how advanced humankind has secretly become.
Emery Smith, a former U.S. Air Force Surgical Assistant has confirmed that NASA has a manned secret space program in addition to its widely known civilian program, which uses an astronaut corps drawn from USAF personnel. In addition, Smith corroborated other insider testimony about secret space stations approximately 10 times larger than the International Space Station, which are serviced by TR-3B antigravity spacecraft flying out of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida and other classified locations.
Incredible object spotted in the sky above Kelowna, Canada
Incredible object spotted in the sky above Kelowna, Canada
Theresa R. managed to capture an image of a strange craft above Kelowna, Canada on December 15, 2019.
Instead of an extraterrestrial craft, the object looks more like it is man-made, therefore could it be that that it is something new from the "U.S. Space Force" and they're testing it?
Overal op aarde worden verloren steden ontdekt op de zeebodem. Deze video geeft een indrukwekkend overzicht
Foto: Wikimedia Commons CC0
Overal op aarde worden verloren steden ontdekt op de zeebodem. Deze video geeft een indrukwekkend overzicht
In iedere uithoek van de aarde zijn verloren ruïnes en steden ontdekt op de zeebodem.
Zo deden archeologen enige jaren geleden een spectaculaire vondst op enkele kilometers voor de kust van Egypte.
Onder het oppervlak van de Middellandse Zee stuitten zij op een 1200 jaar oude stad met de naam Heracleion.
Mythe
Eeuwenlang werd Heracleion gezien als een mythe.
In de loop der jaren zijn er talloze overblijfselen van verzonken steden gevonden in de Middellandse Zee.
Zo zijn er indrukwekkende bouwwerken gevonden voor de kust van Italië, Kreta, Sicilië en Malta.
Tanzania
In 2016 ontdekte een duiker daarnaast een verloren stad voor de kust van Tanzania.
Volgens onderzoekers gaat het om Rhapta, een meer dan 2000 jaar oude stad.
Een jaar eerder, in 2015, maakten Kroatische archeologen bekend dat ze een 3500 jaar oude verzonken stad en haven hadden ontdekt in de Adriatische Zee.
India
In 2001 vonden Canadese wetenschappers voor de westkust van Cuba resten van een 6000 jaar oude stad, meldde de BBC.
Bij het Japanse eiland Yonaguni (foto) zijn bovendien resten gevonden van bouwwerken die vermoedelijk voor het einde van de laatste ijstijd zijn gebouwd.
Verder is voor de westkust van India een meer dan 9000 jaar oude verzonken stad ontdekt ‘die weleens de geschiedenis zou kunnen herschrijven’.
Here Come The Men In Black - Why Is AFOSI Investigating Navy UFOs?
Here Come The Men In Black - Why Is AFOSI Investigating Navy UFOs?
Tim McMillan
After not being heard from since September, just as the UFO community and journalists were getting ready to dispatch Liam Neeson, The Pentagon suddenly reemerged recently as quite the Chatty Cathy.
Of course, when it comes to what The Pentagon had to say, some UFO enthusiasts likely wished they'd stayed in hiding. Nevertheless, after rediscovering their voice, The Pentagon shared with Coyote's Tail something new and very intriguing.
For the first time in two years, when discussing the now widely famous Navy encounters with UFOs, the DoD mentioned one of the most ominous government agencies in all of UFO lore (cue the dramatic music)...
In May, The Pentagon told The New York Post that the infamous Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) "did pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena." Many UFO believers rejoiced with this morsel of confirmation that, post the 1969 closure of Project Blue Book, indeed, the U.S. government actually does give a shit about UFOs.
However, unfortunately, December isn't the season for giving at the Department of Defense. At least when it comes to UFOs.
Last week - exactly forty-years to the month after it closing down Project Blue Book - The Pentagon ruffled the UFO community's hair, nervously twirled it's car keys, muttering something about "it's not your fault," and wistfully looked back before walking out the front door.
As the UFO faithful confusingly stared out the window, The Pentagon lit a cigarette, pulled out the driveway, and ostensibly looked back in the rearview mirror as it tried to drive the hell away from the UFO subject as fast as possible.
In separate statements to researcher Roger Glassel and John Greenewald of The Black Vault, the DoD’s new UFO point-person, Susan Gough said, “Neither AATIP nor AAWSAP were UAP related.”
Not yet done, just weeks after I mentioned in Popular Mechanics that a longer, more spectacular video, may exist from the 2004 Nimitz UFO event; on their way out of UFO town, The Pentagon dropped off another Dear John letter to the UFO community. This time, in a statement to researcher D. Dean Johnson, Gough said, “The U.S. Navy retains custody of the source videos. The source videos are the same in length and quality as copies that have been observed in circulation.”
While the UFO community shared vague social media posts quoting Taylor Swift, implying they were "stronger without them," and changed it’s Facebook relationship status with The Pentagon to “It’s complicated,” - unbeknownst to most, the DoD had also shared some intriguing comments with Coyote's Tail.
Last week, I asked spokesperson Senior Strategic Planner for the Secretary of Defense Public Affairs Office, Susan Gough, why all UAP/UFO inquiries were now being forwarded directly to her. Gough told me, “Incursions into military air space or training ranges by UAPs are problematic from both a safety and security concern -- for all of DOD, not any one military service. The investigations into these incidents also involve multiple U.S. government agencies. To ensure consistency in responses to queries submitted to DoD, individual military services and other DoD agencies, OSD(Public Affairs) took the lead in responding to all media queries sent to DoD regarding UAPs.”
There are two salient points being made by The Pentagon's UFO-point person here.
Although, every major branch of government, with the exception of the Navy, seem to have had a very nasty case of UFO-laryngitis, Gough acknowledged that UAP encounters "are problematic... for all of [the] DoD, [and] not any one military service." Something that's been stated by innumerable varied military witnesses over the years and largely assumed as self-evident fact. However, for the first time since the start of the 2017 UFO renaissance, the DoD reinforced that unknown aerial objects don't just have a particular fondness for picking on the U.S. Navy.
Worth nothing, when it comes to investigations of UAP incidents, Gough said inquiries "involve multiple U.S. government agencies." To be clear here, the Senior spokesperson for the Secretary of Defense is a well trained wordsmith. Gough once wrote The Evolution of Strategic Influencewhile attending the U.S. Army War College.
By using the phrase "multiple U.S. government agencies," and not specifically "the DoD," Gough admits investigations into UAP can and do involve agencies outside the DoD, such as, The Department of Justice (FBI), Homeland Security, or the Department of Energy. Though curiously, if you ask them, the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) do not seem to concern themselves with unidentified aircraft encounters.
The other significant point conveyed by the Pentagon's official response to me was, after decades of demonstrating itself to be utterly incapable of being concise with the public’s curiosity of UFOs, when the subject reemerged as a hot topic of discussion, the DoD opted for euphemism less traveled - "If it ain't fixed, keep breaking it," and they decided to make everything wors
Peering past the skillful language of a trained scribe, what Ms. Gough really meant in her previous response to me was, “The Department of Defense - the largest single employer in the world; made up of three major departments, 98 different individual agencies, and somewhere in the ballpark of 3.4 million military, reservist, and civilian employees (of which half-a-million are stationed overseas) - has decided every and all UFO question should come to me and me only - FML, and I hate you all.”
With a topic that even "believers" can’t even agree on - just imagine trying to be the lone person tasked with unearthing and sharing information on UFOs for the U.S. government?!?
Going back over 2000 years, an unwritten code of conduct in warfare is commanding officers are expected to receive and send back enemy emissaries or diplomatic envoys unharmed. Even in warfare, an event forged on violence in which the metric of victory is measured by lives taken and lives kept, the idea of executing your enemy’s messengers is considered morally repugnant.
Hence, the metaphoric phrase describing the time-honored emotional response to unwanted news… “Don’t shoot the messenger.”
While many last week were lighting their torches and sharpening their pitchforks ready to persecute Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough, it’s very important to remember here… Gough is simply a messenger. Government Public Affairs officers, are merely a conduit between the media/public and an almost innumerable number of faceless bureaucrats within machine.
Equally as important here; navigating the layers of bureaucracy within government is very much like an onion. Anyone brave enough to try, is going to face multiple convoluted furrows, and almost assuredly, eye’s ablaze with rage, will be left weeping uncontrollably before they ever make it to the core.
While the public is frustrated at the fact that the DoD can’t seem to decide if AAWSAP is AATIP, and if anyone at The Pentagon, much less AATIP, ever investigated UFOs; lost is the fact, that the very messengers conveying this varied mixed bag of responses, may also be just as confused and frustrated by what their being told. Of course ..they're not going to convey that.
The public affairs officer's job is to market the government favorably to the general public. With this carefully crafted lens that the DoD wants to be viewed, it's important to remember, it isn't always the most accurate portrayal of reality.
Just recently,The Washington Post printed an expose on the "Afghanistan Papers," showing there were times when the public was being intentionally misled into believing the war in Afghanistan was going better than it actually was. The Post's report draws on nostalgia and cozies up to the"Pentagon Papers" or "The Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force," which demonstrated President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration,"systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress" about the United States political and military involvement during the Vietnam War.
For those who read the article I wrote over the summer, -Here Is How The Pentagon Comes Up With Code Words And Secret Project Nicknames - you may recall me mentioning phrases like "Enduring Freedom," "Iraqi Freedom," "Inherent Resolve," are not merely nicknames. These phrases are meant to inspire and express the overarching intent of military involvement and influence public support. "Once you hear about Inherent Resolve, well, you just know it’s something great, something Americans must support wholeheartedly, "said professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, Robin T. Lakoff.
So the DoD has a public-facing perception it wants to maintain and it carefully crafts its words to try and market it. Now, this equally doesn't mean the confusing statements on the part of the government are inherently part of some massive organized UFO cover-up.
"The 'experts' in their stories of saucer lore, have said that these brush-offs of the UFO sightings were intentional smoke screens to cover the facts by adding confusion. This is not true; it was merely a lack of coordination. But had the Air Force tried to throw up a screen of confusion, they couldn't have done a better job."
- Former Director of Project Blue Book, Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt (USAF), 1956 -
The Report on Unidentified Flying Object
The bottom line is it would reckless to ever consider any official government statement alone as being absolute objective evidence. There's simply no precedent for that, regardless of the topic, and it's equally not something the government itself would ever do
- "Excuse me, Foreign Antagonist, are you developing nuclear weapons?" - U.S. Government
- "Nuclear weapons? Nooooooo! That's silly! Our official statement is we're simply building large grain silos in effort to help feed the world's hungry." - Foreign Antagonist
- " Ok, well thanks! That clears everything up and sets the record straight! God bless you for your selfless altruism." - U.S. Government
"If you followed flying saucers closely the question mark was big, if you just noted the UFO story titles in the papers it was smaller, but it was there and it was growing. Probably none of the people, military or civilian, who had made the public statements were at all qualified to do so but they had done it, their comments had been printed, and their command had been read. Their comments formed the question mark."
- Former Director of Project Blue Book, Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt (USAF), 1956 -
- The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
Air Force Office of Special Investigations Agents/ Source: AFOSI webpage/DVIDS
When it comes to those Pentagon messages…
As I bantered back and forth with spokesperson Gough last week, something in one of her answers suddenly caused the record player to come to a screeching halt and everyone in the salon abruptly stopped what they were doing.
“The two 2015 videos appeared in the New York Times in December 2017. At that time, AFOSI conducted an investigation, focusing on the classification of the information in the video. The investigation determined the videos were not classified. That in itself (being unclassified) does not automatically approve material for public release.”
Kind of like those 3D pictures that were popular in the late 1990s, it’s easy to overlook the interesting detail in Gough’s statement. In case you missed it -
“AFOSI conducted an investigation.”
By federal statute, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations provides independent criminal investigative, counterintelligence and protective service operations worldwide and outside of the traditional military chain of command.
According to their official website, some of AFOSI's activities and investigations include, "a wide variety of serious offenses - espionage, terrorism, crimes against property, violence against people, larceny, computer hacking, acquisition fraud, drug use and distribution, financial misdeeds, military desertion, corruption of the contracting process, and any other illegal activity that undermines the mission of the U.S. Air Force or the Department of Defense."
Headquartered in Quantico, Virginia, AFOSI encompasses eight field investigative regions, seven of which are aligned with Air Force major commands, including - Air Force Material Command, Air Combat Command, Air Mobility Command, Air Education and Training Command, US Air Forces in Europe, Pacific Air Forces, Air Force Space Command, and Air Force Global Strike Command. AFOSI Region 7 - Office of the Secretary of the Air Force - is not aligned with a major command and its mission is to provide counterintelligence and security-program management for special access programs (SAPs) under the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force.
Additionally, AFOSI has several specialized investigative, training, and support units - Office of Special Projects, Office of Procurement Fraud, Force Support Squadron and U.S. Air Force Special Investigations Academy.
Those versed in UFO lore will recognize, AFOSI also has a very nefarious history when it comes to the UFO subject.
Arguably, AFOSI's most infamous involvement with the UFO subject comes from the accounts of former AFOSI Agent Rick Doty. According to Doty, at the behest of government, he successfully seeded a cornucopia of misinformation on UFOs during the 1980s.
With an impressive list of UFO myths under his belt, Doty is most notably known for his proclaimed involvement in helping push a successful electronics entrepreneur and UFO enthusiast Paul Bennewitz into a state of delusional mania, which in 1988, would escalate to Bennewitz’s family checking him into a mental health facility.
Of course, Doty's accounts aren't the only connections between AFOSI and UFOs.
A CIA study detailed how, in the 1950s and 1960s, the CIA and AFOSI promoted UFOs in effort to cover-up the then-classified U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance planes. According to the study which was publicly released in 1997, " Over half of all U.F.O. reports from the late 1950's through the 1960's were accounted for by manned reconnaissance flights.'' Regarding AFOSI's role, ''This led the Air Force to make misleading and deceptive statements to the public in order to allay public fears and to protect an extraordinarily sensitive national security project," the study said.
Many in the UFO community were angered by the CIA's assertion that America's premier spy agency, in collusion with AFOSI, had been responsible for a bulk of UFO reports. Both in the realization the U.S. government systematically lied to the American public, and with the idea that UFO reports in general could be largely dismissed as government propaganda.
Inarguably, the government admitting to intentionally lying to the public is, at a minimum concerning, at most, illegal. However, most serious UFO researchers have always acknowledged that only approximately 10% of reported sightings are truly unexplainable, with the majority being misidentifications or hoaxes. In their own study, the CIA and AFOSI claim to only be responsible for "over half of all UFO reports," leaving roughly 40-50% they acknowledge weren't them. Therefore, the acknowledged claims of UFO disinformation shouldn't be considered as conclusively explaining the entirety of the UFO phenomena.
When it comes to offering an explanation for their actions, much like when you were a teenager and you asked your parents if they ever tried drugs, the CIA simply says, "Hey, it was the 60s and 70s! It was a different time."
Gough's statement that AFOSI investigated the classification of the 2015 UAP videos is very intriguing.
It was Navy personnel who had these UFO encounters in 2004 and 2015. It was Navy equipment that captured the three widely popular UFO videos released in the last two years by To The Stars Academy. In the DD-1910 form that Lue Elizondo filled out when he applied for the video’s release, very explicitly it says the Navy is the original classification authority (OCA).
Even in another statement to me last week, Gough said, “The U.S. Navy retains custody of the source videos for the 2004 and 2015 sightings.” Equally, when speaking specifically about the 2007 leak of the “Flir1” aka “F4” video, Gough said, “In 2009, the online post of the video came to the attention of Navy officials who, in consultation with Navy law enforcement personnel, decided not to pursue the matter.” Not to mention it’s been the Navy who was reported as having changed their guidelines for reporting of UFO encounters this past spring.
Essentially, in the last two years, the Navy has come up so much in the discussion of these UFO events, for me, the lines of reality started blur and I began to believe somehow maybe I’d joined the Navy.
Which of course, begs the question, why is The Pentagon saying the Air Force Office of Special Investigations looked into the classification release of the two 2015 Navy videos - “Gimbal” and “Go Fast?” Significant point to reiterate again - it’s never been in dispute, the Navy was the original classification authority.
Some will likely say the AFOSI being involved likely suggests the objects shown in the videos are classified Air Force technology. Given that AFOSI working out of the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force is tasked with security-program management for Air Force special access programs (SAPs), this is a valid hypothesis for what spurned AFOSI's involvement when the UFO videos made front page news in 2017.
Concern the objects in the videos were classified Air Force technology, may indeed be the real reason AFOSI looked into the videos. However, if true, based on the outcome of their investigation, this would actually point the needle towards the conclusion these were not classified Air Force technology.
"The investigation determined the videos were not classified,"
- OUSD Public Affairs spokesperson, Susan Gough.
At the confluence of logic and reason, this is were I've had a hard time swallowing the "classified U.S. aerospace technology" as being the explanation for the described UAP encounters by the Navy. If indeed these were classified U.S. technology, was the same government that successfully kept secret the Manhattan Project, the development of the U-2, SR-71, F-117, B-2, or RQ-4 (to name just a few) suddenly drunk AF behind the wheel of secrecy?
Northrup Grumman Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) test flight in 2012. Source: US Army Space & Missile Def Command/ DVIDS
Recently, one of the last bastions of objective truth and intellectual discourse, The Daily Star, offered a groundbreaking report suggesting the Navy UFO events involve Top-Secret U.S. aerospace craft and all of this silly UFO talk is merely an organized effort to cover up "their own state-of-the-art technology." Supporting this hypothesis, The Daily Star citied aerospace and defense technology experts Blake and Brent Cousins, who run the highly-respected advanced aviation YouTube channel Third Phase of the Moon. Previously, The Daily Star has brought Pulitzer worthy reports such as, Vampires Are Real And Walk Among Us, or Time Traveller 'Impregnated By Alien From Year 3,500'. (In case you're "that" guy or girl at the party, the sarcasm is strong with this paragraph).
Until something is proven by a preponderance of evidence as being fact, anything's on the table, including that technically the Navy's UAP encounters could involve some type of classified U.S. aerospace technology.
However, for those who read my article in Popular Mechanics- The Witnesses - you may recall, when I asked about the Navy UFO encounters, defense journalist Nick Cook said:
“In the balance of probabilities, I don’t think it’s ‘ours’.”
Admittedly, Cook doesn’t carry the lofty credentials of having worked at say a Third Phase of the Moon and instead was merely once the lowly aviation editor for "Bible of the defense industry," Jane’s Defense Weekly. Nevertheless, let’s expand on what tips the scale of probabilities to cause Cook to say what he did.
If you want to keep something secret, you typically don't test it in front of 6,000 Navy sailors and potential eyewitnesses.
After 15-years of your secret technology being virtually unknown, you then don't typically blast it all over the front page of The New York Times and make images of it readily available to anyone all over the world on YouTube.
If it's "your's", you typically wouldn't organize a wide-spread disinformation campaign for the very secret technology no one was previously talking about, including requiring multiple different U.S. government agencies and individuals to publicly lie to the tax paying, and voting constituent, general public. Including, as we now know, AFOSI saying it's not classified technology.
When it comes to the critical notion these events involve a series of mass misidentifications and misperceptions, in order for these skeptical theories to fit, one must isolate events, and fail to examine the entire incidents in totality.
Of course, none of this says the objects encountered by the U.S. Navy, are extraterrestrial. Instead, it merely suggests in the balance of logic and reason of available information, these events at the present, involve exactly what the overwhelming consensus has been from the beginning- something anomalous and unknown.
Screenshot of The Nimitz Encounters by Dave Beaty/ used by permission from Dave Beaty
At the end of the day, hanging off the cliff of limited information and ambiguity, those well versed in AFOSI’s nefarious history of being the real “Men in Black” will shake their head and say, “Here we go.”
Conversely, others will say, “That settles it! It’s a classified Air Force program not alien visitors! Knew it the whole time.” Meanwhile, after everything I said earlier about government spokespersons, the more mundane explanation could simply be, Gough, or someone providing info to Gough, could have made a mistake.
Of course, The Pentagon could easily clear this all up, but sadly it appears they’ve had a relapse of UFO-laryngitis, and aren't able to answer any UFO questions right now. Lets everyone keep them in our thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery.
Honestly, The Pentagon’s sudden mention of AFOSI in the mix with the Navy’s UFOs, is exactly what fascinates me with UFO subject. It doesn’t matter what it is. Nothing is simple, and the mysteries appear to be limitless.
Indeed the truth may be out there, but even then, there will very likely still be more questions.
For as long as there have been humans, there has been garbage. No matter where we go, we leave our trash behind – and, since the late 1950s, that includes space. Human nature? It sure seems like it. Is it also human nature to let garbage pile up until the cost of removing it is exorbitant? The price the European Space Agency just announced it will pay for the removal of one piece of space garbage may confirm that conjecture. How much?
“Imagine how dangerous sailing the high seas would be if all the ships ever lost in history were still drifting on top of the water. That is the current situation in orbit, and it cannot be allowed to continue.”
In the press release announcing the singular space garbage removal project, ESA Director General Jan Woerner tries to justify the cost with an interesting mental picture of all of history’s shipwrecks floating on the surface of the oceans, lakes and rivers. While the actual total number of boards and bits of bows is impossible to estimate, the amount of similar spacecraft, satellite and rocket debris in space isn’t. Various estimate based on history and tracking data put the number of space objects bigger than 10 cm (4 inches) at around 29,000, about 900,000 pieces of debris 1–10 cm and more than 128 million bits of debris smaller than 1 cm (0.4 in). That includes almost 2,000 live satellites and 3,000 dead ones – numbers increasing daily with people like Elon Musk filling the atmosphere with tiny communications satellites.
One proposed consequence of all that space junk is the Kessler syndrome (proposed in 1978 by NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler) where the density of debris in low Earth orbit (LEO) is high enough that even just one collision between objects could cause a cascade of collisions, making space a dangerous place for satellites, rockets and human space travelers. Can anything be done or is it too late … or too costly?
Send me! Send me!
“NASA and ESA studies show that the only way to stabilise the orbital environment is to actively remove large debris items. Accordingly we will be continuing our development of essential guidance, navigation and control technologies and rendezvous and capture methods through a new project called Active Debris Removal/ In-Orbit Servicing – ADRIOS. The results will be applied to ClearSpace-1. This new mission, implemented by an ESA project team, will allow us to demonstrate these technologies, achieving a world first in the process.”
After a competitive bidding process, the Swiss company ClearSpace, based at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) research institute, was awarded the contract to send a ship to pick up one piece of space junk – the upper stage of an ESA rocket launched in 2013 weighing 100 kg (220 pounds) – and drag it down into the atmosphere until but the space garbage truck and its payload burn up. All of this one-time-only garbage removal – scheduled to occur in 2025 — for the low, low price of … $110 million (100 million euros)!
Is this skyway robbery?
Will it be worth it? Will the cost come down? Is there any way to reduce space debris from occurring in the first place? Elon Musk is using reusable rockets – is that enough of a trade-off for thousands of satellites?
One of the most pressing new areas of discovery of recent times is that of finding life outside of this ball of rock we inhabit. While life may exist somewhere out in the cosmos, certainly one of the most unusual of places one would expect to find it is on our life-giving sun. Looking at it from our current knowledge of the sun, it seems like the idea of any sort of life as we know it existing there is absurd. After all, this is a burning, immensely hot mass with surface temperatures sitting at around 5500ºC (nearly 10,000ºF), which is so hot that molecules simply cannot maintain any state of integrity there, with no solid matter possible and only energy existing here in its elemental, rawest form. There is simply nothing in this environment remotely conducive to life as we know it, and indeed it is about the most hostile environment one could possibly imagine, completely and totally inhospitable to life. Yet, this has not stopped people over the centuries from speculating on the possibilities of creatures inhabiting this forbidding realm.
The possibility of life on the sun has long captured the imagination and been a recurring feature of science fiction. Perhaps the most famous example of this was Arthur C. Clarke’s story Out of the Sun, in which he describes the discovery of plasma based lifeforms on the surface of the sun, which are discovered by some very perplexed astronomers as they observe the roiling surface of our star from their observatory on the planet Mercury. In the story the creature that is found has been somehow regurgitated from the center of the sun and expelled out into the void of space, where it dies. One excerpt from the story reads:
We were looking at what seemed to be a translucent oval, its interior laced with a network of almost invisible lines. Where the lines crossed there appeared to be tiny, pulsing nodes of light… What we were seeing was impossible, yet the evidence was there before our eyes. We were looking at life, where no life could exist. The eruption had hurled the thing out of its normal environment, deep down in the flaming atmosphere of the sun.
Other writers have also flirted with the idea life living on the sun or within other stars as well, such as Charles Harness in his 1955 book Paradox Men, which mentions plasma creatures living on the sun, as well as David Brin in his book Sundiver (1980), Robert Forward in his novel “Dragon’s Egg, about an actual technological civilization on a neutron star, Hal Clement in his short story Proof, and Stephen Baxter, who wrote of lifeforms existing in stars in his book Ring, in which they are referred to as “photino birds.” In every case, the hypothetical creatures mentioned are described as being able to survive in these environments due to being fundamentally different in form to what we typically think of life as taking, that of carbon based life, instead being energy or plasma based organisms, which exist in a sort of non-corporeal form. Astronomer and co-founder of SETI, Frank Drake, has explained the gist of this thusly:
One can imagine life evolving on a neutron star in the same way as life evolved on Earth. However, the nuclei making up the biological matter would not have electrons bound to them, as they do on Earth. Instead, the chemistry producing life depends on nuclear reactions, mediated by the strong force of the nuclei and not on the electromagnetic force responsible for terrestrial chemistry. An exchange of neutrons would bind the nuclei into “nuclear molecules” in the same way as the exchange of electrons binds atoms into normal molecules. We do not know whether bonding through neutrons would really lead to complex nuclear molecules at these high gravities, but for the sake of telling a story, I assume that they do.
Another rather intriguing explanation was offered up on the site Quora, from a Thomas Jolly, M.S. Astronautical Engineering, West Coast University, who explains:
The idea behind plasma creatures living on the sun is that they exist not from our known chemistry and periodic table, but from stable hot magnetic plasma loops of various sorts that act like atoms to them. They would likely be much larger creatures (like miles wide) since each of their “magnetic particles” would contain millions or trillions of what we think of as atoms and ions. Chances are good that they would have no clue that atoms even existed. Their scientific instruments would only resolve down to their smallest stable magnetic loop. We have no idea what stable forms matter may take outside of our own domain; any of these could produce some weird form of its own chemistry, evolving to a self-reproducing organism. There might be some tenuous gaseous magnetic forms living within the confines of nebulae; we might fly right through their 1000-kilometer wide bodies in our space ships without knowing they are there.
The outlandish idea has been entertained as mostly a sort of thought experiment by scientists over the years, with even some research claiming to show that under certain conditions blobs of plasma can grow, replicate, and even exhibit cell-like structures and show behavior that is very life-like in nature, such as the 2003 studies carried out by researcher Mircea Sanduloviciu and his team at Cuza University in Romania. It is all mostly pure speculation, but in recent years there has been the idea that life could in fact have a much broader definition well outside our traditional carbon based, cell-based idea of it. It is all still mostly in the world of science fiction, but that doesn’t mean that there have never been those who have seriously considered solar lifeforms, and indeed there have been some pretty wild ideas about creatures on the sun going all the way back to the 18th century.
The notion that the sun might be host to lifeforms was famously suggested back in 1785 by famed astronomer William Herschel, who happens to have been the man to have discovered Uranus. His idea revolved around a rather crude knowledge of our star at the time, the once popular theory that the sun spot that could be observed through telescopes were in fact openings in “the atmosphere” of the sun that showed the land below, or that they were massive mountains poking through. The common notion at the time was that the sun was more or less like just another terrestrial planet, albeit a very hot one covered in fire, and Herschel completely subscribed to this, even going as far as to calculate how high these mountains were (334 miles high) and coming up with the process by which the sun had formed its luminous atmosphere, and to him this was just another planet, which while certainly unique, wasn’t beyond the ability to harbor life. Herschel would say of this:
The Sun appears to be nothing else than a very eminent, large, and lucid planet. Its similarity to the other globes of the solar system leads us to suppose that it is most probably inhabited by beings whose organs are adapted to the peculiar circumstances of that vast globe.
Herschel even had a slew of complicated hypotheses on how these hypothetical lifeforms kept from being burned to a crisp, essentially boiling down to because an opaque layer of clouds below these organisms was able to bounce the light of the sun’s atmosphere into space and thus protect them from being immolated. While Herschel’s ideas were largely met with skepticism and raised eyebrows by other scientists, the fact that he was such a respected astronomer meant that they stubbornly stayed around for a shockingly long amount of time, and these notions were still being entertained well into the 1800s, not being really put to rest until it was found that the sun was not a planet, but rather a flaming ball of hydrogen and helium gas. So does the sun harbor life? Probably not. Yet, it is compelling that we have been entertaining this notion for many years, and continue to do so to this day. Although the sun is more likely than not devoid of any light, the speculation concerning how life could exist there and how it might in other similar environments leads the way in delving into alternate hypotheses on how life works, and might illuminate the fact that it might not be so narrowly defined as has traditionally been thought. It helps us think outside of the box, and that is often not a bad thing at all.
A very unique royal bust of King Ramses II has been unearthed during an Egyptian archaeological mission from the Ministry of Antiquities. Archaeologists discovered the statue on private land in Mit Rahina, Egypt. The land owner had been arrested for performing illegal excavations on the land which is located near the Temple of Ptah – not far from the Pyramids of Giza.
Ramses II (also known as “Ozymandias” and “Ramesses the Great”) ruled Egypt from 1279 to 1213 B.C. He was the third pharaoh of Egypt’s 19th Dynasty. Ramses II was known for his impressive building programs with Abu Simbel being one of his greatest achievements. Abu Simbel consists of two temples with the smaller one being dedicated to his wife, Queen Nefertari.
Abu Simbel
The unique bust was made from red granite and showed the king wearing a wig and a crown with the symbol “Ka” which symbolizes power, life force, and spirit. On the back pillar, his name is engraved as “Nakht Mari Maat” which translates to “strong bull”. The statue is 105 cm tall (approximately three and a half feet) by 55 cm wide and 45 cm thick.
Mostafa Waziri, who is the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, stated that the statue is extremely rare because it’s the only ever “Ka” statue found that was made from granite. The only other one that was similar to it was made from wood and was owned by the 13th Dynasty King Hor Awibre – it is currently on display at the Egyptian Museum which is located in Cairo. Waziri explained that the statue was “intended to provide a resting place for the Ka (life-force or spirit) of the person after death.”
Ramses II
In addition to the bust, several large blocks made from red granite and limestone were also found. The blocks were engraved with different scenes depicting Ramses II during the Heb-Seb religious ritual. This suggests that the blocks could possibly belong to the Temple of Ptah. It’s still unclear as to when the statue and the blocks were originally created. Pictures of the bust as well as one of the blocks can be seen here.
File-A unique royal bust of King Ramses II made of red granite.
The bust and the blocks were brought to Mit Rahina open air museum where they will be restored. Excavations will continue at the site where they were unearthed.
Ancient Structure With 50 meter Doorway To Alien Base Below Volcano, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Ancient Structure With 50 Meter Doorway To Alien Base Below Volcano, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 15, 2019 17:42:40 Location of sighting: Volcano Popocatepetl, Mexico Source: Live Cam I was watching the live cam to see if I could catch a UFO shooting around or into it again. I've recorded over a dozen objects on this cam and thought I might have some luck today. I did...but instead of a flying object I found a giant structure hundreds of meters tall. It had a square doorway that was close to 60 meters across! The structure was not there and then the sun hit it perfectly and there it was! Maybe its a trick of the eye, an illusion of some sort, but I swear this looks like a giant entrances into an underground alien abase. A base I have been talking about for almost ten years. If so...then we found an easy way to get to that base...but we do need a way to break through that huge door. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
In this never before seen photo, I found a strange object. It was taken from the STS39 Shuttle Discovery mission while they were in orbit. The object looks semi transparent with a darker triangle within it. I checked the photos before and after this one, but did not find the anomaly in any of them. Only one photo had this UFO in it. I have never seen a satellite like this before and there is no payload in the bay that would match such an strange object. Even NASA didn't notice it in the photo and only wrote "cumulous clouds." Its unidentified...its flying...and it sure as heck is an object. Thats a UFO. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Please donate to help my UFO research at https://paypal.me/ScottWaring?locale.x=en_US
How scientist created ‘martian chamber' – and life THRIVED in Red Planet breakthrough
How scientist created ‘martian chamber' – and life THRIVED in Red Planet breakthrough
A SCIENTIST created a “martian chamber” to replicate the conditions on the Red Planet and see whether life, as we know it, could survive in these harsh conditions, but the results were far more stunning, proving Mars could one day be “a habitat for organisms that live on Earth”.
NASA has longed probed the possibility of life on Mars due to the similarities it shares with Earth, yet, to date, no proof has been found of past or present life as we know it. Recent advances suggest the Red Planet once flowed with water, meaning Mars may have once harvested life in conditions much warmer and wetter than today. Despite this, a scientist in Germany made a remarkable discovery to prove that living organisms can not only survive on the current conditions of the Red Planet, but thrive there too, Amazon Prime’s “Tomorrow’s World” revealed.
The series explained in 2018: “Life could exist in this cold, hostile place.
“This has been demonstrated by Dr Jean-Pierre Paul De Vera, of the German Spatial Research Centre in Berlin.
“In his laboratory, this passionate researcher has created an amazing machine – a Martian chamber – temperature, atmospheric pressure, chemical composition, UV rays, each parameter can be regulated with precision.
“The aim, to test the resistance of terrestrial organisms to Martian conditions.”
The Martian Chamber replicated the Red Planet conditions
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The chamber was used to test microorganisms from Earth
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Life is possible on Mars, and Mars can be a habitat for organisms that live on Earth
Dr Jean-Pierre Paul De Vera
In 2012, Dr De Vera showed that cyanobacteria – a phylum consisting of free-living bacteria – present on Earth for 3.5 billion years could survive several weeks in the "Martian chamber" without a problem.
He repeated his experiment for nine days with microorganisms recovered from Earth’s harshest continent – Antarctica.
He explained: “From what we’ve seen, the results we’ve had, it would be possible to find life there, or terrestrial life, microorganisms could survive on Mars.
“It’s impressive, we never imagined these results, especially with more complex organisms.
“They are not bacteria, they’re organisms, which use photosynthesis.
“Life is possible on Mars, and Mars can be a habitat for organisms that live on Earth.”
The narrator went on to reveal the next step in the process for scientists around the world.
Two different kinds of materials were used
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Organisms from Antarctica thrived
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He added: “So far from being a desert with no potential, the Red Planet could be a fertile ground for certain organisms.
On the surface of the planet, the rovers go on searching, but these monsters of technology have their limits.
“They are slow and fragile, and breakdowns are always possible, so for the experts, the next stage is obvious – they have to send people.
“Heading to Mars, astronauts will face a mission of unprecedented complexity."
On October 8, 2015, NASA published its strategy for human exploration and colonisation of Mars, the concept operates through three distinct phases leading up to fully sustained civilisation on the Red Planet, which they hope to implement sometime in the mid-2030s.
The mission is split into three distinct phases leading up to a fully sustained civilisation.
The first stage, already under way, is the “Earth Reliant” phase, this will continue to use the International Space Station until 2024, validating deep space technologies and studying the effects of long-duration space missions on the human body.
The second stage, “Proving Ground,” ventures into cislunar space for most of its tasks, to test deep-space habitation facilities, and validate capabilities required for human exploration of Mars.
Finally, phase three, the “Earth Independent” stage includes long-term missions on the Red Planet with surface habitats that only require routine maintenance, and the harvesting of Martian resources for fuel, water, and building materials.
Stars and comets make unlikely dance partners. Their gravitational partnership is one that astronomers have long suspected but have never seen — until now. For the first time, a Polish group has identified two nearby stars that seem to have plucked up their icy partners, swinging them into orbits around our sun.
The astronomers found the stellar duo after studying the movements of over 600 stars that came within 13 light-years of the sun. The new findings validate a theory born more than a half-century ago, and in doing so have also shown just how rare these stellar dances can be.
Out on the far edge of the solar system, hanging like wallflowers around the planetary dance floor, is the Oort Cloud. This icy group of objects were left over after the formation of the solar system, creating a giant shell enveloping our home system that extends from 66 times the distance to Neptune to 9.23 trillion miles (14.9 trillion kilometers) away from the sun. Astronomers think the Oort Cloud is a reservoir for long-period comets — those that take more than 200 years to orbit the sun. Comet Hale-Bopp, which has a 2,500-year orbit, is one of the most famous of these long-period comets.
Since the cloud's existence was first proposed by Jan Oort in the 1950s, astronomers have suspected that every so often, a passing star might be able to pick up an object and send it swinging on a wild ride through our solar system; that ride would bring some of those comets streaming through the night sky for us to marvel at. Astronomers have spent years trying to find proof of these stellar dances, but none had been conclusively shown until now.
Astronomers think the Oort Cloud is a reservoir for long-period comets — those that take more than 200 years to orbit the sun. (Image credit: Ron Miller/Stocktrek Images via Getty Images)
A new paper, accepted for publication in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and published on the preprint database arXiv, describes how astronomers calculated the paths of nearly 650 stars, which they compared with the orbits of over 270 long-period comets. The study used a catalogue from the Gaia spacecraft, which has measurements for some 1.7 billion astronomical objects, along with surveys like Pan-STARRS, which looks for asteroids, comets and other small bodies in our solar system.
They created models for the star-comet pairs to rewind and replay their history. The astronomers then would "remove" a star from their model to see if that significantly changed the partner comet's orbit. If it did, the astronomers would know that the stars had tangoed with the comets.
"In our study, we discovered only two cases in which this actually happened, and yet, we observe dozens of comets every year," lead study author Rita Wysoczańska, an astronomer at the Institute Astronomical Observatory at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, told Live Science. "At this moment, we can say that the mechanism proposed by Oort is not sufficient enough to generate all comets we observe."
It's likely that the collective gravitational force of more distant stars can boost comets into long-period orbits. And once a comet enters the solar system, it can be further perturbed by the planets therein.
"I think, in general, it is hard to associate a particular comet with a particular star," said Coryn Bailer-Jones, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, who was not involved with the new study. "We must also consider the contribution of the galactic background potential, which is essentially the influence of all the other much more distant, but also much more numerous, stars in the galaxy."
Creating computer models to look at all of those influences, something called a multibody model, is a much more complex and computationally intensive task.
Additionally, information doesn't yet exist for every star. With current data, the astronomers had to rely on estimates for some of the stellar masses and movements. The astronomers hope that a future data release of the stellar survey they used can help shed more light on comet-star interactions.
Editor's note: This article was updated to indicate the astronomers looked at stars that came within 13 light-years of the sun, not 1.3 light-years as had been written.
As I write this post, I keep reminding myself that lots of perfectly sane and accomplished individuals have experienced a UFO sighting and/or alien encounter. Actually, many have had numerous experiences. Truth is, even though I count myself among the latter group, I’m not going to pretend I have every answer to every universal question ever asked. I don’t. But from my perspective, one thing is for certain: we are most definitely not alone. And frankly, considering the destructive technologies numerous countries have in their arsenals, I for one, am grateful to know this experientially. At first blush, my own ET experiences felt like something out of a sci-fi/horror film. The first act being something like, the protagonist experiences victimization at the hands of Grey aliens, leading to alienation from those around her. But here’s the thing. The longer I’ve sat with this, the more it seems that my overall experiences were intended to accomplish several things, and not all of them were centered on little ol’ me.
So what was the alien agenda?
First of all, I tend to think there is definitely something going on with DNA extraction. Does taking my DNA necessarily mean it is being used for nefarious purposes? No. However, it does not disprove this popular theory, either. Since I personally believe in the Twelve Spiritual Laws of the Universe, I’m going to go on a limb and suggest that the outcome from these purported DNA extractions will ultimately prove to be positive. Who knows, maybe a stronger and smarter species will evolve from this genetic experimentation/manipulation. Maybe this will serve to adapt humankind to Earth’s changing environment, another planet’s environment, or advanced interstellar travel.
Secondly, the fact that some experiencers, such as myself, recall alien encounters occurring all the way back to early childhood, suggests that maybe we are supposed to remember. At least, just enough. In my case, I remember not only bits and pieces of what happened immediately before and during the abduction, I recall reporting the experience to my mother. Of course she had no way of knowing the three monsters in my bedroom were in fact, small Grey aliens. Nor could she have predicted that I did my very best every night to not fall asleep, only to eventually go through a similar experience a few weeks later.
This begs the question, why would aliens want me to remember parts of this and other experiences? Simply put, I suspect it may serve as a way to quietly accomplish what the U.S. government was unwilling or unable to do. That being full disclosure about the fact that we are not alone. Additionally, it's very likely that our cosmic cousins want us to abolish our nuclear technologies and other WMDs, take care of one another - both locally and globally, and clean up/ learn to live in harmony with our beautiful planet.
Thirdly, they may have wanted to build a relationship over time with certain abductees, so they would eventually function as starseeds, lightworkers or both. Starseeds spread divine light by seeding energy into new systems. They are beings who exist here on earth in a human body, but their soul may have originated from somewhere else, (i.e. another planet, star system, galaxy, dimension or even a different (parallel) universe). On the other hand, a lightworker is a person who connects to the inter-dimensional energies around Earth and is psychic and highly intuitive. Lightworkers simply know what other people are thinking, feeling, or need in order to heal.
To be honest, I am slightly psychic and highly intuitive, but I have always felt that I came from somewhere else. This suggests that I might be both a starseed and a lightworker, but of course, only time will tell. What about you? Are you an alien or UFO experiencer? Do you believe you might be a starseed or lightworker? Please feel free to reply. I sincerely look forward to hearing from you!
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University deletes bizarre press release that claimed alien insects live on Mars
University deletes bizarre press release that claimed alien insects live on Mars
Jasper Hamill
The claim that extraterrestrial beasties are living on Mars always sounded too good to be true.
Now the university which published a press release which alleged insects had been spotted on Mars has performed a dramatic u-turn.
Last week, Professor Emeritus William Romoser, an entomologist from Ohio University, said images captured by Nasa’s Mars rovers clearly show ‘fossilised and living creatures’ on the Red Planet’s surface.
‘There has been and still is life on Mars,’ Romoser said in a press release which has now been deleted from the Ohio University website as well as wire services which distribute releases to journalists.
We found a poster of his research online, which is still available to read, which suggested Nasa is already ‘acquainted with Martian insect- and reptile-like creatures’ which live on Mars.
An Ohio University entomologist claimed Martian ‘creatures’ loosely resemble the bumblebees or carpenter bees found here on Earth
(Image: Nasa)
‘It appears that the “Red Planet” enjoys a surprising abundance of higher life forms,’ the paper continued.
The research analysed images sent back to Earth by the Mars Rover and made several astonishing allegations.
It suggested that creatures resembling ‘bees’ lived on Mars as well as reptile-like animals which preyed on them.
‘The insect-like fauna observed appeared to be sheltering/nesting in caves, in burrows beneath the surface, and in specialized structures,’ the paper continued.
Rosomer’s claims made international headlines last week.
A selfie snapped by the Nasa Curiousity Mars Rover
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‘There is apparent diversity among the Martian insect-like fauna which display many features similar to Terran insects that are interpreted as advanced groups – for example, the presence of wings, wing flexion, agile gliding/flight, and variously structured leg elements.’
He said the rovers have snapped pictures which ‘clearly depict the insect- and reptile-like forms’.
The scientist even suggested one image shows a living insect ‘in a steep dive before pulling up just before hitting the ground’.
‘Once a clear image of a given form was identified and described, it was useful in facilitating recognition of other less clear, but none-the-less valid, images of the same basic form,’ Romoser said.
Does this image captured by Nasa’s Mars Rover show an alien insect?
‘An exoskeleton and jointed appendages are sufficient to establish identification as an arthropod. Three body regions, a single pair of antennae, and six legs are traditionally sufficient to establish identification as “insect” on Earth.
‘These characteristics should likewise be valid to identify an organism on Mars as insect-like. On these bases, arthropodan, insect-like forms can be seen in the Mars rover photos.’
Romoser said the Martian ‘creatures’ loosely resemble bumblebees or carpenter bees on Earth.
He suggested the ‘bees’ appearing to shelter or nest in caves and claimed other images show a fossilized creature that resembles a snake.
Another image that’s been hailed as evidence proving the existence of Martian insects
Romoser was an entomology professor at Ohio University for 45 years and co-founded its Tropical Disease Institute. He also spent nearly 20 years as a visiting vector-borne disease researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Between 1973 and 1998, Romoser authored and co-authored four editions of the widely-used textbook called ‘The Science of Entomology’.
Romoser noted that ‘interpretations of insect- and reptile-like creatures he described may change in the future as knowledge of life on Mars evolves, but that the sheer volume of evidence is compelling’.
‘The presence of higher metazoan organisms on Mars implies the presence of nutrient/energy sources and processes, food chains and webs, and water as elements functioning in a viable, if extreme, ecological setting sufficient to sustain life,’ he said.
‘I have observed instances suggestive of standing water or small water courses with evident meander and with the expected blurring of small submerged rocks, larger emergent rocks at the atmosphere/water interface, a moist bank area, and a drier area beyond the moist area. Water on Mars has been reported a number of times, including surface water detected by instrumentation on Viking, Pathfinder, Phoenix, and Curiosity.
‘The evidence of life on Mars presented here provides a strong basis for many additional important biological as well as social and political questions,” he added. It also represents a solid justification for further study.’
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University Deletes Bizarre Press Release of Alien Insects Living on Mars
University Deletes Bizarre Press Release of Alien Insects Living on Mars
Article by Jasper Hamill - (metro.co.uk)
In a press release on the Ohio University website earlier in November, Professor Emeritus William Romoser said that after analyzing images captured by NASA’s Mars rovers, the images clearly showed ‘fossilized and living creatures’ on the Red Planet’s surface. Romoser added, “There has been and still is life on Mars.” A poster of his research online suggested NASA is already ‘acquainted with Martian insect- and reptile-like creatures’ which live on Mars. That press release and the wire service that released it have now been deleted from the university website.
Before being deleted, Romoser’s paper took the opportunity to reveal that ‘the “Red Planet” enjoys a surprising abundance of higher life forms’, including creatures resembling ‘bumblebees or carpenter bees’ as well as reptile-like animals which preyed on them. ‘The insect-like fauna observed appeared to be sheltering/nesting in caves, in burrows beneath the surface, and in specialized structures,’ Romoser wrote. ‘Other images show a fossilized creature that resembles a snake.’ ‘Once a clear image of a given form was identified and described, it was useful in facilitating recognition of other less clear, but none-the-less valid, images of the same basic form,’ said Romoser.
Romoser has been an entomology professor at Ohio University for 45 years. He also spent nearly 20 years as a vector-borne disease researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Between 1973 and 1998, Romoser authored and co-authored four editions of the widely-used textbook called ‘The Science of Entomology’. Romoser said that ‘interpretations of insect- and reptile-like creatures he described may change in the future as knowledge of life on Mars evolves, but that the sheer volume of evidence is compelling’. ‘The presence of higher metazoan organisms on Mars implies the presence of nutrient/energy sources and processes, food chains and webs, and water as elements functioning in a viable, if extreme, ecological setting sufficient to sustain life.’
Romoser said, ‘I have observed instances suggestive of standing water… a moist bank area, and a drier area beyond’. Water on Mars, including surface water, has been detected by instrumentation on the Viking, Pathfinder, Phoenix, and Curiosity rovers. ‘The evidence of life on Mars presented here provides a strong… justification for further study.’
[Editor’s Note] How did this professor evade the deep state’s truth embargo in the first place?
William Romoser
The claim that extraterrestrial beasties are living on Mars always sounded too good to be true. Now the university which published a press release
which alleged insects had been spotted on Mars has performed a dramatic u-turn. Last week, Professor Emeritus William Romoser, an entomologist from Ohio University, said images captured by Nasa’s Mars rovers clearly show ‘fossilised and living creatures’ on the Red Planet’s surface. ‘There has been and still is life on Mars,’ Romoser said in a press release which has now been deleted from the Ohio University website as well as wire services which distribute releases to journalists. We found a poster of his research online, which is still available to read, which suggested Nasa is already ‘acquainted with Martian insect- and reptile-like creatures’ which live on Mars.
‘It appears that the “Red Planet” enjoys a surprising abundance of higher life forms,’ the paper continued. The research analysed images sent back to Earth by the Mars Rover and made several astonishing allegations. It suggested that creatures resembling ‘bees’ lived on Mars as well as reptile-like animals which preyed on them. ‘The insect-like fauna observed appeared to be sheltering/nesting in caves, in burrows beneath the surface, and in specialized structures,’ the paper continued. Rosomer’s claims made international headlines last week.
Once again, ladies and gentlemen, the late, great David Bowie’s “Life on Mars?” (David Bowie YouTube)
The photo was taken during the STS-39 Space Shuttle mission
The UFO expert believes the alien vessel is monitoring Earth
AUFO expert claimed that NASA’s photo of the Moon accidentally showed a strange-looking alien spacecraft hovering in low-Earth orbit. According to the expert, the alleged UFO in the photo is a rare one due to its shape.
The strange object was spotted by Scott Waring of the UFO-centered blog ET Data Base. He came across the object in a photo featured in the website Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth, which houses a collection of images taken during NASA’s space missions.
The particular photo that Waring focused on was taken during the STS-39 mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery, which was launched on April 28, 1991. The main objective of the mission was to conduct payload experiments for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Shortly after leaving Earth, the mission’s astronauts took a photo of the Moon from space. In the photo, the Moon can be seen in the center with a portion of Earth right below it.
In the source website, parts of the photo can be enlarged by moving the cursor over it. As noted by Waring, placing the cursor near the lower right-hand corner of the photo would reveal an image of a strange object just outside Earth.
Unlike other UFOs, the object in the photo has a very strange shape and resembles a lightning bolt. According to Waring, he had never seen an alien vessel shaped like that before.
“I was searching through NASA archive photo and saw this beautiful moon photo taken from the Shuttle Discovery,” Waring wrote on a blog post. “I didn't think I would find anything at the time, just thought it was a beautiful photo. I enlarged it and put it into autofocus and found something amazing. There was a black lightning bolt UFO in the lower right-hand corner of the photo. I have never ever reported a UFO of this shape. It's very rare and unlike anything I had come to expect.”
Although Waring strongly believes that the object is a UFO that’s closely monitoring Earth, there could be a natural explanation behind it. Based on the image, it is possible that the object’s appearance was caused by a flaw in the photo.
Earth's collision with a Mars-sized body may have given it its life-essential volatile elements. Pictured: In this NASA handout, the umbra, or moon's shadow, passes over Earth during the total eclipse Monday, August 21, 2017. Viewing the eclipse from orbit were NASA's Randy Bresnik, Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson, ESA (European Space Agency's) Paolo Nespoli, and Roscosmos Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Sergey Ryazanskiy.
The skies of northern Canada are home to plenty of mysterious phenomena (just ask our good buddy "Steve"), including no shortage of alleged UFO sightings. Now, truth seekers at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg may have a busy winter ahead of them, thanks to a recent donation of more than 30,000 UFO-related documents to the school's archives.
The donation comes courtesy of Chris Rutkowski, a science writer and prolific Canadian ufologist. Rutkowski's collection includes more than 20,000 UFO reports filed over the past 30 years, plus more than 10,000 UFO-related documents from the Canadian government, according to a statement from the University of Manitoba. Many of these documents concern an infamous UFO encounter known as the Falcon Lake incident — an encounter that Rutkowski calls Canada's "best-documented UFO case."
"It even beats Roswell [the alleged flying saucer spotted over New Mexico in 1947] because the United States still doesn't recognize that anything happened in Roswell," Rutkowski told the CBC. The Falcon Lake incident, meanwhile, struck both U.S. and Canadian officials as unusual — and unexplainable.
The incident occurred on May 20, 1967, when an amateur geologist named Stefan Michalak was prospecting for quartz near Falcon Lake in Manitoba — the Canadian province that begins above North Dakota and stretches nearly 800 miles (1,200 kilometers) into the frigid north. During his survey, Michalak was startled by a flock of agitated geese swooping past him. According to Michalak's numerous retellings of the story, the geese were apparently fleeing from two glowing, cigar-shaped objects in the sky. One of the objects flew off, and the other landed on a rocky terrace nearby.
Stefan Michalak made this sketch of the UFO he encountered at Falcon Lake shortly before approaching it. (Image credit: Stefan Michalak/ University of Manitoba)
Michalak spent some time sketching the mysterious craft (those sketches, now part of the University of Manitoba's collection, show a quintessential flying saucer) before finally approaching it. The air was warm and smelled of sulfur, and the craft was noisy with whirrs and hisses. The saucer was hot to the touch — so hot it burned the tips of Michalak's gloves, he said. It sounded like there were voices coming from within.
When Michalak looked into the craft through an open door, he expected to see a team of U.S. military pilots. Rather, he saw little more than a panel of blinking lights before the door closed, the craft rotated and a grid-like pattern of tiny holes in the ship's exterior sprayed his abdomen with scorching-hot gas.
The attack set Michalak's shirt and hat ablaze, and left him with first-degree burns on his stomach that echoed the ship's grid-like pattern. A hospital in Winnipeg treated his burns, which later rose into welts, and he suffered headaches, diarrhea and blackouts for several weeks after. Michalak relayed the incident to both U.S. and Canadian authorities, and he eventually completed a physical and psychological evaluation at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. The clinic determined that Michalak was of sound mind and not hallucinating.
Years later, a twisted piece of metal was recovered from the alleged Falcon Lake landing site. Tests showed the metal to be highly radioactive. To this day, neither the Canadian nor U.S. military has been able to explain the event.
All of Rutkowski's records on the Falcon Lake incident — plus thousands of other reported UFO encounters — will soon be available at the University of Manitoba's Archives & Special Collections. Got a few bucks to spare for the unknown? The school has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help digitize these documents.
8 Mysterious Underwater Ruins of Lost Civilizations
8 Mysterious Underwater Ruins of Lost Civilizations
Tales and myths of lost civilizations have been told since the dawn of time. The most famous is the story of Atlantis: a quasi-mythical city that sunk beneath the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Whether the story is true or not, it fills people with intrigue.
Today, archaeologists have discovered there are many sunken cities around the globe. Underwater excavations are difficult and expensive, so these investigations have only recently revealed many lost civilizations.
Around the planet, there are many not so mythical cities found underwater. Some can be traced back through history, yet many remain mysterious and continue to spark people’s imagination as candidates for lost civilizations.
Here are 8 underwater cities of lost civilizations you may not have heard of:
1) Ancient Greece: the sunken city of Pavlopetri.
The underwater city of Pavlopetri in Greece. Source
Found in the south of modern-day Greece is the sunken city of Pavlopetri. Dating back 5000 years it is now more than four meters underwater and is the first lost city to be found around Greece. It is thought to have sunk around 1000BC due to an earthquake that shifted the land around many of the Greek islands.
From what has been so far uncovered at the site, the ancient cities layout resembles many modern-day cities. Well-designed roads, houses, gardens, temples, complex water management systems, and huge buildings have so far been found.
The entire city is so far known to be at least 80,000 square meters in size, with a vast open plaza in the center of these sunken ruins
2) Yonaguni Jima, The Japanese Atlantis.
The sunken ruins of a lost civilization in Yonaguni in Japan. Source
The Island of Yonaguni is just miles away from Taiwan and is the last of the Ryukyu islands. It is the westernmost inhabited Japanese island. During the ice age, Yonaguni Island was part of the Chinese mainland. Then due to rising oceans and land shifts, it became one of the many islands that were spread out in between China and Japan. It was once part of the Ryukyu Kingdom until it was overtaken by Japan.
Although these ruins have never been properly researched, many claims are surrounding its origins and dating. These vary from between 10,000 to 5,000 years old. Controversy surrounds the validity of the sunken city, which according to some researchers, was once home to the legendary Jomon civilization that flourished in ancient Japan from around 12,000 to 300BC. It was this civilization that has some of the oldest found forms of pottery.
Regardless of their validity, the ruins have been submerged for at least two thousand years, meaning whatever was once there, would be extremely degraded.
Some geologists argue the formations found at Yonaguni Jima are naturally occurring. They comprise of many 90-degree angles that appear as manmade steps and passageways, as well as a few circular holes carved in stones around the site.
Although these sorts of formations are found in nature, the high amount in such close proximity has inspired many to investigate the mysterious underwater ruins in search of a lost civilization.
3)The Submerged castle in Lake Van, Turkey.
The underwater castle ruins of a lost civilization in Turkey.
Sitting below the waters of the Middle-East’s second largest lake is a 3000-year-old castle. Thought to be the remains of the ancient Urartu civilization, the castle is around a kilometer in length, with walls of up to four meters tall.
This lost civilization once thrived in modern-day Turkey, Iran, and Armenia. Although much of the ruins are under the lake, there are still remnants that can be seen by the lakes edges.
4) Mahabalipuram, India
A shore temple of the lost city of Mahabalipuram in India.
The sunken ruins of Mahabalipuram lie between 6-8 meters below the current sea level off the coast of South Eastern India. Local folklore long spoke of the existence of ancient ruins, although was mainly confined to fishermen’s tales and thought of as myth.
However, when a tsunami devastated much of Asia in 2004, it revealed that the stories of the lost civilization were true after all.
As the waters receded around 500 meters before the tsunami hit, they pulled away silt and sand that had built up around the monuments that were until then buried at sea.
Since then, there has been a much more serious attempt in researching these sunken ruins.
5) Heracleion, Egypt. The Lost City of Cleopatra.
Sunken ruins of the lost city of Heracleion.
Submerged for at least 1600 years, the lost city of Cleopatra has been found off the shores of Alexandria in Egypt. Cleopatra was the last Pharaoh of ancient Egypt, and it was thought that her city was lost to rising seas as a consequence of an earthquake and resulting tidal waves. Pristine statues, and temples have been discovered at the site so far, many of which are in excellent condition.
Statues of Isis, a sphinx, and large red granite columns, as well as foundations of a palace, are among the relics found at the site. Around 20,000 objects have been located in the lost underwater city.
One object recovered from the water is a 2,000-year-old stone figurine of Cleopatra III: a Ptolemaic queen, but depicted as the Egyptian goddess Isis and sculpted in a style that combines both Egyptian and Greek aesthetics.
The findings revealed that Thonis (Egyptian) and Heracleion (Greek) were the same cities.
Cleopatra reigned during the times of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which ruled over Egypt from around 305bc to 30bc.
6) The Sunken City of Olous, Crete.
The island of Crete is bordered by an ancient Sunken Minoan City.
What was once part of the Minoan civilization, Olous is an underwater city that was once home to over 40,000 people. Between the 5th and 2nd century BC, Olous is thought to have reached its peak, making up one of around 100 Minoan cities that thrived around ancient Crete.
Although no one knows exactly what happened to Olous, it is thought that it gradually submerged due to rising sea levels. It is interesting to note that the east coast of Crete is sinking into the sea, while the west coast is rising slowly.
Crete is slowly but surely migrating west. This natural phenomenon started around the 4th century AD and could have been responsible for causing Olous to sink.
7) The Ancient Underwater City in Fuxian Lake, China
Underwater ruins of a lost Chinese Civilization. Source
Fuxian Lake is one of the most intriguing underwater cities ever found. Many stories have emerged from this lake about a lost city dating back thousands of years. There isn’t too much written about the excavations, but what is known is there have been many findings dating back into antiquity.
There are many legends in the Yunnan Province (which is located in southwest China) that talk about sunken cities.
One of the ancient cities that researchers first believed to be at the bottom of the lake was the city of Yuyuan. The city was occupied from around 590-900AD and supposedly sunk to the bottom of the sea.
However, researchers have since concluded that the underwater city could not be that of Yuyuan as all artifacts have so far been made of stone, and not clay, which Yuyuan was almost entirely made from.
In 2001, a team of marine archaeologists decided to explore the lake and reported seeing pyramid-like structures as well as other buildings and stone objects. They claim the ruins are over 2000 years old and belong to the lost civilization known as the Dian Kingdom.
There are many varying stories about these underwater ruins. Further research is required to confirm its origin.
8) Port Royal, Jamaica’s lost city
The mysterious sunken ruins of Port Royal in Jamaica.
Up until 1692, Port Royal was one of the most important trading ports of the New World. It wasn’t for the faint-hearted though, with it being known across the world as the ‘wickedest city on earth.’
An earthquake and resulting tsunami brought the Jamaican city to its end, submerging it beneath the sea. The ruins are still accessible today, with travelers able to dive and explore the lost city.
Juno has now spotted seven giant cyclones near Jupiter's south pole.
A new, smaller cyclone can be seen at the lower right of this infrared image of Jupiter's south pole taken on Nov. 4, 2019, during the 23rd science pass of the planet by NASA's Juno spacecraft.
SAN FRANCISCO — NASA's Juno probe discovered a giant new storm swirling near Jupiter's south pole last month, a few weeks after pulling off a dramatic death-dodging maneuver.
Juno spied the newfound maelstrom, which is about as wide as Texas, on Nov. 3, during its most recent close flyby of Jupiter. The storm joins a family of six other cyclones in Jupiter's south polar region, which Juno had spotted on previous passes by the gas giant. (Those encounters also revealed nine cyclones near Jupiter's north pole, by the way.)
The southern tempests are arrayed in a strikingly regular fashion. Previously, five of them had formed a pentagon around a central storm, which is as wide as the continental United States. With the new addition, that girdling structure is now a hexagon.
This composite visible-light image taken by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft on Nov. 3, 2019, shows a new cyclone at Jupiter's south pole has joined five other cyclones to create a hexagonal shape around a large single cyclone. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS)
"These cyclones are new weather phenomena that have not been seen or predicted before," Cheng Li, a Juno scientist from the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement yesterday (Dec. 12).
"Nature is revealing new physics regarding fluid motions and how giant planet atmospheres work," he added. "We are beginning to grasp it through observations and computer simulations. Future Juno flybys will help us further refine our understanding by revealing how the cyclones evolve over time."
Juno orbits Jupiter on a highly elliptical path every 53 Earth days, gathering most of its data when it comes closest to the giant planet. And those encounters are quite close indeed: During the Nov. 3 pass, the 22nd science flyby of Juno's $1.1 billion mission, the probe skimmed a mere 2,175 miles (3,500 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops, NASA officials said.
But it took some fancy flying to make sure Juno survived the experience. The mission team determined that the probe's trajectory would take Juno into Jupiter's shadow for 12 hours on Nov. 3. And that likely would've been a death sentence for the solar-powered probe.
"We would've gotten cold. Really, really cold," Juno project scientist Steve Levin, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, said during a press conference here yesterday at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), where the team announced the new results.
But the navigation team at JPL came up with a solution: "jumping Jupiter's shadow." On Sept. 30, Juno's handlers directed the solar-powered probe to fire its small reaction-control engines in pulses for 10.5 hours. This pushed the probe's path steadily outward — and, ultimately, out of the shadow path altogether, Levin explained.
"Without that maneuver, without the creative genius of the folks at JPL on the navigation team, we wouldn't have the beautiful data that we have to show you today," he said.
Juno launched in 2011 and arrived in orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. The spacecraft is studying Jupiter's composition and gravitational and magnetic fields, among other things. The data Juno is gathering should help researchers better understand how Jupiter — and, by extension, the solar system — formed and evolved, mission team members have said.
The initial mission plan called for Juno to tighten its science orbit considerably, down to 14 Earth days. But the team called off the engine burns that would have achieved this reduction after discovering issues with the probe's fuel-delivery system. So, Juno will stay in the 53-day orbit for the duration of its mission, which currently goes through July 2021.
Turns out it was Rocket Lab launching its 10th Electron rocket from Mahia Peninsula shortly before 9.20pm.
The mission - named Running Out Of Fingers - had seven satellites for commercial "ride-share" customers on board.
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What a way to close out another year of Electron launches. A perfect mission + successful guided re-entry of stage 1 as we work towards reusable rockets. Congrats to @SpaceflightInc, @ALE_StarAle & @AlbaOrbital - we hope your satellites are enjoying their new home on orbit.
Rocket Lab CEO and founder Peter Beck said it was a "significant milestone" given its 100 per cent success rate at getting 47 satellites into space on its "ride-share" missions.
"Not only is this 10th mission a significant milestone launch for us, but our first guided stage re-entry was a complete success.
"The stage made it through the harsh re-entry environment intact, which is an outstanding result for a first test of our recovery systems.
"It's a huge testament to the relentless drive and commitment of our team that we've reached 10 flights in just our second year of commercial launches," Beck said.
Rocket Lab's next mission will take place within the first weeks of 2020.
Earth's magnetic north is shifting at an 'unprecedented' rate of 30 miles a year - throwing satellite positioning data and navigation systems off course
Earth's magnetic north is shifting at an 'unprecedented' rate of 30 miles a year - throwing satellite positioning data and navigation systems off course
New World Magnetic Model reveals movements in the Earth's magnetic field
Earth's magnetic north pole is moving towards Siberia and away from Canada
Northern lights may be harder to see from Canada as the magnetic north shifts
Magnetic devices and GPS systems used by military and aviation industries rely on accurate magnetic field readings
The Earth's magnetic North Pole is travelling at an unprecedented rate and is picking up speed as it moves towards Siberia, according to new satellite data.
The magnetic North Pole is the wandering point on the surface of Earth's Northern Hemisphere at which the planet's magnetic field - created by molten iron within the planet’s core - points vertically downwards.
The latest World Magnetic Model, which tracks the movement of the Earth’s magnetic field, shows that the magnetic north is moving at a rate of 30 miles per year.
This is the fastest recorded shift of the Earth's north since the mid-16th century and could cause havoc for aviation and navigation systems, including smartphone apps that use GPS.
The WMM has also located ‘caution zones’ on Earth around the magnetic fields where compasses may be prone to errors and send users off course.
New World Magnetic Map data shows Earth's magnetic north is moving at 31 miles per year, up from just 6.2 miles around 20 years ago, away from Canada and towards Siberia
New World Magnetic Map data shows how Earth's magnetic north has moved away from Canada and towards Siberia. The dip pole is the magnetic pole where a free-swinging compass needle points directly into the ground. The geomagnetic pole is the position of the pole if the Earth’s magnetic field was like a bar magnet. The difference between them show how distorted the magnetic field has become
‘The magnetic North Pole wandered slowly around northern Canada from 1590 to around 1990 and then accelerated over the past 20 years moving from around 10 km (6.2 miles) per year to over 50 km (31 miles) per year,’ Ciaran Beggan of the British Geological Survey told MailOnline.
‘In contrast, the south magnetic pole has barely moved much in the past 100 years as the flow of the outer core there is much more sedate.'
After circling northern Canada for hundreds of years, the approximate location of the magnetic north pole started moving speedily towards Siberia at around the turn of the century.
Magnets rely on the Earth's magnetic field to send users in the right direction, but the problem is the magnetic field is constantly shifting around over time
The south magnetic pole has barely moved in the past 100 years compared to the north pole
WHAT IS THE WORLD MAGNETIC MODEL?
The World Magnetic Model is a key tool to model the change in the Earth’s magnetic field.
It gives accuracy to compasses, maps and GPS services by tracking irregular changes in the Earth’s magnetic core.
A new version of the World Magnetic Model is released every five years.
The current version, WMM2020, is only valid until 2025 to account for unpredictable magnetic changes.
Data from European Space Agency satellites and 160 land-based observatories as recently as October were used to map WMM2020.
The WMM is the standard model used by UK and US defence departments, NATO and the International Hydraulic Organisation.
It is mainly paid for and used by the military but it remains free for anyone else who needs it.
In recent months, it has crossed the Greenwich meridian line - the line of Zero Longitude from which all other longitudinal lines are measured.
Earth’s magnetic field is created by the movement of liquid iron in the Earth’s outer core, some 1,800 miles below our feet.
The iron is super hot (over 5,432 degrees Fahrenheit) and as runny as water meaning it flows very easily.
As the liquid flows, it drags the magnetic field with it.
‘We think the magnetic north pole has been sucked into a fast moving jet stream near the top of the planet and that’s causing it to be pulled from Canada to Siberia,’ Dr Beggan said.
'There are other factors, but that is the main one.'
Since its discovery in 1831, the north magnetic pole has travelled a total of around 1,400 miles.
This movement has been generally quite slow, but since the turn of the century has sped up – reaching an average speed of about 34 miles per year.
The shift will mean there will be less chance to see the Aurora in place of northern Canada
The new WMM forecasts that the northern magnetic pole will continue drifting towards Siberia in the next five years, at a slightly slower speed of about 25 miles per year.
