Building blocks of life found in famous Mars meteorite

By Mike Wall 

And the organics contain nitrogen, another ingredient necessary for life as we know it.

A rock fragment of Martian meteorite ALH84001 (left). An enlarged area (right) shows the orange-colored carbonate grains on the host orthopyroxene rock.

(Image: © Koike et al. (2020) Nature Communications)

Ancient Mars is looking better and better as an abode for life.

The famed Mars meteorite Allan Hills 84001 (ALH84001) contains 4-billion-year-old native organic molecules, the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it, a new study suggests. 

And that's not all. The organics contain nitrogen, another ingredient that Earth life depends on, and were found within carbonate minerals, which usually form in groundwater. So the discovery adds to an emerging picture of a wet and potentially habitable Mars in the distant past, study team members said. 

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This picture has been fleshed out by a range of observations over the years, including recent work by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. Curiosity has spotted ancient native organics as well, and the car-size robot found evidence of a long-ago, but long-lived, lake-and-stream system at its study site, the Red Planet's 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater. (Mars is very different today, of course; the planet transitioned to a cold and dry world about 3.5 billion years ago, after it lost most of its atmosphere to space.) 

Scientists think ALH84001 was blasted off Mars by a powerful impact 16 million years ago and came down to Earth much later, about 13,000 years ago. 

The meteorite, which was discovered in Antarctica in 1984, has been in the spotlight before. In 1996, a research team led by David McKay of NASA's Johnson Space Center claimed to have found compelling evidence of ancient microbial Mars life in ALH84001. The scientists cited four main lines of evidence, one of which involved carbonate globules and organic molecules.

The scientific community has generally deemed this collection of evidence to be unconvincing, stressing that abiotic factors could explain the observations. But the study authors stand by their original conclusions, and debate over ALH84001 continues to this day.

In the new study, researchers led by Mizuho Koike, of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, looked at the Mars rock in a new way. The team used novel and highly precise analytical techniques, including a type of X-ray spectroscopy, to detect nitrogen in ALH84001 and trace it to the carbonate minerals. 

This was a first; nobody had found nitrogen-containing organics in the rock before, team members said. The researchers think the organics were trapped in the carbonate about 4 billion years ago; they said their techniques minimized the chance of terrestrial contamination, which is always a concern with Mars meteorites. 

To be clear: The organics are not evidence of Mars life; such compounds can be produced abiotically as well as biotically. And there are other important questions about the ALH84001 organics as well, such as where they formed. 

"There are two main possibilities: either they came from outside Mars, or they formed on Mars," study co-author Atsuko Kobayashi, of the Earth-Life Science Institute at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, said in a statement. 

"Early in the solar system's history, Mars was likely showered with significant amounts of organic matter, for example from carbon-rich meteorites, comets and dust particles," Kobayashi added. "Some of them may have dissolved in the [Martian] brine and been trapped inside the carbonates."

Scientists have a chance to make some real progress on the Mars-life question soon. NASA's Mars 2020 rover Perseverance, which is scheduled to launch in July, will hunt for signs of ancient Red Planet organisms and collect samples for future return to Earth. Once this pristine Mars material lands here — which could happen as soon as 2031 — researchers around the world will be able to scrutinize it in great detail.

The new study was published online April 24 in the journal Nature Communications.

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Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. 

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‘Riviermonster’ Spinosaurus, de eerste bekende dinosaurus die in het water leefde - HLN.be

Joeri Vlemings 

Bron: National Geographic

Maak kennis met de Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, de eerste dinosaurus waarvan wetenschappers hebben bewezen dat hij in het water leefde. Dat blijkt uit een nieuwe studie in Nature. “De nieuwe ontdekking verandert onze huidige kennis over de diversiteit van dinosauriërs in het algemeen en over de Spinosaurus in het bijzonder”, schrijft National Geographic daarover. Een ‘riviermonster’ noemen ze dit uitgestorven, gigantische roofdier van 15 meter lang, met een krokodillenkop.

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De conclusie van het nieuwe onderzoek is dat de Spinosaurus zich tijdens het jagen in het systeem van rivieren dat zijn leefgebied destijds kenmerkte, bediende van een ’staartaangedreven voortbeweging door het water’.  Dat dit kon worden aangetoond, is een wetenschappelijke primeur, meldt National Geographic.

Voor het bredere publiek dook de Spinosaurus aegyptiacus voor het eerst op in 2001 in de film ‘Jurassic Park III’. Maar de échte versie van deze dino leefde waarschijnlijk in Noord-Afrika tijdens het Krijt, zo’n 112 tot 93,5 miljoen jaar geleden. 

In 2014 leidde paleontoloog en National Geographic-avonturier, dr. Nizar Ibrahim van de universiteit van Detroit Mercy, een team van wetenschappers in de Kem Kem-regio van de Marokkaanse Sahara om er fossiele overblijfselen van de Spinosaurus te onderzoeken. Ze ontdekten dat een volwassen Spinosaurus tot 15 meter kon worden, langer dan de Tyrannosaurus rex. Nog belangrijker: Ibrahim en kornuiten vermoedden ook dat de Spinosaurus een roofdier was dat van water hield.

Maar bewijzen konden ze dat niet, ook niet nadat het skelet van de reusachtige dino was gereconstrueerd. In de vijf daarop volgende jaren verzamelde het wetenschappelijke team nog meer fossielen van het skelet, waaronder “een opmerkelijk complete, vinachtige staart, in staat tot uitgebreide zijwaartse bewegingen en gekenmerkt door extreem lange stekels”.

In 2018 keerden de onderzoekers terug naar de plaats van opgraving in Marokko. Hun bevindingen werden gisteren eindelijk wereldkundig gemaakt. De bizarre Spinosaurus gaat de geschiedenis in als de eerste bekende zwemmende dinosauriër. Daar wijst de “gigantische knokige peddel” op, zoals National Geographic de staart omschrijft. “Deze staart is de meest extreme aanpassing aan het water die we ooit bij een grote dinosaurus zagen.”

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De kop van de Spinosaurus lijkt op een krokodil.

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Een levensgroot model van de Spinosaurus bij het gebouw van de National Geographic Society in Washington.

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Het skelet van een Spinosaurus in het Natural History Museum in Berlin.

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Throughout science fiction books, comics, and movies we have been treated to a never ending menagerie of alien beings taking a vast number of forms. In the old days budget constraints for TV and films meant that usually aliens looked at least a little, well, human. In more modern times computer effects have made things a little more bizarre, but still mostly aliens are portrayed as at least something we can understand or relate to at least on a basic level. It is all indicative of our intense curiosity as to what alien life, and in this case intelligent spacefaring life, would actually look like. If a spaceship came down tomorrow and opened up a door, what would step out? Would it be something like us, or something beyond anything we have ever imagined? It is a question we have no way to answer, but there has been quite a lot of speculation on the appearance of aliens, and here we will take a look.

So, if we were to meet aliens what could we realistically expect them to physically look like? What form would they take and how would they interact with the world around them? The answers to this seem to be as varied as the people who ponder the question, and there are several ways that the discussion can head. On one side we have the idea that since they have evolved from a different lifeform and on a completely different alien world, they would look nothing like us, and could be beyond what we can even imagine. There have been all manner of ideas on this, ranging from that they might not be even carbon based to that they don’t have DNA, live in an invisible wavelength we can’t see, or that we might not even recognize them as life within our own definition of the term at all. One science fiction author by the name of Aaron Rosenberg explains of this idea:

Living beings evolve in response to their environment. We grew opposable thumbs so we could better grasp objects. Monkeys developed prehensile tails for the same reason. We have eyes because light breaks down into the visible end of the electromagnetic spectrum here. But if we had occurred on a completely different world, with different temperatures and topography and flora and fauna, we would have evolved differently. And if that other world had a completely different chemical composition, so would we. All life on Earth is carbon-based, but that wouldn’t be the case elsewhere. Life forms could be silicon-based or iron-based or anything else at all. They could have any number of arms and legs—or none at all.

Perhaps life on other planets evolved without physical form or with no fixed form—perhaps there are aliens who are nothing more than sentient clouds, or who have mutable bodies that can alter to suit the needs of the moment. Maybe they can sail through space unaided, and use stellar radiation for a food source and a sensory array, detecting changes in the radiation the same way bats detect sound waves. Who needs eyes and ears when your entire being resonates? Who needs a distinct brain when your consciousness is spread throughout just like our nerve endings are with us? Why have skin when your form is held together by electrostatic shock and mental control, and can condense or expand at will?

There are plenty of creatures here on Earth that are so astoundingly different from us that we can barely comprehend them. Try watching an octopus pull itself through a tiny crack in a glass tank sometime, or examine a tobacco hornworm, or look at a praying mantis up close. Then think about how small our planet is compared with the universe as a whole—it’s like finding the weirdest shaped M&M in the bag, and then realizing that you’re in an entire candy store filled with literally thousands of other kinds of candy, most of which you’ve never even heard of before. A real alien would be so far from anything we’ve ever imagined that we would barely be able to comprehend its existence. And we would seem just as completely, bafflingly bizarre to it.

The thrust of the idea here is that aliens would be, well, completely alien to us, perhaps even incomprehensibly so, and that all bets are off when trying to expect how they would appear to us. One only needs to look at some of the incredibly different and even seemingly alien forms of life on our own planet to know that something from another world could be vastly different from us. However, we are talking about intelligent life here that has created a civilization and reached out across the stars to meet us, and so the opposite side of this argument is that, although they would certainly be quite different from us, there are certain constants that we could expect that would match up with us as well, and we can perhaps make an educated guess as to what they might be like.

There have been many suggestions for certain criteria that any intelligent, space-faring race would likely conform to, boxes to tick, so to speak. For one, although they would be coming from far, far away, they would nevertheless follow the same laws of physics and chemistry as us, as that is a constant across the universe, at least this one. Prof Peter Ward, a paleontologist at the University of Washington, explains of this, “On any planet in the Universe the laws of physics and chemistry will still be the same as here. There’s only a limited number of ways to beat physics.” One of the other very basic things we could expect from an alien being is that it would likely be bilaterally symmetrical, that is with one half mirroring the other to at least some extent. Every form of life on Earth is this way, and even inanimate objects such as crystals, and even whole galaxies, so following this seemingly universal constant they would probably be at least symmetrical to a degree.

Because of the universal physics involved, there would also probably be some broad rules of ecology in place that they would have to have overcome in specific ways. For instance, they would need a way of gaining energy, of hunting and eating, as well as sensory organs to perceive the world around them, and they would have to obey the rules of gravity, ambient density, and having a source of energy. They would need some way to reproduce and propagate their species and they would have to out compete other species in the same environment to last long. In other words, no matter where the aliens are from, they would basically have to overcome the same basic physical and evolutionary constraints as us. There are only so many ways to move around or get food, look at how similar some swimming or flying species are on Earth, no matter how genetically different, think bats and birds or sharks and dolphins. Some ways just work better, and evolution would have weeded out the inefficient ones in the face of competition from other species. In many opinions, these hypothetical aliens also would have probably evolved from predators, meaning they would probably have stereoscopic vision, which allows the judgement of distance, meaning more than one eye on the front of the head, and they would likely be mobile rather than a sedentary plant-like species. They would have also likely would have had to become the dominant lifeform on their world, so probably not microscopic or unduly frail. The renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku has said of this:

In all likelihood, intelligent aliens in space will have descended from predators that hunted for their food. This does not necessarily mean that they will be aggressive, but it does mean that their ancestors long ago might have been predators. We may be well served to be cautious.

Another constant they would probably exhibit is that they would have something that passes for a brain, and that it would be encased in some sort of protective shell, be that a skull, exoskeleton, or whatever, and this brain would also probably be held high off the ground. The aliens would need some way to breathe, and some form of locomotion that would have to have at least been fast enough to have allowed them to hunt and survive on their own planet to become an evolved species. These would probably come in the form of some sort of legs if the alien is land-based, and there would be some sort of covering over the body that we could recognize as “skin” of a sort. Harry E. Keller, a chemistry professor at Northeastern University has spoken of these two points with Popular Mechanics, saying:

Legs? Most certainly. Other means of locomotion will be relatively slow and be relegated to armored animals and of those living in holes. Neither of these lifestyles will lead naturally to greater intelligence. How many legs? In our case, we adapted the forelegs for manipulation from animals with four legs. No land animals with endoskeletons have more legs. The implication is that aliens with two legs are more likely than those with four.

Fur? Hair? Feathers? Scales? Something else truly alien? The skin covering could be anything that makes sense. Real feathers are not so likely. Because feathers are used for flight, brains will be small. Scales are unlikely because they are particularly well-adapted for ectotherms, although a scaly sort of skin might be possible. Fur versus hair is hard to sort out because of my inherent bias. Fur has good reasons for being that are not related to intelligence. If furry, our aliens probably have short fur.

In order to make tools and manipulate their technology, they would have to have evolved some sort of appendages with fine movement control. This doesn’t necessarily have to be fingers and a thumb like we have, but some grasping appendages of some sort, something akin to what we would recognize as their version of digits. These appendages would also likely be freed up for use, meaning they might be recognizably bipedal. They would also need some sort of analog of sensory organs to perceive their surroundings, such as eyes, nose, and ears, as well as some way to procure energy, in short, a mouth, probably near the eyes where they can see what they are trying to eat. As for these eyes, there would probably be at least two eyes facing forward, for that stereoscopic vision we talked about earlier, and there aren’t a whole lot of other viable ways to achieve that. The eyes would likely be recessed, and there would likely be some way to cover and protect them. These eyes would also probably be close to the brain, so as to minimize the time of signal transmission. They would be attuned to the spectrum of their own sun, and may look very different from our own eyes, but they would likely be at least recognizable as such. In addition to all of this, they would need a way to produce sounds or signals for some form of communication and crucially, language, as any spacefaring society would need a way to convey complex information to each other, although that potentially holds therein its own problems. Some other theories of what intelligent civilizations of aliens would need even go so far as to say that they would likely not have evolved underwater because they would need to have developed a mastery of fireto progress to that stage.

To sum it all up, when faced with the same physics, physical requirements for survival, evolutionary constraints, and criteria for developing tools and technology, in this idea, with any aliens who flew starcraft to Earth we could probably expect to see land based, symmetrical beings with recognizable sensory organs, limbs, and other features with some analog to what we know of, and so would not be as completely, absurdly outlandish as others would have us believe. They would most certainly not look like humans, and of course depending on the gravity and specifics of their atmosphere and world at large they would look very different in various ways, but the point here is that they perhaps they would not be so mind-bogglingly, impossibly and vastly different from life as we know it and understand it to be. However, this is all assuming they are even from this dimension at all, because if they were from a completely different universe, possibly even with different laws of physics, then we can probably throw all of this out the window.

Of course, this is all assuming that the aliens are even organic lifeforms at all. There has in recent years been increasing speculation that space-going aliens that make it to Earth might not be biological organisms at all, but rather very advanced robots. These machines might have been sent here by their creators or might even be a self-replicating race of robots that usurped their biological makers, with their originators perhaps even distant, long gone prehistoric faded memories for them. It makes sense, as it would be the next step up in evolution from the confines of biology, and robots would be perfect for the rigors of space and the vast distances involved with travelling to other worlds. However, if they were robotic, then all bets would probably be off as far as appearances go, and they might display design choices that truly are beyond comprehension, although they would still have to follow our same laws of physics. Professor Susan Schneider from the University of Connecticut and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton thinks that such robotic alien civilizations could feasibly be billions of years old, and has said:

I do not believe that most advanced alien civilizations will be biological. The most sophisticated civilizations will be post-biological, forms of artificial intelligence or alien superintelligence. Other civilizations may be vastly older than us – earthlings are galactic babies. All lines of evidence converge on the conclusion that the maximum age of extraterrestrial intelligence would be billions of years, specifically ranges from 1.7 billion to 8 billion years.

In the end, it is hard to really get a handle on how intelligent spacefaring aliens would look, as we really only have one example to compare them to- us. All of our ideas on extraterrestrial life and how to find it revolves around our basic presumption that they would meet the criteria for life as we know it, but there is of course the possibility that this is not true at all. Indeed, there is a vocal contingent that thinks the reason we have not found alien life out in the universe despite all of our efforts is that we are looking in the wrong places and in the wrong way. Maybe our own definition of life is the rarity rather than the norm, and perhaps we have to change our perceptions. Only time will tell.

In the meantime, we are left to speculate. What will intelligent alien life from another planet look like if we ever make that first contact? Would they look in some way like us and life as we know it, or would it be incomprehensibly and unfathomably alien? Would we even be able to recognize it as life at all? We can guess, extrapolate, speculate, and debate it all we want, but the only way it seems we are ever going to get the real answer is when that ship lands and they step, slither, or float out into the light.

