Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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“A race of Venus came to planet Earth millions of years ago”
“A race of Venus came to planet Earth millions of years ago”
The Ancient Astronaut theory is being taken more and more seriously by science. But who were these beings and where did they come from? According to a new hypothesis, some of these beings could come from Venus.
According to science, Venus is an inhospitable place.
In recent years, the existence of extraterrestrial life in scientific nuclei has been discussed more , reaching the point of questioning whether we have not been visited for thousands of years. A new theory could show that beings from Venus came to Earth long before humans evolved.
Beings of Venus on Earth?
For decades, NASA has shown various aspects of the physical nature of Venus, thanks to space probes.
Spokesmen for exploration missions have stated that its environment is extremely hostile , with air laden with carbon dioxide and infernal barometric pressure . It also has a heat that exceeds 100 degrees Celsius along with dense clouds of sulfuric acid.
In short, on Venus it would be impossible for life to be born. But a declassified archive from 1989, which is practically unknown , could change our perception of that world.
The document relates to the different contacts that have existed between Earth and Venus and how the inhabitants of the latter came thousands of years ago , and continued to come to “meet” the human being.
They even talk about the “selection” of people they have had over the years, highlighting people from the field, the humble, even scientists and government officials.
This declassified document presents, then, a direct contradiction to what NASA has explained about the inhospitable nature of Venus.
Obviously, many people prefer to trust what science has said and forget everything that changes the official version .
However, there is a question … Why was a document that, supposedly, contradictory, was classified and kept hidden for more than 30 years?
Obviously, theorists around the world have started to make statements, blaming NASA and the elites for hiding information about space.
Venusians have been visiting Earth for thousands of years.
“They want to help humanity”
If scientists, the only ones with the ability to study beyond Earth’s borders, have lied to us in the past, why not distrust their information about Venus?
The possibility of life on Venus completely changes general thinking about our Solar System. This is because we have been led to believe that the galaxy is an immense desert with only one oasis; the earth.
Obviously, there is another possibility; that terrestrial technology is not advanced enough to locate life on that planet.
According to this report, we can understand that the civilization of Venus managed to solve all the problems that afflict humanity today. An example of this are wars, crime, corruption and other issues that do so much damage to society in general.
This is due to the development of peaceful collective values that are based on respect, understanding and love. Through their frequent contacts with different personalities on Earth, Venusians came to offer us help in solving all these issues that prevent us from evolving as humanity.
The problem is that this support is always accompanied by a request for the abandonment of weapons of mass destruction. Reason that makes us understand why this document has been classified and, subsequently, hidden.
If there is a developed civilization on Venus and NASA has hidden it or does not know of its existence, it is something that we will probably never know. However, if we manage to make contact with a civilization that supports us in our evolution, would we react correctly?
Mars' surface was carved by fast and furious floods from overflowing craters 3.5 billion years ago – with enough water released in a matter of weeks to completely fill Lake Superior, study finds
Mars' surface was carved by fast and furious floods from overflowing craters 3.5 billion years ago – with enough water released in a matter of weeks to completely fill Lake Superior, study finds
Researchers show how 262 breached lakes on the Red Planet shaped its surface
Water released at huge craters caused the formation of river valleys, they claim
This water eroded the natural Martian sediment to leave the deep river valleys
3.5 billion years ago, water moved around Mars between crater lakes via rivers
Mars' surface was carved by fast and furious floods from overflowing crater lakes 3.5 billion years ago, a new study says.
Researchers in Texas have used satellite images to determine how 262 breached lakes on the Red Planet shaped the Martian surface.
The floods, which probably lasted mere weeks, eroded more than enough sediment to completely fill Lake Superior and Lake Ontario, they say.
Although there's no liquid water on Mars today, about 4.3 billion years ago the Red Planet had enough water to cover its entire surface in a liquid layer about 450 feet (137 meters) deep, according to NASA.
Fast forward to 3.5 billion years ago, and this water was more scarce – channeled around the planet between crater lakes via rivers, much like on Earth today.
Floods at these lakes created river valleys with high walls of jagged rock on either side, much like Earth's own impressive modern-day canyons.
A coloured topographical image showing river valleys on Mars. The outlet canyon Loire Vallis (white line) formed from the overflow of a lake in Parana Basin (outlined in white). Black lines indicate other river valleys formed by processes other than lake overflows. Image is approximately 400 miles (650 kilometres) across
Mars was not always a big dry rusty rock like it is today. Perhaps about 4.3 billion years ago, Mars would have had enough water to cover its entire surface in a liquid layer about 450 feet (137 meters) deep
RIVER VALLEYS ON MARS
The cratered highlands of Mars have many river valleys that formed in a water-rich environment about 4.5 to 3.7 billion years ago.
Erosion since then has been slow, leaving these old features preserved.
Later, massive outflows of groundwater formed flood channels tens to hundreds of kilometers wide and perhaps over 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) long.
River valley networks begin near crater rims and other high ridges and wind through the cratered landscape.
Source: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
'If we think about how sediment was being moved across the landscape on ancient Mars, lake breach floods were a really important process globally,' said lead author Tim Goudge, an assistant professor at the UT Jackson School of Geosciences, the University of Texas at Austin.
'And this is a bit of a surprising result because they've been thought of as one-off anomalies for so long.'
The researchers think the furious floods were triggered either by the water filling up in the crater lake interior to the point where it started spilling over the edge; or as the lake filled up with water, the pressure from that water on the inside of the crater caused the crater rim to fail, allowing water to flow out.
'In either way, once the water started rushing out of the lake, it would begin rapidly carving an exit breach and canyon, allowing more water to flow out, and continuing so on in a runaway process until it eventually couldn't erode any more,' Professor Goudge told MailOnline.
The researcher also said he thinks more water was available early in Mars' early history, but that it never did completely cover the planet.
On Earth, river erosion – the constant wearing away of the river bed and banks by the force of water – is usually a slow-going process.
Over years and years, coastal land recedes as the force of the water breaks off sediment.
But on Mars, massive floods from overflowing crater lakes had an outsized role in shaping the Martian surface, carving deep chasms and moving vast amounts of sediment.
Crater lakes were common on Mars billions of years ago when the Red Planet had liquid water on its surface. Some craters could hold a small sea's worth of water.
But when the water became too much to hold, it would breach the edge of the crater, causing catastrophic flooding that carved river valleys in its wake.
A 2019 study led by Goudge, published in the in the journal Geology, determined that these events happened rapidly.
Remote sensing images taken by satellites orbiting Mars have allowed scientists to study the remains of breached Martian crater lakes.
The remains of a former crater lake on Mars surrounded by other smaller craters. The large outlet canyon (the spindly blue dent in the upper left) formed during a crater breach event
A global map of Mars showing river valleys around the Red Planet. River valleys formed by crater lake breaches are in white. River valleys that formed gradually over time are in black
MARS IS 'TOO SMALL' TO RETAIN LQUID WATER, SAYS STUDY
Mars once had flowing liquid water, but is now a dry desert landscape - and this could be because it is too small to retain moisture, a 2021 study said.
About half the size of Earth, Mars sits at the very outer edge of the habitable zone where liquid water 'could flow'.
There's 'irrefutable evidence' that Mars once had liquid water, including in the Jezero crater where Perseverance rover is now based, but this study suggests it didn't last long.
Researchers at Washington University in St Louis studied the chemical makeup of Mars meteorites.
These rocks revealed Mars didn't have the necessary chemistry in its structure to hold onto water long-term.
However, the crater lakes and their river valleys have mostly been studied on an individual basis, Goudge said.
This is the first study to investigate how the 262 breached lakes across the Red Planet shaped the Martian surface as a whole.
For the study, the researchers reviewed a preexisting catalog of river valleys on Mars and classifying them into two categories – valleys that got their start at a crater's edge and valleys that formed elsewhere on the landscape.
Valleys that got their start at a crater's edge indicates they formed during a lake breach flood, while valleys that formed elsewhere on the landscape suggests a more gradual formation over time.
From there, the scientists compared the depth, length and volume of the different valley types and found that river valleys formed by crater lake breaches erode nearly a quarter of the Red Planet's river valley volume despite making up only 3 per cent of total valley length.
'This discrepancy is accounted for by the fact that outlet canyons are significantly deeper than other valleys,' said study co-author Alexander Morgan, a research scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona.
At 559 feet (170.5 meters), the median depth of a breach river valley is more than twice that of other river valleys created more gradually over time, which have a median depth of about 254 feet (77.5 meters).
In addition, although the chasms appeared in a geologic instant, they may have had a lasting effect on the surrounding landscape.
Floods at Martian lakes created river valleys with high walls of jagged rock on either side, much like the impressive canyons on Earth today. Pictured, the Colorado River as it flows through Marble Canyon prior to entering the infamous Grand Canyon in northern Arizona
The study suggests that the breaches scoured canyons so deep they may have influenced the formation of other nearby river valleys.
The authors said this is a potential alternative explanation for unique Martian river valley topography that is usually attributed to climate.
On Earth, river erosion is a slow and steady process in most cases, but that doesn't mean it will work that way on other worlds, according to Goudge.
'When you fill [the craters] with water, it's a lot of stored energy there to be released,' Goudge said. 'It makes sense that Mars might tip, in this case, toward being shaped by catastrophism more than the Earth.'
The new study has been published today in the journal Nature.
WAS MARS EVER HOME TO LIQUID WATER?
Evidence of water on Mars dates back to the Mariner 9 mission, which arrived in 1971. It revealed clues of water erosion in river beds and canyons as well as weather fronts and fogs.
Viking orbiters that followed caused a revolution in our ideas about water on Mars by showing how floods broke through dams and carved deep valleys.
Mars is currently in the middle of an ice age, and before this study, scientists believed liquid water could not exist on its surface.
In June 2013, Curiosity found powerful evidence that water good enough to drink once flowed on Mars.
In September of the same year, the first scoop of soil analysed by Curiosity revealed that fine materials on the surface of the planet contain two per cent water by weight.
In 2017, Scientists provided the best estimates for water on Mars, claiming it once had more liquid H2O than the Arctic Ocean - and the planet kept these oceans for more than 1.5 billion years.
The findings suggest there was ample time and water for life on Mars to thrive, but over the last 3.7 billion years the red planet has lost 87 per cent of its water - leaving it barren and dry.
Lake Breach Floods Eroded Surface of Early Mars, Study Says
Lake Breach Floods Eroded Surface of Early Mars, Study Says
Massive floods from overflowing crater lakes were responsible for eroding at least 24% of the volume of incised valleys on early Mars, according to new research led by University of Texas at Austin planetary scientists.
Valley networks and paleolake outlet canyons on Mars: (a) distribution of analyzed valley networks (black) and paleolake outlet canyons (white); gray shading indicates the combined latitude (poleward of ±30°) and age (younger than Early Hesperian) mask used for volume calculations; (b and c) examples of the early Martian landscape dissected by both valley networks (black) and paleolake outlet canyons (white); paleolake basin extents shown by semi-transparent white polygons.
Image credit: Goudge et al., doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03860-1.
“If we think about how sediment was being moved across the landscape on ancient Mars, lake breach floods were a really important process globally,” said Dr. Tim Goudge, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin and CIFAR.
“And this is a bit of a surprising result because they’ve been thought of as one-off anomalies for so long.”
Crater lakes were common on Mars billions of years ago when the planet had liquid water on its surface. Some craters could hold a small sea’s worth of water.
But when the water became too much to hold, it would breach the edge of the crater, causing catastrophic flooding that carved river valleys in its wake.
In 2019, Dr. Goudge and colleagues determined that these events happened rapidly.
“Remote sensing images taken by satellites orbiting Mars have allowed scientists to study the remains of breached Martian crater lakes,” he said.
“However, the crater lakes and their river valleys have mostly been studied on an individual basis. This is the first study to investigate how the 262 breached lakes across the Red Planet shaped its surface as a whole.”
The authors classified the Martian river valleys into two categories: (i) valleys that got their start at a crater’s edge, which indicates they formed during a lake breach flood; and (ii) valleys that formed elsewhere on the landscape, which suggests a more gradual formation over time.
From there, they compared the depth, length and volume of the different valley types and found that river valleys formed by crater lake breaches punch far above their weight, eroding away nearly a quarter of the planet’s river valley volume despite making up only 3% of total valley length.
“This discrepancy is accounted for by the fact that outlet canyons are significantly deeper than other valleys,” said Dr. Alexander Morgan, a researcher at the Planetary Science Institute.
At 170.5 m (559 feet), the median depth of a breach river valley is more than twice that of other river valleys created more gradually over time, which have a median depth of about 77.5 m (254 feet).
In addition, although the chasms appeared in a geologic instant, they may have had a lasting effect on the surrounding landscape.
The study suggests that the breaches scoured canyons so deep they may have influenced the formation of other nearby river valleys.
“This is a potential alternative explanation for unique Martian river valley topography that is usually attributed to climate,” the scientists said.
Their results are published in the journal Nature.
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T.A. Goudge et al. 2021. The importance of lake breach floods for valley incision on early Mars. Nature 597, 645-649; doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03860-1
Astronomers have discovered a highly-irradiated gas giant exoplanet in close-in, highly misaligned orbit around a bright star called TOI-1518.
An artist’s rendition of the ultrahot Jupiter TOI-1518b and its parent star.
Image credit: Sci-News.com.
TOI-1518 is a fast-rotating F-type star located approximately 742 light-years away in the constellation of Cepheus.
Also designated as TIC 427761355 and BD+66 1610, it is almost two times larger and more massive than the Sun.
The newfound planet, TOI-1518b, is an inflated gas giant about 1.9 times the size of Jupiter.
It orbits its parent star once every 1.9 days at a distance of 0.04 AU (astronomical units).
“The new planet falls within the category of ultrahot Jupiters, which have equilibrium temperatures exceeding 2,000 K,” said Yale University astronomer Samuel Cabot and colleagues.
“Many ultrahot Jupiters contain vaporized metals, both neutral and ionized, in their upper atmospheres.”
“These metals and molecules containing them are recognized as strong sources of opacity in the optical and near-ultraviolet regions.”
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has always been a mysterious feature and now it’s getting even stranger with stronger winds. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope collected the data regarding the discovery of the accelerating wind speeds.
Jupiter’s massive storm, which is known as the Great Red Spot, is located in the southern hemisphere of the planet. It was first spotted in 1831 by amateur astronomer Samuel Heinrich Schwabe; however, it could be much older than that. The crimson-colored clouds of the storm rotate in a counter-clockwise direction with speeds that are more powerful than 400 miles per hour (644 kilometers per hour). It has been shrinking in size and turning into a more circular shape rather than an oval. It has a diameter of about 10,000 miles (a little over 16,000 kilometers) which means that Earth could still fit inside of the storm.
By studying Hubble’s “storm reports”, researchers noticed that the wind speed just inside of the storm’s boundaries (this area is called the high-speed ring) accelerated as much as 8% from 2009 to 2020. On the other hand, the wind speeds close to the center of the storm are actually slower.
More specifically, Hubble detected that the wind speeds changed less than 1.6 miles per hour (2.6 kilometers per hour) each year as explained by Amy Simon from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, “We’re talking about such a small change that if you didn’t have eleven years of Hubble data, we wouldn’t know it happened.” “With Hubble we have the precision we need to spot a trend.”
Michael Wong, who is from the University of California, Berkeley, and who led the analysis, noted, “We find that the average wind speed in the Great Red Spot has been slightly increasing over the past decade,” adding, “We have one example where our analysis of the two-dimensional wind map found abrupt changes in 2017 when there was a major convective storm nearby.”
While it’s very interesting that the wind speeds have picked up, experts are uncertain as to what it means for the storm’s future as Wong stated, “That’s hard to diagnose, since Hubble can’t see the bottom of the storm very well. Anything below the cloud tops is invisible in the data.” “But it’s an interesting piece of data that can help us understand what’s fueling the Great Red Spot and how it’s maintaining energy.”
For now, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is continuing to amaze and baffle experts at the same time. A video and images of the wind changes in the Gas Giant’s massive storm can be seen here.
By analyzing images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope from 2009 to 2020, researchers found that the average wind speed just within the boundaries of the Great Red Spot, set off by the outer green circle, have increased by up to 8 percent from 2009 to 2020 and exceed 400 miles per hour. In contrast, the winds near the storm's innermost region, set off by a smaller green ring, are moving significantly more slowly. Both move counterclockwise.
Are NASA, the other space agencies and private space companies wasting their time focusing on finding signs of life on Mars and using this to justify and/or air creating human settlements there? That may be the case if you listen to researchers from the Washington University in St. Louis who say size matters when it comes to life on other planets and Mars is just too small to have it or sustain it because it’s too tiny to have water.
“Mars’ fate was decided from the beginning. There is likely a threshold on the size requirements of rocky planets to retain enough water to enable habitability and plate tectonics, with mass exceeding that of Mars.”
In a university press release announcing the publication of a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Kun Wang, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences and senior author of the study explains how his team reached its conclusion about Mars being more like a dried pit than a juicy life-supporting olive. While the non-natural water-filled ‘canals’ that astronomers of the 19th and 20th centuries believed they saw on the Martian surface have been proven to be optical illusions, Martian rocks and Martian meteors found on Earth show solid evidence that the planet once had natural rivers and channels. However, the most recent explorations have found no water on the Martian surface. Wang and his colleagues turned to an unexpected element to resolve this discrepancy – potassium (K).
Did Mars ever look like this?
“This study presents K isotope data from a spectrum of martian lithologies as an isotopic tracer for comparing the inventories of highly and moderately volatile elements and compounds of planetary bodies. Here, we show that meteorites from Mars have systematically heavier K isotopic compositions than the bulk silicate Earth, implying a greater loss of K from Mars than from Earth.”
The team used stable isotopes of potassium (K) to estimate volatile elements and compounds — including water — on planets, satellites and large asteroids. They found that Mars, Earth, the Moon and the asteroid 4-Vesta had large amounts of volatile elements compounds when they were formed, but Mars lost more than Earth, and the Moon and 4-Vesta lost more than both. The evidence pointed to size as the deciding factor for how much water a planet or space rock retained. For the Red Planet, Wang says the key was the Martian meteorites found on Earth.
“Those Martian meteorites have ages varying from several hundred millions to 4 billion years and recorded Mars’ volatile evolution history. Through measuring the isotopes of moderately volatile elements, such as potassium, we can infer the degree of volatile depletion of bulk planets and make comparisons between different solar system bodies.”
Wang points out that those meteorites also dispute a prevailing theory that Mars once had even more water than Earth. As a result, astronomers now have an easy technique for determining if an exoplanet in a star’s habitable “Goldilocks” zone is a good prospect for life.
“The size of an exoplanet is one of the parameters that is easiest to determine. Based on size and mass, we now know whether an exoplanet is a candidate for life, because a first-order determining factor for volatile retention is size.”
Sorry, Mars — you may not even have enough to fill the bottle
Which brings us back to Mars. Although it’s in the Sun’s habitable zone, this study’s results make Mars too small to retain water for life. Should space agencies and companies move on to another planet or Moon? Good luck convincing them to abandon exploring the planet that has captured the imagination of astronomers and science fiction fans for centuries. Venus may be closer, but they can at least see where they’re going on Mars. Even if it doesn’t have enough water, the experience will prepare space travelers for the next longer mission to a better candidate.
According to a new study conducted by Chinese astronomers, there could be as many as a million small asteroids heading towards our planet within the next century. But apparently there’s no need to panic as the impact risk is low and the majority of the asteroids are less than 100 meters in width (328 feet). On the other hand, they if they do impact our planet, they would have more kinetic energy than what is in an atomic bomb.
he current number of known asteroids is 1,113,527 – some measuring as large as hundreds of miles in diameter while the smaller ones are less than 33 feet (10 meters) in width. Most of the known asteroids are located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. In fact, there are an estimated 1.1 to 1.9 million asteroids located there that are bigger than 1 kilometer in diameter (0.6 miles) with millions of smaller space objects.
Professor Gan Qingbo and colleagues at the Space Debris Observation and Data Application Centre at the China National Space Administration stated that the short-term hazardous asteroids (SHA) are very hard to track in space as they explained, “The accurate identification of impact threat targets and early warning capabilities requires more precise algorithms for orbit determination and impact risk assessment.”
The researchers looked through a global asteroid database and focused on the orbits of smaller asteroids and they discovered that over 700 of them could potentially hit our planet in the next century. Five of the asteroids had a one in a thousand chance of impacting our planet, although their constantly changing orbits could affect those probabilities. Then they conducted physical models on asteroid formation and estimated that there could be between 100,000 and a million short-term hazardous asteroids lurking around.
Since a lot of astronomers focus their attention on much larger space objects, they could be ignoring the smaller asteroids that may also be potentially dangerous. For example, a small asteroid measuring just 19 meters (62 feet) exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013 but it still caused an extremely powerful explosion that was approximately 30 times stronger than the Hiroshima blast. Furthermore, the shock waves caused damage to over 7,200 buildings but thankfully nobody died.
This is a perfect example of a small asteroid causing significant damage. There is no reason for us to run for cover though as Professor Chen Ping, who is a Guangzhou-based geologist with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, explained that the SHAs are “an interesting topic for academic research and public discussions, but that should be as far as it goes,” and that since they are so small, they would probably just burn up in our atmosphere. Let’s hope he’s right.
Even the Quiet Supermassive Black Holes are Blasting out Neutrinos and Gamma Rays
Even the Quiet Supermassive Black Holes are Blasting out Neutrinos and Gamma Rays
Is there anywhere in the Universe where we can escape from radiation? Certainly not here on Earth. And not in space itself, which is filled with diffuse radiation in the form of gamma rays and neutrinos. Scientists have struggled to explain where all those gamma rays and neutrinos come from. A trio of researchers is proposing a source for all that radiation in a new paper: resting black holes.
Supermassive Black Holes (SMBH) likely reside in the center of every large galaxy like the Milky Way. When those SMBHs are actively accreting matter they can spew out a lot of radiation across the entire spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays. When that happens they’re called active galactic nuclei. But what about SMBHs that are quiet?
A new study says even quiescent SMBHs are emitting gamma rays and neutrinos. The discovery helps explain why the Universe is awash in energetic particles.
Active galaxy nuclei like this one spew out a lot of radiation. Astronomers think some of the Universe’s diffuse radiation comes from more sedate black holes. Credit: NASA/Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital
Neutrinos are nearly massless subatomic particles and are electrically neutral, which is where they get their name. As a result, their gravitational interaction is near zero, and they don’t interact with the strong nuclear force either. They’re extremely difficult to detect, and they’re passing through your body right now.
Gamma rays, on the other hand, are not difficult to detect. They’re the most energetic photons in the Universe and you definitely don’t want any passing through your body. They’re released in atomic bomb detonations, among other things. Space-based detectors have found gamma rays with voltages in the gigaelectron range. If electron volt ranges aren’t your thing, just think of them as more energetic than visible light by orders of magnitude.
So scientists know a lot about both neutrinos and gamma rays, they just aren’t sure where they all come from. This research might have the answer. “The Universe is filled with a diffuse background of MeV gamma-rays and PeV neutrinos, whose origins are unknown. Here, we propose a scenario that can account for both backgrounds simultaneously,” the authors write.
Scientists think they know where powerful background gamma-rays in the gigaelectron volt (GeV) to teraelectron (TeV) volt ranges come from. They come from AGNs and probably star-forming galaxies. But the source of softer gamma-rays, those in the megaelectron volt (MeV) ranges are unknown. Same with many neutrinos.
This paper shows that low luminosity galactic nuclei could account for both the neutrinos and the gamma rays.
Computer simulation of plasma near a black hole. Credit: Hotaka Shiokawa / EHT
A black hole’s enormous mass and gravitational pull draws matter toward it. It forms an accretion disk of swirling matter, and eventually, the matter falls into the black hole. When that happens an enormous amount of gravitational energy is released. That energy heats up gas around the hole and creates plasma. In this case, the low-accreting black hole has insufficient cooling and the plasma’s temperature can reach tens of billions of degrees Celsius.
What happens is the plasma energizes protons to an extreme degree. They can be 10,000 times more energetic than what the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can achieve, and the LHC is our most powerful particle accelerator. As these high-speed protons interact with matter and radiation, they produce neutrinos. This can account for the higher energy range neutrinos detected in space.
A similar mechanism produces gamma-rays. As the electrons reach extremely high temperatures, they become efficient producers of gamma-rays in the MeV range through a process called Comptonization.
This image from the study shows how mellow SMBHs can produce diffuse neutrinos and gamma rays that flood the Universe. Image Credit: Shigeo S. Kimura.
So the high-temperature plasma around quiet black holes can produce neutrinos and gamma-rays. Even though these types of black holes are dim and difficult to see, there are a lot of them. It’s reasonable to think they could account for background radiation in the form of gamma-rays and neutrinos.
But this is just a proposed mechanism. There’s no conclusive proof yet. Where will that come from?
Most of our gamma-ray detectors aren’t tuned to the MeV frequency. They’re tuned to higher energy levels. What’s needed is what the authors call a “multimessenger” detector. That’s a detector that detects both gamma-rays and neutrinos at the same time, in the right energy ranges. Proposed missions like e-ASTROGAM, the All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO), and the Gamma-Ray and AntiMatter Survey (GRAMS) should help.
Dozens of Robots Competed to Race Through Underground Caves
Dozens of Robots Competed to Race Through Underground Caves
America’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is well known for its challenges. It held a series of autonomous driving competitions back in the early 2000s that directly led to today’s self-driving cars. Now that Grand Challenge has evolved into a new one – the Subterranean (SubT) challenge, which took place last week. This new one also happens to be directly applicable to technologies that would be useful in space exploration.
Ostensibly, DARPA’s SubT challenge is to develop a robotic system capable of identifying and, and even potentially helping, victims of a natural disaster or other catastrophe. The contest was broken into two overarching categories, and each category tackled three different types of terrain. The two categories were the Systems track, which utilized physical robots, and the Virtual track, which concentrated on developing algorithms for searching a given area.
Video recap of Day 1 of the Cave Circuit Challenge. Credit – DARPAtv YouTube Channel
Video recap of Day 3 of the Cave Circuit Challenge. Credit – DARPAtv YouTube Channel
The robots or algorithms for each category were then subject to three different terrains they had to master: a Tunnel Circuit, an Urban Circuit, and a Cave Circuit. The Tunnel Circuit competition took place in August of 2019 in some abandoned mining tunnels around Pittsburgh, while the Urban Circuit was held in February 2020 at an abandoned power plant in Washington State.
Covid-19 threw a wrench into plans for the Cave Circuit, which was initially scheduled to take place in the fall of 2020. Due to the pandemic, the competition, which was planned to take place in the Louisville Mega Cavern in Kentucky, was rescheduled to September of this year.
Unique “rollocopter” design from CoSTAR, a NASA-sponsored team, utilizes the capabilities of both a quadcopter and a two-wheeled rover. Credit – NASA / JPL-Caltech
The goal in all three terrains, and for each category, is the same – find and identify as many targets of interest (i.e., potential victims) as possible and flag them for follow-up by first responders. Accomplishing this is not as easy as it sounds and requires coordination by many robots scouting around the environment and talking to one another.
Teams from all over the world took place in the competition. Some were funded by DARPA itself, while others were entirely self-funded. Ultimately, DARPA-funded CERBERUS won the systems competition. Team CERBERUS is a collaboration between various universities, including the University of Nevada, Reno, ETH Zurich, and UC Berkeley. Their score of 23 tied another DARPA-funded team (CSIRO Data61) but they ultimately took home the $2 prize offered for winning the competition. The Virtual Competition was led by Dynamo, a self-funded effort that took home the $750,000 prize for winning its virtual competition.
Testing of the challenge robots has been ongoing for almost two years. Credit – NASA / JPL-Caltech
Over the past two years, the technologies used in the systems have advanced dramatically. CoSTAR, a team, partially run by roboticists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was particularly happy about new AI and navigation systems that could be used in entirely different environments.
Those environments include lunar or Martian caves that could offer the most habitable places in those inhospitable locations. If the original Autonomous Driving Grand Challenge is anything to go by, these new cave exploration technologies might be ready when they are needed for those lunar or Maritan exploration missions.
In a few billion years the Sun will end its life as a white dwarf. As the Sun runs out of hydrogen to fuse for energy it will collapse under its own weight. Gravity will compress the Sun until it’s roughly the size of Earth, at which point a bit of quantum physics will kick in. Electrons from the Sun’s atoms will push back against gravity, creating what is known as degeneracy pressure. Once a star reaches this state it will cool over time, and the once brilliant star will eventually fade into the dark.
Most stars in the universe will end as a white dwarf. Only the largest stars will explode as supernovae and become neutron stars or black holes. There are lots of white dwarfs in the Milky Way, but many of them can be difficult to study.
For one thing, white dwarfs don’t produce energy in their cores as regular stars do. They cool and fade as they age, so we tend to see the youngest and brightest white dwarfs. Observations of white dwarfs are also biased toward those with the smallest mass. That’s because the more massive a white dwarf is, the smaller it is. The reason for this has to do with the balance between electron degeneracy pressure and gravity. In a white dwarf, the electrons act as a sort of quantum gas. The more massive the white dwarf, the more tightly its gravity can squeeze the electrons, hence a smaller volume.
The most massive white dwarf is a bit larger than the Moon. Credit: Giuseppe Parisi
Fortunately, we’re getting better at studying smaller and cooler white dwarfs, as a recent study shows. The team used data from the Gaia spacecraft to find white dwarfs within 20 parsecs of Earth. In addition to known white dwarfs, the team identified about 100 white dwarfs that had never been cataloged. They then looked at the spectrum of these white dwarfs using ISIS spectrograph and polarimeter on the William Herschel Telescope. Since the spectrum of a white dwarf is affected by its magnetic field, the team was able to measure the strength of their magnetic fields.
They found an interesting result. There is a correlation between the age of a white dwarf and its magnetic field. The older a white dwarf is, the more likely it has a strong magnetic field. In other words, white dwarfs tend to become more magnetic as they age. This suggests that white dwarf magnetic fields are created through the cooling process of the star.
We aren’t sure how the cooling process magnetizes white dwarfs. The magnetic fields of larger and younger white dwarfs might be explained by a dynamo mechanism, similar to the process that generates Earth’s magnetic field. But the magnetic fields of old white dwarfs are often much larger than we think can be produced by a dynamo. So something strange is going on, and it will take more research to solve this mystery.
China gives Dark Fleet Antarctica Bases to Earth Alliance to build future Space Fleets
China gives Dark Fleet Antarctica Bases to Earth Alliance to build future Space Fleets
On September 24, Dr. Michael Salla received a new update about recent developments in Antarctica concerning former Dark Fleet bases taken over by China, and how these were being turned over to the Earth Alliance as a result of the Jupiter Agreements.
The update was released by Val Nek, from the Galactic Federation of Worlds, through Megan Rose who again relayed the information.
The video below is an audio version of an article published on Sept 27, 2021, and narrated by the author Dr. Michael Salla.
Update 2: Michael Salla - Interesting synchronicity.
Today I received Ben Fulford's latest update. His sources are telling him a major East/West agreement has just been reached involving China, which has joined a massive tech project to improve the planet.
That corroborates the update just received from Val Nek about China joining the Earth Alliance, and now working for common purposes for planetary defense, building a planetary starfleet, mass producing and releasing advanced healing technologies, etc.
This kind of independent corroboration is always helpful when trying to substantiate events taking place behind the scenes.
“Abandon Earth”: The Alleged Message Received by Voyager 2
“Abandon Earth”: The Alleged Message Received by Voyager 2
An alleged alien binary code message was downloaded by a US NCO, and appears to contain a shocking warning to humanity.
The famous American researcher Linda Moulton Howe translated some of these binary codes thanks to the support of a US Army sergeant.
Linda Moulton Howe and Dr. Horace Drew independently confirmed this, and the symbols translated by the sergeant named ‘CJ’ are, in fact, a message written in binary code that can be translated via a standard ASCII table.
Linda Moulton Howe is a renowned American investigative journalist and documentarian, known for her work as a ufologist and advocate for a variety of conspiracy theories.
But what this article brings us is: did aliens capture NASA’s Voyager 2 space probe and send coded messages to Earth through it?
Recall that Voyager 2 was one of the first space probes made for the exploration of the outer Solar System, and it is still in operation.
It was launched on August 20, 1977 by NASA aboard the Titan-Centaur rocket, just before its sister probe, Voyager 1, in an orbit that would eventually take it to visit the main planets of the Solar System.
But during its journey through the solar system, the probe was allegedly tampered with, and it suddenly changed the encoding of messages sent to Earth.
The anomaly began on April 22, 2010 and among the most disturbing hypotheses, they relate it to an extraterrestrial sabotage.
CJ’s message reads as follows:
Continuing protection of humanity 49.27n 11.5e. Exposing Hidden Knowledge to ALL Citizens’ Advancement Imperative for Planetary Survival Orion Attention 1,350.3 39,170 Avoid Sending (Signals) or Messages
NASA expert Kevin Baines, who is leading the mission, said that “it appeared that someone had taken control of the spacecraft and reprogrammed the probe, so we may not yet know the whole truth.”
Later, Kevin Baines reported that the probe was located about 15 billion kilometers from Earth and suddenly began sending data in a language that none of the experts could understand.
This can only happen in one case: “someone has changed the probe’s communication system”, and if so, we would be talking about another civilization that is navigating the cosmos.
From an analysis performed by the reception of Voyager 2’s encrypted signals, it was observed with amazement that the binary code of the probe’s communication system was changed from 0 to 1.
NASA noted that the rest of the probe’s onboard system had not undergone any modifications – reboot, reprogramming, and reboot – and therefore work continues as usual.
But what seems to have changed is the communication system … that has sent a message to Earth that supposedly says: “Leave Earth.”
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter is proving to be invaluable yet again— this time capturing a stunning photo of a Maritan 'road' that the Perseverance rover may soon travel. Of all the planets in our Solar System, Mars has regularly stood out as one of the most fascinating. It's relatively close to Earth, there's evidence of the planet being habitable billions of years ago, and scientists are on a mission to determine if life ever existed there. From remote-controlled robots to future human-led missions, it's safe to say that Mars exploration is in full force right now.
Perseverance and Ingenuity are two of NASA's most valuable tools for researching the Red Planet. Perseverance is the fifth NASA rover to ever land on Mars, whereas Ingenuity is the organization's first helicopter. Together, the robotic duo works with each other to make discoveries not previously possible. Ingenuity can scout potential areas of interest from above, determine if Perseverance can/should continue ahead, and the two repeat this process over and over again.
As part of this ongoing collaboration, NASA just shared a gorgeous new photo Ingenuity captured during its 12th Mars flight on August 16, 2021. The above image showcases the South Séítah region of Mars' Jzero Crater. Similar to so many other Mars pictures, it highlights the continually fascinating Martian surface. The ground below Ingenuity is littered with rocks, small hills, and intricate patterns in the sand/dust covering the ground. As is often the case with photos captured by Ingenuity, it's an impressive sight to behold.
Why This Photo Is So Useful For NASA
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech
As stunning as it is on its own, this photo becomes even more impressive with an understanding of the South Séítah region. Previous orbiter images have led scientists to believe that South Séítah could be "a treasure trove of complex geology" with potential answers about whether or not ancient life ever existed on the planet. Commenting on the photo, Ken Farley (a project scientist on the Perseverance team) said, "From a science perspective, these images of South Seítah are the most valuable Ingenuity has taken to date... Sedimentary layers in rocks are not readily apparent in the image, and there may be areas that could be difficult to negotiate with the rover. There is work to do by our science and rover driving teams to understand better how to respond to the new data."
All of this also acts as a reminder of how useful Ingenuity really is for this kind of exploring. If NASA decides to explore South Séítah with Perseverance, it now has a much better idea of what to expect. If the team looks at the photo and determines Perseverance's time is better spent in the Artuby Ridge right now, that prevents the team from making an unnecessary trip. As Farley puts it, "It's a win-win."
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter captured this image of the Perseverance rover during its 11th flight on the Red Planet, on Aug. 5, 2021.
‘ONZE' OORTWOLK TELT MOGELIJK MEER INTERSTELLAIRE BEZOEKERS DAN INHEEMSE OBJECTEN
‘ONZE' OORTWOLK TELT MOGELIJK MEER INTERSTELLAIRE BEZOEKERS DAN INHEEMSE OBJECTEN
Vivian Lammerse
Interstellaire kometen zoals 2I/Borisov zijn mogelijk niet zo zeldzaam als we denken.
In 2019 gebeurde er in onze kosmische achtertuin iets ongelofelijks. Astronomen ontdekten dat een interstellaire komeet ons zonnestelsel was binnengedrongen. De ijzige bal – 2I/Borisov genaamd – haastte zich met een slordige 177.000 kilometer per uur voort. Het was de eerste en tot nu toe nog de enige komeet afkomstig uit een ander sterrenstelsel die we hebben gezien. Maar wat als dergelijke interstellaire bezoekers ons vaker op een bezoekje trakteren dan we denken?
Oortwolk In een nieuwe studie komen onderzoekers met een gewaagde hypothese. Ze presenteren nieuwe berekeningen die aantonen dat de Oortwolk – een veronderstelde wolk van vele miljarden komeetachtige objecten rondom het zonnestelsel – meer interstellaire bezoekers herbergt dan inheemse objecten die tot ons eigen zonnestelsel behoren. De berekeningen, gemaakt op basis van conclusies over 2I/Borisov, bevatten aanzienlijke onzekerheden, zo benadrukt onderzoeker Amir Siraj. “Maar zelfs na deze in overweging te hebben genomen, prevaleren interstellaire bezoekers boven inheemse objecten.”
Meer over de Oortwolk
Het bestaan van de Oortwolk werd in 1950 geopperd door de Nederlandse sterrenkundige Jan Hendrik Oort. Deze wolk zou namelijk de steeds nieuwe kometen met langgerekte banen in ons zonnestelsel verklaren. Verstoringen van kometen in deze wolk – bijvoorbeeld door toedoen van sterren die ons zonnestelsel passeren – zouden ervoor zorgen dat sommige ervan de Oortwolk uitgekegeld worden, in een elliptische baan rond de zon belanden en daarbij en passant het binnenste van ons zonnestelsel aan doen.
Het is een opmerkelijke theorie. Want tot nu toe werd juist het omgekeerde verondersteld. “Vóór de detectie van de eerste interstellaire komeet, hadden we geen idee hoeveel interstellaire objecten er in ons zonnestelsel zijn,” zegt Siraj. “Maar de theorie over de vorming van planetaire systemen suggereert dat er minder bezoekers zouden moeten zijn dan permanente bewoners. Nu merken we dat er aanzienlijk meer bezoekers zouden kunnen zijn.”
Een voorbeeldje Hoe de onderzoekers tot dit idee zijn gekomen? “Laten we zeggen dat ik een dag lang naar een spoorlijn van een kilometer lang kijk en één auto zie oversteken,” schetst Siraj. “Ik kan dan stellen dat het aantal auto’s dat die dag de spoorlijn heeft overgestoken, één per dag per kilometer is. Maar als ik reden heb om aan te nemen dat deze waarneming geen eenmalige gebeurtenis was – bijvoorbeeld doordat er spoorbomen geplaatst zijn – dan kan ik een stap verder gaan en statische conclusies trekken over het aantal auto’s dat het betreffende stuk spoor oversteken.”
Vraag Een prangende vraag is dan echter; als er zoveel interstellaire kometen zijn, waarom hebben we er dan tot nu toe nog maar één gezien? “We beschikken nog niet over de nodige technologie om ze te detecteren,” betoogt Siraj. “Bedenk je dat de Oortwolk een gebied omspant dat zo’n 300 miljard tot 160 biljoen kilometer verwijderd is van de zon. En in tegenstelling tot sterren produceren objecten in de Oortwolk niet hun eigen licht. Die twee factoren maken het puin in de buitenste regionen van ons zonnestelsel ongelofelijk moeilijk waar te nemen.”
Planetoïden De theorie kan gevolgen hebben voor de manier waarop we naar planetoïden kijken. “Als we een blik op gegevens over planetoïden werpen, kunnen we ons afvragen of sommige misschien interstellair zijn maar nog niet als zodanig herkend zijn,” aldus astrofysicus Matthew Holman, niet betrokken bij het onderzoek. Holman legt uit dat na de ontdekking van een planetoïde, deze niet jaarlijks wordt waargenomen of bestudeerd. “We denken dat het planetoïden zijn, maar dan verliezen we ze uit het oog, zonder er een goede blik op te hebben geworpen,” zegt hij.
Vera C. Rubin-observatorium Waarnemingen met toekomstige, verbeterde technologie zouden de resultaten van het onderzoeksteam kunnen helpen bevestigen. Ze kijken dan ook reikhalzend uit naar de lancering van het Vera C. Rubin-observatorium, dat in 2022 het luchtruim kiest. Deze telescoop gaat onder andere de buitenste regionen van ons zonnestelsel afspeuren, op zoek naar interessante objecten. De verwachting is dat Rubin ongeveer tien keer zoveel planetoïden als momenteel bekend is aan het licht gaat brengen. “We hopen dan ook veel meer interstellaire bezoekers zoals 2I/Borisov te detecteren,” aldus Siraj.
Als er inderdaad een overvloed aan interstellaire objecten in de Oortwolk te vinden zijn, dan zou dit tevens betekenen dat er veel meer puin over is van de vorming van planetenstelsels dan eerder werd gedacht. “Samen met observatiestudies van protoplanetaire schijven en computergestuurde benaderingen van planeetvorming, zou de studie naar interstellaire objecten ons kunnen helpen de geheimen te ontrafelen van hoe ons planetenstelsel – en andere – gevormd zijn,” besluit Siraj.
Omdat ze op het Australische Phillip-eiland geen natuurlijke vijand hebben, bevinden deze vraatzuchtige duizendpoten zich wonderbaarlijk genoeg aan de top van de voedselketen.
Als je aan een duizendpoot denkt, denk je misschien aan die kleine, krioelende beestjes in de zanderige grond. Maar in Australië nemen zelfs deze diertjes bizarre vormen aan. Onderzoekers hebben namelijk ontdekt dat de Cormocephalus coynei, een duizendpoot die leeft op het onbewoonde, Australische Phillip-eiland, niet alleen gigantisch is, maar ook een wat opmerkelijk dieet volgt.
Meer over de Cormocephalus coynei
Cormocephalus coynei is een duizendpootsoort die voorkomt op Phillip- en Nepean-eiland, gelegen ten zuiden van het Australische Norfolkeiland. De soort werd voor het eerst gezien op Phillip-eiland in 1792, maar werd pas in 1984 formeel beschreven. De duizendpoot kan maar liefst 23,5 cm lang worden en is roodbruin en oranje van kleur. Maar het meest opmerkelijke is zijn bizarre gewoonte om op gewervelde dieren te jagen.
In de studie besloten onderzoekers het dieet van de duizendpoot te bestuderen. Want dat deze diertjes een bijzondere eetlust hebben, weten we al langer. Zo staan ze erom bekend om op gekko’s, stinken en vissen te jagen. Maar soms hebben de beestjes zelfs nog grotere honger.
Een gekko is ten prooi gevallen aan een vleesetende duizendpoot.
Afbeelding: D. Terrington (2019)
Zeevogels De onderzoekers kwamen namelijk tot de ontdekking dat de duizendpoten op Phillip-eiland het zelfs op zeevogels hebben voorzien. “Er zijn aanwijzingen dat grote duizendpoten over de hele wereld gewervelde dieren verorberen,” zegt onderzoeksleider Luke Halpin. “Maar dit is de eerste keer dat we ontdekken dat de duizendpoot op zeevogels jaagt.”
Dieet De onderzoekers hebben het opmerkelijke dieet van Cormocephalus coynei nauwkeurig in kaart gebracht. En daaruit blijkt dat het bizarre eetpatroon van deze roofzuchtige duizendpoot voor 48 procent bestaat uit gewervelde dieren en 52 procent uit ongewervelde dieren. 30,5 procent bestaat uit hagedissen, waaronder de inheemse Lord Howe Island Skink en de endemische hagedis Christinus guentheri. Opvallend genoeg bestaat 7,9 procent van het dieet van de duizendpoot uit de zwartvleugelstormvogel (met name de kuikentjes) en 9,6 procent uit zeevissen die door in bomen nestelende zeevogels op de bosbodem zijn gedropt.
Bekijk in deze video hoe een duizendpoot een kuikentje vangt.
Het is een vrij merkwaardige samenstelling voor een duizendpoot. “Het vertegenwoordigt een ongewoon hoog percentage gewervelde dieren in het dieet van een ongewervelde,” constateert Halpin. “We laten zien hoe roofzuchtige geleedpotigen druk uitoefenen op gewervelde populaties.”
Top van voedselketen Maar dat is niet eens het enige. Aangezien geen enkel roofdier op het eiland het op de duizendpoot heeft voorzien, zijn deze langbenige monstertjes de onbetwiste toproofdieren op Philip-eiland. Ze bevinden zich wonderbaarlijk genoeg aan de top van de voedselketen.
Sleutelrol Hoe maf het ook klinkt, volgens de onderzoekers is de vraatzuchtige eetlust van de duizendpoten eigenlijk van vitaal belang voor het ecosysteem op het eiland. Dat komt omdat ze belangrijke voedingsstoffen uit de zee (die de zeevogels meenemen) naar het land brengen. Volgens onderzoeker Rohan Clarke spelen de gigantische duizendpoten dan ook een sleutelrol in de vormgeving van het natuurlijke systeem. “Het benadrukt echt de complexiteit van de natuur,” aldus de Clarke.
De duizendpoten houden dus de dynamiek van het ecosysteem op het eiland in balans. En daar kunnen wij ook een belangrijke les uit trekken. “Het laat zien hoe belangrijk het is om de resterende natuurlijke gebieden te behouden,” benadrukt Clarke. “Op die manier kunnen we voorkomen dat complexe interacties zoals deze – die uiteindelijk het leven op aarde ondersteunen – verder worden verstoord.”
8 Ancient Chinese Inventions the West Had Not Imagined
8 Ancient Chinese Inventions the West Had Not Imagined
According to the statistics provided by the World Economic Forum, nowadays China can boast its position as the world’s second largest spender on scientific research and development, yielding only to the United States.
Yet, surprisingly enough, China is not only a producer but also an inventor of a great many things and even technologies that the US and much older nations use daily.
When numerous tribes were searching for the best lands all across Europe and couldn’t even imagine that the Atlantic Ocean separated them from the other large continents, the Chinese civilization was establishing, developing, and revolutionizing oriental science and technology.
Of course, China can’t be credited with the invention of the mobile phone, Internet or other modern technologies. But what this nation did give to the whole of humanity thousands of years ago advanced different industries and improved different aspects of human life. What’s more, the influence of all those ingenious ancient Chinese inventions can be tracked even to the 21st century.
However, that’s just a tiny part of the enormous heritage that ancient China left for the global future.
Documenting the Chinese Contribution
Dr. Joseph Needham was one of the first and most prominent Western scientists who tried to shed light on Chinese achievements and contributions to the development of our whole world. The British biochemist and historian became captivated by China’s attitude and approach to science and technology after his trip to this country in 1942.
Needham’s admiration for Chinese history, culture and language, as well as his extraordinary intelligence, led him to work on a huge project, now widely known as “ Science and Civilization in China ”.
It comprises 27 published books in 7 volumes on the subject and covers each and every aspect: from mathematics to medicine.
Science and Civilisation in China (Chinese translation) by Joseph Needham.
Joseph Needham enthusiastically described dozens of ancient Chinese inventions which were (and remain) widely used in the Western world that one couldn’t even imagine they actually had come from the Far East.
So, what did this centuries-old, wise, and still mysterious civilization give us for nothing, literally?
Paper, Toilet Paper, Paper Money, and the Menu
The invention of paper allowed the invention of the other three helpful things mentioned here. So, let’s put all four of them into one category – paper invention.
Europeans were buying papyrus from Egypt and using parchment for all those centuries when the Chinese were enjoying real paper. Although it didn’t look quite like the modern paper we are used to writing on, it turned out to be a more convenient and durable material.
Historical records attribute the invention of papermaking to Cai Lun, a eunuch of the emperor’s court. Although it’s officially acknowledged that papermaking was born in AD 105, recent investigations have traced it back to the 2nd century BC.
Some may argue that papyrus had been produced in Egypt since 3000 BC and served its purpose well for many centuries. However, in the 14th-15th centuries Europe also opted for paper. And this choice speaks for itself.
Obviously, if China invented papermaking, it must be the creator of… toilet paper. The first recorded use of it dates back to AD 851, during the Tang dynasty. But it was the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) when the popularity of toilet paper among the imperial court increased.
In the Western world toilet paper became commercially available only in the second half on the 19th century, after it was “reinvented” by Joseph C. Gayetty in 1857.
In the 9th century AD the Chinese started using paper to print money. The first paper bills served as credit or exchange notes. Merchants could receive them for deposing metal coins, without any losses in the value of “cash”.
China has always been a grand trader, welcoming merchants and adventurers from all around the world. The large number of foreigners who couldn’t speak the Chinese language is said to be the reason for inventing… a restaurant menu as early as the times of the Song dynasty (960–1279). The Chinese already had paper, so using it to make menus was a reasonable idea, wasn’t it?
Printing
Despite the availability of much earlier artifacts of printing in the Far East, the Diamond Sutra is considered to be the very first book printed on paper at regular size. According to the records, it was made in AD 868, during the Tang dynasty. At that time woodblock printing was gaining popularity, simplifying the spread of religious texts without modifications.
Early masters put ink on an inscribed wooden block. The ink rolled over the surface of characters carved into the wood. After printing, a reversed picture of the wooden block was left on paper that took the ink easily. A single block could produce about 20,000 copies.
One century later Bi Sheng upgraded this technique by introducing movable type printing. Movable individual characters, carved on clay pieces and hardened with fire, could be attached to an iron plate to print one page of text. It was then broken up and reorganized to print another page.
By the way, Johann Gutenberg used almost the same technology to print the first Bible in the 1450s.
Alcohol
The 2004 research by University of Pennsylvania claimed that the Chinese might have been the first nation to discover fermentation and distillation processes used to create alcohol. The team of scientists studied dried organic materials that they found in ancient jars. The results of a complex analysis allowed them to state that the Chinese drank alcoholic beverages as early as 9,000 years ago.
The legend has it that Yi Di, the wife of Yu the Great, who was the emperor of the mystical dynasty Xia, was the first to prepare an alcoholic drink for her husband. That might have happened around 2000 BC.
So, the history of wine and beer making takes its roots from China, which nowadays is, ironically, not so well known for the production and export of alcohol.
Forks
Surely, chopsticks make an integral part of Chinese exotica. But the finds from the recent excavation of the tomb of Qin Shihuang, the first non-mythical emperor of China (259 BC - 210 BC), prove that the Chinese created forks of quite a modern design many hundreds of years ago. Why the Chinese didn’t and don’t use them is another question.
Nonetheless, the West can thank this nation for their creativity and practicality. At the end of the day, it’s quite difficult for us to imagine our traditional breakfasts and dinners without forks.
Compass
Arab traders are likely to have brought the compass to Europe. Thus, our distant ancestors started using it in navigation to find the right direction in the stormy seas and to discover new lands.
However, the compass is one of the greatest ancient Chinese inventions. It was created around the 3rd century BC and initially used by… fortunetellers. Chinese navigators began to use it in ships not earlier than during the Song dynasty, that is around the 10th century AD.
By the way, unlike the modern compass that points north, the ancient Chinese compass pointed south. The “needle” of the Chinese compass was made from lodestone in the form of a spoon. Lodestone naturally points south, and that gave Chinese sailors an additional strategic advantage: south is always the direction of the sun when it’s midday. So there’s no wonder why smart Chinese navigation became a model for the whole world.
The prototype of our mechanical watches and clocks existed first in China too. Its creator was Buddhist monk Yi Xing. He came up with the first model of the mechanical clock in AD 725, two centuries before the idea of it struck Westerners.
According to his design, dripping water powered a big wheel which made one full revolution in one day – 24 hours.
During the Song dynasty, official Su Song modernized the clock so it could tell not only the time of the day but also the day of the month, the phase of the Moon, and the positions of some stars and planets. Su Song built a clock tower and added a chain-driven mechanism to the sophisticated system of gears and wheels that made the clock turn.
Earthquake Detector
We may know it better as a seismograph, though almost 2,000 years ago it looked more like a beautiful bronze vase. What was its secret?
Inside the vessel there is a pendulum that can be moved by an earth tremor. The swing of the pendulum sets in motion the internal levers inside the vessel. This triggers the release of a small ball held by a dragon that faces the direction of the epicenter of the tremor. This ball falls into the mouth of a frog right below it, hence heralding the danger.
In China earthquakes are frequent, so the stylish device did stand this country in good stead for hundreds of years.
The Western prototype of the modern seismograph was designed in Persia in the 13th century and in France no earlier than in the beginning of the 18th century.
Rockets
China’s recent achievements in space exploration are impressive. Probably, in the 3rd century AD the inventors of rockets couldn’t even dream that their descendants would once see the Earth from the skies. But the memory and historical records about their innovation inspired distant generations to build huge and powerful spacecrafts.
Drawing of an early Mongolian soldier lighting a rocket.
But let’s go back to the ancient times and see how it worked there.
The counter-force, required to set a rocket in motion, was produced by ignited gunpowder, which is actually another Chinese invention. For example, during the Song dynasty, the Chinese stuffed a paper tube with gunpowder and attached this tube to an arrow that they could launch with a bow.
Obviously, such invention was widely used in military. But it also became an integral part of traditional Chinese entertainment – fireworks.
A video was sent to the WBSM Facebook page that we could not help but take a closer look at.
Cam Fortes sent us a video that his brother, Noah recorded on Saturday, September 25. Noah told us that the video was taken around 7:30 p.m. near Buttonwood Park in New Bedford. The flashing lights appear to be hovering over the CVS on Kempton Street.
Over the chorus of Rupert Holmes' "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)," you can hear Noah say that the two flashing lights are moving in sync. The video was less than 10 seconds, but that was enough to intrigue us about these two flashing orange orbs.
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“They almost seemed like they were levitating and just standing still almost,” Fortes said. “I wish I got more footage, but they were just moving in sync. They were orange orbs and they were diagonal from each other. It was honestly quite weird how in sync they were!”
WBSM reached out to Scot Servis, the Airport Manager at New Bedford Regional Airport, for some insight on the video.
"My vote is a drone, but with the green lights either disabled or covered,” Servis said. “If it was a helicopter, you would have heard it. It's moving too slow to be an airplane. Just my two cents."
A drone would make sense as you might not be able to hear it depending on how high it was elevated above you. And the restrictions on lights for drones is not as carefully regulated as a plane or helicopter would be.
This is the second UFO sighting reported to our radio station since Tuesday, September 21. The first one was captured by Jordan Costa and Donna Santos outside of their home in Westport.
LOOK UP: 14 Recent UFO Sightings on the SouthCoast
1. Marion – June 5, 2018, 11:45 a.m.
We actually wrote about this report when it first happened, and you can see our story on it – including video – right here. Crystal, the woman who captured the video, spotted two UFOs over Marion Harbor in broad daylight. At first, she thought they were just a pair of balloons until she noticed they were moving completely in unison. "They never moved independently," she said. "But were moving together to the left, slowly." She said the wind was blowing in the same direction as they were moving, and she watched them until clouds rolled in and she could no longer see the two objects.
2. Buzzards Bay/Bourne – July 20, 2018, 8:20 p.m.
This “orange fireball” with “a very tiny darker colored flame at one end” was seen for about three to five minutes by a couple camping at the Bourne Scenic Park along the Cape Cod Canal. Its movement was described as “slow and silent.” The reporting party told the National UFO Reporting Center they had seen a similar object in the same spot in the past.
3. Middleboro – August 2, 2018, 10:30 p.m.
The town of Middleboro is in the direct flight path to Logan Airport, but this person who reported their sighting to the National UFO Reporting Center says he knows the Logan flight paths and this was not part of them. Initially, the light was amber colored and seemed very high in altitude. However, its brightness was about twice that of the airplanes. The light was solid and not strobing. It appeared to be somewhat cross-shaped, but I wasn’t sure if it might’ve just been light refraction,” he reported. “Within 5-10 seconds the light started losing intensity and the color faded to white. After about another 10 seconds of the light slowly losing its intensity it was nothing more than a pinpoint of light no bigger than a very small star. Within a second it faded to complete darkness and I lost sight of it.” He said the entire event lasted just 15-20 seconds.
4. New Bedford – September 16, 2018, 5 p.m.
The person who shared this report with the National UFO Reporting Center was outside with their niece and mother when they noticed “(a) banner of white spheres in constellation formation flying under (the) half moon.” The sighting lasted less than five minutes but was very strange. “The spheres were arranged in what appeared to be constellations,” the report reads. “Furthermore, they also appeared to be changing, maybe as if there was some sort of message.”
5. Wareham – March 12, 2019, 12:20 a.m.
This white oval sphere was reported over Onset Bay near the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, with three military jets in pursuit. “The object was glowing white when I observed the three military jets flying around it,” reads the report that came into the National UFO Reporting Center. “When the jets approached it seemed to change color and glowed red for a split second then disappeared for what seemed to me a couple of seconds. Reappearing close to the same spot as it disappeared zig, zagging from north to south followed by a rapid acceleration to the West and then totally disappearing from sight.”
6. Rehoboth – April 28, 2019, 2 a.m.
The date on this sighting is listed as “approximate” by the National UFO Reporting Center, but the duration of the event was reportedly more than an hour each night and went on for several weeks. “Looked exactly like a star but much brighter. Wasn’t a plane because it stayed in the same spot for about an hour...Wasn’t a star because it eventually moved,” the report reads. “I thought it may possibly be a satellite at first but it’s been in the same spot for quite a few weeks now. Every time I wake up between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m., it’s there, and then after 3:30 a.m., it’s gone. Very strange.” Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center theorized the object spotted could be Jupiter or Saturn.
7. Middleboro – June 3, 2019, 2:26 a.m.
This sighting, which lasted less than 20 minutes, was reported to the National UFO Reporting Center as five bright lights merging into one: “I first saw what it looked like to be a star, a white-looking star, then another joined under it, and another under it. The three stars formed in a line. After about five seconds, they merged into one star. Then the stars looked like it was making an unknown shape. From what I saw, it looked like a teardrop but the tip was very curved. I also noticed some sort of beam shining out of the UFO. I also noticed a minuscule-sized aircraft flying around the light. The small one was flashing green lights. Then it faded into nothing. Came back, then faded once more. After the second fading, the light never came back.”
8. New Bedford – June 8, 2019, 11:34 p.m.
This very quick sighting of an oval-shaped object was nonetheless submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center. “I observed a single, fairly large, blueish oval/pill-shaped object with a lighter blueish tint/halo surrounding it,” the report reads. “It traveled in the clear night sky, in low earth orbit, at very high speeds with no audible sounds. It was slightly slower than a meteorite/shooting star and much much faster than a satellite. It had no visible tail and kept on path heading from West to East and was only in my field of view for about four to five seconds.”
9. Middleboro – July 30, 2019, 3 a.m.
Two different reports came into the National UFO Reporting Center of these “very bright lights in the sky,” which began at 3 a.m. and remained hovering overhead for more than an hour. “It had bright lights, seemed to be pulsating, and moved almost imperceptibly from left to right. The lights appeared to be in a triangular shape. At one point, an extremely bright, perfectly vertical, thin beam of light appeared next to it (think of a flashbulb, but quicker). This happened twice. This thing remained in the sky, in the same spot, for over an hour,” one report read. The other report had a similar description, adding, “The flashes were more like thin beams of extremely bright white light that traveled in perfectly straight vertical lines. They appeared in a flash, in a nanosecond—and these flashes were blinding. I cannot imagine I was the only person who saw this.”
10. Lakeville – September 15, 2019, 8:17 p.m.
The circular object was spotted for less than a minute. “My husband was sitting on the couch, we were watching tv when he noticed a bright light outside usually where the moon would be. It was too early for the moon to be in that position and this light was too bright. We went to our porch and got a closer look and video,” reads the report from the National UFO Reporting Center. “It was a bright whitish-blue circle, could have been octagon shaped. It stayed over the tree line for almost a minute, moved slightly to the right, stopped, and then moved off quickly behind the tree lines. We live on the third floor, so we ran outside to the car and tried to follow, but it was gone.”
11. Fall River – November 23, 2019, 9 p.m.
These objects were seen over multiple nights hovering in the same position over the Somerset area, but only visible at night. “They blended in with the stars. It was like a circle of fuzzy white lights and on top was a red light,” the report reads. “Looked like it could have been drones but the drones would have to be huge, so I really started looking and counted 24+ objects, all were identical.”
12. New Bedford – November 25, 2019, 6:45 p.m.
Described as “four spherical objects emitting red aura flying in a trail formation,” this sighting lasted about seven minutes over the intersection of Route 140 and Route 6. “Two of them were headed west to east over Route 140 parallel with one another. One of them then moved behind the other in a trailing formation moving at approximately 20+ mph. The other two objects I observed were located above a cemetery near Route 140 and Route 6,” the report reads. “They were moving up, down, left, right for a minute or so. One of them dropped altitude really quickly like, 500 feet in less than a second. It then moved back upwards and the both started heading west to east in a trailing formation back over Route 140 and Route 6.” The reporting party did admit they could have been drones.
13. Fall River – December 28, 2019, 6 p.m.
There’s not much to this report, other than it appeared for a duration of about 20 minutes. “The lights were blinking and swirling in circles,” the report reads. “I first thought it was stars but they started to move across the sky.”
14. Carver – February 4, 2020, 2:09 a.m.
The spherical object remained in the sky for well over an hour. “I first noticed its lights and it was suspended over the cranberry bogs. It didn't move very much, it just hung there in silence.” The report went on to state the craft left without making a sound, and that it “moved strangely” and “had lights on all sides.” The reporting party claimed to have snapped 10 photos of the alleged craft, but they were not included with the report.
Encounters with mysterious, glowing balls of light – ones that have the mystifying ability to change into the forms of strange and savage creatures – have been reported on more than a few occasions in Texas. A classic example is the large body of data that surrounds a certain huge area of forest in Texas. As someone who is proud to call the Dallas-Fort Worth area my home, I am all too well aware that many people think and assume that Texas is just one big desert. In reality, however, that’s far from the case. Yes, West Texas is extremely flat and filled with almost endless fields of cotton. And, it’s also true that South Texas has its fair share of harsh and scalding landscapes. However, Central, North, and East Texas are very different: they are dominated by thick forestland that extends for miles and miles…and miles. Indeed, a 2011 Forest Inventory and Analysis report prepared by the Texas Forest Service revealed that Texas’ woods ran to 62.4 million acres, and which cover almost forty percent of the state. And it’s to one particular area of dense woodland that we have to turn our attention to. Its name: the Big Thicket.
(Nick Redfern)
Located in the Piney Woods area of East Texas, the Big Thicket has a most apt moniker: it is a huge, 83,000-acre area of woodland. “Dense” barely begins to describe the massive, forested environment, which is home to numerous wild animals, including alligators and bobcats – as well as to other creatures of a very odd kind, as we’ll soon see. Running through the heart of the Big Thicket is a long, thin, and incredibly sandy old road called Bragg Road. That’s not what the locals call it, though. To them, it is known as Ghost Light Road. Or, just Ghost Road. There is a very good reason for this: for at least three centuries, people have reported seeing weird, small balls of light flitting through the trees late at night. But, we’re not talking about anything quite as down to earth as fireflies. These particular lights vary in size from – approximately – a tennis ball to a beach ball. They also exhibit evidence of intelligence: witnesses describe the lights approaching them, even circling them, in what is occasionally perceived as a playful fashion. Such is the interest that the lights provoke in the people that live there, and in visitors too, a historical marker has been erected at the start of Bragg Road and which details the strange story of the lights.
(Nick Redfern) Nick Redfern and the late Rob Riggs
The late Rob Riggs was a well-known figure in the Bigfoot research field and someone who spent a significant portion of his life living in the Big Thicket area. Riggs collected numerous reports of the mysterious ghost lights, dating back to the 1800s. But, Riggs did far more than that: he also catalogued an astonishing number of reports of what seemed to be Bigfoot and large, black leopards. I say “seemed to be” for a very good reason. While most people who have reported seeing large black cats, and who have had hairy wild-man type encounters in the Big Thicket, the vast majority are content to conclude they encountered animals of the type that very few ever get to encounter. But, not all of them. A small body of individuals have sworn that the large cats and the hairy humanoids – when spotted by the astonished and sometimes terrified onlookers – vanished before their eyes. We’re not talking about them making hasty getaways into the woods. Rather, we are talking about the “animals” – in an instant – changing form from big cat and Bigfoot to a small, brightly-lit globe of light. The ghost lights that have been staple parts of the area for centuries, of course.
Marsrover InSight detecteert 3 grote bevingen op rode planeet, inclusief klepper die bijna 1,5 uur duurde
Marsrover ‘InSight’ heeft recent drie grote bevingen op de rode planeet gedetecteerd. Eén van die bevingen duurde bijna 90 minuten lang en had liefst vijf keer meer energie dan de vorige recordhouder uit 2019. De NASA-wetenschappers van de missie sprongen een gat in de lucht toen ze de data binnenkregen, want het zijn grote bevingen als deze die hen ontzettend veel leren over hoe rotsachtige werelden gevormd worden en evolueren, zoals ook de aarde en haar maan. En dan te denken dat de robot eerder dit jaar bijna zijn seismometer moest stilleggen door energietekort en een hoop stof op zijn zonnepanelen.
Lander InSight zat op zaterdag 18 september, op zijn 1.000e dag of ‘sol’ op Mars, rustig te zitten in de lege, weidse stofvlakten van de rode planeet toen de grond plots begon te rommelen. De beving duurde uiteindelijk bijna anderhalf uur lang. De Marsrover stuurde de data meteen met zijn seismometer terug naar de aarde. Toen de onderzoekers bij NASA de info binnenkregen, realiseerden ze zich dat InSight de grootste en langste Marsbeving ooit tijdens zijn missie had gedetecteerd.
InSight had een beving met een kracht van minstens 4.2 op de schaal van Richter van bijna 90 minuten lang vastgelegd - exact het type beving waar de wetenschappers op gehoopt hadden sinds de rover op de rode planeet is geland in november 2018. Recent waren er bovendien nog al twee redelijk grote bevingen: op 25 augustus voelde de lander twee - kortere - bevingen van 4.2 en 4.1. Daarvoor was de grootste beving die InSight ooit had meegemaakt tijdens de missie een exemplaar met een kracht van 3.7, ergens in 2019.
“Het lijkt erop dat er in verhouding tot het aantal kleine aardbevingen op Mars minder grote aardbevingen zijn dan we zouden verwachten. Het is een beetje mysterieus”, legde Bruce Banerdt, hoofdonderzoeker voor InSight, in april uit aan Business Insider. Maar de beving van zaterdag - die vijf keer meer energie had dan het gerommel van de recordbeving van twee jaar eerder - is het type klepper dat een belangrijk missend stukje van de grote Martiaanse puzzel kan bieden.
De InSight-missie bestudeert seismische golven om meer te leren over de binnenkant van Mars. De golven veranderen als ze door de korst, mantel en kern van de planeet reizen, en bieden wetenschappers een manier om diep onder het oppervlak te kijken, een beetje zoals de golven van een X-ray of een CAT-scan worden gebruikt voor informatie over binnenin het menselijk lichaam.
Een meer gedetailleerde kijk op de binnenkant van Mars kan belangrijke aanwijzingen bieden over hoe de planeet is geboren en geëvolueerd doorheen de tijd. Kennis die cruciaal kan zijn bij de inspanningen van astronomen om andere werelden te vinden waar leven misschien mogelijk is en om rotsachtige werelden te begrijpen, inclusief de aarde en onze maan.
“Door de kern van Mars te bestuderen en de korst van Mars te bekijken, en te begrijpen dat deze niet erg zijn veranderd in de afgelopen 4,5 miljard jaar, kunnen we een glimps krijgen in hoe de aarde er mogelijk in een heel vroeg stadium heeft uitgezien”, aldus Banerdt. “Mars helpt ons begrijpen hoe rotsachtige planeten ontstaan en hoe ze evolueren.”
Meer dan 700 bevingen
In totaal heeft InSight tijdens zijn tijd op Mars al meer dan 700 bevingen gedetecteerd, en ze hebben samen al veel onthuld over de binnenkant. Zo ontdekten de onderzoekers dat de korst van Mars dunner is dan ze dachten en dat het meer zoals de korst van de maan is dan die van de aarde - het is opgebroken door de impact van asteroïden. Recent hebben de wetenschappers met behulp van de bevingen ook bepaald dat Mars een gesmolten kern heeft. Ze zijn nog niet zeker of er achter een gesmolten buitenkern nog een solide binnenkern verstopt zit, zoals het geval is op aarde.
Doordat de Martiaanse korst droog en gebroken is, duren de bevingen daar ook zoveel langer dan aardbevingen. Ze weerkaatsen tussen scheuren in de korst en er is niet zoveel vocht om ze te absorberen. De bevingen die InSight heeft vastgesteld op Mars duurden gewoonlijk 10 tot 40 minuten.
De drie recente grote bevingen hadden overigens evengoed niet waargenomen geweest, ware het niet dat de missie eerder dit jaar in een huzarenstukje slaagde om InSight ondanks veel moeilijkheden toch nog aan het werk te houden.
De zeer elliptische baan van Mars bracht de planeet verder van de zon, waardoor de Marsrover geconfronteerd werd met lagere temperaturen en meer op zijn eigen verwarming moest rekenen om warm te blijven. Daar kwam bij dat grote stofophoping op de zonnepanelen van InSight het vermogen van de lander had verminderd, waardoor de missie noodgedwongen energie moest besparen door bepaalde instrumenten tijdelijk uit te schakelen.
Als we eerder dit jaar niet snel hadden gehandeld, hadden we echt heel goede wetenschap gemist.
Het team van wetenschappers slaagde erin om de seismometer toch nog te laten werken met een originele en ietwat contra-intuïtieve aanpak: ze gebruikten de robotarm van InSight om langzaam zand te laten druppelen in de buurt van één van de zonnepanelen in de hoop dat windvlagen de korrels over het paneel zouden voeren en zo een deel van het stof erop zouden wegvegen. Het plan lukte en tijdens verschillende stofopruimingsacties zag het team dat het vermogensniveau redelijk stabiel bleef. Een hele opluchting. Nu Mars de zon weer nadert, begint de kracht van de lander weer te groeien.
“Als we eerder dit jaar niet snel hadden gehandeld, hadden we echt heel goede wetenschap gemist”, zegt Banerdt in een reactie. “Zelfs na meer dan twee jaar lijkt Mars ons nog iets nieuw gegeven te hebben met deze grote bevingen, die ook unieke eigenschappen hebben.”
Veel verder dan normaal
Beeld van Mars genomen door een andere Marsrover, Perseverance.
Terwijl de grootste beving van 18 september nog volop onderzocht wordt, weten de vorsers immers nu al een aantal interessante dingen van die van 25 augustus: zo vond de beving van 4.2 plaats op 8.500 kilometer afstand van InSight, dat is de verste beving die de lander tot nu toe heeft opspoord. De exacte locatie moet nog bepaald worden, maar één ding is zeker: de beving gebeurde te ver om te zijn ontstaan waar de Marsrover bijna alle vorige grote bevingen kon vastleggen, de ‘Cerberus Fossae’, een gebied meer dan 1.600 kilometer verder waar in laatste paar miljoenen jaren mogelijk lava heeft gestroomd. Eén erg intrigerende mogelijkheid is dat de beving gebeurde in ‘Valles Marineris’, het episch lange ravijnsysteem dat door de evenaar van Mars kronkelt.
Luidruchtig
Tot verbazing van de wetenschappers waren de twee bevingen op 25 augustus ook andere types. De beving van 4.2 kende trage vibraties met een lage frequentie, terwijl de beving van 4.1 heel snel en met vibraties van hoge frequenties gepaard ging. De tweede beving vond ook veel dichter bij de lander plaats, amper 925 kilometer. Wat de twee wel gemeen hebben - buiten dat het allebei om grote exemplaren ging - is dat ze beide overdag gebeurden op de meest winderige en, voor de seismometer, meest luidruchtige tijd op Mars.
Het is hoe dan ook allemaal goed nieuws voor seismologen: het kunnen bestuderen van verschillende grote bevingen van verschillende afstanden en met verschillende soorten seismische golven geeft meer informatie over de innerlijke structuur van een planeet.
En intussen luistert InSight naarstig en geduldig verder naar de hartslag van Mars, in de hoop nog veel meer te kunnen ontdekken. Helemaal zelfstandig even, want de volgende drie weken krijgen de landers op Mars geen commando’s, aangezien de aarde en de rode planeet zich nu aan tegenovergestelde kanten van de zon bevinden. Deze periode van solar conjunction gebeurt elke twee jaar.
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Extraordinary strange UFOs fly through our skies
Extraordinary strange UFOs fly through our skies
Over the years, many unidentified aerial phenomena have been photographed. Witnesses often wonder whether they photographed a UFO or a rare aerial phenomenon.
The fact is that many unknown objects, whether real or 'secret' man-made UFOs, fly through our sky that we don't know that they exist.
The world is ruled by shape-shifting lizards, the landing on the moon was fake, and a UFO crashed in Roswell. Where do conspiracy theories originate from? Prof. Włodzisław Duch from the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics of the Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) has decided to examine the process of their development in the brain. An article dealing with this issue has just been published in a prestigious journal “Patterns” (Cell Press).
Multitude of conspiracy theories people believe in all over the world is astonishing. They actually accompany each significant event: a catastrophe, assassination, death of a famous person or, currently, the Covid-19 pandemic. Because the formation of a distorted image of reality is so widespread this topic has been dealt with by numerous scientists. Various studies, articles and books using psychological, sociological, political science, or anthropological approaches have been published. However, the presumed conspiracy theories mechanism is still a matter of speculations because the problem is scarcely researched by specialists in natural science.
Professor Włodzisław Duch from the Department of Informatics at the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, NCU, is an exception. For years, his scientific interests have been focused on artificial intelligence, neural networks, informatics, quantum physics as well as cognitive science. 10 years ago, he wrote his first report on memetics, conspiracy theories, representation of memes as neural network attractor states in the brain, linking it with the formation of conspiracy theories. His article entitled “Memetics and Neural Models of Conspiracy Theories“, has just been published in “Patterns” (Cell Press), a highly renowned, open-access journal in which breakthrough, original texts concerning data science are released.
– It is one of those long-lasting things in my professional life. I have tried to publish this work for so many years. Even though I indicated 10 potential reviewers, nobody felt competent enough to review it, and thus, journals rejected it – explains Prof. Duch. – The concept seemed too innovative. Moreover, it concerns the subtle processes taking place in the brain. Neuroscience experts prefer experiments on rats, so they have no chance to take a closer look at the subject of conspiracy theories. Computer models, in turn, are not concerned with subtle phenomena addressed by memetics.
Richard Dawkins is the originator of memetics. He used the word meme (from Greek root i.e. imitation) to name bits of information “inserted into the head”, those which are rapidly embedded in the neural connections structure in the brain, and whose behavior is similar to that of genes.
– Memetics is thus the theory of human behavior and provides a common paradigm for cultural studies, religious studies, sociology and other fields of social studies which describe our mental space. The main challenge it faces is the identification of memes, studying how they are reproduced, spread, and developed – explains Prof. Duch. – But, what is the meme from the physical, neuroscientific point of view? It has not been described so far.
Brain determinants
Why do people believe in conspiracy theories?
Because this is how their brains function. We think the way our brains allow us to do – says Prof. Duch. – On the one hand, we are dealing with genetic determinism: human cognitive capacity and affective reactions are much varied and dependent on the presence of genes responsible for building individual brain structure, for example COMT, DARPP-32, DRD2 – the genes connected with dopamine, an important neurotransmitter. Hence, genes determine personality, predispositions, skills, but not particular decisions.
On the other hand, genetic determinism only partially affects our neuronal determinism, namely, our brain formation resulting from our life experience, upbringing, culture, and religion.
– We cannot think differently than our neuronal activity allows – says Prof. Duch. – The whole history of a given individual, his/her experience starting in the fetal stage, may influence easy activation of certain neurons in the brain whereas other neurons require strong stimulation in order to be activated. It would be interesting to find out how certain bits of information we receive are turned into memes and reproduced while others remain unnoticed.
Professor Włodzisław Duch from the Department of Informatics at the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, NCUfot. Andrzej Romański
The formation of biological and psychological mechanisms of false belief and thus conspiracy theories is obviously very complex. Accepting distorted images of reality can be a side effect of many different factors such as education or life experience, and this is why they are so difficult to study.
– Moreover, accepting simple explanations can be satisfactory; it saves energy (and the brain consumes huge amounts of it), brings a pleasant sense of understanding. In contrast, complex explanations require much effort and time to be fully understood. A simple, but false, explanation is thus attractive: it is always better than no explanation at all – explains Prof. Duch.
Sinks of false beliefs
In his article, Prof. Duch presents one of the possible mechanisms of conspiracy theories formation in the brain.
Emotional excitement or uneasy situations induce temporarily higher neuroplasticity of the brain to make it memorize situations that affect us. After a traumatic situation a suddenly appearing explanationcan rapidly reduce the brain plasticity, ‘freezing’ false images – explains Prof. Duch. – All kinds of gossip becomes unambiguously associated with emotional experience. The flowing of new information is combined with the embedded traces of memory; it can self-organize to create memes attracting many accidental patterns of brain activation that represent memories and concepts. In neural networks such states are called attractors. On the mental level they appear as memes, with many accidental and false associations, destroying relationships between different states of memory. This model of formation of conspiracy beliefs can be called the rapid freezing of high neuroplasticity (RFHN).
– We can now imagine that such condensation of conceptual framework starts to cause the association of the same trace of memory with completely unrelated observations – continues prof. Duch. – It is the model I tried to present in computer simulations: there appear states so condensed with conceptual framework that practically everything merges into one place. In the terminology of dynamic systems many attractor states form a “sink”. ( fig.)
This is why struggling with conspiracy theories is so difficult. In the brains of those who believe in them (even if they hear an argument contradictory to what they think), memeplexes, i.e. complexes of memes related to a given topic, emerge.
And when it emerges, it is also reinforced, says Prof. Duch. In the brain neural network each excitation of memory reinforces its pattern of activation, causing stronger associations of different, even most distant, information. Such memory trace creates a “basin of attraction” in our conceptual framework, and more and more thoughts and observations fall into this basin. It is a physical process. It is something that cannot be changed by simple persuasion. And the physical change of brain’s connections is difficult because it requires highly energy-consuming processes.
Subtle processes
Prof. Duch admits that in the near future he does not consider performing experiments involving the human brain.
– Such experiments would be considered unethical because, to some extent, they would be based on confusing people’s minds. It is also difficult to see subtle changes on the neuronal level with the current experimental techniques. Nevertheless, we have a range of sophisticated tools which may soon help us achieve more. The world is big and many good research teams continue their studies. I hope my work will inspire others to start investigations in this area – says Prof. Duch.
As the researcher from Toruń emphasizes, the simulations he presents should attract attention to the need of analyzing the types of distortions which commonly appear in the neural networks. More complex neural models will be necessary to enable predictions comparable to results given by neuroimaging and behavioral experiments. But even such simple models can be applied to illustrate the presumed processes responsible for the formation of different conspiracy theories. The next step will be to perform more sophisticated simulations.
Over the past few years, UFOs have earned air time on primetime news and Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAPs) have appeared in front-page stories published by The New York Times.
Question: What has happened in the last few years to bring these kinds of stories back to mainstream national attention?
A recent panel held as part of a two-day Future Security Forum co-hosted by Arizona State University (ASU) and New America on Sept. 13 and 14 explored this topic.
Credit: DOD/U.S. Navy/Inside Outer Space screengrab
Serious reports
ASU has released a press statement on the meeting, detailing aspects the segment on UFOs/UAPs:
“For a long time the feeling of the military between 1947 and roughly 1953 was this is a very tense post-war moment, the beginning of the Cold War. … It seemed very possible that foreign adversaries like the Soviets had developed craft that could easily outmaneuver us and travel several times faster than the speed of sound, and so it was a very real concern that there were things in our airspace that we couldn’t account for,” said Gideon Lewis-Kraus, 2017 national fellow at New America and staff writer for The New Yorker.
“But the point was serious reports were coming in from credible people, people like military pilots, civilian pilots. There were hundreds of these (reports) coming into the Air Force every year. So, the feeling was something had to be done about the fact that all of these strange sightings were happening.”
GOFAST Credit: DOD/U.S. Navy/Inside Outer Space screengrab
Countervailing tendencies
Lewis-Kraus added that, on the other hand, the U.S. wanted to project a powerful image of itself and not acknowledge things that it didn’t understand — UFOs — were entering its airspace, causing American officials’ opinions on the matter to split.
“There was also the feeling that we could not show that we were ignorant of stuff going on in our airspace, we couldn’t show that there were repeated incursions into our airspace, potentially by adversaries that we couldn’t account for — and especially in the early moments of the Cold War, we never wanted to project that kind of weakness,” Lewis-Kraus said.
“So, there were two countervailing tendencies among officials. There was the feeling we should take weird things seriously because it’s the only way we’re going to learn there’s stuff going on that’s beyond our ken, and on the other hand, we need to prevent people from taking weird things too seriously or it’ll look like no one’s minding the store.”
Credit: Amazon
Mainstream media
These differing approaches on addressing UFO sightings ultimately culminated in congressional hearings in the 1960s and the publication of a report, “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects,” which dismissed the phenomenon, despite the government still keeping track of UFO sightings unbeknownst to the general public.
“To some extent, the history of this time shows that UFO conspiracy theories aren’t totally wrong to believe that there was in fact a concerted effort to get people not to take this stuff seriously, and it worked. After about 1970, that’s when you start seeing the mainstream media making fun of these things — you see most official announcements making fun of these things,” Lewis-Kraus said.
“But at the same time, behind the scenes, you still have people taking it seriously because the concerns about potential national security implications never went away. So, the decision was in public we still need to project strength, we need to show we know what’s going on and that we’re never left puzzled by flying enigmas.”
One possible reason that stories of UFO sightings are now appearing on mainstream outlets more frequently is because of increased interest among a new generation of officials.
“There’s no reason to believe that our high-ranking government officials, both elected and in the military, are prone to have more reasonable, rational beliefs than the rest of us,” Lewis-Kraus said. “The sort of cynical answer is well, lots of people are interested in UFOs, so this [is] a matter of a few kind of ‘UFO nuts’ who managed to end up in positions of power where they could fund UFO studies.”
Credit: DARPA
Drone swarms
Another reason for the increase in dialogue around UFO sightings: the widespread adoption and deployment of drone technology.
“It’s no surprise that this has coincided with the early years of widespread drone deployment, and increasingly over the last couple years, there’s definitely some evidence that at least some of these mysterious UFO sightings over our carrier groups probably represented drone swarms,” Lewis-Kraus said.
“And so then the balance that had set the taboo in motion began to shift, that all of the sudden it seemed less important for us to emphasize that we knew everything that was going on in the air and a little bit more important for us to say, ‘Look, if we’re hearing weird things from our pilots, we might need to concede our puzzlement in public in order to make sure that we are getting good information from the people who are on the front lines to tell us what’s going on.’”
But the government’s ambivalence about publicizing UFO sightings is unlikely to change anytime soon.
“There’s always this question of to what extent do you want to leave yourself open and vulnerable by saying that you don’t know what’s going on,” he said. “And I think that the UFO story is a great case study in why exactly we would admit uncertainty and ambivalence and why we would hide that uncertainty and ambivalence.”
New America and Arizona State University are pleased to invite you to the 2021 Future Security Forum, which will be held online September 13-14, 2021. This year’s Forum marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Forum sessions will reflect on the past 20 years of U.S. security policy, and chart the next 20 years of national and international security trends.
The Forum is the premier annual event of New America and Arizona State University’s Future Security project—a research, education, and policy partnership that develops new paradigms for understanding and addressing new and emerging global challenges. Forum sessions will discuss the security situation in Afghanistan, diversity in the security policy community, the future of special operations forces, the global outlook on COVID-19, and more.
Co-sponsors for the 2021 Future Security Forum are Joint Special Operations University and the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College.
Videobeelden tonen mysterieus lichtverschijnsel boven Vlaanderen: “Geen ufo, maar de lancering van een satelliet
Videobeelden tonen mysterieus lichtverschijnsel boven Vlaanderen: “Geen ufo, maar de lancering van een satelliet"
Het Belgische UFO-meldpunt ontving gisterenavond heel wat meldingen, berichten en foto’s van een ongewoon lichtverschijnsel dat plotseling boven Vlaanderen was verschenen. De oorsprong van het lichtverschijnsel bleek geen ufo te zijn, maar wel de lancering van de aardobservatiesatelliet Landsat 9, zo stelt het meldpunt gerust.
Gisterenavond, iets na 23 uur, verscheen er plotseling een ongewoon lichtverschijnsel aan de hemel. Op de beelden die nieuwsgierige en/of ongeruste Vlamingen maakten, is te zien hoe een kegelvormig object of een vliegende driehoek zich naar boven lijkt te verplaatsen. Geen ufo, zo stelt het Belgische UFO-meldpunt gerust, maar gewoon de Landsat 9.
“Ook vanmorgen zijn er nog meldingen binnengekomen”, zegt Frederick Delaere van het UFO-meldpunt. Sommige mensen schrijven daarin dat ze ongerust zijn, hoewel ze eigenlijk een vrij uniek verschijnsel mochten waarnemen: “Het komt niet zo vaak voor dat je zo'n lancering ziet”, legt Delaere uit. “Het moet in de eerste plaats al helder weer zijn."
Bekijk hier het gesprek met UFO-meldpunt België:
UFO-meldpunt België: "Zichtbaarheid komt niet zo vaak voor"
Ook in Nederland was de lancering zichtbaar. “Als heel wat mensen uit een grote regio hetzelfde zien, weten we dat het zich hoog in de atmosfeer afspeelt”, zegt Delaere nog.
Landsat 9
De Landsat 9 werd gisteren vanop de Vandenberg lanceerbasis in Californië in een polaire baan om de aarde gebracht. Het gaat om een van de meest geavanceerde aardobservatiesatellieten die elke zestien dagen onze aarde gedetailleerd in beeld zal moeten brengen. Het gaat om een gezamenlijk project van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA en de US Geological Survey. Het is al van 1972 geleden dat de eerste Landsat werd gelanceerd.
The Belgian UFO hotline received several messages on Monday evening after concerned citizens saw a mysterious light in the sky over Flanders.
Reports of a mysterious cone-shaped object started coming in a little after 11:00 PM, but after looking at the images the hotline stepped in to provide an explanation.
“Last night, a little after 11 pm, several people saw a strange light phenomenon in the sky above Flanders,” the group wrote on Facebook. “It appears to be the launch of the Landsat 9 satellite. This happened yesterday from California with the Atlantis V-401 launcher. #UFOs”
The earth observation satellite Landsat 9 is the latest in a long line of Landsat satellites. After the first one launched in 1972, NASA has always kept a Landsat in orbit to collect images of the physical material covering our planet’s surface and changes to land usage.
Researchers use those images to monitor agricultural productivity, forest extent and health, water quality, coral reef habitat health, and glacier dynamics.
“The Landsat mission is like no other,” said Karen St. Germain, director of the Earth Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “For nearly 50 years, Landsat satellites observed our home planet, providing an unparalleled record of how its surface has changed over timescales from days to decades.”
Landsat 9 will work alongside Landsat 8 to collect images across the planet every eight days.
“It doesn’t happen very often that you see a launch like that,” Frederick Delaere of the UFO hotline told HLN. “If a lot of people from a large region see the same thing, we know that it is happening high in the atmosphere,” he added.
NASA Rocket from California mistaken for UFO over Suffolk
NASA Rocket from California mistaken for UFO over Suffolk
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This strange cone which was seen across the UK last night was actually the engine plume of a NASA rocket returning to earth
Credit: Marc Osbourne
People across Suffolk reported seeing a strange glowing triangle in the sky last night, with many jumping to the conclusion that it was a UFO.
At around 10pm stargazers began to post on social media about the mysterious object in the sky.
One Facebook user asked if it "could have been the spotlight of an Apache helicopter through the clouds", while others checked flight radar to see if they could identify the object.
But now it has been confirmed that the mysterious triangle was a NASA rocket slowing down before it re-entered the atmosphere.
The Rocket was sighted across Suffolk
Credit: Nick Lingard
The American Atlas V Rocket had been launched from Vanderberg Space Force base in California earlier that day.
The 590 ton, 58 meter tall rocket was designed by Lockheed Martin and operated by United Launch Alliance.
On board the rocket was Landsat 9, a NASA satellite launched into orbit to observe the land surface of the Earth.
The satellite is used for monitoring landscapes across the world, including observing deforestation, urban expansion and glacial retreat. It is the latest in a 50 year history of the program.
According to the mission website: "Landsat 9 will extend our ability to measure changes on the global land surface at a scale where we can separate human and natural causes of change.
"When land use and resource availability issues arise, Landsat 9 will help decision makers make informed management decisions.
"Landsat 9 will thus contribute a critical component to the international strategy for monitoring the health and state of the Earth."
The engine plume of the centaur upper stage from the Landsat mission was seen as it deorbited itself to avoid becoming space junk seen over East Anglia
Credit: Aaron Fickling
The satellite was successfully delivered into orbit — the photographs show the rocket's upper stage burning its engines in order to bring itself back into the atmosphere, where it can be safely burnt up.
NASA does this with spacecraft to avoid space junk, which can be dangerous for both satellites and manned missions.
The Swansea UFO network shared a picture of the light but assured their followers that it was the Atlas V rocket entering the atmosphere.
"Seen over Swansea/Wales/Uk last night around 10 30pm but don`t worry it’s the Atlas V rocket entering the atmosphere, to deliver 9 satellites to orbit! The rocket launched from California and was last seen heading north across the U.K," Swansea UFO Network wrote.
NASA’s Planetary Radar Spots Its 1,000th Near-Earth Asteroid
NASA’s Planetary Radar Spots Its 1,000th Near-Earth Asteroid
2021 PJ1, a near-Earth asteroid between 20 and 30 m (66-98 feet) across, safely flew past Earth on August 14, 2021 at a distance of over 1.7 million km (1 million miles). The approach was historic, marking the 1,000th near-Earth asteroid to be observed by NASA’s planetary radar in just over 50 years.
An artist’s impression of an asteroid.
Image credit: Mark A. Garlick, Space-art.co.uk / University of Warwick / University of Cambridge.
“Since the first radar observation of the asteroid 1566 Icarus in 1968, this powerful technique has been used to observe passing near-Earth objects (NEOs): asteroids and comets,” said Dr. Lance Benner of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and colleagues.
“These radar detections improve our knowledge of NEO orbits, providing the data that can extend calculations of future motion by decades to centuries and help definitively predict if an asteroid is going to hit Earth, or if it’s just going to pass close by.”
“For example, recent radar measurements of the potentially hazardous asteroid Apophis helped eliminate any possibility of it impacting Earth for the next 100 years.”
“In addition, they can provide scientists with detailed information on physical properties that could be matched only by sending a spacecraft and observing these objects up close.”
Depending on an asteroid’s size and distance, radar can be used to image its surface in intricate detail while also determining its size, shape, spin rate, and whether or not it is accompanied by one or more small moons.
In the case of 2021 PJ1, the asteroid was too small and the observing time too short to acquire images.
But as the 1,000th NEA detected by planetary radar, the milestone highlights the efforts to study the NEAs that have passed close to Earth.
“2021 PJ1 is a small asteroid, so when it passed us at a distance of over a million miles, we couldn’t obtain detailed radar imagery,” Dr. Benner said.
“Yet even at that distance, planetary radar is powerful enough to detect it and measure its velocity to a very high precision, which improved our knowledge of its future motion substantially.”
The astronomers used the 70-m (230-foot) Deep Space Station 14 (DSS-14) antenna at NASA’s Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Deep Space Complex near Barstow, California, to transmit radio waves to 2021 PJ1 and receive the radar reflections.
“Of all the asteroids observed by planetary radar, well over half were observed by the large 305-m (1,000-foot) telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico before it was damaged and decommissioned in 2020,” they said.
“Goldstone’s DSS-14 and 34-m (112-foot) DSS-13 antennas have observed 374 near-Earth asteroids to date.”
“14 NEAs have also been observed in Australia using antennas at the Deep Space Network’s Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex to transmit radio waves to the asteroids and the CSIRO’s Australian Telescope Compact Array and Parkes Observatory in New South Wales to receive the radar reflections.”
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This article is based on text provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
UFO bombshell as pilots claim they've seen hundreds – but fear they'll be called 'nuts'
UFO bombshell as pilots claim they've seen hundreds – but fear they'll be called 'nuts'
EXCLUSIVE One pilot told the Daily Star Sunday that most will use phrases like "unidentified traffic" or "aerial phenomena" rather than unidentified flying objects
Pilots say they have seen hundreds of UFOs but reporting them could cost their jobs.
The commercial and military aviators claim any crew member who speaks out is risking their career.
One pilot said airline bosses are so hostile to ET claims that a colleague was told to get counselling after reporting a UFO.
Another told the Daily Star Sunday: "When someone says UFO everyone thinks they are referring to aliens but that is not always the case, especially with the surge in drone activity.
"Most pilots will use phrases like unidentified traffic or aerial phenomena. No one wants to say UFO.
Many pilots claim to have seen 'UFOs' in the skies(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
"If you say UFO people think you are either drunk, on drugs or nuts."
Their fears emerged on an online forum for pilots.
One member said: "Many airline pilots, self included, and military pilots have had encounters at altitude with UFOs over many decades and before the internet.
"Encounters are reported internally and amongst colleagues and seldom reach the media.
A pilot claimed they fear being branded 'nuts' if they come forward about their sightings(Image: Getty Images/Stocktrek Images)
"When you are fortunate to be a close witness, it is really quite serious stuff.
"There are advantages in having an office window at 37,000ft."
Another said that he first saw a UFO 30 years ago when he was flying a cargo jet from Singapore to Brisbane.
He said: "It was 2am local time and my co-pilot asked air traffic control, 'Do you have traffic in our vicinity?' Negative was the response.
The unidentified objects could be drones(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
"Not long after, we saw something we, shall we say, shouldn’t have seen. No, we didn’t query air traffic control."
Earlier this year an American Airlines pilot was recorded saying he saw something moving in a cloud.
The pilot asked: "Do you have any targets up here?
"We just had something go over the top of us that, I hate to say this, but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing moving really fast right over the top of us."
There have been several new developments regarding C/2014 UN271 – also known as the largest comet that’s ever been detected in modern times. The comet, which was discovered by Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein, is believed to have come from about 40,000 Astronomical Units (AU) away in the Oort Cloud (one AU is the distance of Earth from the sun).
The first bit of news is that the comet finally grew a tail. When it was at a distance of around 29 AU away, it wasn’t showing the normal characteristic of a comet, such as having a tail. However, when it was at 19 AU away, astronomers at the Las Cumbres Observatory in South Africa took some images of C/2014 UN271 and noticed a fuzzy border which was created from vaporized material from the sunlight which meant that it was definitely a comet. Furthermore, it also started forming a tail. (A picture of C/2014 UN271 with its fuzzy border taken by the Las Cumbres Observatory can be seen here.)
Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), as seen in a synthetic color composite image made with the Las Cumbres Observatory 1-meter telescope at Sutherland, South Africa, on 22 June 2021. The diffuse cloud is the comet’s coma.
Credit: LOOK/LCO
An orbital diagram showing the path of Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) through the Solar System. The comets’ path is shown in gray when it is below the plane of the planets and in bold white when it is above the plane.
Credit: NASA
(Not C/2014 UN271)
The second piece of news was that C/2014 UN271 became brighter for a short amount of time. According to data collected by the Las Cumbres Observatory’s 1-m telescope, the comet had faded, but later showed a burst of brightness. The brightness occurred on September 11th when it was located approximately 19.89 AU from the sun.
The last bit of news is regarding its size. Initial estimates claimed that C/2014 UN271 had a diameter that was anywhere between 62 and 124 miles (between 100 and 200 kilometers). This was very significant and jaw-dropping because that would mean that it was about ten times wider than a normal comet. Astronomers revealed those estimates based on the amount of sunlight that was reflecting off of its icy body. Now, however, new analysis of the comet has narrowed down its estimated size to being 93 miles in diameter (150 kilometers).
(Not C/2014 UN271)
While these new facts regarding C/2014 UN271 are very interesting, it is still very far from us at a distance of about 19.37 AU away from Earth. It has traveled about 7 AU in the last year but it will still be a while before it makes its closest approach to us which has been predicted to happen on April 5, 2031 when it will be at a distance of 10.11 AU away. To put this into better perspective, when it makes its closest approach in 2031, it will be about the same distance that Saturn is to the sun.
In the next ten years, scientists should gather even more amazing data and facts about the largest comet ever detected.
Blue Origin lanceert op 12 oktober tweede vlucht met ruimtetoeristen
Blue Origin, het ruimtevaartbedrijf van Amazon-baas en rijkste mens ter wereld Jeff Bezos, heeft zijn tweede commerciële ruimtevlucht aangekondigd. Die zal op 12 oktober plaatsvinden en de eerste twee passagiers zijn al bekendgemaakt, schrijft Tweakers. Blue Origin voerde in juli zijn eerste toeristenvlucht uit, met Bezos zelf aan boord.
De tweede commerciële passagiersvlucht van Blue Origin is te zien als de echte start van het programma voor ruimtetoerisme van het bedrijf. In juli werd al de eerste vlucht succesvol uitgevoerd en hoewel de stoeltjes aan boord te koop waren, ging er uiteindelijk maar één betalende passagier mee. Amazon- en Blue Origin-oprichter Jeff Bezos besloot de overige drie stoeltjes te vullen met zichzelf, zijn broer en luchtvaartlegende Wally Funk.
De eerste twee betalende crewleden van de nieuwe missie, die vertrekt op 12 oktober om 15:30 uur Belgische tijd, zijn bekendgemaakt: het gaat om Australiër Chris Boshuizen en Amerikaan Glen de Vries. Boshuizen werkte jarenlang als onderzoeker bij ruimtevaartagentschap NASA en is medeoprichter van Planet Labs. De Vries is medeoprichter van technologiebedrijf Medidata, dat software ontwikkelt en op de markt brengt als dienst voor klinische proeven.
Wat de twee betalen voor de vlucht, is niet bekendgemaakt. Ruimtetoeristen kunnen zich via e-mail melden bij Blue Origin voor een vlucht in de New Shepard-raket, maar prijzen zijn niet openbaar. Wie de overige passagiers zijn van de tweede commerciële vlucht, wordt in de komende dagen bekendgemaakt, aldus Blue Origin.
18-jarige Nederlander
De persoon die het hoogste bod uitbracht om mee te gaan op de allereerste vlucht, heeft zijn ruimtereis overigens nog tegoed. De planning van die eerste vlucht kwam de bieder niet uit, waardoor een andere bieder mee kon. Dat werd de 18-jarige Nederlander Oliver Daemen - zijn vader was een van de bieders. Na de succesvolle eerste vlucht zei Blue Origin al dat er dit jaar nog twee vluchten verwacht werden en dat er ‘veel meer’ volgen in de toekomst. Het bedrijf zegt al veel geïnteresseerde klanten te hebben.
Eerste bemande ruimtevlucht van Jeff Bezos is succes
Concurrentie
Dit jaar zijn Blue Origin, SpaceX en Virgin Galactic alle drie begonnen met hun programma voor ruimtetoerisme. Virgin Galactic, het ruimtevaartbedrijf van Virgin-oprichter Richard Branson, voerde in juli een eerste bemande commerciële testvlucht uit en ook daar ging de oprichter mee aan boord voor de primeur.
Volgens de website van het bedrijf zijn er nog tickets beschikbaar voor dit jaar, maar een volgende vlucht is nog niet ingepland. Het programma ligt stil omdat de Amerikaanse Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) een onderzoek doet naar de eerste vlucht. Daarbij zou afgeweken zijn van de aangewezen vluchtruimte en het bedrijf zou dat niet hebben doorgegeven aan de luchtvaartautoriteit.
SpaceX, het bedrijf van Tesla-baas Elon Musk, rondde zijn eerste missie met vier ruimtetoeristen op 19 september succesvol af. Daarbij spendeerden de vier passagiers vier dagen in een Crew Dragon-capsule en bereikten ze een hoogte van 560 kilometer. Virgin Galactic en Blue Origin voeren anderzijds veel kortere vluchten uit, waarbij de passagiers enkele minuten de Kármánlijn bereiken, op zo’n 100 kilometer hoogte.
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What Happens to Interstellar Objects Captured by the Solar System?
What Happens to Interstellar Objects Captured by the Solar System?
Now that we know that interstellar objects (ISOs) visit our Solar System, scientists are keen to understand them better. How could they be captured? If they’re captured, what happens to them? How many of them might be in our Solar System?
One team of researchers is trying to find answers.
We know of two ISOs for certain: ‘Oumuamua and comet 2I/Borisov. There must’ve been others, probably many of them. But we’ve only recently gained the technology to see them. We’ll likely discover many more of them soon, thanks to new facilities like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
In a new paper submitted to The Planetary Science Journal, a trio of researchers have dug into the question of ISOs in our Solar System. The title of the paper is “On the Fate of Interstellar Objects Captured by our Solar System.” The first author is Kevin Napier from the Dept. of Physics at the University of Michigan.
As things stand now, there’s no reliable way to identify individual captured objects. If astronomers could catch an ISO in the process of being captured, that would be great. But the Solar System is awfully complex, and that makes identifying ISOs difficult. “Given the complex dynamical architecture of the outer Solar System, it is not straightforward to determine whether an object is of interstellar origin,” the authors write.
‘Oumuamua (L) and comet 2I/Borisov (R) are the only two ISOs we know of for certain. Image Credits: Left: By Original: ESO/M. KornmesserDerivative: nagualdesign – Derivative of http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1737a/, shortened (65%) and reddened and darkened, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64730303. Right: By NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (UCLA) – https://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hvi/uploads/image_file/image_attachment/31897/STSCI-H-p1953a-f-1106×1106.png, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83146132
There wasn’t much opportunity to study either ‘Oumuamua or Borisov. They were identified as ISOs by their hyperbolic excess velocity. That means an object has the right trajectory and a high enough velocity to escape a central object’s gravity. In this case, the central object is, of course, the Sun.
So, could ISOs be captured? Quite likely. “The first step in rigorously investigating this question is to calculate a capture cross-section for interstellar objects as a function of hyperbolic excess velocity…” the authors write.
But that’s just the first step, according to the authors. “Although the cross-section provides the first step toward calculating the mass of alien rocks residing in our solar system, we also need to know the lifetime of captured objects.” The researchers calculated the lifetime of the objects using simulations, tried to understand what happens to them over time in our Solar System, and then came up with a current inventory of captured ISOs.
The researchers identified three overall trends:
To survive for more than a few million years, captured objects must somehow lift their pericenters beyong Jupiter. (In this case, survival means staying bound to the Solar System.)
Objects on highly-inclined orbits tend to survive for longer than those on planar orbits.
No object achieved permanent trans-Neptunian status (ie q=30 AU.)
In the first case, if an ISO can’t lift its pericenter beyond Jupiter, it’ll probably be pulled into the gas giant and destroyed. In the second case, objects on highly inclined orbits are less likely to encounter a planet because most of the time they’re out of the Solar System’s plane. Objects on planar orbits are more likely to encounter a planet and be perturbed and sent back out into interstellar space. In the third case, it’s difficult for an ISO to achieve permanent trans-Neptunian status because it would take a very unlikely chain of events.
This figure from the study shows some simulation results. Each blue line is an individual ISO. The top represents the osculating pericenter distance in AUs. The bottom shows inclination in degrees. In their simulations, individual objects don’t become distinguishable until after about 100 million years. When a blue line ends, that ISO has left the Solar System. Image Credit: Napier et al 2021.
The simulations have some limitations, which the authors explain. They’ve only accounted for the Solar System’s four largest planets and the Sun. The smaller bodies are either not massive to have much effect, or what effect they would have is dwarfed by the Sun. They also ignore out-gassing, radiation pressure from the Sun, or drag from planetary atmospheres, which would be extremely rare anyway, and not likely to affect the results. “Each of these approximations is rather modest, so that including them would make relatively little difference to our conclusions,” they explain.
Overall, the simulation shows that over time most captured bodies would be ejected from the Solar System. It takes a while, though. That’s because most ISOs would simply pass through the system, and the ones that were captured into an unstable orbit of some type would go through many orbits, 30 in this work, before being ejected. That’s because captured objects typically have semi-major axes of 1000 AU with orbital periods of about 30,000 years. So it takes at least one million years before any captured ISOs could be ejected.
This figure from the study shows the surviving fraction of captured ISOs over time. The black points represent the data from the simulation, and the blue line is the best fit according to the equation. It takes at least about 1 million years before enough orbits take place for an ISO to be ejected. Image Credit: Napier et al 2021.
The researchers also calculated the populations of captured ISOs that might be in our Solar System currently. They point out that there are two distinct time periods when objects can be captured that are of interest. The first is in the early days of the Solar System when the Sun is still in its birth cluster of stars, and objects from within that cluster could be captured. The second is when the Sun resides in the field.
In their simulations, the trio of scientists used 276,691 synthetic captured interstellar objects. Of those, only 13 survived for 500 million years, and only three objects survived for one billion years. But these results come with detailed caveats that are best explained in the paper itself.
The authors point out that their simulations might be useful in understanding panspermia. If the chemicals necessary for life, or even life itself, can somehow travel between solar systems, the ISOs likely play a role. Maybe the most prominent role.
They also mention the Planet Nine scenario. One of the authors of this paper, Konstantin Batygin, along with Michael E. Brown, hypothesized a so-called Planet Nine. The Planet Nine hypothesis states that another planet about 5 to 10 times the mass of Earth is in a wide orbit with a semi-major axis of 400 to 800 AUs. Planet Nine, if it exists, would take between 10,000 and 20,000 years to complete one orbit around the Sun.
According to this paper, when included in the simulations, Planet Nine “…yielded rich dynamics that did not appear in the simulations including only the four known giant planets.”
One of the most shocking and controversial videos in history. A small clip of a supposed secret mission of the ISIS Project, from the former Soviet Union, where they recover the remains of an «alien mummy».
The images show the alleged expedition of the ISIS Project
According to different researchers, the KGB had created the ISIS Project to search for the mummified corpse of an “ancient astronaut” called “The Visitor.”
This being would have visited the Egyptians in ancient times, giving them knowledge and advanced technology that helped them grow as a civilization.
ISIS Project What is behind this event?
The Ancient Astronaut theory suggests that, in the remote past, extraterrestrial beings visited ancient civilizations and helped them develop. Thus the leap to modern civilization was made.
These ancient societies made such drastic advances, and in such a short time , that they reached standards never seen before. The proof of this are the monuments that persist even today. These are possibly the strongest proof that they received alien assistance.
Even so, there are many skeptics who discredit the ISIS Project, assuring that it is nothing more than an invention. However, 1998, Sci-Fi TV released a documentary titled The Secret KGB Abduction Files, which could prove its veracity.
The documentary shows black and white images of the expedition to the Egyptian desert in search of the “Visitor’s Tomb”, as the website UFO International Project called it.
The Soviets launched Project ISIS during the Cold War in 1960 . The mission was to obtain the remains of “The Visitor”, as well as the hidden technological artifacts and manuscripts.
They were convinced that advanced military science and technology existed within that information, which would give it an advantage over the United States.
The main motivation of the Soviet Union was to ” match ” the North American country in terms of technology. Well, they were convinced that they had obtained advanced technology thanks to the Roswell incident .
The Soviet mission included Egyptologists, scientists, engineers, and military specialists from the Soviet Academy of Sciences. This team found the body of an alien inside a 13,000-year-old ancient Egyptian tomb .
Was an alien mummy really found?
The story of the “alien grave”
The tomb was discovered accidentally by native Bedouins who became ill and died after opening the tomb. Based on that story, Egyptian officials suspected that he might have technological artifacts and manuscripts with advanced knowledge.
For the time, the Soviet Union and Egypt were allies. Fearing that the United States would obtain information about the tomb, the Egyptians decided to inform the Soviets and assist them in the search.
Sami Sharaf, a close associate of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser , was the head of the ISIS Project. The images documenting the expedition were obtained through a Russian intermediary linked to the mafia.
The source claimed, in turn, that he obtained the tape from agents who had access to KGB documents.
The video shows when the team entered the tomb , trying to open the sarcophagus without any protective suit.
When the agent lifted the lid, a cloud of dust emanated from inside. The men immediately withdrew, only to return minutes later wearing protective suits and gas masks.
The men recovered the “two meter tall” alien body. Artifacts and manuscripts were also recovered from the tomb, which tell the story of the return of a “Winged Deity.”
Those responsible for Sci-Fi TV stated that forensic experts analyzed and confirmed the veracity of the video. Although skeptics defended themselves that, even if the video was authentic, it is likely that they were opening the sarcophagus of a king.
It has been learned in recent days that China’s National Natural Science Foundation (NNSF) is moving forward with plans to study the construction of a massive, several mile-wide spacecraft, beginning with a five year project that will examine the mechanics of carrying out such an engineering feat in orbit.
Initially reported in theSouth China Morning Post, the plans describe an “ultra-large spacecraft spanning kilometres” that China will hope to eventually build as the country’s spacefaring ambitions look ahead toward crewed missions that will spend long periods in orbit.
As part of China’s ongoing strategic aerospace goals, the proposed mega-spacecraft is one of several projects announced by the NNSF that it says will help to promote “the future use of space resources, exploration of the mysteries of the universe, and staying in long-term orbit,” according to an outline the foundation released online.
China’s ambitious space project is set to be overseen by its Ministry of Science and Technology, according to details contained within the outline.
Launch of the Long March 2F during the Shenzhou-12 mission (China News Service, CC 3.0).
China’s plans aren’t unique, per se, and like past space agencies, their goal is to send components into orbit over the course of several launches that that will facilitate construction of the spacecraft over time.
However, even this long-term assembly plan has its challenges. Each individual launch will require spacecraft carrying construction materials into orbit to minimize its weight in order to facilitate maximum cargo space. While several trips with the purpose of transporting components into orbit have been factored into China’s plans already, the costs associated with multiple launches could still be a limiting factor. In order to realize such ambitious goals, efficiency will be a key priority.
Getting the materials required for construction of the mile-wide spacecraft into orbit won’t be the only hurdle China faces. Once in orbit, additional heightened oversight will be required to manage and control the large amount of material they plan to send into space, which could quickly present challenges throughout the various phases of construction.
Of course, the current study aimed at how China might one day build a “mega spacecraft” follows the country’s successful landing of a rover on Mars earlier this year, which followed its earlier placement of a lunar spacecraft on the far side of the moon. This spring also saw China’s initiation of construction of the Tiangong space station, an orbital spacecraft that, one completed, will be roughly a quarter the size of the International Space Station.
Once Tiangong is constructed, it will help to facilitate future space endeavors China plans to undertake with Russia, in opposition to the United States and other nations with which the latter engages in cooperative space efforts.
China is currently banned from participating in operations aboard the International Space Station, following legislation in 2011 by Congress that identified having Chinese astronauts on board the spacecraft as a potential national security risk.
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On September 23, 2021, Elon Musk tweeted a picture taken from a SpaceX civilian mission into low Earth Orbit. A close up of the picture reveals at least six cigar shaped craft traveling in formation. According to Thor Han Eredyon of the Galactic Federation of Worlds—as relayed by Elena Danaan—the craft belonged to the US Navy’s Solar Warden program and are now part of the newly formed Earth Alliance.
I have been told that Musk is constrained by Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) from revealing what he knows about the Earth Alliance, diplomatic meetings on Jupiter, extraterrestrial life, etc., but is allowed to leave clues so we can figure it out by ourselves.
Video of the spacecraft formation is available on YouTube and Rumble
This hacker saw “all the UFO secrets of NASA and the elites”
This hacker saw “all the UFO secrets of NASA and the elites”
One of the most controversial events related to NASA featured a hacker. The hacker accessed the networks of the space agency, observing secrets UFOs and about the world elite.
Gary McKinnon was brought to trial and jailed for 70 years.
Many people have thought to what extent a hacker can go. How far can you “hack” a network? Possibly, social networks or emails can be something simple for an expert.
British hacker Gary McKinnon had accessed into Pentagon’s computer files he discovered the existence of the “Solar Warden” code name given to particular areas in the Secret Space Program
However, when it comes to national organizations, which are related to the security of a power, such as NASA, things get complicated.
Get to inquire about its most guarded secrets, such as those related to UFOs for example or to learn about the hidden life of the most exalted of the world elite .
The Hacker Who Discovered NASA Secrets
Regarding this controversial topic, the famous writer and researcher David Parcerisa in one of his video programs. He released the shocking revelations of a hacker who was able to circumvent NASA security .
It is the British Gary McKinnon, who managed to collect a large number of images over a year.
Among these are secret UFO reports related to alien life, colliding ships, reverse technology, and other surprising discoveries from the world’s elite .
All this he achieved by infiltrating the secret networks of NASA and other organisms of the world’s lofty elite.