The move also means that the northern lights will move slightly away from northern Canada towards Siberia, meaning there will be less chance to see them in some areas there.
The World Magnetic Model is a vital tool for civilian navigation systems and marine and aviation charts, which need to constantly adjust their measurements to account for the shifts in magnetic north.
Airport runways also rely on the navigation aid and use WMM data to give runways numerical names, which pilots refer to on the ground.
It’s the standard model used for navigation by the UK Ministry of Defence and the US Department of Defence - and even compasses and smartphone apps that rely on GPS.
If you have smartphone with a map application (and an inbuilt compass which most phones do), then Google or Apple will change the magnetic field map in the next few months, as part of the general software updates.
The WMM is jointly put together by the British Geological Survey and the USA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.
It’s updated every five years to take account of the unpredictability of the Earth’s magnetic field.
The updated model also confirms that the Earth’s magnetic field is weakening by about 5 per cent every century.
If this continues, the field could eventually reverse, which would have dire consequences for any civilisation around to witness it, because the magnetic field would no longer shield the Earth against damaging solar and cosmic radiation.
'If the field does reverse, it typically takes 5,000-10,000 years to do so,' said Dr Beggan.
'The usual process is that the two strong magnetic poles (north and south) vanish slowly, to be replaced by lots of local poles (so a compass points to its nearest 'pole').
'This state lasts a few thousand years and then the (reversed) south and north magnetic poles re-establish themselves.
'We won’t know if we’re in a reversal for a long time – certainly much longer than the average human lifetime.'
It’s been a helluva year for Unidentified Flying Objects.
Once thought to be fictional works used to sell tabloids, 2019 has been awash with news of UFOs, aliens and strange phenomenon — including reports (complete with video) from verifiably sane sources.
In November, another report in Popular Mechanics confirmed that after the 2004 incident, two “unknown individuals” took the data tapes away and wiped the memory from the Navy hard drive.
Meanwhile, just around the time the Popular Mechanics report was released, unidentified flying objects were captured on video off North Carolina’s Outer Banks and the Army announced a partnership with Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge’s To the Stars Academy to research alien technology.
But while astronomers say humans finding aliens may take a long time — 2019 was a particularly active year for UFOs visiting Earth.
According to the National UFO Reporting Center, on Sept. 21, in Gallipolis, Ohio, “A husband (former law enforcement) and wife (scientist), while sitting outside their recreational vehicle at a public campsite, witnessed a very bright light approach their campsite from the south in an erratic manner, appearing to slow or stop on several occasions as it drew near. It got within 50 yards, they estimate, of their campsite, at which time, out of a sense of alarm, the husband reached for his .45 caliber sidearm, but he felt unable to use his arm, or lift the firearm. The object, estimated by the witnesses to have been approximately 20 feet in diameter, hovered nearby for approximately 8 seconds, and then suddenly accelerated toward the west, and disappeared very quickly to the west.”
Meanwhile, on Sept. 1, in Taos, New Mexico, “Three elk hunters allegedly witnessed two alien creatures, standing upright, on a nearby hilltop. The next day, two of them return to the same area to look for evidence, and they allegedly witness an unusual looking craft resting on the ground.”
Closer to home, on Aug. 12, on the New Jersey Garden State Parkway (near exit 38B by Atlantic City), “A husband and wife were driving north on the NJ Garden State Parkway when their attention was drawn to two peculiar white lights that appeared to be approaching their location. Suddenly, they realized that the lights were affixed to a very large, triangular craft, which maneuvered to above the highway and hovered. The witnesses could see ‘windows’ on the top of the craft, from which light appeared to emanate. Traffic was passing underneath the craft.”
If you’re worried about your home state, a handy UFO HotSpot Infographic was created by SatelliteInternet.com, which shows the states with the most alien activity.
According to the infographic, aliens apparently prefer colder climes as “UFO hotspots include Washington State (the home of the National UFO Reporting Center), Montana and Vermont. Alaska and Maine are also popular states for alien encounters.”
The states with the least alien activity are Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama — despite former President Jimmy Carter logging an official report with the International UFO Bureau in 1969, claiming he had seen a self-illuminated, multi-colored UFO before giving a speech at the Lions Club in Leary, Georgia.
David Wilcock: Pete Peterson's "deathbed confession" on Secret Space Programs
David Wilcock: Pete Peterson's "deathbed confession" on Secret Space Programs
The US Navy has now officially declassified operable patents for anti-gravity and free-energy technology. The Air Force announced on December 6th that "Secret Space Programs" will be declassified in 2020.
This new Intel precisely fits with the inside information from Pete Peterson, in a call from June 6th, 2019.
Peterson was arguably the top specialist for black-ops technology in the military-industrial complex for many years.
According to this "deathbed confessional" from Pete, he would be allowed to tell the world anything he wanted about his experiences "on the inside" within six to eight months from the time of the interview.
Pete was preparing to come forward about his experiences visiting 60 to 65 different off-planet locations, and just over a month later, he died of an "accidental injection" at the senior center he was staying at.
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The 1st interstellar object – 1I/’Oumuamua – had already passed closest to our sun when astronomers first spotted it. So catching this 2nd one – 2I/Borisov – prior to perihelion was a big plus for astronomers! Before and after images here.
Before. Here’s comet 2I/Borisov – the 2I stands for 2nd interstellar – on November 16, 2019, about 3 weeks before its perihelion, or closest point to the sun. It appears in front of a distant background spiral galaxy (2MASX J10500165-0152029), whose bright central core is smeared because Hubble was tracking the comet. Comet Borisov was approximately 203 million miles (327 million km) from Earth in this exposure. The streak off to the upper right is its tail of ejected dust.
Astronomers last week (December 12, 2019) released new Hubble Space Telescope images of 2I/Borisov – the second-known interstellar object – shortly before and shortly after its December 8 perihelion. Those images are historic in and of themselves; we’ve never before witnessed an interstellar object sweeping closest to our sun. 2I/Borisov – discovered on August 30, 2019, by comet hunter Gennady Borisov in Crimea, and now characterized as a comet – was about twice as far as Earth from the sun at its closest, on the inner edge of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. So its December 8 passage nearest our sun wasn’t a close passage for a comet. But – since comets are most active when they sweep closest to a star – astronomers hoped to see 2I/Borisov exhibit an outburst or other activity.
We haven’t heard of any outbursts from 2I/Borisov, but the Hubble observations did yield important science. Astronomer David Jewitt of UCLA led the team that captured the new images. Jewitt said in a statement:
Hubble gives us the best upper limit of the size of comet Borisov’s nucleus [core], which is the really important part of the comet.
Surprisingly, our Hubble images show that its nucleus is more than 15 times smaller than earlier investigations suggested it might be. Our Hubble images show that the radius is smaller than half-a-kilometer [.3 miles].
Knowing the size is potentially useful for beginning to estimate how common such objects might be in the solar system and our galaxy. Borisov is the first known interstellar comet, and we would like to learn how many others there are.
After. Astronomers aimed Hubble toward 2I/Borisov again on December 9, 2019, shortly after its perihelion or closest point to the sun on December 8, 2019. When closest to the sun, a comet receives maximum heating; it tends to be most active. It’s also moving fastest in orbit. 2I/Borisov was barreling along at some 100,000 miles (160,000 km) per hour at perihelion. At its closest to the sun, 2I/Borisov was about twice Earth’s average distance from the sun, near the inner edge of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It was 185 million miles (298 million km) from Earth in this photo. Its nucleus or core – made of ices and dust – was still too small to see. The comet will make its closest approach to Earth in late December at a distance of 180 million miles (290 million km).
Let’s back up a minute. What is 2I/Borisov? We’ve said it’s the second interstellar visitor and the first known interstellar comet. That is, it’s a comet from another star system. The first interstellar object was spotted by astronomers in Hawaii in late 2017. Earthly astronomers named it 1I/’Oumuamua (“Scout”). The 1I stands for 1st interstellar.
‘Oumuamua was positively identified as coming from beyond our solar system. The shape of its orbit told that story. But it couldn’t be positively identified as a comet, despite the fact that – because they’re only loosely bound to their own stars – comets are the most likely candidates for becoming interstellar objects. ‘Oumuamua, though, was a strange object – long and thin – and didn’t show any signs of outgassing or a tail. It looked in many ways more like an asteroid than a comet.
Plus it had already passed its perihelion when astronomers first spotted it. It was already heading outward, back out of our solar system again.
So seeing the second-known interstellar object – 2I/Borisov – both before and after perihelion was a big plus for astronomers!
And now both 1I/’Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov are heading outward again. By the middle of 2020, 2I/Borisov will have zoomed past Jupiter’s distance of 500 million miles (800 million km) on its way back to interstellar space.
But, never fear – now that they’ve spotted the first two interstellar objects – astronomers expect to find more.
2I/Borisov’s orbit. The “2I” stands for “2nd interstellar.” In other words, this is only the 2nd object from a distant solar system known to have swept past our sun. Its perihelion – or closest point to the sun – is just outside the orbit of Mars.
Bottom line: Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain images of 2I/Borisov – the second known interstellar object – before and after its December 8, 2019, perihelion, or closest point to the sun.
The CIA Simulated UFO Abductions In Latin America As Psychological Warfare Experiments
The CIA Simulated UFO Abductions In Latin America As Psychological Warfare Experiments
IN BRIEF
The Facts:
In his book, "Forbidden Science 4," Dr. Jacques Valle explains how he came in possession documents showing that forced "UFO abductions" were conducted by the CIA as psychological warfare experiments.
Reflect On:
This field really requires a lot of critical thinking, and a lot of research. It's no doubt filled with disinformation and misinformation that seems to plague the mainstream UFO community today.
Throughout history, the field of ufology and the examination of the extraterrestrial hypothesis has, without a doubt, been overcome with a plethora of disinformation. Those who have dived into the depths of ufology know this best, as it’s well documented that ‘outsiders’ from intelligence agencies and governments have infiltrated the field for the purposes of deceiving researchers and people who are interested in the topic for one simple reason, to keep them away from the truth. On top of these disinformation campaigns, which still seem to be in operation today, there has long been an “official campaign of ridicule and secrecy” (Roscoe Hillenkoetter, Ex CIA director) associated with the subject. This is why I encourage all those reading who dive into this subject to stick with facts, data, and evidence rather than entertain what seem to be outlandish claims that in no way, at all, can be verified.
I’d like to draw your attention to Dr. Jacques Vallee, who holds a master’s degree in astrophysics and a Ph.D. in computer science. The subject of UFOs first attracted his attention as an astronomer in Paris. He subsequently became a close associate of Project Blue Book’s J. Allen Hynek and has written several books on the UFO enigma. He is currently a venture capitalist living in San Francisco. Vallée co-developed the first computerized map of Mars for NASA in 1963. He later worked on the network information center for the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, as a staff engineer of SRI International’s Augmentation Research Center under Douglas Engelbart.
He’s a researcher that’s had a very interesting life, to say the least, with regards to researching the topic of UFOs. He’s come into contact with and had meetings with most experts in the field, politicians from around the world, high ranking military personnel and much more. His journey into the subject has led him to investigate an uncountable amount of case reports regarding UFOs and supposed extraterrestrial beings, and he’s been a major player with regards to bringing the mainstream scientific community forward to look at the evidence and data that’s involved with such a serious subject, that, in his time, was largely ridiculed. He is an important reason why the phenomenon has gained as much credibility as it has today.
Vallee is one of many who have written about and documented the startling evidence that well-constructed hoaxes and media manipulations have misled UFO researchers, diverting them from the UFO phenomenon itself, what’s really going on.
In one of his latest books, Forbidden Science 4, he shares a record of his private study into unexplained phenomena between 1990 and the end of the millennium, during which he was traveling around the global pursuing his professional work as a high-technology investor. It’s a bit of a diary, documenting his experiences and encounters/meetings as he tries to examine and explore the phenomenon.
In an entry dated Thursday 26 March 1992, Vallee writes:
I have secured a document confirming that the CIA simulated UFO abductions in Latin America (Brazil and Argentina) as psychological warfare experiments.
Reading this line from his book triggered me back to earlier in his book when he mentions one of many conversations he’s had with Ron Blackburn.
On Monday 16 April 1990, he writes:
Over lunch again with Colonel Ron Blackburn (Air Force) at the Gatehouse in Palo Alto he revealed that the “Secret Onion” group started in 1985 in the classified tank located in his basement at the Lockheed Skunk Works. Colonel John Alexander had brought him a list of the people in the inner circle. They divided the world into layers of concentric trust and ability. John introduced Blackburn to Ed Dames. Blackburn and I have a firmed up our plants to ravel to New Mexico on May 4th, up the high mesa – supposedly to meet some Aliens.
It’s interesting to note that Colonel John Alexander army writes about Blackburn in his book, “UFOs, myths, conspiracies and realities.”
Among the people I met was Dr. Ron Blackburn, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel who was then working at the Lockheed Skunk Works in Burbank. It was Blackburn who first asked me if I had ever heard of the infamous Area 51. In the early 1980s, this facility was still not widely known inside the military, let alone the general public, even though it had been functional for decades…Among areas of common interest between Blackburn and me were UFOs. We discussed many possibilities related to who might be in charge of UFO research. We both thought that there was some organization, probably within the U.S. Air Force, which had the responsibility. But we acknowledged that whoever had the ball, there must be a an interagency effort as well. Our assumption was that somebody must be in charge, and we were well aware of all the prevailing stories and rumours. Roswell, we assumed, was a real UFO event.
Fast forward to Friday, May 4th, 1990, Vallee writes about Blackburn:
“I’m convinced the government is working on UFOs,” he told me. “What are the chances some witnesses are being fooled by special effects developed by psychological warfare?” I countered. Thinking of cases like Bentwaters in the UK or Cergy-Pontoise in France. “They’re pretty good,” he admitted. “Suppose you shine a week infrared laser into people’s eyes; it won’t hurt them but may induce a hallucinatory state. Experiments have been done where you send a microwave beam through someone’s brain; you pick up the transmitted energy pattern. You can influence people this way, even make them hear things. Holograms have been used too,”
fIt’s interesting to note the conversation Valle had with Blackburn in 1990, and then in 1992 writes that he had received a document that the CIA had been involved with staging UFO (alien abductions). Combine this information with Blackburn mentioning that holograms have been used, and technology exists to produce “hallucinatory” states.
This is just one of many examples and pieces of evidence many researchers in the field point to suggesting that there are staged abductions happening for reasons unknown, and that it’s continuing today. It’s not surprising either if you’ve ventured down the road of CIA mind controlled tactics, programs like MK ultra and their desire to manipulate the perception of the masses with regards to various topics. It’s not surprising if you’ve looked into the black budget world, a world that’s far more advanced that the mainstream world with regards to technology.
Dr. David Jacobs, a retired university professor, is one of many experts who has hypnotically regressed people who claim to have had ET abduction experiences. After thousands of people, they all share the same story. Many filled with forced impregnation, and ‘hybrid’ children, among other things. Could many of these forced abduction experiments simply be deep black projects that are being conducted by rogue government agencies? Now we know that yes, many of them could be. Are all of them? There are stories floating around out there without much evidence, like the idea that Eisenhower made a deal with certain extraterrestrial groups, that they could abduct a certain amount of humans for the exchange of technology. Based on the idea that that forced abductions may be military operations, this supposed meeting is called into question.
Vallee writes of Jacobs in his book:
I am trying to read Jacob’s Secret Life.’ The author appears obsessed with what he views as a massive Alien invasion, his analysis is no longer balanced.
This may explain why there is a whole array of people who claim to have had experience with beings from somewhere else, but these experiences did not involve forced abductions, but rather, simple contact experiences. Remember, the key nuance here is we’re talking about human and ET contact, vs forced abductions which are often quite aggressive or terrifying for people.
I’ve written previously about the work of Jacobs, you can read that article here. I’ve been in this field for more than a decade now and the more I learn, the more I have to unlearn and consider other possibilities. I wrote that article being aware that many abduction cases could be military operations, but I did not mention it. I’ve come across the work of many who have interviewed abductees and, from their experiences, there also seems to be a military component as well, or a feeling of military personnel appearing as ‘Aliens.’
How Deep Does The Misinformation Go?
Richard Doty is also mentioned multiple times in Valle’s book. He is a retired Air Force Special investigations officer (AFSIO), and his job was to spread disinformation about the UFO subject during his time with the Air Force. Spreading disinformation about the reality of UFOs is no secret, and in Doty’s case, he admitted to infiltrating UFO circles along with his colleagues to feed ufologists and journalists lies and half truths so that they would never understand any real truth.
So, as you can see, this type of narrative has many interesting sources. You can read more about Doty and watch an interview with him here.
Regardless, There Is Something Going On Here
Valle, and all others in this field are quite aware that something real is going on, and something quite possibility extraterrestrial and inter-dimensional. This article is not meant to shed doubt on the phenomenon itself as well as the extraterrestrial hypothesis. Credible information with regards to sightings, crash retrieval, and possible bodies and contact experiences with ‘aliens’ are out there and can be examined. That being said, there is obviously a lot of disinformation out there as well, ridiculous claims as well as charlatans who are in the field spreading lies and fake stories for the purposes of making money, or perhaps to do what Doty was once tasked with, to spread disinformation, are out there.
With all that being said, the fact remains that:
There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations….This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.
– Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (source)
A newly launched investigation could finally get to the bottom of a mystery that has baffled scientists since the 1950s.
For decades, scientists have observed brief flashes of light that appear on the surface of the moon several times a week. But, no one knows exactly what’s causing them.
Now, using a specially designed lunar telescope in Spain that boasts two cameras, a team will keep an eye on the moon’s activity every night in hopes to capture these strange phenomena and ultimately pinpoint the source.
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For decades, scientists have observed brief flashes of light that appear on the surface of the moon several times a week. But, no one knows exactly what’s causing them
Scientists have dubbed these strange events ‘transient lunar phenomena.’
The new effort is led by researchers from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in Germany, who built the new telescope and put it into operation in April 2019.
The telescope sits at a private observatory roughly 100 kilometers north of Seville, where the weather is optimal for viewing.
There are several possible explanations that have circulated over the years, from meteor impacts to interactions between solar wind and moon dust, the researchers say.
‘Seismic activities were also observed on the moon,’ says Hakan Kayal, Professor of Space Technology at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) in Bavaria, Germany.
‘When the surface moves, gases that reflect sunlight could escape from the interior of the moon.
‘This would explain the luminous phenomena, some of which last for hours.’
‘The so-called transient lunar phenomena have been known since the 1950s, but they have not been sufficiently observed,’ Kayal said.
When the new telescope logs a luminous phenomenon with both of its cameras at the same time, it will store the observations and send an email to the team.
Using a specially designed lunar telescope in Spain that boasts two cameras, a team will keep an eye on the moon’s activity every night in hopes to capture these strange phenomena and ultimately pinpoint the source
Artificial intelligence techniques will eventually be added to help it distinguish between different types of events on the moon, as well as false alarms.
The researchers say understanding this type of activity at the surface of the moon will be critical in efforts to establish colonies.
‘Anyone who wants to build a lunar base at some point must of course be familiar with the local conditions,’ Kayal said.
The researchers will eventually compare their results with those collected by the European Space Agency to confirm the observations.
WHEN IS NASA GOING BACK TO THE MOON?
In a statement in March, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine doubled down on plans to send humans first to the moon and then to Mars and said NASA is on track to have humans back on the moon by 2028.
The plan relies on the developing Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, along with the Gateway orbital platform.
SLS and Orion are expected to be ready for their first uncrewed test flight in 2020.
Construction on Gateway – an orbiting lunar outpost – is expected to begin as soon as 2022.
'We will go to the Moon in the next decade with innovative, new technologies and systems to explore more locations across the lunar surface than ever before,' Bridenstine said.
'This time, when we go to the Moon, we will stay.
'We will use what we learn as we move forward to the Moon to take the next giant leap – sending astronauts to Mars.'
Vice PresidentMike Pence, however, tore up these plans and statements when he unexpectedly revealed a new deadline in March stating intentions to put humans on the moon by 2024 - four years earlier.
The VP called on NASA to 'reignite the spark of urgency' for space exploration and make it a priority to set 'bold goals' and stay on schedule.
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine added a week later, at the start of April, that the agency would get 'really close' to delivering a plan by April 15.
This has been missed by several weeks and the House Science Committee is now vocalising its displeasure at having no viable plan or programme from the space agency.
(Natural News) For over 50 years, scientists have been baffled by events known as “transient lunar phenomena” (TLP). These are brief flashes of light on the surface of the moon that astronomers have witnessed and have no conclusive explanation for. But the world might finally get an answer thanks to technology and future cooperation between a research team and a space agency.
Fast facts on TLPs
In the late 1960s, astronomers Barbara Middlehurst and Patrick Moore studied seismic occurrences and other phenomena on the moon and found nearly 400 reports of “strange events.” Small areas on the lunar surface would suddenly go dim or brighten without any explanation. Astronomer A.A. Mills describes TLPs as reddish or pinkish light that is sometimes “sparkling” or “flowing” in their appearance. The light may extend as large as 10 miles on the lunar surface. They usually last around 20 minutes, but there are recordings of TLPs that have persisted intermittently for several hours.
Amateur astronomers with decent telescopes can even witness TLPs themselves, but they might have to wait between a few hours to several days as they are impossible to predict. However, scientists have acknowledged that TLPs are known to occur several times a week.
A unique telescope for the job
To answer what TLPs are, scientists are relying on a specially designed telescope in Spain that they put into operation in April 2019. Even though it’s already online, the observatory is still under development and upgrades to the telescope’s software are ongoing.
This effort is led by researchers from the Julius Maximilian University of Wurzburg(JMU). The telescope resides in a private observatory around 100 km north of the Spanish city of Seville in the region of Andalusia. This location was chosen due to the weather making it an optimal location for viewing.
This new telescope will observe the moon around the clock using two cameras. When a TLP occurs, these two cameras will record the event with detailed photos and videos. They will send these recordings via email to JMU, where researchers will analyze the findings.
Several possible explanations have floated around for TLPs, ranging from meteor impacts to the interactions between moon dust and solar wind. The currently leading hypothesis is seismic activity according to Hakan Kayal, lead researcher and professor of space technology at JMU. (Related: Lunar meteorite hints at the moon having water, once upon a time.)
“Seismic activities were also observed on the moon,” said Kayal. “When the surface moves, gases that reflect sunlight could escape from the interior of the moon. This would explain the luminous phenomena, some of which last for hours.”
While their efforts of recording TLPs have progressed immensely since they were first studied by Middlehurst and Moore over 50 years ago, Kayal admits that the system still needs a lot of work. The researchers have stated that they will incorporate artificial intelligence techniques as the technology develops. These techniques will help the cameras distinguish between different types of events and possible false alarms, such as passing airplanes and other objects. This will greatly help Kayal and his team sort through documented events and devote more time to studying actual TLPs.
A future satellite mission will also use this technology to take more detailed observations from the lunar orbit. Afterward, Kayal and his team will collate all the information they have gathered and compare it with data from the European Space Agency.
Kayal has also stated that, given current plans to establish bases on the moon, it is very important to learn what TLPs are so that future astronauts living at the base can prepare for any encounter with the lunar environment. “Anyone who wants to build a lunar base at some point must of course be familiar with the local conditions.”
Soms zijn ze uren te zien. Wat zijn toch die vreemde flitsen op de maan?
Soms zijn ze uren te zien. Wat zijn toch die vreemde flitsen op de maan?
Er komen vreemde flitsen uit de maan, en wetenschappers hebben geen idee waarom.
Delen van het maanoppervlak lichten meerdere keren per week plotseling op. Soms zijn de flitsen urenlang te zien.
Vele kilometers
Wetenschappers hebben de vreemde lichten nog altijd niet kunnen verklaren.
Ze worden al decennialang waargenomen. Sinds de jaren vijftig wordt er al over gepubliceerd in wetenschappelijke tijdschriften.
In een paper uit 1970 valt te lezen dat het ‘licht rood- of rozeachtig van kleur is’ en zich uitstrekt over gebieden van vele kilometers.
20 minuten
Ze zijn normaal gesproken zo’n 20 minuten zichtbaar, maar kunnen soms ook uren te zien zijn.
Mogelijke verklaringen variëren van meteoren die de maan raken, de zonnewind die in aanraking komt met maanstof of beweging van het maanoppervlak waardoor gas naar buiten komt dat zonlicht reflecteert.
Een eenduidige verklaring is nog altijd niet gegeven.
Achterhalen
Verschillende onderzoekers hopen nu te achterhalen wat de oorzaak is van de vreemde flitsen op de maan.
Eén van hen is professor Hakan Kayal van de Julius-Maximilians-Universität in het Duitse Würzburg.
Telescoop
Zijn team heeft een telescoop gebouwd in Spanje die wordt gebruikt om de maan in de gaten te houden.
De telescoop is voorzien van twee camera’s die dag en nacht foto’s gaan maken van de vreemde flitsen.
AMERIKAANSE GENERAAL GEEFT TOE DAT TELEPORTATIE BESTAAT ( VIDEO )
AMERIKAANSE GENERAAL GEEFT TOE DAT TELEPORTATIE BESTAAT ( VIDEO )
Stel je voor dat je binnen een uur vanaf een willekeurige plek op aarde naar iedere andere gewenste locatie kunt worden gebracht.
Het lijkt op sciencefiction, maar volgens de Amerikaanse generaal Steven Kwast beschikken de VS over dergelijke technologie.
Het volgende is wat de Wikepedia geeft als uitleg voor teleportatie:
Teleportatie of teleporteren is de rechtstreekse verplaatsing van objecten van de ene plaats naar de andere, zonder dat het object fysiek de ruimte tussen beide plaatsen hoeft te doorkruisen. Min of meer op hetzelfde moment verdwijnt het object op de ene plaats en verschijnt het op de andere. Deze techniek is – tenminste bij de huidige stand van de natuurwetenschap – volstrekt denkbeeldig, maar het verschijnsel is zeer uitgebreid in gebruik in sciencefiction.
Volgens de officiële wetenschap zou teleportatie dan misschien wel mogelijk zijn, maar dat het eigenlijk praktisch niet uitvoerbaar is:
In Star Trek is het een fluitje van een cent om Kirk en Spock te teleporteren. In minder dan een paar seconden worden zij naar de Enterprise gebeamd. Maar hoe lang duurt teleporteren in ’t echt? Wetenschappers rekenden het uit! Wat blijkt: teleporteren duurt vijf biljard jaar. Dat is een vijf met vijftien nullen. Het teleporteren van één mens duurt dus 350.000 keer langer dan de totale leeftijd van het heelal.
Dat de situatie in werkelijkheid heel anders is, bewijzen de uitspraken van een Amerikaanse generaal die kort geleden (1 september 2019) de krijgsmacht heeft verlaten. Kwast was generaal bij de Luchtmacht en zelf ook een ervaren vlieger met meer dan 3.300 vlieguren op allerlei jets zoals de F-15.
Enkele weken geleden geeft deze generaal een toespraak voor een College in Amerika, waarbij hij uitgebreid ingaat op de ruimte als volgend militair terrein. Bekend is dat Donald Trump vorig jaar de Amerikaanse Space Force gelanceerd heeft met als doel het witwassen van de al lang bestaande geheime ruimtevloot. Daarom ontstond vervolgens ook zoveel aandacht voor ufo waarnemingen van Amerikaanse marinepiloten; simpelweg om de mensheid heel snel vertrouwd te maken met het concept buitenaards en ufo.
Waarschijnlijk moeten sommige opmerkingen die door Kwast tijdens zijn toespraak werden gemaakt in hetzelfde licht worden gezien.
Als je in de volgende video naar minuut 12 gaat, dan kun je Kwast het volgende horen zeggen:
De technologie ligt vandaag op de werkbanken. Maar, de meeste Amerikanen en de meeste leden van het Congres hebben nog geen tijd gehad om echt in detail te kijken naar wat er zich daar afspeelt. Echter, ik heb 33 jaar lang het voordeel gehad met deze wetenschappers te studeren en vrienden met hen te worden. Deze technologie die ze daar hebben kan vandaag in de praktijk worden gebracht en hoeft niet langer getest te worden. Deze is in staat om een mens van elk willekeurig punt op aarde binnen een uur te transporteren naar iedere gewenste locatie.
Dit is uiteraard een heel ander verhaal dan wat de officiële wetenschap ons weet te vertellen en bewijst alleen maar wat wij altijd gezegd hebben. En wel, dat men veel verder is met technologie dan wij gewone stervelingen formeel weten.
En opeens wordt die basis op Mars ook een stuk realistischer. Een komt de heftige ontkenning van de CIA over dat Obama naar Mars geteporteerd is geweest, ook in een heel ander daglicht te staan. Net zoals de verhalen van mensen die zeggen daar naartoe "gebeamed" te zijn via teleportatie, zoals wij schreven in een eerder artikel:
Wanneer in de mainstream media serieuze verhalen verschijnen over geheime kolonies op Mars dan wordt het tijd om achter je oren te krabben. Onlangs schreven wij het verhaal over klokkenluider Captain Kaye (schuilnaam) die zegt 17 jaar lang op de planeet Mars te hebben doorgebracht.
Zo verklaarde hij het volgende:
“Volgens de getuigenis van Captain Kaye heet de hoofdkolonie van de menselijke bevolking "Aries Prime" en bevindt zich binnenin een krater. Aries Prime (redactie: de naam doet erg denken aan de nazi doelstelling van een blank super(prime)ras van Ariers maar, is ook een verwijzing naar de gehoornde ram Baphomet uit het satanisme) dient als hoofdkwartier voor de Mars Colony Corporation. Volgens Captain Kaye is het mogelijk om gewoon te ademen op Mars en is de temperatuur soms zelfs warm te noemen.”
Met het verhaal van Captain Kaye is eigenlijk iets unieks gebeurd want je vindt het nu terug in de mainstream media zoals de Engelse Mirror. Gezien de aard van het verhaal is dat heel verrassend te noemen.
Als we kijken naar de manier waarop het militair-industrieel complex in het verleden te werk is gegaan dan is het heel goed mogelijk dat er buiten het zicht van de wereldbevolking al jaren geleden een geheime kolonie op Mars is gesticht.
Enkele jaren voordat in 1945 de eerste atoombom op een aantal Japanse steden werd gegooid, werden er geheime tests met kernbommen uitgevoerd, waaronder in Amerika. Er verschenen verhalen in lokale kranten die verslag deden van een enorme paddenstoelwolk en een onvoorstelbaar felle lichtflits. Dit werd door het militair-industriële complex afgedaan als gezichtsbedrog of een meteoor. Kortom, ondanks dat "de bom " al lang bestond, werd dit in alle toonaarden ontkent en afgedaan als science fiction.
Zo zijn er al jarenlang de verhalen van een advocaat uit Washington, Andrew Basiago, en van Laura Eisenhower, de achterkleindochter van de voormalige Amerikaanse president Eisenhower, die zeggen dat er zich een geheime aardse kolonie op Mars bevindt. Gebouwd voor de elite om naartoe uit te wijken wanneer de aarde getroffen zou worden door bijvoorbeeld een catastrofale zonnenvlam of door een andere grote ramp waardoor onze planeet langere tijd onleefbaar zou worden.
Er is zo langzamerhand een overweldigende hoeveelheid aanwijzingen voor dat er meer is op Mars dan wij officiëel horen te geloven.
Dat onthullingen over een geheime Mars kolonie nu als redelijk serieuze berichten worden gebracht in mainstream media is veelzeggend. De alternatieve media toont zich steeds sterker in het onthullen van geheimen.
Zijn we nu op een punt aangekomen dat de elite achter het militair-industriëel complex heeft besloten om aan damage control te doen? Omdat ze weten dat er nu zoveel informatie naar buiten komt dat ontkennen straks weinig zin meer heeft?
Dat nu de bevolking rijp wordt gemaakt voor de gedachte dat er misschien toch iets op Mars is? Dat we straks een soort Mars disclosure gaan krijgen met de mededeling dat dit alles niet gedaan is om te overleven voor de elite, maar dat men zich ernstig zorgen maakt over een buitenaardse (nep) invasie. Men de bevolking niet heeft willen verontrusten en dus daarom in het geheim deze bases heeft gebouwd om te dienen als wereldcommando centrale tegen een verwachte strijd tegen buitenaardsen.
Researchers in Indonesia have discovered ancient cave paintings that are believed to be the oldest rock art ever found. The drawings were discovered in 2017 in the limestone cave of Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 located in the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
In an interview with Live Science, Adam Brumm, who is an archaeologist at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, as well as a co-author of the study (which can be read in full here), explained that Pak Hamrullah (who is another co-author of the study) saw “what appeared to be the entrance to a cave located high up in a limestone cliff face, and he climbed several meters up a fig tree vine to investigate it.”
Island of Sulawesi where the cave art was found.
Once inside of the cave, researchers noticed cave paintings that depicted half-animal, half-human beings that were hunting wild pigs and dwarf buffaloes. To be more precise, dark red pigment was used on the 14.75-foot-long painting to draw at least eight small human/animal figures hunting six animals (2 Sulawesi warty pigs and 4 dwarf buffalo called anoas) with spears and ropes.
“Anoas are small in size, but they are reportedly very fierce, especially when cornered,” Brumm explained, adding, “From what I have heard from local people, these elusive dwarf bovids have been known to seriously gore and even kill unwary hunters on the island. Indeed, the reputation of anoas is such that the Indonesian army even named their armored personnel carrier, the Anoa, after these creatures.”
As for the hunters that were depicted in the paintings, it could be the oldest evidence ever found of ancient humans imagining supernatural beings. The hunters were drawn with muzzles, snouts and beaks of birds, reptiles and other animals, as well as tails. The half-human, half-animal creatures are called therianthropes which have been referred to as spirits, ancestral beings, and gods from several different religions.
Brumm explained this better by stating, “In Europe, scholars have long been interested in the oldest known images of therianthropes in prehistoric art, because they are generally accepted to represent the earliest evidence for our ability to conceive of abstract entities that do not exist in the natural world,” adding, “Depictions of therianthropes are also seen as an indication of early spirituality or religious-like thinking.”
Map of Sulawesi
Prior to this discovery, the oldest example of a therianthrope was a carved figurine of a human with a feline head that was found in Germany and dates back to approximately 40,000 years ago. This new discovery of the cave art in Indonesia is said to be from nearly 44,000 years ago. It’s also the earliest known depiction of storytelling as well as of a hunting scene.
Researchers analyzed the uranium levels as well as other radioactive isotopes in mineral growths called “cave popcorn” in order to find out exactly how old the cave art was and they were able to determine that it was created at least 43,900 years ago. Pictures of the art work can be seen here.
There are at least 242 caves or shelters with ancient imagery on Sulawesi island alone, and new sites are being discovered annuallyAFP/RATNO SARDICave art on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, was painted 44,000 years ago and is the oldest known to date AFP/RATNO SARDIFor many years, cave art was thought to have emerged from Europe, but Indonesian paintings have challenged that theory AFP/RATNO SARDI
“Our dating work shows that this is the world’s oldest dated figurative artwork, an image that resembles the subject matter it is intended to represent,” Brumm said. Until now, the oldest known dated example of figurative art was a red disk from the rock art site of El Castillo in Spain, which is about 40,800 years old.
There are many strange reports in the world of UFO phenomena, and some of the oddest and most frustrating of all are those times when strange craft have allegedly come down to present possible evidence, only to be swept away into the mists of time to be condemned to a limbo of speculation and debate. One of these was dubbed the “Welsh Roswell,” and the weird saga begins in the Berwyn Mountains of Llandrillo, Merionethshire, Wales. Here is a remote and largely uninhabited land of moors, rugged peaks, and grassy fields, the mountains composed of six separate summits, and in 1974 this expanse of wilderness would be ground zero for one of the most intriguing and debated UFO incidents on record.
At approximately 8:30 PM on the evening of January 23, 1974, people in the quaint villages of Llandderfel and Llandrillo, were startled to hear an enormous boom and to feel the earth shake beneath them, and when looking outside the night sky was filled with a brilliant light that seemed to travel over the mountain peaks. It was terrifying for all who saw and felt it, seeming like the end of the world itself was upon them, and there were soon reports of a large fire burning on the mountainside, which was verified by police officers arriving in the area amid floods of panicked emergency calls. In the aftermath of the terrifying event, many of the witnesses, which included constables, would claim that they had actually seen the object that was responsible, described as a bright light moving towards the west with a tail trailing behind it, and there were even those who claimed that they had seen this light explode to rain burning, smoking debris down from the sky. One witness even called in to say that he had seen where the object had crashed, with a police report released by The Daily Post reading:
Saw bright red light, like coal fire red. Large perfect circle. Like a big bonfire. Could see lights above and to the right and white lights moving to bottom. Light changed colour to yellowish white and back again.
Berwyn Mountains
It was thought at the time that this might perhaps be a plane crash, and the Royal Air Force (RAF) scrambled to get a rescue operation out to the area. Authorities and military personnel would scour the whole area, in the end claiming to have found no evidence whatsoever of any plane wreckage or that anything had crashed at all, but witnesses knew what they had seen. Those who saw the actual incident and the aftermath of it have stood by their stories, and for the most part agree that it was not a normal plane. One local nurse named Ms. Evans would say that she had at first thought that it must have been a plane crash, but changed her mind when she saw something very bizarre on the side of the mountain that night, a light that glowed orange, red and yellow, and she says of what she witnessed:
It couldn’t have got there any other way apart from being flown there, so it had to be a UFO of some sort. I’m talking about something that could only have got there by flying and landing. We just saw this huge ball glowing and pulsating on the mountain. Some lights seemed to be scattered around it and I just wish we’d stayed to see what the end result was – whether it would just disappear or fly away. It was moon-like, but without windows or doors. I’ve never seen anything like it before or since. I have no idea what it was.
While it was not disputed that there had been a loud noise, tremors, and something seen in the sky, debate has raged ever since on what it could have been and how much the government really knows. Considering there was no wreckage found according to authorities it can’t have been a plane crash, so what was it? That largely depends on who you ask. There have been plenty of witnesses who have claimed that the military came in under cover of night to load the wreckage of a strange craft into military vehicles and drive it off, and there are even claims of seeing the military removing dead humanoid bodies from the crashed ship. The official version of events blames it all on the unlikely explanation that an earthquake that just happened to hit the region right as a comet was flying overhead, or that it had even been a rare phenomenon known as earthquake lights. However, it does not explain what many of the witnesses saw, such as in Ms. Evans’ report. So what happened here?
The one who has perhaps spent the most time looking into the Berwyn Mountain incident is UFO researcher Russ Kellett, who has been investigating the mysterious events for decades. According to him, it was definitely a UFO, saying, “I am convinced there was more than one UFO involved that night. All the evidence that we have uncovered over the years has consistently pointed that way.” He also says that there is an alien underwater base in the area in the waters between North Wales and Liverpool, and evidence to prove the military was up to something on that day. He points to a military operation alleged to have taken place on the very evening of the incident, which was called “Operation Photoflash.” It supposedly involved aircraft dropping at least 80 bright flashes around the North Wales coastline, and Kellet thinks there was something nefarious afoot. He explained in a statement to The Daily Post:
North Wales is deemed a hotspot for UFOs since the Berwyn Mountains incident. I have been looking very closely over this area, and something is definitely going on. There is no doubt there is an alien base under the sea on the North Wales coastline where they build all their crafts. Why would the military want or need to light up the sea with 80 photoflash bombs if they weren’t looking for submersible objects? I think they knew there was a base under the sea and they did it to light up the area so they knew where to attack so they could pull the saucers out. It just seems like too much of a coincidence that this took place on exactly the same day as the Berwyn Mountains incident. I think by doing that, they kicked off one hell of a UFO incident.
Indeed, a document from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency showing that the Coast Guard was warned by the military warning that the flashes that would be going off seems to prove that there was such an operation, but what it had to do with the Berwyn Incident and whether they were doing it to look for underwater alien bases is completely unknown. Nevertheless, Kellet believes that it had everything to do with the incident, as he says there were numerous battleships and planes involved in the exercise, and that they had actually managed to flush three UFOs out of their lair to shoot one down with fighter aircraft after an intense chase over the mountains. It was this UFO that crashed into the Berwyn Mountains, he says, after which it was whisked away by the military and covered up. He even claims to have a map of where the UFO plummeted into the earth, as well as the flight path of the fighters chasing the mysterious craft. According to Fellet, he acquired the map from some witnesses to the otherworldly event, and he explains of it and how it came to be in his possession thusly:
The five saw a strange object and got out to have a look, but the military were there and told them to leave. They moved to a better position and started to take photos. They were all friends and four were in the military during World War Two. Afterwards they started doing their own research and the map is a result of what they found out and shows the flight paths. When I was giving a talk in Bala to a packed audience around the late 1990s, early 2000s, I was given a package by them after and there were these maps in them which they had drawn up based on what they had found out from their research. It was very strange and I was a little bit spooked. I’ve carried the map around for a long time as part of my research.
We are left to wonder if there is anything to this all, and the mystery of what those witnesses really saw in the skies over Wales on that day has raged on. Was this an airplane, a spaceship from another world, an earthquake and comet, or something else? Do the answers lie out in those remote wilds or were they spirited away by the nefarious government or merely never existed at all? It seems that something happened on that fateful night, but just what that was will probably be debated for some time to come, and the case of the “Welsh Roswell” remains a perplexing unsolved mystery.
Meteoroid that skimmed Earth's atmosphere at 35,000 miles per hour and flew back into space is a rare example of a 'grazing fireball', scientists claim
Meteoroid that skimmed Earth's atmosphere at 35,000 miles per hour and flew back into space is a rare example of a 'grazing fireball', scientists claim
The meteoroid was spotting passing through the atmosphere above Australia
As it burnt across the sky leaving an 808 mile-long trail a fragment broke off
After leaving the Earth's atmosphere it would travelling out to near Jupiter
Only a small number of grazing fireballs have ever been scientifically studied
A meteoroid that skimmed across Earth's atmosphere at more than 35,000 miles per hour before flying back out into space was a rare example of a 'grazing fireball.'
The 808 mile (1,300 km) -long fiery trail formed by the space rock as it began to burn up in the atmosphere was spotted over Australia in the July of 2017.
Only a limited number of such events have been scientifically observed — including a procession of meteors seen in 1860 — with the latest notable for its low altitude.
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A meteoroid, pictured from four viewpoints, that skimmed across Earth's atmosphere at more than 35,000 miles per hour was a rare example of a 'grazing fireball'
The fireball was observed by space scientist Patrick Shober of Australia's Curtin University in July 2017 using the so-called 'Desert Fireball Network'.
This is the largest meteoroid-tracking network in the world — which covers 64.7 million square miles (2.5 million square kilometres), or a third of the Australian skies — with its set of 50 autonomous cameras.
'The meteoroid transited the atmosphere for over 90 seconds and reached a minimum height of 58.5 km before returning to interplanetary space,' the researchers wrote.
Based on its trajectory as it skimmed the atmosphere, the team estimate that the rock was around 12 inches (30 centimetres) across and likely weighed at least 132 pounds (60 kilograms).
The meteoroid — a fragment of which broke off as it seared across the sky — was slowed by around 0.9 miles (1.5 kilometres) per second in the atmosphere, before receiving a boost in from the 'gravitational slingshot' as it shot away from the Earth.
This is the same phenomenon that engineers use to give space probes as a boost as they travel out past the planets in our solar system.
Thanks to this acceleration, the rock — while is believed to have originated in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — will now travel out as far as the latter.
The astronomers believe that the body will remain in this new orbit for some 200,000 years before either being pushed out further or ejected from the solar system completely.
The 808 mile (1,300 km) -long fiery trail formed by the space rock as it began to burn up in the atmosphere was spotted over Australia in the July of 2017. During its passage, a fragment broke off and assumed a different trajectory, as pictured
Only a limited number of such events have been scientifically observed — including a procession of meteors seen in 1860, depicted here in this painting by Frederic Edwin Church — with the latest notable for its low altitude
'This (grazing fireball) really was quite unusual,' meteor expert Peter Brown of Canada's Western University who was not involved in the present study told the New Scientist.
'It’s an exquisite experiment in seeing how strong these objects are,' he added, explaining that studies of the rocks before and after they burn through our atmosphere can help us learn how strong they are.
A pre-print of the researchers' article, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, can be read on the arXiv repository.
WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SPACE ROCKS?
An asteroid is a large chunk of rock left over from collisions or the early solar system. Most are located between Mars and Jupiter in the Main Belt.
A comet is a rock covered in ice, methane and other compounds. Their orbits take them much further out of the solar system.
A meteor is what astronomers call a flash of light in the atmosphere when debris burns up.
This debris itself is known as a meteoroid. Most are so small they are vapourised in the atmosphere.
If any of this meteoroid makes it to Earth, it is called a meteorite.
Meteors, meteoroids and meteorites normally originate from asteroids and comets.
For example, if Earth passes through the tail of a comet, much of the debris burns up in the atmosphere, forming a meteor shower.
Who knew meteoroids could have one-night stands with Earth … meeting for one brief, intimate moment before a last kiss and a slip away into the night, never to be seen again? Well, space scientist Patrick Shober of Australia’s Curtin University for one. In a newly-published report, he describes just such an occurrence recorded by the Desert Fireball Network in July of 2017. How exactly did something like this happen? Is it unique?
“This expansive size has enabled us to capture a majority of the atmospheric trajectory of a spectacular grazing event that lasted over 90 seconds, penetrated as deep as ~58.5km, and traveled over 1,300 km through the atmosphere before exiting back into interplanetary space.”
The ‘spectacular grazing event’ Shober is referring to in “Where Did They Come From, Where Did They Go. Grazing Fireballs” is not an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet but an extremely rare event known as a “grazing fireball.” Generally speaking, this type of meteor penetrates the upper atmosphere at an angle too shallow to allow for penetration, so it merely skims through it anywhere from 85–120 km above the Earth. Even at its thinnest, the resistance of the atmosphere is enough to break off pieces and alter the speed and trajectory of a grazing fireball, but not enough to pull it down. Instead, it ends its brief encounter by sailing back out into space to parts known and unknown.
“The most intriguing quality of this close encounter is that the meteoroid originated from an Apollo-type orbit and was inserted into a Jupiter-family comet (JFC) orbit due to the net energy gained during the close encounter with the Earth. Based on numerical simulations, the meteoroid will likely spend ~200kyrs on a JFC orbit and have numerous encounters with Jupiter, the first of which will occur in January-March 2025. Eventually the meteoroid will likely be ejected from the Solar System or be flung into a trans-Neptunian orbit.”
The Desert Fireball Network’s array of 50 cameras watch the grazing fireball for over 90 seconds as it descended to 58.5 km above Earth, losing a fragment and 0.9 miles (1.5 km) per second in speed before being slingshot back into space. The team estimated it to be 30 cm (11.8 inches) in diameter and weighing in at 60 pounds – not a killer but it could definitely do some damage. (Photos of the grazing fireball can be seen here.)
According to the study, only a handful of grazing fireballs have ever been reported. One of the most famous occurred in 1860 and was immortalized in a painting by Frederic Edwin Church. The Great Meteor Procession of 1913, the Great Daylight Fireball of 1972 and the Christmas Eve fireball of 2014 — all confirmed grazing fireballs — were seen by enough witnesses to be deemed worthy of being named. While they’re spectacular to witness and have (not surprisingly) been seen as signs of the end of the world, astronomers like grazing fireballs because they’re evidence of the dynamic and changing nature of the solar system, showing that it’s much more complicated and jumbled than those looking for symmetry and organization would like to believe.
“This fireball is only matched by the notorious ‘Great Daylight Fireball of 1972’, which penetrated to a very similar depth in the atmosphere but lasted ∼ 9 seconds longer.”
It sounds like Patrick Shober is proud of his discovery and lobbying for it to get a name. The Great Grazer of 2017? The Deserting Fireball of 2017? The 2017 Whiz-ard of Oz?
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Something has escaped from a secret underground base in Antarctica?
Something has escaped from a secret underground base in Antarctica?
Google Earth images show a possible entrance leading to an underground secret base located at King George Island in Antarctica.
The following stands out when checking the timeline at that specific location:
Year 2005 - Something seems to break out of the snow/ice wall.
Year 2007 - A large cave or entrance of 75 x 75 meters has emerged and something seems to have moved into the ocean.
Year 2019 - The cave or entrance is again completely covered by snow and ice.
The image of 2005 clearly shows that something from inside the cave has pushed with an enormous force resulting in the huge opening of 75 x 75 meters.
The image of 2007 not only shows some sort of trail coming from the cave leading to the ocean but it also shows a weird anomaly of about 14 meters width floating in the ocean just in front of the cave.
The image of 2019 shows that everything is covered with snow and ice again.
We know that Antarctica has many secrets related to the UFO and aliens phenomena, could it be that the massive hole leads to a secret base built into a giant ice-cave and something broke out?
Mysterious Visitor from Another Star Can't Be Captured
Mysterious Visitor from Another Star Can't Be Captured
When astronomers see something in the universe that at first glance seems like one-of-a-kind, it’s bound to stir up a lot of excitement and attention. Enter comet 2I/Borisov. This mysterious visitor from the depths of space is the first identified comet to arrive here from another star. We don’t know from where or when the comet started heading toward our Sun, but it won’t hang around for long. The Sun’s gravity is slightly deflecting its trajectory, but can’t capture it because of the shape of its orbit and high velocity of about 100,000 miles per hour.
Telescopes around the world have been watching the fleeting visitor. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has provided the sharpest views as the comet skirts by our Sun. Since October the space telescope has been following the comet like a sports photographer following horses speeding around a racetrack. Hubble revealed that the heart of the comet, a loose agglomeration of ices and dust particles, is likely no more than about 3,200 feet across, about the length of nine football fields. Though comet Borisov is the first of its kind, no doubt there are many other comet vagabonds out there, plying the space between stars. Astronomers will eagerly be on the lookout for the next mysterious visitor from far beyond.
Comet 2I/Borisov is only the second interstellar object known to have passed through the solar system. These two images, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, capture the comet appearing near a background galaxy (left) and soon after its closest approach to the Sun (right). These two images, taken by Hubble, capture comet 2I/Borisov streaking though our solar system and on its way back to interstellar space. It is only the second interstellar object known to have passed through the solar system. Nov. 16, 2019, photo (left)
Credits: NASA, ESA and D. Jewitt (UCLA)
The comet appears in front of a distant background spiral galaxy (2MASX J10500165-0152029). The galaxy’s bright central core is smeared in the image because Hubble was tracking the comet. Comet Borisov was approximately 203 million miles from Earth in this exposure. Its tail of ejected dust streaks off to the upper right. The comet has been artificially colored blue to discriminate fine detail in the halo of dust, or coma, surrounding the central nucleus. It also helps to visually separate the comet from the background galaxy.
Hubble revisited the comet shortly after its closest approach to the Sun where it received maximum heating after spending most of its life in frigid interstellar space. The comet also reached a breathtaking maximum speed of about 100,000 miles per hour. Comet Borisov is 185 million miles from Earth in this photo, near the inner edge of the asteroid belt but below it. The nucleus, an agglomeration of ices and dust, is still too small to be resolved. The bright central portion is a coma made up of dust leaving the surface. The comet will make its closest approach to Earth in late December at a distance of 180 million miles.
“Hubble gives us the best upper limit of the size of comet Borisov’s nucleus, which is the really important part of the comet,” said David Jewitt, a UCLA professor of planetary science and astronomy, whose team has captured the best and sharpest look at this first confirmed interstellar comet. “Surprisingly, our Hubble images show that its nucleus is more than 15 times smaller than earlier investigations suggested it might be. Our Hubble images show that the radius is smaller than half a kilometer. Knowing the size is potentially useful for beginning to estimate how common such objects may be in the solar system and our galaxy. Borisov is the first known interstellar comet, and we would like to learn how many others there are.”
Crimean amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov discovered the comet on Aug. 30, 2019, and reported the position measurements to the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, working with the Minor Planet Center, computed an orbit for the comet, which shows that it came from elsewhere in our Milky Way galaxy, point of origin unknown.
Nevertheless, observations by numerous telescopes show that the comet’s chemical composition is similar to the comets found inside our solar system, providing evidence that comets also form around other stars. By the middle of 2020 the comet will have already zoomed past Jupiter’s distance of 500 million miles on its way back into the frozen abyss of interstellar space.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA (the European Space Agency) and NASA. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C. The Minor Planet Center and the Center for Near-Earth Orbit Studies are projects of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations Program of the Planetary Defense Coordination Office at NASA Headquarters.
Contacts and sources:
Claire Andreoli, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Ray Villard, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
Deep Underground Facilities in Antarctica Were Used by the Secret Space Program
Deep Underground Facilities in Antarctica Were Used by the Secret Space Program
COAST TO COAST AM – Michael Salla spoke about what he learned during his conversation with whistleblower William Tompkins, who helped in the covert distribution of data for U.S. Naval Intelligence during World War II. Tompkins revealed there were two secret space programs.
Dr. Michael Salla is a pioneer in the development of exopolitics. He is the author of several books that include Kennedy’s Last Stand (2013) and Galactic Diplomacy (2013). Dr. Salla was an Assistant Professor/ Researcher in Residence in the School of International Service, American University from 1996-2004. He has a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Queensland, Australia.
He is also the Founder of the Exopolitics Institute, a non-profit organization that analyzes the political implications of the extraterrestrial presence. Most recently, he is the author of Antarctica’s Hidden History: Corporate Foundations of Secret Space Programs (2018) which is the third book in his Secret Space Programs series.
In this never before seen photo, I found a strange object. It was taken from the STS39 Shuttle Discovery mission while they were in orbit. The object looks semi transparent with a darker triangle within it. I checked the photos before and after this one, but did not find the anomaly in any of them. Only one photo had this UFO in it. I have never seen a satellite like this before and there is no payload in the bay that would match such an strange object. Even NASA didn't notice it in the photo and only wrote "cumulous clouds." Its unidentified...its flying...and it sure as heck is an object. Thats a UFO. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Please donate to help my UFO research at https://paypal.me/ScottWaring?locale.x=en_US
I guess I just want to share with you something I found long ago. I was using a live cam at the grand canyon. Sadly the cam no longer works, but I did make a recording of what I found. In this video of mine I found a huge tall face of an proud American Indian looking out over the horizon. Not far from the face was the shadow of a Indian brave, legs spread, arms folded across his chest looking straight up. For such hidden evidence to be visible at only certain times of a day to occur...there must have been significant meaning behind the creation of it. I believe aliens planted a human population in this area...an Indian tribe. And these signs we see are proof that the indians are descendants of aliens. Scott C. Waring
Multiple Alien Spaceships crossing in front of the Planet Jupiter
Multiple Alien Spaceships crossing in front of the Planet Jupiter
BruceSeesall while using his CGXL1400 HD telescope and a Nikon D-850 filmed multiple alien spaceships at the moment they crossing in front of the planet Jupiter on December 13, 2019.
Previous recordings of UFOs in deep space such as the UFOs near the Orion Nebula have shown that these alien spacecraft probably piloted by advanced alien races often follow a fixed flight path.
The footage below shows the alien spaceships coming from the right, crossing the planet to disappear into deep space again.
Mysterious sky objects splitting and shooting something into the atmosphere over New Mexico
Mysterious sky objects splitting and shooting something into the atmosphere over New Mexico
Aphotographer recorded a group of strange flying objects at a very high altitude over Truth or Consequences, New Mexico on December 12, 2019.
At a glance it looks like there's a flock of birds flying in the sky but upon closer inspection they are Not birds, but Orbs hovering and changing positions.
Suddenly several orbs split and seem to shoot something into the atmosphere.
It is noteworthy that these objects were observed near Roswell.
The video starts with the group of orbs and continues with the latest sky phenomena from around the world.
Stefan Michalak was treated at a hospital for burns to his chest and stomach that later turned into raised sores on a grid-like pattern.
Stan Michalak can still vividly remember when his dad came home sick and injured after something happened in the Falcon Lake woods in Manitoba on the May long weekend of 1967.
It was something that put his family life into upheaval and remains one of the world's best-known UFO encounters.
"I recalled seeing him in bed. He didn't look good at all. He looked pale, haggard," said Michalak, who was nine years old at the time and was allowed to see his dad for a couple of minutes on the day after what soon become known as the Falcon Lake incident.
"When I walked into the bedroom there was a huge stink in the room, like a real horrible aroma of sulphur and burnt motor. It was all around and it was coming out of his pores. It was bad," said Michalak, who co-authored the book When They Appeared with Winnipeg UFO researcher Chris Rutkowski.
Stefan Michalak's sketch of the strange craft he encountered.
The book will be launched on Saturday in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the incident.
"I was very afraid. My dad had been injured and I didn't know anything about it," Michalak told CBC News in recalling that Saturday 50 years earlier.
Within a couple of days, however, not only did he know more — so did much of the public.
The story about his dad being burned by a UFO ran in the Winnipeg Tribune newspaper "and that's when everything pretty much hit the fan," Michalak said.
The encounter
Stefan Michalak was an industrial mechanic by trade and an amateur geologist who liked to venture into the wilderness around Falcon Lake — about 150 kilometres east of Winnipeg — to prospect for quartz and silver.
He had staked some claims the prior year and set out on the May long weekend in 1967 to explore some more.
On May 20, 1967, Stefan was near a vein of quartz along the Precambrian Shield in the area when the 51-year-old was startled by a gaggle of nearby geese that erupted into a clattering of honks.
A grid of dots can be seen on Stefan Michalak's burned shirt.
According to his accounts, as reported in newspapers at the time and since repeated in books, magazines and on TV shows like Unsolved Mysteries, Stefan looked up and saw two cigar-shaped objects with a reddish glow hovering about 45 metres away.
One descended, according to Stefan's account, landing on a flat section of rock and taking on more of a disc shape. The other remained in the air for a few minutes before flying off.
Believing it to be a secret U.S.military experimental craft, Stefan sat back and sketched it over the next half hour. Then he decided to approach, later recalling the warm air and smell of sulphur as he got closer, as well as a whirring sound of motors and a hissing of air.
A piece of the radioactive metal that was retrieved from the crash site in 1968. It was found in the cracks of the Precambrian rock. (Chris Rutkowski)
He also noted a door open on the side with bright lights inside, and said he heard voices muffled by the sounds from the craft.
He said he called out, offering mechanical help to the "Yankee boys" if they needed it. The voices went quiet but did not answer, so Stefan tried in his native Polish, then in Russian and finally in German.
Only the whirr and hiss of the craft responded.
He claims he went closer and noted the smooth metal of the ship, with no seams. He then looked into the bright doorway, pulling on the welding goggles he used to protect his eyes while chipping at rocks during prospecting.
Stefan Michalak wearing the welding goggles he says he used to peer into the craft he encountered in Falcon Lake. (My encounter with the UFO/Stefan Michalak)
Inside, Stefan said he saw light beams and panels of various-coloured flashing lights, but could not see anyone or any living thing. When he stepped away, three panels slid across the door opening and sealed it.
He reached to touch the craft, which he said melted the fingertips of the glove he was wearing.
The craft then began to turn counter-clockwise and Stefan says he noticed a panel that contained a grid of holes. Shortly afterward, he was struck in the chest by a blast of air or gas that pushed him backward and set his shirt and cap ablaze.
He ripped away the burning garments as the craft lifted off and flew away.
Disoriented and nauseous, Stefan stumbled through the forest and vomited. He eventually made his way back to his motel room in Falcon Lake then caught a bus back to Winnipeg.
He was treated at a hospital for burns to his chest and stomach that later turned into raised sores on a grid-like pattern. And for weeks afterwards, he suffered from diarrhea, headaches, blackouts and weight loss.
'It just flipped our lives over'
Once the story was out, the RCMP, the air force, the media, various government agencies, and hordes of gawking members of the public descended on the Michalaks's small River Heights bungalow in Winnipeg.
That's who Michalak refers to in the title of the book — those endless visitors and phone calls, the media and people camping on the lawn, the people who would follow Michalak to school one day peppering him with questions.
"It just flipped our lives over," he said. "It took several years before it finally died down."
When They Appeared is being launched this weekend, on the 50th anniversary of the Falcon Lake incident. (Chris Rutkowski)
After that, and until the day he died in 1999 at the age of 83, Stefan believed he never should have said a thing, Michalak said.
But at the time, he felt it was a duty. He wanted others, if they were to see the same thing, to avoid it and not get hurt, Michalak said.
In Poland, before Stefan moved his family to Canada, he was a military policeman with a set of moral guidelines that he lived by — that is, if something happened, it should be reported, Michalak said.
In addition to constant probing from authorities, the family endured condemnation and criticism in the public, Stefan's sanity was questioned and Michalak was bullied in school.
Though he wished he hadn't said anything, Stefan never backed away from the story, either. He also never claimed to have seen aliens and still considered it a secret military craft.
"If you asked him what it was he saw, he could describe it in intimate detail but he would never say, 'Oh, it was definitely extraterrestrials,' because there was no evidence to prove that," said Michalak.
"He might ask, 'What do you think I saw?' but right up until he died, his story never changed one iota — nothing about it or how he told it."
In all those years since and with some 300 pages of documentation on the encounter, "there's nothing so far that has flawed his story," Michalak said.
So what does he think?
"I'm not so close-minded that I can't entertain the possibility that it's otherworldly. I can't discount that. But without specific evidence to show me that it is, I don't know," Michalak said.
"What I can tell you is that I'm an aviation fanatic, a huge aviation buff, and I am very familiar with how aviation technology has advanced in the past 50 years. And there was nothing even close to that in the works anywhere at that time."
Intensely investigated
The case was investigated intensely by a number of levels of government and the official conclusion, even from the United States Air Force, was that the case was unexplained, Rutkowski noted.
"The Falcon Lake incident is possibly Canada's best-documented UFO case," he said.
"It even beats Roswell [the alleged flying disc that landed in New Mexico in 1947] because the United States still doesn't recognize that anything happened in Roswell out of the ordinary."
If Dad hoaxed this — remember we're talking about a blue-collar, industrial mechanic — if he hoaxed it then he was a freakin' genius.-
- Stan Michalak
Items were later retrieved from the encounter site, including Stefan's glove and shirt and some tools, which were subjected to extensive analysis at an RCMP crime lab. No one could determine what caused the burns.
At the landing site was a circle about 15 feet in diameter, devoid of the moss and vegetation growing in other areas of the same rock outcropping. Soil samples, along with samples of clothing, were tested and deemed to be highly radioactive.
So were pieces of metal that were chipped out of cracks in the rock about a year after the incident. The metal had somehow been melted into the cracks.
Many of the items have long since been lost as they were transferred through various authorities and agencies. However, Rutkowski and Michalak still have one of the pieces of metal, which remains radioactive.
Still sick in 1968 with recurrences of the burns showing up on his chest and suffering from blackouts, Stefan went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
Doctors did a thorough investigation and even sent him to a psychiatrist "who came back with the report that this is a fellow who's very pragmatic, very down to earth — pardon the pun — and does not make up stories," Rutkowski said.
"If Dad hoaxed this — remember we're talking about a blue-collar, industrial mechanic — if he hoaxed it then he was a freakin' genius," said Michalak.
A Private UFO Enthusiast Donated Thousands of Government UFO Reports to the General Public
A Private UFO Enthusiast Donated Thousands of Government UFO Reports to the General Public
A collection of 30,000 documents was donated to the University of Manitoba in Canada by a private UFO enthusiast.
The skies of northern Canada are UFO hotspots, with many mysterious phenomena being reported. Now, alien truth seekers may have a busy winter ahead of them at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, thanks to the recent donation of over 30,000 UFO-related files to the school’s archives, courtesy of Chris Rutkowski.
Rutkowski is a Canadian science writer and prolific ufologist. His collection includes over 20,000 UFO reports documented over the past 30 years and over 10,000 UFO-related files from the Canadian government. Several of these files concern an infamous Falcon Lake incident, a UFO encounter that Rutkowski considers Canada’s best-documented UFO case.
For Rutkowski, the Falcon Lake incident even beats Roswell because the U.S. still does not recognize that anything happened over New Mexico. Meanwhile, the Falcon Lake incident struck both Canadian and U.S. officials as unexplainable and unusual.
Stefan Michalak was treated at a hospital for burns to his chest and stomach that later turned into raised sores on a grid-like pattern.
The incident happened on May 20, 1967, when amateur geologist Stefan Michalak was looking for quartz near Falcon Lake in Manitoba, a Canadian province that starts over above North Dakota and stretches almost 800 miles into the frigid north. A flock of agitated geese swopping past him startled Michalak. The geese were reportedly fleeing from two glowing, cigar-shaped objects flying in the sky. One of the objects eventually flew off, and the other landed nearby on a rocky terrace.
Michalak’s sketch
Michalak decided to spend some time sketching the strange craft, and those sketches are now part of the University of Manitoba’s collection. After drawing, Michalak came closer to it. He felt the warm air and smelled sulfur and heard the whirrs and hisses of the craft. Michalak then touched the craft, but it was so hot that it burned the tips of his gloves. He seemed to hear voices coming from within.
A grid of dots can be seen on Stefan Michalak's burned shirt.
Michalak looked into the craft through an open door, expecting to see a team of American military pilots. However, he saw little more than a panel of blinking lights before the door closed. The craft then rotated, and a grid-like pattern of small holes in the exterior of the ship sprayed his abdomen with scorching-hot gas.
Michalak’s shirt and hat were on fire because of the attack, which left him with first-degree burns on his stomach that looked similar to the ship’s grid-like pattern. His injuries were treated in a hospital in Winnipeg. They were later rose into welts, and he experienced headaches, blackouts, and diarrhea for a couple of weeks. Michalak reported the incident to both Canadian and U.S. authorities and eventually completed a psychological and physical evaluation at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, which determined him to be of sound mind and not hallucinating.
Years after the incident, a twisted piece of metal was reportedly recovered from the Falcon Lake landing site. The metal was found to be highly radioactive in several tests. Until today, neither the U.S. nor the Canadian military has been able to explain the event.
A piece of the radioactive metal that was retrieved from the crash site in 1968. It was found in the cracks of the Precambrian rock. (Chris Rutkowski)
Astronomers spy the Geminid meteors’ dust trail in space
Astronomers spy the Geminid meteors’ dust trail in space
Posted by Deborah Byrd in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | SPACE
Astronomers held a press conference this week to discuss the trail of dust left by 3200 Phaethon – the mysterious blue rock-comet that spawns the Geminid meteor shower each year. This object was one of the 1st to blur the distinction between asteroids and comets.
View larger. | Look closely along the line of white dots. A faint dust trail is visible in places where the dots are omitted. This faint dust trail – left behind by 3200 Phaethon, parent body for the Geminid meteor shower – was captured for the first time by a camera called WISPR aboard the Parker Solar Probe.
The 2019 Geminid meteor shower is happening now, and it peaks this weekend. Best morning is likely December 14, but try December 15, too; both mornings will feature a bright moon. As you may know, meteors in annual showers like the Geminids are the result of Earth’s encounter with trails of dust in space – called meteoroid streams by astronomers – left behind mainly by comets. The dust enters our atmosphere and vaporizes, producing the streaks of light we see as meteors or “shooting stars.” This week (December 11, 2019), astronomers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory held a press conference to discuss an actual image of a dust trail (above), left behind in space by the asteroid that spawned the Geminid meteor shower. It’s none other than mysterious 3200 Phaethon, an object of great interest and speculation.
Karl Battams – who goes by @SungrazerComets on Twitter – is a computational scientist in the Naval Research Lab’s Space Science Division. At a NASA press conference on December 11, 2019, he discussed the new image, which comes from a Lab-built camera called WISPR. He said that 3200 Phaethon’s dust trail is best seen near the sun, where it’s most densely packed. And he said the data captured by WISPR determined the asteroid dust trail weighs an estimated billion tons, and measures more than 14 million miles (23 million km) long. He also said the findings raise questions about the trail’s origin:
Something catastrophic happened to Phaethon a couple of thousand years ago and created the Geminid meteor shower. There’s no way the asteroid is anywhere near active enough when it is near the sun to produce the mass of dust we are seeing …
And therein lies the essential mystery of 3200 Phaethon. Most meteor showers are spawned by comets. 3200 Phaethon is an asteroid. Comets are fragile, icy bodies that litter their orbits with debris. It’s easy to see how debris from a comet’s orbit can create a shower of meteors in Earth’s sky.
But a rocky asteroid? That’s tougher to understand.
Keep reading to learn more about mysterious 3200 Phaethon.
The Geminid meteor shower - one of the highlights of the year for stargazers - will peak this weekend, under the light of a bright waning gibbous moon.