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Hundred million-year-old 'river monster' with a powerful fin-like tail is discovered in the Sahara - proving that dinosaurs DID live underwater

• The dinosaur — called Spinosaurus aegyptiacus — had a powerful flat tail  
• It spent most of its life underwater and was well adapted to hunting in rivers  
• Adults reached 50ft long and weighed as much as 20 tonnes when fully grown 
• Part of a tail was found fossilised in Morocco which revealed the animal swam 
• It is the first direct evidence of an aquatic dinosaur and proves they conquered both land and water 

By JOE PINKSTONE FOR MAILONLINE 

The first ever evidence of a dinosaur which swam, lived and hunted underwater has been discovered in the now-barren wilderness of the Saharan desert. 

But 100 million years ago this region would have been a lush oasis interspersed with rivers and waterways teeming with life.

And lurking beneath the surface, sitting atop the entire food chain, was a fearsome aquatic dinosaur.  

The river monster — called Spinosaurus aegyptiacus — powered through the water with a fin-like tail and captured slippery prey with six-inch long conical teeth.

A fossilised tail of a juvenile of the species, which belongs to the therepod group, the same as the T-rex, was found in modern-day Morocco. 

Adults are known to reach up to 50ft long and weigh up to 20 tonnes but this specimen had yet to reach its full size, measuring 35ft from snout to tail and weighing around four tonnes.

Fully-grown individuals had no natural predators, but researchers say juveniles may have been at risk from giant fish and enormous prehistoric crocodiles. 

The researchers who led the project and discovered the fossil deemed this hostile marine world 'the river of death'.   

A 3D rendering of Spinosaurus hunting a group of sawfish. Spinosaurus powered through the water with a fin-like tail and captured slippery prey with six-inch long conical teeth

Pictured, an artist's impression of two Spinosaurus hunting sawfish from National Geographic. Adults are known to reach up to 50ft long and weigh up to 20 tonnes but this specimen had yet to reach its full size, measuring 35ft from snout to tail and weighing around four tonnes

Pictured, part of the tail discovered in modern-day Morocco. The newly discovered tail of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus shows it was well adapted to an aquatic lifestyle

Around the time of Spinosaurus, several other reptile groups had mastered the water, including ichthyosaurs, but no dinosaurs.

The newly discovered tail of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus shows it was well adapted to an aquatic lifestyle. 

Two foot long struts on the main vertebrae broaden the tail into a paddle-like shape.  

Dr David Unwin, Reader in Palaeobiology at the University of Leicester, who was involved in the research, said: 'The Spinosaurus' fin-like tail is a game changing discovery for us that fundamentally alters our understanding of how this dinosaur lived and hunted – it was actually a "river-monster".

'As well as its tail, many other features of this dinosaur, such as the high position of the nostrils, heavy bones, short legs, and paddle-like feet point to a life spent in the water rather than on land.

'Not only did dinosaurs dominate the land and take to the air as birds, they even went back into the water and became the top predators there as well.'

The study, published today in the journal Nature, comes to the conclusion that this animal was a truly water-dwelling, tail-propelled dinosaur which likely spent most of its life underwater.   

National Geographic explorer and University of Detroit Mercy paleontologist Dr Nizar Ibrahim led the research. 

His team included Dr Unwin and Professor David Martill from the University of Portsmouth. 

Academics began excavating a skeleton of Spinosaurus in southern Morocco in 2015 and made the historic discovery of its almost-complete and well preserved tail in 2018. 

Tails of other therapods, which existed on solid land, had a a stiff tapering tail.

But analysis of the vertebrae found in Morocco revealed long spines that supported a large, highly flexible, fin-like tail comparable in shape to that of a crested newt. 

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Reconstruction of Spinosaurus in life: long narrow jaws with conical teeth, and a unique tail for aquatic locomotion

Top: reconstruction of the tail skeleton of Spinosaurus (missing bones shown in white). Center: cross sections through the tail showing changes in the vertebrae, tail volume, and arrangement of major muscles. Bottom: the new - and surprising - look of Spinosaurus (black, soft parts/body outline; red, bones collected in 2008 by a local fossil collector; green, bones from recent scientific excavations; yellow, bone fragments collected in the debris around the main excavation area)

The site in the Sahara where the fossil was found is a hotbed for fossil hunters, with other finds including sawfish, crocodiles, flying reptiles and land-dwelling dinosaurs.

Professor Martill said: 'This fossil site has been incredible. This is the first Spinosaurus skeleton to be found for over a hundred years. It is also one of the few associated dinosaurs skeletons ever to be found in the Kem Kem rocks.

'Scientists have always puzzled about Spinosaurus, because applying new scientific techniques on this animal have, until now, not been possible because the original material was destroyed in World War Two. Now we have a new baby to play with.

'Every time we look at this dinosaur we discover something fascinating about it. Discovering its tail was such an amazing gift. We had no idea that its tail was going to be so different from other dinosaur tails.

'One thing that still puzzles me though, is why only Spinosaurus became aquatic among the dinosaurs. Why are there no aquatic iguanodons, or stegosaurs.'

While it remains a mystery why only one dinosaurs conquered the water, the discovery does put to bed a long-standing belief that dinosaurs never swam. 

Dr Ibrahim said: 'This discovery is the nail in the coffin for the idea that non-avian dinosaurs never invaded the aquatic realm.

'This dinosaur was actively pursuing prey in the water column, not just standing in shallow waters waiting for fish to swim by. It probably spent most of its life in the water.' 

The September 2018 team that unearthed the tail of the only associated Spinosaurus skeleton in existence. Left to right, and top to bottom: Simone Maganuco, Ayoub Amane, M'Barek Fouadassi, Nizar Ibrahim, Samir Zouhri, Cristiano Dal Sasso, Gabriele Bindellini, Marco Auditore, Matteo Fabbri, Diego Mattarelli, Hamid Azroal, Mhamed Azroal

A view of the Kem Kem region, Sahara Desert (south-eastern Morocco), from the excavation site of Spinosaurus

The site in the Sahara where the fossil was found (pictured) is a hotbed for fossil hunters, with other finds including sawfish, crocodiles, flying reptiles and land-living dinosaurs

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Experts discovered the remains of a 100-million-year-old “river monster” that proves dinosaurs once lived underwater. In fact, it’s the first time that they have found conclusive evidence that proves some dinosaurs lived, swam, and hunted beneath the water.

The remains were found in the now-barren wilderness of the Saharan desert but it was not always this way as 100 million years ago it contained waterways and rivers. Researchers began excavating the area in southern Morocco back in 2015 and by 2018 they had uncovered a nearly-complete well-preserved skeleton of the dinosaur’s tail. The species belongs to the theropod group which the Tyrannosaurus rex is a part of.

Skeleton of a Spinosaurus.

The dinosaur, which has been named Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, had razor-sharp six-inch long cone-shaped teeth that it used to capture and hold onto its prey. The nostrils were located on the back portion of the head and its snout was quite similar to a crocodile’s. It had very dense bones as well as large flat feet that were more than likely webbed.

Even though it was only a juvenile when it died, it still measured 35 feet long and weighed approximately 4 tonnes. Fully grown adults could have measured as long as 50 feet and weighed up to 20 tonnes. While the adults had no known predators, the juveniles could have been attacked by giant prehistoric crocodiles and fish. In fact, the location in which the skeleton was found has been nicknamed the “river of death” by the researchers. Numerous groups of reptiles inhabited the waters (such as the ichthyosaurs), but this is the first ever evidence of a dinosaur living underwater.

And based on the evidence the researchers found, the Spinosaurus aegyptiacus thrived in the ancient Saharan waters. As for its unique tail, the species had two-foot long struts located on the main vertebrae which made its tail into the shape of a paddle that moved from side to side. This is quite interesting as other therapods that lived on land had a stiff tail that tapered off at the end.

Dr. David Unwin, who is a Reader in Palaeobiology at the University of Leicester and was also involved with the research (their study can be read here), explained this further, “The Spinosaurus’ fin-like tail is a game changing discovery for us that fundamentally alters our understanding of how this dinosaur lived and hunted – it was actually a ‘river-monster’”. “As well as its tail, many other features of this dinosaur, such as the high position of the nostrils, heavy bones, short legs, and paddle-like feet point to a life spent in the water rather than on land,” he said, adding, “Not only did dinosaurs dominate the land and take to the air as birds, they even went back into the water and became the top predators there as well.” A picture of the excavation site can be seen here.

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One of the greatest achievements that mankind has ever made is the historic Apollo 11 manned mission to the moon. When on July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin touched down on that remote, alien landscape in their Apollo Lunar Module Eagle, it was a momentous step forward for humankind’s quest towards the stars. They spent 21 hours on that lunar surface that had only until then been viewed from afar, and they lifted off from Tranquility Base back towards Earth with new dreams in their hands. The whole world watched and cheered in celebration, patting ourselves on the back for our technological accomplishment, and we did it again with subsequent Apollo missions, but according to some accounts, there were others watching as well.

Ever since that fateful mission there has been a rather vocal group out on the fringe that has argued that those astronauts and others since were not alone out there in that void of space, and that those men might have actually witnessed something very strange out there. Such speculation really runs the range of weirdness, from alien moon bases, to ancient pyramids, to spaceships and more, and it is all overlaid by the ominous fact that we haven’t been back there in decades. It mostly sounds like the rantings of tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracists, but some of the people who have made these claims seem to be more, in a sense, “legit.” One of these is a retired U.S. Army Command Sergeant by the name of Bob Dean, who has 28 years of experience in the military and also some very strange, yet intriguing things to say about the Apollo program and its relation to aliens. He has lectured all over the place on such things, and some particularly memorable things were to come from his appearance at the Exopolitics Summit on July 25, 2009, in Barcelona, Spain. What he had to say and show was eyebrow raising, indeed.

Apllo 11 moon landing

In amongst his presentation among talk of aliens almost starting World War III in 1961, cities on Mars, the fact that by 1964 we were being visited by at least four types of alien races all with differing agendas, that we were as a species engineered by extraterrestrials, and other various revelations, he gets to Apollo, and it is a doozy. He gets especially excited when he talks about our trips to the moon, and says that NASA was onto the strangeness there as early as Apollo 11. He goes on to say that NASA has been very dishonest about what went on with the Apollo missions, and that that they have reams of data and photographs of bizarre things from the missions that prove aliens were there, but which have conveniently disappeared or been flat out destroyed. He explained of this at the conference as follows:

Something happened in my country over the last few years that I am very, very troubled by. Just last week the United States celebrated the 40th anniversary of putting a man on the moon. They went through this whole whoop-dee-do of patting ourselves on the back. Gee, wasn’t that neat. Armstrong, Aldrin, you know, Collins up there in orbit, on the moon. Aren’t we great people, aren’t we magnificent? Look what we did. Well let me tell you about a couple of things they did that you may not have ever have heard about before. They took the few pictures they had; they had it all televised. Everybody — Rock, Walter Cronkite and all of them were looking up. Golly, gee, isn’t this great, isn’t this neat? We’ve got a couple of guys on the moon.

Ladies and gentlemen, my government, NASA, which many of us in the United States say stands for Never A Straight Answer, proceeded to erase 40 rolls of film of the Apollo Program — the flight to the Moon, the flight around the Moon, the landings on the Moon, the walking of guys here and there. They erased, for Christ’s sake, 40 rolls of film of those events. Now we’re talking about several thousand individual frames that were taken that the so-called authorities determined that you did not have a right to see. Oh, they were disruptive, socially unacceptable, politically unacceptable. I’ve become furious. I’m a retired Command Sergeant Major. I was never famous for having a lot of patience.

It is a shocking claim, indeed, but fortunately, Dean claims to have had contacts in the know, who were able to secure some of the photos that hadn’t been destroyed, and he was more than happy to share them with the spellbound audience. Here are some excerpts from the photo presentations with links to the photos he is talking about. He says as follows (taken from the transcript of the talk):

Well, thanks to the idea that there were a few employees in NASA 40 years ago – even today there are some good people working there, decent people, honest people – I have some film that they preserved, that was not destroyed. Gentlemen, put up the next picture for me. [applause] This is a NASA photo. This is Apollo 12, Apollo Systems 12, roll number 50, negative number 7348. They were flying over the Moon before they landed. They went into orbit around the moon, as many of you know. I’m sure this is no secret. They went into orbit around the Moon and, while they were there in orbit around the Moon, a number of anomalous artifacts began showing up showing interest in them. Next picture, please.

Ah, this picture was taken by Neil Armstrong. While looking out of their window of their little craft, this object flew by. There is the moon in the background, of course, below the object that flew by the window of that little craft that they were riding in. Neil took the Hasselblad camera that he had, put it up to the window and snapped this picture. Next picture, please. Ah, NASA Apollo 12, roll 51, negative 8653, something like that. Now this is a good-sized object. This is several hundred feet in diameter that came up next to the Lander and flew along beside them for a time. The guys in the Apollo craft put their camera to the window and snapped the thing, and I’ve always jokingly said there were guys inside of this, taking pictures of the NASA craft. We were photographing them; they were photographing us.

One area of the moon that Dean claims was of very much interest to NASA is an area known as the Lansberg crater, located in a region of the moon called the Mare Insularum, about 60 kilometers from the landing site of the 1969 Apollo 12 mission. The crater is notable for its high rim, inner terraces, and mountain in the center, but according to Dean there was all manner of strange stuff going on here at the time. He says (along with links to the photos he mentions):

This is the Lansberg crater on the moon. The astronauts in orbit above the Moon were particularly fascinated by the Lansberg crater. They had been given a special designation to take pictures of Lansberg, because the crater, which they named as the Lansberg, had things going on that were very anomalous. There was construction going on. There were gigantic facilities in the crater up there. So, they were specifically delegated and assigned to photograph Lansberg to see if they could figure out what the hell was going on down there. While they were looking at Lansberg, this object happened to express interest in them and flew by. Now this line is an artificial line that was drawn to show you the … it gave the direction that this object was going. This is a good-size object flying past the Apollo Lander. God, I’m so glad that some of these were saved. I still get angry, 40 rolls of film, for Christ’s sake, and they erased them. Anyhow, next picture, please. This is the same photo of Lansberg, but the next negative, 9838 of this object here flying by.

The Lansberg crater

Besides NASA, Dean also claimed during his talk to have telling photographs left from the Apollo mission by what he calls the “Japanese NASA,” which is actually called the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). He claims that JAXA years ago signed an agreement with NASA to buy copies of all of the photographs taken during the Apollo moon missions for a handsome price, and because of this he says a good many of the photos originally destroyed by NASA are still in Japan’s possession. Indeed, he showed a few of these during his presentation, along with some truly spectacular, as well as ominous and sinister commentary throughout, saying:

So this photograph was released by the Japanese space agency; you can see the Japanese writing here. This was taken by Apollo 13. Now, you’re all familiar, I’m sure, with Apollo 13. That was the aborted mission that was going to the moon to land and they had an accident on the way. They couldn’t land. They damned well barely got back. While they were on the way to the moon – here’s the moon – a number of things began happening. Some strange objects were appearing outside the windows of the spacecraft so the guys grabbed their Hasselblad cameras and start taking pictures. This photograph shows three different objects. This looks like a circular object with an enlarged dome on top. This is a smaller object with a circular kind of disc-shaped craft, but coming in from the right margin of this picture is this. Next picture, please.

Here we are. This is a blowup of the positive in the photograph and here is a blowup of the negative of this object here. Ladies and gentlemen, this particular object is five miles long. I’m tempted to use the term big mother. No pun intended because it appears to be a mother ship. It’s gigantic, five miles long and here are these NASA guys are up there in this little cramped Apollo capsule, and they look out their window and they see something that is five miles long. It shakes them up a little bit. And when it got back to NASA, these pictures shook them up a hell of a lot. Next picture, please.

Ah, this is the next sequence. Here this large mother has moved into the middle of the frame and something else has come up over here, which has been estimated to be two miles long. But this really upset the guys. I have never been able to find out which one of the three Apollo members of the Apollo 13 group would admit to ever having taken these pictures. So, as you know, the Apollo astronauts were threatened with their lives, I kid you not. They were threatened seriously. They even threatened their families if they ever divulged any of the information that they knew. Next photo, please. Here we are. Here’s the big mother; here’s the other one two miles long. Here’s a picture of the positive; this is the negative. This mother is five miles long. Up here you can see what appear to be two circular objects, either arriving or departing from that particular big ship.

Is it two miles long, or five miles long, Dean? Who knows? After this, his talk veers off the rails into still other anomalous photos taken by the Voyager missions of Saturn as well as those of facilities and alien bases on Mars, and thoughts about alien agendas, which is beyond the scope of this article, but you can read the transcript of the entire talk here, if you like. It can get a little rambling at times, but it is well worth checking out, and entertaining at the very least, no matter what you may think of it in the end. However, what are we to make of these mysterious photos and revelations from the Apollo missions? Is this all for real, and if so what do these entities want and why have they been watching us? Indeed, why is NASA so dead set against releasing such images and why would they have them destroyed. Dean thinks he has the answer, and it will be a familiar one to any of you who have wondered about the lack of disclosure shown by the government. He says:

I can almost understand why the authorities in NASA, why the authorities in the space program didn’t want this information to come out. They were frightened; they were stumped; they couldn’t deal with it themselves and they figured, if they couldn’t handle it, you couldn’t handle it. There would be social disruption; I believe is one of the terms they used. They would disturb the body politic; I believe the term they used. So they clamped the lid down on this and it is still down and it is going to stay down, I’m afraid, for some time yet, until people like yourselves and me and the rest of the people here on this stage, by pushing and prodding and chipping away at this lie and the secrecy, until, eventually, we will succeed. And, don’t you doubt that for a minute.