Unfortunately McKinnon was discovered and sentenced to 70 years in prison for this incredible daring.
Yet McKinnon’s shrewd audacity was not in vain. A good part of his research and ideas are linked to the project “The Disclosure Project”.
This project consists of a comprehensive non-profit organization whose main purpose is to reveal to the world all the events about extraterrestrial intelligence , flying saucers , advanced energy and propulsion systems that are hidden.
McKinnon’s audacity motivated the creation of The Disclosure Project.
The Disclosure Project
The project was presented to the world by its founder, the renowned Dr. Steven Greer . Presenting it at the prestigious National Press Club of Washington in May 2001.
The content of this impressive project consists of more than 400 testimonies from the military, intelligence agents and government officials.
There they narrate their direct or first-source experiences about events related to aliens and all their technology .
In addition, they explain in detail all the conspiracy that exists behind all this, and how they try to keep all this information hidden from the public.
In practice, the main objectives of the project is to prohibit the use of space weapons , the study, exploration and development of space.
The introduction of Zero Point Energy , which is a type of free energy, which they consider would be of great help to eliminate poverty and world hunger. Among other magnificent ideas, which would be of great use to humanity.
Many skeptics claim that McKinnon did not actually see anything related to UFOs or aliens.
However, the question is, why was he sentenced to so many years if he did not see any secrets? Where did you get the ideas for The Disclosure Project?
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Eerie footage shared by UFO hunters supposedly shows the astonishing moment a Midlands woman vanishes from her bed - before suddenly reappearing.
The video is one of many cases being investigated by Dave Hodrien, a father-of-one from Solihull and the lead investigator of Birmingham UFO Group (BUFOG),
He says the woman in the video, from Droitwich in Worcestershire, claimed she had been abducted twice in a week in 2010.
On the advice of her husband, the woman put an infrared camera in her bedroom to capture evidence.
The creepy footage they caught apparently shows the woman sleeping under the covers at around 3.30am before she suddenly starts arching her back.
The bed covers then suddenly fold inwards and go 'impossibly flat', as if the woman had just inexplicably vanished from the bed altogether.
After about 13 minutes, the bed covers suddenly shoot up slightly in the air and when they drop back down, the woman is back in bed next to her husband.
The footage, which can be viewed above , was believed to have "been genuine and not a deliberate hoax", Dave concluded in his report.
A woman, who claims she was abducted, appears to vanish from her bed on video(Image: Birmingham UFO Group)
Dave told Birmingham Live : "The lady had experiences most of her life, but like a lot people pushed them to the back of her mind.
"In 2010, she had two abduction experiences in the space of a week.
"These were what is known as a trigger experience, meaning it was so traumatic and obvious to her that she clearly knew something had taken place.
"It caused her to start reassessing what had happened earlier in her life and that is when she got in touch with my group to investigate.
"Her husband made security cameras for a living, he put together infrared cameras.
"He didn't really believe her but after her first abduction experience, she was very frightened to go to sleep in the bedroom where it happened.
"To set her mind at ease, her husband said 'we will set up a security camera at night and start filming when you get off to sleep, nothing will come and get you'.
"About three days after they set up a camera, she had this second abduction experience. She comes out of the experience and realises something has happened here.
"In the morning, they check the footage and at about 3.30am or 4am, there is a period of about 13 minutes where she seems to dematerialize from the bed.
"You can see her under the covers, it looks like she is arching her back upwards almost and then all of a sudden it folds inwards and the bed covers go impossibly flat.
"After about 13 minutes, the bed covers kind of shoot up in the air and when it drops back down, she is back down by her husband."
The footage was even analysed by an American television series, called Fact Or Faked, which was unable to recreate the footage without the use of hidden contraptions, he added.
THE CLIMATE PROJECTION FOR 500 YEARS FROM NOW IS UNBELIEVABLY BAD
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THE CLIMATE PROJECTION FOR 500 YEARS FROM NOW IS UNBELIEVABLY BAD
RESEARCHERS WARN OF AN EARTH THAT'S "ALIEN TO HUMANS."
Planning Ahead
With climate change, we tend to worry about the present (are hurricanes getting worse?) and the medium-term future (what will the planet be like in the year 2100?)
Look a few hundred more years down the road, though, and the world will likely appear totally alien.
By the year 2500, the Amazon may become a barren hellscape and the midwestern United States could turn into a tropical jungle, according to a new set of far-reaching climate projections that a team of climate scientists from several Canadian and British universities published in the journal Global Change Biology on Friday. It’s alarming research — and, to be fair, by no means authoritative — as well as a bleak look into the long-term repercussions of human industrialization.
Then What?
Many climate models predict environmental change up to the year 2100, so it makes sense that we try and understand what the world will look like farther down the road, the researchers argued in an essay in The Conversation.
“This is surprising because people born now will only be in their 70s by 2100,” the scientists wrote. “What will the world look like for their children and grandchildren?”
Looking that far into the future is a fairly speculative affair, the scientists noted. But they did find that their projections align with existing, robust models for the nearer future, lending more credibility to their predictions.
Desert Planet
As temperatures continue to rise, the scientists found, much of the planet will become inhospitable to humans and coastlines will continue to be reshaped by rising sea levels, causing huge changes in terms of both geography and human society.
“Further, we found heat stress may reach fatal levels for humans in tropical regions which are currently highly populated,” the team wrote. “Such areas might become uninhabitable.”
Ultimately, the researchers hope they’re proven wrong. They ended their Conversation essay with a plea to drastically reduce carbon emissions or face the consequences.
“The Earth of our high-end projections is alien to humans,” they wrote. “The choice we face is to urgently reduce emissions, while continuing to adapt to the warming we cannot escape as a result of emissions up to now, or begin to consider life on an Earth very different to this one.”
Scientists have developed cosmic concrete from space dust and astronaut blood because transporting a single brick to Mars can cost more than a million British pounds making the future construction of a Martian colony seem prohibitively expensive.
Scientists at The University of Manchester have now developed a way to potentially overcome this problem, by creating a concrete-like material made of extra-terrestrial dust along with the blood, sweat and tears of astronauts.
In their study, a protein from human blood, combined with a compound from urine, sweat or tears, could glue together simulated moon or Mars soil to produce a material stronger than ordinary concrete, perfectly suited for construction work in extra-terrestrial environments.
Dr Aled Roberts, from The University of Manchester, who worked on the project, said that the new technique holds considerable advantages over many other proposed construction techniques on the moon and Mars.
“Scientists have been trying to develop viable technologies to produce concrete-like materials on the surface of Mars, but we never stopped to think that the answer might be inside us all along,” he said.
The scientists calculate that over 500 kg of high-strength AstroCrete could be produced over the course of a two-year mission on the surface of Mars by a crew of six astronauts. If used as a mortar for sandbags or heat-fused regolith bricks, each crew member could produce enough AstroCrete to expand the habitat to support an additional crew member, doubling the housing available with each successive mission.
Animal blood was historically used as a binder for mortar. “It is exciting that a major challenge of the space age may have found its solution based on inspirations from medieval technology,” said Dr Roberts.
“Scientists have been trying to develop viable technologies to produce concrete-like materials on the surface of Mars, but we never stopped to think that the answer might be inside us all along.”
— Dr. Aled Roberts
The scientists investigated the underlying bonding mechanism and found that the blood proteins denature, or “curdle,” to form an extended structure with interactions known as “beta sheets” that tightly holds the material together.
“The concept is literally blood-curdling,” Dr Roberts added.
A common protein from blood plasma could act as a binder for simulated moon or Mars dust to produce a concrete-like material named AstroCrete.
(University of Manchester)
The cost of transporting a single brick to Mars has been estimated at about US$2 million, meaning future Martian colonists cannot bring their building materials with them, but will have to utilise resources they can obtain on-site for construction and shelter. This is known as in-situ resource utilisation (or ISRU) and typically focusses on the use of loose rock and Martian soil (known as regolith) and sparse water deposits. However, there is one overlooked resource that will, by definition, also be available on any crewed mission to the Red Planet: the crew themselves.
Scientists demonstrated that a common protein from blood plasma — human serum albumin — could act as a binder for simulated moon or Mars dust to produce a concrete-like material. The resulting novel material, termed AstroCrete, had compressive strengths as high as 25 MPa (Megapascals), about the same as the 20-32 MPa seen in ordinary concrete.
3D-printed mars biocomposite.
Credit: University of Manchester
However, the scientists found that incorporating urea — which is a biological waste product that the body produces and excretes through urine, sweat and tears — could further increase the compressive strength by over 300 per cent, with the best performing material having a compressive strength of almost 40 MPa, substantially stronger than ordinary concrete.
Scientists observing a young sun-like star 450 light-years away have spotted a molecule that may have played a key role in the emergence of life on Earth.
It’s the first time researchers have detected the molecule glycolonitrile, which existed before life itself, in this type of protostar.
The discovery could put us closer to understanding how the solar system and life on Earth formed long ago.
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The new research led by Queen Mary University of London focused on a solar-type protostar called IRAS16293-2422 B (circled) in search of such materials. This protostar sits inside the star-forming region rho Ophiuchi, in the constellation Ophiuchus
Glycolonitrile is said to be a precursors to the formation of adenine, which is fundamental in both DNA and RNA.
The new research led by Queen Mary University of London focused on a solar-type protostar called IRAS16293-2422 B in search of such materials.
This protostar sits inside the star-forming region rho Ophiuchi, in the constellation Ophiuchus.
According to the researchers, the conditions inside the star formation region are much like those that existed in the early years of our solar system.
Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/ submillimetre Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile, the team investigated IRAS16293-2422 B for evidence of the pre-biotic molecule in the interstellar medium.
An artist's impression of the gas and dust in the disk surrounding the young star. The inset image, right, shows a mix of both simple and complex molecules in the vicinity of still-forming planets - M.Weiss/Centre for Astrophysics/Harvard & Smithsonian
This material is a cocoon of dust and gas from which stars form.
The ALMA data revealed the chemical signatures of the molecule glycolonitrile (HOCH2CN).
Through further modelling, they were able to better constrain the chemical processes that may have led to its creation, the researchers say.
Scientists observing a young sun-like star 450 light-years away have spotted a molecule that may have played a key role in the emergence of life on Earth. It’s the first time researchers have detected the molecule glycolonitrile, which existed before life itself, in this type of protostar
DNA AND RNA EXPLAINED: THE MOLECULES THAT CONTAIN THE GENETIC INFORMATION FOR LIFE
DNA - deoxyribonucleic acid - is widely known as the molecule found in the nucleus of all our cells that contains genetic information.
It is shaped like a double-helix and made of small sections called nucleotides.
Each nucleotide contains a nucleobase, a sugar, and a phosphate group.
The sugar component in this particular molecule is called deoxyribose and makes up the D in DNA.
This is a cyclic carbon-based chemical with five carbon atoms arranged as a pentagon.
At the second carbon atom there is an attached singular hydrogen atom in deoxyribose.
This can also have an additional oxygen attached as well.
In this case, the oxygenated chemical then forms what is simply known as ribose - the R in RNA.
The deoxy prefix literally means without oxygen.
Shape of RNA and DNA
RIbose can do almost everything deoxyribose can and also codes for genetic information in some cells and organisms.
When the oxygen is present it drastically alters how the chemicals bonds and sits alongside other molecules.
When oxygen is present - in RNA - it can take a variety of shapes.
When oxygen is not present in this specific location - in DNA - the molecule forms as the iconic double helix.
Uses of RNA
DNA is often broken down into RNA and read by the cells in order to translate and transcribe the genetic code in order to make proteins and other molecules essential for life.
RNA uses three of the same base pairs as DNA: Cytosine, Guanine, Adenine.
The othe base pair, Thymine, is swapped out in RNA for Uracil.
RNA is also often found in simpler organisms, such as bacteria.
It is often also a virus, with Hepatitis, flu and HIV all forms of RNA.
Mitochondrial RNA
All animal cells use DNA, with one notable exception: the mitochondria.
Mitochondrian are the powerhouses of the cell and turn glucose into pyruvate and then into Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) via the Krebs cycle.
This process is all done in this one organelle in the cells and ATP is the universal form of energy and used throughout every aerobic organism.
In the mitochondria there is a small strand of RNA which is unique in the animal kingdom.
It is passed down from the mother exclusively (the father's lives in the sperm but is dissolved during fertilisation) and allows humans to trace their maternal lineage back throughout time.
The image above shows four of the protoplanetary discs. - Dr JD Ilee/University of Leeds
‘We have shown that this important pre-biotic molecule can be formed in the material from which stars and planets emerge, taking us a step closer to identifying the processes that may have led to the origin of life on Earth,’ said lead author Shaoshan Zeng, from Queen Mary University of London.
The team previously detected methyl isocyanate – an isomer of glycolonitrile – in the same celestial object.
According to the researchers, the discovery hints at the processes that took place during the formation of our solar system, suggesting planets around such a star could have access to the chemical building blocks of life from the very beginning.
It seems that every time organics are detected on another planet, the internet explodes, but organic molecules found in planet-forming discs could be the prelude to life.
Whether Earth is the only planet in the entire universe that ever spawned life remains a mystery. Led by astrophysicist John Ilee of the University of Leeds, a team of researchers has looked deep into several protoplanetary discs where planets are born, and recently published a study in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. They found molecules that are the precursors to the larger molecules that directly make up substances such as sugars, amino acids, and RNA. Could these end up as the protoplasm of alien creatures?
The five protoplanetary discs that were observed are between 300 and 500 light-years from Earth, so if we are seeing them as they were hundreds of years ago, it is unlikely that life has materialized yet. Whether these molecules will end up creating the amino acid and RNA molecules that are necessary for life-forms also depends on the conditions over there.
“The molecules we have observed therefore represent the most complex (yet) detected in protoplanetary discs with this bond, and demonstrate that these stages of molecular complexity can be built up in the vicinity of forming planets,” Ilee tells SYFY WIRE. “The carbon-nitrogen bond is a key component of these molecules."
It is that bond which has been proven to be vital to the molecules that make up amino acids. Ilee and his team observed the molecules with the 66 antennas of the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA), which has an amazing spatial resolution, meaning the precision of things it can see in relation to space. Larger telescopes and arrays have a larger spatial resolution and are able to see more detail as well as smaller and more distant objects. With this equipment, emissions from microscopic molecules became visible.
Because the emissions were so weak, they needed something as powerful as ALMA to seek them out. What was observed by the researchers as part of the Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (or MAPS) program were intermediate molecules that are more complex than simple organics, such as carbon monoxide or methane, but not yet complex enough to be the largest molecules that something like RNA can break down into. The problem is that molecules like carbon monoxide give off much stronger emissions. That didn’t stop Ilee from searching.
He obviously found an overflow of molecules, but why so many? It could be that they were hiding in grains of dust that made their way from the outside to the inside of the disc, but there are still questions.
“Increased abundances of these molecules mean we could be missing something in our understanding of how chemistry operates in these environments,” he says. “We could also be missing an important physical process that would increase the abundance of these molecules in the discs.”
The molecules the team set out to find were cyanoacetylene (HC3N), acetonitrile (CH3CN), and cyclopropenylidene (c-C3H2). Cyanoacetylene was previously found in the tail of comet Hale-Bopp. Most comets come from the outer reaches of the universe, where more interstellar material is thought to be floating around than anything else, so that may hint at the origins of what gave Earth life. HC3N is also thought to be one of the things that can possibly form purines, which form bases for DNA and RNA — adenine and guanine are examples.
Each of the molecules observed in the protoplanetary discs has a function in DNA synthesis. CH3CN is necessary for the synthesis of oligonucleotides, which are short DNA or RNA molecules, from simpler molecules known as monomers. Oligonucleotides help control gene expression. c-C3H2 is one of the organics that exists on Titan, though anything hypothetical that lives on there would have to be life as we don’t know it because Saturn’s largest moon is toxic. Because of its cyclical structure, it has the potential to form DNA and RNA bases.
Whether more complex molecules are somewhere in a protoplanetary disc is something else the team wants to investigate. The upcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and Very Large Array (ngVLA) are next-gen technology that could find out even more about the organic molecules in protopletary discs and what goes into forming planets like Earth.
“We want to investigate whether even *more* complex molecules are present in these discs, and hope to use ALMA to do this in the near future,” Ilee says. “[It is] also going to be invaluable for searching for complex molecules in many different astrophysical environments.”
So aliens aren’t about to break the internet yet, but we might have gotten that much closer to what may someday become an environment teeming with them.
Marsmay have never been able to home alien life because the planet is too small to hold large amounts of water, researchers have theorised.
The presence of water is vital for the evolution of life, and the search for evidence of liquid has inspired probes and studies of the Red Planet to confirm that humanity is not alone in the universe.
Our closest planetary neighbour, however, has revealed no liquid water on its surface, and scientists may now know why. “Mars’ fate was decided from the beginning,” said Kun Wang, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
“There is likely a threshold on the size requirements of rocky planets to retain enough water to enable habitability and plate tectonics, with mass exceeding that of Mars.”
Professor Wang and those working with him used stable isotopes of potassium to estimate the presence and distribution of volatile elements and compounds – such as water – on the planet, by measuring its composition in 20 confirmed Martian meteorites.
They found that Mars lost more potassium, and other volatiles, than Earth when it was formed – but contained more than the Moon and another asteroid called 4-Vesta, both of which are smaller and drier than Mars.
“It’s indisputable that there used to be liquid water on the surface of Mars, but how much water in total Mars once had is hard to quantify through remote sensing and rover studies alone,” Professor Wang said.
“There are many models out there for the bulk water content of Mars. In some of them, early Mars was even wetter than the Earth. We don’t believe that was the case.”
Being too close to the sun can have a significant effect on the number of volatiles a planet can hold, and suggests that the size range for planets to have the perfect ratio of water for a habitable surface environment is more limited than previous thoughts.
Scientists hunting for alien life in the future should use planetary size as a more important reference than previously thought, Professor Wang suggests.
“The size of an exoplanet is one of the parameters that is easiest to determine,” Professor Wang said. “Based on size and mass, we now know whether an exoplanet is a candidate for life, because a first-order determining factor for volatile retention is size.”
Clouds of gas are detected on a giant 'hot Saturn' exoplanet 520 light years from Earth, in breakthrough that could help in the search for worlds that may have conditions hospitable to life
Clouds of gas are detected on a giant 'hot Saturn' exoplanet 520 light years from Earth, in breakthrough that could help in the search for worlds that may have conditions hospitable to life
Researchers used Hubble and the Very Large Telescope to make the observation
They not only detected clouds but measured altitude to a very high level of detail
The exoplanet, WASP-127b, was discovered in 2016 and is 520 light years away
It is so close to its star that a year on the gas giant would be 4.2 Earth days
Clouds of gas swirling in the atmosphere of a 'hot Saturn' exoplanet 520 light years from the Earth have been detected by astronomers for the first time.
This is a breakthrough in exoplanet observation, and could help in the search for potentially habitable worlds, said experts from the Université de Montréal in Canada.
The exoplanet, called WASP-127b, was discovered in 2016 and is a 'hot puffy beast' orbiting so close to its star that a year on the gas giant would be just 4.2 Earth days.
The international team of astronomers has not only detected clouds on the distant exoplanet, but also measured their altitude with unprecedented precision.
WASP-127b was discovered in 2016 and is a 'hot puffy beast orbiting so close to its star that a year on the gas giant would bee just 4.2 Earth days
WASP-127b: A HOT FLUFFY GAS GIANT
TYPE: Gas Giant
DISCOVED: 2016
MASS: 0.1647 Jupiters
RADIUS: 1.311 x Jupiter
ORBIT: 0.0484 AU
PERIOD: 4.2 days
DETECTION: Transit
WASP-127 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a G-type star.
Its mass is 0.1647 Jupiters, it takes 4.2 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.0484 AU from its star.
SOURCE:NASA
They combined observations of the planet from the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. (VLT) in Chile.
The team observed the planet passing in front of its host star to detect patterns that become embedded in the starlight as it is filtered through the planet's atmosphere.
Thanks to infrared light from Hubble and visual light seen through the ESPRESSO spectrograph on VLT, they could probe different regions of the atmosphere.
'First, as found before in this type of planet, we detected the presence of sodium,' author Dr Romain Allart, said.
But it was found at a much lower altitude than the team were expecting.
'Second, there were strong water vapour signals in the infrared but none at all at visible wavelengths.
'This implies that water-vapour at lower levels is being screened by clouds that are opaque at visible wavelengths but transparent in the infrared.'
The combined data from the two instruments enabled the researchers to narrow down the altitude of the clouds.
They pinned them to an atmospheric layer with a pressure ranging between 0.3 and 0.5 millibars.
A millibar is a unit of air pressure, with one equal to about 0.0145 pounds per square inch, or about a thousandth of a standard atmosphere.
'We don't yet know the composition of the clouds, except that they are not composed of water droplets like on Earth,' said Allart.
'We are also puzzled about why the sodium is found in an unexpected place on this planet. Future studies will help us understand not only more about the atmospheric structure, but about WASP-127b, which is proving to be a fascinating place.'
The international team of astronomers has not only detected clouds on the distant exoplanet, but also measured their altitude with unprecedented precision
WHAT IS THE VERY LARGE TELESCOPE?
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) built the most powerful telescope ever made in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.
It is called the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and is regarded as one of the most advanced optical instruments.
It consists of four telescopes, whose main mirrors measures 27 feet (8.2 metres) in diameter.
There are also four movable six feet diameter auxiliary telescopes.
The large telescopes are called Antu, Kueyen, Melipal and Yepun.
The first of the Unit Telescopes, 'Antu', went into routine scientific operations on April 1, 1999.
The telescopes can work together to form a giant 'interferometer'.
This interferometer allows images to be filtered for any unnecessary obscuring objects.
As a result, astronomers can see details up to 25 times finer than with the individual telescopes.
It has been involved in spotting the first image of an extrasolar planet.
The study of exoplanet atmospheres is essential for understanding the formation, evolution, and composition of exoplanets, the team said.
The transmission spectroscopy technique, used in this study, is playing a significant role in this field, and helped characterise WASP-127b.
With a full orbit around its star occurring in about four days, WASP-127b receives 600 times more solar radiation than the Earth and experiences temperatures up to 1100 degrees Celsius (2012 Fahrenheit) - more than twice as hot as Venus.
This puffs the planet up to a radius 1.3 times larger than Jupiter, with just a fifth of the mass, making it one of the least dense or 'fluffiest' exoplanets ever discovered.
The extended nature of fluffy exoplanets makes them easier to observe, and thus WASP-127b is an ideal candidate for astronomers trying a new technique.
In this case they were working on characterising aspects of exoplanet atmospheres, a process that could one day help in the search for alien life.
The team's observations with the ESPRESSO instrument also suggests that, unlike planets in our Solar System, WASP-127b orbits not only in the opposite direction than its star but also in a different plane than the equatorial one.
Planets in the solar system orbit along the equatorial plane - that is inline with the centre of the sun - with some objects like comets orbiting at a different plane.
'Such alignment is unexpected for a hot Saturn in an old stellar system and might be caused by an unknown companion,' said Allart.
'All these unique characteristics make WASP-127b a planet that will be very intensely studied in the future'
Scientists study the atmosphere of distant exoplanets using enormous space satellites like Hubble
Distant stars and their orbiting planets often have conditions unlike anything we see in our atmosphere.
To understand these new world's, and what they are made of, scientists need to be able to detect what their atmospheres consist of.
They often do this by using a telescope similar to Nasa's Hubble Telescope.
These enormous satellites scan the sky and lock on to exoplanets that Nasa think may be of interest.
Here, the sensors on board perform different forms of analysis.
One of the most important and useful is called absorption spectroscopy.
This form of analysis measures the light that is coming out of a planet's atmosphere.
Every gas absorbs a slightly different wavelength of light, and when this happens a black line appears on a complete spectrum.
These lines correspond to a very specific molecule, which indicates it's presence on the planet.
They are often called Fraunhofer lines after the German astronomer and physicist that first discovered them in 1814.
By combining all the different wavelengths of lights, scientists can determine all the chemicals that make up the atmosphere of a planet.
The key is that what is missing, provides the clues to find out what is present.
It is vitally important that this is done by space telescopes, as the atmosphere of Earth would then interfere.
Absorption from chemicals in our atmosphere would skew the sample, which is why it is important to study the light before it has had chance to reach Earth.
This is often used to look for helium, sodium and even oxygen in alien atmospheres.
This diagram shows how light passing from a star and through the atmosphere of an exoplanet produces Fraunhofer lines indicating the presence of key compounds such as sodium or helium
Mysterious clouds on a far away planet have been detected and analyzed by an international team of astronomers. The exoplanet that’s called WASP-127bwas discovered in 2016 and is located over 525 light-years away from Earth. It is described as being a “hot Saturn” which means that the gas giant has a similar mass to Saturn but it orbits at a very close proximity to its host star. In fact, it completes a full orbit around its star in just 4.2 days.
Because of its close proximity to its star, WASP-127b gets about 600 times the amount of radiation that Earth receives. Furthermore, it has a surface temperature that reaches as hot as 1,100 degrees Celsius (2,012 degrees Fahrenheit). It is one of the “fluffiest” and less dense planets that have ever been discovered.
(Not WASP-127b)
Based on infrared observations collected by the Hubble Space Telescope as well as visible light measurements gathered by the ESPRESSO spectrograph at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers were able to study the atmosphere on WASP-127b when it passed in front of its star.
In a recent presentation at the Europlanet Science Congress, Dr. Romain Allart from the iREx/Université de Montréal and Université de Genève explained what the team had found while they were analyzing the upper structure of the atmosphere, “First, as found before in this type of planet, we detected the presence of sodium, but at a much lower altitude than we were expecting. Second, there were strong water vapor signals in the infrared but none at all at visible wavelengths. This implies that water-vapor at lower levels is being screened by clouds that are opaque at visible wavelengths but transparent in the infrared.”
Basically what this means is that while the researchers aren’t yet sure as to what the clouds are composed of, they do know that it is not water droplets like what we have here on Earth. “We are also puzzled about why the sodium is found in an unexpected place on this planet,” Dr. Allart added.
Another interesting find that they made was that WASP-127b orbits in the opposite direction as its star in addition to being in a totally different plane. “Such alignment is unexpected for a hot Saturn in an old stellar system and might be caused by an unknown companion,” Dr. Allart said.
(Not WASP-127b)
So, does it have a companion? More studies need to be conducted in order to know for sure as Dr. Allart noted, “All these unique characteristics make WASP-127b a planet that will be very intensely studied in the future,” adding that “Future studies will help us understand not only more about the atmospheric structure, but about WASP-127b, which is proving to be a fascinating place.”
Supposed alien encounters really run the range of the weird. We have everything from the ubiquitous “Greys,” to Reptilians, Nordic humanoids, and many others. At times it seems that we have a menagerie of different alien species allegedly going about their business on our world, but some of these are even weirder than most. Here we will look at a selection of cases of what seem to be inscrutable and very alien robotic humanoids or metal men of some sort, and they are quite the rare and very bizarre type of alien encounter, indeed.
On the evening of March 17th, 1978, a man by the name of Ken Edwards was driving to his home in Warrington, England from his job as a service engineer. It was a long, lonely stretch of road, with few cars and nothing but the lane lines flickering by, but as he stared ahead with his mind off on other things, something very bizarre would bloom out from the night to change his life forever and go on to become one of the weirdest humanoid encounters there is. As he drove along the M62 motorway past the nuclear facility in the nearby district of Risley, he noticed some movement on a nearby embankment, and when he slowed down to get a better look, he could see that it was a massive humanoid figure, 7 or 8 feet in height, and that it was walking in a robotic, disjointed fashion. As it came ambling closer to his headlights, he could see that it was even more bizarre than he had thought, covered in what looked like silver skin, with a black, featureless mask of some kind, glowing eyes, and two small arms that jutted out directly from its chest. Edwards would claim that he had the strong sense that this was some sort of otherworldly robotic humanoid, and it would only get stranger from there.
The humanoid was apparently not afraid of him or the bright headlights, indeed stepping over to the vehicle to loom there right on the road in front of him and stare with those inscrutable glowing eyes. Edwards was nearly mesmerized at this point, not knowing whether to sit there and stare right back or get out of there, and then some sort of beams of light pierced forth from the thing’s eyes to hit him, paralyzing and disorienting him in the process. He tried to get his body to move, but could not even budge his finger, and he was now overcome with a profound sense of terror. He could only move his eyes, and upon feeling a tingling in his hands he looked down to see that they were red and raw, as if he had a bad sunburn. The entity transfixed him with those beams for some time before it suddenly turned away and lumbered off towards a security fence, giving Edwards back the control of his body. Edwards at this point tried to call for help on a transistor radio he kept in his car, but found that it was completely fried. He turned his attention back to the metallic creature and the weirdness would continue.
The metal entity stood at the security fence for several moments, studying it, and then moved forward. Edwards was sure the hulking thing was about to smash physically through the fence with brute force, but it instead stepped through it, passing right through like a ghost. It then ambled off up a hill on the other side into the night. Edwards sat there for some time trying to process what he had just seen, and then took off in his car, arriving at home to find that he had one hour of missing time that he could not account for. Oddly, his watch had also stopped at roughly the time he had met the strange entity. His wife woke up and saw him standing there, trembling and obviously frightened, and when she asked him what had happened, he told her about the “Silver Man” he had seen. They ended up deciding that he should contact the authorities about what had happened, driving to the nearest police station to spin the whole yarn to the visibly skeptical officers. At first, they dismissed it entirely, but Edwards seemed so sincere and so genuinely scared that they decided to check it out just in case there really was some trespasser at the nuclear facility, alien or not. A search of the area where the metallic being had appeared would turn up nothing, and Edwards went home with his mind still reeling from the whole otherworldly incident. Unfortunately for him, the ordeal was far from over.
Over the following days Edwards would develop some black marks on his hands where the burns had been, as well as nausea and headaches. In the meantime, the site would be combed by police and security forces at the facility, and they would turn up an odd oval shaped patch of dead, flattened grass, as well as a dead rabbit just lying there pristinely upon the ground with no discernible physical injuries. It was unknown if either of these things had anything to do with the humanoid that Edwards had seen, but it was all undeniably eerie and creepy. The police would end up just sort of shrugging their shoulders and moving on, but for Edwards it wasn’t over yet.
On March 23, 1978, Edwards went back to the location of his strange encounter along with an independent UFO researcher, and while they were there Edwards was immediately uncomfortable and gripped by a sense of panic. He managed to keep his composure and go out to investigate, and that was when he allegedly saw the same entity standing off on a nearby hill. It seemed to be staring right at him, and then it simply vanished into thin air. Not long after this, on April 2, 1978, Edwards and his wife were driving through the area when he was again hit with an inexplicable sense of panic and fear. He felt compelling to bring the vehicle to a stop, and as he walked outside, he was hit with a wave of terror that sent him scrambling back into the car to speed off. The final incident would be when he was woken by a deep hum on April 12, after which he searched for its source even as it gained in intensity, but he could find nothing to account for it. He would later find that two neighbors had also heard the hum and had seen a red UFO in the sky. The whole story would bring a whole lot of unwanted attention to Edwards and his family. As soon as the news hit the stands, his house was besieged with reporters and curiosity seekers, to the point that it affected his life and strained his marriage. After this, he would come down with a mysterious illness that left him with stomach pains and almost bedridden. He would eventually be diagnosed with cancer, which would ultimately take his life.
This seems in some ways similar to another weird case that comes from 1973, in the U.S. state of Alabama near the small town of Falkville. On October 17, 1973, a panicked woman called into police to report that she had seen a UFO land in a field right outside of town, and an incredulous police officer named Jeff Greenhaw went off to investigate, no doubt thinking that he was dealing with some nutcase. He arrived at the scene at around 10 PM, not really expecting to find much, and at first he didn’t. The field held no spaceship, nor any sign of one, but the lady who had called was frantically insisting that not only had a UFO really landed, but that there was an alien running around out there in the woods. Greenhaw thought that at the very least there might be in intruder prowling about, so he did a sweep of the area. Little did he know that this intruder would be far stranger than anything he had imagined. As he peered into the darkness and shone his flashlight about, he noticed someone standing off the side of the road, but when he looked in its direction he saw that this was no normal man. The figure seemed to be completely covered with some shiny substance that looked somewhat like tin foil, with an antenna on its head, and Greenhaw would even take a photo of it. He would say of the creature:
It looked like his head and neck were kind of made together… he was real bright, something like rubbing mercury on nickel, but just as smooth as glass; different angles give different lighting. I don’t believe it was aluminum foil.
Alleged photo of the entity
This figure seemed to move in a rather disjointed, mechanical way, giving the impression that it was almost robotic in nature, and wanting to see it in better light, Greenhaw trained his vehicle’s headlights on it. This apparently set the entity into a panic, and it ran off at great speed, after which Greenhaw started up his car and pursued it right through a field. The officer went as fast as the terrain could allow, but the creature he had seen and was chasing was reportedly amazingly fast, far faster than any human, and he eventually lost it when it bolted off into some trees. In the days after his encounter, Greenhaw would come forward with his account, which would make him a laughing stock, the object of ridicule, and cost him his job.
Was this some sort of alien robot, perhaps used as a probe by its inscrutable handlers? It reminds me of a similar case of seemingly robotic aliens that is made all the odder in that it predates it by over 50 years. The bizarro case supposedly occurred in 1924, in Pasco County, in the state of Florida, and which was related in 1974 by an elderly witness named Evelyn Wendt, who claimed that this had happened to her when she was a girl. She said that she had been playing outside on the grounds of St. Joseph school when she had noticed an egg shaped object nearby that glowed so intensely and brightly that she had to cover her eyes at first, but it then supposedly suddenly dimmed to reveal some sort of saucer shaped metal craft. As she stood there staring wide-eyed at the strange sight, a small door suddenly opened to disgorge a procession of rather bizarre creatures, and Wendt would say of them thus:
Little people emerged. I think they were robots. I tried to count them, but they changed about so. They were smaller than I was and resembled animated flowers with faces where the bud would be.
These truly bizarre “robotic sunflowers” were apparently hoisting a sinister looking machine of some sort, which Wendt instinctively sensed was a weapon of some kind, and which they also seemed to be setting up to aim towards the school’s science building. It was at about this time that the witness claimed the entities communicated with her telepathically, telling her that they intended to destroy the science building because there were dangerous experiments going on in there behind closed doors. Bizarrely, they then suddenly changed their minds, and began to file back into the craft as they invited their human companion to come along. She refused, but they supposedly promised to come back for her in later years. Wendt would say of what happened:
They promised to come back for me in 35 years, but that was a long time ago and nothing happened that I know of. All I can remember now is that the saucer was leaden-looking and very pockmarked. Then, when it started up, its molecules expanded and it turned silvery bright. The UFO then went straight up, hovered a minute, and disappeared from sight.
UFO researchers in later years sought to bring out any other details through hypnosis, but Wendt proved impossible to hypnotize. Bizarrely, the science building of the school at one point was destroyed by unspecified means, leading one to think that maybe the robo-flowers had come back to finish the job. What in the world was going on here? In all of these cases we are dealing with something removed from the typical Grey aliens and anything seemingly biological at all. There has been the speculation that aliens might choose to send robots instead of actual beings, so is that is what is going on here? Are these perhaps robotic alien entities, of which I have written about before? Or is it perhaps some sort of interdimensional interlopers or something else entirely? Is it perhaps even just figments of the imagination or hoaxes? Whatever they are, they truly earn their place as among the stranger alien encounter stories out there.
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Astronomers Detect Clouds on an Exoplanet, and Even Measure Their Altitude
Astronomers Detect Clouds on an Exoplanet, and Even Measure Their Altitude
The search for planets beyond our Solar System has grown immensely during the past few decades. To date, 4,521 extrasolar planets have been confirmed in 3,353 systems, with an additional 7,761 candidates awaiting confirmation. With so many distant worlds available for study (and improved instruments and methods), the process of exoplanet studies has been slowly transitioning away from discovery towards characterization.
For example, a team of international scientists recently showed how combining data from multiple observatories allowed them to reveal the structure and composition of an exoplanet’s upper atmosphere. The exoplanet in question is WASP-127b, a “hot Saturn” that orbits a Sun-like star located about 525 light-years away. These findings preview how astronomers will characterize exoplanet atmospheres and determine if they are conducive to life as we know it.
The research paper that describes their findings appeared in the December 2020 issue of Astronomy and Astrophysics. It was also the subject of a presentation made during the recent Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2021, a virtual conference from September 13th to 24th, 2021. During the presentation, lead author Dr. Romain Allart showed how combining data from space-based, and ground-based telescopes detected clouds in WASP-127b’s upper atmosphere and measured their altitudes with unprecedented precision.
Some of the elements making WASP-127b unique, compared with the planets of our Solar System. Credits: David Ehrenreich/Université de Genève, Romain Allart/Université de Montréal.
Like many exoplanets discovered to date, WASP-127b is a gas giant that orbits very close to its parent star and has a very short orbital period – taking less than four days to complete a single orbit. The planet is also 10 billion years old, which is over twice as long as Earth (or “our” Saturn) has been around. Because of its close orbit, WASP-127b receives 600 times more irradiation than Earth and experiences atmospheric temperatures of up to 1,100°C (2012°F).
As a result, the planet’s atmosphere has expanded (or puffed up) to the point that it is 1.3 times as large as Jupiter but far less dense. In fact, WASP-127b is one of the least dense (or “fluffiest”) exoplanets discovered to date. This makes WASP-127b an ideal candidate for researchers working on atmospheric characterization, as the extended nature of fluffy exoplanets makes them easier to observe.
Using data obtained by the ESA/NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and visible light measurements from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, the team observed WASP-127b as it made two passes in front of its star. Consistent with the Transit Method (aka. Transit Photometry), the team monitored WASP-127 for periodic dips in luminosity that indicated an exoplanet passing in front of the star (transiting) relative to the observation team.
The Very Large Telescope in Chile firing a laser from its adaptive optics system. Credit: ESO
The combined data allowed the researchers to trace the altitude of the clouds to an atmospheric layer moving at speeds of about 13.5 to 17 km/s (48,600 km/h; 61,200 mph). They further estimated that the cloud deck altitude conformed to an atmospheric pressure range of between 0.3 and 0.5 millibars. Lastly, they detected signs of tenuous atomic sodium in the atmosphere, though there were no indications of other atomic species or water. As he explained in a recent Europlanet Society statement:
“First, as found before in this type of planet, we detected the presence of sodium, but at a much lower altitude than we were expecting. Second, there were strong water vapor signals in the infrared but none at all at visible wavelengths. This implies that water vapor at lower levels is being screened by clouds that are opaque at visible wavelengths but transparent in the infrared.
“We don’t yet know the composition of the clouds, except that they are not composed of water droplets like on Earth. We are also puzzled about why the sodium is found in an unexpected place on this planet. Future studies will help us understand not only more about the atmospheric structure but about WASP-127b, which is proving to be a fascinating place.”
The team’s ESPRESSO observations also showed that WASP-127b has a retrograde orbit, meaning that it orbits in the opposite direction of its star’s rotation and that it orbits on a different plane than the star’s equatorial. “Such alignment is unexpected for a hot Saturn in an old stellar system and might be caused by an unknown companion,” said Allart. “All these unique characteristics make WASP-127b a planet that will be very intensely studied in the future.”
TOI 1338 b is a circumbinary planet orbiting its two stars. It was discovered by TESS. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith
Just as important is the fact that these studies will include rocky planets that orbit with the habitable zones (HZs) of their stars, not just gas giants with very distant or very close orbits (as was the case here). Since these “Earth-like” candidates are expected to be the most likely candidates for habitability, astrobiologists anticipate that it won’t be long before they find evidence of extraterrestrial life!
(Photo: Wikimedia Commons) This is an illustration of the hypothetical appearance of a "super-Earth" type planet because it is slightly more than six Earth masses.
While the results of these studies are somewhat limited, the implications of the team’s research are anything but. In addition to demonstrating the effectiveness of combining data from multiple observatories, it also illustrates how astronomers are getting closer to the point where they can fully characterize an exoplanet’s atmosphere. With the introduction of next-generation observatories in the near future, these capabilities will become far greater.
New Anonymous: You Need To Hear This "They Have Been Here All Along" (2021)
New Anonymous: You Need To Hear This "They Have Been Here All Along" (2021)
Extraterrestrial life is hypothetical life that may occur outside Earth and which did not originate on Earth. Such life might range from simple prokaryotes (or comparable life forms) to intelligent beings and even sapient beings, possibly bringing forth civilizations that might be far more advanced than humanity. The Drake equation speculates about the existence of sapient life elsewhere in the universe.
The science of extraterrestrial life in all its forms is known as astrobiology. Since the mid-20th century, active ongoing research has taken place to look for signs of extraterrestrial life. This encompasses a search for current and historic extraterrestrial life, and a narrower search for extraterrestrial intelligent life. Depending on the category of search, methods range from the analysis of telescope and specimen data to radios used to detect and send communication signals. The concept of extraterrestrial life, and particularly extraterrestrial intelligence, has had a major cultural impact, chiefly in works of science fiction.
Over the years, science fiction communicated scientific ideas, imagined a wide range of possibilities, and influenced public interest in and perspectives of extraterrestrial life. One shared space is the debate over the wisdom of attempting communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. Some encourage aggressive methods to try for contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. Others—citing the tendency of technologically advanced human societies to enslave or wipe out less advanced societies—argue that it may be dangerous to actively call attention to Earth.
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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS
UFO Filmed Moving Out Of The Way Of Another UFO Over Fayetteville, Arkansas. September 25, 2021
While noticing the moving light for the second time that evening the witness grabbed his phone to film it and caught the second object to which he thought was a star move out of the way of the moving craft. The witnesses watch the hovering object for over an hour with no further movement.
New “structures” on the Moon: The Guardian Station?
New “structures” on the Moon: The Guardian Station?
As NASA prepares for man’s first mission to Mars, it is curious that it has not set foot on the Moon since Apollo 17 (1972), much less establish a base there.
Many astronauts and researchers have claimed that this is because bases already exist on the lunar surface … and, in fact, they would not be human base
Former NASA Communications Systems chief Maurice Chatelain confirmed in 1979 that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had seen two UFOs on the rim of a crater during the Apollo 11 lunar mission in the summer of 1969.
“The encounter was common knowledge at NASA,” Chatelain said, “but no one has talked about it until now,” he added.
Is it possible that NASA has been hiding knowledge of alien bases on the Moon for the past 50 years?
In fact, much of this evidence is corroborated by the claims of numerous high-level officials, such as a former US Air Force employee named Karl Wolf, who came to possess a “top secret cryptological” security permit.
He revealed that an NSA employee told him: “We have discovered a base on the back of the moon.” Wolf added: “And then he took out one of these [maps] and showed this base, which had geometric shapes.”
“There were towers; There were spherical buildings… they are huge. Some of the structures are half a kilometer long. They are huge structures, ”he commented.
In other images there are more of what appear to be giant structures that were obtained during the Apollo 16 mission.
They include a raised cylindrical structure, similar to a nuclear cooling tower, next to what could be a type of turret.
What makes all of this evidence so compelling is the number of well-known astronauts who have made corroborating statements.
The sixth man to walk on the Moon, Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, shared this:
“After traveling in space, I am absolutely sure that the aliens are watching us. I don’t know how many, where and how they do it, but they look at us; we always see these ships ”.
Apollo 11 lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin supported this statement with his own experience:
“I saw this light moving relative to the stars. We were smart enough not to say, ‘Houston, there is a light, there is a light that follows us.’ So, technically, it becomes an unidentified flying object. “
Could that be the real reason why the lunar surface has not been stepped on or colonized since the last lunar mission?
NASA's Perseverance Rover Collects First Mars Rock Sample
NASA's Perseverance Rover Collects First Mars Rock Sample
Perseverance's First Cored Mars Rock in Sample Tube: Perseverance’s first cored-rock sample is visible inside this titanium sample collection tube in this image taken on Sept. 6, 2021.
The rock core is now enclosed in an airtight titanium sample tube, and will be available for retrieval in the future.
NASA’s Perseverance rover today completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly thicker than a pencil. Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California received data that confirmed the historic milestone.
The core is now enclosed in an airtight titanium sample tube, making it available for retrieval in the future. Through the Mars Sample Return campaign, NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) are planning a series of future missions to return the rover’s sample tubes to Earth for closer study. These samples would be the first set of scientifically identified and selected materials returned to our planet from another.
“NASA has a history of setting ambitious goals and then accomplishing them, reflecting our nation’s commitment to discovery and innovation,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “This is a momentous achievement and I can’t wait to see the incredible discoveries produced by Perseverance and our team.”
Along with identifying and collecting samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and dust) while searching for signs of ancient microscopic life, Perseverance’s mission includes studying the Jezero region to understand the geology and ancient habitability of the area, as well as to characterize the past climate.
“For all of NASA science, this is truly a historic moment,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “Just as the Apollo Moon missions demonstrated the enduring scientific value of returning samples from other worlds for analysis here on our planet, we will be doing the same with the samples Perseverance collects as part of our Mars Sample Return program. Using the most sophisticated science instruments on Earth, we expect jaw-dropping discoveries across a broad set of science areas, including exploration into the question of whether life once existed on Mars.”
Sealing in Perseverance's First Sample: Perseverance’s first cored sample of Mars rock is sealed inside its titanium container tube in this image taken by rover’s Sampling and Caching System Camera (known as CacheCam). Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Full image and caption ›
First Sample
The sample-taking process began on Wednesday, Sept. 1, when the rotary-percussive drill at the end of Perseverance’s robotic arm cored into a flat, briefcase-size Mars rock nicknamed “Rochette.”
After completing the coring process, the arm maneuvered the corer, bit, and sample tube so the rover’s Mastcam-Z camera instrument could image the contents of the still-unsealed tube and transmit the results back to Earth. After mission controllers confirmed the cored rock’s presence in the tube, they sent a command to complete processing of the sample.
Today, at 12:34 a.m. EDT, Perseverance transferred sample tube serial number 266 and its Martian cargo into the rover’s interior to measure and image the rock core. It then hermetically sealed the container, took another image, and stored the tube.
Perseverance Sample Tube 266: Sample tube number 266 was used to collect the first sample of Martian rock by NASA’s Perseverance rover. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Full image and caption ›
“With over 3,000 parts, the Sampling and Caching System is the most complex mechanism ever sent into space,” said Larry D. James, interim director of JPL. “Our Perseverance team is excited and proud to see the system perform so well on Mars and take the first step for returning samples to Earth. We also recognize that a worldwide team of NASA, industry partners, academia, and international space agencies contributed to and share in this historic success.”
First Science Campaign
Perseverance is currently exploring the rocky outcrops and boulders of “Artuby,” a ridgeline of more than a half-mile (900 meters) bordering two geologic units believed to contain Jezero Crater’s deepest and most ancient layers of exposed bedrock.
“Getting the first sample under our belt is a huge milestone,” said Perseverance Project Scientist Ken Farley of Caltech. “When we get these samples back on Earth, they are going to tell us a great deal about some of the earliest chapters in the evolution of Mars. But however geologically intriguing the contents of sample tube 266 will be, they won’t tell the complete story of this place. There is a lot of Jezero Crater left to explore, and we will continue our journey in the months and years ahead.”
The rover’s initial science foray, which spans hundreds of sols (Martian days), will be complete when Perseverance returns to its landing site. At that point, Perseverance will have traveled between 1.6 and 3.1 miles (2.5 and 5 kilometers) and may have filled as many as eight of its 43 sample tubes.
After that, Perseverance will travel north, then west, toward the location of its second science campaign: Jezero Crater’s delta region. The delta is the fan-shaped remains of the spot where an ancient river met a lake within the crater. The region may be especially rich in clay minerals. On Earth, such minerals can preserve fossilized signs of ancient microscopic life and are often associated with biological processes.
More About Perseverance
A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.
Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA, would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for the first human exploration mission to the Red Planet.
JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.
They detect a UFO near the ISS and this time NASA does not cut the transmission
They detect a UFO near the ISS and this time NASA does not cut the transmission
This recording released by NASA a few months ago is worthy of hours of debate. The images speak for themselves: a strange UFO has been captured by the cameras of the ISS (International Space Station).
The YouTube user Streetcap1, an expert in conspiracy issues and UFO sightings, has once again charged NASA, collecting on his channel a new video in which one of these strange space objects is sighted:
“During a period when the camera is moving for about two minutes, NASA captured a nearby object… we need, to begin with, that the cameras of the International Space Station start investigating the outside and NASA stop treating humanity as to kids”.
The controversial images have set the network on fire and many expert pages on the UFO phenomenon have not hesitated to affirm that it is a new real sighting that supposes a new contact with extraterrestrial life.
UFO magazine editor and alien life seeker Scott C. Waring has decided to keep charging at NASA, stating wryly that he loves how the ISS camera casually turns to the right, focuses on the UFO and then continues its I walk like nothing.
Waring doubts that the crew of the International Space Station and those responsible are unaware of the existence of another type of life beyond the earthly one.
“They are in deep space and continuously appreciate the earth and everything around it, how could they not have seen the luminous object? Of course they did, they just don’t want people to see them, “said the expert for Daily Express.
“This recording could be part of a secret space program that is trying to reveal to us the existence of life, but giving it an accidental aspect,” said one of the channel’s subscribers.
But not all comments were carried away by the euphoria typical of lovers of the paranormal, which leads them to think – sometimes – that they see all the strange phenomena that occur on earth and, of course, also involved in a conspiratorial halo. away from her.
But the truth is that, moving away from assumptions, it is not the first time that the US agency is silent when recordings of this type released by themselves come to light.
UFO hunter Toby Lundh, who claims to have captured several photos in which these types of objects are clearly appreciated, affirms that “whenever these objects appear, NASA cuts the power when they approach the ISS.”
The 'Loch Ness monster' has been caught in a 4k video taken by a canoeist's drone.
Footage shot by Richard Mavor, 54, shows a mysterious black shape on the banks of the lake in Scotland.
The drone video zooms in on the dark Nessie-shaped shadow which wriggles as the camera gets closer.
Mavor said there was no driftwood in the vicinity and that the shadow had 'the same shape as previous sightings of Nessie'.
He was shooting for Youtube channel, Richard Outdoors, when he captured the remarkable footage in August.
Mavor captured the footage on his drone while in Scotland, but did not notice the shadow lurking at the lake's banks until viewers on his YouTube channel pointed it out in the comments
The Loch Ness monster is believed to resemble a prehistoric swimming reptile such as the plesiosaur (pictured)
He did not notice the shadow lurking at the edge of the footage until viewers on his channel pointed it out in the comments, according to the Daily Record.
He said: 'I couldn't believe it. I had to rewind the footage several times and have watched it several times since.'
Mavor was wild camping doing the Great Glen Canoe Challenge - a 60 mile paddle across Scotland - for the Alzheimer's Society when he took the video.
'The more I watch it I think "crikey!" there really wasn't anything in the area that could be,' he added.
'We had just parked up and I thought I would get some nice shots on the beach for my Youtube.
'I didn't notice what I had picked up until others told me to watch out for it. It could be a trick of the light but we can't be sure.'
Mavor did not notice the shadow lurking at the edge of the footage until viewers on his channel pointed it out in the comments
It's not the first sighting of the Loch Ness monster this year - at least five others have recorded 'officially' seeing the legendary beast.
The first sighting was made by Kalynn Wangle, of Oregon, who reported a v-shaped wake near the left of the loch's front shore at 11.42am on January 11.
And days later on January 19 long time Nessie watcher Eoin O'Fagan from Donegal, Ireland, spotted an unexplained dark spot on a webcam live stream at 2.20pm, towards the bottom right hand corner of the loch which came in and out of view for 20 minutes.
Just three days later on January 22 as Mr O'Fagan was watching the livestream again he made the third 'official' spotting of Nessie this year.
The fifth sighting was made by Kalynn Wangle on March 17 at 4.15pm. She recorded catching sight of the very large dark shape that 'appeared to be swimming' before going behind a tree
An avid watcher of the webcam, Mr O'Fagan also reported the fourth sighting of the year on March 12 at 5.08pm.
He claims a black shape 'rising up and down' can be seen by a disturbance on the water with two smaller black shapes nearby.
The fifth sighting was made by Kalynn Wangle on March 17 at 4.15pm. She recorded catching sight of the very large dark shape that 'appeared to be swimming' before going behind a tree.
A sixth potential sighting was made by Roslyn Casey from Leeds on March 26 at 5.46pm - but this spotting has not been confirmed.
What IS the Loch Ness Monster?
Rumours of a strange creature living in the waters of Loch Ness have abounded over the decades, yet scant evidence has been found to back up these claims.
One of the first sightings, believed to have fuelled modern Nessie fever, came in May 2, 1933.
On this date the Inverness Courier carried a story a local couple who claim to have seen 'an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface.'
Another famous claimed sightings is a photograph taken in 1934 by Colonel Robert Kenneth Wilson.
It was later exposed as a hoax by one of the participants, Chris Spurling, who, on his deathbed, revealed that the pictures were staged.
Other sightings James Gray's picture from 2001 when he and friend Peter Levings were out fishing on the Loch, while namesake Hugh Gray's blurred photo of what appears to be a large sea creature was published in the Daily Express in 1933.
Robert Kenneth Wilson, a London physician, captured arguably the most famous image of the Loch Ness Monster. The surgeon’s photograph was published in the Daily Mail on April 21, 1934
The first reported sighting of the monster is said to have been made in 565AD by the Irish missionary St Columba when he came across a giant beast in the River Ness.
But no one has ever come up with a satisfactory explanation for the sightings - although in 2019, 'Nessie expert' Steve Feltham, who has spent 24 years watching the Loch, said he thought it was actually a giant Wels Catfish, native to waters near the Baltic and Caspian seas in Europe.
An online register lists more than 1,000 total Nessie sightings, created by Mr Campbell, the man behind the Official Loch Ness Monster Fan Club and is available at www.lochnesssightings.com.
So what could explain these mysterious sightings?
Many Nessie witnesses have mentioned large, crocodile-like scutes sitting atop the spine of the creature, leading some to believe an escaped amphibian may be to blame.
Native fish sturgeons can also weigh several hundred pounds and have ridged backs, which make them look almost reptilian.
Some believe Nessie is a long-necked plesiosaur - like an elasmosaur - that survived somehow when all the other dinosaurs were wiped out.
Others say the sightings are down to Scottish pines dying and flopping into the loch, before quickly becoming water-logged and sinking.
While submerged, botanical chemicals start trapping tiny bubbles of air.
Eventually, enough of these are gathered to propel the log upward as deep pressures begin altering its shape, giving the appearance of an animal coming up for air.
Over the years and decades, reports of UFOs by police officers have grown and grown. Some such cases are more well-known than others. With that said, today I’m going to share with you some intriguing UFO cases involving the police. One of the most fascinating of all UFO reports secured from a serving police-officer concerns an English police-officer named Colin Perks, who, in the early hours of the day in question, was on duty in the town of Wimslow, U.K. According to Perk’s official log report: “Sir, I have to report that I have been in the Police Force for almost four years. I am 28 years of age, a married man and I reside with my wife and child in [witness’s address]. I am in excellent health and I have no worries of any description. On the night of Thursday/Friday the 6th to 7th January 1966, which was a cold clear night and started [sic] with a full moon which made visibility good. I commenced duty at 10pm on the 6th and due to finish duty at 6am on the 7th. At 1.15am on the 7th I had my refreshments at Wilmslow Police Station where I resumed normal patrol at 2am on this date where I commenced walking around the village. I was alone on this occasion.”
(Nick Redfern)
The document continues: “About 4am on the 7th I was checking property at the rear of a large block of shops which are situated off the main A34 road (Alderley Road) Wilmslow. At 4.10am I was still checking property and facing the back of the shops when I heard a high pitched whine, for a moment I couldn’t place the noise as it was most unfamiliar to the normal surroundings. I turned around and saw a Greenish/Grey glow in the sky about 100 yards from me and about 35 feet up in the air. I stopped in my tracks and was unable to believe what I could see. However I gathered myself together after a couple of seconds and made the following observations. The object was about the length of a bus (30 feet) and estimated at being 20 feet wide.”
Perks added: “It was elliptic in shape and emanated a greenish grey glow which I can only describe as an eerie green color. It appeared to be motionless of itself; that is there was no impression of rotation. The object was about 15 feet in height. The object had a flat bottom. At this time it was very bright and there was an East wind. Although it was cold there was no frost. No cloud formation was anywhere near ground level. The object remained stationary for about five seconds then without any change in the whine it started moving at a very fast rate in an East-South-East direction.” Despite an extensive investigation by the British Ministry of Defense (the official report of the MoD runs to 21-pages), the affair was never satisfactorily resolved.
The following document, dated September 16, 1980 and written on official U.S. Air Force stationery, was forwarded to UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield by a source to whom Stringfield gave the pseudonym of “Jeffery Morse.” He said: “In January of 1978, I was stationed at McGuire AFB, N.J. One evening, during the time frame of 0300 hrs. and 0500 hrs., there were a number of UFO sightings in the area over the air field and Ft. Dix MP’s were running code in the direction of Brownsville, N.J. A state trooper then entered Gate #5 at the rear of the base requesting assistance and permission to enter. I was dispatched and the trooper wanted access to the runway area which led to the very back of the air field and connected with a heavily wooded area which is part of the Dix training area. He informed me that a Ft. Dix MP was pursuing a low flying object which then hovered over his car. He described it as oval shaped, with no details, and glowing with a bluish-green color. His radio transmission was cut off. At that time in front of his police car, appeared a thing, about 4 feet tall, grayish, brown, fat head, long arms, and slender body.”
“Morse” added: “The MP panicked and fired five rounds from his .45 cal. into the thing, and one round into the object above. The object then fled straight up and joined with eleven others high in the sky. This we all saw but didn’t know the details at the time. Anyway, the thing ran into the woods towards our fenceline and they went to look for it. By this time several patrols were involved. We found the body of the thing near the runway. It had apparently climbed the fence and died while running. It was all of a sudden hush-hush and no one was allowed near the area.” I should stress this case has been promoted by some ufologists and totally dismissed by others. It’s about time a new investigation was put into action.
In February 1962, an employee of the UK Royal Air Force Police – one Sergeant C.J. Perry – was ordered to investigate a then-recent, extraordinary UFO report. The documentation prepared by Perry is now in the public domain. It tells an intriguing story: “At Aylesbury on 16th February 1962, at 1530 hrs., I visited the Civil Police and requested information on an alleged ‘Flying Saucer’ incident. I was afforded every facility by the Civil Police authorities and although no official report had been made, details of the incident were recorded in the Station Occurrence book. The details are as follows: Mr. Ronald Wildman of Luton, a car collection driver, was traveling along the Aston Clinton road at about 0330 hrs. on 9th February 1962 when he came upon an object like a hovercraft flying approximately 30 feet above the road surface.”
The documentation continues: “As he approached he was traveling at 40 mph but an unknown force slowed him down to 20 mph over a distance of 400 yrd., then the object suddenly flew off. He described the object as being about 40 feet wide, oval in shape with a number of small portholes around the bottom edge. It emitted a fluorescent glow but was otherwise not illuminated. Mr. Wildman reported the incident to a police patrol who notified the Duty Sergeant, Sergeant Schofield. A radio patrol car was dispatched to the area but no further trace of the ‘Flying Saucer’ was seen. It was the opinion of the local police that the report by Mr. Wildman was perfectly genuine and the experience was not a figment of imagination. They saw that he was obviously shaken. I spoke to Sergeant Schofield and one of the Constables to whom the incident was reported. Both were convinced that Mr. Wildman was genuinely upset by his experience” The case was never resolved. And, now, finally…
(Nick Redfern)
Shortly before 1:00 a.m. on June 8, 2008, a South Wales Police helicopter, carrying a crew of three, was over Ministry of Defense St. Athan, awaiting permission to land and refuel. As they held their position in the skies, the crew’s attention was drawn to a “brightly lit” object above them that was reported as being ‘flying saucer shaped.’ Suddenly, without warning, the object raced towards them at “great speed” – something that caused the pilot to take immediate, evasive action to avoid a potential collision. The object then sped away and the helicopter crew decided to follow. Their pursuit took them over the Bristol Channel until, as they neared the North Devon Coast, a lack of adequate fuel forced them to abandon the chase.” And, this is just the tip of police-based UFO cases on record.
In October of 1986, the Soviet Navaga-class ballistic missile submarine K-219 was prowling through the waters of the North Atlantic, about 1,090 kilometers (680 mi) northeast of Bermuda, on a routine nuclear deterrence patrol. At the time the Cold War was in full swing, and this was pretty normal procedure at the time, basically lurking about to let the enemy know you were there, and since the K-219 was equipped with between 32 to 48 nuclear warheads and 16 R-27U liquid-fuel missiles, you can be sure that the Americans heard the message loud and clear. At around 0530 Moscow time, seawater began inexplicably leaking into missile silo six, and not long after this chaos would erupt aboard the K-219 and turn into a great mystery that has become part of the lore of the Bermuda Triangle.
As the leak continued, efforts were made to fix the situation, the alarm was sounded, and measures were made, which included hermetically sealing all compartments. However, it was too late. At 0538, an explosion occurred in missile tube No. 6, killing two men outright and a third when toxic fumes suffocated him, and it also ejected the missile and its warheads into the sea. Another man died while trying to shut off the submarine’s engine reactor, which had oddly not turned off automatically, and the disaster would in the end claim five lives. K-219 was able to limp to the surface, where it was found that the side of the vessel had a deep groove, as if it had struck something underwater, and K-219’s Captain Second Rank Igor Britanov believed that it could have been the reason for the leak that had led to the explosion. The only problem was, they were in the middle of nowhere, and had not received any collision alarm, so what was going on here? The K-219’s problems only continued from there.
K-219
Considering that the sub was basically dead in the water, it was towed by a Soviet freighter back towards their home port of Gadzhiyevo, a full 7,000 kilometers (4,300 mi) away, but the tow line broke, and the order was given to abandon ship. The surviving crew were rescued and the metal behemoth sank down to the bottom of the Hatteras Abyssal Plain, coming to rest at a depth of about 6,000 m (18,000 ft) in dark, freezing waters and taking its full payload of nuclear warheads with it. Oddly, when an operation was later launched to investigate the wreck, it was found that all of the warheads were nowhere to be found and the silo hatches were dangling open. Considering the loss of life, the sub, and the warheads, it was a pretty big deal, and there were immediately accusations flying as to what had caused the leak and explosion.
The Soviets were very quick to lay the blame on the Americans. Their official stance was that the K-219 had collided with the American submarine USS Augusta, which was operating in the same general region at the time. However, both the captain of the USS Augusta and the captain of the K-219 denied this, and it was also found that the American sub was nowhere near them at the time of the incident. In fact, no U.S. sub had been anywhere near them, and no American vessel had come in for repairs for any such underwater collision. So what had caused that gash on the sub? How had there been a leak in the silo, where such a thing should have been impossible? The Soviets would continue to hang onto the theory that it had to have been a collision with an American submarine, and they fully charged Britanov with negligence, sabotage, and treason, although these charges were eventually dismissed. For years the incident aboard the K-219 was a mystery often debated and discussed, and considering its proximity to the infamous Bermuda Triangle at the time, you can be sure that of course some began turning to speculation taking us into the world of the weird.
The main idea here is that it was, well, aliens. There would be numerous uncorroborated and unverified claims that subs and vessels in the area had seen mysterious lights zipping about underwater, often called Unidentified Submerged Objects, or USOs, as well as a strange low frequency sound picked up on equipment that sounded like a quacking duck or a low croaking. Appropriately called “Quakers,” these sounds have been speculated as being anything from misidentified whale song, to some sort of top-secret sonar system, to alien transmissions, and apparently the K-219 picked up these sounds as well shortly before its accident. In 2010, a former Russian naval officer, a Captain Nikolai Tushin, came forward with a new piece of testimony in the incident. According to him, at the time of the incident, Tushin was part of a group of specialists of the Soviet Navy tasked with admission of nuclear submarines built in Severodvinsk at Sevmash to the fleet, and so he had his finger on the pulse of pretty much everything that happened with the submarines, including every accident and incident. According to him, the K-219 had picked up not only one of the unidentified Quaker noises, but had also tracked a mysterious moving underwater object on its radar. He had allegedly kept this information classified for decades, but came forward with it when he figured that there would be no repercussions. He would speak to Russian researcher Dmitry Sudakov would say of all of this on the site Pravda:
Nikolai had no doubts that the underwater object that collided with the strategic submarine “K-219” carrying two nuclear reactors and 16 ballistic nuclear missiles was not man made. Incidentally, he was the one to tell me about the troubles endured by Soviet (as well as American, British, and French) atomic submarines from the so-called “Quakers.” He said that experienced sailors were quite serious about the talks of underwater unidentified objects. According to Tushin, he, like many other submarine commanders, saw glowing balls and cylinders in the ocean. Almost every diver has a “cherished” story. It was not customary to talk about it, and no instruments recorded sightings of such objects. Even now little is known about these croaking invisible objects. They were first heard a few decades ago, when more or less sensitive sonar equipment that could hear the ocean in many sectors of sonar range appeared on submarines, especially nuclear ones.
The range of “Quakers” action expanded from the Barents Sea to the Mid-Atlantic, including the Bermuda Triangle, where Russian atomic submarine “K-219” has perished. The theory of the man-made origin of the mysterious underwater object sounds rather weak because even the wealthy United States could not afford such costs. These mysterious objects persistently pursued Russian (and not only Russian) submarines, and the chase was accompanied by characteristic acoustic signals resembling croaking of frogs. According to Tushin, sometimes submarines thought that the mysterious objects were displaying friendliness.
The famous atomic experienced diver, admitted to the controls of nearly all projects of the Soviet nuclear submarines, admitted that we might be dealing with some unknown underwater civilization. Indeed, the underwater world is explored much less than space. Those who thought of the unidentified objects as the reason of the accident were afraid to speak up not to be considered insane. Tushin was convinced that “К-219” was sunk by a mysterious force, but at the time could not admit it out loud. The unidentified floating objects remain a mystery of the ocean.
What was going on here? Is there any truth to this at all? As of now, the whole incident has been sort of brushed over and forgotten, with many ideas put forward. Was this just a technical malfunction, a collision with an American sub, or something else, perhaps something more otherworldly? By the way, where did the nukes go? Do you have them? I know I don’t, but I sure wish I knew who did. It is a rather obscure account from the Cold War era to be sure, and the answers have not been coming in. Perhaps time will tell.
David Icke: The Truth about DUMBs - Top Secret Research Facilities with Hidden Technology
David Icke: The Truth about DUMBs - Top Secret Research Facilities with Hidden Technology
The “conspiracy theory” of DUMBS or Deep Underground Military Bases, is pretty incredible. Most people have never even heard of DUMBS, and I suspect that even fewer believe that they are real. Even though there are many conflicting opinions on the existence of Deep Underground Military Bases, there seems to be a great deal of evidence that DUMBS do exist.
David Icke: The Truth about DUMBs – Top Secret Research Facilities with Hidden Technology
We are all explorers trying to find ourselves…
Some people around you will not understand your journey. They don’t need to; it’s not for them.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments. Hope everyone has a great weekend.
One can see in the comments from our guy Daniel here and others, along with the UFO overlay at Facebook among the groups disposed to the phenomenon, that the extraterrestrial explanation, no matter how disguised or subterfugic it seems, is the belief of most, if not all, UFOers.
Such propositions that UFOs may be visiting from time, parallel worlds, crypto-beings, inherent or intrinsic hidden races from Earth, simulated constructs, holographic concoctions and other bizarre stimuli or realities are besoaked by the easier accepted concept of space-traveling alien species. The extensive wave of ET fiction, TV shows, movies, and now social media chatter have engulfed all other proposals to explain the phenomenon, even though the idea of beings from other worlds extant in our Galaxy or the vast Universe is almost preposterous, almost.
Yes, truly advanced. Extraterrestrials could conquer space and time, and could be obsessed with our planet enough to visit in inordinate numbers, year after year, since ancient times. This would mean that the visiting ETs would be as advanced in madness or mental disorder as much as they were or are advanced in technology or curiosity.
After all, we humans are as mad or more so than such visitors by believing that they have come here in droves for eons just to watch us, and that’s all. Down deep, most UFOers want the phenomenon to be ET spacecraft. Why? There are innumerable reasons.
But that sub-surface desire has curbed real innovative speculation and research, allowing the superficial and almost ignorant assumption that UFOs are ET space ships.
“To go where no one has gone before” is not a maxim that UFOers wish to adopt; it’s too intellectually straining for them.
Yet there it is … RR
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Flying Objects A State Secret
Flying Objects A State Secret
Unidentified flying objects have been a state secret for a long time. In less than 100 years, mankind has experienced a wide range of U.F.O./U.A.P. phenomena the world over. From these experiences, fascinating data has been gathered by military, government, and private organizations in key geopolitical countries, leading people within these organizations to believe that a unified human effort should be undertaken to study extraterrestrial phenomena. Watch this UFO documentary and let us know what you think in the comments.
Mars rover grabs first rock sample, a major step in hunt for alien life
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has collected its first sample of rock for return to Earth, part of its mission to finally reveal whether the red planet ever hosted life.
IMAGE BY NASA/JPL-CALTECH/MSSS
Mars rover grabs first rock sample, a major step in hunt for alien life
NASA’s Perseverance rover will cache this pristine sample and others for return to Earth, which will “change everything for Mars science.”
With the whirr of a drill, a robotic geologist some 244 million miles away just made history, collecting the first sample of Mars for return to Earth. Sealed in an airtight, ultraclean tube, the sample is an important milestone in a multibillion-dollar effort to finally answer the question: Was there ever life on the red planet?
“For all of NASA science, this is truly a historic moment,” Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science, says in a press release.
This sample is only the first of dozens to be collected in the coming months. The rover will ultimately deposit its cache on Mars's surface, and a future mission will scoop it up and transport the rocks to eager earthbound scientists.
"It feels kind of surreal," says Vivian Sun of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who co-leads the mission's first science campaign. "What we're doing right now is going to impact Mars science for a long time."
In addition to sampling, Perseverance is equipped to sniff, taste, and peer at the Martian landscape in greater detail than ever before, helping scientists unwind the planet's watery past and seek out hints of Martian microbes that may have once thrived in now-vanished rivers and lakes. The stage for this dramatic search is Jezero Crater, a 28-mile-wide basin carved by a meteorite impact billions of years ago.
Perseverance touched down near the crater's rim in February 2021 after a harrowing, seven-minute plunge through Mars's thin atmosphere. Though the ground under the rover's six wheels is now parched, the ruddy rocks and sand hold clues to a past flush with water. The science team will explore this region with the rover’s advanced suite of instruments, selecting samples from the crater floor up through an ancient river delta and beyond.
"We are going to be surprised," says Nina Lanza, a planetary scientist and team lead for Space and Planetary Exploration at Los Alamos National Laboratory. "We are going to learn things that we never could have imagined."
Jezero's geologic intrigue
Scientists believe Mars was once blanketed in a thick atmosphere, which helped trap enough heat to keep water from freezing and produced enough pressure to stop the liquid from evaporating and escaping as gas. But at some point the atmosphere thinned, and Mars's climate took a dramatic turn. By three billion years ago, the planet was parched, and Mars became the red dustball we see today.
Exactly why and how this happened remains unknown. Jezero's rocks offer a chance to study this dramatic transformation, capturing the key slice of time during which the great drying took place. "As we explore different parts of the crater inside Jezero, we have the potential to kind of step through time," says Kathryn Stack Morgan, a deputy project scientist at NASA's JPL.
Jezero is a crater within a crater. The planetary pockmark is perched on the western edge of the Isidis Basin—a sprawling crater about 750 miles wide blasted out by a huge space rock some 3.9 billion years ago. A later impact sculpted the inner rocky bowl now known as Jezero. Then came the water.
Winding rivers spilled over the crater rim, feeding what became an ancient lake. The water slowed as it poured into the basin, causing suspended sand and mud to settle to the lake bottom and form a pair of deltas, which fanned out around the branching waterways.
The rover will explore the dried remains of the crater's larger delta, which is cradled in Jezero's western edge. This delta's rapid buildup of sediments could have readily buried and preserved signatures of life—if it did exist—before the rivers dried up roughly 3.5 billion years ago.
A breach in the rim opposite this sandy fan, known as Pliva Vallis, marks where water once flowed out of the lake. The presence of both an entry and exit suggests that the lake waters were constantly refreshed, preventing salts from building up to levels that could have been harmful to many forms of life, and perhaps making Jezero prime real estate for microbes to thrive.
"As a geologist, I can't help but get excited for understanding Mars history," says Bethany Ehlmann, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology.
"Poorly behaved rock"
To collect Jezero’s geologic bounty, Perseverance’s sampling system is composed of a trio of robots that work in tandem to drill cylinders of rock, seal them in airtight tubes, and deposit them into a storage rack within the rover's belly. "It's a spacecraft within a spacecraft," says Ian Clark, a systems engineer at JPL who is part of the Perseverance team.
During Perseverance’s first sample attempt, the rover targeted an interlocking mosaic of light red-brown stones that make up swaths of the crater floor—perhaps the oldest rocks the rover will find in Jezero. Hints from orbit and the rover's analyses on the ground point to a volcanic origin for these "paver stones," as the team calls them. If that's the case, returning these rocks to Earth would allow scientists to precisely date them using radioactive elements, helping piece together the region's complex past.
But the first sampling attempt left the team empty-handed. While the rover's sampling system initially seemed to work as planned, the sealed tube remained empty. Later analyses suggested that the rock's interaction with ancient water whisked away much of the geologic glue binding it together, which caused the sample to crumble to bits under the coring drill's percussive strikes.
The team hasn't given up hope for sampling the crater floor, and they plan to eventually look for less weathered paver stones to drill, Ken Farley, a Perseverance project scientist, writes in a blog post.
But for their second and most recent drilling attempt, the team directed the rover west to search for rocks "as different as possible" from the paver stones. The rover zeroed in on a boulder on top of a nearly half-mile-long ridge called Artuby. Standing tall above the landscape, the boulder appears to have resisted eons of battering, which suggested it'd be tough enough to withstand drilling.
The sampled boulder appears similar to other rocks poking up from the crater floor, sometimes called "high-standing rocks," says Roger Wiens, a planetary scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and principal investigator of Perseverance's SuperCam. Early on, the team planned to sample one of these high-standing rocks as well as the paver stones. “But we wanted to start with what we thought would be the easiest, which would be the softer ones—and, uh, oops,” Wiens laughs.
Now the newly stashed core confirms that the first sample was "just poorly behaved rock," as Farley suspected, rather than an issue with the rover’s mechanisms for drilling and storing the cores.
Collecting more samples—and sending them home
With the first sample safely stowed, the rover will soon double back east and then move northward to the delta, studying the rock formations along the way. One type of feature that scientists are eager to scrutinize is finely layered rock. Such laminations can be found on Earth in sediments deposited by water, wind, or sometimes volcanoes.
In water, laminations accumulate from the slow deposition of mud one layer at a time, which could have preserved traces of life in Jezero, as well as the chemistry of the now-vanished lake—providing "a true archive" of the conditions in which the rocks formed, says Keyron Hickman-Lewis, a geobiologist at the Natural History Museum in London and a return sample scientist on the Perseverance mission.
Layers are common in deltas, including the one in Jezero, but the rover also spied promising laminations in rock units on the crater floor. At a July 21 press briefing, Farley pulled up a picture of a crater floor deposit that looks like an uneven stack of brown papers. "This is exactly the kind of rock that we are most interested in investigating," he said. But scientists are still working out what processes formed these rocks, whether they're sediments, volcanics, or a mix of both, Wiens says.
Up on the delta, two other attractive targets are clays and carbonate minerals, which Caltech’s Ehlmann and her colleagues first spottedin Jezero using orbital data more than a decade ago. On Earth, carbonates often have close ties to life and can preserve exquisite structures, such as the finely wrinkled layers of ancient microbial mats known as stromatolites. Clays can rapidly entomb organic material, and if any exists on Mars, they may be shielding it from the destructive cosmic radiation that blasts the planet’s surface.
Another intriguing possible target for study is manganese-rich rocks. Manganese minerals can form in many ways, but microbes sometimes have a hand in the process.
Los Alamos’s Lanza and her colleagues suggested in a recent study that cyanobacteria could produce manganese-rich varnishes that commonly coat rocks found in deserts around the world. The microbes may use the minerals as a sort of sunscreen, protecting themselves from harsh ultraviolet radiation.
Manganese was previously spotted on Mars in nearby Gale Crater, where the Curiosity rover is busy with its own investigations. The team thinks they might have found some in Jezero too, but they are still working to confirm its presence and determine how much is there. Manganese on Mars can come in many forms and may create a similar veneer on rocks within the crater.
"If we see anything that's like rock varnish, we really should stop and take a closer look," Lanza says.
Finding life as we know it
Once dozens of samples have been collected and cached, another mission will have to land on the planet to pick them up. NASA and the European Space Ageny are designing a lander equipped with a "fetch rover" that could launch as soon as 2026.
A small rocket on the lander would carry the precious rocks into orbit around Mars, where an orbiter would grab them and take them back to Earth, releasing the samples in a small probe that will crash land in the Utah desert.
After the samples are safely back on Earth, scientists will use sophisticated tools to unlock any secrets held within the rocky remnants. But even then, steep challenges lie ahead in the search for ancient alien life. Experts debate what kind of evidence would be enough to identify extremely early life-forms, even on Earth. Claims of life that existed billions of years ago on our planet have driven multiyear feuds and cut schisms between scientists.
One recent debate involved a series of 3.7-billion-year-old rocks on the southwest coast of Greenland. In 2016, a team of scientists declared that a set of wrinkled triangles in the rock were traces of microbial activity, which would make them the earliest known fossil life. But JPL geologist Abigail Allwood and her colleagues were suspicious. When they returned to study the outcrop, a different picture emerged. The wrinkles weren't caused by churning microbes, but by geologic processes squashing the stone.
"There's nothing like standing there in front of the outcrops to give you an understanding of what's going on. You can't do it through a lens of a camera," says Allwood. Her words catch as she realizes what she's saying, and she adds with a chuckle, "which is exactly what we're trying to do on Mars."
Since the human team can't physically stand on Mars, Perseverance is equipped to give them a look at the rocks on multiple scales—from landscape-wide images right down to chemical analyses of pinprick-size bits of the rock. Allwood is the principal investigator for Perseverance's PIXL instrument, which can take images of tiny features and use x-rays to measure the chemistry of Martian rock.
Still, only so much can be sussed out from afar, which is why sampling is so important. When those samples come back, they will provide the first up-close look at pristine material from the red planet. As Lanza says: "It's going to change everything for Mars science."
Si vous prenez des photos du ciel, jetez toujours un coup d'œil attentif à ce qui se cache dans les nuages: vous n'êtes pas à l'abri d'y découvrir un avion furtif non identifié qui provoquera quelques remous chez les experts et quidams que la question des programmes secrets passionne. C'est en tout cas ce qui est arrivé à Michael Fugnit, un photographe philippin.
Plus habitué aux photos d'animaux et de paysages, Fugnit se trouvait le 2 septembre à Santa Magdalena, sur l'île de Luçon au sud-est de Manille, pour photographier le ciel. Sur l'une de ses images, on distingue un mystérieux aéronef en forme d'aile volante.
Si tant est que cette image est authentique, l'avion n'est que partiellement visible. Il est toutefois possible de percevoir sa forme en losange, qui suggère que ce n'est pas un avion militaire classique mais un appareil furtif, comme le fameux bombardier B-2.
Le média The Drive, qui a analysé l'image, propose une théorie: l'aéronef aperçu dans le ciel philippin pourrait être le drone espion RQ-180 conçu par Northrop Grumman, et encore placé sous le sceau du secret le plus élevé.
Non seulement la forme correspond, mais la fonction de ce projet secret de l'US Air Force est de mener des misions de «renseignement, surveillance et reconnaissance» dans les «espace aériens refusés». La mer de Chine méridionale, où se trouvent les Philippines, semble être la région idéale pour ce type de sorties.
Région explosive
Cette zone est un territoire très disputé et d'une importance économique et géopolitique primordiale. De nombreux îlots sont revendiqués par plusieurs États dont Taïwan, le Vietnam, la Malaisie, les Philippines et surtout, la Chine qui y mène une politique agressive. Les États-Unis rivaux y maintiennent donc aussi une présence soutenue.
L'autre suspect potentiel est donc la Chine, qui dispose elle aussi de plusieurs drones et avions furtifs en développement qui pourraient correspondre à l'appareil observé.
Comme le souligne The Drive, les marines indienne, américaine, australienne et japonaise ont récemment effectué des exercices militaires communs dans la mer des Philippines.
Edinburgh Airport UFO leaves family startled as flying saucer caught on film
Edinburgh Airport UFO leaves family startled as flying saucer caught on film
The truth is out there and it may well be closer than we thought after a schoolboy captured a shocking video of an unidentified craft hovering in the skies above Edinburgh Airport
By Tara Fitzpatrick - James Delaney -- Digital Journalist
Jack McKnight captured the flying saucer on film.
(Image: Daily Record / Jack McKnight)
A family have been left stunned after a close encounter with a UFO in the skies above Edinburgh Airport.
Jack McKnight had been filming planes taking off and landing on the runway in the Capital afternoon when he captured the shimmering object hovering overhead.
The 12-year-old, who was attending the Truckfest Scotland event with his mum, sister Jade and her son, saw the unexplained craft magically appear and then vanish within a minute.
The schoolboy told the Daily Record the experience left him ‘a bit scared’ of going to bed on Monday night, but family members have sought out UFO experts for clarity on what they saw.
The family, from Lanark, all have an interest in aeroplanes and decided to film them taking off from nearby Edinburgh Airport while tracking them on a flight radar app.
The unidentified shape appeared in the video as Jack was filming a Norwegian aeroplane take off from the runway.
Jack said he was “shocked” when he discovered the strange shape on the video when he got home.
Jack McKnight was shocked when he watched his footage back. (Image: Daily Record / Jade McKnight)
He said: “I was out taking pictures of aeroplanes and I didn’t realise there was this object until I got home.
“It is a kind of metallicy or silvery colour.
“One minute it appears and then just disappears.
“I was so surprised when I got home, I was just scrolling through my pictures to show my mum.
“I had actually made a joke about there being aliens and then we show that.
“I have always wondered what it would be like to see one but I was actually a bit scared last night going to bed.”
The family contacted a UFO specialist and the video is now under investigation by the British UFO Research Association.
Jack’s sister Jade, 26, told the Record: “I have never followed anything to do with aliens or UFOs before but we had no idea what this was.
Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond unveiled the “Guardian Ideal” document Sept. 21 at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space & Cyber conference
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The U.S. Space Force in a new document calls for a different approach to recruiting and retaining skilled personnel, arguing that service members and civilian workers should have more flexibility to make career choices than under the traditional military personnel system.
Chief of Space Operations Gen. John “Jay” Raymond unveiled the “Guardian Ideal” document Sept. 21 at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space & Cyber conference. During a keynote speech, he said the document is “aspirational” and is intended to highlight the service’s core values and goals for developing its workforce.
“We must think differently about talent management for the Space Force to be successful,” says the Guardian Ideal.
“While all guardians will require a level of digital fluency to be successful, the Space Force also requires a cadre with mastery of digital competencies to include agile software development, software product management, product lifecycle management, data architecture, data analytics, cyber security, cyber defense and information technology infrastructure.”
These are skills that are also in high demand in the civilian economy so the Space Force needs a strategy to compete for talent. The Guardian Ideal calls for a “new talent management approach to tap into and build upon each person’s unique strengths.”
Raymond said guardians should be able to work full-time or part-time depending on their specific career paths. “They could go work for NASA, for private industry” and go back and forth, he said. That flexibility is not possible under the current military personnel system.
Patricia Mulcahy, the Space Force’s chief human capital officer, told reporters at Air Space & Cyber that some of the flexibilities sought by the Space Force will require congressional approval and legislation. But the Defense Department already has some authorities it can exercise, such as the ability to bring in private-sector workers for temporary assignments.
“This new talent management ideal is different from the current military and civilian human approaches, so support from both Congress and the Department of Defense will be necessary and crucial to enable it,” says the document.
Space Force leaders contend that existing models of military recruitment designed to bring in large numbers of people and train them in narrowly defined and limiting specialties is incompatible with the service’s needs.
The service is proposing a tailored approach to acquire new talent to “fill priority shortfalls wherever they may exist,” the document says. That may require exemptions and waivers from current service requirements.
Other highlights from the talent strategy:
The Space Force must strive to become a truly digital service, which will require enhanced levels of digital fluency for every guardian.
A cadre of “Supra Coders” will form the core of the Space Force’s software coders, data scientists and information technology experts that will lead digital efforts across the force.
To attract and retain workers the Space Force will tailor policies and practices to create more equity and flexibility.
The Space Force will invest in individuals where their interests, strengths, and potential intersect with the service’s current and future needs.
The document includes a “Guardian Commitment” in support of four values expected of every guardian: character, connection, commitment, and courage.
Don’t ask the Pentagon about aliens. Tracking UFOs flying hypersonic circles around F/A-18F Super Hornets is job enough without speculating on extraterrestrial origins or who (or what) could be behind the wheel.
Don’t ask the Pentagon about aliens. Tracking UFOs flying hypersonic circles around F/A-18F Super Hornets is job enough without speculating on extraterrestrial origins or who (or what) could be behind the wheel.
The long-awaited June 25 “Preliminary Assessment” to Congress on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was silent on what these…things are — although it acknowledged they “probably do represent physical objects” and “clearly pose a safety of flight issue.” But the report pointedly avoided the question of whether they might be off-earth vehicles.
Yet some humans say they know what they know: We are not alone.
They are called experiencers – a word that describes nothing – because their experiences seem so impossible to imagine: Encounters with non-human entities, which sometimes involve UFOs and sometimes do not. Kary Mullis, who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, wrote of a night in Mendocino County, California, in 1985 where he encountered a glowing, talking raccoon who greeted him with “Good evening, doctor,” after which Mullis found himself the following day some distance away with no recollection of the intervening time or any memory of a spacecraft.
Ordinary people acknowledge these experiences. So do celebrities. The rapper Kendrick Lamar told the Howard Stern Show in 2017 that at age 6, he had seen a UFO fly by and was asked if he thought he’d been abducted by aliens. “I probably did,” he said. “That’s probably why I’m doing music right now. Who knows? They probably gave me the energy.” Earlier, he had told JoJo Wright’s radio show, “I’ve seen ghosts before, for sure. I’ve seen UFOs too. I’ll never forget that, and that was my encounter, and still to this day, I know there is something else out there.”
The singer Demi Lovato has referenced their own “experiments” as well, announcing in May that they were producing and starring in a forthcoming four-part UFO series, “Unidentified with Demi Lovato,” for the NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock; Episode 1 is scheduled to air on the 30th of September. “Demi is a true believer, and during this courageous adventure, [Demi] hopes to convince [their] friends, family, and [their] millions of followers that not only are there intelligent beings beyond Earth but that they are already here!” the announcement said. “Demi plans to learn enough about the extra-terrestrials through interviewing scientists, alien abductees, and [their] own experiments to initiate those close encounters and make peace with the aliens, and ultimately save ourselves.”
The rapper Lupe Fiasco told a Los Angeles radio station in 2012 of an “extra-worldly experience” at age 11 when he saw a black disc at his window and felt paralyzed, “surrounded by all this electricity.”
Representatives of Mr. Lamar and Ms. Lovato did not respond to numerous interview requests. A publicist for Mr. Fiasco said, “he’s passing on speaking about his experience.” Other stars with reported UFO encounters include Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, and Tom DeLonge, who founded a study and entertainment group, To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science.
Jay Christopher King, a 42-year-old Jersey City artist who co-hosts an online support group of some 200 fellow experiencers, remembers his childhood fright at seeing a short grayish creature crouched in front of the family’s basement washing machine rummaging through the dirty laundry. More recently, he says, he has encountered spindly mantis-like beings that communicate telepathically in florid English — and Latin.
He knows it sounds crazy. “Now,” he says, “you’re diving into the deep end of the swimming pool.”
For Karin Austin, a 52-year-old former interior designer, construction project manager, and small business owner in Colorado working with an online group of fellow experiencers to advance Disclosure of secret UFO data, it was finding herself one night in her twenties far from her bed in a crowd of other humans in pajamas in a forest clearing near an abandoned roller coaster. There, she says, a tall skinny being presented her with a strange-looking little boy as her hybrid son.
Incredible, she agrees. But she’s convinced it happened, in some unknown dimension of reality, especially after finding a sketch of the same scene she remembers in a book by another experiencer. She has given up hope of being taken seriously. “People just think we’re…nut jobs.”
Other experiencers who also agreed to share their stories are participants in the support group co-hosted by Jay Christopher King and organized by Stuart Davis, an experiencer, artist, musician, and filmmaker in Boulder, Colorado, with a podcast “Aliens & Artists.” (Their accounts, below, have been condensed.)
Human encounters with gods, angels, fairies, ghosts, spirit animals, and other entities have been staples of folklore, religion, and myth since the dawn of recorded history, but space creatures quickly permeated mass culture with the postwar flying saucer boom. The lack of scientific evidence of extraterrestrial visitations did little to slow the avalanche of bestselling books and blockbuster movies.
Skeptics have laid the experiences to delusions, sleep paralysis, or other natural aberrant conditions.
Recent years, however, have brought growing physical confirmation by Navy ships and warplanes of unidentified flying objects, what the government now prefers to call unidentified aerial phenomena. In 2017, in The New York Times, we revealed that a secret Pentagon unit called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP, was documenting their astounding aerodynamics while leaving aside questions of their origin, intelligent control, or occupants.
Yet UFOs and aliens remain inextricably linked in the public mind, especially after history’s first widely-publicized abduction case 60 years ago.
On the night of September 19th, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were driving home through New Hampshire’s White Mountains when, as they later recounted in hazy recollections augmented in hypnotic regressions, they were overtaken by a flying disc and put aboard by gray humanoids with enlarged cat-like eyes and bulbous craniums. They recalled intrusive pseudo-medical exams before being released physically unharmed but deeply traumatized, unable to account for missing hours, stopped wristwatches, their strangely magnetized Chevy, badly scuffed shoes, and a torn dress.
A 2014 article in Scientific American, “Alien Abduction or ‘Accidental Awareness’?” cited studies by Britain’s Royal College of Anaesthetists and a Columbia University psychoanalyst, David V. Forrest, attributing abduction experiences like Barney Hill’s to hospital memories under anesthesia. It cited similarities between the accounts of intrusive probes by humanoid beings and operating room procedures, hypothesizing that Barney may have experienced a flashback to an earlier tonsillectomy, akin to recovered or sometimes false memories studied by PTSD researchers. Yet that would hardly explain Betty’s similar recollections or the bits of physical evidence — consistencies that deeply perplexed their psychiatrist, Benjamin Simon.
The phenomenon was next explored by two unlikely researchers, Budd Hopkins, an artist, and David Jacobs, a Temple University history professor. Both hypnotized their own experiencers and grew convinced that the recounted abductions were literal, occurring in our reality, by alien beings with an agenda hostile to humanity. Hopkins was particularly struck by the alleged missing time effetct that left experiencers mystified over lost hours and dimly recollected traumas.
Author and notable “Alien Abduction Researcher” Budd Hopkins in a hypnotic regression session with a man claiming to have been abducted by aliens. 2003. (Image Source: Wikicommons)
In 1990, a Harvard Medical School professor of psychiatry, John E. Mack, who had won a Pulitzer Prize for a psychobiography of T.E. Lawrence and written books on borderline psychiatric states and nightmares, met Hopkins and grew captivated by the accounts of stupefying interactions with alien beings told by seemingly ordinary people from all walks of life and even young children.
Defying ridicule, they usually reported seeing a UFO after which alien beings materialized, commonly in their bedrooms but also sometimes outdoors, in their cars, or in one case, a snowmobile. Immobilized, with companions rendered comatose, they recounted flights through walls or closed windows into craft for examination and frequently the extraction of eggs from women and sperm from men for the apparent breeding of hybrid offspring that the abductees might later meet.
Their aversion to publicity and absence of any evident psychopathology, the consistency of their accounts, and agonizing affect in relating their experiences, occasional witness corroboration, as well as certain physical evidence like unfamiliar scars and association with sighted UFOs convinced Mack that something unfathomable yet real had indeed happened to them. Many emerged with a heightened concern for the despoiled planet and a loving connection to the beings and all creation.
But Mack grew to differ with Hopkins and Jacobs that the experiences were clearly literal, happening in our reality. Instead, he came to think they seemed more likely liminal, something less than completely physical, or perhaps penetrations from another dimension. His evolving position angered some of his experiencers who feared abandonment.
Mack wrote two books documenting his case studies, “Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens” (1994) and the more nuanced “Passport to the Cosmos” (1999), appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show with some of his experiencers, met with the Dalai Lama, was written up widely in mainstream publications, and lectured extensively. Embarrassed by the publicity, Harvard convened a secret committee to investigate his practice but ultimately found no cause for discipline. He was run over and killed in London by a drunk driver in 2004, days before his 75th birthday.
Dr. John Mack (Image: Stuart Conway)
How many people have undergone, or may still be undergoing, alleged abduction experiences seems indeterminable. But online chatter and a profusion of experiencer support groups suggest that the phenomenon, whatever its nature and extent, is still out there, mysterious as ever.
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS FROM EXPERIENCERS
Editorial Note: These phenomena, colloquially known as “alien abduction” or “alien contact” have not been adequately studied, and according to contemporary scientific understanding, are not a proven objective event. Due to the nature of these accounts and the related phenomena, they can not be verified by The Debrief’s editorial team. These unedited accounts have been included strictly for the sake of posterity at the request of the author.
Jay Christopher King. When I was about 6, we moved to a house in Indiana that had what people called haunted phenomena. The movers stacked up these huge book boxes, my father’s old textbooks and engineering manuals. The next morning we discovered they had all been rearranged in a checkerboard pattern. Once I woke up to see a little boy my age playing with my toys. We heard later that a boy had once killed himself in the basement.
Afterwards, in a different house, I was about 9 or 10, in bed. I look and there are two beings, four and a half feet tall, gray-like. One to my left was holding a chrome rod about 18 inches long. It started raising the rod device just as the other one started moving toward me. I passed out.
Two weeks after or a few days later — this is something you want to forget, not remember — I was walking up the stairs from my bedroom to the kitchen. The stairs had slats so I could see through to the laundry room. Bizarrely, one of the beings was in the laundry seeming to be rifling through the clothes that were in front of the washing machine. For the next year and I half I ran up and down the steps!
In my 20s, when I lived in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, sometimes there would be a hum and oddly the winter air would rush in almost as if a section of wall disappeared. The first time I saw a mantis I was confused because some grays are tall but mantis beings are even taller with a different body structure. At first I thought of them as grasshoppers. They have a different form of telepathic content.
The way you receive telepathy from a gray is more line by line, like receiving a telegram. Mantis beings have a much more elegant way of speaking. I also started picking up communication from a voice speaking in Latin. This entity was very interested in science and space. It made some criticism of us using fire and smoke to get off-planet and was strongly advocating for a device that seemed to involve plasma.
One evening in 2017, I had a feeling of being watched. A bizarre rectangular doorway developed on the wall. It looked like an amber and gray screen composed of pixels. A very large mantis stepped about halfway into the room, hunched over, about 6 feet tall, projecting through the portal. I spoke my mind. “Why tonight? Are you physically here?” It stepped further through, extended a long thin arm as it cocked its head looking at me. It reached its delicate fingers over the bedroom door and opened it further. That was its answer.
You don’t necessarily choose to be an experiencer, but I’m really hopeful for the experiencer community. We can work on this ourselves. We don’t need the vast world to validate this stuff. We have each other.
Karin Austin. I was born in St. Petersburg, Florida. When I was about 3, several beings woke me up from sleep; they were very friendly. I tried to call my mom in to show her, but watched them leave through my closed window before she made it into my room. Another time, I was playing outside with a bubble gum machine a friend of my mom’s had just given me as a gift. In a spliced-film kind of missing-time moment, I suddenly found myself running into the house without the bubble gum machine. We never found it.
Many years later, during a session with John [Mack], I easily recalled being outside playing with the bubble gum machine when a glowing object, egg shaped, appeared. Two gray beings with large black eyes emerged from it and asked me to go with them. They escorted me into a kind of shimmery room with curved walls, clinically white and misty. I found myself standing in front of a boy who was just a little older than me.
He had a being on either side of him. He spoke with a Scottish accent. The beings asked if I was willing to share my bubble gum machine with him. I agreed. He took it, they left, and I was returned home. I ran back to the house to tell my mom but instantly couldn’t remember what I wanted to share with her. Part of my memory was wiped.
Every experiencer will tell you when we share details like this, we know we sound insane.
Up to age 25 I would have said I was not an experiencer. But then, one night I “woke up” from a terrifying experience that didn’t quite fit the definition of a dream. I found myself at the edge of a forest clearing, standing alongside some 50 or so other human beings, all in various stages of night undress. I could see an old wooden roller coaster partially obstructed by trees.
Also present were a number of small-adult-size, skinny beings managing the gathering. I watched as one of the beings walked toward me. From a distance she looked like she could have been human and she had with her a shorter being who seemed to be a kid. As she stopped in front of me, I realized he didn’t look exactly human.
The taller being, apparently a caregiver of sorts, didn’t look entirely human either. In shock, it dawned on me I was interacting with some kind of alien-human hybrid life form. The adult caregiver kept pushing the boy, this hybrid, toward me. I kept pushing back, insisting there was a mistake. (I had had my tubes tied the previous year, after deciding not to have kids.) Finally, I understood she was telling me this child was mine.
I blacked out. The next second I was sitting straight up in my bed, severely dehydrated. I stumbled to the kitchen and drank an entire gallon of milk. I then found myself checking my body for marks. I recognized my behavior was strange. My fiancé thought it was a dream, but it felt real.
The next night, we were watching TV, and Whitley Streiber’s “Communion” came on. The movie showed two kids running down a path toward a flying saucer that was floating above a lake. The kids suddenly stopped and turned around. I instantly let out a scream and crawled up the back of the sofa, completely traumatized. They looked exactly like the hybrids I had seen just the night before in my “dream”!
Many years later after I met John [Mack], he was writing a foreword for Jim Sparks’s book [“The Keepers: An Alien Message for the Human Race”]. I happened to see an illustration that had been drawn for it. It showed the very same woods I had been in at the clearing, with a roller coaster in the background! Jim had obviously been present during the same encounter but was apparently in a different position in the woods.
When Laurel Chiten put her sizzle reel out for her documentary “Touched,” a guy from Canada reached out to Laurel and she put him in touch with me. He had been raised in Scotland. He talked about an incident that happened while playing in a forest as a kid.
He had been taken somewhere by two non-human beings into a white, misty room with curved walls, where he was introduced to a young girl who agreed to give him a bubble gum machine. Apparently, he later walked out of the woods without remembering how he got it. He told me he had kept it for a long time. Stunned, I asked if he still had it. He said he got rid of it when he moved overseas.
Robin Lassiter, 41, medical office manager in Grand Junction, Colo. I grew up with one older sister in southern Colorado. My parents were back-to-the-landers, hippies, and I grew up in the off-grid geodesic dome they built. Around 4, I have a memory of standing downstairs in the dome. I don’t know how I got down from my bedroom in the loft. A being was standing in front of me, an insectoid, with an exoskeleton. I called him Antman. I felt he was there to check on me. I didn’t tell anyone. I was so young, I didn’t realize it was unusual, but never forgot it.
Throughout my childhood I had vivid dreams and frequent out-of-body experiences. I had Armageddon dreams, dreams of war, explosions, the earth being destroyed and renewed, civilization coming back. I found the world very confusing and difficult to be in. I went to college, but dropped out. I had several years of drinking, drama, running from myself.
In my early 30s, I got sober and the anomalous experiences started again — sleep paralysis, waking with the bed shaking violently, and ultimately a life-changing out-of-body experience where I was surrounded by an overwhelming buzzing vibration and suspended in an intelligent, velvety darkness.
A being appeared and drew me towards a gateway. I knew that on the other side was where we go when we die. I became terrified and yanked myself back into my body. I had a vivid dream of four beings, joined together and surrounded by light, saying that they were there for me when I was ready. I called them the Four-Who-Are-One.
I started having dreams of colored orbs coming down from the sky. They began to teach me things, to tell me I needed to get ready for something, to help the planet. I gave away most of my possessions and moved into a yurt in southern Colorado to try to make my life as simple and connected to nature as possible. I continued to have out-of-body experiences and visitors, profound dreams and often saw U.F.O.s in the sky. It was really blissful.
After some time, I moved into an adobe house that was haunted. I started drinking heavily. I was depressed and had constant nightmares. I was on a path of self-destruction and in the depth of the darkness, I broke my ankle. As I fell, I saw the four light beings and they showered me with love, cradled my fall. Breaking my ankle that way stopped me in my tracks, and I was able to get sober again. I’ve now been sober for nearly five years.
After that, the anomalous experiences mostly stopped until the fall of 2019, right before Covid, when I broke the same ankle again, hiking. The sleep paralysis started up again, with messages that I needed to prepare for something, that I needed to help the planet. During hypnotic regression I was drawn into the cosmos and arrived on a different planet, standing before the Four-Who-Are-One.
I was afraid, until one of them pushed his face through the light and I recognized him as Antman. He told me that they are my guides, that I typically don’t incarnate on earth, but that I chose to come to work on a project. The project has to do with the earth shifting into a new paradigm, from evolution through suffering into creation and joy, to help end the cycle of self-destruction.
They told me I was in between two major blocks of my life and I needed to write a book to bridge the gap between them, that I would not be able to speak of these things until I wrote it. The experience deeply shook my reality, but after much resistance the book is nearly done.
My most recent experience was in January. I was meditating and felt the familiar pull of levitation. I was pulled high up into space, communicating with the Four. I found myself back in bed, my body heavy and strange. The light wouldn’t click on. I was in a honeycomb matrix that stretched out in every direction. The four beings emerged from where my bedroom wall should have been, and told me this matrix is what reality, this earth plane, hangs on.
They told me they were showing me a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the mechanics of reality. They said that it’s malleable and shifts in response to what I focus on, and I need to learn how to work with it.
Nadine Lalich, 69, retired paralegal in Albuquerque, and author of “Alien Experiences” and “Evolution.” I grew up in Michigan, south of Detroit. My grandparents were born in Croatia. My father was obsessed with astronomy. He told stories about flying, had disappearances. He said “they” would come back and take him off planet. My aunt Pat said men in black appeared to her at her door. I’ve seen several different species working together, small grays, tall whites, mantis beings, men in black. One was short statured with pointed ears, an elf figure.
At about 10, I walked into the living room and my parents and brother were slumped in front of the TV, unconscious. I could see the test pattern. There was somebody outside that came into the kitchen with me. We wouldn’t talk about this stuff. We weren’t that type of family. At 16, my boyfriend I drove to Metropark for an afternoon picnic. At dusk we saw this craft over our head. It jolted us. We followed it and lost time. We pulled over and fell asleep. He was never quite the same afterward. Later we married and divorced.
In 1991, on a camping trip to Sedona with my friend Pam, I woke up at 3 a.m. with rustling sounds outside the van. The door opened and I was blinded by the light. A long thin arm with three fingers and a thumb reached in. The next thing I knew I was standing at the back of the van paralyzed, with two small bald children on each side.
I felt myself levitate. I was going toward the light. An hour later I was dropped through the roof of the van. Boom! All my belongings were gone from the picnic table. I told Pam something terrible happened to me, I’ve got to go home.
For a few years I was in and out of denial. Thank goodness I began to record it in journals. I do believe some are physical entities who desire to eradicate hatred and violence within the human species. They may have eliminated it within themselves, or perhaps evolved without such intense emotion. They can show you your mind as a hologram projected into the air.
They showed me a picture of crafts coming, something that looks like a capsule burrowing down into the ground. And they showed me an area that looked like it was outside Las Vegas in the desert. You watched as it whirled in, scissor arms burrowing into the earth and telepathically suggested they had the capability to affect the neuro-processes of a whole city if they wanted to.
I no longer feel threatened. I’m not someone who believes they will take over our planet. They just don’t want us to expand our nuclear material. I do think some species are going to come into the open.
I have an innate trust in the infinite source that underlies all manifestation. It is an intelligent, powerful, and creative force that seeks to expand into the universe. Once you get through the fear, you realize, wait a minute! I’m still here. If they were going to take my life it would have happened by now. I have faith in the power that creates. Sometimes I call it “God” or the “Force.”
Ralph Blumenthalwas a New York Times reporter from 1964-2009 and co-wrote the 2017 Times story that broke the news of a secret Pentagon unit investigating UFOs. His 2013 article in Vanity Fair Online, “Alien Nation: Have Humans Been Abducted by Extraterrestrials?”, about Harvard psychiatrist John Mack who risked his eminent career to study the alien abduction phenomenon, was a work-in-progress for his book,“The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack,”published March 15, 2021, by High Road Books of the University of New Mexico Press.
The Moon: “An artificial satellite left by ancient civilizations”
The Moon: “An artificial satellite left by ancient civilizations”
Mikhail Vasin and Alexander Sherbakov, two experienced Russian scientists from the Soviet Academy of Sciences, developed a theory where they claimed that the Moon is not a natural satellite. In fact, no ancient civilization mentions it.
Scientists are convinced that the Moon is hollow and is covered by an armored and a shock-absorbing shell.
In the 1960s, the magazine Sputnik published an article in which two scientists claimed that the Moon is not a natural satellite of the Earth, but a colossal hollow planetoid.
Its creation was thanks to an advanced civilization that strategically placed it in Earth orbit many centuries ago.
A theory could be considered somewhat far-fetched a priori, however, it would explain many of the enigmas of “our” satellite.
The Moon An artificial satellite?
The article explained that for the Moon to support its warp without breaking, it must be maintained by certain unusual internal characteristics . One of them is a huge inner fortress .
Experts said that artificial satellites are normally hollow and with colossal resistance to withstand the variations of outer space.
“The base probably had a double layer, a dense armored shell about 30 km thick, and over it a less compact cover, a thinner layer, about 4.5 km.”
Most of the debris that enters the atmosphere is destroyed , but this is not the case with the Moon. This would explain the immense amount of craters that exist on its surface compared to Earth.
If you take into consideration that the Moon traveled from a distant point in the cosmos , then it received many more impacts than the Earth.
Another issue is the depth of the impacts; they are all superficial. The explanation for this phenomenon is that objects collide with a buffer layer before encountering an impenetrable protective shell .
That would be the 30-kilometer-thick armored layer , so the explosion from the impact would only damage the 4.5-kilometer crust . The common depth of craters found on the Moon.
Another inexplicable event is the traces of seas of lava that have been found on the Moon. Some scientists claim that the lava could have come from inside the satellite. Something unlikely, since it has always been considered a cold body , incapable of generating that heat.
Craters on the Moon demonstrate a possible rather long journey to your current position.
Another theory speaks of meteorites that exploded on its surface, producing lava. The problem is that it seems to emanate from within . For Vasin and Sherbakov, these seas did come from the interior of the Moon, but not as we believe.
Legacy of an ancient civilization?
The experts assured that, from the inside, someone or something produced said material composed of rocks and materials, which took the appearance of lava.
This paste was used as cement to repair the damage caused by meteorites, thus creating “cleaner” and darker areas than others.
This could explain the gravitational variations in some sectors of the Moon. The composition and weight of these “seas” would provoke them.
We should know that the theory that the Moon is an artificial satellite is nothing new. In fact, since ancient times, there are no records of the Moon.
Philosophers like Aristotle speak in the Constitution of Tages, that the Pelasgian people inhabited the Earth “before the Moon appeared in the heavens .”
Ancient Tibetan texts also say that in the disappeared continent of Gondwana , where ancient Lemuria was, the Moon did not exist .
Inmanuel Velikovsky , a Russian researcher, stated in the 1950s that there are no clear records of the Moon in many ancient cultures.
Can we thus say that there is sufficient evidence to at least make us doubt that the Moon is a natural satellite? If this is true, it is time to question everything related to the lunar exploration of the different countries. What have they really discovered in that place?
The Voyager II unmanned spacecraft had been launched in August of 1977. Now, four years later, it was due to make its closest approach to Saturn on August 25, 1981. It was even going to send back photos in almost real time.
His idea was to interview Sagan (remember the insignificant Pale Blue Dot that Earth is supposed to be?).
I got to host Saturn and Beyond, and it was going to be Carl Sagan and me “live,” without commercial interruption, for thirty minutes on a show that got picked up by PBS for broadcast across the United States. It was heady stuff. After all, he was designing the messages for extraterrestrial civilizations that would ride with that Voyager spacecraft on the “Golden Record” at the same time I was a hippie radio news jock in Eugene, Oregon during college. Now I was going to sit on the same stage with him and talk a little space travel.
Sagan was already famous for the 1980 TV miniseriesCosmos:
He was also very much a believer in extraterrestrials and UFOs and even believed that dolphins might have a role to play in the matter. Newsman Zabel was not then “a UFO guy.” At any rate, Zabel walked Sagan out into the parking lot…
This is what I asked him:
“You’re famous for saying that there are billions and billions of stars out there in the Universe. You’ve actually said that you believe the Universe is teeming with life, and that some of it must be intelligent, probably more advanced than we are. But you also insist that none of these other beings could actually be here on Earth because the distances are too vast.”
Sagan’s smile left his face during this. He said, “What’s your point?”
“Well, only that you want us to look for radio signals coming from other civilizations out in space, but you say in Cosmos that UFOs aren’t really worth investigating, because they can’t be here in the first place. You’re a scientist. Why wouldn’t you want to investigate, particularly since it could prove we’re not alone?”
“I also said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof,” said Sagan. “The claims I’ve seen don’t come with much proof at all.”
Sagan left abruptly. Reflecting on the evidence, four decades later (and twenty-five years after Sagan’s death), Zabel thinks that Sagan had to downplay his passionate belief in extraterrestrials in order to avoid being written off as a crank — a cool crank but a crank nonetheless: “The truth of the matter, to me, is that he felt giving any quarter on the UFO issue could kill his career.”
Zabel has much more to tell in his story at Medium, including how he developed an interest in UFOs himself and went on to work in the sci-fi area.
Significantly, the discussion has become much less toxic over the years. The Pentagon report earlier this year clarified that UAPs (UFOs) are “not caused by any U.S. advanced technology.” There does not appear to be a straightforward weather-related explanation either for some of them. In short, it’s not a situation in which everyone on one side of the debate is a sharp cookie and everyone on the other side is a fool. In some cases, we just don’t know what’s happening.
Sagan was denied tenure at Harvard for being, according to Zabel, a little too “out there.” But today, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb openly discusses his thoughts on ETs and UFOs in popular science venues. And, in what sounds like a helpful move, NASA is seeking standards for ET life claims, rather than just denying or avoiding them altogether.
Perhaps all unidentified aerial phenomena are due to rare natural events. But the only way to honestly evaluate that is to start with the premise that they might — in principle — not be natural events. The need to simply “debunk” is not so much part of science as it is a social phenomenon: the Ingroup vs. the Outgroup. Continually proving that one is a member of the Correct group is hardly the spirit that advances science.
Here’s some retro from Voyager 1 and 2:
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The surprising role that dolphins have played in the search for ET. Dolphins, with their apparent alien intelligence, have been seen by scientists interested in ET as a stand-in. The discovery of dolphin intelligence supported the view that intelligence might evolve in unexpected places among life forms without hands.
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The UAPs (UFOs) are “not caused by any U.S. advanced technology.” And that’s all the Pentagon probably really knows. Some, including physicist Mark Buchanan, hope we never find out if it’s aliens or not.
Deze microchip is het kleinste vliegende object dat ooit door de mens is gemaakt
Deze microchip is het kleinste vliegende object dat ooit door de mens is gemaakt
De ‘microvlieger’ kan uitgerust worden met miniatuurtechnologie. Dat kan gaan van antennes en sensoren tot geheugenopslag of draadloze communicatie: “Het doel van dit project was om een vliegsysteem te koppelen aan een elektronische microchip, met het idee dat dit ons in staat zou stellen om zeer functionele elektronische miniatuurapparaatjes te distribueren, bijvoorbeeld om de omgeving te scannen op ziektepartikels, om te patrouilleren of om vervuiling op te sporen”, aldus professor John A. Rogers van Northwestern University, die aan het hoofd staat van het ontwikkelingsproject.
Today I went through the lunar orbiter mission photos and soon found an alien structure sticking out in the side of a crater. The structure is a monolith type shape. The object in question is an alien made structure laying on its side. The structure is about 5km long and 2.5km wide. The structure looks intact and should still be habitable if humans landed in that location and took it over. Its a self contained structure, a habitat that probably already can create an oxygen atmosphere within it, but if not, could easily be converted to do so. Its a lot easier than other suggestions scientists have given of making a dome over a crater...which could have leaks and you basically have to start from nothing. Here...its all ready and waiting for someone to take it over. But alien life is less of a mystery than humanity itself. Its hard to understand why most scientists would ignore such a great opportunity to instead start from nothing on the moon. Thats...how humans are...we chose to argue about subjects rather than take action. It holds humanity back. Its a waste of valuable time. The structure is there...and I predict humanity will ignore its discovery.