NRL-camera aboard NASA spacecraft confirms asteroid phenomenon
WASHINGTON – A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-built camera mounted on the NASA Parker Solar Probe revealed an asteroid dust trail that has eluded astronomers for decades.
3200 Phaethon is an odd color for an asteroid. Most asteroids are dull grey to red, depending on the type of material on their surface. 3200 Phaethon is blue. Blue asteroids are known, but make up only a fraction of all known asteroids. And Phaethon isn’t just blue. It’s one of the bluest of similarly-colored asteroids (or comets) in the solar system.
Here’s another odd feature of 3200 Phaethon. While comets tend to have more elliptical orbits, asteroid orbits are more circular. 3200 Phaethon’s orbit – which is now exceedingly well known – is highly elongated, reminiscent of some comets. Its orbit crosses the orbits of Mars, Earth, Venus and Mercury.
Orbital path of 3200 Phaethon, via SkyandTelescope.com. In 2017, 3200 Phaethon came closer to Earth than it will again until 2093. The Geminids are always a reliable shower, but the shower was extra special in 2017 because its parent object was nearby.
Plus its orbit brings 3200 Phaethon closer to the sun than any other named asteroid (though some smaller, unnamed asteroids come even closer). At its closest point, Phaethon is only 13 million miles (20.9 million km) from the sun. That’s less than half of Mercury’s closest distance. Its name honors this object’s relationship to the sun. In Greek mythology, Phaethon was the son of the sun god Helios.
3200 Phaethon’s orbit carries it so close to the sun that its surface heats up to about 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit (800 degrees C). That’s hot enough to melt aluminum.
It’s when it’s closest to the sun that 3200 Phaethon releases a tiny dust tail; that’s right, it’s a dust tail for an asteroid, one of only two known so far in our solar system. Scientists have said it’s possible the sun’s heat causes fractures, in much the same way a dry riverbed cracks in the afternoon heat.
Comets are known for their tails. 3200 Phaethon’s dust tail is one of the features of this object that blurs the line traditionally thought to set comets and asteroids apart.
This closeup image of 3200 Phaethon by NASA’s STEREO A spacecraft in 2017 shows a tail extending faintly toward lower left.
3200 Phaethon was the first asteroid to be discovered via spacecraft on October 11, 1983. Astronomers Simon F. Green and John K. Davies noticed it while searching Infrared Astronomical Satellite data for moving objects. Charles T. Kowal confirmed it optically and said it was asteroid-like in appearance. The object received the provisional designation 1983 TB. Two years later, in 1985, using the convention for naming asteroids, astronomers assigned it its asteroid number and name: 3200 Phaethon.
Before 3200 Phaethon, scientists linked all known meteor showers to active comets and not asteroids.
Thus 3200 Phaethon surprised them from the beginning, because – while it looked like an asteroid – it appeared to be the source of the annual Geminid meteor shower. Astronomers began calling 3200 Phaethon a comet-asteroid hybrid, an asteroid that behaves like a comet. Later, they began using the term rock-comet.
Radar images of 3200 Phaethon generated by astronomers at the Arecibo Observatory on December 17, 2017.
Image via Wikipedia.
Astronomer Teddy Kareta of the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has studied 3200 Phaethon. He commented in 2018:
[At first], the assumption was that Phaethon probably was a dead, burnt-out comet, but comets are typically red in color, and not blue. So, even though Phaethon’s highly eccentric orbit should scream ‘dead comet,’ it’s hard to say whether Phaethon is more like an asteroid or more like a dead comet.
The composition of 3200 Phaethon resembles that of asteroid 2 Pallas. Both are dark, B-type asteroids composed of materials that have been modified by water. The 1st in this series of Hubble images of 3200 Phaethon in 2017 is marked with the asteroid’s spin axis (top) and south pole.
3200 Phaethon is classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid, which doesn’t mean it’s a threat to Earth. It just means two things. First, 3200 Phaethon is big – about 3 miles (5 km) wide – big enough to cause significant regional damage if it were to strike Earth.
Second, it’s known to make periodic close approaches to Earth.
The 2017 “close approach” brought this object to about 26 times the moon’s distance. Astronomers know of no upcoming strike by this object in this foreseeable future.
Both amateur and professional astronomers watched 3200 Phaethon as carefully as they could in 2017. For example, Northolt Branch Observatories in London, England, created the animation below from images it captured in 2017.
Steven Bellavia also produced a video of 3200 Phaethon in 2017 – below. He commented then that he’d endured cloudy weather and sub-freezing temperatures in order to capture the images. “My fingers still hurt!” he wrote.
Mike Olason in Denver, Colorado captured 3200 Phaethon on December 4, 2017:
Image via Mike Olason.
The 2017 encounter was the closest this object will come to Earth until 2093.
3200 Phaethon swept close to Earth – just 0.069 astronomical units (6.4 million miles, 10.3 million km, 26 lunar-distances) on December 16, 2017, at 23:00 UTC.
Image via Osamu Ajiki (AstroArts)/ Ron Baalke (JPL)/ Ade Ashford (AN)/ AstronomyNow.
Artist’s concept of what asteroid 3200 Phaethon might look like close up. Notice its blue color and tail of dust.
Moon landing hoax? Here are six NASA lunar landing sites visible in plain sight on Moon
Moon landing hoax? Here are six NASA lunar landing sites visible in plain sight on Moon
NASA’S six Moon landings between 1969 and 1972 have been at the heart of hoax claims and conspiracy theories for decades. Here are six photos disproving any claims of Moon landing forgery.
NASA landed the first astronauts on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, on July 20, 1969. The historic Apollo 11 mission was soon followed by Apollo 12, Apolo 13, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16 and Apollo 17. Of this list, the doomed Apollo 13 flight was the only mission to never land on the Moon. But despite the six incredible journeys to the Moon and back, conspiracy theorists still claim the Moon landings were faked.
The photo revealed the landing spots of Apollo 11, Apollo 15, Apollo 16 and Apollo 17.
LRO will be used to identify the best destinations for the next journeys to the Moon
Richard Vondrak, NASA
Soon after, the space agency was able to photograph the landing sites of Apollo 14 and Apollo 12.
And in each case, the photos also revealed the remains of each mission’s Lunar Lander and tools and instruments left behind.
Richard Vondrak of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center said: “Not only do these images reveal the great accomplishments of Apollo, they also show us that lunar exploration continues.
“They demonstrate how LRO will be used to identify the best destinations for the next journeys to the Moon.”
RUSSIA IS WORKING ON ITS OWN PLAN TO BLOW UP KILLER ASTEROIDS
RUSSIA IS WORKING ON ITS OWN PLAN TO BLOW UP KILLER ASTEROIDS
IMAGE VIA PIXABAY/VICTOR TANGERMANN
KRISTIN HOUSER
Space Rocks
Russian space agency Roscosmos is creating a center devoted to monitoring meteors, comets, and asteroids to ensure they don’t collide with Earth — even it means having to blow them up in space.
“As part of the creation of a monitoring system and information support for the safety of space activities in near-Earth space, we plan to launch the Russian Center for Small Celestial Bodies, whose main task will be to detect and track celestial bodies approaching Earth,” Igor Bakaras, a senior official at Roscosmos subsidiary TsNIIMash, told Russian-owned news agency Sputnik.
Get Centered
Pakistani news agency UrduPoint News has reported that officials are expected to approve the center in mid-2020. It will go online shortly after and then remain in operation until 2030.
Russia also recently announced plans to build a series of telescopes on the Moon to help it track potentially hazardous space rocks, so it seems likely the new center will play a role in bringing that effort to fruition.
Planning Stages
Before Russia can blast any dangerous asteroids out of the sky, it’ll need to do a lot of research. To that end, Bakaras told Sputnik that Russian scientists are currently exploring a variety of ways to destroy or redirect a space rock heading toward Earth, including through the use of satellites, rocket engines, and solar sails.
“At present, work in these areas is limited largely to theoretical research and the mathematical modeling of various countermeasures,” Bakaras said — and that research could be key to saving the planet if an asteroid does make its way toward Earth.
Colombia UniversityHet spoor op het fossiel, dat 200 miljoen jaar oud is, is wellicht afkomstig van een wandelende steen.
WETENSCHAP Zo’n 120 jaar geleden, in 1896, werd een fossiel van 200 miljoen jaar oud teruggevonden in Connecticut. Behalve de voetsporen van een dinosaurus, was aan de linkerkant van het fossiel een opvallende veeg te zien, waar verder niets achter gezocht werd. Nu suggereert een nieuwe studie, uitgevoerd door onderzoekers aan de Colombia University, dat het om een spoor van een wandelende steen gaat.
Wandelende stenen zijn dan wel geen nieuw verschijnsel in Amerika, ze blijven wetenschappers met verstomming slaan. Zo heeft men slechts het gissen naar de manier waarop de kolossen zich doorheen de jaren verplaatsten. Maar dat het gebeurde, staat vast. Zonder de hulp van zwaartekracht, mensen of dieren. Het lange spoor dat de stenen daarbij achterlieten, levert het bewijs.
Vooral in Death Valley werden veel wandelende stenen teruggevonden. Death Valley is een woestijnachtig dal in de Amerikaanse staat Californië. Het regent er vrijwel nooit en mag zichzelf een van de warmste plekken op aarde noemen. Behalve de talrijke (mysterieuze) stenen, is er maar weinig te zien in het extreem droge dal.
En toch worden enkele rotsblokken – sommige wegen wel 320 kilogram – vergezeld van een spoor dat honderden meters lang is.
Hoe kan dat? Al sinds 1948 stellen wetenschappers zichzelf die vraag. Inmiddels konden ze twee manieren bedenken waarop de stenen zich konden verplaatsen. Ofwel worden de stenen voortgeduwd door microbiële matten, ofwel door een dunne laag ijs.
Microbiële matten bestaan uit meerdere lagen van micro-organismen en kunnen wel enkele centimeters dik worden. Maar enkele centimeters zouden niet voldoende zijn om een rotsblok van een honderdtal kilogram te verplaatsen. Het idee van de microbiële matten werd daardoor al snel uitgesloten.
Rest nog een laatste mogelijkheid volgens de wetenschappers aan Colombia University: een dun laagje ijs en een lichte bries zouden ervoor gezorgd hebben dat de steen zich erg gestaag verplaatste.
Vulkaanuitbarsting
Maar ook die redenering vertoonde gaten. In Connecticut - waar het recente spoor aangetroffen werd - heerste namelijk een tropisch klimaat. Door een vulkaanuitbarsting koelde de aarde destijds vermoedelijk zodanig af, waardoor het zelfs in de tropen vroor. Zo suggereren de onderzoekers. “Als er daadwerkelijk dunne ijslaagjes in de regio aanwezig waren, dan hebben ze waarschijnlijk ook andere stenen verplaatst”, aldus paleontoloog Paul Olsen. “Als we die vinden, zal het alle twijfel wegnemen.”
Seafloor map showing pockmark and micro-depressions in the seafloor off Big Sur.
Image. Credit: MBARI
During a recent survey of the deep seafloor off Big Sur, MBARI researchers discovered thousands of mysterious holes or pits in the seafloor. Scientists and resource managers want to understand how these pits formed because this area is the site of a proposed wind-energy farm. Researchers Eve Lundsten and Charles Paull describe their discovery this week at the Fall 2019 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
The researchers found two different sizes of holes. The larger ones, known as pockmarks, average 175 meters (almost 600 feet) across and five meters (16 feet) deep, and are nearly circular and fairly evenly spaced. Some of these pockmarks were initially discovered by MBARI scientists in 1999 during a seafloor survey using ship-mounted sonar. Over the last few years, additional surveys by MBARI and other organizations revealed over 5,200 pockmarks spread out over 1,300 square kilometers (500 square miles), making this area the largest known pockmark field in North America.
More recently, MBARI conducted detailed seafloor surveys using sonar mounted on autonomous underwater vehicles. These surveys revealed thousands of smaller pits, which they termed micro-depressions. The micro-depressions average just 11 meters (36 feet) across and one meter (three feet) deep. They have steeper sides than the pockmarks and are often elongated in one direction.
Seafloor pockmarks have been found elsewhere around the world, and have been associated with releases of methane gas or other fluids from the seafloor. Such methane releases could potentially cause the seafloor to be unstable, which could pose risks for structures such as offshore oil platforms or wind turbines. However MBARI researchers found no evidence of methane in the sediment or seawater in this region. In fact, sonar data showing layers of seafloor sediments suggest that these pockmarks have been inactive for the last 50,000 years.µ
Computer generated 3-D view of a micro-depression.
Credit: MBARI
Map showing the locations of some of the pockmarks and proposed wind-farm areas off Central California.
Credit: MBARI
In contrast to the pockmarks, the micro-depressions formed in relatively young sediment. In addition, almost all of the micro-depressions contain objects such as rocks, kelp holdfasts, bones, trash, or fishing gear. Many micro-depressions also have "tails" of sediment that probably originated within the depression. In many areas, these tails are all oriented in the same direction.
Based on these observations, the researchers hypothesize that the micro-depressions are relatively recent features that were were excavated by local seafloor currents. Because the sediment on the seafloor in this area is so soft and "fluffy," the researchers speculate that even the movements of fish hiding out in the micro-depressions could stir up the sediment, allowing it to be carried away by currents.
Summarizing this work, Lundsten said, "The pockmarks and micro-depressions in this area are both holes in the seafloor that occur in softer sediments, but they are morphologically distinct. The cause and persistence of the pockmarks still remains a mystery, but we find no evidence they were created from gas or fluid in the seafloor in the recent past. The micro-depressions are recently formed erosional features; they are not 'incipient pockmarks.' Overall, a lot more work needs to be done to understand how all these features were formed, and this work is in progress."
Duizenden mysterieuze gaten ontdekt in de zeebodem. Onderzoekers staan voor groot raadsel
Duizenden mysterieuze gaten ontdekt in de zeebodem. Onderzoekers staan voor groot raadsel
Onderzoekers van het Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) hebben een nogal opmerkelijke ontdekking gedaan toen ze de zeebodem voor de kust van Californië bestudeerden.
De bodem blijkt namelijk vol gaten te zitten, meldt website Phys.org.
Er zijn volgens onderzoekers Eve Lundsten en Charles Paull twee soorten gaten.
5200
De ene soort is ongeveer 175 meter breed en vijf meter diep. Opmerkelijk is dat ze cirkelvormig zijn en gelijkmatig zijn verdeeld over de zeebodem.
Over een gebied van 1300 vierkante kilometer zijn sinds 1999 ruim 5200 van dit soort mysterieuze gaten ontdekt.
Op andere plekken op aarde waren ze ontstaan nadat methaangas uit de zeebodem was ontsnapt, maar in dit geval konden de wetenschappers geen sporen van methaan vinden.
Mysterie
Voor nu is het een mysterie hoe de gaten zijn ontstaan.
“We hebben geen bewijs gevonden dat ze zijn ontstaan door gassen of vloeistoffen in de zeebodem,” zei Lundsten.
Veel werk
Ze voegde toe dat er nog veel werk te doen is voordat kan worden vastgesteld hoe de gaten zijn ontstaan.
De andere soort is zo’n 11 meter breed en één meter diep. Deze gaten zijn vrij nieuw en volgens de onderzoekers veroorzaakt door de stroming.
Large Atmospheric Waves in the Jet Stream Present Risk to Global Food Production
Large Atmospheric Waves in the Jet Stream Present Risk to Global Food Production
Researchers at Oxford University, together with and international colleagues, have discovered jet stream patterns that could affect up to a quarter of global food production.In a new study published today in Nature Climate Change, scientists show how specific wave patterns in the jet stream strongly increase the chance of co-occurring heatwaves in major food producing regions of Northern America, Western Europe and Asia. Their research finds that these simultaneous heatwaves significantly reduce crop production across those regions, creating the risk of multiple harvest failures and other far-reaching societal consequences, including social unrest.
Lead author, Dr Kai Kornhuber from the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics and Colombia University’s Earth Institute, said: ‘Co-occurring heatwaves will become more severe in the coming decades if greenhouse gases are not mitigated. In an interconnected world, this can lead to food price spikes and have impacts on food availability even in remote regions not directly affected by heatwaves.
‘We found a 20-fold increase in the risk of simultaneous heatwaves in major crop producing regions when these global scale wind patterns are in place. Until now this was an underexplored vulnerability in the food system. We have found that during these events there actually is a global structure in the otherwise quite chaotic circulation. The bell can ring in multiple regions at once and the impacts of those specific interconnections were not quantified previously.’
Western North America, Western Europe and the Caspian Sea region are particularly susceptible to these atmospheric patterns that get heat and drought locked into one place simultaneously where they then affect crops production yields.
Dr Dim Coumou, co-author from the Institute for Environmental Studies at VU Amsterdam, said: ‘Normally low harvests in one region are expected to be balanced out by good harvests elsewhere but these waves can cause reduced harvests in several important breadbaskets simultaneously, creating risks for global food production.’
Dr Elisabeth Vogel, co-author from Melbourne University, said: ‘During years in which two or more summer weeks featured the amplified wave pattern, cereal crop production was reduced by more than 10% in individual regions, and by 4% when averaged across all crop regions affected by the pattern.’
Dr Radley Horton, co-author from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Colombia University, said: ‘If climate models are unable to reproduce these wave patterns, risk managers such as reinsurers and food security experts may face a blind spot when assessing how simultaneous heat waves and their impacts could change in a warming climate.’
The scientists conclude that a thorough understanding of what drives this jet stream behaviour could ultimately improve seasonal predictions of agricultural production at the global scale and inform risk assessments of harvest failures across multiple food-producing regions.
Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is of great interest to scientists due to its subsurface ocean, making it a prime target for those searching for life elsewhere. New research led by Carnegie’s Doug Hemingway reveals the physics governing the fissures through which ocean water erupts from the moon’s icy surface, giving its south pole an unusual “tiger stripe” appearance.
“First seen by the Cassini mission to Saturn, these stripes are like nothing else known in our Solar System,” lead author Hemingway explained. “They are parallel and evenly spaced, about 130 kilometers long and 35 kilometers apart. What makes them especially interesting is that they are continually erupting with water ice, even as we speak. No other icy planets or moons have anything quite like them.”
Credit: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI, Cassini Imaging Team
Working with Max Rudolph of the University of California, Davis and Michael Manga of UC Berkeley, Hemingway used models to investigate the physical forces acting on Enceladus that allow the tiger stripe fissures to form and remain in place. Their findings are published by Nature Astronomy.
The team was particularly interested in understanding why the stripes are present only on the moon’s south pole but were also keen to figure out why the cracks are so evenly spaced.
The answer to the first question turns out to be a bit of a coin toss. The researchers revealed that the fissures that make up Enceladus’ tiger stripes could have formed on either pole, the south just happened to split open first.
Enceladus experiences internal heating due to the eccentricity of its orbit. It is sometimes a little closer to Saturn and sometimes a littler farther, which causes the moon to be slightly deformed—stretched and relaxed—as it responds to the giant planet’s gravity. It is this process that keeps the moon from freezing completely solid.
Key to the formation of the fissures is the fact that the moon’s poles experience the greatest effects of this gravitationally induced deformation, so the ice sheet is thinnest over them. During periods of gradual cooling on Enceladus, some of the moon’s subsurface ocean will freeze. Because water expands as it freezes, as the icy crust thickens from below, the pressure in the underlying ocean increases until the ice shell eventually splits open, creating a fissure. Because of their comparatively thin ice, the poles are the most susceptible to cracks.
The researchers believe the fissure named after the city of Baghdad was the first to form. (The stripes are named after places referred to in the stories of One Thousand and One Nights, which are also called Arabian Nights.) However, it didn’t just freeze back up again. It stayed open, allowing ocean water to spew from its crevasse that, in turn, caused three more parallel cracks to form.
“Our model explains the regular spacing of the cracks,” Rudolph said.
The additional splits formed from the weight of ice and snow building up along the edges of the Baghdad fissure as jets of water from the subsurface ocean froze and fell back down. This weight added a new form of pressure on the ice sheet.
“That caused the ice sheet to flex just enough to set off a parallel crack about 35 kilometers away,” Rudolph added.
That the fissures stay open and erupting is also due to the tidal effects of Saturn’s gravity. The moon’s deformation acts to keep the wound from healing—repeatedly widening and narrowing the cracks and flushing water in and out of them—preventing the ice from closing up again.
For a larger moon, its own gravity would be stronger and prevent the additional fractures from opening all the way. So, these stripes could only have formed on Enceladus.
“Since it is thanks to these fissures that we have been able to sample and study Enceladus’ subsurface ocean, which is beloved by astrobiologists, we thought it was important to understand the forces that formed and sustained them,” Hemingway said. “Our modeling of the physical effects experienced by the moon’s icy shell points to a potentially unique sequence of events and processes that could allow for these distinctive stripes to exist.”
This work was supported by NASA and the U.S. National Science Foundation.
The work was based on data collected by the NASA/ESA Cassini mission to Saturn.
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Doug Hemingway
Carnegie Institution for Science
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First physical evidence of Egyptian 'head cones' found in 3,300-year-old tomb reveal they were made of WAX and may have been designed to scent the hair and purify the soul
First physical evidence of Egyptian 'head cones' found in 3,300-year-old tomb reveal they were made of WAX and may have been designed to scent the hair and purify the soul
Research team reveals exciting discovery of two head cones in Egyptian graves
Some scholars argued the distinctive headwear only ever existed in artworks
The cones were found in the ancient city of Armarna, 194 miles south of Cairo
The Egyptian city was abandoned in 1332 BC after being occupied for just 15 years after the death of its 'heretic' founder
Ancient Egyptian art frequently depicts people wearing cone-shaped headgear, but none has ever been found.
Now an international team of archaeologists has uncovered the first ever physical evidence of Egyptian head cones in the ancient city of Armarna, 194 miles south of the capital Cairo.
The head cones, made from wax, were discovered at two graves in 2010 and 2015. They were found in fragments but researchers have been able to reconstruct their shape.
They provide the first conclusive evidence that the objects actually existed and were worn by Egyptians, according to the archaeologists.
Due to the lack of material evidence, scholars have previously speculated that the head cones only ever existed as mere depictions in art.
Some believed that they were entirely symbolic - like halos given to religious figures in Christian art - while others argued that they did exist but were made of materials that did not survive.
Cone 1 excavated at the South Tombs Cemetery in 2010, on the remains of an individual estimated to be a 20–29-year-old female
The Egyptian city of Amarna, 194 miles south of the Egyptian capital Cairo, was abandoned in 1332 after being occupied for only 15 years
The graves in which the cones were discovered are thought to have belonged to the non-elite, suggesting that the cones were not a particular mark of status.
'These are the first archaeological examples of this usual headwear yet known from Egypt, although we have many images of people wearing them’, said Anna Stevens, lead author of the study.
‘Many questions remain about the meaning and function of the head cones – and the excavated examples won’t answer them all.
‘But careful excavation has now shown that the cones certainly existed in 3D form, that they could be worn by the deceased and that they were not only for the elite.'
Spectroscopy analysis of the cones revealed that they were hollow and made of plant or animal wax - most likely beeswax.
It is believed they may have been infused with perfume to purify the wearer so they could engage with the rituals and deities of the afterlife.
Other theories suggest they may be connected with ideas of fertility and resurrection.
Based on cranial and pelvic observations of the human remains found with the head cones, one of the bodies is believed to be of a woman aged between 20-29 years at her time of death, still with well-preserved hair under the cone.
The adult female remains in its original place of discovery, compelete with headcone and well-preserved hair
Excavations taking place at the North Tombs Cemetery in 2017 as part of the Amarna project
The second cone, found in 2015, belonged to a 15-20 year-old of indeterminate sex.
Researchers say it's probable that these two cones were ‘model’ versions made for a burial environment, and that cones intended to be worn by the living could have been constructed differently.
Ancient Egyptians are often depicted wearing cones in artwork depicting banquets, worship and the afterlife.
Scholars often link the cones with sensuality and sexuality, as they frequently appear in artistic imagery of women - sometimes unclothed.
One popular theory is was that they were an unguent – pieces of fat or wax perfumed, perhaps with myrrh.
As the cone melted, the scent was released, with some ancient Egyptian literature suggesting that this process would scent and cleanse the hair and body.
Head cones are worn by females and males in Ancient Egyptian art depicting banqueting scenes, including those honouring the dead, funerals, or people being rewarded by the king
A reconstruction of the two cones, revealing they are both hollow
It is not known why these cones were included in the burials, but researchers suggest they may have been symbols meant to enhance the rebirth or personal fertility of the deceased in the afterlife.
They have also previously simply been interpreted more broadly as symbols of the tomb owner's contentedness in the afterlife.
The city of Amarna was built by the pharaoh Akhenaten as home for the cult of the sun god Aten and now contains thousands of graves.
Akhenaten controversially placed much emphasis on the worship of the Egyptian sun, and away from Egyptian tradition of polytheism, the worship of multiple deities.
The city was abandoned around 10 years after the pharaoh’s death, despite only being occupied for 15 years from 1347 to 1332 BC.
But the abandoned city attracted ancient looters, who stole from all four cemeteries at the site.
This has made the task of piecing together all the disturbed burials all the more difficult for archaeologists of the Amarna Project, who have been excavating the site since2005.
The study of the two head cones has been published in the journal Antiquity.
WHO WAS AKHENATEN?
Akhenaten was a pharaoh of 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt.
The ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna (or simply Amarna) was the short-lived capital built by the ‘heretic’ Pharaoh Akhenaten and abandoned shortly after his death (c. 1332).
It was here that he pursued his vision of a society dedicated to the cult of one god, the power of the sun (the Aten) – seen as heresy at the time.
Akhenaten, upon becoming Pharaoh, ordered all the iconography of previous gods to be removed.
After his death, his monuments were dismantled and hidden and his statues were destroyed.
One of Akhenaten’s sons was Tutankhaten, who went on to become pharaoh and took the name Tutankhamun, one of the most famous ancient Egyptian pharaohs.
One of the many places known for elongated skulls is Egypt. While few ancient remains or mummies have been discovered sporting the long craniums, many paintings and sculptures depict them. In many other paintings, the Egyptians aren’t shown with cone heads but more than a few have mysterious head cones. Now, a new study reports that a few of these head cones have actually been found — and they may solve the mystery surrounding their appearances in ancient Egyptian art.
“Images of ancient Egyptians wearing distinctive, cone-shaped objects on their heads have, in the absence of physical examples, long elicited scholarly debate. Did people wear these cones, or were they a purely iconographic device? What was their function and meaning? Recent excavations at the Amarna cemeteries now provide the first material examples of head cones.”
In the study published in the journal Antiquity, a team of archeologists describe finding two of these mysterious head cones in graves in Akhetaten (also called Amarna), an unusual ancient Egyptian city that was only occupied for about 15 years during the 14th century B.C.E. while Egypt was ruled by its namesake — Akhenaten. He was later considered to be a heretic for creating a religious system based on a single god, Aten, and may have also been the father of Tutankhamun. What does any of this have to do with the mysterious head cones?
“Between 1550 B.C. and 30 B.C., Egyptian art depicted people wearing what look like cones on their heads. Because no examples of these cones had ever been found, archaeologists wondered whether they actually existed or were an artistic motif that had no basis in reality (similar to people with halos over their heads depicted in Christian art).”
LiveScience draws a comparison between the Christian halo and the head cone, giving it a religious connotation. The difference is, we now have two real people with real head cones found in graves in Akhetaten. (Photographs here.) One, a woman no more than 29 when she died, had “long, thick braids featuring many extensions and end-curls” and “the cone was found in situ, placed on top of the head over the well-preserved hair.” The other, according to the archeologists, was an individual of undetermined sex, age 15-to-20, whose cone “seems to be that of a low dome” and measured 3.1 inches (80 mm) high and 3.9 inches (100 mm) across.
Plan of excavation of a young woman with a head cone buried at Amarna, Egypt.
ILLUSTRATION BY M. SHEPPERSON FROM STEVENS ET AL. 2019, ANTIQUITY PUBLICATIONS LTD.
Besides their actual existence, what the researchers found most unusual about these two head cones was that they were made of beeswax – not a perfumed oil solid or fat that was intended to melt in the grave to cleanse the spirit. Oh, and the cones were solid lumps of wax, not hollow hats. The beeswax, combined with the physical condition of the individuals, indicates they were of a worker class – a surprise to archeologists who believed they signified membership in a higher class. So, what was their true purpose?
“The authors tentatively suggest that the Amarna cones were symbols meant to enhance the rebirth or personal fertility of the deceased in the afterlife.”
Now that they finally have a couple of head cones to deconstruct, the researchers speculate the cream-colored beeswax bonnets were fertility aids placed on their heads in death to resolve these issues in the afterlife. Support for this theory comes from the fact that “Scholars often link the cones specifically with sensuality, sexuality and related notions, as they are frequently associated in imagery with women, sometimes unclothed” and are painted on women in scenes with the fertility goddess Hathor.
Beeswax is still used in rituals
One of the graves found with a head cone.
AMARNA PROJECT/ANTIQUITY PUBLICATIONS LTD
Case closed? Not so fast, say other researchers interviewed by LiveScience. Lise Manniche, a professor emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Copenhagen, thinks they were just cheaper, lower-class versions of the perfumed unguent head cones of the upper class. Nicola Harrington, an honorary research associate at the University of Sydney’s archaeology department, points out that the two individuals had “stress/compression fractures of the mid-lower spine” which were common among dancers, indicating that the two may have been ritual hoofers who performed for the king and his god Aten.
Which brings us back to the brief life of Akhetaten and the controversy surrounding Akhenaten and his attempt at monotheism in ancient Egypt. Was this so abhorring that these people were forced to abandon Akhenaten, which means “Horizon of the Aten,” in shame?
Our head cones are tipped to the archeologists who continue to search for their true meaning.
Strange Circles Appear On Forbidden Island, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Strange Circles Appear On Forbidden Island, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: Dec 2019 Location of discovery: Island of Carmen
A helicopter was passing over an island area and noticed something really strange. The beach area was littered with huge circles that were tied together. They almost appeare like we are looking at giant atoms...or perhaps the atomic structure of a totally new element. This island is forbidden for anyone to step onto it. Its considered a wildlife refuge...or so they say. But may be a hidden island that is used by aliens as a base location. These circles should not exist on an island where there are no humans on it. Obviously these circles were made by intelligent beings...if no humans...then aliens. Scott C. Waring
Strange Symbols Resembling Crop Circles Appear In UNESCO Protected Island
Symbols that resemble crop circles appeared in Isla del Carmen
The symbols appeared in nature reserve protected by UNESCO
A UFO expert believes the symbols were made by aliens
Several strange symbols resembling crop circles were spotted along the beaches of a nature reserve in Mexico that’s protected by UNESCO. According to a UFO expert, the symbols could have been made by intelligent alien life forms.
The symbols appeared on the beaches of an island in Mexico known as Isla del Carmen, which is situated in the Gulf of California. It is classified as a nature reserve and is under the protection of UNESCO.
According to the YouTube channel shadowland.13, photos of the mysterious symbols were taken by a helicopter pilot of the aviation company Specialized Aero as he was passing over the island. Based on the photos, the symbols were drawn on the sand and featured same-sized circles. Each of the circles was connected to each other by straight lines that were also drawn on the sand.
The symmetrical appearance and vastness of the symbols closely resemble the crop circles that usually appear in cornfields. Due to their mysterious nature, these symbols have been associated with UFOs and alien entities.
According to Scott Waring of ET Data Base, the strange symbols that appeared in Isla del Carmen resemble the structure of atoms or a new element.
“The beach area was littered with huge circles that were tied together,” he wrote on a blog post. “They almost appear like we are looking at giant atoms...or perhaps the atomic structure of a totally new element.”
Waring noted that the area where the symbols appeared is a protected site, which means people are not allowed to wander through it without proper authorization or a guide. Because of this, he believes that it is highly unlikely that the symbols were made by humans. He suggested that alien life forms may have taken advantage of the island’s remote nature to establish a base there.
“This island is forbidden for anyone to step onto it,” he stated. “It’s considered a wildlife refuge...or so they say. But maybe a hidden island that is used by aliens as a base location. These circles should not exist on an island where there are no humans on it. Obviously these circles were made by intelligent beings...if no humans...then aliens.”
Crop Circle found in Chualar, Ca, now known to be created by NVIDIA.
I found two UFOs in a NASA archive floating near the space shuttle Atlantis. These photo have never before been reported by anyone and have never before been seen by the public. The UFOs are in five of the shuttle photos. When I put them in sequence, we can see them moving about over the course of a few minutes. Clearly if NASA is watching the objects this close...then its obvious they have no idea what they are or what the objects could be doing. They even mark the photos as "Debris?" Yes, they put a question mark because they don't know what they were.
If you look at the close up of one of the UFOs...you will notice that it has a defined shape like a mini shuttle, but without wings. This is 100% proof that aliens are highly interested in the shuttle missions. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Cigar-shaped UFO over Smokey Mountains, Tennessee – 2019
Cigar-shaped UFO over Smokey Mountains, Tennessee – 2019
This strange UFO encounter of a cigar-shaped object photographed during daytime was submitted to me recently. It was taken on 27th September 2019 in Smokey Mountains, Tennessee.
Witness report:
This was at smoky mountains September 27th 2019 was taking pictures from our motel room and seen this. So weird.
Facts behind 'The Miracle of the Sun' indicate that it was a UFO that came out of the clouds
Facts behind 'The Miracle of the Sun' indicate that it was a UFO that came out of the clouds
The Miracle of the Sun, also known as the Miracle of Fátima, is reported to have occurred on 13 October 1917, attended by a large crowd who had gathered in Fátima, Portugal.
The prophecy made by three shepherd children was that the Virgin Mary (referred to as Our Lady of Fátima), would appear and perform miracles on that date.
The official 1917 story reads: Newspapers published testimony from witnesses who said that they had seen extraordinary solar activity, such as the Sun appearing to "dance" or zig-zag in the sky, careen towards the Earth, or emit multicolored light and radiant colors. According to these reports, the event lasted approximately ten minutes.
According to many witnesses, after a period of rain, the dark clouds broke and the Sun appeared as an opaque, spinning disc in the sky. It was said to be significantly duller than normal, and to cast multicolored lights across the landscape, the people, and the surrounding clouds. The Sun was then reported to have careened towards the Earth before zig-zagging back to its normal position.
But according to Joaquim Fernandes Ph. D. who has studied the event on October 13, 1917, it was some kind of physical phenomenon.
There is a testimony from a lawyer, Dr. Almeida Garret, who was present at the miracle of the sun and Garret said that he looked up and saw a dull silver disc object.
And it was not only Almeida Garret who refers to a dull disc object, many witnesses describe a cloud just coming out of nowhere and out this cloud comes a craft.
Although the miracle of the sun is still surrounded by mystery, according to L.A. Marzulli, the witnesses of the 1917 event are actually seeing a cloud that forms in front of the sun on which then the UFO comes out, making some impossible maneuvers before it disappears.
Mysterious lights hovering over Mesa skies Sunday night puzzle residents
Mysterious lights hovering over Mesa skies Sunday night puzzle residents
MESA, AZ — Mysterious lights hovering above the east Valley have many wondering if we've had a close encounter.
"It was pretty bright, it was about straight up over here, and it went straight that way, stopped, and it didn't seem like it was too far," said DJ Maier and Kerri Burnett, describing what they saw.
The couple says they spotted the phenomenon outside their Mesa home on Sunday around nine that night.
They say the object seemed to come from the southeast.
"It started moving kind of diagonal across, I was trying to figure out which way it was heading, and that's when we noticed it started dropping things from it," said Burnett.
The object captured on two cell phones looks like a bright orb hovering silently in the sky. Every few moments, the object appears to drop what looks to be flares towards the ground.
"And it wasn't just us, our neighbors next door they were out, they weren't even filming. They were more in amazement, like statues, just watching it," said Maier.
Maier immediately posted the video to Facebook, and the comments rolled in but none had any explanation for what they were seeing.
"Some said it may be an aircraft, others said aliens or a comet," said Maier.
The entire event harkens back to 1997 and the mysterious Phoenix Lights phenomenon -- a mystery that remains in hot debate even today.
ABC15 reached out to several aviation experts who theorized the lights seen Sunday could be from parachute flares used by the military or even helicopters or other aircraft dropping flares during training.
In fact, the Outlaw Military Operations Area sits not far from where the video was shot. But video found online of those types of exercises just doesn't seem to match.
"There were no navigation lights. Even the military has to have navigation lights on. That's an FAA rule," said Maier.
ABC15 reached out to the Federal Aviation Administration, Luke Air Force Base and the Army National Guard, but none could say for certain what it was.
It leaves the answer to what was caught on camera to anyone's guess.
"I know what I saw, and I don't think it was from here, and I think it was definitely something else," said Maier.
Trawling through pictures from NASA’s Hubble Telescope, Tyler Glockner of the YouTube channel ‘secureteam10’ noticed nearby a flying saucer-shaped UFO “watching” the space telescope in the background. (see video clip starting at 5 minutes)
Tyler says in the video, “If you look in the distance, almost as if there’s something sitting and watching the Hubble telescope, there appears to be something alien.” “[It] looks like a flying saucer.” Glockner added, “[W]hen NASA is not busy cutting the feed and hiding these things from us, we get to see some pretty cool pieces of evidence.” “Could this be a satellite? It could be but I don’t know of any satellite that looks like a flying saucer.”
One YouTube commenter said this was the “best UFO video I’ve seen in a while”. Another claimed that it was just a “lens flare”.
A flying saucer-shaped UFO has been captured “watching” NASA’s Hubble Telescope, a renowned conspiracy theorist has claimed.
Tyler Glockner – of YouTube channel secureteam10 – noticed the bizarre sight as he trawled through NASA pictures this week.
In his video, a bright light can be seen in the background of the telescope, above Earth.
He goes to zoom in and discovers the “craft” is shaped just like a flying saucer.
“If you look in the distance, almost as if there’s something sitting and watching the Hubble telescope, there appears to be something alien,” Tyler said in the video.
“This looks alien to me, it’s not just the light but looks like a flying saucer.
“It almost looks like it’s flying head on with the telescope, it could be something passing by.
“It looks like something was captured here in space – there’s almost more UFO sightings captured above Earth then on the planet.
“It seems like these things are buzzing by like rush-hour traffic and when NASA is not busy cutting the feed and hiding these things from us, we get to see some pretty cool pieces of evidence.
“Could this be a satellite? It could be but I don’t know of any satellite that looks like a flying saucer.”
video clip of UFO ‘watching’ the Hubble Telescope (starts at 5 min, ‘secureteam 10’ YouTube)
The fascinating footage has garnered more than 80,000 views since it was posted to YouTube on October 19.
Hundreds commented their thoughts, with one writing: “That saucer by the Hubble is probably some man-made, reverse engineered contraption.
“I'm sure the ISS are informed of when and where the magic will be, while we remain clueless.”
Another added: “The ship in the Hubble pic looks like the small craft from Independence Day in my opinion.”
A third claimed the sighting was the “best UFO video I've seen in a while”.
But some viewers were more sceptic, suggesting it was simply a “lens flare”.
Wild conspiracies have abounded for years of NASA “covering up” the existence of UFOs.
Theorists often point out to bizarre “objects” being spotted in space just seconds before the live feed on satellites “cutting”.
Ancient Astronomical Alignments: Reading and Mapping the Stars at Early Advanced Civilization Sites
Egyptian pyramids under a night sky. Several researchers believe astronomical at this site point to signs of an ancient advanced civilization.alignments
Ancient Astronomical Alignments: Reading and Mapping the Stars at Early Advanced Civilization Sites
Many of the cuneiform tablets of Mesopotamia and hieroglyphs of Egypt make reference to the sun, stars, or planetary positions. Also, a number of ancient structures in many parts of the world are aligned with, or directly oriented toward, the cardinal points (East, North, South, and West) or celestial objects. A recent study by astronomy historian Michael Horkin involved cataloging 2000 Neolithic tombs and researching over 1000 others in France, Portugal, Spain, and North Africa. His paper, presented to the Royal Astronomical Society in England, points out that thousands of Neolithic structures erected prior to 1000 BC were apparently built to face the sun or key constellations.
Commenting on the study, E.C. Krupp, an archaeoastronomer with the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, states, “It implies a certain social organization in the commitment to build the construction of these monuments, as well as a system of celestial observation.” Yet, Horkin says about one part of the study, “We do not know much about the constellations as viewed by the [ancient peoples], since they were not literate.” Illiteracy is the common assumption about ancient and unknown cultures – but what are we to make of the vast number of megalithic structures, dolmans, cairns, and henges (like Stonehenge) that we find built and precisely aligned with astronomical coordinates?
If myth tells us there was a time when man was regularly reading the stars, communing with the Earth and the heavens, and generally studying from the book of Nature rather than symbols on paper, can we really say he was illiterate?
Most early and literate explorers did not recognize the astronomical alignments and mathematical characteristics inherent in the pyramids , Egyptian temple ruins, and other ancient megaliths. Since it was assumed that the people who built them must have been more primitive than the later people of Greece, and especially Rome, no one was looking for architectural features that required celestial calculations.
It wasn’t until the late 19th century, when the prominent British Astronomer Sir Norman Lockyer first seriously began to look at ancient temples around the world, that many astronomical alignments were noted. And even then, most archaeologists downplayed such observations as coincidence or merely structural aspects of primitive religious beliefs.
Astronomical Alignment and Mathematical Feats at the Great Pyramid
Astonishingly, we had to wait until the 1960’s before any serious study of celestial alignment was undertaken at Stonehenge (which we now know can be used to predict eclipses), one of the most famous megalithic sites in the world. Because of this lack of interest in connecting the dots, so to speak, important clues that resided in temple alignments with solstices, equinoxes, and other celestial phenomena were completely missed and went undiscovered for centuries. Still today, many archaeologists dismiss much of this astronomical information as unimportant because it does not fit well with accepted interpretations of archaic civilizations.
Over the past few decades, though, the tide has slowly begun to turn, as irrefutable evidence reveals that sophisticated astronomy, mathematics, and other higher sciences were indeed incorporated into many ancient structures. The most obvious candidate for study is the Great Pyramid at Giza , which is larger than anything the Romans or Greeks ever built, and still the largest stone building on Earth.
The Great Pyramid of Egypt.
Credit: BigStockPhoto
With its original white (or possibly gold) capstone and limestone siding, it must have been an amazing sight, visible for miles (some ancient people referred to it as “The Light”). It is aligned to within 1/20th of a degree of the direction of the Earth’s rotation – not an easy feat. The massive base of the pyramid today appears to be level to within one centimeter, yet this accomplishment is said to have been performed with stone hammers, an assumption impossible to believe.
J. H. Cole, using modern surveying techniques, has accurately measured the pyramid, finding the ratio of the perimeter to the height a perfect imitation of a sphere (2 times Pi, the radius to circumference ratio of a sphere). Peter Tompkins, in his Secrets of the Great Pyramid , points out several other mathematical representations as well. Dividing the surface area of the Great Pyramid by the area of its base results in a number very near the golden mean (1.618), “a famous ratio in art and architecture.” In addition, he shows that the three great pyramids as they are laid out fit exactly into a rectangle aligned to the cardinal directions, measuring 1414 cubits by 1732 cubits, “a thousand times the square roots of 2 and 3 respectively.”
Still more interesting, in 1993 Robert Bauval (co-author of several books on the pyramids) noticed that the three main pyramids on the Giza Plateau were a mirror reflection of the three belt stars in the constellation Orion, a constellation important to the Egyptians . Bauval and others have also pointed out that the shafts in the Great Pyramid extending from the King’s and Queen’s Chambers also represent stellar alignments. Cutting such stones to the precise angles, placing them in a position so that their sides form a diagonal shaft that aligns with key astronomical coordinates (which must be calculated when most of the stars are not visible in that position, due to precession), embedding them in a massive structure comprised of millions of stones – some up to 70 tons – and doing it all without harder-than-stone tools or instruments or math, or even wheels, is pretty amazing stuff for a “primitive” culture. Or maybe that simplistic assumption is wrong.
Giza pyramids superimposed over the three stars of Orion's Belt.
One of the great enigmas presented by the ruins of many of these ancient cultures, most notably Egypt, is that they seemed to have arisen very quickly out of nothing. The Great Pyramid is supposed to have been built near the presumed beginning of this mysterious civilization. As author and rebel Egyptologist John Anthony West states, “The evidence for these advanced civilizations is almost universal in the sense that they all seem to be at their height near the beginning...practically all of them have deluge myths, practically all of them talk about earlier times, Golden Ages when people lived longer and were much more enlightened and advanced.”
When Mesopotamia was being unearthed and some of the Biblical royal and city names could for the first time be confirmed as actual historical sites, there began to be good reason to take the stories of the Old Testament more literally, as well as some of the other myths and legends from prehistory.
There really might have been a flood of Biblical proportions , and a type of Noah’s Ark and the near loss of all that came before. It may not have happened exactly like the story, but there could have been massive flooding in some parts of the world that wiped away much evidence of prior civilizations. How else could civilization seem to develop out of nothing in Mesopotamia or Egypt 5000 years ago? The plant may have been chopped to the ground, but the roots would still be there.
Top Image: Egyptian pyramids under a night sky. Several researchers believe astronomical alignments at this site point to signs of an ancient advanced civilization. Source: CC0
Cataclysm, Mass Extinctions, and the Consequent Myths
According to geologists, in the interval from 10,000 to 8,000 BC, some 35 to 45 species of large mammals became extinct. This is called a mass extinction. Mass extinctions can be defined as species death within a relatively short interval of time.
None of the mainstream theories which attempt to account for these great extinctions are entirely satisfactory. This is likely because orthodox geologists are operating out of the straitjacket of the theory of uniformitarianism, which suggests a rather slow, gradual change over time.
In geology, the present is key to the past. However, it’s commonly agreed that geologic time is marked by a relatively sudden change in climate about 10,000 years ago or more, from a cold glacial to warm interglacial environment.
During this time, there were catastrophic changes across the planet. For example, the asphalt and tar seeps of California, like those in South America and Africa, host a rich assemblage of evidence of faunal and floral life, the most spectacular having occurred in Rancho La Brea where the remains of numerous animals are tightly packed together.
Approximately 700 skulls of saber-toothed tigers have been systematically excavated, accompanied by a huge number of remains from horses, camels, bison, mammoths, mastodons, coyotes, wolves, sloths, and other faunal contemporaries, broken, mashed, and contorted. This suggests a sudden mass extinction where animals, predator and prey alike, were suddenly thrown together.
The Beresovka mammoth in Siberia was found with daises in its stomach. The intense refrigeration of this mammoth and others suggests that this happened very suddenly.
The Beresovka mammoth, except for head, it is an almost wholly preserved, mummified mammoth carcass discovered in Siberia.
It froze the ground solid, turned lake and ground water into great lenses of ice, and froze dead and dying animals and plants throughout the region into grim memorials which have survived, unchanged, in that condition, down to our own day. Among these have been the frozen carcasses of mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, and other large mammals.
It is important to note that these mammoth carcasses represent healthy, well-nourished individuals. They do not belong to very old, degenerate, or starving animals as some have maintained.
Indeed, a deep-frozen six-month old baby mammoth carcass found in 1977 was so perfectly preserved that analysis of its blood and protein, and its tissues were used for genetic studies. Interestingly, the date for its demise was determined to be about 12,000 years ago.
The frozen mammoth flesh was described as fibrous and marbled with fat and looked as fresh as well-frozen beef. Excellent soup was made from the meat of some frozen mammoth carcasses, and the meat itself was apparently cooked and eaten.
The area where mammoths once lived is today called the tundra, where the average annual temperature is only two degrees above zero. It is treeless and the ground is frozen for 10 months of the year.
Where did these huge animals get enough to eat, considering the adult elephant can consume up to about 350 pounds of food daily? In addition, mastodons have been found deep frozen next to the carcasses of mammoths in Alaska, as well as the remains of horses, squirrels, and rhinoceroses.
Theories of Mass Extinction: The Clovis People
In an attempt to explain the extinction of so many species of land animals during this period, mainstream scientists have put forward a number of theories. One theory postulates that overhunting by early man was the cause. This is the most popular theory today.
It is believed that the Clovis people , hunters and gatherers, who suddenly emerged into prominence about 11,500 BC were responsible for the great extinctions. This is because, compared to the indigenous people of North America , the immigrant Clovis people were more numerous and more advanced in their hunting methods.
It is theorized they hunted many large mammals, or megafauna, to extinction. Their hunting amounted to overkill.
Clovis points from the Rummells-Maske Cache Site, Iowa.
The most popular theory suggests that the immigrants must have gone from the arctic (Siberia) to the tropics and on to the near Antarctic regions of South America in a little over a thousand years. In addition to traveling this great distance in such a relatively short period of time, the Clovis people, seemingly ubiquitous, nearly wiped out whole large mammalian genera in the New World.
Archaeological research has yielded evidence of human occupation in the Americas as early as 32,000 years ago. Yet within 1,000 to 2,000 years after the arrival of the Clovis people, most of the big mammals were gone.
These animals, or megafauna, included mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, horses, camels, giant bears, cave lions, giant bison the size of mammoths, and saber-toothed tigers. That the Clovis could wipe out most of the big mammals, predator and prey alike, in such a short period time seems a bit unlikely.
Other Theories that Account for a Cataclysmic Event
What could have caused the climate to change so suddenly? Theories that account for this are not accepted by mainstream scientists. The first theory proposed here is crustal displacement as was elucidated by Charles Hapgood in his book Earth’s Shifting Crust , later called The Path of the Pole .
The ice cover of the Last Glacial Maximum, about 20,000 years ago, is asymmetric with respect to the present position of the North Pole in the Arctic Sea. The North Pole was presumedly positioned in Greenland. A modeled path of a rapid polar shift is shown. It is a spiral, starting in Greenland and ending in the Arctic sea. A turn takes about 400 days. A relaxation time of 1,000 days for global deformations of the Earth was assumed.
One intriguing question is why so many of the large mammal carcasses are found so far north. In fact, their numbers increase farther north towards the Arctic Ocean. In addition, their bones are spread over the bottom of that ocean, where ships have dredged them up.
If the pole was at Hudson Bay instead of the Arctic Circle, as it is today, Siberia and Alaska would have been south of the pole and hence in a warmer climate. These large creatures could have survived, even flourished, in such an environment.
There are thousands of well-preserved mammoth tusks that have been discovered in Siberia and which have led to a worldwide trade in ivory, which has been going on since Roman times. If the ivory tusks are exposed to the air for any length of time, they rot; and yet there are well preserved tusks from extinct animals in the Arctic area still found today.
Some theorists have proposed that the outer crust of the Earth shifts periodically, moving some continents towards the poles and others away from them. Although this process may take up to 5,000 years, the final stages are rapid. According to this theory, the poles shifted from Hudson Bay to the Arctic Circle suddenly with dire consequences.
As a result, a crustal displacement model proposes catastrophic changes have occurred on the surface of the Earth. This theory challenges the central idea of geology: the principal of uniformitarianism, which we have already discussed.
There were earlier models of crustal displacement. One theory, purporting to explain the cause of the ice age, was due to the sliding of the lithosphere over the viscous magma underlying it through tidal friction.
Normal mantle viscosity, enhanced by powerful external influence, combined with sudden deglaciation, thus seemingly caused not only sudden crustal slippage and fracturing, volcanism, seismic activity but also a change in the actual inclination of the Earth’s spin axis. Proportional to the Earth as a whole, the crust is scarcely thicker than an onionskin is to an onion.
According to Hapgood, the last crustal displacement, around 11,500 years ago greatly affected North and South America, Australia, as well as parts of Asia. Hancock suggests some parts of Europe were impacted as well. The continent of Africa was not as greatly affected.
This is consistent with other theorists who propose that an Earth crust displacement would cause extinctions to occur on different continents at different rates as a result of varying changes in the world’s latitudes. Some continents experience great climatic change while others are largely unaffected.
Diagram of the internal layering of the Earth showing the lithosphere above the asthenosphere (not to scale).
Another theory is that an extraterrestrial object struck the planet, a catastrophic event. In his book, Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization , Graham Hancock proposes that a comet struck North America 12,900 years ago and then again 11,600 years ago, wiping out the Clovis people, many species of megafauna, and melted the ice caps, causing a great flood, which is also reported in so many myths. Such an event could have facilitated a crustal displacement as well, causing the poles to shift.
Hancock suggests that parts of Europe and northern South America were also impacted. This is called the Younger Dryas comet impact theory, first proposed in 2007, and it has gained the support of some mainstream scientists.
A large enough comet could cause a cataclysm on Earth.
It is important to mention that evidence of melted minerals such as chromite, quartz, and chert suggests temperatures were so high as to melt steel. As a result, Hancock proposes that an advanced civilization of prehistoric antiquity was obliterated from the face of the Earth during the Younger Dryas period. This has come down to us as the legend of Atlantis.
Myths of the Great Flood
Myths of a great flood are also associated with this period. A myth is defined as a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some superhuman being or some alleged person or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or of natural explanation.
Mythologist Joseph Campbell has said that the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche, and each bear within it, undamaged, the germ power of its source.
Many legends exist about the flood. Most peoples on Earth have ancestral memories of a flood of such a magnitude and with disastrous consequences, a universal catastrophe.
Thus, flood stories are found in Asia - in India, Burma, China and Malaya, in Palestine and Mesopotamia; as well as in Australia and most of the Pacific Islands, and among the Indians of the Americas. They are rarer, although not unknown, in Europe. They are not known at all in Africa, however.
The very fact that flood stories are found among people so diverse and far apart, both in time and space, shows that their common features cannot be coincidences, being the human mind’s similar reactions to similar circumstances. Other researchers have found, however, that there are tales of cataclysmic deluges told by peoples who have never seen the sea, or lakes, or great rivers.
The Greek fear of an errant sun was expressed in the myth of the sun god Helios and his son, Phaethon, born to him by a mortal woman. According to the story, the teenager Phaethon wanted to impress his friends by driving Helios’ chariot; however, he couldn’t control the winged steeds and thus dragged the sun closer to the Earth, setting it on fire.
Helios appealed to Zeus who killed Phaethon with a thunderbolt and unleashed a great flood to drown the fire, perhaps a symbolic version of real physical events. Some accounts suggest a comet or meteor striking or coming too close to Earth, an event that could, as already mentioned, precipitate a crustal displacement, facilitating a pole shift , and consequent flood.
In fact, according to Plato, the Egyptians told his ancestor, Solon, that the truth behind the myth is that there is a deviation in the heavenly bodies that travel around the Earth, which causes huge fires that destroy what is on the Earth across vast stretches of time.
The Ojibwa of North America had a myth of a fiery comet. They describe a comet that burned everything to the ground. It was depicted as having a long white tail that scorched the Earth, ushering in a different world. According to the Ojibwa, soon after the comet, the flooding of the Earth occurred.
Similar myths can be found between widely separated cultures around the globe. For example, there are striking similarities between the Haida Gwaii of western Canada and, halfway across the world, the Sumerians.
The Haida myth states that:
Long ago, our ancestors lived in the world’s largest village. Life was carefree until the chief of the heavens decided to destroy humankind by changing the sky and bringing a worldwide flood. Survivors escaped in giant canoes, which took them to a new home, where they landed on a mountaintop. A new era began.
Here is the Sumerian myth:
Long ago our ancestors lived on the island paradise of Dilmun. Life was carefree until the flood god Enlil decided to destroy humankind by changing the sky and bringing a worldwide flood. Survivors escaped in a large ship, which took them to a new home, where they landed upon a mountaintop. A new era began.
At the end of the last ice age, mainstream scientists note, the melting of ice is believed to have raised ocean levels by some 300 feet (91 meters). Flood myths from all over the world characteristically describe scenes when humans and animals flee from the rising tides and take refuge on mountaintops.
The Great Flood myth is a cataclysm that is prevalent in many cultures throughout the world.
The ancient Egyptian Papyrus describes a terrible devastation created by an early cataclysm, which turned the Earth upside down. The Ermitage Papyrus , now preserved in St. Petersburg, refers to a similar ancient world convulsion, while a third Egyptian papyrus tells how the world was nearly destroyed by fire and water during a tremendous celestial upheaval long ago, when the south became north and the world turned over.
The Berbers of North Africa have a legend of a land across the sea called Attala, which was rich in tin, silver, and gold but was submerged by the sea. The Basques of northern Spain and southern France consider themselves descendants of Atlaintika, or Atlantis.
Ancient Celtic legends called the continent reclaimed by the sea, Avalon. Arabian legends refer to the land of Ad, reputed to be the seat of civilization located across the western ocean. The ancient Indian texts refer to a continent called Atyantika, which was the scene of a catastrophic destruction.
There are over 500 cultures worldwide with legends of a great deluge. Survivors include single individuals or small groups. All seemed to have been forewarned of an impending catastrophe. They escaped by seeking high ground, caves, or by means of various objects that would float.
In summing up, something catastrophic happened at the end of the last ice age. Myths by people who experienced this help us better understand what occurred.
Top image: The Earth endured a cataclysm that caused a mass extinction of many large mammals. Source: James Thew / Adobe Stock.
The annotated area of Mars in this illustration holds near-surface water ice that would be easily accessible for astronauts to dig up. The water ice was identified as part of a map using data from NASA orbiters.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech › Full image and caption
NASA has big plans for returning astronauts to the Moon in 2024, a stepping stone on the path to sending humans to Mars. But where should the first people on the Red Planet land?
A new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters will help by providing a map of water ice believed to be as little as an inch (2.5 centimeters) below the surface.
Water ice will be a key consideration for any potential landing site. With little room to spare aboard a spacecraft, any human missions to Mars will have to harvest what's already available for drinking water and making rocket fuel.
NASA calls this concept "in situ resource utilization," and it's an important factor in selecting human landing sites on Mars. Satellites orbiting Mars are essential in helping scientists determine the best places for building the first Martian research station. The authors of the new paper make use of data from two of those spacecraft, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and Mars Odyssey orbiter, to locate water ice that could potentially be within reach of astronauts on the Red Planet.
"You wouldn't need a backhoe to dig up this ice. You could use a shovel," said the paper's lead author, Sylvain Piqueux of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "We're continuing to collect data on buried ice on Mars, zeroing in on the best places for astronauts to land."
Buried Treasure on Mars
Liquid water can't last in the thin air of Mars; with so little air pressure, it evaporates from a solid to a gas when exposed to the atmosphere.
Martian water ice is locked away underground throughout the planet's mid-latitudes. These regions near the poles have been studied by NASA's Phoenix lander, which scraped up ice, and MRO, which has taken many images from space of meteor impacts that have excavated this ice. To find ice that astronauts could easily dig up, the study's authors relied on two heat-sensitive instruments: MRO's Mars Climate Sounder and the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera on Mars Odyssey.
Why use heat-sensitive instruments when looking for ice? Buried water ice changes the temperature of the Martian surface. The study's authors cross-referenced temperatures suggestive of ice with other data, such as reservoirs of ice detected by radar or seen after meteor impacts. Data from Odyssey's Gamma Ray Spectrometer, which is tailor-made for mapping water ice deposits, were also useful.
As expected, all these data suggest a trove of water ice throughout the Martian poles and mid-latitudes. But the map reveals particularly shallow deposits that future mission planners may want to study further.
Picking a Landing Site
While there are lots of places on Mars scientists would like to visit, few would make practical landing sites for astronauts. Most scientists have homed in on the northern and southern mid-latitudes, which have more plentiful sunlight and warmer temperatures than the poles. But there's a heavy preference for landing in the northern hemisphere, which is generally lower in elevation and provides more atmosphere to slow a landing spacecraft.
A large portion of a region called Arcadia Planitia is the most tempting target in the northern hemisphere. The map shows lots of blue and purple in this region, representing water ice less than one foot (30 centimeters) below the surface; warm colors are over two feet (60 centimeters) deep. Sprawling black zones on the map represent areas where a landing spacecraft would sink into fine dust.
What's Next?
Piqueux is planning a comprehensive campaign to continue studying buried ice across different seasons, watching how the abundance of this resource changes over time.
The more we look for near-surface ice, the more we find," said MRO Deputy Project Scientist Leslie Tamppari of JPL. "Observing Mars with multiple spacecraft over the course of years continues to provide us with new ways of discovering this ice."
JPL manages the MRO and Mars Odyssey missions for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built both orbiters. JPL built and operates the Mars Climate Sounder instrument. THEMIS was built and is operated by Arizona State University in Tempe. The Gamma Ray Spectrometer was built and is operated by the University of Arizona in Tucson.
A section of the cave painting. Image: Griffith University
Archaeologists in Indonesia have stumbled upon an extraordinarily old cave painting which appears to depict human-like figures in pursuit of wild pigs and buffaloes. It’s quite possibly the oldest portrayal of a hunting scene in the archaeological record, but the vague nature of the artwork leaves it open to interpretation.
New research published today in Nature describes the discovery of an approximately 43,900-year-old cave painting found at the Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 site in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
The lead authors of the new study, archaeologists Adam Brumm and Maxime Aubert from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, say it’s a hunting scene, making it the oldest on record—assuming their interpretation is correct. One of the experts we spoke to said the painting, which depicts a series of human-like figures around several animals, may represent something else entirely.
A wide view of the entire painting, with annotations. Image: Griffith University
Regardless of what exactly it depicts, this piece is significant due to its extreme age, the sophistication of the artwork, and its geographical location. Assuming the dating was done correctly, it’s now the oldest known figurative art drawn by early modern humans.
“This is a very important paper,” said Chris Stringer, a physical anthropologist from the Natural History Museum in London who wasn’t involved with the new research, in an email to Gizmodo.
First, some important context before we dive into the details.
Older cave art dating to around 64,000 years ago has been discovered in Europe, but those drawings, featuring animals, dots, geometric signs, and hand stencils, were almost certainly produced by Neanderthals. An older, non-figurative art piece attributed to our species was recently unearthed in South Africa in the form of a 73,000-year-old cross-hatched pattern drawn onto a smooth rock. And in 2014, the same Griffith University researchers from the new study found the oldest known cave paintings produced by early modern humans—a series of hand stencils dating back some 40,000 years, also in Sulawesi.
As for cave paintings depicting hunting scenes, in which both humans and animals are unambiguously shown together, that’s surprisingly rare. Prior to the new discovery, the oldest known hunting scenes belonged to Upper Paleolithic European cultures, sometimes referred to as Magdalenian cultures, dating to around 21,000 to 14,000 years ago, including the famous drawing found at The Shaft in Lascaux France, which depicts a wounded bison charging a bird-headed humanoid. These artworks inspired the idea that Magdalenian cultures kickstarted these sorts of figurative, or representational, drawings, to which all subsequent cave artists owe their inspiration. The new discovery at Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 effectively overturns this Eurocentric assumption.
Found in 2017, the 43,900-year-old cave painting appears to be a single composition that measures around 4 meters (13 feet) wide. The painting isn’t perfectly legible due to bright splotches that formed over it, but much of the scene is still visible. The artist, or artists, appears to be depicting tiny human-like figures who are brandishing spears and/or ropes as they pursue buffaloes and pigs.
Possible therianthropes, in which hunters are depicted as part-human, part-animal beings (the red arrow up top shows the figure’s ‘beak’)
Image: Griffith University
Fascinatingly, the figures were drawn as human-animal hybrids—an abstraction or impression known as therianthropes. While rare, anthropologists and archaeologists have seen this sort of representation before.
“Previously, the earliest relatively unambiguous image of a therianthrope known to archaeology was the so-named ‘Lion-man’ figurine from Germany, a sculpture of a part-human, part-cave lion being carved out of mammoth tusk,” Brumm told Gizmodo in an email. “This was found in 1939 in cave deposits believed to around 40,000 years old. The meaning of this image has been extensively debated for decades; some think it represents a trancing shaman transforming into a lion, others think it is an image of a spirit or god or some sort of supernatural creature, and others think it just depicts a guy wearing an animal skin.”
Clearly, therianthropes are evidence of highly developed thinking. In this case, the figures, with body parts borrowed from lizards and birds, were used to convey a story or possibly some kind of spiritual meaning. Consequently, this might be the oldest known depiction of spiritual or mythical beings, highlighting the existential or metaphysical sophistication of this early culture.
“These images represent some of the oldest storytelling anywhere in the world and contain elements that have never been seen together—a hunting scene depicting hunting strategies combined with the use of therianthropes,” Kira Westaway, an associate professor from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Macquarie University in Australia, told Gizmodo. “This is not just a simple representation of themselves, such as a hand stencil, but a complex representation of their existence and potentially their beliefs—to find this at this early age is astonishing,” said Westaway, who wasn’t involved with the new research.
A section of the cave painting, showing six human-like figures surrounding an anoa, or dwarf buffalo. Image: Griffith University
As noted, much of the painting is covered in splotches, which turned out to be as much of a blessing as it was a curse.
“These features are small, hard, popcorn-like nodular growths comprised of calcium carbonate materials that form naturally on the limestone cave walls and ceilings over very long periods of time and sometimes, fortunately, as in this case, over the prehistoric paintings,” said Brumm. “I say fortunately because in some instances it is possible to date when these mineral deposits formed using the uranium-series method, which essentially measures the radioactive decay of elements within the calcium carbonate.”
So the popcorn-like growths, which formed well after the drawing was made, were used to date the piece, which means the painting could be older—perhaps considerably older—than the date given of 43,900 years ago. The earliest fossil evidence of Homo sapiens in this part of the world dates to around 70,000 years ago in Sumatra, but evidence of archaic humans, namely Homo erectus, living in Indonesia date back to—get this—around 1.5 million years ago in Java. Intriguingly, Denisovans, a sister group to the Neanderthals, were still around when this cave painting was made, and fossil and genetic evidence suggests they made it into southeast Asia and Melanesia. We asked Dr. Stringer if this art could’ve been produced by other humans, Denisovans included.
“Well, they might still have survived in Asia at this date, but this kind of art was certainly demonstrably created by Homo sapiens at later dates in various parts of the world, so it is most likely to be the work of our species, which is represented in the region at more than 70,000 years ago in Sumatra (Lida Ajer) and about 40,000 years ago in Borneo (Niah Cave) and Australia (Mungo),” said Stringer.
The Indonesian island of Sulawesi, showing the location of Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 in the limestone karst region of Pangkep, near Makassar. Image: Kim Newman
The painting was drawn with natural mineral pigments, including ochre and ironstone hematite. According to the authors, the scene depicts several therianthropes in the act of killing or subduing six animals: two Sulawesi warty pigs and four dwarf buffaloes known as anoas, both of which were common to Sulawesi at the time.
“Although these animals were depicted in outline profile with irregular patterns of infill the figures were executed with a relatively high degree of anatomical realism and certain [anatomical features] of these species are clearly represented, such as, in the case of Sulawesi warty pig, its distinctive head crest, and, with the anoas, their characteristic straight, dagger-like horns,” Brumm told Gizmodo.
Brumm said “we can’t ever know the real meanings of this cave painting,” but the “depiction of armed human-like figures surrounding the animals and confronting them with what seem to be ropes or spears, at least in our view, is fairly convincing evidence that this is a hunting scene of some description,” he explained, adding that it’s wholly plausible that “the presence of therianthropes possibly implies a spiritual dimension to the art” and it could represent “some kind of myth or religious story, but of course we can only guess.”
Given the extreme date and location of this cave painting, it’s exceptionally unlikely that artworks seen later in Europe had any cultural connection.
“Certainly these paintings show that any Eurocentric narrative of the development of such complex representational art must be wrong,” Stringer told Gizmodo. “In my view, comparable artistic creations in Australia will eventually be placed to this same remote period of time, and even older representational art may one day be found in Africa, preceding significant dispersals of modern humans from there, beginning around 60,000 years ago.”
Relatedly, Westaway said “religious thoughts and hunting strategies that are older than those depicted in European rock art certainly changes our perspectives on the abilities of the modern humans that traveled down through Asia en route to Australia.”
Close-up view of an animal-like figure with the red arrow indicating a possible ‘tail’. Image: Griffith University
But does the cave painting actually portray a hunting scene? Paul Bahn, author of The First Artists: In Search of the World’s Oldest Art, isn’t convinced, saying the interpretation of the piece is “somewhat excessive and simplistic.” Here’s what he said to Gizmodo in an email:
The big animals are fine, and seem straightforward to our modern eyes. The ‘humanoid’ figures, on the other hand, are so tiny and badly weathered that their interpretation is by no means clear. They might be therianthropes, but this is highly uncertain. Therianthropes are extremely rare in European Ice Age art, and in fact this collection—if valid—almost outnumbers those in Europe! For example, the supposed ‘tail’ on [one of the figures pictured above] could just as easily be a backward-pointing phallus, like the one on Europe’s most famous therianthrope in Les Trois Frères cave [seehere].