Dean ends the lecture on a bit of a spooky note, pointing out that aliens are all around us, intermingling with us, and that they have been watching us for a long time. He even goes so far as to say that every conference he has ever done has been attended by a few of these entities in the audience, and implores those in attendance to take a look around them and see if they can spot any. Although he has already claimed that the aliens are not out to harm us, it is still all a very conspiratorial and sinister vibe, which led one audience member to comment on the site Above Top Secret:

Bob Dean is clearly a fraud, at the end, after Henry Deacon gives a wonderful message of love, Bob comes back and doesn’t like the idea of such a message being given out and letting it end there. He then turn the audiences attention on the fact that “they” have members in the audience and to “look around you and think about that”, completely wiping out any remnants of Henry’s love message and replacing it with paranoia.

So what are we dealing with in the man called Bob Dean? He certainly seems to have the credentials to make him look like a respectable and knowledgeable whistleblower, but with such spectacular claims what are we to think? Is he a fraud as many have claimed, or is he on to something? Is NASA really embroiled in a conspiracy to keep this all from us? Is this man a crackpot, hoaxer, delusional weirdo, or the real deal? Opinions seem to be starkly divided, but he certainly at least seems to really believe what he is saying. Whatever that means, perhaps only time will tell, and whatever the case may be, it seems to definitely put a new spin on humankind’s missions to the moon and perhaps beyond.

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Bob Lazar 'The Craft I Worked on at Area 51 Were Not Made on Earth'

COAST TO COAST AM -

Bob Lazar described a strange craft he reported working on at Area 51 as “smooth and rounded everywhere – no sharp corners.” He commented that he is quite interested in the reported characteristics of the recent “Tic Tac” UFO story because it “just reeks of the drive mechanism I worked with.” He is convinced that the craft he saw and worked on were “not made on Earth and…not made of earthly materials.”

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100% Proof Alien Autopsy Is Real And Was Performed In Wright-Patterson AFB, Video, UFO Sighting News.

 

Date of alien autopsy: July 1947

Body retrieved from Roswell, New Mexico UFO Crash.

Location of autopsy: Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, USA

 

 

Now I know that there is a UK musician who claims to have created this video, but I say he lied because he was paid by the US CIA to take credit for the video and thus spread disinformation so that the public would no longer believe that this real video is real. UK musician Ray Santilli, was paid by the CIA or MI5 working through the CIA to cause the public to stop believing in this raw footage from the Roswell UFO crash. I stake my reputation on that! For instance the CIA had a program that started in the 1950s to use money to cause disinformation and control what the public believes...its called Project Blue Bird.  

 

For years this raw footage has been circulating the web and many try to say its a hoax, but I am here to tell you this...there has never in the history of man, been a more real video of an alien ever released than this one. This video has 22 minutes and 47 seconds of pure unadulterated raw footage. 

 

Let me explain to you why this is 100% real:

1. This video was taken in back in 1947, fakes were not being made until 2008,  when Youtube started monetization of videos and people discovered they could make money from video views. 

 

2. I analyzed the picture quality, saturation and contrast and came to the conclusion that it is from the 1940s. I came to this conclusion after analyzing ten different Hollywood movies from 1947, like Gentlemans Agreement, A Double Life, Mourning Becomes Electra and Miracle and 34th Street and many more. All made in 1947 and all the movies clarity, black and white contrast, vibrance, and brightness match the alien autopsy footage. 

 

3. The technique the doctors are using for the autopsy matches exactly how an autopsy would take place in the 1940s. 

 

4. The autopsy video shows detailed inside organs, blood and bones that no video would show until the year 1970s. 

 

5. Not only is the autopsy of an alien seen in the video, but actual metal parts from the Area 51 crash site were seen in the doctors hands with the only high detail of the alien writing symbols in existence! (16:58 to 19:43 mark).

 

6: At the 18:29 mark, we see the metal beam taken from the Roswell UFO crash. At the end of its...is broken...jagged and shows that it broke under pressure. This kind of detail would only be seen in real footage, a fake would not think of this extreme detail. 

 

7. Also the hand controls of the UFO were seen at the 18:08 mark. You can see that the controls were mere hand marks pressed deeply into the metal for the alien to place their six fingered hands. This was how they controlled the craft...through tying themselves metal with the craft, using telepathic control. All computers tech was built directly into the material itself...not nano tech, but much smaller and a billions of years of technological innovation to make it. Also note, as the man places it on the table, it appears to be incredibly light, an advancement that only alien tech could achieve. Did you notice the holes in the hand imprints on the controls? That allows for a more pure connection to the craft. 

 

8. The paper tags on the UFO metal fragments...one says W-377 and another says W-130. The W stands for the location of the alien and the fragments were at when this movie was made...Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Notice the (-) after the W is also in the AFB name? Yeah...link the patterns to see the evidence. 

 

Overall I find that this raw footage of an alien autopsy and artifacts taken from the Roswell crash are 100% real, and nothing and no-one will ever be able to disprove this footage. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

 

 

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Kurt Russel Gets Memory Wiped After Witnessing 6 UFOs As A Pilot, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of event: March 13, 1997
Location of sighting: Phoenix, Arizona, USA

In this interview Kurt Russell, the famous American actor recalls his UFO sightings while being a pilot. The strange thing is...it left his mind afterwards. Meaning, he never talked about it for years afterwords. Why? Such an amazing and rare event and it never says a word about it, not to the other eyewitness (his son) and not even to his wife. His spouse, actress Goldie Hawn had to find out when watching a TV show. 

Now Kurt Russell and his son were flying to Phoenix when they were eyewitnesses to 6 glowing lights in the sky heading their direction. He called it in, but the radio tower said there were no aircraft in his area. 

I believe that Kurt Russell had his memory wiped by the sighting itself. That maybe the UFOs got closer than he remembers and they recorded his thoughts and then blanketed his memories of the UFO sighting...hiding them in essence from himself. Until a memory brought them back to the surface of his conscious. 

I myself was in the USAF at Ellsworth AFB and worked on B1 bombers at the time, when I was eyewitness to 25 UFOs the size of 747s...each being a glowing florescent ball that appeared in one of four cloud tunnels that started directly above my apartments parking lot (off base in Rapid City, 15 miles from base). When I walked out of my apartment to go to work in uniform...I noticed that there were about 20 others standing in the parking lot looking staring straight up...no one talking, no one saying anything. I thought it was a joke, I looked up and saw the a single UFO orb appear at the end of this cloud tunnel above us...then it moved every slowly down the tunnel, beginning to make a rumble noise...like a a luggage cart being pulled over a cobble stone walkway. The UFO sped up as it got further down the tunnel until it was going 10-20X the speed of a jet and then was gone over the horizon...then another started above our heads. 

What I'm saying is...I (Scott C. Waring) never talked to the other eyewitness there. I never told anyone about the UFO sighting for almost ten years. It was almost like...the UFOs had manipulated my memory of the event...not allowing me to talk or even recall it for years. I believe this is what happened to actor Kurt Russell. The UFOs have incredible technology and can manipulate a humans emotions, feelings, and thoughts into whatever they want. Yes, mind control. I said it. Aliens can control anyone on earth if they so wish. And they can use mind control on large groups. I even asked myself why I didn't speak of it ever...and I had no explanation...and I'm a UFO researcher, but the whole city of Rapid, SD saw it that day, and no-one said a word about it. 
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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Several days ago something strange has happened in deep space. A sky-watcher has captured multiple pulsating beams with its infrared camera / telescope that seemingly came from the planet Venus.

The sky-watcher refers to a gigantic object (second video - jump to the 8 minutes mark), that looks like it is as long as Oumuamua, that came over Venus and wonders whether this object could have caused the flashes or pulsating beams.

Another possibility for the multiple bright flashes could be massive explosions caused by asteroids hitting the planet.

Anyway, whatever it may have been, something very unusual has happened near or on the planet Venus.

  

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VIDEO: UFO over New York 28-Apr-2020

Another great footage that was submitted to me today. It was filmed over New York on Tuesday, 28th April 2020.

What do you think this triangle craft is?

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Many UFO encounters leave the witnesses in profound states of wonder and amazement. Others provoke terror and paranoia. Just occasionally, however, the UFO phenomenon becomes downright deadly. Take, for example, the encounter of a Brazilian man named Joao Prestes Filho, a farmer from the village of Aracariguama. On the night in question, and quite out of the blue, Filho found himself bathed in a powerful glowing light, which emanated from something unknown in the skies directly above. Whatever it was, it ensured a horrific death for Filho. The heat coming from the object was so hot that Filho fell to his knees. Worse was to come: his skin suddenly began to heat up. Then, it began to bubble. In mere minutes, he was exhibiting the physical effects of someone suffering from severe burns. Filho’s family, utterly terrified, raced him to a nearby hospital. It was all to no avail. During the journey, Folho grew progressively, and quickly, worse. His skin began to fall off his bones. One of the medics at the hospital – Aracy Gomide – confirmed poor Filho literally melted before the horrified eyes of the medical staff. Proof that not all close encounters are positive ones.

The so-called “Kinross Case” focuses upon the strange – and still-unresolved – disappearance of a US Air Force F-89C jet fighter that was scrambled late on the night of November 23, 1953, on an “active air defense mission” to intercept an “unknown aircraft” over Lake Superior. Kinross Air Force Base, which was closest to the scene where the “unknown” was initially tracked, quickly alerted the 433^rd Fighter Interception Squadron at Truax Field, Madison, Wisconsin, and the F-89C gave immediate chase. Available USAF records demonstrate that the F-89 was vectored west-northwest, then west, climbing to 30,000 feet. While on its westerly course, the crew received permission to descend to 7,000 feet, turning east-northeast and coming steeply down on the target from above. Alarmingly, as the aircraft closed-in on the “unknown” it subsequently vanished into oblivion, along with its two crew-members. The last radar contact placed the interceptor at 8,000 feet, 70 miles from Keeweenaw Point, and about 150 miles northwest of Kinross AFB, which, today, is called Kincheloe AFB.

An extract from the official USAF Aircraft Accident Report outlines further details of the story: “Aircraft took off at 2322 Zebra 23 Nov 53 on an active Air Defense Mission to intercept an unknown aircraft approximately 160 miles Northwest of Kinross Air Force Base. The aircraft was under radar control throughout the interception. At approximately 2352 Zebra the last radio contact was made by the radar station controlling the interception. At approximately 2355 Zebra the unknown aircraft and the F-89 merged together on the radar scope. Shortly thereafter the IFF signal disappeared from the radar scope. No further contact was established with the F-89. An extensive aerial search has revealed no trace of the aircraft. The aircraft and its crew are still missing.” For both ufologists and the Air Force the matter of the Kinross affair remains wide open.

All was normal – on November 28, 1954 – for Jose Ponce and Gustavo Gonzalez, as they traveled along a small road on the fringes of Caracas, Venezuela. Or, to be absolutely correct, all was normal for a while. The dark road was suddenly lit up by what the astonished pair could only describe as a bright ball of light, with a circumference of around three feet. It swayed slightly in the air, not unlike a small boat bobbing along on the water.

The two slowed down their vehicle as they approached it, eventually coming to a complete halt. It was then, suddenly, that astonishment was replaced by outright terror. While Ponce stayed inside the van, Gonzalez cautiously exited the vehicle; he began to slowly and tentatively walk towards the hovering globe. Suddenly, Gonzalez found himself thrown to the ground by an unseen force. The reason why the attacker was unseen – for a few seconds, at least – was because of its size. Or, rather, its profound lack of size. Gonzalez, to his shock and fear, was finally able to see what had assaulted him: a small, hair-covered creature that was built like a man, but which was only around three feet in height. Acting on impulse and adrenaline, Gonzalez attempted to plunge his knife into the body of the creature, only for the knife to bounce off it.

In mere seconds, another hairy dwarf was on the scene, and temporarily blinded Gonzalez with a bright light that emitted from a powerful, flashlight-type device. Shocked to the core, Ponce gathered his wits together and jumped out of the van to help his friend, who was stumbling around, his eyesight still affected by the powerful beam that hit him with full force. To Ponce’s growing concern, two more of the hairy creatures surfaced out of the shadows, and both making their way towards the men – and armed, no less, with large rocks. Although the presence of the rocks suggested to the men that the hairy things were ready to kill them, with hindsight it seems they were only a defensive measure, in the event a last resort-style situation developed. Fortunately, it did not. The small things raced to the ball of light and, somehow, launched themselves inside it, despite its equally small size and vanished in the blink of an eye!

As the cases above demonstrate, it may be wise to be very careful if you have an encounter of the close type.

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NASA budget cuts at Mars threaten 'crisis' for Curiosity rover and prolific orbiters

By Mike Wall 

The Curiosity team may soon be forced into a difficult exploration decision.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie on Feb. 26, 2020. The crumbling rock layer at the top of the image is the Greenheugh Pediment, which Curiosity crested on March 6.

(Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

Budget cuts may force NASA's Curiosity rover to slam on the brakes just as it's reaching its highly anticipated home stretch.

Curiosity landed inside Mars' 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater in August 2012, tasked with determining if the site could ever have supported microbial life. The rover's work quickly answered that question in the affirmative, showing that Gale hosted a long-lived lake-and-stream system in the ancient past.

The $2.5 billion mission also seeks to shed light on Mars' long-ago shift from a relatively warm and wet world to the cold and dry planet we know today. Gale is well suited for such inquiry; it harbors a 3.4-mile-high (5.5 km) massif called Mount Sharp, whose many rock layers preserve a long history of Martian environmental conditions.

• Related: Amazing Mars photos by NASA's Curiosity rover (latest images)

Budget cuts at Mars

Curiosity has been climbing through Mount Sharp's foothills since September 2014, studying clay-rich sediments that are evidence of ancient aqueous environments. The six-wheeled rover has gotten about 1,350 feet (410 meters) above the crater floor to date — so high that it's nearing a transition zone between the clay unit and the sulfate-rich rocks above, which are evidence of a much drier Mars. 

But the funding situation may make exploring this new and potentially revelatory region tougher and more time-consuming than the Curiosity team had thought. The White House's 2021 federal budget request allocates just $40 million to the mission, a decrease of 20% from the rover's current funding. And that current funding is 13% less than Curiosity got in the previous year, said Curiosity project scientist Ashwin Vasavada, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

If the 2021 request is passed by Congress as-is, Curiosity's operations would have to be scaled back considerably. Running the mission with just $40 million in 2021 would leave unused about 40% of the science team's capability and 40% of the rover's power output, which comes from a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG), Vasavada said.

"The team feels a bit under a crisis now because of the funding situation," Vasavada said on April 17 during a meeting of NASA's Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG), which aids agency efforts to explore the Red Planet. "This is a big morale hit for us." 

In addition to the clay-sulfate boundary region, the Curiosity team wants to spend some time studying a nearby formation called the Greenheugh Pediment. Just atop Greenheugh is a ridge that may have been formed by debris-carrying liquid water that originated higher up on Mount Sharp, long after Gale's lakes dried up, Vasavada said in his MEPAG presentation.

"This is just a huge climate signature that we want to be able to explore," he said.

An end in 2022?

Vasavada said that Greenheugh and the clay-sulfate transition zone are the mission's two major exploration objectives for the near future. But enactment of the 2021 budget request would probably force the mission team to push one of those two activities beyond 2022, he said — and such a delay might end up consigning the unlucky objective to the dustbin.

That's because Curiosity's outlook gets far more uncertain after next year. For starters, the 2021 federal budget request zeroes out the mission in 2022, projecting no money for the mission that year or in any future years. 

And, even if funding does eventually come through, the output of the rover's RTG — which converts to electricity the heat generated by the radioactive decay of plutonium-238 — will likely have declined enough by 2022 to start taking a significant toll on science work, Vasavada said. (Curiosity remains in good health otherwise, he stressed.)

"NASA and the Mars science community have the great fortune of having this flagship rover in great shape with an experienced team, ready to further advance our study of ancient habitability," he said. "There's a window that's closing to use Curiosity because of the RTG."

• Related: Photos: Ancient Mars lake could have supported life

Not just Curiosity

Vasavada isn't the only Mars mission lead with budget laments; the 2021 funding request is rough for most of the space agency's other robotic Mars probes currently in operation as well. 

For example, proposed cuts to the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter mission would "require a significant downsizing of the science team starting this year, this coming year, and then each year into the future," principal investigator Bruce Jakosky, of the University of Colorado Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, said during his MEPAG talk on April 17. (Leaders of NASA's robotic Mars missions gave updates on that day.)

The $2.5 million proposed cut to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) in 2021 would force the venerable mission to reduce its targeted imaging observations by 50% and its radar observations by 30%, said project scientist Richard Zurek of JPL.