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These unknown objects flying through our sky
These unknown objects flying through our sky
High speed disc-shaped UFO travelling over Mount Teide in Tenerife. Since the UFO/fastwalker passes the photographer at a reasonable distance, it is unlikely that the object is a bird flying close to the camera.
Then, four cigar shaped independent objects flying in parallel over Bend, Oregon. Objects were not visible to the naked eye and a weird transparent shaped object hovering through the sky over Brooklyn, New York. It appeared to be a physical object that reflected the light of the sun only at certain angles when turning.
Weird transparent UFO spirals down over Brooklyn 24-Sep-2021
Weird transparent UFO spirals down over Brooklyn 24-Sep-2021
This daytime UFO sighting was filmed in the sky above Brooklyn on 24th September 2021.
Witness report:
Me and my wife where at the rooftop enjoying the afternoon weather when a bright flash in the sky caught my eye. I looked up but couldn’t see anything. I mentioned to my wife, and as we looked up we both witnessed the flash again and what appeared to be a shape. The building is in Brooklyn and the object was spotted south of La Guardia Airport. First I thought of a flock of birds but where too high, and move too fast and coordinated. At times looked like a cloth or a transparent flag, but the flight path seemed oddly smooth and unpredictable. Because of looking almost transparent it’s hard to say, but seemed to spiral down in a controlled way. It appeared to be a physical object that reflected the light of the sun only at certain angles when turning. Other than those moments where the sun reflection flashed, it was very hard to see it at all. My wife started filming it and I ran to get the binoculars, when I got back the object was gone. My wife filmed it around 25 seconds after I first saw it so it’s all there in the video. It felt it was high and large, but is very hard to say exactly what we saw, even watching the video is hard to make our minds on what could have been. It could be some natural phenomena, but a strange one at least.
According to an Inverse report, a team of astronomers led by Leiden University researcher Hongying Chen is actively searching the skies for advanced alien life forms.
They’re looking for infrared signals that could be the exhaust emissions of hypothetical Dyson spheres, which are massive megastructures that harness the energy of the surrounding universe. Their new paper focuses on two distant galaxies whose infrared emissions have previously eluded simple explanation.
In search of super-intelligent alien life
Is there any life out there? According to the Fermi Paradox, it is extremely likely, given that there are billions of stars in the Milky Way alone, many of which have planets orbiting in habitable zones. Despite this, we have found no evidence of intelligent alien life. New discoveries, such as the recent discovery that Mars has always been too small to retain surface water, are constantly changing our understanding of the likelihood of discovering intelligent life in the far reaches of space.
Chen and his colleagues believe that if there is life out there, the most likely way to find it is to look for the traces of the most advanced civilizations. They are specifically looking for Kardashev Type III civilization (K3) lifeforms. The Kardashev scale was proposed in 1964 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev as a way to measure the level of technological advancement of a hypothetical civilization based on the amount of energy it can harness from the surrounding universe.
As the most advanced type of alien civilization, K3 lifeforms are at the top of the scale. According to the scale, they would be able to harness the energy of black holes, stars, and quasars using technologies similar to the hypothetical Dyson sphere — a massive structure that could surround a celestial object such as a star without collapsing. It’s worth noting that humans aren’t even considered Type 1 yet, as that would necessitate us efficiently harnessing the power of the Sun. Chen and his colleagues scanned a portion of the Northern Sky for galaxies that could be home to K3 alien lifeforms. So far, two galaxies have stood out among the 21 they have studied. They describe their findings in a paper published in the Royal Astronomical Society’s Monthly Notices.
The researchers behind the new study believe they can detect a Type III civilization by looking for mid-infrared emissions in the sky. These, they believe, could be telltale signs of advanced alien races emitting Dyson Spheres — Chen’s team writes in their paper that K3 civilizations are likely to “generate strong excess emission in the mid-infrared (MIR) that is associated with the waste heat they generate.” The researchers examined the emissions of 21 galaxies with high mid-infrared emissions and discovered that four of them had mid-infrared emissions that were multiplied by a factor of ten. One of these was an active galactic nucleus, and the other was a star-forming galaxy, indicating that they are natural sources of mid-infrared emissions. The other two galaxies, known as ILT J134649.72+542621.7 and ILT J145757.90+565323.8, however, are not so easily explained, and the researchers say they “require further investigation.”
The researchers’ next goal is to pinpoint the precise source of the infrared emissions. “We can look at their emissions in other wavelengths like X-ray and optical to see if their spectral energy distribution is active galactic nuclei-like or star-forming-galaxy-like,” Chen explained in an interview with Inverse. “We can also conduct high-resolution radiological observations on them to examine their morphology.” They also intend to scan other parts of the sky for possible signs of hyper-advanced alien life.
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A UFO “overtakes” fighter jets during an air show
A UFO “overtakes” fighter jets during an air show
This is the second time in three weeks that a high-speed UFO has “overtaken” fighter jets during an air show.
On August 28, 2021, during an international air show in Thamesford, Ontario, Canada, a swift UFO flew past the Blue Angels and now, on September 19, 2021, a similar incident occurred when the Red Arrows performed a show. air over Chorley, England.
As with the UFO in Canada, this UFO in England also has neither wings nor visible propulsion. What’s going on? Why do these objects appear during air shows?
During the last years we have published hundreds of similar cases, which for many researchers, these UFOs are supposed extraterrestrial ships of some civilization that is among us.
As reported by the well-known ufological portal MUFON , on September 19, 2021, an incredibly fast UFO flew past military aircraft during an air show.
Ufologists wonder why these UFOs appear during air shows?
Some researchers believe that UFOs are deliberately identified to make themselves known, and others believe that objects in this way demonstrate their advantage over human technologies. What do you think?
You may know him as The Red Rocker, or the lead singer of Montrose, or David Lee Roth’s replacement in Van Halen, or from the video for “I Can’t Drive 55”, or from drinking his Cabo Wabo tequila. Do aliens know him for any of those reasons or was it something else that prompted them to abduct him in the mid 1960s – at least that’s what he told an interviewer in Las Vegas this week before a rooftop concert. Did ET want a song about no being able to drive Warp 55?
“100% happened. Four o’clock in the morning, pitch black, dead sleep. I felt like I was being programmed like someone’s tapping into me like it was a string from my head to 13 miles up on a mountain place called Lau Creek. And I know right where it was, these little foothills. There was an object there. There was two people in it, two creatures in it. And it was 19, I want to say it was 64, 65.”
Hagar has told the story before, including in his autobiography, but JC Fernandez, a host of Las Vegas Now on KLAS-TV, seems to have elicited more details about the encounter (reprinted by Mystery Wire) , which Hagar admits happened while he was asleep. He believes the ETs communicated with him telepathically.
“And they went, “Oh, he’s waking up,” augmented telepathy, you know, they just did the communication when my head is waking up. They yelled out a numerical code, not of our numerical system, (speaks the alien sounds he heard). And it went, and I can almost feel the plug, like an electrical charge leaving, zapped into their ship, put a light on in this ship where I see shadows of these creatures.”
In previous interviews, Hagar explains how he woke up to a loud ‘BAM’ and a white light and became convinced this abduction happened for a reason – he was programmed by aliens to become a rock star. Now, even The Red Rocker knows that’s pretty far out and he doesn’t mention it in the latest interview. However, this time he reveals that this was not his only encounter with aliens.
“These little gray creatures that were hanging out in Lake Placid. I had a house out in the wilderness and I had just no electricity, log cabin back in the early 80s, 81 82 and these little guys are in that cabin one night and you know even slamming doors just I’m not saying Yeah, they were physical guys. I don’t know if they were robots or what but it was freaky. It scared me to death.”
Hagar says the first encounter convinced him there are many kinds of aliens in different dimensions and they merely nabbed him as a kind of lab rat. He doesn’t think the aliens enlightened him (wonder what it did to them!!) nor did he get any implants or programming. He likened it to taking LSD where the enlightenment came from his realization of the experience. However, it did inspire him to put at least one space or alien-related song on many of his solo albums.
“Yeah, Space Station Number Five first Montrose song. Second Montrose was out in 1975 was Space Age Sacrifice. My first solo album, Hot Rocks, which changed into another song. But Silver Lights is about the return of the aliens coming back to see check out their planet that they populated somehow you know propagated with you know planted seeds. The next album Red had Someone Out There. Next Turn Up the Music had A Crack in the World on that record as far as I can remember. Then I stopped doing it every album. But every now and then I got one on there.”
How about This Planet’s on Fire on Street Machine? And don’t forget the album and song Marching to Mars. And anyone who pens a song titled Cosmic Universal Fashion must have had some kind of otherworldly inspiration, right?
Forget Tom DeLonge. It sounds like Sammy Hagar is the right rock ambassador to greet ETs visiting Earth. Maybe, if he’s lucky, they’ll take him for a ride faster than 55.
Just a few days ago, I was chatting on radio about the notorious “Philadelphia Experiment” of 1943. Or, rather, the alleged experiment. There’s no doubt at all that when it comes to the issues of control and conspiracy, just about the biggest doozy of all is that which revolves around what is known as the Montauk Project. It’s a complicated saga which is filled with tales of mind-control, time-travel, government cover-ups, secret experiments, and much more. And it’s all focused around a certain facility located on Long Island, New York. It’s a story that has its origins in the 1940s and an incredible series of classified programs run by the U.S. Navy, but which didn’t start to surface publicly until the 1950s. It was in 1955 that a highly controversial book on flying saucers was published. The author was Morris Ketchum Jessup, and the title of his book was The Case for the UFO. It was a book which, for the most part, highlighted two particular issues: (a) how gravity could be harnessed and used as an energy; and (b) the source of power of the mysterious flying saucers that people were seeing in the skies above. It wasn’t long after the book was published that Jessup was contacted by a man who wrote Jessup a number of letters that detailed something astounding. The man was one Carlos Allende, a resident of Pennsylvania.
Allende’s letters were as long as they were rambling and almost ranting, but Jessup found them oddly addictive. Allende provided Jessup what he – Allende – claimed were top secret snippets of a story that revolved another nothing less than invisibility – of the type achieved, in fictional formats, at least, in the likes of The Invisible Man movie of 1933, starring Claude Rains. It wasn’t just invisibility that Allende had on his mind: it was teleportation, too, and of the kind which went drastically wrong for Jeff Goldblum’s character, Seth Brundle, in 1986’s The Fly. Jessup read the letters with varying degrees of amazement, worry, fear and incredulity. That’s hardly surprising, given the nature of the alleged events. So Allende’s tale went, it was at the Philadelphia Naval Yard, in October 1943, when the U.S. Navy reportedly managed to bring both teleportation and invisibility into the real world.
(U.S. Navy) USS Eldridge
According to Allende, the ship in question – the DE 173 USS Eldridge – vanished from Philadelphia and then very briefly reappeared at Norfolk, Virginia, after which it returned to the Philadelphia Naval Yard. How did Allende know all this? He told Jessup that he was on-board a ship whose crew were monitoring the experiment, the USS Andrew Furuseth. In one of his letters, that detailed his own, claimed sighting of the Eldridge vanishing form view, Allende wrote that he watched “the air all around the ship turn slightly, ever so slightly, darker than all the other air. I saw, after a few minutes, a foggy green mist arise like a cloud. I watched as thereafter the DE 173 became rapidly invisible to human eyes.” Allende’s story was, to be sure, incredible. But, the important thing was: was it true? It sounded like an amazing hoax. But, there was just something about the story which made Jessup suspect this was not a joke at all. The more that Allende related the growing aspects of the tale, the more and more Jessup was reeled in.
(Nick Redfern) Morris Jessup’s books
Allende told Jessup that while the experiment worked – in terms of achieving both teleportation and invisibility – it had terrible, adverse effects upon the crew. Many of them had gone completely and utterly insane and lived out the rest of their lives in asylums for the insane. Some vanished from view and were never seen nor heard from again. Others were fused into the deck of the ship, flesh and metal combined into one. Agonizing deaths were all those poor men had. There is, however, something else that needs to be made clear. Despite the intricacy surrounding the supposed experiment, nothing ever surfaced about the USS Eldridge, and about people turning briefly invisible or vanishing forever , before Allende was on the scene. Yes, retired military people have came forward – post-Allende and post-Jessup – to share what they knew. I only wish, though, we had a fistful of such sources back in, let’s say, only three months or eight months after the alleged experiment supposedly took place. Unfortunately, we don’t. It all surfaces in the 1950s.
These jars were discovered during excavations where a temple and graves were found in an ancient town near Columbia’s capital of Bogotá. The jars, which are called ofrendatarios, were created by the ancient Muisca people (they are also known as Chibcha) who were well known for their exceptional metal-crafting skills. In fact, their famous works have been linked to the mythical lost gold city of El Dorado.
Eight ceramic jars contained metal figurines with emeralds.
The jars and figurines date back approximately 600 years. The figurines were in a variety of shapes, such as snakes, other different animals, and even people wearing headdresses with weapons and staffs. There may have been a connection between the items and the temple in which they were found as explained by archaeologist Francisco Correa, “It’s very difficult to establish, I think there was some type of cult of the ancestors.” They could have been used as an offering and they could have possibly been made in reference to deities that were worshipped by the Muisca people.
They had to make trades with other groups in order to obtain gold because there weren’t any gold mines near them. Their goldwork was so magnificent that they were referenced to the golden city of El Dorado. The Muisca people had a tradition where the chief would be covered in an ointment that contained gold particles during specific ceremonies which were apparently some of the “…motivations of this [El Dorado] myth” as noted by Correa. Actually, the Spanish watched these ceremonies take place and they even recorded them in ancient chronicles (as well as mentioning their goldwork) which helped to influence the myth.
Emeralds
The Spanish took over the region between the years 1537 and 1540 which caused many of the Muisca people to die during the battle or from diseases. While many lives were lost, the Muisca people did continue to inhabit the area and there are still people today who are descendants of them.
Pictures of the jars, figurines, and emeralds can be seen here.
Here, an ofrendatario found at the Muisca site. (Image credit: Photo courtesy Francisco Correa)
A 3D scan of one of the metallic figurines found inside an ofrendatario. It has a human-like appearance.
A 3D scan of another of the metallic figurines found inside an ofrendatario.
Various artifacts were also found during the excavation of the site.
Emeralds were found inside the ofrendatarios.
The interior of an ofrendatario found at the site. The ancient Muisca placed metallic figurines and emeralds inside.
The myth of El Dorado comes from this object and the legend behind it. The zipa or Muisca king used to cover his body in gold dust. And from his raft, he offered treasures to the Guatavita goddess in the middle of the sacred lake. This old Muisca tradition became the origin of the legend of El Dorado. This Muisca raft figure is on display in the Gold Museum, Bogotá, Colombia.
Spinning disc-shaped UFO over Austin, TX 6-Sep-2021
Spinning disc-shaped UFO over Austin, TX 6-Sep-2021
This daytime UFO sighting ob some kind of a bright spinning flying saucer was filmed over Austin, Texas on 6th September 2021.
Witness report:
Spinning disc like object viewed in the sky northeast from my location. The object moved up / down vertically and left/right continuously. As I stood up to gain a better vantage to see it, the object appeared to drop rapidly behind tree cover. As I sat back down in my pool, the object raised back up. I observed the object for 20+ minutes. The object was appeared white or transparent and was not close – I estimate it was at least 1/4 mile or more in the distance. The object did not appear to have any sound associated with it (humming of drone for example). It did appear to have spinning white lights as viewed in the images and video.
UFOs in formation over Indio, California 23-Sep-2021
UFOs in formation over Indio, California 23-Sep-2021
These strange lights were filmed over Indio in California on 23rd September 2021 at 8pm.
Witness report:
29 palms marine base is higher north east, this is south east looking towards Salton sea. Only possible base in that direction is Yuma, AZ. I don’t think they are flares, they are stationary and my friend said he seen them flying across Salton sea. This was taken during work tonight. There are 5 lights then 5 more appear above the original lights. This direction I’m looking at is south east heading towards Salton sea. Other people did see this in different directions. They look still and not moving, my other friend is in the northern area of Indio and said he seem these lights in a straight light moving fast over the Salton sea. I could not hear any sound and could only see in the distance. At the end they just disappear.
Recently, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson had an entertaining talk with PBS’s Firing Line’s Margaret Hoover about space-related stuff including the current hot topic of UFOs/UAPs. Below you can read the show’s full transcript. He said this among many other things: "Well, I hope it’s ours that is highly secret, because this kind of propulsion that has no wings and doesn’t have an exhaust and suddenly darts from here to there in an instant, covering a distance at speeds that are incredible, I hope it’s ours. But according to our government, they’re telling us it is NOT.”
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson discusses America’s mission to return to the moon and reach Mars, a new international space race, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) sightings, and NASA’s search for intelligent life in the universe.
The final frontier, this week on ‘Firing Line.’ America has always had a frontier. Now that frontier is upward, and it’s out into the cosmos.
A child of the Florida space coast who became the second sitting member of Congress in orbit.
We have liftoff.
Now Bill Nelson’s been asked to lead NASA into the future. The agenda is ambitious and expensive — put an American back on the Moon by 2024, then on to Mars.
Mars is the goal in the decade of the 2030s.
There’s competition from China and Russia and the space race among billionaires to be the first.
Liftoff as the Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon… There’s also a brand-new government report about unexplained sightings in the sky.
Look at that thing, dude.
And it may have raised more questions than answers.
Look at it fly!
What does NASA Administrator Bill Nelson say now?
‘Firing Line with Margaret Hoover’ is made possible in part by… And by… Corporate funding is provided by… NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, welcome to ‘Firing Line.’
Thank you so much. I love to talk about space.
You have said that NASA is in your blood. You grew up on the Space Coast and became the second sitting member of Congress to travel into space aboard the Space Shuttle in 1986. But a decade ago, NASA seemed adrift in space. The space shuttle program was ending, and the U.S. had no means of reaching space. Compared to 10 years ago, Senator, where does NASA stand today?
Well, it was specifically 11 years ago that Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas and I wrote the bill that put NASA on the course that it’s on, a dual course — one-course commercial companies that NASA would hire, specifically the delivery of crew and cargo to the International Space Station. And then the other course, NASA, to get out of low Earth orbit and go explore the heavens. And that’s the course that we’re on. Now, in that period of time, the space shuttle was coming to an end after the destruction of It was strongly encouraged to shut it down and come up with a design that was more safe for human life. And that’s what we have now. And you will see that in the largest rocket ever will launch at the end of this year. The space launch system with its spacecraft, Orion, on the top.
I’d like to ask you about the SLS space launch system, which is NASA’s enormous launch rocket, a project that you have supported going back to 2011 when you were in the United States Senate. Let me ask you, the office of inspector general says that that project is costing billions more than it was supposed to and is at least two years behind schedule. As NASA administrator, your job now is to keep the project on schedule and within budget. How are you going to do that?
And more recently, it’s just been delayed further because of a protest of the bid that NASA earlier this year had awarded to a competition of the lander, a commercial lander. So that’s another delay of 100 days and then on the basis of what the General Accounting Office decides. So you have these delays. But the fact is, once GAO decides, we’re ready to go, and we’re going to push full steam ahead.
The goal was to launch Artemis in 2021, and then. ultimately, land astronauts on the Moon by the end of 2024. So is that going to stay on schedule, or will that be delayed?
We’re going with crew in 2023, and then, depending on this competition for a lander in the commercial sector, then that’s going to determine when we actually land on the moon with humans. And that’s what we’ve got to keep on track and we’ve got to try to speed up.
You said you’re ready to go as soon as the GAO, the Government Accountability Office, says so, but in May, they said, quote, ‘The ambitious schedule decreases the likelihood of NASA achieving its goal.’ So what gives? Who’s right here?
Well, that report was actually written on materials and information that they had received earlier that have since been changed. However, space is hard, space is risky. And when you have human life in it, it’s important that you do it right. The entire space program all the way back from Project Mercury, look at all the delays there, after the Apollo 1 fire that we lost three astronauts. They had to redesign the spacecraft. You’ve seen these delays as a result because space is hard.
How confident are you there will be a woman on the Moon in 2024?
Well, don’t hold to that. I’ve said space is hard. That’s the goal. So whenever that is, it will be the first woman and the next man. And in the course of all the landings will also be the first person of color.
So there’s a chance it will be delayed from 2024.
We’ll see. That’s the goal.
Listen, in 1968, astronauts on the first manned mission to the Moon, the Apollo 8, sent back a photograph of the Earth, which gave us a new perspective on our planet, and it even helped propel the environmental movement towards the first Earth Day in 1970. One of your first interviews, you mentioned that climate change would be a top issue for you as the NASA administrator. How will NASA’s new Earth System Observatory help protect the planet?
It’s five missions over the next decade, yet once on orbit, it’s all going to talk to each other as they measure every detail about land, the seas, ice, and the atmosphere. And that is going to give us a three-dimensional picture of the Earth’s environment and what are the changes and what we project in the future. That is already, in the scientific community, is just being greeted with extraordinary excitement. Because if you want to mitigate climate, you’ve got to measure it. And that’s what NASA is going to do.
The Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, which cost a relatively inexpensive $85 million to build and operate, just went on its ninth flight. It was about 1/200th of what the SLS rocket, which hasn’t flown yet, has cost so far. Ingenuity has been so successful that NASA extended its mission for at least another 30 days. Should NASA focus even more on smaller missions like this that it’s so good at?
Well, Ingenuity is the result of a very large mission and a very successful one. We have been putting landers out on Mars since the 1970s. And so the one that is there now is the size of a Volkswagen, the rover. And so they got this idea of attaching this little helicopter to it just to see if a helicopter could fly in an atmosphere that is one percent of the density of Earth’s atmosphere. And lo and behold, it worked. And then they said, ‘Well, it’s working so well, let’s try to do some other things.’ And now, after nine times flying, what it is actually, it’s a scout for the rover. So we now have a scout on Mars.
It’s extraordinary to watch. You know, William F. Buckley Jr. spoke to astronaut Alan Shepard in 1973, two years after Shepard walked on the Moon, in a program that was entitled ‘Was It Worth It?’ Watch this.
I think we have the first amount of data back from the lunar surface that’s going to tell us a tremendous amount of the geology of the Moon, its relationship to the geology of the Earth, how the two are related, how we can better determine what’s going on on the Earth. These are the kinds of things that we have to assess in the next five or six years. Now, I can’t honestly say what’s going to be the answer five or six years from now — do we, in fact, want to go back to the Moon again? Perhaps the answer will be no. Perhaps we don’t want to go back for 100 years. If you say, ‘All right, in 1985, automatically, fund $3 billion annually for the second expedition to the Moon,’ I would say I couldn’t give you an honest answer. If you had to force me to make a decision now, I would say no, let’s wait five years.
And would that reasoning apply to Mars?
Oh, I think so, yeah.
Why is now the time to return to the Moon and to go to Mars?
Because in going back to the Moon, we’re going to learn how to go to Mars. Now, as a practical matter, we’re not going to be there until late in the decade in the 2030s, so as we get prepared to go to Mars, first of all, how long is it going to take you? It’s going to take you 8 to 10 months to get there. Once you get there, you’re going to have to stay a minimum of a year because the planets have to come back into realignment where it’s closest so that you can get back to Earth. So we’re going to learn habitats and protection and systems and new technology on the Moon that will enable us to go to Mars and to stay as long as a year in order to be able to get back to Earth.
A year ago, the Pentagon officially released three videos that were already circulating online. The videos were from 2004 and 2015, and they showed unidentified objects on radar, performing in uncharacteristic ways.
My gosh. They’re all going against the wind. The wind’s 120 knots west. Look at that thing, dude.
The director of National Intelligence has just declassified a nine-page report that is a preliminary assessment of UAPs, unexplained aerial phenomenon, what we all used to call UFOs. Of the 144 UAP reports between 2004 and 2021, only one was identified in high confidence. The other 143 are still mysterious. What did you think of the key findings of that report?
Well, I’ve read that report, and two years ago, in a classified setting in the Senate Armed Services Committee, I talked to the pilots, and they are absolutely convinced that they saw something. They locked their radar onto it, they followed it, and then, all of a sudden, it would move. And it had no exhaust. It had no plume. It had no visible wings or any kind of engines. So we don’t know what it is. But it’s something because, as you mentioned, over 140 sightings and maybe a couple of dozen that are really very specific sightings by very credible sources. And so, what is it? We don’t know. NASA has a program searching for life in the universe. It’s called Space Astrobiology. We’re looking for signs of life on Mars. We’re looking in the project that’s going to Venus now to see is there life in that atmosphere. We also listen in the universe. We have a grant program for people listening in the universe for any kind of intelligent signal. So we don’t know what this phenomenon is, but we sure need to find out.
According to the report, more, quote, ‘scientific knowledge’ may be needed to understand some of the objects. The report reads, quote… Senator, they’re saying that our science is not good enough to understand the phenomena that was observed. I know you say we don’t know what it is, but what do you think it is?
Well, I don’t know. I hope it’s not an adversary here on Earth, because then they have technology, if that’s the case, that we do not have. But the answer to your question is, I do not know.
Do you believe there’s life in another part of the universe?
I sure do. And let me tell you why. The universe is 13.5 billion years old. We’re even finding now other suns that very likely have planets, that we call exoplanets, circulating around, and we’re looking for signs of one with a habitable atmosphere that would duplicate what we have in our solar system with planet Earth. And so do I think in a universe that is so big that there is another sun in another galaxy, that that sun has planets revolving around it? You bet I believe that. And very likely, if there is, the chemical composition, as all those gases amassed around and formed the planets, the chemical composition could produce life. And that’s what we’re exploring.
Does NASA have a plan, Senator, for what it would do should a UAP turn out to be a space alien?
No, but the first thing we’d want to do is to find out if it’s friend or foe. But, you know, we’re not to that point because we just don’t know what this phenomenon is. I think with all those sightings that you referenced, there’s something there. This is not an optical illusion or a radar blip that’s a mistake. When you talk to those Navy pilots, they’re convinced because they saw it, and they tracked it.
Senator, of course, one of the possibilities is that this is a foreign adversary’s advanced technology or perhaps our own advanced technology that is highly classified. What is the probability that that’s what this is?
Well, I hope it’s ours that is highly secret, because this kind of propulsion that has no wings and doesn’t have an exhaust and suddenly darts from here to there in an instant, covering a distance at speeds that are incredible, I hope it’s ours. But according to our government, they’re telling us it is not.
Well, then you can understand the curiosity that we’re out looking for other life, we believe it’s there, we have unidentified objects flying in our own airspace, but we don’t have a plan for aliens?
Well, I had a wonderful plan when I watched Steven Spielberg’s ‘E.T.,’ and he was a friendly little fella. But we just don’t know. We don’t know what this phenomenon is.
All right. Richard Branson is scheduled to join Virgin Galactic, a space test next week. Jeff Bezos plans to be on board his own Blue Origin spacecraft during the first manned mission later this month. And I know you think that this is a great thing. How does NASA think about itself in the context of private-sector investment in space exploration and its own role?
More power to these space billionaires. Now, they’re not going into orbit. They’re just going on an 11- or 15-minute ride to the edge of space, have about three minutes of zero G, and then come back. You will start to have private astronauts early next year start going into orbit around the Earth. And we will have private astronauts that will come under the tutelage of a professional former astronaut that will visit the space station. So there’s a whole new explosion of new kind of uses of space in the private sector.
SpaceX rockets built by Elon Musk have already been used to power NASA missions. And SpaceX is designing a lunar lander that is intended to take humans back to the Moon. You know, there are some who argue that NASA should stay out of the business of building rockets and that this should be left to the private sector. There is a view that NASA’s role in space exploration should be to set the vision for the country and then partner with the private sector who can do a better job of controlling costs and meeting deadlines. What’s your response to that?
Well, that was the whole theory of the space bill, the NASA bill of 2010, was to have the best of both worlds. Now, always, NASA has depended on the commercial sector. All of our previous flights to the Moon, for example, were all done with private companies, with NASA overseeing them. In effect, you’re having a version of that right now as we’re going back to the Moon with the first woman and the first person of color.
Let me ask you — because China and Russia have announced that they have plans to launch a spacecraft as soon as October to look for ice on the Moon, and they say that they are going to also build a permanent research base at the South Pole of the Moon by 2030, it begs the question of are we entering an age of a new space race, Senator?
Personally, I think we are, because I think the Chinese have a very aggressive space program. Just within the last six months, they’ve landed on Mars. They’re only the second nation to have landed on Mars. Now, we’ve been on the surface of Mars since the 1970s, but they’re the second. Look what they’ve done just a few weeks ago. They now launched a space station, and now they have it occupied with their taikonauts. And this announcement that they’re partnering with Russia, that should give us pause, as well, because Russia has been our partner when they were the Soviet Union in 1975 when we had Apollo-Soyuz. And they have built the International Space Station with us. And my opinion is that they will continue to be our partner on the International Space Station. But we’ve got to watch a new space race with the Chinese government.
Is a space race good for innovation and exploration?
Competition is always good.
The critics would say even with Russia and China teaming up, they really don’t present enough of an existential threat for us to focus as uniquely and singularly as we did on the space race in the ’60s and ’70s.
Well, it depends on how you want to measure that. Do you want, for example, for China, to have them land all of these missions that they’re planning on the South Pole, which is the place where there should be a lot of ice, and, therefore, you have fuel and you have oxygen? They say it’s an international scientific mission. Well, what happens if they suddenly get there, and we’re not there, and they say, ‘No, it’s an exclusive economic zone. You can’t come in’? So you always want to be prepared? I don’t think the United States wants to be second on anything. And I think that’s why you’re seeing the vigorous support of the Biden administration with our space program.
One ‘gee whiz’ moment on the horizon is the launch of the new space telescope that is being advertised as being able to look much closer at the beginning of time. This is the James Webb Telescope. What does NASA hope it might find, Senator?
It’s going to look back in time to the beginning of the development of the universe. As a result, we’re going to find out more about the development. In finding out about that, we’re going to find out how did all of these solar systems occur in all of these millions and millions of galaxies. And so we’re going to be able to determine what happened that we are so fortunate on planet Earth that we had a habitable atmosphere that will sustain life. And by the way, the more and more that we find out about that, we can be better stewards of our own planet and protect the life we have here on this planet.
One final question. Given what we know about the UAPs, when is the right time, Senator, for us to come up with a plan to handle intelligent life that we’re looking for?
Well, we better identify it first. And once we identify it, then we’ll know what to do. We don’t have any idea if suddenly an alien is going to appear. This is still great speculation. But we’re in the search for life out there, and this phenomenon that these Navy pilots have seen, let’s find out about it. What is it? And then we can deal with it.
For all the contingency plans that the U.S. government has on every shelf, in every binder, I would think that we would be more prepared for that possible eventuality than you say that we are.
It is what it is.
Senator Nelson, thank you very much for joining me on ‘Firing Line’ to talk about space and NASA under your leadership.
It’s my pleasure. Thank you.
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Canada’s ‘Point Man’ for Military UFO Reports Is This Civilian in Winnipeg
Canada’s ‘Point Man’ for Military UFO Reports Is This Civilian in Winnipeg
According to UFO procedures obtained by VICE World News, Canada’s military refers reports of UFO sightings to a private company... and a civilian UFO researcher in Manitoba.
CANADA'S FOREMOST "UFO EXPERT" CHRIS RUTKOWSKI IN HIS HOME IN WINNIPEG IN 2016.
PHOTO BY THE CANADIAN PRESS/JOHN WOODS
Canada’s government and military have forwarded UFO reports to a civilian researcher for over two decades, VICE World News has learned.
Chris Rutkowski, one of the country’s most prominent ufologists, has been covering Canadian cases for more than 30 years, but has never fully disclosed these ties.
This is also the first time current UFO procedures have been released from the Canadian air force and NORAD, the joint Canada-U.S. defence group. They show an apparent lack of official Canadian curiosity or concern with phenomena the U.S. military openly investigates as potential national security threats.
“Their official stance is that they are not doing anything about UFOs and that I am the point man in Canada,” Rutkowski told VICE World News.
Obtained through Canada’s Access to Information Act, procedural checklist CL 213 outlines how the Royal Canadian Air Force and Canada’s NORAD headquarters deal with UFO sightings.
CL 213 says: “CIRVIS (Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings) reports should be made immediately upon a vital intelligence sighting of… objects or activities which appear to be hostile, unidentified, or engaged in possible illegal smuggling activity.” It even puts “unidentified flying objects” at the top of a list of examples such as “submarines or warships which are not Canadian or American.”
“Nav Canada manages Canadian airspace, and for that reason, it is important for them to be advised,” a Canadian air force and NORAD spokesperson told VICE World News.
CL 213 specifically comes from 1 Canadian Air Division in Winnipeg, the air force’s command centre and headquarters of the Canadian NORAD Region. While NORAD is not subject to freedom of information laws, as part of the Canadian Armed Forces, 1 Canadian Air Division is.
Canada’s military says it does not typically concern itself with UFO reports, unless they represent emergencies or “credible threats.” A defence spokesperson did disclose that “CIRVIS reports are shared with our NORAD colleagues in the U.S.”
And according to CL 213, “UFO sightings are to be referred to: Mr. Chris Rutkowski.”
‘Handshake agreement’
Often billed as the country’s foremost “UFO expert,” Rutkowski is the author of 10 books on the subject and founder of the annual Canadian UFO Survey, which has documented more than 22,000 UFO sightings since 1989. While the science writer has mentioned receiving reports from the military in his survey and speaking engagements, he’s never gone into depth about the exclusive two-decade arrangement—until now.
“I tend not to talk about my UFO research publicly but I do talk about UFOs publicly,” Rutkowski told us. “It’s a subtle distinction.”
“I don’t recall the name of the person who initially phoned me more than 20 years ago,” he said. “All that was discussed on the brief phone call was a verification that I was the person that had wanted to receive UFO reports.”
A spokesperson from Canada’s Department of National Defence described it as a “handshake agreement” with “a known responsible and published researcher on UFOs.” The spokesperson confirmed UFO reports have “been passed to (Rutkowski), on occasion, in various forms since the late 1990s.”
“I have no illusions that I receive all official UFO reports,” Rutkowski said. “I receive relatively low-classified reports with no security concerns.”
Rutkowski holds science and education degrees from the University of Manitoba, which has long employed him in communications roles, and where he is donating his UFO files. His latest book, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, is scheduled to be released this fall.
“I didn’t start out to be ‘Canada’s UFO expert,’” Rutkowski said. “I just plugged away, trying to understand what was really going on.”
‘We do not send it to NORAD like we used to’
VICE World News first learned of CL 213 in a declassified daily log file from the Canadian air force and NORAD command centre in Winnipeg. It describes them being notified of a cargo flight that reported an “object… going between Mach 4 & 5 making constant circles” above Canada’s Northwest Territories in April 2018.
That information came from the Canadian Air Defence Sector (CADS) in North Bay, Ontario, which is alerted by Nav Canada air traffic controllers when pilots report UFOs. CADS then informs the air force and NORAD in Winnipeg, and it also faxes Transport Canada, the government’s transportation department.
Transport Canada said it began sending Rutkowski “brief emails and some reports” in December 1999, but recently stopped after it “determined that it was not an operational necessity.”
“The decision to provide Mr. Rutkowski with these reports was an informal process and was done as a courtesy to encourage Mr. Rutkowski in his research for his fiction novels,” a spokesperson said.
VICE World News also learned Rutkowski has received UFO reports directly from at least five Canadian military bases.
In the case of CFB Comox in British Columbia, procedures to send Rutkowski reports were in place for at least a decade, but were cancelled this year after the base “started to receive weekly… requests on the topic of UFOs,” according to the Canadian military’s access to information office.
The old procedural document said, “We do not send it to NORAD like we used to. There is no form to fill in; just take the info and email it.”
‘Information should be available to everyone’
VICE World News was told to file access to information requests to glimpse what Rutkowski’s received from Canada’s government and military, and, so far, has only been able to independently verify six reports from CFB Comox. Two appear to have been left out of Rutkowski’s annual UFO survey, as was the 2018 “Mach 4” incident.
“I don’t have a problem with Chris getting this information,” freedom of information researcher Sean Holman told VICE World News. “What I do have a problem with is Canadians not getting this information.”
Holman, who teaches journalism at Alberta’s Mount Royal University, said “these kinds of informal relationships used to exist fairly regularly” before Canada’s Access to Information Act came into effect in 1983. He suggested Canada create a “regularized system” to release UFO data, perhaps even formalizing Rutkowski’s gatekeeper role.
Such an approach would still be a far cry from the U.S., where the military has studied UFOs almost continuously since 2007, and where intelligence officials released a stunning report in June that stated these phenomena “clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to U.S. national security.”
Canada doesn’t seem to be as alarmed.
“If the government feels comfortable releasing this information to a private citizen, then that means that information should logically be available to everyone,” Holman said. “There’s a real opportunity here for Chris.”
NASA’s VIPER rover, shown in this rendering, will explore the lunar south pole in search of ice.
Credit: NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter
NASA plans to land its next lunar rover beside a crater, named Nobile, near the Moon’s south pole, the agency has announced. But some scientists question whether the mission, set to launch in 2023, will efficiently find the lunar ice that it’s looking for.
The mission, known as the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), aims to study ice on the lunar surface that could serve as a resource, for instance as a rocket-fuel ingredient for future astronauts. The Moon's south pole has so far not been visited by any spacecraft, but holds great scientific promise: it receives little sunlight, so it has reserves of ice containing information about the origin and evolution of the Solar System, preserved for billions of years. VIPER will hunt for the ice in the lunar soil using various methods, including drilling up to 1 metre deep.
Lunar exploration is ramping up globally, with China, South Korea, India and Russia among the nations working on Moon missions. Amid these efforts, NASA aims to regain the glory of its 1969 crewed Moon landing by sending astronauts to the lunar surface somewhere near the south pole. The goal is to do so by the end of 2024, but that deadline will probably slip given budgetary and other constraints.
Ahead of the astronaut landing, NASA will send a fleet of robotic spacecraft to the Moon. Among them is VIPER, which will be the first-ever mission to provide on-the-ground measurements of lunar polar ice. VIPER will cost NASA around US$433 million to build and operate. Another $226 million will go to a private company, Astrobotic Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to deliver it to the Moon’s surface. If all goes well, after the rover touches down at its landing site near Nobile Crater, it will travel 25 kilometres or more over 100-plus days while mapping ice and drilling into it in a number of places.
NASA chose the area west of Nobile Crater, shown here in a data visualization, as the landing site for VIPER.
Credit: NASA
But some researchers worry that the landing site, announced on 20 September, isn’t guaranteed to have an abundance of ice. So far, scientists have only been able to estimate polar-ice concentrations on the basis of data from orbiting spacecraft. According to that information, Nobile Crater does have ice in and around it, including inside several permanently shadowed regions that never see the Sun’s rays1,2. “We do have a lot of data that there is water ice there — we’re not going in blind,” says Amy Fagan, a planetary scientist at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina.
But some point out that lunar polar ice appears to be distributed in patches — with frost on the surface in some places and ice frozen more deeply in others, inaccessible even to VIPER’s drill. “It’s not like water ice is everywhere,” says Bethany Ehlmann, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. “The details matter in terms of where we go.”
It’s possible that VIPER might not even come across water, adds Clive Neal, a geoscientist at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana — although even that information could help future ice-hunting missions find better target sites.
The search for ice
Since 2017, when then-president Donald Trump tasked NASA to return astronauts to the Moon, many lunar scientists have been working to identify areas around the south pole, where robotic spacecraft or astronauts might have the best chance of finding ice or other geologically interesting terrain to explore3.
NASA chose Nobile Crater for VIPER partly because it offers a variety of locations where ice can be studied in the lunar soil. Other factors in the decision included that VIPER could easily travel across the terrain, that enough sunlight is available for the solar-powered rover to recharge its batteries regularly, and that the crater has a good line of sight to Earth, so engineers can communicate directly with the spacecraft.
The agency acknowledges that VIPER does not yet have a detailed map of where the ice is around Nobile, named after an Italian explorer who developed airships for Arctic exploration. “This is exactly why we’re going,” says Anthony Colaprete, VIPER’s project scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. “Any new information is going to be enlightening beyond what we have right now.”
But some scientists say VIPER would be better off if NASA launched a different planned spacecraft, a small, $55-million satellite called Lunar Trailblazer, first. Lunar Trailblazer’s mission is to map water on the Moon. Researchers say the VIPER team could use these maps to plot which parts of Nobile the rover could efficiently travel to as it prospects for ice during its fast-paced, 100-day mission. “Not having Trailblazer launched at the same time or before VIPER is an opportunity missed,” says Neal.
Researchers at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, test a model of VIPER on simulated lunar terrain.
Credit: NASA/GRC/Bridget Caswell
NASA, however, plans to keep Lunar Trailblazer in storage until 2025, when it is scheduled to ride to space alongside an unrelated spacecraft. Ehlmann, who is the principal investigator for Lunar Trailblazer, says it will be ready for launch in February 2023, well before VIPER, and could make advance maps for VIPER if NASA finds an earlier launch opportunity.
US lunar scientists discussed the issue last month at a meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, which provides input to NASA on lunar activities. They supported launching Lunar Trailblazer as soon as possible but recognized that VIPER will still be successful without it, says Fagan, who is the group’s chair.
NASA defends its choice to launch VIPER first. “We absolutely have sufficient knowledge to fly the VIPER mission” before Trailblazer, says Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s planetary science division in Washington DC. And Neal argues that both missions should be viewed as just the start of a long-term search for lunar polar water, in which NASA and space agencies from other countries can coordinate to map and mine the ice in an ongoing programme of space exploration.
Despite concerns, VIPER will provide scientists’ best look yet at where ice might be around the lunar south pole. The rover can detect very low levels of ice in the soil, under one-tenth of a per cent by weight. Because of that sensitivity, says Kevin Cannon, a planetary scientist at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, “I think there’s a pretty good chance of finding detectable ice.”
Did NASA Capture an “Ancient Mining Machine” on an Asteroid?
Did NASA Capture an “Ancient Mining Machine” on an Asteroid?
Asteroid 433 Eros is one of the strangest and most controversial in recent years. Both for its curious peanut shape, and for the mysterious finds that have been made on its surface.
You can see a perfectly rectangular object.
Composed mostly of magnesium and iron silicates , the most common elements in the inner asteroid belt, asteroid 433 Eros continues to cause controversy.
It was discovered more than a century ago by astronomers Carl Gustav Witt and Auguste Charlois, in Germany. But it was in 2001, when NASA’s NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft landed on its surface, that it became “famous.”
Images of asteroid 433 Eros
160,000 images were captured by the space probe, in addition to identifying at least 100,000 craters . Thus, experts discovered that the asteroid was indeed a solid object, and not a heap of debris as was initially believed.
Thus began scientific studies on the object. Especially to calculate the probability of impact with the Earth in the future.
However, the strange thing is that in more than one of those photographs, different strange anomalies ignored by NASA can be captured .
In fact, the space agency assures that they are nothing more than rocks. But at first glance, the morphology of these objects that are not natural structures.
This strange image of Eros, captured on May 1, 2000 by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft, was captured at an orbital altitude of 53 kilometers.
According to NASA, it only shows a perfectly rectangular “rock” 45 meters in diameter . Is it possible for a rock to be so naturally perfect?
Large companies are betting on space mining as the future.
Old mining machine
Due to this strange shape, many theorists have analyzed the image, reaching conclusions that, despite being surprising, are much more feasible than those of the US space agency.
That it is an old mining machinery . This theory is supported by data collected from the asteroid in December 1988.
According to this information, 433 Eros contains at least 20 billion kilograms of aluminum , in addition to colossal amounts of different rare metals on Earth, such as gold and platinum .
Knowing these data, is it not easy to imagine that this formation is not natural, but artificial?
An alien civilization may have used the asteroid to mine valuable metals.
If we add to that the initiatives of private companies to begin mining and extraction of resources outside our land borders , everything indicates that our civilization is heading towards the same path.
Is it possible that there are other samples of ancient machinery in other parts of the universe? Why does NASA insist on hiding this type of information from the public?
Underground Caves and Tunnels - Why Did NASA Take Over the Canyon? Portals
Underground Caves and Tunnels - Why Did NASA Take Over the Canyon? Portals
Underground Caves and Tunnels – Why Did NASA Take Over the Canyon? Portals
The intricate tunnels and cave systems throughout the American Southwest have been used for sacred ceremonies and military programs alike. Piece together Hopi and Zuni folklore with eyewitness accounts to unlock the secrets of the four corners and its history of extraterrestrial influence. A vast subterranean complex of tunnels and caves in the American Southwest holds great importance to indigenous people, extraterrestrial civilizations and secret military programs staged within the earthly hollows.
Zuni and Hopi folklore tells us of the people who live in these grottos, which have long helped human civilizations to survive and thrive. They also tell us of powerful energetic nodes in the region that once served as sacred sites, but are now occupied by heavily armed military forces. Our experts try to unlock the secrets underlying the Four Corners region by examining folklore, eyewitness accounts and archeological discoveries which offers a retelling of human history with extraterrestrial connections.
Congress considers permanent UFO investigation office
Congress considers permanent UFO investigation office
In this undated image made from video from a U.S. Navy aircraft and released by The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, an unidentified object moves near the plane in the air.
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Congress is considering setting up a permanent UFO investigation office primarily focused on terrestrial threats.
Section 1652 of House Bill HR. 4350, referring to the “Establishment of [an] Office to Address Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” states: “Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence, shall establish an office within the Office of the Secretary of Defense to carry out, on a Department-wide basis, the mission currently performed by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force as of the date of the enactment of this Act.”
Consumed by more pressing budgetary matters, the House on Wednesday postponed further proceedings on the bill, delaying a final decision.
On June 25, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence published an unclassified preliminary assessment of UAPs, evaluating a growing number of sightings in recent years as a potential security threat.
Prepared for the congressional intelligence and armed services committees, the document noted that it came in response to a Senate request in the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 “to submit an intelligence assessment of the threat posed by unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and the progress the Department of Defense Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) has made in understanding this threat.”
Out of 144 reported incidents of UFOs, the report explained away only one as a weather balloon, leaving the remainder of the sightings unresolved.
The legendary “Red Rocker” Sammy Hagar recently went into fascinating detail about his alien abduction which he swears happened around 60 years ago.
Hagar, out promoting his upcoming residency at The STRAT in Las Vegas called Sammy Hagar And Friends as well as the launch of his new Sammy Beach Bar Cocktail Company, spoke with J.C. Fernandez of Las Vegas Now on KLAS-TV prior to a rooftop performance.
“Sammy Hagar, I have to ask you the story that came out, I think it is actually in your book, talking about being abducted by aliens,” said Fernandez. “Is that true? And can you expand on that story for us?”
“Yes, it is true. You don’t go around saying stuff like that, you know, people call you a nut,” Hagar replied. “You know, everybody that’s ever asked me about that and expects me to try to backpedal. 100% happened. Four o’clock in the morning, pitch black, dead sleep. I felt like I was being programmed like someone’s tapping into me like it was a string from my head to 13 miles up on a mountain place called Lau Creek. And I know right where it was, these little foothills. There was an object there. There was two people in it, two creatures in it. And it was 19, I want to say it was 64, 65.
“So there was no remote control, no satellites, there was no computers. But I sensed they were tapping into me somehow. And they went, “Oh, he’s waking up,” augmented telepathy, you know, they just did the communication when my head is waking up. They yelled out a numerical code, not of our numerical system. And it went, and I can almost feel the plug, like an electrical charge leaving, zapped into their ship, put a light on in this ship where I see shadows of these creatures. And I woke up in my house and my bed. My room was infinity white, I couldn’t move, I was completely paralyzed, my eyes were open, and all sudden, bam! It just went black. It was the time it was. I broke sweat and I was shaking and I felt like my body was so drained.
“And from that moment on, I believed in UFOs. I started looking into astronomy, I became a junior astronomer. And I started figuring out, ’til before that day, I never even looked at the sky and thought of anything except for there was a lot of stars outside. But yeah, very unique experience. And from that day on I believe hard and you know the universe and UFOs and creatures, the thought of us being the only ones in this giant universe when you know a little bit about astronomy. You know how big the universe is and what a speck of nothing we are, that to think that we’re the only ones is pretty screwy. Those people are crazier than the guys who believe in UFOs.”
“But I think there’s a whole bunch of different ones. There all over out there. There’s all kinds of dimensions. And I don’t think they were programming me I think they were just interested like, you know, we do with animals. So they had advanced technology, they were sucking my brain to see what I knew. And by me catching them, enlightened me. I didn’t learn anything. They didn’t put something in my brain to make me special. I don’t believe that at all. I just believed that by having that experience and realizing that it happened. My brain went ‘boop’ it was like taking acid, my mind expanded. And I started searching for, you know the truth, and things like that. And I still am.”
“And that was in the early 60s, early mid 60s. Do you ever have any experience after that or that was the only time?” asked Fernandez.
“No, no, I’ve had a couple since then too. Different ones different people,” Hagar replied. “These little gray creatures that were hanging out in Lake Placid. I had a house out in the wilderness and I had just no electricity, log cabin back in the early 80s, 81 82 and these little guys are in that cabin one night and you know even slamming doors just I’m not saying Yeah, they were physical guys. I don’t know if they were robots or what but it was freaky. It scared me to death.”
“And is it true, on every single year albums, is there a song that’s titled after space or something with frontier? Do you have a theme going that maybe not everyone picks up on but is there a theme going with every one of your albums?” Fernandez followed up.
“Yeah, Space Station Number Five, first “Montrose” song. Second “Montrose” album was out in 1975, was “Space Age Sacrifice.” My first solo album, Hot Rocks, which changed into another song. But Silver Lights is about the return of the aliens coming back to see check out their planet that they populated somehow you know propagated with you know planted seeds. The next album “Red” had Someone Out There. “Next Turn Up the Music” had A Crack in the World on that record, as far as I can remember. Then I stopped doing it every album. But every now and then I got one on there.”
Hagar concluded the interview by telling viewers, “Anybody that doesn’t believe is crazy!”
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Leaked: UFO or possible secret new fighter jet filmed near Lockheed’s Skunk Works facilities, California
Leaked: UFO or possible secret new fighter jet filmed near Lockheed’s Skunk Works facilities, California
Twitter Ruben Hofs: Coincidentally, this morning I stumbled upon a very interesting tiktok video of an unknown shape on a flatbed trailer. The scaffolding in the background got my interest and this appears to be the Helendale Radar Cross Section Facility.
The Helendale Radar Cross Section Facility is located in the Mojave Desert near Lockheed’s Skunk Works facilities at Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.
Twitter Steve Trimble: I showed this to Gen Mark Kelly, Air Combat Command chief. His immediate reply was that he had no idea what it was. And then he took my laptop and stared at it for about 20 seconds. His expression was (warning: my impression) somewhere between confused and impressed.
If the video is genuine, could this craft, which looks like a UFO, be a craft of the next-generation fighter program, known as Next Generation Air Dominance, or NGAD?
A “spaceship of superior intelligence” has visited us since 1957
A “spaceship of superior intelligence” has visited us since 1957
Members of the Aetherius society believe that beings with superior intelligence from planets such as Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn have guided and protected humanity throughout our history.
The unique astronomical object named Oumuamua by scientists makes headlines again after respected astronomer Professor Avi Loeb speculated that it may have been a lost piece of “alien technology.”
At some points in its October 2017 journey through the Solar System, Oumuamua sped up in a way that was not expected for a mere chunk of space rock.
Now, a UFO cult group has claimed that Oumuamua was not only an alien space probe, but that it is by no means the first object of its kind to pass through our cosmic neighborhood.
The Aetherius Society is a pseudo-religious movement founded by Dr. George King in the mid-1950s as a result of what, according to him, were contacts with alien intelligences that he called “Cosmic Masters” of humanity.
Members of society believe that various other planets within our Solar System are inhabited, but not by life “as we know it.”
Members of the society claim that civilizations with some superior intelligence from Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn have guided and protected humanity throughout our history.
They also claim that some of our greatest spiritual leaders, such as Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Moses, and others, did in fact come from other worlds.
In 1957, two unusually bright comets were visible from Earth.
According to Dr. King, one of them was not a comet at all, but a spaceship under the control of an advanced spiritual intelligence from the planet Venus called ‘Master Aetherius’.
The function of the spacecraft, Dr. King claimed, was to “spin a karmic web” that would cause some kind of spiritual awakening on Earth.
The 1957 observations were limited to the technology available at the time.
But a recent detailed study of Oumuamua suggests that reports of his extraterrestrial origin may have been a bit premature.
Matthew Knight from the University of Maryland says: “The alien spacecraft hypothesis is a fun idea, but our analysis suggests that there are a lot of natural phenomena that could explain it.”
But not everyone shares this theory. Wes Fraser, from Queen’s University in Belfast, denies that it is a comet, mainly because the tail of dust and ice particles that usually have this type of elements were not appreciated.
He attributes its irregular movement to a possible impact with another object at some point in history.
Scientists at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, for their part, defend the theory that it is an “artificial” element.
It is also among the options, they clarify, that it may be the remains of “advanced technological equipment.”
One popular type of ghost story involves a phone call from the past from a loved one, or perhaps even from one’s younger self, sending a warning or some other message. These are limited to the invention of the telephone or recording devices, but there are also cases of letters from the past with hidden messages. As our radio telescopes and signal detectors get ever stronger, astronomers can listen further back into the past of the universe. What if they could pick up a message from the beginning of time … just moments after the Big Bang? A never-before-seen type of gravitational wave picked up by a new kind of detector may have done just that. What’s the warning?
You’re calling from when?
“A ground-breaking detector that aims to use quartz to capture high frequency gravitational waves has been built by researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics (CDM) and The University of Western Australia. In its first 153 days of operation, two events were detected that could, in principle, be high frequency gravitational waves, which have not been recorded by scientists before. Such high frequency gravitational waves may have been created by a primordial black hole or a cloud of dark matter particles.”
In a press release touting the results of a new study published in the journal Physical Review Letters, lead author Michael Tobar, a physicist at the University of Western Australia in Perth, explained how a new small detector built by him and his colleagues from crystal quartz 1 inch (3 centimeters) in diameter and a resonant chamber that produces an electrical signal whenever it vibrates at certain frequencies. By cooling it to extremely low temperatures to minimize thermal vibrations, they were able to pick up two new signals. At the time, they had no idea what the signals might be.
Since then, Tobar and the team narrowed their list of probable causes to normal cosmic rays, a previously-unknown type of thermal fluctuation in the crystal, a type of dark matter known as an axion spinning around a black hole and giving off gravitational waves, and some off-the-wall ideas that require suspending the Standard Model of physics. One of those ideas was proposed recently in Live Science by Francesco Muia, a theoretical physicist at the University of Cambridge in the U.K., who was not involved in the work.
Muia says shortly after the Big Bang, the universe went through a period called inflation, followed by a phase transition. During that time, large amounts of energy may have been sent into the fabric of space-time, generating gravitational waves. Those waves from the beginning of the universe may be what Tobar’s device picked up.
Speak up. There’s some kind of explosion in the background.
Tobar says he’d love for his unknown signals to be messages from the beginning of time, but he wants more proof. That requires more detectors to be built in hopes that two or more pick up the same signals.
In the meantime, if these signals are indeed messages from our ancestors at the beginning, what do you think they might say? Welcome to the universe? Hurry up and find another dimension before it’s too late? Don’t take the blue pill?
Recent analysis of a large 1,500-year-old pyramid made by the Maya people revealed that it was built using rocks that were ejected from a massive volcanic eruption. As a matter of fact, the volcanic eruption was the largest to have occurred in Central America in the past 10,000 years and it was so powerful that it cooled off part of the planet.
The Ilopango volcano erupted around the year 539 AD in San Andrés, El Salvador. Known as the Tierra Blanca Joven (TBJ) eruption, so much ash was released into the atmosphere over Central America that the Northern Hemisphere experienced cooler climate (almost 2 feet of ash – or 0.6 meters – would have been dumped in the valley where the pyramid was built). Additionally, the eruption spewed lava that reached dozens of miles away.
An engraving done in 1891 of the erupting Ilopango volcano. (Via Wikipedia)
It was previously believed that since the eruption was so powerful, those living in the area abandoned their settlements and stayed away for as long as several centuries. However, Akira Ichikawa, who is an archaeologist and postdoctoral associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder (UCB), conducted recent analysis and carbon dating of a Mayan pyramid called the Campana structure that revealed locals returned to the area much earlier than previously thought – perhaps even as soon as five years after the eruption. And after they came back, the pyramid was constructed in the Zapotitán Valley approximately 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the volcano.
The Maya people built the pyramid by using blocks that they carved from rocks that were ejected from the volcano (these rocks are called tephra). This is actually the first evidence ever found of a Mayan pyramid being built with tephra. Furthermore, the use of tephra to construct the pyramid may have had “…powerful religious or cosmological significance” as stated in the study.
The Campana structure sits on top of a platform that is almost 20 feet in height (6 meters), 262 feet in length (80 meters), and 180 feet in width (55 meters). The platform contains four terraces and a wide central staircase while the actual pyramid measures 43 feet in height (13 meters).
Chichen Itza is one of the most well known Mayan structures.
The fact that the ancient Maya people were able to build something so incredible from a volcanic eruption proves that some natural disasters can have an ending that’s not so tragic and that something magnificent came from it. (A picture of the Campana structure can be seen here.)
The Campana structure, with the San Salvador volcanic complex in the background.
(Image credit: Copyright Antiquity Publications Ltd/ Photo by A. Ichikawa)
3D plan of the Campana structure, showing where excavations took place that uncovered the stone monument and evidence of the TBJ eruption. (Image credit: Copyright Antiquity Publications Ltd/Courtesy of A. Ichikawa)
The study was published in the journal Antiquitywhere it can be read in full.
Black UFO Spotted Passing In Front Of The Moon & Two Pill Shaped Objects Sighted Over Maryland
First Clip came from Queen of the Night Eye in the Sky and was filmed on September 15, 2021 and was captured from her home in Las Vegas. In the footage we can see this black object come into view and pass across the moon leaving the witness questioning what she had just witnessed.. Thanks to Queen of the Night Eye in the Sky for allowing me the use of her footage and to view the original:
Second Clip was captured on September 15, 2021 from Tacoma, Washington and the witness stated the following "I was filming the moon and this showed up, It's Unidentified... It's Flying... and It's an Object...That's all. Filmed 9-19-2021 8:30pm PDT. Windless at camera location. It's not reflecting sun light so it's probably not above our atmosphere. It has no lights on it. It's way above the trees. It's moving South to North (give or take) and all the airplanes in that area are flying the other way." Thanks to Mike Nollan for allowing the use of his footage and to view the original: https://youtu.be/9r7d6GnrAqQ
Third Clip was captured on September 20, 2021 over Catonsville, Maryland around 5:45pm. While filming "our daily dose of vitamins" the witness notice that it seem odd then witnessed these objects following the "Vitamins Trails". During the recording he was checking Flight Radar with nothing showing up. This is bizarre as any flights would be and shown on the Flight radar app. Thanks to Kevin Barnett for allowing me the use of his footage and to view the original: https://youtu.be/VRQucqStgXU
Filer’s Files 38 2021 - UFO/UAP Report to Congress - PART I
Area 51 Disc – on September 12, 2021
Filer’s Files 38 2021 - UFO/UAP Report to Congress - PART I
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Special Projects on UFO/UAP Report to Congress, UFO/UAP Report to Congress, Ancient Civilization in Antarctica, Let’s Fight the Tornados, Humans Are Not from Earth, Who Controls the President? And Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois Mar, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Brazil, Canada, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
UNCLASSIFIED Limited data and inconsistency in reporting are key challenges to evaluating UAP. No standardized reporting mechanism existed until the Navy established one in March 2019. The Air Force subsequently adopted that mechanism in November 2020, but it remains limited to USG reporting. The UAPTF regularly heard anecdotally during its research about other observations that occurred, but which were never captured in formal or informal reporting by those observers. After carefully considering this information, the UAPTF focused on reports that involved UAP largely witnessed firsthand by military aviators and that were collected from systems we considered to be reliable. These reports describe incidents that occurred between 2004 and 2021, with the majority coming in the last two years as the new reporting mechanism became better known to the military aviation community. We were able to identify one reported UAP with high confidence. In that case, we identified the object as a large, deflating balloon. The others remain unexplained. • 144 reports originated from USG sources. Of these, 80 reports involved observation with multiple sensors. o Most reports described UAP as objects that interrupted pre-planned training or other military activity.
UFO over South Carolina
UAP Collection Challenges Sociocultural stigmas and sensor limitations remain obstacles to collecting data on UAP. Although some technical challenges—such as how to appropriately filter out radar clutter to ensure safety of flight for military and civilian aircraft—are longstanding in the aviation community, while others are unique to the UAP problem set. • Narratives from aviators in the operational community and analysts from the military and IC describe disparagement associated with observing UAP, reporting it, or attempting to discuss it with colleagues. Although the effects of these stigmas have lessened as senior members of the scientific, policy, military, and intelligence communities engage on the topic seriously in public, reputational risk may keep many observers silent, complicating scientific pursuit of the topic. • The sensors mounted on U.S. military platforms are typically designed to fulfill specific missions. As a result, those sensors are not generally suited for identifying UAP. • Sensor vantage points and the numbers of sensors concurrently observing an object play substantial roles in distinguishing UAP from known objects and determining whether a UAP demonstrates breakthrough aerospace capabilities.
Optical sensors have the benefit of providing some insight into relative size, shape, and structure. Radiofrequency sensors provide more accurate velocity and range information. But Some Potential Patterns Do Emerge Although there was wide variability in the reports and the dataset is currently too limited to allow for detailed trend or pattern analysis, there was some clustering of UAP observations regarding shape, size, and, particularly, propulsion. UAP sightings also tended to cluster around U.S. training and testing grounds, but we assess that this may result from a collection bias as a result of focused attention, greater numbers of latest-generation sensors operating in those areas, unit expectations, and guidance to report anomalies. And a Handful of UAP Appear to Demonstrate Advanced Technology In 18 incidents, described in 21 reports, observers reported unusual UAP movement patterns or flight characteristics. Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernable means of propulsion. In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings.
Cylinder Over Pacific on Gun camera film
The UAPTF holds a small amount of data that appear to show UAP demonstrating acceleration or a degree of signature management. Additional rigorous analysis is necessary by multiple teams or groups of technical experts to determine the nature and validity of these data. We are conducting further analysis to determine if breakthrough technologies were demonstrated. UAP PROBABLY LACK A SINGLE EXPLANATION The UAP documented in this limited dataset demonstrate an array of aerial behaviors, reinforcing the possibility there are multiple types of UAP requiring different explanations. Our analysis of the data supports the construct that if and when individual UAP incidents are resolved they will fall into one of five potential explanatory categories: airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, USG or industry developmental programs, foreign adversary systems, and a catchall “other” bin. With the exception of the one instance where we determined with high confidence that the reported UAP was airborne clutter, specifically a deflating balloon, we currently lack sufficient information in our dataset to attribute incidents to specific explanations.
They Were Not Human.
President Nixon took JTV star Jackie Gleason to Homestead Air Force Base to see a UFO reminded Gleason of an Airstream RV trailer.
Later Nixon brought Gleason home and he couldn’t sleep and drank heavily. during the rest of the night. Gleason told Claude Atkins that he felt very upset that the government was hiding such monumental secrets from the public. Gleason told his wife and many close friends what he had seen. Upon his arrival armed guards took Gleason to a building at a remote location on the site.
There, Gleason, who harbored an intense interest in UFOs, saw the embalmed bodies of four alien beings, two feet long, with small bald heads and big ears. He claimed four Presidents told him they were real. Beverly Gleason’s his second wife confirmed the story Claude Atkins told.
Gleason’s home was built in the shape of a UFO.
The Jackie Gleason Show was popular from 1952 to 1970), and which centered on his most beloved character, bus driver Ralph Kramden. He later was featured in Smokey and the Bandit in 1977, and its sequels in 1980, and 1983.
Did Nixon Leave Behind Evidence of Aliens in the White House?
Gaia Staff Time Capsule
There are people who have supposedly had odd encounters with UFOs and aliens from all over the world, from all walks of life. Among these have often been those who have high social standing or are well-known by the general public and these usually attract the most attention.www.openminds.tv/gleason-ets/5978
If there’s anyone with insight into the existence of extraterrestrials, it’s the President of the United States. According to the testimony of one confidential informant, not only has the government made contact, but Nixon left evidence of the existence of aliens in the White House. And it remains there to this day, he says, it is hidden in
a time capsule – its location known only to a handful of people. Though, Nixon claimed it would surface when the time was right.
Earl Robert “Butch” Merritt
The informant is Earl Robert “Butch” Merritt, a man with a storied career as a confidential agent for the Nixon administration. A man who participated in a variety of intelligence operations that would later become the National Security Agency’s surveillance, infiltration, and disruption of various organizations and target groups.
And while Merritt’s credibility might seem questionable when discussing alien disclosure, his career as an informant is well documented, as are his high-level government connections. Which is why his revelation of a clandestine conversation with Nixon regarding the existence of alien technology and a living extraterrestrial entity is hard to immediately dismiss?
Ancient Civilization in Antarctica
Linda Moulton Howe interviews Brian “S” a C-130 Navy Engineer
In email from a now 61-year-old Navy officer who was in Antarctica – his C130 crew encountered high strangeness from 1984/85 to 1987. Several times he and the crew all watched silver discs darting around the sky. He said he saw an entrance to a human/ET collaboration base. Brian was told by his superiors that, “you did not see…”. Phenomenon Radio is a show concept blending one of the most high-profile experiencers with an Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist to bring the most up to date and late-breaking news and interviews to create a unique live weekly broadcast that delves into the UAP/UFO phenomenon like never before. With over 60 years of experience between them, John and Linda will combine their efforts in a monthly series format that focuses on specific levels of the Phenomenon that cannot be properly covered in a single 2-hour program. This show research thought-provoking breakthroughs in the field of UAP/UFOs, to discover fascinating truths through first-hand accounts with investigative insights into the expanding confluence of physical and mental exposure to this worldwide phenomenon. For more incredible science stories, Real X-Files, environmental stories and so much more.
Big geometric dome and base at at South Pole
Giant hole exists just north of South Pole large enough to allow craft to pass through. No fly area was near the South Pole north of the Pole, but the crew decided to overfly it when they picked up an injured person. Large opening in the ice near the South Pole large enough to hold a C-13 0perhaps the size of a football field. It had a large ramp good fit. at the opening with tracks in the snow into the Hole. Personnel at South Pole radioed them to divert from course to go over the hole again.
Hole in ice above South Pole
Later, they flew to Marie Bird Land one hour 45 minutes west of Mcmurdo Station Airport near the Rock Sea.
Enroute to drop the scientists off they saw UFOs below them reflecting light like a flying saucer formation over some mountains.
Marie Bird Land
After a couple weeks they were asked to fly to Marie Bird Land to check on the scientists. They landed and searched for the scientists. Tried to find 15 scientists who were gone.
The Scientists were picked up a week later but would not speak and they appeared to be in shock. A special mission flown back to Christ Church, New Zealand with the scientists in 1995. The crew was told not to discuss the mission or the scientists. Several people got together, a lady named Linda, the engineer and his son talked to 12”30 AM at Contac in the Desert in California.
The National Security Agency called the Navy C-130 engineer and told him, “Don’t talk about the missing scientists.”
South America
Younger ice on West side older ice on east side of Antarctica
Back in January 2012, a mysterious dome structure appeared out of nowhere in the icy continent of Antarctica. It is believed by many that this Mysterious Dome Structure could be home to an entire ancient civilization.
Dome Structure
The discovery of the Dome structure that is approximately 400 feet across and man- made added to the mounting list of evidence that claims that this discovery could allegedly be a hidden city frozen underneath the surface. The unfavorable living conditions of Antarctica makes it a difficult place to inhabit. It has been estimated that the continent adopted its climate 6,000 years ago and it has been ever since. At first, it was suspected by the scientists that this mysterious dome structure could be Sastrugi- sharp grooves formed on snow by strong winds. However, interestingly, this phenomenon generally has a short, sharp, edges and the mystery structure appears to be oval.
Traces of human civilization captured by NASA
Though the rumors of a lost ancient civilization underneath the ice have been circulating for years, these claims came forward only a few months after a huge pyramid-like shape was found in the icy continent. As per the researchers, the mysterious structure covers 151 miles across and could be buried 848 meters underneath the land. It has been suggested by certain conspiracy theorists that Antarctica is home to the ancient lost city of Atlantis. A conspiracy theory alleges that Antarctica was ice-free ages ago and it was not hostile to humans back then. Meaning that a society could have existed and lived there before the last ice age which eventually froze the continent. The Nazi Germans are alleged to have a submarine base and disc shaped craft in Antarctica. It appears the German ‘were working with extraterrestrials.
The mysterious discovery has also been linked to the ancient ruins found in South Africa because of the uncanny resemblance in shape and appearance. Interestingly, the ancient ruins found in South Africa are surrounded by several gold mines. It has been suggested by the researchers that a vanished civilization from the distant past, could have lived and proposed in that part of the world while mining gold. This and other shreds point to the Ancient Anunnaki.
Possible Evidence of ancient civilization Under ice in Antarctic
It is believed by the researchers that the ancient Anunnaki city was built between 160,000 and 200,000 BC as a part of an even larger community of approximately 10,000 Square kilometers. Curiously, there are numerous ancient maps that depict parts of Antarctica free of ice. One of the most controversial maps was without a doubt composed in 1513, by Turkish Admiral Piri Reis who drew a map that would create a global debate over 500 years after him.
The map depicts Antarctica 0n Ottoman Empire Historical 1513 Admiral Piri Reis Map.
While observing the image, it is easy to notice how the ‘rings’ of the structure resemble a structure in ruins as if we were looking at walls that have been destroyed, collapsed ruins that have been covered by snow and ice. The image taken in 2012 clearly resembles something that may easily have been designed by someone.
But designed by whom that to in one of the most remote and untouched places on Earth, eastern Antarctica will remain a mystery. Please visit Linda Moulton Howe’s https://www.earthfiles.com/index.php To stay up to date on everything Earthfiles.
Pyramids in Antarctic
Researcher Joe Foster Comments: Truth be told, it is widely believed that the world turned on its axis at least once over the past millions of years. An indication of such an event can be seen in the Antarctic where the ice sheet on the eastern side of the continent is much older than the ice sheet on the western side. Difference in age of the ice sheet is in the millions of years supposedly indicating that the western coast was at once north of the Antarctic circle therefore in a much more temperate climate. A shift of the axis around that time caused the temperate portion to rapidly fall before the Arctic circle causing a possible “flash freeze” and the attendant ice sheet growth. This would be a momentous find (perhaps evidence is already being studied because parts of the western side of the continent are off limits).
In closing, there have been recent studies about a “pending” axis shift based upon simple physics. It turns out that there is a massive shift in the weight distribution worldwide thanks in part to India’s massive amount of water projects that have been taking place in recent years. The other aspect that seems to add credibility to the weight distribution hypothesis is that China has poured more concrete over the past year than all of the other countries of the world combined thus creating a massive weight anomaly that is shared by India and China. such massive weight accumulations along with the Earth’s rotational effects would definitely cause a trend towards a shift in the axis. Of course, this is all pretty much separate from the pending potential shift in the magnetic poles. Thanks to Joe Foster
Let’s Fight the Tornados
Tornado
LeRoy Pea writes “You advocated stopping the tornados. John Searl claimed one of his discoid aircraft could do this by hovering above a tornado, cyclone, or hurricane. He made this claim some 40 years ago. Unfortunately, his work was securitized by the Queen of England, in the 50’s. In the 70’s his craft was built in New Zealand, along with a smaller generator for a moped. In the 90’s he has a laboratory in California. Unfortunately, he doesn’t get much cooperation from the U.S. Government.
Disc or plane can calm Tornadoes
His generator system alone could solve much of our power shortages. His first generator, in the 40’s, developed 10 (-13) volts. He published 7 volumes on how to build his generator and discoid aircraft. This information is also available on the internet. Oh well, so much for free technology, in a free country.
Dr. Ellis Silver has made an evaluation of the evidence for and against man’s evolution on Planet Earth, by a leading environmentalist and ecologist. In this fascinating book Dr. Ellis Silver provides answers to all of these questions, based on current evidence and thinking in the scientific community and elsewhere. Sunburn, bad backs, and pain expert claims prove this is not our home planet.
New 2nd Edition Dr. Ellis Silver Bad Packs, sunburn, and Pain during Labor
This book is intended to raise awareness and stimulate debate and to request/gather further evidence from readers. Mankind is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet yet is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for life on Earth’s environment: harmed by sunlight, a strong dislike for naturally occurring (raw) foods and ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more. Plus, there’s a prevailing feeling among many people that they don’t belong here or that something “just isn’t right”, says Professor of Ecology Dr. Ellis Siler
Humans Came from Other Planets
It may look like a script from an episode of the X-Files, but the idea of life being brought to another Earth has been considered by ancient cultures since the beginning of civilization. As this particular theory states, humans were not born on Earth but on another planet. This is why we demonstrate a series of “dysfunctions”, which would not exist if we were the “product” of Earth. The theory states that we are by nature unruly and aggressive beings that have strong egos, and that is why highly developed aliens brought the human population together on their previous planet and exiled us to Earth to learn how to behave ourselves. This theory was developed by Professor of Ecology Dr. Ellis Silver. As the Australian professor says, humans have problems with their back and often suffer from pain because our species descended from a planet with less gravity than on Earth. According to Silver, we also face problems when we are exposed to direct sunlight for a relatively short time because we were not designed to come in so close contact with the sun. Dr. Silver put all of his best evidence into a book titled “Humans Are Not from Earth”.
Humans Came from Other Planets Like Mars
Humans have high rates of complications and mortality during pregnancy and childbirth due to the disproportionately large baby’s head size. He also notes the fact that humans are not equipped to deal with the natural environment, for example, cold or heat.
The theory also considers the paradox that human shows strong dislike for many types of foods that nature provides, such as raw food. Silver says that humans are sick very often because, among other things, our biological clock is tailored for a day of 25 hours, as was confirmed by a study coming out of Harvard. Silver believes that anatomically modern human is a hybrid resulting from the crossing of the Neanderthals with another kind of humans who came to Earth from 60,000 to 200,000 years ago possibly from a planet in Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to us.
The “ancient gods” that would come down from the skies in their “chariots of fire” and “flying boats” were probably ancient man’s way of communicating their encounter with these intelligent beings that landed on Earth. These “gods” often are depicted in ancient cultures as looking like modern-day astronauts, which in Dr. Silver’s mind would be ETs visiting earth from another star system.
Ancient Astronauts often found in history
Humans use normally only under 10% of their brain capacity, geniuses may go up to 30% WHY so little? Humans are a primitive aggressive race waging wars all the time for oil, minerals, and land. If more of brain capacity would be used, the planet would be already destroyed by this primitive hybrid race which falsely thinks it is the highest intelligence in the universe. But slowly the true origin of the human race is being revealed and cosmic contacts with other more advanced races in the universe will teach a lot.
Here’s what you’ll discover:
53 factors that prove we couldn’t have evolved on Earth. Why we’re here on Earth, and how and when we got here, where our true home planet is, and what it’s like to live there, why valid evidence is ignored, denied, and covered up by scientists and governments. What we really know about extraterrestrials and their spacecraft.
Dr. Silver also uncovers: The origins of RNA and DNA, and how life evolved. Why the Theory of Evolution and Out of Africa theory is wrong is wrong – and what really happened. Each topic is discussed in depth and backed up with concrete evidence. There are testimonies from expert witnesses, including former world leaders, astronauts, pilots, and military personnel, and over 100 pages of references.
Who IN White House Controls the President?
White House again abruptly cuts feed of President Biden in mid-sentence as he asks question at his wildfires briefingwith federal and state officials.
During Monday’s September 13, visit to Boise, Idaho, Biden received a briefing about the ongoing wildfires that have plagued Western states. While Biden spoke for much of the briefing, at one point he said he wanted to hear more from George Geissler of the National Association of State Foresters.
“Can I ask you a question?” Biden asked.
“Of course,” Geissler responded.
“One of the things that I’ve been working on with some others is —” Biden said before being cut off mid-sentence.
This isn’t the first time the White House intervened in blocking Biden from being heard by the general public. Last month, the president’s audio feed was cut as he was about to respond to a reporter’s question on his administration’s military withdrawal deadline from Afghanistan.
President Biden continued his bizarre habit of implying that his handlers call the shots from behind the scenes on Wednesday when he concluded remarks in honor of labor unions by saying, “What he was “supposed” to do.”
In March, the White House cut the feed as Biden said he was “happy to take questions” while speaking to Democratic lawmakers at a virtual event. Biden raised eyebrows last week when he told a crowd, “I ‘m supposed to stop and walk out of the room” at a White House event following his prepared remarks. Apparently, Biden is not in charge, and must do has he is told like a puppet.
On March 26, after President Biden’s first press conference since his inauguration, former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer stated Biden is reading off of a script to answer reporter’s questions is “not healthy.”
Biden repeatedly implies he’s not in charge of when, where he can take questions from the press. Biden is often cut off by someone in the White House and is told not to answer questions. Adjust to read his Prepared answers.
Secretary of State Antony Blinke
In other developments:
GOP congressman erupts at Secretary of State Blinken during Afghanistan hearing: ‘We don’t need to hear lies’
A GOP congressman erupted at Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his hearing in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, saying Congress does not “need to hear lies.”
Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., who lost both legs while serving in Afghanistan, got into a heated exchange with Blinken as the congressman’s allotted time to question the secretary of state drew to a close.
Mast slammed the administration’s handling of the withdrawal, pointing to Biden’s controversial leaked call with the former Afghan president, leading the Florida Republican to proclaim that he does not “believe a word” the secretary was saying.
“I don’t want to hear from the secretary,” Mast said. “He lies to us when he appears before us.”
In other developments:
Blinken slammed for testifying virtually: ‘Couldn’t be bothered to come down here’
. Secretary of State Antony Blinken
Blinken pressed on allegation Biden told Afghan President Ghani to lie about the wa. Blinken didn’t answer hard questions and ‘defended the indefensible. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was slammed by Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., for electing to testify virtually, rather than in person, in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. Removing both troops and air power on July 4th allowed the Taliban to move out in the open with no fear of attack. The Afghan Army was taught to fight with aircover, and intelligence taken away when the U.S. suddenly departed.
Two dozen Terrorists that are on the Terrorist list have been caught at the Southern U.S. border. It is not known how many made it thru to set fires.
Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla who lost both legs while serving in Afghan erupted on Secretary Blinkin stating “Congress does not need to hear lies!” Mast showed the pictures of 13 serviceman killed during the retreat from Afghanistan the first deaths in 18 months. Multiple Congressmen told Blinkin to resign.
Six US Aircraft and Citizens Stuck in Afghanistan
After two weeks, Glen Beck’s Charity of Six U.S. aircraft are still held in Mazar-i-Sharif. Afghanistan by the State Department and Taliban claiming there may be measles among 4500 people on the manifest. This news is from Emily J. Miller, a former senior political correspondent at One America News Network. Senator Ted Cruz states Members of Congress, including me and my office, have been working around the clock to get them out – and for days Biden’s State Dept. couldn’t even get out of its own way. Taliban are apparently reneging on promises they have made to U.S. officials to allow safe passage from the country. Now there are deeply disturbing reports of a hostage crisis. Notice Fake news is afraid to cover the story. Last news is dated September 9. 2021.
Betrayal of trust: Why Gen. Mark Milley must resign as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
USA TODAY By David Mastio,
USA Today says General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should resign.
He went too far in preparing to resist Donald Trump’s orders in the closing days of an unstable presidency marked by an attempted coup. Milley prepared his senior officers to slow walk any orders from Trump to use nuclear weapons or start a military confrontation with China, according to a new book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa of The Washington Post. That’s an appalling step toward shredding civilian control over the military, a bedrock constitutional value, the chairman is sworn to uphold. But Milley went even further.
Milley made two secret phone calls, both to his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the Communist People’s Liberation Army. The book alleges that the phone calls took place prior to the 2020 presidential election on Oct. 30, 2020, and on Jan. 8, 2021. In reassuring his Chinese counterpart that no attack was coming from the United States, Milley promised to call and warn of an impending U.S. attack if Trump ordered one. Such a call would have inevitably cost the lives of American troops tasked with following the orders of the lawful commander in chief. Milley’s effort to thwart the potential demands of the president became a betrayal of the men and women he commands. Milley was heavily criticized for his role in planning the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.[
Strange Craft
The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs
U.S. Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II. These men – military professionals who flew planes, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at airfields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft.
During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing UFOs off their plane’s wings. Award-winning investigative author John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer.
From objects in the skies over Cold War Europe to a UFOs over during the Cuban Missile Crisis to lights over the DMZ in Vietnam Filer leaves nothing out about his Air Force UFO encounters,
Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base in 1978 – is fully recounted for the first time in this book. As a member of the Disclosure Project, military experts, astronauts, and scientists urge the U.S. government to release all it knows about UFOs to the public.
Filer describes his UFO encounters in this incredible book. By John L. Guerra.
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Filer’s Files 38 2021 - UFO/UAP Report to Congress - PART II
Area 51 Disc – on September 12, 2021
Filer’s Files 38 2021 - UFO/UAP Report to Congress - PART II
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Special Projects on UFO/UAP Report to Congress, UFO/UAP Report to Congress, Ancient Civilization in Antarctica, Let’s Fight the Tornados, Humans Are Not from Earth, Who Controls the President? And Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois Mar, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Brazil, Canada, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
Arizona Light
Scottsdale – September 10, 2021, my ring doorbell camera picked up an illuminated square about 3″ by 3″ and 1/2″ thick. Note: The object in the video exits and reappears a number of times. It also barely appears on the left corner of the video several times. It could be a spider sac, but this is speculation. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
California Object
Temecula – on September 10, 2021, saw bright rectangular silent object moving SW over past of my neighborhood. Saw similar object with video two days later. Will post both videos here to consolidate.
Florida Object
Bartow– September 16, 2021, my wife, Angela “Angel” Howard took a series of photographs of the early morning sky. After reviewing the photos, she showed me one that stood out. There are two disc-like objects in the photo. The objects do not appear in the previous or subsequent shots.
Illinois Lights
Cave in Rock– on September11, 2021, many witnesses saw a craft fly over the Full Metal Assault Music Festival at Hogrock Campground at 7:42 pm. It was talked about on stage the next day by bands as well. I saw it float into view and I took photos in day and night vision infrared modes. The craft has very rectangle shaped ports around it emitting light.
Maine Light
Skowhegan– on September 11, 2021, a light was observed in the western sky next to the Crescent moon. The ground is also lit up under the object. There are no towns or anything that can light the sky and ground like that.
Michigan Lights
Kalamazoo– on September 12, 2021, I was working in my office when I was startled by fast light coming in the window. The light was blue, green, and red glowing from the edges. A large dark disc shaped craft ascending from the treetops and hovered over my house. I knew it wasn’t a drone or a plane or helicopter. The circles lights were bright like this picture and about 60-80 feet in diameter.
New Jersey Lights
Lyndhurst– on September 10, 2021, watch video lights moving fast.
Nevada Object
Area 51– on September 12, 2021, just some shots of disk in Area 51. Not sure what it is, was hoping someone here had some idea?
New York Lights
Brooklyn on August 21, 2021, I was taking pictures of the New York Skyline and didn’t notice anything at the time. When I got home, I went back through them and noticed the object in all my photos is at different positions in the sky for a 15 minute.
Ohio Object
New Albany – on July 5, 2021, observed a silent, reflective, dull grey, metallic object with appendages and about 2-3 feet in diameter traveling slowly to the Northeast at about 500-600 feet in altitude.
Oklahoma Lights
Oklahoma City – on September 11, 2021, I was walking my dogs and a streetlight got brighter and brighter. I’ve experienced this before and, in my mind, thought something was trying to get my attention. I noticed something strange in the sky and started recording when it pulsated and started moving. Then a green orb appears on one side and a red orb appears on the other side. Then it flew off.
Washington Lights
North Bend– May 15, 2021, object appeared to be 5 times longer than a 737 moving east above I 90. Lost sight when it moved far enough east the setting sun no longer shined on the bottom. I have photo and co-operation with program on travel channel that aired Sept 6, 2021
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Brazil Light
Divinopolis— on July 24, 2021, a flat transparent object that kept rotating on its own axis. In the photo it looks like a soap bubble, but it was bigger, and it was very high. It was difficult to record because it has a transparent look and because it was rotating on its own axis. It was seen in the late afternoon right in the center of the city.
Canada Light
Renfrew – on September 11, 2021, I have never been a person that truly believes in UFO’s. However, what I saw coming home along 17 West even freaked me out. This photo leaves little doubt UFOs exist.
UK/England Light
’London – on September 10, 2021, I ran to get my phone but couldn’t pick up anything because of the sun light. I just couldn’t see anything on the screen after it disappeared behind a cloud, so I stood and waited 20 minutes then saw it. It wasn’t the same shape or color but was in the same area. I could clearly see it on camera, but more clouds were coming and eventually made its way into the clouds, but I could still pick up a bit behind the clouds.
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Filer’s Files 36, 2021 - Roswell UFO and Shuttle Columbia Crashes - PART I
Gaithersburg, Maryland – on August 10, 2021
Filer’s Files 36, 2021 - Roswell UFO and Shuttle Columbia Crashes - PART I
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Special projects are General Exxon Saw Roswell Crashed Craft, Shuttle Columbia Disaster Followed by UFOs, Minot Air Force Base UFOs, Israel Likely to Attack Iran nuclear weapons , China Is Assembling a Taiwan Invasion Force, U. S. State Department Stopping Afghanistan Rescue of 4500, and Greska C-60
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginal.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
General Exxon Saw Roswell Crashed Craft
Brigadier General Arthur Exo
I spoke to Brigadier General Arthur Exon who had flown a plane at low level over one of the crashed saucer sites and noted more of less a disc shaped craft up against a hill. Exon further indicated that Truman was also a member of a top echelon group formed after the Roswell crash to control access to the wreckage, bodies, and information about the crash. Exxon became Base Commander of Wright Patterson AFB where the debris was flown. He is highest ranking officer who definitely claims the Roswell crash was extraterrestrial. Brigadier General Arthur E. Exon is a pilot with 135 combat missions and over 300 hours of combat flight time during World War II. His aircraft was severely damaged by an exploding ammunition dump, and he was forced to bail out over enemy territory. Captured, he spent just over a year in German prisoner of war camps.
Crashed Roswell UFO
According to General Exon, “Some of the Roswell craft was flimsy and was tougher than hell, and the [rest] was almost like foil but strong, it had them [the FTD analysts] pretty puzzled.” The lab chiefs at Wright Field set up a “special project” for the testing of the material. “They knew they had something new in their hands,” continued Exon, “the metal and material was unknown to anyone I talked to. Whatever they found, I never heard what the results were.
Also, Astronaut Edgar Mitchell had grown up in Roswell and dozens of witnesses came to him to describe what they saw at the crash site and in the Rowell hangar. He was convinced it was not of this world. Allegedly one of three aliens lived for 15 years after the crash according to General Twining’s son. I also spent time with the widow of General Ramey who indicated her husband was very upset that he had to lie about the weather balloon story.
General Roger Ramey
He graduated from West Point with the Honor Code taught not to lie. President Truman and Brigadier General Ramey had become good friends. I visited President Truman’s library and they said he was staying with his sick wife in Independence, Missouri during July 4, 1947, week and could have been flown to Fort Worth secretly.
President Truman in Independence, MO
She was told “her husband had been visited by Truman on several occasions. She indicated they were quite friendly, and Truman enjoyed piloting the planes. They were transferred to Washington DC and the General was promoted twice. General Ramey and his wife frequently dined with President Truman at the White House that was being renovated. President Truman had served in the military in World War 1 and enjoyed playing cards with Ramey. The President related how during the Second World War he had done everything he could to stop the holocaust of the Jews. In World War! Ramey felt he would be promoted to Chief of Staff of the Air Force when he had a sudden heart attack and died. She thought the President had met General Ramey in Fort Worth concerning the crash but didn’t know exactly how they met. I visited President Truman’s library and they said he was staying with his sick wife in Independence, Missouri during July 4, 1947, week and could have been flown to Fort Worth secretly.
Over several weeks in July 1952, up to a dozen unexplained objects repeatedly streaked across the skies over Washington, D.C.—spotted by radar operators, professional pilots, and other highly credible witnesses. The Air Force scrambled fighter jets, but the ‘saucers’ outran them, and a jet crashed chasing them.
Truman said, “We’ve had reports of flying saucers and other things going on.”I can assure you the flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on earth.” President Truman
Truman set up the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947. He was the first President in history to get a daily intelligence report (now known as the President Daily Briefing. General Landry his aid disclosed important UFO sightings were briefed daily and his quarterly UFO reports were briefed to President Truman orally, as to not leave a paper trail.
Testor Model of Roswell UFO
FORT WORTH Another piece of data that proves the authenticity of the evidence is an FBI message sent on July 8, 1947, at 6:17 PM. The foremost feature of the teletype is that Major Kirton of the 8th Army Air Force Intelligence Office positively identifies as not being that of a RAWIN balloon and its radar target, though resembling them. We know from the photos and message that personnel at the 8th Army Air Force confirmed this was strange unidentified debris late on July 8, and that they had decided to fly the wreckage to Wright Field, Ohio where Air Force experts were gathered. Major Kirton was notifying the FBI of the latest developments
Major Marcel Holding some of the UFO Debris
According to the pilots who flew the debris from Fort Worth and the FBI memo the “disc” debris was flown t to Wright Field because personnel at Roswell and Fort Worth did not know its exact identity. We know that much of the exceedingly light debris was hand carried by Major Marcel. These rules out rockets, missiles, and most known aircraft that are made of relatively heavy metals. We can assume Major Kirton notified the FBI shortly before the message was sent at 6:17 PM. The best qualified people at two military bases were unable to identify the wreckage so it was being flown to the Wright Field aviation expert’s technical staffs that were standing by to inspect the debris wreckage. It is my belief a standard mundane military balloon and radar target would not be confused with the unidentified debris even though they were both light weights.
Later that evening, radio reporter Joe Wilson in Chicago stated he had spoken shortly before the broadcast with officials at Wright Field and they were _still_ awaiting the debris arrival.
We know that the landing marks of many UFOs indicate they are very light weight. In fact, most craft that operate in space are designed to be very light weight. For example, we know our Apollo 11 Eagle (Lunar Lander) was flimsy and light weight.
Radar Reflector
Project Mogul has been confused with the crash has it was a top-secret project by the US Army Air Forces involving microphones flown on high-altitude balloons, whose primary purpose was long-distance detection of sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests. The project was carried out from 1947 until early 1949. It was a classified portion of an unclassified project by New York University atmospheric researchers.
The parts of the Mogul balloon that were similar to the Roswell craft did not have hieroglyphic markings. Mac Brazel called them ancient Indian markings, others thought they looked Egyptian or similar to some found on Mars. Also, they did not smell like the crash debris.
UFOs seen at Launch and in Space
Wayne Hale, NASA’s shuttle program manager told reporters “The question is ‘What is it?’ ” “The objectCAPE CANAVERAL, FL. – NASA reports that a UFO called a mystery object, and at least two more have been sighted near the space shuttle Atlantis. The UFO has delayed the spacecraft’s landing. Fox TV News on September 19, 2006, at 3 PM Eastern time showed a UFO flying below the Space Shuttle and reports NASA canceled its scheduled landing. Allegedly a UFO flew near the shuttle for an extended period. The video showed on FOX TV shows a small dark object flying below the shuttle at roughly the same speed.
appeared small and dark against a blue Earth in the video. The dark object was recorded on a camera in the payload bay of space shuttle Atlantis early Tuesday. The object shot by NASA TV, is located in the center of the highlight and NASA officials are not sure what it is?
UFO Spotted by Shuttle NASA TV Sep 19, 2006
Flight controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston spotted the object floating between Atlantis and the Earth early Tuesday, September 19, 2006, just after the orbiter’s astronaut crew put their vehicle through a standard pre-landing shakedown.
Atlantis’ six astronauts completed two inspections of the space shuttle Wednesday to make sure it wasn’t damaged from the mysterious objects found floating outside the spacecraft. Landing was set for Thursday morning, a day later than originally scheduled. “Nothing was found to be missing or damaged,” said Wayne Hale, space shuttle program manager. “So, we feel very confident that we’re in for a very good landing opportunity.”
Space shuttle Atlantis’ carried solar wings to the international space station early Thursday September 14, 2006. The new 17 1/2-ton solar wings were unfurled successfully.NASA cleared Atlantis for a Thursday landing after finding that the space shuttle appeared undamaged and concluding the discovery of unexplained space debris did not pose a serious problem.
News and NASA. Editor’s Note: This is the first time that NASA has shown UFOs in space but insists they are just debris.
Shuttle Columbia Disaster Followed by UFOs
Foam breaks off Rocket apparently damaging tiles on the Columbia
I phoned Jeff Challender concerning the STS -115 UFO sighting and he told me. We’ve all heard about STS-107 / Columbia and the tragic fate suffered by her and her Brave Last Crew on 1 February 2003. That until that last terrible moment, the flight of STS-107 was all routine for the Astronauts aboard. It took me nearly two years to work up the courage to comb through my 38 six-hour VHS tapes of the STS-107 flight. Early on the morning of 20 January 2003 (STS-107 Flight Day Five), at approximately 2:50 AM CST (8:50 GMT), Shuttle Pilot Willie McCool called Houston Mission Control to report that he was seeing a “BRIGHT OBJECT ” which he said seemed to be moving WITH Columbia.
Columbia’s Pilot Willie McCool’s actual words are transcribed from the original VHS tape.
G = Capcom Linda Godwin in Houston
G: Go ahead, Willie…
McCool: A real odd question to ask Linda, but it would, would it be possible to see Space Station from my given attitude? We see a bright, object that seems to be moving WITH us… This is, this is NOT a long-distance satellite Linda.
G: OK Willie, we’ll double check that, and get back to you… PAUSE…
G: OK Wille, we just had that ground track added… up here to our screen and, uh, station’s very close to you guys right now, tracking right along with you. as you go toward sundown, so that could be it.
C: Willie McCool, pilot is saying he saw a bright object…
G: (garbled) we copy…
C: and asked Shuttle Capcom Linda…
G: One more comment for Willie, and sighting of…potentially sighting the ISS, if that’s what it is, it should be, moving relative to you.
C: Station’s at a somewhat higher altitude, uh, than Columbia. Station’s at about 240 statute miles (384 km – JC ) above the Earth, and it’s moving over, central Australia now on a northeasterly heading. Columbia’s just moving down the Australian coast, the Australian east coast, about Townsville by now, uh, headed southeast, and its altitudes about 180 statute miles (288 km – JC ).
Five of the 32,000 tiles on the Shuttle were damaged causing tremendous heat in the aluminum skin of the Columbia causing it to break up upon reentry. It was assumed the foam breaking off the rockets caused the damage, however it’s possible the UFO caused the damage. Many ground witnesses claim they saw a UFO near the Shuttle.
A tile repair kit existed that could have filled the whole but was not taken aboard the flight that may have saved the astronauts. Bob Greska was an engineer working on developing the tiles and the repair kit. When Bob saw the photos, he knew the Shuttle was done for. Columbia broke up on re-entry over Texas 16 minutes before her scheduled landing at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility on 1 February 2003.
Note;Honeycombs nearly identical were found 6000 miles apart and 41 years later, Magdalena, NM Plains UFO crash debris honeycomb on left, Shikoku Island debris found in 1971, on the right. A Mr. Shioto saw the UFO explode and found the debris. Honeycomb metal may be the key to anti-gravity or equivalent to ceramic tiles.
Skin of San Agustin UFO, Thanks to Art Campbell Go to www.ufocrashbook.com for his excellent book.
Minot Air Force Base UFOs
Minuteman Missile
My name is John Janks and from September 1964 to August 1968 I was in the USAF. First basic at Lackland AFB (where else) then Chanute AFB Technical School ABR4433OG (WS-133A) and then why not Minot AFB. At Minot I need to state that I was in SAC with the 91st. SMW / 455 MMS. Was a Sgt. on MMT crew no.1.
All our work was inside the launcher at the Minuteman sites. There was talk about UFO’s and for whatever reason the early spring is when things would start. The people I worked with, I had very high security clearance, the USAF said there was no UFOs, and that was the end of it. It was not a thing to bring up to the higher ups. The security AP’s that would ride out with us would sometimes tell stories if they knew you well enough. Most were identical 2 security AP on a Minuteman site in the middle of nowhere with no moon black as black and a very bright light would shine down for 30 sec. + and then they would call job control and the LCC a strike team would come out and see nothing most of the time. Would say too much time on location doing nothing and imagination working overtime. However, you could tell that a few of these guys seen something. It was said that some of the AP’s would not go out at night on the sites or just stay in the PU truck. \ The incident that Ken Seven talks about happen at the same time as mine. I normally spent most of the time in the launcher 12-24Hr+. I came up to get something from one of the trucks it was 2400hr+ and no moon clear for 50 miles also no wind. There were 4 of us topside, one was inside the van; the three of us could see each other very well.
Bright Light of UFO Heading toward Minuteman Silo
George was to my left about 10m out and the AP was to my right about 10m also. I was about to get something when for some reason myself and the other 2 turned around at the same time looking at the opposite end of location, we seen it coming a light that was pure white NOT like a landing gear light on B-52, KC-135, F-106, T-33, C-47, etc. Not even the newer stuff of today B-1, B-2, SR-71, F-117, etc. It was low and heading inbound to us, maybe 5sec+ and it was directly overhead. I can still see that under belly. For a moment time seemed to stop. We see it track the same heading till it was out of site. We all looked at each other and said we didn’t see anything. I went back down asked how everything was going, ok, talked to job control about our job and asked about another crew and how their job was going everything ok. Because of what we were working on we were always talking with the LCC officers the guys with the keys, and everything seemed ok.
As far as I can tell the UFO was 100 meters above the ground, speed was hard to judge because it is very flat country and no landmarks. Best guess was 200-300kts+. Total time not much over 60 seconds.
Huge Disc Fly’s Over
When I looked up, I seen the leading edge was curved, could have been a disk shape a gray to dull silver. There was something about the light from the ship, so white but yet not bright. Just before it came over it looked about 1m across. She was a large ship 50 meters across. Seemed to be flat on the bottom and when we looked at the back end you could not make anything out. It was BLACK and even with no moon you could tell it was moving away. The lights on location didn’t change or flicker, no sound nothing, no heat, no other lights. It just went out of site.
The next day one of the guys called a friend who was a radar man at the 786th. And confirmed that they tracked a UFO in area at that time and they sent some F-106’s out but with full AB they could not catch up for a visual at 1,600 MPH+ and lost it on radar. Because of what we work on keep my name confidential. Also, at the time I had about 70hr flying J-3, and PA-22. Was up to date on all aircraft and missile systems both east and west. And I spent many a night out there and this was the only one that I could not answer. She was some ship. Reading about 24 October 1968 seemed a little off. First, I had left Minot AFB about 30 days before, so I was not present. Have no idea about JAG-31. But for an object to land on a Minuteman site for 45 min does not sound right. A strike team has less than 10 min to get to a site. “The outer door was open and the combination lock on the inner door had been moved” Sounds made up the site would not be described like that. There would have been a few UH-1 with strike teams, F-106’s would be airborne and also the KC-135 and B-52’s would be going and gone. I have seen this before. Thanks to john
Israel Likely to Attack Iran nuclear weapons
F-35 Bomb Load GBU 31 Direct Attack Munitions
Israel is once again warning that it may have no choice but to preemptively attack Iran’s nuclear facilities to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. And its air force is becoming more capable of executing such a challenging mission.
Iran with the billions given to Iran by Obama, Iran has purchased the latest Soviet anti-aircraft defenses, the SA-15 Gauntlet mobile surface-to-air missile defense systems from Russia worth more than US$700 million. Iran is spending eight billion dollars on various advanced weapons and fighter aircraft now that Biden has also provided billions to Iran cancelling any trade restrictions with Asia. The military agreement with Iran shows China feels it is in a position to defy the United States. President Biden is blissfully unaware of the Iranian nuclear threat to Israel.
A large series of air defense missiles protect Iranian Nuclear facilities
Generally, a portion of the attacking aircraft will get through to bomb their targets. However, many of the weapon’s facilities are underground, so will one attack be effective?
In late April, Israeli Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen warned that a “bad” nuclear deal between the United States and Iran “will send the region spiraling into war.”
“Anyone seeking short-term benefits should be mindful of the longer-term,”he said. “Israel will not allow Iran to attain nuclear arms. Iran has no immunity anywhere. Our planes can reach everywhere in the Middle East – and certainly Iran.”
Israeli F-16 (L) and) drone fighter jet take part in the “Blue Flag” multinational air defense AFP VIA A
All are GETTY IMAGES
In the mid to late 1990s, successive Israeli governments, both Labor and Likud, expressed concerns about Iran’s nuclear program as well as its then fledgling ballistic missile program which it was developing with North Korean assistance. The prospect of a preemptive strike by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) first came up at that time.
In 1981, the IAF attacked Iraq’s Osirak reactor. In 2007, it also destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor. In both those cases, however, the strikes targeted a single facility. Iran’s nuclear program consists of several facilities spread across the country which are much more adequately protected than either the Iraqi or Syrian facilities were. They are also much further away from Israel.
In 2005, when asked how far Israel was prepared to go to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the then Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces Dan Halutz responded literally: “Two thousand kilometers.” That is approximately 1,200 miles, roughly the distance IAF jets would have to fly to attack Iran’s main nuclear sites.
In 2008 over 100 IAF F-15s and F-16s flew 900 miles across the Mediterranean with tanker aircraft in a clear demonstration of their capability to reach Iran.
An Israeli KC-135 Strat tanker Boeing 707 and F-16 fighter jets perform during an air show
Two notable things have changed since that time: Israel acquired a fleet of stealthy fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II jet fighters, many of them unique F-35I ‘Adir’ variants built to incorporate Israeli-built systems, and Iran greatly improved its air defenses.
Iran’s air defenses were so antiquated in the mid-2000s that they had trouble even detecting, never mind tracking and targeting, various aircraft operating inside Iranian airspace.
“The country’s radar network was in such a poor condition that it proved incapable of tracking most of the U.S., Israeli and allied unmanned aerial vehicles that frequently made forays deep inside Iranian air space,” wrote military aviation expert Tom Cooper.
“Similarly, USAF tankers supporting combat operations over Afghanistan and Iraq sometimes spent up to two hours inside Iranian airspace – without ever being detected.”
Since then, Tehran has acquired highly formidable high-altitude S-300 air defense missiles from Russia and developed several similar systems of its own that could pose a significant challenge to any IAF strike using F-15s or F-16s. Consequently, Israel may well have to rely heavily on its radar-evading F-35s.
In 2019, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel’s F-35s “can reach any place in the Middle East, including Iran, and of course also Syria.”
However, the F-35’s approximate range is 650 miles when armed, which is insufficient for a round trip from Israel to Iran’s nuclear sites.
Israeli F-35 fighter jets perform a fly over Jerusalem during celebrations marking Israel’s 69th
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Therefore, these fighters would need to be accompanied by tanker aircraft for mid-air refueling, especially if they are operating from Israeli airbases rather than from another country much closer to Iran. Use of non-stealthy tankers could reduce the element of surprise, a crucial element for the success of any Israeli first strike.
Israel is already addressing this problem by developing external fuel tanks that will almost double the combat radius of its F-35s, making them capable of longer-range missions.
Israel to Iran
It already has a lot of experience modifying its fighters in such ways. After all, Israel turned its F-15s into highly-capable bombers long before the U.S. – which originally used the jets solely as an air-to-air fighters in strict adherence to the mantra “not a pound for air-to-ground” – developed the Strike Eagle.
The fuel tanks Israel is presently building for its F-35s are most likely conformal. Such external tanks are designed in a way that won’t seriously undermine the fighter’s critical stealth capabilities, which regular drop tanks undoubtedly would.
F-35Is outfitted with conformal fuel tanks would ultimately require fewer aircraft, and no tankers, for a strike mission against Iran’s nuclear facilities. That could prove highly advantageous for the attacking IAF jets since it would reduce the likelihood of Iranian radar detecting the Israeli attack.
As a result, in the near future, Israel will be more capable than ever of carrying out its frequently repeated threat of preemptively attacking Iran’s nuclear program if it believes Tehran is on the verge of developing nuclear weapons.
There have been two explosions at Iran nuclear sites a few months ago and Iran is blaming Israel for sabotage, like Natanz nuclear fuel production site to Parchin,Iran is only weeks away from a nuclear weapon.
Thousands of Ships, Millions of Troops: China Is Assembling a Taiwan Invasion Force
Type 003, China’s first modern aircraft carrier,
The likelihood of China invading Taiwan increases every day after the weak U.S. retreat from Afghanistan. In his speech celebrating the Chinese Communist Party’s 100th anniversary last week, Chairman Xi Jinping proclaimed that China has never bullied or oppressed the people of any other country. Yet that is exactly what Beijing is doing to Taiwan, and its intensifying aggression toward the democratic island and making aggressive moves raising concerns that it will try to take it by force.
President Xi Jinping reiterated this ambition, while vowing to crush any attempt at independence on the island.
He told his audience, “No one should underestimate the strong determination, steadfast will and strong ability of the Chinese people to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
‘Zhen Hua 28’ and a Z-8 helicopter.
Chinese Communist Media has been mocking “weak Biden Daddy America” every day and suggesting China may take aggressive action against Taiwan. To conquer Taiwan China might need to transport as many as a million troops across the rough 100 miles of the Taiwan Strait and land them under fire at the island’s 14 potential invasion beaches or 10 major ports. That’s a lot of people—far, far more than the People’s Liberation Army Navy can haul in its 11 new amphibious ships. To transport the bulk of the invasion force, Beijing almost certainly would take up into naval service thousands of civilian ships. To that end, the Chinese Communist Party has created a legal and bureaucratic framework for taking over control of commercial shipping. Meanwhile, naval engineers have begun modifying key vessels to make them better assault ships.
In recent months, the Chinese Communist leadership has stepped up pressure on Taiwan. There have been numerous incursions into Taiwan’s airspace by People’s Liberation Army (PLA) fighter jets. The PLA also conducted several naval and military exercises in and around the Taiwan Strait.
The United States responded to Beijing’s aggressive military actions by increasing naval patrols in the region, as well as allowing arms sales to Taipei; of precision-guided artillery, the M982A1 but Excalibur rounds that the military planned to acquire were not included. Trump had sold over a billion dollars in aid.
The last American intervention was on Friday, when the guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd and the cutter USCGC Munro made a transit through the Taiwan Strait.
The US naval maneuvers drew a scathing reaction from the Chinese daily tabloid controlled by the Communist Party. The publisher mocked Taipei’s belief that “Biden Daddy America” would come to his rescue and preserve his autonomy. They dismissed US actions as empty postures, suggesting Biden had neither the stomach nor the capacity to wage war with China in its backyard. “In the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea, the United States is gradually losing its momentum and confidence to deploy its military force against China,” the editor wrote.
Taiwan Map
China’s chilling warning against ‘provocation to war’ against Taiwan and Japan. Beijing claims full sovereignty over Taiwan and has made no secret of its willingness to use force to take it back.
In a speech on the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, President Xi Jinping reiterated this ambition, while vowing to crush any attempt at independence on the island.
He told his audience, “No one should underestimate the strong determination, steadfast will and strong ability of the Chinese people to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity. Thanks to Forbes Magazine
U. S. State Department Stopping Afghanistan Rescue Flights of 4500 Americans
Charter Flights Set up to rescue 4500 Citizens
Less than two weeks ago, Biden said, he would stay until every American got out of the country. But today, he claimed leaving 10 percent behind was a win. Now Rick Clay head of a private rescue organization who keeps track has minified 4500 Americans and Green Card Holders claims they are trying to fly the 4500 out of Afghanistan. They have planes reedy to fly into Afghanistan but the U.S. State Department is denying clearance. He claims, “If lives are lost it will be on the White House hands”. ” Joe Biden thought that he’d wipe away the national disgrace of his Afghan withdrawal by addressing the nation but his approval rating is falling rapidly. https://www.foxnews.com/trans
Strange Craft
The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs
U.S. Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II. These men – military professionals who flew planes, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at airfields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft.
During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing UFOs off their plane’s wings. Award-winning investigative author John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer.
From objects in the skies over Cold War Europe to a UFOs over during the Cuban Missile Crisis to lights over the DMZ in Vietnam Filer leaves nothing out about his Air Force UFO encounters,
Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base in 1978 – is fully recounted for the first time in this book. As a member of the Disclosure Project, military experts, astronauts, and scientists urge the U.S. government to release all it knows about UFOs to the public.
Filer describes his UFO encounters in this incredible book. By John L. Guerra.
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Filer’s Files 36, 2021 - Roswell UFO and Shuttle Columbia Crashes - PART II
Gaithersburg, Maryland – on August 10, 2021
Filer’s Files 36, 2021 - Roswell UFO and Shuttle Columbia Crashes - PART II
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Special projects are General Exxon Saw Roswell Crashed Craft, Shuttle Columbia Disaster Followed by UFOs, Minot Air Force Base UFOs, Israel Likely to Attack Iran nuclear weapons , China Is Assembling a Taiwan Invasion Force, U. S. State Department Stopping Afghanistan Rescue of 4500, and Greska C-60
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginal.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
Arizona Light
Flagstaff– on June 19, 2004, his is an enlargement of an object that was in the background of a photo I took. Note: The date and time of the photo were extracted from the metadata in the photo file. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
California Object
El Mont –on August 29, 2021, object moved from west to east very slowly and. then move hover, move a little, then hover again I called my nephew to see, and we watched it together
Colorado Object
Arvada – on November 16, 2020, while reviewing the Live Photo 3 second video of a scenic picture I took at Rocky Flats, I found 5 or more objects moving over the mountains.
Massachusetts Object
Bourne – on March 26, 2021, I was at work when one of my employees called for me to come outside, I went outside to see a weird shape object just sitting in the sky hove rug silently. It set there for a few minutes, I went back inside for a second and when I came out it was gone
Maryland Object
Gaithersburg– on August 10, 2021, entered I-270 and saw slow moving object, which was so BIG I pulled over, as it was. flying over Montgomery County Fairgrounds then flying west. On a UFO Face book page many people were sure it was Mylar star balloons. But the edges of the moving appendages had hard angular edges and whole thing seemed mechanical moving by its own propulsion and spinning. The 4 to 6 appendages were moving up and down in a Rubix cube like axis. The red lights on bottom were bright alternately strobing. The exterior shell or hull seemed hard and rigid.
New Hampshire Lights
Albuquerque— on August 28, 2021, my neighbor first observed and pointed the silvery-white sphere out to me at 2 pm. Both I and a third neighbor took photos. A drone or something flew past the object.
New Jersey Lights
Trenton–o n August 18, 2021, 1000’s of birds everywhere with possible lighted UFOs
Trenton – on August 27, 2021, four orbs recorded with tripod.
New York Lights
Mastic Beach – on August 24, 2021, I was standing on the deck of my cottage which overlooks Narrow Bay. Four bright orange/amber objects silently shot up over the horizon like bursts from a cannon in rapid succession. The first object gained altitude and flew north the three remaining objects followed.
New York – –on August 27, 2021, triangle shaped object hovered in place for a few minutes and then glided slowly south. Around the same time, lightning struck nearby at the one World Trade Center. There were helicopters before and after, but this object was above and didn’t move.
Ohio Light
Perrysburg – on August 20, 2021, while driving on I75 N saw hovering white rectangle that seemed to be glowing. Object was observed for a minute before losing sight. Object was low and stationary with defined edges. My passenger took out his iPod and took 6 pictures of object.
Pennsylvania Tic Ta
Vandergrift– on August 30, 2021, dark object t in the sky and streak of white, similar to craft below.
South Carolina Tic Tac
Santee– on August 30, 2021, Bright blue cylinder object in sky
Virtually the same Tic Tac in Pennsylvania.
Texas Orbs
Tyler – on August 28, 2021, I witnessed 3 separate flashes of light in the northwestern sky and saw three distinctive orbs hovering 1500 to 2000 feet high. One orb ascended rapidly above the clouds then quickly returned. The three orbs merged together which made a brighter light. The light then departed and returned. Then saw a bright light descending into clouds.
West Virginia Object
Summersville– on August 30, 2021, I got a photo of a UFO on my game camera at 8:30. A.M. This is the game camera photo.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Belgium Light
Boom– on June 10, 2021, just look at the video, I went to get my glasses during the video. the UFO changed shape.
Canada Objects
Thamesford– on August 28, 2021, I was in my driveway filming the London international air show. Specifically, the US Blue Angels. I noticed an object zip through the video from right to left. It goes extremely fast. Note: Another F-18 Hornet follows.
Greece Triangle
Petra, Lesbos Island— on the 6th of July in 2018, my son (age 11) and I were star watching sailing regatta. That night on the balcony we saw lights like the car in the “Back to the Future” film forming an arrow shape. A large craft was flying towards us silently and blocked out the stars. It flew over us with a triangular shape with lights forming an arrow. We were excited as it flew away.
Ireland Object
Cork– on August 28, 2021, took a 3 second live photo on my iPhone 12. On checking later, observed 2 objects travelling at a very high speed go by the helicopter.