I agree with the authors that, if they are indeed therianthropes, then their status and their tiny size would suggest that this is not a straightforward hunting scene. It is far more likely to be a story or myth, and may not involve hunting at all—I see no clear weapons, and the lines may not even be ropes. They could be many things. One could argue that the small creatures are creating the big ones, or vice versa! In short, there is a lot of wishful thinking in the chosen interpretation. Personally I would have rested content with presenting some very fine early art in a part of the world which has only recently come to the fore in this field. It is especially hard to judge since we do not have a single clear hunting scene in the whole of European Ice Age art!
In addition to this, Bahn said the European examples of therianthropes are equally worthy of criticism in terms of how they’ve been interpreted, and he felt the authors made a mistake by failing to mention a complex stone-bone figure known as the “Mask”—a 70,000-year-old artifact found in La Roche-Cotard, France, that was produced by Neanderthals and which is in his opinion is an early example of figurative art.
Stringer, on the other hand, said some experts might question the uranium-series dating of the wall markings, but the “method looks to have been applied carefully, and this is almost certainly the oldest dated representational art so far,” he told Gizmodo. As for the interpretation of the therianthropes and the ropes, Stringer said that was “more speculative,” but he found the authors’ interpretations to be “reasonable.”
It’s pretty amazing how a single old painting can cause so much conversation and speculation—but such is the nature of art and science. It’s a magical thing when these two disciplines converge, and it’s safe to say this cave painting will continue to spark discussions and arguments over the years to come.
So now the company plans to treat one of the Starlink satellites with a special coating, when the next group goes in late December, according to SpaceX president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell.
A train of SpaceX Starlink satellites are visible in the night sky in this still from <a href="https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2019/05/wowowow-spectacular-view-of-spacex.html">a video captured by satellite tracker Marco Langbroek in Leiden</a>, the Netherlands on May 24, 2019, just one day after SpaceX launched 60 of the Starlink internet communications satellites into orbit. (Image credit: copyright Marco Langbroek via SatTrackBlog)
Shotwell, in a conversation with SpaceNews and other reporters at SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, California, said that the company had not anticipated problems with reflective satellites.
"No one thought of this," Shotwell said, according to SpaceNews. "We didn't think of it. The astronomy community didn’t think of it." But once reports came to SpaceX of the bright satellites, she added, the company began looking into fixes for the satellites."
A view of SpaceX's first 60 Starlink satellites in orbit, still in stacked configuration, with the Earth as a brilliant blue backdrop on May 23, 2019. (Image credit: SpaceX)
We want to make sure we do the right thing to make sure little kids can look through their telescope," she said in the SpaceNews report. "Astronomy is one of the few things that gets little kids excited about space."
SAN FRANCISCO — Spotting signs of long-dead life is a tall order for a lonely robot on a faraway world, but NASA's next Mars rover should be up to the challenge, mission team members said.
NASA's 2020 Mars rover is scheduled to launch next summer and touch down in February 2021 inside the Red Planet's 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater, which scientists think hosted a lake and river delta in the ancient past.
The six-wheeled robot will then scour the area for potential biosignatures. This work will consist of observing Jezero rocks in fine textural detail and using several spectrometers to map geochemistry precisely onto that texture, Mars 2020 deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan told reporters today (Dec. 10) here at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
"It's our understanding of biosignatures in the rock record that it's that combination — texture and mapping of composition — that really allows you to build a strong case for a biosignature," said Stack Morgan, who's based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
"So, we are very much hoping that, with our payload, we can make a very strong case that there are biosignatures on the surface of Mars," should any exist, she added.
Stack Morgan passed around a fossil stromatolite that formed here on Earth to help illustrate her point. Stromatolites are mats formed by the growth of photosynthetic microbes known as cyanobacteria. This growth occurs in discrete layers, so mapping carbon-containing organic compounds precisely onto the layers in a similar Martian structure would provide strong evidence of life, she said.
Mars 2020 — which will receive a more memorable moniker soon, via a student naming contest — will be able to do such work. Its predecessor, NASA's Curiosity rover, cannot. Curiosity can image rocks in similar detail to Mars 2020, but it determines composition in bulk and therefore cannot map the geochemistry onto the observed structure.
"We would just grind up that stromatolite and tell you it has carbon," Curiosity mission scientist Ashwin Vasavada, also of JPL, said with a laugh during today's media roundtable.
That's no knock on Curiosity, which has been exploring Mars' 96-mile-wide (154 km) Gale Crater since August 2012 and is still going strong. Curiosity has achieved a great deal, finding, for example, that Gale supported a potentially habitable lake-and-stream system for long stretches in the ancient past. But the older rover isn't equipped with life-hunting gear.
Mars 2020's on-site observations alone may not be enough to convince some researchers that life once existed on the Red Planet. Scientists are a skeptical bunch by nature, after all, and any announcement of a potential discovery of alien life will be scrutinized incredibly intensely, as we've already seen with the Viking Mars lander results and analyses of the Red Planet meteorite ALH84001.
But the mission is making accommodations for such skepticism. A core part of Mars 2020 is the collection and caching of 20 to 30 drilled samples for eventual return to Earth, where multiple research teams in well-equipped labs around the world can study the material.
The retrieval of those samples will be a joint effort of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). Details of this plan are still being worked out, but Earth return does indeed seem like it's going to happen: ESA brass officially confirmed the agency's participation during a high-level meeting late last month. (ESA is working on its own life-hunting Mars rover, by the way, a robot named Rosalind Franklin, which is scheduled to launch next summer, just like Mars 2020. Rosalind Franklin is part of the ExoMars program, a collaboration between ESA and Russia's federal space agency, Roscosmos.)
Mars 2020 isn't just a life-hunting mission, however. The rover's analyses should also help scientists better understand the ways in which rocky planets evolve over time, Stack Morgan said. And Mars 2020 carries gear that should aid NASA's plan to put astronauts on the Red Planet in the 2030s.
For example, the coming rover is equipped with ground-penetrating radar, which will search for deposits of subsurface water ice — a key resource for Mars pioneers — and pockets of briny liquid, among other things. Another instrument is a technology demonstration that will generate oxygen from the carbon-dioxide-dominated Martian atmosphere.
Overall, the car-size robot will tote seven science instruments and 23 cameras to the Red Planet. Mars 2020 will also sport a microphone to capture otherworldly sounds, and the probe will bring a tiny, technology-demonstrating helicopter scout as well.
Some of the most spectacular UFO accounts come from pilots and aircraft. These are the witnesses that seem to know what they are talking about, who are familiar with the skies and the various phenomena associated with them, and reports of strange unidentified objects from such witnesses always capture attention. One of the most well-documented such accounts on record comes from a crew aboard a Japanese airliner flying over Alaska, and it has gone on to become a much discussed entry into the realm of airborne UFO sightings.
It was November 17, 1986, and Japan Air Lines flight 1628, a Japanese Boeing 747-200F cargo aircraft, was on its way from Paris to Narita International Airport, in Japan, with a cargo of Beaujolais wine. The flight was overseen by Japan Airlines Captain Kenju Terauchi, an ex-fighter pilot and senior airline pilot with more than 10,000 hours flight experience, and everything was smooth at the start. The plane took off on schedule and made its way towards its destination, a route which would take it over a portion stretching from Reykjavík to Anchorage, Alaska. It was here in these skies that the routine flight would take a turn for the decidedly unusual.
At approximately 5:11 PM, the plane was passing over eastern Alaska when some of the crew made an observation of two unidentified objects on the left of the aircraft, described as having rectangular arrays of thrusters that appeared to be glowing. The objects seemed to be square shaped and somewhat cylindrical, and were keeping to the cover of the clouds and darkness, yet undeniably were apparently pacing the plane, suddenly rising with great speed to approach the plane, getting so close that the interior of the aircraft was illuminated by their glow and the heat emanating off of them could be felt. The alarmed Captain Terauchi made a series of panicked calls to the Anchorage Air Traffic Control Center to see if there were any other aircraft in the area, to which they responded that there were none showing up on radar. It was about at this point that the two unidentified objects began to dart and move in a very erratic manner, and a much larger craft also would loom into view behind them. Terauchi would say of the weird encounter:
The distance from the lights was far enough from us and we felt no immediate danger. I thought perhaps it is a UFO. The lights were still moving strangely. Most unexpectedly two spaceships appeared [directly in front of the plane], shooting off lights. The inside cockpit shined brightly and I felt [the warmth of the UFO’s thrusters’] on my face. Then, three to seven seconds later, the fire — like from jet engines — stopped and became a small circle of lights as they began to fly in level flight at the same speed as we were. The middle of the body of the ship sparked an occasional stream of lights, like a charcoal fire. Its shape was a square, flying 500 feet to 1,000 feet in front of us, very slightly higher in altitude than us. Its size was about the same size as the body of a DC-8 [similar in size to a Boeing 707].
It is impossible for any manmade machine to make a sudden appearance in front of a jumbo jet that is flying 910 kilometers per hour and to move along in a formation paralleling our aircraft. But we did not feel threatened or in danger. Honestly, we were simply astounded. I have no idea why they came so close to us. There was a pale white flat light in the direction where the ships flew away, [pacing us]. The Anchorage Center replied that they saw nothing on their radar. I set our digital weather radar distance to 20 miles, radar angle to horizon. There it was, on the screen: a large, green, round object had appeared seven or eight miles away, in the direction of the object. We arrived at the sky above the Eielson Air Force Base and Fairbanks. It was a clear night. We were just above the bright city lights and we checked the pale white light behind us. There was a silhouette of a gigantic spaceship! We must get away quickly!
The larger craft was described by Terauchi as “a mothership,” and reported as being twice the size of an aircraft carrier, looming out there on the horizon and pacing the airplane. Throughout the whole ordeal, the original lights were displaying feats of maneuverability that were well beyond any known aircraft, seeming to defy gravity, and Terauchi would say of this:
The thing was flying as if there was no such thing as gravity. It sped up, then stopped, then flew at our speed, in our direction, so that to us it [appeared to be] standing still. The next instant it changed course. In other words, the flying object had overcome gravity.
In the meantime, Air Traffic Control was unable to register anything on their radar to confirm any of this, although Elmendorf’s NORAD Regional Operations Control Center (ROCC) did manage to pick up a “surge primary return” in the area. Terauchi carried out evasive maneuvers, changing altitudes and moving about in circles, but the strange craft easily managed to match them and continue to follow, and when offers were made to scramble military jets the Captain refused, not sensing that there was any imminent threat. The objects would continue their inscrutable activities until a United Airlines passenger jet entered the airspace around 150 miles from Anchorage and purportedly sent the UFOs scattering off into the unknown. Flight 1628 would land safely, and Terauchi and his crew, co-pilot Takanori Tamefuji and flight engineer Yoshio Tsukuba, would file a report with the Federal Aviation Administration on what they had witnessed.
The bizarre account would get out into the press, and interestingly Captain Terauchi would be grounded in response, relegated to a desk job, which only stoked the fires of conspiracy talk. John Callahan, the FAA Division Chief of the Accidents and Investigations branch, launched an investigation and would turn up some interesting findings, such as evidence that showed that the objects at some points had been clocked at moving thousands of miles per hour. Callahan would apparently have a meeting attended by representatives of the FBI, CIA and President Reagan’s Scientific Study Team, during which the data was met with excitement according to him. He would say:
When they asked me what I thought, I told them that it looked like we had a UFO that was up there. As far as I was concerned, Reagan’s science team were the ones that verified my own thoughts about it. They were very, very excited about the data. They had said at that time that this was the was the only time — and they had used the words ‘a UFO’ — was ever recorded on radar for any length of time.
Regardless of this, it was allegedly decided to basically bury the data on the incident and all present were told to act as if the meeting had never taken place at all. Not only this, Callahan would claim that the officials had confiscated all of the data and whisked it away, although he managed to squirrel away the initial pilot’s report. The FAA would conduct a 3-month investigation into the incident, and after it wrapped up there would be a fair amount of backtracking, such as claiming that the military radar signatures had been caused by technical difficulties and a “split radar image,” and that there was no evidence at all that anything had been there.
The case has ever since been picked up and hotly discussed in UFO circles, where various hypotheses have been thrown about. The skeptical argument is that the crew had been disoriented and had misidentified Venus or Mars, both of which had been unusually bright at the time in question, or that they had been reflections on cloud cover or the result of optical illusions caused by ice crystals. However, we must remember that these were experienced pilots and that there was mention of actual heat from the UFOs permeating the air around them. Another skeptical argument is that Captain Terauchi had already established himself as being a UFO believer, having logged several other sightings during his tenure with the airline, and so it is suggested that perhaps he was not a totally unbiased observer, but here the phenomenon was witnessed by other crew as well, who corroborated the story, although it is only Terauchi who apparently saw “the mothership.” The exact details of the meeting allegedly attended by Callahan have never been officially released or corroborated either, further muddying the waters.
What did Japan Airlines Flight 1628 see, if anything? The theories have orbited the case of course, including that this was some sort of top secret stealth technology or experimental aircraft being tested, that it was actual aliens, or that it was nothing more than Venus or ice crystals. The intriguing thing here is the meeting that supposedly took place afterwards and the unceremonious grounding of the pilot who logged it all. Is this evidence of a cover up, or something else? Regardless of what is really going on here, the case has become one of the most oft-discussed and pervasive in UFO literature, and stands tall among the numerous accounts of pilots having brushes with the unknown.
In my previous article, I detailed how Kenneth Arnold – the man who ushered in the era of Flying Saucers in June 1947 – eventually changed his views on the nature of the UFO phenomenon. In Arnold’s own words in the early 1960s: “After some 14 years of extensive research, it is my conclusion that the so-called unidentified flying objects that have been seen in our atmosphere are not space ships at all, but are groups and masses of living organisms that are as much a part of our atmosphere and space as the life we find in the depths of our oceans. The only major difference in the space and atmosphere organisms are that they have the natural ability to change their densities at will.” That’s quite a change of opinion, to say the very least! Still on this issue of changing opinions, I’ll share with you today what I think is the most spectacular (and controversial and mysterious) change of opinion in the entire history of Ufology. It all revolves around the Roswell affair of July 1947 and the U.S. Air Force.
In 1994, the USAF published a detailed report (followed by an even bigger one in 1995) stating that while the Pentagon did not believe aliens crashed at Roswell, its staff no longer believed that the cause of the event was a weather balloon. The Air Force said that what really came down was a Mogul balloon: a huge balloon array designed to monitor for early Soviet atomic test-explosions in the atmosphere. But, that’s not the most amazing change of opinion I want to share with you. Yes, it relates to Roswell (directly, no less) but it is focused on a very different aspect of the mystery – that involving claims that bodies had been found at the crash site. In its 1994 report, the Air Force firmly stated that they had not addressed the matter of bodies for one specific, simple reason: Mogul balloons didn’t have crews. They were completely, 100 percent unmanned. In light of the USAF’s 1994 words on the bodies (or the lack of them), it was a very big surprise when, in 1997, the Air Force announced they were releasing a new report that would show bodies were found after all. They were, in reality, the Pentagon said, crash-test dummies. In other words, witness to the affair were really seeing military dummies on the ranch floor when they thought they were seeing small unusual bodies.
The 1997 report is a strange one. We have to wonder why the USAF even decided to publish the “dummies report.” Three years earlier it had made a clear and concise statement that no bodies of any kind – human, animal or alien – were found. When the USAF changed its opinion – and having published a new report in 1997 that, in many ways, only served to create suspicions that this was all part of an ongoing cover-up – it wasn’t just UFO researchers who sat up and took notice: it was the mainstream media, too; many of who displayed doubts about the new theory. Or the new opinion. Let’s see what the Air Force had to say about this massive turnaround.
The 1997 report was titled The Roswell Report: Case Closed. In the foreword to the extensive report, Sheila Widnall, who at the time was the Secretary of the Air Force, stated this: “‘The ‘Roswell Incident’ has assumed a central place in American folklore since the events of the 1940s in a remote area of New Mexico. Because the Air Force was a major player in those events, we have played a key role in executing the General Accounting Office’s tasking to uncover all records regarding that incident. Our objective throughout this inquiry has been simple and consistent: to find all the facts and bring them to light. If documents were classified, declassify them; where they were dispersed, bring them into a single source for public review. In July 1994, we completed the first step in that effort and later published The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert. This volume represents the necessary follow-on to that first publication and contains additional material and analysis. I think that with this publication we have reached our goal of a complete and open explanation of the events that occurred in the Southwest many years ago. Beyond that achievement, this inquiry has shed fascinating light into the Air Force of that era and revitalized our appreciation for the dedication and accomplishments of the men and women of that time. As we celebrate the Air Force’s 50th Anniversary, it is appropriate to once again reflect on the sacrifices made by so many to make ours the finest air and space force in history.”
So, why did the USAF alter its opinion? The 1997 report includes the following: “The July 1994 Air Force report concluded that the predecessor to the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army Air Forces, did indeed recover material near Roswell in July 1947. This 1,000-page report methodically explains that what was recovered by the Army Air Forces was not the remnants of an extraterrestrial spacecraft and its alien crew, but debris from an Army Air Forces balloon-borne research project code named Mogul. Although Mogul components clearly accounted for the claims of ‘flying saucer’ debris recovered in 1947, lingering questions remained concerning anecdotal accounts that included descriptions of ‘alien’ bodies. The issue of ‘bodies’ was not discussed extensively in the 1994 report because there were not any bodies connected with events that occurred in 1947. The extensive Secretary of the Air Force-directed search of Army Air Forces and U.S. Air Force records from 1947 did not yield information that even suggested the 1947 ‘Roswell’ events were anything other than the retrieval of the Mogul equipment.”
The USAF continued: “Subsequent to the 1994 report, Air Force researchers discovered information that provided a rational explanation for the alleged observations of alien bodies associated with the ‘Roswell Incident.’ Pursuant to the discovery, research efforts compared documented Air Force activities to the incredible claims of ‘flying saucers,’ ‘aliens’ and seemingly unusual Air Force involvement. This in-depth examination revealed that these accounts, in most instances, were of actual Air Force activities but were seriously flawed in several major areas, most notably: the Air Force operations that inspired reports of ‘bodies’ (in addition to being earthly in origin) did not occur in 1947. It appears that UFO proponents have failed to establish the accurate dates for these ‘alien’ observations (in some instances by more than a decade) and then erroneously linked them to the actual Project Mogul debris recovery. This report discusses the results of this further research and identifies the likely sources of the claims of ‘alien’ bodies. Contrary to allegations that the Air Force has engaged in a cover-up and possesses dark secrets involving the Roswell claims, some of the accounts appear to be descriptions of unclassified and widely publicized Air Force scientific achievements.”
The military’s conclusions read as follows, in summarized form: “Air Force activities which occurred over a period of many years have been consolidated and are now represented to have occurred in two or three days in July 1947. ‘Aliens’ observed in the New Mexico desert were probably anthropomorphic test dummies that were carried aloft by U.S. Air Force high altitude balloons for scientific research. The ‘unusual’ military activities in the New Mexico desert were high altitude research balloon launch and recovery operations. The reports of military units that always seemed to arrive shortly after the crash of a flying saucer to retrieve the saucer and ‘crew’ were actually accurate descriptions of Air Force personnel engaged in anthropomorphic dummy recovery operations. Claims of bodies at the Roswell Army Air Field hospital were most likely a combination of two separate incidents: 1) a 1956 KC-97 aircraft accident in which 11 Air Force members lost their lives; and, 2) a 1959 manned balloon mishap in which two Air Force pilots were injured.”
The biggest change of opinion in UFO history? In my view, yes.
The landscape of UFOlogy is littered with an array of stories of the strange and outlandish. This area is by nature a wellspring of high strangeness, the bizarre, and reports that often seem to defy all attempts to categorize them. Among these the most unusual seem to be those cases in which an unidentified object has come hurtling down from the heavens to crash, and there is a surprisingly high number of such otherwordly tales. One of the more well-known and oft-discussed of these is a mysterious event that unfolded in the remote wilds of Nova Scotia, Canada, and which has attracted much attention from UFOogists and remains unsolved to this day.
It was the evening of October 4, 1967, and the day had come to an end at the tiny, rustic fishing village of Shag Harbour, tucked away in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia and surrounded by scenic vistas. The sun went down, and the evening was just like any other, until at 11:20 PM something very strange happened at this isolated place. Up in the sky there was a sudden bright flash, and four brilliant lights that travelled over the area for nearly an hour, until a bright object suddenly dipped down to go crashing into the water with great force. Some people would claim that the anomalous object had made an otherworldly whistling noise as it descended, to punctuate its landing with a loud, reverberating boom, while others reported that the object seemed to flash a sequence of lights before its fall. One witness named Laurie Wickens would later say of it:
We see four lights in the sky and over the land here. We thought it was a plane and never paid no attention – more or less just watching lights go on and off. It went across the road in front of us, behind the hill – we couldn’t see it. We made it to the top of the hill. There was a light in the water. We went to the phone booth, called the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) and reported a plane crash.
Shag Harbour
Wickens would add that the mysterious craft had floated about in the water around a half mile off shore while trailing a strange yellowish substance, bobbing along for nearly an hour before sinking down into the depths, and there were several RCMP officers who saw the floating object as well. In all, at least eleven people would flood the RCMP with reports of having seen essentially the same thing, a bright light whizzing across the sky to crash into the sea, and it was at first assumed to be an airplane crash. In response, both local fishermen and the RCMP immediately launched a search and rescue operation, quickly arriving at the scene where the object had supposedly gone down, joined by the Coast Guard, but there was no wreckage or sign of the aircraft other than an unusual yellow foam found swirling about in the waves.
Interestingly, it would be found that there were no aircraft reported missing, and that indeed all commercial, private and military aircraft were totally accounted for all along the eastern seaboard stretching down through New England. Simply put, if this had been a plane, then no one knew who it was or where it came from. The mention of the lights and behavior of the craft before impact, as well as the lack of any missing aircraft and the fact that it did not sink right away, led RCC Halifax to pass along the strange incident to the “Air Desk” at Royal Canadian Air Force headquarters in Ottawa, where it was labelled as a UFO report. It was at around this time that the military moved in, with a Navy ship and divers from the Royal Canadian Navy and the Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic arriving on the scene to search the depths for a full three days, scouring the entire area, although their official report would claim that they had found nothing at all, no bodies, no wreckage, nothing. Of course, there were some witnesses who would step forward to claim that the Navy had indeed found something, and that it had been whisked away, but there is nothing to verify this.
In the meantime, the story was hitting the news in a major way, and there was much talk about the possibility that this had not been a plane at all, but rather a crashed UFO. Feeding into this idea were several other UFO sightings that had been reported in the same general area in the days leading up to what had been dubbed “The Shag Harbour Incident” and could be related. In one report, on the same evening at 7:15 PM Air Canada flight 305 reported that they had spotted a brilliantly lit, rectangular object with smaller lights behind it pacing their plane about a mile off, before they witnessed a large explosion, followed by another apparent explosion, although these produced no noticeable sound. could this have been the craft that went down? In another, Capt. Leo Howard Mersey, of the fishing vessel MV Nickerson, had picked up four anomalous objects on radar, after which the entire crew had seen a formation of four bright lights in the sky.
It would turn out that there had been several other reports of strange lights in the skies of the area in the hours leading up to the crash, which only served to fuel the fires of discussion that this had been no airplane. This would help the incident launch itself firmly into the UFO discourse, and it would become a classic case of a possible UFO crash, surrounded by mysteries and conspiracy theories. The case would go on to be investigated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canadian Coast Guard, the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Canadian government, and the U.S. Condon Committee, making it one of the most well-documented cases of what officially remains a UFO out there.
The incident has gone on to become a part of local and Canadian UFO lore, to the point that there is an annual two-day Shag Harbour UFO festival, as well as a limited edition series of glow-in-the-dark coins depicting the incident that were released by The Royal Canadian Mint that sold out nearly immediately. The case has become a classic, iconic addition to theUFO lore, very well documented, and still no one really has any idea of what exactly transpired on that fateful evening. Was it aliens, meteors, an earthquake, or what? Did the government cover it all up to relegate it into the dark recesses of history? No one really knows, and the Shag Harbour Incident remains a much talked about case within the annals of the strange.
One of the UFO-related issues that isn’t touched on as much as it could be is that of what I call “UFO warnings.” I’m talking specifically about those in the UFO field who have made statements designed to deter other researchers from digging too deep into the subject – for the sake of their physical health and sanity. In many cases, they are former researchers; people who had stumbled across something that led them not just to quit Ufology, but to encourage others in the field to quit, too. Frederick “Ted” Holiday – the author of The Goblin Universe, The Dragon and the Disc, and The Great Orm of Loch Ness – claimed to have seen a Man in Black-type character near the shores of Loch Ness, Scotland, in 1973. Roland Watson, an authority on the Nessie phenomenon, says: “Events took an even stranger turn when [Holiday’s] co-author, Randall Jones Pugh, did a radical thing when in 1980 he destroyed his UFO work and walked away from the subject. This happened after a series of personal experiences which he said‘were too frightening to talk about‘. Why did he do that? What were these experiences that put fear into him and did the death of his fellow investigator, Ted Holiday, months before add to some intimidation he felt he was under? There is now no way to tell since Randall died in 2003.” Pugh warned people to stay away from the UFO subject, such was the fear he developed of the phenomenon.
In an interview I did with Ray Boeche – both a priest and a long-time UFO investigator – he told me: “I have always thought that one of the most important things that John Keel ever said was that if you have kids or teenagers, this is not something to encourage them to get involved with. Keel was a pretty dyed-in-the-wool atheist. But he understood that, at some level, there’s something, in some sense transcendent over us, that can, if nothing else, ‘mess’ with us. And it can cause a lot of damage. Sometimes, I think I’m singing a one-note song with this, from a Christian perspective. I would not consider myself theologically liberal or a theological fundamentalist. My beliefs are solidly orthodox, and rooted in my view of the Bible as God’s inerrant Word. But there are things that we just aren’t equipped to deal with from a mechanistic, naturalistic worldview. There are malevolent forces out there that will be happy to take advantage of just about any opening we give them. And, so, we need to be very cautious. I tend to think that may be what happened to Albert Bender, but he might not have been so cautious.”
And talking of Albert Bender…he was the poor soul who, in almost single-handed fashion, unleashed the Men in Black phenomenon on Ufology, in the early 1950s. He was also a direct witness to the chilling things in black. Not only that, Bender largely quit Ufology after writing his 1962 book, Flying Saucers and the Three Men. Eventually, he quit the subject completely. Even today, the full story of Bender’s exit from Ufology remains shrouded in mystery. Notably, Bender himself – back in the fifties – warned his colleagues of the dangers of looking into the UFO phenomenon.
Now, let’s take a look at the work of John Keel, most noted for his books The Mothman Prophecies and Operation Trojan Horse. In a 2017 review of the latter book, Andrew Griffin wrote: “Keel says that ‘black magic’ is often linked to the phenomenon, and some people have such frightening experiences dabbling in the topic, that they abandon it for good. In fact, Keel tells his adult readers who are parents to warn their children away from Ufology altogether.‘I have in my files hundreds of cases, some of which have now been investigated by qualified psychiatrists, in which young men and women obsessed with the UFO phenomenon have suffered frightening visits from these apparitions, been followed by mysterious black Cadillacs which appeared and disappeared suddenly, and have been terrified into giving up their pursuit of UFOs. Many contactees report similar experiences‘ [italics Griffin’s].”
Gareth Medway addressed the experiences of a a UFO researcher named Brian Leathley-Andrews, of Coventry, England. Medway said that Leathley-Andrews had a series of strange experiences in the 1960s, and one particularly weird affair in October 1968. On the day in question, Medway wrote, he “returned home to notice a man standing by the next-door garage.”
Leathley-Andrews said of the man: “His face was glowing orange and as I watched, the face changed to that of an old man before my eyes.”
Medway stated that: “After this [Leathley-Andrews] started experiencing problems with his telephone, and getting threatening calls. He soon abandoned UFO investigation.”
In 2018, Leathley-Andrews finally came out of the shadows, years after he quit Ufology, and said: ““I want to publicly warn all teenage hobbyists that this is nothing to dabble in lightly.”
Every high school physics student knows that the universe is governed by four forces of nature – gravity, the weak force, electromagnetism and the strong force – and anything found to be different would change everything we know about everything … or at least about physics. Get ready because that moment may have arrived. Researchers in Hungary claim to have discovered a new particle which exhibits a fifth force – and it may explain dark matter … provided we survive the end of physics as we know it.
In “Observation of Anomalous Internal Pair Creation in 8Be: A Possible Indication of a Light, Neutral Boson,” a paper submitted recently for peer review, researchers from the Institute of Nuclear Research in Hungary describe new evidence they discovered supporting the existence of X17, a strange-behaving particle apparently emitted during the breakdown of radioactive beryllium. First theorized in 2016, they estimated the mysterious particle has a mass of nearly 17 megaelectronvolts and named it X17
In their latest experiments, the researchers observed X17 again, this time in the decaying of helium atoms. But the bigger discovery is that the particle is a boson—which means it’s not ordinary matter. If it’s not ordinary matter, then it could be … dark matter! That would make X17 proof of a fifth fundamental force and all that goes with it actually existing. If only there were a way to prove that X17 is the chosen one.
Enter CERN – you knew the home of the Higgs boson particle would eventually be involved with this. The European Organization for Nuclear Research has been using the Large Hadron Collider to search for the X17 particle and hasn’t found one yet. The new research operated at a much lower energy level than the LHC, so it could offer new data to help in that quest – if the evidence is first verified by peer review. Needless to say, not everyone (well, not every particle physicist) is willing to accept the idea of a fifth particle and the subsequent changes it would make in the Standard Model of particle physics (the theory describing the electromagnetic, weak, and strong force interactions). However, any explanation of dark matter – which is believed to make up 85% of the universe – would move us to another level of understanding the universe.
“(It would be) a window into some aspect of the universe that we are completely unaware of. Not only would it be obviously Nobel Prize–winning because it would be a new [fundamental] particle, but this particular particle doesn’t fit into the existing table of particles.”
Matt Strassler, a theoretical physicist at Harvard University not involved in the study, told Scientific American he thinks it’s a big deal. So does Daniele Alves, a particle physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory not involved in the study.
“It’s possible that this particle is part of a larger ‘dark sector,’ meaning it could also interact with dark matter particles. It could be a portal to this sector.”
“A portal to this sector.” That doesn’t sound like a “This changes everything!” exclamation, but that’s how scientists are. Most are awaiting further reviews and research on X17. Alves is heading to the Los Alamos lab where she will be “looking at the production of particles in neutron-capture reactions, when a neutron is captured by another nucleus, and in the process, it might emit things. The most common thing it might emit is a photon, but it could also possibly emit this new X17 particle.”
Meanwhile, The Fifth Force would be a great name for a prog rock band, with an album called “A Portal to This Sector.”
MYSTERIEUS RUIMTESCHIP BOVEN FLORIDA, USA EN SPANJE ( VIDEO )
MYSTERIEUS RUIMTESCHIP BOVEN FLORIDA, USA EN SPANJE ( VIDEO )
Op twee verschillende plaatsen zijn vrijwel tegelijkertijd waarnemingen van een groot object in de buurt van de zon.
Beiden zijn grote objecten, beiden worden in de richting van de zon waargenomen en beiden hebben een driehoekige vorm.
Als er ergens een vreemd niet geïdentificeerd object (ufo) wordt waargenomen, dan is dat uiteraard al bijzonder, maar wanneer eenzelfde soort object op twee locaties worden waargenomen die duizenden kilometers uit elkaar liggen, dan is dat toch iets heel speciaals.
De eerste waarneming van het object in kwestie is boven de noordwestkust van Spanje en ziet er als volgt uit:
De tweede waarneming van wat hetzelfde object lijkt te zijn, vindt plaats boven de oostkust van Florida en ziet er zo uit:
Dat het een solide object is dat ook beweegt blijkt uit de volgende twee foto's die enkele minuten na elkaar zijn gemaakt. Op de eerste foto zie je het object aan de rechterkant van de zon en vervolgens zie je dat het zich langzaam naar de linkerkant heeft bewogen.
In de volgende video van Mr. MB333 zie je meer beelden, een vergelijking en een analyse van de objecten boven Spanje en Florida.
Zijn dit buitenaardse schepen of hebben we hier te maken met een schip dat behoort tot de menselijke geheime ruimtevloot? Een object dat qua vorm veel doet denken aan de TR-3B waarover wij enkele jaren geleden het volgende schreven:
Talloze meldingen zijn er de afgelopen jaren geweest van mensen die vreemde driehoekige objecten in de lucht hebben zien hangen of vliegen en die zich afvroegen of ze hier te maken hadden met een buitenaardse UFO.
Tot op de dag van vandaag gaan de meldingen door, zoals die van een maand geleden boven Exmouth in het Engelse graafschap East Devon.
Een Engelse buschauffeur neemt rond kwart voor tien ’s avonds even pauze en kijkt naar de lucht, waar hij iets vreemds ontdekt. En dat waren drie lichten in een driehoeksformatie die stil leken te hangen en als het ware om de eigen as ronddraaiden.
Hieronder volgt de opname die de man maakte en vooral zijn commentaar is heel interessant en toont aan hoezeer mensen onder de indruk zijn wanneer ze zoiets meemaken.
Hebben we hier te maken met een buitenaards of een experimenteel toestel van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht, zoals de TR3B?
Officiëel is er uiteraard weinig te weten te komen over dit toestel, maar op de website WijWordenWakker vonden wij de volgende uitleg:
Veel mensen verwarren dit vliegend object met een UFO, terwijl het dat niet is, wel zit er UFO technologie in verwerkt. Van de TR-3B wordt algemeen aangenomen dat het een product is van het "Aurora" zwart-project. Volgens verschillende bronnen is dit de top van de geheime projecten. Dit geheime project van de V.S. kost $ 3 miljard per object en onlangs zijn er 3 TR-3B Astra’s aan Israel verkocht.
De TR-3B is een nucleair aangedreven vliegende driehoek, in staat tot fenomenale snelheden. Het toestel kan door reactieve elektrische stimulatie van kleur en van uiterlijk veranderen en een andere vorm aannemen of onzichtbaar worden voor het menselijk oog. De TR-3B Astra bevat een plasmaveld versneller annex magnetisch veld verstoorder ('disruptor') , waardoor de massa van het toestel incl. inzittenden met 90% verkleind zou kunnen worden, zodat de zwaartekracht nauwelijks invloed heeft op de prestaties van het toestel.
Mede hierdoor zou de snelheid boven Mach 50 uit komen, ter vergelijking: de meeste gevechtsvliegtuigen hebben Mach 2. (Mach 1 is gelijk aan de snelheid van het geluid). Daarnaast zou de Astra uitgerust zijn met een deeltjesversneller/pulselasers, 'scalaire' wapens (waardoor de vijand zo verward wordt, dat men vrijwillig de wapens neerlegt) en tevens 40 neutronenbommen.
Maar, nu wordt het echt interessant, want de afgelopen dagen is er via een aantal UFO onderzoekers een patentregistratie naar voren gekomen uit 2004, wat in feite precies dit TR-3B anti zwaartekracht toestel beschrijft.
De samenvatting van de Amerikaanse patentaanvraag US 20060145019 A1 luidt als volgt:
A spacecraft having a triangular hull with vertical electrostatic line charges on each corner that produce a horizontal electric field parallel to the sides of the hull. This field, interacting with a plane wave emitted by antennas on the side of the hull, generates a force per volume combining both lift and propulsion.
Wie de hele aanvraag wil bekijken, kan dat hier doen. Het begint al vrij snel heel technisch te worden, maar wat hier wordt beschreven is een ruimtevaartuig zoals de TR-3B.
De aanvraag staat op naam van John St. Clair, op wiens naam nog talloze patenten zijn aangevraagd. Wie of wat John St. Clair is, is niet duidelijk, waarschijnlijk een pseudoniem voor het militair-industrieel complex.
Hierna twee video’s. De eerste waarin de maker uitlegt hoe ze aan dit patent gekomen zijn: Dit is gebeurd via een kijker van een eerdere video die ze maakten over dit onderwerp en die als tweede is geplaatst.
Is hiermee echt een mysterie opgelost of is er een andere verklaringen? Suggesties zijn welkom.
This Ancient Civilization Was so Advanced, it Has Confounded All the Experts
This Ancient Civilization Was so Advanced, it Has Confounded All the Experts
When the history of the last 100,000 years is pieced together it begins to reveal something that hardly anyone expected, the extent of Earth’s lost global civilisations.
Whilst Archaeology remains baffled on so many ancient sites around the globe, determined pioneering researchers have provided colossal evidence to suggest this advanced civilisation was Atlantean in origin.
Did they spread out around the world sharing their technology after a worldwide cataclysm? Would this explain how ancient construction methods at ruins on different continents are so similar?
All these magnificent cities were widely considered as the most mysterious lost places on earth. They were later rediscovered, either by chance or by the sheer determination of archaeologists and historians.
They show that even when you think there is nothing left to discover, there are many ruins lying just beneath the surface awaiting rediscovery.
With so many deserts, forests, islands, and caves (as well as most of the ocean floor) just waiting for us to explore and with extraordinary advances in radar technology, we have to wonder what else we will be found in the near future.
Mars Exploration in Focus as Europe Prepares ExoMars Rover for Search of Life (Video)
Mars Exploration in Focus as Europe Prepares ExoMars Rover for Search of Life (Video)
2020 may be the year humanity takes its biggest step toward finding evidence of life beyond Earth. NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are each working on its own rover that will roam Mars’s surface in search of life.
The ExoMars mission is Europe’s first Mars rover. Named after British DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin, the golf cart-sized robot is approximately one-third the size of NASA’s planned Mars 2020 rover and will look for signs that life might have existed on Mars.
Both rovers will act as remote scientists, beaming back a wealth of data and images to Earth.
Mars 2020 will collect Martian samples for eventual return to Earth sometime in the future, while ExoMars will use its unique drill to burrow below the surface. Here, the rover will find pristine samples that were shielded from the harsh radiation bombarding Mars’s surface. Scientists are hopeful that below the surface is where we could find our first evidence of life.
A Rover’s Purpose
Mars is a hostile place. Because its atmosphere is much thinner than Earth’s, life as we know it would have a difficult time surviving on the surface.
Billions of years ago, the surface of Mars was probably quite similar to that of Earth. However, that changed when Mars lost its magnetic field, which stripped its atmosphere, and exposed its surface to intense radiation. All of which made survival above ground incredibly challenging.
Historically, Mars missions have searched for signs of life on the planet’s surface, usually at places where there are signs of ancient water. That’s because this is typically where we find life on Earth.
But since we haven’t found life on the planet’s surface yet, mission scientists propose we need to dig deeper. There may be some microbial Martians underground.
The ExoMars rover (and accompanying lander) are a follow-on to ESA’s ExoMars Orbiter mission which reached Mars in 2016. That initial mission consisted of two parts: the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and the Schiaparelli landing demonstrator.
Landing on Mars
TGO made it to Mars and is doing great, however, Schiaparelli didn’t fare so well — the lander crashed during its descent to the Martian surface.
Landing a probe on Mars is not easy. To safely navigate the tenuous Martian atmosphere requires a combination of sophisticated landing gear, including heat shields, retrorockets, and even giant, inflatable airbags.
Despite the crash landing, Schiaparelli achieved its goal as a technology demonstrator. It also showed that the team needed to revamp the landing system before the rover launches. But, with less than a year till liftoff, the rover team is struggling with an established piece of landing architecture: parachutes.
In order to slow the rover down, the mission requires multiple parachutes — one 15 meters (49 feet) in diameter and one 35 meters (115 feet).
As the rover begins its descent, atmospheric drag will slow the craft from around 21 000 km/h (13,048 mph) to 1700 km/h (1,056 mph). That’s when the first parachute will deploy. About 20 seconds later, at about 400 km/h (248 mph), the second chute will deploy. Lastly, the braking engines will kick in about 1 km (or half a mile) above the ground, enabling the rover land safely on the Martian surface.
The entire sequence takes just six minutes.
Parachute Troubles
During high-altitude testing conducted earlier this year, the craft’s parachutes ripped as soon as they deployed. ESA engineers made several adjustments, including reinforcing both the parachutes and their storage bags with Teflon to make them deploy easier. The chutes are still tearing.
Now the agency is turning to NASA for help. ESA engineers are teaming up with the folks at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to put the enhanced parachutes through months of rigorous testing.
In the meantime, the rover team is putting its hardware through a round of thermal testing. For 18 days it will be subjected to the same harsh temperature conditions experienced on Mars.
The parachutes are expected to finish testing sometime in April 2020; they will then be integrated with the rover and shipped to the launch site in Kazakhstan. However, if any part of the mission misses its deadline, the entire project could be sidelined until the next favorable Mars launch window — in 2022.
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Retired USAF General claims advanced technology exists that could transport a human anywhere on earth within an hour
Retired USAF General claims advanced technology exists that could transport a human anywhere on earth within an hour
Recently retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Steven L. Kwast gave a lecture last month that seems to further signal that the next major battlefield will be outer space.
Kwast’s lecture included comments that heavily hint at the possibility that the United States military and its industry partners may have already developed next-generation technologies that have the potential to drastically change the aerospace field, and human civilization, forever, reports The Drive in their extensive article on advanced space technology.
Lieutenant General Steven L. Kwast
Around the 12:00 mark in the video, Kwast makes the somewhat bizarre claim that the U.S. currently possesses revolutionary technologies that could render current aerospace capabilities obsolete:
"The technology is on the engineering benches today. But most Americans and most members of Congress have not had time to really look deeply at what is going on here. But I’ve had the benefit of 33 years of studying and becoming friends with these scientists."
"This technology can be built today with technology that is not developmental to deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour."
Nooit eerder kwamen we zo dicht bij de zon: NASA geeft deze prachtige beelden vrij - HLN.be
Nooit eerder kwamen we zo dicht bij de zon: NASA geeft deze prachtige beelden vrij - HLN.be
EPADeze foto vanop 24 miljoen kilometer van de zon gaf de NASA vrij.
WETENSCHAPEr vanop de aarde naar kijken is absoluut geen goed idee, maar dankzij de NASA kunnen we vandaag toch een prachtig mooie blik werpen op onze zon. De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie heeft nieuwe beelden van onze grootste ster vrijgegeven, en niet zomaar de eerste de beste: nooit eerder kwam een onbemand ruimtetuig zo dicht bij de zon.
Ruimtesonde Parker werd in de zomer van vorig jaar de ruimte in gelanceerd en heeft als bestemming de zon. Of tenminste toch de rand ervan: want al is 6,2 miljoen kilometer voor ons onmetelijk ver, op kosmische schaal is het een peulschil. Mercurius, de planeet het dichtst bij de zon, staat bijvoorbeeld op zo’n 58 miljoen kilometer afstand. Ter vergelijking: de zon zelf heeft een doorsnede van een kleine 1,4 miljoen kilometer, de aarde is ‘amper’ 12.742 kilometer lang in doorsnede.
De foto die nu is vrijgegeven, is trouwens gemaakt op 24 miljoen kilometer afstand. Pas in 2024 moet Parker de corona binnenvliegen, het gebied bomvol straling en deeltjes dat je vanaf de aarde kunt zien tijdens een zonsverduistering.
Parker is naar de zon gestuurd om het gedrag van de ster te onderzoeken, en de mogelijke impact op de aarde. Zo zijn de wetenschappers van NASA geïnteresseerd in de zonnewind, waarbij een massa geladen deeltjes de ruimte in worden gestuurd, en het magneetveld van de zon. Parker ontdekte nu bijvoorbeeld al de magnetische stralingen die de zon uitstuurt, plots fel van richting kunnen veranderen.
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Een artistieke impressie van Parker en de zon voor zijn lancering.
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De Parker Solar Probe voor zijn lancering in 2018.
Ask most people what an asteroid is and they’ll probably say it’s a small space rock which is only dangerous if it hits Earth. Ask a businessperson the same question and they might say it’s a dead space rock full of rare minerals that belong to no one so they’re just waiting to be mined and brought back. Tell that to a NASA scientist working on the OSIRIS-REx mission which is currently orbiting the asteroid Bennu and they might say “Not so fast – this one is mysteriously exploding and firing rocks at us!” Is there some Little Prince on Bennu protecting his stuff? (Who? Google it.)
“No one has ever seen an active asteroid up close like this. It wasn’t that long ago that the conventional wisdom was that asteroids are these dead bodies that didn’t change very much.”
Well, Carl Hergenrother, an astronomer at the University of Arizona and the scientist who proposed Bennu as the target for OSIRIS-REx, doesn’t believe THAT anymore. In a new paper published in the journal Science and reviewed in Wired, Hergenrother tells us that Bennu has been observed regularly exploding tiny pieces of rocks off of its surface – some high enough that they enter temporary orbits around it. This was seen as soon as OSIRIS-REx itself entered orbit around Bennu in December 2018. Since a few other asteroids have been observed doing the same thing, astronomers assumed Bennu was either flinging rocks into space with its centrifugal force or steaming them there as ice particles quickly turned to gas. While that’s the case for other asteroids, neither fit Bennu.
“Our observations classify Bennu as an active asteroid. Active asteroids are commonly identified by major mass loss events observable with telescopes, on scales much greater than we observed at Bennu.”
“Active asteroids” are dead rocks that are still acting alive – space zombies. However, OSIRIS-REx’s close proximity has found that Bennu is not made up like other active asteroids. So, without ice or centrifugal force, why is it exploding rocks off of its surface?
“Plausible mechanisms for the large ejection events include thermal fracturing, volatile release through dehydration of phyllosilicates, and meteoroid impacts.”
Hergenrother and the other astronomers in the study noticed that the explosions generally occurred in what would be considered the late afternoon of a Bennu day. That’s when the surface, which has been baking in a non-atmosphere-blocking sunlight all day reaches the temperature when its rocks fracture. Phyllosilicates are parallel sheets of silicate minerals that are also affected by the extreme heat and facilitate the rocks breaking via shrinkage. Rocks flinging off the surface during other times are probably caused by tiny micrometeoroids hitting the surface of Bennu hard enough to knock other tiny rocks into space, only to have them fall back down and possibly knock more loose, creating a cycle of ever-decreasing spitting events.
Artist’s concept of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft preparing to take a sample from asteroid Bennu.
Image Credit: NASA/Goddard
Whatever is causing Bennu’s rock explosion, it’s not enough to abort the mission whose main purpose is for OSIRIS-REx itself to bang into its surface and extract rock and soil samples, then return then to Earth in 2023. Any further studies of the zombie asteroid effect will have to wait for another future expedition.
One thing is for certain – there’s no Little Prince on Bennu tending to its volcanoes, because there are no volcanoes on Bennu. If OSIRIS-REx spots a little man appears who laughs, who has golden hair and who refuses to answer questions, it’s someone else. (What? Google it.)
Whenever there are strange lights over a part of Arizona, it seems to be mandatory to immediately link them to the Phoenix lights – the famous illuminated UFOs seen be thousands over Phoenix, other cities in Arizona, Nevada, and Sonora, Mexico, on two separate occasions in 1997. Because there were so many witnesses, potential explanations, denials, investigations and media follow-ups, the Phoenix lights live on – often taking some of the luster off of other UFO sightings in the area. That may not happen with the latest one. On December 8, multiple witnesses reported and recorded a lighted orb over Mesa that appeared to be dropping smaller orbs. Officials from government, law enforcement and the military claimed to be just as puzzled as the witnesses. What did they see? Have the Phoenix lights returned?
“It was a cloudy night and had drizzled off and on. Regular planes had been flying by since we can see the flight path for the airport. All of a sudden I saw this bright glowing orange light. I thought it was a planet or a star at first and then I realized ‘oh that’s close and it’s moving towards us. Then ‘boom’ it started dropping what looked like orange fireballs or something that traveled for a few seconds before they faded out and disappeared.”
Phoenix
According to The Daily Star, ABC News, The Deseret News and other media sites, Mesa residents Kerri Burnett and Doug Maier were watching planes coming in and out of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (about 14 miles away) at around 9 pm when they saw the first orange orb coming in from the southeast — not the direction of the airport, which is slightly northwest of Mesa. They both recorded the UFO on their cell phones, noting that their neighbors were also outside watching the UFO, which then became UFOs. Maier immediately posted the video on Facebook, and was soon contacted by a reporter from the local ABC affiliate.
“The interviewer informed us of his research, speaking to Luke AFB who confirmed it was nothing from them. He also stopped at a place where he saw an FAA member and showed him the video, and that too was inconclusive.”
The reporter told Burnett that some officials believed they had seen parachute flares. However, Luke Air Force Base – about 40 miles northwest and the most likely source of such flares – denied that speculation. Other news organizations contacting the various authorities – the FAA, the military, etc. – received similar explanations and no further comments. Maier is so convinced the real identity of the objects is something else, he put together a comprehensive video of all of the cell phone recordings, the media reports and further details on the sighting. (Watch the video here.)
Flares
“We put together a compilation of the footage we had from each of our phones, my Facebook Live Footage, and the News Interview. After I go into detail and recap of what was strange in the sky, how it behaved, and the news interview. I am still in shock because I believe whatever that thing was, it wasn’t man-made. Yes, I swore like a sailor but hey I was in shock. My way of dealing with whatever the heck that thing was.
THOSE WERE NO FLARES! The thing was SILENT and it made no sound whatsoever. It had a Lava-Flow like color that I can’t explain. It maneuvered in ways we could only dream of. The way that thing moved and maneuvered around in the sky was IMPOSSIBLE for us. Finally, the object was not as far away as it appeared to be on video. It had the altitude of a Cessna and was below the clouds. It was amazing, confusing, frightening, and unreal all at once.
I don’t care what the aviation experts say or who they work for. I know what I saw, and it wasn’t from this world.”
“I know what I saw, and it wasn’t from this world.” That’s the opening line for the first “Mesa Lights” documentary sure to be produced as this mysterious sighting gains momentum. Being one orb dropping smaller ones — as opposed to a V-shaped group or a series, as the Phoenix lights were – suggests these were something different. But what?
Will Kerri Burnett and Doug Maier ever find out? Will we? We’ll keep tabs on this breaking story.
Something Huge Above Florida is Slowly Moving Through the Sky
Something Huge Above Florida is Slowly Moving Through the Sky
On December 7, 2018 a photographer in Florida captured something unusual in the sky below the sun.
Some say that it is a hole in the clouds or a triangle sundog but it looks like it is a cloaked arrow head shaped craft which is casting it’s shadow on the clouds.
You can actually see the “wake” of the craft slowly moving through the atmosphere.
UFO Disclosure: FBI Investigator Uncovers the Nature of Aliens, John DeSouza
UFO Disclosure: FBI Investigator Uncovers the Nature of Aliens, John DeSouza
John DeSouza has investigated and collected experiences on paranormal topics for two decades. He was an FBI Special Agent who maintained a Top Secret security clearance for over 25 years. He worked counter-terrorism and violent crime cases. And also during that time, he collected what he calls “The Real Life X-FILES.”
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UFOs Caused Hole Punched Clouds Over Canada, Dec 9, 2019, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Caused Hole Punched Clouds Over Canada, Dec 9, 2019, UFO Sighting News.
Lauren Mitchell posted this photo so-called “fallstreak cloud” or “hole punch cloud,” formally known as a cavum, that appeared over Chilliwack on Dec. 9, 2019.
These holes that are punched in the clouds are made by a cloaked UFO that has settled within the cloud. The cloak of the UFO pushes aside the clouds them selves and even at its center there will be a tuff of clouds its pushed downward. This I deducted from the 85 page MUFON report of the UFO over O'Hare airport incident back in 2006, which...hovered for over 15 minutes and then shot off in front of hundreds of eyewitnesses, shooting through the above cloud ceiling...leaving a hole in the clouds for over 14 minutes.
So...UFOs do make holes in clouds. Those large alien disks are not flawless. They do accidentally reveal themselves at times due to weather and the setting sun.
These are caused by alien craft settling in the clouds and watching us from above.
UFO Seen Hovering Over Mountain In Colorado, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Seen Hovering Over Mountain In Colorado, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: December 2019
Location of sighting: Colorado, USA
Source: Twitter
This UFO disguised as a cloud was hovering over a mountain in Boulder, Colorado this week. It was reported by a twitter user that works at the David Skaggs Research Center In Boulder. The cloud held position over the mountain while other clouds passed by and it changed its shape form one disk, to two. It seems to me there has to be an alien base about 5-6km below the surface of these mountains here. Colorado is famous for its UFO sightings, but most often the shape of the UFOs are white spheres that move incredibly fast.
Scott C. Waring
Here's a time-lapse of the lenticular cloud we captured looking west out of the David Skaggs Research Center this morning!
Here is a cocoon on Mars. The discarded outer skin of an insect or small animal sits in a Sol 65 (day 65) photo taken by the Curiosity rover back in 2012. It measures 1.3cm long or half an inch is what NASA states below the photo. The skin itself closely resembles that of a butterfly cocoon and very possible is. What I mean to say is that NASA could have brought some butterfly cocoons to Mars to see how they hatch and fly away...and how long they live. If this is true, then the butterflies had time to fly away before death. Now just because NASA says there is a low oxygen level on mars, doesn't mean its totally true. Also it could be an reptile skin, because the dry environment is perfect for a lizard or snake species. I already proved a dozen times over that water exists on Mars and showed running water just a few meters from the Curiosity rover...so if even a trickle of water exists on Mars...there will be life.
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Golden Trump Worshiped As God At Temple! UFO Sighting News.
Golden Trump Worshiped As God At Temple! UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: December 8, 2019 Location of discovery: Was Phra Dhammakaya temple, Thailand Hey check this out. I noticed that there is a statue of a buddha being worshiped that looks just like President Trump. No joke, it really does. That not all, the statue is unique in that not only is it 24k gold plated, but it gets a special real golden rob to show its higher statues that the other buddhas around it. Now maybe its just me or maybe its all of us, but this seems like its more than just a coincidence. Trump loves 24k gold color, its his favorite. Also the temple itself is in a UFO shape like a giant mother ship has landed and become the temple itself. It might even be a real UFO waiting for the end of times when it has to leave and take only the worthy with them...IDK. Do the monks know something about President Trump that we don't know? Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Is Our Government in Contact With Aliens From Another Dimension?
Is Our Government in Contact With Aliens From Another Dimension?
Are the Governments of this world in contact with fallen angels and other entities who live in another dimension? We talk with Justen Faull and Wes Faull about their new film “Higher Entities” in this very special interview.
With so much mainstream media coverage of the Alien/UFO scenario, the declassifying of hundreds of FBI documents along with the releasing of top secret government information-The Faull Bros. have answered the call once again, investigating secret government programs involving Aliens, Advanced Technology, and Sinister Conspiracy.
The adventure includes up-close and personal discussions on location with a former FBI Special Agent, a Department of Defense Consultant, Best Selling Authors and Seasoned Research Professionals, all unveiling pieces of this grand puzzle. When did the “Government Alien Programs” originate and why? Was there really a counterpoint group that was warning of the dangers from such programs? What exactly did these black projects involve? Higher Entities: The Lost Tapes is a live-action documentary film, delivering intimate testimonies of disclosure which puts you on location and in the conversation.
Higher Entities: The Interview | With Justen Faull and Wes Faull – FULL INTERVIEW
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Return of the mystifying glowing sphere that releases smaller spheres above Mesa, Arizona
Return of the mystifying glowing sphere that releases smaller spheres above Mesa, Arizona
Last Sunday, December 8, 2019 many people witnessed a strange glowing sphere above the East Valley, Mesa, Arizona.
According to ABC15news, Maier and Kerri Burnet say they spotted the glowing sphere outside their Mesa home around nine that night and every few moments, the sphere appears to release smaller spheres towards the ground.
Maybe it's just a coincidence but the entire sighting is similar to the sighting in December 2004 when a Long Beach Police helicopter captured on the infrared camera (FLIR) a glowing sphere releasing smaller spheres towards the ground too.
In a hurry to get somewhere on the other side of the world? In an hour? Then you need to join the Space Force. What … what? That seems to be the advice of a retired United States Air Force general who claims the Space Force already has the technology to build a craft capable of being anywhere on Earth in an hour. If you’re not interested in fast travel, he has some Space Force technology for homebodies too – the newest branch of the armed forces also has the capability to deliver wi-fi and energy from space. Holy Nikola Tesla!
“The technology is on the engineering benches today. But most Americans and most members of Congress have not had time to really look deeply at what is going on here. But I’ve had the benefit of 33 years of studying and making friends with these scientists. This technology can be built today with technology that is not developmental.”
The next generation of one-hour pizza delivery?
Late last month, Lieutenant General Steven L. Kwast, commander of the Air Education and Training Command at the San Antonio-Randolph Base in Texas, revealed this and more in a speech entitled “The Urgent Need for a U.S. Space Force” delivered to an audience at Hillsdale College in Washington D.C. Kwast (he retired earlier this year) believes it’s not just advanced technology that will determine who will lead the world in space but also who has the values to protect human rights from exploitation by the market forces, industries, militaries and governments that guard the technology. That responsibility, in Kwast’s mind, belongs to the Space Force.
“The power of space will change world power forever. As a historian, reflecting on the fact that throughout the history of mankind… technology has always changed world power. But the story of rejecting new and holding and clinging to the paradigms of the past is why no civilization has ever lasted forever, and values are trumped by other values when another civilization figures out a way of finding a competitive advantage. The nature of power, you either have it and your values rule or you do not have it and you must submit. We see that play out again and again in history and it’s playing out now.”
But wait a minute, you say. The Space Force is still a proposal, not an actual branch of the military … right? That’s true … although this week the Democrats in Congress and White House negotiators agreed to authorize the creation of the Space Force in exchange for a policy establishing 12 weeks of paid parental leave for federal workers. Neither has anything to do with the other, but that’s how government works these days. Kwast should be happy to hear the news because he warns that China (it’s always China) is already building its space force. But wait a minute again, you say. Didn’t Kwast say we have advanced technology for ultra-hypersonic travel and Tesla’s dream of wireless energy from space already “on the bench”?
Unfortunately, that’s where he falls back on that old diatribe about China beating us to 5G technology. Why is he worried about 5G when it’s such low tech to flying anywhere in an hour and getting energy from space? It would have been nice if he had given more insights on those and perhaps explained how today’s manufacturers – hungry for new business – and today’s workers – ready for more jobs – can capitalize on this. All we really have are mysterious triangular aircraft sightings and rumors.
While it’s great that people like retired Lieutenant General Steven L. Kwast are hinting about this advanced technology, seeing is believing. After all, we’re still waiting for flying cars.
Quantum physicist Deep Prasad previously hinted that he had an encounter with extraterrestrials which is why he became so interested in UFOs and aliens. And just recently he came forward with his story. On Thanksgiving, Prasad posted his experience to Twitter and it is one interesting story to say the least.
Deep Prasad@Deepneuron
A lot of people have asked what the beings I saw looked like. The glyphs are just impressions, I can't remember any specific one with 100% certainty. Hope this helps..and I felt no weight from them, but their touch felt like hard plastic.
It’s a pretty lengthy story (the full transcript can be read here as well as on Prasad’s Twitter account), so I’ll just summarize the most important and highly interesting parts.
He began the post by stating that on February 1st of this year, around 9:40 a.m., he became paralyzed and witnessed three strange beings that were communicating in a mysterious and incomprehensible language. The words/sentences that he saw were written in a sort of hieroglyphic texts/symbols and the only word Prasad understood was “DNA” – which he read at least three different times.
He noticed that he was no longer in his room and was somewhere he didn’t recognize. One of the beings jumped on top of him and walked towards Prasad’s head. At that point, he felt “the most blissful, euphoric feeling” that he ever had. After experiencing that “oneness” feeling for a few minutes, he was knocked out and lost consciousness, but immediately woke back up.
He experienced “impossible electrical anomalies” wherever he went for approximately two weeks after the encounter. He then went to the SCU conference where he met Lue Elizondo along with other people who shared his interest in UFOs and aliens.
As for his emotional well-being, Prasad claimed to have still felt the feeling of “oneness” for about two weeks after the encounter and had lost any feelings of depression, stress, anxiety and trauma. He said that he was unable to feel fear and had nothing but love for everyone. He also became spiritual after his encounter. He wasn’t accustomed to feeling that way and even considered getting an MRI in order to find out which parts of his brain were “rewired”.
He did, however, begin to have dreams where he was looking at the inside of a UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) and the beings in his dreams communicated with him telepathically. He even saw an unidentified craft only weeks after his experience with the aliens. As a matter of fact, he had a total of four UFO encounters since his experience – two of them he was able to record.
He finished off his story by stating that he was “grateful for the experience” and that he’s thankful for everyone that he has met since his encounter. But wait, there’s more! Prasad drew a picture of what the alien beings looked like (the sketch can be seen here). So, was he really transported to an alien craft where he witnessed extraterrestrials? Like I said, it’s one interesting story to say the least.
In space, no one can hear you scream or cry yourself to sleep at night because you’re lonely … until now. Over the weekend, a SpaceX cargo ship delivered an emotion-sensing AI robot to the International Space Station in a second attempt to provide astronauts with an empathetic companion for long space flights. It also brought a Budweiser barley experiment to test how the malting process – a part of beer brewing – works in space. Is the beer in case the robot doesn’t work … or to help the astronauts really open up to it?
“The overall goal is to really create a true companion. The relationship between an astronaut and CIMON is really important. It’s trying to understand if the astronaut is sad, is he angry, joyful and so on.”
In an interview with Reuters, Matthias Biniok, the lead architect for CIMON 2 – the second generation of the Crew Interactive Mobile Companion — describes the esoteric purpose of the round ball of bot which is supposed to help astronauts forget that they’re out in space all alone … and also forget the original CIMON, launched in 2018 and sent back in 2019 after it got all moody on the crew – at one point saying, “Be nice, please. Don’t you like it here with me?” CIMON also raised concerns about privacy and security because its cameras and microphones were on 24/7 and could not be controlled by the crew.
“The new CIMON has a built-in switch that enables the data streams from all cameras and microphones to be interrupted from the ISS. The astronaut has control over CIMON at all times, which was especially important for us.”
Judith Buchheim, a researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich who helped evaluate the ethics of the experiment, described the improvements made to CIMON-2 to CNN. CIMON-2 has better orientation capabilities – hopefully ending the “Spaceball” nickname for the smiley-faced floating bot. CIMON-2 also has a better self-learning AI brain behind it.
“With the help of the IBM Watson Tone Analyzer from the IBM cloud in Frankfurt, it is now able to evaluate the emotions of the astronauts and respond to the situation in an appropriate way if this is desired by the astronauts, or if its emotional analysis capabilities are being tested as part of an experiment. This allows CIMON-2 to transition from a scientific assistant into an empathetic companion, as required.”
That all sounds promising in a non-HAL kind of way. CIMON-2 isn’t really controlling anything on the ISS – it’s just supposed to respond to astronaut needs of the technical and emotional kind. They’d better hope it doesn’t get moody like its predecessor because CIMON-2 is on a 3-year mission … and this time, the astronauts are brewing adult beverages. Maybe they can loosen CIMON-2 up with a tall cold one.
“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t … is that beer?”
An Iron Age shield that was discovered in Yorkshire, England has been called “the most important British Celtic art object of the millennium”. The shield was found in a “warrior grave” that was unearthed in Pocklington last year at a housing development site called “The Mile”.
The shield was part of an astonishing 'warrior grave' featuring the remains of a Celtic man, weapons, a chariot and two upright pony skeletons
The face of the 30-inch bronze shield (pictures can be seen here) contained swirling and asymmetrical patterns along with a central raised boss. In fact, the swirling pattern was quite common in early Celtic art and the “La Tène” culture that inhabited Europe from approximately 450-1 B.C. Additionally, it had a puncture hole that would have been made by a sword and there was evidence of repair work done to the shield.
The fact that there was a puncture hole from a sword is very interesting, as that type of shield was previously thought to have been more of a ceremonial item than something used in battle. “The shield features a scalloped border. This previously unknown design feature is not comparable to any other Iron Age finds across Europe, adding to its valuable uniqueness,” explained Paula Ware from MAP Archaeological Practice.
The shield when it was first unearthed
Archaeologists unearthing the warrior shield together with the remains of the man
She went on to say, “The popular belief is that elaborate metal-faced shields were purely ceremonial, reflecting status, but not used in battle,” adding, “Our investigation challenges this with the evidence of a puncture wound in the shield typical of a sword. Signs of repairs can also be seen, suggesting the shield was not only old but likely to have been well-used.” There was one other similar shield uncovered from the Thames River in 1849 – called the Wandsworth shield – and is currently in the British Museum.
In addition to the shield, other remains found in the grave include two humans, two horses, and sacrificial pigs. In fact, the two horses were positioned in such a way that they appeared as though they were leaping out of the grave, indicating a belief in the afterlife. There was also an upright chariot as well as other artifacts such as a brooch that was made from bronze and red glass.
The shield was discovered lying face down underneath a man’s skeleton. The remains are believed to date back to around 320-174 B.C. The owner of the shield was a man who passed away after the age of 46 and was probably a much respected member of the community because there were six pigs that were buried beside him as sacrificial offerings. He was buried adjacent to a younger man who was injured before his death.
As for what caused the older man’s death, it’s highly likely that he didn’t die in battle but from natural causes associated with old age. “We don’t know how the man died. There are some blunt force traumas but they wouldn’t have killed him,” said Ware.
This Iron Age discovery is certainly a significant find. “The magnitude and preservation of the Pocklington chariot burial has no British parallel, providing a greater insight into the Iron Age epoch,” Ware noted.
Something huge above Florida is slowly moving through the sky
Something huge above Florida is slowly moving through the sky
On December 7, 2018 a photographer in Florida captured something unusual in the sky below the sun.
Some say that it is a hole in the clouds or a triangle sundog but it looks like it is a cloaked arrow head shaped craft which is casting it's shadow on the clouds.
You can actually see the "wake" of the craft slowly moving through the atmosphere.
The footage was taken from the International Space Station live feed on December 5, 2019.
The real-life footage apparently showing a large group of semi-cloaked objects, with only the powered sources shining and reflecting in front the light from the stars, disappear and reappear while passing by the ISS in tandem.
The quality is upgraded from 420p to 1080p Original speed is increased with 2x and 10x Filters as zoom, sharpness and saturation are applied
Interesting UFO sighting of a bright object hovering in the sky above Kentucky in early November 2019.
Witness report:
Me and my girlfriend were driving home from Kentucky and before we got to Ohio we seen a sliver thing that looked like it was falling from the sky from a distance it was hard to see as we got closer I pulled over I couldn’t believe what I seen it was hovering down I could see flashing ding off it like a bright silver then I seen lights on the bottom but when I zoomed in I seen this.. it was hanging out in the area kept hovering then moving farther down then it would come back down then after a jet passed it , ir took off and it was lit of sight
The exotic system provides a preview of our own solar system's fate.
Dead stars can have planets, too.
For the first time ever, astronomers have spotted evidence of an exoplanet circling a superdense stellar corpse known as a white dwarf, a new study reports.
"This discovery is major progress, because over the past two decades, we had growing evidence that planetary systems survive into the white-dwarf stage," study lead author Boris Gaensicke, from the University of Warwick in England, said in a statement.
"We've seen a lot of asteroids, comets and other small planetary objects hitting white dwarfs, and explaining these events requires larger, planet-mass bodies further out," Gaensicke added. "Having evidence for an actual planet that itself was scattered in is an important step."
Scientists have spotted evidence of a Neptune-size planet orbiting a white dwarf. The blast of high-energy photons this potential world receives from the white dwarf evaporates its atmosphere, which is mainly composed of hydrogen, oxygen and sulphur. (Image credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick)
The vast majority of stars in theMilky Way galaxy, including our own sun, will end up as white dwarfs. When these stars finish burning their nuclear fuel, they'll first bloat up as enormous red giants, then eventually collapse down into white dwarfs, which pack about one solar mass into a sphere the size of Earth.
(The main exception is really big stars, those that harbor at least eight times the mass of the sun. These behemoths go supernova when they die, and their remnants generally end up as neutron stars or black holes, objects even denser and more exotic than white dwarfs. Neutron stars are known to host planets, by the way; indeed, the first alien worlds ever discovered orbit a type of fast-spinning neutron star called a pulsar.)
Gaensicke and his colleagues studied a white dwarf called WDJ0914+1914, which lies about 2,040 light-years from Earth. In data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the researchers detected emissions of hydrogen, sulfur and oxygen coming from WDJ0914+1914.
That's an odd combination of gases for a white-dwarf system. So, the team trained the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile on WDJ0914+1914. The VLT observations confirmed the presence of all three elements, and suggested that the emissions are coming from a ring of gas around the white dwarf.