• Related: Occupy Mars: History of robotic Red Planet missions (infographic)

Then there's Mars Odyssey, an orbiter that has been studying the Red Planet since 2001. The 2021 budget request allocates just $1 million to Odyssey. As a result, the mission "would have to end this calendar year — really, in the next few months," said project scientist Jeff Plaut, also of JPL, in his MEPAG presentation. 

All of these orbiters remain in good health, the MEPAG presenters said, and all of them provide vital communications-relay services in addition to their science work. Odyssey, for example, relays to Earth 62% of the data collected by NASA's marsquake-hunting InSight lander, which touched down in November 2018.

And those communications needs are going to increase less than a year from now, when NASA's next Red Planet rover touches down. The life-hunting, sample-caching Mars 2020 rover Perseverance is scheduled to launch this July and land inside the Red Planet's Jezero Crater in February 2021.

Plaut ended his MEPAG talk by saying he hopes the Mars science community sees value in the continuation of Odyssey's mission and voices that value to decisionmakers — namely, Congress, which controls the nation's purse strings and therefore has final budgetary say. (A White House federal budget request is just that — a request — before Congress enacts it.)

He found a receptive audience. One of the findings of the three-day MEPAG meeting, as determined by the steering committee and chairwoman Aileen Yingst of JPL, was an objection to the budgetary treatment of Odyssey, MRO, MAVEN and Curiosity (whose mission is officially called the Mars Science Laboratory, or MSL).

"MEPAG finds that the substantial reduction of funding for the extended missions of MSL, Odyssey, MRO and MAVEN and the projected closeout of MSL in 2022 and Odyssey in 2021 are inconsistent with their high rankings by the Planetary Mission Senior Review," Yingst said on April 17, reading the finding for meeting participants. 

"This would result in major, perhaps unrecoverable, losses for science and does not reflect community priorities," she added.

Overall, the 2021 federal budget request allocates $25.2 billion to NASA, a 12% boost for the space agency over its 2020 funding. But a big chunk of this money would go toward NASA's crewed exploration projects, especially its Artemis lunar program, which aims to land two people on the moon in 2024. The space agency's planetary science funding next year would decrease by 1.9% from 2020 levels.

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Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life.

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With UFOs whizzing about, doing physics-defying aerial acrobatics, and hovering close to the ground, one might get the impression that it is all rather dangerous and an accident waiting to happen. Indeed, this seems to be the case, as there have been numerous reports of near-misses with UFOs and various aircraft over the decades. Yet sometimes these UFOs truly learned the hard way, and actually collide with other objects. From trains, to planes, to automobiles, to even other UFOs, here are some of the strangest cases of UFOs crashing into other vehicles.

One of the last things one might expect to crash into a UFO is a train, yet on January 14, 2002, that is exactly what allegedly happened in the area of Paintsville, Kentucky, in the United States. At approximately 2:50 AM in the early morning hours, a coal train was lumbering along its course when the electronic systems on the train starting going haywire. As the crew tried to figure out just what was going on, they turned a bend at a stretch called “milepost 42” and that was when they noticed lights headed in their direction. It was assumed that this was an oncoming train, and so they killed their own lights so as not to blind the incoming conductor. However, this was no train. The witness describes what happens next in his official report with the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) as follows:

As we rounded the corner our onboard computer began to flash in and out, speed recorder went nuts, and both locomotives died. Alarm bells began to ring and thats when we saw the objects. Apparently scanning the river for something, the objects, (at least 3) had several “search” lights trained there, the first object hovered about 10 to 12 feet above the track. Metallic silver in color with multiple colored lights near the bottom and in the middle, no windows or openings of any kind that we could see. Approximately 18 to 20 feet in length and probably ten feet high. With both engines dead as we rounded the corner we made little noise and the first object did not respond in time, I estimate that we hit the object at 30 mph with 16,000 trailing tons behind us. It clipped the top of our lead unit then skipped back slicing a chunk out of our trailing unit and first two coal cars. The other objects vanished into thin air.

After this, the train came to a stop around 2 miles after the impact, screeching slowly to a grinding halt after the emergency brakes had kicked in, and the power to their systems jumped back to life. They notified their dispatcher and then surveyed the damage, finding the cab of the rear locomotive to be “demolished and smoking” and the second two cars looking as if they “had been hit with a giant hammer.” Despite the extensive damage, the train was deemed track worthy, and was able to limp along the rail back to the yard, and this is where things would get perhaps even stranger than they already were. The witness explains:

We pulled into Paintsville yard at approximately 5:15 am. The huge overhead lights lining the yard were noticeably dark and the only lights came from what we assumed were railroad officials’ vehicles parked near the end of the track. We pulled to a stop and began unloading our grips off the wounded train. We could hear what sounded like an army of workers immediately tending to our train. Vehicle doors slamming, guys running by in weird outfits and lights glaring from all directions, the one thing missing was railroad officials. A guy named Ferguson shook my hand and asked me to follow him into the old yard office. We did, once inside they, and by they I mean I have no idea who these people were, began to ask us hundreds of questions, they then told us for our own protection we’d be medically tested before we could leave.

I asked repeatedly to talk to my road foreman or trainmaster and not only were these requests denied but they confiscated my conductors’ cellular phone. Hours later we were led outside the old yard office and the strange things continued to happen, the 2 locomotives and two cars were removed from the rest of the train we had brought in and my only guess was parked 4 tracks over under a huge tent like structure buzzing with activity. We were led off property and told due to national security our silence on this matter would be appreciated. We were then put in a Railroad vehicle and taken to Martin Kentucky were we went through questioning again with railroad officials and were then drug tested.

What exactly happened here? Was this an actual collision with a UFO and how did a slow-moving coal train manage to hit it? Who were those officials they were interrogated by? or is this all some sort of hoax? It is hard to say, but a train crashing into a UFO is not something you see every day. Our next tale is almost as unlikely, and was reported by a Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson, of Marshall County, Minnesota. On August 27, 1979, Johnson was on patrol near the North Dakota border when he saw a strange light apparently off in the wilderness. As he took a side road to get closer, the light apparently began to approach his car at an amazing rate of speed. It seemed to almost be on a collision course, and Johnson lost consciousness after being blinded by a bright flash to the sound of breaking glass. When he came to he was still sitting in his stalled car, happy to be alive but alarmed that he could not see anything. Oddly, his car had travelled some distance from where the object had engaged him, and he would say of his bizarre experience:

I noticed a very bright, brilliant light, 8 to 12 inches in diameter, 3 to 4 feet off the ground. The edges were very defined. I thought perhaps at first that it could be an aircraft in trouble, as it appeared to be a landing light from an aircraft. I proceeded south on #220. I proceeded about a mile and three tenths or a mile and four tenths when the light intercepted my vehicle causing damage to a headlight, putting a dent in the hood, breaking the windshield and bending antennas on top of the vehicle.

At this point, at the interception of the light, I was rendered either unconscious, neutralized or unknowing for a period of approximately 39 minutes. From the point of intersection, my Police vehicle proceeded south in a straight line 854 feet, at which point the brakes were engaged by forces unknown to myself, as I do not remember doing this, and I left about approximately 99 feet of black marks on the highway before coming to rest sideways in the road with the grille of my hood facing in an easterly direction. At 2:19 a.m., I radioed a 10-88 (Officer Needs Assistance) to my dispatcher in Warren.

The officer called on his radio for help, and he was rushed to the hospital with what looked like burns on his face and irritation of the eyes. Meanwhile, the patrol car he had been in was found to have a smashed in right side headlight, a crack in the windshield on the driver’s side, an unusual circular dent on the hood, also on the driver’s side, and a roof antenna that was bent over at a 60-degree angle. The windshield was particularly weird, as it seemed to have sustained “inward and outward forces acting almost simultaneously.” All of the damage was on the driver’s side of the vehicle. The interior clock was also found to be 14 minutes slow, and oddly Johnson’s wristwatch had the same anomaly. Experts who examined the vehicle would be unable to explain the peculiar damage it had incurred, and it did not seem to be any normal collision, with the official explanation being “mechanical forces of unknown origin.” Luckily his eyes would heal and he would regain his eyesight.

A place where one would perhaps more expect to see some sort of UFO collision is with aircraft in the sky, and while there have been many reports of near-misses with UFOs over the years, there was in 2013 an account of a plane possibly actually crashing into one. The Air China Boeing 757 passenger plane was allegedly flying at around 26,000 feet on a course from Chengdu to Guangzhou, when about 20 minutes into the flight things got bizarre. The crew would report that out of nowhere the plane was rocked by a very strong impact and a loud thud reverberated through the aircraft, frightening the passengers and causing the pilot to enact evasive maneuvers. The plane was given permission to make an emergency landing, and although amazingly no one had been hurt, it was found that the front of the plane had an enormous dent in it. At no point was there any radar signature of anything else in the vicinity of the plane that could have hit it, and this has led to speculation that the plane actually hit everything from a flock of birds to an unmanned drone, to of course a UFO. Unfortunately, Air China would refuse to give any further details, and Chinese authorities have allegedly just sort of swept it all under the carpet. The former U.S. government UFO investigator Nick Pope would say of the outlandish incident:

Whatever struck the aircraft will have left evidence. Analysis of the damaged nose cone should reveal microscopic traces of whatever struck the aircraft, or possibly even larger pieces of debris. So this is a solvable mystery. The only question is, will the notoriously secretive Chinese authorities reveal the truth about what happened? Cases like this show that whatever people believe about UFOs, there are serious air safety issues here. MoD and CAA files contain dozens of reports of near misses between UFOs and commercial aircraft. It’s only a matter of time before there’s a catastrophe. From the look of the photos, this disturbing incident came very close to blowing this aircraft out of the sky.

The damaged Chinese plane

There does not appear to have been any further information released by the Chinese government or the airline, leaving this purely in the realm of speculation, but it is intriguing nevertheless. What is probably more spectacular than a plane colliding with a UFO is a UFO smashing into another UFO, and that is what reportedly happened in a report given to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). It began with a sighting made in Rosh Haayin, in Israel, on September 28, 1995, by a man called Spasso Maximovitch. He purportedly saw in the sky a silvery glowing object that apparently separated into several other smaller objects as he watched in amazement, even managing to capture the event on videotape. He then went about watching the skies constantly after that, becoming obsessed with witnessing the objects again, and on June 24, 1996 it seems his patience paid off.

On this occasion he saw what looked to be the same object he had observed before, or at least one very similar to it, and he began to film it. At the same time, he noticed another object just like it streaking through the sky from the west, and headed straight towards the first object. According to Spasso, the second object approached at a very fast speed and collided with the first one, causing an explosion, all of which was captured on film. Spasso then turned the video evidence over to a journalist named David Ronen, with the local UFO magazine called “Maariv,” and a copy of it managed to find its way to UFO researcher Barry Chamish. The tapes were sent by Chamish to London for examination, even as other analysts pored over the footage trying to figure out what it shows. According to MUFON, one of these was a professional photo and video analyst by the name of Jeff Sainio, who said of the footage:

When the 2 objects apparently collide and explode, the apparent size of the light expands by a factor of roughly 2.5; this does not appear to be due to overexposure, but is the real size of the object. The last 2 frames of the video are NOT overexposed, but diffuse; since overexposure is not involved, this indicates he actual size of the explosion is shown. The real increase in size of the bright area is certainly much larger than 2.5.

In the video the explosion moves downward; this is probably due to camera motion of the startled videographer; the reference tower is too smeared to verify this conclusion. The explosion is not due to any conventional method I am familiar with; conventional, large explosions require much more than 1/4 second to disappear, and usually generate flaming debris that falls from the explosion. Neither characteristic is seen here. The acceleration, light size, and explosion are not explainable in any convention way that I know of, and this case remains unidentified.

A still from the Israeli footage

Strangely, shortly after the footage was made public, Spasso Maximovitch seems to have dropped off the grid and vanished. According to Chamish no one has been able to locate him, and besides being rather ominous, it also leaves us with not much more to go on. We are left with a compelling piece of footage of an alleged UFO collision, but little else, and so far it has remained inconclusive. You can read Sainio’s full analysis and see the video here. Is this hoaxed footage, and if not, what are we looking at here? If it was really UFOs, then how in the world did this collision happen? Was it pilot error, a malfunction, or maybe even intentional? There is no way to know.

It certainly seems that UFOs are not totally above making mistakes, and that sometimes their antics can lead to accidents. With aircraft this seems to be a particular area of worry, and there have been those who have seriously considered the threat that this may cause to airspace. But is any of this real at all, or is it just sensationalized stories, perhaps born from mundane reasons? Is there truly anything to worry about at all? Who really knows, but it all makes for some fascinating cases.

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The polar vortex weakened and split in two has diluted the ozone hole.

Credit: Copernicus ECMWF.

The largest ozone hole over the Arctic ever recorded is now plugged

This is good news and it has nothing to do with COVID-19 or human activity for that matter.

Researchers affiliated with the Copernicus Program, the European Union’s Earth observation program, have been on top of the situation since the ozone hole was first signaled.

This week, they announced that the “rather unusual” hole over the Arctic was not related at all to human activity and was instead caused by a strong Arctic polar vortex.

As such, the ozone layer recovery cannot be pegged to massive reductions in pollution to the coronavirus-related nationwide lockdowns.

Polar vortexes, the kind that triggered this recent massive gaping hole in the ozone layer 11 miles above the Arctic surface, are essentially large areas of low pressure and cold air that surround both of the planet’s poles.

These atmospheric phenomena wean over the summer and strengthen in the winter. Typically, polar vortexes are much weaker over the Arctic compared to the Antarctic due to local topography, as nearby land and mountain ranges disturb the flow of air more.

Ozone hole in Antarctica is a different matter entirely

At ground level, ozone or smog is a poisonous chemical often expelled by vehicle exhaust. Higher up in the stratosphere, ozone accumulates at altitudes between 10 and 50 km where it acts as a shield against the harmful ultraviolet rays, which can cause cancer. Ozone holes occur naturally from cooling, but man-made chemicals greatly accelerate their formation.

While ozone depletion over the Arctic in natural, the same can’t be said about the one in the stratosphere above Antarctica.

Almost four decades ago, scientists had learned that chlorine-containing industrial chemicals triggered the formation of a gaping hole in the ozone layer right above the icy continent.

Since then, the ozone layer has recovered after a UN emergency panel banned the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) under the Montreal Protocol. This was one of the few highly commendable episodes where nearly all the world’s countries chose to set aside their differences and work for the common good of the planet and all life that calls it home.

Currently, the ozone hole above Antarctica is the size of North America, which sounds humongous. However, it’s the smallest it’s been since 1988, according to NASA.

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VOLGENS  POLITIE IS SUGGESTIE DAT GRAANCITKELS GEMAAKT ZIJN DOOR ALIENS " GEKKIGHEID"

Wat de boer niet kent dat vreet hij niet en dat is zeker van toepassing op de politie in ons land.

Die verklaart stellig te weten dat de graancirkels die zijn gevonden op het strand van Zuid-Holland niet door aliens zijn gemaakt.

De doorsnee mens zegt dan niet: “Ik weet het niet, maar theoretisch zou het best door buitenaardsen gemaakt kunnen zijn”. Nee, dat doen ze niet, maar wat ze wel doen is stellig verklaren dat het niet buitenaards is, maar door mensen gemaakt.

En dat laatste wordt dan volkomen acceptabel geacht en daar hoef je dan ook geen enkel verder bewijs voor aan te voeren, maar op het moment dat je zelfs maar suggereert dat het wel buitenaards zou kunnen zijn, dan is de wereld te klein.

Zo zijn er door de politie via Instagram afbeeldingen verspreid waarop graancirkels zijn te zien op het strand bij Ter Heijde in Zuid-Holland.

Wijkagent Frits Adriani kwam de cirkels toevallig tegen. ,,Wat is dit nou? Dacht ik”, zegt Adriani. ,,Wel leuk voor een post. Weer eens wat anders in deze coronatijd. Het is de eerste keer dat ik zoiets ben tegengekomen.”

De cirkels zijn gevonden op een zandmotor, een kunstmatig aangelegd stukje natuur. ,,De cirkels beslaan een behoorlijk groot gebied. Zo'n 30 bij 10 meter. In totaal vonden we 15 tot 20 cirkels.”

En dan ontstaat iets leuks. Wijkagent Adriani heeft geen flauw benul hoe die graancirkels daar op het strand terecht zijn gekomen. Maar, ondanks dat, weet hij absoluut één ding zeker:

Wijkagent Adriani weet het wel: ,,Aliens? Nee, dat is gekkigheid. Ik denk dat het door mensen is gedaan.”

Dat is mooi dat de politie dat zo zeker weet, ondanks dat niemand heeft geclaimd deze cirkels te hebben gemaakt en er geen aanwijsbare sporen zijn aangetroffen. Misschien zijn ze door mensen gemaakt, maar misschien ook niet.

Wat bijzonder is bij deze formaties is dat het een herhaling is van één en dezelfde vorm, namelijk een spiraal. Alsof iemand een boodschap wil geven zoals: "Let op, deze spiralen hebben een betekenis".