Italy Lights
Vatican– on May 21, 2019, I went back to check out a video I took when visiting the Vatican. The video shows multiple twinkling objects (x12) in the sky which is what drew our attention on the day. After reviewing the video, we noticed multiple objects throughout the 40 second video. The first additional object moved left to right- there is a much larger and faster moving object that does the same. I pan up which shows numerous objects descending. I identified over 30 orbs.
Mexico Object
Oaxaca – on August 28, 2021, my girlfriend and I were at Monte Alban Archaeological site at 12.23 pm. I framed up the shot and took the photo, but I did not see this. Later, I spotted a strange object over one of the Pyramids in one photo. it looks circular on the bottom and dome like silver on the top.
UK/England Object
Liverpool– on August 27, 2021, saw black squared shaped UFO that flashed a big bright white light that kept travelling towards me. It stopped above me and my friend for a couple of seconds then kept moving really slow out of sight.
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LOST JUDGMENT HUNT FOR THE TRUTH: HOW TO FIND ALL 3 UFOS IN THE SIDE CASE
LOST JUDGMENT HUNT FOR THE TRUTH: HOW TO FIND ALL 3 UFOS IN THE SIDE CASE
The truth is out there.
LOST JUDGMENTFEATURES a dizzying array of Side Cases split between Yokohama and Kamurocho, and most of them have quite a few steps to complete. Hunt for the Truth might be one of the first cases you find, especially if you’ve taken advantage of the new Buzz Researcher feature. But some of its triggers may be a bit confusing. If you’re struggling to figure this one out, we’re here to answer all your questions as they come up. Need to know where and how to take pictures of UFOs in Lost Judgment? Then you’ve come to the right place.
HOW TO START THE LOST JUDGMENT HUNT FOR THE TRUTH SIDE CASE
To start the Hunt for the Truth Side Case, walk around the front of Seiryo High and you’ll come across a group of students chatting about UFOs in text format. Stand there until the dialogue fully finishes, and the keyword “UFO” will be added to the Buzz Researcher app on your phone. Search for “UFO” in the app, and you’ll see a post that says the unidentified craft can only be spotted at night.
With that intel in mind, you’ll have to wait until night to fully unlock Lost Judgment’s Hunt for the Truth Side Case. Just keep plowing through the Main Quest until a moment when Yagami is set free under the cover of darkness.
Once he is free, you’ll see a spot marked on your map called the SRC’s Hunt for the Truth. It’s south of Kinka Bridge and near the Survive bar. This is where the case starts.
Once you get the “UFO” keyword, the actual Hunt for the Truth Side Case starts here.
Sega
HOW TO FIND UFOS IN LOST JUDGMENT
Once you arrive at the spot, listen for a drone-like sound and look towards the sky, as NPCs will also be distracted by the flying object. You’ll see it floating in a pattern. Go into your basic Observation mode and examine it to move along with the case.
To find another UFO, open up Buzz Researcher and search for the “UFO” keyword again. This will take you to a spot between E Central St. and Central St. It’s at this location you’ll meet Yabuki. He’ll tell you to go to the Wette Kitchen, which is easily marked on your map as a restaurant. Go inside, and you’ll see him sitting in the back of the second floor of the establishment.
Head here, and you’ll encounter Yabuki, a passionate UFO researcher.Sega
He’ll tell you that he believes his father was abducted by a UFO, causing the two family members to be separated. He asks Yagami to help him by taking a clear picture of a UFO when he sees one. Remember, these UFOs can only be seen at night, so you won’t encounter any if you stop at this point in the quest and the game transitions to daytime.
As you’ve been doing, open up Buzz Researcher once again, and the chatter will take you to his spot in Fukutoku Park. Make sure you’re standing directly in the middle of the park, and you should be able to enter Observation mode to examine the craft flying overhead. If Observation mode isn’t properly triggering, it’s because you’re just outside the border of the park.
Open Buzz Researcher, and chatter about UFOs will direct you to Fukutoku Park.Sega
Once the UFO has been examined, you’ll enter Photo Mission mode, which means you need to take a picture of the UFO that’s in focus, stationary, and at maximum zoom to get the maximum XP for your efforts. It should be noted, however, that all you need is an in-focus picture of the UFO to pass the “good” requirement to move on with the mission.
This is what a supposedly perfect UFO picture looks like.Sega
Once the picture has been taken, open up Buzz Researcher once more and search for “UFO.” This time you’ll be going back to Seiryo High.
Are UFOs really hidden under Seiryo High School?Sega
Out in the courtyard, you’ll see a group of students standing around by the marked location on your map. Talk to them, and they’ll take you up to the roof to take one last picture. First, enter Observation mode to examine the UFO, and you’ll be brought to the Photo Mission interface just like before. Take a photo that passes good or perfect standards to continue.
The Side Case ends with a chase sequence.Sega
The next phase is a chase sequence, so follow along the path and press the button and control stick commands that appear onscreen. This particular chase isn’t reliant on health items, so just keep an eye on the inputs till the UFO’s health reaches zero. Once you grab it, the mission ends. That’s all you need to know to complete the Hunt for the Truth Side Case in Lost Judgment.
LOST JUDGEMENTIS AVAILABLE NOW ON PLAYSTATION 4, PLAYSTATION 5, XBOX SERIES X AND SERIES S, XBOX ONE.
LOST JUDGMENT HUNT FOR THE TRUTH: HOW TO FIND ALL 3 UFOS IN THE SIDE CASE
LOST JUDGMENT HUNT FOR THE TRUTH: HOW TO FIND ALL 3 UFOS IN THE SIDE CASE
The truth is out there.
LOST JUDGMENTFEATURES a dizzying array of Side Cases split between Yokohama and Kamurocho, and most of them have quite a few steps to complete. Hunt for the Truth might be one of the first cases you find, especially if you’ve taken advantage of the new Buzz Researcher feature. But some of its triggers may be a bit confusing. If you’re struggling to figure this one out, we’re here to answer all your questions as they come up. Need to know where and how to take pictures of UFOs in Lost Judgment? Then you’ve come to the right place.
HOW TO START THE LOST JUDGMENT HUNT FOR THE TRUTH SIDE CASE
To start the Hunt for the Truth Side Case, walk around the front of Seiryo High and you’ll come across a group of students chatting about UFOs in text format. Stand there until the dialogue fully finishes, and the keyword “UFO” will be added to the Buzz Researcher app on your phone. Search for “UFO” in the app, and you’ll see a post that says the unidentified craft can only be spotted at night.
With that intel in mind, you’ll have to wait until night to fully unlock Lost Judgment’s Hunt for the Truth Side Case. Just keep plowing through the Main Quest until a moment when Yagami is set free under the cover of darkness.
Once he is free, you’ll see a spot marked on your map called the SRC’s Hunt for the Truth. It’s south of Kinka Bridge and near the Survive bar. This is where the case starts.
Once you get the “UFO” keyword, the actual Hunt for the Truth Side Case starts here.
Sega
HOW TO FIND UFOS IN LOST JUDGMENT
Once you arrive at the spot, listen for a drone-like sound and look towards the sky, as NPCs will also be distracted by the flying object. You’ll see it floating in a pattern. Go into your basic Observation mode and examine it to move along with the case.
To find another UFO, open up Buzz Researcher and search for the “UFO” keyword again. This will take you to a spot between E Central St. and Central St. It’s at this location you’ll meet Yabuki. He’ll tell you to go to the Wette Kitchen, which is easily marked on your map as a restaurant. Go inside, and you’ll see him sitting in the back of the second floor of the establishment.
Head here, and you’ll encounter Yabuki, a passionate UFO researcher.Sega
He’ll tell you that he believes his father was abducted by a UFO, causing the two family members to be separated. He asks Yagami to help him by taking a clear picture of a UFO when he sees one. Remember, these UFOs can only be seen at night, so you won’t encounter any if you stop at this point in the quest and the game transitions to daytime.
As you’ve been doing, open up Buzz Researcher once again, and the chatter will take you to his spot in Fukutoku Park. Make sure you’re standing directly in the middle of the park, and you should be able to enter Observation mode to examine the craft flying overhead. If Observation mode isn’t properly triggering, it’s because you’re just outside the border of the park.
Open Buzz Researcher, and chatter about UFOs will direct you to Fukutoku Park.Sega
Once the UFO has been examined, you’ll enter Photo Mission mode, which means you need to take a picture of the UFO that’s in focus, stationary, and at maximum zoom to get the maximum XP for your efforts. It should be noted, however, that all you need is an in-focus picture of the UFO to pass the “good” requirement to move on with the mission.
This is what a supposedly perfect UFO picture looks like.Sega
Once the picture has been taken, open up Buzz Researcher once more and search for “UFO.” This time you’ll be going back to Seiryo High.
Are UFOs really hidden under Seiryo High School?Sega
Out in the courtyard, you’ll see a group of students standing around by the marked location on your map. Talk to them, and they’ll take you up to the roof to take one last picture. First, enter Observation mode to examine the UFO, and you’ll be brought to the Photo Mission interface just like before. Take a photo that passes good or perfect standards to continue.
The Side Case ends with a chase sequence.Sega
The next phase is a chase sequence, so follow along the path and press the button and control stick commands that appear onscreen. This particular chase isn’t reliant on health items, so just keep an eye on the inputs till the UFO’s health reaches zero. Once you grab it, the mission ends. That’s all you need to know to complete the Hunt for the Truth Side Case in Lost Judgment.
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That UFO Podcast interview with Ross Coulthart released. New bombshells dropped. 9/21/21
That UFO Podcast interview with Ross Coulthart released. New bombshells dropped. 9/21/21
Episode 60 lands with one of the biggest names to enter the field of UFO’s in sometime, Journalist, author & documentary maker Ross Coulthart is on the pod for a 2 parter, to discuss;
Warning – Strong language used throughoutHis incredible book, In Plain Sight Media stigma & Wikileaks Archaeological digs Edgar Mitchell Did we find a UFO with the lights left on…? And much more.
An American company has announced its plans to create a woolly mammoth hybrid using Asian elephant DNA. Based on the now extinct woolly mammoth, the company’s team of genetic scientists claim their new creature will help in the fight against climate change.
Before we begin, unlike almost every other reporter on the planet I will offer you a dose of respect by refraining from childish terms such as “genetic horror show.” Neither will I refer to Jurassic Park or any other fantasy movies while telling this story.
Colossal, a US bio-tech company based in Austin, Texas, recently announced their plans to genetically edit DNA from Asian elephants. They aim to create a new mammoth hybrid or a mammoth-elephant hybrid that will resemble the ancient woolly mammoth. The purpose of creating these new mammoth hybrids is not, however, to fill a host of next-generation zoos but to “help fight climate change,” according to the researchers
The woolly mammoth hybrid will be “built” by editing Asian elephant DNA.
Professor George Church is a biologist who leads Synthetic Biology at Harvard Medical School’s Wyss Institute, where he oversees “the directed evolution of molecules, polymers, and whole genomes to create new tools.” It was Church who first conceived the idea to rebuild, not to bring back, the woolly mammoth .
Church developed ways to read and then edit elephant DNA , and he now plans to create a new version of the woolly mammoth that went extinct over 10,000 years ago.
Professor Ben Lamm, the tech entrepreneur who cofounded Colossal with Church, told CNN that the private company intends to produce the first hybridized-elephant calves “in the next four to six years.”
Such a controversial project didn’t take long to build significant heat among biotech investors . Colossal has been backed by a consortium of private enterprises. Among the investors are the American Winklevoss twins, who might or might not have created Facebook. CNN reported that Colossal has “raised $15 million to pursue their goal.”
An Asian elephant in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka. This elephant species will be used in a genetic reverse engineering process that will ultimately result in a wooly mammoth hybrid.
Reverse Engineering Modern Elephant DNA To Make A Mammoth
Until now, most genetic researchers have tried to “recreate” mammoths from ancient DNA. Colossal and visionary Church plan to reverse engineer DNA from modern Asian elephants to create a new hybrid creature that will resemble the ancient mammoth.
Now you can clearly see that almost every headline out there is click bait. Colossal isn’t actually cloning an ancient mammoth’s DNA. This project is about editing the genetic code of modern Asian elephants, which share a common ancestor with the woolly mammoth.
The team at Colossal will be creating “a new” elephant-mammoth hybrid and the job of reverse engineering the elephant’s DNA is expected to take about “50 changes,” said Church. According to The Guardian , Church said the animal will be custom designed to survive and thrive in the Arctic , so that it “will enjoy its time at -40C, and do all the things that elephants do, and mammoths did.”
The idea or goal behind the woolly mammoth hybrid is to help the environment because large herds of mammoths once broke up moss and knocked down trees. These new creatures may help to slow erosion and lower CO2 levels, says Colossal’s top scientist.
DNA Manipulation To Help a Planet In Climate Change
Church believes that reviving a version of the woolly mammoth might “ help the environment .” He explained to CNN that before 10,000 years ago huge herds of mammoths once helped the proliferation of grasslands, ”because they broke up moss and knocked down trees.” Church believes that places like Siberia might be turned into grassland again, which the genetic scientist thinks might help the environment by “stopping erosion and controlling carbon dioxide.”
To stand these extremes conditions the animals will require "fat, shaggy hair, and small ears,” but their ancient ivory tusks will be omitted to save them being stalked by illegal poachers. Church told the New York Times “everything up to this point has been relatively easy. Every tissue we’ve gone after, we’ve been able to get a recipe for.” Convinced he has figured out how to map the DNA of elephants, the next step, according to Church, is the difficult bit.
The process of making a woolly mammoth hybrid or, better said, a mammoth-elephant hybrid.
The Edited DNA Embryo Will Grow in an Artificial Womb
The edited DNA must be brought to life in an embryo of some sort, which will develop into a living animal. The reason this is complicated is because no one has ever successfully harvested an egg from an elephant or attempted to perform in vitro fertilization on the creature.
Church detailed his plans to build an “artificial womb” that will be large enough to hold a two-hundred-pound (91-kilogram) elephant fetus for two years. While womb trials successfully grew a lamb fetus in four weeks, Colossal’s artificial elephant’s womb will require much more complexity that that of a sheep.
There we have it folks! Now you know the wooly mammoth is “not” being brought back. Meanwhile, all the headlines in the mainstream media outlets are using the word “revival” and the term “brought back,” with Jurassic Park styling and childish fear mongering.
Top image: The idea of the woolly mammoth hybrid is based not on ancient DNA cloning but on reverse engineering living Asian elephant DNA and then growing the embryo in an artificial womb. No one knows for sure what the mammoth hybrid will look like, but many of the features of this ancient extinct species will be recreated no doubt. Source: dottedyeti / Adobe Stock
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Perseverance Rewarded: NASA Mars Rover Samples Suggest Volcanic Origin
Perseverance Rewarded: NASA Mars Rover Samples Suggest Volcanic Origin
The National Aeronautic Space Association (NASA) launched its ambitious Mars 2020 project in the July of 2020, with the mission aim that stated: “Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.”
The rover it sent, titled “Perseverance,” along with its remote drone helicopter “Ingenuity,” landed finally on 18th February, 2021 on Mars’ famed Jezero Crater. And the rover has collected its first and second samples within the span of a week.
Rochette and the Volcanic Origins of Mars
A Martian boulder dubbed “Rochette” is where the first pair of rock samples were taken from, reports Live Science . The collected samples were sealed shut in a designated titanium tube, as announced by the mission team members on Twitter.
NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter
Perseverance had made its first attempt to collect a sample on the 5th of August, but its targeted rock turned out to be rather soft, and crumbled under the weight of the percussive drill. Fortunately, Rochette proved to be a sturdier target, and two samples dubbed “Montdenier” and “Montagnac” were successfully collected from it.
"It looks like our first rocks reveal a potentially habitable sustained environment," said Ken Farley, project scientist for the mission, in a statement on Friday. "It's a big deal that the water was there for a long time." Being able to ascertain how long water lay on the lakebed could point to the presence of microbial life , provided the conditions were conducive and the water was there for a long enough time.
The core of Rochette showed that it was volcanic in origin, according to preliminary analysis. It is basaltic in composition, which indicates it might be a product of lava flows. The volcanic origin would help determine accurately the date of formation, taking us back to the days when Mars was volcanologically active. It would also help ascertain the date of the Jezero Crater, believed to have been formed around 3.5 billion years ago, reports Forbes.
Salt minerals too have been spotted within these rocks, as a result of flowing groundwater altering the original composition of the rock, or upon the evaporation of liquid, trapping tiny bubbles of ancient Martian water.
Why Choose Jezero Crater?
Jezero Crater was chosen as the landing site for Perseverance as scientists believe the area was once inundated with water, and home to an ancient river delta . It was chosen after careful examination of 60 other potential landing sites, involving deep data, research, and analysis. A combination of Mission Team members and scientists from around the world spent 5 years on just deciding the landing site.
Jezero Crater. The ancient river can be seen top left, flowing into the river delta within the crater
The search for prolonged inundation of water and potentially emerging microbial life could confirm the hypothesis of a planet that has, in its long history, gone through periods with water and then without. There is prior evidence of clay minerals being carried by water from the surrounding areas into the lake, reports NASA. The crater also contains high concentrations of calcium, aluminum, and magnesium, telltale indicators of clay sediments and carbonates.
"These samples have high value for future laboratory analysis back on Earth. One day, we may be able to work out the sequence and timing of the environmental conditions that this rock’s minerals represent. This will help answer the big-picture science question of the history and stability of liquid water on Mars,” said Mitch Schulte of NASA Headquarters, the mission’s program scientist.
The crater itself is 45 kilometers (28 miles) wide, and scientists speculate that it was once a 250 meter (820 feet) deep lake. It is on the western edge of a flat plain called Isidis Planitia, lying north of the Martian equator. It is a massive 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles) from the landing site of NASA’s Curiosity rover , which is designed to explore the Gale crater, and landed 9 years earlier, in 2012. Interestingly, the core design of Perseverance is borrowed from Curiosity, adding its own drill, scientific instruments, 19 cameras, and 2 microphones.
Artist’s rendition of how Jezero Crater may have looked as a lake
In 2031, Perseverance will attempt to return all collected samples back to Earth. The target is 31 samples minimum, in a plan titled Mars Sample Return (or MSR), with 3 missions spanning 10 years. "The idea of bringing a sample back from Mars goes back decades," Ken Farley had said in a statement earlier this year.
"We are in a position now where if everything goes according to plan, samples will be coming back to Earth in 2031. That sounds like a long time, but this becoming a reality has always been 10 years away since I was in grad school. Now we are actually doing it."
Top image: The “Rochette” boulder with two core sample drill holes. Source: Forbes.
The Tunguska event is named for the area in Russia around the Tunguska River where on the morning of June 30, 1908, a high-speed space rock exploded and the air burst created the largest impact event on Earth in recorded history. Archeologists have recently found evidence of a similar air burst created by a similar space rock 3,600 years ago that completely destroyed an ancient Middle Eastern city, demolishing every building and incinerating all of its residents. If that asteroid’s destruction was named for the city it vaporized, it might have been called the Sodom Event. Was the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah really inspired by a space rock?
Trees leveled by the Tunguska explosion.
“Years ago, when archaeologists looked out over excavations of the ruined city, they could see a dark, roughly 5-foot-thick (1.5 m) jumbled layer of charcoal, ash, melted mudbricks and melted pottery. It was obvious that an intense firestorm had destroyed this city long ago. This dark band came to be called the destruction layer.”
Christopher R. Moore, Archaeologist and Special Projects Director at the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program and South Carolina Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology and co-author of a new study on this Tunguska-like event published in the journal Scientific Reports, explains in The Conversation what archeologists found while excavated at Tall el-Hammam, an archaeological site in the eastern part of the lower Jordan Valley that many believe was once the site of the biblical city of Sodom. That “destruction layer” has baffled archeologists for years until Moore and his team analyzed it with the Online Impact Calculator, which models known impact events and nuclear detonations and facilitates studies of ancient ones. The calculator indicated that Tall el-Hammam was destroyed by a small asteroid similar to the one that destroyed Tunguska in 1908, but much smaller that the rock that caused the dinosaur extinction 65 million ago. What they needed was physical proof.
“The destruction layer also contains tiny diamonoids that, as the name indicates, are as hard as diamonds. Each one is smaller than a flu virus. It appears that wood and plants in the area were instantly turned into this diamond-like material by the fireball’s high pressures and temperatures.”
Along with the diamonoids, the destruction layer contained shocked quartz that only form at 725,000 pounds per square inch of pressure (5 gigapascals), pottery and mudbricks that liquefied at temperatures above 2,700 F (1,500 C), spherules of vaporized iron and sand that melted at about 2,900 F (1,590 C), and tiny melted metallic grains, including iridium with a melting point of 4,435 F (2,466 C), platinum that melts at 3,215 F (1,768 C) and zirconium silicate at 2,800 F (1,540 C). Is that enough proof?
“Together, all this evidence shows that temperatures in the city rose higher than those of volcanoes, warfare and normal city fires. The only natural process left is a cosmic impact.”
An asteroid? Does that mean the sinners are off the hook?
That’s proof of a Tunguska-like event at Tall el-Hammam. However, is it proof of the existence of the destruction of Sodom? Moore thinks witnesses passed the story down orally until it was written in the Hebrew Bible as the devastation of an urban city near the Dead Sea where stones and fire fell from the sky, thick smoke rose from the fires and the city’s inhabitants were wiped out. Moore agrees that’s not definitive proof, but he sees it as a warning that these Tunguska-like events are common and happen frequently – even if the city isn’t wicked.
Moore and his teammates looked back at the fires of Tall el-Hammam and didn’t turn to stone. Lot’s wife must be p*ssed.
On June 4, 2021, the Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colorado, was renamed Buckley Space Force Base, the home of Space Force’s Space Delta 4 unit. Shortly before that and continuing to the present, a man living close to the base has been photographing UFOs, particularly Tic Tac UFOs, and posting videos and photos on YouTube and Instagram. Are they related? Is anyone else seeing them?
“jason_2_24 9/18/21 10:59am this is a clip of the f16 flying near this ufo i filmed 3 miles away from space force
This is not balloons on a string the string would be moving around all over the place i saw this clearly with my eyes and i have no idea wtf it is. A f16 flew by it as well at 8:35 time stamp start watching and space force doesnt respond to balloons and its not a weather balloon it was big also the string never moves in the wind.”
The Daily Sun broke the story of Jason Suraci, a resident of Aurora, Colorado, who has been watching and recording UFOs day and night for at least six months and posting them with time, location and commentary on this like size, proximity to planes and other objects in the videos, and his own speculation on what the UFO might or might not be. In particular, he seems to be aware that many of the UFOs look like balloons – either weather or party – and points out characteristics that shoot these theories down like a deflated Mylar birthday present. He is also aware that these are occurring near Buckley Space Force Base, although not over it as was reported by The Daily Sun.
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Are these UFOs aircraft from the Space Force at Buckley Space Force Base? Buckley Field was built in 1938 as a bombing range, was an Army Air Corps training school during World War II, became an inland Naval Air Reserve Station after the war, and became an early participant in space defense in 1969 when the United States Air Force began development on the Defense Support Program ground station there — the Defense Support Program operates the reconnaissance satellites of the Satellite Early Warning System. Buckley is also the home of the Colorado Air National Guard’s 140th Fighter Wing. In 1996, Air Force Space Command activated the 821st Space Group space warning mission and in December 2001, a new Defense Support Program and Space-Based Infrared System ground station was activated.
Emblem of Space Delta 4
If the Buckley Space Force Base is the home of the Space Force Delta 4 Unit and has such a long history of manning space early warning systems, it would make sense that the base would be testing systems to identify, track and respond to UAPs like the Tic Tac UFOs which seem to have snuck up on the USS Nimitz and other naval vessels, outmaneuvered U.S. aircraft and allegedly baffled experts trying to determine if they’re made by humans on Earth (and if so, from what country) or aliens. If that’s the case, then Jason Suraci of Aurora, Colorado, may be witnessing the actual Tic Tacs (if they’re ours), captured Tic Tacs (if they’re from another country), reverse-engineered Tic Tacs (if they’re from aliens) or something else. What does he think?
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While he’s obviously enthused about UFOs and posting the recordings of whatever it is he’s seeing, he also uses the opportunities to plug a line of night vision binoculars so others can help him out. Is he in any danger from the military for posting these videos? If he hasn’t been contacted yet, probably not. Why hasn’t anyone else reported them? Good question. What are these UFOs? If this were an isolated incident, the usual bugs-birds-balloons theories would apply. However, this seems to have been going on for months near a major Space Force and space security base. This is something that requires more investigation.
No wonder he’s looking for more people with night vision binoculars. Be careful out there, Jason.
My previous article was on one of the reasons why government agencies have failed to give all of us definitive UFO Disclosure. In that article I suggested – in a specifically theoretical fashion, I should stress – that the truth might be too terrifying for us to handle. It was a theory that more than a few people have bought into. Namely, the idea that our souls are being “farmed” by the black-eyed aliens of Ufology. Of course, it’s just a theory and shouldn’t be seen as anything else, at all. Unless, that is, hard evidence surfaces – something that hasn’t happened yet. There is another angle as to why we haven’t got UFO Disclosure. It’s a scenario that most people probably don’t think about. It’s the theory that government’s don’t give us the full story because, really, they actually haven’t got a clue as to what the full story is! So, as they are as much in the dark as we are, they do very little when it comes to government-public discussion. It’s not an implausible picture. For example, consider the following:
Let’s say that within the heart of the U.S. government there are a lot of photos, footage, testimony from pilots and so on, that, combined, are incredible, and all in relation to UFOs. Maybe, there are even the remains of several, dead alien creatures, all preserved and hidden in a vault in one of the deeper levels of Area 51. All guarded with deadly force, of course. So, you might wonder: what’s preventing disclosure? Why not just got ahead? Well, I can think of one reason. A very important thing. Let’s expand on what I said above, and say that the government does know there is a real UFO phenomenon from somewhere else; but that same government has no answers. Imagine that the government really did get its hands on a few dead aliens back in 1947. But, that after more than seventy years of trying to get the truth of Roswell, the government has not been able to go any further than autopsying one or two, and preserving the rest. The government has no idea – in the slightest – as to where the aliens are from. And the government doesn’t know what the agenda of the aliens is. And, even worse, what if not even a single bit of progress has been made when it comes to trying to understand the alien technology?
(Nick Redfern)
If that really is the truth of the matter – namely, that those in government on the UFO programs refuse to tell us the full truth because of what they don’t know, rather than what they do know – then everything comes together. I’ve never really understood why there is this widespread belief/assumption in Ufology that “the government knows it all, but won’t tell us.” Why should the government know? They’re not all-knowing gods. And why should they tell us when doing so would only reveal the government’s vulnerability mixed in with its ignorance of the subject. Imagine, theoretically, the day comes when the Roswell bodies are reeled out for the world to see (hopefully on CNN, rather than on the you-know-what scum-channel). In no time at all, journalists are shouting questions at the government, all demanding answers. And all the government can provide to us in response – and in front of the world – are one or two of those bodies, a bit of wreckage, some photos and…well, that’s it. Not a single, solid answer. No knowledge concerning where they came from. No knowledge concerning their plans.
(Nick Redfern)
So, rather than tell the public that the government doesn’t really know much at all about UFOs – apart from the fact that, yes, there’s something going on – the government says as little as possible. But, that same government does it in a fashion that makes it look like the various agencies are on top of things (hence the widespread media coverage of the last few years). In reality, however, I have a nagging feeling that, yes, the government has got a lot of data, but very little of it has ever helped the government to understand the truth of the presence, of the entities among us, and of their plans. Or, worse, of their plots.
I found an ancient alien face carved into the top side of the mountain. It shows the side profile of an almost human-like alien species. The face is built along the hill in a way that closely resembles the American Mount Rushmore and the carved US presidents on it. From the wear and tear of the surface, I think that this is over 100,000 years old! This face gives us some idea of what the aliens looked like on Mars long ago. They clearly were intelligent since they carved this face in the side of the mountain. Undeniable proof that intelligent life once roamed the surface of Mars.
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Mysterious Force Field Generates Pyramid Portal
Mysterious Force Field Generates Pyramid Portal
Experiments on the Great Pyramids revealed an energy field that makes interdimensional space travel possible, in this clip from Season 5, “Secrets Of The Pyramids.
Strange looking UFO over Ft. Mohave, Arizona 17-Sep-2021
Strange looking UFO over Ft. Mohave, Arizona 17-Sep-2021
Daytime UFO sighting filmed in Ft. Mohave, Arizona on 17th September 2021.
Witness report:
The sun wasn’t quite up as I was driving north on HWY 95 in Ft. Mohave, AZ. It was just before 7:00 AM on 09/17/2021. I spotted a thing with LED-type lights just hanging still by the wires ahead of me and immediately thought it to be strange and futuristic. I noticed that the color was brown and it seemed to be about 2-3 ft tall and about 10-12 inches wide, and it had a light on its top and one on the very bottom. Both lights looked like LED flashlights. But they just seemed to glow a clear white. The thing was titled down slightly, almost as if it was watching something. There is a charter school right across the street. Anyway, I pulled over to the other side of the street, in front of the school and got my phone out and clicked the camera app and hit record. By that time, it started moving, so I was not able to record the lights. It’s possible the lights went out, but I don’t know. If I had to describe its shape, I would say it looked like one of those curved water bottles or a gourd. The thing turned to my left, rose, then turned a slight right and just casually went out toward the mountains. There was another girl in a black Suburban who had pulled over and was recording it out of her window. I said to her “What the hell is that thing?” She didn’t respond, that I could tell. When it looked like it was just going way and wouldn’t return, I stopped recording. As soon as I stopped, there was somebody in the turn lane, and I pointed out to the thing going away, and so he made the turn and stopped and I asked him if he sees it. He said, “Yes”. Then, I explained what it was and he seemed stunned and thanked me for showing him. The girl that was recording left without talking to me. Maybe she was freaked out. I don’t know. When I analyzed the video, I noticed that the thing changed shape throughout the recording. It had no propulsion system that I could see and it didn’t have any landing gear. I didn’t hear any sound coming from it all. But the noise of cars going by was pretty loud. My feeling is that it is a futuristic military drone and that the brown color is meant for camouflage. But, that fact that it was changing shapes, takes that to a whole different level.
WETENSCHAPPERS HEBBEN MOGELIJK DE OUDSTE KUNSTWERKEN OP AARDE ONTDEKT
WETENSCHAPPERS HEBBEN MOGELIJK DE OUDSTE KUNSTWERKEN OP AARDE ONTDEKT
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Het gaat om hand- en voetafdrukken die tussen 169.000 en 226.000 jaar geleden mogelijk door de kinderen van Denisovamensen zijn achtergelaten.
Enkele jaren geleden troffen onderzoekers op het Tibetaans Hoogland iets opvallends aan. Op een rotsachtig voorgebergte vonden ze een serie van vijf hand- en voetafdrukken. Ineen nieuwe studie hebben onderzoekers zich over deze bijzondere schilderingen gebogen. “Wat betekenen ze?” Vraagt onderzoeker Thomas Urban zich hardop af. “En hoe interpreteren we deze afdrukken? Ze zijn duidelijk niet per ongeluk achtergelaten.”
Hand- en voetafdrukken Na een grondige analyse blijken de afdrukken te dateren uit het midden Pleistoceen en tussen de 169.000 en 226.000 jaar oud te zijn. Hiermee zijn ze drie tot vier keer ouder dan de beroemde, tienduizenden jaren oude grotschilderingen aangetroffen in Indonesië, Frankrijk en Spanje. De onderzoekers veronderstellen dat een kind van ongeveer zeven jaar oud de voetafdrukken op het Tibetaans Hoogland heeft achtergelaten. Een kind van twaalf zou weleens zijn of haar hand op het gesteente kunnen hebben vereeuwigd.
Driedimensionale scan van de hand- en voetafdrukken ontdekt op het Tibetaans hoogland.
Afbeelding: Cornell Chornicle
Maar misschien belangrijker dan de leeftijd, is de vraag wie de afdrukken heeft achtergelaten. Waren het Homo sapiens? Of een uitgestorven mensachtige? Een geloofwaardige theorie, ondersteund door recent ontdekte skeletresten op het Tibetaans Hoogland, stelt dat het mogelijk Denisovamensen waren; een mysterieuze groep oude verwanten van de Neanderthalers. Als dat klopt, zou het betekenen dat de gevonden hand- en voetafdrukken mogelijk door de kinderen van Denisovamensen zijn achtergelaten.
Meer over de Denisovamens
Het bestaan van de Homo denisova werd voor het eerst ontdekt in 2010, toen onderzoekers een fossiel vingerkootje ontdekten. Het overblijfsel werd gevonden in de Denisova-grot in Siberië. Na analyse bleek dat het vingerkootje aan een tot dan toe onbekende mensachtige toebehoorde, die verschilde van de Neanderthaler. Na verder onderzoek kwamen onderzoekers erachter dat de Denisovamens zich zo’n 400.000 jaar geleden van de Neanderthalers afsplitsten. Terwijl de Neanderthalers in Europa en West-Azië leefden, koloniseerden de Homo denisova Azië. Die theorie werd bevestigd toen onderzoekers DNA van Denisovamensen terugvonden op het Tibetaans Hoogland. Denisovamensen leefden mogelijk tienduizenden jaren op rij in een op het eerste gezicht vrij onherbergzame gebied.
Maar de ontdekking van de afdrukken doet nog een andere prangende vraag rijzen. Want: kan het onder de noemer kunst worden geschaard? “Er is geen utilitaire verklaring voor,” zegt Urban. “Dus wat zijn ze? Kunnen we het zien als artistiek gedrag, een creatief gedrag; iets duidelijk menselijks?” En dat is een interessante vraag. Aangezien de hand- en voetafdrukken zo lang geleden zijn achtergelaten, zouden de afdrukken mogelijk de oudste kunstwerken op aarde kunnen vertegenwoordigen.
The ancient hand and footprints left by two children on a limestone stone section found on the Tibetan Plateau.
Plek De plek waar de hand- en voetafdrukken zijn achtergelaten, licht een tipje van de sluier op. Zo zijn ze op een glibberig en hellend oppervlak gezet. “Je loopt hier niet zomaar tegenaan,” zegt Urban. “Daarnaast is de kans ook klein dat iemand op deze manier is gevallen.”
Handafdrukken Daarnaast is het feit dat er naast de voetafdrukken, ook handafdrukken zijn gevonden, interessant. Hoewel voetafdrukken veelvuldig zijn aangetroffen, zijn handafdrukken veel zeldzamer. Deze zijn wel her en der in grotten ontdekt en geïnterpreteerd als abstracte kunst. En dus zouden de hand- en voetafdrukken gevonden op het Tibetaans Hoogland mogelijk ook dezelfde titel kunnen krijgen.
Wat is kunst? Een eeuwige vraag waar wetenschappers echter over blijven discussiëren is: wat is kunst precies? “Verschillende kampen hebben specifieke definities van kunst die prioriteit geven aan verschillende criteria,” zegt Urban. “Maar ik zou dat willen overstijgen. Er lijken namelijk beperkingen te zitten aan deze strikte categorieën. Ze weerhouden ons ervan om breder te denken over creatief gedrag.” De onderzoekers zijn er vrij zeker van dat de hand- en voetafdrukken aangetroffen op het Tibetaans Hoogland opzettelijk zijn achtergelaten. “Ik denk dat we kunnen aantonen dat dit geen utilitair gedrag is,” zegt Urban. “Dit heeft iets speels, creatiefs, mogelijk symbolisch. Dit raakt een zeer fundamentele vraag over wat het eigenlijk betekent om mens te zijn.” De onderzoeker pleit dan ook voor een bredere definitie van kunst, ook al zet dat sommige kenners op scherp.
Het zou betekenen dat onderzoekers dus mogelijk de oudste kunstwerken op aarde hebben ontdekt. En hoewel de exacte identiteit van de ‘kunstenaars’ mogelijk nooit bekend zal worden, laat het ‘kunstwerk’ wel zien dat het Tibetaans Hoogland tussen de 169.000 en 226.000 jaar geleden bewoond werd. En dat voegt weer een stukje toe aan de enorm complexe puzzel over onze eigen menselijke geschiedenis.
Anunnaki Underground Base? The mysterious entrances into Romania and Iraq
Anunnaki Underground Base? The mysterious entrances into Romania and Iraq
Underground military base theorists and researchers appear to have stumbled upon an Anunnaki underground base. And the worst of it is that the Pentagon seems to have discovered it previously.
Mount Bucegi Gallery.
Much has been said that there are hidden extraterrestrial bases in the world . However, is it possible that some Anunnaki underground bases still exist ?
One of the most important bases on the planet could possess Anunnaki technology. On Mount Bucegi , Romania, it could have been the place where Enki’s army , among other deities from ancient Mesopotamia, took refuge .
Anunnaki Underground Base
Many of the controllers who have been dedicated to the mapping and geolocation of underground military bases have heard of this base. It appears to be shielded by electromagnetic technology , which creates “invisibility.”
However, in 2002, the existence of a hole in the vicinity of Mount Bucegi was discovered. This strange cavity penetrated the interior of the rocky set.
The entrance immediately led to a perfectly made tunnel , so the experts assured that it must have been artificially manufactured .
This characteristic, added to the possible electromagnetic field that surrounds it and the satellite images, suggests that it is an underground base .
According to theorists, this base was first discovered by the Pentagon , who detected the wall of energy and the frequency of vibration around the “entrance.”
Furthermore, its characteristics are similar to another underground base discovered in Baghdad, Iraq, just before the start of the ” Iraq War .”
It is believed that this was the real reason why US troops invaded the country, and that others had seized it without the people of Iraq having knowledge of its existence.
Unknown technology found in the underground base in Iraq.
Unknown technology
The United States Army was able to penetrate the defense of the base thanks to an advanced unknown weaponry carried by two Pentagon generals , together with the adviser to the United States Presidency.
Only the entrance to this underground base was about 60 meters from the electromagnetic safety wall.
According to the theorists, weapons with a very advanced technology for humans were found inside . Plasma beams and machinery capable of penetrating beyond the earth’s crust at high speed.
After passing through the gigantic tunnel, they entered a large gallery that, despite having disconnected the energy barrier, could be seen with great clarity.
The other barrier that was still active, right in front of the first, began to emit even greater energy . The officers continued to descend, noticing 2 huge stone carvings , facing each other, about 2 meters high.
In them there were cuneiform writings, such as the one found in the Cueva de los Tayos or those of Lake Titicaca, only this was of a totally unknown origin.
This, according to the officials, presented proto-Sumerian characteristics, very similar to those found in the Pokotia Monolith.
It is possible that this underground base, along with the one found on Mount Bucegi, are actually underground bases used by the ancient Anunnaki kings during a millennial war. This theory could confirm the existence of ancient astronauts.
Huge fleet of UFOs flying near the International Space Station
Huge fleet of UFOs flying near the International Space Station
A camera on the International Space Station (ISS) captured an incredible array of unidentified objects near their position .
It all happened during a recent live broadcast from the ISS. And it occurred while the station was moving in an undetermined place on our planet.
As the fixed camera recorded the advance, hundreds of lights in formation can be seen, in an apparent direction towards Earth.
Several waves of UFO formations appeared this 2020. In February we were able to publish one, and another in May.
Records from the ISS live streaming camera as these objects passed by Earth.
And the images show that these groups of UFOs fly in large coordinated groups.
Some suggest that these UFO formations are reflections of city lights, but since the ISS circles Earth in about 93 minutes, we should see these kinds of lights every day. And it is not the case.
While there are many who believe that it could be a “fleet of extraterrestrial technology ships”, others indicate that it could be a flotilla of top secret United States ships.
More specifically the Space Force . The scope of this new “military force” would be to protect that country’s facilities in space, such as the satellites used for communication and surveillance.
Others offered further explanations.
They said it could be meteorites, and even Starlink satellites, sent by Elon Musk’s SpaceX , since since their launch in 2018 they have caused many people to mistake them for UFO sightings.
Why do these types of formations reappear? Are we being observed by hundreds of UFOs?
Alien Tech Could Cause 'Solar Explosion' That Might 'Wipe Out Life on Earth', Blogger Claims
Alien Tech Could Cause 'Solar Explosion' That Might 'Wipe Out Life on Earth', Blogger Claims
The blogger suggested that the shapes in the video he brought up supposedly were “alien technology shooting around the sun to collect an as-yet-unknown particle of energy expelled by the solar explosion”.
A trio of UFOs were spotted passing by the Sun last month, says Scott C. Waring, a blogger with a penchant for drawing attention to various incidents that may or may not have been caused by supposed extraterrestrial civilisations.
Pointing at a YouTube video that was apparently taken thanks to the ESA/NASA Helioviewer Project, and which apparently depicts a "solar explosion", Waring argued that three vaguely rectangular shapes that briefly appear on screen are UFOs.
"These are UFOs... alien technology shooting around the sun to collect an as yet unknown particle of energy expelled by the solar explosion," he claimed.
The blogger even went on to speculate that this scene is “absolute proof that our sun is being mined by alien technology 24/7 non-stop and could inadvertently cause a solar explosion so big...that it could wipe out life on Earth within a few minutes."
He did not, however, elaborate on how exactly he arrived at this conclusion.
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CONGRESS QUIETLY WANTS TO CREATE A NEW UFO OFFICE
CONGRESS QUIETLY WANTS TO CREATE A NEW UFO OFFICE
Two bills in Congress could expand the UAP task force, or set up a permanent office to study sightings of these unknown objects.
CONGRESS MAY TAKE STEPS TO RAMP UP INVESTIGATIONS OF UFOS— UAPs, in the new terminology — following a Department of Defense reportto Congress over the summer recognizing the reality of these “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” but found no evidence of extraterrestrialinvolvement.
Sections of two proposed intelligence appropriation bills, H.R. 4350 (the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act in the House of Representatives) and S.2610 (the FY 22 Intelligence Authorization Act in the Senate) take different approaches to expand the work of the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force.
Those hoping for a full-throated Congressional hunt for technologically advanced aliens of UFO lore may be disappointed, however. The bills appear driven more by entirely Earthly national security and safety concerns than little green men in hypersonic lozenge-shaped vessels.
In June, the UAP Task Force presented a report to Congress that covered 144 UAP sightings by military and other federal sources between 2004 and 2021. While the report found no evidence of aliens, it did note that “UAP clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to U.S. national security,” and that “Some UAP many be technologies deployed by China, Russia, another nation, or non-governmental entity.”
WHAT WOULD THE BILLS DO?
If the bill becomes law,Section 345 of S.2610 would require the entire intelligence community to share any information about UAPs with the task force and the National Air and Space Intelligence Center immediately. It would then mandate classified reports about any UAP events to Congress beginning 90 days after the act's passage and quarterly from then on.
Section 1652 of H.R. 4350 — a provision added by Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego of Arizona — would establish a permanent office to study UAPs within the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
If the provision remains unchanged when the bill becomes law, it will charge the new office with creating a database for recording UAP incidents and “evaluating links between unidentified aerial phenomena and adversarial foreign governments, other foreign governments, or non-state actors,” and whether the incidents pose a threat. The House bill provision would also require reports to various Congressional Committees.
Gallego’s office did not respond to Inverse’s requests for comment.
Watch the Pentagon’s declassified UFO videos.
WHY IS CONGRESS INTERESTED IN UFOS?
After decades of official non-recognition of UAPs, 2017 saw leaked videos from naval aviators and a New York Times storythat brought the phenomena out of conspiracy theory and into the realm of sober national security interest. Pilots reporting seeing craft flying and maneuvering and seemingly impossible speeds near military aircraft was not a situation military brass could ignore.
In August 2020, the Pentagon created the UAP Task Force, and the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2020 mandated a report to Congress in 2021. The report, released in June, was only able to identify one of the 144 UAP sightings examined and determined it was a balloon.
The task force couldn’t explain the remaining 143 reports. And while the report concluded some of the sightings could have resulted from instrument failure or pilots making a mistake, more than half of the sightings were confirmed by multiple sensors to be real objects rather than phantoms.
WHAT’S NEXT
Both the House and Senate bills have been introduced, but have yet to be voted on by their respective chambers. The House bill has passed out of committee and been placed on the Congressional calendar. If the bills pass intact, their contents will need to be reconciled between the two houses before going on to President Joseph Biden.
We’ve read and heard plenty about the so-called Tic Tac UFO encounter in 2004 between pilots from the USS Nimitz and a pill-shaped unidentified aerial phenomena whose performance defied current technology and whose identity has not been confirmed, despite both media and Pentagon investigations. It’s a safe bet that most people believe there’s much, much more to this story. For example, although it was kept hidden from the American public for over a decade, a current member of Congress recently revealed when he learned about it … he was there when it happened!
“It was about 100 miles or so away from me, so I heard a lot of the communications going on.”
Meet Mike Garcia, a US congressional representative from California. Garcia was first elected to Congress in 2020, so he obviously wasn’t there when the USS Nimitz UFO incident occurred. Where was he? According to an interview in Roll Call, in 2004 Naval Officer Mike Garcia was an F/A-18 pilot from the USS Nimitz. Not only that, Garcia admits he was in the air at the time of the encounter, 100 miles away, and listened in on the conversations between those pilots and the ship.
“It was one of those things that you couldn’t believe it when you heard it. The guys who actually saw it weren’t allowed to talk about it until just recently, so we couldn’t even ask questions.”
Garcia, fresh from a six-month deployment as part of the 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom, was an experienced F/A-18 pilot. A graduate of the US Naval Academy, he eventually accrued over 1,400 hours of operational flight time over the course of nearly 20 years of military service. In other words, he sounds like the perfect representative of Congress – both literally and figuratively – to head up the latest UAP commission, keep the public informed, keep Congress informed, etc. And yet, he seems to have slipped through the cracks like a wet Tic Tac. Roll Call tried to pin him down on the Nimitz incident.
“I’m intrigued by it. I don’t know that it’s extraterrestrial — I do believe it’s man-made. And I’m not going to presuppose where it comes from, but I hope it’s American-made. It goes to show that we’ve got to continue to invest in our military technologies and not take it for granted that we are the only superpower out there. We have peer threats out there nowadays, not just near-peer threats. China and Russia have advanced capabilities that we don’t even know about.”
F/A-18 Hornet
Should we really believe that an experienced fighter pilot who was in the air during the Nimitz incident who is now a member of the US Congress has not used that position to find out what those Tic Tacs really are identified as in the secret files we all know exist somewhere in the X-files of the government and the Pentagon?
“I do think it would be an amazing coincidence if we were the only life forms in this universe. That’s why we’ve got to invest in space programs to start answering some of these questions we all have and maybe one day see the extension of God’s creations on other planets.”
It doesn’t take long after they’re elected for members of Congress to memorize the pat answers to tough questions. Representative Mike Garcia may be a good congressman, a good family man and a good guy – but he doesn’t appear to be a good inside man for UFO disclosure. Why has he waited until now to reveal his own experience in the incident? To paraphrase Democratic vice-presidential candidate Senator Lloyd Bentsen to Republican vice-presidential candidate Senator Dan Quayle in a debate in 1988:
We knew House Speaker Harry Reid. Harry Reid is a friend of ours. Congressman Garcia … you’re no Harry Reid.
Three UFOs Shoot Past Sun During Solar Explosion, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Three UFOs Shoot Past Sun During Solar Explosion, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 8-15-2021
Location of sighting: Earths Sun
Source: Helioviewer.org
Watch this video from an official NASA site called Helioviewer. During a solar explosion several large, well defined objects shoot past the sun. These objects are huge and have been seen a lot on Helioviewer, but for some unknown reason...NASA scientists ignore them. These are UFOs...alien technology shooting around the sun to collect a yet unknown particle of energy expelled by the solar explosion. This is absolute proof that our sun is being mined by alien technology 24/7 non stop and could inadvertently cause a solar explosion so big...that it could wipe out life on Earth within a few minutes.
Elon musk, creator and CEO of SpaceX has boldly announced on Twitter this week that, "I'm not saying there are UFOs...but there are UFOs!" Elon Musk is Americas Golden Child who is given free ride informations, data, designs and schematics of the most top secret alien tech that DARPA has to offer and leaks it slowly into the public domain. This time he leaked something different...something the US government doesn't want to admit or make a big deal about...that UFO do exist. Elon Musk has the highest tech cameras attached to every satellite, orbiter and rocket he sends into space...not to mention he sent a freaking Tesla Roadster in orbit around our sun with half a dozen live feed cameras on it. This means Elon has seen and recorded dozens of close up raw footage of UFOs over the years. Raw footage that he has not yet admitted to owning and not yet released, but is 100% in possession of. Musk being the rebel he is...may see the day when he says enough is enough and he may release some of that raw footage for the world to see. Thats how the world changes, from rebels who do things differently from all the rest.
It Happened Again, UFO passing fighter jets during air show in England
It Happened Again, UFO passing fighter jets during air show in England
This is the second time within three weeks that a high-speed UFO passing fighter jets during an air show.
On August 28, 2021, during an international air show in Thamesford, Ontario, Canada, a fast UFO flew past the Blue Angels and now on September 19, 2021, a similar incident occurred when the Red Arrows performed an air show in Chorley, England.
As with the UFO in Canada, this UFO in England also has no wings or visible propulsion.
What is going on? Why do these objects appear during air shows?
Extremely fast UFO passing fighter jets during air show in Canada
ENORME KANALEN ONDER DE NOORDZEE VOOR HET EERST GEDETAILLEERD IN BEELD GEBRACHT
ENORME KANALEN ONDER DE NOORDZEE VOOR HET EERST GEDETAILLEERD IN BEELD GEBRACHT
Vivian Lammerse
De kanalen – wel tien keer breder dan de Theems – voerden ooit smeltwater af en kunnen meer inzicht geven in hoe het hedendaagse gletsjers zal vergaan.
We weten dat gletsjers op dit moment in razend tempo wegkwijnen. Maar wat er precies onder deze enorme bewegende ijsmassa’s gebeurt, laat zich alleen maar raden. Daar komt mogelijk nu verandering in. Wetenschappers hebben namelijk spectaculaire beelden gemaakt van het bijzondere landschap in de Noordzee. En dit landschap bestaat uit enorme kanalen die zich vormden onder de ijskappen die duizenden tot miljoenen jaren geleden een groot deel van Europa bedekten.
Nieuwe beelden Wetenschappers zijn al een tijdje op de hoogte van de enorme gletsjergeulen in de Noordzee. In een nieuwe studie besloten onderzoekers ze echter beter te bestuderen. Met behulp van 3D seismische reflectietechnologie – vergelijkbaar met MRI – brachten ze deze kanalen in ongekend detail in beeld.
De 3D seismische reflectiegegevens vergeleken met eerder verzamelde seismische data uit de regio.
Afbeelding: James Kirkham, BAS
Meer over 3D seismische reflectietechnologie
Bij 3D seismische reflectietechnologie wordt er gebruikt gemaakt van geluidsgolven om gedetailleerde, driedimensionale beelden te vervaardigen. De methode is met name handig om oude landschappen, die diep onder het aardoppervlak begraven liggen, te bestuderen. Op een vergelijkbare manier als MRI het menselijk lichaam in beeld brengt, kunnen wetenschappers met behulp van 3D seismische reflectietechnologie onbegaanbare landschappen visualiseren. Zelfs objecten en structuren die onder honderden meters sediment begraven liggen, kunnen op dergelijke beelden zichtbaar worden.
Uit de nieuwe beelden blijkt onder andere dat de kanalen zeker tien keer breder zijn dan de Engelse rivier de Theems. Deze enorme kanalen, die honderden meters onder de zeebodem in de Noordzee begraven liggen, zijn overblijfselen van enorme rivieren, zo stellen de onderzoekers. Deze rivieren ontstonden waarschijnlijk toen oude ijskappen smolten als gevolg van stijgende luchttemperaturen en voerden lang geleden het smeltwater af.
Een kaart van de Noordzee met daarop de grens van de laatste ijskap en de begraven kanalen weergegeven.
Afbeelding: James Kirkham
Oorsprong De beelden vertellen ons dus het verhaal van hoe de tot voor kort raadselachtige kanalen het levenslicht zagen. “De oorsprong was al meer dan een eeuw een onopgeloste zaak,” zegt onderzoeker James Kirkham. Maar delicate kenmerken laten nu zien hoe water door de kanalen (onder het ijs) bewoog en zelfs hoe het ijs wegsmolt. Bovendien tonen de beelden aan hoe het ijs en de kanalen elkaar wederzijds beïnvloedden.
Inzicht Dit inzicht is heel belangrijk willen we beter gaan begrijpen hoe het hedendaagse gletsjers zal vergaan. “Het is erg moeilijk om te observeren wat er tegenwoordig onder grote gletsjers gebeurt,” vertelt onderzoeker Kelly Hogan. “En dan met name hoe bewegend water en sediment de ijsstroom beïnvloeden. Wel weten we dat dit hele belangrijke factoren zijn voor de manier waarop het ijs zich gedraagt. Als gevolg hiervan is het uiterst relevant om de oude kanalen als voorbeeld te nemen zodat we beter kunnen begrijpen hoe hedendaags ijs zal reageren op veranderende omstandigheden in een opwarmend klimaat.”
Door in het verleden te duiken, krijgen we dus ook een steeds beter beeld van de toekomst. Want de oude kanalen geven belangrijke aanwijzingen over hoe hedendaagse ijskappen zullen reageren op klimaatverandering. “De ontdekking zal ons helpen de voortdurende terugtrekking van huidige gletsjers op Antarctica en Groenland beter te begrijpen,” concludeert Kirkham. “Zoals voetafdrukken in het zand, laten gletsjers een afdruk achter op het land waarop ze stromen. En onze nieuwe geavanceerde gegevens verschaffen nu belangrijk inzicht in de verdere aftakeling van gletsjers.”
A map of the North Sea showing the distribution of buried channels (tunnel valleys) that have been previously mapped using 3D seismic reflection technology. The limit of the last ice sheet to cover the UK (around 21,000 years ago) is overlain. Picture: British Antarctic Survey (51336788)
Comparison of the buried landforms (glacial footprints) found within the tunnel valleys using the new 3D seismic reflection data (left column images) for the first time, and examples of modern landforms exposed at the margins of retreating glaciers in Svalbard and Iceland. Picture: British Antarctic Survey (51336799)
Smaller channels and islands revealed at the base of a tunnel valley for the first time using the new 3D seismic reflection data. Picture: British Antarctic Survey (51336776)
This compares the resolution of the new high-resolution 3D seismic reflection data to previous 3D seismic data from this region. The new data revolutionises our ability to image these buried channels and their internal structures, as demonstrated by the contrast between the left and right of the image. Picture: British Antarctic Survey (51336805)
Early Mars Experienced Volcanic Supereruptions, Reseachers Say
Early Mars Experienced Volcanic Supereruptions, Reseachers Say
Using high-resolution images fromNASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, planetary scientists have discovered 4-billion-year-old layered deposits containing minerals consistent with altered volcanic ash throughout a region of northern Mars called Arabia Terra. They estimate that the volcanic ash observed in this region is the result of between 1,000 and 2,000 individual explosive eruptions over 500 million years.
This image, acquired by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on October 1, 2020, shows several craters in Arabia Terra filled with layered rock.
Image credit: NASA / Molly Wasser.
“Several large and deep craters in western Arabia Terra, Mars are thought to be explosive calderas, a type of volcano capable of producing supereruptions,” said Dr. Patrick Whelley of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and colleagues.
“If these craters are calderas, vast layers of volcanic ash should be common in Arabia Terra.”
“While layered deposits have been observed previously in Arabia, until now, no deposits have been associated with the suggested calderas.”
In the new research, Dr. Whelley and colleagues used images from MRO’s Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars to identify the minerals in Arabia Terra.
Looking in the walls of canyons and craters from hundreds to thousands of km from the calderas, where the ash would have been carried by wind, they identified volcanic minerals turned to clay by water, including montmorillonite, imogolite, and allophane.
They then made three-dimensional topographic maps of the Arabia Terra region.
Annotated elevation map of Opportunity landing site and some surrounding craters and calderas including Endeavour and Miyamato.
Picture: NASA
By laying the mineral data over the topographic maps of the canyons and craters analyzed, they could see in the mineral-rich deposits that the layers of ash were very well preserved — instead of getting jumbled by winds and water, the ash was layered in the same way it would have been when it was fresh.
“That’s when I realized this isn’t a fluke, this is a real signal,” said Dr. Jacob Richardson, also from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
“We’re actually seeing what was predicted and that was the most exciting moment for me.”
Using data from an earlier study, the researchers calculated the number of eruptions needed to produce the thickness of ash they found.
“It turned out there were thousands of eruptions,” Dr. Whelley said.
One remaining question is how a planet can have only one type of volcano littering a region.
On Earth, volcanoes capable of supereruptions — the most recent erupted 76,000 years ago in Sumatra, Indonesia — are dispersed around the globe and exist in the same areas as other volcano types.
Mars, too, has many other types of volcanoes, including the biggest volcano in the solar system called Olympus Mons.
Olympus Mons is 100 times larger by volume than Earth’s largest volcano of Mauna Loa in Hawaii, and is known as a shield volcano, which drains lava down a gently sloping mountain.
Arabia Terra so far has the only evidence of explosive volcanoes on Mars.
It’s possible that supereruptive volcanoes were concentrated in regions on Earth but have been eroded physically and chemically or moved around the globe as continents shifted due to plate tectonics.
These types of explosive volcanoes also could exist in regions of Jupiter’s moon Io or could have been clustered on Venus.
Whatever the case may be, the authors hope Arabia Terra will teach scientists something new about geological processes that help shape planets and moons.
“People are going to read our paper and go, ‘How? How could Mars do that? How can such a tiny planet melt enough rock to power thousands of super eruptions in one location?’ I hope these questions bring about a lot of other research,” Dr. Richardson said.
A paper on the findings were published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
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Patrick Whelley et al. Stratigraphic Evidence for Early Martian Explosive Volcanism in Arabia Terra. Geophysical Research Letters, published online July 16, 2021; doi: 10.1029/2021GL094109
When purchasing a new phone or tablet, it is common practice to select the best technology that fits your needs within the available budget. This is also the strategy adopted by our research team at the Galileo Project, a new initiative to image unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) like those reported by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to the U.S. Congress on June 25, 2021.
To my amusement, I recently came across an online retailerthat would allow us to “add to cart” a one-meter telescope for half a million dollars. Fortunately, cheaper telescopes are all that is needed for surveying the sky at the proper resolution to identify UAP.
Under typical weather conditions, Earth’s atmosphere is opaque to infrared light beyond a distance of about 10 kilometers or less. Resolving a feature the size of a cell phone on the surface of a UAP at that distance requires a telescope diameter on the order of 10 centimeters. Having a few such telescopes on a given site will allow us to monitor the motion of an object in three dimensions. These telescopes could be supplemented by a radar system that would distinguish a physical object in the sky from a weather pattern or a mirage.
If UAP are solid objects, they should heat up as they rub against air at high speed. The surfaces of objects that move in air faster than sound, such as supersonic airplanes or space rockets, are heated by hundreds of degrees. I calculated that the infrared glow of fast objects above a meter in size, supplemented by the heat from shockwaves in the air around them or an engine they carry, should be detectable with infrared sensors on telescopes out to the desired distance.
The data from a system of optical, infrared or radio telescopes will be fed to state-of-the-art video cameras linked to software that will filter out objects of interest for the telescope to track. If a bird flies above a common astronomical observatory, it will be ignored. The Galileo-Scopes will track it. Human-made drones or airplanes might be of great interest to some residents of Washington, D.C., but they are as uninteresting as birds for the Galileo Project.
My student Amir Siraj and I calculated that the number of UAP described in the ODNI report corresponds to about one object per hundred thousand square kilometers per year (with large uncertainties up to a factor of 100). This is well below the rate of unidentified objects from cell phone photographs or civilian eyewitness testimonies, implying that many of these unofficial sightings may have mundane explanations. Millions of cell phones with millimeter-size apertures are inferior to what Galileo proposes: a much smaller number of optimized telescope systems with apertures 100 times larger that are designed to rapidly track UAP.
The iceberg of classified reports‑of which only the tip has been exposed publicly‑may contain higher-quality images than those released to the public. Galileo’s goal is to capture new crisp images with better instruments than have ever been used by civilians. The full data set from the project will be open, whereas much of the data associated with the ODNI report is classified because it was obtained by government-owned sensors. Because the sky is not classified, Galileo-Scopes will operate just like common astronomical telescopes‑except that they will focus on nearby objects. We aim to change the intellectual landscape of UAP studies by bringing them into the mainstream of credible scientific inquiry.
In my book Extraterrestrial, published half a year ago, I argued that bringing the search for technological relics into the mainstream of astronomy would attract new funds and young talent to science. In recent weeks, this forecast became a reality. The Galileo Project has attracted millions of dollars from private donors and thousands of commitments from volunteers who offered to contribute their time and resources. Given the low incidence of UAP reported by ODNI, however, the project will need hundreds of telescopes to find UAP over a few years. That represents an order of magnitude more funding than we have collected so far.
With good enough data, extraterrestrial technologies can be distinguished from terrestrial technologies or natural objects. The Galileo Project will attempt to obtain this data from both UAP and unusual interstellar objects like `Oumuamua.
If prehistoric cave dwellers were to discover a cell phone, they would initially assume it to be a shiny rock of a type never seen before. But this might be the beginning of their learning experience. By pressing buttons on this weird rock, these early humans would record voices and images.
Similarly, the strange `Oumuamua has been interpreted as a new type of asteroid, such as a frozen chunk of pure hydrogen or nitrogen. But what if high-resolution images of such a weird object revealed buttons? It could encourage us to learn more by landing on the surface, just as the OSIRIS-REx craft recently landed on the asteroid Bennu. Here’s hoping that astronomers will be open-minded enough to check.
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Avi Loeb is former chair (2011-2020) of the astronomy department at Harvard University, founding director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He also chairs the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies and the advisory board for the Breakthrough Starshot project, and is a member of President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Loeb is the bestselling author of Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
There was a time when humans had not yet invented numbers but needed ways to count and measure, so they used whatever they had available – rocks, sticks, hands, etc. Numbers and measurement standards made the tasks easier but less fun. There was a time much more recently when humans wondered at an invention called a “calculator,” which took the effort out of standard arithmetic. However, it still needed the operator to do substantial work to be practical. For example, a calculator can help you calculate how much a tube of toothpaste costs per ounce, but it’s no help figuring out how many brushes your family of four will get per tube. For that you need Omni Calculator – a Polish startup which has brought practicality and fun to counting, measuring and figuring with the release of over 2,000 specialty calculators. There’s one that will answer your toothpaste dilemma, another to figure out your bikini size, one to calculate the benefits of switching from driving to work to cycling, a new fun one forcalculating in weird units … and at least 1997 more!
“In Omni Calculator, we knock down each and every obstacle that stands between you and an informed decision. We provide the numbers you need, making calculations fast, easy, and fun. A world driven by rational decisions is a better place. It’s a world where we don’t waste resources as much, believe nonsense a bit less, and don’t mistake opinions for facts. It’s the world we want to help building.”
Put down that book — there’s a better way
If the name Omni Calculator sounds familiar, it may be from its UFO Travel Calculator, which estimated those in famous Tic Tac UFOs to weigh more than 47,000 pounds (21,320 kg) with a span of 44.6 ft (13.6 m) and a speed of more than 11,800 mph — allowing one to travel from London to San Francisco (5,351 miles) in 27 minutes. Or more recently when a number of media sites directed Americans trying to figure out their Child Tax Credit to Omni ‘s Child Tax Credit Calculator. Then there’s the Toilet Paper Calculator that everyone should have used to determine exactly how much their family needs instead of creating a massive shortage last year. That’s what the founder of Omni would call a “rational decision.”
In 2011, Mateusz Mucha built a web calculator which could calculate in any direction, without a fixed input or output. He added a mobile app Percentage Calculator, made it available online and it’s been downloaded over 4 million times to date. Deciding that “everyday math problems are a universal struggle,” he started Omni Calculator in 2014. By 2019, it had twenty-four employees and it continues to grow because everyone who uses one of these calculators thinks of another they need – and Omni is ready to build it.
Many of the cool calculators from Omni are of the kind you never thought you needed – and now you can’t do without. A Chilled Drink Calculator to determine how long you need to keep your drink in the fridge to reach its optimal temperature. An Addiction Calculator to figure out how much shorter your life will be if that chilled drink contains booze. A Snowman Calculator to design the perfect Frosty. A Tree Value Calculator to figure out your tree’s net worth. A Crickets Chirping Thermometer to tell the temperature by listening to those annoying bugs. A Dog Size Calculator to estimate the adult size of your puppy. A Plant Spacing Calculator to help plan your garden. And then there’s the latest Weird Units Calculator that makes conversions from standard unit types (meters, kilos, minutes, etc.) to weird ones like football fields, cats, human pregnancies, candy bars and many others.
Can you help me, Omni?
What we need at this point is a calculator to determine what percentage of Omni’s calculators we’ve listed so far. Better yet, how about one that could look at your lifestyle and pick the right calculator for your need. OK, that may be too Big Brother for a company whose mission is to create a world driven by rational decisions. One the company makes is hiring specialists, academics and experienced polymaths from around the world – because every country has different problems.
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From the ever-growing “What could possibly go wrong?” file comes word that a group of scientists have proposed a way to fight global warming by making clouds whiter and brighter. No … this isn’t funded by a laundry detergent company, although that’s not a bad idea. They claim brighter clouds will reflect more sunlight, leaving the Earth cooler. Before you start wondering if this involves ‘chemtrails’, they’ve got an answer for that too. Is this the ‘holy grail’ of climate change solutions that doesn’t involve us humans changing our behavior, our pollution, our corporate profits or our politics?
“Led by University of Washington scientists, a team of researchers designed a program to explore marine cloud brightening as a mechanism for cooling climate while simultaneously providing insight about cloud-aerosol effects and their influence on climate.”
As long as it’s not making chemtrails …
The Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) project is led by University of Washington cloud-aerosol scientist Dr. Robert Wood, and was inspired by a real phenomenon – ships at sea emit exhaust particles (aerosols) which mix with sea salt particles and carry them up to stratocumulus clouds over the ocean, brightening them to levels that cool the ocean below and offset increased levels of CO2. Seen from satellites, these “ship tracks” look suspiciously like airplane contrails (see for yourself here), so the purpose of the MCB Project is to ‘sea salt’ these clouds from ships without harming the atmosphere … or humans.
Ship tracks off of western U.S. coast
The arguments in favor of ‘sea salting’ clouds starts with the fact that sea water is free and environmentally harmless when it falls back to Earth. Aerosolizing seawater from sea level would use far less energy than cloud seeding by aircraft, resulting in lower costs and less polluting emissions. On the downside, the researchers don’t really know what will happen when they increase the amount of “ship tracks” to levels needed to cool off hotspots like the coast of California, Chile or south-central Africa. To answer the “What could possibly go wrong?” question, the project will entail three phases: aerosol spray development and testing, aerosol process experiments, and cloud-brightening experiments. Each will e fully completed before moving to the next phase, and the project will end if they find out what could possibly go wrong.
What could possibly go wrong?
With California redwood forests in danger of being destroyed by wildfires and coastal coral reefs in danger of dying from heat stress, the need for controlling climate change is urgent. Could a quick fix like “sea salting” clouds give us humans enough time to enact major changes … or will it give us an excuse to kick the climate change ball to another generation?
I Caught Thousands of Objects Around The Sun(UFO SIGHTING)
I Caught Thousands of Objects Around The Sun (UFO SIGHTING)
Using a Nikon P1000 with a solar filter I have caught thousands of objects passing close to our sun or in the direction of the sun. Now what I suspect is that the sun is illuminating these objects these UFO's if you will so we can see them as they pass by? Tell me what you think? ___________________________________________________________ Source of video : Terry's Theories using a Nikon P1000 with a solar filter. The Express News Article on 2020 sighting caught on Aug. 22nd
Eerste SpaceX-capsule met enkel ‘ruimtetoeristen’ veilig en wel teruggekeerd
Eerste SpaceX-capsule met enkel ‘ruimtetoeristen’ veilig en wel teruggekeerd
De SpaceX-capsule met vier Amerikaanse ruimtetoeristen aan boord is in de nacht van zaterdag op zondag, net na 01.00 uur zoals gepland, in de Atlantische Oceaan geplonsd. Daarmee is de eerste ruimtemissie met aan boord louter niet-professionele astronauten met succes afgesloten.
Brazilian observerJosé Luis Pereira captured a bright flash on the solar system's largest planet Monday night (Sept. 13), memorializing the fiery death of a space rock high in the Jovian atmosphere.
"I am an assiduous planetary observer," Pereira told Space.com in a written statement Tuesday (Sept. 14). "When the planets Jupiter, Saturn and Mars are in opposition, I try to make images in every possible night of clear skies. Especially [of] the planet Jupiter, my favorite."
On Sunday (Sept. 12) and Monday, Pereira set up his equipment in São Caetano do Sul, in the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo. As on many other nights, he aimed to photograph Jupiter and capture videos for the DeTeCt program, which seeks to spot and characterize impacts on the giant planet.
The weather didn't look like it would cooperate on Monday night, but Pereira persevered, collecting a series of 25 Jupiter videos, with no time gap between them.
"To my surprise, in the first video I noticed a different glow on the planet, but I didn't pay much attention to it as I thought it might be something related to the parameters adopted, and I continued watching normally," Pereira wrote. "So as not to stop the captures in progress for fear that weather conditions would worsen, I didn't check the first video."
He fed the videos into the DeTeCt program and then went to bed.
"I checked the result only on the morning of the 14th, when the program alerted me to the high probability of impact and verified that there was indeed a record in the first video of the night," Pereira wrote.
He then sent the information to Marc Delcroix of the French Astronomical Society, who confirmed that Pereira had indeed recorded footage of an impact that occurred Monday at 6:39 p.m. EDT (2239 GMT).
"For me it was a moment of great emotion, as I have been looking for a record of [such an] event for many years," Pereira wrote.
His observing setup consists of the following, he added: a Newtonian Telescope 275mm f/5,3 with a QHY5III462C camera, plus a Televue Powermate 5x (f/26,5) eyepiece and an IRUV cut filter. If you're looking to learn more about how to photograph planets, check out our astrophotography for beginners guide for the basics. You can also see how the Nikon Z6 camera stacks up for astrophotography here.
You can see more of Pereira's astronomical work on Flickr and YouTube.
A big, frequently battered planet
Because it orbits close to the main asteroid belt and features a powerful gravitational pull, Jupiter gets pummeled fairly often. In July 1994, for example, fragments of the broken-apart Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 famously slammed into Jupiter, creating big bruises in the planet's thick atmosphere that lasted for months.
Those scars opened a rare window into Jupiter below the cloud tops, and professional astronomers took advantage of the opportunity. They studied the impact sites with a variety of powerful telescopes, fleshing out our understanding of the gas giant's atmospheric composition.
Another high-profile smashup occurred 15 years later, when an impactor punched a scar the size of the Pacific Ocean into Jupiter's swirling air. Like the Shoemaker-Levy 9 lesions, that blemish lingered long enough for professional astronomers to mobilize.
But it doesn't look like they'll get that chance with the newly observed impact.
"The site is clearly resolved and no visible scar was left (just as with previous impact flash events.) The object was probably too small to reach the deeper atmosphere," astrophotographer Damian Peach wrote on Twitter Wednesday, where he posted a gorgeous photo of a healed-up Jupiter taken an hour after it was hit.
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Jose Luis Pereira was using his telescope and recording Jupiter when he caught something fantastic. A huge glow suddenly appears and then is gone on the surface of the planet. This could be a meteor, but I see no sign of a meteor incoming, no tail, no glowing from hitting Jupiters atmosphere. Thats really odd to me and tells me that this is not a meteor from space. However I do notice that the explosion seems to come from the planet itself. I believe that an alien bomb of some type has detonated, or some high tech energy buildings similar to our nuclear reactors, but far more advanced with an energy we cannot yet comprehend has exploded. This tells me that Jupiter is inhabited and the clouds around it could very well be from such detonations across its surface. Are they are war? Or are the detonations an accident? Only one way to find out...is to travel there.
UFO Fleet During Storm Over Montpellier, France Sept 16, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet During Storm Over Montpellier, France Sept 16, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 16, 2021 Location of sighting: Montpellier, France Source: Email report
This was sent to me this weekend. A lighting storm began over Montpellier, France on Sept 16th and someone went outside and noticed some glowing lights flying in the shape of a figure eight or...the infinity symbol. The lights are not made by spotlights, which would not be active during an electrical storm. Each light is different in shape and slightly different movement.
I have experienced a similar encounter once in Taiwan. These are energy entities...which can see people who are on the ground and they are highly intelligent. They are visible sometimes at night, especially on overcast nights. Here the entities are absorbing the lightning energy...almost feasting on it, as one would food. I think this helps them stay active. This video is 100% proof that energy entities do exist and they move above our cities freely.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
This UFO was filmed yesterday above Montpellier in south of France during a violent storm. I would like to have your opinion and those of your subscribers of which I am part. This video was not filmed by me but another resident of Montpellier.
Strange UFO sighting over North Carolina 15-Sep-2021
Strange UFO sighting over North Carolina 15-Sep-2021
UFO footage filmed over North Carolina on 15th September 2021.
Witness report:
Not exactly sure what we saw it was 6 lights in a v shape some what it came down from the sky this happened 3 times in an hour I have never seen something like this before it appears to hover there was like a star lookin thing above it that whatver those lights are came from I think it’s just odd and I’d like an opinion on what it is as the map shows there is ocean and some land where I saw.
NASA has just revealed that there were once thousands of “super eruptions” from volcanoes on Mars. They were able to confirm this based on evidence found at a location called Arabia Terra in the northern part of the planet. These “super eruptions” occurred approximately 4 billion years ago and lasted for a period of about 500 million years.
These massive eruptions released a gigantic amount of molten rock and gas that ended up covering the surface of the planet for thousands of miles with a thick blanket of ash. To understand this better, the molten rock and gas that was spewed out of the volcano was equivalent to 400 million Olympic-size swimming pools. After the eruptions occurred, the volcanoes collapsed, creating a massive hole called a “caldera”.
Arabia Terra imaged by THEMIS.
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Patrick Whelley, who is a geologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and who led the Arabia Terra analysis, went into further details, “Each one of these eruptions would have had a significant climate impact — maybe the released gas made the atmosphere thicker or blocked the Sun and made the atmosphere colder.”
At first, scientists thought that the depressions were the cause of asteroids impacting the planet; however, they found that they were not roundly shaped, causing them to wonder whether they were in fact ancient calderas. At that point, Whelley and his colleagues, with help from Alexandra Matiella Novak, who is a volcanologist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, searched for evidence of volcanic ash from Arabia Terra by using images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
They were able to find volcanic minerals that were turned into clay from water (these included montmorillonite, imogolite, and allophone) in canyon walls and craters located as far away as thousands of miles from the calderas. Furthermore, the layers of ash were exceptionally well preserved as if it had just happened.
An ice sheet in Oxus Patera which is a caldera in Arabia Terra.
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This new research, combined with a previous study conducted in 2013 that originally found the calderas, allowed the experts to confirm that there were thousands of powerful eruptions. But this is only the beginning as Jacob Richardson, who is a geologist at NASA Goddard and who worked with both Whelley and Novak, stated, “People are going to read our paper and go, ‘How? How could Mars do that? How can such a tiny planet melt enough rock to power thousands of super eruptions in one location?’” “I hope these questions bring about a lot of other research.” This latest research was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters where it can be read in full.
Another picture of several craters in Arabia Terra can be seen here.
NASA Goddard scientist, and Arabia Terra study lead author, Patrick Whelley, preparing for a 3D laser scan survey at the site of the 1875 explosive eruption of the Askja Volcano, Iceland, Aug. 2, 2019.
Credits: Jacob Richardson / NASA Goddard
This image shows several craters in Arabia Terra that are filled with layered rock, often exposed in rounded mounds. The bright layers are roughly the same thickness, giving a stair-step appearance. The process that formed these sedimentary rocks is not yet well understood. They could have formed from sand or volcanic ash that was blown into the crater, or in water if the crater hosted a lake. The image was taken by a camera, the High Resolution Imaging Experiment, on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Russisch team klaar voor productie van allereerste film in de ruimte
Een Russisch team van twee kosmonauten en twee professionele filmmakers reist begin volgende maand naar het internationale ruimtestation ISS, voor de productie van de eerste film die in de ruimte gemaakt wordt. Dat deelde de bemanning vandaag mee.
Het viertal vertrekt op 5 oktober met een Sojoez MS-19-ruimtecapsule. Die brengt hen dan naar het ISS, dat op 354 kilometer hoogte rondom de aarde cirkelt.
“Deze film vertelt het verhaal van een gewone mens. Een arts die niets te maken had met ruimteverkenning en er zelfs nooit aan dacht, krijgt het aanbod om naar het ISS te reizen en het leven van een kosmonaut te redden,” vertelde regisseur en acteur Klim Shipenko vandaag op een persconferentie, voor de bemanning richting de Baikonur-kosmodroom in Kazachstan vertrok.
Ook de professionele kosmonauten zullen in de film te zien zijn. “Ik zal niet de hoofdrol spelen, maar ik zal toch moeten uitzoeken hoe een film wordt gemaakt in zo’n ongewone plek als de ruimte,” reageerde commandant Anton Shkaplerov.
Hoofdrolspeelster Julia Peresild doet voor de gelegenheid haar eigen make-up en styling. “Het zal niet op hetzelfde niveau zijn als op aarde, maar we zullen ons best doen. We zijn er klaar voor,” zei ze. Bang is ze niet. “Het is een beetje te laat om bang te zijn, want we zijn zo ver gekomen. Er is nog veel te doen en om eerlijk te zijn, er is gewoon geen tijd meer voor angst.”
Regisseur Shipenko is 1m90 groot en zijn lengte maakt het trainen in het ruimtetuig - en de komende reis - niet erg comfortabel. Maar in de toekomst zullen er aanpassingen worden gedaan, zei hij. “Het is oké. Ik vlieg nu zoals het is, maar als we het vervolg doen over reizen naar Mars, dan beloven ze dat de zitplaats beter zal zijn.”
SpaceX: “Ruimtetoeristen Inspiration4 zijn gelukkig en in goede gezondheid”
De vier Amerikaanse ruimtetoeristen zijn "gezond, gelukkig en rusten comfortabel uit" in het ruimtetuig van SpaceX. Dat meldt het ruimtebedrijf vandaag. Het gaf daarmee een eerste update sinds de vier in de nacht van woensdag op donderdag Belgische tijd opstegen voor de historische ruimtereis.
De bemanning "cirkelde 5,5 keer rond de aarde, voerde de eerste reeks van wetenschappelijk onderzoeken uit en had een paar maaltijden" voordat ze naar bed gingen, meldt het bedrijf van Elon Musk op Twitter. De vier inzittenden zijn privépersonen waarbij voor het eerst geen enkele beroeps- of institutionele astronaut banen rondom onze planeet zal trekken.
De 38-jarige miljardair Jared Isaacman, een burgerpiloot die ook ervaring met performante gevechtsvlieguigen heeft, is gezagvoerder. Hij heeft ook de missie bekostigd. SpaceX zou een zitje voor ongeveer vijftig miljoen dollar verkopen. De 51-jarige Sian Proctor, eveneens een burgerpiloot, is professor en heeft een diploma biologie op zak. De 29-jarige Hayley Arceneaux is medisch assistente bij het St. Jude Kinderen Research Hospital waarvoor de missie geld moet opleveren. De 42-jarige Chris Sembroski is een data-ingenieur.
De missie die de naam Inspiration4 kreeg, is de eerste volledig commerciële bemande ruimtevlucht. Het vaartuig komt maximaal 540 kilometer van de aarde. De laatste keer dat mensen zo ver weg gingen, was in 2009. Na een verblijf van ongeveer drie dagen in de ruimte keren de bemanningsleden terug op aarde. Het vaartuig plonst dan, hangend aan een parachute, in de Atlantische Oceaan.
Strange lights in the sky have sparked many UFO reports
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A police helicopter was drafted in to help search for a mystery object spotted falling from the sky in North Staffordshire.
But the bright ellipse – seen by a member of the public - had vanished by the time they got there. All that remained were freshly damaged branches of trees.
The incident in woodland near Ipstones was reported to police back in July 1991.
Now we have delved into The Sentinel archives to find this and other UFO files.
Mark Lees, an engineer from Cheadle, had been visiting friends when the falling object appeared on the Churnet Valley skyline.
Mysterious Footage Shows UFOs Hovering In Skies...
“It came down into the woodlands on the opposite side of the valley, quite quickly and at a steep angle,” the 31-year-old told our reporter.
“It was not a light, but appeared metallic, possibly aluminium. It was broad daylight at the time.
“I clearly saw it go down in the trees, with the backdrop of the valley side behind me. It did not appear to be revolving in any way and followed a constant line.”
Mr Lees described it as around 10 feet long, elliptical and ‘very, very bright’. He returned to the scene in search of the object, but could find nothing.
He said: “There were places we could not reach because of the boggy ground and the thickness of the undergrowth.”
Police launched a major search and the helicopter crew uncovered the damaged branches.
PC Mick Powles, of Cheadle police, said: “From the evidence we have, we believe something did come down, but we do not know what it was.”
Reports of UFOs in North Staffordshire and South Cheshire had soared just a year or so before the Ipstones incident.
Back in summer 1990, we reported on figures from the Cheshire UFO Studies Centre in Earle Street, Crewe. Its team had received 120 calls via a 24-hour hotline in just 12 months – a rise of 20 per cent on the previous year.
Most of the sightings concerned mystery lights in the night sky over Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford and Crewe.
Investigations by the centre’s experts ruled out the vast majority of the lights as UFOs, with most traced to aircraft or satellites.
But in 1990, they were immersed in a six-month inquiry after two separate callers reported a close encounter with a 35ft ‘bright object with a glowing centre’. It was spotted in a field near the South Cheshire village of Audlem before vanishing.
Centre chairman Eric Morris said at the time: “Most of the people who call are genuine and many are worried or frightened by what they have seen.
“After inquiries with the RAF, the Ministry of Defence, airports, and interviewing witnesses, we can explain about 95 per cent of the strange things people see. But there are still the rest which remain a mystery.
One incident in South Cheshire in 1993 later turned out to be something less than sinister.
But it certainly spooked the public as hundreds of callers jammed the police switchboard. They reported white orbs appearing and then disappearing over a period of several hours.
One of the lay-bys along the A500 near Crewe(Image: Google Images)
Some roads were blocked, and lay-bys along the A500 were full of parked cars, as drivers went to watch the spectacle.
Police soon cracked the case. The orbs were laser lights being used for a 1940s-themed event at Rookery Hall Hotel at Worleston, near Nantwich.
Manager Philip Parker was amazed at the public response.
He said: “We had hundreds and hundreds of families following the lights. They travelled from as far as Hanley and Tarporley. It was absolutely incredible.”
In 1994, the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9(SL9) impacted Jupiter, which had captured the comet shortly before (and broken apart by its gravity). The event became a media circus as it was the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision of Solar System objects. The impact was so powerful that it left scars that endured for months and were more discernible than Jupiter’s Great Red Spot.
Since then, astronomers have observed multiple objects impacting Jupiter, and it is expected that such impacts happen all the time (though unobserved). On September 13th, 2021, at 22:39:30 UTC (06:39:30 PM EDT; 03:39 PM:30 PDT), another impact was observed by multiple astronomers across the world. Images and a video of the impact (shown below) were captured by members of Société Lorraine d’Astronomie (SLA) in France.
The impact was reported by Brazilian amateur astronomer Jose Luis Pereira and confirmed a day later by Harald Paleske from Langendorf, Germany. At the time, Paleske had been taking a video of the transit of Io’s shadow when the event occurred, which appeared as a two-second flash. Upon reviewing the footage, he ruled out the possibility that the event happened closer to Earth (with Jupiter merely being the backdrop).
Still image of the impact. Credit: H. Paleske
After a thorough examination, Paleske determined that the impact happened at Jovian latitude 106.9° (CM1), longitude +3.8°, and timed it to 22:39:27 UTC on Sept. 13th. The impact was independently observed by two teams of French amateur astronomers with the SLA. According to a statement issued by the SLA, the two teams consisted of:
“Jean-Paul Arnould from his observatory in Villey-le-sec with the C11 telescope of the SLA [and] a team made up of Thibaut Humbert, Stéphane Barré, Alexis Desmougin, and Didier Walliang at the Astroqueyras observatory in Saint-Véran, with the 62 cm diameter telescope Other people around the world have observed the same phenomenon. This is the first time that so many people (currently 9) have captured this type of event.”
Thanks to the DeTeCt software/project, the amateur and professional astronomical community was issued a wide alert that allowed for rapid responses. All across the world, instruments that were aimed at Jupiter were consulted to see if they also recorded the light flash on the Jovian gas giant. The SLA also sent the data to Marc Delcroix, a Senior Research Scientist at the NTT Communication Science Laboratories‘ Media Information Laboratory in Kyoto, Japan.
Based on the images and video provided observers, the object’s diameter is estimated at 20 meters (ft). Similar to what happened with SL-9, this object is believed to be the remnant of a larger comet or asteroid that was captured by Jupiter’s gravity that broke up shortly before the impact took place. This information and any updates on the event can be found at Delcroix’s website, who indicated that this impact could be the brightest ever observed by amateur astronomers (save for the SL-9 impact).
Light on at Jupiter! Anyone home? This bright impact flash was spotted yesterday on the giant planet by astronomer José Luis Pereira.
Not a lot of info on the impacting object yet but its likely to be large and/or fast!
“Aside Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts in 1994, never an impact was so well covered!” he wrote. Over the coming days and weeks, Delcroix and the astronomical community will examine the amateur videos to learn more about the lightcurves the impact generated. From this, they hope to obtain information on the amount of energy released, the dynamics of the impact, the physical characteristics of the impactor itself.
“Many thanks to every amateur who was implied in this event, whether discovering it, observing it, looking for it in his capture without finding it, or spreading the alert (there were hundreds of shares). Special thanks to the amateurs of the French astrosurf forums who helped me a lot to find out information on discoveries or new observations. We amateurs demonstrated our force as a community, showed our motivation, dedication and experience through this great event!”
This event beautifully illustrates how far astronomy has come in recent years. Whereas impacts with Jupiter were once thought to be rare, they are now understood to be a regular occurrence. With modern opportunities for data-sharing, networking, and collaboration between amateurs and professionals, events that would have otherwise gone unnoticed are being detected with regular frequency. That’s how vital research and discoveries happen!
Aliens probably could just fly over the road here, but it never hurts to be courteous.
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SEATTLE — Big news for paranormal researchers, truth-seekers and fans of the strange and occult: Washington is one of the country's biggest hot spots for UFO sightings, according to a new report.
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For their study, GambleOnline says they searched through data from the National UFO Reporting Center and found that Washington had the third most UFO sightings of 2020, with 368 sightings logged. The only states with more unidentified flying objects were Florida (398 sightings) and California (619).
Washington state actually has a long history with UFO sightings. UFO hunting has been a popular pursuit in the United States since the mid-20th century, when Kenneth Arnold, a businessman piloting a small plane, filed the first well-known report in 1947 of a UFO over Mount Rainier in Washington. Arnold claimed he saw nine high-speed, crescent-shaped objects zooming along at several thousand miles per hour "like saucers skipping on water."
Although the objects Arnold claimed to see weren't saucer-shaped at all, his analogy led to the popularization of the term "flying saucers."
Other highlights from the study include:
1. Lights are the most common type of UFO reported
Mysterious lights made up 1,777 of last year's UFO sightings, according to the National UFO Reporting Center, making them far and away the most common type of UFO. The second most common were circles, with 886 sightings, and spheres, with 444 sightings. The least common sighting was the lowly cone-shaped UFO, only spotted 14 times.
2. Most sightings come between 8 p.m. and midnight
It may seem like common sense — it's much harder to see mysterious lights during the daytime, after all — but 40 percent of UFO sightings happen between 8 p.m. and midnight. If you'd rather not endure the hassle of experiencing a mysterious and world-shattering phenomenon, the best time to be out and about is from noon to 4 p.m., when UFO sightings are scarce.
3. Spring is UFO season
If you're an amateur alien hunter, spring is the best time to get out there. Researchers found that April and March had by far the most sightings, with 1,045 and 828 UFO reports respectively. December had the least sightings with 370.
Interestingly July is a relatively average month for UFO sightings, despite the fact that July 2 is UFO Awareness Day — you'd think people might step up their sky-gazing game.
4. The average UFO sighting lasts 19 minutes
UFO sightings in media tend to be blink-and-you-miss-it, but in real life, the UFOs hang around. Most UFOs (38 percent) stuck around for between one to five minutes, but 11 percent hang out for more than half an hour. Another 11 percent stuck around for 16 to 30 minutes, making the average sighting 19 minutes long.
There were 222 UFO sightings in Arizona in 2020, but this is not an image of any of those.
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PHOENIX, AZ — Big news for paranormal researchers, truth-seekers and fans of the strange and occult: Arizona is one of the country's hot spots for UFO sightings, according to a new report.
For its study, GambleOnline says it searched through data from the National UFO Reporting Center show that Arizona had the ninth most UFO sightings of 2020, with 222 sightings logged. California was No. 1 with 619 sightings, followed by Florida with 398, Washington with 368, Texas with 297, New York with 289, Ohio with 239 and Oregon with 236.
Other highlights from the study include:
1. Lights are the most common type of UFO reported
Mysterious lights made up 1,777 of last year's UFO sightings, according to the National UFO Reporting Center, making them far and away the most common type of UFO. The second most common were circles, with 886 sightings, and spheres, with 444 sightings. The least common sighting was the lowly cone-shaped UFO, only spotted 14 times.
2.Most sightings come between 8 p.m. and midnight
It may seem like common sense — it's much harder to see mysterious lights during the daytime, after all — but 40 percent of UFO sightings happen between 8 p.m. and midnight. If you'd rather not endure the hassle of experiencing a mysterious and world-shattering phenomenon, the best time to be out and about is from noon to 4 p.m., when UFO sightings are scarce.
3. Spring is UFO season
If you're an amateur alien hunter, spring is the best time to get out there. Researchers found that April and March had by far the most sightings, with 1,045 and 828 UFO reports respectively. December had the least sightings with 370.
Interestingly July is a relatively average month for UFO sightings, despite the fact that July 2 is UFO Awareness Day — you'd think people might step up their sky-gazing game.
4. The average UFO sighting lasts 19 minutes
UFO sightings in media tend to be blink-and-you-miss-it, but in real life, the UFOs hang around. Most UFOs (38 percent) stuck around for between one to five minutes, but 11 percent hang out for more than half an hour. Another 11 percent stuck around for 16 to 30 minutes, making the average sighting 19 minutes long.
On September 18, 1973, future President Jimmy Carter filed a report with the International UFO Bureau claiming that he had seen a UFO with his own two eyes in October of 1969.
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Carter’s insistence that he had seen a UFO persisted in his Presidential campaign. From the History Channel:
During the presidential campaign of 1976, Democratic challenger Carter was forthcoming about his belief that he had seen a UFO. He described waiting outside for a Lion’s Club Meeting in Leary, Georgia, to begin, at about 7:30 p.m., when he spotted what he called “the darndest thing I’ve ever seen” in the sky. Carter, as well as 10 to 12 other people who witnessed the same event, described the object as “very bright [with] changing colors and about the size of the moon.” Carter reported that “the object hovered about 30 degrees above the horizon and moved in toward the earth and away before disappearing into the distance.” He later told a reporter that, after the experience, he vowed never again to ridicule anyone who claimed to have seen a UFO.
During the presidential campaign of 1976, Carter promised that, if elected president, he would encourage the government to release “every piece of information” about UFOs available to the public and to scientists. After winning the presidency, though, Carter backed away from this pledge, saying that the release of some information might have “defense implications” and pose a threat to national security.
The report hasn’t exactly changed the transportation sector as we experience it on a day-to-day basis, but it certainly did play a role in the more widespread understanding of a UFO. There have been purported UFO sightings for centuries, but Carter really spurred on the government’s legitimate study of the crafts; in 1973, a Gallup poll found that 95 percent of people had heard of UFOs — a greater percentage of people than had heard of former President Gerald Ford.
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“Ancestral aliens are hibernating throughout the universe,” study states
“Ancestral aliens are hibernating throughout the universe,” study states
According to a study published in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, there are “ancient alien civilizations” that traveled the cosmos.
Even and possibly our Milky Way, but now they would find themselves in a state of “self-imposed hibernation”, waiting for a moment when the universe in which we live changes physically.
According to these statements, advanced extraterrestrial civilizations would find themselves in a period of deep self-imposed hibernation.
They would be waiting for a future where the universe is much colder than it is today, in order to harness some type of energy that is currently not available to anyone.
According to the Fermi paradox , the universe is a supermassive place in which billions of stars and planets are home to countless developed and undeveloped extraterrestrial civilizations.
Where Earth is just one of many planets that can support life … But if there are so many alien civilizations, how come we haven’t officially found them?
The reality is that even if the universe is populated by alien civilizations, there is no way to get in touch with them.
Unless they live in the Milky Way, it would be difficult to find traces of aliens, due to the expansion of space.
“It would take billions of years to get to these civilizations, and obviously we don’t have that kind of technology yet.”
However, there may be an explanation for all the confusion about aliens and why we haven’t found them yet.
Two Oxford University neuroscientists named Anders Sandberg and Stuart Armstrong, along with Milan Čirković of the Belgrade Astronomical Observatory in Serbia, have suggested that alien civilizations are in a self-imposed “hibernation” period.
That is, they are waiting for a future in which the Universe is colder than it is today in order to achieve a type of processing energy that cannot be achieved today.
Smart .. right?
The research was accepted for publication in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society and establishes how conditions in our universe are simply too warm for a computer-based digital super civilization that has entered a state of hibernation of estivation, waiting for a time when the universe is much colder.
Scientists argue that more advanced civilizations may have already traveled the universe and are waiting for a better time to live and expand.
In the words of Sandberg and Kirikvić, “the cosmic background of our universe is three Kevin degrees above absolute 0, and as the universe expands, the average temperature will decrease exponentially.”
So “if you want to accumulate as much processing information with the energy you have, it makes sense to wait. It will be exponentially better ”.
The researchers explain that billions of years from now, when the cosmic background radiation of the universe is reduced to practically nothing.
Mainly due to the expansion rates of the universe and the extinction of stars, information processing will be achievable at a rate 1030 greater than what we can achieve today.
“An advanced ‘alien’ civilization may have explored a large part of the universe, done what is feasible with existing nature, and now mostly has internal ‘cultural’ things to do,” Sandberg explains on his blog.
“These things can be thought of as information processing.
If an alien civilization wants to maximize processing, they should not do it today, but wait until the cold future, when they will get so much more. Therefore, they should hibernate ”.
If this theory is true, it would mean that ancient alien civilizations are real and that they traveled through the universe and possibly even our galaxy, but are now extremely difficult to find.
Mysterious booms are back in the news in Clarksville, Tennessee, and in Helsinki, Sweden, and after many days with no explanations, residents are demanding answers while their imaginations and fears run wild. Secret weapons? Climate change? Aliens?
“The 911 Dispatch Center received numerous calls around 9:50 pm last night (9/4/21) about a “loud explosion” being heard and several individuals reported that they felt the “ground shake”. The sound was heard across many parts of Montgomery County but there have been no reports of any injuries or property damage. The Clarksville Police Department, Fire Department, Montgomery County Sheriffs Office and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) searched for a couple of hours but were unable to locate the source. Fort Campbell is on a Four Day weekend due to the Labor Day holiday, and does not appear to be conducting any type of training or exercise.”
If it’s not a sonic boom, what is it?
The Clarksville Police Department investigated the reports coming in from many parts of Montgomery County but uncovered nothing. Numerous surveillance cameras picked up the boom, some witnesses claimed to have seen a bright light like a meteor, and one reported an odd smell, possibly from fireworks set of to celebrate the Labor Day holiday – although most of the reports indicated the explosion was louder than fireworks. However, the U.S. Geological Survey didn’t register any earthquakes or seismic activity at the time. There was speculation it could have been trapped gas exploding (although no craters were found) or dried-up water pockets collapsing (although no sinkholes were found). Crossing those off of the list leaves … aliens? It’s been nearly two weeks with no updates or explanations.
Meanwhile, in Helsinki …
“The current opinion is that it was most likely not caused by a meteor, but of course that can’t be ruled out.”
“In all probability, it was not any type of earthquake. We still have a more detailed analysis of that day [to examine], but we looked at it quickly over the weekend and it doesn’t show any clear [seismic activity] at our stations in Helsinki.”
On September 13th, a loud explosion was reported in the Helsinki neighborhoods of Oulunkylä, Kumpula, Käpylä, Arabia, Kulosaari, Metsälä, Meilahti and Kulosaari at around 11:45pm. Initial speculation centered on earthquake, meteor or military-caused sonic boom, but all of those were quickly ruled out by local authorities, astronomers and military personnel. Seismometers picked up nothing, and investigations found no craters, debris or other evidence of conventional explosions. After four days, the Helsinki boom also has no updates or explanations.
If it’s not a meteor, what is it?
These mysterious booms continue to occur worldwide. In a sense, they have become audio UFOs – Unidentified Audio Occurrences. Like UFOs, many van be explained quickly. Like UFOs, some cannot. Like UFOs, they seem to be increasing. Unlike UFOs, governments and militaries don’t seem to be concerned. Perhaps THAT should be a cause of concern for the rest of us. The mysterious booms are probably not alien related. However, unlike UFOs, the sounds are witnessed by many, physically and psychologically disturbing, and dismissed too easily.
Is it time to move the needle on booms from mysterious to sinister? Is it time for a Department of UAOs?
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A new de-extinction company called Colossal that is being led by entrepreneur Ben Lamm and geneticist Dr. George Church say that they are hoping to resurrect the extinct woolly mammoth within the next six years. While the last of the woolly mammoths went extinct about 4,000 years ago, the new plan is to change the genome of Asian elephants in order to create modern mammoths.
In a press release, Lamm discussed their intentions, “Never before has humanity been able to harness the power of this technology to rebuild ecosystems, heal our Earth and preserve its future through the repopulation of extinct animals,” adding, “In addition to bringing back ancient extinct species like the woolly mammoth, we will be able to leverage our technologies to help preserve critically endangered species that are on the verge of extinction and restore animals where humankind had a hand in their demise.”
So, how exactly do they plan on resurrecting the mammoth? They would have to add mammoth genes to DNA from Asian elephants in order to create curved tusks, tinier ears, subcutaneous fat stores, and a thick shaggy coat that would allow them to live in the Arctic Circle. This combination would create an Asian elephant/woolly mammoth hybrid.
Asian elephants
There are several issues regarding the resurrection of an already extinct animal as noted by Dr. Victoria Herridge who is a researcher at the National History Museum, “There are a lot of questions raised by this project. The key ethical points are the aspects of animal experimentation and husbandry – what is this creature? Is it a new species? How many do you need?” “Then if they succeed, what will the needs be of an intelligent social creature? And what are our obligations to it?”
There in fact two different ways animals could be resurrected. The first is cloning where the DNA in the cell of one animal is inserted into a fertilized egg and put into a surrogate mother – there hasn’t been a complete mammoth genome that has been found yet so that poses a problem. The second manner is finding individual genes of one animal and inserting them into the genome of another – this could possibly work for bringing the mammoth back as the modified genome would be put into a fertilized elephant egg and then put into a surrogate elephant. Artificial wombs have been suggested but there’s no proof that those would work either.
“At that point you have to start asking questions about the ethics of experimentation on elephants. You won’t know whether or not there is an issue with your chimeric creature until further down the line,” Dr. Herridge pointed out.
Mural by Charles R. Knight in 1916.
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As for whether or not resurrecting the woolly mammoth would actually reverse climate change, the company stated that they hope to “re-wild extinct species to their original habitats so they can revitalize lost ecosystems for a healthier planet.” There is a theory that mammoths aided in fighting climate change by bringing back and maintaining the plentiful grassland steppes in the Arctic but after they went extinct, the area turned to forests. Since forests absorb heat from the sun, the grassland would help to cool the planet.
While it would be interesting and a little eerie to see a woolly mammoth roaming around, this new company is focused on bringing even more extinct animals back from the dead – what could possibly go wrong?
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The ‘Futuro’ UFO buildings may not be genuine artifacts of an extraterrestrial civilization, but they are genuine architectural works of art. And only three remain in all of Russia.
One of the most interesting places in the Caucasus resort of Dombay has got to be the “flying saucer”, which stands on the plateau amid the snowy mountain peaks. And it’s not the only building of this type there.
The idea for constructing buildings in the shape of UFOs was conceived by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in the mid-1960s - a time when humanity found great inspiration in space flight and discussions of our future among the stars. That is how the ‘Futuro’ series appeared. The building measures four meters (13 feet) high and 8 meters (26 feet) in diameter. It was constructed out of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, polyester-polyurethane and poly(methyl methacrylate), had a chimney for heating, a kitchen and en-suite facilities. The result was a mobile construction that was easy to erect and fit for winter living (snow would just slide off the roof).
The “flying saucers” gained a fanbase across the world, from the U.S. to Taiwan. However, with the 1970s oil crisis in full swing, the price of plastic soared and the ‘Futuro’ project was shut down, in order to cut losses. Modern estimates suggest that some 60 units remain in the world (of the just under 100 that were built during the 1960s-1970s), most of which have turned into derelict monuments to avant-garde architecture.
And three of these “UFOs” can be found in Russia!
The Dombay hotel
The hotel in the Soviet times and nowadays.
Sozinov Vitaly/TASS; Getty Images
This highland hotel called 'Tarelka' is among the few cases where a weird building is used according to the architect’s original plans - in this case, accommodation for skiers and snowboarders. The hotel was the first of three buildings to appear - it was a present from Finnish President Urho Kekkonen, who was an avid skier.
Dombay used to be very popular among Soviet skiers. In the 1960s, a resort was built there, boasting great infrastructure. Kekkonen visited numerous times and decided to present the resort with his special creation.
The hotel functions to this day. The building was recently relocated 250 meters higher, closer to the ski lifts. It is only available to rent as a whole unit and can accommodate up to six guests. The cost is 15,000 rubles (approx. $200) per night, which includes breakfast and dinner.
That's how 'Tarelka' hotel looks inside.
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Now, where the other two “flying saucers” came from remains a topic of debate. One version is that Kekkonen gifted not one, but three buildings to the resort. Another is that the USSR decided on purchasing several of them for the 1980 Olympics: They were to supposedly house souvenir kiosks and cafes, but the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan resulted in the kinds of sanctions that only three of the Futuro buildings managed to be purchased before the financial situation deteriorated.
The cafe, whose name literally translates as “saucer/plate”, is situated in the Crimean city of Gurzuf (Naberezhnaya Street, 7). Tarelka appeared there 30 years ago, in the late stages of the Soviet era. Around it is a wonderful park, right on the Black Sea coast. It used to be part of the ‘Sputnik’ All-Soviet Youth Center (today, it is the ‘Sputnik’ wing of the ‘Pushkino’ spa hotel).
In the 1990s, the building housed an elite restaurant that gradually lost its status and was eventually converted into a disco bar. The view that opened up from the veranda was truly marvelous! There were numerous private attempts at returning the building to its former glory, but the crowds never really took to it. Today, it tries to reel in customers with promises of BBQs with a view.
‘Chaynaya Tarelka’ cafe in Krasnodar
In the western district of Krasnodar, another Futuro “flying saucer” was built. Located at Atarbekova Street, 54/1, the building became a prominent spot in this residential area with its otherwise neverending apartment blocks. Similar to the building in Gurzuf, it stands on a tall base, which houses the main hall and the kitchen.
At first, the building belonged to ‘Sputnik’, a popular ice cream cafe. In the 1990s, it was turned into a squalid bar. It would change owners and names throughout the years, serving as bars, storage spaces and even a household chemicals store.
In later years, the building presented itself as a tea-drinking cafe, for which it is now known as ‘Chaynaya Tarelka’ (‘Tea Saucer’), boasting a wide variety of teas and absolutely stunning interior design: red and yellow walls and comfy couches with different-colored pillows around the perimeter. The reviews were also very positive, with people loving the atmosphere.
Cafe in 1987.
Peshtakovsky/Sputnik
Sadly, the cafe also closed down. Today, you’ll find fruit and vegetable sellers around the building.
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Annunaki – 450,000 years ago our ancestors descended from the heavens to engineer the first human beings. To us they were Giants that ruled as Gods over mankind. Now new evidence and scientific research acknowledges their existence on earth but reveals when they will return. The truth of their real origin and purpose is much more bizarre and amazing than anything previously believed. From the Garden of Eden to the Great Flood; from the God of the Bible to the secrets of Enoch all shall be revealed.
An “astonishing anomaly” discovered in Antarctica 3 miles under the ice
An “astonishing anomaly” discovered in Antarctica 3 miles under the ice
Researchers in Antarctica discovered an “astonishing magnetic anomaly” three miles under the ice during a flyby of the continent.
The find was made near Russia’s scientific research station in East Antarctica. In the 1990s, scientists drilled into this area to discover what is known as Lake Vostok .
But their work stopped just short of reaching the water, due to concerns about the deterioration of what could be a “pristine” ecosystem, leaving a number of questions unanswered.
Narrator David Taylor said: ‘In the 1970s, through aerial radar, Russia began to suspect that they had inadvertently built their base on the tip of a large subglacial lake.
“In the years since orbital radar mapping, combined with surface seismological measurements, has confirmed that Lake Vostok, under two miles of solid ice, is the largest lake discovered in the last 100 years.
“About the size of Lake Ontario, but much deeper in places, over 3,000 feet, and about four times the volume.
“The lake, which is still liquid and not frozen, has been isolated under the ice sheets for between 13,000 and 14 million years, depending on who you talk to.
“The water in the lake, determined by thermal scans of the surface, ranges from 10C to 18C, which clearly indicates an underground heat source.”
Mr. Taylor went on to detail exactly what they found in the drilled hole.
“In addition, the entire lake is covered by a sloping dome of air several thousand feet high that is formed by hot water melting the overlapping ice just above the lake’s surface.
‘Core samples taken by the Russians have revealed the presence of microbes, nutrients and various gases such as methane embedded in the clear frozen lake water just above the dome.
“Such elements are typical signatures of biological processes, the lake therefore has all the ingredients of an incredible scientific find – a completely isolated ecosystem, water, heat, breathed gases and current biological activity.
As the actual scope and composition of the lake became apparent, NASA began to see it as an ideal test bed for their plans to drill through the ice and search the oceans of Jupiter’s moon Europa.
The mission was canceled over environmental contamination concerns, but scans of the area since then have revealed something more puzzling.
Mr Taylor explained: “A team of scientists from Columbia University, working under the auspices of the National Science Foundation, began an unprecedented series of low-altitude aerial surveys over Lake Vostok , designed to map gravitational magnetic activity. and thermal under the ice.
As they did so, they made an amazing find.
‘A huge magnetic anomaly was discovered covering the entire southeastern portion of the lake shore. This remarkable anomaly could not have been caused by natural processes. “
Those are questions I’ve been getting in the last few months. The sheer level of UFO activity that has been mentioned online and in other media (the only one for me being CNN) has clearly demonstrated that. Frankly, in my view if, tomorrow, the U.S. Government chose to reveal a bunch of dead, mangled, rotted alien bodies before the world, I don’t think that anyone would be worried, scared or even terrified. I think most people would be amazed, and eager to see what aliens really look like. That’s how I feel. But, it hasn’t happened. And, as I see it, there are only two options: (a) there will be disclosure; or (b) there won’t be disclosure. But you knew that, right? Right! So, here’s how I see it: the reason why we aren’t getting full disclosure is because there’s something that is so monumentally bizarre or terrifying that no-one wants to reveal it. And because no-one in government wants to reveal it. The approach of the government may simply be: “We don’t know how to say it, or how reveal it, so let’s just hide it. Forever. ” I sometimes think that really is why we don’t have disclosure and may never will. Possibly, it can’t be told without fucking up all of human civilization.
(Nick Redfern)
I should stress I don’t have any new, secret rumors to support what I’m about to say now. None, at all. But, there is one picture that I believe could be the one that ensures we never get to know the complete, full picture. I’ll say this: I’m not a religious person. I have no particular stance on life after death, deities, gods, Hell, Heaven, reincarnation, and so on. Although, dogs just have to have souls. A greater animal was never created. Far better than us. Like most people, I occasionally wonder about it all, but that hardly makes things any clearer. It just means I occasionally have opinions on such controversies. There is however, one issue – directly related to all that Heaven and Hell stuff – that I think would be the key issue that would prevent us (all of us) from being informed. It’s a story that revolves around the human soul. Now and again, I’ve been told of tales concerning the human soul and its supposed links to the UFO subject. I started to get a lot of information on this issue in 2007 when I was researching my book, Final Events, and interviewing a few people from the so-called Collins Elite group.
Some of the C.E. members told me of a belief (not proof) in their ranks that the human soul was suspected of being a form of “fuel” for the black-eyed Grays of Ufology. In simple terms, the scenario was very similar to the picture in The Matrix: that our souls are nothing less than fodder to the aliens. Rather than being reliant on electricity, as is the picture. And, that’s why we can never be told, so it goes for some. Because it’s too terrifying: kind of like the classic words of Charles Fort: “We are someone else’s property.” I didn’t have long and lengthy conversations with the Collins Elite about all of this (I wish I did), but I can say that most of them had bought into that angle of soul-stealing ETs. And, when I did bring it up, it caused a lot of awkwardness. In some cases, fear. I’m hardly religious, but it even made me feel a bit clammy and cold when it was first shared with me.
Of course, there’s nothing new about this theory of aliens really being demons. When, however, you get the picture of it from a guy in his seventies, who worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency, and who was talking, in serious tones, about how the story cannot be told – and while leafing through the pages of Kurt Seligmann’s 1948 book, The Mirror Magic – things start to get a bit serious – and surreal. With that said, let’s take a look at what sounds eerily similar to some of the things I was told from 2007 to 2010. Probably the one person, more than any other, who concludes that the alien presence on our planet is driven by the “soul-scenario” is Nigel Kerner. He has written two books on the subject. They are The Song of the Greys and Grey Aliens and the Harvesting of Souls. Combined, they make a worryingly persuasive argument for the theory that aliens somehow “use” the human soul. Danielle Silverman, Kerner’s assistant, prepared the following for me on his theories and conclusions. She stated that Kerner, “…went on to delineate a fascinating concept, explaining that a ‘soul’ might be a derivational information field that comes out of a natural cadence that came into the Universe with the big bang. This field holds the power to maintain information in what he called a morphogenetic electro-spatial field with an eternal scope of existence in whatever form circumstance allows. The soul is thus an ancestrally contiguous and coherent mechanism for holding information.”
(Nick Redfern) My copy of the Seligmann book
It’s also worth noting the experience of Sergeant John Healey, of the U.S. Army Reserve. On the night of October 18, 1973, he encountered a brightly-lit UFO, as he and his colleagues were on-board a UH-1H helicopter, rapidly closing in on Cleveland Hopkins, Airport, Ohio. In the aftermath of the encounter – which, in essence, was a near-collision between the two craft – Healey had several weird out-of-body experiences, as he told to UFO investigator, Jennie Zeidman. It was, he explained, as if he was dead in his bed, and that his spirit was above him, staring down at his sleeping form in the bed. That Sergeant Healey’s experiences occurred not in relation to the abduction phenomenon, but to a UFO sighting, suggests that other components of the UFO issue come into play when it comes to the relationship between UFOs, life after death, and our souls. Notably, several members of the helicopter crew were later contacted by representatives of the Department of Defense, who exhibited interest in – and deep concerns about – the UFO / soul-ingestion angle. This suggests a disturbing scenario: that certain elements of the U.S. Government may know something of the origins and agenda of the paranormal parasites.
It’s a fact that most people who have studied the claims of Bob Lazar focus their attentions on what he had to say about the UFOs allegedly held at S-4, as well as his statements concerning Element 115. There is one issue that doesn’t get the attention that it really should. It’s a part of Lazar’s story which takes things down a path that is filled with disturbing revelations involving the afterlife. One of the many briefing papers that Lazar said he read at S-4 stated that the aliens refer to us, the human race, as what we would call “Containers.” But, containers of what? Well, that’s where things get really controversial. Lazar told KLAS-TV’s George Knapp “religion was created so we have some rules and regulations for the sole purpose of not damaging the containers.” As for the “Containers,” the Knapp-Lazar discussion then went into the matter of human souls and their importance. How much of all this (some of it, all of it, none of it) is true, I have to say I don’t know. What I do know for sure, though, is that there are a lot of people in the U.S. government, and in the U.S. intelligence community, who do believe this is the real picture. And, from their perspective, that’s why we won’t get full disclosure. We’ll get a sanitized-type disclosure. Because, they say, it’s much easier on everyone. A case of what we don’t get won’t hurt us. Until, possibly, it eventually does.