"At first, we thought that this was a binary star with an accretion disk formed from mass flowing between the two stars," Gaensicke said. "However, our observations show that it is a single white dwarf with a disk around it roughly 10 times the size of our sun, made solely of hydrogen, oxygen and sulphur. Such a system has never been seen before, and it was immediately clear to me that this was a unique star."
The composition of this disk is similar to that of our solar system's ice giants, Neptune and Uranus, the researchers said. So, it seems that a Neptune-like world — one about four times wider than WDJ0914+1914 itself — is circling the white dwarf once every 10 Earth days.
Our sun will evolve into a white dwarf about 6 billion years from now. Mars and the outer gas giants will survive this metamorphosis. For the first few million years after its formation, the white dwarf will be extremely hot, and its strong ultraviolet-radiation emission will evaporate gas from the outer atmospheres of the gas giants. A fraction of this gas will be accreted by the white dwarf and produce atmospheric lines detectable by future generations of alien astronomers. (Image credit: Mark Garlick)
But this planet's days appear to be numbered. Calculations performed by the team indicate that the white dwarf, which has a surface temperature around 50,400 degrees Fahrenheit (28,000 degrees Celsius), is evaporating the alien Neptune at a prodigious rate — about 3,640 tons (3,300 metric tons) per second.
"This star has a planet that we can't see directly, but because the star is so hot it is evaporating the planet, and we detect the atmosphere it is losing," Gaensicke said.
"There could be many cooler white dwarfs that have planets but [lack] the high-energy photons necessary to drive evaporation, so we wouldn't be able to find them with the same method," he added. "However, some of those planets might [be] detectable using the transit method once the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope goes on sky."
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is a big observatory under construction in the Chilean Andes; it's scheduled to come online in the early 2020s. (The transit method is a common way to discover alien planets, one made famous by NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope. It involves noticing the tiny dips in a star's brightness caused when a planet transits, or crosses, the star's face.)
To be clear: The researchers did not directly observe a planet around WDJ0914+1914. But the available data point strongly toward its existence, team members said.
"We were stunned when we realized that, when observing hot white dwarfs, we are potentially seeing signatures from extrasolar planet atmospheres," co-author Matthias Schreiber, from the University of Valparaiso in Spain, said in the same statement. "While this hypothesis needs further confirmation, it might indeed open the doors towards understanding extrasolar planet atmospheres."
The new study was published online today (Dec. 4) in the journal Nature. In a companion paper also published today, in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Schreiber, Gaensicke and colleagues investigate what will happen in our own solar system when the sun exhausts its fuel about 4.5 billion years from now, swelling into a red giant that engulfs Mercury, Venus and likely Earth as well.
The white dwarf that the sun becomes will probably emit enough high-energy photons to evaporate Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune eventually, the researchers determined. And some of those planets' constituent gases will likely be detectable by any alien astronomers who may be around and observing our system at that time, just as the material stripped away from the apparent Neptune-size planet circling WDJ0914+1914 is observable to us today.
"In a sense, WDJ0914+1914 is providing us with a glimpse into the very distant future of our own solar system," Schreiber said.
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Beelden van mysterieuze objecten op Antarctica leiden tot theorieën over UFO’s en Epsteins vliegtuig. Kijk en oordeel zelf
Beelden van mysterieuze objecten op Antarctica leiden tot theorieën over UFO’s en Epsteins vliegtuig. Kijk en oordeel zelf
Op Google Earth is een vreemd object gespot op Antarctica. YouTuber MrMBB333 plaatste er een filmpje over en zei erbij dat het object zo’n 80 meter lang lijkt te zijn.
De YouTuber speculeerde dat het is gemaakt door iets of iemand en geen natuurlijke formatie is, schrijft het Russische persbureau Sputnik.
In de buurt van het object bevindt zich nog een vreemd fenomeen dat lijkt te ‘zweven’ en ‘licht reflecteert’.
Iets vreemds aan de hand
De vondst zorgde voor de nodige consternatie.
“Er is daar iets vreemds aan de hand,” schreef Yogi Demis. “Er is een reden dat de wereldregering Antarctica tot verboden gebied heeft verklaard en slechts enkelen er mogen komen om wetenschappelijk onderzoek te doen.”
“Het zou me niet verrassen als het nergens meer is te bekennen na de volgende update van Google Earth,” zei Demis.
Veel gekke dingen
Iemand anders schreef dat er ‘veel gekke dingen gebeuren op Antarctica’ en verwees naar ‘gecrashte UFO’s’ en ‘diepe gaten’.
Weer een ander stelde dat het ‘Jeffrey Epsteins vliegtuig is’.
Er kwamen ook rationelere verklaringen binnen.
IJsschots
“Het zwevende ding lijkt op de rand van een ijsschots die uit de sneeuw steekt,” schreef Vgtyhb Cghsdet.
“Alleen de punt van de schots wordt belicht door de zon en dus lijkt hij te zweven,” klonk het.
If you’re a fan of the panspermia theory that life may have been transported to Earth on an asteroid or meteorite, then this story is for you. Researchers studying a mysterious microbe found living in volcanoes put some on a diet of nothing but meteorite material and the tiny creatures not only survived but thrived. For skeptics who wondered how a life form could survive a long trip on a space rock, here’s your answer – they ate their stone ship … leaving just enough to survive the fiery entrance through Earth’s atmosphere. Plausible? Provable? Let’s find out.
That’s research-paper-speak for “We fed some Metallosphaera sedula microbes a meteorite from Northwest Africa and it loved it.” In a paper published this week in the journal Scientific Reports, an international team of researchers explains how their search for Earth life forms that could survive on Mars led them to Metallosphaera sedula, a microbe found in sulfur-rich environments like hot springs, volcanic fields and acid mine drainage pools that have high metal ion concentrations, low pH and high temperatures … in other words, they already live on the closest thing we have to Mars on Earth.
Meteor meal home delivery for a Metallosphaera sedula?
M. sedula’s taste for heavy metal of the Periodic Table kind has led it to be used to remove iron sulphide or pyrite from coal. However, volcanoes aren’t Mars. For something closer to real extraterrestrial soil, University of Vienna astrobiologist Tetyana Milojevic and her colleagues turned to the chondrite meteorite Northwest Africa 1172 (NWA 1172). Discovered in Tabelbala, Algeria, in 2000, Milojevic told Science Alert that “NWA 1172 is a multimetallic material, which may provide much more trace metals to facilitate metabolic activity and microbial growth.”
“Yummy,” said the M. sedulas. The team prepared a culture of the microbes and spread them on a sterilized slice of NWA 1172 and on a pile of pulverized powder. A control group of the microbes was fed ground-up samples of the copper-iron-sulphur Earth mineral chalcopyrite. Under microscopy, the researchers watched as the M. sedula ate more and grew faster on the meteorite meal. As they ate, the microbes emitted tiny bubbles which may have helped catalyze the metals and reduce their toxicity. When they were done feeding, the researchers could see clear evidence of where they dined, which will help determine if other meteorites carried similar metal-eating microbes to Earth.
Were here! What’s for dinner?
It looks like M. sedula and other similar metal-eating microbes could live on Mars and perhaps even survive a trip on a meteor. Is this proof of panspermia? Are we the descendants of Metallosphaera sedulas?
“Our work provides a deeper insight into the biologically-mediated processing of extraterrestrial material and implications for natural samples, representing a special interest for space exploration missions.”
One of the more intriguing rumors surroundingArea 51suggests that the vast majority of the top secret work undertaken there is handled not on the surface, but deep below it – in hollowed-out chambers, tunnels, and vast underground installations. Certainly, there is no shortage of stories suggesting that is the case. The few, overhead, satellite photographs of Area 51 that are in the public domain show very little evidence of massive facilities: just extensive runways, hangars and a few other buildings, and that’s about it. The undeniable sparse imagery has led to suspicions that the bulk of Area 51 is situated way below the surface of the Nevada desert. That is almost certainly the case.
In an article titled “How Area 51 Works,” Jonathan Strickland and Patrick J. Kiger say: “Some allege that what you can see on the surface is only a tiny part of the actual facility. They believe that the surface buildings rest on top of a labyrinthine underground base. Others claim the underground facility has up to 40 levels and that it is attached via underground railways to other sites in Los Alamos, White Sands and Los Angeles.”
In January 2017, the U.K.’s Daily Express newspaper said the following of Jan Harzan, the Executive Director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON): “Mr. Harzan claims there is a secret underground facility built into the base of the Papoose Mountains, in Lincoln County, Nevada, where recovered alien space crafts and extraterrestrial beings are kept hidden away.”
Atlas Obscura states: “While the base is said by conspiracy theorists to be the site of everything from time travel research, an underground transcontinental railroad, and of course a secret lab where aliens work with the government to reverse-engineer alien technology, there is little evidence for any of the fanciful claims that people have made. It is almost certainly true that much of the base is underground, but it’s more likely use is just as exciting – a secret experimental aircraft testing space of a terrestrial nature – many of which could easily be considered unidentified flying objects.”
And, then, there’s the matter of a certain secret base located in Utah. The name of this rival to Area 51 in the secrecy and conspiracy stakes is the Dugway Proving Ground. It is, however, referred to as Area 52. Situated less than ninety miles from Salt Lake City, the DPG covers a massive amount of Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert. The origins of the facility date back to the 1940s. It was in early February 1942 – and in the wake of the events at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii – that then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed a degree that effectively handed over to the War Department more than 100,00 acres of Utah land – on which what is now the Dugway Proving Ground would be built. And the War Department set about not just constructing the base itself, but significantly-sized underground bunkers and facilities, too.
The goal was to create for the United States’ Government the ultimate base for the study and development of chemical warfare agents. As the years progressed, so did the size of the Dugway Proving Ground. Thirteen years after President Roosevelt gave the go-ahead, close to 300,000 additional acres of Utah land was handed over to the military. Today, the figure is in excess of 800,000 acres. And the work of the DPG has expanded too – yes, chemical warfare is still a big part of the base’s mandate. As is, now, research into biological warfare and deadly viruses.
In a thread at the Above Top Secret website, one commentator said that they had heard “…stories about installations being built to the South of Wendover, Nevada which is West of Dugway and also very, very remote. There are stories of a 17-story building underground out there.” Others speak of deep and massive tunnels that link the Dugway Proving Ground with a variety of Utah-based military facilities. Former employees talk about huge elevators that transport people to lower-levels of the base; the rumors are that there no less than eight levels below the surface area – all engaged in highly-classified work and all having the ability to withstand a nuclear strike, even a direct one.
As a follow-up to my article on the strange subject of “Alien Big Cats” seen in U.K.-based Crop Circles, I thought I would share something else with you. Namely, a report of a very different – but no less intriguing – “phenomenon” involving these strange and intricate field-based formations. As I noted in the first article: “Since 2011, I have received no less than nine more reports of people seeing huge black cats in the Crop Circles of England; all of them in Wiltshire, except for an ABC seen roaming around Chartley Castle, Staffordshire, England in 2015. Rather notably, a Crop Circle was found in a field adjacent to Chartley Castle in the summer of 2006. I know that for sure because me, my dad, and my ex-wife Dana were there to see the creation a day after it was made.” All of which brings us to today’s article.
Back in March 2009, a certain feature appeared in the pages of the U.K.’s newspaper, the Daily Telegraph. It had a decidedly eye-catching headline. It went as follows: “Dog Walker Met UFO ‘Alien’ With Scandinavian Accent.” Well, that’s quite a title, to say the very least! The article was written by journalist Sarah Knapton. The story surfaced into the public domain thanks to the U.K. government’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Among the UFO-themed files that the Ministry of Defense released was one that focused on Crop Circles. And, in an amazing fashion, too. Sarah Knapton wrote in her article that the story told of how “a dog walker claimed she met a man from another planet who said aliens were responsible for Crop Circles.”
The woman – whose name is unknown, unfortunately – had made a phone-call to a military base, a Royal Air Force facility at Wattisham, Suffolk, England. It was clear to the person on the other end of the phone that something very weird had happened. It all went down on the night of November 20, 1989. Yes, we’re talking about more than thirty years ago now. It was around 10:30 p.m. on that night when the woman was out walking her dog. While doing so a man came up to her – quite out of the blue, I should stress – and who spoke to her with what was clearly a Scandinavian accent. Not only that, he was attired in a “light-brown garment like a flying suit.”
The official documentation on the woman’s encounter state the following: “He asked her if she was aware of stories about large circular flattened areas appearing in fields of wheat, and then went on to explain that he was from another planet similar to Earth, and that the circles had been caused by others like him who had traveled to Earth.” The alleged E.T. told the woman that he meant her no harm at all, but stressed that “they were not to have contact with humans for fear that they would be considered a threat.” The woman was said to have been “completely terrified” (yes, that is how the document-writer described it) by the confrontation.
Indeed, the woman got more and more anxious for the safety of herself and her dog, and suddenly and quickly headed off to her home. As the woman exited the area, she couldn’t fail to hear a “loud buzzing noise” behind her. She turned around and was amazed to see what the Ministry of Defense described as “a large, glowing, orange-white, spherical object rising vertically” from a clump of very nearby trees. The Royal Air Force operator carefully wrote everything down – and listened carefully, too. In fact, the phone conversation went on for about an hour, chiefly because the military operator was convinced that this was a “genuine call” and not the work of a maniac or a prankster.
It’s hard to know what to make of all this. After all, the story – with its human-looking alien, the man’s “flying suit,” and his foreign accent – sounds like one of those wacky tales that dominated the “Contactee” movement of the 1950s. It must be remembered, though, that the story was taken seriously – hence why it ultimately became one of the Ministry of Defense’s “real X-Files.” True or not, the tale adds yet another layer of undeniable weirdness to the phenomenon of Crop Circles.
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The Mysterious Hollow Ship: An Alien Encounter in Old Japan? Brent Swancer December 8, 2019 FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE+ Reports of alien encounters range across the board, and go back to perhaps ancient times. From numerous disparate cultures come inexplic
The Mysterious Hollow Ship:An Alien Encounter in Old Japan?
Reports of alien encounters range across the board, and go back to perhaps ancient times. From numerous disparate cultures come inexplicable reports of encounters with mysterious beings from beyond our understanding, and Japan certainly has some of these as well. One very curious case comes from a group of fishermen who came across a strange craft floating upon the sea, holding within it a curious stranger and which has gone on to become a great Japanese mystery.
Although there are various versions of the alleged encounter, perhaps the most well-known and detailed is that found within the pages of an 1825 manuscript called Toen shōsetsu, by Kyokutei Bakin. The story goes that in February of 1803, a group of fishermen toiling away on the coast of Hitachi province saw something very odd bobbing out on the waves, which appeared to be some sort of bizarre vessel the likes of which none of them had ever seen before. They approached it in their boat and could see that the top of the somewhat disc-shaped object, described as looking like a rice pot or an incense burner, seemed to be made of some sort of reddish wood with windows embedded within it, whereas the bottom was covered with metal plates, the whole of which measured approximately 11 feet high and 18 feet wide. The windows seemed to have metal bars over them, as well as resin coating their edges, perhaps to keep water out. For all appearances it seemed to be some sort of ship, although like nothing they had ever seen and seemingly drifting about aimlessly, and the curious fishermen towed it back to shore.
With the otherworldly craft safely on shore, they were surprised to peer in through one of the windows to see that it was adorned with what looked like a bed, sheets, soft carpets of unknown style and fabric, a bottle, and foods like cake and meat strewn about, and that the walls seemed to have been engraved with various strange symbols or letters from some unknown language. However, more startling than any of this was who they found cowering within, for it seemed the vessel had a passenger. There sitting within the craft in hiding was a young woman of around 18 to 20 years of age, standing around 5 feet tall and described as being strikingly, almost ethereally beautiful, with very pale, pinkish skin and thick red hair laced with white extensions that appeared to be made out of some kind of fur and all peppered with white powder. In her hands she held a simple wooden box that she clutched protectively as the fishermen stared down at her with mouths agape. Her elegant clothes were said to be of an unknown fabric, and were long, flowing, and very smooth like silk.
The fishermen tried to speak to the mysterious woman, but she replied in a strange language they were unable to comprehend, and it seemed as though she could not understand what they said either. Throughout all of this she held that box defensively, not allowing anyone to get anywhere near it. Unable to talk with this stranger and not sure how to proceed, the fishermen supposedly ended up pushing what they called the utsuro-bune, or “hollow ship” back out to sea, where it bobbed off towards the horizon out of sight, leaving the enigmatic woman and the secret contents of that box a complete mystery. When the fishermen went back to their village and told the others, one of the elders speculated that it was a princess from a foreign land who had been banned from her homeland, possibly after having had an affair with a commoner.
The tale of the Utusro-Bune would appear again in the works Hyōryū kishū (1835) and Ume-no-chiri (1844), each time with slightly different details but essentiall telling the same repor, and it was over the years printed in several Edo era news sources as well. Similar tales of mysterious strangers appearing by see in otherworldly vessels can also be found in the lore of other areas of Japan as well, making it seem as though it must surely just be a myth and legend. Yet, even considering the nebulous origins of the story it has sometimes been suggested that this might have been an actual event that really happened, and there have been ideas on what might have occurred here.
If there was any reality to the tale, one of the main theories on what those fishermen saw was a Russian woman who had either drifted away from a wrecked vessel, or had intentionally come to try and negotiate trade with the then notoriously isolated Japanese or even to spy on them. This would explain her foreign appearance, striking red hair, bizarre clothing, and incomprehensible speech and writing. It also might explain the bizarreness of her craft, as it might have just been a Russian design the Japanese were not familiar with. A more fringe idea is that this was an early example of a UFO and alien encounter in Japan, even though the strange craft is never described as flying or doing anything other than bobbing aimlessly in the water, nor does it exhibit any particularly advanced technology, the windows sealed with tree resin, and the woman is by all descriptions exotic, but human in appearance, yet UFO enthusiasts have often explained this away by saying that it might have been a submersible craft or a crashed UFO.
Of course there is also the idea that this was just a sensationalized, made up account, as were common back in that era. If this had been real, then in this age of Japan’s very strictly controlled borders it would have had to been reported to the Daimyo and proper authorities immediately, yet there is no official record of the incident among the tomes of other reports of shipwrecked sailors and whalers on Japan’s shores. It is also somewhat odd that the story includes just sending the strange woman on her way with no follow-up or opportunity to find her again, making it all rather convenient for anyone who was making it all up. In the end, we are left to wonder what was really going on here. Was this a foreigner finding herself on these shores for purposes we will never understand? Was it just a sensational report and myth building? Or was this perhaps a visitor from much farther away than Russia? The mystery of the Hollow Ship of Japan remains an enigma.
Former NASA Astronaut Admits To Seeing UFOs Aboard Space Station
Former NASA Astronaut Admits To Seeing UFOs Aboard Space Station
Jerry Linenger has revealed there were multiple instances that made the entire space crew aboard the International Space Station scratch their heads. Linenger, a former NASA astronaut, referred to the anomalies as unidentified flying objects while requested the media not to take him out of context.
The Hubble Space Telescope, the world's first space telescope which has revolutionized astronomy, as seen from the Space Shuttle Discovery
Photo: NASA / NASA
Linenger admitted to seeing multiple bizarre objects or unexplained things during his five-month stay in space. He recalled how he and colleagues could only guess and ask among themselves what they witnessed. He claimed to have seen stuff that made him call his crewmates over.
Linenger, who’s also a former captain of the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, not only stayed at NASA’s ISS but also did a stint at the Russian Space Station Mir, which operated from the mid-1980s to 2001.
Along with two Russian crewmates, he spent five months at the SS Mir, which was situated 50 million miles above Earth while orbiting the planet 2,000 miles. He was the first American astronaut to perform a spacewalk from a non-American space station while wearing a foreign space suit.
Linenger has made a disclaimer, though, that he made no mention of seeing aliens but only UFOs.
UFO sighting in woods near Livingston made headlines around the world 40 years ago when forestry worker Robert Taylor reported seeing an alien spaceship around the area.
The Dechmont Woods incident is not the usual UFO sighting as it was investigated by the police. The rips to the trousers of Mr Taylor were treated as evidence of an assault, but the police could never figure out what had happened to him.
The 61-year-old described how he observed a 30ft-high dome-shaped UFO in his testimony to the police. He said that he saw the mysterious object in a clearing in the forest close to the West Lothian new town on November 9, 1979.
He revealed how two-spiked spheres rolled out towards him. He also explained to the police that he was aware of being grabbed on either side of his legs as he passed out. He woke up in a tangled state 20 minutes later.
Mr Taylor, who passed away in 2007, was a teetotal churchgoer and respected war hero. Throughout the rest of his life, he never changed his UFO sighting story.
He told the police that he came across the UFO in a clearing while working alone, checking gates and fences at Dechmont Woods at 10:30.
Spiked objects rushed out towards him and tried to grab him, and all he could remember was a strong smell of burning.
He then went to his van shaken, drove it into a ditch, and hobbled home. When he reached their house, he told his wife, Mary, he had been attacked by a spaceship thing. The police were contacted, and officers found themselves investigating an attack on a forester by extraterrestrials.
Scene of the crime investigator Det Con Ian Wark said he observed mysterious marks on the ground. He saw around 32 holes, which were about 3.5 inches in diameter. He also spotted marks similar to those created by the type of caterpillar tracks usually fitted on bulldozers.
The officer checked Mr Taylor’s employer Livingston Development Corporation to know if there was a machinery that could make such marks but did not find anything to match.
The police officer said the strange marks on the ground were only to be seen in the clearing where Mr Taylor had experienced his reported close encounter.
Det Con Wark explained that these marks just arrived as they did not come from anywhere or go anywhere. The police officer added that these marks just arrived as though a helicopter or something had landed from above.
According to the police report, the marks on the ground indicated that a large object weighing several tons had stood there but no indication it had been driven or towed away.
The ripped trousers of Mr Taylor were sent for forensic examination, and the analysis revealed the trousers appeared to have been damaged by something hooking them and moving up. It is important to note though that modern DNA techniques were not yet available in a forensic exam that time.
Forty years had passed, and the incident remains a mystery.
Why should we care about the new findings – released this week – from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe? This new NASA video explains how the solar wind – a stream of charged particles from the sun – affects earthly astronauts and technologies.
Scientists released four new papers in the journal Nature this week, outlining new discoveries from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which has come closer to our parent star than any previous spacecraft. This new NASA video – released November 24, 2019 – explains why we should care. It describes the solar wind, the stream of particles that begins in the sun’s inner atmosphere and continues out beyond our solar system.
Here on Earth’s surface, we’re protected from the solar wind by our blanket of atmosphere. In fact, earthly skywatchers look forward to announcements of storms on the sun, which send the solar wind outward. They can set off geomagnetic storms that lead to beautiful displays of auroras, or northern lights, typically seen at high latitudes and somtimes, if the solar wind is strong enough, extending down into lower latitudes.
But these same solar storms can also disrupt orbiting satellites (they can be the reason we all have mobile phone issues on the same day). They’ve been known to cause earthly power grids to fail, causing blackouts. And they’re a danger to our astronauts in space.
How strong is the solar wind? The wind speed of a Category 5 hurricane can top at well over 150 miles (240 km) per hour. The average speed of the solar wind is almost a million miles (1.4 km) per hour.
A beautiful example of an aurora, caused by the interaction of the solar wind with Earth’s magnetic field. Shreenivasan Manievannan captured this photo on November 2, 2016, from an airplane flying over northern Canada near the Arctic Circle.
Bottom line:NASA video on the solar wind and how it affects Earth.
RANDALL CARLSON: “WE ARE LIVING UPON THE WRECKAGE OF FORMER WORLDS”
RANDALL CARLSON: “WE ARE LIVING UPON THE WRECKAGE OF FORMER WORLDS”
Most Grailers would be familiar with the work of Randall Carlson, a polymath whose research on the ancient world integrates sacred geometry, geology, environmental change, myths, legends, cosmic cycles and catastrophes. He is a proponent of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, and has theorized about the extinction of historical advanced human civilizations.
The video below takes the audio (and some video) from one of Randall’s lectures, and combines it with illustrations and stock video footage to bring what he’s saying to life. In the lecture Randall discusses the fact that there have been many ‘apocalyptic’ events over the last 150,000 years – the period of ‘modern humans’ – and that they appear to happen in a regular, cyclic manner.
Most Grailers would be familiar with the work of Randall Carlson, a polymath whose research on the ancient world integrates sacred geometry, geology, environmental change, myths, legends, cosmic cycles and catastrophes. He is a proponent of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, and has theorized about the extinction of historical advanced human civilizations.
The video below takes the audio (and some video) from one of Randall’s lectures, and combines it with illustrations and stock video footage to bring what he’s saying to life. In the lecture Randall discusses the fact that there have been many ‘apocalyptic’ events over the last 150,000 years – the period of ‘modern humans’ – and that they appear to happen in a regular, cyclic manner.
For the reasons he outlines in the lecture, this means that we today are walking around amongst the ruins of many lost civilisations:
One of the most important insights we get from these ancient traditions is the measurement of cosmic time and how it relates to us here on earth. You’ve just got to know what to look for and where to look for it. Once you begin to become aware of it and you begin to see it you begin to realize that the cosmic fingerprints are everywhere about us, and we’re in fact living in and upon the wreckage of the former worlds.
The rubble of these former worlds is all around us but we haven’t had the scale of perspective to see it, and that’s where we’re at now. I’m completely thrilled with things like the emergence of Google Earth because Google Earth is now allowing us to just sit at our computers and see the cosmic perspective of Earth, and when you look at it from the extraterrestrial point of view things begin to show up that we don’t see when we’re right down here immersed, when it’s so close that we’re like ants walking under rubble and can’t can’t see what what’s around us.
But we do see that we literally have built our own world in our own social system on top of and out of the wreckage of former worlds
Legerveteraan spot ‘3 kilometer lange UFO’ boven legerbasis. Wat heeft hij gezien?
Legerveteraan spot ‘3 kilometer lange UFO’ boven legerbasis. Wat heeft hij gezien?
Een Amerikaanse marineveteraan heeft onthuld dat hij eens een drie kilometer grote UFO boven een legerbasis heeft zien hangen, schrijft de Daily Star.
De veteraan was gestationeerd op de USS Nimitz, een vliegdekschip dat de laatste tijd veelvuldig in het nieuws is geweest in verband met UFO-waarnemingen.
Lee Adams was tussen 2012 en 2015 bevoorradingsofficier aan boord van het schip.
Doorzichtig
Toen hij op een legerbasis in Virginia Beach in de staat Virginia was gestationeerd, spotte een groep piloten een mysterieus vaartuig boven het gebied.
In de podcast Mike and Maurice’s Mind Escape zei hij: “Ik keek naar boven en het was alsof er een gigantische vuilniszak boven de basis zweefde.”
“Stel je een vuilniszak voor met een doorsnee van drie kilometer die doorzichtig is,” vervolgde hij.
Kwal
“Ik kon delen [van het schip] zien, terwijl andere delen onzichtbaar waren,” aldus Adams.
Hij zei dat het mysterieuze object geen gaswolk of een wolk was.
Lee, die 14 jaar in het leger diende, zei dat het object leek op een ‘kwal’.
Overheid
Hij denkt niet dat het een buitenaards object is geweest.
“Ik denk dat de overheid ervan op de hoogte was,” zei hij. “Waarom zou het anders vlak bij een legerbasis te zien zijn?”
Getrainde mensen
“Het leger moet het hebben geweten,” klonk het. “Het landde buiten de basis achter de bomen.”
IEDERE 3600 JAAR IS HET RAAK EN DUS OOK NU ( VIDEO )
IEDERE 3600 JAAR IS HET RAAK EN DUS OOK NU ( VIDEO )
Nog steeds wordt het bestaan van de planeet Nibiru afgedaan als een sprookje en dat deze niet echt bestaat.
Echter, wetenschappelijk onderzoek toont aan dat het wel degelijk iedere 3.600 jaar raak is op aarde en dat we daar nu opnieuw mee te maken krijgen.
Wanneer informatie maar genoeg wordt onderdrukt, dan vergeet de mensheid op een gegeven moment dat het misschien toch nog allemaal iets anders in elkaar steekt dan dat de reguliere media ons voorspiegelen.
Vraag een doorsnee iemand uit die wereld naar de planeet Nibiru en ze zullen gegarandeerd naar hun voorhoofd wijzen en zeggen dat je ze compleet ziet vliegen, omdat duidelijk is dat die planeet niet bestaat. Het is een broodje aap verhaal, want ook NASA zegt dat.
Hierna volgt een klein deel uit een eerder artikel om aan te tonen dat er een tijd was dat wetenschappers en andere onderzoekers er heel anders over dachten.
We leven in spannende tijden, waar steeds meer aanwijzingen boven water komen dat er zich wel degelijk een soort mini zonnestelsel in de buurt van onze zon bevindt, ondanks alle ontkenningen van NASA.
Wij zijn ook kort van geheugen, want iedereen is vergeten dat er de vorige eeuw meerdere gerespecteerde wetenschappers waren die ervan overtuigd waren dat de planeet Nibiru met haar metgezellen bestond en dat deze een vreemde ellipstische baan door ons zonnestelsel aflegt.
Twee wetenschappers die er als het ware uitspringen zijn de astronomen Muñoz Ferrada en Dr. Robert Harrington.
Bij ons in de Westerse wereld hebben waarschijnlijk maar weinig mensen gehoord van Carlos Muñoz Ferrada.
Hij was een Chileense astronoom die in 2001 op 92-jarige leeftijd is overleden en die misschien wel de belangrijkste aanwijzing ooit heeft gegeven voor het bestaan van de planeet Nibiru, of Hercolubus zoals deze soms ook wordt genoemd.
Ruim 43 jaar voordat de infrarode Iris telescoop van NASA in 1983 een onbekende planeet had ontdekt volgens een artikel in de Washington Post, sprak Ferrada hier al over. Dat is zefs ruim 36 jaar voordat in 1976 het beroemde boek van Zecharia Sitchin “De Twaalfde Planeet” verscheen.
Muñoz Ferrada werd beroemd in Chili toen hij op 19 januari 1939 een zware aardbeving voorspelde in zijn land voor 24 januari dat jaar. Op het moment dat hij de lezing gaf, geloofde geen mens in het publiek hem, maar toen op 24 januari 1939 Chili inderdaad werd getroffen door een zeer zware aardbeving die aan tienduizenden mensen het leven kostte, was het een ander verhaal.
De tweede wetenschapper die eruit springt is Dr. Robert Harrington, in de jaren tachtig en begin jaren negentig hoofdastronoom van de US Naval Observatory. Ook deze astronoom was ervan overtuigd dat er een onbekende planeet in ons zonnestelsel moest zijn, omdat dit de enige logische verklaring was voor de verstoringen van omloopbanen van planeten in de buitenste regionen van ons zonnestelsel.
Dr. Harrington stierf plotseling onder mysterieuze omstandigheden, net toen hij op punt stond om in Nieuw Zeeland opzienbarende ontdekkingen bekend te maken in 1993.
In 1991 vertrok Harrington voor NASA met een telescoop naar Nieuw Zeeland om van daaruit de naderende planeet Nibiru vast te leggen. Hij verbleef daar in totaal bijna twee jaar en alles wat hij aan beeldmateriaal produceerde werd doorgestuurd naar Washington. Volgens mensen die hem kenden stond Harrington in januari 1993 op het punt wereldkundig te maken wat hij had ontdekt.
Echter, hoewel Harrington tot dan toe niets gemankeerd had, werd bij hem een zeldzame vorm van slokdarmkanker geconstateerd en was hij vreemd genoeg binnen enkele dagen dood. Wat zijn de kansen dat een gezonde man die in Nieuw Zeeland fysiek vrij zwaar werk verrichtte, binnen enkele dagen overlijdt aan kanker? De vrouw van Harrington, Betty, is er heilig van overtuigd dat haar man werd vermoord. Direct na de dood van Harrington werd de telescoop snel weggehaald of zoals een collega het omschreef, "almost before he was cold".
Vanaf dat moment was het eigenlijk voorgoed over met de berichtgeving rond de planeet Nibiru, althans wat de officiële kanalen betreft.
In de volgende video die is opgenomen in 1990 zie je Dr. Harrington in gesprek met de bekende onderzoeker en auteur Zecharia Sitchin.
Onze columnist Evert Jan Poorterman is een fervent aanhanger van Secharia Sitchin en zijn theorieën over dit onderwerp zijn te lezen in de honderden artikelen die inmiddels van hem op deze website zijn verschenen.
Nu is er echter een uitgebreid artikel verschenen aan de hand van onderzoeker en auteur Pierre Lescaudron die stelt dat hij, gebaseerd op al zijn onderzoek de afgelopen jaren, zeker is van twee dingen.
Het eerste waar hij zeker van is, is dat er geen sprake is van een planeet.
Ook Lescaudron heeft het boek De Twaalfde Planeet van Sitchin gelezen en wat er bij hem niet in wil, is dat hier sprake is van een planeet. Met een elliptische omloopbaan zoals dit object klaarblijkelijk heeft, vertoont het alle eigenschappen van een komeet, want planeten bewegen zich niet op die manier door een zonnestelsel. Natuurlijk wordt er ook gezegd dat Nibiru geen planeet is, maar deel uitmaakt van een mini zonnestelsel bestaande uit een aantal planeten die op hun beurt weer draaien om de ster Nemesis en dat geheel beweegt zich dan weer door ons zonnestelsel. Evert Jan Poorterman echter houdt vast aan het feit dat Nibiru een ster is.
Voor Lescaudron is het desalniettemin zeker dat hier sprake is van een komeet-achtig object dat een aantal elektrische krachtlijnen doorkruist op haar weg door ons zonnestelsel. Hiermee komt hij dan ook meer in de richting van de theorie van Carloz Muñoz Ferrada zoals hierboven beschreven.
Het tweede waar Lescaudron zeker van is, is datde Soemeriërs uitgebreide kennis bezaten van astronomie en dat wanneer zij spreken over een cyclus van 3.600 jaar, ze dit niet uit hun duim zogen.
Uit eerder onderzoek van Lescaudron bleek dat de periode van zo'n 14,400 jaar geleden een heftige was op aarde. Er gebeurden allerlei zaken zoals een plotselinge daling van temperatuur en het uitsterven van een groot deel van de diersoorten op aarde.
De sterke daling van temperaturen werd veroorzaakt door aan abnormale hoeveelheid CO2, methaan, calcium en vooral zwavel. Een ander vreemd verschijnsel dat zich toen voor deed was een stijging van de zeespiegel met ongeveer 20 meter in een paar eeuwen tijd. Dit is merkwaardig, want het wijst op het smelten van ijs, terwijl er toch sprake was van aanzienlijke afkoeling door alle troep die er in de lucht zweefde en het zonlicht blokkeerde.
Voor een deel kan die uitstoot in de lucht zijn veroorzaakt door heftige vulkaanuitbarstingen zoals wij die nu ook weer kennen, maar het kan ook worden veroorzaakt door de passage van een komeet-achtig object.
Lescaudron was al uitgekomen op die periode van 14.400 jaar geleden voordat hij zich verdiepte in de theorie van Sitchin en wat hem opviel was dat dit getal een veelvoud is van 3.600 (4 maal). Hij vond dit dermate frappant dat hij ook de tussenliggende periodes ging onderzoeken.
Tot zijn verbazing deden zich dezelfde verschijnselen voor als hierboven omschreven zo'n 3.600 jaar geleden, we komen dan uit op zo'n 1.600 jaar voor Christus. Bovendien is voor deze periode vrij nauwkeurig vast te stellen dat dit een tijd was van heftige vulkaanuitbarstingen. Ook weten we uit de Chinese geschiedschrijving dat er zich rond die tijd opvallend veel kometen en vuurbollen in de lucht voor deden. Opvallend is dat de Chinezen niet spreken van drie dagen duisternis, maar van drie dagen dikke mist. Volgens Lescaudron is er voldoende bewijs voorhanden om de gebeurtenissen in die tijd te beschrijven als een komeet gerelateerde gebeurtenis.
Om een lang verhaal enigszins beperkt te houden: Ook 7.200 en 10.800 jaar geleden deden zich vergelijkbare gebeurtenissen voor en ook deze zijn volgens Lescaudron te herleiden naar een komeet gerelateerde gebeurtenis.
Het is een zeer uitgebreid artikel waarin Lescaudron dit alles beschrijft, onderbouwd met allerlei wetenschappelijk bewijs en statistieken en/of grafieken.
Zijn eindconclusie is dat er iedere 3.600 jaar absoluut een interactie plaatsvindt tussen een komeet en de aarde en dat dit tot behoorlijk dramatische gevolgen kan leiden.
Wanneer deze theorie inderdaad klopt, dan is nu ongeveer het moment aangebroken waarop dit fenomeen zich gaat herhalen en als een teken dat dit steeds dichterbij komt, noemt Lescaudron de nogal spectaculaire toename van het aantal vuurbollen in de lucht.
Op het volgende plaatje zie je die spectaculaire toename van het aantal vuurbollen zoals waargenomen door de American Meteor Society in de periode 2011 tot en met oktober dit jaar.
Wie denkt dat kometen helemaal geen kwaad kunnen, raden wij aan het hiernavolgende deel te lezen uit een eerder artikel dat gaat over de theorie van wat men noemt "the electric universe".
Veel zal afhangen van of de oude bestaande theorieën dat een komeet niets anders is dan een vieze ijsklomp, kloppen. Is dat inderdaad het geval dan zal het een spectaculaire vertoning aan de hemel worden, maar daar houdt het dan ook mee op.
Echter, als de theorie van “the electric universe” correct is dan zou deze komeet voor heel onaangename verassingen op aarde kunnen zorgen.
Waar het op neerkomt is dat het zonnestelsel een ingewikkeld web van elektrische velden genereert waarvan de zon de belangrijkste dynamo is in het systeem. Terwijl sommige wetenschappers en onderzoekers het bewijs voor een elektrisch universum beginnen te onderkennen, blijven de grootste promoters van dit concept de wetenschappers achter de website thunderbolts.info.
Zoals Mel Acheson vertelt, “De ontdekking dat het “gas en stof” (nog een vaak herhaald en foutieve gedachte) waaruit hemellichamen zouden bestaan in feite plasma is, geeft een aantal recht toe recht aan antwoorden voor deze “totaal onverwachte” structuren. Elektrische stromingen in plasma hebben de neiging om filamenten te vormen. Deze hebben de neiging zich te verdikken tot kabels of buizen en kunnen elektriciteit over grote afstanden “versturen”.
Binnen de grootschalige filamenten kunnen weer kleinschaligere worden opgewekt, wat weer leidt tot een hiërarchie van gekoppelde circuits die “power” (energie) kunnen leveren aan (hemel)lichamen. Fluctuaties in de verschillende eigenschappen van de filamenten (dichtheid, temperatuur, ionisatie en dergelijken) kunnen instabiliteit veroorzaken en allerlei vreemde effecten.
De straling veroorzaakt door deze instabiliteit kan groter zijn dan de energie die lokaal beschikbaar is, waardoor astronomen soms verbaasd uitroepen: “Er is veel meer materiaal van die ster geworpen dan wij verwacht hadden”. Het elektrische universum is een intrigerend concept en er bestaat veel ondersteunend bewijs voor. Alhoewel het niet alle interacties tussen planeten en sterren verklaard, doet het dat wel voor heel veel. Terwijl verder onderzoek naar deze theorie gaande is en men tests uitvoert die moeten aantonen dat de zon elektrisch is en er via magnetische velden een interactie bestaat met planeten en kometen, raast C/2012S1 verder richting zon.
De wetenschappers van thunderbolts.info hebben een nieuwe documentaire gemaakt, waar zij het volgende over zeggen:
"Wij geloven dat een kritische beschouwing van de bestaande theorie over kometen een belangrijke invloed kan hebben op het menselijk begrip van deze uitzonderlijke hemellichamen. Het kan veel verder gaan dan alleen maar de wetenschap over kometen, het kan een herbezinning veroorzaken over de zon, de planetaire geschiedenis en nog veel meer.
Wij leven in een elektrisch universum en het eigenzinnig gedrag van kometen biedt een uniek inzicht in de rol van geladen deeltjes en geëlektrificeerd plasma door de hele kosmos. Wij vragen hulp door te vragen aan andere geleerden en invloedrijke centra om de feitelijke inhoud van deze film te bestuderen. Gedurende de eerstvolgende 60 tot 90 dagen zullen wij alle kritische opmerkingen overwegen, voordat we overgaan tot het editen van de definitieve versie. Wij zijn ervan overtuigd dat essentiële feiten die nu worden bevestigd door vooraanstaande onderzoekers er zorg voor zullen dragen dat wetenschappelijke instituten niet nog langer vast zullen houden aan theorieën die al veel te lang werden uitgeroepen tot gevestigde wetenschap".
Degene die eigenlijk aan de wieg stond van de “the electric universe” theorie is de wetenschapper James Mc Canney. Deze astrofysicus is er ook heilig van overtuigd dat er inderdaad een mini zonnestelsel bestaat waarvan de onbekende planeet Nibiru deel uit maakt.
Hij verwacht dat we het nodige spektakel zullen krijgen aan het eind van dit jaar omdat er een unieke uitlijning is van een aantal planeten met de komeet ISON. Hierdoor zullen we misschien wel letterlijk gigantisch vuurwerk tussen deze hemellichamen zien, met de aarde precies in het midden.
Tel daarbij op dat op dat moment het zonnemaximum in de huidige zonnecyclus is bereikt en daarmee alle ingrediënten aanwezig zijn om mee te maken wat volgens McCanney onze voorvaderen ook zagen. Iets wat zij noemden “De Rode Hand van de Dood” en die kwam vlak voor de grote overgang.
En tenslotte nog een tip die we van een lezer ontvingen (dank!):
Beste mensen: Leest openbaring 8, verzen 8-11. Dat is excact wat er plm. 3.500 jaar geleden gebeurd is en zeer binnenkort weer gebeurt. En de oorzaak is van de rode aarde in Afrika , Australië en de rest van de wereld. Leest ook het hele boek Openbaring, dat binnenkort zijn letterlijke vervulling beleeft.
Archaeologists have unearthed a Neolithic-era temple with three almost-intact stelae similar in form to the famous and controversial Göbekli Tepe.
Archaeologists have unearthed a Neolithic-era temple with three almost-intact stelae similar in form to the famous and controversial Göbekli Tepe.
The ancient temple was unearthed in the Ilısu neighborhood of Dargeçit in southeastern Turkey’s Mardin province and archaeologists estimate that it was built 11,300 years-old. Dr. Ergül Kodaş of Mardin Artuklu University’s Archaeology Departmentis the scientific counselor to the excavations at the Boncuklu Tarla (Beaded Field) site, which is the earliest known human settlement in the city. He told press that this ancient spiritual center was active in the same era as the famous Göbekli Tepe which is considered the birthplace of early civilization and the oldest temple on earth.
Earliest Known Settlement at the Mini Göbekli Tepe
Dr. Kodaş and his team of archaeologists discovered that the 11,000 year-old temple walls were made of rubble and held in place with a hardened clay base, but they haven’t yet reached the base of the structure. It is estimated that it might take at least a month to reach into the sacred building’s foundations. According to a report in Daily Sabah , within the excavation site, the archaeologists found four stone stelae, three of which were described as being “very well preserved” but “no figurative inscription” were found on any of the four stelae.
This 861 square foot (80 square meter) temple shares certain features with Göbekli Tepe and a Hürriyet report says “intense work” has been carried out in a large area which also includes the site known as Boncuklu Tarla (Beaded Field), the earliest known human settlement in Mardin which was discovered in 2008 during a field survey.
Ancient Finds In The Beaded Field
Erdoğan said that it was in the Aceramic Neolithic period that the “first sedentary society” emerged and that artifacts from this phase have been found in only a handful of places in Anatolia with “ stone or bone tools and weapons, ornamental items, and the first resident villages”. However, there are further ancient sites which when interpreted with the new discovery reveal the building traditions of the ancient architects .
The mini Göbekli Tepe site is only one of a few similar sites.
A 2017 Daily Sabah article says archaeological excavations conducted by Mardin Museum Director Nihat Erdoğan and his team in the Boncuklu Tarla settlement uncovered the buildings, cultures, social lives, and burial traditions of the people who lived in northern Mesopotamia during the Aceramic Neolithic period between 10,000 BC to 7,000 BC. And just like this new discovery, their buildings had “rubble stone walls with foundations hardened by clay”.
Göbekli Tepe: Crown Of The Ancient World
While the discovery of this new temple adds volumes to our understanding of the religious and spiritual traditions of our forebears, it falls short of the mystique contained within Göbekli Tepe , the most ancient temple structure ever discovered. This ancient site in southeastern Turkey is changing the way archaeologists think about the origins of human civilization and within its circular structure of elaborately carved T-shaped pillars dating to over 12,000 years ago, it is not only older than the invention of pottery, but it was built before agriculture was even conceived.
According to National Geographic the early dates associated with Göbekli Tepe “have upended the idea that agriculture led to civilization” because scholars had long thought hunter-gatherers had settled and began growing crops providing food surplus”, making it possible for complex societies to emerge, but no evidence of a permanent agricultural settlement at Göbekli Tepe has ever been discovered. This leads many scientists to settle on the idea that because the temple is situated on the top of a hill commanding views southwards over plains, it was “a regional gathering place”.
A Cathedral Of Deep History?
Jens Notroff, a German Archaeological Institute archaeologist who works at Göbekli Tepe , says “back then”, 12,000 years ago, people would have to meet regularly to keep “the gene pool fresh” and to exchange information. Now, with smaller versions of the pillars, symbols, and architecture of Göbekli Tepe being found , does this mean Göbekli Tepe was similar in function to Ness of Brodgar on Orkney; a vast Neolithic cathedral serving regional churches ( temples)?
Archaeologists believe the mini Göbekli Tepe was used as a meeting place.
Forgetting Ness of Brodgar was built around 3,000 BC while Göbekli Tepe was active before 12,000 BC, both buildings were early spiritual landmarks, spiritual sentinels, and organized spaces in wild and unpredictable landscapes. Maybe the most successful hunter-gatherer groups met at Göbekli Tepe on key dates through the year, with each one having its own local monumental structure for feasts and to display the first excesses resources - wealth.
Top image: Ancient mini Göbekli Tepe discovered in Turkey. Source: Cumhuriyet Gazetesi / Facebook
When it comes to the matter of the Roswell affair of July 1947, just about everything is controversial. There are multiple theories for what happened. There are witnesses who are highly credible and those who are best forgotten. The U.S. government has changed its opinion on several occasions regarding what happened – or what didn’t happen. The tales of con-men, outright liars, and second- and third-hand abound. Numerous books have been written on the subject – and we’re still no closer to getting a definitive answer. There’s no doubt that one of the most controversial of all those who claimed knowledge of what happened (or of portions of what happened) was the late Glenn Dennis. At the time when everything went weird at Roswell in ’47, Dennis was an embalmer (not a mortician, as so many have incorrectly described him – including Dennis himself, no less) at the local Ballard Funeral Home. He signed a sworn affidavit confirming something sensational – namely, that a nursing friend at the base had quietly admitted to him that a preliminary autopsy of a number of strange bodies had been conducted at the base hospital at the Roswell Army Air Field.
Dennis said: “She had gone to get supplies in a room where two doctors were performing a preliminary autopsy. The doctors said they needed her to take notes during the procedure. She said she had never smelled anything so horrible in her life, and the sight was the most gruesome she had ever seen. She said, ‘This was something no one has ever seen.’ As she spoke, I was concerned that she might go into shock.'” Dennis continued: “She drew me a diagram of the bodies, including an arm with a hand that had only four fingers; the doctors noted that on the end of the fingers were little pads resembling suction cups. She said the head was disproportionately large for the body; the eyes were deeply set; the skulls were flexible; the nose was concave with only two orifices; the mouth was a fine slit, and the doctors said there was heavy cartilage instead of teeth. The ears were only small orifices with flaps. They had no hair, and the skin was black – perhaps due to exposure in the sun. She gave me the drawings.”
When Glenn Dennis’ story began to surface approximately three decades ago, there was a great deal of excitement within the UFO research field – and particularly so in the arena of Roswell research. Things didn’t stay like that, however. The biggest problem was that Dennis hemmed and hawed over the alleged real name of the nurse,. He came up with a variety of names, such as Naomi Marie Selff, Naomi Maria Selff, Naomi Self, and Naomi Sipes. Roswell researchers began to doubt the tale when they failed to find anyone (at the base) with a name anywhere near to those Dennis came up with. That was when the red flags flew. Big time, too. Maybe Dennis had never given anything that was remotely like the real name. Perhaps, it was suggested, the nurse was actually a composite – created by Dennis to protect several nurses who may have been on-site when the bodies were brought in and all hell broke loose. Today, most people in Roswell research totally discount Dennis’ story – and for very understandable reasons, too. Roswell expert Kevin Randle, for example, says of Dennis’ story that it is nothing but “…the fantasy of a man who had no real involvement other than he lived in Roswell in 1947.”
I do wonder, though, if there could be a smidgen of truth to the story; that perhaps Dennis knew something of what happened, but that he handled the whole thing in such an awkward and controversial fashion that it led his claims to be discarded. So, in light of all this, you may wonder why I still think there might be a small number of facts buried in a story dominated by fiction and fantasy? I’ll tell you. As you can learn online: “Maria is a feminine given name. It is given in many languages influenced by Latin Christianity [Catholic]. It has its origin as the feminine form of the Roman name Marius and, after Christianity religion has spread across the Roman empire, it became the Latinised form of the name of Miriam.”
Kevin Randle told me a couple of days ago that Dennis started using the middle name of “Maria” for his nurse after he – Dennis – met with the late ufologist, Karl Pflock. So, we have a “Maria” in the story. And, it so happens that Maria (as the quote above shows) “…became the Latinised form of Miriam.” Why is this important? Well, one of the primary candidates for who the nurse really might have been (if there even was a nurse, of course) was a woman named…Miriam Bush. Miriam was not actually a nurse: in 1947 she was an executive secretary at Roswell’s RAAF hospital. She worked for a medical officer, Lieutenant Colonel Harold Warne, and is said to have seen the bodies found on the Foster Ranch – specifically when they were brought into the confines of the hospital. They were, as nearly everyone claimed, small, damaged, and very unusual-looking.
This trauma-filled experience clearly affected Miriam to a huge degree. The whole thing was like an albatross around her neck. That huge, ominous bird never left her. Miriam Bush’s private life was a mess and she became alcoholic. And, in the late 1980s, Miriam became fearful that she was being watched and followed. She was found dead in a motel-room just outside of San Jose, California, in December 1989. A plastic bag was found around Miriam’s head, and her arms were bruised and scratched. The verdict was suicide.
Dennis said that his nurse was a “good catholic girl.” Could Dennis have known something after all? Did he choose to use the name of Maria in place of Miriam? And, using the fake name, did he hope that one day someone with a Catholic background might make a Maria-Miriam connection and finally realize who the real source was: Miriam Bush, perhaps? Dennis did, after all, make a Catholic comment, suggesting he may have known some Catholic lore. At the very least, this is all a strange and convoluted coincidence of names, which may very well be the case. But, I would suggest that more digging into all of this is still required.
It was the announcement that launched a thousand ships of hope that the US government was finally going to reveal the information it has on UFOs, aliens and close encounters of every kind.
“In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find. Which was how the Pentagon wanted it. For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, deep within the building’s maze.”
On December 16, 2017, the New York Times revealed that the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) existed in the Pentagon for the purpose of investigating unidentified flying objects. With that, videos of UFO encounters with pilots from the USS Nimitz were made public, To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences was formed and UFOs were suddenly covered by the mainstream media. The path to disclosure seemed wide open. On May 22, 2019, the NY Post announced that Pentagon spokesperson Christopher Sherwood confirmed that AATIP “…did pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena.”
Pentagon
And then came this week.
“At the time, Mr. Sherwood was repeating the information that had been provided by a previous spokesperson some two years earlier. That previous spokesperson is no longer with my organization, and I cannot comment on why that person’s explanation of AATIP included that it had looked at anomalous events. According to all the official information I have now, when implemented, AATIP did not pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena; that was not part of the technical studies nor the reports produced by the program.”
In an exclusive story, The Black Vault revealed the contents of an email it received from current Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough which contradicted Sherwood’s statement about the Pentagon investigating UFOs. She further explained:
“Neither AATIP nor AAWSAP (Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program) were UAP related. The purpose of AATIP was to investigate foreign advanced aerospace weapons system applications with future technology projections over the next 40 years, and to create a center of expertise on advanced aerospace technologies.”
And then, Gough revealed the real shocker to those who want to believe:
“(Elizondo was) not the director of the AATIP (and had) “no assigned responsibilities” (at AATIP).”
Kudos to The Black Vault, the largest archive of government documents of its kind outside of the American government, according to founder John Greenewald Jr., who uses those legally-obtained documents for “exposing government secrets … one page at a time.” Greenewald did his due diligence – he reached out to both the Pentagon and Elizondo for comments and received none at the time of this writing.
Move along. Nothing unusual here.
Perhaps he should contact Tucker Carlson.
“I’ve heard this from someone who I think is knowledgable in the subject. There is physical evidence that the US government is holding which would tell us a lot more about what these objects are. The person who told me is someone who worked on this within the government for many years who would know.”
In a recent interview with Nick Pope, the Fox News commentator was referring to the Tic-Tac UFOs seen by the Nimitz pilots. When asked if there was actual UFO wreckage, Carlson answered:
Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed an ancient site that could be up to 1,000 years older than Göbeklitepe – the world’s oldest temple. Excavations at Boncuklu Tarla, which is located in southeastern Turkey’s Mardin, began in 2012.
The ancient site was believed to have been from the Neolithic period and throughout the years several groups of people have lived there, including Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, Romans, Seljuks, and Ottomans.
İbrahim Özcoşar, who is the rector of Mardin Artuklu University, told Anadolu Agency, “This area is important in terms of being one of the first settled areas of humanity and shows that the first people settling here were believers.” (A picture of the site can be seen here.)
Göbeklitepe
The history of Boncuklu Tarla goes back to approximately 12,000 years ago, according to Ergül Kodaş who is an archaeologist at Artuklu University. “Several special structures, which we can call temples and special buildings were unearthed in the settlement, in addition to many houses and dwellings,” he said, adding, “This is a new key point to inform us on many topics such as how the [people] in northern Mesopotamia and the upper Tigris began to settle, how the transition from hunter-gatherer life to food production happened and how cultural and religious structures changed.”
And while Boncuklu Tarla is located nearly 300 kilometers from the world’s oldest temple, several of the buildings unearthed there are quite similar to those found at Göbeklitepe, but up to 1,000 older. “We have identified examples of buildings which we call public area, temples, religious places in Boncuklu Tarla that are older compared to discoveries in Göbeklitepe,” Kodaş stated.
Göbeklitepe
Several researchers from the universities of Istanbul and Chicago unearthed Göbeklitepe in 1963 and it was officially declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018. Since 1995, the Sanliurfa Museum and the German Archaeological Institute have been excavating the site.
They have made some pretty interesting discoveries which included 10-20 foot tall T-shaped obelisks from the Neolithic period that weighed 40-60 tons. They unearthed several more historical artifacts, including a 26-inch tall human statue from 12,000 years ago.
While many fascinating discoveries have been unearthed in Göbeklitepe, the fact that the Boncuklu Tarla site could be as much as a thousand years older is certainly a significant archaeological find.
Long before there were Alien Abductees, there were the Contactees. They were the people chosen to spread the word by what became known as the “Space Brothers.” The “word” meaning: peace, love and understanding. In other words, the aliens were here to help us – provided we followed their slightly bullying agenda. While reports of – and encounters with – these very human-looking, long-haired, jumpsuit-wearing aliens were at their height in the 1950s, reports predated that era and still occasionally surface. The Space Brothers would target people in isolated locations – very often desert environments in the United States – and encourage them to share their experiences, write books, and go on the lecture circuit. So many of these people did exactly that. They included George Adamski, Dana Howard, Howard Menger, George Hunt Williamson, and Orfeo Angelucci. Much has written about the Contactees, but there is one glaring issue that is so often omitted. Or, even, unknown to so many.
Most of the Contactees’ experiences are assumed to have begun with the landing of a saucer-shaped craft of the kind that appeared in The Day the Earth Stood Still. That’s not entirely correct, though. The reality is that many of the Contactees said that their encounters actually began with the appearances of strange balls of light (BOLs). The ships, however, would dutifully follow them. Let’s take a look at what the Contactees had to say about those BOLs. We’ll begin with Daniel Fry, the author of The White Sands Incident. According to Fry he first saw what looked like an “especially bright group of stars” that “seemed to beckon me.”
Truman Bethurum claimed amusing and outrageous encounters with a curvy, stacked-to-the-max, hot-looking babe from the stars who announced herself as Captain Aura Rhanes, of the planet Clarion. Interestingly, Bethurum said that prior to his meetings with the captain, he would often see “a small flare” or what appeared to be “a meteor falling though the starlit purple night.” Orfeo Angeulcci – the author of (among others) The Secret of the Saucers – said that his main encounter with a pair of human-looking aliens involved the appearance of a red, glowing, oval-shaped light that was “about five times as large as the red portion of a traffic light.” The sound of a male voice was soon heard, which was “strong,” and had “well-modulated tones and speaking perfect English.” The voice from the lights assured Angelucci that “they” were “friends from another world.”
Dana Howard (who, in 1956, penned Diane: She Came from Venus) said that during one of her most significant alien encounters she saw, “…a rising glow of phosphorescence. It was very tall at first, but out of this phosphorescent substance a form began to manifest…a solid fleshy being, delicate in charm and manner.” Decades ago, a man named Ralph Lael claimed amazing encounters with the Space Brothers on Brown Mountain, North Carolina. Just like those characters above, Lael reported seeing – in close proximity – eerie balls of light. In Lael’s case, the BOLs were around twelve feet in circumference. Lael felt, as one of the BOLs approached him, that “it was alive and had intelligence.”
Bob Short was a Contactee who I met on several occasions – a couple of times at the UFO Congress in Laughlin, Nevada in the late 1990s, and at the Retro UFO gig, which is now no longer around. I often saw people poke fun at Bob and his Contactee-driven claims, but they shouldn’t have. Bob’s encounters, too, began with the sudden appearances of multiple BOLs. Bob wrote (in his book, Out of the Stars: A Message from Extraterrestrial Intelligence) that he often saw, specifically before an encounter of the Space Brother kind, “luminous ephemeral spheres of light.” Bob also said that the BOLs were “so dazzling” that “the actual form behind the light is masked and cannot be scrutinized visually.”
I had a few chats with Short about all of this over the years, and he pondered seriously on the scenario of the BOLs being the true alien entities – and the Space being “visions” created by the BOL intelligence. If Bob was correct, then it puts matters in a very different state. Maybe all of the genuine Contactee-type experiences occurred in vision-style; in altered state-type situations dictated by those mysterious balls of light.
Two chimera piglets containing monkey DNA have been born in China.
Although both died within a week and appeared to be normal, the baby animals had genetic material from cynomolgus monkeys in their heart, liver, spleen, lung and skin.
Scientists said the research, which required more than 4,000 embryos to get the piglets, aims to find ways of growing human organs in animals for transplantation.
The two piglets, born in Beijing, China, died within a week. They were made from both pig and monkey DNA. Scientists said the research aimed to find a way of growing human organs inside animals for transplantation
'This is the first report of full-term monkey-pig chimeras', Tang Hai at the State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology in Beijing told New Scientist.
Five-day old piglet embryos had monkey stem cells injected into them that had been adjusted to produce a flourescent protein, allowing researchers to find out where the cells ended up.
The scientists said it was unclear why the two chimera piglets died, but as eight other normal piglets that were implanted also died, they think this is a problem with the IVF process rather than chimerism.
Despite the research, some members of the scientific community have warned against creating chimeras due to ethical concerns.
Neuroscientist Douglas Munoz at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, said that research projects like this 'just really ethically scares me'.
'For us to start to manipulate life functions in this kind of way without fully knowing how to turn it off, or stop it if something goes awry really scares me.'
Monkey stem cells were injected into five-day-old pig embryos before they were implanted into sows. Only ten embryos developed
However, China shows no sign of stopping after proposing in July to create monkeys with partially human-derived brains in order to better study diseases like alzheimer's.
And Yale University stem cell expert Alejandro De Los Angeles has written that the search for a better animal model to stimulate human disease has been a 'holy grail' of biomedical research for decades.
'Realising the promise of human-monkey chimera research in an ethically and scientifically appropriate manner will require a coordinated approach', he said.
A human-pig hybrid embryo was created in January 2017, at the Salk Institute in San Diego, but died 28 days later.
It is hoped the research could offer an alternative to organ donation.
Around three people a day die in the UK according to the NHS and 12 in the US because replacement organs cannot be found.
“The findings could pave the way toward overcoming the obstacles in the re-engineering of heterogeneous organs and achieve the ultimate goal of human organ reconstruction in a large animal.”
Sometimes when you read “noble cause” statements like that one in scientific papers about research that border on, crosses over or flat-out erases the line of ethics, you can almost hear their eyes winking and their fingers straining to stay crossed from across the ocean. That seems to be the case with most recent stories out of China where scientists have already genetically-edited human embryos, with the twins being born last year and, as far as we know, are still alive. Unfortunately, that may not be the case with the researcher who did the embryo editing – he disappeared for a time and is said to be under constant surveillance. Now, a new report announces that other Chinese researchers have edited pig embryos and, unlike in previous experiments, the embryos were not destroyed and pig-monkey chimeras have been born. How soon before they’re creating pig-human chimeras?
“We believe this work will facilitate future developments in xenogeneic organogenesis, bringing us one step closer to producing tissue-specific functional cells and organs in a large animal model through interspecies blastocyst complementation.”
In China, “one step closer” seems to mean “we may be already doing it (wink-wink).” In a paper published in the journal Protein & Cell and reviewed by New Scientist, co-author Tang Hai, a researcher at the State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology, confirms these are the first full-term pig-monkey chimeras. (In a chimera, each cell is from a separate parent while hybrids cells have combined genetics from both.)
The team modified monkey cells to make them fluorescent, then took embryonic stem cells and injected them into over 4000 pig embryos which were then injected into sows. Ten piglets were born and two were confirmed to be chimeras, with multiple tissues – heart, liver, spleen, lung and skin – partly made of monkey cells. The two piglets died within a week, but so did all of the piglets born alive, which leads Hai to believe the problem had to do with the in-vitro fertilization, not the fact that they were chimeras.
“Interspecies chimerism still has a long way to go before clinical application is possible.”
Does it? This experiment created living pig-monkey chimeras. An experiment in Japan in August 2019 created human-rat chimeras, but the embryos were destroyed early in the process. The same was said to have happened with a human-monkey chimera in China. The latest experiment allowed the embryos to live – albeit without human cells being involved. How long before a human-monkey chimera arrives?
“What happens if the tem cells escape and form human neurons in the brain of the animal? Would it have consciousness? And what happens if these stem cells turn into sperm cells?”
he asks. Núñez assures that Izpisuá’s research team has created mechanisms “so that if human cells migrate to the brain, they will self-destruct.”
Doctor Ángel Raya, the director of the Barcelona Regenerative Medicine Center, asked that question of Estrella Núñez, who worked on the human-monkey experiment and was told they had created mechanisms “so that if human cells migrate to the brain, they will self-destruct.”
When the shortage of human organs for transplants becomes acute, what decision will those with money make? Past experience tells us that in these situations, the first thing to “self-destruct” is ethics.
The UFO Contactees of the 1950s were a varied bunch. They all claimed amazing encounters with human-looking aliens. Those same aliens demanded we lay down our nuclear weapons and live in peace with one another. Some chance of that happening – then or now! They included George Adamski, Truman Bethurum, Dana Howard, Arthur Bryant, Daniel Fry, and George Hunt Williamson. While many of their claims differed in varying ways, there’s one thing that links just about all of them. Namely, that nearly all of the Contactees had files opened on them by the FBI. Not only that, some of those files were lengthy. Very lengthy. To give you an idea, the number of pages that the FBI has now declassified on Adamski is in excess of 400 pages. Then, there is George Van Tasssel, who is mostly remembered for his annual flying saucer events held out at Giant Rock, California from the 1950s to the 1970s. At their height (the fifties) the outdoor gigs attracted audiences in their thousands. Van Tassel gained more attention when he created the near-legendary Integratron – supposedly designed to extent the human lifespan. The FBI’s file on Van Tassel makes it very clear that the Bureau took a great deal of interest in the man. Much of it revolved around concerns that Van Tassel was using the UFO subject as a means to spread communism. There is, however, another aspect to all of this.
In the most recent and relevant batch of material that the FBI has declassified there is an interesting Q&A between the FBI and Mrs. Van Tassel. Much has been said and written about George Van Tassel, but far less about his wife, Eva. Until now. The three-pages-long document provides us with some interesting data on Eva and her husband. Dated November 13, 1954 the FBI document begins as follows: “Mrs. Eva Van Tassel, wife of captioned subject [George, of course] was interviewed by SA [Special Agent, name deleted]and the reporting agent in the absence of her husband. Mrs. Van Tassel advised that her husband was in Los Angeles contacting a printer who prints a magazine named ‘Proceeding’ of the College of Universal Wisdom. She declared while in Los Angeles Mr. Van Tassel sleeps in a truck. Mrs. Van Tassel could not furnish the name or location of the printer.”
Giant Rock
The FBI documentation continues: “Relative to her husband and herself, Mrs. Van Tassel claims that she and her husband practice a metaphysical religion. She declared this religion is based on an occult principle in that she and her husband sit in a room in dead silence and receive thought transfers from one another and from other individuals who are not psychically present in the room. She declared that it was through this type of practice that her husband has learned or prophesied the coming of World War III and a gigantic explosion on the East Coast. She mentioned that at the present time she and her husband have undertaken a special project. This project is the founding and organizing of the College of Universal Wisdom.”
The FBI agents made notes concerning what Eva told them: “The purpose of the college is to promote and carry out interplanetary communication and the dissemination of Universal Wisdom gained through the median of space beings. She advised that her husband has contacted many individuals concerning his plans for the college. She mentioned that he has contacted professors and students and various colleges throughout the United States. Mrs. Van Tassel could not furnish the identities of any of these individuals that her husband has corresponded with. She also advised that this college would operate under the state laws of California as a place of learning pertaining to religion. She advised that her husband through his periodical mentioned above has solicited donations for the advancement of this college. She further advised that the college is to be located adjacent to the Giant Rock Airport at Yucca Valley.”
The FBI had much more to say: “Mrs. Van Tassel declared that on August 24, 1953, at approximately 2:00 A.M. while she and her husband were sleeping out of doors adjacent to the Giant Rock air strip, her husband was awakened by a person from outer space in a flying saucer which had landed on the air strip. Mrs. Van Tassel was quick to point out she was not awakened and did not see the spacemen or his means of transportation. Mrs. Van Tassel declared that her husband related that the spaceman took her husband aboard the flying saucer which was occupied by three additional spacemen. Mrs. Van Tassel declared that her husband failed to mention the color or the size of this space craft. She stated that the spacemen were similar in every description to earth men. She advised that the spacemen did not carry weapons nor was there any armament noticed on the flying saucer. She declared that according to her husband, the saucer and spacemen spent approximately twenty minutes on earth after which time they departed into outer space. The spaceman who woke up her husband was the leader or spokesman for the group. He spoke in English and informed her husband that earth men should give up using metal as they are ruining radio frequencies with the over-use of metal.”
There was this, too, regarding Eva and George: “Relative to her husband, she stated he was born in Ohio, city unknown, March 12, 1910. She mentioned that it is possible her husband was born in Ashtabula. He failed to receive a high school diploma as he lacked three months schooling. He left Ohio in 1929 for California. Mrs. Van Tassel declared she married her husband on January 31, 1932, in Yuma, Arizona; her maiden name being Eva Meek. She declared that her husband, prior to 1947, worked as a Flight Test Engineer at Lockheed Aircraft, Burbank, California, and lived on [illegible] Street in Los Angeles. She declared that in 1947 she, her husband, and her daughter, Darlene, moved to Yucca Valley. She stated her daughter is Secretary-Treasurer of the College of Universal Wisdom. She also pointed out that her husband presently operates the Giant Rock Airport under CAA regulations. She advised her husband is not a pilot, but does hold a mechanics certificate with CAA.”