Er is eerder een spiraalvormige graancirkel gevonden in het zand van de woestijn, ergens in het Midden-Oosten. Deze zag er als volgt uit:

Ook zijn er eerder “normale” graancirkels gevonden in de vorm van een spiraal.

Iets dat wijkagent Frits Adriani ook niet heeft geleerd op de politieschool is dat onze verre voorouders de spiraalvorm gebruikten om ons te waarschuwen voor naderend onheil en te vluchten naar hoger gelegen streken. Hebben de graancirkels in een spiraalvorm daarmee te maken, of zijn het toevallige voortvloeisels van mensen met planken en stokken die niets beters konden bedenken dan het maken van talloze spiraalvormen? Coronacriminelen zullen we maar zeggen.

Wij weten het niet, maar kunnen het ook niet uitsluiten. Daarom, hierna nog een deel uit een eerder artikel over onze verre voorouders en de spiraalvorm.

Als we dan uiteindelijk terechtkomen bij iets wat op geschreven documenten lijkt, dan zien we naast de kleitabletten van de Sumeriërs iets wat de Kolbrin Bijbel wordt genoemd. Het is een verzameling van oeroude teksten die vertaald zijn. De herkomst is het oude Egypte en daarna komen we ze weer tegen in de Middeleeuwen.

De manuscripten zouden gered zijn tijdens een brand in het klooster van Glastonbury Abbey in 1184. Er gaat zelfs het gerucht dat de beroemde Nicola Tesla enkele van zijn wijsheden haalde uit de Kolbrin Bijbel. Deze bestaat uit in totaal elf boeken, waarvan men zegt dat de eerste zes geschreven zijn door Egyptenaren ten tijde van de Exodus. Het boek is nooit toegankelijk geweest voor het grote publiek, maar werd altijd geheimgehouden bestemd voor een select groepje mensen. Tegenwoordig is er een gedrukte versie beschikbaar via het Culdian Trust.

Uit de vele petrogliefen die wereldwijd zijn aangetroffen blijkt dat men bang was voor iets en dientengevolge vluchtte naar hogergelegen gebieden. Dit vinden we ook terug in de Kolbrin Bijbel.

Zo staat er in het boek Manuscripts (3:6) het volgende:

“De mensen zullen in paniek overal naartoe vluchten. Ze zullen de trompetten horen en de strijdkreet van de Verwoester en zullen hun toevlucht zoeken in de grotten op aarde. Ze zullen verlamd zijn van schrik en de moed zal uit hen stromen zoals het water uit een gebroken kruik. Ze zullen worden opgegeten door de wrekende vlam en de adem van de Verwoester”

Op de volgende foto zie je een rotstekening van mensen en dieren die wegvluchten naar de bergen. Op deze tekening vind je ook iets waar wij nu veel last van hebben: dode vissen.

Iets wat opvalt in bijna al die afbeeldingen is de spiraal en die komt keer op keer terug. Dit komen we straks ook weer tegen in de Kolbrin Bijbel.

Zo staat er in het boek Creation (4:6):  

“De ster groeide uit en werd steeds helderder en was indrukwekkend om te zien. Het kreeg horens en het zong en nog nooit had iemand zoiets gezien”

Op de volgende foto zie je de man afgebeeld met horens en weer de spiraal.

Hoofdstuk 5 van het boek Manuscripts, vrij vertaald, gaat als volgt:

Vers 1.

"De Onheilsvorm, de Verwoester genaamd, werd in Egypte gezien en in alle landen daaromheen. Het had een heldere en felle kleur, het veranderde en was onstabiel. Het draaide rond zoals een spoel/spiraal zoals het water opborrelt uit een ondergrondse bron in een poel en iedereen was het erover eens dat het een angstaanjagend gezicht was. Het was niet een grote komeet of een verdwaalde ster, maar meer als een vurig object".

Vers 2.

"Haar bewegingen hoog in de lucht waren langzaam. Het kronkelde rond zoals rook dat doet en het bleef dichtbij de zon wiens gezicht het verborg. Het had een soort bloedachtige roodheid dat veranderde naarmate het haar pad vervolgde. Het veroorzaakte dood en verwoesting als het opkwam en weer onderging. Het veegde over de aarde met een grijze regen van sintels en veroorzaakte pest, hongersnood en andere kwaden. Het beet in de huid van mens en beest totdat ze bedekt waren met zweren".

Vers 3.

"De aarde trilde en had het zwaar, de heuvels en de bergen bewogen en schudden. De met zwarte rook gevulde hemelen bogen voorover naar de aarde en er bereikte een groot gehuil de oren van de levende mensen, tot hen gebracht door de vleugels van de wind. Het was de kreet van de Donkere Meester, de Meester van de Doden. Dikke vurige rookwolken gingen voor hem langs en er was afgrijselijke hagel van hete stenen en vurige kolen.

De Onheilsvorm donderde zwaar in de hemel en er schoten felle bliksemflitsen uit. De waterwegen werden op zichzelf teruggeworpen toen de grond overhelde en grote bomen werden rondgegooid en knapten af als takjes. Toen, een stem als duizend trompetten, werd gehoord boven de wildernis en voor haar brandende adem spleten de vlammen uiteen. Het hele land bewoog, de bergen smolten. De hemel zelf brulde als tienduizend leeuwen in pijn en vurige pijlen van bloed schoten her en der over haar gezicht. De aarde zwol op als brood op de haard".

Vers 4.

"Dit was het aspect van de Onheilsvorm, die de Verwoester werd genoemd, toen het verscheen in die dagen die lang vervlogen zijn. Dit is zoals het staat beschreven in de oude archieven, waarvan er nog maar weinig zijn. Er wordt gezegd dat wanneer het verschijnt in de hemelen boven de aarde, deze zal opensplijten als een noot die geroosterd wordt boven het vuur. Dan zullen de vlammen omhoogschieten door het oppervlak en deze zullen als felle vijanden op het zwarte bloed springen. Het vocht in het land is allemaal opgedroogd, de weiden en de bewoonde plaatsen zullen door de vlammen worden verzwolgen en zullen met alle bomen witte as worden".

Vers 5.

"De Onheilsvorm is als een ronddraaiende bal van vuur die kleine vurige deeltjes in haar spoor rondslingert. Het bedekt ongeveer eenvijfde van de hemel en stuurt kronkelende vingers die lijken op slangen naar de aarde. Ervoor ziet de lucht er angstaanjagend uit en dan breekt het open en uiteen. Midden op de dag is het net zo licht als ’s nachts. Het omvat heel veel vreselijke dingen.

In de oude archieven worden dingen verteld over de Verwoester. Lees ze met een plechtig hart, wetende dat de Onheilsvorm haar eigen tijd heeft en terug zal keren. Het zou dom zijn om hen zonder waarschuwing te laten gaan. Nu zeggen mensen: “Zulke dingen zijn niet voorbestemd in onze dagen”. Moge de grote God boven genadig genoeg zijn om dit toe te staan. Maar, komen zal die dag zeker en zoals in de natuur van de mens ligt, zal deze totaal onvoorbereid zijn".

De tekeningen en de Kolbrin Bijbel vertellen ons wat er eerder gebeurd is. Ook nu leven wij in een tijd van rampen en snel verslechterende omstandigheden op aarde. De aarde trilt en beeft, dieren sterven massaal, het klimaat verandert, honger en oorlog liggen op de loer. Overal ter wereld hoort men vreemde geluiden en veel mensen “voelen” dat er iets staat te gebeuren.

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What Lives At The Bottom Of Antartica ? | Scientists Were Shocked to Discover

The moon rotates around the earth about the same speed it does around its axis, that is why we can only see one side of it. Meaning 41% of it hasn’t’ been explored yet, this little known fact surprises most people who assume they know everything about all things in the world, while so many things in our planet remain a mystery. For instance, Antarctica which is not so popular is as mysterious and full of wonder as any place on earth. Whether it’s the inexplicable ice domes or a giant face right in the middle of ice valley or a crater that is likened to the state of Colorado It’s the land of a thousand icy secrets, we’re going to raise the curtain just a little and narrate to you the recent discoveries that will make your blood run cold with wonder, excitement or surprise. Under the thick layer of ice, mysterious creatures live.

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100% Indisputable Proof Alien Cities Exist On Earths Moon, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

SOURCE: Book called, "Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Near Side of the Moon." In the back of this book is a computer CD with full resolution photos. These came from there. 


Close up below, click to enlarge. I was looking at some Lunar Orbiter photographs when I came across a few that I had not see before. They partially reveal the dark side of the moon, or almost dark side because Earth cannot view this part of the moon, but a little sun light does hit part of it. The white dots, which so many inexperienced people have called photo flaws, are real. My proof is the shadow. Look at the shadow covering them. Note: the shadow might not exist, you might be looking at the black metal surface of an artificial moon, see the shadows from the structures? Moon shadows would not affect photo flaws, however if they were structures on the moon, it would logical. To argue that photo flaws would disappear in the shadows is ridiculous so I will not acknowledge such foolishness. You will notice like I did that there is some unusual formations of white dots.

These are evenly spaced apart and stay close to one another. That is because you are looking at cities on the moon. You see, there are three types of buildings I have identified on the moon. First is the metallic buildings which have angles like human buildings, but these are always smaller compared to the other two. Second are the white ceramic buildings. These will have black windows, yet the surface of the building is so shiny that it looks like light reflecting off the surface. Their shape is usually round or oval, never with sharp angles, always smooth edges. See below photo shadows from white buildings? Third are the dark buildings. These are the most unusual and seem biomechanics or living structures that were grown. These are flat black, meaning they have no reflective surfaces.

They are massive, up to hundreds of kilometers long. They often have the small buildings near their entrances with many (4-8 usually) tunnel like attachments going back and forth. So the Lunar Orbiter satellite gives you a birds eye view of partially lit side of the moon which is never visible to Earth. I use to believe in NASA, held them up on a pedestal with the highest of admiration, but then I discovered they lied to us and I can never respect someone that lies to your face. You decide for yourself, don't let anyone else decide for you.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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Borg Cube Seen Near Earths Sun On NASA Satellite Image, April 2020, UFO Sighting News.

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What's worse than a train of Starlink satellites cutting across an astro-photo? Two trains of Starlink satellites cutting across an astro-photo. In the Czech republic on April 19th, amateur astronomer Zdenek Bardon captured perhaps the first picture of two orthogonal Starlink trains in a single image.

Image left: Credit Zdenek Bardon showing the astonishing image of the cross-hatch pattern made by Starlink satellites.

"I was trying to photograph disintegrating Comet ATLAS (C2019 Y4)," says Bardon. "My local night sky suffers from light pollution, and stacking of multiple exposures is necessary in order to image the comet. Unfortunately, I had not considered the trajectories of the Starlink satellites, and many of my exposures were contaminated."

This is the latest illustration of a growing problem. To date, SpaceX has launched 360 Starlink satellites, with more than 12,000 planned.

Elon Musk said satellites launched from next month will also have 'sunshades' and for now his company is ‘fixing’ the brightness of his ultra-bright constellation of satellites, which are disrupting the night sky for astronomers.

But if you look up in the sky and you see Starlink trains and think that they just only crosses each other then you have to see these images.

The remarkable images are screenshots from a video uploaded a few days ago but suddenly deleted again. Even the YouTube channel has been removed which in itself is suspicious, maybe they don't like that the public see that they are testing the laser communication system.

The laser beams are not visible to the human eye because their wavelengths are not in the visible light spectrum. Digital cameras can capture a wider range of wavenlength, so it´s possible to record the laser beams.

The whole situation reminds Spaceweather.com reader Peter Tarr (Chief Science Writer at the Brain and  Behavior Research Foundation) of a classic science fiction. Bardon's astonishing image of the cross-hatch pattern made by Starlink satellites is the coming-to-life of 'The Tholian Web' of the original Star Trek series."

Update: I found a channel who has uploaded the video of Starlink testing laser beams too.

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Pentagon Officially Releases 3 Navy Videos Showing UFOs

The Pentagon formally released three unclassified videos on Monday. The videos, which were captured by Navy pilots, have circulated for years showing unidentified aerial phenomena.

One video shows an incident from 2004, while the other two were recorded in January 2015, according to Defense Department spokeswoman Sue Gough. The Navy previously verified their authenticity when they became public after unauthorized leaks in 2007 and 2017.

Gough said the videos had undergone a thorough review, and the department has determined that the official release of these unclassified videos doesn’t compromise any sensitive capabilities or systems. She added that the authorized release of these videos doesn’t intrude on any subsequent investigations of military air space unauthorized entries by unidentified aerial phenomena.

The 2004 incident took place around 100 miles out in the Pacific, according to The New York Times. Two fighter pilots doing a routine training mission were dispatched to investigate unidentified flying object that had tracked by a Navy cruiser for weeks.

The Navy pilots spotted an oblong object around 40 feet long floating about 50 feet above the water, and it started a quick climb as the pilots approached before quickly flying away. One of the pilots told The Times that it accelerated like nothing they’ve ever seen.

The pilot added that they left the area to meet at a rendezvous point around 60 miles away. When they were about 40 miles out, the ship radioed and informed the object was at the rendezvous point, having cut through the distance in less than a minute.

The two other videos taken in 2015 include footage of UFOs moving rapidly through the air. One of the videos shows an object racing through the sky and rotating in midair.

A pilot exclaims on the video “Dude, this is a f–king drone, bro. “There’s a whole fleet of them,” another person says.

The first person says “they’re all going against the wind. The wind’s 120 knots to the west. Look at that thing, dude!”. “It’s rotating!”

The other 2015 video shows an object from above speeding over the ocean, prompting the pilot to ask, “What the f–k is that?”

Five Navy pilots who observed the objects in 2015 said that they had a series of interactions with unidentified aerial objects during training missions along the East Coast from Virginia to Florida in 2014 and 2015. The episodes prompted the Navy to specify how pilots should report incidents with unidentified aerial phenomena, which has been studied by the government from 2007 to 2012 under a Pentagon program.

Gough said the department was formally releasing the three videos to address questions about their integrity. She explained that “DOD is releasing the videos to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos,” Gough stated. “The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified.'”

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Latest UFO Sightings Reports – April 2020 #3

Latest UFO sightings that were submitted through our report page and Facebook page.

Morrison CO – 29 April 2020
I Live in Morrison CO. Walk my dog every night and watch the stars. As we were walking home tonight (from a dark state park “Bear Creek Lake Park” I saw what I thought was a shooting star just below the moon, then I saw it was followed by another-I’m thinking cool maybe 2 or a meteor shower, then 3, then 4, as 12+ ended up passing by, all evenly spaced apart, as small as Stars. I tried to film them but they were too small. All 12 plus were in a perfect line, evenly spaced apart, cruised right below and passed the moon until they went out of site. We have had drone sightings in CO before but these were not drones. We have the Air Force academy and a couple Air Force bases, but I’ve NEVER seen anything like this.
Has anyone reported something similar from Colorado tonight?

exton, pennsylvania – 04/27/2020 8:45PM and 9:05PM
Traveling from NW to SE. Three sets of three lights traveling in a perfectly straight line. No noise. No flashes. Just bright white lights. Brightness was more than the evening stars, but not brighter than Venus. Speed appeared slightly faster than what would normally be observed high altitude aircraft.
Thirty minutes later. Approximately 20 lights traveling on the same course in a perfect straight line. All other attributes were the same as the first set. The line of lights was relatively even spaced. The line filled the full field of vision.

Tennessee – 27 April 2020
Hey, i live in Tennessee and just wanted to get your opinion on this. Started the night the iss was supposed to be visible ive seen it two other times since with the latest being this evening around 930 cst. Its been in the same spot all three times.

Zandvoort, Netherlands – 27 April 2020
I am a Brit living in the Netherlands. I am a keen stargazer/amateur astronomer. On the evening of 27 April 2020, I saw a phenomenon that I have never seen before. I was looking southwards at 22.45 hours (local). I saw a pinpoint of bright light moving east-south-east (a heading of approx. 112 degrees) at speed. To my great surprise, it was followed at about 20-30 second intervals by a further 7 similar brightly lit objects, so, a total of 8. All were travelling at the same speed & track, except the 6th, which was a little further north, but travelling parallel to the other 7. It was a quiet night with no wind, but I heard nothing. (We are below a flight path for planes at 30,000 ft plus coming into Europe from North America; these we can normally hear, faintly).
These objects made no noise & had no navigation lights. They seemed very high, but as I could not estimate altitude, I therefore could not estimate speed, but they seemed faster than civil airliners……..
I discounted shooting starts as the constant distances between them, their tracks & identical speeds would seem to inconsistent with shootings stars.
I wondered if they might be military planes? But why no noise & no navigation lights if on a normal, non-clandestine mission. Why would they be lit up? And why would any power be flying over the Netherlands- with 8 craft- on a clandestine mission? Who’s air force?
I thought about satellites, but these don’t normally travel in groups and at speed. They are normally brighter, slower moving (to our eyes) & are bigger.
I also wondered if this might be the sun (already well over the horizon since setting 4 hours previously), reflecting on the underside of aircraft fuselages? Again discounted; no noise, no navigation lights etc… and the sun was long gone.
I’m wondering if there might have been even more objects- but that I’d only seen the last 8 of them. The whole incident is a complete mystery to me. I had no time to consider recording what I’d seen…….the whole incident was over in about 4 minutes.
I am a rational, educated man. I had not been drinking for several days & do not take drugs or have hallucinations. I definitely saw what I saw, but have no explanation.
Who should I contact?
Any suggestions (including taking a cold shower), welcome.