That question was put to me not long ago. It’s an interesting question, too. It took me a while to come up with a conclusion, but I finally did. I would say that the alleged (extremely alleged…) “UFO crash” at Aztec, New Mexico in March 1948 fits the bill. Either that, or it’s a complete pile of garbage. And, in-between, there’s some genuinely strange bits along the way. So, let’s begin. The strange story of the alleged UFO crash at Aztec, New Mexico in March 1948 – and the recovery of a number of dead “little men” at the site – is a real hotbed of lies, disinformation, and shady characters. Most of those same characters were best avoided by those with dollars to spare. The tale was made infamous in the pages of Frank Scully’s 1950 blockbuster, Behind the Flying Saucers; it was a book which turned out to be a huge seller. Today, the Aztec affair is seen by some ufologists as Roswell’s “little brother.” As its “skeleton in the cupboard” might be a far more apt description, however. Many researchers of the UFO phenomenon dismiss the Aztec incident as nothing but a hoax; one which was perpetrated by a shady businessman/conman named Silas Newton. His less-than-shining FBI file can be accessed at the FBI’s website, The Vault. When it came to stories of aliens from faraway worlds, making money was always the goal for Newton. And the only goal. Along for the ride with Newton was Leo Gebauer. He was a quasi-scientist and the Igor to Newton’s ego-driven Dr. Frankenstein.
(Nick Redfern) Aztec, New Mexico
There is, though, a very interesting and extremely odd aspect to the Newton/Aztec story. It serves to demonstrate how the UFO phenomenon was becoming the tool of manipulative disinformation specialists in the intelligence community. And not just of the Soviet Union. The United States was getting into the strange game, too. Back in 1998, the late Karl Pflock, ufologist and CIA employee (sometimes at the same time…), was approached by a still-anonymous source who had something very interesting to say about the Aztec caper, and about Newton too. It was a decidedly weird series of revelations that Pflock surely never anticipated receiving. To his dying day, Pflock refused to reveal the name of his informant in the shadows – rumors, however, were that the person may have been a nephew of Silas Newton – but, Pflock did say that all of the lunchtime meetings with his source occurred between July 11 and September 24, 1998 and took place in a restaurant in Bernalillo, New Mexico.
(Nick Redfern) The late Karl Pflock, who was both a Ufologist and an employee of the CIA
So the story goes, Pflock’s informant had in their hands twenty-seven pages taken, or rather torn, from an old and faded, lined journal. No prizes for guessing who that journal had belonged to. That’s right, sly, old Silas Newton. Pflock was told that Newton had kept journals and diaries not just for years, but for decades. They were jammed with entertaining tales of sexual conquests, of Hollywood starlets, of the fleecing of the rich and the gullible, and of wild adventures across the United States. The outcome of all this? Newton decided, around the turn of the 1970s, that it was right about time for him to write-up his version of the Aztec controversy. It would surely have been a definitive page-turner. Death, however, inconveniently intervened in 1972, when Newton passed away in his mid-eighties. What happened to all of those journals is anyone’s guess. As for those few pages that Pflock was allowed to see – and to transcribe word for word – they tell a tale of undeniable weirdness. By his own admittance, and a couple of years after the Aztec story surfaced in Frank Scully’s book, Newton was clandestinely visited by two representatives of “a highly secret U.S. Government entity,” as Pflock carefully and tactfully described it.
(Nick Redfern) Aztec, New Mexico: the site of a crashed UFO? It depends on who you ask
Those same representatives of the government told Newton, in no uncertain terms, that they knew his Aztec story was a complete and bald-faced lie. Utter bullshit, in fact. Incredibly, though, they wanted Newton to keep telling the tale to just about anyone and everyone who would listen. This caused Pflock to ponder on an amazing possibility: “Did the U.S. Government or someone associated with it use Newton to discredit the idea of crashed flying saucers so a real captured saucer or saucers could be more easily kept under wraps?” Far more intriguing, though, and highly relevant to the theme of this book, is the next question that Pflock posed: “Was this actually nothing to do with real saucers but instead some sort of psychological warfare operation [italics mine]?” With the Newton revelations in hand, Pflock, no later than 1999, came to believe that back in the early fifties someone in the government, the intelligence community, or the military of the United States – and maybe even a swirling combination of all three – wanted the Aztec story further circulated. The purpose: as a means to try and convince the Russians that the U.S. military had acquired, or captured, alien technology. When, in reality, it had no such thing in its possession at all. Now, you see why I consider the Aztec affair of March 1948 to have been the most complicated UFO case of all time.
Is this the world’s oldest work of art? Sequence of hand and footprints discovered on the Tibetan Plateau dates back up to 226,000 years — and may be 'prehistoric graffiti' left by children
Is this the world’s oldest work of art? Sequence of hand and footprints discovered on the Tibetan Plateau dates back up to 226,000 years — and may be 'prehistoric graffiti' left by children
The 'art panel' was first discovered on a rocky outcrop in Quesang back in 2018
The prints were made into a limestone deposited near hot springs that hardened
Even a conservative dating estimate makes it 3–4 times older than other rock art
The team believe the prints were left by two children aged around seven and 12
It is unclear which species made the art, but Denisovans are known from the area
by Ian Randall For Mailonline
Researchers believe they may have identified the oldest-known work of art — a sequence of five hand and footprints thought to date back up to 226,000 years.
According to researchers led from China's Guangzhou University, the impressions are at least 3–4 times older than the cave paintings of France, Indonesia and Spain.
Found in 2018 on a rocky outcrop in Quesang, on the Tibetan Plateau, the prints may have been 'prehistoric graffiti' left by young Denisovan children, the team have said.
Researchers believe they may have identified the oldest-known work of art — a sequence of five hand and footprints thought to date back up to 226,000 years. Pictured: the prints as seen when rendered in a three-dimensional scan of the surface in which they were left
According to researchers led from China's Guangzhou University, the impressions (pictured) are at least 3–4 times older than the cave paintings of France, Indonesia and Spain
Found in 2018 on a rocky outcrop (pictured) in Quesang, on the Tibetan Plateau, the prints may have been 'prehistoric graffiti' left by young Denisovan children, the team have said
It is not certain which species of humans made the prints — but Denisovans are a reasonable bet, given the finding of their skeletal remains elsewhere on the Tibetan plateau. Pictured: an artist's impression of a young Denisovan
WHO EXACTLY MADE THE PRINTS?
Based on uranium series dating, the researchers have determined that the prints must have left between 169,000–226,000 years ago.
And measurements of the prints have led the team to conclude that the footprints were made by a child of around seven and the handprints one of more like 12 years of age.
It is not certain which species of humans made the prints — but Denisovans are a reasonable bet, given the finding of their skeletal remains elsewhere on the Tibetan plateau.
To help with the question of whether the prints constituted art, the team turned to archaeologist Thomas Urban of New York's Cornell University, whose research has included a study of human footprint's in New Mexico's White Sands National Park.
The first clue, he explained, came from the fact that the prints were pressed into travertine — a form of terrestrial limestone that is deposited in the vicinity of hot springs — that would have then hardened gradually over time.
'It would have been a slippery, sloped surface,' noted Mr Urban.
'You wouldn’t really run across it. Somebody didn’t fall like that. So why create this arrangement of prints? There’s not a utilitarian explanation for these. So what are they?'
'My angle was, can we think of these as a creative behaviour, something distinctly human. The interesting side of this is that it’s so early.'
'These young kids saw this medium and intentionally altered it. We can only speculate beyond that.
'This could be a kind of performance, a live show — like, somebody says, "hey, look at me, I’ve made my handprints over these footprints." '
Further evidence for the deliberate nature of the impressions comes from the fact that the rock has preserved handprints at all — unlike footprints, these are rare in the fossil record of human ancestors.
According to the team, the presence of the handprints ties the Tibetan impressions to a long tradition of art involving the stencilling of hands of cave walls.
Dated to between 169,000–226,000 years ago, however, the Quesang art panel is much older than its more famous peers.
Art found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and in Spain's El Castillo cave, for example, date back to around 40,000–45,000 years ago, while the the Chauvet cave paintings of France are only some 30,000 years old.
'It would have been a slippery, sloped surface,' said researcher Thomas Urban of the surface into which the prints were pressed. 'You wouldn’t really run across it. Somebody didn’t fall like that. So why create this arrangement of prints? There’s not a utilitarian explanation for these.'
'My angle was, can we think of these as a creative behaviour, something distinctly human. The interesting side of this is that it’s so early,' said Mr Urban, who hails from Cornell University
'These young kids saw this medium and intentionally altered it. We can only speculate beyond that. This could be a kind of performance, a live show — like, somebody says, "hey, look at me, I’ve made my handprints over these footprints," ' Mr Urban said. Pictured: a scan of the rock
Of course, some connoisseurs might bristle at the very notion that the Quesang prints in and of themselves constitute art.
'Different camps have specific definitions of art that prioritize various criteria,' Mr Urban commented.
He continued: 'But I would like to transcend that and say there can be limitations imposed by these strict categories that might inhibit us from thinking more broadly about creative behaviour.
'I think we can make a solid case that this is not utilitarian behaviour. There’s something playful, creative, possibly symbolic about this.
'This gets at a very fundamental question of what it actually means to be human.'
The full findings of the study were published in the journal Science Bulletin.
Further evidence for the deliberate nature of the impressions comes from the fact that the rock has preserved handprints at all — unlike footprints, these are rare in the fossil record of human ancestors. Pictured: one of the footprints from the Tibetan art panel
According to the team, the presence of the handprints ties the Tibetan impressions to a long tradition of art involving the stencilling of hands of cave walls. Dated to between 169,000–226,000 years ago, however, the art panel from Quesang is much older than its peers
THE DENISOVANS EXPLAINED
Who were they?
The Denisovans are an extinct species of human that appear to have lived in Siberia and even down as far as southeast Asia.
The individuals belonged to a genetically distinct group of humans that were distantly related to Neanderthals but even more distantly related to us.
Although remains of these mysterious early humans have mostly been discovered at the Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains in Siberia, DNA analysis has shown the ancient people were widespread across Asia.
Scientists were able to analyse DNA from a tooth and from a finger bone excavated in the Denisova cave in southern Siberia.
The discovery was described as 'nothing short of sensational.'
In 2020, scientists reported Denisovan DNA in the Baishiya Karst Cave in Tibet.
This discovery marked the first time Denisovan DNA had been recovered from a location that is outside Denisova Cave.
How widespread were they?
Researchers are now beginning to find out just how big a part they played in our history.
DNA from these early humans has been found in the genomes of modern humans over a wide area of Asia, suggesting they once covered a vast range.
They are thought to have been a sister species of the Neanderthals, who lived in western Asia and Europe at around the same time.
The two species appear to have separated from a common ancestor around 200,000 years ago, while they split from the modern human Homo sapien lineage around 600,000 years ago.
Last year researchers even claimed they could have been the first to reach Australia.
Aboriginal people in Australia contain both Neanderthal DNA, as do most humans, and Denisovan DNA.
This latter genetic trace is present in Aboriginal people at the present day in much greater quantities than any other people around the world.
How advanced were they?
Bone and ivory beads found in the Denisova Cave were discovered in the same sediment layers as the Denisovan fossils, leading to suggestions they had sophisticated tools and jewellery.
Professor Chris Stringer, an anthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London, said: 'Layer 11 in the cave contained a Denisovan girl's fingerbone near the bottom but worked bone and ivory artefacts higher up, suggesting that the Denisovans could have made the kind of tools normally associated with modern humans.
'However, direct dating work by the Oxford Radiocarbon Unit reported at the ESHE meeting suggests the Denisovan fossil is more than 50,000 years old, while the oldest 'advanced' artefacts are about 45,000 years old, a date which matches the appearance of modern humans elsewhere in Siberia.'
Did they breed with other species?
Yes. Today, around 5 per cent of the DNA of some Australasians – particularly people from Papua New Guinea – is Denisovans.
Now, researchers have found two distinct modern human genomes - one from Oceania and another from East Asia - both have distinct Denisovan ancestry.
The genomes are also completely different, suggesting there were at least two separate waves of prehistoric intermingling between 200,000 and 50,000 years ago.
Researchers already knew people living today on islands in the South Pacific have Denisovan ancestry.
But what they did not expect to find was individuals from East Asia carry a uniquely different type.
A popular sketch on The Late Show with David Letterman was “Is This Anything?”, where the host and the bandleader Paul Shaffer watched an individual or group perform an unusual stunt, then discussed whether the act was “something” or “nothing.” Archeologists excavating artifacts often seem to engage in a similar game as they attempt to figure out what is historically or monetarily valuable and what is just old stuff. A good example of this ‘game’ took place recently on the Tibetan Plateau with the discovery of hand and footprints on a wall that date back to the middle of the Pleistocene era, between 169,000 and 226,000 years ago. That’s significant, but it becomes game-changing as archeologists play a game that might be called, ‘Is This Art’? The answer could determine of this is the oldest artwork ever found or just cave kids having fun.
“The question is: What does this mean? How do we interpret these prints? They’re clearly not accidentally placed. There’s not a utilitarian explanation for these. So what are they? My angle was, can we think of these as an artistic behavior, a creative behavior, something distinctly human. The interesting side of this is that it’s so early.”
Are handprints art?
Thomas Urban, research scientist in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell and co-author of the paper, “Earliest Parietal Art: Hominin Hand and Foot Traces from the Middle Pleistocene of Tibet,” published in Science Bulletin, tells Phys.org about his analysis of five footprints and five handprints found on a rocky promontory at Quesang on the Tibetan Plateau in 2018. The prints were found in travertine, a freshwater limestone that was soft when they were made but hardened over time. While footprints are common, handprints are rare, and Urban suspected these were examples of parietal (immobile) art similar to hand stenciling often found on prehistoric cave walls – and the children who made them had a purpose in mind. (Photos here.)
A 3D-relief model of the Quesang fossil hand and footprints with colours showing the depth of the prints within the rocks.
One of the hand prints discovered in Tibet that is believed to have been made by children. Matthew Bennett, Author provided
“These young kids saw this medium and intentionally altered it. We can only speculate beyond that. This could be a kind of performance, a live show, like, somebody says, ‘hey, look at me, I’ve made my handprints over these footprints.'”
The oldest confirmed examples of prehistoric art are found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and in the El Castillo cave in Spain and date to between 40,000 and 45,000 years ago. The famous Chauvet cave paintings in France are 30,000 years old. If the Tibetan hand and footprints are deemed to be real works of art, their age of 169,000 to 226,000 years almost pushes the others into the Museum of Modern Art, not the Museum of Natural History. Once that question is decided, an even bigger one looms. Study co-authors Matthew Bennett, Professor of Environmental and Geographical Sciences at Bournemouth University, and Sally Reynolds, Principal Academic in Hominin Palaeoecology at Bournemouth University, ask it in The Conversation:
“Were the children members of our own species, Homo sapiens, or members of another extinct archaic human species? There is nothing in the tracks to resolve this question. They may have been an enigmatic group of archaic humans referred to as the Denisovans, given other recent skeletal finds of this species on the plateau.”
As we learn more about the Denisovans, the Neanderthals and other potential archaic humans, we find more reasons to consider them as peers rather than less intelligent – and artistic — hominins.
It may have started 226,000 years ago, but there’s still a need for art in our modern world. Teach art in schools again!
Video footage of glowing orange orbs “flying in formation” across Baltimore night skies was captured by a man heading home from shopping likened to UFOs. Baltimore local Symkai Scott, 42, spotted about six or seven distinctive round orange lights hovering in the air in uniform formation.
A series of bright lights were spotted floating in Baltimore, sparking a deluge of alleged sightings
Credit: Pen News/Symkai Scott
Social media users suggested the lights may have been UFOs or lanterns
Credit: Pen News/Symkai Scott
According to The Sun, Scott posted the footage online to seek out some answers as to what he had caught on video. A wave of comments surprised him as her came to know that other social media users claimed to have witnessed identical sightings recently in Washington DC, Las Vegas, St. Louis, Detroit and other cities across the United States. Symkai even heard from someone in Scotland saying they had seen the same lights.
One person from northern California stated that he had seen about 30 of these orbs traveling slowly in a single file line and then vanished in just seconds. Skeptical netizens suggested the lights Scott saw could have been drones, police helicopters or even Chinese floating lanterns. However, he argued that if these were lanterns, they were “awfully coordinated to keep steady in that type of formation.”
Scott also disputed the possibility that they were police helicopters because these usually make a noticeable noise, citing that the floating orange UFOs were silent. As he recalled his experience, the stunned man said the lights had a very distinctive orange glow to them, counting around six or seven big bright orbs. “I also thought they were awfully bright to be seen under the street lights in the city. You can see the glare from the street lights in the video,” Scott said.
The lights suddenly vanished quickly after he stopped filming and rushed inside his building to share what he witnessed to a friend. Openly admitting that he is a believer in the existence of extraterrestrial beings, Scott is not the only witness to these phenomena happening across America.
UFO sightings are not uncommon around the globe and the US is home to many such instances. Alleged sightings of strange lights, spaceships and even a plethora of alien abduction tales have been gaining much publicity and attention in recent years.
Just last month, a series of bright flickering lights were reportedly seen across Tennessee flying in random patterns. A video clip of the sighting was uploaded to Reddit leaving users baffled and locked in debate as to what these lights could be. At the same time, a UFO was spotted near the International Space Station during a live feed. The object was described to be a white, cylinder-shaped device that was seen on the same day that "high-speed" objects were caught hovering near NASA's International Space Station.
The question of “Are we alone?” has long been the big UFO debate, privy only to American politics and top tier government officials. However, since the Pentagon published reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, this marked a turning point after US military and intelligence officials examined more than 140 alleged sightings bringing lawmakers much concern on issues of security risks to the US.
Black Triangle UFO getting struck by lightning in Itaquaquecetuba, Brazil
Black Triangle UFO getting struck by lightning in Itaquaquecetuba, Brazil
During a thunderstorm in Itaquaquecetuba, State of São Paulo, Brazil, a black triangle UFO getting struck by lightning and becomes visible in the center of the lightning bolt before disappearing again.
At the same time, a second black object can be seen above the lightning bolt.
It is said that UFOs are using lightning strikes to recharge their batteries
Triangle-shaped UFO during a storm over Brazil TODAY!
Triangle-shaped UFO during a storm over Brazil TODAY!
This huge triangle-shaped UFO was caught on a tape, filmed from a car in Itaquaquecetuba, also simply called Itaquá, a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. This happened today (16th September 2021).
RENNENDE BEERDIERTJES WETEN ONDERZOEKERS BEHOORLIJK TE VERRASSEN
RENNENDE BEERDIERTJES WETEN ONDERZOEKERS BEHOORLIJK TE VERRASSEN
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Dat beerdiertjes kunnen lopen, is al heel verrassend. Maar nu blijken ze ook nog op een heel opmerkelijke manier te rennen!
Beerdiertjes mogen zich regelmatig in de aandacht van wetenschappers verheugen. En dat is ook niet zo gek. De amper 0,5 millimeter lange diertjes spreken namelijk nogal tot de verbeelding, omdat ze zoveel kunnen hebben. Zo kun je ze 30 jaar invriezen en er vervolgens getuige van zijn dat ze – na ontdooiing – hun leven gewoon weer oppakken. Ook zijn ze tijdens ruimtereizen bestand gebleken tegen vacuüm en kosmische straling. En toen onderzoekers ze recent in een speciaal geweer stopten om ze af te vuren, konden de beerdiertjes dat ook gewoon navertellen.
Aan de wandel Maar ook buiten extreme experimenten om weten de beerdiertjes ons te verrassen. En wel wanneer ze aan de wandel gaan. Wetenschappers van de Rockefeller University legden enkele beerdiertjes onder de microscoop om eens in detail vast te kunnen leggen hoe de diertjes zich nu precies voortbewegen. En wat blijkt? Ze verplaatsen zich op dezelfde manier als insecten, die vele malen groter zijn. “De overeenkomsten tussen de wijze waarop zij zich voortbewegen en de wijze waarop veel grotere insecten en gewervelden dat doen, roept enkele heel interessante vragen op,” aldus onderzoeker Jasmine Nirody.
Een beerdiertje aan de wandel.
Afbeelding: Lisset Duran.
Pootjes Dankzij eerder onderzoek wisten we al dat beerdiertjes uitgerust zijn met piepkleine pootjes. En dat is op zichzelf al heel opmerkelijk. “Als we kijken naar dieren die over pootjes beschikken, zijn beerdiertjes om twee redenen heel uniek,” zo vertelt Nirody aan Scientias.nl. “Allereerst vanwege hun omvang.” Beerdiertjes zijn met een lengte van 0,5 millimeter heel klein. “Normaal gesproken kiezen dieren die zo klein zijn een andere, efficiëntere manier om zich voort te bewegen.” Wat daarnaast opvalt, is dat de beerdiertjes – in tegenstelling tot veel andere dieren met pootjes – tot de ongewervelden behoren en dus een zacht lichaam hebben. “Dieren die een zacht lichaam hebben (zoals bijvoorbeeld ook wormen of slakken) kruipen vaak over de grond en moeten het zonder pootjes doen.” Maar beerdiertjes hebben dus wel pootjes. Acht stuks, om precies te zijn. En daarmee kunnen ze zich prima voortbewegen door water, op het land en onder de grond. Een analyse van de wijze waarop een beerdiertje zijn pootjes gebruikt, levert nu echter nóg een verrassing op.
Rennen als insecten Nirody en collega’s legden de beerdiertjes onder de microscoop en keken toe. “Als je ze lang genoeg onder een microscoop legt, kun je een breed scala aan gedragingen observeren. We dwongen ze niet om iets te doen. Soms waren ze heel ontspannen en wandelden ze wat rond. En soms zagen ze iets en renden er naartoe.” En zodra de onderzoekers dat zagen gebeuren, werd het interessant. “Wanneer gewervelden in plaats van lopen, gaan rennen, is er sprake van discontinuïteit,” vertelt Nirody. Een bekend voorbeeld daarvan is bijvoorbeeld het paard, dat in draf of galop een heel ander stappenpatroon kent dan wanneer het rustig loopt. Insecten doen dat anders. Wanneer zij sneller gaan lopen, houden ze hetzelfde stappenpatroon aan. Ze versnellen alleen. En de onderzoekers zagen hetzelfde gebeuren bij het beerdiertje. Wanneer het haast kreeg, bleef het de pootjes op dezelfde manier, maar dan wat versneld, neerzetten.
Groter en harder Het is opmerkelijk, omdat insecten zo heel anders zijn dan deze beerdiertjes. Zo zijn ze allereerst veel groter (wel 500.000 groter!). En ten tweede is het beerdiertje zacht, terwijl alle insecten gekenmerkt worden door een hard exoskelet.
Vervolgonderzoek Een verklaring voor deze overeenkomst tussen beerdiertjes en insecten is er nog niet. Mogelijk delen beerdiertjes en insecten zoals fruitvliegjes en mieren een voorouder en zijn ze uitgerust met een vergelijkbaar neuraal netwerk. Een andere mogelijkheid is dat beerdiertjes en insecten hun tred onafhankelijk van elkaar verkregen hebben. Beide hypothesen zijn intrigerend, vindt Nirody. “Als er een voorouderlijk neuraal systeem is dat de tred van alle Panarthropoda (een niet onomstreden clade die geleedpotigen, mosbeertjes en fluweelwormen omvat, red.) controleert, dan valt er nog veel te leren. Maar aan de andere kant: als geleedpotigen en waterdiertjes onafhankelijk van elkaar op deze strategie zijn uitgekomen, dan valt er weer veel meer te zeggen over wat deze aanpak zo aantrekkelijk maakt voor soorten die in uiteenlopende omgevingen leven.”
Over de tred van rennende beerdiertjes is het laatste dan ook nog niet gezegd. “Ik wil er graag verder over nadenken en deze theorieën testen.” Dat laatste is echter nog niet zo gemakkelijk. “De beste manier om dit te doen, is door studies zoals die van ons te combineren met moleculair onderzoek, waarbij we kijken naar de onderliggende neurale structuren. Dat moet je vervolgens onder een breed scala aan geleedpotigen doen en combineren met fylogenetische studies die helpen om de evolutie van het onderliggende systeem beter te begrijpen.” Een hele klus. “Maar ik denk dat het de moeite waard is.”
Het geeft namelijk niet alleen meer inzicht in waarom beerdiertjes lopen zoals ze lopen, maar kan ook van pas komen bij de ontwikkeling van zachte micro-robots. “De biomechanische strategie (van beerdiertjes, red.) kan ons veel leren over hoe kleine objecten met een zacht lichaam zich het beste kunnen voortbewegen,” aldus Nirody.
SEM image of Milnesium tardigradum in active state.
Credit: PLoS ONE 7(9): e45682. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0045682
UFO expert claims aliens 'levitated into bedroom and talked to him telepathically'
UFO expert claims aliens 'levitated into bedroom and talked to him telepathically'
Alien abductions investigator James Bartley says he has been fascinated by the subject of abductions since the age of four when aliens levitated into his bedroom and communicated telepathically
A UFO investigator claims he was first abducted by aliens who levitated and floated into his bedroom when he was just four years old and talked to him "telepathically".
James Bartley has been researching alien abductions ever since and he said on a different occasion he was taken by thre extraterrestrial beings who had claws for hands.
He went on to suggest the "alien invasion has already begun" and the Earth is under control by "more than one alien race, with the reptilians being one of them".
James told Chris Thrall's Bought the T-Shirt podcast: "I had an encounter in my bedroom. It was a small being, I'd say about three-and-a-half feet high.
UFO expert James Bartley claims aliens first visited him when he was four, levitated into his room and communicated with him telepathically(Image: Getty Images/Science Photo Library RF)
"It levitated, it floated into my bedroom. I turn around and there's this little critter who's just floating there.
"It wasn't a case of me being frightened, it was a case of me being very territorial. The implication being this is my stuff, this is my room, these are my toys.
"It telepathically talked to me and told me a few things. That was my first experience that I'm aware of.
James said this experience sparked his lifelong interest in aliens and UFOs.
James Bartley reckons an "alien invasion" of Earth has already begun(Image: @CosmicSwitch29/ Twitter)
But the American researcher claims to have had an even more terrifying experience when he was an adult, when "three reptilians with claws instead of hands" turned up in his bedroom and took him onboard their craft.
He said: "In the 1990s I had a string of experiences which culminated in a full-blown, full-waking consciousness experience when I woke up and I found three reptilians in my bedroom, but instead of normal hands they had clawed hands.
"I woke up to find three of those in my bedroom.
The UFO expert reckons the world is under the control of more than one alien race(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
"They took me up into their big craft and things unravelled from there. The next morning I was a basket case as you can imagine."
James claims the Earth is already under attack from an "alien invasion by probably more than one alien race".
He said: "The (alien invasion) has already occurred. These non-human beings have covertly and not so covertly guided the development of our civilisation.
"I already feel that humans are under control by probably more than one alien race, the reptilians being one of the usual suspects.
James Bartley says he was once knocked out by an alien who jumped out of a wardrobe(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
"One time on Earth the dominant religion was serpent worship. The existence of these reptilians is coded in numerous languages."
James said that people who claim to have been subjected to alien abductions such as himself are "skittish and afraid of certain parts of the house".
He also said he was once knocked out by an alien who ambushed him and burst out from a wardrobe.
James added: "Some of the investigations I did in Southern California there were literally reptilian beings coming out of these wardrobes into a children's bedroom.
"We had encounters with alien beings. On one occasion I woke up and there was a very large dark being standing above me.
"It was a reptilian for lack of a better term. I was immobilised, I couldn't speak, I couldn't move.
"On another occasion I woke up with a start because I heard some rustling. Next thing I know I was struck on both sides of my face and knocked out. For two weeks after that I had a really sore face.
"This group of reptilians was coming up from this underground base that they lived at. The one that punched me out was only three or four feet high. We call them baby Godzillas."
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A supposed secret map with the coordinates to reach the “Hollow Earth”
A supposed secret map with the coordinates to reach the “Hollow Earth”
Antarctica and the mysteries that surround it, from secret bases to the supposed entrance to the “Hollow Earth” has always fascinated mankind.
Russian journalist Nikolai Subbotin analyzes the KGB documents in the “Orion” folder on the activities of the Nazis in Antarctica before and during the Second World War.
The following is a compiled translated excerpt from various reports on this topic:
This map shows us the main continent in this hemisphere, called Asgard.
On the continent of Asgard , in the center, is the city of Aces.
At the bottom left, we can clearly see Neu Schwabenland with the capital Neu Berlin.
The map below shows us the main continent of this hemisphere called Liberia.
In the center, on the right, are the Fera Islands.
Below is the city of Shambala (city of the gods).
Tibetan monks still say that the city of Shambhala really exists, but not on the surface of our planet, but within the planet.
So here it is confirmed by the map that Shambhala is a real city on earth, inside the crust.
This part of the Reichsdeutschen map describes an underwater trajectory including a detailed chart with instructions on how to dive and how to get to the inner world of Agharta using an underwater ship.
Supposed evidence of the “Hollow Earth”
The following “evidence” for the existence of an inner land is a letter from Karl Unger, a member of the crew of U-209.
Dear old comrade, This message will be a surprise to you. Submarine 209 did. The earth is Hollow. Dr. Haushofer and Hess, they were right. The whole team is fine, but they can’t go back. We are not prisoners. I am sure this message will reach you, it is the last connection with U-209. We will meet again, comrade. I am concerned for those who have spent their lives on the surface of the earth since the Fuhrer left. God always bless our Germany.
Sincerely, Charles Unger
So far, it seems that they have found the entrance to the inner land. Furthermore, a secret Nazi expeditionary force was headed by Captain Ritscher and took a seat in 1937 to 1938.
The force landed near Queen Maud’s land and established secret bases there.
It also explains why German scientists, selected individuals, and UFO test pilots, including their UFO machines and prototypes, such as the Haunebu 1, 2, 3, and 4 and the Andromeda Device, possibly built with the help of aliens, were missing. while they escaped to bases in Antarctica .
After an in-depth analysis, the researchers have published the coordinates where the hallway to Agharta’s inner world can be found.
Location: 68 ° 00’00.0 ″ S 1 ° 00’00.0 ″ E
As you can see, the Inner Earth corridor is located in the Lazarev Sea, which is the same place where the ocean research vessel of the Russian Baltic Fleet, Admiral Vladimirsky, carried out the hydrographic investigation of the aquatic zones. from Antarctica last year.
According to researchers, the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union have known about Agharta’s secret entrance to the inner Earth and its inhabitants, as well as the Nazi underground underground bases for more than 40 years, but do not know how to deal with it and therefore they have suppressed the truth.
Now it seems that these Nazi underground bases still exist and are still in operation.
They further believe that Hitler’s last battalion works together with the beings of the inner earth and will spring into action when the world is deeply in an economic crisis.
On the basis of all this information, if it is true, step by step it becomes clear why so many well-known people, as well as the US and the Russian Navy, visit Antarctica .. don’t you think?
Several prisoners reported seeing a UFO hovering over the jail where they are currently incarcerated and then a mysterious red rash appeared on their skin. In fact, one of the inmates stated that he never believed in UFOs or aliens until this incident and that he was left “speechless” after the encounter. The sighting occurred at HMP The Verne in Dorset, England.
The inmate wrote a letter to a prison magazine called Inside Times that read in part, “I do not believe in the supernatural or aliens from Mars, but what we recently saw here in this prison was really very strange and still leaves me speechless.”
He went on to explain the encounter, “My landing was out on exercise, all doing our own thing, some were working out and others, like me, were walking around, you get the picture.” “I spotted a hawk up on the battlements, just hovering like it had spotted a mouse or something.” At that point, he claimed, a “very bright light” appeared in the sky. “This object started to come closer and closer until it was actually hovering over our exercise area at about 100 or so foot above us.”
And he wasn’t the only one who witnessed the strange object as he wrote, “We were, by this time, all, including officers, standing with our heads tilted back and looking up at this strange thing.” “Then the object started to shrink and collapse in on itself until it sort of just dissolved into a cloud of mist.”
Incredibly, liquid began coming down from the sky which had very disturbing after-effects, “Then it started raining on us and, the next day, we all came out in a red rash.”
It’s still unclear as to what the mysterious object was but the inmate who wrote the letter stated that it could have possibly been a secret military craft from a base that’s located not too far away. But others have different theories as he noted, “I have heard many different explanations from different men.” “Some say there is a military base on Portland and that this could have been some sort of military ‘Black Project’.” “Others say it was ball lightning. I don’t know what it was except it was very strange.” And of course, the idea of it being extraterrestrial in nature has also been hypothesized.
It would be bad enough spending time behind bars without having to deal with a mysterious rash from an alleged UFO encounter.
PERSEVERANCE: WATCH THE ROVER LOOK FOR “BUBBLES” OF LIFE
PERSEVERANCE: WATCH THE ROVER LOOK FOR “BUBBLES” OF LIFE
The rover is drilling its way through Mars, one rock at a time.
AFTER SPENDING more than 200 sols on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover finally made a friend.
The car-sized robot collected its first two samples from the Red Planet after drilling through a rock nicknamed Rochette. These chalk-sized samples may hold clues to the universe’s most burning question: Is there life beyond Earth?
That’s one of the overarching goals of the Perseverance mission, which will spend at least one Martian year (around 687 Earth days) roaming Jezero Crater in search of intriguing clues to Mars’ watery past. Around 3 billion years ago, Mars was likely covered in rivers and shallow seas. During that time, it could potentially have had the right conditions for life to arise.
NASA released a series of images showing Rochette the rock before Perseverance drilled into it and after, revealing the two holes where the rover’s drill left a mark.
Perseverance’s science-instrument-laden turret at the end of its robotic arm examines the rock nicknamed Rochette before obtaining two samples.NASA/JPL
Using its Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering instrument, or WATSON, the robot photographed this special moment on August 27 as it first got to know Rochette the rock.
Perseverance had just scraped away a circular piece of the rock that the team nicknamed Bellegarde. The patch is about 0.39 inches deep and about 2 inches wide.
But the rover was just getting started.
In order to get the Martian samples, Perseverance drilled two holes in Rochette.NASA/JPL
After a few days by Rochette’s side, Perseverance drilled its first hole in the Martian rock on September 1. The hole itself was nicknamed Montdenier, and it produced Perseverance’s first-ever Martian sample.
This marked the rover’s second attempt at collecting a piece of the Red Planet and the first successful one. Earlier in August, Perseverance attempted to collect a sample of Martian rock but ended up pulverizing the sample into tiny bits.
Perseverance collects the samples using a drill attached to the robot's arm.
The samples move through the robot's belly and into the Adaptive Caching Assembly System, where they are sealed in an airtight titanium sample tube.
Perseverance drilled two holes in the same rock it found on Mars, producing two chalk-sized samples for future analysis in an Earthly lab.NASA/JPL
On September 7, Perseverance drilled its second hole in Rochette. This time, the hole was nicknamed Montagnac to go along with the theme of places in France.
A closeup of Rochette reveals its battle wounds.NASA/JPL
In this close-up image of Rochette, small shavings from the Montdenier hole can be seen after it slid over Bellegarde (the first circular patch).
Rochette the rock is basaltic, which means that it may have formed from lava flows. Crystalline minerals in volcanic rock can help scientists accurately date when the rock formed and could provide a timeline of Mars’ history and how its climate changed billions of years ago.
Rochette sacrificed two pieces of itself to help humanity answer the existential question of whether life exists beyond Earth.NASA/JPL
The rock samples also revealed salts, which may have resulted from groundwater flowing through the rocks and altering their composition or liquid water evaporating and leaving its salts behind.
The salt in the rocks could have also trapped tiny bubbles of ancient Martian water that scientists can analyze once the samples make it back to Earth.
“It looks like our first rocks reveal a potentially habitable sustained environment,” Ken Farley, project scientist for the Perseverance mission, said in a statement. “It’s a big deal that the water was there a long time.”
Perseverance carries 43 titanium sample tubes and is supposed to collect at least 20 samples from Mars during its 687 Earth day mission on Mars.
Once it has collected its samples, Perseverance will leave them behind on Mars for that pickup mission planned for sometime in the 2030s. The mission's goal is to bring the Martian samples to Earth, where they can be analyzed in a lab, revealing clues to ancient microbial life that may have lived on Mars during its early history.
Penguins ‘may be aliens’ after scientists discover chemical from Venus in their poo
Penguins ‘may be aliens’ after scientists discover chemical from Venus in their poo
The beloved flightless birds may in fact be extra-terrestrials, scientists said, after traces of chemicals only found on the other side of the Solar System were found in their poo
Our favourite fuzzy friends could be even more special than we think
(Image: Getty Images/Mint Images RF)
Penguins may bealiens, say scientists, after traces of a chemical from Venus were found in the birds’ poop.
Scientists cannot explain how phosphine exists on Earth – 38 million miles away from Venus.
They plan to study the lifestyle of gentoo penguins – common in the Falkland Islands – to find out how they produce the chemical.
Dr Dave Clements, of Imperial College, London, said: “We’re convinced the phosphine finding is real. But we don’t know what’s making it.
“There are some anaerobic bacteria that produce phosphine.
“It’s found in pond slime and the guts of badgers and penguin guano.”
Gentoo penguins could be from Venus - 38 million miles away(Image: Getty Images)
He added: “It may be to do with defence or signalling against competing bacteria.”
Last year traces of the chemical were found in layers of gas surrounding Venus which has a similar atmosphere to Earth.
The new research is being conducted ahead of the launch of the James Webb space telescope from French Guiana on December 18 that could detect life on other planets, according to Nasa.
Nasa's James Webb telescope could teach us plenty about deep space and our own world too(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
UK scientists believe alien lifeforms may have already been detected, and studying penguins could help them identify the types of organisms that exist in other worlds.
The James Webb telescope will study deep space for Nasa as its main observatory over the coming years.
The project is a collaboration between Nasa, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
Penguins may be harbouring knowledge of the universe we still can't understand(Image: Getty Images/Mint Images RF)
Nasa's programme director Gregory L. Robinson said the ambitious telescope launch could change how we see deep space forever.
He said: “Webb is an exemplary mission that signifies the epitome of perseverance.
“I am inspired by our dedicated team and our global partnerships that have made this incredible endeavour possible.
"Together, we’ve overcome technical obstacles along the way as well as challenges during the coronavirus pandemic.
"Now that we have an observatory and a rocket ready for launch, I am looking forward to the big day and the amazing science to come.”
There is no doubt that octopuses are one of the strangest creatures on Earth – so strange and intelligent for deep-sea cephalopod that some serious scientists have suggested they might be aliens. There is no doubt that flightless yet aquatic penguins are one of the strangest birds on the planet … you see where this is going. Scientists studying gentoo penguins have discovered that they produce a chemical recently detected on Venus and they’re wondering … could penguins have migrated to Earth from its cloudy neighbor or another planet?
“We’re convinced the phosphine finding is real. But we don’t know what’s making it.”
Do I look like an alien to you?
Dr. David Clements, a Natural Science and Physics professor at Imperial College London, says in The Daily Star that phosphine, an extremely flammable and toxic gas compound with the chemical formula PH3 that was recently detected on Venus, has been found in the feces of gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua), a species found primarily in the Falkland Islands and most known for their loud trumpeting sounds which they make with their heads thrown back like a marching band horn player. You may recall that astronomers in Hawaii and Chile detected the chemical signature of phosphine high in the atmosphere of Venus in September 2020 – a potential “this changes everything” find because phosphine on Earth is only associated with life forms.
Dr. David Clements was also involved with that research and cautioned at the time:
“It’s not a smoking gun. It’s not even gunshot residue on the hands of your prime suspect, but there is a distinct whiff of cordite in the air which may be suggesting something.”
It may not have been a smoking gun – and other scientists agreed that the phosphine on Venus could have been generated by a chemical process – but that hasn’t stopped Clements and others from continuing to study gentoo guano for hints into how gentoos create the unusual chemical … not to mention how they survive making and excreting it other than staying away from matches and open flames. The Daily Star is not considered to be a scientific journal but it appears to be the primary source reporting on this research, which it notes is connected to the upcoming December launch of the James Webb telescope which will expand by magnitudes our ability to search for life in the galaxy. Does this mean astronomers will be looking for extraterrestrial gentoo penguins?
A sign of extraterrestrial gentoo penguins?
“There are some anaerobic bacteria that produce phosphine. It’s found in pond slime and the guts of badgers and penguin guano.”
That’s right – the first extraterrestrial life future space explorers may encounter on planets or moons showing phosphine are gentoo penguins, badgers and pond slime … or their alien counterparts.
Is it too soon to start training astronauts how to play the trumpet?
One place where UFOs seem to be frequently encountered is on the lonely roads and highways of our world. These objects seem to be drawn to such desolate places, and there are numerous stories of UFOs stopping cars or even abducting people from such places. One subspecies of such encounters is that of vehicles that have been involved with chasing or being chased by these mysterious objects, and here we will look at some strange cases of this.
On the evening of August 4, 1963, 18-year old Ronnie Austin and his girlfriend, Phyllis Bruce were driving along Route 15 heading towards Wayne City, Illinois, after a trip to Mt. Vernon. At some point, at around 11:30 p.m., they noticed a large, glowing white object moving along nearby at treetop level, which they soon noticed seemed to be following them. When they slowed down, so did it, and when they sped up it gave pursuit, eerily keeping pace with them much to their astonishment. On several occasions, the UFO came very close to the vehicle, only to speed off and follow once again, and it pursued the terrified couple all the way to Phyllis’ house, where her family saw it as well. Once there, it went off to hover over a nearby electronic relay tower, where it remained motionless for a time. At this point, Ronnie decided to make a run for it, and things would get even stranger from there. Francis Ridge, who was at the time a field investigator and the subcommittee chairman of National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) would later investigate the case, and said of what happened next:
As soon as he pulled away from the Bruce home, the object began to follow. In our interview with the boy’s father (Orville) on August 12, he told us that this is what scared Ronnie, the thought that the UFO was waiting for him to be alone before it took off after him. He had to head south and the object was on his left now. When he turned east onto another gravel road, the object suddenly shot diagonally ahead of him over a barn about a mile away, just beyond the T-road. The object now changed from a brilliant white to a duller or dimmer light with an orange tinge.
Ronnie said he “really poured the coal” to the car and must have been doing 120 mph when he topped the hill on the gravel road. Then, he reported, the object flared bright orange and came straight toward him at high speed. It hovered over the car, within 100′. Just before it hovered it had swerved upward and Ronnie judged its size as that of an automobile. At the point right over the car his radio (tuned to WLS) went crazy with static, which was described as a loud whining sound. At that time, he noticed a “cooling effect”. The object made another pass at the car, this time west to east, and at this point where the object was again overhead, the engine of the car started missing. The object proceeded back to its position over the barn, hovered, changed to a duller orange. This small road running east to west is only about a mile long and the events that took place according to the witness indicates an increase in activity by the object, which really had the boy scared by now.
Ronnie now turned north at the intersection (extension of road not shown) and headed for home which was over 3 miles away. The object followed him again. As he headed west down the lane leading to his home, the object cut across the road behind him to the left. He spun his car around in the driveway in front of the house, got out of the car and ran inside. The object was now above another farmhouse in the east about 300 yards away.
He would then tell his father, Orville Austin, of what was happening, who grabbed a shotgun and ran to the door to see it for himself. The object then moved towards the house to loom nearby, and realizing that the weapon wouldn’t do too much good, Orville put it down, closed the door, and turned off the lights. They then called the police, who arrived to see the object too, and several neighbors also saw it. It would lurk about the vicinity for nearly an hour, its intentions unknown, before speeding off into the night. According to subsequent news reports and Ridge’s report, Ronnie’s car would be found to have higher radiation levels than normal, and he would also claim that the Air Force had done an investigation into it, after which they had swept it under the carpet. Ridge would say of this:
Evidence gathered by the Air Force indicates that the car was slightly radioactive or magnetized. This was determined by the type of readings called off by members of the AF team as the family watched and listened. An interesting historical note for the record, the Air Force team consisted of three men. These were Lt. Col. Robert J. Friend, then the Director of Project Blue Book; Capt. Hector Quintanilla, and Sgt. Charles R. Sharp. Later in the year or early in 1964, Quintanilla became the Project Director. The AF, and especially Quintanilla, were ridiculing many witnesses who claimed sightings of UFOs. The “explanation” issued after the investigation was “a refueling operation” or the “planet Venus. The AF must have considered this case important. They had flown in the special team of physicists from Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. Normally, when investigating a case, they would send the local “UFO officer” from the nearest airbase. In this case it would have been Scott AFB at Belleville, Illinois (near St. Louis). Something strange was going on in the midwest, and AF Intelligence was interested in something that “didn’t exist.” A quick check would have eliminated a refueling operation and the need for an onsite.
The following year, on June 29, 1964, a man named Beauford E. Parham was driving home near Lavonia, Georgia, in the United States, when he was startled to see a very bright light approaching him from directly ahead. As it drew nearer, he could see that it was “a top-shaped object,” about 6 feet high and 8 feet wide, spinning and “emitting a hissing sound like a million snakes,” and there were flames spewing from several portholes around it. The mysterious object then stopped right in front of him, matching his speed, seeming to toy with him, and at this point, Parham would say that he was in some sort of daze that had washed over him. It then made several passes at him, emitting a mist or vapor of some sort, before passing right over the car to disappear. Parham would later develop a burning sensation in his arms, and noticed that the paint on his car in some spots had bubbled up as if subjected to high heat. What was going on here? We’ll probably never know.
Image by Steve Baxter
Another very spectacular encounter allegedly happened on April 17, 1966, and involved police officers. In the early morning hours of that day, at around 5 a.m., deputies Dale Spaur and Wilbur ‘Barney’ Neff, with the Portage County, Ohio, Sheriff’s Department were on patrol near the town of Ravena, Ohio, when they noticed a strange lighted object coming up over some trees from a nearby wood and experienced a deep hum like “an overloaded transformer.” Spaur would explain of what they saw:
When I looked in this wooded area behind us, I saw this thing. At this time, it was coming up… to about tree top level. I’d say about one hundred feet. It started moving toward us. As it came over the trees, I looked at Barney and he was still watching the car, and he didn’t say nothing and the thing kept getting brighter and the area started to get light. It was very bright; it’d make your eyes water. I told him to look over his shoulder, and he did. He just stood there with his mouth open for a minute, as bright as it was, and he looked down. And I started looking down and I looked at my hands and my clothes weren’t burning or anything, when it stopped right over on top of us. I was petrified, and, uh, so I moved my right foot, and everything seemed to work all right. And evidently, he made the same decision I did, to get something between me and it, or us and it, or whatever you would say. So we both went for the car, we got in the car and we sat there.
Image by Steve Baxter
When they reported it, their sergeant then told them to pursue the object, and they proceeded to chase it through the countryside as it headed over the road, illuminating the ground beneath it as it did. It was moving at a brisk pace, travelling at around 100 mph and still pulling ahead as the two officers tried to keep up with it, with other police officers joining in the pursuit as they did. Police Officer Wayne Huston of East Palestine, Ohio, near the Pennsylvania border, saw the UFO pass with the police chasing it sirens blaring, and he joined in as well, tearing off after it along with the others. They chased it for nearly 85 miles, with numerous patrol cars from different jurisdictions chasing it, and then it suddenly stopped to hover there over the road as they all screeched to a halt. There was allegedly chatter that the Air Force was scrambling fighter jets, and then the object just shot straight up into the sky at breathtaking speed. The Air Force would quickly step in to brush it all off in typical clumsy fashion, and UFO researcher Richard Hall would say of this:
The Air Force “identified” the UFO as a satellite, seen part of the time, and confused with the planet Venus. Under pressure from Ohio officials, Major Hector Quintanilla, chief of PROJECT BLUE BOOK, had an acrimonious confrontation with witnesses and refused to change the identification, although it was pointed out to him that they had seen the UFO in addition to Venus, and the moon at the conclusion of the observation. Major Quintanilla also denied that any jets had been scrambled. William B. Weitzel conducted an exhaustive investigation on behalf of the NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA (NICAP), obtaining taped interviews, signed statements, sketches, and all pertinent data which was assembled into a massive report that was made available to congressional investigators. When the UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO UFO PROJECT was initiated in 1966, a copy of Weitzel’s report was hand-delivered to the director, Dr. Edward U. CONDON, for his consideration. The CONDON REPORT, published two years later, does not mention the case.
From 1967, we have a case from the UK, which supposedly played out October 24, 1967 somewhere between Okehampton and Holsworthy, in Devon, England, and involved two police constables by the names of Clifford Waycott and Roger Willey. While they were driving along on patrol, they saw a “pulsating flying cross” that was “star-spangled – just like looking through wet glass,” and was moving about just over the tree line beside the road. They decided to pursue the object, which immediately started accelerating away from them as they sped along, reaching speeds of up to 90 mph before they gave up for fear of getting in an accident and the object sped off into the night to join a second object that appeared. The report was corroborated by a farmer in the area who also saw the spectacle, and others in the immediate area began calling in with reports of seeing the same “fiery cross,” suggesting that the bizarre flying object was lurking about for some time. The case, which would be mentioned in UFO Flying Saucers over Britain, by Robert Chapman, has never been explained.
Perhaps one of the strangest UFO chases of all comes from 1988, in Australia. On January 20, 1988, Faye Knowles, her adult sons Patrick (24), Sean (21) and Wayne (18), and their two dogs were making their way towards Melbourne, Australia across a vast expanse of limestone bedrock called the Nullarbor Plain. The area is a remote desert moonscape of a place, with no one around for miles and other cars a rarity, so it was considered odd when in the very early morning hours a light was spotted some distance ahead, just outside of the tiny town of Mundrabilla. The light seemed to get steadily brighter as they watched it, and as they got closer they could see that it was semi-spherical or egg shaped and was most certainly not another vehicle as it was just a single bright light and seemed to be hovering in the air over that desolate expanse.
As the family struggled to comprehend what they were seeing, the strange object allegedly emitted a beam of light that swept towards their vehicle and caused the driver, Sean, to take evasive maneuvers. The beam missed the car, but this is when Sean would claim the object had begun to follow them down that lonely roadway, easily keeping pace with them no matter how fast they went. They apparently passed another car going the other direction, after which the mysterious object stopped pursuing them and followed the other vehicle. Sean the reportedly turned the car around to follow the other car and its UFO pursuer to figure out what was going on, but thought better of it and turned around yet again. The object then must have decided to go after them again, because it was soon ominously closing in on them once again.
It purportedly got brighter and closer, passing them a few times to circle around to approach again before positioning itself right above their car as the terrified family within screamed out in fright. There was then a thump on the roof, and the car slowed down as if something very heavy were sitting atop it, leading them to the horrible realization that it had actually lowered itself to make contact with the vehicle. According to the witnesses, it then issued a shrill, ear piercing sound, and Faye would say that they were overcome with the sense of something invading their minds, later saying, “It felt like something was going into our heads,” and Patrick would say “I felt like my brain was being sucked out.” They also claimed that their voices became distorted and that they moved sluggishly, as if underwater or experiencing a slowing of time itself. Things would intensify when they then felt the car physically lift off of the road, after which they were shaken violently from side to side as a grey mist filled the car and dropped back down with such force that it blew one of their tires and disabled the vehicle to leave to leave it lying in that unforgiving place like a wounded beast. Fay Knowles would say of the otherworldly encounter:
I wound down the window and I felt this thing on the roof… all of this smoke stuff started coming into the car, the car was covered in black stuff. It was a small light and all of a sudden it became big like this, like a big ball. We thought we were dying, then we got out the car and we hid behind a little tree and the bushes and it couldn’t find us.
When the cowering family were sure the object was gone, they warily went back to their car, changed the tire, and got out of there as fast as they could, eventually making their way to Mundrabilla, where they excitedly told of what had happened to them. Interestingly, a trucker at the gas station there would tell them that he had also seen the strange, eerie light out over the desert as well. When their car was examined, it was found to be banged up, and both the exterior and interior covered with a fine film of black material like soot or ash that had an unusual odor like “a blown fuse.” The Knowles were able to get some truckers to go with them out to where the incident had supposedly occurred, where they allegedly found odd skid marks on the road that seemed to show that the vehicle has been dragged sideways by some powerful force, making it all even stranger.
The police would subsequently examine the vehicle to find a grey powder that was found to have a similar chemical composition to the coating used on NASA space shuttles. Oddly, the South Australia police were apparently very eager to distance themselves from it all, finish the investigation, and sweep it under the carpet, and the whole case was just sort of filed away even as it was hitting the news in a big way. And that was that. The rather harrowing case has been picked apart by Ufologists and skeptics ever since, but no clear answer has ever been agreed upon. What happened to this family out on that bleak stretch of road? What forces came calling for them to follow them around and terrorize them? No one really knows.
What does NASA think about the existence of extraterrestrials? NASA is a huge government organization with a lot of different opinions that are tempered by public relations people who work hard to keep any secrets from leaking out … but sometimes they do. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence falls under the department of astrobiology, so it seems appropriate that NASA astrobiologist Dr. Lindsay Hays answered the question, “Do Aliens Exist?” on an official NASA Instagram page. Does that make it NASA’s official stance? Let’s find out.
“Do aliens exist? Extraterrestrial life has never been discovered. However, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.”
In 90 seconds (that’s not a good sign that this will be a profound, in-depth and potentially this-changes-everything kind of answer), Dr. Hays takes a quick trip to Mars, where humans have done the most on-site exploring for life, and to other planets and their moons where life probably has a better chance due to an abundance of water. She then expands the definition of life on Earth to expand all of the way down to microbes, pointing out that this means every square inch of the planet is covered in life, while arguing that our definition of life on Earth is changing so our definition of extraterrestrial life must change too. And if we expand the definition of life, that leads to new ideas on the definition of ‘habitable’.
“Not just in our solar system, the more exo-planets we find around other stars, the more we learn about how many environments could exist for life.”
If you haven’t figured it out by now, this is pretty much just 90 seconds of fluff (watch it on YouTube) with nothing concrete that we could hold NASA to, and nothing anywhere near an everything-changing leak.
If you haven’t been convinced up until that point, Dr. Hays closes, not with the comments of an astronaut or a current fellow astrobiologist studying the Mars rocks – she quotes Carl Sagan instead.
“The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us it seems like an awful waste of space.”
That’s true. Unfortunately, the same could be said of this 90 second commentary on the NASA Instagram page. Nothing personal, Dr. Hays. You probably had much more you wanted to say, but your bosses were dangling your paycheck in front of you. One of these days, a NASA scientist will break out of the shackles and expose the truth. In the meantime, we would be wise to look at some of the other things Carl Sagan said about our lack of knowledge about space and science.
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”
“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”
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We Knew Black Holes Have a Temperature. It Turns out They Also Have a Pressure
We Knew Black Holes Have a Temperature. It Turns out They Also Have a Pressure
In the classical theory of general relativity, black holes are relatively simple objects. They can be described by just three properties: mass, charge, and rotation. But we know that general relativity is an incomplete theory. Quantum mechanics is most apparent in the behavior of tiny objects, but it also plays a role in large objects such as black holes. To describe black holes at a quantum level, we need a theory of quantum gravity. We don’t have a complete theory yet, but what know so far is that quantum mechanics makes black holes more complex, giving them properties such as temperature and perhaps even pressure.
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Temperature is perhaps the best known quantum property of a black hole. Because of the fuzziness of quantum particles, energy cannot be completely bound by a black hole’s event horizon. Sometimes energy can escape its gravitational prison through a process known as Hawking radiation. The amount of energy that escapes is tiny, but it means that black holes have a (very cold) temperature. And that means black holes can be described in terms of the laws of thermodynamics. For regular matter, thermodynamics describes not just the temperature of an object, but also properties such as pressure. That’s where this new study comes in.
The entropy of a black hole is related to the area of the event horizon. Credit: Jacob D. Bekenstein
The team was looking at a thermodynamical property known as entropy. Entropy is a subtle concept, often described as a measure of the disorder of a system or the amount of information needed to describe a system. It relates to the temperature of an object through the second law of thermodynamics. In black holes, entropy is related to the surface area of an event horizon. Physicists study black hole entropy because it could help us answer fundamental questions in quantum gravity, such as whether a black hole can destroy information.
So the team was applying entropy equations to a simple black hole, trying to figure out what happens when you extend Einstein’s equations into quantum theory, which is a common trick known as the semi-classical approach. When they did this, they kept getting strange extra terms in their equations that they didn’t expect. These terms didn’t make sense until the team looked at them in terms of pressure. It turns out the extra terms act like pressure for a black hole in the same way that gas atoms in a container create pressure. In other words, when you apply quantum theory to a black hole, you get both temperature and pressure.
As with Hawking temperature, this quantum pressure for a black hole is extremely tiny. It’s far too small to affect the kinds of black holes we see in the universe. But the fact that it exists could have real consequences for the most extreme regions of the cosmos, such as the big bang. This particular model is too simple to apply to real systems, but it is an interesting clue toward a more complete theory of quantum gravity.
Day-to-day life in the 21st century is a pretty pleasantly predictable affair; chief among the most predictable things is that the Internet will exist, and work, and be readily accessible all day long.
Imagine if one day the internet was down not just in your neighbourhood, but across the globe, knocked out by a threat from space: an enormous solar superstorm.
It sounds like science fiction, but a new study says it could become our reality earlier than we think if we don't prepare properly for the next time the sun spits a wave of magnetized plasma at us.
Astrophysicists estimate the likelihood of a solar storm of sufficient strength to cause catastrophic disruption occurring within the next decade to be 1.6 — 12 per cent," the study states.
Just in case you weren't alarmed at this threat, here's what a solar flare looks like—basically a big, angry scream by the giant searing ball of plasma that is the Sun:
The lesson here—aside from the fact that we are utterly powerless before the terrible might of Sol—is that you need to start buffering all of those YouTube videos pronto to make sure you have enough stuff to watch during the inevitable blackout.
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How would life change if the Internet was knocked out worldwide? According to scientists, that scenario could become reality if an enormous solar superstorm should occur. According to a report by CTV News, if adequate preparation is not made for future instances when “the sun spits a wave of magnetized plasma at us,” astrophysicists estimate there is a 1.6—12% “likelihood of a solar storm of sufficient strength to cause catastrophic disruption occurring within the next decade,” according to a new study.
ELON MUSK: TESLA SELF-DRIVING WILL BE ABLE TO DODGE UFOS THAT CRASH INTO ROADWAY
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ELON MUSK: TESLA SELF-DRIVING WILL BE ABLE TO DODGE UFOS THAT CRASH INTO ROADWAY
"I’M NOT SAYING THERE ARE UFOS… BUT THERE ARE UFOS."
Swerve!
Tesla recently released the 10th version of itsFull Self-Driving (FSD) software feature, an optional $10,000 add-on that allows its vehicles to take care of a good deal of driving — but not all of it, as the name deceptively suggests.
And the feature may have yet another quirky ability hidden up its sleeve, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested on Twitter this week.
“FSD 10 predicts height from video pixels directly, without needing to classify groups of pixels into objects,” Musk explained in the tweet. “In principle, even if a UFO crashed on the road right in front of you, it would still avoid the debris. ”
Tinfoil Party
Musk also couldn’t help himself, donning a tinfoil hat for some tongue-in-cheek humor.
“I’m not saying there are UFOs… but there are UFOs,” he wrote in a followup tweet, drawing a hailstorm of sarcastic comments, and theories from the Twittersphere.
Tesla may have made some big advances in its self-driving tech, but the software hasn’t always been able to spot the occasional — and obvious — roadway obstruction. Last month, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a formal investigation into the carmaker over its self-driving feature causing collisions with with emergency response vehicles.
Whether the new FSD beta will solve those issues remains to be seen. The beta is still limited to a restricted number of early testers.
In a tweet last month, Musk claimed that Tesla is “aiming for 1000 percent safer than the average human driver.” But the proof is in the pudding — the same goes for the existence of alien UFOs.
Is there life, Elon, but not as we know it? This is the question on Twitter's lips in the wake of a post by SpaceXCEO Elon Musk about the existence of alien spacecraft.
'I'm not saying there are UFOs … but there are UFOs,' the entrepreneur tweeted yesterday, provoking a frenzy of responses and memes from his followers.
'Elon, phone home — Mars!' one commenter wrote, while others welcomed Mr Musk to #ufotwitter and shared pictures of clouds with allegedly extraterrestrial origins.
Some social media users wanted to know if the SpaceX program had captured its own evidence of alien intelligences — and if they would release 'the secrets'.
Mr Musk's comments come in the wake of plans by the US Congress to establish a dedicated governmental office to investigate sightings of UFOs by the military.
Back in March this year, the Pentagon released a report investigating 144 sightings of 'unidentified aerial phenomenon' between 2004 and 2021.
While investigators said that they were convinced that the sightings were indeed of physical objects, they were unable to prove or rule out extraterrestrial origins.
Is there life, Elon, but not as we know it? This is the question on Twitter's lips in the wake of a post by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (pictured) about the existence of alien spacecraft
'I’m not saying there are UFOs … but there are UFOs,' the entrepreneur tweeted yesterday — as pictured — provoking a frenzy of responses and memes from his followers
Some social media users wanted to know if the SpaceX program had captured its own evidence of alien intelligences — and if they would release 'the secrets'
'Elon, phone home — Mars!' one commenter wrote, while others welcomed Mr Musk to #ufotwitter and shared pictures of clouds with allegedly extraterrestrial origins
For decades, scientists have mused whether alien civilisations exist.
Here are three leading theories:
The Drake Equation
Written in 1961 by Frank Drake, this attempts to estimate the number of living and communicative alien civilisations in the Milky Way galaxy.
It takes into account factors including rate of star creation, number of these with planets, and fraction of planets that develop life — but was intended to provoke thought rather than provide a definitive answer.
The Statistical Drake Equation
This update, developed in 2010 by Italian astronomer Claudio Maccone, is considered mathematically more complex and robust — and predicted that there are 4,590 alien civilisations.
The Fermi Paradox
The paradox asks why scientists are predicting so many extraterrestrial civilisations, yet humans are yet to find evidence for any of them.
Mr Musk's comment came in response to a thread about the recently-released version ten of Tesla's full self-driving (FSD) system and its capacity to handle an existing problem — recognising the concrete struts of the Seattle monorail line.
'FSD 10 predicts height from video pixels directly, without needing to classify groups of pixels into objects,' Mr Musk wrote, explaining the software upgrade's success.
'In principle, even if a UFO crashed on the road right in front of you, it would still avoid the debris,' he continued — going on to quip that they did exist.
'I know you are an alien Elon!!' responded thread creator 'Gali' (@Gfilche), who had posted a video of himself driving through the monorail pylons while testing the latest version of the FSD system.
'Aliens exist, they are hidden in plain sight,' posted Twitter user Optimus (@TeslaAIBot) in response to Mr Musk's comment.
'Don't take this lightly, humans,' they added.
'Yet another person involved in the highest levels of military confirming UFOs,' tweeted Ethan Orlander.
He added: 'Why can't Pentagon confirm @elonmusk? Genuinely asking.'
'I have amassed quite a few photos of ETs and UFOs over the past few years, if anyone's interested,' proffered @michelecoralynx.
'At first, everyone was like: iT's JuSt ThE cLoUdS, but they're coming in clearer lately!' she added.
Pictured: Twitter users asked the SpaceX CEO if he had seen evidence of UFOs
Mr Musk's comments come in the wake of plans by the US Congress to establish a dedicated governmental office to investigate sightings of UFOs by the military. Pictured: a meme posted in response to Mr Musk's tweet
Back in March this year, the Pentagon released a report investigating 144 sightings of 'unidentified aerial phenomenon' between 2004 and 2021. Pictured: Twitter user @michelecoralynx offered her own pictures of UFOs and aliens
While US government investigators said that they were convinced that the sightings were indeed of physical objects, they were unable to prove or rule out extraterrestrial origins. Pictured: one of the meme's posted to Twitter in response to Mr Musk's comments
Yesterday's tweet was not Mr Musk's first comment on the potential for the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Pictured: Twitter users posted weird pictures of clouds
Yesterday's tweet was not Mr Musk's first comment on the potential for the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
In March this year, he posted a pair of graphs which he labelled the 'strongest argument against aliens'.
These illustrated that while cameras have enjoyed an almost exponential increase in resolution since the 19th century, pictures of UFOs remain just as fuzzy as ever.
And earlier this year, Mr Musk said that while had not personally seen any evidence for the existence of aliens, there could be 'dead civilisations' out in space.
In March this year, Mr Musk posted a pair of graphs which he labelled the 'strongest argument against aliens'. These illustrated that while cameras have enjoyed an almost exponential increase in resolution since the 19th century, pictures of UFOs remain just as fuzzy as ever
Earlier this year, Mr Musk said that while had not personally seen any evidence for the existence of aliens, there could be 'dead civilisations' out in space
'Aliens exist, they are hidden in plain sight,' posted Twitter user Optimus (@TeslaAIBot) in response to Mr Musk's comment. 'Don't take this lightly, humans,' they added
The US Congress' plans for a dedicated office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense to investigate UFO sightings comes in the form of a bill to authorize Department of Defense appropriations for the 2022 fiscal year. Pictured: a meme posted after Mr Musk's tweet
The US Congress' plans for a dedicated office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense to investigate UFO sightings comes in the form of a bill to authorize appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 2022 fiscal year.
The duties of the new office — which will take over from the Unidentified Aerial — Phenomenon Task Force will include developing standardised procedures to collect and analyse reported of UFOs across the Department of Defense.
Staff will also evaluate 'links between unidentified aerial phenomena and adversarial foreign governments, other foreign governments, or nonstate actors.' along with 'evaluating the threat that such incidents present to the United States.'
WHAT MAKES SOMEONE BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES?
Over the course of three online-based studies, researchers at the University of Kent showed strong links between the belief in conspiracy theories and certain psychological traits.
Narcissism and self-esteem levels have a large impact on a persons belief in conspiracy theories.
The results showed that people who rated highly on the narcissism scale and who had low self-esteem were more likely to be conspiracy believers.
However, while low self-esteem, narcissism and belief in conspiracies are strongly linked, it is not clear that one - or a combination - causes the other.
But it hints at an interesting new angle to the world of conspiracy and those who reinforce belief.
There are widely believed to be three main reasons as to why people believe in conspiracy theories.
* The desire for understanding and certainty - Seeking explanations for events is a natural human desire.
* The desire for control and security - Conspiracy theories can give their believers a sense of control and security.
* The desire to maintain a positive self-image - People who feel socially marginalised are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories and it gives them a sense of worth in the UFO community.
These three things tie in with the previously stated qualities and combine to create an avid conspiracy theorist.
SpaceX boss Elon Musk claims 'there are UFOs' in latest Twitter outburst
SpaceX boss Elon Musk claims 'there are UFOs' in latest Twitter outburst
The billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX has sparked a frenzy on Twitter after making claims about the existence of UFOs ahead of SpaceX's first all-civilian spaceflight on Wednesday
The billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk has claimed that "there are UFOs" in his latest Twitter outburst.
Responding to a Tesla owner's video test of the car's 'full self-driving' functionality, Elon Musk explained that his cars can avoid any obstacles from up above - even UFOs.
"In principle, even if a UFO crashed on the road right in front of you, it would still avoid the debris," Musk wrote.
He continued: "I'm not saying there are UFOs... but there are UFOs."
Musk's comments sparked a frenzy on Twitter, with many people using it as an opportunity to share UFO memes and quiz Musk on his previous claims about being an alien extraterrestrial.
Elon Musk has previously claimed he is an alien
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One user, Feni_Sam, said "Does anyone else feel like they could just talk to Elon about some of his tweets. Sometimes I feel like his tweets just create way more questions than I have answers for."
Other users saw Musk's comments as confirmation of what they already suspected: that the truth is out there.
One said: "Yes, there are [UFOs]. Saw some in 1993. About 15 to 20 of them. We aren't alone.
"No one can convince me other wise because I've known since I was 4 and you don't forget things like I've experienced. You do get shunned but whatever."
Earlier this year, Musk sent fans into a meltdown by claiming he is an alien. In a video, Musk said that the existence of aliens "is one of the great questions in physics and philosophy".
Musk's comments confirmed for some what they had already suspected: that the truth is out there(Image: Getty Images)
When asked on Twitter if he himself is an alien, Musk then wrote: "Of course". However, he later said that there are "no signs" of other life.
Musk's self-described greatest ambition is to "make life multiplanetary", and has previously vowed to sell off all of his possessions and houses in order to found a Mars colony with his company SpaceX by 2050.
He could get humans there sooner than that, however. Later today, the first all-civilian spaceflight will be taking place on a SpaceX rocket - you can watch it live at 20:45PM on SpaceX's YouTube.
This daytime UFO video was filmed in the sky above Santa Fe in New Mexico on 14th October 2021.
Witness report:
First observed object from passenger seat directly behind drivers seat. Pulled over into a bus terminal and exited vehicle to observe object. Recorded object in sky until it moved behind cloud cover
New spacesuits, familiar test: NASA back in C.O. to prep for Mars exploration, return to moon
New spacesuits, familiar test: NASA back in C.O. to prep for Mars exploration, return to moon
Much as the earlier, original 'moon suits' were tested here in the 1960s
(Update: adding video, comments from NASA director)
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- NASA recently tested new spacesuits designed for a return to the moon and future Mars exploration at a number of natural sites in special spots around Central Oregon and nearby.
Dr. Pascal Lee, director of NASA's Haughton-Mars project, led the testing effort in Oregon late last month.
"We thought this was really fitting, because we do have a spacesuit to test, and we are going back to the moon, so we came to Oregon,” Lee said Monday.
Came back, that is.
Apollo astronauts trained and tested their spacesuits in Oregon during the 1960s because the natural volcanic landscape closely resembles the moon.
He said they haven't been back to Oregon to see how helpful it really was, until now.
"We were blown away by the quality of all of them,” Lee said.
A crew of about 10 people came to Oregon to test the new suits at some of those same sites, which includes Lava Butte, the Big Obsidian Lava Flow, Fort Rock, Hole in the Ground and the Yapoah Lava Flow at McKenzie Pass.
NASA unveils new spacesuits for 2024 moon mission
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They also visited a number of new sites to prepare for NASA’'s next mission to the moon's south polar highlands -- and eventually Mars.
The new sites included Pumice Slope at Crater Lake National Park, the Painted Hills at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Skylight Cave and Little Nash Crater.
"In case you didn't know, Oregon has really beautiful analog sites for the moon, and also for Mars,” Lee said.
The reason they're testing new sites like Starlight Cave is because for the first time ever, they're testing spacesuits designed specifically for caves.
Left: Apollo astronaut Walter Cunningham in a spacesuit for analog studies at the Big Obsidian Lava Flow, Oregon in September 1964. Right: Spacesuit engineer Ashley Himmelmann in a Collins Aerospace spacesuit for analog studies with integrated Information Technologies and Informatics Subsystem (IT IS) at the same location in August 2021.
(NASA Haughton-Mars Project / P. Lee)
Spacesuit engineer Ashley Himmelmann in the Collins Aerospace spacesuit examines a rock sample via integrated Information Technologies and Informatics Subsystem (IT IS) at the test site in Lava Butte, Oregon.
(NASA Haughton-Mars Project / Pascal Lee)
Spacesuit engineer Jake Rohrig in the Collins Aerospace spacesuit with its integrated Information Technologies and Informatics Subsystem (IT IS) at Little Nash Crater, Oregon.
(NASA Haughton-Mars Project / Pascal Lee)
The Collins Aerospace spacesuit with integrated Information Technologies and Informatics Subsystem (IT IS) is field tested during training for cave exploration on the moon and Mars.
(NASA Haughton-Mars Project, Pascal Lee)
Lee said they are defining requirements for what future spacesuits may need for cave exploration.
"We want -- there's a few other things I can't really talk about, but it was good,” Lee said with a big grin.
Another change being tested in the new suits is the addition of electronics.
The suits are being designed to display GPS maps, show heart rates, respond to voice commands and assist with detailed image sampling. Just what you'd expect from a 21st century spacesuit.
"Things that will make doing spacewalks on the moon and on Mars safer down the road,” Lee said. “This type of tech has to be tested in an actual realistic field environment, so that's why we came to Oregon."
Lee hopes the suits will be used on the moon within the next decade, and said this was a promising first step.
"The details are going to be written up in technical papers and journals, but the upshot is that it works really well, it works beautifully.” Lee said.
Lee said he could see astronauts exploring Mars by the mid 2030s, and hopes to do some more testing in Oregon before then.
"If you could only take astronauts to train them in five places on earth, Oregon, in my view, would be in the top five,” Lee said.
Herbig–Haro object HH111 resembles a Star Wars weapon.
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Paging Luke Skywalker. A newly released Hubble Space Telescope view of a slash of glowing gas against the star-studded darkness of space has me in a very Star Wars mood. The European Space Agency described the object as a "relatively rare celestial phenomenon" in a statement Monday.
What we're seeing in the image is a Herbig–Haro object (named for astronomers George Herbig and Guillermo Haro) called HH111. The setting is a star-forming region in the constellation of Orion. The jet of gas looks like it's cosplaying as a blue lightsaber.
Herbig-Haro objects have dramatic origin stories. "Newly formed stars are often very active, and in some cases they expel very narrow jets of rapidly moving ionized gas — gas that is so hot that its molecules and atoms have lost their electrons, making the gas highly charged," said ESA. "The streams of ionized gas then collide with the clouds of gas and dust surrounding newly formed stars at speeds of hundreds of kilometers per second."
NASA is the agency that first clued me into how Herbig–Haro objects can look like lightsabers in space. In 2015, NASA shared a Hubble view of Herbig-Haro Jet HH24 just ahead of the opening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, calling it a "double-bladed lightsaber" with a "Jedi-like cloak of dust."
Herbig–Haro object named HH111, captured by Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Nisini
The spectacular view of HH111 comes from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, which sees in both optical (close to what our human eyes see) and infrared. The ability to make observations in infrared gives Hubble the clarity to peer through the gas and dust to get a good look at objects like this one.
Hubble is a joint project from NASA and ESA. It has now spent over 31 years looking out into the universe. It has weathered many technical difficulties, including a serious computer glitch earlier this year.
Hubble won't live forever, but it could still last for years, giving us more images that tempt me to whisper "may the Force be with you" at my computer screen.
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Is this the Face of Krijn, the First Neanderthal of The Netherlands?
Is this the Face of Krijn, the First Neanderthal of The Netherlands?
The first-ever Neanderthal found in The Netherlands, who scientists call Krijn, has now been brought more fully to life. A pair of “paleo-artists” who specialize in making life-like reconstructions of fossilized specimens have provided the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities ( Rijksmuseum van Oudheden ) with a sculpted version of this young Neanderthal’s face. The Kennis Brothers, who are based in Arnhem in the Netherlands, have chosen to portray Krijn with a big smile, which counteracts the usual dour image of our long-extinct evolutionary cousins.
The First Neanderthal in The Netherlands
When a piece of skull bone from a Neanderthal was found on a beach in the Dutch province of Zeeland more than a decade ago, no one dreamed it would be possible to figure out what that Neanderthal looked like based on such a small fragment. But scientists have learned a lot about Neanderthal characteristics from studying various fossilized skeletons recovered from around the world. This has allowed them to make precise estimates about Neanderthal appearance , both in general and for specific skeletal finds.
Scientists from Leiden University and the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig studied the skull fragment found on the beach in Zeeland for several years. From the information they gathered, they were able to generate digital images of what Krijn probably looked like. These images proved highly useful to Alfons and Adrie Kennis, who were able to sculpt a detailed three-dimensional approximation of Krijn’s appearance that experts believe is highly accurate.
Krijn’s skull fragment was originally buried on the bottom of the North Sea. It was dug up and washed ashore during a dredging operation off the western Dutch coast, where it was discovered by amateur paleontologist, Luc Anthonis, in 2009. Anthonis passed the skull fragment on to the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, where it was identified as the bone of an eyebrow ridge that belonged to a Neanderthal who lived sometime between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago.
This was a remarkable discovery, because it was the first evidence ever found that showed a Neanderthal presence in The Netherlands.
A deeper examination by the Leiden University and the Max Planck Institute scientists revealed even more details about the skull fragment and its prehistorical owner. They determined the fragment had come from a young man of stocky build. A study of the isotopes locked up in the bone showed the young man’s diet consisted primarily of meat, which would be expected for someone who lived in a Neanderthal hunter-gatherer society in the ancient past.
Inside the eyebrow ridge bone, the scientists found an unusual hollowed-out area they concluded had been occupied by some type of tumor. This tumor was entirely benign, and except for its effect on Krijn’s appearance (it would have caused a swollen bump over his eye) it had no impact on his health.
Such a tumor has never been seen before in any other Neanderthal specimen, and its presence helped the Kennis Brothers create a facial reconstruction that is entirely unique among Neanderthal sculptures.
While the skeletal remains were technically found on Dutch soil, it should be noted that they originally came from off the Dutch coast. Krijn’s remains were buried at the bottom of the North Sea, which revealed something quite significant about his past.
Over the course of the Last Glacial Period, or Ice Age , sea levels rose and fell with the alternating advance and retreat of the earth’s glacial cover. When Krijn lived, sea levels in the northern hemisphere were relatively low, and in the North Sea they were 165 feet (50 meters) lower than they are today. The North Sea was much smaller at that time, and in what is now its southern and western parts the lowering of sea levels exposed a land bridge that connected the islands of the United Kingdom with continental Europe.
This land bridge is known as Doggerland, and it was located directly to the west of what is now the Dutch seacoast province of Zeeland. So while Krijn and his people might have traveled through Dutch territory, when he died, he died in Doggerland, where presumably he resided with his people most of the time.
During the last Ice Age, Doggerland stayed above sea level for tens of thousands of years. It even remained above water for a while after the Ice Age ended, in 9,700 BC. The last of its land area was submerged under the surface of the North Sea in approximately 5,800 BC, or a few thousand years after the Bering Strait land bridge that connected Asia with the Americas disappeared beneath the rising waters of the Pacific.
Over the course of its long history, a thriving and diverse ecosystem developed on Doggerland . Neanderthals existed alongside mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses , reindeer, wild horses, and many other large land animals that roamed far and wide in the northern hemisphere in prehistoric times. Modern humans eventually arrived on Doggerland as well, and remained there living as hunter-gatherers right to the end.
Neanderthals would have lived on Doggerland with modern humans for a time. But Neanderthals went extinct long before Doggerland did, so Krijn’s people were not around to see the final demise of their homeland.
Dutch archaeologists and paleontologists know that Doggerland has many secrets to reveal. Unfortunately, underwater exploration is expensive and difficult in the North Sea, given the murkiness of its waters and the depth at which Doggerland’s most fascinating treasures are buried. For now, the underwater remains of Doggerland remain largely inaccessible, forcing scientists to rely on dredging and fishing operations to pull up the occasional exciting specimen or artifact.
The Legendary Hyperborea and the Ancient Greeks: Who Really Discovered America?
The Legendary Hyperborea and the Ancient Greeks: Who Really Discovered America?
In his story of Atlantis, written at around 360 BC,Plato mentioneda grand island or continent across the Atlantic, one larger than Libya and Asia combined. This continent was so enormous, he said, “it encompassed (wrapped around) that veritable ocean”. Is it possible that Plato was talking about the American continent and not that of Atlantis, as many automatically assume when they read that story for the first time?
Let's not ignore that many scholars and researchers also show that proper translation of Plato's text places Atlantis in the Mediterranean and not in the Atlantic, or some other exotic location. Aside from those claims though, is it conceivable to accept that the ancient Greeks, around the 4th century BC, knew of the American continent across the Atlantic? Interestingly, several clues suggest that this may not be such an outlandish assumption after all.
Roughly twenty years ago, in 1996, Mark McMenamin, a professor of geology at Mount Holyoke College in the United States, discovered and interpreted a series of enigmatic markings on the reverse side of a Carthaginian gold coin, minted circa 350 BC, as an ancient map of the world. In the center of this world map there is a clear depiction of the Mediterranean basin. An image to the right of it is interpreted to represent Asia, while the image to the left is interpreted to represent the American continent. Professor McMenamin also found that all known specimens of this type of coin formed the same type of “world” map. This was an interesting discovery, no doubt; however, what is most interesting about this find, is that this particular Carthaginian coin was minted within the same decade when Plato unveiled the story of Atlantis and revealed that there was a large continent across from the Pillars of Hercules.
Carthaginian coins from circa 310–290 BC. Representational image only.
The Piri Reis world map, named after its maker, a Turkish admiral and renowned cartographer (1465-1553), drawn in 1513, merely two decades after the ‘discovery’ of America by Christopher Columbus, depicts the west coast of Africa, Europe, as well as the entire American continent on the Atlantic side. According to Piri Reis, however, his controversial map was based on several other charts, many dating as early as the 4th century BC!
Map of the world by Ottoman admiral Piri Reis, drawn in 1513.
While by any means the famous map does not come close to a satellite image, it still properly depicts the continents on both sides of the Atlantic, although with one major flaw. It shows the horn of South America turning sharply eastwards, almost at a 90-degree angle, as if South America "wraps around" the Atlantic at the bottom of the map. Of course, some go on to speculate that the horizontal body of that land could be that of Antarctica, thus the controversy, since Antarctica was not discovered until 300 years later.
Although the controversy in Piri Reis' map significantly diminishes without Antarctica in it, the existence of this map still helps reinforce a couple of assumptions made earlier. If truly Piri Reis borrowed from other ancient maps dating back to the 4th century BC, then unquestionably this reinforces the suggestion that Plato, at 360 BC, could have been aware of the American continent in order to include it in his story.
Moreover, is it possible that the apparent flaw on Piri Reis' map, which most likely also appeared on the much older originals, explains why Plato was under the false impression that the immense continent across from the Pillars of Hercules “encompassed” (wrapped around) the Atlantic Ocean. Just as in the northern hemisphere, where North America, along with Greenland, Iceland and few other islands seem to encompass the North Atlantic.
Map by Abraham Ortelius, Amsterdam 1572: at the top left Oceanvs Hyperborevs separates Iceland from Greenland.
Additional clues, though, not only suggest that the ancient Greeks knew of North America across the Atlantic, but as it appears, they were also familiar with the region around the Arctic Circle—in essence the broken bridge that connects northern Europe to North America. They called this land Hyperborea (a Greek word that means "Extremely North".)
Arctic continent on the Gerardus Mercator map of 1595.
Is this possible? While undoubtedly skeptics would dismiss this suggestion, interestingly, the Greeks believed that Hyperborea was an unspoiled territory so far north from Greece, the sun there never sets. Of course, the only place due north where the sun continuously shines, at least six months out of a year, is the region above the Arctic circle, a territory obviously not easily accessible, especially during the winter months. ‘Coincidentally’, the poet Pindar (522 BC – 443 BC) wrote that “neither by ship nor on foot would you find the marvelous road to the assembly of the Hyperboreans,” a statement that further corroborates the inaccessibility of this region.
So, when bearing in mind this place's location (somewhere “extremely north”,) the fact that is somewhere where the sun never sets, and this is a region inaccessible by foot or boat (most likely due to a frozen Arctic Ocean), where else can a place like this be? Can Hyperborea have been the figment of vivid imagination, or is it possible that there was some truth to this story, as in the case of other stories brought to us from ancient Greece, which involved real places wrapped in mythical elements? Such, among others, was the Palace of Knossos, which it was associated with the Minotaur (a mythical beast of half man and half bull,) the city of Troy which was connected with an epic war fought by demigods, and Mount Olympus, which was thought to be occupied by gods. What about Hyperborea though? Is it possible that the Greeks managed to navigate so far north, or was that knowledge passed down to them from others, such as the Minoans perhaps?
The road to Hyperborea and North America.
If, according to historians, the Bronze Age Minoans 4,000 years ago were often traveling as far as Scotland and the Orkney Islands to trade goods, is it inconceivable to assume that over time (going back and forth for a thousand years) they may have eventually reached Greenland (the edge of Hyperborea,) only a couple of short island stops away? And, if those ancient navigators managed to reach Greenland via island hopping, is it possible then to assume that they could have gone a bit further and ultimately reached North America, which in essence, is just around the corner?
Clues Buried Around the World
If not, where did thousands of tons of copper from the region around the Great Lakes disappear to during the Bronze Age? Most importantly, how did spices, plants and insects indigenous only to America find themselves in Santorini (a Minoan island) around the period of 1600 BC?
An excavation in the ancient city of Akrotiri, on the island of Santorini, revealed that a tobacco beetle (Lasioderma serricorne), an insect indigenous to America at the time, was found buried under the volcanic ash of the 1600 BC eruption. If tobacco was not introduced to Europeans until around 1518 AD, as history claims (nearly 3,000 years later), how else did this pest of stored tobacco got there.
Furthermore, how were the Egyptians able to obtain tobacco and other plants indigenous to America, like coca leaves, which were often used during mummification? Indeed, in 1992, German studies revealed that one third of all mummies tested, carried traces of nicotine on their hair, skin, and bones. Also, the same tobacco beetle found in Santorini was found inside the mummy of King Ramses II (1213 BC), as well as inside King Tutankhamen's tomb (1323 BC).
Following the Genetic Trail
If our early Mediterranean ancestors did not know of North America 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, how then did Haplogroup X, a Mediterranean gene, find itself in North America around that timeframe and as Plato claimed?
For those not familiar with genetics, each race around the planet is categorized by scientists according to their particular DNA haplogroup. For example, all American Indians contain haplogroups A, B, C, and D. As haplogroups A, C, and D are also found primarily in Asia, and B mainly in China and Japan, it is highly speculated by anthropologists that these four haplogroups traveled to North America during a glacier period when continents were once connected by ice.
A more recent study, though, on certain Native American tribes, especially those around the Great Lakes, revealed that in addition to the above haplogroups they were also found to carry haplogroup X. If Middle Easterners somehow made it to America 10,000 years ago, why do only tribes around the Great Lakes carry this particular gene? And, most importantly, how did Mediterranean people travel to North America?
If this was some random transfer, as some scientists maintain (see Solutrean Hypothesis), why then did no other haplogroup from at least a dozen in Europe at the time not follow X, as the four Asian haplogroups on the opposite side of the map ultimately followed each other via the Bering Strait? Is it possible that haplogroup X navigated to North America in a contained environment as Plato claimed? Or, is it possible, as the majority of anthropologists suggest, 10,000 years ago Mediterranean people walked to America while ice still connected the Asian and American continents at the Bering Strait?
A huge problem with the scientific claim, though, is that en route from the Middle East to America, the furthest region east of the Mediterranean to carry small traces of haplogroup X is that of the Altai Republic in southern Russia. No traces of haplogroup X (a variation of X, or another European haplogroup) exist further east of that region. We must also not ignore that mtDNA maps show that the highest concentrations of haplogroup X exist on the Atlantic side, around the Great Lakes, and not in Alaska or alongside the west coast, where, according to anthropologists, haplogroup X infiltrated America.
And last but not least, we must not ignore that high traces of haplogroup X strangely exist in Scotland, Orkney Islands, Faroe Islands and Iceland, essentially all the island stops from Europe to North America.
The disturbing “secret military base” under the Denver airport
The disturbing “secret military base” under the Denver airport
Perhaps one of the most studied alleged military bases in the world is the one said to lie beneath the new Denver International Airport (DIA).
The new complex was the subject of numerous conspiracy theories before a plane left one of its runways, and it’s easy to see why.
The project was initially estimated to cost $ 1.7 billion.
By the time it was completed, after considerable delays no less, the cost had risen to just below the $ 5 billion mark.
When revealed to the public on February 28, 1995, the layout took up much more ground than originally suggested, and the tracks themselves appeared to represent a Nazi swastika when viewed from above.
Even DIA’s mascot Mustang the fiberglass horse, standing proudly outside, with glowing red eyes, has been responsible for at least one death.
Its creator, Luis Jiménez, was killed by his own artwork when Mustang’s head fell off during its completion and fatally severed an artery in Jiménez’s leg.
Throughout the airport, demonic sculptures and artwork haunt the walls, including a strange painting that appears to show the aftermath of a horrendous global conflict.
When the letters “AUAG” were seen on the artwork, conspiracy theories were quick to say that the painting represented an upcoming biological attack, possibly one that would be unleashed by the DIA.
At the time, a deadly new strain of hepatitis called the Australian Antigen – whose symbol was ‘AUAG’ – had just been discovered that only added fuel to these theories.
The stone of dedication found out of the state of the art building claims it was built by the ‘New World Airport Commission’, but there is no such body found anywhere in the records.
Could it be a secret organization?
The abundance of Freemason symbols found throughout the airport does nothing to stifle these kinds of claims.
Perhaps what most fanned the flames of the DIA conspiracy was the discovery of plans for a “first attempt” to build the new airport.
These plans revealed a total of five known buildings that were completed and then apparently abandoned due to incorrect positioning.
It was later decided that instead of tearing down the buildings and using the materials elsewhere, it would be preferable to bury them, complete and intact.
Some believe that these buildings, however, were not simply buried and abandoned, but are part of the underground complex that is buried and operational below DIA.
Various theories have been put forward as to what these underground facilities might be, from FEMA detention units to “hideout” bases for the global elite.
When numerous construction workers began claiming that there were five-story buildings underneath the main airport, as well as a secret network of tunnels, the conspiracy theories began to seem a little less far-fetched, at least to some.
Perhaps the fact that Denver is the seemingly chosen location for such a secret elite facility is a clue in itself.
The city is one mile above sea level, which is why it is called the Upper Town of Mile.
Does this fact make the area favorable in the event of some kind of natural or man-made catastrophe, in particular a catastrophe that may involve severe flooding and rising sea levels?
Some whistleblowers know where the bodies are buried. Others know where the money is buried. Luis Elizondo knows where the UFOs and possible aliens are buried … or at least that’s what publishing company William Morrow is hoping as it announced it has won the bidding war to publish the “shocking” memoir of the former head of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). Will Elizondo identify the smoking UAP or will he be silenced like the Lone Gunmen?
“(The memoir) promises to reveal shocking never-before-shared details regarding what Elizondo has learned about UFOs and the profound implications for humanity, all of which will escalate what is already a hot topic globally.”
We want dates!
The Hollywood Reporter was the first to break the news that William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, will publish the highly anticipated exposé by the ultimate insider to the secret Pentagon investigations of unidentified aerial phenomena. The former U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent was director of AATIP from 2008 until resigning in 2017 in protest of the organization’s secrecy. Elizondo attempted to expose some of the secrets himself by joining the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences and making public (and famous) three declassified videos of the ‘Tic Tac’ UFOs taken by pilots from the USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt. Despite these revelations, plus many interviews – including a well publicized one earlier this year on “60 Minutes,” Elizondo apparently (and hopefully) has much, much more to tell.
“The American people now know a small portion of what I and my colleagues in the Pentagon have been privy to: That these UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon) are not secret U.S. technology, that they do not seem to belong to any known allies or adversaries and that our intelligence services have yet to identify a terrestrial explanation for these extraordinary vehicles. This conversation is only just beginning.”
Still image from the footage of the “tic-tac” UFO
Elizondo is referring to the brief public report by the Pentagon earlier this year which did not rule out aliens as a possible cause of UFOs seen by Navy pilots or others investigated by AATIP, along with the many more reported but not investigated. The whistleblower will face the naysayers who question the extent of his actual involvement within AATIP – an accusation strongly refuted by former senator and key driving force in the formation of AATIP, Harry Reid. Then there’s Elizondo’s “security oath” – which he has taken seriously as a reason to not reveal too much in previous interviews. Will it still be a muzzle in the memoir?
Like Fox Mulder and the Lone Gunmen, so many people want to believe. Let’s hope Luis Elizondo’s memoir is the bible they’ve been waiting for.
If you haven’t found Planet Nine yet – and we’re assuming we would have heard about it if you did – then perhaps the map released a few weeks ago isn’t up to Google snuff. Fortunately, another guide has just been announced and it follows a trail of newly discovered trans-Neptunian objects so far away, their solar orbits are described as extremely extreme. Something is affecting them more than the gravitational pull of Neptune. Will they lead to Planet Nine?
“This catalog has 817 confirmed objects (461 first discovered in this work). This is the second largest TNO catalog from a single survey to date, as well as the largest catalog with multi-band photometry.”
It had better be good – this new catalog of Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNO) used six years of data from the Dark Energy Survey – an astronomical survey using the Dark Energy Camera which was designed to take images in the near-ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared spectrums to measure the expansion of the Universe, taking advantage of a wide field of view and high sensitivity. The DES ran from 2013 to 2019 and its data was found to contain far more than needed for its initial purpose. In this case, a large team of researchers led by lead authors of the paper (preprint at arXiv), University of Pennsylvania cosmologist Gary Bernstein and University of Washington postdoctoral scholar Pedro Bernardinelli, found 815 TNOs and added 461 to the list of over 3,000 identified so far.
Good old Pluto – our favorite TNA
According to Science Alert, all of the new TNOs are at least 30 AU away (AU = 93 million miles or the distance from the Earth to the sun). Some are in the Kuiper Belt with dwarf planets Pluto and Eris at about 30 AUs and 50 AUs. However, the capability of the Dark Energy Camera was shown with the discovery of nine known as extreme trans-Neptunian objects that are at least 150 AUs from the sun. Of those, four are extremely extreme TNOs at 230 AUs. Those four are the ones showing behavior that suggests they’re being pulled by Planet Nine. Since the data from the Dark Energy Survey they used contains 20% of all currently-known TNOs and covers only one-eight of the sky, that identifies a clear path to Planet Nine.
Or not.
Skeptics say the strange orbits of the four extremely extreme TNOs are nothing more than statistical anomalies, while another group of astronomers has previously proposed that the gravitational pull is coming from a massive amount of tiny objects, possibly from one destroyed planet (could be Nine but there’s no proof), working together.
There’s only one way to find out – follow the extremely extremes. Fortunately, the researchers are making their data available.
“These will be valuable for further detailed statistical tests of formation models for the trans-Neptunian region.”
The remains of a specific type of pterosaur or “winged lizard” has been found for the first time ever in the Southern Hemisphere. The fossil belonged to a rhamphorhynchine pterosaur that lived about 160 million years ago during the Jurassic Period in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
The fossil was unearthed back in 2009 by Osvaldo Rojas, the director of the Atacama Desert Museum of Natural History and Culture. However, it has only recently been identified by scientists at the University of Chile and confirmed as being the first of its kind to have ever been discovered in the prehistoric supercontinent of Gondwana.
The fact that this species was only previously discovered in the north seems to indicate that it migrated between the hemispheres. “There are pterosaurs of this group also in Cuba, which apparently were coastal animals, so most likely they have migrated between the North and the South or maybe they came once and stayed, we don’t know,” explained Jhonatan Alarcon from the University of Chile, adding, “We show that the distribution of animals in this group was wider than known to date.”
Pterosaur
The rhamphorhynchine pterosaur had a 2-meter-wide wingspan (6.6 feet); a pointed snout; sharp teeth that pointed outwards; and a long pointy tail.
In addition to being the first rhamphorhynchine pterosaur that’s ever been found in the Southern Hemisphere, it is also “the oldest known pterosaur found in Chile” as described by the scientists in their study that was published in the scientific journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
A picture of the rhamphorhynchine fossil can be seen here.
Restoration of H. sp. preying on the iguanodont Zalmoxes.
Credit: Mark Witton/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 4.0
Pterosaurs were pretty interesting creatures. While they are not considered a dinosaur, they were closely related. During their 150-million-year journey on Earth, there were over 150 different pterosaur species flying around.
Pterosaur
While there are different theories as to how pterosaurs moved from land to the sky, one computer model by Michael Habib from Chatham University seems quite possible as he theorized that the reptiles took off “…with an explosive jump into the air” and “Then, they put out their wings and could generate enough lift with one downstroke to take off,” as explained by Mark A. Norell, chair of the American Museum of Natural History’s division of paleontology. And while they were on land, it is believed that they walked on four legs.
Pterosaurs are known to be huge flying reptiles such as the Quetzalcoatlus northropi which had a wingspan of 33 feet (10 meters); however, they weren’t all large as many of their wingspans measured approximately 6 feet across (1.8 meters). And there were tiny pterosaurs like the Nemicolopterus crypticus which had a wingspan of just 10 inches.
The first rock samples that were collected on Mars by NASA’s Perseverance Rover have revealed very interesting results. The first sample, which has been named “Montdenier”, was collected on September 6th, followed by a second sample named “Montagnac” on September 8th.
Experts are hoping that by collecting the rock samples, they will be able to get a better understanding of the planet’s history and so far so good as indicated by Caltech’s Ken Farley who is a project scientist for the mission that is led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, “It looks like our first rocks reveal a potentially habitable sustained environment,” adding, “It’s a big deal that the water was there a long time.”
The rocks from the first sample are composed of basalt which may have been a result of lava flows. And since volcanic rocks contain crystalline minerals that can be radiometric dated, experts may be able to pinpoint the date of when the lava flows occurred. The information provided in the rocks may also answer many other important questions regarding the area in which it was collected, such as when the Jezero Crater was formed, when its lake appeared and then disappeared, and what type of changes the climate endured over time.
An artist’s concept of a lake inside Jezero Crater (via Wikipedia)
Scientists do know that a lake once filled the crater, but they’re still unsure as to how long it lasted. The samples that they have collected so far seem to indicate that groundwater was there for a significant amount of time – but the question of whether it was there for thousands of years or even millions of years remains unanswered, at least for now. The longer the water was there would have provided a better opportunity for microscopic life to have survived if there was any.
Additionally, salts have been found in the rocks and they could have formed when there was groundwater in the area that affected the minerals in the rock or perhaps the salts were left when the water evaporated. If the salt minerals were able to trap small water bubbles, they could provide scientists with answers regarding the climate on Mars during ancient times as well as if the planet was ever habitable.
The first two samples were collected from an area which is believed to contain some of youngest rock layers in the crater. Their next location for collecting rock samples will probably be in “South Séítah” which is only about 656 feet (200 meters) away. This area, which is believed to be older than the original site, contains ridges that are covered by boulders, rock shards, and sand dunes.
Surface of Mars
Once the samples are eventually brought back to Earth, scientists will analyze them in further detail as described by Mitch Schulte from NASA Headquarters and who is the mission’s program scientist, “One day, we may be able to work out the sequence and timing of the environmental conditions that this rock’s minerals represent. This will help answer the big-picture science question of the history and stability of liquid water on Mars.”
A picture of the two drill holes in the rock can be seen here.
There is no confirmation of what the sighting was, but many believe that they recently saw an unidentified flying object (UFO) in Australia after spotting strange lights "ping-ponging" across the sky.
An unusual light display has lead Melbourne residents to believe they could have been witnessing unidentified flying objects.
(Nine/Supplied)
The so-called UFO was spotted on the south coast, near the border with Victoria, Australia on Sept. 7 and the lights moved rapidly for five minutes at least, according to Daily Star.
According to the UFO Hunters, two people saw flashing light moving rapidly over the ocean, it "accelerated quickly to the left then hovered with random flashes of light getting bright." It apparently "ping-ponged back and forth up and down and then hovered while slowly fading out." The witnesses also saw white, red and blue colors when they came across the so-called UFO. After checking the flight radar, they found nothing was in the air near their location. They clearly found the sighting very interesting.
This isn't the first time that someone claimed to have spotted a mysterious object in the sky in Australia, and associated it with objects from another planet.
In April, 9News reported that mysterious lights were seen over the early morning skies in Melbourne, Australia and made residents believe they had come across a fleet of unidentified objects. One witness, Matt, said that he saw the lights in the sky and then another one came. It was followed by many more, so he wondered what was going on.
He walked out to the front of his house and he looked back to where the objects were coming from, and he found a whole string of them. To him, it seemed like someone had unraveled Christmas lights and hung them up in the sky. But going by a scientific explanation for the bright lights, it turned out to be a series of satellites returning to Earth. Disappointed, Matt said that he would have preferred them to be UFOs rather than satellites.
Observers were shocked by the display, unable to determine what they were seeing.
(Nine/Supplied)
It’s not just in Australia where UFO believers stay. Many have claimed to have spotted such objects in different places. In fact in June, the US government published a report related to them. Though the report did not admit to the existence of aliens, it revealed that some of the objects appearing in the skies could not be explained by the Pentagon, and some pose “a safety of flight issue" and might even be a challenge to the American national security, according to The Guardian.
It was also revealed that the Pentagon has been taking UFOs seriously, and that in 2007 it set up a program, which has been collecting information on Unexplained Aerial Phenomena since then.
NOTE PETER2011:Personally, I think of the Space x Starlink, a series of satellites that follow the same line pattern at launch. I have personally observed them as well and the resemblance is striking.
The eerie sight turned out to be a series of satellites returning to earth. (Nine/Supplied)
Each of the satellites is about the size of a table.
The European Southern Observatory returns intriguing views of enigmatic asteroid 216 Kleopatra.
It’s not every day we get a new look at a distant world, let alone a strange misshapen asteroid. But that just what happened last week, when the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile released new imagesof asteroid 216 Kleopatra.
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), a team of astronomers have obtained the sharpest and most detailed images yet of the asteroid Kleopatra. The observations have allowed the team to constrain the 3D shape and mass of this peculiar asteroid, which resembles a dog bone, to a higher accuracy than ever before. Their research provides clues as to how this asteroid and the two moons that orbit it formed.
The four 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope, along with the four 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescopes and the VLT Survey Telescope (VST). Credit: ESO/G.Hüdepohl.
The images were obtained courtesy of SPHERE, the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument, attached to the 8.2 metre VLT Unit Telescope 3. Though SPHERE is designed for direct visual observations of planets around other stars, it does a pretty solid job at resolving objects in our own solar system, including asteroids.
Detailed view of the SPHERE optical bench. Credit: ESO.
What you’re seeing in the image sequence is twin-lobed, dog-boned shaped asteroid 216 Kleoptra. Discovered on the night of April 10th, 1880 by astronomer Johann Polisa from the Austrian Naval Pola Observatory, the asteroid ranges on a 4.7 year orbit, from a perihelion 2.1 Astronomical Units (AU) from the Sun, to a distant aphelion of 3.5 AU. SPHERE uses an adaptive optics system which cancels out atmospheric distortions to nab fine detail.
The orbit of 216 Kleopatra. Credit: NASA/JPL.
“Kleopatra is truly a unique body in our Solar System,” says astronomer Frank Marchis (SETI-Institute) in a recent press release. “Science makes a lot of progress thanks to the study of weird outliers. I think Kleopatra is one of those and understanding this complex, multiple asteroid system can help us learn more about our solar system.”
The strange world of 216 Kleopatra is 276 kilometers along its longest axis. The asteroid is named after the famous 1st century BC queen of Egypt. To understand what an amazing feat it is to resolve detail on such a tiny distant object even in our own solar system with SPHERE, consider the viewing geometry: at 449 million kilometers (279 million miles) away, an object 276 kilometers across appears just over 0.1” (a tenth of an arcsecond) in apparent size… that’s around 250 times smaller than Mars at its very closest to Earth.
A size comparison of asteroid Kleopatra with northern Italy. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/Marchis et al.
Kleopatra spins on its axis once every 5.4 hours, and the late Arecibo observatory nabbed its contact binary nature during radar observations in 2000. Observations from Keck Observatory in 2008 also revealed the presence of two tiny (7-9 kilometer-sized) moonlets in orbit around 216 Kleopatra: Alexhelios and Cleoselene, named after the children of Cleopatra.
Processed SPHERE image showing the moons of Kleopatra. Credit: ESO/Vernazza/Marchis et al/MISTRAL/ONERA/CNRS.
Kleopatra (center) is shown with its moons AlexHelios and CleoSelene, which are the two small white dots (top right and bottom left).
Discovery of the moons is a lucky break for astronomers, as it allows them to peg the overall density and mass of 216 Kleopatra. But it also presented a mystery, as positions noted in the recent SPHERE observations of the moonlets did not match up with estimates from early observations.
“This had to be resolved,” says Miroslav Bro¸ (Charles University, Prague) in a recent press release. “Because if the moons’ orbits were wrong, everything was wrong, including the mass of Kleopatra.”
SPHERE VLT observations of the shape and size of 216 Kleopatra along with the orbits of the two moons allowed astronomers to further characterize the main asteroid as a loose ‘rubble pile’ about half the density of iron, 35% lower than previously thought.
Astronomers also realized the fast rotational period of 216 Kleopatra could well explain the existence of the two moons, as material from impacts was flung off from the asteroid’s surface. Both moonlets orbit the asteroid once every 1.2 and 2.3 days respectively, and would possess a strange sky, dominated by the dumbbell-shaped primary.
Observing 216 Kleopatra
If you have a large telescope, you can spot 216 Kleoptra: Generally, it’s at +12th magnitude, but it can reach +9th magnitude on a favorable opposition near perihelion. This occurs next in 2027. Currently, the asteroid is located in the constellation of Ophiuchus the Serpent Bearer.
The path of asteroid 216 Kleopatra through September and October 2021.
Seeing 216 Kleoptra up close is a tour de force for the power of ground-based adaptive optics. The VLT-SPHERE configuration has also taken images of 4 Vesta that rivaled those taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft when it visited the dwarf planet in 2011-2012.
Far from being ‘boring space rocks’ recent observations of NEO asteroids have revealed that 15% are binary or contact binaries, and worlds like 216 Kleopatra may hold clues to early solar system history and planetary formation.
Here's What You Need to Remember: To a certain strand of believer, the Pentagon's conclusions mean that the only possible explanation for the UFOs isextraterrestrial activity—a conclusion that the Pentagon report does not support but does not explicitly rule out.
In December 2020, Congress passed the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021”, a 5,500-page omnibus bill covering a variety of housekeeping issues. The bill is better remembered for approving the second round of $600 stimulus checks, but it also included thousands of other minor requests—one of which, unusually, required the Pentagon to compile a report on unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
The term “UFO” broadly refers to any aerial phenomenon for which there is no explanation. The Pentagon was instructed to provide the report within six months; it was released on June 25, shortly before the deadline (you can read it here). However, the nine-page report does not contain much; the Pentagon has concluded that it has no definitive answers regarding UFOs. Of the 144 “unexplained aerial phenomena” it examined, it was unable to find an explanation for 143 of them and concluded that it could not rule anything out. For those who hoped that the Pentagon could shed some light on the UFO question, the report’s conclusions are most likely disappointing.
Moreover, more than simply a fount for fringe conspiracy theories, “unexplained aerial phenomena,” as the Pentagon describes them, have been described as a national security threat. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told an Ohio news station that, “If there are objects flying over military installations that could pose a security threat … [it] needs to be declassified and revealed to American public. […] If there’s something out there, let’s seek it out, and it is probably a foreign power.”
However, security experts have cast doubt on the idea that the mysterious aircraft are the work of a foreign government, noting that such aircraft would have required an enormous technological leap within a foreign country’s aerospace agencies, all of which operate with a small fraction of the capital of the U.S. defense budget. It would have also required an enormous failure on the part of U.S. intelligence agencies responsible for monitoring other nations’ aerospace programs.
To a certain strand of believer, these conclusions mean that the only possible explanation for the UFOs is extraterrestrial activity—a conclusion that the Pentagon report does not support but does not explicitly rule out. For those who do not believe in aliens, though, the UFO mystery will simply remain a mystery—and the truth, whatever it is, is still out there.
Trevor Filseth is a current and foreign affairs writer at The National Interest.
Out of place UFO with trails hovering over Dover Delaware
Out of place UFO with trails hovering over Dover Delaware
Adark reddish out of place object with a trail appears in sky over Dover, Delaware moving towards the photographer,
Then it seems to turn away and the single trail turning into two trails, like tentacles. It finally went from reddish to black before it disappeared into a cloud formation.
It seems impossible, but could it be a living being, a bioform that lives in free space?
These bright unidentified flying objects were filmed in the sky above Milford, Michigan on 28th August 2021.
Witness report:
Noticed lights in the sky driving home, pulled over and started filming. Driving home late at night, we noticed lights in the sky. Their were 6 lights floating in the sky. Most had little movement, but a few moved a little.
“Aliens annihilated the Martian civilization with nuclear bombs”
“Aliens annihilated the Martian civilization with nuclear bombs”
According to the theory of an American physicist, “an ancient Martian civilization was destroyed with nuclear bombs, which, he warns, could also attack the Earth.”
John E. Brandeburg, plasma physicist at the company ‘Orbital technologies’, has been arguing since 2011 that the red color of Mars is due to an explosion of thermonuclear origin.
“The surface of Mars is covered in radioactive substances such as uranium, thorium, and radioactive potassium.”
“A nuclear explosion could have left debris all over the planet,” he then told Fox News, presenting his strange theory.
Since then, the scientist has delved into his idea, according to which the explosion was caused by an intelligent extraterrestrial race, reports ‘Daily Mail’.
The conclusion of their latest report holds that “nuclear isotopes in the atmosphere of Mars resemble hydrogen bomb tests.”
Which, according to his theory, shows that we are dealing with “an example of a civilization destroyed by a nuclear attack from space.”
Their research is based on the high concentration of Xenon-129 in the Martian atmosphere and the uranium and thorium found on the surface by NASA’s Odyssey spacecraft.
According to his theory, the red planet had two ancient Martian civilizations.
According to the physicist, who even reveals their names – Cydonians and Utopians – these alien races had a level of technology similar to that of the ancient Egyptians.
For their part, scientists point out that the appearance of these elements on Mars is not surprising, since they are natural elements that are found everywhere.
The physicist maintains that before the explosion, Mars had a climate similar to that of Earth, as did plant and animal life.
This version, he claims, suggests that we too should fear an attack on our own planet.
“So a manned mission to Mars should be organized to find out what we’re up against.”
What do you think about the theory of this physicist and the destruction of a supposed Martian civilization? Watch the following video and leave us your comment below.
What are the mysterious lights that appear on the Moon?
What are the mysterious lights that appear on the Moon?
For years, many people have seen and reported flashes of light on the Moon. That it could be? Strange lights in Earth’s atmosphere? Signs of extraterrestrial visitors?
It happens several times a week. Sometimes it is just brief flashes of light that appear on the surface. Others last longer, and sometimes there are places that are temporarily darkened.
One hypothesis is that they are caused by meteorite impacts or may be electrically charged solar wind particles that react with lunar dust. Who knows?
In space, there are lots of tiny fragments of rock and other materials that, from time to time, hit a planet or the Moon.
When they do so against the Earth, they usually burn when they enter the atmosphere and give rise to so-called meteors (also known as “shooting stars”).
But the Moon has no atmosphere, so when these small rocks collide with it, they hit its surface directly, producing a brief flash.
“These transient lunar phenomena have been known since the 1950s, but they have not been observed systematically and long-term enough,” experts explain.
When will we return to the moon?
Last year, the NASA administrator assured that they have duplicated plans to return to the Moon and land on Mars and explained that the organization is on the way for humans to return to our satellite again by 2028.
The plan is based on the development of a space launch system on the Orion spacecraft in conjunction with the Gateway orbital platform.
“We will go to the Moon in the next decade with new technologies and innovative systems to explore more places on its surface,” says the scientist.
“This time, when we arrive, we will stay. We will use what we learn as we move forward to make the next big leap: send astronauts to Mars, ”he adds.
Lowestoft Beach, England -- on September9, 2021, at 8:00 pm
Filer’s Files 37, 2021 - UFOs - PART I
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Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
C-117s Flew 120,000 people from Afghanistan
Special Reports on Lockheed Skunk works Engineer, Don Phillips Says UFOs are Real, Frank C. Feschino, (UFOs) Shoot Them Down, Evidence of Aliens in the Pentagon, What’s Going on and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Bahamas, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Special Projects
Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer, Don Phillips Says UFOs are Real
Engineer Don Phillips
I spoke with Don Phillips when he told me, “These UFOs were huge and they would just come to a stop and do a 60-degree, 45-degree, 10 degrees turn, and then immediately reverse this action”. During the Apollo landing, Neil Armstrong says, “They’re here. They are right over there and look at the size of those ships. And it is obvious they don’t like us being here”.…When I was working with the Skunkworks with Kelly Johnson, we signed an agreement with the government to keep very quiet about this. Anti-gravitational research was going…. We know that there were some captured craft from 1947 in Roswell, they were real. And, yes, we really did get some technology from them. And, yes, we really did put it to work…. We knew each other from what we call unseen industry. We can term it black, deep black, or hidden.
The knowledge I have of these technologies came from the craft that were captured here. I didn’t see the craft, nor did I see the bodies, but I certainly know some of the people that did. There was no question that there are beings from outside the planet. Are these ET people hostile? Well, if they were hostile, with their weaponry they could have destroyed us a long time ago…. We got these things that are handheld scanners that scan the body and determine what the condition is. We can also treat from the same scanner. I can tell you personally that we’ve been working on them. And we have ones that can diagnose and cure cancer. One of the purposes I had for founding my technology corporation in 1998, was to bring forth these technologies that that can clean the air and can help get rid of the toxins and help get rid of the need for so much fossil fuel. Yes, it is time. I can tell you personally that it has already started. pp. 375 – 383. For more, click here.
Coast Guard Spots UFO
PUERTORICO– Aguadilla — June 23, 2016, Coast Guard UFO sighting by thermal camera. The footage depicts one, then two UFO objects that will disappear into the water off the coast of Aguadilla, Northwestern Puerto Rico; This classifies them also as USOs
The National Academies Advisers to the Nation on Space Science
The National Academies members are some of the key scientists, engineers, and advisors to the nation. The Space Studies Board, in conjunction with the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, has established a committee to assess potential space and earth science mission concepts that could take advantage of the capabilities of the new Constellation system of launch vehicles and spacecraft that is being developed by NASA to replace the shuttle. The committee will first analyze mission concepts provided by NASA, after 13 years of relative quiet the sun started acting up.
Dec 17, 2019 · NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed a magnetic explosion the likes of which have never been seen before. In the scorching upper reaches of the Sun’s atmosphere, a prominence — a large loop of material launched by an eruption on the solar surface — started falling back to the surface of the Sun. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s…
The adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technology–power grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomalies–are well known and well documented, and the physical processes underlying space weather are also generally well understood. Less well documented and understood, however, are the potential economic and societal impacts of the disruption of critical technological systems by severe space weather.