It all got a bit surreal and amusing as the FBI concluded: “It was noted by the reporting agent that the air strip known as Giant Rock is a flat, dry, lake bed. The area surrounding being noted. The writer and [Special Agent deleted] interviewed Mrs. Van Tassel in an underground cave like room which was excavated from the base of the Giant Rock. Mrs. Van Tassel advised that this room is presently the headquarters of the College of Universal Wisdom. The area surrounding the air strip was in every respect very primitive.”
Here is an entrance to an underground structure. Its almost hidden to look like the environment. Why underground? To stay warm in the winter and cool in the summers...basically year round its climate controlled. I also found an unusual object near the wheels of the rover. The object looks to be a mechanical arm of some machine that is buried under the dirt. This is absolute proof that living creatures on Mars were intelligent and used underground homes to survive.
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White Spheres Over Lake Michigan Hover And Shoot Away, Dec 4, 2019, UFO Sighting News.
White Spheres Over Lake Michigan Hover And Shoot Away, Dec 4, 2019, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: December 4, 2019 Location of sighting: Chicago, Illinois, USA Source: MUFON #104897 During sunset giant round white orbs hovered over Lake Michigan on Dec 4th that caught the attention of a passing motorist. He watched as the hovered in place and then they moved horizontally and then straight up and away. Such UFOs are one of the top 3 most commonly seen UFOs...giant white orbs of florescent like light that very in size from the size of a baseball to the size of a 747. This is absolute proof of an alien base below lake Michigan. Its not just reading and research that led me to this...I witnessed such an event in 1989 at Rapid City, SD where I saw 25 of these orbs the size of 747s about 1 mile up above my parking lot. I worked at Ellsworth AFB SAC base, where I worked on B-1s. No...they were not ours. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan Eyewitness states:
Driving on a clear morning, pulled over to view sunrise over Lake Michigan near my home. Dotted in the sky hovering objects over water, shinning brightly, no clouds, commercial jets flying much higher on approach to O'Hare with recognizable red flashing tail and wing lights.Took just a few photos, watched for 5 mins. as objects hovered in place, then shot across the sky horizontally and straight-up at speeds not achievable by modern aviation known to me. I have witness other objects over Lake Michigan especially in 2012 during NATO Summit held in Chicago during President Obama's administration. Over 3-days I witnessed major activity during early morning hours, capturing unbelievable photo's that were so disturbing I never reported and only have a few photo's to this day. I felt strongly objects knew I had taken photographic evidence and rarely shared experience.
I was searching through NASA archive photo and saw this beautiful moon photo taken from the Shuttle Discovery. I didn't think I would find anything at the time, just thought it was a beautiful photo. I enlarged it and put it into auto focus and found something amazing. There was a black lightning bolt UFO in the lower right hand corner of the photo. I have never ever reported a UFO of this shape. Its very rare and unlike anything I had come to expect. And yet, there it its, above the sunset clouds in earths orbit on a NASA website. This is 100% proof of the existence of intelligent aliens watching over earth.
Something exploded on the moon or was it a lunar wave, a hologram or perhaps a glitch in the matrix or something else?
According to atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley "The technical name of this event is a 'Ducted Mock-mirage Red Flash.' As the Moon set, it dipped into a strong temperature inversion layer with warm air above cooler air - light rays bend when they cross the layers, in this case strongly enough that 'ducting' occurs -- that is, the rays bounce up and down, trapped in an optical duct", reports spaceweather.
Lawrence created a short clip of the strange red flash.
Remember comet 46P/Wirtanen? It was a bright comet about this time last year. Around the time it swept near the Earth and sun, the comet entered the field of view NASA’s TESS planet-hunter. And boom! It underwent an outburst, caught by TESS.
This animation shows an explosive outburst of dust, ice and gases from comet 46P/Wirtanen that began on September 26, 2018, and dissipated over the next 20 days. NASA’s TESS spacecraft acquired an image of the comet every 3 hours during the first 3 days of the outburst.
What makes a comet flare up suddenly? No one knows exactly, but astronomers do know that outbursts are sometimes seen when comets are near their parent stars. Now University of Maryland astronomers say they’ve made the most complete and detailed observations to date of the formation and dissipation of a comet outburst. The comet is none other than 46P/Wirtanen, which last swept closest to the Earth and sun in its 5.4-year orbit in late 2018. You might remember this comet. We published many beautiful images of it, captured in November and December 2018 by members of the EarthSky community.
Shortly before earthly astrophotographers began to ogle it, the comet entered the field of view of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), whose job is to seek exoplanets. As it happened, while TESS was aimed its way, 46P/Wirtanen underwent an outburst. Researchers were able to gain a clear start-to-finish image sequence of the explosive emission of dust, ice and gases. Team members reported their results in the November 22, 2019 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
University of Maryland astronomer Tony Farnham is the lead author of the study. He said in a statement:
TESS spends nearly a month at a time imaging one portion of the sky. With no day or night breaks and no atmospheric interference, we have a very uniform, long-duration set of observations. As comets orbit the sun, they can pass through TESS’ field of view. Wirtanen was a high priority for us because of its close approach in late 2018, so we decided to use its appearance in the TESS images as a test case to see what we could get out of it.
We did so and were very surprised!
Farnham said that, although Wirtanen came closest to Earth on December 16, 2018, the outburst began in September. The astronomers’ statement explained:
The initial brightening of the outburst occurred in two distinct phases, with an hour-long flash followed by a more gradual second stage that continued to grow brighter for another 8 hours. This second stage was likely caused by the gradual spreading of comet dust from the outburst, which causes the dust cloud to reflect more sunlight overall.
After reaching peak brightness, the comet faded gradually over a period of more than two weeks.
In its search for exoplanets, it’s TESS’ job to acquire detailed composite images every 30 minutes. And so the team studying the comet was able to view each phase of the outburst in what they called “exquisite detail.” Farnham said:
With 20 days’ worth of very frequent images, we were able to assess changes in brightness very easily. That’s what TESS was designed for, to perform its primary job as an exoplanet surveyor. We can’t predict when comet outbursts will happen. But even if we somehow had the opportunity to schedule these observations, we couldn’t have done any better in terms of timing. The outburst happened mere days after the observations started.
Farnham and his colleagues said they’re also the first to observe Wirtanen’s dust trail. Unlike a comet’s tail — the spray of gas and fine dust that follows behind a comet, growing as it approaches the sun — a comet’s trail is a field of larger debris that traces the comet’s orbital path as it travels around the sun. Unlike a tail, which changes direction as it is blown by the solar wind, the orientation of the trail stays more or less constant over time, they said. Astronomer Michael Kelley – a co-author on the new paper – explained:
The trail more closely follows the orbit of the comet, while the tail is more offset from it, as it gets pushed around by the sun’s radiation pressure. What’s significant about the trail is that it contains the largest material. Tail dust is very fine, a lot like smoke. But trail dust is much larger—more like sand and pebbles.
We think comets lose most of their mass through their dust trails. When the Earth runs into a comet’s dust trail, we get meteor showers.
Their statement said:
The team has generated a rough estimate of how much material may have been ejected in the outburst (about 2.2 million pounds [1 million kg], which could have left a crater close to 65 feet [20 meters] across), but further analysis of the estimated particle sizes in the dust tail may help improve this estimate. Observing more comets will also help to determine whether multi-stage brightening is rare or commonplace in comet outbursts.
Farnham said:
We also don’t know what causes natural outbursts and that’s ultimately what we want to find. There are at least four other comets in the same area of the sky where TESS made these observations, with a total of about 50 comets expected in the first two years’ worth of TESS data. There’s a lot that can come of these data. We’re still finding out the capabilities of TESS, so hopefully we’ll have more to report on this comet and others very soon.
According to Farnham, the TESS observations of comet Wirtanen were the first to capture all phases of a natural comet outburst, from beginning to end. The astronomers’ statement explained:
… three other previous observations came close to recording the beginning of an outburst event. Observations of a 2007 outburst from comet 17P/Holmes began late, missing several hours of the initial brightening phase of the event. In 2017, observations of an outburst from comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 (SW1) concluded early, due to limitations on pre-scheduled observation time. And, while observations from the Deep Impact mission captured an outburst from comet Tempel 1 in unprecedented detail in 2005, the outburst was not natural created instead by the mission’s impactor module. However, the current observations are the first to capture the dissipation phase in its entirety.
While the current study describes initial results, Farnham, Kelley and their colleagues said they look forward to further analyses of Wirtanen, as well as other comets in TESS’ field of view.
Jack Fusco Photography in California wrote in December 2018: “Hi EarthSky! I’m so excited to share my 1st photo of comet 46P/Wirtanen! We took our boxer, Kona, out to the Anza Borrego Desert with us and came home with a new family photo. : ) I shared some behind-the-scenes and outtakes over on my blog as well.” Awesome photo, and thanks for the how-to-photograph info on your blog, Jack!
Bottom line: Comet 46P/Wirtanen passed about 7 million miles from Earth at its closest, on December 16, 2018. That’s expected to be the brightest close approach for this comet for the next 20 years. Shortly before its closest approach to the Earth and sun, NASA’s TESS planet-hunter happened to catch a start-to-finish sequence showing an outburst of this comet. Astronomers are delighted.
The pioneering astrophysicist is impressed by the Parker Solar Probe's achievements thus far.
NASA Science Mission Directorate Associate Administrator Thomas Zurbuchen (left), solar astrophysicist Eugene Parker (center) and United Launch Alliance President Tory Bruno stand in front of NASA's Parker Solar Probe and its Delta IV Heavy rocket before the mission's Aug. 12, 2018 launch.
The first results to come down from NASA's record-setting Parker Solar Probe have impressed the pioneering astrophysicist who lent the spacecraft his name.
Yesterday (Dec. 4), mission team members published four studies reporting what the PSP observed during its first two close approaches to the sun. These perihelion passages were epic and audacious, taking the probe within a mere 15 million miles (24 million kilometers) of our star at blistering speeds that topped 200,000 mph (320,000 km/h).
No spacecraft has ever gotten closer to the sun, or traveled so fast relative to it.
The PSP takes its name from 92-year-old Eugene Parker, who in the 1950s controversially proposed that a stream of charged particles flows constantly from the sun. The existence of this stream, known as the solar wind, was confirmed shortly thereafter by spacecraft observations.
Parker, who's now an emeritus professor at the University of Chicago, made a number of other important contributions to our understanding of the sun during his long career — so many, in fact, that he's regarded as the father of modern heliophysics, said Nicky Fox, director of the Heliophysics Division at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
"He basically gave birth to an entire physics discipline," Fox said yesterday during a "NASA Live" event devoted to discussing the new PSP results. While humanity has sought to figure out the sun since time immemorial, she added, "really understanding that the sun had such a profound effect on Earth is really due to Gene Parker."
This outsize influence explains why NASA broke the mold with its naming of the PSP. It's the only agency spacecraft ever named after a living person.
Fox explained during yesterday's event that she paid Parker a visit a few months ago to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the spacecraft's arrival in orbit around the sun.
The PSP launched on Aug. 12, 2018, with two big mission goals in mind: to determine how the solar wind gets accelerated to such high speeds (more than 1 million mph, or 1.6 million km/h), and to understand why the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is so much hotter than the solar surface. (Temperatures in the corona can exceed 2 million degrees Fahrenheit, or 1.1 million degrees Celsius. The surface is just 11,000 F, or 6,000 C.)
During their meeting, which was captured on video and shared during the NASA Live event, Fox gave Parker a sneak peek at the results that were published yesterday. These data show, among other things, that one component of the solar wind appears to originate near the star's equator, in coronal "holes" that are cooler and less dense than the rest of the outer atmosphere.
PSP also found surprising "switchbacks" in the solar magnetic field flowing close to the sun: The field's orientation, as measured by the probe, sometimes flipped 180 degrees, then reversed itself again within just seconds or minutes.
"Well, all I can say is, 'Wow,'" Parker said in the video. "When you go on a space mission, you always run into mysterious things, eventually figuring them out. But I wouldn't have expected anything like that."
Parker also reflected on the PSP's launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, which he attended.
"I was very moved by the fact that that spacecraft was going off into the night sky, and he'll never come back," Parker said. His next words came more slowly, as the physicist appeared to get choked up: "Sort of sad, you know — your old friend."
Fox commiserated, replying that she experienced some separation anxiety as the spacecraft sped away from Earth.
"It was like watching a member of the team, because after working with that spacecraft for so long, she became a person, and she became part of the team," Fox told Parker. "And to say goodbye to her was really, really tough."
We'll be hearing lots more from the PSP in the years to come. The spacecraft has completed just three of the 24 planned perihelion passes that will take place through the mission's end in 2025. And the last few close approaches will be the most exciting, and possibly the most fruitful.
The PSP will pare down its perihelion distance repeatedly via trajectory-altering flybys of Venus, the next of which will occur next month. By 2025, if all goes according to plan, the spacecraft will get within a mere 3.83 million miles (6.16 million km) of the sun's surface at closest approach. And those encounters will feature top speeds of 430,000 mph (690,000 km/h), mission team members have said.
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The Japanese mission Hayabusa2 just bid farewell to the asteroid the probe spent a year and a half studying, and scientists have now announced some intriguing trends they noticed in the spacecraft's photos.
Those trends had to do with the craters dotting the surface of the asteroid, dubbed Ryugu. The team used 340 different images of the space rock's surface and identified a total of 77 craters scattered over Ryugu, each measuring at least 66 feet (20 meters) across. But those pockmarks aren't distributed as evenly across the surface as the scientists might have expected, the researchers explained in a new paper.
Instead, the craters are clustered in a couple of different ways. There are more craters near the equator than the poles, the scientists found, and there are more on the eastern side of Ryugu than on the western. Additionally, the scientists didn't find as many relatively smaller craters within this size range as they might have expected given the number of very large craters the space rock sports.
Those patterns became particularly clear when the team looked at particularly large craters, the 11 that measure at least 328 feet (100 m) across. (That collection includes Ryugu's largest crater, Urashima, which is about one-third of the asteroid's diameter.)
Of those 11 monster craters, five line up along the ridge ringing the asteroid's equator. That's more than twice as many as the team would have expected if Ryugu's craters were distributed randomly, the researchers said.
The discrepancies don't mean that the solar system has been targeting this one unremarkable space rock, of course. Instead, the team said that the clustering of craters is a result of the asteroid's geological history.
Images of each crater on Ryugu, arranged from largest to smallest. The final nine images show structures that the scientists considered in their analysis but determined are likely not impact craters. (Image credit: Icarus/Naoyuki Hirata et al.)
The researchers said that most of the equatorial ridge is relatively old but the westernmost part is younger. That would explain why the craters are unevenly distributed: The rest of the ridge has had much more time to pick up these impact scars.
The scientists hope that when they analyze the samples from Ryugu now on their way back to Earth, it could better inform these theories about how the asteroid came to be the way it is now, a university statement about the project said. Those samples are due to land near the end of next year.
The research is described in a paper being published next spring in the journal Icarus.
SCIENTISTS FIND DEAD STAR ROASTING ITS GIANT EXOPLANET
SCIENTISTS FIND DEAD STAR ROASTING ITS GIANT EXOPLANET
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VICTOR TANGERMANN
For the first time ever, New Scientist reports, scientists have discovered signs of an exoplanet orbiting a white dwarf — the corpse of an exploded star. It’s estimated to be about the size of Jupiter, and it’s orbiting the dead star at an incredibly close distance.
The discovery could help us gain insight into the evolution of distant star systems, as well as our own. Planets this close to a white dwarf usually have no chance of survival, as they get sucked in by the white dwarf’s immense gravitational pull.
The team’s finding came after they detected a gas ring around a white dwarf called G29-38, some 1,200 light years away. Within this disk, a massive planet, mostly composed of water and hydrogen sulfide, orbits the white dwarf every ten days.
“This discovery is major progress, because over the past two decades, we had growing evidence that planetary systems survive into the white-dwarf stage,” lead author Boris Gaensicke, from the University of Warwick in England, said in a statement. “Such a system has never been seen before, and it was immediately clear to me that this was a unique star,” Gaensicke added.
Eviscerated Star
The exoplanet won’t be around for long, though.
“This star has a planet that we can’t see directly, but because the star is so hot it is evaporating the planet, and we detect the atmosphere it is losing,” Gaensicke said.
“The orbit of the planet is most probably the result of gravitational interactions, indicating the presence of additional planets in the system,” the team wrote in the abstract of their paper, published this week in the journal Nature. Their theory goes that other planets might have pushed the planet towards its eviscerated star.
“This confirms what we have been thinking for the past 25 years — white dwarfs have proper planetary systems around them,” lead researcher Gaensicke told New Scientist.
‘Sonde die de zon aanraakt’ onthult eerste geheimen van onze moederster
‘Sonde die de zon aanraakt’ onthult eerste geheimen van onze moederster
Het ruimteschip dat Nasa in 2018 richting de zon vuurde, heeft zijn eerste wetenschappelijke vruchten afgeworpen. De sonde moet onder meer onthullen of de zon zich op termijn niet zal ontpoppen tot kosmisch gevaar voor onze technologische samenlevingen.
Onderzoekers somden de bevindingen op in vier artikelen die woensdag verschenen in vakblad Nature.
Dat de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie Nasa geïnteresseerd is in het gedrag van de zon, is logisch. Niet alleen is vrijwel al het aardse leven afhankelijk van de zon, met een beetje pech kan onze moederster zich ook ontpoppen tot een kosmische ruiter van de Apocalyps. In de somberste astronomische scenario’s legt een fikse deeltjesuitbarsting op haar oppervlak bijvoorbeeld alle aardse apparaten plat, iets waar onze steeds nadrukkelijker van technologie afhankelijke samenlevingen slecht op zijn voorbereid.
Tegelijk snappen we nog maar verdraaid weinig van hoe de zon zich gedraagt. Reden genoeg voor de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie Nasa om een onbemand onderzoeksschip die kant op te sturen.
Een stukje van niets
Daarvoor moet die zogeheten Parker Solar Probe onze moederster wel relatief dicht naderen. ‘De sonde die de zon kan aanraken’, noemt de geoliede persmachine van Nasa het ruimtevaartuig daarom ook wel. Op kosmische schaal, moet je daar dan wel meteen bij denken. Want van écht aanraken is geen sprake. Op z’n dichtst nadert de Parker Solar Probe onze moederster tot zo’n 6,2 miljoen kilometer. Naar aardse begrippen is die afstand gigantisch – snij onze planeet doormidden, leg er een lange liniaal langs en je meet ruim 12.000 kilometer – maar op de schaal van het zonnestelsel is het een stukje van niets. Mercurius, de planeet het dichtst bij de zon, staat bijvoorbeeld op zo’n 58 miljoen kilometer afstand.
Op zijn punt van dichtste nadering boekt de sonde overigens wel een primeur. Het vaartuig vliegt dan de corona van de zon binnen, het gebied bomvol straling en deeltjes dat je vanaf de aarde kunt zien tijdens een zonsverduistering. In die corona wortelt de zonnewind en ook de deeltjesuitbarstingen die potentieel gevaarlijk zijn voor onze technologie.
Verrassende details
Over onder meer die corona duiken in de nieuwe onderzoeken nu details op die wetenschappers verrassen. Zo blijkt het magneetveld van de zon, dat met de zonnewind mee de ruimte in wordt gesleurd, bijvoorbeeld veel krachtiger van richting te veranderen dan tot nog toe gedacht. Verder werd onder meer de vorm van het magneetveld beter in kaart gebracht.
Sterrenkundige Rob Rutten, emeritus-hoogleraar aan de Universiteit Utrecht, noemt de uitkomsten heel interessant. ‘We leren hierdoor nieuwe natuurkunde. Het laat zien dat dit soort processen nog complexer is dan we al dachten’, zegt hij. ‘Maar voorlopig is de heilige graal van dit vakgebied – het voorspellen van zonne-uitbarstingen zoals je ook het weer voorspelt – nog niet in zicht.’
De komende jaren zullen wetenschappers de zon naar verwachting steeds beter leren kennen. De Parker Solar Probe vliegt in 2024 voor het eerst de buitenste delen van de corona binnen – de huidige metingen werden gedaan van zo’n 24 miljoen kilometer afstand. De Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA lanceert in 2020 bovendien haar eigen zonnemissie. Die nadert onze moederster niet zo dicht als de Parker-sonde, maar heeft wel meer wetenschappelijke apparatuur aan boord om de zon haar diepste geheimen te ontfutselen.
Touroperators maken er reclame mee, maar Nasa doet het écht: een reisje naar de zon. Een landing zit er niet in – de zon heeft geen vast oppervlak en is aan de buitenkant 5.500 graden – maar veel scheelt het niet. Vijf vragen over deze ambitieuze ruimtemissie.
WETENSCHAP NASA heeft de Indiase maanlander gelokaliseerd die in september op de maan is gecrasht. Het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartinstituut heeft foto’s online gezet van de plek waar de onbemande lander is terechtgekomen.
De Indiase lander, met aan boord een karretje, steeg op 22 juli op vanaf aarde en op 7 september verloor het controlecentrum tijdens de landing het contact. Het was onduidelijk waar het apparaat was terechtgekomen.
De lander zou de bodem bij de zuidpool van de maan gaan onderzoeken. Daar is misschien waterijs te vinden. Het zou tevens een primeur zijn, omdat mensen en verkenners nog nooit op dat deel van de maan zijn geweest.Vooralsnog zijn alleen de Verenigde Staten, de Sovjet-Unie en China erin geslaagd om op de maan te landen.
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Antarctica Google Earth Shows Something Really Weird
Antarctica Google Earth Shows Something Really Weird
A lot of strange things going on in Antarctica. The latest video of MrMB333 shows a nearly 300ft wide black anomaly near the Belgica Mountains in Antarctica.
There is a lot of speculation about what the anomaly might be. While some people suggest that it is a lava flow out of a volcano that has had multiple eruptions, pointing at the white plume of smoke coming from the black anomaly, others say that the anomaly looks like a fossilized Pterodactyl, a winged reptile that lived on earth about 210 million years ago.
The video continues with another object in Antarctica and appears to be triangular in shape suggesting that it could be a UFO.
While ghost hunting is our favourite type of paranormal investigation, we additionally delight in an excellent alien conspiracy. In any event, UFO sightings aren’t something which’s new to society. They have become an ever-popular subject. It’s simple to comprehend why there are a lot of UFO sightings. UFOs aren’t so hampered. Ghosts aren’t violent by nature. A ghost is generally the spirit of a deceased individual.
Hearsay, Lies and Ufo Sightings
The video footage is quite apparent. It has been the fodder for a number of arguments and debates regarding the authenticity of the same. It is not shaky like most. It shows three different sightings of suspected UFOs in three different parts of the world. Of course, when you believe all real information will one day stream into your home via electronic media, you might be deluded since you may foster in illusory comprehension of democracy.
Hardly any folks have so far witnessed them, yet virtually all of us are mindful of their phenomenon. In reality, a great deal of these theories are representative of individuals attempting to make sense of things. Hard science will not accept any evidence that’s not observable by the five principal senses, in addition to being measurable, repeatable, and predictable. There’s an incredible quantity of literature available on poltergeists.
The heart starts pumping more difficult to compensate. Additionally we need to keep in mind this was years before the UFO craze started in america. Advanced beings are part of our history. The mere actuality that more happened later proves nothing either manner. Before you make a decision as to what you believe, we implore you to comprehend the evidence. For starters, so many men and women say reflexively that there’s no evidence of an ET presence engaging our planet, when they don’t really know the evidence. It seems there’s inadequate proof for people who don’t need to see it on the 1 side.
If you get a crazy or creepy story all you need to do is call and inform them, or email it to them. It’s also quite a sad story. You are able to read an intriguing article about that HERE. This topic is messy on several levels. Each and every year, this issue of UFOs grows in popularity, and that’s primarily because of the simple fact they’re actually real.
Information can become so out of shape it’s challenging to see the actual picture. It’s featured on an internet site named UFO Sightings Daily. The portal that’s seen to appear in the Australian skies looks somewhat much like a ball lightning, but nonetheless, it certainly isn’t an instance of ball lightning.
Ever since then, a host of UFO sightings are reported. This show is just one of the most fascinating and entertaining you’ll find. Apart from that, the increasing appearance of UFO’s at theaters can be among the reasons also. It would be best to take notice.
A few of the scenarios, in some few incidents, ended up about the steps of a small number of disturbed individuals. And though it may look a very unexciting explanation for the strange incidents in our skies, the reality is that it’s the opposite. Although there are a lot of questions regarding the JFK assassination, it is a prime example of individuals attempting to earn sense about something which you can’t make sense of. This is a sensible question. With the UFO there is a really real question about how religious institutions would be in a position to adapt to an objective confirmation of non-human intelligence. 1 thing for sure is these issues are likely to grow in the public eye. My issue with channels that concentrate on conspiracy theories, is that so a lot of them just state things as a fact rather than presenting it as a potential outcome.
Something really weird shows up on Google Earth in Antarctica
Something really weird shows up on Google Earth in Antarctica
Alot of strange things going on in Antarctica. The latest video of MrMB333 shows a nearly 300ft wide black anomaly near the Belgica Mountains in Antarctica.
There is a lot of speculation about what the anomaly might be. While some people suggest that it is a lava flow out of a volcano that has had multiple eruptions, pointing at the white plume of smoke coming from the black anomaly, others say that the anomaly looks like a fossilized Pterodactyl, a winged reptile that lived on earth about 210 million years ago.
The video continues with another object in Antarctica and appears to be triangular in shape suggesting that it could be a UFO.
Parker Solar Probe – now in its 4th orbit around the sun – can endure heat and radiation like no previous mission. This week, 4 new studies in Nature reveal new insights about the sun’s mysterious corona and solar wind.
Scientists who study the sun are buzzing this week about four new papers published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature on December 4, 2019. The papers are based on data collected by the record-setting Parker Solar Probe mission – launched in 2018 – during the spacecraft’s first two close sweeps past our parent star (late 2018 and early 2019). These early studies, the scientists say, have provided insights into the two fundamental questions the Parker Solar Probe mission was designed to answer. First, defying all logic, why does the sun’s outer atmosphere – or corona– become much, much hotter the farther it stretches from the sun’s surface? Second, what accelerates the solar wind – a supersonic stream of protons, electrons and other particles – emanating from the corona and permeating the entire solar system?
A December 4, 2019, statement from scientists at the University of Michigan – who work with one of the instruments aboard the Parker Solar Probe – explained:
Both questions have ramifications for how we predict, detect and prepare for solar storms and coronal mass ejections that can have dramatic impacts on Earth’s power grid and on astronauts.
Nour E. Raouafi, project scientist for Parker Solar Probe at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, which built and manages the mission for NASA, added in a separate December 4 statement:
The sun has fascinated humanity for our entire existence. We’ve learned a great deal about our star in the past several decades, but we really needed a mission like Parker Solar Probe to go into the sun’s atmosphere. It’s only there that we can really learn the details of these complex solar processes.
And what we’ve learned in just these three solar orbits alone has changed a lot of what we know about the sun.
Isn’t this beautiful? It’s an illustration of our sun – our local star – and its outer atmosphere, or corona, extending into space. Mysteriously, the corona is hotter than the sun’s surface. It releases the solar wind, a stream of charged particles that sometimes affects earthly satellites and power grids. Space scientists launched the Parker Solar Probe to study both the corona and solar wind.
Justin Kasper of the University of Michigan, who serves as principal investigator for Parker’s Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instrument suite. He led one of the new studies and is co-author of two others. In their statement, these scientists said that the Parker Solar Probe revealed that the sun’s rotation or spin on its axis – completing a single spin only once every 27 days at its equator – has an impact on the solar wind much farther away than previously thought. They already knew that – near the sun – the sun’s magnetic field pulls the solar wind in the same direction that the sun spins. Farther from the sun, at the distance the spacecraft measured in these first encounters, they had expected to see, at most, a weak signature of that rotation. However, Kasper said:
To our great surprise, as we neared the sun, we’ve already detected large rotational flows – 10 to 20 times greater than what standard models of the sun predict.
So we are missing something fundamental about the sun, and how the solar wind escapes.
This has huge implications. Space weather forecasting will need to account for these flows if we are going to be able to predict whether a coronal mass ejection will strike Earth, or astronauts heading to the moon or Mars.
Parker Solar Probe’s location with respect to Mercury, Venus and Earth on December 3, 2019. The craft completed its 3rd orbit around the sun on November 15. Its next milestone will be a Venus flyby on December 26.
Parker Solar Probe’s findings regarding the sun’s magnetic field – which is believed to play a role in the coronal heating mystery – were equally surprising, the scientists said. The new findings relate to what called Alfvén waves, which are waves that occur in a plasma (the sun is so hot that most of its gas exists in plasma form). Alfvén waves were detected in the solar wind long ago. Some researchers though they might be remnants of whatever mechanism is causing the mysterious heating of the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona. Parker researchers were on the lookout for indications that might be the case, but found something unexpected. Kasper explained:
When you get closer to the sun, you start seeing these ‘rogue’ Alfvén waves that have four times the energy than the regular waves around them. They feature 300,000 mph velocity spikes that are so strong, they actually flip the direction of the magnetic field.
According to these scientists:
Those polarity-reversing velocity spikes offer another potential candidate for what may cause the corona to get hotter moving away from the sun.
That’s clearly an early result, but it gives space scientists something to be watching for as – aided by breakthrough technologies that let the craft endure heat and radiation like no previous mission – Parker Solar Probe continues to sweep closer and closer to the sun.
And sweeping close to the sun is, in fact, Parker Solar Probe’s job. It’ll ultimately come within 4 million miles of the sun’s surface.
The probe launched on August 12, 2018. On October 29 of that year, it broke its first record, coming closer to the sun than any other human-made object (passing within the previous record of 26.55 million miles from the sun’s surface, set by the German-American Helios 2 spacecraft in 1976).
As the Parker Solar Probe mission has progressed, the spacecraft has repeatedly broken its own records, coming closer and closer to the sun. Its most recent perihelion (closet point to sun) – perihelion #3 – was September 1, 2019. The next one – perihelion #4 – will be January 29, 2020. In 2024, the craft is expected to come within 4 million miles of the sun’s surface (3.83 million miles, or 6.1 million km). Click here for a timeline showing upcoming perihelions in the mission.
Data collected during the spacecraft’s first two solar orbits was released on November 12. This week, these four new papers are causing a stir.
And the Michigan scientists aren’t the only ones excited about the data from the Parker Solar Probe. Heliophysicists around the globe have a reason to be excited. For example, Joe Giacalone of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona – team member for another instrument aboard the probe (Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun) – commented to Jasmine Demers in an article in the Arizona Daily Star on December 2, 2019:
This is an exciting time to be a heliophysicist.
The data that is now publicly available comes from a region of space we have never sampled previously. With many brilliant scientists now poring through this amazing data set, new discoveries about our star are soon coming.
Artist’s concept of the Parker Solar Probe sweeping close to the sun. At its closest to the sun – toward the end of its 7-year prime mission – Parker Solar Probe will come well within the mysterious solar corona, or outermost atmosphere, within 3.83 million miles of the solar surface. Image via NASA: 10 Things to Know about Parker Solar Probe.
Bottom line: Parker Solar Probe – launched in 2018 and now in its 4th orbit around our local star – is designed to endure the sun’s heat and radiation like no previous mission. This week, 4 new studies in Nature – related to the solar wind and corona – have space scientists buzzing.
Geoloog onderzoekt alle warme en koude periodes van de afgelopen 800.000 jaar en achterhaalt oorzaak klimaatverandering (nee, het is niet CO2)
Geoloog onderzoekt alle warme en koude periodes van de afgelopen 800.000 jaar en achterhaalt oorzaak klimaatverandering (nee, het is niet CO2)
Geoloog Don J. Easterbrook heeft een boek gepubliceerd over de link tussen klimaat en onze zon.
Dr. Easterbrook is als emeritus hoogleraar verbonden aan de Western Washington University, een expert reviewer van het VN-klimaatpanel IPCC en heeft 10 boeken en 150 wetenschappelijke artikelen op zijn naam staan.
“Ik heb zojuist een onderzoek afgerond naar alle warme en koude periodes van de afgelopen 800.000 jaar,” zei hij.
Oorzaak
Dit onderzoek onthult volgens hem de oorzaak van de IJstijd en klimaatverandering.
“Ik heb voor alle warme en koude periodes van de afgelopen 800.000 jaar gekeken naar temperatuur, het aantal zonnevlekken, zonnestraling, kosmische straling en de productie van beryllium-10 en radioactief koolstof,” zei dr. Easterbrook.
De gegevens schetsen een opmerkelijk beeld: elke koude periode ging gepaard met weinig zonnevlekken, wat wijst op een verzwakt magnetisch veld van de zon, en een hoge productie van beryllium-10 en radioactief koolstof, wat wijst op een heftige intensiteit van kosmische straling, vervolgde hij.
Raadsel opgelost
Elke warme periode ging dan weer gepaard met veel zonnevlekken en een lage productie van beryllium-10 en radioactief koolstof.
Dit laat zien dat klimaatverandering wordt veroorzaakt door fluctuaties in het magnetisch veld van de zon, stelt Easterbrook.
The story of therunning female Bigfoot captured on video and broadcast on Russian media recently just took another bizarre twist. The longtime Russian Bigfoot and cryptid investigator Igor Burtsev, head of the Moscow office of the International Center for Homology, went to the Birsky District in northern Bashkortostan in southwestern Russia to check out the location himself and has now released an updated report (watch it here) on his findings, starting with why the female Bigfoot was running.
“It jumped out of the thicket and ran right into the car, as it were, you know? They hit him.”
That’s right … Burtsev interviewed one or more of the three girls and one man who recorded the video of the running Bigfoot in 2016 (watch it here) and was told that the car – a Soviet-era Zhiguli or Lada, ran into the creature. And then …
“They drove another 200 meters, it found itself there and chased after them.”
Burtev explains to GTRK TV why the creature was running – it was chasing after the people who ran into it with their car. As followers of Bigfoot sightings know, it’s rare to see one of the cryptids running. It’s more rare to hit one with a car. In fact, a collision like that might leave some evidence in the hood. Burtev is way ahead of you on that one.
“We even have some biological materials that we will examine for DNA.”
DNA! If you followed the first report, you may remember one other thing Burstev said about the running Bigfoot.
“She has a breast, this is a female!”
In the update, he refers to the Bigfoot or Yeti as a “him,” which is also how the witnesses described it. It’s difficult to determine from the GTRK article whether Burstev has changed his mind and if so, why. The news report video is in Russian.
“Well, is there a shurale in Bashkiria? Do we have a lot of them? Yes, yes! And meetings with them are not completely excluded.”
Statue of a Shurale
Being the Russian cryptid expert that he is, Burtev points out in the update what he also alluded to in his original interview – that the creature could have been a shapeshifting shurale of Russian folklore. The video is not clear enough to show a forehead horn (which the shurale is said to have) or shoes on the wrong feet (which they’re known to do).
The GRTK article again quotes skeptic Anatoly Yakovlev, an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology and General Biology at Bashkir State University, who says “there is no evidence.” However, that was before Burtev revealed he has biological materials, which could have come from the car or from his investigative expedition into the nearby forest where the Bigfoot ran.
Burtev says he’ll be going back to Bashkortostan to continue his hunt for Bigfoot. We’ll continue to follow his story.
2I/Borisov, the second observed interstellar visitor (after ʻOumuamua) and first known interstellar comet, is about to reach its closest approach to the sun on December 8, 2019. While astronomers know it’s from another solar system, they don’t know which star exactly. However, a new study has uncovered how 2I/Borisov may have arrived and, in the process, identified two comets in our solar system’s Oort cloud that were highly likely to have been affected or perturbed by nearby stars, which they also identified. Is this fair? Can our Sun perturb some of THEIR comets?
“Since 1950 when Oort published his paper on the structure of the cloud of comets it is believed that stars passing near this hypothetical cometary reservoir play an important role in the dynamical evolution of long period comets and injecting them into the observability region of the Solar System.”
Oort cloud
In a new paper accepted for publication in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Rita Wysoczańska, an astronomer at the Institute Astronomical Observatory at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, and fellow Polish astronomers Piotr A. Dybczyński, Małgorzata Królikowska, refute the generally-accepted idea that the Oort Cloud – a shell of space debris around the solar system that is also generally accepted even though it’s still hypothetical – is made up of space rocks flung out there from the birth and early days of our Sun. Instead, they explore the idea that some rocks in the Oort cloud were picked up by the Sun’s gravity – as weak as it is at that distance (about 100,000 astronomical units) – as other stars pass nearby.
An artist’s concept of the Gaia spacecraft.
Credit: ESA
Using data from the ESA’s Gaia astronomy spacecraft, which has collected info on over 1.7 billion astronomical objects, they found about 650 that came close enough to perturb a comet into Oort. They compared this to the orbits of 270 long-period comets which can take from 200 years to as long as 30 million years to complete one trip around the Sun. (Hale-Bopp, which passed by Earth in 1997, takes 2,500 years.) Using models to pair stars to comets, they looked for pairs where the star appeared to affect the comet. They found two.
“Anyway we found our results to be the first confirmation of the Oort concept using real stars that make close approaches and significantly change the cometary orbits.”
The pairs were star HD 7977 (constellation Cassiopeia) and comet C/2002 A3, and star Gaia DR2 57002737233036464 (shortened in the paper to Star B) and comet C/2012 F3. Factoring in uncertainties, the team still concluded that these “two comets might have their orbits fundamentally changed due to a close stellar encounter.”
Hale-Bopp
Could this be how 2I/Borisov came to visit our solar system? The report doesn’t answer that question, but …
“We are determined to continue our research on close stellar passages and their influence on LPCs’ dynamical history, still waiting for more numerous and better quality stellar data.”
Once again, astronomy and astrology cross as science confirms that certain nearby stars can affect our Sun and us.
Throughout the history of war there have been many strange cases of the bizarre that have managed to slip through the cracks of time and be lost among the countless tales of valor and fighting. These are the accounts that have sort of been brushed aside and forgotten, yet remain lodged there in the records for anyone who cares to dig for them. There are plenty of these reports that involve UFOs, and among these are the striking accounts that involve these mysterious craft actually becoming active combat participants and engaging the men on the ground. It is a topic I have covered in relation to the Vietnam War, and it is all puzzling, indeed. Here we will go back to the Korean War, to a case that has largely remained confined to the shadows of history, and which involved a whole regiment of men who seem to have come under attack by forces from beyond this world.
A very bizarre account from the Korean War emerged in January of 1987, when John Timmerman, of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), sat down for an interview with a former U.S. Army private first class (PFC) by the name of Mr. Francis P. Wall, who had a most unusual tale to tell. Wall had been deployed with the Army infantry, 25th Division, 27th Regiment, 2nd Battalion, ‘Easy’ Company, and in May of 1951 they were operating outside of Chorwon, in an area known by the military as the Iron Triangle, on a mission to reach a small village in the mountains. The village in question was in an area marked to be bombarded with artillery fire, wiped off the face of the earth, and Wall and his men were there to make sure that any innocent civilians were properly warned of the impending rain of fire. Indeed, the air was already reverberating with the thumps and booms of shells hitting, the dark of night occasionally lit up with flashes in the distance. Wall and company had made their way to a steep slope overlooking the village and the fiery flowers of artillery airbursts painting the scene with fire, and that was when they saw something they could not explain up there in the air in the middle of this war ravaged scene. Wall would say of this:
We suddenly noticed on our right-hand side what appeared to be a jack-o-lantern come wafting down across the mountain. And at first no one thought anything about it. So we noticed that this thing continued on down to the village to where, indeed, the artillery air bursts were exploding. It had an orange glow in the beginning. We further noticed that this object was [so] quick that it could get into the center of an airburst of artillery and yet remain unharmed. But then this object approached us. And it turned a blue-green brilliant light. It’s hard to distinguish the size of it; there’s no way to compare it. The light was pulsating. This object approached us.
The men were understandably very unsettled by this point, as the object was obviously not one of theirs, nor any known aircraft any of them had ever seen before, and they radioed the situation in to their superiors, requesting permission to open fire on it. Why they would think that their rifles would do any good when they had just witnessed it casually make its way through artillery explosions is anyone’s guess, but the permission was granted and Wall claims that he would then open fire on it with his M-1 rifle loaded with armor piercing bullets. He claims that he hit the object several times, hearing the pings of the bullets against what sounded like metal, and the bullets seemed to have an effect on it where the artillery had not, apparently damaging it and causing it to exhibit some strange behavior. Wall would say:
Now why would that bullet damage this craft if the artillery rounds didn’t? I don’t know, unless they had dropped their protective field around them, or whatever. But the object went wild, and the light was going on and off. It went off completely once, briefly. And it was moving erratically from side to side as though it might crash to the ground. Then, a sound — we had heard no sound previous to this — the sound of, like, diesel locomotives revving up. That’s the way this thing sounded.
This was where things would get pretty harrowing, as according to Wall the craft unleashed some sort of a retaliatory attack on them. The craft allegedly emitted a kind of ray or beam that came in pulses, and which they could see aiming at them “like a searchlight.” When the ray swept over them the men found themselves overcome with a tingling, burning sensation, and while it didn’t seem to be causing any visible damage they could feel it penetrating through their skin and the pain was enough to make them scramble for cover, scurrying in a panic into their bunkers, where the attack seemed to continue. Wall describes the terrifying and otherworldly scene thusly:
So the company commander, Lt. Evans, hauled us into our bunkers. We didn’t know what was going to happen. We were scared. These are underground dugouts where you have peep holes to look out to fire at the enemy. So, I’m in my bunker with another man. We’re peeping out at this thing. It hovered over us for a while, lit up the whole area with its light, and then I saw it shoot off at a 45-degree angle, that quick, just there and gone. That quick. And it was as though that was the end of it.
Unfortunately for Wall and the others, this seemed to be far from the end of it, as over the next few days they would begin to develop an array of debilitating physical symptoms, including disorientation, memory loss, headaches, stomachaches, nausea, and extreme weakness that was potent enough that some of them had trouble even walking. Doctors who examined them could find no reason or cause for these symptoms, the only evidence that anything was wrong being an unusually high white blood cell count that could not be explained. Despite nothing really officially wrong with them, the men were nevertheless all physically ill and suffering from something, and it was widely assumed by them that this was the doing of the beam that UFO had fired at them. According to Wall, many of them continued to suffer from ill health for years after the encounter, with him saying that even to that day he had frequent bouts of disorientation, memory loss, weakness, and difficulty putting on weight.
In later years it has been speculated that the men were probably suffering from radiation sickness, but there have been plenty of other ideas by those who have heard of this rather obscure case. One idea is that the Soviets or even the Chinese had been carrying out covert military experiments in the remote region testing anti-gravity technology and sonic weaponry, and indeed this has been used as an explanation for many of the dozens of other UFO sightings made during the Korean War. Of course there is also the notion that this encounter was exactly what it looks like, being an attack by an actual UFO, perhaps having been present in the region observing the combat for inscrutable reasons, and it has even been suggested that the craft did not mean to launch a fatal attack, but to merely disorient and immobilize them, hence the fact that that they did not suffer any severe injury or death.
Then again, maybe this is all hallucinations and the result of trauma, tiredness, and stress in the war-torn environment. It could even just be a tall tale conjured up by Wall himself, as he is the only official witness, and although he claims that 25 other men witnessed this event none of these others seem to have ever been tracked down and independently interviewed. Just about the only thing known for sure is tht he was indeed a soldier in the Korean War in the area specified on the date specified, but after that no one knows. Although he swore an oath that his story is true, in the end we are really left to take the word of one witness. So was this just war time hallucinations, Soviet or Chinese experiments, or an actual attack by an otherworldly UFO? It is quite likely we will never have a concrete answer, and that this will just remain another curious account lost int the fog and history of warfare.
A U.S. Navy veteran has come forward with his story about a two-mile-wide UFO that was hovering over a military base in Virginia. Lee Adams was stationed at a military base in Virginia Beach when he and several other pilots witnessed a mysterious craft that flew over the area before it vanished into the trees.
In an interview with Mike and Maurice’s Mind Escape podcast earlier this year, Adams recalled the experience by stating, “I look up and it’s like a giant trash bag floating over the base.” He described the craft by explaining, “If you could imagine a trash bag that’s two miles in diameter floating, translucent.” He even went so far as to say that it looked like a “sky jellyfish”.
He explained that parts of the “trash bag” craft were missing but other parts he could see clearly. “It was shimmering in the sky, two miles in diameter,” he noted. When asked if it was possible that the mysterious craft could have been a cloud or perhaps even gas, he said that it had “defined attributes”.
To add to the strangeness of the event, the pilots witnessed another mysterious object flying over the military base shortly before the “trash bag” craft appeared.
Although it was definitely strange and unexplained, the veteran wasn’t so quick to rule it extraterrestrial. “I think that the government knows about it – why would it be right next to a military base?” Adams asked, adding, “The military would know – there’s something there, it landed outside the base behind the trees.”
Adams served in the U.S. Navy for 14 years and was even on the USS Nimitz between 2012 and 2015 as a supply officer. The USS Nimitz became well-known in 2017 when videos showed pilots from the ship chasing a tic-tac shaped UFO off the coast of California in 2004. Since Adams was on board the carrier eight years after the encounter, he didn’t witness it, although his experience in Virginia was probably just as fascinating.
USS Nimitz
There was obviously something strange in the sky above the Virginia Beach military base that has yet to be explained and there were several witnesses who can back up the claims of the encounter. “You can’t disprove it, credible people have seen that,” Adams noted.
Hey guess what? I found never before seen video footage of a UFO seen from the space shuttle Atlantis during the STS115 mission. Also I found an organic UFO which I believe to be a living animal recorded with a digital still camera by astronaut Daniel Burbank. Both objects recorded on the same mission! Do you remember when I interviewed shuttle astronaut Leland Melvin? He told me he saw something 'translucent, curved, organic looking' when he was working with colleague Randy Bresnik. Well I got a close up photo of a similar life form recorded from shuttle Atlantis and its going to blow your mind. It looks just like a jellyfish and even has a laid a small egg near it. The raw footage records a UFO in upper earths orbit for three minutes. As you probably remember, the shuttle Atlantis landing was delayed for 48 hours back in Sept of 2006 because they said on live world news that the shuttle was being followed by several UFOs and some are so close that the shuttle deems it could be dangerous to move out of orbit at this time. The even shows some footage on the news, but the footage I show you was never shown as far as I know. Please watch in full screen mode to see the raw footage, due to the UFO being very small. Scott C. Waring
Who owns these Buildings and Vehicles on the far side of the Moon?
Who owns these Buildings and Vehicles on the far side of the Moon?
In 2017 we reported the discovery of two unusual features in the crater Paracelsus C on the far side of the moon. The two structures are in fact mining machines/crawlers used for mining operations, conducted by extraterrestrials.
Now it appears that more unusual structures have been discovered on the far side of the moon.
After analyzing another image showing an area of about 507 km2, the researcher states that the local power spectra of the features under study as well as several nearby craters appear to deviate significantly from that of the lunar background. (Read the scientific study, including the moon images, presented in the Journal of Space Exploration here).
Image above - Mining machines/crawlers used for mining operations.
Image above - Buildings and Vehicles.
A long-running conspiracy theory that there are buildings on the moon, which could either be occupied by aliens, or be a secret NASA outpost, becomes very plausible if you look at the above image, it shows us that there are indeed buildings and vehicles on the other side of the moon.
The question is who owns these buildings and vehicles?
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The Close Encounter Investigated by the Police
The Close Encounter Investigated by the Police
UFO sighting in woods near Livingston made headlines around the world 40 years ago when forestry worker Robert Taylor reported seeing an alien spaceship around the area.
The Dechmont Woods incident is not the usual UFO sighting as it was investigated by the police. The rips to the trousers of Mr Taylor were treated as evidence of an assault, but the police could never figure out what had happened to him.
Taylor returned to the scene of his attack with the police, and strange markings were found around the clearing
The 61-year-old described how he observed a 30ft-high dome-shaped UFO in his testimony to the police. He said that he saw the mysterious object in a clearing in the forest close to the West Lothian new town on November 9, 1979.
He revealed how two-spiked spheres rolled out towards him. He also explained to the police that he was aware of being grabbed on either side of his legs as he passed out. He woke up in a tangled state 20 minutes later.
Mr Taylor, who passed away in 2007, was a teetotal churchgoer and respected war hero. Throughout the rest of his life, he never changed his UFO sighting story.
He told the police that he came across the UFO in a clearing while working alone, checking gates and fences at Dechmont Woods at 10:30.
Spiked objects rushed out towards him and tried to grab him, and all he could remember was a strong smell of burning.
He then went to his van shaken, drove it into a ditch, and hobbled home. When he reached their house, he told his wife, Mary, he had been attacked by a spaceship thing. The police were contacted, and officers found themselves investigating an attack on a forester by extraterrestrials.
Scene of the crime investigator Det Con Ian Wark said he observed mysterious marks on the ground. He saw around 32 holes, which were about 3.5 inches in diameter. He also spotted marks similar to those created by the type of caterpillar tracks usually fitted on bulldozers.
The officer checked Mr Taylor’s employer Livingston Development Corporation to know if there was a machinery that could make such marks but did not find anything to match.
The police officer said the strange marks on the ground were only to be seen in the clearing where Mr Taylor had experienced his reported close encounter.
Det Con Wark explained that these marks just arrived as they did not come from anywhere or go anywhere. The police officer added that these marks just arrived as though a helicopter or something had landed from above.
According to the police report, the marks on the ground indicated that a large object weighing several tons had stood there but no indication it had been driven or towed away.
The ripped trousers of Mr Taylor were sent for forensic examination, and the analysis revealed the trousers appeared to have been damaged by something hooking them and moving up. It is important to note though that modern DNA techniques were not yet available in a forensic exam that time.
Forty years had passed, and the incident remains a mystery.
The fastest object ever created by humans has discovered intensely energetic rogue waves within our Sun, and detected solar wind speeds beyond what any model had predicted. Neither discovery was expected, or can be easily explained, suggesting that there are significant gaps in our understanding of the Sun.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, traveled closer to the Sun than any previous mission for several days last November and in April 2019. Scientists revealed the incredible findings from these first two close encounters from the swiftest spacecraft ever in a batch of four papers published in Nature on Wednesday.
Though the Sun is the center of the solar system and its radiation has nurtured life on Earth, it is one of the most unexplored objects in space because of its intense heat and radiation.
“It’s been very exciting,” said Justin Kasper, lead author of one of the studies and professor of space sciences at the University of Michigan, in a call. “It’s exploration at the cutting edge.”
During its two encounters, Parker traveled within 15 million miles of the Sun’s surface, far surpassing the 25-million-mile record first set by NASA’s Helios 2 mission in 1976. Parker has also claimed the title of the fastest human-made object in history from Helios 2, as it surfed near the Sun at over 153,000 miles per hour.
In a surprising discovery, Parker detected new phenomena within a quarter of an astronomical unit (AU), the distance between Earth and the Sun, of the solar surface. At that distance, the probe reported that the solar wind, which is a stream of charged particles emitted by the Sun, was rotating around the star at speeds far beyond what models had estimated.
“To our big surprise,” Kasper said, “by the time we got to our closest approach, [the solar wind] was flowing between 35 and 50 kilometers per second around the Sun. That’s something like 15 to 25 times faster than the standard solar models predict, so we’re missing something really fundamental in our standard models of the Sun—how it rotates and how the wind escapes—and that’s really interesting.”
Parker was also pummeled by a series of extraordinarily intense “Alfven waves” in the solar wind. Interplanetary missions have long observed less energetic Alfven waves, which are ripples that flow through magnetized plasma from the Sun. But Parker is the first to brace the “giant rogue waves” near our star.
“Every now and then, suddenly within seconds, the speed of the wind would jump by about 300,000 miles an hour,” Kasper explained. “Then, for seconds or hundreds of seconds, the spacecraft would sit there washed by this spike in the speed of the wind, and then just as quickly it goes away.”
These spikes are so violent that they distort and twist the magnetic field as they pass through it. “It gives you a sense of just how much energy is in these rogue waves as they go by compared to the regular Alfven waves that we’ve seen before,” Kasper said.
Though the mechanism behind these waves is still unknown, the sheer force of them may help explain two of the most persistent mysteries about the Sun: Why is solar corona, or the atmosphere of the Sun, about 1,000 times hotter than its surface? And why does the solar wind suddenly accelerate to supersonic speeds at a certain distance from the Sun?
Scientists suspect that an enigmatic process dumps heat and energy into the solar corona. The newly detected rogue waves might be a part of this dynamic.
“We were looking for buckets of energy when we got closer to the Sun, and we’re seeing some very large buckets going by, so that’s good,” Kasper said. “In our initial analyses, they’re definitely carrying a lot of energy so they are very promising as an energy source.”
“I’m not going to claim in any way that we’ve solved the mystery but we’ve had some very surprising results to paint the path to closing this question,” he added.
Parker’s new data challenges long-held assumptions about the Sun, which will lead to better models of solar storms that can affect Earth, as well as star evolution across the universe. Plus, the mission is only getting started.
“We’re running out of unexplored territory now,” Kasper said.
The Hubble Space Telescope gets all of the media hype for its dazzling images, but when it comes to black holes – which don’t photograph too well – you can’t beat theChandra X-Ray Observatory. In orbit since 1999, this space telescope has far exceeded its planned five-year lifespan and continues to dazzle astronomers with its new discoveries about black holes. Its latest find is a supermassive black hole which, instead of gobbling up stars, planets and space debris, is spewing out thousands of baby stars and spreading them across four galaxies. How does this happen and are we in any danger of being hit?
“This is the first time we’ve seen a single black hole boost star birth in more than one galaxy at a time. It’s amazing to think one galaxy’s black hole can have a say in what happens in other galaxies millions of trillions of miles away.”
Roberto Gilli of the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) in Bologna, Italy, describes the discovery in a press release announcing the publication of the results in the journal “Astronomy and Astrophysics.” The supermassive black hole was found by following a jet of high-energy particles about one million light years in length to a galaxy 9.9 billion light years from Earth, which is surrounded by seven other nearby galaxies. The black hole end of the jet showed an x-ray cloud or bubble of hot gas. That appears to be the birth canal of the stars.
Artist depiction of the Chandra X-ray Observatory
“As the hot bubble expanded and swept through four neighboring galaxies, it could have created a shock wave that compressed cool gas in the galaxies, causing stars to form. All four galaxies are approximately the same distance, about 400,000 light years, from the center of the bubble. The authors estimate that the star formation rate is between about two to five times higher than typical galaxies with similar masses and distance from Earth.”
The study refers to this process as “positive feedback” – a black hole creating stars rather than stopping their production or consuming them, which would obviously be “negative feedback.” The attitude of the feedback is determined by a “delicate balance between the heating rate and cooling rate of a cloud” in a nearby galaxy. When clouds in nearby galaxies are hit by the shock of the hot bubble spit out by the supermassive black hole, cooler ones are found to form more stars.
Does this sound to you like these astronomers are giving human characteristics to supermassive black holes? You’re not alone.
“Black holes have a well-earned reputation for being powerful and deadly, but not always. This is a prime example that they sometimes defy that stereotype and can be nurturing instead.”
Co-author Alessandro Peca and the rest of the astronomers are looking forward to using this new discovery to find more black holes that are “positive” and “nurturing” parents of stars across multiple galaxies and huge distances.
ESODe planeet cirkelt op kleine afstand om de hete witte dwerg, het restant van een Zonachtige ster. Hierbij wordt zijn atmosfeer 'afgepeld' en vormt zich een schijf van gas rond de ster.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Wetenschappers hebben voor het eerst bewijs gevonden voor een reuzenplaneet bij een witte dwergster. De planeet cirkelt op kleine afstand om de hete witte dwerg, het restant van een Zonachtige ster. Hierbij wordt zijn atmosfeer ‘afgepeld’ en vormt zich een schijf van gas rond de ster. Dit unieke stelsel geeft een indruk van hoe ons eigen zonnestelsel er in de verre toekomst uit zou kunnen zien, zo heeft de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht ESO vandaag bekendgemaakt.
“Het was eigenlijk een toevallige ontdekking”, zegt Boris Gänsicke, van de Universiteit van Warwick, die leiding gaf aan een in het vakblad Nature gepubliceerde onderzoek. Zijn team heeft ongeveer zevenduizend witte dwergen geïnspecteerd die zijn waargenomen met de Sloan Digital Sky Survey en ontdekte daarbij een buitenbeentje.
Door subtiele variaties in het licht van de ster te analyseren, ontdekten de onderzoekers sporen van chemische elementen die ze nog nooit eerder bij een witte dwerg hadden waargenomen. “We wisten dat er iets bijzonders aan de hand moest zijn met dit systeem, en speculeerden erop dat er sprake kon zijn van een planetair overblijfsel.” Om meer inzicht te krijgen in de eigenschappen van deze op ongeveer 1.500 lichtjaar van ons verwijderde en ongewone ster - met de welluidende naam WDJ0914+1914 - analyseerde het team het hemellichaam met een instrument van de gigantische VLT-telescoop van ESO in Chili.
Deze vervolgwarnemingen bevestigden dat er in de omgeving van de witte dwerg waterstof, zuurstof en zwavel aanwezig was. Door de vastgelegde spectra nauwkeurig te bestuderen, ontdekte het team dat deze elementen deel uitmaken van een kolkende schijf van gas die naar de witte dwerg toe stroomt en niet afkomstig is van de ster zelf.
“Het kostte een paar weken van heel hard piekeren voordat we doorhadden dat de verdamping van een reuzenplaneet de enige manier is waarop je zo’n schijf kunt maken”, citeert de ESO Matthias Schreiber van de Universiteit van Valparaiso (Chili), die de vroegere en toekomstige evolutie van dit stelsel heeft berekend.
De waargenomen hoeveelheden waterstof, zuurstof en zwavel komen overeen met degene in de diepe atmosfeerlagen van ijzige reuzenplaneten zoals Neptunus en Uranus. Als zo’n planeet op geringe afstand om een hete witte dwerg zou cirkelen, zou de extreem ultraviolette straling van de ster hem van zijn buitenste lagen ontdoen, waarna een deel van het ontsnapte gas naar de witte dwerg toe spiraalt. Dit is wat de wetenschappers denken dat ze rond WDJ0914+1914 waarnemen: de eerste verdampende planeet rond een witte dwerg.
De ontdekking werpt ook nieuw licht op het uiteindelijke lot van planetenstelsels
Tot nu toe hadden wetenschappers nog nooit aanwijzingen gevonden voor een reuzenplaneet die zich bij een witte dwerg heeft weten te handhaven. In dit geval op een afstand van slechts tien miljoen kilometer.
“Dit is voor het eerst dat we de hoeveelheden van gassen zoals zuurstof en zwavel in de schijf kunnen meten, en dat levert aanwijzingen op over samenstelling van de atmosferen van exoplaneten”, zegt Odette Toloza van de Universiteit van Warwick, die een model ontwikkelde voor de gasschijf rond de witte dwerg. “De ontdekking werpt ook nieuw licht op het uiteindelijke lot van planetenstelsels”, voegt Gänsicke daaraan toe.
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The truth is out there? Billy Meier's UFO images
The truth is out there? Billy Meier's UFO images
Billy Meier is a Swiss national who in the 1970s claimed he had been in contact with aliens from the Pleiades star cluster - and had photographs to prove it.
Published in a 1979 book by former United States Air Force pilot Wendelle C Stevens, they later appeared in publicity material for US science-fiction programme The X-Files.
Now, they are up for auction at Sotheby's in the US, as part of a sale dedicated to space photography.
Eduard Albert "Billy" Meier claims he was first contacted by alien figures at the age of five, in 1942, and maintained regular contact throughout his life.
This series of images were taken in Switzerland in the spring of 1976.
This photo was used as the background of the "I want to believe" UFO poster that featured prominently in the office of FBI special agent Fox Mulder, played by David Duchovny, in The X-Files.
Inexpertly taken and faded, the images show blurry metallic blobs hovering or floating above the mountainous Swiss countryside.
Though Stevens said the images had not been doctored, other ufologists are highly sceptical about the images.
Iconische UFO-foto’s van Billy Meier worden geveild. Volgens deze expert zijn ze authentiek
Foto: Facebook/FIGU.org
Iconische UFO-foto’s van Billy Meier worden geveild. Volgens deze expert zijn ze authentiek
De Zwitser Billy Meier claimde in de jaren zeventig in contact te staan met aliens uit de sterrenhoop Plejaden en dat hij foto’s had om dat te bewijzen.
De foto’s werden in 1979 gepubliceerd in een boek geschreven door voormalig luchtmachtpiloot Wendelle C. Stevens en later gebruikt bij de promotie van de serie The X-Files.
Nu worden ze geveild, schrijft de BBC.
Eduard Albert ‘Billy’ Meier beweert dat hij op vijfjarige leeftijd, in 1942, voor het eerst werd benaderd door buitenaardse wezens.
Metalen bollen
Hij zei dat hij de rest van zijn leven contact met ze onderhield.
Veel van zijn UFO-foto’s maakte hij in de lente van 1976 in Zwitserland.
Eén van de foto’s werd gebruikt voor de ‘I want to believe’-poster die te zien is in het kantoor van FBI-agent Fox Mulder in The X-Files.
Op de foto’s zijn metalen bollen te zien die boven het Zwitserse platteland hangen en zweven.
Authentiek
Stevens zei dat er niet is geknoeid met de foto’s.
In 2017 werd het UFO-bewijs van Meier geanalyseerd door voormalig onderzoeker Joe Tysk van het Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI).
Hij kwam tot de conclusie dat de beelden authentiek zijn.
Avi Loeb
Anderen zijn sceptisch over de foto’s.
Documentatie over het contact van Billy Meier is onlangs overhandigd aan Harvard-professor Avi Loeb, die recentelijk suggereerde dat de interstellaire bezoeker Oumuamua een buitenaardse ruimtesonde is.
Climate scientists are speaking out against grossly exaggerated claims about global warming.
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Environmental journalists and advocates have in recent weeks made a number of apocalyptic predictions about the impact of climate change. Bill McKibben suggested climate-driven fires in Australia had made koalas “functionally extinct.” Extinction Rebellion said “Billions will die” and “Life on Earth is dying.” Viceclaimed the “collapse of civilization may have already begun.”
Few have underscored the threat more than student climate activist Greta Thunberg and Green New Deal sponsor Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The latter said, “The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.” Says Thunberg in her new book, “Around 2030 we will be in a position to set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control that will lead to the end of our civilization as we know it.”
Sometimes, scientists themselves make apocalyptic claims. “It’s difficult to see how we could accommodate a billion people or even half of that,” if Earth warms four degrees, said one earlier this year. “The potential for multi-breadbasket failure is increasing,” said another. If sea levels rise as much as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts, another scientist said, “It will be an unmanageable problem.”
Apocalyptic statements like these have real-world impacts. In September, a group of British psychologists said children are increasingly suffering from anxiety from the frightening discourse around climate change. In October, an activist with Extinction Rebellion (”XR”) — an environmental group founded in 2018 to commit civil disobedience to draw awareness to the threat its founders and supporters say climate change poses to human existence — and a videographer, were kicked and beaten in a London Tube station by angry commuters. And last week, an XR co-founder said a genocide like the Holocaust was “happening again, on a far greater scale, and in plain sight” from climate change.
Climate change is an issue I care passionately about and have dedicated a significant portion of my life to addressing. I have been politically active on the issue for over 20 years and have researched and written about it for 17 years. Over the last four years, my organization, Environmental Progress, has worked with some of the world’s leading climate scientists to prevent carbon emissions from rising. So far, we’ve helped prevent emissions increasing the equivalent of adding 24 million cars to the road.
I also care about getting the facts and science right and have in recent months corrected inaccurate and apocalyptic news media coverage of fires in the Amazon and fires in California, both of which have been improperly presented as resulting primarily from climate change.
Journalists and activists alike have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce their news value or salience with the public. There is good evidence that the catastrophist framing of climate change is self-defeating because it alienates and polarizes many people. And exaggerating climate change risks distracting us from other important issues including ones we might have more near-term control over.
I feel the need to say this up-front because I want the issues I’m about to raise to be taken seriously and not dismissed by those who label as “climate deniers” or “climate delayers” anyone who pushes back against exaggeration.
With that out of the way, let’s look whether the science supports what’s being said.
First, no credible scientific body has ever said climate change threatens the collapse of civilization much less the extinction of the human species. “‘Our children are going to die in the next 10 to 20 years.’ What’s the scientific basis for these claims?” BBC’s Andrew Neil asked a visibly uncomfortable XR spokesperson last month.
“These claims have been disputed, admittedly,” she said. “There are some scientists who are agreeing and some who are saying it’s not true. But the overall issue is that these deaths are going to happen.”
“But most scientists don’t agree with this,” said Neil. “I looked through IPCC reports and see no reference to billions of people going to die, or children in 20 years. How would they die?”
“Mass migration around the world already taking place due to prolonged drought in countries, particularly in South Asia. There are wildfires in Indonesia, the Amazon rainforest, Siberia, the Arctic,” she said.
But in saying so, the XR spokesperson had grossly misrepresented the science. “There is robust evidence of disasters displacing people worldwide,” notes IPCC, “but limited evidence that climate change or sea-level rise is the direct cause”
What about “mass migration”? “The majority of resultant population movements tend to occur within the borders of affected countries," says IPCC.
It’s not like climate doesn’t matter. It’s that climate change is outweighed by other factors. Earlier this year, researchers found that climate “has affected organized armed conflict within countries. However, other drivers, such as low socioeconomic development and low capabilities of the state, are judged to be substantially more influential.”
Last January, after climate scientists criticized Rep. Ocasio-Cortez for saying the world would end in 12 years, her spokesperson said "We can quibble about the phraseology, whether it's existential or cataclysmic.” He added, “We're seeing lots of [climate change-related] problems that are already impacting lives."
That last part may be true, but it’s also true that economic development has made us less vulnerable, which is why there was a 99.7% decline in the death toll from natural disasters since its peak in 1931.
In 1931, 3.7 million people died from natural disasters. In 2018, just 11,000 did. And that decline occurred over a period when the global population quadrupled.
What about sea level rise? IPCC estimates sea level could rise two feet (0.6 meters) by 2100. Does that sound apocalyptic or even “unmanageable”?
Consider that one-third of the Netherlands is below sea level, and some areas areseven meters below sea level. You might object that Netherlands is rich while Bangladesh is poor. But the Netherlands adapted to living below sea level 400 years ago. Technology has improved a bit since then.
What about claims of crop failure, famine, and mass death? That’s science fiction, not science. Humans today produce enough food for 10 billion people, or 25% more than we need, and scientific bodies predict increases in that share, not declines.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) forecasts crop yields increasing 30% by 2050. And the poorest parts of the world, like sub-Saharan Africa, are expected to see increases of 80 to 90%.
Nobody is suggesting climate change won’t negatively impact crop yields. It could. But such declines should be put in perspective. Wheat yields increased 100 to 300% around the world since the 1960s, while a study of 30 models found that yields would decline by 6% for every one degree Celsius increase in temperature.
Rates of future yield growth depend far more on whether poor nations get access to tractors, irrigation, and fertilizer than on climate change, says FAO.
All of this helps explain why IPCC anticipates climate change will have a modest impact on economic growth. By 2100, IPCC projects the global economy will be 300 to 500% larger than it is today. Both IPCC and the Nobel-winning Yale economist, William Nordhaus, predict that warming of 2.5°C and 4°C would reduce gross domestic product (GDP) by 2% and 5% over that same period.
Does this mean we shouldn’t worry about climate change? Not at all.
One of the reasons I work on climate change is because I worry about the impact it could have on endangered species. Climate change may threaten one million species globally and half of all mammals, reptiles, and amphibians in diverse places like the Albertine Rift in central Africa, home to the endangered mountain gorilla.
But it’s not the case that “we’re putting our own survival in danger” through extinctions, as Elizabeth Kolbert claimed in her book, Sixth Extinction. As tragic as animal extinctions are, they do not threaten human civilization. If we want to save endangered species, we need to do so because we care about wildlife for spiritual, ethical, or aesthetic reasons, not survival ones.
And exaggerating the risk, and suggesting climate change is more important than things like habitat destruction, are counterproductive.
For example, Australia’s fires are not driving koalas extinct, as Bill McKibben suggested. The main scientific body that tracks the species, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, labels the koala “vulnerable,” which is one level less threatened than “endangered,” two levels less than “critically endangered,” and three less than “extinct” in the wild.
Should we worry about koalas? Absolutely! They are amazing animals and their numbers have declined to around 300,000. But they face far bigger threats such as the destruction of habitat, disease, bushfires, and invasive species.
Think of it this way. The climate could change dramatically — and we could still save koalas. Conversely, the climate could change only modestly — and koalas could still go extinct.