Carmel Indiana – 4/26/2020 10:10PM evening
Long line of luminated dots estimated number 20 to 25 traveling north west to south east from horizon angle to overhead and disappeared one by one. Estimated altitude 10,000 feet. It lasted about 3 minutes

New Albany, Indiana – April 26, 2020
At 1020pmEST about 45 degrees to the right of the north star 15-20 bright lights following each other in the atmosphere way higher then planes and then all the sudden at a certain point they all disappeared once each one entered the same spot in the sky then few mins later there were single one no line of them and then 15 mins later all 15-20 of them again but little closer to the moon

Virginia. US – 23 April 2020
This is not a joke: did anyone else who was out looking at the meteor shower tonite see the ufo? Me, dallas, jaylinn and hunter all watched it for over an hour! It zig zagged , was sporadic in its movements, extremely fast! Able to maneuver side to side as well. We pretty certain it isn’t a drone. Way too high…would have to have been one size of my truck at least! And over hour. Hour and half. Batteries that lasting????? Im seriously freaked out. We all are. Its amazing and terrifying simultaneously.

California – 23 April 2020
Recorded this Thursday night 4/23/2020 @ 9:08pm. There were two more we missed lower in the sky.

Val Comeau , NewBrunswick – April / 22 / 2020 9.24pm
a long (150+feet long) tube like series of bright and dark lights , going against the Wind 3+ miles up .Going realy fast more than supersonic making no noice , with the ban on airplane travel due to covid19 it was the only thing in the sky exept stars. Whe where 6 who saw it i tried to film it with no result , but whe got a picture of it. It turned at 2 miles in front of us and soom whent away.on the picture you can see a star on the right .if you look a bit lower on the left side the bright line is it!

Nuthall, Nottingham, NG16 1QN England – 19 – 04 – 2020
Last night at 21.30, i took my dog out and noticed 2 bright lights at great altitude travelling in a southwest to northeast direction. Then noticed there were more travelling in the same direction and counted 33 in all. Each one was positioned exactly the same distance apart in line astern formation and took 15 minutes to pass. There was no engine noise at all.

Cadiz province Spain – Friday 17 April 2020
At about 22.45 Spanish time we went out onto the roof of the villa to look at the night sky like we always do when clear. Whilst looking at Venus which was the brightest object in the sky we saw several bright lights [a total of over 25] moving in one directions away from the right of Venus. Then we suddenly noticed one after another traveling from the same direction. There were no flashing navigation lights or sound. I counted about a dozen in a row about 10 seconds apart. One would appear and disappear then another would follow. They were moving too fast and too high to be aircraft. First we thought they were satellites until we saw them come across one after another, I also noticed that one of them became quite bright and then accelerated away, this event went on for about 15 minutes until a thin veil of cloud came across. Sorry no photos.

Ireland – 17 April 2020
I took this in Ireland yesterday eve I didn’t see it until after I took photo of sun set ?

Huntington, NY – April 16, 2020

Wallisville, Texas – April 2020
Just figured someone might no what it is , it looks like a satellite sitting over the house about Last 2 weeks it doesn’t appear to move , i didn’t see that until I looked back at video

Knox, Indiana – 14 April 2020

Fountain Inn SC – 13 April, 2130 EST
29 plus objects moving from NNE to SSW…60k feet or more.
Fast. Looked to be separated by one mile. All appeared to be on same vector. 9 people witnessed this.

Fountain Inn SC – 13 April, 2130 EST
29 plus objects moving from NNE to SSW…60k feet or more.
Fast. Looked to be separated by one mile. All appeared to be on same vector. 9 people witnessed this.

belgavi, karnataka, india – 04/09/2020
I was seeing the super moon as have an hobby of astronomical science . While seeing frm different angles of the moon i cud see some creatures like alien moving with some machinery collecting some things like soil i guess . I cudnt further zoom as my eyes and head started aching so within fraction of minute wht i saw i wanted to take video but cudnt so managed with some pics..
My finding is first landing of the space ship ie ufo..then with some machinery collecting some soil on the surface of the moon might be to get some energy frm soil as it contains iron magnesium ,etc these are my findings and thoughts. The crust of the Moon is composed mostly of oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, calcium, and aluminum. There are also trace elements like titanium, uranium, thorium, potassium and hydrogen. Since a week i am following up closely seeing the moon at night… Might these aliens hav power to change their colours and bcum invisible time to time bcz of rays of sun falling on the moon.. Moon does not have its own light. It gets its light from the Sun’s rays that fall on it and are reflected towards the Earth. Thus, we can see only the illuminated part, (i.e., the part on which the rays fall) of the Moon.

Chillicothe, OH between hopewell mound city & the CCI – 04-08-2020
I walked outside to get in my car to go to Pinnacle in central center. It was about 5:00am. before i get in the car i can see a very bright light kinda stationary hovering over town. I didn’t think anything of it so i get in my car and heading to town. As i get about a mile or two down the road i notice this bright object is an aircraft and starts moving slowly as if it noticed me and was gonna move along. As i’m driving closer it flies directly overtop the car. The night before some guy was arrested for tossing tobacco over the CCI fence so i figured it was military doj g surveillance over the prison. I had my phone on me so i snapped two photos of it. you can’t make out much detail but you can see that the object is glowing super bright. There is a star in the background for reference of how bright the object appeared. It was brighter than any aircraft lights i’ve ever seen. there were four fo five circular lights and greenish blue light in the front that was blinking. My dad asked if it was a helicopter. i said no it wasn’t a helicopter. I would’ve heard it if it was a helicopter.This aircraft had no noise to it which is why i knew it wasn’t of this realm. i told him i wish it were a helicopter so i wouldn’t be left wondering! i couldn’t make out what the object really looked like behind the lights due to them being so bright. I included a drawing of what i actually saw. It’s actually kind of amusing that i saw this cuz the past few weeks i’ve been really intrigued by watching ufo videos from your subreddit. I’ve always been interested in the paranormal but it was just recently that i began watching them. i’m not sure if anyone else reported anything from that day but ik everyone outside that morning had to have seen it.

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Pentagon releases three UFO videos taken by US Navy pilots [Shocking Video]

The Pentagon on Monday released three declassified videos that show US Navy pilots encountering what appear to be unidentified flying objects.

The grainy videos, which the Pentagon says depict “unexplained aerial phenomena”, were previously leaked, with some believing they show alien UFOs.

The Pentagon said it released the footage to “to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real or whether or not there is more to the videos,” a statement on the Department of Defense website said.

“After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena,” the statement said.

The three videos show what the pilots saw during training flights in 2004 and 2015. Two of the videos were published by the New York Times in 2017. The other video was released by the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science group, a media and private science organization.

The 2004 video shows an incident that happened 100 miles out over the Pacific, according to the New York Times. Two Navy fighter pilots found a oblong object hovering above the water. It then flew quickly away. “It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,” one of pilots, Commander David Fravor, told the NYT.

The 2015 videos show objects moving quickly through the sky, one of them seeming to spin in the air. “Look at that thing, dude!” a pilot says. “It’s rotating!”

The release of the videos by the Pentagon adds to the legitimacy of the the videos and will spur more speculation that humans have recently interacted with extra terrestrials. The Navy has guidelines for reporting UFO sightings.

In response, the former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, from Nevada, tweeted the three videos “only scratches the surface of research and materials available”.

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Le Pentagone déclassifie des vidéos de «phénomènes aériens non identifiés»

Le Pentagone a publié ce lundi trois courtes vidéos montrant des «phénomènes aériens non identifiés».  

Ces vidéos montrent ce qui semble être des objets volants non identifiés (ovni) filmés par des caméras infrarouges.  

Sur deux des vidéos, on peut entendre des personnes remarquer la vitesse remarquable à laquelle les objets se déplacent. L'une des voix indique que l’objet pourrait être un drone.  

La Marine américaine avait certifié la véracité de ces images en septembre dernier.  

«Elle les rend maintenant publiques afin de clarifier toute fausse idée du public sur la réalité ou non de ces images», a précisé une porte-parole du Pentagone, Sue Gough.  

«Après un examen approfondi, le département de la Défense a déterminé que la publication de ces vidéos ne révélait pas d’informations délicates», a poursuivi la porte-parole dans un communiqué.  

«Cela n’empiète sur aucune enquête future sur les incursions de l’espace aérien militaire par des phénomènes aériens non identifiés.»  

Selon CNN, la Marine américaine a des directives officielles sur la façon dont les pilotes peuvent rapporter ce qu’ils pensent être des ovnis.  

Les vidéos de la Navy ont été publiées pour la première fois entre décembre 2017 et mars 2018 par la To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, une société cofondée par l'ancien musicien de Blink-182 Tom DeLonge qui affirme étudier des informations sur des phénomènes aériens non identifiés.  

En 2017, l’un des pilotes ayant vu l’un des objets non identifiés en 2004 a déclaré à CNN qu’il s’était déplacé d’une manière qu’il ne pouvait expliquer.  

«Alors que je m'en approchais, il a rapidement accéléré vers le sud et a disparu en moins de deux secondes», avait expliqué le pilote à la retraite de l'US Navy, David Fravor.  

«C'était extrêmement brusque, comme une balle de ping-pong, rebondissant sur un mur. Elle frappait et allait dans l'autre sens.»  

Le Pentagone a précédemment étudié les enregistrements de rencontres aériennes avec des objets inconnus dans le cadre d'un programme classifié comme fermé depuis.  

Luis Elizondo, ancien responsable de ce programme, avait déclaré à CNN en 2017 qu'il pensait personnellement «qu'il existe des preuves très convaincantes que nous ne sommes peut-être pas seuls dans l’univers».

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A big asteroid will fly by Earth Wednesday, but don't panic. It won't hit us.

UFO Videos ‘Only Scratch the Surface’ of What the Pentagon Knows, Harry Reid Says

The former Senate Majority Leader says the "American people deserve to be informed" about UFOs.

By Jason Koebler

IMAGE: U.S. NAVY

Former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid said Tuesday that the three UFO videos released by the U.S. Navy Tuesday “only scratches the surface” of the Pentagon’s research into UFOs and that the government should consider releasing more information to the American people.

Reid, who was a senator for 30 years and was Senate majority leader from 2007 to 2015, helped to create a so-called “black budget” for the Pentagon’s UFO program, called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, according to a 2017 New York Times investigation that revealed its existence. The program was run by Luis Elizondo, who shared UFO videos filmed by the military with former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge’s UFO group, To the Stars Academy. The videos, called GIMBAL, GOFAST, and FLIR, have circulated widely over the last three years and were finally officially published by the Navy Monday. Elizondo now works for DeLonge’s organization.

Reid tweeted that he is “glad the Pentagon is finally releasing this footage, but it only scratches the surface of research and materials available. The U.S. needs to take a serious, scientific look at this and any potential national security implications. The American people deserve to be informed.”

Motherboard and Popular Mechanics have reported that the military has a classified version of the FLIR video, which was filmed off the coast of California in 2004; Reid seems to suggest that there exists many more files and documents.

Elizondo and other Pentagon officials have said that the AATIP program is intended to identify “unknown aerial phenomena,” with the idea being that advanced aircraft could pose some sort of threat to national security. While many people hear “UFO” and immediately think “aliens,” the thinking in much of the UFO community is that the U.S. government and other countries’ militaries are hiding highly advanced, stealth aircraft.

The leaking of these three videos spurred a renaissance in UFOlogy over the last few years, and their official release has created another wave of interest in the government’s UFO research. There does indeed seem to be movement in this space—last year, the military officially partnered with DeLonge’s organization to study “exotic” materials, and more details have slowly trickled out about a series of government programs that studied UFOs.

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More About Those Strange Things Seen On UFOs

Moving on from my earlier article – on the strange alien abduction affair of 1980 involving policeman Alan Godfrey – I thought I would share with you several more cases that involve UFOs and the strange things seen inside them. From 2003 to 2009 I lectured at Ryan Wood’s annual UFO Crash-Retrieval Conference, which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. As is so often the case at such conferences, an attendee came up to me at the 2008 event with a very strange story to tell. Aged around thirty he said that his now-retired father had worked out at Area 51 in the early 1980s, specifically in the development of Stealth technology for military aircraft. The guy said that on several occasions, in the 1990s, he had asked his father about the rumors of crashed UFOs and dead aliens held at the secret vase. His father said that the only thing he knew about aliens at Area 51 came from watching TV shows. Indeed, he told his son that he had never seen any evidence at all of alien-related activity at Area 51. But, there was one strange event that the man was willing to share with his son – and which was then shared with me.

The story told to me was that on one occasion in January 1981, a pedal bike was found deep in a remote part of the vast amount of land that is collectively known as Area 51. Yes, a bicycle. The highly-sophisticated sensors that are carefully placed all around the facility had picked up the sudden presence of something not far from one such sensor. So, a security team was quickly sent out to investigate. It was that team, I was told, which found the bike. There was, though, something very strange about the bicycle: it was extensively damaged – as if it had plummeted to the ground from a great height. The source of the story came to believe (or, more likely, to suspect) that someone had been abducted onto a UFO while riding their bike – and the bike was taken onto an alien craft, too. After which, the bike was thrown out from a great height and down onto Area 51! I guess such a thing is possible.

Moving on, and getting into really controversial areas, I have three cases on file that deal with sightings – by alien abductees – of so-called “Alien Big Cats” on-board UFOs. Yes, I can already see certain mainstream cryptozoologists clenching their fists and letting their blood-pressure soar out of control. Too bad. The UK, in particular, has a long history of sightings of Alien Big Cats, or ABCs. They are erroneously and often referred to as “black panthers.” Most cryptozoologists suggest they are escapees from private zoos and enclosures. Or, perhaps, they may have been secretly released into the wild, when their owners could no longer handle them. None of the above, however, explains why or how I have no less than three cases in my files – all from the English county of Devon, oddly – of alien abductees seeing large and menacing ABCs on-board UFOs. And at the exact time the person is at the mercy of the black-eyed, dwarfish Grays of UFO lore.

The creepiest story of all came from a Houston, Texas-based woman. She told me, back in 2002 or 2003, of her experience with the Grays in the winter of 1977. Her abduction story was very much like so many others that have become staple parts of Ufology. What set it apart, however, was when one of the Grays took out of a box and placed onto her stomach something that looked like a large spider, but with way more legs. Like something out of a horror movie it crawled up her body, onto her face, and inserted one its spindly legs into her right nostril. For a moment there was a flash of pain. Then, nothing. Except that the woman suddenly found herself back in her car that she had been abducted from, hours earlier. Should you ever be taken onto a UFO, be careful: the Grays might not be the worst thing you get to encounter!

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The saga of the Navy UFO videos, which began in 2017, has been a long, strange, and sort of boring. Which is weird, considering this is a tale of the United States military acknowledging the existence of unidentified flying objects—sorry, aerial phenomena. Since the three UFO videos were leaked in 2017, it has been a slow grind of half-hearted attempts of obfuscation on the part of the military followed, inevitably, by the acknowledgment that these videos are real and do show something unidentified. In other words, it’s been three years of confirming what everyone already knew. Maybe that’s being a bit jaded. Another way to say it is that it’s been a long stretch with the military repeatedly saying that UFOs are real after the dude from Blink-182 leaked their videos. Right, sorry, that’s not boring, it’s absurd. In September of last year, the Navy acknowledged that the videos were real and did show UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena, the military’s preferred terminology because they just have to be different). Now the Pentagon is formally releasing the videos after determining that they do not show any secret military tech.

The three videos show grainy footage of two separate incidents of something flying at high speeds which the cameras struggle to track. The first, filmed in 2004, is the famous “tic-tac” UFO seen by Commander David Fraver of the USS Nimitz. The second incident was captured by two pilots in 2015 and shows another UAP rotating in mid-air. According to Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough, the Pentagon has released the videos to “clear up any misconceptions” about whether they are real and whether there is anything more to them. That’s beautiful bureaucratic language, isn’t it? We’ve got things flying around at impossible speeds, spinning, all sorts of weird stuff, and this is how you clear up “any misconceptions.”  In a statement, the Department of Defense writes:

“After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.

The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as “unidentified.”

Still image from the footage of the “tic-tac” UFO.

Unfortunately, it seems this might have done the opposite of clearing things up. For one, if these videos don’t show any sensitive capabilities or systems, then that seems to imply that these things aren’t secret military tech that these pilots just weren’t privy to. And nothing in the release of these videos seems to give any indication of what these UAP might be or what anyone thinks they might be.