Scientists reveal ‘epic’ explosion that will destroy Earth.
12:38 ET, Sep 6, 2021, Sun erupted
When will our Sun die?According to a study in the journal Nature Astronomy, the Sun will ‘die’ in 5 to 10 billion years. Stars, like the Sun, start to ‘die’ when they’ve burnt all of their hydrogen fuel.
At this point, they expand and become a very large kind of star called a red giant.
It’s thought this stage will happen to our Sun in around five billion years. The Sun may send a blast through space that can disrupt virtually all electrical power grids and satellites.
The Sun is predicted to expand so much it would engulf Mars and Earth as if puffs up into a red giant.
It’s thought humans would have died out way before then unless we can find a way to leave planet Earth and exist somewhere else. The 2018 study suggests, at this rate, humans only have around one billion years left. This is because the Sun is predicted to get 10% brighter every billion years and this could create some major issues for life on Earth. Aliens report their suns have become old and unstable that is why they are coming here because we have a wonderful planet
“Editor’s Note –These key scientists should be briefed by Ufologists to show them the over whelming evidence for the existence of UFOs and their advanced propulsion systems.
During the summer of 1952, Americans reported a record amount of UFO sightings to Project Blue Book, the Air Force group responsible for investigating unidentified flying objects. Author/Illustrator Frank C. Feschino, Jr. has written an exciting book that encompasses the summer of 1952 and America’s overwhelming UFO problem during that time. The author documents the numerous aerial encounters and confrontations that occurred between United States fighter planes and UFOs over America.
I spoke with Frank who spent 18 years searching for data to put in his excellent book. He told me that in July of 1952, an Air Force information officer revealed, “The jet pilots are, and have been under orders to investigate unidentified objects and to shoot them down if they can’t talk them down.” Feschino writes about the overwhelming amount of mysterious fighter plane accidents and vanished jets that occurred during the 1950s. In 1952the Air Force lost 2,274 planes and the Navy lost 2,086 aircraft. I congratulate Frank Feschino for finding the story of our missing airmen in his many years of research into the UFO phenomena. “Shoot Them Down” is an important historical record of the deaths of brave men who were ordered to engage UFOs. Not only to hunt them down, but as Lt. Col. Moncel Monts is quoted in the book; “The jet pilots are and have been under orders to investigate unidentified objects and to shoot them down if they can’t talk them down”. We were losing a plane a day.
“If I have heard of seven such events, then surely there have been more. (More details are given in Frank Feschino, Jr. book. One can perhaps understand the reluctance of the government to admit that such losses have occurred (even though Major General Roger Ramey admitted in 1952 that more than 300 interceptors have been scrambled).” “Impotence in the face of intruders is not something that governments want to admit.”
General Nathan Twining, Head of Air Material Command wrote, “The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and action which must be considered evasive when sighted … lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled … — (AMC), 1947.
Major General Robert B. Landry writes, “I was called one afternoon [in 1948] to come to the Oval Office C the President wanted to see me… I was directed to report quarterly to the President after consulting with Central Intelligence people, as to whether or not any UFO incidents received by them could be considered as having any strategic threatening implications”
Major General Robert B. Landry, Air Force Aide to President Truman getting another star.
It is sad to know that many governments kept a lid on these engagements. The deaths of many airmen were attributed to pilot error or engine failure when in reality they had died in air combat with craft not of this world. It is time to honor these men who died in aerial battles with UFO’s after being scrambled to hunt them down.
“For we are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6
FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL
By Major Donald E. Keyhoe Ret.
Keyhoe graduated from Annapolis and his school buddies kept him informed of the latest UFO sightings. This is the most interesting and the most important true story we have ever published. It is utterly true. We can document every occurrence reported here. It is our sober, considered conviction that the conclusion arrived at in this story is a fact. As State Director of the Air Force Association a few years ago I was amazed how many former military personnel came up to me and told me their stories of chasing UFOs.
THE FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL
Donald E. Keyhoe, who sums up the flying-saucer evidence for TRUE Magazine after sharing in the investigation that made this story possible, writes with twenty-five years of experience in observing aeronautical developments. A Naval Academy graduate, Pensacola-trained in aviation, he flew in active service with the Marine Corps, managed the U.S. tour of the historic plane in which Bennett and Admiral Byrd made their North Pole flight, was aide to Charles Lindbergh after the famous Paris hop, and was chief of information for the Aeronautics Branch, Department of Commerce. He has lectured and written extensively; of the many notable articles he has done for TRUE none has been so significant and timely as this one.
True Magazine
True Magazine Quarterly Published the Best UFO Reports
After eight months of intensive investigation, the following conclusions have been reached by TRUE Magazine:
For the past 175 years, the planet Earth has been under systematic close-range examination by living, intelligent observers from another planet.
The intensity of this observation, and the frequency of the visits to the Earth’s atmosphere by which it is being conducted, have increased markedly during the past two years.
The vehicles used for this observation and for interplanetary transport by the explorers have been identified and categorized as follows: Type I, a small, no pilot-carrying disk-shaped aircraft equipped with some form of television or impulse transmitter; T
Type II, a very large (up to 250 feet in diameter) metallic, disk-shaped aircraft operating on the
Helicopter principle: Type III, a dirigible-shaped, wingless aircraft which, in the Earth’s atmosphere, operates in conformance with the Prandtl theory of lift.
The discernible pattern of observation and exploration shown by the so-called “flying disks” varies in no important particular from well-developed American plans for the exploration of space expected to come to fruition within the next fifty years. There is reason to believe, however, that some other race of thinking beings is a matter of two and a quarter century ahead of us.The only other possible explanation is that the “saucers” are extremely high-speed, long-range devices developed here on Earth. Such an advance (which the Air Force has convincingly denied) would require an almost incredible leap in technical progress even for American scientists and designers. There is evidence of UDIOs in Antarctica and bases under the sea. Thanks to Major Keyhole.
Cylinders UFO near ISS, Moon and Poland
Screenshot of UFO on April 9, 2015, taken from the International Space station. The object was standing at the top left corner. It had cylindrical appearance, with blue light in the rear.
This is a blowup of the cylinder OVER Southern France
This UFO is very clear compared to most and shows a long cylindrical object. We can all see from this evidence that the object in the photo is solid. UFOs are seen near the ISS frequently even though NASA tries to limit observation time on individual cameras. The best stuff is deleted from public archives. Check out Face book Channel for new direct links to NASA unexplained SOHO Satellite UFO fleet pictures. April 9, 2015.
Notice the similarity to the craft near the International Space Station and the craft photographed on the moon. This is an incredible discovery by French researchers using Google Moon to find structures.
Moon Structure
There are a lot of structures in this location. There are between 30-50 sizable and very amazing structures south of Dorsum Gast Crater. Coordinates 1: 21°54’26.17″N 9°20’36.05″E, coordinates 2: 22°42’38.96″N 8°34’5.18″E, Coordinates 3: 22° 7’29.46″N 8° 7’35.68″E . Thanks to SCM and Sebastien Speller of YouTube
Scott Waring found this Moon structure recently and says UFO/UAP is serious stuff that has depths that even I can’t fathom.
Moon Triangle Structure or UFO/UAP
Poland Cylinder
Warsaw — I caught this object on the 9th of July 2020 over Poland. While taking the pictures I didn’t see anything strange in the sky.
Colorado Cylinder Photo courtesy of MUFON.com
Littleton — I was in my backyard looking up in the sky and I noticed a bright flash, so I got my camera and started taking pictures and a video of a Cylinder like spinning object. Pictures were taken on May 8, 2020.
Florida Cylinder just above the Trees
Clermont – on September8, 2021, we first observed the object hovering I would estimate at about 1000 feet. When I got over the shock, I called my wife and daughter later and it was gone. My wife spotted it to the east now about 10 miles away and that’s when we took the pictures and video.
It hovered for over 15 minutes it was a bit obscured by the trees. I am a professional person, a Sr. VP of a publicly traded company and this literally blew my mind. https://mufoncms.com/last_20_report.html
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet medium-range ballistic missile SS4 and SS 5s
The Cuban Missile Crisis started in the beginning of October 1962 when a U-2 photographed at 75,000 feet a Soviet buildup of Soviet equipment that was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. It was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear War.
KB-50 tanker refueling aircraft
I was flying in a tanker refueling RF-101s about 50 miles from Cuba on October 16, 1962, when our radio blurted out, “Captain Filer report immediately to General Sweeny office at Tactical Air Command Headquarters!” I thought I was in serious trouble. I was flown to Langley Air Force Base and reported into General Sweeney and TAC Intelligence. I possessed an above Top-Secret clearance and that is why they wanted me.
Immediately photos of nuclear missiles from Cuba were put in a brief case attached to my wrist with hand cuffs and I was flown to Andrews Air Force Base and raced by car to the Pentagon, Washington D.C. General LeMay would show the photos to President Kennedy and other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
RF-101’ Voodoos aircraft low level reconnaissance of Cuba
Our reconnaissance RF-101’ Voodoo aircraft were flying over Cuba at a couple hundred feet altitude at a thousand mph on an hourly bases to film 100s of Soviet SS-4 and SS-5 Ballistic Nuclear missiles with that could have probably destroyed the United States. The film was flown to Langley Air Force Base and processed, and my job was it to take the latest film to General LeMay at Air Force Headquarters in the Pentagon. I was carrying photos to General Curtis LeMay’s office sometimes twice a day. He had beautiful secretaries that led me into his office on opened the photographic in the case. I saluted but LeMay seemed more interested in chewing his cigar.
The Soviets were building at least nine sites—six for R-12 medium-range missiles (NATO designation SS-4 Sandal) with an effective range of 1,200 miles and three for R-14 intermediate-range ballistic missiles (NATO designation SS-5 Skean) with a maximum range of 2,800 miles. This is one of the photos I carried.
Note: During the Cuban Crisis I was a above top secret courier between General Walter Sweeney the Commander of Tactical Air Command (TAC) and General LeMay the Commander of the Air Force.
General Curtis LeMay
I was visiting the Pentagon and carrying Top Secret photographs of Soviet Missiles just taken by RF 101 reconnaissance aircraft. General Sweeney had told me to tell General Curtis LeMay “We can guarantee to knock out a couple hundred Soviet nuclear missiles sites spread around Cuba and Soviet IL–28 bombers capable of carrying nuclear bombs.”
The Joint Chiefs of Staff — argued for an immediate military response including air strikes to destroy the missiles before they could be armed and made ready for launch, followed by a full-scale military invasion of Cuba.
The State Department and advisers favored a purely diplomatic response including strongly worded warnings to Castro and Khrushchev they hoped would result in the supervised removal of the Soviet missiles. LeMay felt that would not work and get us all killed.
President Kennedy President meets with General Walter Sweeney Commander of the Tactical Air Command who tells him that an air strike could not guarantee 100% destruction of the missiles. Some could be hidden.
General LeMay also wanted to attack the missile sites. He told me to tell Sweeney, “Make sure you’re ready and on alert to attack. If we lose a plane, I want to attack the SAM Site that knocked on of our planes down.” Sweeney kept saying we are ready; we’ve got planes ready to attack in every military and civilian airfield in Florida.” TAC Intelligence working around the clock preparing detailed targets for the TAC fighters and Bombers. Interestingly the civilian intelligence personnel left at 5 o’clock. I’m making trips back and forth every day.
CIA U-2 Reconnaissance Aircraft
Then a high-flying CIA U-2 was shot down by a Soviet Sam Site and I expected the order would go to strike the Sam Site and probably start World War III. Frontally President Kennedy would not give the order to attack, but the Navy was ordered to conduct a naval blockade of Cuba as a restrained military action. They were told to intercept all Soviet ships and turn them back.
The Cuban Missile Crisis came to an end by agreements between JFK and Khrushchev. They agreed that the missiles in Cuba would be removed if the US missiles in Turkey be removed.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a tense 13-day-long (October 16-28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union triggered by America’s discovery of nuclear-capable Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev was persuaded by the idea of countering the US’s growing lead in developing and deploying strategic missiles by placing Soviet intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba.
Editor’s Note I was told by a Colonel escorting me to General LeMay’s office that an Exterrestrials alien from Venus lived in the Pentagon and he showed me a green door next to a restaurant area to his apartment. I asked to meet the alien, but I was refused.
Evidence of Aliens in the Pentagon
UFO/UAP
“The landing of Valiant Thor from Venus was perhaps the first documented landing of a human-type alien by military officials. He met with Presidents and key military personnel.
Stranger at the Pentagon
Allegedly “Val” Valiant Thor is a delegate of the ” High Council ” who had VIP status at the Pentagon who arrived at 8:00 AM, on March 16, 1957. Valiant Thor arrived in a ship, which landed in Alexandria, Virginia in an agricultural field to discuss concerns of the Cold War, leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The book “Stranger at the Pentagon” by Frank Stranges, in support of Harley Andrew Byrd, gives a UFO account of Thor being a Venusian.
Alleged Photo o Commander Valiant Thor
“Stranger at the Pentagon” is inspired by True Events from the book” of the same name published in 1967. Author Dr. Frank E. Stranges met Commander Valiant Thor, a Spiritual Representative of the universe on Christmas Eve in 1959. Our story begins when Thor lands on Earth in his technological wonder “Victor One” on Saturday, March 16, 1957, President Eisenhower, and Vice President Richard Nixon, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff all rush to the Oval Office to meet with the extraterrestrial. When Thor explains his presence, the men ponder his endless technological possibilities.
They contemplate their future strategy either using friendship or force to gain control. Thor’s invitation to reside at the Pentagon under VIP status begins. A designated Vice General in the Joint Chiefs of Staff has plans to climb the military ladder. Thor is his goal. To attain what Thor knows will ensure the United States military supremacy over the world, and status with his superiors.
Project Blue Book, United States Air Force.
President Eisenhower and Nixon in office January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961
Val met with President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon for an hour, and then the alien was put on VIP status and shuttled back to the Pentagon.” –Harley Byrd,
Thor indicated that his race of people lived and dwelled underground and that many of the planets throughout the universe sustain life in this same manner. He also mentioned the waves of aliens who would land around the world to help with the Earth’s seemingly insurmountable problems. He stated that a group from a distant planetary system would be coming to give aid and data to help the Earth’s progress. Val Thor spoke of Christ’s presence in the universe and that it was heartwarming to see Christ’s advanced teaching continuing on Earth. This visitation at the Pentagon marks perhaps a new era in knowledge, wisdom and understanding on our planet.”[1]
When all else fails, he takes Thor to the Empyrean, the leader of 13 men who allegedly make-up the SSS: the Secret Shadow Society–the men who really run the world from behind the corporate curtain. The Empyrean has liaisons across the universe with malevolent beings who have groomed him on how to handle Thor.
Emmy Filmmaker Craig Campobasso first met the book’s author Dr. Frank Stranges in 2002, and they immediately bonded like father and son. Craig worked with Dr. Frank’s guidance for many years as he wrote the feature-length screenplay to his book. Craig has also produced and directed the Short Film.
Craig just finished directing the short film with a futuristic look on board the Victor Class Saucers, Starship and on other planets where the people live on the interior of their worlds. The short film, based on Craig’s feature-length screenplay will accompany the business plan to investors. Other big films have made “short films” to forward the investing of the feature film like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. https://www.strangeratthepentagon.com/
President Eisenhower is usually the first name that comes to mind when discussing the White House’s knowledge of an alien presence.
Though he didn’t immediately succeed him, Nixon was Eisenhower’s Vice President, making the ufological connection all the more intriguing. It was also relatively well known that Nixon believed in the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrials, but according to his testimony, Nixon divulged his knowledge of a “sophisticated intelligent being” to Merritt toward the end of his presidency According to Merritt, Nixon claimed the being was alive and in government protection. He says Nixon entrusted this information to him as he considered Merritt one of his only confidantes, asking him to personally deliver a letter on the subject to Henry Kissinger – a copy of which allegedly remains hidden today somewhere in the White House.
A Dark Journalist’s Disclosure
Merritt’s testimony is corroborated by Douglas Caddy, a man who acted as a defense attorney for the parties convicted in the Watergate scandal and who claims he knows where Nixon’s ET disclosure letter is hidden in the White House. The two published a book titled, Watergate Exposed: How the President of the United States and the Watergate Burglars Were Set Up as told to Douglas Caddy.
Interviews with both men, including Merritt’s accounts of meeting Nixon, and his subsequent mission as letter courier to Kissinger, can be found on the website of Daniel Liszt, an investigative reporter on government and alien conspiracies, who goes by the alias “Dark Journalist.”
Merritt was an indispensable tool for Nixon’s Huston Plan – the aforementioned intelligence program to infiltrate and disrupt parties he felt threatened by, particularly political opponents and anti-war groups.
While serving as an informant under the Huston plan, Merritt says he was warned by one of his sources, a switchboard operator next to the Watergate Hotel named Rhita Reid, of the impending investigation into the administration. Merritt said he tried to warn Nixon, but that he wasn’t concerned at the time and didn’t foresee its major implications.
Despite this dismissal, Merritt claims he was one of Nixon’s most trusted sources and was even given nicknames including “003” – an obvious James Bond reference. So, when the Watergate scandal played out and the days of the Administration waned,
Merritt claims he was brought into a secret underground room beneath the White House where Nixon revealed the existence of an alien entity and technology housed at the infamous Nevada military base, Area 51.
“We have possessed knowledge and we have in our protection subjects from a planet X,” Nixon supposedly told Merritt. “Knowledge we obtained so vast and powerful, whoever possesses this knowledge would be the most powerful person in the world,” Merritt recounted.’
Nixon and Merritt
Merritt claims Nixon then wrote out a lengthy letter that included encrypted formulae to be delivered to Kissinger. He also included two cassette tapes, before sealing the letter and writing something on its outer flap, omitting his normal signature. Nixon then strapped the letter to Merritt’s stomach and sent him to deliver it to its intended recipient for unknown reasons. Allegedly we are close in time to reveal the letter to the public by the President in power.
Now, he claims that letter remains hidden somewhere in the White House, its location known to he and Caddy who say they will only reveal its location if the National Archives allows one of them to be present to read the letter publicly.
What’s Going on
Six aircraft filled with Americans are trapped in Afghanistan because our State Department will not permit them to leave according to those trapped. This news is from Emily J. Miller, a former senior political correspondent at One America News Network. She is a DC insider with many contacts in Afghanistan. And now she’s announcing the news on her verified Twitter account.
The American heroes reportedly have 6 chartered airplanes (four 737s and two others) on the Tarmac in northern Afghanistan with the people rescued and can’t get the administration’s help. The planes cannot take off unless the Taliban clears them which can easily be handled with a telephone call.
Two dozen Terrorists that are on the Terrorist list have been caught at the Southern U.S border and it is not known how many terrorists have come into sabotage and start fires. Twenty regional and international terrorist groups have won in Afghan after our surrender and warned they are trying to expand their activities by establishing large military and training bases in the region. Expect terrorist attacks in the U.S. but they will be called accidents.
Strange Craft
The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs
U.S. Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II. These men – military professionals who flew planes, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at airfields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft.
During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing UFOs off their plane’s wings. Award-winning investigative author John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer.
From objects in the skies over Cold War Europe to a UFOs over during the Cuban Missile Crisis to lights over the DMZ in Vietnam Filer leaves nothing out about his Air Force UFO encounters,
Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base in 1978 – is fully recounted for the first time in this book. As a member of the Disclosure Project, military experts, astronauts, and scientists urge the U.S. government to release all it knows about UFOs to the public.
Filer describes his UFO encounters in this incredible book. By John L. Guerra.
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Filer’s Files 37, 2021 - UFOs - PART II
Lowestoft Beach, England -- on September9, 2021, at 8:00 pm
Filer’s Files 37, 2021 - UFOs - PART II
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Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
C-117s Flew 120,000 people from Afghanistan
Special Reports on Lockheed Skunk works Engineer, Don Phillips Says UFOs are Real, Frank C. Feschino, (UFOs) Shoot Them Down, Evidence of Aliens in the Pentagon, What’s Going on and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Bahamas, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
California Object
Malibu — on September 5, 2021, I had just left the beach to go on Decker Canyon and took a picture of the sky. Later, I noticed the white spot that appears to be multiple crafts. The two large crafts appear to have the same front nose and they both have matching holes on the side. One large hole or window closest to the front of the craft and two smaller holes or windows to the rear. To the bottom right of the two main crafts are two others.
Florida Lights
Greenacres– on August 31, 2021, we noticed this bright light with a storm off in the far distance. I zoomed as my camera flipped to night mode. About 20 minutes later my wife looked again and it was gone.
Note: I believe that the witnesses saw the Planet Venus which was very bright in the southern sky. The apparent disappearance could have been due to clouds. The time was reported as 7 PM. The metadata with the photo shows that the time was around 8:15 PM EDT Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Indiana Object
Middletown – on September 5, 2021, I was on my porch watching the hummingbird and decided to take a video that day because he was extra vocal. Upon reviewing the video, I noticed a large Saturn like shaped object that was large, round, dark, except the bottom portion I could see was mostly a glowing green color. I’m sure this is either from another planet, or some black project craft that has not be released to the public.
New Jersey Lights
Atlantic City– on August 27, 2021, several glowing round red objects were ascending from the ocean upwardly to the sky at night, in a somewhat path-like pattern. As they got higher and higher, one by one, they started to disappear in the night sky until all of them were gone.
New York Lights
Henderson – on August 12, 2021, I was walking back from the gym, and it began to get windy, and lightning started. I took a video of the lightning and a rectangular object heading south. It was flying very fast and appeared as if it was riding waves in the sky. I watched it through the camera lens but when I picked my head up to see it with my naked eye it wasn’t there.
Ohio Lights
Kettering– on September 5, 2021, saw three orbs that went into a triangle formation. Two orbs disappear for a few seconds and then two appear back and then it rotated as a whole and the point turned to the north and then disappeared.
Oregon Object
Portland– on September 9, 2021, I was alone in the living room on the 5th floor of a high-rise when suddenly, the light pops up and then another SW of it but further away. It did not move but did change shape. It went into two then back to one. Also, it went like a thin line once.
Washington Lights
Seattle – on September 4, 2021, standing outside in back driveway 6 pm., talking on cell to friend. I noticed a large completely black metallic, cylinder, rectangle shaped object with slightly pointed ends gliding fast in the sky. It was at a steady upright position silently gilding towards Seattle air flight area. Within my sight for 3 minutes, until it was a black dot.
Wisconsin Object
Montello – on June 13, 2021, my name is Kerry Mann Jr. I live in Montello WI. I took the video and photography. While trying to get a time-lapse of the Milky Way I spotted a UFO. I was able to take 4 pretty darn good photos of the UFO! I put these photos as well as me zooming into them and exploring them more into a video. UFORCOP and Phantoms and Musters Fourteen Research Investigator Butch Witkowski forwarded the f information to me.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Light
Ballarat— on September 4, 2021, I went out my front door, and looked at the sky because I have seen numerous unidentified things and some definite craft in the past. I noticed a star like object, directly to the south, moving in the sky and began recording. This first UFO was travelling from the west to the east and quickly disappeared from view. Another brighter and larger UFO was more to the west I noticed one flash, further in the distance. This UFO seemed to be travelling NNE and getting lower as it went along. This UFO was larger than any stars for two minutes before it disappeared behind a tree. This second UFO seemed to get larger or glow more intensely a couple of times.
Bahamas Triangle Light
Paradise Island – on September 2, 2021, I was laying in the pool, taking pictures of the sky. I didn’t realize I had captured this picture until reviewing my photos later.
UK/England Light
Lowestoft Beach— on September9, 2021, at 8:00 pm I noticed a star-like object in the sky that stood out that was too bright to be a star and it looked artificial.
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This discovery I made is from Sol 3040. If you really think about it, whats left thousands of years after our species has disappeared? Whats left? What will others find. Well, if you look around outside, you will notice a lot of faces in photos, billboards, signs, advertisements and more everywhere. But in this society on Mars...they used the local materials, clearly they were not as advanced as humans are right now, but nevertheless...they were intelligent, they did appear to be semi human. So why were those artifacts there? My guess is it was a tribute much like a tomb stone in a cemetery to show who died and tell others who they were, when they lived, and to be...remembered. Now, thats my hypothesis, every scientist has one. I found a similar celtic ancient face in a museum and put it side by side with the mars face. They look the same, same species, same mouth, eyes, nose and forehead, cheeks. They may have been relatives in the distant past. The people of Mars and the people of Earth...some how related.
This is an image from the Apollo 15 moon mission archives. Its from NASA and was taken on the moon in 1971. In the upper right hand corner of the image is a bright object as shiny as the surface of the moon, except its hovering in space all alone. The object has a shape is unlike anything I have ever seen before. The objects head is closest to the moon and is smaller and thiner, and even has two long antennas sticking up from it. You see, UFO evidence went way back to 1971 and yet, people are not aware of it, because they never went searching through the NASA mission archives. A little time and effort really can bring out the truth...that aliens were watching humans as we walked on the moon.
A new creepy-looking alien abduction horror game called "They Are Here: Alien Abduction Horror" is due to be released in early 2022 and there's a free-to-play demo available now.
The game follows a journalist who investigates an alien sighting at the Grayswood farm and must explore the area in the dark, using a flashlight and take pictures to gather evidence of alien presence and get to the bottom of the horrifying events.
After numerous reports of mysterious sightings by the farm's owners — strange moving lights in the sky, spooked animals and more over five days — the player must find out whether this is deliberate deception for attention or genuine sensational sightings of alien life.
After reports of mysterious lights in the night sky and the children on the farm complaining that someone is walking by their windows, protagonist Taylor Fox must compile a photo report for the local paper.
"'They Are Here'" is a first-person horror story about a journalist who witnessed an alien abduction at the Grayswood farm," states the game's official description. "Explore the area armed with a flashlight. Take photos of evidence of aliens presence and get to the bottom of the horrifying truth."
The game sounds a bit like the movies "Signs" and "Paranormal Activity" mixed with a procedural investigation activities. But one thing is certain, the creepiness factor is high.
Although there is no official release date for the game yet, its Steam listing says the planned date is "early 2022" and you can add the game to your wishlist or play the demo for free.
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The former director of a secretive U.S. government UFO program is ready to tell his full story.
Luis Elizondo, who headed the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program’s effort to study UFOs around the world, has signed a book deal with William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, after a competitive bidding war for the U.S. publishing rights.
The memoir “promises to reveal shocking never-before-shared details regarding what Elizondo has learned about UFOs and the profound implications for humanity, all of which will escalate what is already a hot topic globally.”
In May, Elizondo was featured on CBS’ 60 Minutes segment on the UFO phenomena, which has racked up 10 million views on YouTube, making it the show’s fourth-most-watched segment on the streaming service.
Former President Barack Obama added onThe Late Late Showin May, “What is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that there are, there’s footage and records of objects in the skies, that we don’t know exactly what they are. We can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so, you know, I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is.”
In June, the Pentagon released a long-awaited report on UFOs (which have been re-dubbed Unidentified Aerial Phenomena — UAPs) that contained limited information about the task force’s findings. The report focused on 143 sightings by military aviators made since 2004 of objects that seemed to defy traditional classification and some of which seemed to break the laws of physics as well. The report offered five possible conclusions about what objects could be that ranged from the ultra mundane (birds, plastic bags), to the rather worrisome (top secret technology from U.S. adversaries like Russia and China), to the rather eyebrow-raising (“Other”). Most significantly to UFO buffs, the report did not rule out aliens and concluded more study was needed.
Said Elizondo in a statement: “The American people now know a small portion of what I and my colleagues in the Pentagon have been privy to: That these UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon) are not secret U.S. technology, that they do not seem to belong to any known allies or adversaries and that our intelligence services have yet to identify a terrestrial explanation for these extraordinary vehicles. This conversation is only just beginning.”
Elizondo was a former U.S. Army counterintelligence special agent and helped hunt drug traffickers, terrorists and spies. In 2008, he was asked to be part of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a $22 million program sponsored by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to study UFOs. In 2010, he was made director of the program. In 2017, he resigned from his position in protest of excessive government secrecy regarding UFOs. Elizondo was also involved in To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences from 2017 to 2020, and appeared on History Channel’s Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation. In 2019, a Pentagon spokesperson attempted to cast doubt on Elizondo’s leadership role within the AATIP, but Reid issued a counter-statement that firmly vouched for Elizondo’s position.
Elizondo’s book deal was brokered by Dan Farah of Farah Films & Management and Yfat Reiss Gendell of YRG Partners in Literary & Media with Mauro DiPreta, senior vp and executive editor at William Morrow
The former chief of a secretive Pentagon UFO program has signed a deal for a tell-all on the mysterious and controversial work, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Luis Elizondo, who headed the Department of Defense’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program’s effort to study UFOs around the world, signed a book deal with William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, after a competitive bidding war, according to THR.
The memoir "promises to reveal shocking never-before-shared details regarding what Elizondo has learned about UFOs and the profound implications for humanity, all of which will escalate what is already a hot-topic globally," the publisher promises, the news outlet reported.
Elizondo appeared on CBS’ "60 Minutes" in May during a segment on the UFO phenomena that racked up 10 million views on YouTube, making it the show’s fourth most-watched segment on the streaming service, the news outlet reported.
"What is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that there are, there’s footage and records of objects in the skies, that we don’t know exactly what they are," former President Barack Obama told "The Late Late Show" the same month.
"We can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so, you know, I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is."
The Pentagon in June released a report on UFOs — now dubbed as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAP – that contained limited information about the task force’s findings.
The report said defense and intelligence analysts lack sufficient data to determine the nature of mysterious flying objects observed by military pilots including whether they are advanced earthly technologies, atmospherics or of an extraterrestrial nature.
Submitted to Congress and released to the public, the report encompasses 144 observations of UAP dating back to 2004. It was issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in conjunction with a U.S. Navy-led UAP task force.
"UAP clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to U.S. national security," the report stated, adding that the phenomena "probably lack a single explanation."
In a statement to THR, Elizondo said Americans "now know a small portion of what I and my colleagues in the Pentagon have been privy to: That these UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon) are not secret U.S. technology, that they do not seem to belong to any known allies or adversaries and that our intelligence services have yet to identify a terrestrial explanation for these extraordinary vehicles. This conversation is only just beginning."
Elizondo’s background is wide-ranging, THR noted. He was a former Army Counterintelligence Special Agent and helped hunt drug traffickers, terrorists, and spies.
In 2008, he was asked to be part of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a $22 million program sponsored by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to study UFOs. In 2010, he was made director of the program, and resigned in 2017.
He was also involved in To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences from 2017 to 2020, and was on History Channel’s "Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation."
In 2019, a Pentagon spokesperson attempted to cast doubt on Elizondo’s leadership role within the AATIP, but Reid issued a counter-statement that vouched for Elizondo.
5 Sinister Extraterrestrial Encounters Reported by Russian Military
5 Sinister Extraterrestrial Encounters Reported by Russian Military
During the time of the Soviet Union, the threat posed by aliens was taken very seriously – so much so, that under the leadership of Nikita Kruschev a special military task force was given the role of assessing a possible extraterrestrial threat. Russian satellites, army soldiers, secret agents, and many more operatives were employed to record and study all sightings of UFOs and ETs – lest humanity fall to the malevolent influence and exploitation of an extraterrestrial civilisation.
Prehistoric primates had a sweet tooth! Squirrel-sized species that lived 54 million years ago gorged on sugary fruits — and had the first recorded cases of dental decay in mammals
Prehistoric primates had a sweet tooth! Squirrel-sized species that lived 54 million years ago gorged on sugary fruits — and had the first recorded cases of dental decay in mammals
Microsyops latidens was a tiny tree-dwelling primate from the Early Eocene
University of Toronto Scarborough experts studied 1,030 teeth and jaw fossils
These had all been unearthed from the Southern Bighorn Basin in Wyoming
Cavities appeared in 7.5% of fossils — a frequency higher than modern mammals
They also varied with time, suggesting changes in Microsyops latidens' diet
The team believe that these shifts may have been causes by climatic changes
The earliest known cases of dental cavities in mammals have been found in a squirrel-sized species that lived 54 million years ago and gorged itself on sugary fruits.
Fossil specimens of the prehistoric tree-dwelling primate — Microsyops latidens — were analysed by researchers from the University of Toronto Scarborough.
An artist’s impression of an Eosimias primate, which lived between 45 and 40 million years ago
CLAUS LUNAU/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
They found that 7.5 per cent of all the fossils that they studied had cavities, with some layers containing a greater frequency than others.
This suggests that the diet of Microsyops latidens varied over time between foods with higher and lower sugar contents.
The earliest known cases of dental cavities in mammals have been found in a squirrel sized species that lived 54 million years ago and gorged itself on sugary fruits. Pictured: the dental cavities can be seen in this micro-CT reconstruction of Microsyops latidens' upper jaw
COMPARING DECAY
As part of their study, the experts compared the prevalence of cavities in the fossils of Microsyops latidens with those of modern primates.
Microsyops latidens suffered more cavities than most primates today.
There are exceptions, however — specifically among the genus Cebus (which contains the capuchins) and Saguinus (e.g. tamarins).
The study was conducted by anthropologists Keegan Selig and Mary Silcox of the University of Toronto Scarborough.
'Dental cavities or caries is a common disease among modern humans, affecting almost every adult,' the duo wrote in their paper.
'Caries frequency has been used to study dietary change in humans over time, based on an inferred tie between the incidence of caries and a carbohydrate-rich diet.
'However, the disease is not unique to our species. Among non-human primates, there is also variation in caries frequency associated with diet.
'This metric may provide a mechanism for studying diet in broader contexts, and across geological time.'
In their study, the researchers analysed a total of 1,030 individual fossil teeth and jaw sections that were unearthed in the Southern Bighorn Basin of Wyoming, in the US.
The team found that 77 of the specimens included dental cavities, which they say were likely caused by a diet that was high in fruit or other sugar-rich foods.
However, by dating the fossils based on the age of the sediments in which they were deposited, the pair determined that the frequency of cavities varied over time, with the fewest found in the oldest and youngest of the specimens.
This suggests that the diet of Microsyops latidens changed over time between foods with varying levels of sugar content, perhaps in response to changes in vegetation growth and food availability brought about by the climate fluctuations of the time.
'Microsyops latidens may have relied on food sources that were higher in sugar, and therefore more cariogenic [likely to cause tooth decay], during periods of climatic flux,' the researchers wrote in their paper. Pictured: a reconstructed slice through a cavity in a second molar
'Microsyops latidens may have relied on food sources that were higher in sugar, and therefore more cariogenic [likely to cause tooth decay], during periods of climatic flux,' the researchers wrote in their paper.
'This, they explained, could have been 'a result of increased competition for limited food sources, or a change in the food sources that were available. This, in turn, may have led to the noted increase in caries frequency.
'As more palaeoclimatic data become available, it is possible that we will see evidence of further climatic change during this period, which may have affected the food sources available to M. latidens,' they concluded.
The full findings of the study were published in the journal Scientific Reports.
In their study, the researchers analysed a total of 1,030 individual fossil teeth and jaw sections that were unearthed in the Southern Bighorn Basin of Wyoming, in the US
TOOTH DECAY EXPLAINED
Tooth decay is damage to a tooth caused by dental plaque turning sugars into acid.
If plaque is allowed to build up, it can lead to problems, such as holes in the teeth (dental caries) and gum disease.
Dental abscesses, which are collections of pus at the end of the teeth or in the gums, may develop.
Symptoms of tooth decay
Tooth decay may not cause any pain.
But if you have dental caries, you might have:
- toothache — either continuous pain keeping you awake, or occasional sharp pain without an obvious cause; it can sometimes be painless
- tooth sensitivity — you may feel tenderness or pain when eating or drinking something hot, cold or sweet
- grey, brown or black spots appearing on your teeth
- bad breath
* an unpleasant taste in your mouth
Seeing a dentist
Visit your dentist regularly so early tooth decay can be treated as soon as possible and the prevention of further decay can begin.
Tooth decay is much easier and cheaper to treat in its early stages.
Dentists can usually identify tooth decay and further problems with a simple examination or X-ray.
Find your nearest dentist
It's also important to have regular dental check-ups.
Adults should have a check-up at least once every 2 years, and children under the age of 18 should have a check-up at least once a year.
Treatments for tooth decay
Early-stage tooth decay
Early-stage tooth decay, which is before a hole (or cavity) has formed in the tooth, can be reversed by:
- reducing how much and how frequently you have sugary foods and drinks
- brushing your teeth at least twice a day with fluoride toothpaste
Your dentist may apply a fluoride gel or fluoride paste to the affected tooth.
Fluoride helps to protect teeth by strengthening the enamel, making teeth more resistant to the acids from plaque that can cause tooth decay.
Treatments for holes in teeth
When there's a hole in the tooth, treatment may include:
- a filling or crown – this involves removing the dental decay and filling the hole or covering the tooth (read about what NHS fillings and crowns are made of)
- root canal treatment – this may be needed to remove tooth decay that's spread to the centre of the tooth where the blood and nerves are (the pulp)
- removing all or part of the tooth – this is usually advised when the tooth is badly damaged and cannot be restored; your dentist may be able to replace the tooth with a partial denture, bridge or implant
Preventing tooth decay in adults
Although tooth decay is a common problem, it's often entirely preventable.
The best way to avoid tooth decay and keep your gums as healthy as possible is to:
- visit your dentist regularly – your dentist will decide how often they need to see you based on the condition of your mouth, teeth and gums
- cut down on sugary and starchy food and drinks, particularly between meals or within an hour of going to bed – some medicines can also contain sugar, so it's best to look for sugar-free alternatives where possible
- look after your teeth and gums – brush your teeth properly with a fluoride toothpaste twice a day, and use floss and an interdental brush at least once a day
- see your dentist or a GP if you have a persistently dry mouth – this may be caused by certain medicines, treatments or medical conditions
Protecting your child's teeth
Establishing good eating habits by limiting sugary snacks and drinks can help your child avoid tooth decay.
Regular visits to the dentist at an early age should also be encouraged.
It's important to teach your child how to clean their teeth properly and regularly. Your dentist can show you how to do this.
Younger children should use a children's toothpaste, but make sure to read the label about how to use it.
Children should still brush their teeth twice a day, especially before bedtime.
What causes tooth decay
Your mouth is full of bacteria that form a film over the teeth called dental plaque.
When you consume food and drink high in carbohydrates, particularly sugary foods and drinks, the bacteria in plaque turn the carbohydrates into energy they need, producing acid at the same time.
The acid can break down the surface of your tooth, causing holes known as cavities.
Once cavities have formed in the enamel, the plaque and bacteria can reach the dentine, the softer bone-like material underneath the enamel.
As the dentine is softer than the enamel, the process of tooth decay speeds up.
Without treatment, bacteria will enter the pulp, the soft centre of the tooth that contains nerves and blood vessels.
At this stage, your nerves will be exposed to bacteria, usually making your tooth painful.
The bacteria can cause a dental abscess in the pulp and the infection could spread into the bone, causing another type of abscess.
The oldest dental cavities on a mammal date back 54 million years. As a matter of fact, experts have stated that cavities were actually quite common in early primates, specifically Microsyops latidens which were alive during the Early Eocene Period. Dental cavities have been found in more than 7% of the fossils belonging to that species.
While there isn’t much information regarding the Microsyops latidens species since they have no living descendants, experts believe that they lived in trees and ate fruits as well as insects.
There were a total of 1,030 dental fossils (jaws and teeth) that were found in Wyoming’s Southern Bighorn Basin that span a time frame of approximately 544,000 years during the Early Eocene Period. Of those samples, 77 of them (or 7.48%) contained cavities. The researchers stated that this is the “largest sample to date of fossil caries in a single extinct mammal species,” and the “earliest known sample of dental caries in an extinct mammal.” Another extinct primate that lived about 12.5 million years ago previously held the record for the oldest dental cavity until now.
As for what caused the cavities, scientists think that they were probably due to the consumption of sweet fruits and other sugary foods. Cavities form when mouth bacteria eats away sugar that is on the teeth and delivers a very acidic by-product that then eats the dental tissue; therefore creating a hole (cavity).
Additionally, the changes in the cavities throughout that time period suggested that the primates varied their food habits with some containing more sugar than others (the oldest and youngest fossils had the fewest number of cavities). This may have been caused by the climate fluctuating during the Early Eocene Period that could have affected vegetation and food.
Keegan Selig from the University of Toronto Scarborough explained this further, “We cannot be 100% certain that it was fruit that caused these cavities in M. Latidens. Other factors such as the pH and biochemistry of the mouth might also produce cavities,” adding, “But fruit, and specifically sugar, are major culprits in producing cavities, just like in our own mouths today.”
Some of the cavities found in the Microsyops latidens teeth were quite minor while others were severe. Experts are unsure whether or not the cavities had an effect on the primates’ health, but as Selig explained, “…having cavities, especially large ones, can lead to many health problems” like having an infection, soreness while chewing, and even losing the tooth. (A picture of an upper jaw with two cavities can be seen here.)
Part of the upper jaw from Microsyops latidens with two caries (cavities).
Credit: Keegan Selig
The study was published in Scientific Reports where it can be read in full.
It’s no secret that current Americans and residents of North American going all the way back to the first European on this land give the indigenous people of the land little credit for much of anything. A recent discovery in Louisiana changed that for some archeologists and possibly for some engineers – the massive earthen structures at a place ironically called Poverty Point were constructed in mere weeks yet have managed to solidly survive for 3,400 years. Some people living in buildings in the path of recent hurricanes may want to pay attention.
“We as a research community — and population as a whole — have undervalued native people and their ability to do this work and to do it quickly in the ways they did. One of the most remarkable things is that these earthworks have held together for more than 3,000 years with no failure or major erosion. By comparison, modern bridges, highways and dams fail with amazing regularity because building things out of dirt is more complicated than you would think. They really were incredible engineers with very sophisticated technical knowledge.”
Tristram R. “T.R.” Kidder, anthropology professor and lead author of the study published in the journal Southeastern Archeology, explains in a Washington University in St. Louis press release how his team of anthropologists used radiocarbon dating, microscopic analysis of soils and magnetic measurements of soils to study the Poverty Point World Heritage site in northern Louisiana. The massive mound is 72 feet high with concentric circles in front of it. It was made, starting in 1700 BCE, with nearly 2 million cubic yards of soil hauled, mixed and assembled by a hunter-fisher-gatherer culture without sophisticated tools, domesticated animals, wheeled carts or any other aids. Kidder believes the construction was completed in lifts, or layers of sediment deposited to increase the ridge height and linear dimensions before another layer was placed to expand the mound vertically and horizontally. Amazingly, there is no evidence of weathering between the layers, indicating they were built rapidly and the entire 2 million cubic yards hit 72 feet in a matter of weeks.
“Similar to the Roman concrete or rammed earth in China, Native Americans discovered sophisticated ways of mixing different types of materials to make them virtually indestructible, despite not being compacted. There’s some magic there that our modern engineers have not been able to figure out yet.”
Will they ever figure it out? Kidder thinks these Native American engineers descended from the original people who crossed the Bering Strait land bridge 15,000 years ago. The variety and magnitude of artifacts found there indicates it may have been a major trading center when the mound was built, providing the engineers with a large labor pool to haul, mix and pile the soil. Holes indicate that houses were built on the mound, but it appears news of the sheer magnitude of it spread and the mound became an important religious site where Native Americans came in pilgrimage.
An aerial view of the earthworks at Poverty Point. Excerpt from USDA Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service aerial photograph CTK-2BB-125.
Aerial photograph taken November 11, 1960.
While the mounds have stood for 3,400 years through hurricanes, heavy rains, flooding and erosion, the Native American builders didn’t. It appears they moved out around 1100 BCE due to hurricanes, heavy rains, flooding and erosion – i.e., climate change.
The mound at Poverty Point is not the most famous – the Serpent Mound in Ohio is – but perhaps it should be. Will modern engineers learn anything from these underappreciated yet obviously talented Native American builders? Possibly. Will the mound help today’s Americans better appreciate the talented people who lived here long before the Europeans? Has anything else managed to do that? Will climate change force modern people to abandon the structures they build? Definitely. How long will those structures last? You know the answer.
We must never stop learning about – and learning from – the past.
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The mounds still rise as much as 66 feet above ground, more than 3,000 years after they were constructed.
Archaeologists investigated the construction process for the earthworks.
(Southeastern Archaeology)
A new study sheds light on the "sophisticated" engineering work by early Native Americans at the World Heritage Site at Poverty Point, Louisiana.
Phys Org.
“This in and of itself is remarkable because hunter-gatherers aren’t supposed to be able to do these activities,” Washington University anthropologist Tristram Kidder said.
Virgin Galactic stelt eerste commerciële onderzoeksruimtevlucht uit tot oktober
Virgin Galactic heeft zijn eerste commerciële onderzoeksmissie met de Italiaanse luchtmacht uit voorzorg uitgesteld tot medio oktober. Het uitstel is veroorzaakt door een potentiële fabricagefout bij een leverancier.
Virgin Galactic schrijft dat het bedrijf zijn ‘Unity 23'-missie met de Italiaanse luchtmacht uitstelt nadat het door een leverancier is gewaarschuwd voor een mogelijk defect. De eventuele productiefout zou in het flight control-systeem zitten.
“Op dit moment is nog niet bekend of het defect aanwezig is in de ruimtetuigen van het bedrijf en welke reparatiewerkzaamheden eventueel nodig zijn”, meldt Virgin Galactic. Het bedrijf zegt dat het momenteel inspecties uitvoert, samen met de leverancier in kwestie. Het voegt eraan toe dat het de missie heeft uitgesteld vanwege ‘een overvloed aan voorzichtigheid’.
De Unity 23-missie stond aanvankelijk in de planning voor eind september of begin oktober, maar vindt nu ‘medio oktober’ plaats, zo klinkt het. Het bedrijf deelt later een meer concrete lanceringsdatum. Tijdens de missie zouden bemanningsleden van de Italiaanse luchtmacht en de Italiaanse nationale onderzoeksraad naar de ruimte gaan.
Onderzoek
Het uitstel is volgens het bedrijf niet gerelateerd aan een lopend onderzoek van de Amerikaanse Federal Aviation Administration. Die overheidsinstantie onderzoekt momenteel de eerste bemande testvlucht van Virgin Galactic. Tijdens die vlucht vloog het ruimteschip van Virgin Galactic een minuut lang buiten zijn aangewezen luchtruim. Het bedrijf mag nu geen vluchten uitvoeren met zijn SpaceShipTwo-ruimtevaartuig totdat de FAA een uitspraak heeft gedaan, meldt persbureau Reuters.
Concurrentiestrijd
Virgin Galactic wil toeristische vluchten richting de ruimte verkopen, en met zijn eigen vlucht in juli wilde oprichter Richard Branson daar reclame voor maken. Hij is in een hevige concurrentiestrijd verwikkeld met twee andere multimiljardairs. Ook Amazon-oprichter Jeff Bezos, die een week na Branson naar de ruimte ging, en Elon Musk (Tesla, PayPal, SpaceX) hebben zich op het ruimtetoerisme gestort. SpaceX stuurt volgende week overigens een speciale vlucht naar de ruimte. Voor het eerst bestaat de bemanning van een toestel dat in een baan rond de aarde komt alleen uit burgers. Er gaan geen professionele astronauten mee.
Voor het eerst gaan alleen burgers mee op ruimtevlucht rond aarde
De ruimte is niet alleen voor professionele astronauten, maar ook voor gewone burgers. Dat is de boodschap die verkopers van ruimtetoerisme graag overbrengen. Daarom stuurt een van die bedrijven, SpaceX van miljardair Elon Musk, volgende week een speciale vlucht naar de ruimte. Voor het eerst bestaat de bemanning van een toestel dat in een baan rond de aarde komt alleen uit burgers. Zij worden voorbereid en getraind, maar er gaan geen professionele astronauten mee.
Inspiration4, zo heet de missie. De gezagvoerder is de 38-jarige miljardair Jared Isaacman, die de vlucht betaalt. Hij is de oprichter van betaaldienst Shift4. In zijn vrije tijd is hij straaljagerpiloot en bergbeklimmer. In 2009, toen hij 26 was, vloog Isaacman met een vliegtuig in recordtempo de wereld rond. Hij had slechts 62 uur nodig voor de reis.
Isaacman koos drie burgers die met hem mee mogen gaan. Daarbij koos hij ook een goed doel. SpaceX hoopt dat de vlucht zo’n 200 miljoen dollar (bijna 170 miljoen euro) opbrengt voor een kinderziekenhuis in de stad Memphis, onder meer door het veilen van spullen die meegaan aan boord.
Een van de bemanningsleden is Hayley Arceneaux (29), die als arts-assistent in het ziekenhuis werkt. Als kind had zij kanker. Haar knie werd vervangen en ze kreeg een staaf van titanium in haar dijbeen. Ze wordt de eerste persoon met een prothese die naar de ruimte gaat. Christopher Sembroski (42) mag mee omdat hij geld doneert aan het kinderziekenhuis. Het vierde en laatste bemanningslid is Sian Proctor (51), een docente geologie. Ze probeerde in 2009 astronaut te worden voor de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA, maar viel af bij de laatste selectieronde.
Lancering
De lancering staat voorlopig gepland voor donderdag, maar het precieze tijdstip hangt af van de weersverwachting rond de ruimtebasis Cape Canaveral in Florida. De bemanning komt maximaal 540 kilometer van de aarde. De laatste keer dat mensen zo ver weg gingen, was in 2009. Na een vlucht van drie dagen moet het vaartuig met de vier, hangend aan een parachute, in de Atlantische Oceaan plonzen.
Musk is in een hevige concurrentiestrijd verwikkeld met twee andere miljardairs, die zich ook op ruimtetoerisme hebben gestort. In juli ging een ruimtevliegtuig van Virgin Galactic naar de rand van de dampkring. Aan boord zaten oprichter Richard Branson en drie van zijn naaste medewerkers. Musks andere rivaal, Amazon-oprichter Jeff Bezos, ging anderhalve week later ook naar grote hoogten. Hij zat aan boord van de eerste bemande vlucht van zijn bedrijf Blue Origin. Een van de drie andere passagiers was de Nederlander Oliver Daemen, de jongste mens die ooit in de ruimte is geweest. Maar Branson, Bezos en hun reisgenoten kwamen niet in een baan rond de aarde.
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What Is Flashing On The Moon? SecureTeam10
What Is Flashing On The Moon? SecureTeam10
What Is Flashing On The Moon? SecureTeam10
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Date of sighting: September 10, 2021 Location of sighting: Dover, Delaware, USA Source: MUFON
This video was just reported this morning. A man and woman were standing outside enjoying the night sky when one of them noticed a dark slowly moving object at 7:15pm. In the recording we get to see the very slow movement of the UFO and we also see something rare...the UFO is making a little bit of cloud formation around it, however the cloud is forming a trail behind it since the UFO is moving and the UFO shield (energy) is not turned on so the cloud formation is not continued within it. Instead, the aliens made a mistake, and began moving before the shield was up, causing the cloud formation to break away into two long streaks behind it. Amazing and important capture. 100% proof that UFOs make clouds and 100% proof aliens do make mistakes.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
It was around 7:15 pm when my wife and I started to take a walk in our neighborhood. The sun was setting in the west with pink clouds in the distance. There was still blue sky left. That's when I noticed what looked like a dark pink cloud by itself and out of place. I stopped to look at it and asked my wife if she saw it moving. She said yes. Then the cloud started to move slowly towards us and with a tail like a comet. Then it seem to turn away from us with 2 tails. It finally went from reddish to black then went into cloud cover and it was gone.
Black Object Over Buffalo, New York, Aug 25, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Black Object Over Buffalo, New York, Aug 25, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 25, 2021
Location of sighting: Buffalo, New York, USA
Source: MUFON
This UFO was recorded a few weeks ago back in August 25th. The persons security cams caught something flying over the homes neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. The object looks like it has a light that rotates around the craft and it does appear to be looking for something or...someone. Very cool raw footage, and steady camera coverage since it was a security cam that caught it. Such evidence not only tells us aliens exist, but that they are unafraid to fly over the largest cities in America.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
About 8:24 pm, an Object comes in from the Southwest close to my house, heading North, displaying a light. It appeared to be searching for something. Three minute later another Object, or maybe the same object comes in from the Southwest and when close to my house make a sharp turn Eastward, then abruptly turned North and continue on out of camera view. It also appeared to be searching for something.
‘What I saw that night was real’: is it time to take aliens more seriously?
‘What I saw that night was real’: is it time to take aliens more seriously?
‘I don’t know if I was abducted by aliens or not. The whole point of my work is to describe what happened to me’: Whitley Strieber.
Illustration: Ana Yael
The Pentagon has been quietly investigating unidentified flying objects since 2007. The fact that they think they might exist is good news to those who claim to have seen them.
‘I don’t know if I was abducted by aliens or not. The whole point of my work is to describe what happened to me’: Whitley Strieber.
Illustration: Ana Yael
The Pentagon has been quietly investigating unidentified flying objects since 2007. The fact that they think they might exist is good news to those who claim to have seen them
In June, the US government published a long-awaited report into UFOs. Although the report did not, as many had hoped, admit to the existence of little green men, it did reveal that not only were objects appearing in our skies that the Pentagon – which controls the US military – could not explain, but some clearly pose “a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to US national security”.
The Pentagon also revealed that it has been taking UFOs so seriously that in 2007 it discreetly set up the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which has been gathering data on Unexplained Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) ever since.
The unclassified version of the report (there was also a classified version seen only by US lawmakers) found “no clear indications that there is any non-terrestrial explanation” for the sightings. But neither did it rule it out. The report offered five typically mundane possible explanations for the UFOs and, crucially, one catch-all “other” bin.
It’s that “other” bin that has arrested the attention of stargazers and conspiracy theorists. If the US military has been quietly and seriously investigating UFOs (or, as the Pentagon would have it, UAPs) since 2007, and if the Pentagon’s official report cannot rule out the existence of extraterrestrials, is it time we looked again at claims of close encounters and the people who have made them?
Enthusiasm for UFOs and ETs has permeated popular culture ever since a US air force balloon crashed near Roswell in 1947. Conspiracy theorists confused the balloon for a UFO; the US government did a lousy job debunking those claims, and they quickly captured the public’s imagination. Fast forward to 1961, when Barney and Betty Hill told the world’s first alien abduction story.
Andrew Abeyta, professor of psychology at Rutgers University, co-authored We Are Not Alone, a study into why some of us want to believe in aliens. Abeyta explains that belief in aliens is akin to religiosity: unfounded beliefs in unfalsifiable ideas, which require a leap of faith. “People have a need to feel like their lives are meaningful, and these beliefs might suggest that there’s something bigger out there; there’s something more important going on,” Abeyta says
I tell Abeyta about an interview I carried out with a young man in Florida. The man, who did not want to be named, described an ambiguous close encounter that took place during his sleep. When I asked him what he preferred the truth to be – a real encounter or merely a vivid dream – the young man said he would prefer it to be true because that would mean he was “special”.
“I can imagine being a protagonist in an alien-abduction story seems pretty meaningful, like a meaningful achievement, an accomplishment,” Abeyta says. That feeling of specialness plays an important role in these stories. “Feeling like your unexplained experience is a result of an alien abduction just seems more exciting and more important than a natural explanation.”
Still, the topic of alien encounters remains sensitive. I discovered just how sensitive when author Whitley Strieber, who some claim was abducted by non-humans in 1985, terminated our call after learning that I had not read his books. In a subsequent email, he wrote: “I don’t know if I was abducted by aliens or not. The whole point of my work is to describe what happened to me and attempt to understand what it was. I was turned into ‘alien abductee Whitley Strieber’ by the media. That is not my position.” He added: “You are lost in space when it comes to this subject, my friend – all of you.”
After I got off on the wrong foot with Strieber, though, he did come back and introduce me to highly decorated former US navy cryptologist Matthew Roberts. He was stationed on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt when fighter jets recorded the infamous “Gimbal” and “Go Fast” videos of unexplained objects off the Florida coast during 2015, which went a long way to prompting the Pentagon’s UFO report.
Now retired from the military, Roberts is unmoved by the debunkers. “These things are picked up by multiple sensors that are sometimes from different manufacturers, so to think that they would all be glitching in the same way at the same time would just be impossible – it just doesn’t happen that way.”
Mick West, a science writer and video game programmer turned conspiracy-theory debunker, offers his own, more down-to-earth explanations for the objects: arguing that mundane things – tech glitches, camera glare, balloons and birds – are more likely than aliens.
However, now even the Pentagon has conceded there’s more to UFOs than that. In its nine-page report it states: “Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors, to include radar, infrared, electro-optical, weapon seekers and visual observation.” In other words, there was something out there and the images were not technical glitches. I ask Roberts about a theory put forward by West that the Gimbal object was glare caused by a nearby aircraft. “All aircraft – nationally, internationally – have to broadcast who they are. If they’re not broadcasting that, that’s very unusual. Mick West, bless his soul, he has never been in the military,” he says.
Roberts explains that, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, unidentified air tracks escalate very quickly. “It will go to the captain, it will go to the admiral, and they’ll want to know what that is because the thought would immediately be: ‘Is this a commercial airliner? Has it been hijacked?’ We’re not as incompetent as Mick West would have you believe. If something is unidentified, it absolutely has to be identified immediately.”
Despite the debunkers and proliferation of more mundane explanations for UFOs, reports of close encounters have persisted for decades. Terry Lovelace, a retired assistant attorney general in Vermont, USA, and author of Incident at Devil’s Den, kept his abduction to himself for 40 years due to fear of losing his job. He had a close encounter in 1977 while serving in the US air force.
Lovelace, now 67, was on a camping trip in Devil’s Den national park in northern Arkansas with a friend and colleague named Toby when things got strange. They were sitting around a fire, struggling to chat over the din of buzzing crickets and croaking tree frogs before everything went quiet. “That sounds kind of clichéd – out of a movie – but that is exactly what happened to us,” he says.
Three bright lights appeared on the horizon and moved in their direction. When the lights were overhead, they could see that they were emanating from a black triangular prism as wide as two city blocks.
A blue laser beam darted over them, which Lovelace thought was scanning them. When it shut off, they became sleepy. Next thing, he woke and saw Toby peering out of the tent. The triangle was hovering above what appeared to be a dozen children standing in a meadow below them. “What are these kids doing out here in the middle of the night?” said Lovelace.
“They aren’t little kids. Don’t you remember they took us and they hurt us?” Toby answered.
Lovelace says the moment Toby said that, fragmented memories of being inside the UFO flashed in his mind. Years later, hypnosis helped him fill in more blanks and he recalled actually encountering creatures while inside the UFO.
‘People who were previously disbelieved and ridiculed should be listened to and given a hearing’, says Nick Pope.
Illustration: Ana Yael
For some, thefact that the Pentagon has finally admitted it cannot explain the behaviour of the objects may have been a surprise but, for PC Alan Godfrey, 73, it merely proves what he already knows.
On a windswept and wet West Yorkshire evening in November 1980, Godfrey was in hot pursuit of a herd of escaped cows in Todmorden’s housing estate. Instead of cows, he stumbled across a giant levitating diamond that would change the course of his life. Godfrey’s close encounter with this UFO went viral worldwide and transformed Todmorden into Britain’s Roswell.
Godfrey, a no-nonsense Yorkshireman born and raised in Oldham, is long retired from the force but still recalls the events of that night when he came face to face with the peculiar object – a diamond-shaped aircraft hovering 5ft off the ground while spinning on its axis.
He just had time to sketch the UFO on his notepad before he was blinded. In his next moment of conscious awareness, he was sitting in his patrol car. The UFO was gone. “I got out of the car, looked at the road surface, and it was like a whirlpool,” he says. The UFO’s rapid revolutions had arranged the dead leaves, twigs and other debris into an autumn-themed spiral.
In the aftermath of his encounter, he had visits from the Ministry of Defence, correspondence from a Russian scientist and interest from the world’s press. He even underwent hypnosis to uncover memories of his abduction.
Godfrey was ridiculed for years – many who claim to have had encounters with UFOs are reluctant to go on the record for fear of the same treatment – but things are changing. High-ranking government officials such as Christopher Mellon, a former US secretary for defence in intelligence, and Luis Elizondo, former director of AATIP, insist that there are aircraft in our skies that don’t obey the known laws of physics. Even Barack Obama has gone on record on the subject, talking to CBS this year: “There’s footage and records of objects in the skies, that we don’t know exactly what they are, we can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so, you know I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is. But I have nothing to report to you today.”
When it comes to abduction stories, sceptics will say these encounters are either hoaxes or accounts of vivid dreams or hallucinations. Christopher French, emeritus professor of psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, has spent years studying the paranormal and argues that sleep paralysis is a better explanation for many of these stories. “In some cases, you get associated symptoms, and they include a sense of presence; a very strong feeling that there’s something in the room with you,” French says. He adds that sufferers might hallucinate and “see strange lights moving around the room or strange figures or shadow people”.
That doesn’t fit for Godfrey’s story – he was driving and on duty at the time. “I think in Alan Godfrey’s case, he was sleep-deprived; he had been on duty for a long time. The most likely explanation is some kind of hallucinatory experience due to tiredness,” says French. What about the story he told under hypnosis? “The thing with hypnotic regression is that it is one of the best ways known of generating false memories. If you go for hypnotic regression expecting to recover memories of alien abduction, there’s a very good chance that’s what you’ll get.”
But Nick Pope, a former UFO investigator for the Ministry of Defence, is not convinced and thinks that Godfrey is genuine. “He had a lot to potentially lose by coming out with this and yet stuck to his guns.”
Doesn’t a hallucination explain what he saw? “I get that people do have hallucinations, but they tend to be the result of either mental illness or some sort of hallucinogenic substance, and this guy was on duty and was, by all accounts, rational. And so those explanations don’t seem to apply – I’m stumped when it comes to that particular case. Ask yourself: how many times have you been tired and come to the end of a long day? We’ve all been in that situation, and we don’t suddenly construct bizarre narratives about spacecraft and aliens.”
Is it time to start taking these stories more seriously? “I’m not saying that I believe it’s literally true that these are alien spaceships,” says Pope. “But at the very least, these people who were previously disbelieved and ridiculed should be listened to and given a hearing.
“For everyone who tells you these people are attention seekers after fame and fortune, I would say, ‘What fame? What fortune?’ Who outside the UFO community has heard of Alan Godfrey or Terry Lovelace?”
Does Pope think ETs are among us? “I don’t know. I am certain that they are out there, but whether they’re down here or not? I don’t know. I think it’s much more likely that we’re dealing with unmanned probes.”
If not hallucinations, equipment glitches or mistakes, many will say black ops, conducted by the US, China, Russia, or other militaries, are a more plausible explanation than aliens. “I accept that most military personnel won’t have sight of every single black project and, therefore, won’t necessarily know about every secret prototype, aircraft or drone that’s flying,” says Pope. “But the military and government, and the intelligence community have a pretty good idea of roughly where the ceiling is in terms of technology. So, when these expert military witnesses describe the sorts of speeds, accelerations, manoeuvres that are reported with these sorts of incidents, I sit up and take note.”
Whatever one thinks about the veracity of these stories, many of the people who tell them believe they are real, and some suffer from severe mental illness in the aftermath. Chris French says the levels of psychological arousal in people living with PTSD go “through the roof” when they’re asked to retell their stories. “If you do the same thing with the alien abductees, you get the same thing.”
Lovelace’s night in Devil’s Den changed his life and the life of his friend Toby. The US air force got wind of their ordeal and, per military protocol, separated and reassigned them. Lovelace ignored his orders and visited Toby to say goodbye. “Toby was falling apart,” Lovelace says. The two embraced. Toby said: “It happened, didn’t it?” “Yes, my brother, it really happened. You’re not losing your mind,” Lovelace replied.
Lovelace has suffered enormously since that night. “I’ve had 40 years’ of nightmares. I still have a phobia of crossing open ground. I still sleep with a light on and a gun beside my bed.” But he feels vindicated by acknowledgments made by the US government, military personnel and Obama. “I’ve got a long list of people that I’m going to email and say, ‘I told you so.’”
For Godfrey, it’s 40 years too late. He is adamant about what he saw that morning in Todmorden. “I’ve had all sorts: you fell into some sort of trance when you were driving – all that shit. No, it was real. It left debris on the road – my headlights were reflecting off it, as were the blue lights. This was a real incident. I didn’t need the Pentagon to tell me there are things out there. I know what I saw that night was real, nuts and bolts. If I’d got out and thrown a brick at it, it would have gone, ‘Clang!’ It doesn’t change what happened to me and how I was treated back then.”
UFO probe seems to be searching for something over Buffalo, NY 25-Aug-2021
UFO probe seems to be searching for something over Buffalo, NY 25-Aug-2021
Check out this interesting UFO footage. It shows some kind of a probe flying across the night sky above Buffalo, New York on 25th September 2021.
Witness report:
About 8:24 pm, an Object comes in from the Southwest close to my house, heading North, displaying a light. It appeared to be searching for something. Three minute later another Object, or maybe the same object comes in from the Southwest and when close to my house make a sharp turn Eastward, then abruptly turned North and continue on out of camera view. It also appeared to be searching for something.
Huge news: NASA confirmed that its Mars-rock-scooping robot, Perseverance, has at long last managed to scoop up some Mars rocks.
That also means that the rover has started to conduct some rudimentary geological research on its surroundings, according to a NASA press release. While the bulk of the study will be conducted once those and any future samples make their way back to Earth next decade, Perseverance is already making some important discoveries — chief among them more evidence that Mars once hosted a far more hospitable landscape than it does today.
Ancient Lake
NASA already knew that Jezero Crater, where Perseverance has been roaming around, was likely once the site of a huge lake. But they didn’t know how long it lasted. New Perseverance data, though, suggests that water was around for quite some time, hinting that Mars once had a stable natural environment.
“It looks like our first rocks reveal a potentially habitable sustained environment,” NASA and Caltech scientist Ken Farley, a researcher on the Perseverance mission, said in the release. “It’s a big deal that the water was there a long time.”
Thrilling Saga
This is a long-awaited triumph for the rover, which had a surprisingly hard time digging up and storing Martian regolith. At first, NASA declared pre-emptive success before realizing that Perseverance had messed up its first attempt — a failure that NASA still blames on the lifeless rock rather than its rock-gathering robot.
Then, after sending Perseverance scooting away toward a new target, NASA once again declared success, claiming that Perseverance had actually managed to scoop up and sample rock samples. Images of the alleged rock sample, though, were initially too dark to make anything out.
After all of that, it’s a huge relief to see that the process finally worked out.
A multi-billion dollar project to bring back a piece of Mars to Earth will involve three separate launches and would only be successful as soon as 2031
Wetenschappers ontdekken fossiele ‘vliegende draak’ in Chileense woestijn
In de Chileense Atacamawoestijn hebben archeologen fossiele resten ontdekt van een prehistorisch dier dat zich laat omschrijven als ‘een vliegende draak’. Zo'n 200 tot 150 miljoen jaar geleden vloog de pterosaurus, voorzien van een lange staart, vleugels en scherpe uitstekende tanden, er zijn rondjes.
David van der Heeden
Het vliegende reptiel behoort tot een groep die al eerder op het noordelijk halfrond werd ontdekt. Naar nu blijkt heeft het zo uit Jurassic Park weggevlogen monster ook in Zuid-Amerika zijn vleugels uitgeslagen. De versteende botten van het dier werden al in 2009 ontdekt door de directeur van het natuurhistorisch museum van de Atacamawoestijn en werden jarenlang onderzocht door wetenschappers van de universiteit van Chili.
De ontdekking vormt het eerste bewijs dat de pterosauriërs - de eerste gewervelde dieren die konden vliegen, voorlopers van de Pterodactylus - ook op het zuidelijk halfrond voorkwamen. “Dit toont aan dat de dieren in deze groep wijder verspreid waren dan we tot nu toe wisten”, zegt onderzoeksleider Jhonatan Alarcon. De bevindingen van het team zijn gepubliceerd in wetenschapsjournaal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
Het is overigens niet zo dat deze Rhamphorhynchus - vernoemd naar de groep waartoe de voorwereldlijke fladderaar behoorde - ongeschonden uit de grond werd gehaald. De deskundigen moesten het doen met een stuk bot uit de voorpoot, een mogelijke ruggenwervel en een gedeeltelijk vleugelkootje. Genoeg bewijs echter om de ‘koning van de lucht’ aan Zuid-Amerika te linken.
Wetenschappers denken dat de zuidelijke landmassa’s tijdens de Jura-periode aan elkaar zaten. Een supercontinent dat Gondwana wordt genoemd. Mogelijk de reden waarom andere leden van de dierengroep ook op Cuba zijn gevonden. “Waarschijnlijk vlogen ze van noord naar zuid”, aldus Alarcon. “Misschien zijn ze hier ooit aangekomen en gebleven, we weten het niet.”
Hoe groot het fabelachtige wezen precies was, schrijven de experts niet. Er zijn aanwijzingen dat het om een dier van ‘gemiddelde grootte’ ging. Een volwassen exemplaar. Sommige familieleden konden echter een vleugelspanwijdte van bijna twee meter bereiken, zo is bekend. Van Rhamphorhynchus zijn meer volledige skeletten gevonden dan van welk andere pterosauriërs maar ook. Hij had een spitse kop, zwemvliezen en at vis.
De Atacamawoestijn is een immens groot gebied, dat ooit onder het water van de Stille Oceaan schuilging. Nu oogt het als een maanlandschap. Sommige delen van de woestenij hebben al tientallen jaren geen regen gezien. Er zijn alleen stenen en zand te vinden. En fossielen voor wie zijn schep in de grond steekt. Het gebied staat bekend om zijn fossiele vondsten. Veel ervan worden net onder het dorre oppervlak gevonden.
New photos taken of the incredibly unique Kleopatra asteroid that is shaped like a dog bone have revealed very interesting details. Kleopatra is located in the Asteroid Belt that’s located between Mars and Jupiter. It has two lobe shapes on either end with a long “neck” in between them – basically it looks like a dog bone. Additionally, it has two tiny moons that have been named AlexHelios and CleoSelene after the Egyptian Pharaoh Cleopatra’s kids.
Even though Kleopatra was discovered back in 1880, scientists have only known about its size as well as the moons for approximately twenty years, but the new photos showing different angles have helped them even more, like calculating the its measurements, the moons’ orbits, and how they were formed. They did this with observations from the SPHERE instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile.
Kleopatra
They concluded that Kleopatra measures about 270 kilometers in length (168 miles); that one of the lobe shapes is larger than the other; and that its “neck” is actually quite thick. A different team of researchers then calculated the orbits of the two moons in order to figure out the mass of the asteroid. They determined that Kleopatra’s mass is 2.97 x 1018 kilograms which is quite a bit less than previous estimates that had it at 4.64 x 1018 kilograms.
The researchers were then able to calculate the density and based on the assumption that the asteroid is rich in metals, the number was rather low. Since Kleopatra has low density, it would indicate that it is quite porous with a lot of loose rock that is hardly secure on the asteroid. This also suggests that the “rubble pile” may have happened when a bunch of debris was thrown off of a parent body when a large impact occurred. Furthermore, if there is material that is being ejected from the asteroid, that could explain how the two moons were formed.
Unfortunately for Kleopatra, its very fast rotation could make it fall apart pretty easily if it is porous. In fact, it rotates once every 5.4 hours and if it were to pick up even a slight amount of speed, it would tear apart.
Kleopatra
But for now, it is quickly rotating through space and the new images have certainly helped with learning more about this very odd-looking “dog bone” asteroid. Astronomer Franck Marchis from the SETI Institute and the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille in France said it best when he stated, “Kleopatra is truly a unique body in our Solar System.” More pictures of the Kleopatra asteroid can be seen here.
These eleven images are of the asteroid Kleopatra, viewed at different angles as it rotates. The images were taken at different times between 2017 and 2019 with the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) instrument on ESO’s VLT.
Kleopatra orbits the Sun in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. Astronomers have called it a “dog-bone asteroid” ever since radar observations around 20 years ago revealed it has two lobes connected by a thick “neck”.
Credit: ESO/Vernazza, Marchis et al./MISTRAL algorithm (ONERA/CNRS)
(ESO/Vernazza, Marchis et al./MISTRAL algorithm [ONERA/CNRS])
Above: Kleopatra with AlexHelios and CleoSelene.
Two studies about the asteroid have been published in Astronomy & Astrophysics and they can be read here and here.
UFO Sighted Over Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England ( September 10, 2021 )
UFO was sighted over Trowbridge, Wiltshire, a county in South West England on September 10, 2021
STATEMENT : Any idea what this could be ?
They are here !
credit : Rob Taylor
Strange Phenomenon Sighted Over Mazatlán, Mexico ( September 8, 2021 )
Strange Phenomenon was sighted over Mazatlán, Mexico on September 8, 2021
STATEMENT : En estos momentos en Mazatlán... Right now in Mazatlan... 8 / Sep / 2021
They are here !
credit : Victor VR
Sighted Over Yulin, Shaanxi, China ( September 4, 2021 )
Sighted Over Yulin city in the Shanbei region of Shaanxi province, China, on September 4, 2021
STATEMENT : 中國陝西榆林 Yulin, Shinxi, China
They are here !
UFOs Sighted Over Bakersfield, California ( September 8, 2021 )
UFOs were sighted over Bakersfield, California on September 8, 2021
STATEMENT : Bakersfield California
9.08.21 Bright orange flashing lights in perfect formation. Then dissappear...
They are everywhere !
note : 2 videos : video 1: no audio
credit : Albert Velasco
Strange Cylinder Sighted Over Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico ( September 9, 2021 )
Strange Cylinder Shape or effect was sighted in the skies during a storm in San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico on September 9, 2021
STATEMENT : I have a video from a friend in Tuxtepec Oaxaca Mexico. I do not know if it is camera effect or really it is something out on the screen right side stop middle is something I see it as cylinder.
They are here !
credit : Tomas Ventura
Strange Cloud Sighted Over North Carolina ( August 16, 2021 )
𝑺𝑻𝑹𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑬 𝑪𝑳𝑶𝑼𝑫 was sighted over 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮 on August 16, 2021
The asteroids Ryugu and Bennu which orbit between Earth and Mars formed after a much larger rock was split apart, scientists have claimed.
Mathematical modelling suggests the pair - measuring 3,280-foot and 1,610-foot in diameter - formed after two centres of gravity were created.
But rock pulled from both will need to be tested to confirm the theory.
Samples from Ryugu are already onboard Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft and expected to touchdown on Earth in late 2020.
And NASA's OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to land on its suspected-sister by October 20, to collect further samples which will also be flown to Earth.
Mathematical modelling revealed Ryugu (left) and Bennu (right) may have formed from a larger asteroid that broke apart
The model showed after an asteroid shattered its pieces came together at two points
It was based on observations of asteroids in the Mars-Jupiter belt, where Bennu and Ryugu may have originated
Astronomers at the University of Arizona and Laboratoire Lagrange, Ivory Coast, modelled collisions in the Mars-Jupiter asteroid belt before making the proposal.
Their study, published in Nature Communications, showed fragments are ejected but then re-accumulate into a spinning-top shape - like that of both asteroids.
They also noted a difference in hydration between the possible-siblings, but said this did not discount the proposed relationship.
The team hopes to be able to measure the composition and age of formation of the samples from both asteroids to confirm their theory.
OSIRIS-REx has beamed images of Bennu's rocky surface back to Earth, revealing the barren lunar surface.
The pictures show its chosen landing site - dubbed 'Nightingale' - which is located in a crater high up the asteroids northern hemisphere.
The spacecraft will cut chunks 0.8 inches in diameter from the asteroid before beginning the journey home.
NASA has sent pictures of Bennu back to Earth. The image above shows the proposed landing site on the asteroid for its spacecraft OSIRIS-REx
OSIRIS-REx will collect small (less than 0.8 inches in diameter) rocks from the surface before beginning the journey back to Earth.
(Artists impression)
Hayabusa2, not to be outdone, sent images of Ryugu's lunar-surface back to Earth in February.
Its pictures revealed reddening in some of the rocks, leading scientists at the University of Tokyo to conclude that it once passed much closer to the sun.
'Immediately after touchdown, Hayabusa2’s thrusters disturbed dark, fine grains that originate from the redder materials,' wrote planetary scientist Tomokatsu Morota of the University of Tokyo and colleagues in their paper,
'The stratigraphic relationship between identified craters and the redder material indicates that surface reddening occurred over a short period of time.'
'We suggest that Ryugu previously experienced an orbital excursion near the Sun.'
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has captured this picture of Ryugu's surface. It revealed reddened rocks, which suggests at one point the asteroid may have passed near the Sun
Why are Rubble Pile Asteroids Shaped Like Diamonds?
Why are Rubble Pile Asteroids Shaped Like Diamonds?
Scientists are fortunate enough to have detailed, close-up views of the near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu. Both asteroids have a diamond shape, for some reason. Why? Up until now, it’s been a puzzle.
Now a team of scientists has tackled the question and may have come up with the answer.
Asteroids are an ongoing target of study for scientists. They’re remnants from the primordial Solar System, material that wasn’t swept up in planet formation. Most of them are way out in the asteroid belt, where they’re difficult to study.
But some of them have escaped the belt and come close to Earth. These near-Earth asteroids give scientists their best chance to study them. Spacecraft have been sent to both Ryugu and Bennu to collect samples and return them to Earth. While there, both the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2, which visited Ryugu, and NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, which visited Bennu, studied their asteroid targets intensely, including gathering detailed images.
Both are rubble-pile asteroids, which means that they’re made up of chunks of smaller material bound together by gravity, and both are diamond-shaped. Both also rotate rapidly.
The near-Earth asteroids Bennu (l) and Ryugu (r). Both are rubble-pile asteroids and both are diamond-shaped. Image Credit Left: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona – Public Domain. Image Credit Right: By ISAS/JAXA, CC BY 4.0
A group of researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and Rutgers University have published a paper explaining the asteroids’ diamond shape. The paper is titled “Bennu and Ryugu: diamonds in the sky.” It’s published in the journal Granular Matter. The lead author is Dr. Tapan Sabuwala from OIST.
The fact that they’re just loosely held-together, smaller pieces of material means that they’re like granular matter, rather than larger, monolithic pieces of rock. So to study them and their diamond shape, the team of scientists made use of granular physics modelling. In this case, a model of how sand grains flow helped explain the diamond shape.
This isn’t the first attempt at using models to understand the asteroids’ shapes. Those models relied on rotation to explain the shape, but the models didn’t hold up to testing.
“Previous models have attributed these diamond shapes to the forces caused by the rotation, which resulted in material being driven from the poles to the equator,” said paper lead author Dr. Tapan Sabuwala. “But when the asteroids were simulated using these models, the shape was flattened or asymmetric rather than diamond, so we knew something wasn’t right,” explained Dr. Sabuwala in a press release.
The press release accompanying the study used sand flowing through a funnel as an example. As sand is poured in, it forms a conical shape. Of course, there’s much more going on at an asteroid than there is on a simple pile of sand. The gravitational forces are much different. “We had to factor this into our model, alongside the fact that the asteroid’s rotation also plays a significant role,” Dr, Sabuwala said.
On the left is an image of asteroid 101955 Bennu. On the right is a modelled simulation from the study. The model clearly matches the diamond shape of the asteroid. Image Credit: Sabuwala et al 2021.
According to the paper, centrifugal force played a large role in Bennu’s and Ryugu’s shape. It’s weaker near the asteroids’ poles, so more material accumulates there. That gives the asteroids their distinct appearance. “We show that this accumulation results in increased elevations at the poles, while centrifugal migration increases elevations at the equator. Without this accumulation, poles lack the elevated poles that are evident on Ryugu and Bennu,” the authors write in their paper.
This work deviates from previous models in another important way. It shows that the asteroids didn’t form as a different shape then gradually become diamond-shaped. Instead, the diamond shape formed as the asteroid formed and as material accumulated. The asteroids’ shape only changed minimally over time.
“The model relies on the principle of a critical angle of repose assumed by falling grains deposited on spinning, rubble-pile asteroids. Since the model is driven by deposition, our results suggest first that Bennu and Ryugu acquired their characteristic shapes at early times and second that subsequent reshaping by other effects … may be minimal,” they write in the paper’s summary.
Next, the researchers would like to look at other rubble-pile asteroids that rotate more slowly. Those types of asteroids should form a more spheroidal shape since the centrifugal force is weaker. When they reduced the rotation rate in their modelling, that’s exactly what resulted.
When the researchers reduced the rotation rate in the models, it reduced the centrifugal force, resulting in a more spheroidal shape. Image Credit: Sabuwala et al 2021.
“We have used simple concepts of how grains flow to explain how these asteroids assumed their curious shapes,” said co-author Professor Chakraborty of OIST. “That simple ideas can illuminate complex problems is, to us, perhaps the most delightful aspect of this work.”
Ancient Egyptian civilization is shrouded in mystery. Scientists still struggle to understand how Egyptians placed millions of hewn stones weighing at least two tons on top of one another. Supporters of conspiracy theories claim that those structures were not built by humans but rather by extraterrestrial civilizations.
Scott C Waring, who tirelessly searches for signs of extraterrestrial life, claims to have discovered the head of an ancient royal in stone on Mars. According to the self-proclaimed ufologist, he stumbled upon the finding while examining images of the Red Planet online, something UFO hunters often do.
Waring alleges that one of the stones looks like a male head wearing a helmet. [It is] "a show of the status and warrior attributes of those individuals", the ufologist wrote in a statement on his blog.
Waring suggested that the shape and size of the purported helmet are similar to the one worn by Pharaoh Thutmose I.
Scott C Waring provided no explanation as to how the Egyptian ruler might have ended up on the Red Planet, especially as back in April his mummy and sarcophagus were moved to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.
Bright UFO ball like reddish smoke with single trail turning into 2 trails – Dover, DE 10-Sep-2021
Bright UFO ball like reddish smoke with single trail turning into 2 trails – Dover, DE 10-Sep-2021
This strange UFO phenomenon was filmed over Dover, the capital city of Delaware in United States on 10th September 2021.
Witness report:
A bright ball like reddish smoke with single trail turning into 2 trails It was around 7:15 pm when my wife and I started to take a walk in our neighborhood. The sun was setting in the west with pink clouds in the distance. There was still blue sky left. That’s when I noticed what looked like a dark pink cloud by itself and out of place. I stopped to look at it and asked my wife if she saw it moving. She said yes. Then the cloud started to move slowly towards us and with a tail like a comet. Then it seem to turn away from us with 2 tails. It finally went from reddish to black then went into cloud cover and it was gone.
Pyramid shaped UFO dropping orbs over Medellín, Colombia 8-Sep-2021
Pyramid shaped UFO dropping orbs over Medellín, Colombia 8-Sep-2021
Daytime UFO video of a a pyramid-shaped unidentified flying object dropping some kind of orbs in the sky above Medellin in Colombia. Filmed on 8th September 2021.
Wreckage from mysterious UFO crashes could unlock alien secrets, experts say
Wreckage from mysterious UFO crashes could unlock alien secrets, experts say
Debris from 70 years of alleged UFO crashes has been studied in a new state-of-the-art lab machine at Stanford University, California - and many were hoping some mysteries could be solved
Physical debris from two allegedUFOcrash sites over the past 70 years has been examined in a lab, it has been confirmed.
A new state-of-the-art machine has enabled scientists at Stanford University, California, to study in-depth was what collected.
Metal debris from UFO cases dating as far back as 1947 has been investigated. It obtained through on field research of supposed crashes in Colombia and Argentina.
The new “multi-parameter ion beam imager” gives scientists the chance to look at the atomic structure of a selected material.
Science News reports that Stanford microbiologist Dr Garry Nolan is using the machine to create a revolutionary three-dimensional image.
Debris was obtained through on-field research of alleged UFO crashes in Colombia and Argentina
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He will analyse the samples right down to their individual atoms, in a process called Multiplexed Ion Beam Imagine.
At that microscopic level, the atomic structure is impossible to fake.
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When Dr Nolan placed some of the fragments in the vacuum chamber of his instrument, he was astonished to find their composition unlike any other metal.
He said: “If you’re talking about an advanced material from an advanced civilisation, you’re talking about something that I’ll just call an ultra-material.
Scientists discovered that material found was manufactured and not natural
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“It’s something which has properties where somebody is putting it together again at an atomic scale.
“We’re building our world with 80 elements, somebody else is building the world with 253 different isotopes.”
The scientists discovered that this material was manufactured and not natural.
It comes as a new study claimed aliens could be powering their societies by harvesting energy from black holes.
Extraterrestrials could, theoretically, use a hypothetical megastructure called a Dyson sphere, which would encircle a star with a tight formation of orbiting platforms in order to capture starlight and produce power, it has been suggested.
Astronomer Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao, of National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, looked at whether one of these could actually be built around a black hole instead of a star in their paper.
Paper 'A Dyson sphere around a black hole' was published in July in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
In the study they looked at the possible emission from the accretion disk around a black hole, its corona, and even relativistic jets emitted by the black hole.
"Usually, accretion disks can provide 10,000 and even more times the energy you would get from a star like the Sun," Hsiao told IFLScience.
"So instead of hunting 10,000 stars like our Sun, we can just find one black hole and build a Dyson sphere around it and it would be much more efficient."
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects Puzzle Pieces of Mars’ History
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects Puzzle Pieces of Mars’ History
Two holes are visible in the rock, nicknamed “Rochette,” from which NASA’s Perseverance rover obtained its first core samples. The rover drilled the hole on the left, called “Montagnac,” on Sept. 7, and the hole on the right, known as “Montdenier,” on Sept. 1. Below it is a round spot the rover abraded.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover successfully collected its first pair of rock samples, and scientists already are gaining new insights into the region. After collecting its first sample, named “Montdenier,” Sept. 6, the team collected a second, “Montagnac,” from the same rock Sept. 8.
Analysis of the rocks from which the Montdenier and Montagnac samples were taken and from the rover’s previous sampling attempt may help the science team piece together the timeline of the area’s past, which was marked by volcanic activity and periods of persistent water.
“It looks like our first rocks reveal a potentially habitable sustained environment,” said Ken Farley of Caltech, project scientist for the mission, which is led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. “It’s a big deal that the water was there a long time.”
The rock that provided the mission’s first core samples is basaltic in composition and may be the product of lava flows. The presence of crystalline minerals in volcanic rocks is especially helpful in radiometric dating. The volcanic origin of the rock could help scientists accurately date when it formed. Each sample can serve as part of a larger chronological puzzle; put them in the right order, and scientists have a timeline of the most important events in the crater’s history. Some of those events include the formation of Jezero Crater, the emergence and disappearance of Jezero’s lake, and changes to the planet’s climate in the ancient past.
What’s more, salts have been spied within these rocks. These salts may have formed when groundwater flowed through and altered the original minerals in the rock, or more likely when liquid water evaporated, leaving the salts. The salt minerals in these first two rock cores may also have trapped tiny bubbles of ancient Martian water. If present, they could serve as microscopic time capsules, offering clues about the ancient climate and habitability of Mars. Salt minerals are also well-known on Earth for their ability to preserve signs of ancient life.
The Perseverance science team already knew a lake once filled the crater; for how long has been more uncertain. The scientists couldn’t dismiss the possibility that Jezero’s lake was a “flash in the pan”: floodwaters could have rapidly filled the impact crater and dried up in the space of 50 years, for example.
But the level of alteration that scientists see in the rock that provided the core samples – as well as in the rock the team targeted on their first sample-acquisition attempt – suggests that groundwater was present for a long time.
This groundwater could have been related to the lake that was once in Jezero, or it could have traveled through the rocks long after the lake had dried up. Though scientists still can’t say whether any of the water that altered these rocks was present for tens of thousands or for millions of years, they feel more certain that it was there for long enough to make the area more welcoming to microscopic life in the past.
“These samples have high value for future laboratory analysis back on Earth,” said Mitch Schulte of NASA Headquarters, the mission’s program scientist. “One day, we may be able to work out the sequence and timing of the environmental conditions that this rock’s minerals represent. This will help answer the big-picture science question of the history and stability of liquid water on Mars.”
Next Stop, ‘South Séítah’
Perseverance is currently searching the crater floor for samples that can be brought back to Earth to answer profound questions about Mars’ history. Promising samples are sealed in titanium tubes the rover carries in its chassis, where they’ll be stored until Perseverance drops them to be retrieved by a future mission. Perseverance will likely create multiple “depots” later in the mission, where it will drop off samples for a future mission to bring to Earth. Having one or more depots increases the likelihood that especially valuable samples will be accessible for retrieval to Earth.
Perseverance’s next likely sample site is just 656 feet (200 meters) away in “South Séítah,” a series of ridges covered by sand dunes, boulders, and rock shards that Farley likens to “broken dinner plates.”
The rover’s recent drill sample represents what is likely one of the youngest rock layers that can be found on Jezero Crater’s floor. South Séítah, on the other hand, is likely older, and will provide the science team a better timeline to understand events that shaped the crater floor, including its lake.
By the start of October, all Mars missions will be standing down from commanding their spacecraft for several weeks, a protective measure during a period called Mars solar conjunction. Perseverance isn’t likely to drill in South Séítah until sometime after that period.
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A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith --broken rock and dust.
Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and bring them to Earth for in-depth analysis.
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.
JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.
Guarded by aliens? The last time humans stepped on the moon
Guarded by aliens? The last time humans stepped on the moon
The UFO community found numerous anomalies after investigating thousands of official photos captured during the Apollo 17 moon mission.
Apollo 17 was the last official mission of the American ‘Apollo’ program that brought the first astronauts to the Moon in 1972.
During the 12-day lunar mission, the crew captured more than 8,400 photos of the lunar surface that are now available on NASA’s website .
Years after the photos became available, UFO hunters discovered curious objects in some of the images that resemble spaceships, origins unknown.
In fact, there are those who believe that the anomalies are simply reflections or lens flares, but the growing evidence tends to disprove these theories easily.
Apollo 17 remains the most recent manned mission to the Moon, with no other astronauts having set foot there since 1972. Could this be just a coincidence?
The constant number of days spent both in space and on the Moon, as well as the fact that no other manned missions have been conducted since then, raises many questions.
Is it possible that the Apollo 17 astronauts encountered an alien moon base? Were they found by UFOs or crafts from another world? If so, did anyone restrict or deny human access to the lunar surface?
Why would the Apollo 17 mission gather such a large volume of samples, take so many photographs, and never investigate its findings further again?
Is the natural satellite that orbits our planet so desolate and unimportant that no further missions are necessary?
While it is still difficult to prove that the astronauts were intercepted by aliens, the reality of the UFOs present in many stages of the Apollo 17 mission is a clear indicator (for some of us at least) that NASA could be in favor of a Covert pact with beings from another world ..
White Dwarfs can Continue Burning Hydrogen, Even After They’re Dead
White Dwarfs can Continue Burning Hydrogen, Even After They’re Dead
White dwarfs are supposed to be dead remnants of stars, doomed to simply fade away into the background. But new observations show that some are able to maintain some semblance of life by wrapping themselves in a layer of fusing hydrogen.
White dwarfs are the dense leftover cores of sunlike stars. They are exposed to the universe when stars build up too much carbon and oxygen in their centers. They then tear themselves apart in a slow, agonizing process that eventually creates a planetary nebula. With all the outer layers stripped, the core remains – a white dwarf.
White dwarfs are inert. They don’t have enough mass to ignite nuclear fusion of their carbon and oxygen, and so they just sit there, slowly radiating away their heat for eons upon eons.
But new research is challenging that simple story.
“We have found the first observational evidence that white dwarfs can still undergo stable thermonuclear activity,” explained Jianxing Chen of the Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, who led this research. “This was quite a surprise, as it is at odds with what is commonly believed.”
The research team led by Chen compared two globular clusters, M3 and M13, with the Hubble Space Telescope. They especially focused on near-ultraviolet wavelengths, which allowed them to compare more than 700 white dwarfs inside the two clusters.
They found that the white dwarfs in M3 were pretty standard, but that M13 had two different populations: one set of normal white dwarfs, and another that were enveloped by an outer layer of hydrogen.
Combining the results with computer simulations, Chen and his colleagues determined that around 70% of the white dwarfs in M13 had so much hydrogen surrounding them that the shells were actively undergoing fusion. That fusion is able to keep the white dwarfs warmer for far longer than astronomers had previously thought possible.
Astronomers use established cooling time relationships to connect the temperature of a white dwarf to its age, which helps them better understand their origins and environment. The new research makes that relationship a little murkier.
“Our discovery challenges the definition of white dwarfs as we consider a new perspective on the way in which stars get old,” added Francesco Ferraro of the Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, who coordinated the study. “We are now investigating other clusters similar to M13 to further constrain the conditions which drive stars to maintain the thin hydrogen envelope which allows them to age slowly.”
Fast Moving UFO Sighted Over Southern Alabama ( September 1, 2021 )
Fast moving UFO was sighted on September 1st 2021. A woman records this storm approaching in Southern Alabama. She captures a UFO traveling at high speed in front of the storm from left to right. The UFO is visible approx 11 seconds after the video begins...Here I present the original and following with approach and speed reduction and filters.
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Pyramid Shaped UFO Sighted Over Medellín, Colombia ( September 8, 2021 )
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STATEMENT : A UFO in the shape of a Pyramid in Medellín, Colombia.
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UFO Sighted Over Shenyang, China ( September 8, 2021 )
Shenyang, China., September 8th at 7:45 am in the morning. Crowds gathering and recording what looks like a biblical light. On the morning of September 8, 2021. A show appeared in Shenyang, China A huge beam of light shone from heaven, and there was horizontal lines like a ladder between the beams. The strange view caused people to pick up cell phones to take pictures. Many people think this scene is a mirage. A scene like this came up in Shuangfeng county Hunan a few days ago...‼
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UFOs Sighted Over Portsmouth, Ohio ( September 7, 20221 )
STATEMENT : I run a weather site out of Ohio. The last 2 nights in Portsmouth, OH we have had these unexplained Lights in the sky. I was sent this video. Then I started getting reports of other weird things in the skies from other cities in Ohio : Ohio and Tri-State News and Weather
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Bright UFO Drops Smaller UFO's & A Sighting In Seattle WA. As Well?
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UFOs & UAPs: The Situation Has Changed! Avi Loeb and Harvard’s Galileo Project
UFOs & UAPs: The Situation Has Changed! Avi Loeb and Harvard’s Galileo Project
! In 2017, the world for the first time observed an interstellar object, called ‘Oumuamua, that was briefly visiting our Solar system. Based on astronomical observations, ‘Oumuamua turned out to have highly anomalous properties that defy well-understood natural explanations. We can only speculate whether ‘Oumuamua may be explained by never seen before natural explanations, or perhaps being an extraterrestrial technological object, similar to a very thin light-sail or communication dish, which fits the astronomical data rather well.
After the release of the Pentagon Office of the Director of National Intelligence report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), the scientific community now needs the determination to systematically, scientifically & transparently look for potential evidence of extraterrestrial technological equipment. The impact of any discovery of extraterrestrial technology on science & on our entire worldview would be enormous. Given the recently discovered abundance of Earth-Sun systems, the Galileo Project is dedicated to the proposition that humans can no longer ignore the possible existence of Extraterrestrial Technological Civilizations (ETCs), & that science should not dogmatically reject potential extraterrestrial explanations because of social stigma or cultural preferences, factors which are not conducive to the scientific method of unbiased, empirical inquiry. We now must look through new telescopes’, both literally & figuratively. The Galileo Project aims to identify the nature of UAP and ‘Oumuamua-like interstellar objects using the standard scientific method based on a transparent analysis of open scientific data to be collected using optimized instruments.
Professor Paul Davies, an astrobiologist, cosmologist and director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University says that for life to exist outside of Earth, there must be a high number of microbes and several microscopic agents in space. He believes that if there is extra-terrestrial life with these agents on their planet, then there might also be viruses too. Mr Davies says that viruses can be likened to mobile, genetic elements. He said: "Viruses actually form part of the web of life.
"I would expect that if you've got microbial life on another planet, you're bound to have – if it's going to be sustainable and sustained – the full complexity and robustness that will go with being able to exchange genetic information."
He also mentioned a number of studies that have linked the possibility of a process where genetic material from viruses gets incorporated into the genomes of humans and other animals – it is called horizontal gene transfer.
Mr Davies said that horizontal gene transfer is something that is possible if cellular alien life is somewhere out there in the universe.
“A friend of mine thinks most of the human genome is of viral origin
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“Most people think about, well, we would need to have very large spacecraft"
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He added: “A friend of mine thinks most, but certainly a significant fraction, of the human genome is actually of viral origin."
Mr Davies also believes that if there is alien life, he highly doubts that it would be homogenous.
He stated: “I don’t think it’s a matter that you go to some other planet, and there will just be you one type of microbe and it’s perfectly happy. I think it’s got to be a whole ecosystem,”
But while this may seem alarming, Mr Davies is confident that this will not pose a threat to the human race.
He said: “The dangerous viruses are those that are very closely adapted to their hosts. If there is a truly alien virus, then chances are it wouldn't be remotely dangerous,"
“We hear about the microbiome inside us, and there's a planetary microbiome."
These comments come after a recent study led by researchers at The University of Cambridge identified that vast exoplanets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres were discovered in the universe.
The experts said this breakthrough might even lead to the discovery of alien life within two to three years.
Talking about the possibility of discovering alien life, Mr Davies said: “Most people think about, well, we would need to have very large spacecraft, and then sort of recycle things for the very long journey, and then all the technology you’d need to take.
“Actually, the toughest part of this problem is what would be the microbiology that you’d have to take – it’s no good just taking a few pigs and potatoes and things like that and hoping when you get to the other end it’ll all be wonderful and self-sustainable.”
Mr Davies new book, What’s Eating the Universe?, was published last week.
If we ever do find alien life, we may also discover their viruses – or at least that’s what one scientist has claimed. Professor Paul Davies, who is an astrobiologist, cosmologist and director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University, stated that viruses might be an important factor in the ecosystems on other planets.
Alien life on other planets doesn’t necessarily mean an advanced civilization of humanoids with a large head and bulging eyes – although that’s a possibility as well – but they could also be microbes and that’s where the theory of viruses comes from as explained by Davies, “Viruses actually form part of the web of life.” “I would expect that if you’ve got microbial life on another planet, you’re bound to have – if it’s going to be sustainable and sustained – the full complexity and robustness that will go with being able to exchange genetic information.”
He went on to say that if there is cellular life on other planets, the viruses would be able to move genetic information from one to the others. Additionally, there would probably be an entire ecosystem of microbes instead of just one specific type.
But there’s no need to hide just yet as Davies stated that if there are viruses on other planets, humans here on Earth have nothing to fear. “The dangerous viruses are those that are very closely adapted to their hosts,” he explained. “If there is a truly alien virus, then chances are it wouldn’t be remotely dangerous.” To be more specific, the virus would be more harmful to anything alive on the alien planet rather than being dangerous to Earthlings. This is because the virus wouldn’t have had a chance to infect humans, evolve, and spread. I don’t know about you, but I don’t find that very comforting or reassuring.
Would aliens sneeze like humans?
This would certainly be a factor if humans were to colonize another planet, but Davies has claimed that the majority of viruses are good. “I think without viruses, there may be no sustained life on planet Earth.” Really? COVID-19 is caused by a virus and it has already claimed more than 4.5 million lives. This is certainly one virus we could live without.
If there are aliens viruses out in space somewhere, let’s hope they don’t find their way here.
Over the decades it has been claimed that elements of the U.S. Government may have more than a few “unacknowledged aircraft,” hidden away, so to speak. In simple terms, we’re talking about secret aircraft that, despite sightings of them, no-one in government wants to reveal them for what they are. Or, were. We’ll begin with what has become known as the Aurora. In the early 1990s, rumors began to circulate among the aviation world that a highly secret, futuristic aircraft was being flown out of Area 51 – and under distinctly covert circumstances. The reportedly large, black-colored, triangular-shaped aircraft which could fly at incredible speeds, could outmaneuver just about anything else on the planet. It was rumored to be known as the Aurora. Officially, at least, and according to the U.S. Government, the Aurora does not exist and has never existed. But, that was once said about Area 51, too. So, with that in mind, we need to tread cautiously when it comes to official proclamations of the controversial type.
An artist’s conception of the Aurora aircraft.
The story began – publicly, at least – in March 1990. That was when the well-respected magazine Aviation Week & Space Technologycovered the story. They revealed that the term Aurora had appeared in the 1985 U.S. budget – and had possibly appeared by mistake, which makes sense if the program was so highly sensitive that its existence had to be denied at all costs. And talking of costs, it was rumored that around $455 million had been provided to those working out at Area 51 on secret, futuristic aircraft. AW&ST suspected that Aurora was a code-name for multiple kinds of aircraft that were both radical in design and technology. Other investigators, though, concluded that Aurora referred to just one type of aircraft. AW&ST learned that by 1987 the budget had soared to in excess of two billion dollars. Bill Sweetman is one of the leading figures in the field of aviation and someone who took a deep interest in the Aurora saga. His books include F-22 Raptor, Inside the Stealth Bomber, and Soviet Air Power. And, then there is his 1993 book, Aurora: The Pentagon’s Secret Hypersonic Spyplane. Of the Aurora, Sweetman says: “Does Aurora exist? Years of pursuit have led me to believe that, yes, Aurora is most likely in active development, spurred on by recent advances that have allowed technology to catch up with the ambition that launched the program a generation ago.”
Now, let’s have a look at the TR-3A. It was around 11:00 p.m. on September 26, 1994, when a small, twin-tailed aircraft crash-landed onto the lengthy runway at Boscombe Down, which is situated in the English county of Wiltshire. At around the time of the incident, a number of aviation enthusiasts were listening in on air-band radios and were aware that something untoward had taken place. The following day, several of those same enthusiasts drove to the installation – which is near to the A303 road and not at all far from Stonehenge – and were apprehended by local police who had set up road-blocks to keep away prying eyes. Before being ushered away, however, a number of people succeeded in catching sight of a disabled aircraft. It was situated at the end of the runway and, aside from its twin-tail fins, was completely covered over by tarpaulins. Air Force Monthly magazine was soon on the trail of the truth. In the November 1994 issue of the magazine, investigative writers noted that in the wake of the crash both a Boeing757 and a C-5 Galaxy arrived at Boscombe Down. The story continued that the secret plane was loaded aboard the Galaxy and flown to “Air Force plant 42 at Palmdale, California.” Air Force Monthly suggested that the aircraft “”…was a TR-3A, the existence of which the U.S. Government has yet to officially acknowledge.” The subsonic, stealth TR-3A – also referred to as the Black Manta – remains an enigma, since its existence has never been officially confirmed. Now, what about the Flying Triangles? They have that specific name for a reason: they’re large, black, silent, fast-flying craft hat even have the ability to hover in silence. Some aircraft experts believe the FTs are next-generation Stealth planes. Many people in the UFO research community are of the opinion that the FTs are alien spacecraft. The debate still goes on – after more than several decades of investigation and research.
In 1989 there was a wave of Flying Triangle encounters over Belgian. Nick Pope, still in the employ of the U.K. Ministry of Defense at the time, told me in an interview, after a wave of FT encounters in the U.K. in 1993: “I approached the Belgians to get a comparison after their sightings. I phoned the Air Attaché at the British Embassy in Brussels and he spoke to one of the F-16 pilots who had been scrambled to intercept a Flying Triangle over Belgium back in 1990. Well, the Air Attaché reported back to me that the corporate view of the Belgian Defense Staff was that they did believe that they were dealing with a solid, structured craft. Apparently, the word from the Belgians was: ‘Thank God it was friendly.’ If it hadn’t been, it was made clear to me that there was very little that the Belgian Air Force could have done anyway – despite the fact that the F-16 is no slouch.” The one thing all of these aircraft have in common? I’ll tell you: They’re still undeniably secret.
Three “Potentially Dangerous” Asteroids to Closely Pass by Earth This Month Jocelyne LeBlanc September 10, 2021 FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE+ Three asteroids that have been deemed as being “potentially dangerous” will pass by our plane
Three “Potentially Dangerous” Asteroids to Closely Pass by Earth This Month
Three asteroids that have been deemed as being “potentially dangerous” will pass by our planet this month of September at a fairly close distance. The space rocks will travel by us on September 9th, 11th, and 22nd. With that being said, let’s take a quick look at these three asteroids.
Asteroid 2010 RJ53 is flying by our planet today (September 9th) at a distance of about 366,000 kilometers away (227,422 miles). To put this into better perspective, our moon is located at a distance of around 384,400 kilometers (238,855 miles) which means that 2010 RJ53 will be closer to us than our moon. This asteroid, which measures 774 meters (2,539 feet), was discovered on September 10, 2010. It completes a full orbit around our sun every 402 days. At its furthest distance, it is 224 million kilometers away from the sun (139 million miles), with its closest approach measuring 95 million kilometers (59 million miles).
On September 11th, asteroid 2021 PT will travel within 4.9 million kilometers from Earth (3 million miles). This asteroid measures approximately 137 meters in diameter (449 feet).
Then on September 22nd, a third asteroid will closely pass by Earth. Asteroid 2021 NY1 will fly by within a distance of 1,498,113 kilometers (930,884 miles). To understand this better, it will be approximately 3.89 times further than the moon is to us. This space rock, which has been categorized as both a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as well as a near-Earth object (NEO), is expected to measure anywhere between 130 and 300 meters in diameter (427 to 984 feet). This asteroid has an orbit of 0.01 Astronomical Units (AU) or approximately 1.5 million kilometers from our planet (932,000 miles) – one AU is the distance of Earth from our sun. Additionally, when 2021 NY1 passes by us on the 22nd of the month, it will be the closest that it has been to our planet in nearly a century and it won’t get close to us again until about the year 2105 when it is expected to be approximately 2.65 million kilometers away (1.65 million miles).
While these three asteroids will be fairly close to Earth when they travel through space, there is no need to worry or hide in a bunker as they aren’t expected to hit our planet.
This is a 3D-Printed Steel Floor Prototype for a Lunar Habitat
This is a 3D-Printed Steel Floor Prototype for a Lunar Habitat
In this decade, multiple space agencies and commercial space entities will be taking us back to the Moon. But unlike the Apollo Era, the goal of these programs is not “footprints and flags,” but to establish the necessary infrastructure to keep going back. In particular, NASA, the ESA, Roscosmos, and China are all planning on establishing outposts that will allow for scientific research and a sustained human presence.
The ESA is currently showcasing what its outpost will look like at the 17th annual Architecture Exhibition at the La Biennale di Venezia museum in Venice. It’s known as the International Moon Village, which was designed by the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) with technical support from the ESA. This same company recently unveiled a prototype of the skeletal metal component that will one day be part of the Village’s lunar habitats.
The component was built by MX3D, an Amersterdam-based 3D printing architecture and design firm specializing in Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM). This process involves fusing metal wires with lasers to create lightweight metal objects with high structural strength. The company is renowned for creating the 3D printed metal bridge that spans the Oudezijds Achterburgwal canal in Amsterdam (shown below).
Her Majesty the Queen, Máxima opens the first 3D printed steel bridge in the city of Amsterdam. Credit: MX3D
The skeletal, smooth web pattern will be part of the flooring for each habitat that collectively makes up the ESA’s International Lunar Village. The prototype was created using a robotic 3D printer out of 308LSi stainless steel over the course of about 10 days (246 hours), measures 4.5 m (~15 ft) in diameter, and has a total mass of approximately 395 kg (over 870 lbs). As ESA Advanced Manufacturing Engineer Advenit Makaya said in a recent ESA press release:
“This is a remarkable achievement from MX3D, which further highlights the potential of this additive manufacturing technique for an increasing range of space applications. The design flexibility and the possibility to combine the printed structure with embedded monitoring systems – as demonstrated in the 3D-printed bridge in Amsterdam – are worth investigating for applications in space structures. This technique could also be considered for in-situ construction of infrastructure during sustainable exploration missions, for instance by using metallic feedstock derived from the locally available regolith.”
The floor component consists of six separate segments that were printed vertically before being welded together. When integrated with SOM’s design for a four-story semi-inflatable habitat, the 3D printed structure will be supported by three columns and covered by a series of floor panels. Unfortunately, SOM could not feature it as part of their exhibit – titled “Life Beyond Earth” – but manages to convey the scale of the lunar habitats that they are developing. Said Daniel Inocente, SOM’s Senior Designer for the study:
“The innovative floor design is supported from columns in the habitat walls, cantilevering towards the perimeter and centre. We looked at the manufacturing constraints and used our analysis to interpolate a web pattern that followed the angular limits of the 3D printing machines. The cross section and thickness was also analysed and differentiated to reduce the overall mass – with reduced thickness at the exterior/interior boundaries.”
Credit: SOM
The flooring and manufacturing process are consistent with SOM’s habitat design, which calls for four-story semi-inflatable shells that collectively make the International Lunar Village. Each semi-inflatable shell structure measures four stories high and offers the highest possible volume to mass ratio. Once inflated on the lunar surface, each of these habitats will approximately double its original internal volume.
The module’s inflatable design allows it to be compressed for the sake of transport and then inflated to its full size once it is deployed to the lunar surface. But unlike previous inflatable designs, where the structural and mechanical systems are typically at the center, SOM’s design allows for an open interior that optimizes the living experience. In addition to showcasing a key component in the proposed lunar habitat, the floor element demonstrates the effectiveness of the 3D printing method involved. As Gijs van der Velden, CEO of MX3D, explained:
“This was a great opportunity to show the potential of our technology for the fabrication of lightweight metal structures together with ESA and SOM. It was a perfect project for MX3D to leverage its experience in printing topology optimised metal structures. Achieving an optimal use of material is a company goal at MX3D because – just as when designing space applications – every reduced kilo in a MX3D design is a direct win for a project’s feasibility.”
“The capabilities of MX3D demonstrate inspiring concurrence of engineering and art, and are another great example to what extent additive manufacturing has already entered our society,” added Thomas Rohr, Head of the Materials and Processes team at ESA. “For space applications, such technologies not only provide improvements in performance but can lead to unprecedented and enabling design solutions.”
The International Moon Village project is a multidisciplinary effort initiated by the ESA and developed in collaboration with Jeffrey A. Hoffman – a former NASA astronaut and a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. Similarly, the project is in keeping with the theme of the Biennale Architettura 2021 – “How will we live together?” – which features 112 participants in competition from 46 countries.
The purpose of this exhibition is to promote ideas for coexistence and sustainability in response to global problems. The International Moon Village exhibit is intended to show how space-related research and solutions for space habitation have applications here on Earth. Like all plans for establishing a human presence on the Moon, the key to the design is in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) and sustainability.
For example, the ESA plans to deploy the Moon Village in the Moon’s southern polar region – aka. The South Pole-Aitken Basin. In the permanently shadowed craters that mark this region, there is abundant water ice that could be harvested and used for the sake of drinking water, irrigation, and the creation of oxygen gas and rocket fuel. In addition, power can be provided by deploying solar arrays around the crater rims, which are exposed to near-continuous daylight.
This arrangement allows for a degree of resource self-sufficiency, reducing the need for resupply missions from Earth, thus reducing overall costs. As a means of manufacturing, 3D metal printing is also incredibly efficient and wastes far less material than traditional machining. These technologies will have similar applications here at home, promoting sustainable living solutions to reduce our impact on the natural environment.
I saw something today that I have never seen before while watching the live NASA space station cam...a robot drone moving about and its eyes are very human like. The robots eyes really make it less creepy and more fun, almost like Wally the robot. The eyes wander left and right, blinking every now and then. But whats really blowing me away is how smoothly the robot maneuvers around the station. It never bumped a single object in that narrow area. I heard an astronaut say the sidekick needed recharging and soon after a woman astronaut floated over and began pulling a cord from the floor and plugging it into the back of the robot. The robot continued to look around floating and then decided to rest on the floor area. Its not a UFO but it is 66.66% since it is flying and it is an object. The robots are called Astrobee and three are on board the ISS right now...named Honey, Bumble and Queen. Each with their own unique color sides.
The main purpose of the Astrobee platform is to provide a zero-gravity testbed for guest scientists to try out new robotic technologies in space,” says Maria Bualat, Astrobee project manager at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, in a press statement. “Astrobee will prove out robotic capabilities that will enable and enhance human exploration. Performing such experiments in zero gravity will ultimately help develop new hardware and software for future space missions.”
Just something I thought was really cool to see on live cam. I can really see the future of robots in space being similar to these legless wonders.
Strange Blue Lights Over Mexico City After 7.1 Earthquake ( September 7, 2021 )
The sky lights up during the 7.1 earthquake in Mexico CDMX September 7, 2021. STATEMENT : Aldair Eduardo : The green sky causes the tremor for the release of energy. Javier López Díaz : So the glow that many saw...
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Acapulco region and mysterious lights took over the sky. Several videos recorded the moment mysterious lights took Acapulco sky. Records were made during the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck the region overnight this Tuesday. As much as a rare phenomenon, lights of this type were also seen during another earthquake that struck Mexico in 2017. As reported by the Publimeter, although they appear to be lightning, the phenomenon is not a storm, as many have claimed. According to an explanation released by Pictoline on Twitter, the phenomenon is not an electric storm, but the appearance of so-called ′′ Earthquake Lights ". They are caused by Earth's crust rocks that, when hit by a seismic wave, release electric charges .... These charges in turn come together and shoot toward the sky in a similar format to storm rays. Mystery lights are seen in the sky during earthquake A report released by Uol pointed out that ′′ earthquake lights ′′ have been documented since the 1600 s, according to studies from the United States Seismological Association. The phenomenon, which has been studied by researchers at Rutgers University, USA, can be seen as a form of warning of likely earthquakes. Previous records point to your viewing just days before earthquakes occurring in San Francisco, California, and Quebec, Canada. One of the latest records were similar lights to the ′′ earthquake lights ′′ in Japan's sky, just before the earthquake followed by the tsunami that struck the country in 2011.