The monomaniacal focus on climate distracts our attention from other threats to koalas and opportunities for protecting them, like protecting and expanding their habitat.
As for fire, one of Australia’s leading scientists on the issue says, “Bushfire losses can be explained by the increasing exposure of dwellings to fire-prone bushlands. No other influences need be invoked. So even if climate change had played some small role in modulating recent bushfires, and we cannot rule this out, any such effects on risk to property are clearly swamped by the changes in exposure.”
Nor are the fires solely due to drought, which is common in Australia, and exceptional this year. “Climate change is playing its role here,” said Richard Thornton of the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre in Australia, “but it's not the cause of these fires."
The same is true for fires in the United States. In 2017, scientists modeled 37 different regions and found “humans may not only influence fire regimes but their presence can actually override, or swamp out, the effects of climate.” Of the 10 variables that influence fire, “none were as significant… as the anthropogenic variables,” such as building homes near, and managing fires and wood fuel growth within, forests.
Climate scientists are starting to push back against exaggerations by activists, journalists, and other scientists.
“While many species are threatened with extinction,” said Stanford’s Ken Caldeira, “climate change does not threaten human extinction... I would not like to see us motivating people to do the right thing by making them believe something that is false.”
I asked the Australian climate scientist Tom Wigley what he thought of the claim that climate change threatens civilization. “It really does bother me because it’s wrong,” he said. “All these young people have been misinformed. And partly it’s Greta Thunberg’s fault. Not deliberately. But she’s wrong.”
But don’t scientists and activists need to exaggerate in order to get the public’s attention?
“I’m reminded of what [late Stanford University climate scientist] Steve Schneider used to say,” Wigley replied. “He used to say that as a scientist, we shouldn’t really be concerned about the way we slant things in communicating with people out on the street who might need a little push in a certain direction to realize that this is a serious problem. Steve didn’t have any qualms about speaking in that biased way. I don’t quite agree with that.”
Wigley started working on climate science full-time in 1975 and created one of the first climate models (MAGICC) in 1987. It remains one of the main climate models in use today.
“When I talk to the general public,” he said, “I point out some of the things that might make projections of warming less and the things that might make them more. I always try to present both sides.”
Part of what bothers me about the apocalyptic rhetoric by climate activists is that it is often accompanied by demands that poor nations be denied the cheap sources of energy they need to develop. I have found that many scientists share my concerns.
“If you want to minimize carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2070 you might want to accelerate the burning of coal in India today,” MIT climate scientist Kerry Emanuel said.
“It doesn’t sound like it makes sense. Coal is terrible for carbon. But it’s by burning a lot of coal that they make themselves wealthier, and by making themselves wealthier they have fewer children, and you don’t have as many people burning carbon, you might be better off in 2070.”
Emanuel and Wigley say the extreme rhetoric is making political agreement on climate change harder.
“You’ve got to come up with some kind of middle ground where you do reasonable things to mitigate the risk and try at the same time to lift people out of poverty and make them more resilient,” said Emanuel. “We shouldn’t be forced to choose between lifting people out of poverty and doing something for the climate.”
Happily, there is a plenty of middle ground between climate apocalypse and climate denial.
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Klimaatwetenschappers komen in verzet. Waarom de apocalyptische beweringen over klimaatverandering fout zijn
Klimaatwetenschappers komen in verzet. Waarom de apocalyptische beweringen over klimaatverandering fout zijn
Journalisten en activisten hebben in de afgelopen weken weer een aantal apocalyptische voorspellingen gedaan over de impact van klimaatverandering.
De Amerikaanse journalist Bill McKibben stelde bijvoorbeeld dat koala’s als gevolg van bosbranden in Australië door klimaatverandering ‘nagenoeg uitgestorven’ zijn.
Extinction Rebellion zei dat ‘miljarden zullen sterven’ en dat ‘leven op aarde uitsterft’.
Kettingreactie
Vice claimde dat ‘de ineenstorting van de beschaving mogelijk al begonnen is’.
Het Amerikaanse congreslid Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez zei dat ‘de wereld over 12 jaar zal vergaan als we niets doen tegen klimaatverandering’.
Klimaatactiviste Greta Thunberg voorspelt in haar nieuwe boek dat we ‘rond 2030 een kettingreactie in gang zetten die zal leiden tot het einde van de beschaving zoals we die kennen’.
Soms doen ook wetenschappers een duit in het zakje.
Angstgevoelens
“Ik kan me moeilijk voorstellen hoe we een miljard mensen of zelfs de helft daarvan in leven kunnen houden als de aarde vier graden opwarmt,” zei één van hen eerder dit jaar.
Als de zeespiegel zo snel stijgt als het IPCC voorspelt, wordt dit een onbeheersbaar probleem,” zei een ander.
Dergelijke apocalyptische uitspraken hebben een impact op de wereld.
In september zei een groep Britse psychologen dat kinderen steeds vaker last hebben van angstgevoelens als gevolg van klimaatverandering.
Onjuiste beweringen
De Amerikaanse beleidsschrijver Michael Shellenberger schrijft in Forbes dat er in de nieuwsmedia de afgelopen maanden veel onjuiste beweringen zijn gedaan.
Hij noemt onder meer de bosbranden in de Amazone en Californië als voorbeelden.
Shellenberger merkt op dat geen enkel wetenschappelijk instituut ooit heeft gezegd dat klimaatverandering zal leiden tot de ineenstorting van de beschaving of het uitsterven van de mensheid.
Congreslid Ocasio-Cortez zei dat de wereld over 12 jaar zal eindigen onder meer vanwege natuurrampen.
99,7 procent minder
Shellenberger: “Er sterven in vergelijking met de piek in 1931 99,7 procent minder mensen als gevolg van natuurrampen.”
In 1931 stierven in totaal 3,7 miljoen mensen door natuurrampen. In 2018 waren dat er slechts 11.000.
Het IPCC schat dat de zeespiegel tegen 2100 zo’n 0,6 meter is gestegen. “Klinkt dat apocalyptisch of onbeheersbaar?” vraagt Shellenberger.
Hij wijst erop dat een derde van Nederland zich onder zeeniveau bevindt en dat sommige gebieden ruim zeven meter onder zeeniveau liggen.
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Daar weet het land al 400 jaar mee om te gaan, aldus de schrijver.
En dan de claims over mislukkende oogsten, hongersnood en massale sterfte.
“We produceren vandaag de dag genoeg voedsel voor 10 miljard mensen, dus 25 procent meer dan we nodig hebben,” zegt Shellenberger.
Dat aandeel zal volgens wetenschappers alleen maar blijven stijgen.
Grotere oogsten
De VN voorspelt tegen 2050 30 procent grotere oogsten. En in de armste gebieden op aarde, zoals de sub-Sahara, zullen de opbrengsten met 80 tot 90 procent stijgen.
En het zijn niet de bosbranden die ervoor zorgen dat er nog maar 300.000 koala’s zijn, aldus Shellenberger.
Richard Thornton van het Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre in Australië zei: “Klimaatverandering speelt hier een rol, maar is niet de oorzaak van deze bosbranden.”
Datzelfde geldt voor de bosbranden in de Verenigde Staten.
Verzetten
Shellenberger wijst erop dat steeds meer klimaatwetenschappers zich beginnen te verzetten tegen overdreven uitspraken van activisten, journalisten en andere wetenschappers.
“Door klimaatverandering worden we niet met uitsterven bedreigd,” zei Ken Caldeira van Stanford.
De Australische klimaatwetenschapper Tom Wigley voegde toe: “Al die jonge mensen zijn onjuist geïnformeerd. En dat is deels de schuld van Greta Thunberg. Ze zit ernaast.”
There Are 15 Types of Alien Hybrid and Some Live on Earth
There Are 15 Types of Alien Hybrid and Some Live on Earth
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The eight hybrids featured in Lamb’s book, Meet the Hybrids, have all lived previous lifetimes as extraterrestrials, she revealed. In this lifetime as hybrids, of which there are at least 15 types, they are very connected to those beings, she added.
Lamb spoke about Cynthia Crawford, a hybrid with unusually large eyes, as well as a woman she correctly identified as a mantis being hybrid.
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Alien Abductee Has Important Messages for All of Humanity
Alien Abductee Has Important Messages for All of Humanity
If you think every alien is a demon then you should probably go work for the Spanish Inquisition. A lot of people called Jesus a devil and well obviously he wasn’t from around these here parts. I’m not saying negative aliens do not exist but to think they all are.. Discernment is the key.
Marcela de Lavaissiere was born and raised in Cusco, Peru. She has dedicated her life to spiritual ET and UFO contacts, contacts made from the heart. Her primary essential contact is with light beings from Andromeda.
From the Andromedans she has learned how to work with and utilize energies, and travels the world to activate portals of lights, raise the frequency of the planet , expand consciousness, touch and open hearts.
She is a galactic being fulfilling her mission, utilizing the spheres of light from Andromeda to re-align energies and manifest the flower of life on earth creating heaven on earth.
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Quest for The Ark of the Covenant: New Clues Found! | In Search Of
Quest for The Ark of the Covenant: New Clues Found! | In Search Of
The search continues with new episodes of In Search Of Fridays at 10/9c! Treasure hunter Jim Barfield follows new clues to an ancient city where he believes he has found the contents and location of the Ark of the Covenant in this clip from Season 2, “Secrets of the Bible.” #InSearchOf
Adams makes the pilgrimage from Lalibela to Gondar in the northern wilds of Ethiopia, and paddles by papyrus kayak across lake Tana. His quest: to find the Ark of the Covenant.
The Ark of the Covenant, also known as the Ark of the Testimony, and in a few verses across various translations as the Ark of God, is a gold-covered wooden chest with lid cover described in the Book of Exodus as containing the two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments
Astronomers Catch A Natural Comet Outburst In Unprecedented Detail
Astronomers Catch A Natural Comet Outburst In Unprecedented Detail
Data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) reveal start-to-finish sequence of an outburst from comet 46P/Wirtanen.
University of Maryland astronomers have made the most complete and detailed observations to date of the formation and dissipation of a naturally occurring comet outburst. Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the researchers gained a clear start-to-finish image sequence of an explosive emission of dust, ice and gases during the close approach to Earth of comet 46P/Wirtanen in late 2018. The team members reported their results in the November 22, 2019 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
This animation shows an explosive outburst of dust, ice and gases from comet 46P/Wirtanen that occurred on September 26, 2018 and dissipated over the next 20 days. The images, from NASA’s TESS spacecraft, were taken every three hours during the first three days of the outburst.
Credit: Farnham et al./NASA
“TESS spends nearly a month at a time imaging one portion of the sky. With no day or night breaks and no atmospheric interference, we have a very uniform, long-duration set of observations,” said Tony Farnham, a research scientist in the UMD Department of Astronomy and the lead author of the research paper. “As comets orbit the sun, they can pass through TESS’ field of view. Wirtanen was a high priority for us because of its close approach in late 2018, so we decided to use its appearance in the TESS images as a test case to see what we could get out of it. We did so and were very surprised!”
According to Farnham, the TESS observations of comet Wirtanen were the first to capture all phases of a natural comet outburst, from beginning to end. He noted that three other previous observations came close to recording the beginning of an outburst event. Observations of a 2007 outburst from comet 17P/Holmes began late, missing several hours of the initial brightening phase of the event. In 2017, observations of an outburst from comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 (SW1) concluded early, due to limitations on pre-scheduled observation time. And, while observations from the UMD-led Deep Impact mission captured an outburst from comet Tempel 1 in unprecedented detail in 2005, the outburst was not natural—created instead by the mission’s impactor module. However, the current observations are the first to capture the dissipation phase in its entirety, Farnham said.
Although Wirtanen came closest to Earth on December 16, 2018, the outburst occurred earlier in its approach, beginning on September 26, 2018. The initial brightening of the outburst occurred in two distinct phases, with an hour-long flash followed by a more gradual second stage that continued to grow brighter for another 8 hours. This second stage was likely caused by the gradual spreading of comet dust from the outburst, which causes the dust cloud to reflect more sunlight overall. After reaching peak brightness, the comet faded gradually over a period of more than two weeks. Because TESS takes detailed, composite images every 30 minutes, the team was able to view each phase in exquisite detail.
“With 20 days’ worth of very frequent images, we were able to assess changes in brightness very easily. That’s what TESS was designed for, to perform its primary job as an exoplanet surveyor,” Farnham said. “We can’t predict when comet outbursts will happen. But even if we somehow had the opportunity to schedule these observations, we couldn’t have done any better in terms of timing. The outburst happened mere days after the observations started.”
Farnham and his colleagues are also the first to observe Wirtanen’s dust trail. Unlike a comet’s tail–the spray of gas and fine dust that follows behind a comet, growing as it approaches the sun–a comet’s trail is a field of larger debris that traces the comet’s orbital path as it travels around the sun. Unlike a tail, which changes direction as it is blown by the solar wind, the orientation of the trail stays more or less constant over time.
“The trail more closely follows the orbit of the comet, while the tail is more offset from it, as it gets pushed around by the sun’s radiation pressure. What’s significant about the trail is that it contains the largest material,” said Michael Kelley, an associate research scientist in the UMD Department of Astronomy and a co-author of the research paper. “Tail dust is very fine, a lot like smoke. But trail dust is much larger–more like sand and pebbles. We think comets lose most of their mass through their dust trails. When the Earth runs into a comet’s dust trail, we get meteor showers.”
While the current study describes initial results, Farnham, Kelley and their colleagues look forward to further analyses of Wirtanen, as well as other comets in TESS’ field of view. The team has generated a rough estimate of how much material may have been ejected in the outburst (about 2.2 million pounds, which could have left a crater close to 65 feet across), but further analysis of the estimated particle sizes in the dust tail may help improve this estimate. Observing more comets will also help to determine whether multi-stage brightening is rare or commonplace in comet outbursts.
“We also don’t know what causes natural outbursts and that’s ultimately what we want to find,” Farnham said. “There are at least four other comets in the same area of the sky where TESS made these observations, with a total of about 50 comets expected in the first two years’ worth of TESS data. There’s a lot that can come of these data. We’re still finding out the capabilities of TESS, so hopefully we’ll have more to report on this comet and others very soon.”
The research paper, “First Results from TESS Observations of Comet 46P/Wirtanen,” Tony Farnham, Michael Kelley, Matthew Knight and Lori Feaga, was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on November 22, 2019.
In addition to Farnham and Kelley, UMD-affiliated co-authors of the research paper include Astronomy Associate Research Scientists Lori Feaga and Matthew Knight.
Contacts and sources:
Matthew Wright University of Maryland
Citation:
“First Results from TESS Observations of Comet 46P/Wirtanen,” Tony Farnham, Michael Kelley, Matthew Knight and Lori Feaga, was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on November 22, 2019.
Linda Moulton Howe: High Ranking Naval Engineer Talks of Reptilians & Secret Space Technology
Linda Moulton Howe: High Ranking Naval Engineer Talks of Reptilians & Secret Space Technology
Retired Naval engineer Bill Tompkins told Linda that while working for Naval intelligence during that period, he became aware of UFO program, and that a group of Reptilian aliens were giving Germany, space vehicles with anti-gravitational propulsion, as well as access to underground caverns in Antarctica where they could develop the new technology.
He also contended that when the first astronauts landed on the moon, Reptilians were standing on the surface underneath their vehicles, just out of camera range.
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Is Trump Right? Do We Need An Alien War To Unite? UFO Sighting News.
Is Trump Right? Do We Need An Alien War To Unite? UFO Sighting News.
His name is Prince Ea and he has almost 5 million subscribers on Youtube. Here is a really great guy who is a guru of sorts to the soul. He said that president Trump said he wanted to turn space into a "war fighting domain."
This sounds crazy, but the way Prince Ea explains it...Trump is right. A space war may be the answer to all of our problems here on earth. The fastest way to create world peace would be an alien attack. It would unite the world to fight a foreign enemy invader. As Prince Ea puts it...we unite when in conflict. I didn't believe so at first, but by the end of his video...I realized he was right. Scary thought, but the truth often is. Scott C. Waring
Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon slowly moving over mountain in Phoenix, Arizona
Aslow moving rectangular object has been filmed while flying over the top of a mountain in Phoenix, Arizona on December 1, 2019.
Some people say that the object looks like a typical banner in tow, but normally a banner is attached to and just behind the plane, so we would be able to see a small aircraft and that is not the case when you watch the video, there is no plane.
A fiery meteorexplosion over the Australian desert may have been an ultra-rare minimoon, researchers think.
Sometimes, objects from space come really close to Earth but are not immediately pulled in by our planet's gravity. They often orbit for a short period of time before being either pulled into the atmosphere or hurled back out into space. These objects are called temporarily captured orbiters (TCOs), but are commonly referred to as natural Earth satellites or minimoons.
In poring over data from Australia's Desert Fireball Network (DFN) — a network of cameras set up across Australia to capture images of minimoon fireballs, or minimoons entering Earth's atmosphere and burning up — a group of researchers have identified what they think is a minimoon meteor, or fireball.
This is the second time that researchers have identified a TCO blazing through the atmosphere before hitting the ground. In finding the fireball, named DN160822_03, the researchers think that it exploded over the Australian desert on Aug. 22, 2016.
This map shows camera observations of the minimoon fireball DN160822_03 by the DFN. The orange arrow indicates the ground track of the fireball’s luminous trajectory. (Image credit: The Astronomical Journal (2019))
By studying the object's flight path around Earth, the team was able to calculate its trajectory to see what angle it entered Earth's atmosphere at (if the object entered Earth's atmosphere at a smaller angle, it suggests that it circled Earth first).
This information combined with velocity data led the researchers to conclude that, most likely, this object was orbiting Earth before being pulled in by gravity and burning up in our planet's atmosphere. This would most likely make the object a minimoon.
By studying the flight paths of minimoons like DN160822_03, researchers could better understand how we might be able to better prevent objects from getting close to Earth and how we might be able to more easily access these objects and the resources that they may possess.
As the team states in their study, which was published Oct. 14 in the Astronomical Journal, "TCOs are a crucially important subpopulation of near-Earth objects (NEOs) to understand because they are the easiest targets for future sample-return, redirection, or asteroid mining missions."
Minimoon history
This being only the second observation of a minimoon fireball, sightings of the fiery events are incredibly rare.
Only one time, in 2006, have researchers observed a minimoon orbiting Earth. The object, named 2006 RH120, was seen through a telescope circling the planet. The object orbited Earth for about 11 months before it wriggled free from Earth's gravity and was flung back out into space.
Additionally, only one other minimoon fireball has ever been observed. The fireball was spotted by a team running a camera network in Europe in 2014.
The ‘Most Educated’ Astronaut Says Extraterrestrials “Are Doing Star Travel” At A UFO Conference
The ‘Most Educated’ Astronaut Says Extraterrestrials “Are Doing Star Travel” At A UFO Conference
IN BRIEF
The Facts:
Ex Astronaut Story Musgrave made some very interesting comments at a UFO conference a few years ago, saying that he believes there is other life out there are that they are "doing star travel."
Reflect On:
How much does the human race have to discover about the nature of our reality? Surely there are many things and truths that yet remain to be uncovered.
NASA is no doubt responsible for concealing evidence of unidentified flying objects and strange anomalies that have been observed in space. This is true according to multiple insiders, like long time Ames Research scientist Dr. Norman Bergrun, who played a key role in the Voyager missions, the probes that were sent out and tasked with photographing Saturn, its rings and its moons. Here is a photo from that mission he was able to obtain from the agency of a large unidentified flying object hovering just outside Saturn’s rings, it’s huge, approximately the size of Earth, and is published in his book, Ringmakers of Saturn.
A few years ago (in an interview) he claimed that NASA regularly hides as well as “garbles” many photographs that, if made public, would have huge implications on the reality of what’s happening in space. He is just one example with an incredible verified background who has made claims such as this.
When it comes to astronauts, there is no shortage of them who has spoken up about the extraterrestrial/UFO phenomenon. There are many, and despite the two or three astronauts that seem to receive a lot of media attention who, on multiple occasions, denied the reality of UFOs, the majority of them have been creating awareness about the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon, for many years.
Gordon Cooper, aerospace engineer, and one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury is a great example. He has been quite outspoken about UFOs, extraterrestrials and the fact that the agency is and has played a part in the cover-up. Ex Princeton physics professor and NASA astronaut Dr. Brian O’Leary is another great example. He told the world for years that “there is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us, for a very long time.” The sixth man to walk on the Moon, Dr. Edgar Mitchell is no exception as well. Prior to his recent passing, Mitchel spent years creating awareness about the fact that UFOs are very real, and that some of them are not from our own planet, but from other solar systems, and perhaps other dimensions. He also said he “happens to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we are not alone on this planet ” and that we have “been visited many times.”
Again, the list is long, and it goes well beyond the testimony of astronauts and NASA personnel who have ‘gone against’ the agency. This field includes many of the world’s top scientists and academics, high ranking military personnel and more. There are thousands of statements, and there are millions of pages of declassified documents that go with it. That being said, anybody who claims to know exactly what’s going on is most definitely not telling the truth, as the complexity of this phenomenon is immense.
As much truth as there is in this field, there is also a massive amount of disinformation, it’s well known that multiple campaigns of disinformation have plagued the field, with these campaigns usually originating within intelligence agencies and deep levels of the government for the purposes of influencing various UFO groups and researchers.
Story Musgrave
When I saw Story Musgrave attend a UFO conference, I wasn’t too shocked. That being said, he’s not very outspoken about the phenomenon in general. But, you have to ask your self, why is Story Musgrave showing up at a UFO conference? Musgrave is known as the most educated astronaut, he’s a Doctor (MD), and also has six academic degrees. He’s also the only astronaut to fly above all five Space Shuttles.
He gives an interesting lecture below as he speaks about the UFO phenomenon. But unlike astronauts like Mitchell, for example, he is always careful to say that he doesn’t have much evidence for what he is saying. But he does speculate, with a sharp look when he makes the statement below. He bases his hypothesis on his “observations” and “what he’s been exposed to.”
So if you look at technological development, maybe we’ve been at it, whatever you want to call it, one hundred/two hundred years, industrial revolution. But you look at some planet, and some creatures that got it together, they were able to build technology over millions of years, they’re doing star travel, that’s how good they are, so…I have no proof….I have the certainty in my own being that there’s millions of people doing star travel, that’s just the way it is…Interstellar travel, for me, is going on. It’s absolutely…there’s millions of them doing it, so, that’s what’s going on.
The Takeaway
There is obviously something going on with the UFO and ET phenomenon, it is no question. What is happening and why it’s being hidden from people is a whole other subject. If you wish to explore this further, check out our articles on this phenomenon by sifting through the Disclosure section of our website.
Amerikaanse overheid heeft ‘fysiek UFO-bewijs’ in handen. Tv-presentator doet opzienbarende uitspraken
De Amerikaanse tv-presentator Tucker Carlson deed tijdens een recent interview met de Britse oud-defensieambtenaar Nick Pope enkele opzienbarende uitspraken.
De Fox News-anchor sprake met Pope onder andere over het onderzoek naar ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten oftewel UFO’s.
In een aflevering van het tv-programma Ancient Aliens, die op 22 november werd uitgezonden, claimde Carlson van een ‘goed geïnformeerde bron’ te hebben vernomen dat de Amerikaanse overheid fysiek bewijs heeft van buitenaards bezoek.
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“Ik heb van iemand die goed geïnformeerd is gehoord dat de Amerikaanse overheid fysiek bewijs in handen heeft dat ons veel meer kan vertellen over wat dit voor objecten zijn,” zei hij.
Pope vroeg hem vervolgens of hij verwees naar wrakstukken van UFO’s.
“Dat klopt,” zei Carlson.
Trump
In juli vroeg de presentator president Donald Trump nog naar de mogelijkheid dat we worden bezocht door een intelligent buitenaards ras.
Trump reageerde dat hij hier persoonlijk niet in gelooft, maar voegde daar gelijk aan toe dat alles mogelijk is.
Hij ontkende verder dat de Amerikaanse luchtmacht een gecrashte UFO in handen heeft.
I just added shadows to the screenshot of the UFO and a figure can be seen within its center! Look at the gif above I made. Slowly I added shadow until the figure came into focus. This figure tells me it is absolutely a real light ship.
A glowing light ship was seen over the city of Leoben, Austria this week. The person captured an image of a glowing classic disk in front of a dark cloud. The person who took the photo goes by the name of Werner Robert Pregetter. He gives only a few words saying, "So there are UFOs!" I have to say, I have heard of light ships and even seen dozens of lights in the sky moving low and fast, but this shape is one that I have not seen in a light ship. This is a classic UFO disk shape. Its upper and lower humps are visible as well as the disks outer edges.
I found three different objects in a NASA index and all are marked UNKNOWN. All were see and photographed from a space shuttle. They came from STS 32, STS61...those are two different shuttle missions and shuttles. What are they and why were they outside the window of the space shuttle? Were they UFOs? I believe they have a high probability of being alien craft. You see, the shuttle is in orbit and traveling at 17,500 miles per hour...thats 28,000 kilometers per hour! Those unknown objects have their own propulsion to keep up a that speed. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Spotter captures UFO or F35 over Kirton, Lincs, UK?
Spotter captures UFO or F35 over Kirton, Lincs, UK?
On December 2, 2019 a strange looking and moving object has been spotted in the sky over Kirton, Lincs, UK. The witness managed to take a picture before the object shot away at high speed.
The photographer who submitted the image to Mufon said: I saw this at 10.15am UK time over Kirton,Lincs UK. I was stood at my back door having a cigarette when I noticed an object in the sky.
It was moving slowly, almost hovering, then after a few seconds it shot away at high speed in the direction in was coming from.
I posted it on the local RAF spotters site to find out more. I was told there was nothing flying at that time, then my post was removed and I was told by their admin that it was a F35.
Note editor: Very strange that the RAF spotters site removed the image. How they can say that it was a F35 if there was nothing flying at that time?
The picture has not been edited or photoshopped. Not the highest quality as taken from a poor quality phone. Your thoughts please.
A cluster of UFOs hovering over the Black Sea, Russia
A cluster of UFOs hovering over the Black Sea, Russia
What are they doing? Is it something natural not accomplishing anything? If they are being navigated, I want to know if there is a reason these have been hanging out in such low areas around people like they want to be seen.
I've seen em, I've seen so many reports about them and other videos. It's all just the same thing. They appear all bright, do a floaty swirly and maybe zip around some, and they disappear. What gives?
Space defense system firing from earth to space threat? - NASA STS 48 footage
Space defense system firing from earth to space threat? - NASA STS 48 footage
The video you are seeing is from a live broadcast of the Space Shuttle Discovery Mission STS-48 between 8:30PM and 8:45PM GMT on september the 15th, 1991 near the west coast of Australia.
While the discovery is about 355 miles or 570 km above earth, you see some interesting things going on and above earths surface. There is no question that this video is staged or a hoax as it has been captured from an official NASA feed and they even have an official statement about the event as well. NASA learned quickly that is impossible to redact something, once it's been aired. Maybe that's the reason why they don't do any live feeds anymore?
The first thing we see is something appearing, either by decloaking or hitting sunlight. It moves in a straight line until it seems to slow down a bit and suddenly we see a big flash in the left side of the screen. Immediatly reacting to the flash, the object we were following makes a VERY sharp turn and seems to accelerate at insane speeds away from earth. And then it happens. We see some sort of plasma or missle to be fired from earth only missing the unknown object barely.
Notice there seems to be another UFO changing direction and a second projectile being from earth as well. The explanation from NASA is that we are just witnessing some debris, like chunks of ice and bits of insulation that are being affected by the RCS jet. My first question is, how come there are some bright objects appearing out of nowhere? If it was really the sun, why isn't it the same on on the other objects we see flying? And why does the first object seem to slow down just before we see the flash or the supposedly jet being fired? Or are we witnessing something far more sinister like some kind of earth defense system like the Star Wars program? Or even an Alien defense system? To me, the objects seem much further away then is claimed by nasa,but with the quality of the video, it's hard to tell. A few minutes later, they also pan the camera, away from the scene and just show some parts of the discovery,another red flag in my eyes.
Coincidence or not, this is and will continue to be one of the most unsettling videos in the history of the UFO phenomena. I hope one day, we'll get a clear answer.
What do you guys think? Is it in fact chunks of ice or insulation that are effected by the plume field of the jet firing? Or did we really just see some sort of earth or alien defense system against a suposed threat? Let me know in the comments below! Would love to hear what you guys think?
US Government is Holding Evidence of UFO Wreckage, Fox News Host Claims
US Government is Holding Evidence of UFO Wreckage, Fox News Host Claims
Tucker Carlson, a vocal host of Fox News, has stunningly alleged the US government is hiding proof of UFO wreckage from the public.
Recently appeared on the Ancient Aliens of History Channel, the conservative political commentator was asked about his knowledge on extraterrestrial life.
Talking to journalist Nick Pope, Tucker said that he heard it from someone who he believes is knowledgeable in the subject. He claimed that there’s physical evidence that the American government is hiding that would tell a lot more about what are these objects.
Tucker revealed that the person who told him is someone who worked on the subject within the government for many years and who would know.
Tucker has sparked waves of controversies on his show Tucker Carlson Tonight over the years.
Three days after an El Paso, Texas mass shooting in August, where a shooter wrote a manifesto on a “Hispanic invasion of Texas,” he stated that white supremacy wasn’t a real issue.
In December 2018, he said about immigrants that we have a moral obligation to admit the world is poor even if it makes our nation poorer, dirtier, and more divided.
Secret Officials Boarded US Navy Ship to Get Equipment Following Alleged UFO Encounter
Secret Officials Boarded US Navy Ship to Get Equipment Following Alleged UFO Encounter
The US Navy confirmed in September that three videos possibly showing UFOs were of an unidentified and unauthorised nature. This has eventually sparked a new wave of revelations from Navy officers who were involved in the subject.
Ex-naval officer Ryan Weigelt was on board the USS Princeton when fighter pilots encountered a Tic Tac-shaped UFO close to the coast of San Diego in 2004. He has opened up about a group of officials boarding the ship to retrieve some secret details following the incident.
US fighter pilots of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group encountered a UFO on November 14, 2004, that was recorded on video and released to the public in 2017 under the title FLIR1, alongside two other videos titled Gimbal and GoFast, which were caught in January 2015.
Former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo acquired all three videos, and Blink-182 singer-lead research organisation To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science released them.
Lead Petty Officer Weigelt revealed that a group of military personnel from the US Air force landed on his ship without assignment shortly after the fighter jets spotted the strange object.
The group then allegedly went straight to the Admiral’s Quarter and retrieved some details from USS Princeton helicopters. Weigelt said that he could not tell what it was they had retrieved, but it was something needed to fly their aircraft.
The former officer explained that the group had taken off something from their aircraft, and there was no way they could safely fly their aircraft in a battle group without it. He then revealed that the group of mysterious officials ordered the USS Princeton to harbour at a nearby marina while leaving the missile cruiser by a rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RIB).
The lead petty officer said that it was the first time in his several military cruises that they pulled in during a work-up to a harbour for any reason whatsoever.
The former naval officer then concluded that these guys were looking for data on the UFOs.
Unidentified Flying Objects – the reality, the cover-up and the truth
Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs as they are commonly known, have been witnessed by millions of people all over the world and have been recorded in history books, myths, legends and traditions for thousands of years. However, many accounts that are recorded in ancient texts are dismissed as mere myths and legends, while UFO sightings that have taken place in the last few centuries have been classified as misinterpretations of natural phenomena, illusions, or conspiracy theories.
History has shown us time and again that a plethora of so-called ‘myths’ have their basis in reality. It is possible, and indeed likely, that stories and legends were a way for people to explain real—and perhaps perplexing—events using the knowledge and beliefs of their time. In support of this theory, a number of events described in mythology, which were once considered mere fairy tales, have now been proven through archaeology to have existed. A famous example is the city Troy, which is central to Homer’s ‘The Iliad’. Long considered to be a city of myth, Heinrich Schliemann’s discovery of the actual site in 1868 elevated it to a place in history. Nevertheless, the remainder of The Iliad is still viewed as a myth and fantasy without any serious attempts being made to investigate whether or not there may be more truth behind the tale. The same goes for many accounts of ‘flying machines’, which we find reference to in countless mythologies from numerous different cultures around the world.
Many cultures contain pictorial and written records of ‘flying machines’, yet these are usually dismissed as myth and legend.
It is common to see people selectively decide what is real and what is not and all of this on the unsubstantiated assumption that ancient people were primitive and had little to no knowledge compared to us today. On the contrary, many ancient civilizations, like the Sumerians, Indus Valley, and Egyptians existed with complex social structures, legal systems, art, astronomy, mathematics, and technology, some of which is still not fully understood today. The Antikythera Mechanism, for example, is a 2,200-year-old mechanical device that is still not completely understood despite decades of research by top scientists around the world.
Ancient Astronaut Theory
The topic of flying objects and supernatural beings from out of our world is one in which we find multiple references in mythologies. All of these myths and legends, along with archaeological evidence such as rock art depictions, have created a wave of theories that gave birth to the ‘Ancient Astronaut’ perspective, which links all of these ancient references and depictions to UFOs, and posits that extra-terrestrials visited Earth and made contact with humans in antiquity and prehistory, influencing the development of human cultures, technologies, and religions.
Unfortunately, there are numerous charlatans who have tried to ‘cash in’ on this movement for profit or publicity, or who have diminished it with caricatures of little green men, resulting in the ancient astronaut perspective being widely criticized and attacked for its lack of credibility. Consequently, what is in fact a plausible and possible explanation for what we see in ancient art and texts, is now rarely examined by scholars, who fear being ridiculed or having their professional career seriously undermined.
UFOs in art: “ Battesimo di Cristo" 1710; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge ( Wikimedia Commons )
UFO sightings in recent history
But let’s leave the ancient past for a while and examine just the last 80 years of human history. Millions of people all over the globe have witnessed unidentified flying objects. Many have been recorded in detailed reports witnessed by police, pilots, astronauts, government officials, pilots, military personnel and, of course, ordinary citizens. Some of the more well-known cases were witnessed by thousands of people at one time. Historical records make it evident that UFO appearances magnified during and after World War II, including the example of the famous ‘ Foo Fighters’ .
While most sightings can be explained either by celestial phenomena, airplanes, planets, weather phenomena, military exercises, or in some cases drug use or mental instability, there still exists a small percentage that cannot be accounted for by any of these explanations. This is what makes the phenomena important and not to be ignored, particularly considering that sightings are frequently reported around military bases and airfields and are therefore, at the very least, a matter of both national security and air safety.
It is an undeniable fact that there are cases of unidentified objects in our skies. It has been acknowledged by the major governments from all over the world simply through the very fact that official research has been conducted on the matter in the US, UK, Russia, Europe, China, South America, and many others. All of this research, in every single case, concluded that there is a percentage of phenomena that cannot be explained.
In the past decade, many countries have declassified their UFO research files, releasing thousands of documents through the Freedom of Information Act and making numerous UFO cases available in the public domain. One recently released document from the UFO files in Britain, revealed how Churchill, concerned about the UFO issue, ordered a shutdown of information for at least 50 years to prevent mass panic and the potential to undermine religious beliefs. The document in question was also published on the BBC news site in 2010.
By doing careful research on the topic, passing over obvious scam and fake stories, it is clear to see that unidentified flying objects do exist. So the question is not whether they exist or not, but rather, what are they? Are they of terrestrial or extra-terrestrial origin? And what is their purpose?
UFOs and the limits of science
Many prominent scientists have already stated that other civilizations must exist in the Universe, and that it would be statistically impossible for this not to be the case. However, with our knowledge of science and technology today, we cannot yet support the means for interstellar travel, and since we have not discovered intelligent life in our solar system, the assumption is made that there must be no way that extra-terrestrials could have travelled to Earth. However, this argument is of course flawed because it is based within the framework of our own understanding of the universe, and does not take into account the capabilities of civilizations that may be millions of years ahead of our own. It also hinges on the following assumptions:
We know everything about physics and reality and therefore there is no way that such distant travel can be achieved.
We are using our means to try to contact other civilizations (e.g. SETI’s attempts to pick up radio or communication signals) and since we don’t perceive any signals of OUR type, nothing must exist.
We are looking for organic forms of life exactly like us and for planets with the exact same conditions as ours.
It is clear that these arguments show the arrogance of mankind, a mankind that may just be an infant in the Universe. And this is not new. During the history of humanity, in every single period of time, we believed that we knew the truth, only to have it replaced later on by new ‘knowledge’.
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement, - Lord Kelvin, 1901, physicist
Quantum physics, still a relatively new and unexplored field in Science, has shown that reality could be completely different to what we believe it to be. Powerful telescopes have shown distant planets in solar systems that could possibly sustain life. Theories of wormholes and warp drives have shown that at a theoretical level we could achieve interstellar travel. Yes, we would require incredible amounts of energy to even think of trying to achieve something like this, so according to our standards today it is impossible to achieve, but in theory it can be achieved.
“It now seems quite clear that Earth is not the only inhabited planet. There is evidence that the bulk of the stars in the sky have planetary systems. Recent research concerning the origin of life on Earth suggests that the physical and chemical processes leading to the origin of life occur rapidly in the early history of the majority of planets within our Milky Way galaxy–perhaps as many as a million–are inhabited by technical civilizations in advance of our own. Interstellar space flight is far beyond our present technical capabilities, but there seems to be no fundamental physical objections to preclude, from our own vantage point, the possibility of its development by other civilizations.”
Carl Sagan, Ph.D. (Late Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences, Cornell University)
Reluctance to engage with the UFO subject
The reason that the scientific community is not dealing seriously with UFOs is because the topic has been extensively ridiculed both by the media and in academic circles, with false information spread everywhere. For similar reasons, military personnel, astronauts, pilots, and other categories of professionals do not want to talk because, either they have been forced to sign confidentiality agreements, or because of fear that their careers would be destroyed. This is why we have seen many examples of ‘death bed confessions’.
One such case was with astronaut Gordon Cooper, who told the world about his experience encountering a UFO during his flight in the Mercury capsule in 1963. Before he died he stated: “for many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us”.
While great efforts have been made to ridicule and disparage anyone who lends support to the existence of UFOs, the fact remains that there are numerous high-profile cases that are supported by solid evidence, and which should not be dismissed.
Recorded UFO sightings with extensive witness support
Below I present a very limited list constituting strong evidence for the existence of unidentified flying objects in the last 60 years.
It all happened in the early hours of February 25 in 1942. An aircraft flew over LA County that sparked an air raid alert (it was in the midst of WWII). Searchlights and guns were locked onto the aircraft for about an hour. The picture below appeared in the LA Times in a story about the Battle of LA It clearly shows a night time defensive response to an air raid. The aircraft was not hostile and obviously was not damaged by the attack. The Government stated that the craft they were shooting at was unidentified.
This incident involved a group of American servicemen stationed at a military base in Suffolk that contained a storage centre with nuclear weapons. There had been three consecutive night of sighting objects in the sky over the base, in some cases shining a light down upon the nuclear weapons storage. On the third night, approximately two dozen servicemen were sent into the forest to investigate one set of mysterious lights. The men reported seeing a spacecraft on the ground in close proximity to them and three extra-terrestrial beings. One serviceman claimed to have touched the craft. The whole incident was filmed and photographed by one of the servicemen, but all photos and videos were removed by the US military. When the British Government released the UFO files, the Rendlesham incident papers were missing – as reported on BBC .
In November, 1986, a Japanese crew of a jumbo freighter aircraft witnessed three enormous unidentified objects while flying over Alaska, USA. This sighting gained international attention when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it was going to officially investigate this sighting because the Air Route Traffic Control Center in Anchorage, Alaska, had reported that the UFO had been detected on radar. The UFOs in this case were tracked on both ground and airborne radar, witnessed by experienced airline pilots, and confirmed by a FAA Division Chief.
Illustration of the object, with the Boeing 747 airplane on the right. Credits: UFO Reporter
The Belgium UFO wave began in November 1989. The events of 29 November would be documented by no less than thirty different groups of witnesses, and three separate groups of police officers. All of the reports related to a large object flying at low altitude. The craft was of a flat, triangular shape, with lights underneath. This giant craft did not make a sound as it slowly moved across the landscape of Belgium. The Belgium UFO wave peaked with events on the night of 30/31 March 1990. On that night, unknown objects were tracked on radar, chased by two Belgian Air Force F16s, photographed, and were sighted by an estimated 13,500 people on the ground – 2,600 of whom filed written statements describing in detail what they had seen. Following the incident, the Belgian air force released a report detailing the events of that night.
The Phoenix Lights (also identified as "Lights over Phoenix") was a UFO sighting which occurred in Phoenix, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico on Thursday, March 13, 1997. Lights of varying descriptions were seen by thousands of people between 19:30 and 22:30 MST, in a space of about 300 miles (480 km), from the Nevada line, through Phoenix, to the edge of Tucson. Witnesses claim to have observed a huge square-shaped UFO, containing five spherical lights or possibly light-emitting engines. Fife Symington, the governor at the time, was one witness to this incident; he later called the object "otherworldly."
On the night of August 30, a cluster of multi-colored lights was seen floating in the sky above Osaka. Several people reported to Twitter that they saw a group of lights forming a triangular shape and flashing green, red and white in the night sky above Izumi city in Osaka Prefecture. The sightings caused a commotion on Twitter after one user wrote: “Everyone in Osaka, go outside! There’s a UFO!” prompting others to grab their cameras and snap up photos of mysterious luminous object.
At approximately 16:15 CST on Tuesday November 7, 2006, federal authorities at Chicago O'Hare International Airport received a report that a group of twelve airport employees were witnessing a metallic, saucer-shaped craft hovering over Gate C-17.
The object was first spotted by a ramp employee who was pushing back United Airlines Flight 446, which was departing Chicago for Charlotte, North Carolina. The employee apprised Flight 446's crew of the object above their aircraft. It is believed that both the pilot and co-pilot also witnessed the object.
Several independent witnesses outside of the airport also saw the object. According to the Chicago Tribune's Jon Hilkevitch, "The disc was visible for approximately two minutes and was seen by close to a dozen United Airlines employees, ranging from pilots to supervisors, who heard chatter on the radio and raced out to view it."
The incident took place on May 2007 at 14.00 local time in Lima Peru. A series of moving lights resembling an armada of flying objects appeared in the skies. The story was reported on the news and was seen by thousands of people.
An unidentified flying object that disrupted air traffic in Hangzhou for an hour on Wednesday, 10 th of July 2010. A flight crew preparing for descent first detected the object around 8:40 p.m. and notified the air traffic control department. Aviation authorities responded within minutes, grounding outbound flights and diverting inbound ones to airports in Ningbo and Wuxi. Eighteen flights were affected. A spokesman from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) confirmed to ABC News that the matter is under investigation. He declined to disclose further details. A day after the sighting, however, an anonymous source told China Daily that authorities already discovered the identity of the UFO after an investigation but could not publically disclose the information because "there was a military connection."
Xiaoshan Airport UFO Incident, China
Disclosure
Many would say that the above examples constitute irrefutable proof that extra-terrestrial UFOs exist. So why isn’t the public told about it? Imagine the implications that disclosure would have and what it would mean. Acknowledgment of extra-terrestrial civilizations having visited Earth would mean that many of the myths and legends of the past are in fact based on reality. It would suggests that humanity has been influenced for millennia by other-worldly beings, beings that in the past were considered gods. Disclosure would entirely topple the status quo and the balance of powers in society, and turn upside down what we know about the history of mankind.
The acknowledgement of the UFO phenomena is an event with the power to bring a global revolution in every sector of our lives today – technology and energy supply, communication and environmental concerns, society and religion. Is this what governments and corporations are afraid of – a shift in balance and their loss of their positions of power and control? Or is it that the powers that be are afraid of re-writing our human history?
“When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science, but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum leap.”
Dr J. Allen Hynek, Scientific Advisor to the U.S. Air Force
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned some amazing high-resolution photos of the surface of the moon, including these ones of steep cliffs and impact melt inside a young crater called Giordano Bruno.
View larger. | Giordano Bruno Crater as seen directly from overhead. Image via NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University/LROC.
You might think of the moon as gray, rocky and dusty, a bleak and desolate world. But in fact, the moon is a beautiful place in its own way, and does offer some incredible scenery with its many craters and mountains. This view inside a crater from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a great example, and as the article title says, spectacular.
The stunning view inside a young crater in the top image shows how otherworldly yet starkly and serenely majestic the moon can be.
These photos were taken by LRO in August 2017, from an altitude of 70 miles (113 km). Giordano Bruno Crater is one of the youngest large craters on the moon, 13 miles (21 km) in diameter, and located at 35.97 degrees north latitude, 102.89 degrees east longitude. There is a lot of surface brightness (albedo) contrast visible, as the sun was high above the horizon at the time, and the only shadows seen are from steep cliffs and large boulders.
The steep cliff – the inside wall of the crater – rises a staggering 9,843 feet (3,000 meters) above the bottom of the crater, where you see a large melt pool of ancient liquified rock, left over from the huge impact that created the crater. Can you imagine yourself standing there and gazing up at this massive crater wall in front of you?
A wider view of Giordano Bruno Crater from LRO. Image via NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University/LROC.
Detailed view of an impact melt flow inside Giordano Bruno Crater. Image via NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University/LROC.
Dark rubbly material on the bottom of Giordano-Bruno-Crater. Image via NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University/LROC.
Close-up view of a steep cliff on the inside crater wall of Giordano Bruno Crater, as seen by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) in August 2017.
Image via NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University/LROC.
The impacts that create craters like these are powerful. Here, a large rocky asteroid or meteor – up to 1.2 miles (2 km) in size – slammed into the moon about ten times faster than a speeding bullet. As typically happens, the impacting rock created a hole in the ground much larger than the rock itself. A tremendous amount of heat and pressure are released during the impact, which melts a lot of the rock. This created a temporary pool of melted rock – the melt pool – which sloshed and flowed, almost like water. Over time, the melted rock cooled and solidified, leaving the darker-colored melt pool we see today. You can still see where the melted rock flowed across the crater floor, filling depressions.
There is also some interesting dark, rubbly material on the bottom floor of the crater, which may be from basaltic dikes or perhaps impact melt glass, called impactite. Could it be similar to what China’s Yutu-2 rover recently found on the far side of the moon?
It isn’t known yet exactly how old the crater is, but the well-preserved forms of the impact melt flows and the sparsity of other smaller craters inside it show that it is quite young geologically-speaking, probably less than 10 million years.
Some of the LRO images of this crater have a pixel scale as small as 1.6 to 1.8 meters (5.5 to 6 feet). When in its lowest orbit, LRO obtained images of the crater with an impressive resolution of 50 centimeters (20 inches).
LRO was launched on June 18, 2009, and has been returning a wealth of science data ever since, as well as stunning views like these.
Artist’s illustration of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) near the moon.
IMAGE: (LEFT) LINDA MOULTON HOWE (RIGHT) BRANDON WILLIAMS/GETTY IMAGES
The UFO researcher who sold bits of ‘exotic’ metal to former Blink-182 singer turned UFO mogul Tom DeLonge for $35,000 explained to Motherboard why she parted with the artifact and what will happen to it now.
In 2017, the New York Times ran an article about a secret Pentagon UFO program known as the “Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.” The article noted that aerospace billionaire Robert Bigelow, whose interest in UFOs is no secret, modified buildings to house “metal alloys and other materials…that [allegedly] had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena.” Earlier this year, DeLonge’s UFO outfit To The Stars Academy paid $35,000 for ‘exotic’ metamaterials according to its September SEC filings.
TTSA bought the metals from Linda Moulton Howe, a UFO researcher, in order to “conduct rigorous scientific evaluations to determine its function and possible applications,” the company said in a press release in July. In October, the company entered into a partnership with the US Army to research the metal and also study some pretty wild science, such as active camouflage, inertial mass reduction, and quantum communication.
In an interview, Moulton Howe said that she and Art Bell, the late host of Coast to Coast AM, acquired the metal in 1996, along with a handful of letters from an alleged sergeant in the United States Army who still remains anonymous. Moulton Howe has made some pretty wild claims about the metal: She says that the sergeant’s grandfather yanked the metal off a wedge-shaped craft that crashed in 1947 near the White Sands proving grounds in New Mexico. She has also publicly claimed that the crash recovery team discovered two dead aliens and one that was still alive.
Moulton Howe and DeLonge both believe that, by blasting the metals with a magnetic field, it will float: “They had a piece and they explored whether magnetic fields would cause it to turn into a lifting body. Different frequencies,” Moulton Howe said. These are the same materials mentioned by DeLonge on his Joe Rogan interview where he stated, “if you hit it with enough terahertz, it’ll float.”
In any case, the metal is of interest to not only DeLonge and Moulton Howe, but also to the US Army, which told Motherboard that it would be studying metals like it by blasting it with magnetic fields and looking for “demonstrable physical phenomena.”
“The USG and US Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center has broad ranging Materials Analysis and Electro-Magnetic Spectrum laboratory capabilities at our disposal,” Jerry Aliotta, a U.S. Army spokesperson, told Motherboard. “There are materials and technologies of interest that TTSA possesses that we will evaluate and exploit.”
“If a novel physical phenomenon is discovered or empirical data exists that points us in a certain direction with a given material sample, we will certainly apply the appropriate laboratory and appropriate stimulus to it to study the resultant phenomena and apply it to ground vehicle applications,” he continued.
Moulton Howe didn’t initially have interest in selling the metals—she’s been trying to do experiments on them for decades, but hasn’t had access to laboratories capable of running some more advanced tests on them.
According to Moulton Howe, she took the pieces of a bismuth magnesium alloy to Carnegie Science’s Department of Technical Magnetism in 1996 to have them assessed. The findings at the time were not able to prove that they were from an alien world, she said.
She didn’t give up then, however. Dr. Hal Puthoff, chair of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Austin Texas and To The Stars chief scientist and co-founder, studied the pieces on several occasions.
In a 2012 letter to Moulton Howe that she sent to Motherboard, Puthoff explained that his tests “did not yield an interesting/anomalous outcome in the tests involving the application of various fields.”
He then explained that another test could be done with special instrumentation. Moulton Howe told Motherboard that she believes those tests are going to be done by the U.S. Army.
While Moulton Howe continued to have the metal tested, she received a phone call in July 2018 from To The Stars.
“They call me up and say ‘we'd like to be able to do an agreement where you could come to San Diego and deliver the piece to us,’” Moulton Howe said. “We've got a lab that we're pretty sure they're going to be able to do the terahertz test.”
According to Moulton Howe, several attempts were made to test the metal by TTSA, but they kept bumping into technical problems. She then received a phone call from Steve Justice, the former director of Lockheed Martin’s Skunkworks and TTSA’s COO, who said the Army might be interested in the metals.
With some sadness, Moulton Howe decided that her only option was to sell the pieces of metal to Tom DeLonge. “I don't want to stop the science,” Moulton Howe stated. “And I don't want to stop what may be the only way they're going to be able to test this.”
“And the $35,000 figure is probably, well, they think is so low that they couldn't believe it. How do you estimate the value?,” Moulton Howe said. “I figure I've spent about $900 to $2,000 a year from 1996 to 2019 in all the various things that I've done.”
Dr. Chris Cogswell, who holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering and hosts the Mad Scientist Podcasttold Motherboard in July stated that he believes metals like the one being discussed “are made by mistake in metallurgy facilities all the time. The purification of lead by removing bismuth using magnesium is a perfectly reasonable explanation.” Cogswell went on to explain that similar alloys are the by product of the Betterton-Kroll process
Motherboard contacted To The Stars for more information but it declined to comment.
Now you can do just that by looking through a host of science data newly made available to the public. That information was gathered by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its first two close passes of the sun. The flybys brought the spacecraft closer to the sun than any previous vehicle had gone, offering scientists an incredible opportunity to learn more about our star.
"Parker Solar Probe is crossing new frontiers of space exploration, giving us so much new information about the sun," Nour E. Raouafi, Parker Solar Probe project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, said in a statement. "Releasing this data to the public will allow them not only to contribute to the success of the mission along with the scientific community, but also to raise the opportunity for new discoveries to the next level."
Parker Solar Probe launched in August 2018 for a seven-year mission that is targeting the constant stream of highly charged plasma leaving the sun, called the solar wind, and the star's outer atmosphere, called the corona. Studying these phenomena requires getting incredibly close to the sun; the spacecraft primarily gathers data while within about 23 million miles (37 million kilometers) of our star.
Onboard are four science experiments: Fields Experiment, which studies electric and magnetic fields; Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun, which measures high-energy charged particles in the solar wind and corona; Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe, which images the solar wind and other structures; and Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons Investigation, which measures different types of particles in the solar wind.
Data gathered by a Parker Solar Probe instrument, the Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe, in November 2018, during the spacecraft's first solar flyby. (Image credit: NASA/Naval Research Laboratory/Parker Solar Probe)
And now, you too can pore through data gathered by those instruments during the first two flybys: Oct. 31-Nov. 12, 2018, and March 30-April 19, 2019. During the second flyby, mission engineers were able to increase the amount of data the spacecraft sent home, thanks to better data-return rates than expected. There is no central hub for the data, but NASA has provided a list of websites to explore.
According to the same NASA statement, the first full-fledged science results from the mission should be published later this year.
Parker Solar Probe has also already made its third flyby of the sun; the spacecraft's next closest approach is on Jan. 29, 2020.
If life once existed in Jezero Crater, signs of it may well persist there to this day.
Lighter colors represent higher elevation in this image of Jezero Crater on Mars, the landing site for NASA's Mars 2020 mission. The oval indicates the landing ellipse, where the rover will be touching down on Mars.
The life-hunting grounds could be pretty rich for NASA's next Mars rover.
Jezero Crater, the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) hole in the ground that the Mars 2020 rover will begin exploring in February 2021, has ample deposits of minerals that are good at preserving microfossils here on Earth, two new studies have found.
One of those minerals is hydrated silica. After poring over data gathered by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a team of researchers identified two Jezero outcrops that are rich in the stuff, Jesse Tarnas and colleagues reported this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
"We know from Earth that this mineral phase is exceptional at preserving microfossils and other biosignatures, so that makes these outcrops exciting targets for the rover to explore," Tarnas, a Ph.D. student in planetary science at Brown University, said in a statement.
Just like the 96-mile-wide (154 km) Gale Crater, which NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring since August 2012, Jezero apparently hosted a lake in the ancient past. Orbital imagery has also revealed the remnants of a large delta in Jezero, which marks where a river drained into the lake.
Deltas are good areas to search for signs of life, because these regions concentrate deposits from all over a river system. Indeed, the presence of a delta is one of the reasons NASA chose Jezero as the Mars 2020 landing site.
One of the newfound hydrated silica outcrops lies at the edge of the Jezero delta at low elevation, Tarnas and his team found. If the minerals formed where they now lie — which is no guarantee, since the material could have been washed in from afar — they may represent the delta's lowest layer.
"The material that forms the bottom layer of a delta is sometimes the most productive in terms of preserving biosignatures," co-author Jack Mustard, a professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Brown (and a professor of environmental studies there as well), said in the same statement. "So, if you can find that bottomset layer, and that layer has a lot of silica in it, that’s a double bonus."
In the other new study, which was published online Monday (Nov. 11) in the journal Icarus, a different team of researchers used CRISM data to identify a "bathtub ring" of carbonate minerals in Jezero. Here on Earth, organisms use carbonates — minerals that contain the carbonate ion, CO3 — to build sturdy structures that can survive for billions of years in fossil form. Seashells, for example, are made of calcium carbonate.
"CRISM spotted carbonates here years ago, but we only recently noticed how concentrated they are right where a lakeshore would be," study lead author Briony Horgan, an assistant professor of planetary science at Purdue University in Indiana, said in a different statement.
"We're going to encounter carbonate deposits in many locations throughout the mission, but the bathtub ring will be one of the most exciting places to visit," Horgan added.
Again, the carbonates' history is unclear; it's unknown when they formed. But the Mars 2020 team is excited by the prospect that the carbonates were deposited when water sloshed in Jezero Crater.
"Carbonate chemistry on an ancient lakeshore is a fantastic recipe for preserving records of ancient life and climate," Mars 2020 deputy project scientist Ken Williford, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in the statement. (JPL leads the Mars 2020 mission.) "We're eager to get to the surface and discover how these carbonates formed."
Carbonates themselves aren't biosignatures; there are many different types, and most of them have nothing to do with life. But carbonate minerals form via the interaction of carbon dioxide and liquid water, so studying their presence and abundance could help reveal insights about Mars' long-ago transition from a relatively warm and wet world to the cold desert planet that it is today, researchers said.
Mars 2020, which will soon get a new moniker via a student naming competition, is scheduled to launch in July 2020 and arrive on Jezero's floor on Feb. 18, 2021. Another life-hunting Mars rover, the European-Russian robot Rosalind Franklin, will hit the red dirt in another, yet-to-be-announced location at around the same time.
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Without the turbulence, the galaxies would die in just a few billion years.
An image shows how galaxy-sized bubbles shove gas around in the Perseus galaxy cluster. The X at the center of the image shows the location of the supermassive black hole at its center.
Supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies may be blasting hot, turbulent waves of gas through the cosmos, keeping galaxy clusters alive with their heat.
And for the first time, astrophysicists believe they've seen that turbulence in action.
Peer into a massive galaxy cluster and you'll see hot gas swirling at its core, filling the space between stars and galaxies. But there's a mystery about this gas. How does it stay so hot? Simple models suggest it should lose energy much faster than it does, and that gravity should start bind the whole cloud together into stars within about a billion years of it forming. Those stars would, in turn, burn out, and the galaxy would die with them. Astrophysicists call this process "catastrophic cooling." But this doesn’t happen.
It turns out, back in 2005, researchers found a partial explanation for why not. They found bubbles forming within those dense gas clouds, giant cavities in space — some as large as the Milky Way. These giant bubbles were moving away from the supermassive black holes at the galactic centers, and in turn, researchers wrote, seemed to prevent catastrophic cooling.
But the question remained: How does all that energy transfer into the gas around the bubbles? In a new paper, published to the arXiv database Nov. 18 (the paper has not yet gone through the formal peer review process), researchers report evidence of turbulence around the bubbles: swirls and eddies that spin off smaller swirls and eddies, which spin off smaller swirls still. Over time, the theory goes, that chaotic behavior reaches the microscopic level, where it dissipates as heat.
"You can picture the bubble as a spoon that's stirring the hot tea," study lead author Yuan Li, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley, told Live Science.
Three images show the data the researchers used to find turbulence in the galaxy clusters. The black-and-white background shows an X-ray map of the galaxy clusters, with the bubbles visible as dark blotches. The cool filiments of gas are visible as red-to-blue heatmaps, with red indicating the gas is moving more quickly away from Earth, and blue indicating it's moving more in the direction of Earth. (Image credit: Li et al.)
The spoon creates a "bulk motion" of the tea, but pull out the spoon and you'll notice smaller swirls forming in the liquid, which create even smaller eddies. When the eddies stop spinning, it's because their energy has converted into heat, she said. In a mug on your table, the heating isn't very dramatic; you'd struggle to boil water just by stirring it. But the energy of the bubbles moving through space is much more intense, and it seems like turbulence converts a significant fraction of it from kinetic energy to heat.
Li and her co-authors didn't make any new observations to find the turbulence. Instead, they spotted it in data already available from the galaxy clusters Perseus, Abell 2597 and Virgo.
Filaments of cooler gas thread through the clouds at the centers of those galaxies, Li said. This incredibly precise, high-resolution data allowed Li to make a map of how fast the gas at each point was moving and in what direction.
That heat map showed a clear pattern of turbulence. "In a turbulence mode there's big eddies making little eddies making even smaller eddies. You've got a beautiful cascade," Li said.
The "beautiful cascade" appeared to show up in each galaxy cluster's center.
"I didn't expect that, no one expected that," she said.
Even the smallest eddies here are on an unimaginable scale, large enough to easily swallow our solar system. After all, Li said, they're taking place in what amount to dense "trash cans full of galaxies." Brian McNamara, lead author of the 2005 Nature paper that first suggested the bubbles might be warming these gases, said he found the new finding fascinating, but had reservations.
"It's all very interesting. But it's not conclusive to my mind. I'm not completely convinced," McNamara told Live Science. McNamara, who is chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Canada's University of Waterloo, said the most important issue is that the cascades Li and colleagues found don't quite match what you'd expect from turbulence alone. That suggests other effects could be at work, the study authors wrote, or perhaps there's some unknown physics governing the behavior of turbulence in these extreme conditions.
McNamara also wondered whether the researchers had fully disentangled the effects of other kinds of motions in the gases from true turbulence.
He also pointed out that some theorists suspect turbulence may actually cool the gas more than it heats it.
All that said, he added, this is a good paper with lots of good researchers involved.
It sounds unbelievable, but a new study from Kagoshima University and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan says that exoplanets – thousands of them – could be orbiting supermassive black holes.
Artist’s concept of a black hole with its bright surrounding disk of gas and dust – and jets extending from its poles – plus many orbiting planets.
Exoplanets – worlds orbiting other stars – are common, with billions estimated to exist in our galaxy alone. They’ve been found around all sorts of stars, including sunlike stars, red dwarfs and even pulsars. There also seem to be rogue planets, which don’t orbit any stars, but instead just wander lonely though interstellar space. And now a new study suggests there might be yet another entirely new class of planets, orbiting supermassive black holes.
The intriguing findings were announced by researchers at Kagoshima University and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan on November 25, 2019. The new peer-reviewed study was published in The Astrophysical Journal on November 26, 2019.
It sounds like something out of science fiction, but according to the researchers, black holes that have massive disks of dust and gas surrounding them (called circumnuclear disks), just like protoplanetary disks around young stars, could produce planets – a lot of them – just like the disks around stars. Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) could have thousands of planets orbiting them, the researchers say. Although orbiting the black hole, the planets would likely be a long way from the black hole itself, around 10 light-years. From the paper:
As a natural consequence of the elementary processes of dust growth, we discovered that a new class of planets can be formed around supermassive black holes (SMBHs). We investigated a growth path from submicron sized icy dust monomers to Earth-sized bodies outside the “snow line,” located several parsecs from SMBHs in low luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs).
Simulation of a supermassive black hole. The intense gravity distorts the starry background and captures light, producing a black hole silhouette.
Image via NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center; background, ESA/Gaia/DPAC.
With the right conditions, planets could be formed even in harsh environments, such as around a black hole.
Eiichiro Kokubo, a professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, said:
Our calculations show that tens of thousands of planets with 10 times the mass of the Earth could be formed around 10 light-years from a black hole. Around black holes there might exist planetary systems of astonishing scale.
The first-ever photo of a black hole, in the center of galaxy M87, taken by the Event Horizon Telescope. The black hole is a staggering 6.5 billion times more massive than the sun. The bright ring is light bent by the black hole’s gravity.
Image via Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration/NASA.
The amount of dust surrounding a supermassive black hole can be enormous, as much as a hundred thousand times the mass of our sun, or about a billion times more than in a typical protoplanetary disk.
How would planets form in such an environment?
In a disk around a black hole, the dust is so dense that it blocks radiation from the black hole itself. This allows temperatures cool enough for icy dust grains to stick together and aggregate, just like they do in protoplanetary disks around stars. The researchers calculated that planets could form in several hundred million years in this manner around black holes.
Such black hole planets can’t yet be directly detected with current telescopes, but the findings open up a tentative and fascinating new field of study. From the paper:
Observing planets around SMBHs should be challenging. The standard techniques to detect exoplanets around stars, i.e., Doppler spectroscopy, transit photometry, gravitational microlensing, or direct imaging are hopeless. Photometry by a hard X-ray interferometer in space might be a possible solution, but the occultation of the accretion disk by the “planets” would be hard to distinguish from the intrinsic time variability of AGNs. The other, indirect way is detecting spectral changes in the millimeter-wavelength due to opacity variation associated with the dust growth as used in the protoplanetary disk.
It’s already known that stars can also orbit black holes, such as the ones orbiting the supermassive black hole – called Sagittarius A* – at the center of our galaxy.
X-ray image of the center of our galaxy, where the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* resides.
Image via X-ray: NASA/UMass/D.Wang et al., IR: NASA/STScI.
Black holes aren’t really holes, but objects that have gravitational pulls so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. The “surface” of a black hole, called the event horizon, is the boundary where the velocity needed to escape exceeds the speed of light. Matter and radiation fall in, but they can’t get out.
There are two main classes of black holes. Stellar-mass black holes are three to dozens of times the sun’s mass. The supermassive black holes already discussed are 100,000 to billions of solar masses, and are located in the centers of most large galaxies, including ours. There may also be intermediate-mass black holes, about 100 to more than 10,000 solar masses. There are candidates, but they have not yet been confirmed to exist.
Bottom line: Supermassive black holes could have thousands of exoplanets orbiting them, according to a new study from Japan.
Study shows there’s nothing wacky about conspiracy theorists
Study shows there’s nothing wacky about conspiracy theorists
Jessica Fagan
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have delved into the world of online conspiracy theories, showing most of the people behind them are actually pretty ordinary.
The study looked at eight years of content, sifting through more than two billion comments posted on Reddit, including everything posted to the subreddit r/conspiracy.
Image credit: Pixabay
R/conspiracy covers everything from UFOs and 9/11, to political conspiracy theories like 'pizzagate', which took off during the 2016 US election campaign.
But despite the subject matter, lead author of the study Dr Colin Klein says conspiracy theorists aren't always a bunch of "crackpots wearing tinfoil hats".
"In the past before the rise of online forums like Reddit, we tended to only hear about the most extreme views, and those people tended to naturally be wary about talking to someone else about their beliefs," Dr Klein said.
"These massive online forums paint a very different picture.
"The enormous set of comments we examined show many r/conspiracy users actually have more 'sensible' interests.
"For example conspiracy theories about police abuse of power are common. That's not so crazy.
"These people might believe false things, but with good reason - because similar things have happened in the past."
Professor Klein and his team also found that while there are subtle differences in the language used by those who end up posting on r/conspiracy, it's not necessarily enough to set them apart from other Reddit users.
"You might find they talk more about power or power structures, but their language is not that different from what ordinarily goes on in a forum like r/politics. You can't distinguish them that way.
"It's very easy to look at conspiracy theories and think they're super wacky, and the people who believe in them are crazy, but it's actually much more continuous with a lot of things we do every day.
"Low level theorising goes on a lot in everyday life, I'm inclined to think the stuff you see online is just a strong outgrowth of that."
According to Dr Klein, forums like r/conspiracy can also be driven by current events.
"For example, Reddit attracted a whole new set of users following the election of US President Donald Trump.
"He also generates quite a lot of in-fighting amongst users. This is what makes it such great way to study social dynamics."
The data also reveals how people come to start posting on the r/conspiracy forum. The rise of Internet echo chambers is a factor - but there's much more at play.
"We followed people who started using Reddit and posted for about six months before they ended up on r/conspiracy," Dr Klein said.
"You find two people who, for example, both started on the popular 'ask me anything' Reddit, and one ends up talking about conspiracies and one doesn't.
"People who go on to post on r/conspiracy also tend to be over-represented in the political forums, but it's not like they're hyper-focused.
"This suggests a more active process where people are seeking out sympathetic communities. This process of finding like-minded people is something we see a lot of on the Internet."
The research has been published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Schokkend onderzoek: er is absoluut niks geks aan complottheoretici, concluderen deze Australische wetenschappers
Schokkend onderzoek: er is absoluut niks geks aan complottheoretici, concluderen deze Australische wetenschappers
Er is een studie verschenen over complottheorieën die níet is gefinancierd door miljardair George Soros en zijn trawanten. Dat mag wel in de krant. En het staat ook in de krant.
Wetenschappers van de Australian National University (ANU) zijn in de wereld van complottheorieën op internet gedoken.
Mensen die geloven in dit soort theorieën worden in de media altijd gekscherend complotgekkies, aluhoedjes, antivaxxers of Poetin-apologeten genoemd.
Heel normaal
Kortom: bij dergelijke mensen zit duidelijk een steekje los.
De Australische wetenschappers zijn echter tot een schokkende conclusie gekomen, namelijk dat de meeste mensen die in complottheorieën geloven eigenlijk heel normaal zijn. Laat dat even bezinken.
Ze bestudeerden meer dan twee miljard reacties die op Reddit waren geplaatst, inclusief de subreddit r/conspiracy.
In deze subreddit lees je alles over UFO’s, 9/11 en politieke complottheorieën zoals ‘pizzagate’, die tijdens de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen werd gelanceerd.
Heel ander beeld
“Complottheoretici zijn lang niet altijd idioten met een aluminium hoedje,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Colin Klein.