Former Democratic Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who was instrumental in securing the funding for the Pentagon’s not-so-secret UFO programs AATIP and AAWSAP tweeted his response to the videos’ release. Reid wrote:

I’m glad the Pentagon is finally releasing this footage, but it only scratches the surface of research and materials available. The U.S. needs to take a serious, scientific look at this and any potential national security implications. The American people deserve to be informed.

So at the end of the day have we learned anything new? Not really. But it is a direct confirmation that the videos are real, do not show any classified military tech, and that the objects remain “unidentified.” There’s nothing about aliens, fae-folk, or sky-captain Bigfoot in the release of the videos, and if the military does know whether or not Bigfoot is tooling around our skies posing a threat to the national security of the United States, they ain’t telling. For now, the only conclusion is that the videos are real and we still have no idea what UFOs are.

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Ever since their unauthorized leaks, the so-called Tic Tac UFO videos have been the darlings of the mainstream media which pretty much ignores almost all other UFO sightings and reports. If they’re covered at all, it’s usually on back pages (for those who still read newspapers) or deep withing their websites. That was the case once again this week as every mainstream media site announced that the Pentagon had “officially” released the three Tic Tac and similar videos of still “unidentified” aerial phenomena. While the mainstream salivates over this old news, let’s attempt to give the same kind of attention to another story this week of an alleged on-the-ground flying saucer-like object spotted in Antarctica using Google Earth. (Photo here.)

“In the images provided by Google Earth we can see a silver circular object that has nothing to do with the rest of the surface.”

The Tic Tac UFO

The Tic Tacs have their Luis Elizondo and Tom DeLonge – this Antarctic UFO has Marcelo Irazusta, a well-known Argentine UFO researcher. It appears he found this one in December 2019 and uploaded it then (watch it here) to the YouTube site Planeta Snakedos, where it languished until this week when a clip from the video was posted by UFOMania. The location is given as “Coordinates: 64 ° 7’2.78 “S 61 ° 40’48.23” W,” which is on Graham Land, a northern piece of portion of the Antarctic Peninsula belonging to Argentina.

“From the International space station, several unknown objects (UFOs) were captured in a video near its limits, NASA estimates to cover them up and continues with its recurring role of censoring the evidence that can support that something happens in space.”

The Tic Tacs were spotted by U.S. military personnel and equipment, so Irazusta points out that Google Earth belongs to NASA. And, like the Tic Tacs, many anomalies that appear on Google Earth or on video feeds from the International Space Station are removed, hidden, filed away and otherwise kept from the public view until they’re leaked or discovered.

“It is clearly an artificial object and very similar to classic flying saucers.”

Here’s where the Antarctic object and the Tic Tacs deviate. The Antarctic object appears to be round and reflective and some commenters estimate its size as about 15 meters in diameter. While it certainly could be a case of pareidolia – after all, Irazuta is a UFO investigator – it definitely looks like something that could be a craft. On the other hand, the Tic Tacs aren’t referred to as Tic Tacs for nothing – they look like little white oval mint candies. That’s true from the videos, the radar images, the descriptions, everything. They don’t look like any conventional or any secret-son-of-conventional aircraft developed by humans and the coverage of them doesn’t give sizes or any further descriptions that help imagine them as alien spacecraft. Yet the Tic Tacs are in The New York Times and the Graham Land object is on Planeta Snakedos.

Ice can fool the eye

“Hello community, referring to the first section of the video about the UFO in Antarctica, to say that it can be very deceptive with a block of ice, I do not discuss it, but from my point of view, totally metallic, not ice.”

Should Marcelo Irazusta send his videos (yes, he has many others) to Tom DeLonge? Or should he find some other celebrity UFO fan to sponsor him? (How about Dan Aykroyd?) Should he narrow his Google Earth searches to the U.S. in order to get a politician like former Senator Harry Reid to champion him? Should he start a GoFundMe page to raise money for his own expedition?

The point of this discussion is not to suggest the media give attention to every UFO or strange anomaly report. Rather, it’s to request that some of the attention given to the Tic Tac UFOs be directed at some other reports. Let’s use some of the energy spent demanding the truth from governments on searching for more anomalies, sightings and possible evidence of our own. Sure, it may turn out to be drones (whatever happened to those strange drones in Colorado anyway?) or shadows or reflections or something else. Don’t wait for the powers that be to give you their data – start giving it to THEM!

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The Hollow Earth Science, Recent Experiment Shows it Could Be Real After All

COAST TO COAST AM – Electrical engineer and physicist Brooks Agnew shared updates on a variety of topics, including his work on a North Pole Inner-Earth expedition, his theory of Earth being made of two planets, and the human consciousness evolution.

In 2007, a hypothesis was proposed that the core of the Earth might be a solid iron crystal that has been there for around four billion years. But the science behind this didn’t work, Agnew said, so a new lab experiment was conducted in 2012, which indicated that the core of the Earth has only been around for less than one billion years.

If this is the case, he continued, that means the crust is thick at the equators and thin at the poles.

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'The Most Dangerous Place in the History of Planet Earth' Revealed

Predator paradise – The giant predatory dinosaur Carcharodontosaurus eyes a group of Elosuchus – crocodile-like hunters – near a carcass.

Artwork by Davide Bonadonna

100 million years ago, ferocious predators, including flying reptiles and crocodile-like hunters, made the Sahara the most dangerous place on Earth.

This is according to an international team of scientists, who have published the biggest review in almost 100 years of fossil vertebrates from an area of Cretaceous rock formations in south-eastern Morocco, known as the Kem Kem Group.

The review, published in the journal ZooKeys, “provides a window into Africa’s Age of Dinosaurs” according to lead author Dr Nizar Ibrahim, an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Detroit Mercy and Visiting Researcher from the University of Portsmouth.

About 100 million years ago, the area was home to a vast river system, filled with many different species of aquatic and terrestrial animals. Fossils from the Kem Kem Group include three of the largest predatory dinosaurs ever known, including the sabre-toothed Carcharodontosaurus (over 8m in length with enormous jaws and long, serrated teeth up to eight inches long) and Deltadromeus (around 8m in length, a member of the raptor family with long, unusually slender hind limbs for its size), as well as several predatory flying reptiles (pterosaurs) and crocodile-like hunters. Dr Ibrahim said: “This was arguably the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth, a place where a human time-traveller would not last very long.”

Many of the predators were relying on an abundant supply of fish, according to co-author Professor David Martill from the University of Portsmouth. He said: “This place was filled with absolutely enormous fish, including giant coelacanths and lungfish. The coelacanth, for example, is probably four or even five times large than today’s coelacanth. There is an enormous freshwater saw shark called Onchopristis with the most fearsome of rostral teeth, they are like barbed daggers, but beautifully shiny.”

Researchers from the Universities of Detroit, Chicago, Montana, Portsmouth (UK), Leicester (UK, David Unwin), Casablanca (Morocco), and McGill (Canada), as well as the Paris Museum of Natural History, have produced the first detailed and fully illustrated account of the fossil-rich escarpment, previously known as the “Kem Kem beds”. The researchers now define this sedimentary package as the Kem Kem Group, which consists of two distinct formations, the Gara Sbaa Formation and the Douira Formation.

To assemble the huge datasets and fossil images, which were originally included in his PhD thesis, Dr Ibrahim visited Kem Kem collections on several continents.

Shedding light on Africa’s ancient past is important says Professor Martill, “This is the most comprehensive piece of work on fossil vertebrates from the Sahara in almost a century, since the famous German palaeontologist Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach published his last major work in 1936.”

Contacts and sources:

• Kate Daniell
  University of Portsmouth

Publication:

• Geology and paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern Morocco
  Nizar Ibrahim, Paul C. Sereno, David J. Varricchio, David M. Martill, Didier B. Dutheil, David M. Unwin, Lahssen Baidder, Hans C. E. Larsson, Samir Zouhri, Abdelhadi Kaoukaya http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.928.47517

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The Navy Has Officially Released the UFO Videos

We were never supposed to see them.

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

• The U.S. Navy has officially published three famous UFO videos, which leaked several years ago.
• In 2019, the Navy confirmed the legitimacy of those videos—which show bizarre encounters between Navy fighter pilots and “unexplained aerial phenomena,” but said they were never intended for public release.
• Popular Mechanics interviewed several Navy pilots who said they saw a longer, better video of the encounter than the one released to the public.

The U.S. Navy has officially published three videos that show UFOs are genuine, several years after the notorious clips first leaked online and properly ushered in the UFO renaissance. Last year, the Navy confirmed the three videos, taken by Navy pilots, indeed show “unexplained aerial phenomena,” but the service also said the footage should have never been released to the public in the first place.

The Navy just dropped the three videos—titled “FLIR.mp4,” “GOFAST.wmv,” and “GIMBAL.wmv”—on its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) page, a repository for documents released under the federal law that allows for the full or partial disclosure of U.S. government information to the public. The clips were first released in 2017 and 2018 by The New York Times and To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, a UFO research group from former blink-182 member Tom DeLonge.

In November 2004, Navy fighter pilots with the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group spotted a strange, Tic Tac-shaped UFO—“around 40 feet long and oval in shape”—about 100 miles off the coast of San Diego. “FLIR” shows this encounter. Then, in January 2015, an F/A-18F fighter jet off the East Coast captured additional videos using the aircraft’s onboard Raytheon AN/ASQ-228 Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) Pod. “GIMBAL” and “GOFAST” show this encounter. In the videos, air crews loudly debate what the objects are and where they came from.

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“The Department of Defense [DOD] has authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, one taken in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015, which have been circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017,” Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough says in a statement.

In September 2019, the Navy admitted the clips were legitimate, and the objects shown are “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP), the catch-all term for the “sightings/observations of unauthorized/unidentified aircraft/objects that have been observed entering/operating in the airspace of various military-controlled training ranges,” per a spokesperson for the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare.

“After a thorough review,” Gough says, “the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.”

Gough says DOD released the videos in order to “clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos.”

“The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified,’” says Gough.

But our reporting suggests there is more to this story. In November 2019, Popular Mechanics interviewed several Nimitz witnesses, who said they saw a longer, better video of the encounter than the one released to the public. One witness, for example, told us he “definitely saw video that was roughly 8 to 10 minutes long and a lot more clear.”

Then, in January, Popular Mechanics published a follow-up feature called “The Tale of the Tape,” a thorough examination of the video’s convoluted history that shed light on exactly how the clip made its way into the mainstream. And one month later, we revealed even more secrets about The Pentagon’s Secret UFO Program.

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Navy Releases Video of 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena'

The Defense Department has declassified three videos that had previously been unofficially circulating in the public. The clips show three incidents described by the Defense Department as “unidentified aerial phenomena.” One of the videos was recorded in November 2004, and the other two were recorded in January 2015.

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Asteroid warning: NASA tracks a 4KM asteroid approach - Could end civilisation if it hits

CLARIFICATION: This article originally claimed that asteroid 52768 (1998 OR2) will approach our planet in April, and that the rock would be "heading our way". In fact it will pass on close approach at an estimated distance of 3.9 million miles from Earth. The article was also accompanied by a graphic showing a stylised asteroid hitting Earth. The diameter of that stylised asteroid was 1,500km, not the 4.1km which asteroid 52768 (1998OR2) actually measures. That graphic has been removed. In addition, a graphic marked 'asteroid warning' has also been removed.

NASA Science Live: Asteroid Close Approach

Have you heard about an asteroid close-approach happening on April 29? Asteroid 1998 OR2 poses no threat to our planet, but we can still learn a lot by studying it. Don’t miss a special Planetary Defense episode of NASA Science Live on Monday, April 27 at 3:00 p.m. EDT to learn how we find, track and monitor asteroids and near-Earth Objects.

Pentagon Releases Statement On UFO Videos, Because Something Big Is On Its Way To Earth, UFO Sighting News.

The Pentagon on Monday released three unclassified videos showing UFOs in an attempt to assure the public that the videos, which have been circulating for years, are real. The videos have been making their rounds ever since 2007. 

"After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena," the Department of Defense said in a statement Monday.

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I find this intriguing in the fact that it was the Pentagon that made the official announcement and that they did from the DOD. For the US government to come out and admit that the videos are real means they know that something big is coming soon. For instance...earth got a new moon starting Nov 2019...the same time that Coronavirus began circulating in China. Which means...it came for a purpose...to watch, to learn and to report back all that its seen and heard. And since the probe is known by the US gov and NASA...none of which know what to do about it...the US gov is trying to quickly leak out real info to the public to make any sudden announcement less of a blow. 

Something big has been notices by the US government...something big enough to scare them. That moon may have friends on its way. And if thats true...then we are in danger. 
Scott C. Waring 

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Statue Found On Mars Of Half Goat Half Human Animal, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: April 23, 2020 
 Location of discovery: Mars 

 I found this strange artistic statue on Mars today. It has a nose, cheeks and eyes of a human, but ears of a goat, leges like a horse, but the back leg has the hoof reversed pointing the opposite direction. The chiseled face makes me know this is a statue that was created...although the creature looks like it just collapsed in place. Only two of its leges are visible...one front, folded under itself, and a back leg. This is very primitive art compared to human art...but I have seen some art on walls in museums that didn't deserve to be called art...for instance the art on Mars looks like something that Damien Hirst, a UK artist made. Very odd indeed, and yet...its still art. So...everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. Thats why there are artists...to show you the possibilities that exist. Scott C. Waring – Taiwan

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Ancient City On Venus Similar To Descriptions Of Atlantis! UFO Sighing News.

Date of discovery: April 28, 2020
Location of discovery: Venus
Source Map: 

• https://webgis2.wr.usgs.gov/Venus_Global_GIS/ (deleted by NASA)
  
  

I went to the Venus NASA map and it was no longer working. Its ok, I got my own copy of it I downloaded last year. Let me show you why they took this map down. There are many alien cities visible on this map. Some so big...they look like a single structure, but are actually bigger than the city of Los Angeles...my place of birth. Just like LA this wheel structure extends 70 km across. 

I found that the structure above has a wheel like design and is very similar to descriptions of the ancient city of Atlantis. Can you see the tunnels, the intelligent design? Its just extraordinary to see, let alone to think about. 

I never expected the US gov to take down the Venus map, but lucky I had a copy of it. I will continue to post structures from it now and then. 

And a personal message to NASA, you will never be able to hide the existence of other alien species by hitting the delete button. That is so 1980s of you. 
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

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Daytime UFOs in the sky above Phoenix, Arizona?

This footage was just submitted to me through our Facebook page. It was recorded recently (April 2020) in the sky above Phoenix, Arizona.

Witness added that “They looked like birds at first”. What do you think this is?

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Pentagon formally releases 3 Navy videos showing "unidentified aerial phenomena"

BY STEFAN BECKET

Washington — The Pentagon on Monday formally released three unclassified videos taken by Navy pilots that have circulated for years showing interactions with "unidentified aerial phenomena."

One of the videos shows an incident from 2004, and the other two were recorded in January 2015, according to Sue Gough, a Defense Department spokeswoman. The videos became public after unauthorized leaks in 2007 and 2017, and the Navy previously verified their authenticity.

"After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena," Gough said.

The 2004 incident occurred about 100 miles out in the Pacific, according to The New York Times, which first reported on the video in 2017. Two fighter pilots on a routine training mission were dispatched to investigate unidentified aircraft that a Navy cruiser had been tracking for weeks.

The Navy pilots found an oblong object about 40 feet long hovering about 50 feet above the water, and it began a rapid ascent as the pilots approached before quickly flying away. "It accelerated like nothing I've ever seen," one of the pilots told The Times. 

The pilots left the area to meet at a rendezvous point a

bout 60 miles away. When they were still about 40 miles out, the ship radioed and said the object was at the rendezvous point, having traversed the distance "in less than a minute," the pilot told The Times.

The two other videos of incidents in 2015 include footage of objects moving rapidly through the air. In one, an object is seen racing through the sky and begins rotating in midair.

"Dude, this is a f--king drone, bro," a pilot exclaims on the video. Another person says "there's a whole fleet of them."

"They're all going against the wind. The wind's 120 knots to the west. Look at that thing, dude!" the first person says. "It's rotating!"

In the other 2015 video, an object is shown from above speeding over the ocean, prompting the pilot to excitedly remark, "What the f--k is that?"

Five Navy pilots who spotted the objects in 2015 told The Times in 2017 that they had a series of interactions with unidentified aircraft during training missions in 2014 and 2015 along the East Coast from Virginia to Florida. The episodes prompted the Navy to clarify how pilots should report experiences with "unidentified aerial phenomena," which had been studied under a Pentagon program from 2007 to 2012.

Gough, the Pentagon spokeswoman, said the department was formally releasing the videos to address questions about their veracity.

"DOD is releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos," Gough said. "The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as 'unidentified.'"

David Martin contributed reporting.

First published on April 27, 2020 / 11:33 AM

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Pentagon geeft nu zelf drie gelekte UFO-video’s vrij, gemaakt door Amerikaanse marinepiloten - HLN.be

Bron: The Guardian, CNN

De grijze, korte, onduidelijke, maar wel ophefmakende beelden begonnen in 2007 en 2017 te circuleren na een ongeautoriseerd lek. Ze tonen wat marinepiloten zagen tijdens trainingsvluchten in 2004 en 2015. Twee video’s werden eerder gepubliceerd door The New York Times, de andere video werd vrijgegeven door een private organisatie. Te zien is hoe ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten pijlsnel door de lucht bewegen, ze worden maar heel kort opgepikt door infraroodcamera’s. 