They are here !
Video Credits : 1 : Andres Maldonado 2 : Aroldo de Jesus 3 : Cisco 4 : Javier López Díaz 5 : Jose Ibarra 6 : Pedro Acosta 7 : Nestor L. Burgos 9 : Sergio Cebada 10 : Webcams de México
Top Secret Anti-Gravity Spy Plane - TR3b Black Manta
Top Secret Anti-Gravity Spy Plane - TR3b Black Manta
In the case of the TR-3B Black Manta, it means a craft that uses highly pressured mercury accelerated by nuclear energy, so that plasma is produced, which, in turn, creates a field of anti-gravity around the craft. It has an electromagnetic coil at the heart of it’s motive power system, the result of which is electromagnetic drive that interacts with the Higgs-Boson field at the quantum level. Heady stuff indeed!
So, an anti-gravity aircraft doesn’t use conventional turbine or rocket engine technology, but instead a propulsion system that creates thrust by generating high-energy plasma. These aircraft are also referred to as ‘flux liners’.
As with many divergent aviation technologies, anti-gravity technology dates back to the latter part and aftermath of World War II, and specifically the covert U.S. project known as Operation Paperclip.
The objective of Operation Paperclip was for the U.S. to gain as much leverage against the Soviet Union in the military armaments technology race, which is why the project was packed to the rafters with German scientists who were avowed members of the Nazi Party.
That means the U.S. has been investigating anti-gravity technology for nearly 70 years.
It is the culmination of theories regarding gravitation, quantum gravity and general relativity, the latter as first put forward by Albert Einstein himself.
Anti-gravity is of huge interest to the military and scientists alike, given that, for example, one could hypothetically reduce an aircraft’s mass by using electromagnetic propulsion, even down to zero.
Little wonder that the likes of NASA, the U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin researchers have all invested in theoretical studies regarding the ability to alter inert mass.
According to experts, the TR-3B Black Manta would use conventional thrusters located at the tips of the aircraft that would allow it to perform a dizzying number of rapid high-speed maneuvers, including perfect right-angle turns and hyper acceleration. And it could achieve this along all its three axes.
Remember, the TR-3B was designed to be a subsonic stealth spy plane.
For one thing, it’s a very silent aircraft, save for a slight humming sound. An interesting by-product of the plasma the TR-3B generates is that it significantly reduces the aircraft’s radar signature, thereby making it ideal for missions in which stealth is paramount.
That means the TR-3B Black Manta could sneak into just about any air space of any country and not be detected by its air traffic control or air defence systems.
This little black number has been associated with multiple reports of sightings of flying triangle aircraft over Antelope Valley, an area of desert in southern California much beloved by UFO watchers.
It’s also this desert area of California that draws people interested in covert black project or ‘black ops aircraft projects, given its close proximity to several known military research and testing areas, including Edwards Air Force Base and USAF Plant 42, the latter which is a mere 60 miles or 97 kilometres from downtown Los Angeles.
The TR-3B Black Manta would certainly be the type of black ops project typical of the U.S. Air Force and Navy. The U2 spy plane of the 1950s, the SR-71 jet of the 1980s, and the present-day F-117A stealth craft are just three examples of planes that the U.S. Air Force denied existed for years, all of which were first covertly developed at Nevada’s infamous Area 51 base. And don’t let’s forget that Area 51 itself was only finally acknowledged by the U.S. government when that most covert of agencies, the CIA, did so in June 2013, courtesy of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed eight years earlier.
But does it exist?
There are of course the inevitable allegations that the TR-3B was built by the military using extraterrestrial reverse-engineered technology.
Even Forbes magazine mused in 2021 that maybe, just maybe the patents issued to Salvatore Cezar Pais could be a cover for alien technology captured over the years by the U.S. military.
So, what of the TR-3B Black Manta? How far back does it go, if at all? Does it have anything to do with the aforementioned 2018 patent issued to Pais and the U.S. Navy? Is it a plane, is it a bird, could it even be Superman? No, it’s just the United States Air Force messing with our heads again.
The Great Salt Lake Enigma: Science Shows Anomalies – Evidence of a Global Flood?
The Great Salt Lake Enigma: Science Shows Anomalies – Evidence of a Global Flood?
When the first American settlers reached the shore of the Great Salt Lake in the middle of the 19th century, many of them believed that this vast inland sea was a remnant of the floodwaters that had swept across the whole Earth in theGreat Deluge. At that time, the acceptance of the Biblical deluge as a real and historical event was as universal as the flood itself was believed to be, among the educated and uneducated alike.
The currently accepted explanation of the Great Salt Lake’s formation is much more prosaic. According to geologists, the Great Salt Lake (Utah, USA) is a remnant of a once much larger lake named Lake Bonneville that has since largely evaporated away. Supposedly, Lake Bonneville grew to such a large size because the region experienced much more precipitation during the Ice Age compared to today, and has shrunk to its present size due to decreasing rainfall following the ending of the last Ice Age. Also, scientists say that the Great Salt Lake’s salts originate from the rivers that bring in small amounts of dissolved salts, which then accumulate in the lake because it has no outlet. Utah’s official state website confirms this: “[it] is salty because it does not have an outlet. Tributary rivers are constantly bringing in small amounts of salt dissolved in their fresh water flow. Once in the Great Salt Lake much of the water evaporates leaving the salt behind.” In this article, I shall argue against the currently accepted explanation of the Great Salt Lake’s origins and attempt to rehabilitate the long-dismissed hypothesis of its oceanic origins.
Origins of The Great Salt Lake
Let us examine the official explanation of the origin of the Great Salt Lake’s salts line by line.
ISS/NASA imagery of the Great Salt Lake. Great Salt Lake, Utah, to the right (east) are the Wasatch Mountains, to the lower right is Salt Lake City, Utah.
First, it is stated that “[the Great Salt Lake] is salty because it does not have an outlet.” I will not dispute that the second part of this statement, namely “it does not have an outlet” is true. The Great Salt Lake certainly does not have an outlet, meaning that rivers flow into the lake (the Bear, Weber, and Provo/Jordan rivers), but no rivers flow out. Such a lake is a specific example of a general class of lakes called endorheic lakes, and the drainage basins within which these lakes are found are called endorheic basins, which are drainage basins from which no rivers flow out. The vast majority of the millions of lakes found across the world are not endorheic lakes; that is, almost all lakes have rivers that flow out of them, as well as into them.
The second statement in the Utah state website’s official explanation reads: “tributary rivers are constantly bringing in small amounts of salt dissolved in their fresh water flow.” This statement is also true, as can be verified by a Scientific American article written by Arthur Pillsbury:
“All natural waters, including those described as fresh, contain salts. A virgin stream emerging from a mountain watershed may contain as little as 50 parts per miIlion p.p.m.) of "salt," or total dissolved solids. Ocean water averages about 35,000 p.p.m., or about 3.5 percent, of dissolved solids.”
Mr. Pillsbury then goes on to emphasize that the word “salts,” in this context, does not mean only sodium and chloride, which are the primary constituents of the familiar table salt, but other ions, including but not limited to sodium, chloride, sulfate, potassium, calcium, and carbonate. Later on, he explains how these streams end up containing these minute concentrations of salt, namely through the action of weathering and erosion:
“Weathering takes place under conditions where there is ample opportunity for the mineral crystals that constitute rock to oxidize. Although weathering embraces physical, chemical and biological processes, the physical processes are pervasive and central. Mechanical action fractures rock, exposing a far greater surface area to weathering agents. For example, the alternate freezing and thawing of water in the crevices of the rock exerts forces of compression and expansion that can break down the strongest material. Flowing water, wind and the grinding action of rocks in the bed of streams and the bottom of glaciers all contribute to physical weathering. Weathering manufactures both salts and the particles of rock that are borne from the uplands to the lowlands, where they are the principal constituents of soil. ”
So far so good, or so it seems. What, then, are some inferences that can be drawn from these facts?
The Source of the Salt
First, is that the specific salt composition of rivers that drain a watershed will differ depending on the specific rocks and soils that make up the watershed. Given that different regions of the earth exhibit a great diversity of rocks and soils, one should expect that the profile of dissolved salts found in different rivers should correspondingly exhibit a great diversity. These conclusions are not merely plausible, but are in fact true, as can be verified by Table 5.3, which confirms that fresh waters that drain different types of rocks differ significantly in their distribution of dissolved salts.
Table 5.3 [Chart obtained from Tundisi, J. G., and Takako Matsumura. Tundisi. Limnology. Boca Raton: CRC, 2012. Print.]
And by extension, since it is these very salts dissolved in these rivers that are carried to the endorheic lakes, the salt compositions of these rivers determine the salt compositions of the lakes. So we should expect the distribution of dissolved salts in a river flowing into an endorheic lake to be similar to the distribution of dissolved salts in the endorheic lake itself—as the salts dissolved in the endorheic lake originate from these selfsame rivers.
By contrast, the salt composition of seawater is not determined by merely the salt composition of a particular river and the rocks and soils that are found in the specific watershed that this given river drains, but is rather determined by the average of all of the salt concentrations of all of the world’s rivers and the corresponding watersheds that these rivers drained averaged over the entire billions of years over which the oceans have existed.
Given these facts, if the currently accepted geological theory of the origin of the Great Salt Lake’s salts is correct, which is, as was described earlier, that these salts were eroded from the rock and soils within the Great Salt Lake’s watershed and then carried by rivers into the lake, then one would most certainly not expect the Great Salt Lake to have a salt composition that is nearly identical to that of seawater, as this would mean that the chemical composition of the rocks and soils that comprise the Great Salt Lake’s watershed and the salts that they generate upon being eroded happened to be nearly identical to average of the salt compositions of all of the worlds’ rivers averaged over billions of years.
Given that the Great Salt Lake watershed comprises less than a thousandth of the Earth’s total land area, this would be, to say the least, a most remarkable coincidence, since that would imply that a randomly picked and relatively tiny swath of the surface of the earth would have nearly the same distribution of rocks and soils as the average distribution of rocks and soils over the entire earth.
Table 4.5 [Adey, Walter H., and Karen Loveland.
"Physical Environment." Dynamic Aquaria: Building Living Ecosystems. San Diego: Academic, 1991. N. pag. Print.]
Chart of Various Salts in Lakes [information for chart obtained from table shown in table2.png + information about ocean from public domain Adey, Walter H., and Karen Loveland.
"Physical Environment." Dynamic Aquaria: Building Living Ecosystems. San Diego: Academic, 1991. N. pag. Print.]
And yet this most unlikeliest of coincidences happens to be true, for the Great Salt Lake’s salt composition is nearly identical to seawater, differing only in that its waters are slightly enriched in potassium and depleted in calcium compared to the ocean, as can be seen in the table (potassium was omitted in the chart because there was no potassium concentration data for the Bear River).
In fact, the salt composition of the Great Salt Lake is more similar to the seawater than it is to the very river, namely the Bear River, that feeds it, and is supposedly the source of its salts!
A Lake of Seawater
This chart weakens the currently accepted theory in two different ways . First, I have demonstrated earlier that an endorheic lake and the river which feeds it should have similar salt profiles, and this is clearly not the case. Secondly, I have also demonstrated that it is extremely unlikely that the Great Salt Lake, an endorheic lake, and seawater should have similar salt profiles, provided that the currently accepted theory of the origin of the Great Salt Lake’s salts is correct .
The size of the shallow lake fluctuates due to evaporation. Salt on the dried ground at Great Salt Lake.
Therefore, one may conclude, that in all probability, the currently accepted explanation for the origin of the salts of the Great Salt Lake—namely that the salts have been eroded from the rocks and soils found in the lake’s watershed, and carried to the lake by the rivers that flow into it—is incorrect with a very high probability, for one can only maintain that it is true by resorting to coincidence (which is by definition of very low probability).
Since there is only one other point of origin of these salts, namely the ocean, one is compelled to admit the possibility that these salts originated from the ocean. But this must mean that the ocean, at one point in the past, penetrated the Great Salt Lake’s watershed, which is located almost 600 miles away from the nearest ocean (the Pacific Ocean). Perhaps the impressions of the American settlers who first cast eyes on the Great Salt Lake, and thought that it was the work of God, were correct after all.
Brady Yoon is a software engineer and writer. He completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics and a minor in anthropology at UCLA. He researches and writes about lost civilizations and other ancient mysteries.
Take a look at the universe through infrared lens in Nasa’s latest post. Watch
Take a look at the universe through infrared lens in Nasa’s latest post. Watch
“Incredible,” wrote an Instagram user while reacting to the post.
By Trisha Sengupta
PUBLISHED ON AUG 18, 2021 09:56 AM IST
Yet another day and yet another post by Nasa that has now left people in awe. This is a post that allows netizens to look at the universe “through a new (infrared) lens.” There is a possibility that the post will leave you saying “wow” and that too repeatedly.
The image is taken from the visualised video shared on Instagram.
(Instagram/@nasahubble)
In their post, Nasa shared a visualized video along with a descriptive caption. “When viewing celestial objects through visible light – light that the human eye can see – thick clouds of dust can appear shadowy. In order to capture this nebula’s stunning, ethereal wisps, the Hubble Space Telescope turns to infrared light,” they wrote.
In the next few lines, the space agency described about the Horsehead Nebula showcased in the visualized video. “Located nearly 1,500 light-years away in the constellation Orion, the Horsehead Nebula is one of the most identifiable nebulae in the night sky. This scientific visualization simulates a flight through an infrared view of the nebula, bringing the stunning cosmic portrait to life,” the space agency added.
In their post, Nasa shared a visualized video along with a descriptive caption. “When viewing celestial objects through visible light – light that the human eye can see – thick clouds of dust can appear shadowy. In order to capture this nebula’s stunning, ethereal wisps, the Hubble Space Telescope turns to infrared light,” they wrote.
In the next few lines, the space agency described about the Horsehead Nebula showcased in the visualized video. “Located nearly 1,500 light-years away in the constellation Orion, the Horsehead Nebula is one of the most identifiable nebulae in the night sky. This scientific visualization simulates a flight through an infrared view of the nebula, bringing the stunning cosmic portrait to life,” the space agency added.
They claim to have found an ancient alien ship on the moon
They claim to have found an ancient alien ship on the moon
On November 27, a photograph of the moon appeared on the NASA website, and in it appears an alleged alien spacecraft, according to researchers.
The source of the photo is from NASA and here is the link to check it out .
The supposed spacecraft (or crater deformation) occupies almost a third of the impact of some small asteroid that arrived in the past.
Approximately 3 kilometers long, it reminds us of another great discovery in the past that we echoed in Ufo-Spain Magazine, which you can see here .
Now, this new discovery could well be an alien ship, as UFO researcher Scott C. Waring explains.
Just by way of clarification, perhaps this object will remind you of the now famous first interstellar visitor, called Oumuamua .. Right?
Another comparison. Images captured by NASA’s Apollo mission several years ago showed another rare structure , and naturally the space agency has always said it is rocks or pareidolia.
According to researcher Scott C. Waring, “this supposed alien ship has been forgotten on the lunar terrain for hundreds or thousands of years ..”
“And corrosion like collisions from space rocks make some pieces of the structure disappear. Also, of course, it changed over time ”.
What did you think of this possible structure on the moon? Are we talking about a possible unknown or known ship abandoned on the lunar surface?
It’s the new era of UFOs, so it seems everyone is seeing flashing lights in the sky and wondering what they might be. Astronomers get paid for identifying lights in the sky beyond those Tic Tacs, flying triangles, drones and other lower atmospheric phenomenon. They recently spotted something in the middle of our own Milky Way galaxy that defies explanation, making the astronomers’ version of UFO – an unidentified ‘flashing’ object.
“We report the discovery of a highly-polarized, highly-variable, steep-spectrum radio source, ASKAP J173608.2-321635, located ∼4,deg from the Galactic center in the Galactic plane.”
“We discuss possible identifications for ASKAP J173608.2-321635 including a low-mass star/substellar object with extremely low infrared luminosity, a pulsar with scatter-broadened pulses, a transient magnetar, or a Galactic Center Radio Transient: none of these fully explains the observations, which suggests that ASKAP J173608.2-321635 may represent part of a new class of objects being discovered through radio imaging surveys.”
Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder
(Credit: CSIRO)
In a new paper accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal and available on preprint server arXiv, Ziteng Wang of the University of Sydney and a team of astronomers describe the discovery of ASKAP J173608.2-321635 using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), a radio telescope array in Western Australia consisting of 36 identical parabolic antennas working together as a single astronomical interferometer, making it superior to other telescopes with an increased field of view, fast survey speed and high sensitivity. First seen in April 2019, the mysterious signal close to the galactic center appeared in data 13 times between then and August 2020. After that, some other telescopes confirmed its existence. However, others couldn’t detect it. So, what is the mysterious ASKAP J173608.2-321635?
“We discuss possible identifications for ASKAP J173608.2-321635 including a low-mass star/substellar object with extremely low infrared luminosity, a pulsar with scatter-broadened pulses, a transient magnetar, or a Galactic Center Radio Transient: none of these fully explains the observations, which suggests that ASKAP J173608.2-321635 may represent part of a new class of objects being discovered through radio imaging surveys.”
“A new class of objects.” Not a holy grail but certainly a significant discovery. The study points out that X-ray binaries, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae have been ruled out, but the galactic center does have some other mysterious objects, such as three Galactic Center Radio Transients (GCRT) which have also defied explanation. Since ASKAP J173608.2-321635 flashes at irregular intervals, the team suspects it will find other similar signals using this data. Hopefully, they will explain if and how they’re related to the galactic plane and “ultimately help us infer its nature.”
So many mysterious light flashes — so few explanations.
Aliens? Neither the study nor the press release or any other reports suggest there’s intelligence behind ASKAP J173608.2-321635 … but none say there isn’t either. For now, we’ll wait for more astronomers, more telescopes and more signals.
It’s certainly a great time to be interested in astronomy, isn’t it?
Opvolger ruimtetelescoop Hubble wordt in december eindelijk gelanceerd
ANP De nieuwe ruimtetelescoop James Webb moet eind dit jaar naar de ruimte gaan. De ruimtevaartorganisaties ESA (Europa) en NASA (Verenigde Staten), die het toestel hebben gebouwd, melden dat de lancering staat gepland voor 18 december.
De lancering gebeurt vanaf de Europese ruimtebasis Kourou in Frans-Guyana. De belangrijkste onderdelen van de draagraket zijn daar inmiddels aangekomen vanuit Europa. De James Webb zelf bevindt zich in een laboratorium in de Amerikaanse staat Californië en moet eind deze maand richting de lanceerbasis vertrekken.
De James Webb moet de opvolger worden van de beroemde ruimtetelescoop Hubble. Die nadert na meer dan dertig jaar het einde van zijn loopbaan. De nieuwe telescoop is groter en scherper, en moet daardoor dingen ontdekken die voor de Hubble verborgen zijn gebleven.
Bovendien gaat het nieuwe observatorium niet rond de aarde draaien, zoals de Hubble, maar rond de zon, op 1,5 miljoen kilometer afstand van de aarde. Op die plek moet de James Webb onder meer zoeken naar planeten waar misschien leven mogelijk is, verre sterrenstelsels en sporen van de oerknal.
Het project kost in totaal ongeveer 8 miljard euro. De nieuwe ruimtetelescoop is ongeveer zo groot als een tennisbaan. De kern is een 6,5 meter grote spiegel van goud en beryllium. Die vangt het licht uit de ruimte op.
De ontwikkeling van de James Webb ging moeizaam. Aan de telescoop wordt al sinds 1996 gewerkt en het was eerst de bedoeling dat hij al in 2007 zou worden gelanceerd, maar dat wordt bijna jaarlijks verschoven. Zo blijken de ontwikkelaars langer dan verwacht nodig te hebben om alle nieuwe technologieën aan boord goed te testen. Bovendien zijn er menselijke fouten gemaakt. Zo ontstonden er scheuren in een zonnescherm.
Bij een trillingstest schoten zeventig bouten los. Ze vielen in de telescoop en een paar zijn nog steeds niet teruggevonden. Vorig jaar leidde de corona-uitbraak tot een nieuwe vertraging. Eerder zei NASA al dat Webb elke dollarcent en dus het ‘wachten waard’ is. ,,We moeten het hier op aarde in orde hebben voordat we naar de ruimte gaan’’, zei bestuurder Thomas Zurbuchen erover.
De ruimtetelescoop is vernoemd naar NASA-directeur James Edwin Webb (1906-1992). Hij leidde de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie tussen 1961 en 1968. Het jaar erna zetten Neil Armstrong en Buzz Aldrin als eersten een voet op de maan.
Date of discovery: Sept 8, 2021 Location of discovery: Earths moon
I was checking out a video from the NASA LRO mission. A Youtuber took it and added music. At the 7:40 mark, I noticed a large metallic structure on one side of a crater. The crater itself is over 5km across, so the structure inside is at least 2km long and 1.5km tall. Now I have found alien structures in Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photos before so I'm not surprised at this. The entire top, right and left of the structure has a rim over it, which is 100% proof its intelligently designed. No one seemed to notice the structure in the crater, so I wonder how much of the video most people actually watch...Youtube normally says viewers last 1.5-2.5 minutes...with a 53 minute video, there is a lot to miss out on.
Strange Flashing Lights Sighted On The Moon ( September 2, 2021 )
Impressive footage of strange flashing lights that were captured on the Lunar Surface on September 2, 2021. Footage was captured by Ruben Ariza from Armenia, Quindio, Colombia.
STATEMENT : Un registro inolvidable observatorio Planetario astronomía ariza LuNa Paola D Ariza TRANSLATE : An unforgettable record ariza planetary astronomy observatory LuNa Paola D Ariza
They are here !
credit : Ruben Ariza
note : no audio
UFO Sighted Over Bronx, New York ( September 7, 2021 )
Impressive UFO was Sighted over Bronx, New York on September 7, 2021
Black Flying Saucer Shaped UFO Sighted Over The Bronx In New York City, New York. September 7, 2021
This object was spotted hovering in the sky over The Bronx and the object seem to look like the classic saucer shape craft. Could this be a visitor to our planet or just a odd shaped cloud? Thanks to TradingWithLukuzFX for allowing me the use of his footage and to view the original:
Mysterious Flashing Lights On The Lunar Surface Filmed Through Telescope. September 2, 2021
This stunning footage was filmed by Ruben Ariza and his location that he recorded this is Armenia, Quindio in Colombia. These light seem to be flashing in what i believe is some sort of code and i counted three separate locations so could the be communicating with each other or with us? Thanks to Ruben Ariza for this amazing capture and to view the original
Mention “Places to find wreckage from crashed UFOs” to even the most casual followers of UFO news and the locations that most often come to mind are Area 51 in Nevada and Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. You know you’re talking to a real insider if they bring up Sanford University in California, where a well-known microbiologist is using something called “Multiplexed Ion Beam Imaging” to look at the individual atoms of samples from alleged UFO crashes in Colombia and Argentina. Wait … what? Stanford?
“We have developed a method that uses secondary ion mass spectrometry to image antibodies that are tagged with isotopically pure elemental metal reporters.”
At the Nolan Lab (you know you’re dealing with a “well known microbiologist” when the lab is named after him) at Stanford, Dr. Gary Nolan leads studies of “hematopoiesis, cancer and leukemia, autoimmunity and inflammation” by studying single cells using various high-tech devices. In his spare time, he uses those same devices to study alleged UFO pieces. In a recent interview with KQED, he explains it wasn’t his idea – he got one of those mysterious calls from the government.
“I was approached by some people representing the government and an aerospace corporation to help them understand the medical harm that had come to some individuals, related to supposed interactions with an anomalous craft. I had no expectation of this, but they came primarily because they were interested in the kinds of blood analysis that my lab can do.”
After that, Nolan moved to investigated pieces of the actual anomalous crafts. In addition to the latest ones from Colombia and Argentina, he’s analyzed pieces given from the alleged 1945 UFO crash in New Mexico at the same location as the Project Trinity nuclear tests. What did he find from that?
“If people are expecting a spectacular smoking gun, this is not it. But the objective is to take even some of the most blasé cases and just create a pipeline of how this should be done, to demonstrate to people that you don’t need to come up with a spectacular answer. I mean, we don’t disprove anything with this case. It’s just not a case of this being an obvious piece of technology.”
Beyond proving if the pieces are alien made, Nolan says he wants to understand why some people claim the metals show evidence of being made by changing the isotope ratios of given elements – an expensive process. If there’s a practical benefit, he wants to know about it because it would improve our own material science. You can look at his work as both finding something new and eliminating that which can be explained. When Nolan put pieces from the Colombian and Argentine UFOs in the imaging device, he was shocked to find the ratio of isotopes didn’t make any sense. Of course, all this means is that they can’t be eliminated as something we know – but they also can’t be eliminated as alien metal. While he doesn’t speculate, he does share what other scientists think of his work in the UFO field and his defense.
“A little bit the usual giggles, and some have said, “Garry, you’re going to ruin your reputation.” And my response is: I’m not making a conclusion. I’m just saying that there is data here that is anomalous and that somebody needs to explain. I’m willing to take the time to explain it. What scientist takes something off the table? If the explanation is sitting there right in front of you and you decide to throw it away before you even come to a conclusion, you can’t really claim to be a scientist — you’re a cultist.”
That sounds like a good argument for all ufologists to follow. Nolan says he can’t understand the reluctance to discuss this kind of research, especially among other scientists doing similar studies – he says he’s aware of dozens and is certain there are many more. He says we need people like himself who consider everything and we need skeptics too. His advice to both is “Keep it on the table.”
Let’s hope he shows us more of what’s on his.
Debris was obtained through on-field research of alleged UFO crashes in Colombia and Argentina
Among the most spectacular of UFO reports are those concerning these objects coming down to crash into the earth. The incident at Roswell probably springs to mind for many, but this is far from the beginning and end of such reports. Indeed, it sometimes almost seems as if these things are raining from the skies, if reports are to be believed. Many supposed UFO crashes have seemed to slip under the radar, so to speak, and here we will look at some lesser known cases of this intriguing corner of the UFO world.
Our first case is an account from a man named Arthur G. Stancil, who was originally a mechanical engineer on testing Air Force aircraft engines at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, before going on to the private sector to work for a private contractor for a nuclear site somewhere in Nevada. In 1953 he was purportedly sent to Arizona on a “special assignment,” and he claimed that the whole thing had been strange from the start. He would say that he was picked up by a bus with blacked out windows and taken out on a drive that would last 4 hours, along with other passengers who did not speak the entire time. When they arrived at their destination, they were all somewhere out in the deep desert, with military activity buzzing around them. Stancil was then led to an area of desert scrub that was brightly illuminated by floodlights, and that was when he allegedly saw something that would change his life forever.
There in the bright light and surrounded by trucks and military personnel, was a metallic disk about 30 feet in diameter jutting from the sand and dirt, half-buried and with a visible gaping gash in its side. One of the officials at the scene told him that the otherworldly object had crashed there, and that his job would be to try and deduce the speed of the craft and impact. As he was there, he learned other details of the incident, such as that there was a compartment inside the craft in which had been found a tiny dead body that was not human. Apparently this creature, which Stancil claimed to have seen himself, was about 4 feet tall, with what looked like a skull cap, and wearing a seamless silver suit. Shortly after this, the military packed up the ship and everything else, and the investigation was ended. Stancil would be told to never speak of what had gone on there, forced to sign a paper to such effect, but in 1973 he broke his silence by telling of it to the UFO researcher Raymond Fowler, who would launch his own investigation into the matter. Fowler would find that Stancil really was who he said he was, and he further uncovered witnesses from Wright Patterson AFB who claimed that on that very same evening they had received a shipment from a crash site in Arizona, including strange pieces of metal and the bodies of three 4-foot-tall humanoids with large heads and brownish skin. The story is quite interesting, but considering that there is very little evidence or corroboration for any of this, it is mostly down to whether one believes Stancil or not, and we will likely never know what really happened out in the desert that night, if anything.
In 1974, we have a strange case that supposedly took place in the area of the small remote village of Llandrillo, North Wales, in the United Kingdom. On the night of January 23 of that year, the whole village was apparently shaken by a thunderous roar and violent shuddering of the earth that rattled homes, knocked things off of shelves and scared the local populace. Startled citizens began going out into the streets wondering what had just happened, and that was when they saw blue and orange lights eerily flickering in the gloom at a mountain called Cader Bronwen, in the Berwyn mountain range. Before anyone even knew what was going on, police and military personnel had swept in the cordon off the area and order people back into their homes, permitting no one to get anywhere near where those strange lights seemed to be coming from. Considering that the area was so remote, it seemed odd that there was such a huge military presence there, and this continued for several days, with no information at all coming from authorities as to what had actually happened.
During all of this, there were numerous tales from locals that told of having seen a glowing object come down from the sky, and of being forcefully turned away whenever they tried to approach the mountain, but at least one witness claimed to have actually seen the crashed object. One local nurse who sped off in her car towards the mountain thinking that a plane had crashed and that people were possibly in need of medical assistant, but as she approached, she could see that it was no plane. She would claim that she had seen through the trees a large, circular object glowing orange, but she had been unable to get a better look before military personnel descended on her to block her view and turn her away. Whatever happened here has been lost to time and there are no answers.
In that same year another apparent UFO crash supposedly went down at the border between Texas and Mexico. The incident begins on August 25, 1974, when an American Air Defense radar installation picked up an object moving in from the Gulf of Mexico on a predicted trajectory towards the state of Texas. Whatever it was it was moving extremely fast, at an estimated speed of around 2,530 miles per hour, and it was at an altitude of around 75,000 feet. It was rather alarming, as it was headed straight towards U.S. airspace and no one had a clue what it was. It was thought that it was perhaps a meteor, but then it slowed down. Considering that it was slowing down and about to violate U.S. airspace, an alert was issued and fighters were scrambled for possible interception of an enemy craft, yet it would then surprise everyone again.
The object was tracked to the area of Corpus Christi, Texas, where is suddenly dropped to an altitude of 45,000 feet and slowed down considerably to 1,955 miles per hour, before changing course to take it towards Mexican airspace before any defense could be mounted. It then shot out over Brownsville, Texas, and gently descended once again to about 20,000 feet before suddenly and inexplicably vanishing from radar in the general vicinity of a place called Coyame, in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, just across the U.S. border. Considering that the object had slowed down, changed course, and descended in smooth, measured steps, it was clear that this was no meteor, and it was also no equipment malfunction, because another military radar installation would report that they had tracked it as well. When the object did not appear on screens again, it was assumed that it must have come down in the desert wasteland near the town, but no one had any idea of what it could have been.
Strangely, civilian radar had apparently not picked this particular event up, but it was found that they had picked up a private aircraft that seemed to have crashed in the same area. However, the flight path of the civilian aircraft did not match that of the mystery object, making any connection between the two murky and differentiating them as two separate phenomena. The only thing anyone knew was that the object the military had tracked and the civilian aircraft seemed to have gone down in precisely the same area at just around the same time. It was all rather odd, but it was apparent that at least an aircraft had crashed, and so the Mexican authorities launched a search for the wreckage, soon finding it out among the rugged parched scrubland. That was when the weirdness would continue. In addition to the wreckage of the aircraft, it was soon reported that there was another crash site not far away, and that this one seemed to be oddly circular in shape and mostly in one piece. After that, radio silence was put into effect and there was no further word on what was going on.
The original reports and communications between the rescue crews had been intercepted by the CIA, who started putting together their own team to go and check it out, and the Mexican government was asked for permission to enter and do their own recovery mission or assist with the operation. These requests would allegedly be either ignored and met with silence or outright denied, but according to eyewitness reports the Americans didn’t really care, and went ahead anyway, mobilizing a group of helicopters at Fort Bliss, which were all painted in light brown colors and without markings. In the meantime, the CIA had apparently picked up satellite imagery showing that there had indeed been two crash sites, and furthermore there were very large flatbed trucks that had been brought in to move the wreckage, one piece very disk-like in nature, with the trucks stopping in a very remote area away from habitation and then assuming complete radio silence. Alarmed that something weird was going on, the U.S. government ordered a flyby to check it out.
A low altitude, high speed flyby purportedly showed trucks and jeeps stopped in the area and two bodies lying on the ground, and it was decided to send the helicopters in. Four military helicopters were then sent out across the border to the site, where they supposedly found the entire Mexican convoy still and the personnel all dead for reasons unknown, most of them still sitting lifelessly in their vehicles. On one of the flatbed trucks was found a large, disc-shaped craft that measured about 16 feet in diameter, and was composed of smooth silver metal, with no apparent markings, doors, windows, or visible means of propulsion anywhere on it. The disc was also surprisingly only lightly damaged, with merely a small hole and some dents to show for what was seen as an obvious collision with the civilian aircraft. In fact, the wreckage from that aircraft was also carried by the Mexican convoy, and that plane had been completely obliterated, nothing but twisted pieces.
With great caution this object was allegedly whisked away by the helicopters. According to the story, before leaving the military also made sure to destroy the remains of the convoy, the plane wreckage, and all of the bodies with high explosives, in what appears to have been some sort of nefarious attempt to get rid of the evidence. The disk was apparently taken to a secure facility in the Davis Mountains, after which it was decontaminated and moved to a covered truck and brought by back roads to an unknown location somewhere near Atlanta, Georgia. The movements of the object are unknown from there, with some reports saying it was put in an underground facility, while others say it was moved yet again. No one really knows. Other mysteries are why the entire recovery team and convoy sent by the Mexican government was dead, made even more confusing in that none of the American team reportedly had any problem or illness. Just what was going on here? The case of what has gone on to be known as “The Mexican Roswell” remains unexplained.
Moving up to 1996, there was yet another supposed UFO crash at Boyle, Ireland. In May of that year, an unidentified object described as a “spaceship” allegedly came down to crash through some trees, bounce off a lake, and go skidding across the ground. Shortly after this, the police arrived to find debris all over the place, but they were soon pushed out of the area by a contingent of military personnel, who immediately went about locking down the area. There is not much more said on the matter after that, but the locals apparently insist that “something big happened” on that evening. No further news seems to have ever been released on this case, whether that is because it was thoroughly covered-up or because it never happened at all. We’ll probably never know for sure.
Our next case here reportedly occurred at Värmland, Sweden, at Lake Backsjön, where at least four separate eyewitnesses saw a mysterious oblong object about 15 feet long and about 4-5 feet wide and with “small wings” crash down into the lake on July 27, 1999, sending a huge plume of water into the air as it did. Local police were notified, and before long there was a search being carried out on the lake that would strangely involve both the police and military forces, utilizing teams of divers and advanced sonar equipment to scour the roughly 2 mile-long, and half-mile wide lake. Oddly, locals were told varying stories for what was going on, such as that it was variously an aircraft crash, a satellite, or stolen goods dropped from a plane. When the operation was done, they claimed they had found nothing of importance, but if that were the case, it seems odd that it would turn out that much of the police report on the search was labelled as classified. Why should this be if there was nothing there?
Finally, we come to a report from as recently as 2008, from the town of Needles, California. According to witnesses, a bright, fiery object reported as turquois in color plummeted down to apparently crash into the earth near the Colorado River on May 14 of that year. Although no one saw an actual impact, they were convinced that the object must have crashed and that it was no meteorite, and that it had at one point slowed down and then sped up again. One local ex-cop named Frank Costigan would say of what he saw, “It was bright, bright enough that it illuminated the ground. It went behind a hill, and I waited to see if I could hear it crash because as big as it was, it was bound to make noise.” Despite this, there was no sound of a crash or explosion, and as witnesses wondered what was going on, there was reported a mysterious caravan of military-style vehicles approaching on the road towards the estimated impact site. One witness to the convoy was David Hayes, the owner of the local KTOX Radio in Needles, would say that one of the vehicles had some kind of strange dome on it that reminded him of a stealth fighter. He would say of what he saw on an interview with investigative reporter George Knapp:
It seemed like it was some kind of surveillance vehicle — four-wheel drive. It had government plates, U.S. government plates and behind it were a couple of vans that looked like support vehicles.
He also claimed that riding in the truck were “men-in-black types” who looked “serious as a heart attack.” In the meantime, other witnesses reported seeing a formation of black, unmarked helicopters in the area carrying what appeared to be a crane, and some even claimed that they had seen the helicopters use this crane to pick up a glowing, oval-shape object and carry it off into the night. Hayes would claim that he would get a call from a friend in the Laughlin area in Nevada who said that at the time all of this was going on, Laughlin Airport had been actively running the flights known to carry workers to and from Area 51. After this, the military activity in the area ceased. Some curiosity seekers went off to examine where they estimated the object had come down and claimed to have found scorch marks in the earth and some mysteriously burned trees, but nothing else. There has been no word from the police or military confirming that any of this happened at all, so it is all very curious. Knapp has said of his investigation into the matter:
The fact that there were people here the next day, it was almost like they were doing some sort of cleanup or whatever. The point is, something definitely happened. The I-Team phoned nearly every agency we could think of to see if they had received any report or knew anything. We were not surprised to learn that no one knew anything. A military watchdog group found a public record showing there was at least one army helicopter in the air in that area at that time. The helicopter, oddly enough, is listed as being attached to a U.S. base in Europe. We are filing freedom of information requests and will report back when we get responses.
What was going on in these cases and why are these things falling from the sky? Where is the evidence for such things? For now we exist in a void of answers. All we can really know is that from time to time, strange things are being reported as falling from the skies. What those might be or what they entail remain mysterious, clouded by conspiracies and tales of government cover-ups, leaving us to merely speculate and wonder as to what it all means.
SpaceX klaar voor eerste commerciële bemande volwaardige ruimtevlucht
Elon Musk en zijn ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX maken zich op voor een nieuw hoofdstuk in ruimtevaartgeschiedenis: de eerste bemande volwaardige ruimtevlucht op puur commerciële basis. Missie Inspiration4 moet over een week vertrekken vanuit Cape Canaveral en zal drie dagen duren.
SpaceX verzorgt reeds voor rekening van het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA zowel bemand als onbemand transport naar en van het Internationaal Ruimtestation ISS. Het bedrijf zet nu een stap in de richting van het ruimtetoerisme waarin Space Adventures, Virgin Galactic en Blue Origin bijzonder actief zijn.
Vier privépersonen zullen op eigen kosten - de facto betaalde één van de vier voor hen allen - drie dagen lang op een hoogte van zowat 575 km rondjes rondom onze planeet draaien. Op grond van een overeenkomst met NASA zullen zij het ISS niet bezoeken. Sinds een spaceshuttle in 2009 de Hubble Ruimtetelescoop heeft opgeknapt, vloog niemand tot op 575 km hoogte.
De missie, die Inspiration4 werd gedoopt, begint op 15 september, wanneer een Falcon-9 draagraket van SpaceX van op het legendarische platform 39A van Cape Canaveral in Forida een aangepaste Dragon-capsule - de Crew Dragon Resilience - de ruimte moet inslingeren. De missie verloopt volledig op automatische piloot, tenzij in geval van nood.
De 38-jarige miljardair Jared Isaacman verdiende zijn geld met zijn betalingsverwerkingsbedrijf Shift4 Payments. Hij is een burgerpiloot die ook ervaring heeft met performante gevechtsvliegtuigen, is gezagvoerder en heeft de missie bekostigd. Hij zou per zitje ongeveer 50 miljoen dollar (ongeveer 42 miljoen euro) hebben neergeteld. Sian Proctor (51), eveneens een burgerpiloot, is professor en heeft een diploma biologie op zak. Hayley Arceneaux (29) is medisch assistente in het kinderziekenhuis St. Jude in Seattle waarvoor de missie geld moet opleveren. Chris Sembroski (42) is een data-ingenieur.
Proctor en Sembroski verdienden hun zitje dankzij een wedstrijd en een loterij. Na als kind kanker te hebben overwonnen, vliegt Arceneaux mee als de verpersoonlijking van hoop.
Het kwartet zal naar de Aarde kunnen turen via een speciaal op de Dragon gemonteerde koepel, die de plaats heeft ingenomen van een koppelingsadaptor voor het ISS.
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De astronauten zullen enkele gezondheidsexperimenten uitvoeren die onder andere door SpaceX zijn betaald. Voorts zetten ze activiteiten op om het St.Jude ziekenhuis te sponsoren.
Bovendien zullen hun belevenissen “bijna in realtime” gevolgd kunnen worden in een Netflix-documentaire.
De capsule, die ook al eens astronauten naar en van het ISS heeft gebracht tijdens een missie van een half jaar, moet landen in de Atlantische Oceaan.
Het verschil met de recente trips van Jeff Bezos (Blue Origin) en Richard Branson (Virgin Galactic) is dat die slechts tot de grens van de ruimte zijn gereisd, daar enkele minuten zijn gebleven en dan meteen naar huis zijn teruggekeerd. Inspiration4 is ook de eerste volwaardige ruimtemissie zonder een institutionele beroepsastronaut aan boord.
SpaceX lanceert ook satellieten voor derden, is met Starlink een breedbandnetwerk in de ruimte aan het uitbouwen en begeert contracten voor het nieuwe Amerikaanse Maanprogramma.
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Possible Portal appeared in the sky over Blue Ridge Mountains
Possible Portal appeared in the sky over Blue Ridge Mountains
Photographer took several images of the clouds over the Blue Ridge Mountains, US because their shapes.
After viewing the images he noticed a strange object in the sky which he did not know it was there.
Could it be a portal that UFOs go in and go out of?
Then, a black triangle craft captured over Dresden, Germany and a dark sphere moving at a constant speed and trajectory over Garrison, NY. There was no visible evidence of a means of propulsion, it was clearly not “floating” like a balloon.
There are plenty of supposed UFO encounters out there. Those between people on the ground, planes, and everything in between. The phenomenon ranges across a wide range of scenarios, but one very strange corner of all of this are those weird encounters that have been logged between trains and UFOs, and these are both more interesting and more bizarre than one might think.
On October 3, 1958, diesel freight train No. 91 was moving through north central Indiana on its way from Monon to Indianapolis along with a crew composed of engineer Harry Eckman, Cecil Bridge, the fireman, and Morris Ott, the head brakeman, as well as the conductor Ed Robinson, and Paul Sosbey, the flagman. At approximately 3:20 a.m., they went past a remote crossroads called Owasco when they saw “four big, soft white lights” in the sky up ahead. The fireman, Bridge, would say of what transpired:
They (the lights) crossed the tracks ahead of the train – about a half a mile ahead of us, we estimated. They were moving pretty slowly, too, at no more than about 50 miles an hour, four big, white, soft lights. Just the three of us in the engine saw the lights at this time. We were pulling 56 cars – that’s a little more than half a mile of cars – and because of the angle at which these things were approaching and because they were so low right then, the boys in the caboose probably couldn’t see them. I talked to Robinson, (the conductor), and told him what we had seen. During the time we watched these things, from Ewasco to Kirklin, we did a lot of talking on that radio. The dispatcher in Lafayette could hear us, of course, but he never cut in. Conductor Robinson continues the story. I was sitting in the cupola, looking forward over the train, when Bridge called me on the radio. I had already noticed the four gobs of light but I couldn’t make out what they were. They were half a mile ahead of the caboose – the whole length of the train. A little bit after he called me the things went away and we didn’t see them for a few minutes… then all of a sudden they came back.
I’d say they were only a couple of hundred feet above the train as they came toward the caboose. And they weren’t moving very fast – maybe 30 or 40 miles an hour. It was hard to tell – a fellow just doesn’t notice details like that under the circumstances. The freight train is pretty noisy, of course, but I didn’t hear any other noise, like the roar an airplane would have made. I think they were silent, or nearly silent, at least. They flew over us one after the other – big, round white things that looked about the colour of fluorescent lights, kind of fuzzy around the edges. They didn’t glare and they didn’t light up things as they went over. They just came back toward us, over the top of the cars, one after the other. Then they went on down the tracks maybe another half a mile and seemed to stop. When these things shot back over to the east of us, they lit up much brighter than they were before. They turned in line, going north or northeast and we noticed that they lit up in sequence – the front one first, then number two, three and four. They changed course and came back past the train. They were going in the opposite direction to us when they made this pass. I guess they were at least a mile or two east of us when they did it.
We had flashlights in the engine and in the caboose. Up on the head end of the train – in the engine where I was –we blinked our flashlights at the things and we waved the lights. We thought we might get them to come in closer. They did come down over the train a few minutes later, as Robinson related, but of course, I can’t say they did it because we flashed the lights at them. At any rate they didn’t flash any lights back at us. In the caboose we had a five-cell sealed beam flashlight that throws a pretty good beam a long ways. When the things came down and flew right up the tracks behind the caboose, I grabbed that sealed beam flashlight and shined it on them. As soon as the light hit them, they jumped sideways out of the beam. When they got back over the tracks I did it again and they scattered. They acted like they didn’t care for that light at all. While we were switching at Frankfort they stayed away back up the tracks, just hovered there, until we moved on. Then they followed us again. When they finally went away at Kirklin, they just zipped off to the northeast and kept on going and we didn’t see them anymore.
What was going on here? It would turn out that all of the crew had seen the mysterious light show from different angles depending on whether they were on the bridge or in the caboose, and they could all see that the lights seemed to be following them. From the caboose, Ed Robinson observed the phenomenon and would say of it:
We didn’t see them from the back end of the train for several minutes after they went away to the east and turned. But the boys in the engine were still seeing them. I got back on the radio with Bridge. He was watching them right then. They must have circled the train and gone north of us, real low, because the next time we saw them they came rushing up the tracks right in back of us. They were coming a lot faster this time – a lot faster than they had come back over the train the first time.
They were just above the tree-tops along the right of way, and they had changed their way of flying — their formation. This time they were sort of flying on edge. Two of them were on edge – the two in the middle. The two on the outside were tilted at an angle both in the same direction. The four of them flew like that up the tracks behind the train – a tilted one on the east, two of them straight up and down, then the one on the west tilted just like the one on the east. When they first came back over the train we could see that they were round things – circular shaped on the bottom. Then when they flew up the tracks in back of us we could see – Sosbey and I – that they were about 40 feet in diameter and maybe 10 feet thick. The two flying straight up and down were approximately over the edges of the right of way and about 200 yards in back of the caboose. If they had been flying flat down instead of edgewise. They would have just about have touched edges so they must have seen somewhere around 40 feet across the bottom.
This case has no real answers in sight. Another rather harrowing report comes from October 20, 1973, from the near Mt. Vernon and Evansville, Indiana. On this morning, a train crew on a L&N train near Upton, in the Mt. Vernon area, began experiencing engine trouble at around 6:50 a.m. but they kept on going towards their destination, and at one point observed a mysterious light in the distance that was pulsating from really bright to dim, and back to bright. It did not look like an aircraft, and they watched it head out of sight, yet this would not be the end of their ordeal. UFO researcher Francis Ridge, an investigator for National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) would say of what happened next:
When they neared Caborn (6-7 miles east of Mt. Vernon), the lead conductor told the rear conductors by intercom that they had seen a real bright light. When they got near St. Phillips, the rear conductor reported that there now was a train following them, on the same track. By then they had gotten up on Belknap hill (at Peerlsess Crossing), “a pretty good pull on a train”, and had gotten hung up. One of the rear men suggested that they should get the train behind them, which he said had been following them for awhile, to push them. The lead conductor replied, “Well, I haven’t heard him on the radio.
After a short while the rear man suggested the same solution to the problem, again: “Well, he’s been following us and I can see his light back there and the ‘board’ is red!” The object following them had given them a “red board” on their blocking system. The signal referred to here is a series of lights, similar in color to regular traffic lights, situated on a pole on the side of the tracks. This shows either red, amber, or green, indicating “danger” , “caution”, or “all clear”, respectively. (This signal is a part of the Automatic Blocking System which tells of other traffic on the same track). The “red board” normally meant that something was on the track behind them. The rear conductor again suggested that the crew call the “tower” (Howell Round House at Evansville) and see if there was a train behind them.
A quick check with the yardmaster showed that there was no train behind them at all. Upon receiving the news, the rear conductor replied, “There is a headlight behind us. I can see it. It’s real bright. After the train had gotten hung up and had stopped on Belknap Hill, they got out and looked around. The conductor, after backing the train down the hill, got out, walked down to the rear unit and pressed the restart button. To his surprise the unit “kicked right off, ran real good. The light or the object was now moving off, back from where it had come from. According to the conductor, whatever had given them a “red board”, now was giving them a “green board.” As he, himself, stated, “The board went green. The light cleared up the board”. The train, previously hampered with a bad rear unit and way over-tonnage, was now fully able to climb the steep, hill and made it in to Howell without further mishap.
Interestingly, this happened during a major UFO sighting wave in the area at the time, and we are left to wonder just what was going on here. A few years later, there was another very odd account investigated by Ridge as well, this time from the region of Columbus, Ohio. In late October of 1977, a freight train headed out to the Fostoria Distribution Company warehouse just north of Fostoria, Ohio in order to pick up a food shipment. They reached their destination without incident and began loading up the train when things began to get strange, starting with a sighting made by the engineer, Howard J. Albert. Ridge would say in his report on the incident:
At about 3:20 AM, Howard saw what looked to be a shooting star to the west; it curved down out of the northwest. He was sitting in his cab facing southbound. The first box car blocked his view in this direction. The light came down in the field toward Route 23 between him and the church. Slowly, at about the speed of a walking man, it came toward him across the field. It was approximately 16 feet off the ground and stopped on the other side of the tracks between four and five box car lengths away – 180 to 270 feet.Howard picked up his radio and called out to his conductor who was about seven or eight car lengths down the track, “Donald… come up to the engine.” Donald replied by radio and asked what was happening. Howard answered, “Hey, we got a g- d— UFO up here.” By this time the UFO had moved to within two car lengths of the track.
The object was “birthday cake” or disk shaped, about 90 feet in diameter, and 45 feet high. It was brightly lit, with banks of nine vertical “tubes” separated by a dark void space that reflected no light. Short horizonal tubes ran over the top and bottom of these voids. The bottom of the disk could be seen; it appeared like ceramic and was “the color of a common kind of knife sharpening stone… gray with a trace of lavender.” No windows, ladders, antenna, or markings of any sort were observed. There was no sound associated with the disk. The disk was slightly tilted and rotating counter clockwise. Both Howard and Donald used their railroad stop watches twice to time the speed of rotation. The speed was 9 rpm. They could not say what was used as a reference point for the timing, but are sure their estimate was accurate. The object glowed yellow. Electric-like energy arcs ran around the disk in a clockwise direction. They were blue in color. As the arc touched the tubes, the tubes lit up. When the center of the tubes were touched, the ends lit up. When the ends of the tubes were touched by the arcs, the centers lit up.
At one point the tower operator In Fostoria, hearing radio conversation between the three men, called and asked, “Hey, Howard, you got a UFO out there?” Howard replied, “Yes, Merv, we got a UFO up here. He’s damn close.” Merv then asked, “Do you want the cops up there?” The reply was, “Nol They can’t drive up to where we’re at. And if they do get here, they’ll probably shoot at It. It isn’t hurting anybody. We’re playing games with it. When the object was close across the tracks something told them that they should stay on the train and not cross the tracks. They also seemed to know that if they blew the train whistle the object would leave. Howard thought that the object’s occupants were observing their engine, a relatively uncommon model, and in turn were allowing them to observe their craft.
Howard then began turning the train cab headlight on and off in an effort to somehow signal the mysterious object, and when the light went on, the object grew brighter and dimmed again, as if responding. It was at around this time that he realized that the engine was no longer working, and that the radio and walkie-talkies were also oddly out of operation. The object then began spinning at a rapid pace and grew almost blindingly bright, before shooting straight up and then speeding off to the northwest, completely silent the entire time. More recently still is a case from January 14, 2002, in the area of Paintsville, Kentucky, which allegedly involves an actual collision between a train and a UFO. 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 that’s 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 past 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. That can probably be said about all of the cases we have looked at here, and they occupy a very strange little corner of the UFO phenomenon. What was going on here and what were these objects? The answers remain unclear.
A few days ago I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe on an alleged UFO crash somewhere in the U.K. during the Second World War. It was a story given to American journalist Dorothy Kilgallen in 1955. It was, of course, the usual kind of such tales: strange, little dead bodies, studies of the craft and dead crew by government agencies, and cover-ups and conspiracies. You can find the article at this link. There is, however, another angle to this whole story that I’ll share with you today. Depending on your opinion on the whole affair, you’ll either think “Wow!” or “Meh.” With that said, on with today’s article. It all revolves around an entertaining BBC show that hit televisions in the U.K. back in the 1990s. Its title: Invasion: Earth. Before we get to the matter of the story, here’s some background information itself. First and foremost, it’s obvious that the creators of the show dug deep into the world of Ufology. And, the writers and producers were very familiar with that Second World War crashed UFO story, too – as it appears in the show itself.
tvdb say of the show: “A six-part mini series produced by the BBC & the American channel, Sci Fi. The mini series went out in 1998. The plot was simple but effective. A team of military and scientists discover that a hostile alien force is planning to turn Earth into a breeding farm. Another alien race, the echos, tried to warn the Earth about the aliens (ND’s) during the Second World War. However, only one person listened and he went off with the Echo’s. In the late 1990’s a UFO is shot down with the returning man. Suddenly the small team is left to defend the Earth. However, the ND’s had been poisioning the Earth for over 50 years and men are dying out while women could become hybrid creatures. Nothing seems able to stop the ND’s.”
Here’s how the story begins: “England 1944, during the height of the V-2 rocket blitz on England, an unidentified and notably non-German object crashes, devastating the suburb in which it falls. A bomb disposal team arrive on the scene, led by Lieutenant Charles Tyrell (Anton Lesser), a Cambridge Don and anthropologist, but while searching the scene the soldiers discover two of the crashed craft’s occupants; one is shot dead by a soldier while attempting to flee the scene (much to Tyrell’s dismay), while the other occupant falls out of the craft, badly injured by the crash. It soon becomes apparent that the occupants are not human, with their domed heads and speckled pale skin. Tyrell establishes a rapport with the survivor, just as Military Intelligence arrives.
“The action then moves to Scotland, 1998, and a joint Royal Air Force/NATO air force airfield. Flight Lieutenant Chris Drake (Vincent Regan) and his navigator, Flight Lieutenant Gerry Llewellyn (Stuart McQuarrie), are two Tornado aircrew scrambled to intercept an unidentified craft over the North Sea. During the ensuing encounter, both the airfield and the interceptors are seemingly attacked by a weapon that shuts off their power and disables all their instruments, so Drake impulsively acts against orders and shoots down the UFO. In the process, his own craft is damaged and he and Llewellyn must eject over the ocean. Drake is recovered alive but Llewellyn suffers serious injuries during ejection and dies in the sea before he can be rescued. The guilt-ridden Drake is grounded as a result of his hasty actions.”
Now, we get to the “Hmm” part of the story. At the same time that Nick Pope was writing his Operation Thunder Child novel, back in the 1990s, the British Ministry of Defense gave a large amount of assistance and support to the BBC’s Invasion: Earth team’s show that dealt with an attack on the planet by hostile alien entities. Inevitably, this led to rumors – within the U.K. UFO research community, if nowhere else – that it was all part of a less-than-subtle attempt on the part of certain elements of the British Government to get the general public thinking about the possibility of humankind waging outright war against an alien species. Does the MoD know something that the rest of us don’t? A Ministry of Defense employee – referred to me by Nick Pope – had something to say about this at the time. The MoD man said:
Nick Pope
“It’s extremely strange that on the one hand the MoD is publicly so dismissive about UFOs; and yet on the other they bent over backwards to provide assistance to a TV company producing a science-fiction drama which starts with the Royal Air Force shooting down a UFO. Normally, the Ministry of Defense only helps film and TV companies where it believes that significant benefits will fall to the MoD in terms of recruiting, training or public relations. This was the case, for example, with our participation in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies. What, one wonders, did the MoD think it had to gain from helping to perpetuate a view that the Royal Air Force were virtually at war with extra-terrestrials? Questions about our participation in this project were raised at the highest level within the Ministry of Defense.”
Just a case of the Ministry of Defense giving a bit of help to the BBC? Or, did the MoD have other reasons for wanting to help with the production of the show? Perhaps someone should dig deeper into all of this, even though the strange story is now more than twenty years old.
I found two sculpted faces in stone in a Mars photo today. Both faces are of a male from the species...and both faces are wearing helmets as a show of the status and warrior attributes of those individuals. The larger face with a huge crown on its head must be some kind of royal figure from long ago. It looks very similar to the shape of heads wearing crowns from ancient Egypt...for instance Pharaoh Thutmose had a similar shaped crown in sculptures of him. From the worn torn edges, I have determined that this carved face is at least a hundred thousand years old or more. It wont be long...maybe 20-30 years and humans will be on Mars...and will be able to confirm what I have found. Hey...better late than never.
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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 7 - 9 - 2021
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 7 - 9 - 2021
UFOs Sighted In Storm Near White City, Saskatchewan. Canada ( August 31, 2021 )
UFOs were sighted by a Imposing Supercell Storm near White City in the White Butte area Saskatchewan, Canada on August 31, 2021
They are here !
credit : R Korzenowski
UFO Sighted Over Baltimore, Maryland ( September 2, 2021 )
Impressive day time UFO Sighting of a large craft recorded over the city of Baltimore, Maryland on September 2, 2021.
They are here !
credit : M.B.
V Shaped UFO Sighted Over Chicago, Illinois ( September 5, 2021 )
V Shaped UFO wss sighted over Chicago, Illinois on September 5, 2021 : This is MUFON CASE : 117783 : Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Large V shaped craft appears out of flashing orb. You can see it get bigger and bigger per frame. Long Description of Sighting Report - Case 117783
The v snap object appears to grow in size as it comes OUT of the large orb that is also pulsating in and out of space time
Date Submitted : 2021-09-06 Date of Event : 2021-09-05 MUFON SUBMITTER FILE :
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UFO Sighted Over Middletown, Indiana ( September 5, 2021 )
STATEMENT : Craft casually flew by while taking video of hummingbird. : This is MUFON CASE : 117772
Long Description of Sighting Report - Case 117772
I was on my porch watching the hummingbird that comes on a daily basis and decided to take a video that day because he was extra vocal. Upon reviewing the video I noticed something in the sky that caught my eye. I paused the video and zoomed in to find a large Saturn like shaped object that I had never seen before. It was large, round, dark, except the bottom portion I could see was mostly a glowing green color. I also noticed another craft in a still shot, but was nowhere quite as detailed. This was my first sighting and with the detail of the green illuminated bottom, I’m sure this is either from another planet, or some black project craft that has not be released to the public.
Did the Galactic Federation just release its Prime Directive?
Did the Galactic Federation just release its Prime Directive?
In this Exopolitics Today interview, Elena Danaan, a former professional French archeologist, discusses a recent communication she received that details the Prime Directive of the Galactic Federation of Worlds.
Elena is publicly releasing the ten articles making up the Prime Directive, along with commentary by her primary extraterrestrial contact, Thor Han Eredyon.
The contents of the Prime Directive are known to participants in secret meetings and agreements that have occurred between the Galactic Federation and national space program leaders and major aerospace corporations.
Its contents have not been publicly released until today. In the discussion with Dr Michael Salla, the contents and implications of the Prime Directive are analyzed in terms of their scope and implications for humanity.
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UFOs & Aliens UFOs Vs the US Government
UFOs & Aliens UFOs Vs the US Government
Repeated sightings. Political double-talk. Scientific proof. Something has been going on since 1947, and the U.S. government denies it so vehemently that its very denials seem to acknowledge the truth. UFOs vs. the U.S. Government explores the close calls and possible coverups of alien visitations on Earth. UFOs & Aliens is a 1999 movie, ***narrated by Jeri Ryan of Star Trek: Voyager, this series features stunning visualizations and interviews with top experts in the field of science, technology and ufology including Jill Tarter, inspiration for the book & film, Contact. First broadcast on TLC, UFOs & Aliens provides an exciting examination of UFO sightings, alien encounters, and our efforts to contact extraterrestrial life.
Omdat ze op het Australische Phillip-eiland geen natuurlijke vijand hebben, bevinden deze vraatzuchtige duizendpoten zich wonderbaarlijk genoeg aan de top van de voedselketen.
Als je aan een duizendpoot denkt, denk je misschien aan die kleine, krioelende beestjes in de zanderige grond. Maar in Australië nemen zelfs deze diertjes bizarre vormen aan. Onderzoekers hebben namelijk ontdekt dat de Cormocephalus coynei, een duizendpoot die leeft op het onbewoonde, Australische Phillip-eiland, niet alleen gigantisch is, maar ook een wat opmerkelijk dieet volgt.
Meer over de Cormocephalus coynei
Cormocephalus coynei is een duizendpootsoort die voorkomt op Phillip- en Nepean-eiland, gelegen ten zuiden van het Australische Norfolkeiland. De soort werd voor het eerst gezien op Phillip-eiland in 1792, maar werd pas in 1984 formeel beschreven. De duizendpoot kan maar liefst 23,5 cm lang worden en is roodbruin en oranje van kleur. Maar het meest opmerkelijke is zijn bizarre gewoonte om op gewervelde dieren te jagen.
In de studie besloten onderzoekers het dieet van de duizendpoot te bestuderen. Want dat deze diertjes een bijzondere eetlust hebben, weten we al langer. Zo staan ze erom bekend om op gekko’s, stinken en vissen te jagen. Maar soms hebben de beestjes zelfs nog grotere honger.
Een gekko is ten prooi gevallen aan een vleesetende duizendpoot.
Afbeelding: D. Terrington (2019)
Zeevogels De onderzoekers kwamen namelijk tot de ontdekking dat de duizendpoten op Phillip-eiland het zelfs op zeevogels hebben voorzien. “Er zijn aanwijzingen dat grote duizendpoten over de hele wereld gewervelde dieren verorberen,” zegt onderzoeksleider Luke Halpin. “Maar dit is de eerste keer dat we ontdekken dat de duizendpoot op zeevogels jaagt.”
Dieet De onderzoekers hebben het opmerkelijke dieet van Cormocephalus coynei nauwkeurig in kaart gebracht. En daaruit blijkt dat het bizarre eetpatroon van deze roofzuchtige duizendpoot voor 48 procent bestaat uit gewervelde dieren en 52 procent uit ongewervelde dieren. 30,5 procent bestaat uit hagedissen, waaronder de inheemse Lord Howe Island Skink en de endemische hagedis Christinus guentheri. Opvallend genoeg bestaat 7,9 procent van het dieet van de duizendpoot uit de zwartvleugelstormvogel (met name de kuikentjes) en 9,6 procent uit zeevissen die door in bomen nestelende zeevogels op de bosbodem zijn gedropt.
Bekijk in deze video hoe een duizendpoot een kuikentje vangt.
Het is een vrij merkwaardige samenstelling voor een duizendpoot. “Het vertegenwoordigt een ongewoon hoog percentage gewervelde dieren in het dieet van een ongewervelde,” constateert Halpin. “We laten zien hoe roofzuchtige geleedpotigen druk uitoefenen op gewervelde populaties.”
Top van voedselketen Maar dat is niet eens het enige. Aangezien geen enkel roofdier op het eiland het op de duizendpoot heeft voorzien, zijn deze langbenige monstertjes de onbetwiste toproofdieren op Philip-eiland. Ze bevinden zich wonderbaarlijk genoeg aan de top van de voedselketen.
Sleutelrol Hoe maf het ook klinkt, volgens de onderzoekers is de vraatzuchtige eetlust van de duizendpoten eigenlijk van vitaal belang voor het ecosysteem op het eiland. Dat komt omdat ze belangrijke voedingsstoffen uit de zee (die de zeevogels meenemen) naar het land brengen. Volgens onderzoeker Rohan Clarke spelen de gigantische duizendpoten dan ook een sleutelrol in de vormgeving van het natuurlijke systeem. “Het benadrukt echt de complexiteit van de natuur,” aldus de Clarke.
De duizendpoten houden dus de dynamiek van het ecosysteem op het eiland in balans. En daar kunnen wij ook een belangrijke les uit trekken. “Het laat zien hoe belangrijk het is om de resterende natuurlijke gebieden te behouden,” benadrukt Clarke. “Op die manier kunnen we voorkomen dat complexe interacties zoals deze – die uiteindelijk het leven op aarde ondersteunen – verder worden verstoord.”
Russia has been testing vehicles, weapons, and spacecraft at the Kapustin Yar development site for 75 years but there are rumors and theories about much more complicated projects and secrets that have remained hidden from the public.
Have you ever wondered what might be hiding behind the walls of Area 51 or perhaps – beneath it? Everyone has heard the stories about UFO wreckages, advanced alien and military technologies, and extremely classified projects of all kinds. But did you know that Russia also has a similar facility that has become subject to numerous theories and conspiracies – the Kapustin Yar rocket launch and development site?
Everything you need to know about the Kapustin Yar test site
1. Name and construction
The current official name of the Kapustin Yar test site is the 4th State Central Interspecific Test Site of the Russian Federation (4 GTSMP). Codename: military unit 15644. The idea of creating a new test site for testing the first Soviet ballistic missiles came on May 13, 1946. Construction began a year later, and another year later, the first ballistic missile was launched in the USSR.
2. The cradle of Soviet cosmonautics
The Kapustin Yar test site is rightfully considered the “cradle of Soviet cosmonautics”, since on July 22, 1951, the R-1V carrier rocket brought the dogs of Dezik and Tsygan to the upper atmosphere and returned them to earth alive. It was the first successful flight of animals into space, but for 40 years the story was classified due to the numerous unsuccessful flights before that.
3. Nuclear tests
It makes no sense to list the entire track record of the Kapustin Yar test site, but it is worth noting separately that, according to open data, starting from the 1950s, at least 11 nuclear explosions were carried out at the test site, in addition to all other launches.
4. Military research and test center
Seventy-five years after it was founded, Kapustin Yar remains one of the most important test sites in Russia. Every year, about two dozen of the latest models of Russian weapons and military equipment are tested here in the interests of the Strategic Missile Forces, Aerospace Forces, Ground Forces, and the Navy. In 2020 alone, there were more than 200 official tests of weapons systems and prototypes.
Map of the Kapustin Yar test and launch area. Credit: GlobalSecurity.org
5. Storage of UFO wreckages?
The whole world knows about the Roswell UFO crash in 1947 but why is Kapustin Yar often called the Russian Area 51? As with any large and confidential military base, there are rumors that there is a hidden underground facility used to keep UFO wreckages and more.
6. A top-secret underground base
Rumors tell about a top-secret base, which was located right on the territory of the guarded landfill, at a depth of 400 meters underground. These claims were formed on the basis of American spy plane photographs, satellite images from space, and CIA reports.
7. Alien technology
Various theories, some even included in TV shows like Ancient Aliens, claim that the underground hangars of Kapustin Yar keep the remains of at least five alien aircraft. It is said that the Russians had access to advanced alien technologies that gave them the advantage over the United States in the field of space exploration decades ago. But of course, these are common theories and nothing more.
8. Unidentified flying objects in Kapustin Yar
It often seems like the most mysterious UFO incidents happen around military and nuclear facilities around the world. Kapustin Yar was no different. The most famous case occurred on June 19, 1948, when a silver cigarette-like object appeared above the base. Several military planes were sent to intercept the object. One of them likened the “flying cigarette” to a rocket, but the UFO managed to emit a bright beam that blinded the pilot. It is said that both the plane and the UFO crashed and the wreckages were taken to the underground hangars before they could attract attention.
9. Another famous UFO incident
The resigned test pilot Lev Vyatkin had a similar case. According to him, in the summer of 1980, his plane collided with an aircraft emitting a “hard beam”. The pilot managed to land successfully, but the wing, touched by the beam, continued to glow for several more hours.
10. Location of the “top secret base”
Crimean ufologist and contactor Anton Anfalov, who claims to have received information from a reliable source, says that the “top secret base” is not in Kapustin Yar, but in the area of the neighboring town of Zhitkur. In fact, there was once a city there that was liquidated in the 1950s because of its proximity to the “special site.” The inhabitants were displaced in different parts of the country.
In 1996–1997, Anfalov made a map of Zhitkur with instructions on the location of all sites and drew diagrams of their devices. Other ufologists that became interested after his claims were unable to find the locations when they attempted to enter the grounds.
All in all, the Russian Area 51 remains in question for the time being. It is easy to believe that such an important facility could have been home to classified projects in the past. It probably is to this day.
The Russians have done a much better job at protecting their secrets than the Americans, for instance. It is highly unlikely that anything UFO-related will ever be confessed.
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Footprints that date back about 200 million years were discovered in India’s Thar Desert and were made by three different dinosaurs. The prints, which were found in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district close to Thaiat village, were made in the sediment of the seashore to the Tethys Ocean. This proves that the three-toed carnivorous dinosaurs did in fact inhabit the western part of the state millions of years ago during the Mesozoic Era.
The three dinosaur species that made the footprints were Eubrontes cf. giganteus, Eubrontes glenrosensis, and Grallator tenuis. The prints belonging to the Eubrontes cf. giganteus and Eubrontes glenrosensis species measured 35 centimeters (13.8 inches), while the one made by the Grallator tenuis was only 5.5 centimeters (2.2 inches).
(Not any of the dinosaurs mentioned in this article.)
In an interview with The Hindu, Virendra Singh Parihar, Assistant Professor, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, stated that the three species were all types of theropods. Theropods were bipedal dinosaurs and the ancient ancestors of more than 9,000 of today’s birds. In fact, they were quite similar to modern birds as they had three toes and air-filled hollow bones. Some theropods had feathers and even built nests for their eggs. They were fast and agile which helped them to hunt.
Both of the Eubrontes species were believed to have measured between 12 and 15 meters in length (39 to 49 feet) and weighed between 500 and 700 kilograms (1,102 to 1,543 pounds). The Grallator tenuis, however, was much smaller and about the same height as a really tall human, measuring about two meters tall (6.6 feet) and three meters in length (9.8 feet).
The climate in the region where the dinosaur prints were found was different millions of years ago. Geochemical analysis revealed that the environment in which the dinosaurs lived in was seasonal to semi-arid (this means that it was dry but they did receive some rain) and the researchers also believe that the sea levels changed numerous times during the early part of the Jurassic Period (this was around the same time that the prints were made).
(Not any of the dinosaurs mentioned in this article.)
This is hopefully just the first of many more dinosaur-related discoveries in the region as stated by Dr. Parihar, “It is just the beginning of the findings of dinosaur remains in Rajasthan. More discoveries of dinosaur fossils will be made in the near future.” I look forward to seeing what more they will find.
Terrifying Encounters of Bigfoot Have Been Documented in Ancient Cultures Around the World via the 5th Kind
Terrifying Encounters of Bigfoot Have Been Documented in Ancient Cultures Around the World via the 5th Kind
Terrifying Encounters Of Bigfoot Have Been Documented in Ancient Cultures Around The World via the 5th Kind
Shocking Encounters with this humanoid have been documented in many ancient cultures all across the world. In Australia we hear of encounters with The Yowie. In China the Yeren. The Moehau in New Zealand, the Almaste in Russia, Bigfoot / SASQUATCH in north America & Canada.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments. Hope everyone has a great weekend.
"I have seen shooting stars before and what appears to be other lights moving very fast but never something like this," one UFO watcher reported. (Shutterstock)
CONNECTICUT — There is no greater testimony to our COVID-19 obsession than the collective shrug society has given to the government's admission that UFOs are real.
The Pentagon admitted UFOs were an actual thing, back in May. For decades the military had spun tales of misdirection and weather balloons, throwing shade on professional ufologists and even some of their own servicemen. Then, former President Donald Trump made pandemic relief funds contingent upon the intelligence community opening its UFO kimono, and the science fiction became science speculation.
You would have thought there would at least have been a new podcast or Netflix series on the topic.
Fortunately, sky watchers in Connecticut have overcome the UFO ennui gripping the rest of the nation and remained vigilant, continuing to upload reports of their extraterrestrial encounters into the National UFO Reporting Center. So far in 2021, there have been 35 UFO sightings in the Nutmeg State, and 10 since May.
One of the hallmarks of UFO flight, and the one that has our Navy pilots most envious, is their apparent ability to turn on a dime. That speed is one thing, but the way they move so fast then turn so abruptly without leaving half their craft shredded behind them has our earthbound aerospace engineers scratching their heads.
A Westport resident observed the phenomenon first hand. On May 2, the sky watcher, with a group of six others, saw what at first appeared to be a plane-like object, yellowish-orange in color, moving in the sky near the second star of the Big Dipper handle at roughly commercial airplane altitude.
"But then, a few seconds later, what caught my eye was that this object performed a sudden - albeit slight - turn in direction (no more than 30 degrees). It wasn't a gradual, arc-like turn but rather a pretty sudden turn on a point in the sky. A couple seconds later, it repeated a similar turn on another point in the sky. 4-5 such turns were made within the span of 15-20 seconds so that after that time the object had completely changed its direction and was now heading upwards in the sky."
A similar yellowish-orange object appeared about five minutes later, moving erratically in a different direction and disappearing after around 45 seconds, according to the entry in the NURC database.
A Southbury woman who identified herself as a former drafter and designer clearly had the kind of eye professional ufologists appreciate in these reports. She did everything short of draw a picture of the UFO that swept across her yard close to 11:30 p.m. on May 25:
"It appears to be lights in a circular or oval shape and looks transparent. The top row of lights are white; the lower rows are bluish with one or two white lights in the lowest row. It looks almost like a projection. You can also see a reflection on the paved driveway below the image. The object was moving quickly and headed directly toward our garage then appears to twist and rise when it gets to the garage as if it's going to go over it. Other than crickets, I hear no other sound."
Do UFO Drivers Watch ESPN?
Maybe it's those enormous satellite dishes spitting out high energy protons behind the ESPN building — or maybe the space aliens are just fans of Terran sports — but Bristol gets more than its share of UFO reports. A driver in the area around Bristol a little after midnight on June 3, reported a flash of blue and red lights shine in the sky "falling in a sideways /downward angle" before vanishing.
"In order for it to have flashed blue and red so quickly in my opinion it was a flying saucer which appeared to be rotating therefore that is why it was blue and red ... It appeared to only be one aircraft but it was for sure traveling faster than any aircraft I have ever seen and the fact that it just disappeared is even more suspicious. It didn't look too far in the sky rather it appeared somewhat close..."
Like the Bristol encounters, most of the UFO sightings in the NURC database, above Connecticut and elsewhere, are brief — the alien craft have places to be, after all. But one sighting recently over Wilton lasted so long it made us wonder if Netflix wasn't filming that new series after all.
For 20 minutes around 10 p.m. on June 27, a resident reported a series of three objects moving northward across the sky. The UFOs were of different altitudes and brightness, and one even "blocked out the stars above it," according to the observer.
"I have seen shooting stars before and what appears to be other lights moving very fast but never something like this," he noted in his post.
A similar light show played out over Sharon around 1 a.m. on May 19, and lasted even longer, according to another NURC entry. This time, the objects moved "unnaturally quickly... swerving back and forth."
"Another notable thing is that occasionally a light would flash beside the UFO to my left (approximately northwest) - this happened about five times in the course of the hour. It looked like a slight dimmer star, would light up momentarily, and disappear. At first, to me, it looked like a battle (I was raised on Star Wars) but it later seemed to be a part of a propulsion system, as the UFO would accelerate after the lesser star... "
Finally, in Taftville in August, a resident may have been getting just a little bit too close to the Truth which is Out There, so the aliens erased his phone. He reported his experience in the NURC database:
"I saw many unexplainable lights and activity over a span of a couple weeks. This particular video was of 5 lights that appeared round moving slowly and flashing then taking off quickly. I have videos of other interesting movements and flashing from that same time period. My cell phone acted very glitchy for about a week and actually deleted some of my recordings on its own. Also when u sent the videos to friends no images would show on their end but we're still visible on my phone."
The blogger claimed that the supposed UFO "must have come from or was heading toward the mouth of the volcano", and that UFOs "frequently use the mouth of volcanos to enter their underground alien bases".
A strange-looking shape in the sky that might or might not have been a UFO has been caught on camera near a construction site in Costa Rica, according to Scott C Waring, a blogger with a penchant for UFO-related reports.
As Waring explained in his blog, no specifics were provided regarding the video, save for a comment about it offering a view from "Carpintera (San Rafael, Provincia de Cartago) looking toward the Irazú volcano."
"Now the eyewitness only noticed one UFO. However, I can easily see two UFOs in the video. I believe the smaller object is an alien drone from the larger white disk in the distance," he wrote. "The UFO must have come from or was heading toward the mouth of the volcano."
He further alleged that "UFOs frequently use the mouth of volcanos to enter their underground alien bases... to deter humans from witnessing the UFOs exiting and entering and even prevent people from accidentally stumbling upon the entrance."
"I myself have witnessed a small orb which looked similar to the white orb. It was the size of a softball, but when it came closer...it was semitransparent with pearlescent colours moving slowly over the surface," Waring reported. "Because of that experience a few years ago...I know this sighting to be 100 percent real and significant to UFO research everywhere."
In 2016, a peculiar pyramid-shaped UFO was witnessed over the Welsh village of Pentyrch. What is claimed to have followed was shocking: military intervention resulting in the alien spacecraft crashing into woodland on the outskirts of Llantrisant, Wales. In the years since this happening, information related to the Pentyrch UFO Incident has been suppressed, leading some to believe it to be one of the greatest UFO mysteries of all time.
UFOs regularly spotted in restricted U.S. airspace
UFOs regularly spotted in restricted U.S. airspace
Bill Whitaker reports on the regular sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP.
CORRESPONDENT Bill Whitaker
Earlier this summer, the director of national intelligence and secretary of defense released a highly-anticipated, unclassified report about something the Pentagon calls unidentified aerial phenomena—or UAP—more commonly known as UFOs. The government's grudging acknowledgment of 144 mysterious sightings documented by our military comes after decades of public denial. But as we first reported in May, whatever is trespassing in our skies and seas poses a serious safety risk to our servicemen and women, as well as our national security.
Bill Whitaker: So what you are telling me is that UFOs, unidentified flying objects, are real?
Lue Elizondo: Bill, I think we're beyond that already. The government has already stated for the record that they're real. I'm not telling you that. The United States government is telling you that.
Luis Elizondo spent 20 years running military intelligence operations worldwide: in Afghanistan, the Middle East and Guantanamo. He hadn't given UFOs a second thought until 2008. That's when he was asked to join something at the Pentagon called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or "AATIP."
Lue Elizondo
Lue Elizondo:The mission of AATIP was quite simple. It was to collect and analyze information involving anomalous aerial vehicles, what I guess in the vernacular you call them UFOs. We call them UAPs.
Bill Whitaker: You know how this sounds? It sounds nutty, wacky.
Lue Elizondo: Look, Bill, I'm not, I'm not telling you that, that it doesn't sound wacky. What I'm telling you, it's real. The question is, what is it? What are its intentions? What are its capabilities?
Buried away in the Pentagon, AATIP was part of a $22 million program sponsored by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to investigate UFOs. When Elizondo took over in 2010 he focused on the national security implications of unidentified aerial phenomena documented by U.S. service members.
Lue Elizondo:Imagine a technology that can do 6-to-700 g-forces, that can fly at 13,000 miles an hour, that can evade radar and that can fly through air and water and possibly space. And oh, by the way, has no obvious signs of propulsion, no wings, no control surfaces and yet still can defy the natural effects of Earth's gravity. That's precisely what we're seeing.
Elizondo tells us AATIP was a loose-knit mix of scientists, electro-optical engineers, avionics and intelligence experts, often working part time. They combed through data and records, and analyzed videos like this.
A Navy aircrew struggles to lock onto a fast-moving object off the U.S. Atlantic Coast in 2015.
Recently released images may not convince ufo skeptics, but the pentagon admits it doesn't know what in the world this is or this or this.
Bill Whitaker: So what do you say to the skeptics? It's refracted light. Weather balloons. A rocket being launched. Venus.
Lue Elizondo:In some cases there are simple explanations for what people are witnessing. But there are some that, that are not. We're not just simply jumping to a conclusion that's saying, "Oh, that's a UAP out there." We're going through our due diligence. Is it some sort of new type of cruise missile technology that China has developed? Is it some sort of high-altitude balloon that's conducting reconnaissance? Ultimately when you have exhausted all those what ifs and you're still left with the fact that this is in our airspace and it's real, that's when it becomes compelling, and that's when it becomes problematic.
Former Navy pilot Lieutenant Ryan Graves calls whatever is out there a security risk. He told us his F/A-18F squadron began seeing UAPs hovering over restricted airspace southeast of Virginia Beach in 2014 when they updated their jet's radar, making it possible to zero in with infrared targeting cameras.
Ryan Graves
Bill Whitaker: So you're seeing it both with the radar and with the infrared. And that tells you that there is something out there?
Ryan Graves: Pretty hard to spoof that.
These photographs were taken in 2019 in the same area. The Pentagon confirms these are images of objects it can't identify. Lieutenant Graves told us pilots training off the Atlantic Coast see things like that all the time.
Ryan Graves: Every day. Every day for at least a couple years.
Bill Whitaker: Wait a minute, every day for a couple of years?
Ryan Graves: Uh-huh.
Ryan Graves: I don't see an exhaust plume.
Including this one – off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida in 2015, captured on a targeting camera by members of Graves' squadron.
Soundbites from pilots: Look at that thing, it's rotating! My gosh! They're all going against the wind, the wind's 120 knots to the west. Look at that thing dude!
Bill Whitaker: You can sorta hear the surprise in their voices.
Ryan Graves: You certainly can. They seem to have broke character a bit and were just kind of amazed at what they were seeing.
Bill Whitaker: What do you think when you see something like this?
Ryan Graves: This is a difficult one to explain. You have rotation, you have high altitudes. You have propulsion, right? I don't know. I don't know what it is, frankly.
He told us pilots speculate they are one of three things: secret U.S. technology, an adversary's spy vehicle, or something otherworldly.
Ryan Graves: I would say, you know, the highest probability is it's a threat observation program.
Bill Whitaker: Could it be Russian or Chinese technology?
Ryan Graves: I don't see why not.
Bill Whitaker: Are you alarmed?
Ryan Graves: I am worried, frankly. You know, if these were tactical jets from another country that were hangin' out up there, it would be a massive issue. But because it looks slightly different, we're not willing to actually look at the problem in the face. We're happy to just ignore the fact that these are out there, watching us every day.
The government has ignored it - at least publicly - since closing its project "Blue Book" investigation in 1969. But that began to change after an incident off Southern California in 2004, which was documented by radar, by camera, and four naval aviators. We spoke to two of them: David Fravor, a graduate of the Top Gun naval flight school and commander of the F/A-18F squadron on the USS Nimitz; and flying at his wing, Lieutenant Alex Dietrich, who has never spoken publicly about the encounter.
Alex Dietrich and Dave Fravor
Alex Dietrich: I never wanted to be on national TV, no offense.
Bill Whitaker: So why are you doing this?
Alex Dietrich: Because I was in a government aircraft, because I was on the clock. And so I feel a responsibility to s-- to share what I can. And it is unclassified.
It was November 2004 and the USS Nimitz carrier strike group was training about 100 miles southwest of San Diego. For a week, the advanced new radar on a nearby ship, the USS Princeton, had detected what operators called "multiple anomalous aerial vehicles" over the horizon, descending 80,000 feet in less than a second. On November 14, Fravor and Dietrich, each with a weapons systems officer in the backseat, were diverted to investigate. They found an area of roiling whitewater the size of a 737 in an otherwise calm, blue sea.
Dave Fravor:So as we're looking at this, her back-seater says, "Hey, Skipper, do you..." And about that got out, I said, "Dude, do you, do you see that thing down there?" And we saw this little white Tic Tac-looking object. And it's just kind of moving above the whitewater area.
As Deitrich circled above - Fravor went in for a closer look.
Bill Whitaker: So you're sort of spiraling down?
Dave Fravor: Yep. The Tic Tac's still pointing north-south, it goes, click, and just turns abruptly. And starts mirroring me. So as I'm coming down, it starts coming up.
Bill Whitaker: So it's mimicking your moves?
Dave Fravor: Yeah, it was aware we were there.
He said it was about the size of his F/A-18F, with no markings, no wings, no exhaust plumes.
Dave Fravor: I want to see how close I can get. So I go like this. And it's climbing still. And when it gets right in front of me, it just disappears.
Bill Whitaker: Disappears?
Dave Fravor: Disappears. Like, gone.
It had sped off.
Bill Whitaker: What are you thinking?
Alex Dietrich:So your mind tries to make sense of it. I'm gonna categorize this as maybe a helicopter or maybe a drone. And when it disappeared. I mean it was just…
Bill Whitaker: Did your back-seaters see this too?
Alex Dietrich: Yeah.
Dave Fravor: Oh yeah. There was four of us in the airplanes literally watching this thing for roughly about five minutes.
Seconds later, the Princeton reacquired the target. 60 miles away. Another crew managed to briefly lock onto it with a targeting camera before it zipped off again.
Alex Dietrich: You know, I think that over beers, we've sort of said, "Hey man, if I saw this solo, I don't know that I would have come back and said anything," because it sounds so crazy when I say it.
Bill Whitaker: You understand that reaction?
Dave Fravor: I do. I've had some people tell me, you know, "When you say that, you can sound crazy." I'll be hon-- I'm not a UFO guy.
Bill Whitaker: But from what I hear you guys saying, there's something?
Alex Dietrich: Yes.
Dave Fravor: Oh there's, there's definitely something that… I don't know who's building it, who's got the technology, who's got the brains. But there's, there's something out there that was better than our airplane.
The aircrew filed reports. Then like the mysterious flying object, the Nimitz encounter disappeared. Nothing was said or done officially for five years, until Lue Elizondo came across the story and investigated.
Lue Elizondo: We spend millions of dollars in training these pilots. And they are seeing something that they can't explain. Furthermore, that informations being backed up on electro optical data, like gun camera footage. And by radar data. Now, to me, that's compelling.
Chris Mellon
Inside the Pentagon his findings were met with skepticism. AATIP's funding was eliminated in 2012, but Elizondo says he and a handful of others kept the mission alive until finally, frustrated, he quit the Pentagon in 2017, but not before getting these three videos declassified and then things took a stranger turn.
Chris Mellon: I tried to help my colleague, Lue Elizondo, elevate the issue in the department and actually get it to the Secretary of Defense.
Christopher Mellon served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence for Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush and had access to top secret government programs.
Chris Mellon: So it's not us, that's one thing we know.
Bill Whitaker: We know that?
Chris Mellon: I can say that with a very high degree of confidence in part because of the positions I held in the department, and I know the process.
Mellon says he grew concerned nothing was being done about UAPs, so he decided to do something. In 2017, as a private citizen, he surreptitiously acquired the three Navy videos Elizondo had declassified and leaked them to the New York Times.
Chris Mellon: It's bizarre and unfortunate that someone like myself has to do something like that to get a national security issue like this on the agenda.
He joined forces with now civilian Lue Elizondo and they started to tell their story to anybody who would listen: to newspapers, the History Channel, to members of Congress.
Chris Mellon: We knew and understood that you had to go to the public, get the public interested to get Congress interested, to then circle back to the Defense Department and get them to start taking a look at it.
And now it is. Last year, the Pentagon resurrected AATIP, it's now called the UAP task force; service members now are encouraged to report strange encounters; and the Senate wants answers.
Marco Rubio: Anything that enters an airspace that's not supposed to be there is a threat.
After receiving classified briefings on UAPs, Senator Marco Rubio called for a detailed analysis. This past December, while he was still head of the intelligence committee, he asked the director of national intelligence and the Pentagon to present Congress an unclassified report.
Bill Whitaker: This is a bizarre issue. The Pentagon and other branches of the military have a long history of sort of dismissing this. What makes you think that this time's gonna be different?
Marco Rubio: We're gonna find out when we get that report. You know, there's a stigma on Capitol Hill. I mean, some of my colleagues are very interested in this topic and some kinda, you know, giggle when you bring it up. But I don't think we can allow the stigma to keep us from having an answer to a very fundamental question.
Bill Whitaker: What do you want us to do about this?
Marco Rubio: I want us to take it seriously and have a process to take it seriously. I want us to have a process to analyze the data every time it comes in. That there be a place where this is cataloged and constantly analyzed, until we get some answers. Maybe it has a very simple answer. Maybe it doesn't.
A few weeks after our story aired, the director of national intelligence released an unclassified report saying UAP probably lack a single explanation, but that some "appear to demonstrate advanced technology," meriting "further analysis."
Produced by Graham Messick. Associate producer, Jack Weingart. Broadcast associate, Emilio Almonte. Edited by Craig Crawford.
For millennia, humanity has observed the changing phases of the Moon. The rise and fall of sunlight reflected off the Moon, as it presents its different faces to us, is known as a "phase curve". Measuring phase curves of the Moon and Solar System planets is an ancient branch of astronomy that goes back at least a century. The shapes of these phase curves encode information on the surfaces and atmospheres of these celestial bodies. In modern times, astronomers have measured the phase curves of exoplanets using space telescopes such as Hubble, Spitzer, TESS and CHEOPS. These observations are compared with theoretical predictions. In order to do so, one needs a way of calculating these phase curves. It involves seeking a solution to a difficult mathematical problem concerning the physics of radiation.
Approaches for the calculation of phase curves have existed since the 18th century. The oldest of these solutions goes back to the Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer, Johann Heinrich Lambert, who lived in the 18th century. "Lambert's law of reflection" is attributed to him. The problem of calculating reflected light from Solar System planets was posed by the American astronomer Henry Norris Russell in an influential 1916 paper. Another well-known 1981 solution is attributed to the American lunar scientist Bruce Hapke, who built on the classic work of the Indian-American Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in 1960. Hapke pioneered the study of the Moon using mathematical solutions of phase curves. The Soviet physicist Viktor Sobolev also made important contributions to the study of reflected light from celestial bodies in his influential 1975 textbook. Inspired by the work of these scientists, theoretical astrophysicist Kevin Heng of the Center for Space and Habitability CSH at the University of Bern has discovered an entire family of new mathematical solutions for calculating phase curves. The paper, authored by Kevin Heng in collaboration with Brett Morris from the National Center of Competence in Research NCCR PlanetS—which the University of Bern manages together with the University of Geneva—and Daniel Kitzmann from the CSH, has just been published in Nature Astronomy.
Generally applicable solutions
"I was fortunate that this rich body of work had already been done by these great scientists. Hapke had discovered a simpler way to write down the classic solution of Chandrasekhar, who famously solved the radiative transfer equation for isotropic scattering. Sobolev had realised that one can study the problem in at least two mathematical coordinate systems." Sara Seager brought the problem to Heng's attention by her summary of it in her 2010 textbook.
By combining these insights, Heng was able to write down mathematical solutions for the strength of reflection (the albedo) and the shape of the phase curve, both completely on paper and without resorting to a computer. "The ground-breaking aspect of these solutions is that they are valid for any law of reflection, which means they can be used in very general ways. The defining moment came for me when I compared these pen-and-paper calculations to what other researchers had done using computer calculations. I was blown away by how well they matched," said Heng.
Successful analysis of the phase curve of Jupiter
"What excites me is not just the discovery of new theory, but also its major implications for interpreting data", says Heng. For example, the Cassini spacecraft measured phase curves of Jupiter in the early 2000s, but an in-depth analysis of the data had not previously been done, probably because the calculations were too computationally expensive. With this new family of solutions, Heng was able to analyze the Cassini phase curves and infer that the atmosphere of Jupiter is filled with clouds made up of large, irregular particles of different sizes. This parallel study has just been published by the Astrophysical Journal Letters, in collaboration with Cassini data expert and planetary scientist Liming Li of Houston University in Texas, U.S.A.
Credit: University of Bern
New possibilities for the analysis of data from space telescopes
"The ability to write down mathematical solutions for phase curves of reflected light on paper means that one can use them to analyze data in seconds," said Heng. It opens up new ways of interpreting data that were previously infeasible. Heng is collaborating with Pierre Auclair-Desrotour (formerly CSH, currently at Paris Observatory) to further generalize these mathematical solutions. "Pierre Auclair-Desrotour is a more talented applied mathematician than I am, and we promise exciting results in the near future," said Heng.
In the Nature Astronomy paper, Heng and his co-authors demonstrated a novel way of analyzing the phase curve of the exoplanet Kepler-7b from the Kepler space telescope. Brett Morris led the data analysis part of the paper. "Brett Morris leads the data analysis for the CHEOPS mission in my research group, and his modern data science approach was critical for successfully applying the mathematical solutions to real data," explained Heng. They are currently collaborating with scientists from the American-led TESS space telescope to analyze TESS phase curve data. Heng envisions that these new solutions will lead to novel ways of analyzing phase curve data from the upcoming, 10-billion-dollar James Webb Space Telescope, which is due to launch later in 2021. "What excites me most of all is that these mathematical solutions will remain valid long after I am gone, and will probably make their way into standard textbooks," said Heng.
Astronomers Use “X-Ray Magnifying Glass” To Enhance View of Distant Black Holes
Astronomers Use “X-Ray Magnifying Glass” To Enhance View of Distant Black Holes
Astronomers have used gravitational lensing to obtain an unprecedented look at a black hole system in the early Universe. An artist’s illustration shows how the X-ray light from one of the objects on the left (purple) has been warped by the gravity of an intervening galaxy to produce two sources detected in the Chandra image (dashed square on the right). The light from the fainter object (blue) has been amplified by the galaxy to be as much as 300 times brighter than it would have been without the lensing. The Chandra X-ray image is also shown in the second figure. The two objects are either two growing supermassive black holes, or one black hole and a jet.
Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss; X-ray (inset): NASA/CXC/SAO/D. Schwartz et al.
Astronomers have used an “X-ray magnifying glass” to study a black hole system in the early Universe.
The amplification and magnification of light by an intervening galaxy allowed the detection of two distant X-ray-emitting objects.
The objects are either two growing supermassive black holes, or one such black hole and a jet.
This result helps us understand the growth of black holes in the early Universe and the possible existence of systems with multiple black holes.
A new technique using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has allowed astronomers to obtain an unprecedented look at a black hole system in the early Universe. This is providing a way for astronomers to look at faint and distant X-ray objects in more detail than had previously been possible.
Astronomers used an alignment in space that shows “gravitational lensing” of light from two objects that are nearly 12 billion light years away. An artist’s illustration in the main part of this graphic shows how the paths of light from these distant objects are bent and amplified by a galaxy along the line of sight between Earth and the objects.
The objects in this latest Chandra study are part of a system called MG B2016+112. The X-rays detected by Chandra were emitted by this system when the Universe was only 2 billion years old compared to its current age of nearly 14 billion years.
Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss; X-ray (inset): NASA/CXC/SAO/D. Schwartz et al.
Previous studies of radio emission from MG B2016+112 suggested that the system consisted of two separate supermassive black holes, each of which may also be producing a jet. Using a gravitational lensing model based on the radio data, Schwartz and his colleagues concluded that the three X-ray sources they detected from the MG B2016+112 system must have resulted from the lensing of two distinct objects.
The X-ray light from one of the objects on the left (purple) has been warped by the gravity of the intervening galaxy to produce two beams and X-ray sources (“A” and “B” in a labeled version) detected in the Chandra image, which is represented by the dashed square on the right. The X-ray light from the fainter object (blue) produces an X-ray source (“C”) that has been amplified by the galaxy to be as much as 300 times brighter than it would have been without the lensing. The Chandra image is shown in the inset.
These two X-ray-emitting objects are likely a pair of growing supermassive black holes or a growing supermassive black hole and a jet. Previous Chandra measurements of pairs or trios of growing supermassive black holes have generally involved objects much closer to Earth, or with much larger separations between the objects.
A paper describing these results appears in The Astrophysical Journal. The authors of the study are Dan Schwartz (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian), Cristiana Spignola (INAF), and Anna Barnacka (CfA).
Reference: “Resolving Complex Inner X-Ray Structure of the Gravitationally Lensed AGN MG B2016+112” by Daniel Schwartz, Cristiana Spingola and Anna Barnacka, 11 August 2021, The Astrophysical Journal. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac0909
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center manages the Chandra program. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory’s Chandra X-ray Center controls science from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and flight operations from Burlington, Massachusetts.
Astronomers Use “X-Ray Magnifying Glass” To Enhance View of Distant Black Holes
Astronomers Use “X-Ray Magnifying Glass” To Enhance View of Distant Black Holes
Astronomers have used gravitational lensing to obtain an unprecedented look at a black hole system in the early Universe. An artist’s illustration shows how the X-ray light from one of the objects on the left (purple) has been warped by the gravity of an intervening galaxy to produce two sources detected in the Chandra image (dashed square on the right). The light from the fainter object (blue) has been amplified by the galaxy to be as much as 300 times brighter than it would have been without the lensing. The Chandra X-ray image is also shown in the second figure. The two objects are either two growing supermassive black holes, or one black hole and a jet.
Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss; X-ray (inset): NASA/CXC/SAO/D. Schwartz et al.
Astronomers have used an “X-ray magnifying glass” to study a black hole system in the early Universe.
The amplification and magnification of light by an intervening galaxy allowed the detection of two distant X-ray-emitting objects.
The objects are either two growing supermassive black holes, or one such black hole and a jet.
This result helps us understand the growth of black holes in the early Universe and the possible existence of systems with multiple black holes.
A new technique using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has allowed astronomers to obtain an unprecedented look at a black hole system in the early Universe. This is providing a way for astronomers to look at faint and distant X-ray objects in more detail than had previously been possible.
Astronomers used an alignment in space that shows “gravitational lensing” of light from two objects that are nearly 12 billion light years away. An artist’s illustration in the main part of this graphic shows how the paths of light from these distant objects are bent and amplified by a galaxy along the line of sight between Earth and the objects.
The objects in this latest Chandra study are part of a system called MG B2016+112. The X-rays detected by Chandra were emitted by this system when the Universe was only 2 billion years old compared to its current age of nearly 14 billion years.
Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss; X-ray (inset): NASA/CXC/SAO/D. Schwartz et al.
Previous studies of radio emission from MG B2016+112 suggested that the system consisted of two separate supermassive black holes, each of which may also be producing a jet. Using a gravitational lensing model based on the radio data, Schwartz and his colleagues concluded that the three X-ray sources they detected from the MG B2016+112 system must have resulted from the lensing of two distinct objects.
The X-ray light from one of the objects on the left (purple) has been warped by the gravity of the intervening galaxy to produce two beams and X-ray sources (“A” and “B” in a labeled version) detected in the Chandra image, which is represented by the dashed square on the right. The X-ray light from the fainter object (blue) produces an X-ray source (“C”) that has been amplified by the galaxy to be as much as 300 times brighter than it would have been without the lensing. The Chandra image is shown in the inset.
These two X-ray-emitting objects are likely a pair of growing supermassive black holes or a growing supermassive black hole and a jet. Previous Chandra measurements of pairs or trios of growing supermassive black holes have generally involved objects much closer to Earth, or with much larger separations between the objects.
A paper describing these results appears in The Astrophysical Journal. The authors of the study are Dan Schwartz (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian), Cristiana Spignola (INAF), and Anna Barnacka (CfA).
Reference: “Resolving Complex Inner X-Ray Structure of the Gravitationally Lensed AGN MG B2016+112” by Daniel Schwartz, Cristiana Spingola and Anna Barnacka, 11 August 2021, The Astrophysical Journal. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac0909
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center manages the Chandra program. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory’s Chandra X-ray Center controls science from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and flight operations from Burlington, Massachusetts.
After Six Months On Mars, NASA's Tiny Helicopter Is Still Flying High
After Six Months On Mars, NASA's Tiny Helicopter Is Still Flying High
On April 19, Ingenuity carried out its maiden flight, making history as the first motorized craft to fly on another planet.
The tiny helicopter has become the regular travel companion of the rover Perseverance.
Washington, United States:
It was only supposed to fly five times. And yet NASA's helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, has completed 12 flights and it isn't ready to retire.
Given its stunning and unexpected success, the US space agency has extended Ingenuity's mission indefinitely.
The tiny helicopter has become the regular travel companion of the rover Perseverance, whose core mission is to seek signs of ancient life on Mars.
"Everything is working so well," said Josh Ravich, the head of Ingenuity's mechanical engineering team. "We're doing better on the surface than we had expected."
Hundreds of people contributed to the project, though only about a dozen currently retain day-to-day roles.
Ravich joined the team five years ago.
"When I got the opportunity to come work on the helicopter project, I think I had the same reaction as anybody else: 'Is that even possible?'"
His initial doubts were understandable: The air on Mars has a density equivalent to only one percent that of Earth's atmosphere. By way of comparison, flying a helicopter on Mars would be like flying one in the thin air nearly 20 miles (30 kilometers) above Earth.
Nor was it easy getting to Mars in the first place. Ingenuity had to withstand the initial shock of takeoff from Earth, and then of the February 18 landing on the red planet following a seven-month voyage through space, strapped to the rover's belly.
Once in its new surroundings, the tiny (four pound, or 1.8 kilogram) copter has had to survive the glacial cold of Martian nights, drawing warmth from the solar panels that charge its batteries during the day. And its flights are guided using an array of sensors, since the 15-minute lag in communications from Earth makes real-time guidance impossible.
Scouting duties
On April 19, Ingenuity carried out its maiden flight, making history as the first motorized craft to fly on another planet.
Exceeding all expectations, it has gone on to fly 11 more times.
"We've actually been able to handle winds greater than we had expected," Ravich told AFP.
"I think by flight three we had actually accomplished all of our engineering goals ... (and) got all the information we had hoped to get," said Ravich, who works for NASA's famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which developed the helicopter.
Since then, Ingenuity has flown as high as 39 feet (12 meters), and its last flight lasted two minutes and 49 seconds. In all, it has covered a distance of 1.6 miles.
In May, Ingenuity flew its first one-way mission, landing outside the relatively flat "airfield" that had been carefully selected as its initial home.
But not all has gone smoothly. Its sixth flight brought some excitement.
After being knocked dangerously off-balance by a malfunction affecting the photos taken in flight to help it stabilize, the tiny craft was able to recover. It landed, safe and sound, and the problem was resolved.
Ingenuity is now being sent out to scout the way for Perseverance, using its high-resolution color camera.
The purpose is twofold: to chart a path for the rover that is safe, but also which is of scientific interest, notably in geological terms.
Ken Farley, who heads Perseverance's science team, explained how photos taken by Ingenuity during its 12th flight showed that a region dubbed South Seitha was of less interest than scientists had hoped.
As a result, the rover might not be sent there.
Favorable conditions
After more than six months on the red planet, the little drone-like craft has gained a growing following on Earth, featured on coffee cups and T-shirts sold on the internet.
What explains its longevity?
"The environment has been very cooperative so far: the temperatures, the wind, the sun, the dust in the air... It's still very cold, but it could have been a lot worse," said Ravich.
In theory, the helicopter should be able to keep operating for some time. But the approaching Martian winter will be challenging.
NASA engineers, now armed with the data from Ingenuity's flights, are already working on its next-generation successors.
"Something in the 20 to 30 kilograms (range) maybe, able to carry science payloads," said Ravich.
Those future payloads might just include the rock samples collected by Perseverance.
NASA is planning to retrieve those samples during a future mission -- sometime in the 2030s.
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
The enigma behind the true “Scorpion King” of Egypt (Video)
The enigma behind the true “Scorpion King” of Egypt (Video)
An astonishing 5,000-year-old piece of limestone discovered at an ancient Egyptian site reveals the existence of a “Scorpion King,” but who was this character?
Between 1896 and 1898, the British archaeologist James Edward Quibell and his colleague Frederick William Green were excavating in the ancient predynastic city of Hierakonpolis (known as Nekhen to the ancient Egyptians), near present-day El-Kab, in Upper Egypt, when They made a surprising discovery in one of the city’s temples:
A highly fragmented limestone mace head, dated to about 3100 BC, 25 centimeters high and nine kilos in weight, which had a curious decoration.
In it you could see the image in relief of a king wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt, with a bull’s tail hanging from his waist and carrying an agricultural instrument (a hoe) in his hands.
On his head a rosette-shaped flower was arranged, with seven petals (a symbol used during the Egyptian predynastic to symbolize the sovereign) and, the most curious thing, in front of the king’s face the figure of a scorpion can be clearly appreciated.
As there is no more information on the name of this ancient ruler, Quibell baptized him as the Scorpion King. The splendid piece was taken to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, where it is currently on display.
One hundred years later, in 1988, a German archaeological mission, led by the Egyptologist Gunter Dreyer, who was carrying out excavations in the royal cemeteries of Abydos, in Umm el-Qaab, in Upper Egypt, discovered, in the so-called “ U ”Cemetery, a large underground tomb (UJ) made up of twelve rooms.
The tomb had been looted in the most remote antiquity, but in one of its chambers the archaeologists found a heka ivory scepter (in the form of a crook), a symbol of royal power, and some four hundred ceramic vessels from the Near East, which attests to the existence of commercial relations between both territories in such remote times.
Some of these jugs had the symbol of the scorpion painted on one of their sides. Had archaeologists discovered the tomb of the mysterious ruler whose mace was found by Quibell?
Although this extreme could not be confirmed, it has been possible to date the tomb, some one hundred years before Dynasty I of Egypt, around 3200 BC, a period that Egyptologists have baptized as Dynasty O.
But recent research suggests that the UJ tomb at Abydos belonged to another Scorpion king, who reigned before the monarch depicted on the Hierakonpolis macehead. Researchers have named him Horus Scorpion I.
But then .. Who was the Scorpion king depicted in the mace head discovered by Quibell in Hierakonpolis?
The reliefs on this piece clearly indicate that he was a king of Upper Egypt and that at that time the country was not yet unified.
Researchers have not yet reached an agreement on this, but one of the most widespread theories is that this character, whom researchers have dubbed Horus Scorpion II (Hor Serq), was possibly the father or predecessor of Narmer, the king who is unanimously attributed the unification of Egypt and is considered the first pharaoh in history.
It is not known with total certainty where Horus Scorpion II was buried, but Dreyer and his team pointed out as a possible burial place of this ruler the tomb B-50 of the so-called “Cemetery B” of Abydos.
Actually we can know little about the true Scorpion king, although Hollywood has been responsible for filling that gap with a series of films (specifically four) dedicated to the character.
Obviously, cinema is entertainment and we all like adventure films, even if they are not true to life.
In the case that concerns us, the same thing happens and we can affirm without fear of being mistaken that all similarities between the real Scorpion King and the fictional one, as one would say in the cinematographic world, “is pure coincidence”.
UFO reports come from all corners of the globe and from people from all walks of life. There seems to be nowhere that is immune to such strange phenomena, with this seeming to be an all-encompassing wave of strangeness that is as of yet beyond our ability to comprehend. One area that has seen plenty of UFO action are the islands of our world, and this may make sense in that UFOs have often been said to be drawn to water. Whether that is true or not, islands have consistently brought in some weird accounts, and here are some of the weirdest.
In 1954 there was a very bizarre UFO event in the island nation of Madagascar, which would be witnessed by potentially tens of thousands of witnesses. On August 16, 1954, an “electric green ball” was seen hurtling down from the sky over the Palais de la Reine, also called the Rova of Antananarivo, in the bustling city of Antananarivo. The mysterious object went streaking behind a nearby hill, and at the time it was thought to be perhaps a meteorite that was about to hit, but there was no explosion or impact. As a multitude of alarmed citizens tried to figure out what was going on, the green light reappeared from behind the hill and proceeded to silently fly up and down over the Avenue of the Liberation while an estimated tens of thousands of awestruck people looked on in various states ranging from awe to horror. It was noticed at the time that street lights and shop lights would flicker and go out as the object passed over them, only to snap back on as it went by, and dogs all over the city were furiously barking. The object continued travelling over the city, passing over a zoo, where all of the animals became absolutely hysterical, and when it passed by cattle on the outskirts of the city they too went nuts. Whatever it was then flew off to the west and was gone. The event was witnessed by as many as 200,000 people and has never been explained.
Antananarivo
In 1958 there is a case from the remote rocky uninhabited speck of rocky land called Trinidade, located in the South Atlantic between Brazil and Africa. The island is far from civilization, with no settlements and the only people here being the seasonal staff of an oceanographic post and a meteorological station operated by the Hydrography and Navigation Division of the Ministry of the Navy. It is a wind-lashed, forbidding place, surrounded by lonely seas and forgotten by the world, and where not much ever really happens, but that would change in January of 1958. At the time, a Naval oceanographic research vessel called the Almirante Saldanha made its way to the island to perform scientific studies, after which it was to head off to Rio de Janeiro. On January 16, as the ship was preparing to depart after several days on the island, something very strange would happen. On that day, a number of people on deck witnessed a bizarre object in the sky, which a photographer on board by the name of Almiro Barauna also observed and managed to take photographs of. He would say of it:
It was on January 16, at 12:15 P.M. The ship was preparing to leave the island, to come back to Rio. I was on the deck observing the operations to take aboard the boat used in the trips between the ship and the island (the island has no harbor). The sea was agitated. The weather was cloudy, clear, with no shadows. I had my Rolleiflex 2.8, Model E, which was kept inside an aluminum box for protection against the corrosive effects of water and salt. I had left my Leica with a telephoto lens in my cabin a few moments before. The deck was full of sailors and officers. Suddenly, Mr. Amilar Vieira and Captain Viegas called me, pointing to a certain spot in the sky and yelling about a bright object which was approaching the island.
At this same moment, when I was still trying to see what it was, Lieutenant Homero, the ship’s dentist, came from the bow toward us, running, pointing out to the sky and also yelling about an object he was sighting. He was so disturbed and excited that he almost fell down after colliding with a cable. Then I was finally able to locate the object, by the flash (of light) it emitted. It was already close to the island. It glittered at certain moments, perhaps changing its own light – I don’t know. It was coming over the sea, moving toward the point called the Galo Crest. I had lost thirty seconds looking for the object, but the camera was already in my hands, ready, when I sighted it clearly silhouetted against the clouds. I shot two photos before it disappeared behind the peak Desejado. My camera was set at a speed of 125 [125th of a second], with the aperture at f/8, and this was the cause of an overexposure error, as I discovered later.
The object remained out of sight for a few seconds – behind the peak – reappearing bigger in size and flying in the opposite direction, but lower and closer than before, and moving at a higher speed. I shot the third photo. The fourth and fifth ones were lost, not only because of the speed the saucer was moving, but also for another reason: In the confusion produced as a result of the sighting, I was being pulled and pushed by other persons also trying to spot the object and, as a consequence, photographed the sea and the island only – not the object. It was moving out to sea again, in the direction from which it had come, and it appeared to stop in midair for a brief time. At that moment I shot my last photo (the last on the film). After about ten seconds, the object continued to increase its distance from the ship, gradually diminishing in size and finally disappearing into the horizon. The object was sighted by almost all the people on the deck at that time, including Lieutenant Homero, Captain Viegas, and Mr. Amilar Vieira.
Trinidade Island
Barauna would have the photos developed as soon as he could, and the negatives were turned over to the Navy. It would also turn out that others in the area on other vessels had also seen the object and even photographed it, and he was extensively interviewed by Navy officials. Barauna would say of all of this:
I was interviewed by several high-staff officers, who asked me all kinds of questions. I went there twice. At the first meeting, they requested the negatives for examination. They were sent to a civilian organization, the Cruzeiro do Sul Aerophoto grammetric Service, remaining there for four days. I was told by the Navy officers that the analyses proved they were genuine -excluding definitely the possibility of a trick or falsification. On the second visit, they performed several time-tests. While I worked with my Rolleiflex, taking shots at the same time intervals I had used to photograph the object, three Navy officers with chronometers registered the times.
They came to the conclusion – based on these tests as well as on studies concerning the ship’s position and examinations of charts of the island – that the object was flying at a speed between 900 and 1,000 km./hour [about 600 mph]. The object’s size was also estimated on the basis of studies related with the island’s details also appearing on the photos, diagrams drawn on charts, graphs, et cetera. The object was about 120 feet in diameter and about 24 feet high. They requested me to keep the matter secret for some time. I was permitted to publish the case only after authorization from the Navy. The permission was granted, verbally, on the night of February 15, by Commander Bacellar. They made only one restriction, which I cannot mention for the reason that I have given my word. I was informed of four other sightings over the island during those thirty days preceding the incident of January 16. I was also informed of another thing: At one of those sightings, the object was photographed by a Navy sergeant. His photo obviously was not released and probably never will be – the reasons are evident. Besides those four sightings, there was also the RADAR case. A target flying at supersonic speed was tracked by the radar of the Almirante Saldanha on January 15.
The photos eventually got out into the wild and created quite a lot of excitement in the general public, as they were very clear photos of an actual UFO. As people discussed and debated them, the Navy went quiet and refused to make any comment or answer any questions on the matter, despite the fact that many high-ranking Navy personnel had witnessed the event and were telling their stories. The hype over the incident and its photos got so intense that the Navy had to step in, making a statement that said:
With reference to the reports appearing in the press that the Navy is opposed to divulge the facts concerning the appearance of a strange object over Trindade Island, this Cabinet declares that such information has no basis. This Ministry has no motive to impede the release of photographs of the referred-to object, taken by Mr. Almiro Barauna, who was at Trindade Island at the invitation of the Navy, and in the presence
of a large number of the crew of Almirante Saldanha from whose deck the photographs were taken. Clearly, this Ministry will not be able to make any pronouncement concerning the object seen, because the photographs do not constitute sufficient proof for such purpose.