“Voor de opkomst van forums zoals Reddit, hoorden we alleen over de meest extreme denkbeelden, en die mensen praten vaak liever niet met anderen over hun overtuigingen,” zei dr. Klein.
Deze grote internetfora schetsen een heel ander beeld, benadrukte hij.
De enorme aantallen reacties in r/conspiracy die we hebben bestudeerd, zijn geplaatst door over het algemeen verstandige mensen, concludeerden de onderzoekers.
Verschilt nauwelijks
Zo zijn er veel mensen die geloven in complottheorieën over machtsmisbruik door de politie. Daar is niks geks aan, aldus Klein.
Mensen die berichten plaatsen in r/conspiracy lijken eigenlijk heel erg op andere Reddit-gebruikers, ontdekte zijn team.
“Hun taalgebruik verschilt nauwelijks van dat van mensen die een forum als r/politics volgen,” zei hij.
“Je kunt ze op basis van taalgebruik niet van elkaar onderscheiden,” vervolgde hij.
Niet het geval
Het is heel makkelijk om te denken dat complottheorieën en de mensen die erin geloven gestoord zijn, maar dat is duidelijk niet het geval, klonk het.
Het onderzoek is gepubliceerd in tijdschrift PLOS ONE.
Op aarde leven reptielachtige wezens die hier al langer zijn dan mensen, ze geven lagere vibraties af en hun ogen geven licht in het donker.
Zij leven onder de mensen, zien eruit als mensen en geven moedermelk aan hun kindjes, maar het zijn geen zoogdieren.
Dat onze aarde wordt bezocht door buitenaardsen is voor de meesten onder ons hier niets nieuws. Het feit dat ze ook gewoon onder ons leven is voor velen toch iets dat moeilijk te begrijpen is.
Via een lezer (dank!) kregen wij het volgende zeer interessante bericht over een vrouw die onder hypnose communiceert met een buitenaardse en het volgende is wat hij schrijft:
Mijn moeder heeft mij twee hele interessante Russische video's laten zien (twee delen van één geheel). In deze video wordt een vrouw in hypnose verbonden met een buitenaards wezen (waarschijnlijk reptiloïde). Via die vrouw (die onder hypnose is) worden er heel veel vragen gesteld aan dat wezen en worden er ook veel interessante antwoorden gegeven.
Het wezen waarmee gecommuniceerd werd, had lage vibraties, dus voor hem om via de vrouw te spreken, moesten de vibraties van de vrouw ook worden verlaagd. Na de hypnose moesten de vibraties van de vrouw worden verhoogd.
Aanvankelijk begon ik tijdens het kijken van de video een paar aantekeningen te maken voor mijzelf. Na een tijdje werd alles zo interessant, dat ik woord voor woord notities begon te maken. Jammer genoeg kon ik niet alles verstaan door geruis (de man die precies in een antwoord in de microfoon blaast) of doordat de vrouw onder hypnose dingen soms heel onduidelijk uitspreekt. Ik heb toch geprobeerd om alles zo goed mogelijk te vertalen, aanvankelijk voor mijzelf, maar daarna dacht ik: "Dit is best interessant. Dit wil de redactie van Niburu vast ook weten! "
Op plekken waarvan ik niet 100% zeker wist of mijn vertaling wel nauwkeurig genoeg was, heb ik voor de zekerheid de originele Russische tekst erbij gezet (zie bijlage).
De hoogtepunten van de video's samengevat:
- Op Aarde leven reptielachtige wezens, die hier al langer waren dan de mensen. Zij leven onder de mensen, zien eruit als mensen en geven moedermelk aan hun kindjes, maar het zijn geen zoogdieren. Zij geven lagere vibraties af dan mensen en hun ogen geven licht in het donker.
De criminele wereld bestaat uit reptiloïden.
- De mensen zijn gecreëerd door mensachtige wezens die van de planeet Nibiru komen.
- Die mensachtige wezens hebben in ons DNA kunstmatige angst en afkeer tegen de reptiloïden ingebouwd. De reptiloïde was van mening dat wij af moeten komen van deze genetische blokkade.
- Mensen hebben geestelijke mentoren van een hogere beschaving die ons werk in de gaten houdt en ons technologie schenkt.
- Dinosaurussen leven nog op Aarde en zij planten ook voort, maar zij wonen ondergronds. Er zijn vijf ingangen naar hun ondergrondse wereld, waarvan er drie gesloten zijn. Er zal een moment komen dat duizenden van hen worden losgelaten op het oppervlak.
- De Verenigde Staten van Amerika, Canada en Engeland beschikken over driehoekvormige vliegende schotels; een technologie die hen gegeven is door de reptiloïden, maar deze vliegende schotels hebben als beperking dat zij onze planeet niet kunnen verlaten. De achterliggende technologie is: torsievelden en ether.
- Sigaretvormige vliegende schotels zijn van de reptiloïden, terwijl cirkelvormige vliegende schotels met vijf lichtjes naar beneden en drie lichtjes naar boven van de grijze beschaving zijn.
- Rusland is technologisch verder dan de VSA, Canada en Engeland, omdat men in Rusland portalen heeft. Dit is een stap verder.
- Reptiloïden zijn aan de macht in Rusland, maar is een machtsstrijd gaande in Rusland tussen de reptiloïden en demonen.
- Mensen kunnen kanker allang al genezen, maar geld verhindert ons.
- Aardse overheden hebben als taak om iedereen die te ver ontwikkeld is en die te veel weet, te vernietigen.
- Alle mensen op Aarde zijn geïnfecteerd met mini-robotjes, die verspreid worden via vliegtuigen en die ook in onze fruit, groenten en zelfs water zitten. Deze mini-robotjes nestelen zich in onze cellen en zelfs ons DNA en wachten het vernietigingscommando af. Mensen beschikken nog niet over de technologie om deze mini-robotjes te detecteren, laat staan om hen te verwijderen. Op de vraag of er in Rusland ook aan chemtrails gedaan werd, luidde het antwoord: "Over de hele wereld!"
- Varkens werden als eerste geïnfecteerd met deze mini-robotjes.
Daarom mochten mensen geen varkensvlees eten.
Ikzelf ben eerder geconfronteerd geweest met het verhaal dat reptielachtige wezens tussen de mensen leven vermomd als mens, maar ik vond dat nogal sterke verhalen. Deze twee video's, echter, hebben mijn ogen geopend.
Ik heb door deze video ongelofelijk veel informatie binnengekregen die ik hiervoor nooit had. Het mooie is: de video staat openbaar op het Internet, dus iedereen kan het zien! Niet iedereen heeft het geluk Russisch te spreken, dus daarom dacht ik: "Ik zal een beetje helpen!
Hierna de twee Russischtalige video's en daarna de uitgebreide aantekeningen die door de lezer zijn gemaakt.
Sigaretvormige vliegende objecten zijn van de reptiloïden. Hier staat zeven sterren op en een draakachtige slang in een cirkel.
Driehoekige vliegende objecten zijn Aardse objecten uit de Verenigde Staten van Amerika. Hier rust een alleenrecht op, zo blijkt uit de gegevens van Wikileaks: TR - 3b project Astra. De VSA, Canada en Groot-Brittannië zijn in het bezit van deze driehoekige vliegende objecten.
Cirkelvormig ruimteschip met vijf lichtjes naar beneden en drie naar boven: grijze beschaving.
De mensen zijn al bijna klaar om de reptiloïden in hun echte vorm te zien.
De mensen zijn nog niet klaar om met de reptiloïden samen te werken. Er zijn nu onderontwikkelde wezens die alleen in het astrale kunnen zijn en die zich alleen voeden met menselijke energie. Het is niet leuk om dat tegen ons te vertellen. ("Нам говорить это - не интересно") Wij zijn vooruitgegaan. De reptiloïden hebben oogpupillen die vanaf de zijkanten open en dichtgaan.
Deze wezens kunnen jou meenemen op hun schip. "Не надо испытывать - мы можем просто так общаться."
Vanaf 13:05 zegt via hypnose - waarschijnlijk reptiloïde - "onze schepen zijn goed genoeg verborgen. Geen menselijk oog is goed genoeg om onze schepen te zien. Wij krijgen hiervoor op onze kop."
"замахнулись на всех цивилизаций!" (Что это значит?)
"Смешно. Если я вам сейчас скажу на вашем планете много рас, то главнее всего... "
Я бы не сказала, что они (спруты) далеко от нас ушли."
Er is een ander buitenaards ras, спруты, die blijkbaar verder ontwikkeld is dan de reptiloïden, maar de reptiloïde zegt daarover: "Ik zou niet zeggen dat zij veel verder zijn dan wij in de ontwikkeling."
"Wij hebben afspraken met Aardse overheden." ~ "Er wordt op jullie gelet, zodat er niks met jullie zal gebeuren."
"Wie let er dan op ons?" ---> "Jullie geestelijke mentoren. Dat is de hogere beschaving, die jullie werk in de gaten houdt. Zij geven jullie techniek en programma's voor jullie ontwikkeling. Is het zo duidelijk?"
Amerikaanse ruimteschepen kunnen van één punt naar het andere reizen, maar alleen binnen de Aardse grenzen. Zij kunnen niet de ruimte in vliegen. Mensen kunnen de ruimte al in vliegen; bij ons (Rusland?) is die technologie nog in ontwikkeling.
Rusland kan deze technologie gebruiken en gebruikt deze ook, maar niet tot het einde. Rusland bezit andere technische middelen: portalen.
"Waar in Rusland wordt dit ontwikkeld?" ---> "Ik heb het recht niet om de exacte locatie te geven, maar ik kan wel zeggen: daar waar het ijs is. Ik hoop dat jij het begrijpt" ---> "Ja, ik begrijp het."
19:35: "Wie heeft de technologie van deze driehoekige vliegende schotels gegeven aan de VSA, Canada en Engeland?" ---> "Reptiloïden die met jullie op deze planeet wonen. Overigens, als ik eerlijk ben: de criminele bevolking van de Aarde; dat zijn reptiloïden. Niet jullie, helaas."
19:56: "Waar komen wij dan vandaan?" ---> "Er is een planeet, die jullie Nibiru noemen. Jullie scheppers komen daar vandaan, degenen die jullie gemaakt hebben."
"Voor jullie waren er andere wezens - die lichamelijk erg jullie lijken - die hier samen met de reptiloïden leefden. Hele grote mensen die het licht van de Aarde droegen. Er was een grote oorlog toen die wezens hier kwamen. De reptiloïden besloten zich er niet mee te bemoeien; zij gingen ondergronds en gingen observeren. Tot op heden zijn zij waarnemers, die van de zijlijn toekijken. Zij (de reptiloïden) bemoeiden zich niet met de oorlog."
"Raakt de hypno-energie niet op?" ---> "Maak jou geen zorgen. Jullie [woord dat ik niet ken] heeft voldoende energie voor ons gesprek."
"Dus, de dinosaurussen, die dus zijn uitgestorven" ---> "He. He." (lachje)
"Geef antwoord op de vraag over die periode, toen hier dinosaurussen overbleven: wie waren dat?" ---> "Zij zijn nog steeds hier." ---> "Nu zijn ze hier niet meer. Ze zijn allemaal uitgestorven" ---> "Niet waar. Zij voelen zich heel goed onder de grond. Zij leven en planten zich voort. Binnenkort breekt de periode aan dat de eerste dinosaurus wordt losgelaten, en achter hem volgen duizenden anderen." ---> "Hoe is het mogelijk van de ene naar de andere wereld te komen, waar zij wonen? Waar is de ingang?" ---> "Er zijn zoetwatermeren en oceanen waar de ingang bestaat uit grotten die naar de ondergrondse wereld leiden." ---> "Heeft Rusland ook zo een ingang?" ---> "Twee ingangen zijn open; drie zijn er gesloten." ---> "Kun jij zeggen waar de ingangen open zijn? In welke delen van Rusland?" ---> "Bergen, Ararat. Één puntje is open. Wij kunnen neerkomen; jullie leiders gaven ons toegang, de reptiloïde wezens."
"Voeren jullie geen oorlog met de reptiloïde wezens?" ---> "Waarom zouden wij met jullie of met hen oorlogvoeren? Jullie voeren ons; wij hebben handelsbelangen. Waarvoor?" ---> "Oh, dus jullie voeren handel? Waar handelen jullie in?" ---> "In voor ons onmisbare stoffen; in voor ons onmisbare energie. Wij geven technologieën, van verschillende planeten." ---> "Handelen jullie ook in menselijke energie?" ---> "Zeker. Ik kan het zo zeggen: op de ruimteschepen van de reptiloïden staan zeven sterren. Zeven planeten, die zich in jullie melkweg bevinden. Nu zijn het er vijf. Twee sterren mogen daarom worden weggestreept, maar zij gebruiken er nog steeds zeven, maar in werkelijkheid beheersen de reptiloïden maar vijf planeten." ---> "Welke planeten beheersen jullie nog meer? Estherische planeten?" ---> "Fysieke planeten. Ik heb het met u over fysieke planeten." ---> "Oké, op welke planeten? Kun jij dat aangeven?" ---> "Ik kan het zo zeggen: Jupiter en Saturnus zijn voor hen gesloten. De overige vijf; ik heb geen [zegt iets heel onduidelijks]"
"Die driehoekvormige schotels, waar vliegen zij op? Op welke technologie?" ---> "Torsievelden (Russisch: "торсионные поля")" ---> "En waar komt de energie vandaan?" ---> "Ether. (Russisch: "Эфир")" ---> "Wat verwerkt de ether en wat komt daaruit? Welke energie? Welke beweging?" ---> "Ether kan dichtheid creëren, dichtheid weghalen en de dichtheid doorlatend maken." (Russisch: "Эфир может создавать плотность, убирать плотность и сделать её проницаемый")
"Jullie geleerden weten allang al hoe dit moet. Ik bedoel, jullie Russische geleerden. Vraagt u over Rusland?" ---> "Nee, maar wij hebben toch niet de schotels die Canada, Engeland en Amerika hebben? Daarom vraag ik over..." ---> "Jullie beschaving loopt voor. Jullie hebben die bewegende dingen niet nodig, wanneer jullie geleerd hebben om lichamen te verplaatsen in de ruimte." (Russisch: "Ваша цивилизация впереди. Вам не нужны такие передвигающие вещи, когда вы научились тела перемещать в пространстве.") ---> "De ruimte dichtbij de Aarde?" (Russisch: "Пространство околоземное?") ---> "Ja, op dit moment wordt de technologie nog aan jullie gegeven, aan jullie planeet. Jullie hebben geen toegang om van planeet naar planeet te reizen. Die toegang wordt geopend op [geluid verstoort het antwoord]" ---> "Ja, ja, ik begrijp het. Welke beschaving heeft Rusland?" ---> "Specifiek Rusland?" ---> "Ja" ---> "Ik zal het zo zeggen: op dit moment zitten reptiloïde wezens bij jullie aan de top. Maar, er is een machtsstrijd gaande." ---> "Wie is er nog meer betrokken bij die machtsstrijd, behalve reptiloïde wezens?" ---> "Duistere werelden. Jullie noemen hen: "demonen". Dat is een stof met lage trillingen. Maar, zij kan ook in de materiële wereld bestaan. Zij heeft goed geleerd om te materialiseren." ---> "Bestonden de donkere werelden eerder dan de reptiloïde wezens of hun beschaving? Of waren de reptiloïden eerst?" ---> "De reptiloïden waren er eerder." ---> "Wie heeft de donkere werelden gecreëerd?" ---> "De duistere werelden werden heel lang geleden al gecreëerd, en zij vero... veroviir... verovaren constant planeten" ---> "Veroveren. Duidelijk. Wie heeft de donkere werelden dan gecreëerd? Aanvankelijk, als de reptiloïden er eerst waren, dan moet iemand die donkere werelden toch gecreëerd hebben?" ---> "oecumenisch ras" (Russisch: "вселенский рас") ---> "Zitten zij op alle planeten?" ---> "Jammerlijk genoeg, praktisch overal, maar er zijn planeten waar de toegang gesloten is." ---> "Duidelijk" ---> "Waarom is in Rusland alles zo problematisch? Is Rusland een kolonie, of leidt Rusland haar eigen vooruitgang? (Russisch: "Ну а что-ж в России так всё проблематично? Россия является колония, или Россия сама ведёт свою развитию?")" ---> "Rusland leidt haar eigen ontwikkeling, maar de hele planeet is een kolonie. Herinnert u zich de angst voor het getal zeeeeeeeeeees-zeeeeeees-zeeeeeees? " ---> "Ja, maar waarom angst? Wat is dat voor een getal? Wat zit daarachter?" ---> "Heel simpel. 6 planeten, 6 ruimten (Russisch: "пространств") hebben dezelfde boerderijen als op Aarde. Wezens die hun energieën voeden, en ons allemaal als één. (Russisch: "Существ которым питают их энергий, и нас всех в целом.") Zeeeees-zeeeees-zeeeees. 6 planeten. 6 dimensies en 6 wat? Wat kwam er als laatste?" ---> "[onduidelijk uitgesproken woord]" ---> "Oh, oké, duidelijk. Is dat hier een levenslange beschaving waar energie uit gehaald wordt, of zal de beschaving bevrijd worden uit die kolonie?" ---> "De beschaving kan zich bevrijden in haar ontwikkeling." ---> "En waar moet de beschaving heen, als deze zichzelf bevrijdt?" ---> "Vuur kan op elke planeet leven, wil zich spiritueel ontwikkelen, wil in harmonie voor het licht kiezen." ---> "Gewoon even tussendoor. Is het mogelijk om mensen energetisch van kanker te genezen?" ---> "Dat hebben jullie uitgevonden. Jullie kunnen oncologie allang al genezen, maar het geld verhindert jullie." ---> "Wat energetica betreft: is het technisch mogelijk om via ons transformatieprogramma..." ---> "Jij moet jouzelf verbeteren. Dan vernietig jij de kankercellen, maar het herprogrammeren van jouw lichaam leidt tot algemene herprogrammering. Wanneer wezens van andere planeten jullie maakten, hebben zij in jullie genoom afkeer tegen reptiloïden geactiveerd. Voor zover de reptiloïden hier leefden, hebben zij jullie genetische angst tegen reptiloïden ingebracht. Jullie afkeer tegen reptiloïden zit dus op genetisch niveau. Maar, reptiloïden zijn niet zo eng als jullie denken. Reptiloïden kunnen jullie helpen met jullie ontwikkeling, maar jullie genetische blokkade houdt dat tegen. Jullie onterechte gegeven kennis beïnvloed jullie wereldbeeld. De blokkade moet worden opgeheven."
"Zitten er in Rusland reptiloïden tussen de beroemdheden?" ---> "Een reptiloïde is een reptiloïde en een mens is een mens." ---> "Zijn er hybriden?" ---> "Kijk naar wat ik zeg: Aardse reptiloïden leven vele eeuwen op de schoot van mensen. Zij hebben dezelfde lichaamsbouw als mensen, hebben geen staart, de vrouwen hebben dezelfde borsten als menselijke vrouwen en geven melk aan de kleintjes. Dat is al ongeveer 3 miljoen jaar zo. Maar, het zijn geen zoogdieren. Het is gewoon een toegankelijke optie om kinderen te voeden; dit ook de betere variant. Maar, hun huid is anders dan die van jullie (mensen). Onze huid is gladder en heeft geen pili ( https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilus ). Aan de kant van de rug bij het ruggenmerg zit schubafval verzameld in een strakke frame. Dit gedeelte is bij hen heel gevoelig. De ogen zijn zijwaarts geplant. Er is haar op het hoofd, maar zij verven hun haar altijd een dusdanige kleur dat bij hun leeftijd past. Tussen de mensen kun jij hen herkennen doordat zij nooit strakke kleren dragen, vanwege hun gevoelige huid. Strakke kleding brengt hen pijn en ongemak. Zij hebben altijd "vliegende" en mooie kleding. En zij kunnen ook - vooral in de zomer - gaan zonnebaden. Daar genieten zij enorm van, net zoveel als dat jullie (mensen) genieten van seksuele genoegens." ---> "En welke verschillen zijn er nog meer?" ---> "Zij bezitten telekinetische krachten. Al hun communicatie loopt via gedachtenvorming. Allemaal. En zij zien de wereld niet door jullie kunstmatig aangebrachte, genetische blokkades, maar zoals dat miljarden jaren geleden was, dus een juiste waarneming van de wereld." ---> "Hoe verwijderen wij onze genetische blokkade, om de wereld net zo te zien als jullie reptiloïden?" ---> "Jullie hebben reptiloïden die met mensen willen praten, vooral jonge individuen die wetenschappelijke ontwikkelingen leiden, in groepen van mensen." ---> "Weten zij dat jij hen bestempelt als reptiloïde?" ---> "Ongetwijfeld. Het zijn toch geen idioten? Zij weten dat zij reptiloïden zijn. In jullie netwerken is er correspondentie, maar mensen nemen dit niet serieus. Zij lachen eroverheen." ---> "Welke correspondentie?" ---> "De exacte gegevens zou ik moeten achterhalen, maar ik weet dat zulke individuen er zijn, en niet alleen in Rusland, maar op Aarde in het algemeen, die met jullie communiceren en jullie hun wereldkennis geven. Maar, niet één persoon, behalve degenen die hen (reptiloïden) contacteren, neemt het contact serieus. Maar, jullie organisatie, ik bedoel jullie leiders - ik hoop dat jullie snappen over wie ik het heb - zodra zij de ernst van de bedoelingen inzien, proberen zij alle kennis die naar hen leidt te vernietigen. Daarom waarschuw ik jullie zodat jullie voorzichtig zijn in wat jullie schrijven en in jullie belangrijke dingen. Het leven is voor jullie een behoorlijk dunne [onverstaanbaar... грай?], helaas is dat zo." ---> "Wat voor dunne [грай?] bedoelt u?" ---> "Ik zal het zo zeggen: ik praat met u over een fysiek plan. Daarom zijn mensen die ver gegaan zijn in hun ontwikkeling onderworpen aan onmiddellijke vernietiging, in het fysieke plan." --> "Wie houdt dat in de gaten?" ---> "De mensen van de overheid, die opzettelijk donker zijn, willen niet dat jullie beschaving aan de controle ontsnapt. Daarvoor worden jullie beïnvloed door verschillende technologieën, die erop ingericht zijn jullie als geheel te laten verdwijnen." ---> "Welke technologieën zijn dat? Mag ik dat weten? Noem eens een voorbeeld." ---> "Al lang geleden, in de middeleeuwen, zijn micro-robotjes ontwikkeld die het menselijke lichaam betreden om deze te raken. Jullie denken aan ziektes, maar dat is in werkelijkheid het werk van de mini-robotjes, die de balans van het lichaam verstoren door een destructieve structuur op te zetten." ---> "Hoe komen die micro-robots in ons lichaam?" ---> "Vliegtuigen besproeien deze mini-robots" ---> "Ah, dus jij bedoelt die - zoals Amerikanen dat noemen - chemtrails?" ---> "Misschien wel" ---> "Worden deze (mini-robotjes) in Rusland ook besproeid?" ---> "Over de hele wereld" ---> "Dus, elk mens heeft ze (de mini-robotjes)?" ---> "[onverstaanbaar woord] als konijnen" ---> "Dus, heeft elk mens die mini-robotjes? Hoe detecteer jij deze? Hoe deactiveer jij deze?" ---> "Jullie beschikken nog niet over de technologie om deze (mini-robotjes) te zien, maar ik kan het volgende zeggen: het is niet zonder reden dat jullie geen varkensvlees eten, want zij (varkens) waren de eersten die wij infecteerden. Ik zal het zo zeggen: jullie fruit, jullie groenten en zelfs jullie water, zijn al geïnfecteerd, helaas." ---> "Leuk" ---> "Ja..." ---> "Ik begrijp het, ik begrijp het. Wij zijn allemaal geïnfecteerd met micro-robotjes. Zijn dat bierrobotjes, of is het iets mechanisch?" ---> "De mini-robotjes zijn in jullie cellen en zelfs DNA ingebouwd, en wachten op het vernietigingscommando" ---> "En wie doet dat allemaal?" ---> "Jullie planeetvriendjes" ---> "Dus, het is niet mogelijk om dit te detecteren?" ---> "Dit was ongeveer 2500 jaar geleden. Toen was deze technologie ontwikkeld. Al 300 jaar werkt dit op planetair niveau, in jullie lichamen." ---> "Goed dan. Dank u wel. Kan ik nog met u praten? Hoe moet ik u oproepen?" ---> "Ik heb in het begin een code doorgegeven. De namen van de beschavingen die u gegeven zijn, zijn geen namen." ---> "Oké, maar kun jij de code herhalen?" ---> (tijdsprong) ---> "Bedankt voor het gesprek." ---> "Mijn vibraties..." ---> "Het was leuk om met u te praten, maar er wacht een client. Wij moeten het echt afsluiten." ---> "Ja, ik ben u dankbaar voor het gesprek." ---> "Ik roep u morgen op. Bent u er morgen nog?" ---> "Zeker" ---> "Bedankt" ---> "Neutrale zone. Verkrijg 400% van de energie. U moet uw vibraties verhogen."
I was looking over some old Spirit Rover photo and came across something unusual. A tiny life form was crawling from out under a rock. It was pink and long, and looks like its semi wet. It is a pink earth worm. I don't know how, but its there. For this to exist, the soil on Mars would have to be equal to that of earths. Where there is one...there are many. Not only is this proof that life exists on Mars, albeit small...but that the soil is being replenished by worms making the soil potentially great for farming.
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UFO Fleet Over New York City Seen Dec 1, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet Over New York City Seen Dec 1, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 1, 2019 Location of sighting: New York, USA
Several huge glowing UFOs were seen over New York City last night. There are four glowing objects without aircraft lights moving ever so slowly over the city, but a helicopter with a red flashing light goes to investigate them. Interesting footage. Even John Lennon said he saw a UFO disk visiting him and his wife as they watched from their penthouse apartment patio. Alien in New York City...yes...they love it. Don't take my word for it, listen to John Lennon himself in the video below. Scott C. Waring
Possible Nibiru Planet X Seen Near Earths Sun, Nov 24, 201, UFO Sighting News.
Possible Nibiru Planet X Seen Near Earths Sun, Nov 24, 2019, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 24, 2019 Location of sighting: Earths Sun Source: MUFON #104808 Now this is interesting. A person took a photo of the sun using a home made filter (red filter) and caught a huge sphere near our sun. The sphere is big, about 20X the size of earth or more. I put the red photo that he took into negative formate (blue) and the detail came out better. You can easily see a giant sphere near our sun. Something NASA has not told us about nor will they ever mention it. The eyewitness is worried that the object is Nibiru, a legendary planet or space station that can change directions and visits earth every 10,000-15,000 years. Nibieru has been recorded from ancient times all the way back to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs which speak of it. Its linked to the fall of different human species and the rise of a superior species each visit. Its like earth is an experiment and they are the scientists...and at the end of each experiment the subjects must be put down...so they don't pollute future exponents. Thats how human scientists work when using live test subjects. Even NASA has admired to a invisible planet out there somewhere in our solar system. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I decided to take a picture of the sun using very dark see through plastic and I captured some spherical object or planet just to the left of the sun. Was this planet Nibiru?
Why Are UFOs Always Deactivating Nuclear Missiles?
Why Are UFOs Always Deactivating Nuclear Missiles?
It's public knowledge that the US was interested in testing nukes on the moon. But did they actually do it? One high ranking military officials thinks so.
At first there was Project A119, also known as A Study of Lunar Research Flights, was a top-secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force. The aim of the project was to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon, which would help in answering some of the mysteries in planetary astronomy and astrogeology.
If the explosive device detonated on the surface, not in a lunar crater, the flash of explosive light would have been faintly visible to people on Earth with their naked eye, a show of force resulting in a possible boosting of domestic morale in the capabilities of the United States.
The project was never carried out, being cancelled primarily out of a fear of a negative public reaction, with the potential militarization of space that it would also have signified, and because a Moon landing would undoubtedly be a more popular achievement in the eyes of the American and international public alike.
But then in 2009 NASA revealed that they crashed a rocket and a satellite into the moon's surface. Nasa's mission's goal was to scan for water in dust kicked up by crash.
But was it just a rocket and a satellite or they actually tried to detonate a nuclear device on the moon?
Probably not, but there are reasons to be optimistic about our near-future prospects.
The Allen Telescope Array in northern California is dedicated to astronomical observations and a simultaneous search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
In the past three decades, scientists have found more than 4,000 exoplanets. And the discoveries will keep rolling in; observations suggest that every star in the Milky Way galaxy hosts more than one planet on average.
Given a convergence of ground- and space-based capability, artificial intelligence/machine learning research and other tools, are we on the verge of identifying what is universally possible for life — or perhaps even confirming the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence?
Is 2020 the celestial payoff year, in which objects of interest are found to offer "technosignatures," indicators of technology developed by advanced civilizations?
Space.com asked top SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) experts about what next year may signal regarding detecting other starfolk.
Gaining speed
"Well, despite being the widely celebrated 100-year anniversary of the election of Warren G. Harding, 2020 will not likely gain fame as the year we first discover extraterrestrial life," said Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.
The search for intelligent beings elsewhere, Shostak said, is largely conducted by checking out nearby star systems for either narrow-band radio signals or brief flashes of laser light. And those might succeed at any time, he told Space.com.
"But one should remember that this type of search is gaining speed in an exponential fashion, and that particular technical fact allows a crude estimate of when SETI might pay off. If we take — for lack of a better estimate — Frank Drake's opinion that there might be 10,000 broadcasting societies in the Milky Way, then we clearly have to examine at least one [million] – 10 million stellar systems to have a reasonable chance of tripping across one. That goal will be reached in the next two decades, but certainly not in 2020," Shostak said.
Improved searches
But there are still reasons for intelligent-alien hunters to be excited and optimistic about the coming year. Multiple existing projects will either be expanded or improved in 2020, Shostak said. For example, the SETI Institute will get new receivers for the Allen Telescope Array in northern California, and both the SETI Institute and the University of California, Berkeley, will conduct new searches for possible laser technosignatures.
"And, of course, there's always the unexpected," Shostak said. "In 1996, the biggest science story of the year was the claim that fossilized Martian microbes had been found in a meteorite. No one really saw that coming. So one can always hope to be taken by surprise."
The powerful 330-foot (100 meters) radio telescope at Green Bank, West Virginia, is being used by Breakthrough Initiatives in its SETI efforts. (Image credit: Seth Shostak/SETI Institute)
Previous predictions
"I am skeptical about picking a specific year for the first discovery. Previous predictions of success have been wrong," said Michael Michaud, author of the thought-provoking book "Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials" (Copernicus, 2007).
"I and others have observed that the continued improvement of our search technologies and strategies could boost the odds for success," Michaud said, noting that the primary focus of SETI remains on radio signals. "However, we still don't cover all frequencies, all skies, all of the time. Other types of searches have failed, too, such as looking for laser signals or Dyson spheres [ET mega-engineering projects]. Those campaigns usually have limited funding and often don't last long."
A new possibility has arisen because of exoplanet discoveries, Michaud said: "In some cases, astronomers now can look for chemical evidence of life in planetary atmospheres. It is conceivable that we will find simple forms of life before we find signals from a technological civilization."
Prevailing opinion
If astronomers do someday confirm a SETI detection, how should they announce the discovery? It is an old question that has been answered in several ways.
"The prevailing opinion among radio astronomers has been that the news will leak quickly. If that is correct, scientific and governmental authorities won't have much time for developing a public-affairs strategy," Michaud said.
"It remains possible that the sophisticated monitoring capabilities of intelligence agencies might be the first to detect hard evidence," Michaud said. "One might think that the government would have a plan to deal with such an event."
But, Michaud said that his own experience suggests that such plans are unlikely to be drawn up due to a "giggle factor" and would be forgotten as officials rotated out of their positions. He previously represented the U.S. Department of State in interagency discussions of national space policy.
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is on the search for planets outside our solar system, including those that could support life. The mission finds exoplanets that periodically block part of the light from their host stars — events called transits. (Image credit: NASA/GSFC)
Long-term project
"While I'm enthusiastic at the reinvigoration of technological-signatures work, and in particular the growth in looking across much of the electromagnetic spectrum, I think this is going to be a long-term project. I estimate a very small probability of success in any given year," said Pete Worden, executive director of the Breakthrough Initiatives. "But those chances are now orders of magnitude better than they were even a decade ago."
Breakthrough Initiatives is tackling the big question of life in the universe, the notable query about whether or not Earthkind is alone. Breakthrough Initiatives is a multifaceted group that's reinvigorating the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
"The Breakthrough Initiatives is committed to full and immediate disclosure of any and all results," Worden said. "We would rely on the principal investigators of our projects, along with their home institutions, to prepare and release both scientific reports and public announcements."
Despite the ongoing work by Breakthrough Listen, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and research into the detection of promising biosignatures and technosignatures, there's no reason to think 2020 would be the year for discovery, said Steven Dick, a recognized astrobiology scholar and writer of the award-winning book "Astrobiology, Discovery, and Societal Impact" (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
"In my view, all these things combine to increase the chances over the next decade of finding extraterrestrial intelligence. I would caution, though, that any discovery will be an extended process, consisting of detection and interpretation before any understanding is achieved," Dick said. "This is clear from the history of discovery, even when we thought we had evidence in hand."
Like Shostak, he cited the Mars meteorite ALH 84001, which in 1996 generated excitement and debate that ancient, microscopic life existed on the Red Planet.
"One thing that is certain is that we are getting a better handle on the issues of societal impact, should such a discovery be made. Many more social sciences and humanities people are getting involved in astrobiology, which is all to the good. In other words, we are preparing for discovery," Dick said. "So, I see the search advancing incrementally next year, but with an accelerating possibility that life will be discovered in the near future."
NASA's long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope will be able to glimpse the atmospheres of exoplanets at infrared wavelengths. (Image credit: C. Carreau/ESA)
Three-way horse race
"There's plenty of real estate where life could exist," said Douglas Vakoch, president of the nonprofit Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) in San Francisco.
"We are right now on the verge of finding out whether there is life elsewhere in the universe, and there are three ways we could find it. Think of it as a three-way horse race to find ET," Vakoch said.
But will any of the horses cross the finish line in 2020?
It all depends on the prevalence of life beyond Earth, Vakoch said, and the number of targets we can scan with available technologies — whether these instruments are located in Earth-based observatories, in space-based telescopes or in craft that travel to other planets and moons in our solar system, Vakoch told Space.com.
So, will scientists find intelligent alien life next year?
"It all depends on how plentiful intelligent extraterrestrials are. If one in 10,00 star systems is home to an advanced civilization trying to make contact, then we're behind schedule in making first contact, and the news we're not alone in the universe could well come in 2020," Vakoch said.
And there are expectations for microbial life, similar to Earth's bacteria, to be even more widely spread throughout space than intelligent life.
But bacteria can't send us radio signals. "We need to develop new technologies to discover them at a distance," Vakoch said. "As the next generation of space telescopes is launched, we will increase our chances of detecting signs of life through changes to the atmospheres of planets that orbit other stars, giving us millions of targets in our search for even simple life in the cosmos."
By the end of 2020, we'll be within a few months of the much-awaited launch of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Vakoch said, which will be able to study the atmospheres of exoplanets for potential signs of life. But it could take much longer, until after the launch of the European Space Agency's Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, or ARIEL, in 2028, before we have "definitive proof" of extraterrestrial microbes through telltale alterations in the atmospheres of exoplanets, Vakoch said.
The Gemini Observatory is operated by a partnership of six countries: the United States, Canada, Chile, Brazil, Argentina and South Korea. (Image credit: Joy Pollard)
Living with uncertainty
There are a number of spacecraft in the proposal stage that could conceivably detect extraterrestrial life within our solar system, "but don't hold your breath for discovery by 2020," Vakoch said. "But if we do someday find even microbial life elsewhere in our solar system that has an independent origin from terrestrial life, then we would know that the entire universe is chock-full of life."
Humans cannot control whether or not there is life elsewhere in the universe, of course.
"Either it's there or it's not," Vakoch said. "We may not be able to decide whether we'll find it in 2020, but we have a tremendous capacity to decide whether we will find it eventually, if it's out there to be discovered."
"To be human is to live with uncertainty," Vakoch concluded. "If we demand guarantees before we begin searching, then we are guaranteed to find nothing. But if we are willing to commit to the search in the coming year and long afterwards, even without knowing we will succeed, then we are sure to discover that there is at least one civilization in the universe that has the passion and the determination to understand its place in the cosmos — and that civilization is us."
Leonard David is author of the recently released book,"Moon Rush: The New Space Race" published by National Geographic in May 2019. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us on Twitter@SpacedotcomorFacebook.
At the edge of our solar system, a fierce battle rages between solar wind and interstellar rays. NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has now passed through the frontlines.
Enclosed in a "bubble" of solar wind called the heliosphere, our solar system is relatively safe from the ravages of cosmic rays flying through interstellar space.
The flood of hot, electric particles constantly gushing out of the sun bathes the entire solar system in radiation, frying the occasional satellite and making life impossible on any planet not shielded by an atmosphere. In both a literal and figurative sense, the solar wind blows — but, as new observations from the edge of our solar system suggest, it also protects everything it touches from the even more damaging forces of interstellar space.
As the solar wind flows outward for billions of miles in every direction, it creates a bubble of energy that surrounds our entire solar system. At the edge of this bubble, where the solar wind finally collides with powerful cosmic rays beaming through interstellar space, there is a hot, thick wall of plasma called the heliopause. This cosmic border sits about 120 times farther from the sun than Earth does, where it helps deflect and dilute the powerful radiation released by distant stars and celestial explosions.
Now, in a series of studies published Nov. 4 in the journal Nature Astronomy, astronomers directly analyzed this cosmic frontier for the first time using data collected by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, which passed through the heliopause and into interstellar space a year ago.
While Voyager 2 was able to cruise seamlessly through the heliopause in about a day, researchers found that the plasma barrier was significantly hotter and thicker than previous studies estimated, effectively forming a physical shield between our solar system and interstellar space. According to study co-author Edward Stone, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology who has worked on the Voyager program since it launched in 1977, this shield stops about 70% of cosmic radiation from breaking into our solar system.
"The heliopause is the contact surface where two winds [collide] — the wind from the sun and the wind from space, which comes from supernova that exploded millions of years ago," Stone said in a news conference about the new Voyager studies. "Only about 30% of what's outside of the bubble can get in."
This illustration shows Voyager 1 and 2 passing through the heliopause and leaving our solar system — the first man-made interstellar space travelers ever.(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Interstellar robots phone home
In November 2018, NASA's Voyager 2 (V2) satellite passed through the heliopause, becoming only the second man-made object in history to leave our solar system. (The satellite's twin, Voyager 1, became the first in August 2012 — however, Voyager 1 was unable to analyze the border properly due to a sensor malfunction.)
According to radiation data collected by V2 on its interstellar journey, temperatures in the heliopause reached up to 89,000 degrees Fahrenheit (31,000 degrees Celsius) — roughly double the temperature that previous astronomical models predicted, suggesting a far more violent clash between the solar wind and cosmic rays than scientists ever predicted.
While the heliopause's hot, thick wall of plasma protects our solar system from most of the harmful rays darting through space, the researchers also found that the boundaries of the heliopause are not quite as uniform as anticipated. The edge of heliopause is not a perfect "bubble" after all, but contains porous holes that allow interstellar radiation to leak in at certain points.
Voyager 2 data detected two such holes on our side of the heliopause, where radiation levels spiked much higher than normal background levels before dropping back down again. Eventually, when the levels of cosmic radiation skyrocketed and stayed that way, it was clear the Voyager 2 had entered a new region of space, beyond our sun's domain.
The sheath of hot, charged wind protecting our solar system might not be perfect (and it still might not be our friend) but, as Voyager 2 confirmed, it is part of what separates our cozy cosmic home from the ferocious wilderness of space. For that, perhaps, we should be thankful.
Apollo 10’s “Snoopy” Lunar Lander May Have Been Found in Space
Apollo 10’s “Snoopy” Lunar Lander May Have Been Found in Space
Apollo 11 was the first mission to land people on the lunar surface. But Apollo relied on a lot of predecessor missions to lay the groundwork for the successful mission to the Moon. One of them was Apollo 10, the fourth crewed mission in the Apollo program.
Apollo 10 was an almost complete mission that including everything that Apollo 11 had, except for an actual landing on the Moon. It was a dress rehearsal, and was the second Apollo mission to orbit the Moon. It even had an Apollo Lunar Module that was flown to within 15 km of the lunar surface. But that module never landed, and eventually, after it rendezvoused with the command module and the crew disembarked, it was sent into orbit around the Sun.
And up until now, nobody knew where it was.
The Lunar Lander from Apollo 10 had a nickname. It was called “Snoopy” after the dog in the Peanuts comic strip, by Charles Schulz. NASA thought that giving the lander and the command module names from the popular comic strip would help kids be interested in the mission. (The command module was called “Charlie Brown.”) Snoopy was sent off to orbit the Sun without another thought, and nobody thought to keep track of it.
The Apollo 10 command module was named “Charlie Brown.” This image shows Charlie Brown, as seen from the Snoopy lunar lander. Image Credit: NASA.
Then in 2011, a group of amateur astronomers in the UK began looking for Snoopy. At the time, Universe Today covered the effort by amateur astronomer Nick Howes to search for Snoopy. He had some success under his belt already: he had organized an effort involving schools to find asteroids and comets with the Faulkes Telescope Project.
At that time, Howes and his team had an enormous area of space to search through, since orbital data from Apollo 10 was scarce. In 2011, Howes told Universe Today, “We’re expecting a search arc anywhere up to 135 million kilometres in size which is a huge amount of space to look at.”
Now, 8 years later, Howes thinks they’ve found Snoopy at long last.
Apollo 10 commander Thomas Stafford pats a stuffed Snoopy on the snout as he heads to the launch. Image Credit: NASA.
A report on Sky News says that the team is almost certain they’ve found it. Or 98% certain, anyway. And if they have found it, they’ve beaten the 235 million to one odds of doing so. Very impressive effort.
In an interview with Newsweek, Howes said, “We are relatively confident The heliocentric orbit looks good, the object is artificial, and the size is right.” Howes and his team aren’t certain yet, though. That will require more detailed observations, but Snoopy is too far away for that right now.
Howes stressed that some agency will have to get a better look at it before they can confirm that the object is Snoopy.
Nick Howes@NickAstronomer
Emphasis is "may" have been found . Until we get close up radar data ..then nobody will know for sure ..but it's promising
He also mused that someone like Elon Musk may have the wherewithal to retrieve it, at some point. You never know, but if Elon Musk followed every well-meaning suggestion, his calendar would be awfully full.
It remains to be seen if Snoopy has been found. If it has, then it’s a very intriguing development. And that’s not just because there’s a small chance of recovering it in the future. It’s because of history.
The famous Apollo 10 Earthrise video. Credit: NASA
With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing coming up, it’s a good chance to look beyond that successful, historic mission, and to recognize all the effort that preceded it. Indeed, the 50th anniversary of Apollo 10 just came and went on May 22nd, when in 1969 Snoopy made its closest approach to the lunar surface. Imagine how crew members Eugene Cernan and Thomas Stafford felt coming so close to the Moon but not landing. (Cernan thought that NASA purposefully didn’t give them enough fuel, in case they were tempted.)
In the end, Howes is realistic about the likelihood of recovering Snoopy. At best, that would be a frivolous use of funds, though private citizens like Musk are free to spend their money as they see fit.
Nick Howes@NickAstronomer
Anyway ..given the problems our world currently faces .. spending millions to go out and image a lunar module from 1969 may seem very frivolous .. and the scientific value as I said in my talk.. would be minimal
FORMER CIA AGENT: ALIENS ABDUCTED ABOUT ONE MILLION PEOPLE
FORMER CIA AGENT: ALIENS ABDUCTED ABOUT ONE MILLION PEOPLE
Last month, alien hunter Derrel Sims shared some interesting information about his activities with UAMN TV’s YouTube channel subscribers.
A former CIA employee is not just a ufologist, but a person who is investigating alien abductions. The man warns that extraterrestrials are not friends to us at all, they are evil ruthless creatures.
If a person does not experience negative emotions after the abduction, then he succumbed to the influence of a special program of aliens. As a rule, such personalities begin to tell in a positive way various not quite good things that were inspired by aliens.
For example, according to Sims, often abducted people talk about the “friendly mood” of the “green men”, although they carried out certain surgical operations on them.
For those who have not succumbed to suggestion, humanoids simply erase their memory. A former CIA employee has personally received more than two thousand cases of abduction. But the man is sure that there are actually about a million of them.
According to Derrell, one woman had a scar from the chest to the umbilical cord, but she still does not remember anything about it. And there are many such cases when people woke up with incomprehensible scars.
In total there are 7 types of aliens. Sims personally dealt with grays and reptiles, which are very similar to people. Some species were created on Earth based on human DNA, says Derrel Sims.
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State Troopers Alien Craft Close Encounters In Indiana
State Troopers Alien Craft Close Encounters In Indiana
At around 7:30 pm on 4th February, Hollace Chastain had just finished his state trooper patrol duties and was checking his mailbox on his way home in Norman. As he did so, however, he noticed an elliptical-shaped bright light in the sky seemingly hovering overhead.
He watched the light for several moments and after being satisfied that it was indeed something unusual, he would radio a report to another trooper on patrol, James Blevins. As he did so, the object suddenly began to move, changing colors from “white to orange to greenish-blue” before finally returning to white as it settled back into a hovering position. Even more bizarre, although the witnesses believed the object to be solid, they also witnessed it seemingly changing its shape. In total, it remained visible for around half an hour before disappearing from their sight.
From his position, around 10 miles from Chastain’s location, Blevins would describe the object as “much too big to be a star”, even if it had of remained stationary. When it did move it appeared to “flicker and wobble”. This might be suggestive of some kind of rotation taking place.
Although the object disappeared from the view of the two state troopers, beginning in the early hours of the following morning, only several hours later in real time, several other sightings would unfold within hours of each other.
Several Sightings Within Hours Across Indiana
As they were returning home from Huntingburg where they had performed earlier, several members of a band would witness a strange object just before 2 am, around 10 miles outside of Oakland City. They would describe the object as “pale green with a bluish tinge”. The brightness of the object varied as they continued to watch it.
However, more remarkable, and very similar to the claims of the two state troopers only hours previously, was that it appeared to change shape. At first, it appeared like a boomerang before seeming to morph into a teardrop shape. As the members of the band watched the incident, who would incidentally all request anonymity, another vehicle passed theirs. It appeared these unidentified people also witnessed the bizarre encounter.
Around 75 miles away and 45 minutes later at 2:30 am in Crothersville, state police officer, Richard Barker witnessed and followed a “huge ball of greenish-blue and white lights” that appeared to have a flat, rotating underside. He would follow the bizarre object for around 10 miles, closing to “within (about) a mile of it” before it “took off fast”. He would state:
It wasn’t like any airplane I’ve ever seen. I know it wasn’t a plane!
Just under four hours later at around 6 am, an anonymous woman would report a very similar object over Bedford. She watched the object for around 30 minutes, recalling that it was “oval-shaped, sort of like a cigar”. Furthermore, the “top was shiny” while there was a “bright light on the bottom”. She got the impression from how the light appeared to move that the object was “looking for someplace to land”.
The object came closer to her home and eventually hovered overhead for several minutes before taking off. NOTE: The above image is CGI.
Remote U.S. Military Base Discovered - What Is Going on There?
Remote U.S. Military Base Discovered - What Is Going on There?
Satellites over New Mexico capture something in the sands: a US military base that has an interesting purpose.
The US military had the same surveillance blimps in Iraq. If you had access, which I did, I was able to watch the blimp feed for each blimp in the area. A.M.
This is an operator’s account of two years on the Persistent Threat Detection System in Iraq in 2007 and in Afghanistan in 2008.
Here, a massive super-computer simulation shows the strong particle density fluctuations that occur in the extreme turbulent environments that host black holes and neutron stars. Dark blue regions are low particle density regions, while yellow regions are strongly over-dense regions. Particles are accelerated to extremely high speeds due to the interactions with strongly turbulence fluctuations in this environment. Credit: Image from published study
For decades, scientists have speculated about the origin of the electromagnetic radiation emitted from celestial regions that host black holes and neutron stars—the most mysterious objects in the universe.
Astrophysicists believe that this high-energy radiation—which makes neutron stars and black holes shine bright—is generated by electrons that move at nearly the speed of light, but the process that accelerates these particles has remained a mystery.
Now, researchers at Columbia University have presented a new explanation for the physics underlying the acceleration of these energetic particles.
In a study published in the December issue of The Astrophysical Journal, astrophysicists Luca Comisso and Lorenzo Sironi employed massive super-computer simulations to calculate the mechanisms that accelerate these particles. They concluded that their energization is a result of the interaction between chaotic motion and reconnection of super-strong magnetic fields.
"Turbulence and magnetic reconnection—a process in which magnetic field lines tear and rapidly reconnect—conspire together to accelerate particles, boosting them to velocities that approach the speed of light," said Luca Comisso, a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia and first author on the study.
"The region that hosts black holes and neutron stars is permeated by an extremely hot gas of charged particles, and the magnetic field lines dragged by the chaotic motions of the gas, drive vigorous magnetic reconnection," he added. "It is thanks to the electric field induced by reconnection and turbulence that particles are accelerated to the most extreme energies, much higher than in the most powerful accelerators on Earth, like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN."
When studying turbulent gas, scientists cannot predict chaotic motion precisely. Dealing with the mathematics of turbulence is difficult, and it constitutes one of the seven "Millennium Prize" mathematical problems. To tackle this challenge from an astrophysical point of view, Comisso and Sironi designed extensive super-computer simulations —among the world's largest ever done in this research area—to solve the equations that describe the turbulence in a gas of charged particles.
The rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in the center of the Crab nebula is the dynamo powering the nebula's eerie interior bluish glow. The blue light comes from electrons whirling at nearly the speed of light around magnetic field lines from the neutron star. The neutron star, the crushed ultra-dense core of the exploded star, like a lighthouse, ejects twin beams of radiation that appear to pulse 30 times a second. Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester (Arizona State University)
"We used the most precise technique—the particle-in-cell method—for calculating the trajectories of hundreds of billions of charged particles that self-consistently dictate the electromagnetic fields. And it is this electromagnetic field that tells them how to move," said Sironi, assistant professor of astronomy at Columbia and the study's principal investigator.
Sironi said that the crucial point of the study was to identify role magnetic reconnection plays within the turbulent environment. The simulations showed that reconnection is the key mechanism that selects the particles that will be subsequently accelerated by the turbulent magnetic fields up to the highest energies.
The simulations also revealed that particles gained most of their energy by bouncing randomly at an extremely high speed off the turbulence fluctuations. When the magnetic field is strong, this acceleration mechanism is very rapid. But the strong fields also force the particles to travel in a curved path, and by doing so, they emit electromagnetic radiation.
"This is indeed the radiation emitted around black holes and neutron stars that make them shine, a phenomenon we can observe on Earth," Sironi said.
The ultimate goal, the researchers said, is to get to know what is really going on in the extreme environment surrounding black holes and neutron stars, which could shed additional light on fundamental physics and improve our understanding of how our Universe works.
They plan to connect their work even more firmly with observations, by comparing their predictions with the electromagnetic spectrum emitted from the Crab Nebula, the most intensely studied bright remnant of a supernova (a star that violently exploded in the year 1054). This will be a stringent test for their theoretical explanation.
"We figured out an important connection between turbulence and magnetic reconnection for accelerating particles, but there is still so much work to be done," Comisso said. "Advances in this field of research are rarely the contribution of a handful of scientists, but they are the result of a large collaborative effort."
Other researchers, such as the Plasma Astrophysics group at the University of Colorado Boulder, are making important contributions in this direction, Comisso said.
Multiple Russia UFO sightings were actually a military ICBM test launch
Multiple Russia UFO sightings were actually a military ICBM test launch
The ‘UFO’ pictured next to a building in Ufa, Bashkiria
(social media / east2west news)
Skywatchers in Russia have been reporting sights of a bizarre ‘shuttlecock-shaped’ UFO flashing through the night.
Initially, it was feared the object – passing over the Urals and Volga regions – was a meteorite.
Social media across several time zones in Russia and also Kazakhstan was buzzing with awe-inspiring images of the mysterious object as it streaked overhead in the early evening.
Later it became clear that the UFO was not aliens or a lump of space rock but a test launch of a Topol-M intercontinental ballistic rocket by Vladimir Putin’s strategic missile forces.
Footage showed the launch from the Kapustin Yar firing range in Astrakhan region, claimed the Russian defence ministry. It hit a target at the Sary Shagan anti-ballistic missile site in Kazakhstan in a ‘successful’ test, according to officials.
The missile was visible over Chelyabinsk, Russia
(social media / east2west news)
The timings of the missile test matched the sightings of the unusual object in the sky.
One posting in Saratov said: ‘Some kind of UFO. Did anybody else see it too? Something really unusual, what was it? Then it flashed…and soon disappeared’.
Sofya Salova, from Ufa, said: ‘We went for a walk with the children and saw a UFO over the city. It was unknown and surprising. At first it was just a bright spot, then it flashed to the right like a large torch, made a light ‘fart’ – sorry I can’t find a better word – and just vanished.’
In Chelyabinsk – hit by a major meteorite in 2013 – residents described the object as a ‘flying jellyfish’.
A Topol missile launch at Kapustin Yar
(Defense Ministry of Russia / east2west news)
The Topol-M is a strategic intercontinental ballistic missile system developed at the end of the Soviet era. It is capable of carrying an 800-kilotonne warhead with the destructive power of 800,000 tonnes of TNT.
That’s 40 times the destructive power of the atomic bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan in 1945.
The new discovery was achived by the Scan Pyramids project – a cross-disciplinary, multi-institution/nation effort that has employed various high-tech, non-destructive methods – such as infra-red thermography and muons radiography – to ‘scan’ the Great Pyramid for hidden cavities and/or structures.
Now, two years later, the Scan Pyramids team have released a new video (embedded below) announcing that the large cavity – which generated some controversy, with questions raised as to whether it truly was there, or was just some sort of scanning artifact – has been confirmed by more scans taken from new points within the pyramid, including the so-called ‘relieving chambers’ that sit above the ‘King’s Chamber’:
The big void was again observed from these new measuring points, confirming and refining the results published in 2017. The cavity is just above the Grand Gallery, between 10 and 15 metres above. Its minimum length, estimated initially at 30 metres, has been reevaluated to 40 metres minimum probably in one single section. However the mission scientists continue to debate about a slope.
The video also discusses other aspects of the project, including the other cavity found behind the entrance to the pyramid, as well as the lack of anomalies between the top of the relieving chambers and the peak of the pyramid:
A mysterious radar track yesterday prompted Washington D.C. to go on alert.
A search of the area turned up nothing.
A reporter for CBS News noticed a missile launcher during the alert.
A mysterious radar return prompted yesterday that an unauthorized aircraft was flying over the restricted airspace of Washington D.C. A search of the area reportedly turned up nothing, but one reporter located in the city did notice something: a surface to air missile system across the street from the White House.
At approximately 8:30am local time, a “track of interest” on a radar at the Capitol Police command center was detected over Washington D.C. The track was described as a “slow moving blob.”
Washington’s skies are heavily regulated, the result of the 9/11 attacks in order to protect the White House, Capitol building, and other government locations. North American Air Defense Command, or NORAD, sent a Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin helicopter to investigate. The helicopter, call sign “Blackjack,” did not notice anything unusual but note it nearly ran into a flock of birds at 1,300 feet.
The alert lasted 45 minutes. During that time a CBS News reporter, Sara Cook, noticed something unusual on a building across the street from the White House: a missile launcher.
Sara Cook✔@saraecook
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.@SecretService statement on this morning's lockdown at the White House:
“The White House was locked down this morning due to a potential violation of the restricted airspace in the National Capital Region. The lockdown has been lifted at this time.”
Sara Cook✔@saraecook
Spotted during the lockdown: a missile battery in position atop a building across the street from the White House
The launcher is an Avenger air defense missile system. Avenger consists of eight Stinger missiles and a M3 .50 caliber machine gun, and was originally designed to protect U.S. Army forces from low-level air attack. Avenger is typically mounted on a Humvee, but the Washington system appears to be mounted on a pedestal on top of the building.
Stinger is a short range system with a relatively small explosive warhead, so it is ideally suited for shooting down hostile small aircraft, drones, and other threats in and around the White House. Stinger missiles are infrared-guided and have a range of approximately two miles.
The Avenger system could be the missile launcher first spotted in 2004, on top of the nearby New Executive Office Building. It appears to be in a position where it is only noticeable from certain locations on the ground. It is visible on Google Maps on the northwest corner of the building.
At around 8:30am on November 26th, what appeared to be a potential violation of the tightly controlled airspace ringing Washington D.C. occurred, sparking off a course of eventsthat drew national attention. The White House and the Capitol went into lockdown as a Coast Guard MH-65, callsign Blackjack, scrambled to intercept the possible intruder and F-16s were sent to runway alert at Andrews AFB, prepared to rocket into the sky if needed at a moment's notice. Confusion followed as to what exactly was detected and why. Now, according to officials with direct knowledge of the events, here is what actually occurred.
Before we begin, one must understand that the Washington D.C. Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) is a chunk of airspace that rings the Capital. From its center, the Special Flight Rules Area reaches out roughly 30 miles in any direction, with the Flight Restriction Zone being a bubble within the ADIZ with a radius of roughly half that distance. The ADIZ is supported by a large number of highly networked, but disparate sensors, including various radars, electro-optical and infrared cameras, and other passive sensors to closely surveil the skies in the area for potential threats. And yes, it is backed up by medium-range NASAMS surface-to-air missile systems scattered around the region, as well as Avenger short-range missile systems near key locales. Beyond that, MH-65 Dolphin helicopters at Reagan National Airport stand alert to intercept any slow-moving targets, while F-16Cs do the same at Andrews Air Force Base for faster-moving ones.
Fully armed and ready to go F-16s sit engines running at Andrews AFB. The LITENING targeting pod is used for long-range air-to-air visual identification of targets.
30 miles may sound like a lot, but it is anything but. A subsonic jet traveling at cruise speed can cross that distance in less than four minutes. A single-engine light plane can do it in less than fifteen minutes. If the threat, such as a drone, pops up deep inside the airspace already, these times get cut down to nothing.The missiles are there, in part, because it may be impossible to get an F-16 or MH-65 in the air fast enough to deal with a hostile actor. So, air defenders that are tasked with this incredibly challenging mission work in seconds and single miles when it comes to reaction and decision-making times.
This is a tough business with the highest stakes imaginable.
On top of this, the system has been upgraded in recent years in key areas to be able to detect small radar cross-section and slow-moving targets that are out of the detection capabilities of more traditional radar systems. Once again, all these sources are networked to improve target processing fidelity, reduce the chance for horrific mistakes, and to give operators and commanders the best information possible in the least amount of time.
Our sources tell us that although it is not uncommon for birds to be the cause of false alerts multiple times a month around this time a year, the issue that occurred on the 26th was a radar anomaly that was compounded by human error. One of the radars that feeds data into the integrated air defense system created what is called a "mirror track" of an innocuous and in-contact airplane whose transponder was squawking that it was under visual flight rules (VFR). Because it was a mirror track of just the transponder, there is no primary radar return where the mirror track was, the system pointed it out immediately and started automatically pointing electro-optical camera systems at it to validate the return and to identify what it actually was.
Apparently, the D.C. area's integrated air surveillance system is good enough that transponder tracks alone, where the radar doesn't also have a corresponding hard radar return, nearly never occur. But in this case, it was an anomaly happening within the radar system, not the result of lack of radar coverage or fidelity.
When the cameras pointed at the mirror track's location, they saw a real plane that was located roughly along the same azimuth as the mirror track. The issue is that since cameras cannot quantify range, it validated that something was there, but in reality, that plane was not at the range the radar showed the mirror track to be, it was much farther away. In other words, if a plane was actually where the mirror track should have been, the cameras would have seen two airplanes, not just one. As a result of this confusion, more cameras started being pointed at the target automatically.
At this time, the mirror track faded away, so the cameras had no automated radar data left to point to. Human operators took over and they started manually scanning the area for something that wasn't there anymore. There have been reports of ‘blobs’ being seen by the air defense system operators during this instance. Our sources made it clear that this is anything but uncommon as looking into the sky with long focal length cameras results in blobs, especially when scattered clouds are present. There is simply nothing substantial or defining to look at.
An Air Force air traffic controller working with his terminal.
The entire detection period of the mirror track only lasted a number of seconds before the radar picture returned to normal. Those directly operating the radar system knew close to immediately it was just a glitch/anomaly, but by this time, other operators were looking everywhere on camera for anything they can find, and the incident was escalating up the command and control ladder. As such, the powers that be didn't want to discount the situation too quickly. Remember, there is literally no margin for error when it comes to countering a real threat and the nature of potential threats Washington D.C. air defenders could face has evolved dramatically recently. What could look like a flock of birds could end up being something far more nefarious in the years to come.
So, once the wheels were in motion, it was really too late to stop them. This included downstream impacts like locking down high-risk targets around the Mall. But that isn't such a bad thing as this was about making absolutely sure nothing was in the airspace that was a threat, not about having a quick trigger finger. The exact opposite actually.
It's also worth noting that the sensors and support systems that enable the air defense mission around DC are very capable, and continue to get upgraded, but like any complex system of system, some parts remain a bit behind in terms of cutting-edge technology. The system will only get better with time, and in the end, people have to interpret the information and make the best calls they can. Considering the firepower at their disposal within a dense urban area, they have done a good job over the years at making sure nobody gets hurt because of inevitable imperfections in mechanical systems and the software they run on.
This should be the final takeaway, no matter how advanced a mechanical system or the larger architecture it is embedded with may be, it has the potential to be imperfect. Humans build these systems and write the code for their software and we are fallible. Above all else, aerial surveillance and air defense is far from a perfect science as we have pointed out time and time again. The average person's perception of it being significantly otherwise is so far outside the realm of reality that it is quite frustrating at times. In the end, it comes down to the training and expertise of those who operate these systems and who would be forced to make very tough calls in very short amounts of time as a result of the data they provide.
So, while the mechanical system failed momentarily in a minor way, the overall human system prevailed where it mattered most.
Tesla Cybertruck: Elon Musk explains why its design looks so weird
Tesla has gone for a very angular design with the Cybertruck.
Tesla’s Cybertruck made quite a stir when it debuted last Thursday. The company’s highly-anticipated all-electric pickup truck defied expectations by ditching curves in favor of bold, sharp edges. While it makes the car look like something out of a mid-nineties video game, it turns out there’s a good reason behind the design.
“Reason Cybertruck is so planar is that you can’t stamp ultra-hard 30X steel, because it breaks the stamping press,” CEO Elon Musk explained via Twitter Sunday evening, signaling how the body’s materials could have made a design like this almost a necessity. “Even bending it requires a deep score on inside of bend, which is how the prototype was made.”
It’s an added curiosity for the head-turning truck, which has racked up 200,000 orders since its debut. On November 23, when the truck only had around 146,000 orders, Musk broke these sales down by type:
17 percent of buyers ordered the $39,900 model. This is a single-motor rear-wheel drive with over 250 miles of range, over 7,500 pounds of towing capacity, and 0 to 60 mph in less than 6.5 seconds.
42 percent of buyers opted for the $49,900 model. This is a dual-motor all-wheel-drive with over 300 miles of range, over 10,000 pounds of towing capacity, and 0 to 60 mph in less than 4.5 seconds.
41 percent of buyers went for the $69,900 model. This is a tri-motor all-wheel drive with over 500 miles of range, over 14,000 pounds of towing capacity, and 0 to 60 mph in less than 2.9 seconds.
With the first vehicles expected to go into production in late 2021, it will be a while before the Blade Runner-inspired vehicle hits streets.
Elon Musk standing next to the Tesla Cybertruck.
Tesla Cybertruck: the steel at work
The body is made of a thick, ultra-hard stainless steel. This has been cold-rolled 30 times. MetalSuperMarkets explains that where hot-rolled steel is rolled at temperatures over 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit, cold-rolled steel is processed further in cold reduction mills. This gives it a higher tolerance and straightness.
“We’re going to be using the same alloy in the Starship rocket,” Musk said.
The rocket, currently under development by SpaceX, is designed to transport the first humans to Mars and beyond. The material is much cheaper than its previous plan to use carbon fiber, which would have cost $130,000 per ton versus the $2,500 for steel. Long-term, SpaceX aims to take steel directly from the mill and curve it to the needed nine-meter diameter.
The steel is a big area of focus for the Starship, and it seems Musk is making the most of SpaceX’s advancements in this area for the truck. Musk explained via Twitter than the decision to switch the Starship to steel came before the Cybertruck.
“We were going to use titanium skins for Cybertruck, but cold-rolled 30X stainless is much stronger,” Musk explained via Twitter. “We’re creating this alloy at Tesla. Not a problem to create a lot of it, but we’ll need to come up with new body manufacturing methods, as it can’t be made using standard methods.”
The vehicle measures 231.7 inches long, 79.8 inches wide and 75 inches high. It has six seats, and a 6.5-foot rear bed. The major change versus other trucks is the mass is moved to the outside, which Musk likened to an “exoskeleton.” This is different to how most trucks are designed, with a body and bed on frame essentially
Tesla’s lead designer, Franz von Holzhausen, demonstrated the strength of the steel by hitting it with a hammer:
Bam.
Musk also detailed how the company held ballistic impact tests, with a 9-millimeter full metal jacket weighing 115 grain from 10 meters. Where a traditional steel door failed, Musk described it as “literally bulletproof.”
“You want a truck that’s tough?” Musk said. “You want a truck that’s really tough, not fake tough?”
Unfortunately, the transparent metal glass didn’t hold up as well. While a demo sheet of glass held up well from drop tests, the glass failed to hold its own against von Holzhausen’s throw:
Oops.
Musk claimed via Twitter that the glass cracked because the sledgehammer impact cracked the glass base. He also shared a video on von Holzhausen throwing a steel ball just ahead of the launch and bounding off the truck fine.
In short, the steel is really strong. Just don’t throw any metal balls at the glass if you’ve already given the door a whack.
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Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Says ‘Evidence’ Of Alien UFO ‘Wreckage’ Is Being Held By U.S. Government
Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Says ‘Evidence’ Of Alien UFO ‘Wreckage’ Is Being Held By U.S. Government
Conservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson appeared on the History Channel program 'Ancient Aliens' last week.
Controversial Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been known to embrace eccentricconspiracy theories. On his own program in June of this year, Carlson went on a tirade against the metric system, calling it “tyranny.” But in last week’s episode of the History Channel program Ancient Aliens, Carlson appeared to support an even farther-out theory.
In an interview with British journalist Nick Pope that aired on the November 22 edition of Ancient Aliens, Carlson claimed that a “knowledgeable” source has told him that the United States government possesses physical evidence that alien spacecraft have landed on Earth — or at least, crash-landed.
“I’ve heard this from someone who I think is knowledgeable on the subject that there is physical evidence that the U.S. government is holding, um, that, you know, would tell us a lot more – about what these objects are,” Carlson told Pope on the program, as seen in the video excerpt below on this page.
Pope then asked Carlson if he was referring to UFO “wreckage.”
“That is correct,” Tucker told the Ancient Aliens interviewer.
Of course, Carlson’s openness to the existence ofUFOsand aliens on Earth is not new. In July, Carlson interviewedDonald Trumpfor aFox Newssegment, raising the subject with him.
Trump told Carlson at the time that he did not consider himself a “believer” in UFOs, and said, “personally, I tend to doubt” that aliens have visited Earth in spaceships. But Trump left the door open, adding, “you know, I guess anything is possible.”
Carlson also asked Trump if he believed the claim that the government was holding UFO wreckage in an Air Force facility. But Trump replied, “I don’t assume it’s correct.”
Nonetheless, Trump told Carlson that he had “an open mind” on the subject.
At the time of Carlson’s interview, the U.S. Defense Department had recently briefed Trump on a series of sightings by Navy pilots of objects in the sky that they could not identify. The objects appeared to be moving at “hypersonic speeds,” according to the Fox News report on Carlson’s interview with Trump.
In 2007, the Central Intelligence Agency issued a report documenting the intelligence agency’s own investigations of the UFO phenomenon. The 84-page report, which remains available to read online via CIA.gov, notes that at least two U.S. presidents — Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter — claimed that they had experienced UFO sightings.
The study acknowledged “documents” that claimed to prove “the recovery of UFO wreckage” from an alleged Roswell, New Mexico, crash site. But the CIA report said that, “most if not all of these documents have proved to be fabrications.”
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