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Abrupt

Vooral het commentaar van de betrokken piloten in de twee video’s uit 2015 is fascinerend. Ze zijn duidelijk onder de indruk van de snelheid van de objecten en kunnen hun ogen niet geloven. “My god. Het gaat tegen de wind”, zegt een stem. “Kijk naar dat ding!”, klinkt het. “Het is aan het draaien!” In de andere video juicht een piloot: “Yes, ik heb het”, als hij het in zijn camera kan vastgrijpen. “Kijk hoe het vliegt! Wow.”

In 2017 verklaarde de intussen gepensioneerde marinepiloot David Fravor, die de beelden uit 2004 maakte (zonder geluid), dat het object dat hij had gezien, “bewoog op manieren die hij niet kon uitleggen”. 

_{(Lees verder onder de foto)}

Geautoriseerd

Het Pentagon zegt dat het de beelden nu besluit vrij t

e geven “om eventuele misvattingen bij het publiek weg te nemen over het vraagstuk of het circulerende beeldmateriaal wel echt was en of er meer aan de video’s was”, zo luidt het in een statement van het ministerie van Defensie. 

“Na een diepgaand onderzoek heeft het ministerie besloten dat een geautoriseerde vrijgave van deze video’s geen enkele gevoelige informatie qua capaciteiten of systemen onthult en ook geen afbreuk doet aan eventuele nog volgende onderzoeken naar ongeïdentificeerde luchtverschijnselen in het militaire luchtruim”, is te lezen. Verder klinkt het dat de fenomenen geobserveerd in de video’s onder de noemer blijven van ‘ongeïdentificeerd’.

Speculaties

Dat het Pentagon de video’s nu zelf vrijgeeft, draagt bij tot de legitimering van de beelden. Het zal ongetwijfeld alleen maar de speculaties voeden dat mensen mogelijk in contact zijn gekomen met buitenaardse wezens. 

Het Pentagon bestudeerde eerder opnames van luchtontmoetingen met onbekende objecten als deel van een ‘classified program’  dat in 2007 werd opgezet in opdracht van de toenmalige Amerikaanse Democratische Senaatsfractieleider Harry Reid. Maar in 2012 eindigde het geheime programma - het ‘Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program’ - omdat er werd geoordeeld dat er andere prioriteiten waren die budgetten nodig hadden. 

“Eindelijk”

Het voormalige hoofd van het programma, Luis Elizondo, verklaarde in 2017 aan CNN dat hij gelooft dat er “overtuigend bewijs is dat we misschien niet alleen zijn”. “Deze vliegtuigen - laten we het vliegtuigen noemen - hebben kenmerken die niet bekend zijn”, zei hij over de objecten die hij had bestudeerd. 

Ex-senator Reid tweette maandag dat hij “blij” is dat het Pentagon “eindelijk” de video’s heeft vrijgegeven, maar dat het “maar het topje van de ijsberg is van het onderzoek en beschikbaar materiaal”.

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China’s Mars mission named Tianwen-1, appears on track for July launch

by Andrew Jones 

The ‘Lanxingjiutian’ logo includes representations of the Latin letter ‘c’, referring to China, cooperation, and the cosmic velocity required to undertake planetary exploration. Further Chinese planetary missions will also carry the Tianwen name. 

China is understood to be planning a Mars sample return mission, a Jupiter orbiter and considering possible missions to icy giants and interstellar space. A joint near-Earth asteroid sample return and comet rendezvous mission has also been proposed.

Spacecraft delivered, rocket engines tested

Few details of the Tianwen-1 mission have been released so far. The Tianwen-1 spacecraft is expected to have a wet mass of around 5 metric tons. Launch on a Long March 5 launcher is expected from Wenchang early in the short launch window to Mars open in late July and early August.

The YF-77 liquid oxygen-liquid hydrogen engines for the Long March 5 passed tests in January. The same engines were the cause of the failure of the second Long March 5 launch in 2017.

Comprehensive software and hardware tests of the spacecraft were completed in March. The spacecraft has apparently been delivered to Wenchang Satellite Launch Center.

The test launch of the Long March 5B—currently expected in early May—will likely need to succeed for the Tianwen-1 mission to proceed. Following that mission, the Yuanwang-21 and -22 cargo vessels will collect the components of the Long March 5 for Tianwen-1 from Tianjin, north China, for delivery to Wenchang on the southern island of Hainan.µ

Tianwen-1 orbiter, lander details

The Tianwen-1 orbiter will be equipped with a high-resolution camera comparable to HiRise on board NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. It also carries a medium-resolution camera, subsurface radar, mineralogy spectrometer, neutral and energetic particle analyzers and a magnetometer. The orbiter will also play a relay role for the mission rover.

The roughly 240-kilogram solar-powered rover is nearly twice the mass of China’s Yutu lunar rovers. It will carry a ground-penetrating radar, multispectral camera, a Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy instrument and payloads for detecting the climate and magnetic environment. The rover has a mission design lifetime of three Earth months. The rover will receive a name through a public vote closer to launch. 

China has outlined two landing areas, with a candidate landing site in Utopia Planitia. The landing ellipse is understood to be around 100 x 40 kilometers. Site selection was driven by a range of factors including flight system engineering constraints and the challenges of entry, descent and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet, and the science goals of the mission.

The Tianwen-1 spacecraft is expected to reach Mars around February 2021. However, the rover landing attempt may not take place immediately. There are suggestions that the landing segment of the mission will be conducted months later, in April. This would allow mapping and observation of the landing site, despite the availability of high-resolution NASA imagery from HiRise.

The Tianwen-1 mission will join NASA’s Perseverance Mars 2020 rover and the United Arab Emirates’ Hope Mars orbiter, which this week shipped to its launch site in Japan, in launching during the July-August Mars launch window. ESA’s Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has been delayed to the next opportunity in 2022.

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SpaceX's SN4 Starship prototype passes key pressure test

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Astronomers have found nineteen interstellar asteroids orbiting the sun between Jupiter and Neptune. These asteroids previously belonged to a distant star system and have been orbiting our sun for approximately 4.5 billion years –the same time as the birth of our solar system.

It is believed that when the universe expanded, these asteroids were grabbed from their original star system and ended up staying in our own solar system because of the gravitational pull from our sun. “The close proximity of the stars meant that they felt each other’s gravity much more strongly in those early days than they do today,” explained Fathi Namouni who is from the Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur in France and is the lead author of the study (which can be read in full here). “This enabled asteroids to be pulled from one star system to another.”

‘Oumuamua

These interstellar asteroids are part of a group called Centaurs which has baffled scientists since the first one called Chiron was identified back in 1977. It has been suggested that these bodies were once part of the Kuiper Belt in the outer part of our solar system prior to travelling to the more interior region.

Dr. Namouni and co-author of the study Maria Helena Morais from the Universidade Estadual Paulista in Brazil performed computer simulations and found that billions of years ago the asteroids were orbiting the sun on a plane perpendicular to planetary motion. During that time when our solar system was forming, there was tons of debris floating around that would eventually form into Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, but the interstellar asteroids were able to avoid the debris as they were orbiting at a further distance.

2I/Borisov

Dr. Morais went into further detail about this significant revelation, “The discovery of a whole population of asteroids of interstellar origin is an important step in understanding the physical and chemical similarities and differences between Solar System-born and interstellar asteroids.” “This population will give us clues about the Sun’s early birth cluster, how interstellar asteroid capture occurred, and the role that interstellar matter had in chemically enriching the Solar System and shaping its evolution.”

This is such an incredible discovery as only two interstellar visitors have been previously discovered – ‘Oumuamua (which was found in October of 2017) and 2I/Borisov (noticed in August of 2019 but is now breaking apart).

With nineteen newly found interstellar asteroids, there are surely a bunch more hidden in our solar system, so the next question is ‘how many more?’

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I’m a ghost
Living in a ghost town
I’m a ghost
Living in a ghost town
“Living In A Ghost Town”
The Rolling Stones

There are many who believe that The Rolling Stones possess some sort of magic elixir or have made a pact with some supernatural being to make them seemingly immortal, because they’ve not only outlived but out-played and out-recorded virtually all of their contemporaries while indulging in the rock star lifestyle (especially Keith Richards) that has ended the careers – fatally or otherwise – of so many others. Yet here they are in 2020, releasing a song that quickly became their first chart-topping hit in decades. “Living in a Ghost Town” is the perfect song for these times, even though it was written long before the coronavirus pandemic turned many places into ghost towns (can they see the future too?). Having avoided becoming ghosts in real life, this writer (full disclosure – a longtime fan of the band) wondered if Mick, Keith and the boys have had their own experiences with real ghosts. Turns out they have … and aliens too!

“Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones stated that his family saw headless ghosts at one of the holiday homes in France which they believe may be the ghosts of the building’s former residents who died during the French Revolution.”

Mick Jagger

The book “Paranormal Case Files of Great Britain (Volume 2)” recounts one of Mick Jagger’s ghostly encounters. According to “Keith Richards: The Biography” by Victor Borkris, Keith lived in a five-story Queen Anne house on the Thames in London in 1969 which his longtime girlfriend Anita Pallenberg turned it into a “hippie’s dream pad.” However, there were some things she couldn’t change.

“A number of people who stayed there claimed the house was haunted.”

That was the same year band co-founder Brian Jones died, and Keith had an eerie encounter with Jones’ ghost many years later while recording “Blue & Lonesome.”

“The last time I ever played ‘Little Rain’ was with Brian Jones. Now, I’m playing ‘Little Rain’ in the studio and suddenly Brian is looming in front of me…”

Keith Richards

Keith probably had more that he can’t remember – after all, this is the guy who snorted his late father’s ashes (“My dad wouldn’t have cared, he didn’t give a shit.”). Drummer Charlie Watts hasn’t reported any ghost encounters, nor has Ronnie Wood, but Wood and his wife Jo have had a number of UFO and alien experiences, which Jo has retold many times in books and lectures.

“A blue-green orb floated alongside my window. My son Tyrone, who was 15 at the time, saw it too. I had the same feeling as I did on the beach in Brazil: that it was not from this planet.”

Jo says Ronnie has seen the UFOs too, but doesn’t talk about it as much. So has Mick Jagger, who claims his first encounter was with a luminous cigar-shaped ship when he went camping in Glastonbury in 1968 with his then girlfriend, singer Marianne Faithful. He also claimed to have seen a UFO during The Rolling Stones’ 1969 Altamont Concert in California and has some sort of UFO detector installed at his British estate. He should have loaned it to Keith, because Richards claimed to have seen UFOs landing at his Redlands estate in West Sussex in 1968.

“I’ve seen a few, but nothing that any of the ministries would believe. I believe they exist – plenty of people have seen them. They are tied up with a lot of things, like the dawn of man, for example. It’s not just a matter of people spotting a flying saucer… I’m not an expert. I’m still trying to understand what’s going on.”

The Stones are not known for burying messages about paranormal experiences in their song lyrics. Is “Living in a Ghost Town” an attempt to tell us something?

Outside of “We’re still alive!” and still recording great music, we’ll have to wait to find out.

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“…expeditionary, deployable, reversible offensive space control (OCS) effects applicable across the full spectrum of conflict. It prevents adversary Satellite Communications (SATCOM) in Area of Responsibility (AOR) including Command & Control (C2), Early Warning and Propaganda, and hosts Rapid Reaction Capabilities in response to Urgent Needs.”

As reported in Popular Mechanics, that’s US Space Force-speak for its first weapon, the Counter Communications Systems (CCS) Block 10.2 – a jammer that effectively cuts the electronic cord between ground troops and the satellites they use to communicate with their generals, allies and each other. This is much more effective than trying to know out the transmitter on the ground or the satellite in space, and the latest generation of these jammers covers a greater frequency spectrum than ever before. Needless, to say, Russia is not pleased.

“We also have a lot of questions. We asked them quite a long time ago and want to have an answer after all. A full-fledged meaningful Russian-US dialogue on a wide spectrum of issues of space activities security Russian and US senior diplomats agreed on on January 16 will help resolve mutual concerns.”

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS that her government is not pleased with what it perceives to be a first step towards an arms race in space. She’s right about a “race” because Russia’s military already has a similar satellite jammer that’s believed to be not as robust as the Space Force’s. Of course, this is also a war of words, as Zakharova was responding to criticism by Gen. John Raymond, chief of space operations for the Space Force, about Russia’s alleged testing of an anti-satellite missile.

“Previously, such claims were voiced by US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Ford. We have commented on each and every such anti-Russian attack which are all nothing but the United States’ attempt to divert public attention from real threats in space and to justify its moves to deploy weapons in outer space and obtain extra financing for such causes.”

That’s a diplomatic in-your-face response from Zakharova. This may seem like much ado about nothing since the satellite jammer is ground-based, but anything that’s launched must communicate with satellites to get to space. In fact, it’s becoming clear that nearly everything on Earth depends on satellites. The Space Force is part of the Air Force, so using jets to rapidly deploy the jammers around the world seems like a good idea. Meanwhile, NASA and Elon Musk (the distinction between these two is slowly beginning to blur) are covering space with satellites – perhaps in an attempt to overwhelm Russia’s anti-satellite missiles or its own jammers.

“It is obvious that serious concerns, if any, cannot be resolved by means of such statements, by means of fakes. It is necessary to use the existing channels for expert and political dialogue for that. We do have such channels and it is necessary simply to use them. Unwillingness to do so is rather an evidence of insufficiently grounded position of our American colleagues.”

Sigh. Even space cannot escape from ‘fake news’ and ‘insufficiently grounded positions’. Are we doomed to resume the Cold War’s massive arms race in space? Strategic space command. Lt. Col. Steve Brogan gives Interesting Engineering an answer.

“CCS is the only offensive system in the United States Space Force arsenal. This upgrade puts the ‘force’ in Space Force and is critical for Space as a warfighting domain.”

Sigh.

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Of the BEC and the BEA, Tracie told me: “I have a friend named Dana; she works in timeshare, at a resort out here in Las Vegas, on the far end of the strip. She was working one day – this was in April 2016 – when she said this lady was sent over to her, with two kids: a young boy and a girl. The girl was about six or seven and the boy was about four or five. The woman was wearing dark brown pants and had long brown hair. And the reason why the woman was sent over was because Dana gave the gifting in the timeshare company. When you listen to a presentation, you’re given a gift. But, the woman said she didn’t want a gift and Dana said, ‘When she looked at me and said that, I saw that she had total black eyes.’ There were no whites whatsoever. And the kids were exactly the same. But, in every other sense they were completely normal; they weren’t wearing the hoodies.”

Tracie continued as follows: “Dana commented, ‘I wish I had said something, like how do you see with those eyes?’ When she said that, I thought you can’t really ask them something like that. Maybe you could say, ‘Wow, your eyes are beautiful.’ But, maybe that’s bringing attention to something they don’t want you to know about. But, they could wear sunglasses all the time and no-one would know. So, maybe they are testing our reactions, they want their eyes to be seen. The kids were quiet; they didn’t say anything to her. Dana asked the woman how long she was going to be staying at the resort. And she said just one night and then they left.”

And there was one more story from Tracie: “I also have a friend who had an experience with a Black-Eyed Man; this was in a Wal-Mart in Michigan where she saw him. I was living in California at the time and this would have been about 2004, Christmas time. They were at the check-out and he insisted that he gave a gift to her son. It was a Spiderman clock. She said where he stood in line, there was someone in between her and this man. But, when he gave the gift, it was like his hand reached through the person between them; just passed right through the flesh of this person. And what freaked her out was that he had the pure black eyes. She didn’t want him to accept the clock, with him being a stranger. But, he insisted.”

Christina is the founder of the Psychic Paranormal Research Society, and someone who had a truly disturbing encounter in 2012 that involved a Black Eyed Woman and two BEC. As Christina told me: “Back in the summer of 2012 myself and a few members of my paranormal group, here in Sacramento, went up to see a client about a report of being abducted. He was claiming he had an implant and was experiencing paranormal activity; this was in Redding, California. We finished up our investigation and headed back home.” It was when Christina got home that things turned very weird. Dangerous, maybe. A woman and two children were outside of her home.

Christina continued: “All three of them, in unison, turned from the waist back and looked dead at me, as if they knew I was looking at them. It was almost like robotic. All three did it at the exact same time, and it startled me. But, not only did it startle me, one of the things I was looking at, I locked eyes with them.” Christina added: “All I could see, now, was complete black. I even looked at the little boy, because I’m thinking, he was a little faraway and I’d not seen him up close. But I look at this little boy and, again, complete black. It almost made their eyes look bigger, like the eyelid wasn’t closed over it; very prominent. I lock eyes with them. I will tell you I have never felt such fear in my life.” Equally disturbing is the fact that the creepy trio vanished at an impossible speed – to the extent that it was almost as if they had de-materialized. That may have been exactly what happened.

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