In the end, the Brazilian Navy would say nothing more on the case, the photos, or its analysis of them, and we are left to wonder what all of these qualified witnesses saw out there at that island and what is in those images. Another weird case happened at the rugged and remote Anglican mission village at Boianai, Papua, New Guinea, where on April 5, 1959, a Father William Booth Gill was there doing missionary work when he would have an outlandish experience. On that evening, Gill would observe a strange fast-moving light moving through the sky in the distance over the remote Mount Pudi. This would be followed a month later by an “inverted saucer-shaped object” hovering over the mission. At first Gill tried to put these anomalous occurrences out of his head and get on with his work, but on June 26, 1959 Gill and dozens of other witnesses saw a four-legged, disc-shaped object fly out from the wilderness to hover over the mission with four small humanoids that busily went about some unknown task as a blue beam intermittently shot down from the craft to the ground below. Curious, some of the witnesses waved their hands and were astonished when the entities waved back. Gill would say:
On the large one, two of the figures seemed to be doing something near the center of the deck. They were occasionally bending over and raising their arms as though adjusting or “setting up” something. One figure seemed to be standing, looking down at us. In a moment of anticipation, I raised his arms and waved to the figure. To our surprise the figure did the same. Ananias waved both arms over his head; then the two outside figures did the same. Ananias and myself began waving our arms, and all four seemed to wave back. There seemed no doubt that our movements were answered.
After about an hour of this the beings entered the ship again and flew off, after which several smaller craft would patrol the area for some time before disappearing. Later that evening, Gill would hear a loud bang from outside and go out to see four UFOs circling about before flying off. The sightings have never been explained. Moving on to 1972 there is a curious account from Uruguay’s remote Isla de Lobos, a tiny island just off the coast, populated by fur seals and with the only sign of humans is a lone lighthouse on the rocky, wind blasted shore. This lighthouse is manned by a garrison of five Navy men who do 15-day shifts, and on October 28, 1972 the shift would have dinner as usual, after which one of the men, a Corporal Juan Fuentes Figueroa, went out to check the generators on a routine inspection. As he was out there, his attention was caught by some strange lights in the sky hovering near the top of the generator building, seemingly right above a terrace that was situated up there about 20 feet above the ground. The lights looked to him like car headlights, although this was of course impossible, and they seemed to be flashing and oscillating between a mix of white, yellow and violet.
Fuentes was so unsettled by the sight that he went back to get his pistol, oddly not telling any of the other men what was going on. When he went back outside to approach the generator building again, this time he could see that there was an object up there apparently landed on the terrace, described as a metallic, copper-colored object shaped like an inverted bowl, standing on some sort of landing gear and with a rotating antenna of some sort on its top. What’s more, in the eerie illumination of the lights there was what looked to be a figure standing beside the object, and a second and third figure were descending from the craft. They seemed to be wearing some sort of dark suits akin to diving suits, their heads appearing somewhat elongated and oversized, and one seemed to be noticeably taller than the others, although Fuentes could not make out a lot of details. He then realized that they had turned towards him and seemed to be very aware that he was there.
At this time, Fuentes was overcome with fear and panic, and raised his pistol to point it up at the craft. It was at this point that he felt a strange sensation throughout his body like a vibration that sent his hair standing up on end, and found that he was unable to move, as if paralyzed, all while a voice boomed through his head that said “Don’t shoot because it is useless.” After this, the strange entities went back up into their ship, seemingly walking up steps of some kind, appearing to be pulling themselves up with handrails, after which the craft closed and began to lift off as its landing legs retracted telescopically. It hovered up in the air momentarily, then silently sped off at breathtaking speed with a flash of bright light like a fireball. At this point, Fuentes ran back to the others and told them what had happened, but no one believed him. Considering he was the superior officer and no one believed him, this came as a shock, but it would seem that at least one of the men, Francisco Cascudo, thought it was odd enough to pass it along to a superior officer and they would all check it out.
Not long after their tour at the lighthouse ended, Fuentes was called aside by high-ranking officials, who interviewed him at length on what he had allegedly seen. Fuentes would claim that there had also been two men who he believed to be from the U.S. Embassy lurking in the background taking notes, and who were later identified as officers of the “Spatial Affair Service.” Fuentes was also shown various pictures of different UFOs and asked to point out which were most similar to what he had witnessed and then dismissed. At no point was he ever directly questioned by the mysterious Americans, but he could see them excitedly talking to his interrogators in another room, making it obvious they were very interested in his sighting. After this, the case came to the attention of the Uruguayan UFO Investigation Center, who subjected Fuentes to some psychological tests and came to the conclusion that he was a solid witness, described as “sincere, uncomplicated and simple, with no tendency to fabrication or fantasy and lacking an average imagination.” It was also noted that Fuentes had no previous interest in or knowledge of UFOs, and they came to the conclusion that he at least truly believed he had seen what he claimed. Sub-officer Cascudo would back this up, describing Fuentes as a “simple and honest man, incapable of inventing a story of this nature.”
Finally, we have a report from the Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean in the region called Macaronesia and just about 62 miles from the northwestern coast of Africa off Morocco. On June 22, 1976, people living on the islands of Tenerife, La Palma, and La Gomera began calling in to report numerous strange lights performing odd maneuvers in the sky, amongst them one that seemed to be larger than the others, described as a giant, luminous sphere. Among these reports some were more spectacular than others, and one of the first reported incidents was made by the Navy escort ship, the Atrevida, which at the time was positioned off the coast of Fuerteventura Island. On this evening at approximately 9:27 PM, the crew observed an extremely bright light moving in the general direction of the ship. It was first thought to be a normal aircraft, but this turned out to not be the case, as it began rotating, pulsating, and generating a blindingly bright halo of yellow and blue, as well as various flashing strobe effects. The baffled crew watched this mysterious object for a full 40 minutes, and the official report from the ship would read in part:
The original light went out and a luminous beam from it began to rotate. It remained like this for approximately two minutes. Then an intense great halo of yellowish and bluish light developed, and remained in the same position for 40 minutes, even though the original phenomenon was no longer visible. Two minutes after the great halo, the light split into two parts, the smaller part being beneath, in the center of the luminous halo, where a blue cloud appeared and the part from which the bluish nucleus had come, vanished. The upper part began to climb in a spiral, rapid and irregular, and finally vanished. None of these movements affected the initial circular halo in any way, which remained just the same the whole time, its glow lighting up parts of the land and the ocean, from which we could deduce that the phenomenon was not very far away from us, but was close.
At no point was the craft picked up on radar, and a check of air traffic in the area showed no military or civilian aircraft scheduled to be in the vicinity. This would start a whole series of reports from throughout the Canary Islands as whatever it was headed out on its inscrutable mission, and people seemed to be reporting two different types of phenomena, one being this large sphere and the other being smaller flitting orbs, and these were seen by hundreds of people across several islands. One of the most intriguing reports came from a doctor Francisco Padron Leon, who at the time was in a taxi on his way to a house call at the town of Las Rosas. However, things got very odd when both he and the driver noticed an illuminated globe up in front of them, just seeming to hover over the ground. According to Leon’s report, it measured an estimated 100 feet across, and was seemingly made up of a semi-clear material like crystal. More bizarre still was that as they drew closer they could see that the bottom of the sphere was ringed by some sort of metallic platform, upon which two immense humanoid beings around 10 feet in height were standing next to large consoles of some kind. These two creatures had oversized heads, wore some kind of helmets, and seemed to be operating a giant tube that belched forth a bluish smoke, and the doctor would say of these entities and what happened next:
At each side of the center there were two huge figures of 2.50 to 3 m. [8.5 to 10 ft.] tall, but no taller than 3 m. [10 ft.], dressed entirely in red and facing each other in such a way that I always saw their profile. Then I observed that some kind of bluish smoke was coming out from a semi-transparent central tube in the sphere, covering the periphery of the sphere’s interior without leaking outside at any moment. Then the sphere began to grow and grow until it became huge like a 20-story house, but the platform and the crew remained the same size; it rose slowly and majestically and it seems I heard a very tenuous whistling.
This gigantic sphere would ascend and then purportedly shoot off at astounding speed along with its mysterious occupants. It would then be seen by several other witnesses directly after this, including the very patient that the doctor was on his way to see, all of who described the same translucent crystalline structure and giant beings on their catwalk. By the end of the evening there would apparently be thousands of reports from across the archipelago describing something bizarre going on in the sky, coming from a wide variety of professions and ages and making them one of the most mass witnessed UFO events ever, yet it was all mostly swept under the carpet by the Spanish Air Force.
The Canary Islands
The following year, in 1977, some of these reports were leaked to journalist J. J. Benitez by a Spanish Air Force General, and would subsequently find their way into his book UFOs: Official Documents of the Spanish Government, but this was all still considered unverifiable and filled with spooky conspiracies. It would not be until 1994 that people would really take it seriously, when the Spanish Air Force declassified its files on the events and it was clear for all to see that something very odd had indeed been documented from that evening. The declassified report was very detailed, included over 100 pages of testimony, evaluations, drawings, a full chronology of the sightings, and it also took the step of separating witnesses by their perceived level of veracity and reliability, with the reports of the crew of the Atrevida and that of doctor Leon ranking at the top. It was also explained that an investigative adjunct had been launched by the Spanish Air Force, which had found that there had been no military or civilian aircraft at the time and they officially labelled it an “unidentified aerial phenomena.”
There are no easy answers for any of these cases, and they join the ranks of the many, may UFO reports that have come before them. Although such accounts come in from all over the world from many environments, there just seems to be something fascinating about these island reports. To know that there are these strips of land out there isolated from the rest of the world having these incidents holds a certain sense of allure, and it all only adds to the mystery of the UFO phenomenon at large.
Following on from my previous article on journalist Dorothy Kilgallen – on an alleged crashed UFO and a crew of dead aliens said to have been found in in the U.K. during the Second World War – I thought I would share with you a couple more very weird stories from that same time-frame. Declassified U.K. military papers tell an incredible story. The documentation goes under the title of “Report by the Crew of 61 Sqdn. A/c ‘J,’ Captain W/O Lever, of object seen during raid on TURIN, night of November 28/29th, 1942.” That’s a pretty big title! Nevertheless, it gets to the point of the incident. A report prepared for Bomber Command included these words: “Herewith a copy of a report received from a crew of a Lancaster [aircraft] after a raid on Turin. The crew refuses to be shaken in their story in the face of the usual banter and ridicule.” Now, let us get to the heart of the story that can be found in the National Archives, U.K. Along with more tales of strange, aerial objects, I should stress. With that said, back to the content of the document:
Lancaster bomber
“The object referred to above was seen by the entire crew of the above aircraft. They believe it to have been 200-300 feet in length and its width is estimated at 1/5th or 1/6th of its length. The speed was estimated at 500 m.p.h., and it had four pairs of red lights spaced at equal distances along its body. These lights did not appear in any way like exhaust flames; no trace was seen. The object kept a level course. The crew saw the object twice during the raid, and brief details are given below: (i) After bombing, time 2240 hours, a/c height 11,000 feet. The aircraft at this time was some 10/15 miles south-west of Turin traveling in a north-westerly direction. The object was traveling south-east at the same height or slightly below the aircraft. (ii) After bombing, time 2245 hours, a/c height 14,000 feet. The aircraft was approaching the Alps when the object was seen again traveling west-south-west up a valley in the Alps below the level of the peaks. The lights appeared to go out and the object disappeared from view.” The documentation reveals this, too: “The Captain of the aircraft also reports that he has seen a similar object about three months ago north of Amsterdam. In this instance it appeared to be on the ground and later traveling at high speed at a lower level than the heights given above along the coast for about two seconds; the lights then went out for the same period of time and came on again, and the object was still seen to be traveling in the same direction.”
Whatever this immense craft was, it was never identified. Now, let’s take a look at another bizarre case from the Second World War. It begins as follows: “From the latter part of the Second World War (the exact date is missing) comes the following from the in-house newsletter of the British Royal Air Force’s, 115 Squadron: “Under this heading there occur from time to time reports of weird and wonderful apparitions seen during our (and the American) attacks on Germany. We have asked our local Inner Circle bloke to comment on the latest species of wizardry. Here is his story…believe it or not.” The paperwork becomes somewhat amusing: “On the 11th December the Yanks paid one of their daylight visits to Emden. Visibility was good and the weather clear. An unidentified object was seen in the target area. It was about the size of a Thunderbolt and passed 50 – 75 yards beneath the formation.
“It flew straight and level (No chaps it was not a Lanc. gone mad…) at a terrific speed, leaving a streak like a vapour trail which remained visible for a long time. The object passed so quickly that the observer could not determine it more accurately. Suggestions will be welcome…serious ones…as to what this Loch Ness Monster of Emden might have been. (Prize… one year’s free issue of this News Sheet…if the publication survives as long.) Another of the attacking aircraft was hit by a length of wire which bit deeply into the nose. Twenty feet were coiled around the nose and something caused the bomb door to open. The wire may have been towed behind a fighter which had just made an attack upon the bomber; some form of explosive charge or weight may have been attached to a parachute fired from a rocket projectile, though no parachute was seen. An examination of the wire is taking place and it is hoped that this will shed some light on the occurrence. In another attack, this time on Bremen, there were many reports of ‘silver and red discs above the formations [italics mine].’ These have been seen before but up to now no-one has been able to decide their purpose. Suggestions please.” Neither case was ever solved.
UFO Sighted Over Bursa, Turkey ( September 4, 2021 )
A UFO was sighted amongst the clouds at Bursa road construction site Karacabey. : Bursa is a large city in northwestern Turkey, situated at the foot of Mount Uluda ğ approximately 2.500 m high, near the Sea of Marmara. The city is known for its mosques and historic sites of the early Ottoman Empire. It is nicknamed ′′ Ye şil Bursa ′′ (Green Bursa), due to its many parks and trees, as well as its dramatic mountain setting. The 14th Century Ulu Cami features Seljuk style arches and 20 domes.
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Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
The orange lights appeared out of nowhere, in the videos I will submit you can see some floating along in a pattern while others zoomed in to join the others.
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Luis Elizondo, a former member of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), says UFOs were regularly spotted in restricted U.S. airspace while he was in the program.
Elizondo, who worked for the United States Department of Defense for 20 years, was asked to join the AATIP in 2008, eventually serving as its director for 10 years.
Former director of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), Luis “Lue” Elizondo, is, according to the New York Times, part of a group of former government officials and scientists who are “convinced that objects of undetermined origin have crashed on Earth with materials retrieved for study.”
Elizondo, who ran the clandestine U.S. government program for 10 years, also wrote in his resignation letter, “In many instances, there seems to be a direct correlation the phenomena exhibits with respect to our nuclear and military capabilities. The Department must take seriously the many accounts by the Navy and other services of unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond next generation capabilities.”
Bill Whitaker: So what you are telling me is that UFOs, unidentified flying objects, are real?
Lue Elizondo: Bill, I think we’re beyond that already. The government has already stated for the record that they’re real. I’m not telling you that. The United States government is telling you that.
Lue Elizondo: The mission of AATIP was quite simple. It was to collect and analyze information involving anomalous aerial vehicles, what I guess in the vernacular you call them UFOs. We call them UAPs.
Bill Whitaker: You know how this sounds? It sounds nutty, wacky.
Lue Elizondo: Look, Bill, I’m not, I’m not telling you that, that it doesn’t sound wacky. What I’m telling you, it’s real. The question is, what is it? What are its intentions? What are its capabilities?
“Imagine a technology that can do 6-to-700 g-forces, that can fly at 13,000 miles an hour, that can evade radar and that can fly through air and water and possibly space,” Elizondo revealed. And oh, by the way, has no obvious signs of propulsion, no wings, no control surfaces and yet still can defy the natural effects of Earth’s gravity. That’s precisely what we’re seeing.”
Whitaker also spoke to former Navy pilot Lieutenant Ryan Graves about the UFOs, or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), of which the U.S. government has knowledge.
Bill Whitaker: So you’re seeing it both with the radar and with the infrared. And that tells you that there is something out there?
Ryan Graves: Pretty hard to spoof that.
These photographs were taken in 2019 in the same area. The Pentagon confirms these are images of objects it can’t identify. Lieutenant Graves told us pilots training off the Atlantic Coast see things like that all the time.
Ryan Graves: Every day. Every day for at least a couple years.
Bill Whitaker: Wait a minute, every day for a couple of years?
Ryan Graves: Uh-huh.
While many people want to believe these UAPs are alien spacecrafts, Graves says they are probably not, but what they are is no less worrisome.
“I am worried, frankly,” said Graves. “You know, if these were tactical jets from another country that were hangin’ out up there, it would be a massive issue. But because it looks slightly different, we’re not willing to actually look at the problem in the face. We’re happy to just ignore the fact that these are out there, watching us every day.”
Elizondo added, “We spend millions of dollars in training these pilots. And they are seeing something that they can’t explain. Furthermore, that informations being backed up on electro optical data, like gun camera footage. And by radar data. Now, to me, that’s compelling.”
Read the entire very lengthy piece, which also includes a discussion with Navy pilot Lieutenant Alex Dietrich, Top Gun graduate David Fravor, Senator Marco Rubio, and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence Chris Mellon, over at CBS News.
Luis Elizondo, a former member of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), says UFOs were regularly spotted in restricted U.S. airspace while he was in the program.
Elizondo, who worked for the United States Department of Defense for 20 years, was asked to join the AATIP in 2008, eventually serving as its director for 10 years.
Former director of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), Luis “Lue” Elizondo, is, according to the New York Times, part of a group of former government officials and scientists who are “convinced that objects of undetermined origin have crashed on Earth with materials retrieved for study.”
Elizondo, who ran the clandestine U.S. government program for 10 years, also wrote in his resignation letter, “In many instances, there seems to be a direct correlation the phenomena exhibits with respect to our nuclear and military capabilities. The Department must take seriously the many accounts by the Navy and other services of unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond next generation capabilities.”
Bill Whitaker: So what you are telling me is that UFOs, unidentified flying objects, are real?
Lue Elizondo: Bill, I think we’re beyond that already. The government has already stated for the record that they’re real. I’m not telling you that. The United States government is telling you that.
Lue Elizondo: The mission of AATIP was quite simple. It was to collect and analyze information involving anomalous aerial vehicles, what I guess in the vernacular you call them UFOs. We call them UAPs.
Bill Whitaker: You know how this sounds? It sounds nutty, wacky.
Lue Elizondo: Look, Bill, I’m not, I’m not telling you that, that it doesn’t sound wacky. What I’m telling you, it’s real. The question is, what is it? What are its intentions? What are its capabilities?
“Imagine a technology that can do 6-to-700 g-forces, that can fly at 13,000 miles an hour, that can evade radar and that can fly through air and water and possibly space,” Elizondo revealed. And oh, by the way, has no obvious signs of propulsion, no wings, no control surfaces and yet still can defy the natural effects of Earth’s gravity. That’s precisely what we’re seeing.”
Whitaker also spoke to former Navy pilot Lieutenant Ryan Graves about the UFOs, or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), of which the U.S. government has knowledge.
Bill Whitaker: So you’re seeing it both with the radar and with the infrared. And that tells you that there is something out there?
Ryan Graves: Pretty hard to spoof that.
These photographs were taken in 2019 in the same area. The Pentagon confirms these are images of objects it can’t identify. Lieutenant Graves told us pilots training off the Atlantic Coast see things like that all the time.
Ryan Graves: Every day. Every day for at least a couple years.
Bill Whitaker: Wait a minute, every day for a couple of years?
Ryan Graves: Uh-huh.
While many people want to believe these UAPs are alien spacecrafts, Graves says they are probably not, but what they are is no less worrisome.
“I am worried, frankly,” said Graves. “You know, if these were tactical jets from another country that were hangin’ out up there, it would be a massive issue. But because it looks slightly different, we’re not willing to actually look at the problem in the face. We’re happy to just ignore the fact that these are out there, watching us every day.”
Elizondo added, “We spend millions of dollars in training these pilots. And they are seeing something that they can’t explain. Furthermore, that informations being backed up on electro optical data, like gun camera footage. And by radar data. Now, to me, that’s compelling.”
Read the entire very lengthy piece, which also includes a discussion with Navy pilot Lieutenant Alex Dietrich, Top Gun graduate David Fravor, Senator Marco Rubio, and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence Chris Mellon, over at CBS News.
The blogger argued that the flying objects, “round and about the size of a motorcycle”, must have been seen by hundreds of eyewitnesses in Tucson.
Yet another alleged UFO sighting has been brought to the attention of social media users by prolific blogger Scott C. Waring.
A short video allegedly recorded in Tucson, Arizona on 4 September and shared by Waring on his YouTube channel shows a number of glowing shapes of some kind moving in the night sky, with the blogger branding this sight as "a fleet of glowing UFOs passing overhead".
"The objects seem to be moving together, matching speed and yet, flashing to each other," Waring wrote in his blog. "The flashes may be communication with one another."
He further described the objects as "round and about the size of a motorcycle" and argued that "hundreds of eyewitnesses in Tucson" must have seen them.
According to an eyewitness’ statement cited by the blogger, "the orange lights appeared out of nowhere", with some of them “floating along in a pattern while others zoomed in to join the others".
"Arizona is not far (sic) from where the famous Phoenix Lights Incident occurred back in March of 1997. These may be the same craft," Waring muse. "There are a lot of similarities, for instance the shape of the lights, the speed, the number of craft. It looks like Arizona is a UFO hotbed of activity."
However, some of the social media users who commented on the video posted by Waring offered other, more down-to-earth explanations for this phenomenon, such as drones and Elon Musk’s satellites.
MICHIO KAKU WANTS FELLOW SCIENTISTS TO “KEEP AN OPEN MIND” ABOUT UFOS
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Theoretical physicist and science popularizer Michio Kaku is no stranger tobold claims about alien life. His recent message to his fellow scientists regarding UFOs is no exception.
Kaku implored physicists to “keep an open mind” at the possibilities that UFOs are evidence of advanced lifeforms visiting Earth via a series of tweets last week. More specifically, he says that there’s a possibility that the UFOs are millions of years more technologically advanced than humans.
“I think it is a legitimate scientific question to ask where these UFO sightings come from,” Kaku said in a tweet, later adding “Imagine if the aliens are millions of years more advanced than us; new laws of physics open up, so keep an open mind.”
Since I’ve been on several TV science shows concerning UFOs, people have asked me about my position. I think it is a legitimate scientific question to ask where these UFO sightings come from. That does not mean that these UFOs are necessarily from another planet, but ….
…we should be open to that possibility. Many physicists are skeptical because the stars are so far away, but that assumes ET is only a century ahead of us. Imagine if the aliens are millions of years more advanced than us; new laws of physics open up, so keep an open mind.
However, he added that he believes attempting to reach out to these lifeforms would ultimately be a very, very bad idea.
“There are some colleagues of mine that believe we should reach out to them. I think that’s a terrible idea,” he said to The Guardian. “We all know what happened to Montezuma when he met Cortés in Mexico so many hundreds of years ago. Now, personally, I think that aliens out there would be friendly but we can’t gamble on it. So I think we will make contact but we should do it very carefully.”
Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb answers questions about the universe #ufo
Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb answers questions about the universe #ufo
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NASA's Ingenuity, imaged by the Perseverance rover April 7. China has now developed its own prototype Mars rotorcraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
HELSINKI — China is looking at ways of expanding its space exploration capabilities including through a vehicle similar in appearance to NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter.
A prototype of “Mars surface cruise drone” passed a final acceptance review Aug. 20, the National Space Science Center (NSSC) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced Wednesday.
The rotorcraft was one of three projects in a technology cultivation program promoted by the NSSC. The vehicle project was led by Bian Chunjiang of the NSSC and features a micro spectrometer.
The concept could be considered for future Chinese Mars exploration but the NSSC did not identify a mission on which the drone may fly.
China’s first Mars mission, Tianwen-1, entered orbit around the Red Planet in February. This feat was followed by a successful landing of the roughly 240-kilogram, solar-powered Zhurong rover in May. China’s next Mars mission is currently listed as a sample return mission, launching in the 2028 or 2030 launch windows.
The Mars surface cruise drone prototype developed by China’s NSSC. Credit: NSSC/CAS
The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) in June outlined a study of propulsion needed for future, long term crewed expeditions to Mars, including precursor robotic missions. The study identified favorable launch windows but did not provide a timeline for either the crewed or uncrewed missions.
The concept of flying a craft on Mars has recently been verified by NASA. The Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February, carrying with it the 1.8-kilogram Ingenuity helicopter. The vehicle made the first powered flight by an aircraft on another world in April and conducted its 12th and most recent flight Aug. 16, covering a horizontal distance of 450 meters across 169.5 seconds of flight.
NASA is now examining concepts for larger, more capable rotorcraft for future missions. The agency will in 2027 launch the Dragonfly drone to Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, arriving in 2034. Dragonfly was selected as a New Frontiers planetary science mission.
China’s own pursuit of flying an aircraft in the thin Martian atmosphere is not new. A concept from the Qian Xuesen Laboratory of Space Technology was considered for the country’s 2020 Mars mission. As well as a rover, the ambitious proposal included three ground penetrators, to be released during descent, and an aerostat which would operate at an altitude of between 1 and 5 kilometers for one week. The objective would have been to obtain “three-dimensional, multi-layer and multi-source information” with one landing.
Entities including the Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering and Shenzhen Aerospace DFH HIT Satellite Ltd., both under the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), and Beihang University have been embarked on work on concept architectures for Mars exploration.
The first is a winged drone, a design chosen over a helicopter due to the challenges of high rotation speed and requirements for an ultralight structure and high efficiency power system posed by the latter. The drone would lift off vertically from the surface of Mars before pitching and deploying its wings. The vehicle would have a range of tens of kilometers, collecting and potentially analyzing atmosphere and surface samples. It would also be capable of entering otherwise prohibitive environments such as canyons and craters.
The group also put forward a balloon concept, carrying a tethered 2U CubeSat. The system would seek to take atmospheric samples at various altitudes for analysis, while also returning high-resolution imagery and other data.
China’s Tianwen-1 mission carried surprises in the form of an ejected deep space camera and a rover-deployed camera to allow a joint rover-landing platform photo. With innovative and newly-proven concepts already being developed, competition for a place aboard future Chinese exploration missions is likely to be strong.
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Dan hebben wij toch meer geluk gehad dan we ons realiseerden…
Wanneer astronomen inzoomen op een dubbelster – oftewel een systeem waarin twee sterren om een gezamenlijk massamiddelpunt cirkelen – dan moeten ze regelmatig concluderen dat de chemische samenstelling van de ene ster net iets anders is dan die van de andere. En dat is vreemd. Want beide sterren zijn voortgekomen uit dezelfde gaswolk. En dus zou je verwachten dat ze ook vrijwel identiek zijn. Dat dat niet zo is, is mogelijk te verklaren doordat de gaswolk waaruit ze ontstaan zijn toch niet zo uniform is als gedacht.
Planeten eten Een alternatieve theorie luidt dat de sterren bij hun geboorte wel identiek waren, maar dat de chemische samenstelling van één van de sterren later veranderd is en wel doordat deze zijn eigen planeet of planeten heeft verorberd. Wanneer één van de twee sterren zo’n planeet verorbert, wordt deze namelijk verrijkt met zware elementen, zoals ijzer en lithium. Ondertussen blijft de andere ster onaangetast en dus ‘puur’.
Nieuw onderzoek Deze tweede theorie klinkt wat luguber. Maar volgens een nieuw onderzoek – verschenen in het blad Nature Astronomy – is het zeker niet ondenkbaar. Sterker nog; ongeveer een kwart van alle zonachtige sterren zou hun eigen planeten verorberen.
Methode De onderzoekers trekken die conclusie nadat ze zich bogen over de chemische samenstelling van sterren in 107 dubbelstersystemen. En in behoorlijk wat van deze systemen bleek de chemische samenstelling van één van de twee sterren af te wijken. “Tot voor kort wisten we van het bestaan van enkele afwijkende dubbelstersystemen – dat wil zeggen: dubbelsterren bestaande uit chemisch van elkaar verschillende sterren – af,” stelt onderzoeker Lorenzo Spina. “De oorzaak van die afwijkingen begrepen we echter niet goed.” Het nieuwe onderzoek brengt daar verandering in. “Wij hebben een groot aantal sterren bestudeerd en laten zien dat de afwijkingen het directe gevolg zijn van de kannibalisatie van planeten.”
Aanwijzingen In hun studie presenteren de onderzoekers namelijk verschillende sterke aanwijzingen dat de afwijkende chemische van sommige sterren te herleiden is naar het verorberen van planeten. Zo stellen de onderzoekers bijvoorbeeld vast dat sterren met een dunnere buitenlaag vaker een afwijkende chemische samenstelling hebben. “Dat komt doordat het planetaire materiaal in een kleinere hoeveelheid stellair materiaal is opgegaan, waardoor de kans dat de chemische samenstelling van de ster meetbaar verandert, groter is,” aldus Spina. Ook het feit dat sterren die rijk zijn aan ijzer ook opvallend meer lithium herbergen dan hun metgezellen, wijst erop dat zij een planeet hebben opgegeten. Lithium wordt in sterren namelijk snel vernietigd, maar houdt in planeten stand. De lithium moet dan ook wel – enige tijd na de vorming van de ster – door een planeet aan het stellaire materiaal zijn toegevoegd.
Geen leven Afgaand op wat de onderzoekers in hun studie hebben gezien, schatten ze dat ongeveer een kwart van de zonachtige sterren hun planeten verorberen. Bang dat daarbij ook complexe levensvormen en ingewikkelde beschavingen verloren gaan, hoeven we waarschijnlijk niet te zijn. Aan het nuttigen van een planeet is waarschijnlijk al een lange periode van chaos en dramatiek voorafgegaan. “Het is vergelijkbaar met een situatie waarbij Jupiter of Saturnus richting de zon valt en daarbij zelfs de banen van de binnenste planeten verstoort,” legt Spina uit. “Het is onwaarschijnlijk dat zulke dynamische planetaire systemen complexe levensvormen zoals we die hier op aarde kennen, herbergen.”
Tegelijkertijd kunnen de bevindingen van dit nieuwe onderzoek ons – paradoxaal genoeg – wel helpen bij de zoektocht naar buitenaards leven. “Eén van de grootste uitdagingen van de 21e eeuw is ongetwijfeld de zoektocht naar planeten die sterk op de aarde lijken,” stelt Spina. “De Melkweg herbergt echter miljoenen sterren die vergelijkbaar zijn met onze zon en de zoektocht naar Aarde 2.0 is waarschijnlijk vergelijkbaar met de spreekwoordelijke zoektocht naar een speld in een hooiberg.” Maar dit onderzoek kan die zoektocht wat vergemakkelijken. En wel door aan de hand van de chemische samenstelling van sterren na te gaan welke sterren de grootste kans hebben om het middelpunt van een zonnestelsel-achtig systeem te zijn.
TRIPJE NAAR MARS IS HAALBAAR, ZOLANG ASTRONAUTEN MAAR BINNEN VIER JAAR WEER TERUG ZIJN
TRIPJE NAAR MARS IS HAALBAAR, ZOLANG ASTRONAUTEN MAAR BINNEN VIER JAAR WEER TERUG ZIJN
Vivian Lammerse
Alleen dan is een missie naar de rode planeet veilig.
Om de eerste bemande missie naar Mars mogelijk te maken, moeten wetenschappers en ingenieurs eerst een hele reeks technologische- en veiligheidsobstakels overwinnen. Eén van de grootste uitdagingen waar toekomstige Marsreizigers mee te maken gaan krijgen, is bijvoorbeeld schadelijke kosmische straling. Een prangende vraag is dan ook of het eigenlijk wel veilig is voor mensen om naar Mars te vliegen. Het antwoord? Ja, maar onder voorbehoud.
Kosmische straling Eén van de zaken waar rekening mee gehouden wordt bij het plannen en ontwerpen van langdurige bemande missies naar Mars, is het stralingsrisico. De magnetosfeer en atmosfeer van de aarde vormen een soort natuurlijke paraplu, die ons tegen schadelijke kosmische straling beschermt. Maar in de interplanetaire ruimte ontbreekt dit schild. Het betekent dat de straling waaraan Marsreizigers worden blootgesteld honderden malen groter is dan waar mensen in dezelfde tijd op aarde mee worden geconfronteerd. Daarnaast is de dosis meerdere malen groter dan voor astronauten die op ISS werken. Kosmische straling is bovendien schadelijk voor het menselijk lichaam. Het beschadigt bijvoorbeeld eiwitten en DNA, verhoogt de kans op kanker en heeft een erg nadelig effect op het centrale zenuwstelsel.
Meer over kosmische straling
‘Kosmische straling’ (ook wel ‘kosmische stralen’ genoemd), bestaat eigenlijk vooral uit ‘kosmische deeltjes’. De oorsprong van deze deeltjes is (op volgorde van hoeveelheid energie): de zonnewind, andere sterren binnen onze Melkweg, supernova’s, of zelfs andere sterrenstelsels. Op aarde hebben we twee belangrijke schilden die ons afschermen van buitenaardse deeltjes. Allereerst hebben we een magnetisch veld dat deeltjes kan vangen. Er zijn echter ook deeltjes die door het aardmagnetisch veld heen komen. Deze krijgen dan te maken met het tweede schild: onze atmosfeer. Dit is een soort kogelwerend vest, dat de klap kan opvangen van hoog-energetische deeltjes. Als gevolg van deze botsingen tussen kosmische deeltjes en de aardatmosfeer, ontstaat er een deeltjeslawine van onder andere deeltjes met een veel lagere energie. Die kunnen ons wel bereiken op het aardoppervlak, maar zijn niet schadelijk voor mensen.
De vraag is dan ook of het wel veilig is om astronauten naar Mars te laten vliegen. In een nieuwe studie hebben onderzoekers zich over dit prangende vraagstuk gebogen. Ze stelden zichzelf daarbij twee belangrijke vragen: 1) Zou deeltjesstraling een te ernstige bedreiging voor mensen vormen tijdens een reis naar de rode planeet? 2) Zou de timing van een missie naar Mars kunnen helpen om Marsreizigers tijdens hun reis te beschermen tegen schadelijke straling?
Het is mogelijk, maar… Voor iedereen die uitkijkt naar de eerste bemande Marsmissie hebben de onderzoekers goed nieuws. De bevindingen uit de studie laten namelijk zien dat een tripje naar Mars haalbaar is, mits er aan een aantal randvoorwaarden wordt voldaan. Dat wil zeggen dat de mens veilig van en naar Mars moet kunnen reizen, op voorwaarde dat de totale reis (dus heen en terug) niet meer dan vier jaar in beslag neemt. Bovendien moet er een gunstig moment worden uitgekiend.
Vier jaar De onderzoekers bevelen een missie aan die niet langer dan vier jaar duurt. Een langere reis zal astronauten namelijk blootstellen aan een te hoge hoeveelheid gevaarlijke straling. Een reis van vier jaar is overigens goed denkbaar: een enkeltje naar Mars duurt ongeveer negen maanden. Dus afhankelijk van het moment van lancering en de beschikbare brandstof, kan een bemande missie naar Mars binnen twee jaar zijn voltooid.
Dik materiaal Om de astronauten tijdens de reis tegen gevaarlijke straling te beschermen, moet een ruimtevaartuig gebouwd worden bestaande uit relatief dik materiaal, zo adviseren de onderzoekers. Deze afscherming mag echter niet té dik zijn, want dat zal de hoeveelheid secundaire straling waaraan Marsreizigers blootgesteld worden, kunnen vergroten.
Timing Daarnaast is de timing van de missie heel belangrijk. Dat kan echt een groot verschil maken, zo betogen de onderzoekers. Volgens het team zou een ruimtevaartuig de aarde moeten verlaten op het moment dat de zonneactiviteit op z’n hoogtepunt is, bekend als het zonnemaximum. “De twee belangrijkste soorten gevaarlijke straling in de ruimte, zijn zonne-energetische deeltjes en galactische kosmische straling,” legt onderzoeker Yuri Shprits uit. “De intensiteit van elk hangt af van de zonneactiviteit. De activiteit van galactische straling is het laagst binnen de zes tot twaalf maanden na de piek van zonneactiviteit, terwijl de intensiteit van zonne-energetische deeltjes het grootst is tijdens het zonnemaximum.” Berekeningen van de wetenschappers tonen aan dat het mogelijk is om een ruimtevaartuig af te schermen van hoogenergetische deeltjes, omdat tijdens het zonnemaximum de gevaarlijkste en meest energetische deeltjes van verre sterrenstelsels worden afgebogen door de verhoogde zonneactiviteit.
Al met al tonen de bevindingen aan dat een tripje naar Mars zeker in het vat zou kunnen zitten. “Onze studie toont aan dat hoewel ruimtestraling strikte beperkingen oplegt aan het ruimtevaartuig en het tijdstip van lancering, een dergelijke missie toch levensvatbaar is,” besluit Shprits.
WIST JE DAT…
…melk en bladspinazie toekomstige ruimtereizigers ook zou kunnen beschermen tegen schadelijke kosmische straling? Een antioxidant-rijk dieet is mogelijk een belangrijke troef op weg naar langdurige, bemande ruimtemissies, zo beweren Nederlandse onderzoekers.
MRI machines can be used to detect cases of stroke that require immediate surgical intervention. But these huge and expensive MRI machines require custom-built rooms due to their powerful magnetic field. Therefore patients are brought to the MRI scanners rather than the other way around.
This is about to change soon!
Hyperfine, a healthcare technology company headquartered in Connecticut has won FDA clearance for the first portable MRI scanner. The easy-to-use MRI scanner can be wheeled to a patient’s bedside.
A breakthrough in approachability for MR imaging
Dubbed the Portable Point-of-Care MRI system, the machine is 10 times lighter, consumes 35 times less power, and is 20 times less costly than current MRI machines.
The traditional MRI scans often require long wait times. But the portable MRI system, patients can be imaged at the point of care with initial scan results available in 30 seconds.
Though it’s not a lightweight machine, the 55” (140cm) tall machine weighs 1,400lbs (630kg). But a motorized wheel array on the bottom makes it quite manageable to roll up to a patient’s bedside.
In addition, this portable easy to use MRI scanner does not interfere with other equipment. Even the metal objects need not be removed from the room.
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Security camera captures a UFO flying two meters above the ground
Security camera captures a UFO flying two meters above the ground
A rare and inexplicable UFO sighting occurred a few days ago, specifically on March 13, 2021, in Orlando, Florida USA.
An impressive video at night by a surveillance camera captured a strange object flying low and very close to an animal.
In the first instance, a deer is observed grazing in front of the surveillance camera, and suddenly an unidentified object passes by it at not very high speed.
If we make a comparison with the possible proportions of this object, we would say that it is approximately one meter wide, and the possible dark area in the middle of the strange object is possibly a window.
The camera that captured the event is located five feet or two feet from the ground, and the most curious thing about the event is that the deer was not affected by the passage of this unidentified flying object.
Therefore, it shows that it does not emit any noise, no sound that alerts the animal, and another curious fact is that not even a slight wind aroused the stampede interest of the deer.
Mechanical engineering professor Mike Massimino discusses the complex mission to the Red Planet on 'Your World'
This composite of two images shows the hole drilled by NASA's Perseverance rover in the rock “Rochette” during its second sample-collection attempt. The images were obtained by one of the rover's navigation cameras on Sept. 1, 2021.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover team announced on Thursday that it has successfully cored its first Mars rock.
A September 1 image of the long, oddly-shaped and dusty Mars rock provided in a release from the agency showed the circular drill hole.
NASA said that initial images downlinked after the events showed an intact sample present in the sample tube after coring.
"However, additional images taken after the arm completed sample acquisition were inconclusive due to poor sunlight conditions," it said, noting that the rover would obtain additional imagery of the sample tube with better lighting before the processing continues.
"Although the Perseverance mission team is confident that the sample is in the tube, images in optimal lighting conditions will confirm its presence," NASA wrote.
"The project got its first cored rock under its belt, and that’s a phenomenal accomplishment," Jennifer Trosper, project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said. "The team determined a location, and selected and cored a viable and scientifically valuable rock. We did what we came to do. We will work through this small hiccup with the lighting conditions in the images and remain encouraged that there is sample in this tube."
Using a rotary-percussive drill and a hollow coring bit – that holds the sample tube – at the end of its robotic arm to extract the samples, Perseverance maneuvered the corer, bit and open end of the sample tube to be photographed by its Mastcam-Z instrument.
The initial images showed the end of a cored rock within the sample tube before "Percy" began a procedure called "percuss to ingest."
The step vibrates the drill bit and tube five times, which can help a sample slide down farther into the tube and can ride the tube's lip of residual material.
Following "percuss to ingest," Perseverance took its second set of Mastcam-Z images, in which the lighting was poor and the "internal portions of the sample tube are not visible."
NASA said that Friday images would be taken when the sun is in a more favorable position and that photos would also be captured after sunset in order to "diminish point-sources of light that can saturate an image."
The photos are set to be returned to Earth on Saturday morning.
If the new images are still uncertain, the team still has several steps it can take including using the rover's Sampling and Caching System’s volume probe to confirm that the sample is in the tube.
This image, captured by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on Sept. 1, 2021, shows a cored sample in one of the robot's sampling tubes. Mission team members think the sample was retained but will take a few more photos to make sure.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU)
Notably, a previous attempt at sampling Mars rock in early August went awry when the team realized the rover had failed to capture the crumbly rock in its tube.
NASA then decided to move on to the South Séítah region of the red planet's Jezero Crater.
Meet 'The Accident': NASA shares footage of mysterious and 'incredibly rare' brown dwarf thought to be up to 13 BILLION years old that was found by an amateur scientist by chance
Meet 'The Accident': NASA shares footage of mysterious and 'incredibly rare' brown dwarf thought to be up to 13 BILLION years old that was found by an amateur scientist by chance
Astronomers using NASA data discovered unusual properties of a brown dwarf
Nicknamed 'The Accident' it is travelling at up to half a million miles per hour
This suggests it has been around a long time as it takes time to build up speed
It also had unusual light and heat properties with some cooler and some hotter
The team say it dates back up to 13 billion years and its age suggests there may be many more brown dwarfs littered through the Milky Way than first thought
NASA has shared footage of an 'incredibly rare' brown dwarf that could be up to 13 billion years old, named 'The Accident' after being discovered by chance.
A brown dwarf is a mysterious object that sits somewhere between a gas giant planet and a small star, but without the size to fuse hydrogen like a star would.
There might be more of these unusual 'stars' lurking in our galaxy than previously thought, according to a study by astronomers at Caltech in Pasadena, California.
Named WISE 1534–1043, it is 50 light years from the Earth and doesn't resemble any of the 2,000 brown dwarfs found in our galaxy so far, the NASA researchers said.
It is faint in some wavelengths of light, bright in others, and hurtling around the Milky Way at half a million miles per hour - faster than any other local brown dwarf.
The unusual light make-up and speed helped the team determine it is between 10 and 13 billion years old - double the average age of other known brown dwarfs and dating to when the Milky Way was very young and had a different chemical makeup.
This suggests they have been around in the Milky Way since the earliest days and meaning there could be more than first thought, with a hidden population of up to 100 billion brown dwarfs floating in interstellar space.
NASA has shared footage of an 'incredibly rare' brown dwarf that could be up to 13 billion years old, named 'The Accident' after being discovered by chance. Pictured is an artist's impression
WISE 1534–1043: THE ACCIDENTALLY DISCOVERED BROWN DWARF
WISE 1534–1043, also known as 'The Accident' was discovered accidentally in data gathered by NEOWISE.
Citizen scientist Dan Caselden was using a program he built to look for brown dwarf-like objects in the infrared images captured by the NASA space telescope.
He was looking at an object that met the description when he spotted 'The Accident' in the background.
Later follow up studies confirmed it was a brown dwarf about 50 light years from the Earth - but unusual.
It gave off hot signals in some light wavelengths and cold in others.
The 'star' was also travelling at about half a million miles per hour - much faster than any previously discovered local brown dwarf.
It was confirmed to be a Class Y brown dwarf, the coolest type.
This, with the speed that suggests it has had a long time to build momentum through gravitational encounters, means it is very old.
Astronomers put it to between 10 and 13 billion years old, or roughly the first few billion years of the Milky Way.
It has a surface temperature of about 450 Kelvin, or about 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
That is significantly lower than the 5,778 K (9,940F) of the sun and about a third of Venus' 900 degrees Fahrenheit surface.
The brown dwarf was accidentally discovered via the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) by citizen scientist Dan Caselden, who was using an online program he built to find these objects in data gathered by the telescope.
They are between 13 and 80 times more massive than Jupiter but they're not large enough to fuse elements like hydrogen into helium the way a star does.
While brown dwarfs sometimes defy characterisation, astronomers have a good grasp on their general characteristics, or they did until 'The Accident'.
As brown dwarfs age, they cool off, and their brightness in different wavelengths of light changes, similar to the way heated metals go from white to red as they cool.
The Accident confused scientists because it was faint in some key wavelengths, suggesting it was very cold, but bright in others, indicating a higher temperature.
'This object defied all our expectations,' said Davy Kirkpatrick, an astrophysicist at IPAC at Caltech in Pasadena, California.
He said the 10-13 billion year age of The Accident means it would have formed when our galaxy was much younger and had a different chemical makeup.
'If that's the case, there are likely many more of these ancient brown dwarfs lurking in our galactic neighbourhood,' the researcher explained.
To find out why it had contradictory properties - some suggesting it was cold, others warmer - astronomers turned to the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
They used the telescope to observe the object in a wider range of wavelengths of light, particularly infrared, but it was so faint it couldn't be detected at all.
This confirmed the suggestion it was very cold, meaning that it was also likely old.
They next set out to determine if the dimness resulted from The Accident being farther than expected from Earth. But that wasn't the case, according to precise distance measurements by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes.
Having determined the object's distance – about 50 light-years from Earth – the team realised that it is moving fast – about half a million miles per hour.
That's much faster than all other brown dwarfs known to be at this distance from Earth, which means it has probably been careening around the galaxy for a long time, encountering massive objects that accelerate it with their gravity.
Known it was extremely old meant the unusual wavelength properties made more sense, according to the NASA-backed team.
This mosaic shows the entire sky imaged by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Within the data that made up this image was evidence of 'The Accident' brown dwarf
A brown dwarf is a mysterious object that sits somewhere between a gas giant planet and a small star, but without the size to fuse hydrogen like a star would
NASA NEOWISE: INFRARED TELESCOPE LAUNCHED TO SPOT COMETS
NASA's WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spacecraft was an infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope.
It was originally active from December 2009 to February 2011 and later extended with a new name.
In September 2013 the spacecraft was assigned a new mission and renamed as NEOWISE and is still operating.
It was re-activated to help search for comets and asteroids near Earth.
As of March 2021, the mission has made 1,130,000 confirmed infrared observations of approximately 39,100 objects throughout the solar system since its restart in 2013.
Mission data is shared freely by the IPAC/Caltech-led archive and the data has contributed to over 1,600 peer-reviewed studies.
“NEOWISE provides a unique and critical capability in our global mission of planetary defence, by allowing us to rapidly measure the infrared emission and more accurately estimate the size of hazardous asteroids as they are discovered,” said Lindley Johnson, NASA's Planetary Defense Officer
Among its many accomplishments after its reactivation, NEOWISE also discovered Comet NEOWISE, which was named after the mission and dazzled observers worldwide in 2020.
Its data has also helped astronomers in the search for faint brown dwarf stars.
NEOWISE’s replacement, the next-generation NEO Surveyor, is currently scheduled to launch in 2026.
When the Milky Way formed about 13.6 billion years ago, it was composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium.
Other elements, like carbon, formed inside stars; when the most massive stars exploded as supernovae, they scattered the elements throughout the galaxy.
Methane, composed of hydrogen and carbon, is common in most brown dwarfs that have a temperature similar to The Accident.
But The Accident's light profile suggests it contains very little methane.
Like all molecules, methane absorbs specific wavelengths of light, so a methane-rich brown dwarf would be dim in those wavelengths.
The Accident, by contrast, is bright in those wavelengths, which could indicate low levels of methane.
Thus, the light profile of The Accident could match that of a very old brown dwarf that formed when the galaxy was still carbon poor - as very little carbon at formation means very little methane in its atmosphere today.
'It's not a surprise to find a brown dwarf this old, but it is a surprise to find one in our backyard,' said Federico Marocco, an astrophysicist at IPAC at Caltech who led the new observations using the Keck and Hubble telescopes.
'We expected that brown dwarfs this old exist, but we also expected them to be incredibly rare. The chance of finding one so close to the solar system could be a lucky coincidence, or it tells us that they're more common than we thought.'
The program developed by Caselden, that led to the discovery of The Accident, attempted to remove the stationary infrared objects, like distant stars, from the data, and highlight moving objects similar to known brown dwarfs.
He was looking at one such brown dwarf candidate when he spotted The Accident, which was a much fainter object moving quickly across the screen.
It hadn't been highlighted because it did not match the program’s profile of a brown dwarf. Caselden caught it by accident.
'This discovery is telling us that there’s more variety in brown dwarf compositions than we've seen so far,' said Kirkpatrick. 'There are likely more weird ones out there, and we need to think about how to look for them.'
BROWN DWARF: AT LEAST 13 TIMES LARGER THAN JUPITER BUT NOT LARGE ENOUGH TO START FUSION
Brown dwarfs are thought to be the missing link between planets and stars, with masses between 13 and 80 times that of Jupiter.
But their centres are not hot or dense enough to generate energy through nuclear fusion, from hydrogen into helium, the way main sequence stars do.
Brown dwarf stars are larger than Jupiter but smaller than low mass stars capable of fusing hydrogen into helium and sustaining the fusion over time
While they can't sustain traditional fusion, unlike a giant plant, they are able to fuse a heavy isotope of hydrogen, called deuterium, into helium.
It is thought that a galaxy the size of the Milky Way could have as many as 100 billion brown dwarf stars, with many wandering in interstellar space.
Self-luminous objects, like stars, are given a letter category based on their surface temperature - with 0 the brightest and hottest, going through B, A, F, G, K and on to, M the coolest of Main Sequence Stars.
Astronomers also added L, T and Y for Red Dwarf and Brown Dwarf type stars, as well as a range of other classifications for unusual star types.
Over the course of their life, a brown dwarf star will go through M, L, T and Y as they don't go through stable fusion, so cool down over time.
To the naked eye they would appear a variety of different colours depending on the stage they are at in their evolution.
The warmest could appear orange or red and the coolest magenta, and could have layers like Jupiter or be uniform in appearance.
One very peculiar brown dwarf is unlike anything astronomers have ever seen. In fact, it was discovered completely by chance and that’s why it has been nicknamed “The Accident” (its official name is WISEA J153429.75-104303.3). Brown dwarfs are too large to be a planet but too small to be a star – basically, they have a mass that’s in between giant planets (like Jupiter and Saturn) and stars.
The brown dwarf was found by Dan Caselden – a citizen scientist who was looking through data collected by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE). In his own program that he created, Caselden eliminated all stationary objects that sent off infrared light such as stars. He then focused on moving objects that could possibly be brown dwarfs. While focusing on one object in particular, he realized that it was in fact a brown dwarf but what he found was much more incredible as it was completely unique from other brown dwarfs which was why the program didn’t initially find it.
An artist’s impression of a brown dwarf.
“The Accident” is incredibly odd as it appeared faint in some wavelengths (meaning that it was extremely cold and old), but showed up bright in other wavelengths (suggesting it was much hotter). According to the paper, the researchers believe that the reason why it appeared faint in some wavelengths and brighter in others is because it has barely any methane which indicates that it was created when our Milky Way Galaxy was in its very young stages and had very little carbon (methane consists of hydrogen and carbon).
That is why experts believe that “The Accident” is between 10 and 13 billion years old. For comparison, other brown dwarfs that have been discovered are about half that age. Furthermore, our galaxy is approximately 13.6 billion years old with our Solar System being about 4.5 billion years in age.
With help from NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, experts were able to determine that the brown dwarf is located about 50 light-years away from our planet and moving extremely fast at nearly 500,000 miles per hour (800,000 kilometers per hour). This is much faster than other brown dwarfs located about the same distance away from us. “This object defied all our expectations,” stated Davy Kirkpatrick who is an astrophysicist at IPAC at Caltech in Pasadena, California. (A video showing “The Accident” moving through space can be viewed here.)
Can you see the dark spot moving in the bottom left corner of the screen? It’s a brown dwarf nicknamed “The Accident,” which was discovered by citizen scientist Dan Caselden. It had slipped pas typical searches because it doesn’t look like any other known brown dwarfs. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Dan Caselden
This mosaic shows the entire sky imaged by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Infrared light refers to wavelengths that are longer than those visible to the human eye. Many cosmic objects radiate infrared, including gas and dust clouds where stars form, and brown dwarfs.
In a recent tweet, NASA announced that 40 newly identified exoplanets have been added to the confirmed list. This brings the total of confirmed exoplanets to a whopping 4,512. The majority of the newfound planets – 37 of the 40 – were detected by the Kepler space telescope. Even though the mission ended in 2018, scientists are still finding valuable information in its data like the dozens of new exoplanets.
In addition to the 4,512 confirmed exoplanets, experts have located 3,344 planetary systems. Furthermore, there could be many more exoplanets as there are still 7,721 that are considered candidates. This is absolutely astonishing considering that the first two exoplanets – PSR B1257+12 c and PSR B1257+12 d – were only discovered back in 1992.
The first transiting exoplanet (a world that passes in front of its host star that causes it to dim; therefore allowing scientists here on Earth to detect it) was discovered in 1999 when a planet crossed in front of a star named HD 209458 in the constellation Pegasus (the planet was named HD 209458 b).
Scientists are especially interested in exoplanets that are located in the “habitable zone” of their systems where they could potentially host life. For example, there are three planets orbiting a star called TOI-700 (the planets are referred to as b, c, and d) with planet “d” being located in the habitable zone and is approximately the same size as Earth. And a recent study has suggested that “Hycean” planets could possibly support life. These planets could be hot, have tons of water, and have hydrogen-rich atmospheres. Furthermore, there is a wider range for where they can be located in their systems for them to maybe host life.
But probably the most famous exoplanet is the one that is the closest to us – Proxima Centauri b. This planet, which is located just 4 light-years away from Earth, is 1.27 times the size of our planet and was discovered in 2016.
As for the exoplanets that were most recently added to the confirmed list, there is one that’s called TOI-251 b that has about the same mass as Jupiter; has an orbital period of 4.9 days; and is located 325 light-years away.
Another interesting discovery involved six planets that are orbiting a star called TOI-178 (these planets are referred to as b, c, d, e, f, and g). These planets have a wide range of sizes from 1.1 times to 3 times larger than Earth with different densities from being a rocky super-Earth to a gassy mini-Neptune.
With a jaw-dropping 4,512 exoplanets discovered so far and more than 7,700 candidates, it’s amazing to think that so many planets are in the universe. Now if we could confirm if any of them have life… A full list of all 4,512 exoplanets can be viewed here.
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Some places seem to draw UFO phenomena to them for reasons we may never understand. These places have some unseen quality that makes such forces gravitate towards them, and one such place lies out in the Pacific Ocean. The Solomon Islands consists of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands, islets, and atolls, and is located in Oceania to the east of Papua New Guinea. The region has a long history of human habitation, with the first settlers arriving between 30,000 and 28,800 BC, and it is also notable for seeing some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific during World War II. The islands are also known for political unrest and its natural beauty, but lesser known are some of the very strange phenomena that goes on here, including very menacing and dangerous UFOs that seem to congregate here.
One old legend of the Solomon Islands is that of a flying reptilian beast ominously known as the “Dragon Snake,” said to be somewhat like a stingray in shape, with greenish-brown skin, a long tail with flukes red eyes sometimes described as glowing. On many occasions they are described as being somewhat bioluminescent, with their bodies giving off an eerie glow. More fantastical tales tell of the creatures spitting fire, and of attacking people or whisking them off to vanish. The creatures are mostly said to inhabit caves in the thickly forested mountainous interior, only coming out at night to feed, when they prefer to prowl about the coastal areas, where they are known to often attack boats. Due to their ability to glow, the creatures are often seen as just lights in the sky, zipping about and hovering as they go about their business. While mostly known by the local population, the creatures are seen by outsiders as well. One notable example is an ex- former RAAF engineer by the name of Marius Boirayon, bought a house in Cape Esperance and quickly became familiar with the local lore and legends. One of these being the stories of the Dragon Snake, which he heard from a local named Joseph, and which he first dismissed as myth until the night he saw one for himself shortly after moving in. In an article for Nexus Magazine, he would say of this experience:
I had become quite an enthusiastic fisherman with my fishing rod, and had been pulling scores of beautiful reef fish. Joseph was renowned by all in the village as being the best spear fisherman. One time he decided to do some night spear fishing, as it was easy to do at night by torchlight. So I decided that while Joseph was spear fishing, I would throw some lines in and see what kind of fish I caught. I was cleaning fish with Ci-Ci, another good friend of mine, when Joseph came out of the water with his dugout canoe full of fish to add to our already large pile. While we were inspecting his catch, Joseph suddenly shouted for our attention: “There! There! There! The Dragon Snake! The Dragon Snake!” He was pointing to the right, down the beach. As I looked down the beach, I couldn’t believe what I seeing. About a kilometer away there was a very bright, luminous, white object flying slowly over the water.
I remember asking myself whether I was really seeing it. I called out for my wife Miriam to bring my binoculars. After focusing in on the star like, brilliantly lit object, I noticed that it was about 60-foot round and seemed to make no noise. We watched it for a couple of minutes until it submerged itself into the sea. Joseph told me to wait about 10 minutes and I’d see it come back out again—which it did! When it came back out of the water, it was glowing twice as brightly as when it went in. We continued to watch it with my binoculars as it returned to the coast in the direction whence it had come and until it disappeared out of sight over the top of the coconut trees. Somewhat startled by this experience, we went back into the house and sat talking about this “Dragon Snake” until the early hours of the morning. They told me that if you didn’t see it one night, you were quite likely to see it the next. They were right. In fact, over a seven-month period, I lost count of these sightings when they reached the 60 mark.
Although the indigenous people of the islands had long spoken of the Dragon Snake as a living flying creature, Boirayon had a different hypothesis. To him, these were UFOs that the locals, who had no idea of spaceships and extraterrestrials, had explained away into simple terms they could understand. In his hypothesis, these were possible alien craft, and that the fire-spitting was actually beams being emitted by them. Through extensive interviews with the locals it would also dawn on Boirayon that these objects were decidedly malevolent, being blamed on missing people and with many stories of attacking and incinerating people. He would say of his attempts to explain these ideas to the locals and his thoughts on the UFO connection:
While we sat talking about this object, I explained the structure of the Universe to Joseph. I showed them my copy of a Time–Life book called The Universe, with its space-type pictures, and said that these so-called “Dragon Snakes” are what white men call “Unidentified Flying Objects”. They were absolutely amazed, as they had spent their whole life fearing this thing with superstition and having no real understanding of it. Yet, for that matter, I was also a little fearful. This first sighting had completely changed my mind about the existence of extraterrestrials, and a little investigation revealed that this so-called Dragon Snake had been in the area for well over a century. I realistically began thinking in terms of extraterrestrials inhabiting our planet.
My extensive investigation into the presence of extraterrestrials on Guadalcanal and Malaita has revealed that these supposedly “hidden to the eye” aliens have displayed unacceptable and unfriendly behavior towards the Guadalcanal and Malaita people; indeed, there have been several outright abductions and murders. Because of this, they can’t be considered friendly. For example, the grandfather of a good friend of mine was incinerated by one of these UFOs around the early 1900s. Several independent sources have verified this. Countless horrific stories can be heard throughout these islands. I made my way to the two chiefs and respectfully introduced myself. As we were talking, I brought up the topic of the Dragon Snake. My suspicions were right: the chiefs knew a lot about it. One of the chief’s brothers had been killed by it when he was only a little boy. They told me several stories of deaths and abductions, all of which confirmed to me that these UFOs are definitely not friendly. They may be friendly in other places in the world, but certainly not here.
The threatening manner of these objects would become a recurring theme in his writing, featuring heavily in many reports. Things would get even weirder still when he began to realize that the supposed lairs of the “Dragon Snake” were likely some sort of underground UFO bases from which the craft were operating from in the region. In order to investigate this theory, he purchased a topographical map of northwest Guadalcanal Island and began questioning locals on where the Dragon Snake’s “home” was. In the meantime, his friend Joseph told him excitedly that a local fisherman had been attacked by a Dragon Snake at a nearby village and was in the hospital with severe burns to much of his body. Seeing this as a chance to find out more information, Boirayon headed to the hospital with Joseph to talk with the man. He says of what happened:
Following some enquiries as to where the fisherman was, we arrived at his bedside. He was covered in bandages from head to toe and was in a great deal of pain, but doped up with pethidine. Joseph began to speak with him in the Guadalcanal language to try to find out exactly what had happened to him. He had been out fishing in his fiberglass boat at about 3.00 am, when he saw the Dragon Snake flying along. In foolishness, he started flashing his torch at it. That was when it flew over to him in an instant and hovered overhead. Panicking, he started the motor and took off to get away from the Dragon Snake, but it followed him as he “zigzagged” his way back to shore. It was during this short pursuit to the beach that it fired some form of light at him but it only partially hit him. A later inspection of his 19-foot fiberglass boat showed traces of scorching upon some of the boat’s interior paint. He said that when he drove his boat up the beach and ran into the bush, the Dragon Snake followed him to where he was hiding behind a tree and hovered above. When he moved around to the other side of the tree, it also went around to the other side. It was then that he literally got down on his knees and began to pray to God with his hands clasped in front of him. With that, the Dragon Snake moved on. After that, he stumbled his way back to his village and was taken to hospital.
As he researched more into the phenomenon, Boirayon not only deduced a promising location for where the UFO base might be located, but he also found that the sightings of these objects seemed to mysteriously congregate towards an area of the coast where there had been a huge battle during World War II. He made several more sightings of UFOs in this area, also noting that the craft seemed to have the ability to vanish into thin air or cloak themselves. He would say of this:
I had initially only gone to the Solomons to enjoy an early, youthful retirement and certainly had not expected to be chasing UFOs. But as a former military man, I couldn’t stop thinking about the fact that this UFO was continually coming and going near ships that had been involved in a great battle where thousands of men had lost their lives in the cause of freedom. It seemed as if this UFO was robbing graves. This weighed heavily on my mind for weeks. One night, though, while I was sitting fishing, my indecision changed. I had been watching the UFO submerge into the sea near the wreck of the USS Chicago and then surface again shining more brightly. I had my binoculars fixed well on it when I saw the lights of a ship that was travelling toward my direction. From the trigonometric perspective, the UFO couldn’t see the ship because of the point that was shielding its view. However, I had both the UFO and the ship in my field of view. After about 30 seconds, when the UFO did see the ship it instantly vanished. The UFO didn’t seem to go anywhere; it simply vanished as if it had turned off its lights.
I took my binoculars from my eyes. I was not sure if the craft had instantly accelerated or had somehow cloaked itself. Yet it seemed that the UFO didn’t mind the indigenous people seeing it, but it did mind when someone saw it who would possibly know of its real identity. My subsequent investigation into the UFO’s ability to cloak itself revealed that this characteristic was commonly known by all within the area and had become part of the superstition about the Dragon Snake. There are just too many stories about the Dragon Snake’s sudden “disappearance” to discuss here.
He continued his investigation into the phenomenon, finding that there were many places around the Solomon Islands that seemed to be “bases” for these UFOs, including a mountain he called “Mount Dragon,” and a mysterious reef located off the island of Malaita, and others, of which he says:
There is a 50-meter-diameter, bottomless circular reef in amongst the surrounding 10-meter-deep coral reef a few miles north of Kwoi Island (which is on the border of the Kwaio and Kwara’ae tribes) and south of Namo’ere’ere in central east Malaita. Singalanggu Harbour is slightly further south. UFOs can be seen going in and out of that reef virtually every night. My friends like fishing down this UFO hole during the daytime because it saves them from having to go out into the danger of the ocean and because there’s a plentiful supply of big ocean-type fish that can be caught in its depths. They have let down over 200 meters of 100-pound line and still haven’t been able to hit the bottom. I always think of this hole as having been made by a huge spaceship that hovered above it and shot a big laser into the crust of the Earth, for whatever reason! On mainland Malaita, about three to four miles directly inland from that circular reef entrance is a lake which has two connected entrances/exits. When the boys are out fishing at night, they see the UFOs going in one entrance and coming out the other. A UFO coming out of this lake at dusk incinerated my good friend’s grandfather, and everyone in the area knows about it. The aliens have instilled fear in these people for generations, and many people have gone missing.
In the Kwaio and Kwara’re areas, there are three entrances in their jungle mountains that I know of where these “ball of light”–type UFO vehicles can be seen entering and exiting. It is my belief that these entrances are not individual bases but are all connected, making up one big UFO base under the island. I may be wrong, but I also believe that one of the many reasons why they are there is that, for reasons of their own, they are mining a very rare type of gemstone under this kimberlitic rock volcanic island. The gemstones which my wife’s relatives possess have a far higher specific gravity than that of diamonds, and a refractive index such that when you put the stone in light you see your mirror image in the centre of the stone.
What is going on out there in the Solomon Islands? Why should these forces be drawn here? Why are they so incredibly aggressive and menacing? It is unknown. It is all a pretty strange case of a mostly forgotten little corner of UFO strangeness, melding local lore with UFOs, and we can only wait and see what becomes of all of this.
When we think of UFOs during the Second World War, more often than not, it will likely provoke images of the Foo Fighters. They were small, fast-moving, ball-like, illuminated “things” seen in the sky and mostly during battle and confrontation over Europe. The creations of the Allies? The Nazis? The questions still exist. And, it’s most unlikely that we’ll ever get the complete answers to the Foo Fighter issue. What’s even less well-known, though, are the reports of UFO activity during the Second World War that had nothing to do with the Foo Fighters. In other words, today’s article is on claims of Flying Saucers seen – and allegedly examined by scientists – during the Second World War. I should stress that the story I’m sharing with you today has nothing to do with the extremely dubious stories of “Nazi UFOs” that certain figures have promoted for disturbing, political reasons. Rather, we’re talking about an American journalist, dead aliens and more. With that said, let’s move on.
May 22, 1955 was the date on which a well-respected journalist, Dorothy Kilgallen, put together an account for the American press. The story, that surfaced while Kilgallen was on vacation in the U.K. at the time, read as follows: “I can report today on a story which is positively spooky, not to mention chilling. British scientists and airmen, after examining the wreckage of one mysterious flying ship, are convinced these strange aerial objects are not optical illusions or Soviet inventions, but are flying saucers which originate on another planet. The source of my information is a British official of cabinet rank who prefers to remain unidentified.” One of Kilgallen’s informants for the tale was suspected of having been Gordon Creighton. For a long time, he was the editor of the Flying Saucer Review magazine. Timothy Good, author of a 1987 book, Above Top Secret, knew Creighton. Good followed the Kilgallen story, saying that it “…was alleged to have taken place during a cocktail party given by Lord Mountbatten, but I have been unable to substantiate this with Mollie Travis, Mountbatten’s private secretary at the time.”
The FBI file on Dorothy Kilgallen
And who was Lord Mountbatten? Read on: “As with many royal relatives, Louis Mountbatten was related to both Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth. A great-grandson of Queen Victoria, he was a distant cousin of the Queen’s as well as Prince Philip’s uncle. Philip’s mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was Louis’s sister. Philip also lived with the Mountbattens for several years following his mother’s institutionalization… In August of 1979, Lord Mountbatten was killed at age 79 in a terrorist attack by the Irish Republican Army. His fishing boat, named Shadow V, was blown up off the coast of the Republic of Ireland by a bomb that had been smuggled aboard.” Now, back to the story/yarn of the crashed UFO. Dorothy Kilgallen’s primary source for the story – believed to have been Mountbatten, himself – quietly told her these words: “We believe, on the basis of our inquiry thus far, that the saucers were staffed by small men – probably under four feet tall. It’s frightening, but there’s no denying the flying saucers come from another planet.” Kilgallen, recognizing that she had an amazing story on her hands, had more to say: “This official quoted scientists as saying a flying ship of this type could not have possibly been constructed on Earth. The British Government, I learned, is withholding an official report on the ‘flying saucer’ examination at this time, possibly because it does not wish to frighten the public. When my husband and I arrived here from a brief vacation, I had no premonition that I would be catapulting myself into the controversy over whether flying saucers are real or imaginary.”
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For years, that was where the story pretty much began and ended. However, over the years tales have circulated to the effect that the UFO crash had nothing to do with Roswell (as some have suggested), but everything to do with a Flying Saucer crash somewhere on the U.K. – and, as a result, the Americans and the Brits secretly created a project to study the wrecked craft and dead bodies that reportedly fell into their laps. I’ve heard rumors that during the Second World War, the remains of the dead aliens from the crash were, from 1944 to 1953, held deep in a bunker in the London Underground. Another story (or, more correctly, another rumor) suggests everything was flown over to the United States, along with a team of U.K. scientists. The tales are fascinating. Try proving it all, though. True or not, the story is still an intriguing one. And if there is any truth to it all, then it adds another weird story to strange, UFO-themed activity encountered during the Second World War.
What is it? Strange Lights in Sky Caught on Camera in Florida
What is it? Strange Lights in Sky Caught on Camera in Florida
In Florida, residents have been thrown into a fright after a bizarre story emerged regarding peoples being scared at a street location by what has been described as a “strange lights”.
That and more strange events caught on tape. Real or fake? Video here:
Linda Moulton Howe: Bigfoot, Flying Humanoids, Lizard Men, The Goatman and Ghostly Phantoms
Linda Moulton Howe: Bigfoot, Flying Humanoids, Lizard Men, The Goatman and Ghostly Phantoms
Linda Moulton Howe: Bigfoot, Flying Humanoids, Lizard Men, The Goatman and Ghostly Phantoms
Strange and very real monster sightings abound around the world. Everyday people are not just encountering real monsters; they are having life altering experiences with strange paranormal and supernatural forces via mysterious beings as well as ghosts and spirits of the dead. Prepare to take a journey into the unexplained in this comprehensive program and hear incredible eyewitness reports that force us to face the fact that the monsters we relegate to fairy tales, have indeed been quite real all along.
Explore the Jersey Devil, The Goatman, Lizard Men, Lake Monsters, Mothmen, Flying Humanoids, Phantom Demons, Bigfoot, Ghosts, Dark Spirits, Apparitions and much more.
Things seem to have slowed down a bit on the UFO front of late. Perhaps it is because the aliens have all the data they need after unleashing a pandemic upon the planet to gauge our reactions. (I am guessing that we didn’t score very well.)
That doesn’t mean that “something” isn’t always still out there though, as a recent UFO sighting filmed in Kent, England certainly proves.
In video footage posted to Twitter by area resident Steve Sangster of Orpington, Greater London, a round, glowing red object appears in the night, leaving a fiery trail as it zoomed through the sky.
Kent Live reports, “Some people who have seen the video claim it must be aliens, while other suggestions range from a plane on fire to a sophisticated firework.”
The footage of the glowing UFO, posted on Twitter by Sangster this past Saturday night at 8:54 p.m., shows what at first glance appears to be nothing more than some sort of firework being set off in the sky.
However, instead of dissipating as a firework would, the glowing orb only intensified in brightness.
“I had the telescope out because there was a beautiful moon and I was waiting for it come come up,” Sangster explained.
“I could see out of the corner of my eye a sparkling object, which I initially thought was a shooting star.
“I shared it on Twitter to see if anyone had any good ideas as to what it could be.”
One of his followers suggested that the glowing UFO may have been something like one of the Team AeroSparx Motorglider Aerobatics planes in flight.
Unfortunately, after doing some investigation, Kent Live reports that Sangster was unable to find any events in the area that would have matched up with what he saw.
“There has been a great deal of interest and a lot of people think it could be aliens visiting,” he said.
“There was also a person who has written an extraterrestrial book and he’s keen to examine the video in more detail.
“I looked at local events in the area, which also included Brands Hatch, but I couldn’t see anything due to take place that evening.”
After not finding anything concrete to explain what he saw in the sky, other than it being an alien UFO, Sangster said, “It must have been some sort of plane, whether it was in difficulties or whether it was just practicing,” he added.
“It’s just bizarre that no one has got any idea or has come forward with any credible explanation.”
On September 3, 2021, the live cam of the International Space Station captured a series of unknown bright objects moving through space.
The moving objects are not city lights as they were seen from ISS when the ISS was above the ocean between South Sandwich Islands and South Africa.
They all follow a fixed trajectory and fly at different speeds, it seems most of them come from one location.
On July 6, 2021 a similar event took place when the ISS live feed captured hundreds of unknown bright objects moving through space.
Since the most of these unknown lights captured on July 6, 2021 as well as on September 3, 2021 are following the same path we may wonder whether they all come from the same unknown source in space.
“What Are We Dealing With?” Former U.S. Army Luis Elizondo
“What Are We Dealing With?” Former U.S. Army Luis Elizondo
UFO Secret Revealed | Luis Elizondo, former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), about the mysterious UFO sightings.
UFO Sighted Over Dartford Bridge, UK ( August 28, 2021 )
STATEMENT : Video was taken just outside our seaside Flat today 28/Aug/2021 around 9pm. This is a weird flying Object
VIDEO 2 : Dartford Bridge, UK : August 30, 2021
They are here !
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Michael Von
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Creature Sighted On SpaceX ( September 3, 2021 )
Creature sighted on board SpaceX : Mouse or Ice ? What is this ? Looks Like A Mouse? Sighted on board SpaceX September 3, 2021.
Captured using : NSF Fleetcam - LIVE SpaceX Fleet Operations 24x7 · NASASpaceflight
Three UFO "Orbs" Become Four Before One Takes Off Sighted Over Mesa, Arizona. September 3, 2021
Guys, sorry about the sound on the recording but i'm on a short holiday but still keeping an eye out for footage. In this footage we can see that three of these UFO orbs starts of in a straight line and then they begin to rotate into the classic triangle formation before being joined by a fourth to with this one stay for a short moment and then takes off... The witness stated the following: "I was returning back to work when i noticed three prominent lights in the sky. they were not moving but were hovering almost stationary at first it appeared as a straight line and slowly shifted into a triangle formation i tried to get as much video as i possibly could but was rushed to get back to work." Source MUFON/UFO Stalker Case Number 117717
MUFON CASE : 117731 Buchanan, Michigan ( September 3, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : 4 total. Orange lights on all 4. No blinking. No sound.g lights. Long Description of Sighting Report - Case 117731
It was too low to be a typical commercial airline. Way under cloud cover. And went too far to be a remote controled drone. Orange light on all 4. No blinking lights, and No sound.
Date Submitted : 2021-09-03 Date of Event : 2021-09-03 MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : 20210903204743.mp4
MUFON CASE : 117717 Mesa, Arizona ( September 3, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Three prominent hovering lights stationary and symmetrical eventually change to a triangle Long Description of Sighting Report - Case 117717
I was returning back to work when I noticed three prominent lights in the sky. They were not moving but were hovering almost stationary at first it appeared as a straight line and slowly Shifted into A triangle formation I tried to get as much video as I possibly could but was rushed to get back to work.
Date Submitted : 2021-09-03 Date of Event : 2021-09-03 MUFON SUBMITTER FILE :
MUFON CASE : 117712 Indianapolis, Indiana ( September 2, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Three lights flying in formation south Long Description of Sighting Report - Case 117712
I was doing my evening exercise on Addison St., looking NNW. Three light orbs flew slowly south in formation. I have video. Lead UFO shined red, pulsating. The UFO in the middle veered slowly west then disappeared. Last UFO went behind cloud and disappeared. Lead UFO just disappeared. All three then appeared again farther north, flew south repeating the same route and disappeared again.
Date Submitted : 2021-09-02 Date of Event : 2021-09-02 MUFON SUBMITTER FILES :
Perseverance Cores Its First Martian Rock, NASA Says
Perseverance Cores Its First Martian Rock, NASA Says
The initial images captured by the Mastcam-Z instrument onboard NASA’s Perseverance rover show an intact Mars sample present in a sample tube after coring.
The drill hole from Perseverance’s second sample-collection attempt can be seen in this composite of two images taken on September 1, 2021 by one of the rover’s navigation cameras.
Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.
The September 1 coring is the second time that Perseverance has employed its Sampling and Caching Systemsince landing in Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021.
“Perseverance’s Sampling and Caching System uses a rotary-percussive drill and a hollow coring bit at the end of its 2-m-long robotic arm to extract samples slightly thicker than a pencil,” said Dr. Jennifer Trosper, project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and colleagues.
“Within the bit during coring is a sample tube.”
“After completing yesterday’s coring, Perseverance maneuvered the corer, bit, and open end of the sample tube in order to be imaged by the rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument.”
“The target for the sample collection attempt was a briefcase-size rock belonging to a ridgeline that is more than 900 m long and contains rock outcrops and boulders.”
This Mastcam-Z image shows a sample of Mars rock inside the sample tube on September 1, 2021 (the 190th sol, or Martian day, of the mission), shortly after the coring operation. The image was taken after coring concluded but prior to an operation that vibrates the drill bit and tube to clear the tube’s lip of any residual material. The bronze-colored outer-ring is the coring bit. The lighter-colored inner-ring is the open end of the sample tube, and inside is a rock core sample slightly thicker than a pencil. A portion of the tube’s serial number — 266 — can be seen on the top side of tube’s wall.
Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS.
The initial set of images from Mastcam-Z showed the end of a cored rock within the sample tube.
After taking these images, Perseverance began a procedure called ‘percuss to ingest,’ which vibrates the drill bit and tube for one second, five separate times. The movement is designed to clear the lip of the sample tube of any residual material.
The action can also cause a sample to slide down farther into the tube.
After the rover finished the percuss-to-ingest procedure, it took a second set of Mastcam-Z images.
In these images, the lighting is poor, and internal portions of the sample tube are not visible.
“The project got its first cored rock under its belt, and that’s a phenomenal accomplishment,” Dr. Trosper said.
“We determined a location, and selected and cored a viable and scientifically valuable rock. We did what we came to do.”
“We will work through this small hiccup with the lighting conditions in the images and remain encouraged that there is sample in this tube.”
This article is based on text provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Expert claims time-travelling humans are flying UFOs
Expert claims time-travelling humans are flying UFOs
Dr. Michael Masters has suggested that UFOs are piloted by time-travelling humans returning from the future to explore the modern world.
UFOs could be piloted by time-travelling humans, an expert has claimed.
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Dr. Michael Masters, a professor of anthropology at the Montana Tech University in the United States, has claimed that decades of sightings and apparent abductions are actually our descendants coming back to visit Earth.
Masters has presented the hypothesis in his book 'Identified Flying Object' as suggested abductions could be researchers from the future coming back in time to investigate, or simply for tourism.
He said: "The alleged abduction accounts are mostly scientific in nature. It's probably future anthropologists, historians, linguists that are coming back to get information in a way that we currently can't without access to that technology.
"That said, I do think that some component of it is also tourism.
"Undoubtedly in the future, there are those that will pay a lot of money to have the opportunity to go back and observe their favourite period in history."
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Glasgow student captures 'UFO' hovering above city before it 'just disappears'
Glasgow student captures 'UFO' hovering above city before it 'just disappears'
Robert Hampson was at a friend's house in the Merchant City last night and had gone outside for some fresh air after midnight when he said they "saw something really bright in the sky".
A Glasgow student has shared a number of images and video footage of a 'UFO' he believes he saw floating in the night sky above the city.
Robert Hampson was at a friend's house in the Merchant City last night and had gone outside for some fresh air after midnight when he said they "saw something really bright in the sky".
The film production student and full time musician quickly grabbed his phone along with his friend Jake to record and take pictures of the unexplained object, which he said "looked like some sort of portal of a UFO".
Robert believes that the object was hovering for about an hour and "then it just disappeared".
He told Glasgow Live: "Me and my friend were outside last night and caught an unexplainable object floating in the sky in Glasgow.
"It happened at my friend's house in the Merchant City. We basically went out for some fresh air and we seen something really bright in the sky. We started to record it and take pictures of it and it looked like some sort of portal of a UFO.
The UFO was captured on camera by Glasgow student Robert Hampson.(Image: Robert Hampson)
"It was probably hovering for about an hour and then just disappeared."
The sighting comes after Glasgow and the surrounding area was named as a 'UFO hotspot' after a number of unexplained sightings in 2020.
In total there were five unusual incidents recorded in the skies above the city, according to data from The North West UFO Group - which gathers info on all UFO activity reported to specialist 'alien' investigation organisations in the UK.
While scanning the skies and filming an airplane…a bright light appear at a lower altitude.. when zooming in a UFO was observed traveling over tree top level at same altitude and speed…No FAA navigational lights were seen coming from it..
One curious corner of the UFO phenomenon is not what goes on up in our skies, but rather what seems to be going on beneath the seas of our world. Called Unidentified Submersible Objects, or USOs, these are those unidentified objects seen whizzing and zipping about beneath the waves of our oceans and lakes, and while they are rarer than traditional airborne UFOs, they are a curious subspecies of a larger phenomenon. Seeing as these strange underseas craft are supposedly roaming about our waters, it seems only reasonable to assume that Navies have at some point encountered them, and this is true. Indeed, such encounters constitute some of the more believable of reports, with various reliable witnesses with nothing to gain from lying coming forth with such stories. And so here we delve into some strange and often harrowing encounters between military forces and strange underwater forces we may never understand.
In 1966 there was a rather strange series of events seen from the Navy submarine the USS Tiru SS-416. The sub had left Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii, and was on its way to Seattle, Washington, where it was to be docked for several days before being moved to a bay in order to carry out some torpedo exercises. During the journey towards Seattle, on one afternoon the lookout reported something strange in the sky about 2 miles distant, and he called others to come check it out even as the radar station began to pick up an anomalous contact. One of the witnesses, a crew member named Jim Speiser, would tell of what happened to UFO Casebook:
The lookout refused to tell the OOD what it was that he had seen and instead insisted that the starboard lookout and the OOD both look at that area. The three men looked through their binoculars toward the area reported and were astounded to see a metal craft larger than a football field tumble from the clouds into the ocean. It actually tumbled end over end and when it hit the water and sank beneath the ocean huge geysers of water rose into the air. When the port lookout was sure that the others had seen it he then told the OOD that he had seen it tumble from the ocean up into the clouds. The OOD and the starboard lookout were speechless. Within a few minutes, however, they all became excited when it again rose from the water and tumbled up into the cloud layer.
At about the same time a crew member below queried the bridge about a radar contact at the same range and bearing. Sonar also reported strange echos. The OOD called for the Captain to come to the bridge at that time. At about the same time the object emerged from the clouds and fell down into the ocean. All five men witnessed this. The QMC took pictures as it rose up into the clouds and then back down into the ocean once again.The five men watched for quite a while longer but nothing else happened. Soon the sub had moved out of visual range and the Captain told all witnesses that they were never to discuss what they had seen with anyone under any circumstances. He stated that the incident was classified information. The Captain then went below and sent a radio msg. There was no doubt as to what we had seen. It was a metal craft with machinery on and around the outside of it. It appeared to have windows or lenses placed around its perimeter. It made no noise that we could hear. It did not disturb the subs electrical systems nor did it affect the gyro compass. It looked very much like a round flying “ship” as in sea going ship. It had the shape and form of a saucer with a bowl inverted in the saucer and it was huge. I will never forget it as long as I live.
After this the sub managed to reach its destination without further incident, and none of the multiple witnesses have any explanation for what they saw out there. Another such incident happened 1991, off the west coast of South America. The case, which I have reported on before and was reported to the files of the site UFO Casebook, comes from a witness who claims that at the time he had been an operations and intelligence petty officer serving aboard the Knox-class destroyer escort the USS Kirk FF1087, and that they had been part of a drug interdiction force, which consisted of the USS Kirk and three other Naval vessels. Their primary mission was to patrol using a network of radar to track and then intercept drug-running aircraft flying out of Columbia, Panama and Guatemala, as well as to engage any smuggling ships they were able to find. The witness says that his primary duties took place within the CIC, or the Combat Information Center, which he and 22 other specialists manned 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with them rotating between two 11-man shifts.
The witness claims that he was on CIC duty at 2 a.m. on the morning of December 16, and it was a quiet night with nothing going on. He says he took a break to go up to the ship’s bridge, and at the time the entire vessel was in a state called “darkened ship,” with all of the exterior lights turned off, as well as those on the bridge, meaning the area was only faintly illuminated by instrument panels. He began talking casually with the officer of the deck, and this is when things would suddenly get weird. He says:
All of a sudden and out of nowhere, like a huge flash from a camera, emanating from the starboard bow sea level upward was a huge flash of red glowing light, which lit up our entire ship. It only lit up our ship, not the surrounding ocean, just our ship. It happened so fast, that the OOD, the navigator and I were speechless for about 5 seconds, at which time I looked at the OOD and asked him if he just saw that light. He stated yes in a sullen voice. I then asked the navigator and he replied yes. I then took the navigator’s sound powered headset, and asked the forward and aft look outs, if they had just seen the same red flash, to which the forward look out stated, “YES! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?” Aft lookout said yes as well. I then immediately contacted CIC, and asked the CIC officer if we had any aircraft or surface ships in our vicinity, to which he replied clear as a whistle. I asked if we had any submarine activity in the area, to which he replied, no.
What had just happened did not make any sense. The flash emanated from the sea, directly off of our starboard bow (like it was touching our bow), and ascended upwardly so rapidly, creating the effect of the bright red flash. The other weird aspect of this event was that only our ship was lit up within the red flash, not the surrounding sea, but our vessel only. Up until this event, I did not believe in UFOs or USOs. I have no doubt that our ship, steaming along at 12 knots, came right up on a submerged unidentifiable aircraft. I don’t think the aircraft or USO had any idea we were sailing up to them. I think whatever it was, took off in a very unplanned and fast manner, and wanted to quickly identify us, thus the flash.
In the end, after much consideration they decided not to wake the captain, merely logging it as an “unexplained phenomenon.” Another Naval submarine encounter supposedly occurred in October of 1989, aboard the USS Memphis. On October 24 of that year, the sub was on an assignment to secure the shuttle launch pad in Florida, patrolling about 150 miles off the coast when something very large was picked up on sonar approaching them at a fast pace. As it did, apparently the instrumentation on the submarine and operations on the ship in general went absolutely haywire, and the witness would say of this:
The ship was malfunctioning, our tanks were blowing out of control, we were losing navigation ability and the communications area was totally lost. We went to all stop and tried to access what was happening. The controls in the reactor area started to malfunction. This presented a serious danger to our safety, so the captain ordered us to shut down the reactor, surface and go to diesel motors. When the ship surfaced I went to my watch station. The ship was still experiencing electronic difficulties but the mechanical devices such as diesel engines, cook stoves, and turbines were fine.
USS Memphis
The ordeal wasn’t over for them, because whatever had caused the disturbance then emerged from the water, an inverted V-shaped craft of some kind, and it was described as absolutely massive. The witness would say of what happened next:
This huge vessel was over a half mile across. The UFO made a half circle around our ship then passed across the stern causing our electronics systems to go crazy. We had permanent damage in communications and the sonar room. As the craft flew over the stern, I could see the rain stop under its red glow. The water seemed to rise almost a foot as the UFO passed over silently. When the UFO finished its swing across the stern it paused – the sky got brighter red and it simply moved off at tremendous speed inside 15 seconds. When the UFO left, our boat returned to normal with the exception of the radio and sonar. We did a quick system check and the captain ordered us to return to reactor power and get underway. The captain took two petty officers, the executive officer, and myself into the wardroom. He told us to not spread any rumors until we had a chance to talk to Commander Submarine Fleet – Atlantic. We reached port in about 7 hours where I was taken into “protective custody.” Two enlisted men and myself agreed we had witnessed a real UFO. I was the one who shot it with a laser range finder, so I was the only one that had its exact sizes. I shot that vessel as it hovered and I got solid readings, not spotty like I would on debris. We were in holding for about three hours when an officer from the Air Force arrived and gave us a line of bull about an exploding weather satellite. The Navy then transferred virtually everyone on the crew to new assignments. This included the captain, the executive officer and the entire crew. They were split up which almost never happens unless one of them gets a promotion or a new command, neither of which happened.
More recently there was a report from E-4 Petty Officer John Baughman, who was stationed onboard the USS Carl Vinson, a Nimitz-class supercarrier, in 2010. At the time, the ship was off the coast of Haiti delivering humanitarian aid to the region, which had just suffered a catastrophic earthquake. On this day, he was taking break and sitting on the SAM Launcher Deck, just looking out across the water, something he often did and during which time he’d see “everything from sharks, dolphins and whales to giant squids, sea turtles, and swordfish,” but on this occasion he’ see something altogether stranger. He would say of what happened and his thoughts on the matter:
I was staring into the water from above when a large, fat, white ‘Tic Tac’ object, approximately twenty feet in length, suddenly appeared in my view below me, moving right and darted into the depths as fast as it appeared. I had a pretty good reference point on how big or deep something was in the water, especially when you can see the water line on the side of the ship. I couldn’t really comprehend what I saw. It was definitely a solid object, but when it descended, its forward end rapidly collapsed in on itself and disappeared. It’s hard to come to grips with something like this, and I still feel somewhat insecure about it because it doesn’t make sense. It could have been just about anything. Rapidly moving flotsam with a keen ability to completely disappear, very large albino shark or an albino whale. Could even be an optical illusion, but it cast its own shadow and that’s how I was able to perceive it as a solid object. But at the same time, more data points, even as basic as my story, could help solve the mystery of whether they’re foreign adversaries playing mind games, non-human entities, or the myriad of other possibilities.
What was this thing? When he reported it to his superior, it was apparently just brushed off and not taken very seriously. What did Baughman really see out there? Who knows? Some interesting cases of USOs have been reported by personnel within the US Navy as well, from which there has been footage released showing UFOs entering the water. Chief among the proposed evidence for this is a video taken off the coast of San Diego in July of 2019 by crew aboard the USS Omaha. The video, which was released by UFO researcher and investigative filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, shows a spherical object fly over the vessel before coming down to make a controlled descent into the water, with a crewmember heard to exclaim “Wow, it splashed!” You can see a report with the footage here. The video caused quite a stir online, but it would become even more interesting when Corbell claimed that a Navy sub had been sent to find the object but came up empty-handed, and information would come out that at around the same time that US submarines had also been picking up other mysterious and anomalous objects underwater in the area that seemed to defy physics as we know them. The Navy confirmed that the footage was authentic and unexplained, and the Washington Examiner’s Tom Rogan has said of this in connection with the USS Omaha footage:
Relevant to this video, an area we will learn more about is the interaction between US Navy submarines – nuclear ballistic submarines and attack submarines – picking up sonar contact of things moving at hundreds of knots under the water. There is an undersea dimension to this, on top of what the pilots are seeing above water. Hundreds of knots under water? I don’t think people can even digest that. That is what I have heard from very good sources and that the US Navy has the data.
This was only one sighting among many UFOs also being seen in the area in a flurry strange activity, including fast-moving “tic-tac” UFO that was also filmed, a “flying pyramid” that was also caught on film, and others. Indeed, videos and photos of these events leaked and began doing heavy rounds online, to the point that the military had no choice but to address it all. One Pentagon spokesperson would say of it all:
I can confirm that the referenced photos and videos were taken by Navy personnel. The UAPTF has included these incidents in their ongoing examinations. As we have said before, to maintain operations security and to avoid disclosing information that may be useful to potential adversaries, DOD does not discuss publicly the details of either the observations or the examinations of reported incursions into our training ranges or designated airspace, including those incursions initially designated as UAP.
Still from the USS Omaha footage
It seems that it is not only the Americans who have to deal with these underwater objects, as the Russian Navy also have several cases of this sort of thing going on. One case comes from a Vladimir Nikolayevich Chernavin, who is an alleged ex- Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy. Among his many strange claims, such as that USOs had been harassing Russian subs since as far back as 1947 and that the objects were exploring underwater caves in Antarctica, he also claims that he had his own experience with one of these objects. Of which he says:
I saw this phenomenon, including when I was captain of the submarine during our time in the Atlantic and the Caribbean, I clearly saw a flying object over one of our Soviet positions appearing in various forms, but mainly in the form of a round hat. It was especially glowing, this light was changing, but the dish was moving at a tremendous speed, then it would stay hovering in one place and disappear immediately to appear in another place, and then dive into the water and disappear from view, and after a while it came out of the water but in another way, we were watching like this phenomenon, as I saw it, the extraordinary phenomena cannot be ignored.
British UFO investigator Philip Mantle has mentioned several such cases involving Soviet submarines in his book Russia’s USO Secrets, which is based on information coming from declassified documents and testimony from Russian military veterans. One such account comes from former nuclear submarine commander Yury Beketov, who says his submarine was doing maneuvers somewhere near the Bermuda Triangle when they had a strange encounter, of which he says:
We repeatedly observed that the instruments detected the movements of material objects at unimaginable speed, around 230 knots (400 km per hour). It’s hard to reach that speed on the surface – only in the air is it possible. The beings that created those material objects significantly exceed us in development.
A particular harrowing report mentioned in the book allegedly happened in 1951, when a Soviet submarine encountered a massive underwater object, which measured 200-250 meters long and was supposedly rising from the depths as it headed towards shore. According to the account, the captain actually ordered depth charges to be dropped on the object, which seemed to have no effect, but which nevertheless caused it to stop its ascent, change course, and head out to deeper water at great speed. What are we dealing with in cases like these, with such inscrutable objects that even the military is unable to deal with? How can we even begin to fathom the forces behind such encounters, or possibly understand the technology that must be involved to allow for what is being seen? In some cases these mysterious craft seem to defy the very laws of physics as we know them, with Lue Elizondo, former director of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, saying of this:
Imagine a technology that can do 6-700 g-forces, which can fly at 13,000 miles per hour, which can evade radar and which can fly through air and water and eventually. in the space. And oh, by the way, has no obvious signs of propulsion, no wings, no control surfaces and yet can still defy the natural effects of Earth’s gravity. This is precisely what we are seeing.
The veracity of these reports seem to be sound, as we are dealing with seasoned Naval personnel who know the sea and what can be expected to be found out there. What are we dealing with here? What are these mysterious craft that seem to be taunting even heavily armed military vessels? Where are they from and what do they want? It remains unknown, but with the increasing admittance by the Navy that these things are really out there it really raises cause to wonder, and perhaps cause for concern. As most people blissfully go about their everyday lives, this stuff is happening, unexplained and evading understanding. what it all means perhaps time will tell.
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On March 28, 1975, Senator Barry Goldwater wrote the following, highly thought-provoking, words to a UFO researcher named Shlomo Arnon: “The subject of UFOs is one that has interested me for some long time. About ten or twelve years ago I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.” Goldwater continued to Arnon: “I have, however, heard that there is a plan under way to release some, if not all, of this material in the near future. I’m just as anxious to see this material as you are, and I hope we will not have to wait much longer.” Born in 1909, Barry Morris Goldwater served as a Major-General in the U.S. Air Force, a Senator for Arizona, the Chairman of the U.S. Government’s Senate Intelligence Committee, and the Republican Party’s nominee for President of the United States in the 1964 election. Indeed, it was on May 2, 1964, that Goldwater received no less than 75 percent of the vote in the Texas Republican Presidential primary. Moving onto the next case…
You may not be surprised to know that other senators have got into the UFO subject – and related phenomena, too. From January to March 1973, the state of Iowa was hit hard by cattle mutilations. Not only that, many of the ranchers who lost animals reported seeing strange lights and black-colored helicopters in the direct vicinity of the attacks. That the FBI took keen notice of all this is demonstrated by the fact that, as the Freedom of Information Act has shown, it collected and filed numerous media reports on the cattle-mutes in Iowa. The next piece of data dates from early September 1974. That’s when the FBI’s director, Clarence M. Kelley, was contacted by Senator Carl T. Curtis, who wished to inform the Bureau of a wave of baffling attacks on livestock in Nebraska – the state in which Curtis resided and represented. At the time, the FBI declined to get involved, as Director Kelley informed the senator: “”It appears that no Federal Law within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBI has been violated, inasmuch as there is no indication of interstate transportation of the maimed animals.” The mystery was never solved. Indeed, cattle mutilations continue.
One year later, in August 1975, Senator Floyd K. Haskell, of Colorado, made his voice known to the FBI, on the growing cattle mutilation controversy: “For several months my office has been receiving reports of cattle mutilations throughout Colorado and other western states. At least 130 cases in Colorado alone have been reported to local officials and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI); the CBI has verified that the incidents have occurred for the last two years in nine states. The ranchers and rural residents of Colorado are concerned and frightened by these incidents. The bizarre mutilations are frightening in themselves: in virtually all the cases, the left ear, rectum and sex organ of each animal has been cut away and the blood drained from the carcass, but with no traces of blood left on the ground and no footprints.” Now, onto the Rendlesham Forest “UFO landing” of 1980.
A well-respected Democrat, Jim Exon was the governor of Nebraska from 1971 to 1979, and the senator for Nebraska from 1979 to 1997. Jim Exon was also a key member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, specifically the chairman of the subcommittee. It was in the early months of 1985 that ufologist Ray Boeche decided to take his investigation of the Rendlesham Forest UFO case of December 1980 to the next level: namely, to seek help from Senator Exon. Ultimately, things didn’t go quite as well as Boeche had hoped for. There is no doubt at all, however, that the whole situation touched a highly sensitive nerve within the labyrinthine corridors of power. Boeche put out a notable feeler to the senator, as Boeche told me: ““We got him a copy of Sky Crash and Clear Intent. [The latter] contained six-pages of material on the case, and we sent those to Exon’s office. A copy of the Halt tape, too. And that started the entire thing.” On March 18, 1985, Exon wrote to Ray: “As you requested, I have asked the Air Force for their assistance. Please know that when I hear from them, I will be back in touch. I am still reviewing the two book you provided me, Mr. Boeche. I will return them when I have finished.” Ray received another response from Exon on April 2. Exon came straight to the point: “Frankly, I am not convinced that the incidents you are concerned with did, in fact, occur. Nor have I found any evidence of a cover-up by the government.” The story didn’t go much further.
VS verbieden vluchten Virgin Galactic in afwachting van onderzoek naar incident
De Amerikaanse luchtvaartautoriteit FAA deelt vandaag mee dat SpaceShipTwo van Virgin Galactic voorlopig niet meer mag vliegen, tot het agentschap zijn onderzoek heeft afgerond dat moet bepalen of de vluchten een gevaar inhouden voor de openbare veiligheid.
Gisteren deelde de FAA mee dat het onderzoek voerde naar de afdaling van de vlucht van het raketvliegtuig waarmee de Britse miljardair Richard Branson op 11 juli een korte ruimtereis maakte. Hieronder zie je beelden van die eerste ruimtevlucht met passagiers.
Volgens de FAA week het ruimteschip tijdens de terugweg af van zijn traject en de toegestane luchtruimte. In de cockpit ging eerst een oranje en dan een rode verklikker aan. Dit laatste duidt op gevaar.
Het ruimtevliegtuig, de SpaceShipTwo, vloog in juli naar een hoogte van ongeveer 86 kilometer. Het toestel werd bestuurd door twee piloten. Branson zelf en drie van zijn naaste medewerkers waren de passagiers.
Virgin Galactic heeft altijd gezegd dat de vlucht normaal was verlopen, maar erkende gisteren dat “het vliegtraject van hun oorspronkelijke plan afweek”. Het bedrijf voegde er echter aan toe dat het toestel “niet buiten de laterale grenzen van het beschermde luchtruim vloog”. Volgens Virgin Galactic zakte de vlucht voor een korte periode (1 minuut en 41 seconden) iets lager dan gepland. Het toestel werd door de wind op grote hoogte iets uit koers geblazen, klinkt het.
Het bedrijf zei gisteren ook dat het een nieuwe SpaceShipTwo-vlucht vanuit New Mexico plant en daarvoor mikt op eind september of begin oktober, in afwachting van technische controles en het weer. Die vlucht zal drie bemanningsleden van de Italiaanse luchtmacht en de National Research Council vervoeren.
Branson prees de eerste missie van SpaceShipTwo in juli als de voorloper van een nieuw tijdperk van ruimtetoerisme. Zijn bedrijf, dat werd opgericht in 2004, wil vanaf volgend jaar beginnen met commerciële ruimtevluchten. Maar hij is in een hevige concurrentiestrijd verwikkeld met twee andere multimiljardairs. Ook Amazon-oprichter Jeff Bezos, die een week na Branson naar de ruimte ging, en Elon Musk (Tesla, PayPal, SpaceX) hebben zich op het ruimtetoerisme gestort.
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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 2 - 9 - 2021
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 2 - 9 - 2021
Rotating Pyramid UFO Sighted Over Medellín, Colombia ( August 29, 2021 )
Full Video of a amazing Rotating Pyramid UFO that was sighted over the skies of Medellín, Colombia on August 29, 2021
STATEMENT : What is this ? It exploded in the sky over Colombia.
Here I present the original and in the wake with approach.
They are everwhere !
credit : Mulvey
UFO Sighted Over London, England ( August 29, 2021 )
Is this a UFO? Footage shows mysterious white ring UFO floating in sky. This impressive UFO Sighting was made over the sky of London, England, on August 29, 2021.
They are here !
credit : U.S.
Triangular Shaped UFO Sighted Over Tacoma, Washington ( August 25, 2021 )
Triangular Shaped UFO Sighted Over Tacoma, Washington on August 25, 2021 : TR3B?
I found an alien face carved into stone on the surface of mars. The face is in a Mars photo is on the far right center of the picture. The face is looking upwards and to the right. It has only one eye visible from this side but its side profile tells us a lot. The side cheek bones are thicker and wider than humans, the upper front cranium comes out further than ours. The eyes, nose, mouth, lips and chin are all similar in location on the face as our own. However this alien face looks far from being human. This face may be a maker similar to a tomb stone to mark the burial site of a person who died. The face is in remarkably good condition and is about 1 meter across from chin to top of head. The face looks to be thousands of years old.
Now people will often say its the imagination playing tricks on you. That its not what it appears to be. Those people are inexperienced at this area and have zero experience in psychology unlike myself holding a masters decree in counseling education. So...I am 100% correct. This is an alien face made thousands of years ago on Mars. Absolute undeniable proof that ancient aliens did once exist on Mars.
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Astonishing Human Heads: Do Satellite Photographs Now Prove Existence of Humans on Antarctica…6000 Years Ago? – Part I
Astonishing Human Heads: Do Satellite Photographs Now Prove Existence of Humans on Antarctica…6000 Years Ago? – Part I
Accurate geographical and cartographical information concerning the continent of Antarctica has only really been uncovered since AD 1822. However, in direct contradiction, ancient maps reveal Antarctica completely free of glaciation thousands of years beforehand.
According to experts in ancient cartography and oceanography, only a very advanced maritime culture exploring Antarctica after the end of the last Ice Age, 11000 years ago, could possibly have created such maps. So, who was this suddenly, incredibly advanced civilization?
The beautiful but formidable landscape of Antarctica.
The failure to find an acceptable answer to this cartographic mystery led to speculation that ancient maps were produced by highly advanced aliens, because to produce maps of huge continental land masses, they could only be plotted accurately from an aerial perspective using surveying equipment especially designed for the purpose!
So, aliens excluded, which highly technically advanced cartographers could traverse our planet many thousands of years before the likes of Columbus, et al? Where did they come from and how did they come to possess the expertise and navigational ability to sail vast oceans and, most importantly, to record their findings on maps alleged to have been the sources of information passed on to ‘modern’ explorers like Columbus, Cook, Magellan or Vasco da Gama, for example.
Surprising Satellite Photography Reveals Antarctica’s Distant Past
To quote an example, there is the 16th Century ‘Buache’ map which he (Buache) claims to have been made by a very ancient civilization which accurately mapped the continent of Antarctica completely free of its one-mile deep ice cap. However, with no concrete proof to substantiate his claims, experts suspect Buache's map was probably the product of a vivid imagination. But was it? We shall see later.
“Map of the Southern Lands contained between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Pole, where the new discoveries made in 1739 to the south of the Cape of Good Hope may be seen” by Philippe Buache.
Author, space archaeologist, and independent researcher, William James Veall has taken advantage of Antarctica's present narrow extension of coastal deglaciation and used remote sensing satellite photography to expose a number of absolutely astonishing human heads and animal portraits together with inscriptive material clearly demonstrating someone had touched down on at least three separate areas of Antarctica coastline in the distant past.
FIGURE 1: Modern map of Antarctica indicating the section of the Ross Sea coastline, the subject of Space Archaeologist William James Veall's probing by remote sensing satellite (in red) and the extended ice-free section of the Ross Sea coastline as shown on the AD 1512 maps of Oronteus Finaeus (marked green).
William Veall continues: Many readers of Ancient Origins already know I use the technique of remote sensing satellite photography to expose ground-based imagery: rock sculptures, intaglios, pictographs, petroglyphs and epigraphy symbols. Currently, I am also involved in using satellite technology for the extremely important service of detection, preservation and protection of archaeological sites world-wide from theft and acts of vandalism. (GlobalXplorer)
Utilizing this same technique, I have been very successful tracing the coastline 'hops' of trans-oceanic voyagers around South America, the seaboard of North East America, Newfoundland, the West Coast of Africa, Uruguay and even down the eastern coast of Australia (see table 1) with some most incredible revelations.
FIGURE 2: Table 1. Ancient symbols discovered along the eastern coastline of Australia by William James Veall, March 2017.
(Copyright WJV 2017)
Was Antarctica Once Ice-Free?
Following the rather fruitful foray along the east coast of Australia I decided to chance my luck and put to the test the statement made by the Greek geographer, cartographer and mathematician, Marinus of Tyre who in 400 BC reported he had knowledge of an ancient map depicting Antarctica free of ice.
Logically, the nearest point of any trans-oceanic contact with Antarctica using the eastern Australian coastline as a guide would be to cross the South Atlantic, sail into the Antarctic circle, and come ashore at some point roughly in the region of Wilkes Land; the same area selected by Ross in AD 1840-1843.
It is not unreasonable to assume on the premise that the extreme eastern Australian seaboard runs southwards following roughly the 153º anti-meridian that ancient explorers would have 'coast hopped' this meridian in easily measured steps of latitude known in ancient navigational parlance as 'running the latitudes' in conjunction with certain overhead constellations, thus enabling them to cross the oceans until they reached the continent of Antarctica.
After a preliminary scanning of most of the Antarctic perimeter, a deglaciated section of the Ross Sea region appeared to be the only area that might yield sufficient arcti-factual data to make this 'shot in the dark' have any real significance to answer the question: Are there any signs of indigenous or external activity which may account for the fact that various ancient sea maps purport to show all or parts of the Antarctica coastline free of ice?
So firstly, how did Marinus of Tyre learn of the existence of ‘Antarctica’ in 400 BC and secondly, did Buache really have access to ancient maps which allowed him to construct what he claimed to be a true representation of the continent of Antarctica... minus its covering of frozen ice and snow?
Apparently, it was Aristotle who told Marinus of the existence of a continent named 'Terra Australis' surrounding the South Pole. Marinus then marked the world map he was compiling from other ancient maps with this same title. But, most fascinating of all, his map showed Terra Australis (Antarctica) without the traditional ice shield. However, the ancient maps Marinus allegedly used mysteriously 'disappeared' so we have no way of verifying his story.
By the same token; this does not explain how other ancient cartographers, like Oronteus Finaeus and Hadji Ahmed could also claim they had access to maps 6,000 years old (4000 BC) depicting the continent of Antarctica completely free of an ice cap. From where did their maps originate and who compiled them? I believe I may have chanced upon an answer.
I must confess, prior to my Antarctica 'shot in the dark'—apart from knowing Antarctica housed the South Pole... and a few penguins—I really had no preconceived ideas about this ice-coated region at the southernmost tip of Planet Earth. Imagine my surprise to discover quite by chance I had followed the now familiar 'modern' explorers’ sea route to Antarctica and coincidentally landed my remote sensing satellite probe virtually at the same anchorage chosen by Amundsen (1911-1912) and Scott (1910-1913).
Rounding Cape Adare and into the Ross Sea, I scanned the eastern coastline along a stretch where the Ross Sea borders Victoria Land. Quite coincidentally, a section of deglaciated shoreline had retreated a little inland leaving a roughly two-kilometer (1.24-mile) stretch exposed, albeit, some places still covered with traces of glaciation. According to the most recent scientific surveys, the Eastern Antarctica ice shield has, even over just the last twenty years, begun to melt at an alarming rate suspected to be as a result of global warming.
I had barely crossed the halfway mark along the Ross Sea shoreline when I had the shock of my life!
Human Heads
The satellite had captured very clearly a human head image (portrait) staring out from the rocky terrain. (Figures 7 and 7a) This was not supposed to happen: the presence of Mankind in any form, prehistoric or otherwise had never ever been detected on Antarctica—a continent currently believed to have been ice covered for eight to nine million years, and would logically be virgin territory free of any prehistoric indigenous inhabitants until well after the end of the great Ice Age, 12,000 years ago.
FIGURES 7 and 7a: The very first portrait I discovered on Antarctica; this amazing figure wearing a tricorn hat is carved into a deglaciated rock surface, some 25 meters in height x 32 meters width, it features a human head, Caucasian in appearance, with gentile facial features and lightly epicanthic, expressive eyes. The left cheek (facing) is pecked with a Cretan style 'star'; the forehead with a diamond point GIS. Beneath the right eye (facing) is a small pecked triangle. Just opposite are pecked two Linear A characters.
Research carried out by Reading University in the UK strongly suggests an advanced civilization did exist many thousands of years before the Egyptians, Sumerians or Babylonians; this culture of Black Peoples (the Kiffian Era) due to climatic changes were driven south from their homelands of the "Green Sahara" (9000 – 4000 BC) to eventually merge their allegedly quite advanced technology with the less developed peoples in the southern regions, Egypt, for example. (see References: ' Black Mummy of the Green Sahara' - an excellent video).
Scanning the Ross Sea rocky coastline eventually exposed some forty or so human head portraits, including animal heads and, including those in Table 2, nearly one hundred pecked symbols. My method of analysis has been developed over many years studying literally hundreds of satellite imagery situations across the mountains and deserts of the world, enabling the creation of extremely critical rules for precise imagery interpretation.
FIGURE 3: Table 2 Chart depicting the ancient symbols uncovered along the Ross Sea coastline of Antarctica by Space Archaeologist, William James Veall in April 2017. (Copyright WJV 2017)
FIGURE 4: Table 3: Comparing Linear A and Linear B scripts from Tables 1 and 2.
[Authors note:The backgrounds to Figures 5 to 12 have been lightly diffused to improve image clarity, but this original satellite imagery has not been retouched in any way. The added silhouette is not intended to be a 'portrait' but simply an aid to identifying the pose of the satellite image. Figs 5 to 12 are published under the Google Earth 'Permissions of Fair Use'.]
FIGURES 5 and 5a: A petroglyph, located on Marambio Island in the north-west corner of the Antarctic, has a most unusual monkey-face profile, subtending the head of an eagle. The head is marked with an open loop GIS symbol on the left cheek. Three circles (stones) are conjoined at the rear of the eagle's head. A date perhaps?
Which particular culture used this motif as its signature icon to announce its presence on Antarctica? The head is 34 meters high by 50 meters wide (111.5 feet by 164 feet), the Eagle 18 meters high by 39 meters in length (59 feet by 128 feet). The two conjoined 'Gods' appear to represent Hanuman, the all-powerful Hindu Monkey God and the Eagle, the Hindu God, Garuda … but in the ANTARCTIC?
FIGURE 6: I originally ignored this rock-strewn debris but careful maneuvering of the remote sensing camera shot exposed a pattern of rocks seemingly set in the form of an ancient legend embedded into the seashore. Unfortunately, the seaward portion of the text is now submerged under (melt) water. Exposed size 50 meters in length x 25 meters (164 by 82 feet) wide.
Was this message a Dedication to celebrate a long-held dream of stepping ashore on Planet Earth's most iconic land mass; acting as a counterweight to balance Global Earth with another great land mass in the north—the Arctic? I believe so.
The characters appear very similar to the Minoan Linear A 'accountancy' script, circa 1800 – 1400 BC; this is immensely interesting because the 'dots and dashes' just might translate into chronological data, in other words - announcing the arrival and date of European mans' first footfall on the continent of Antarctica?
Interestingly, Table 3 quite clearly depicts characters are both Linear A and B types, whereas virtually all the subsequent inscriptive material (see table 2) along the Ross Sea coastline is 'pecked' in a more advanced alphabet of Phoenician genre. Thus, by inference, the landing must have taken place well before 1200 BC because after that time the Phoenician genre (1100 BC) began to dominate 'writing'.
One further fact that might confirm that the message was a 'Dedication of Arrival' ; the triangle symbol gives an exact latitude 72 21 04 00 S and longitude 170 15 37 00E. In my experience, a triangle followed by a capital 'A' almost always signified a geodetic of importance.
Further, why set this co-ordinate on a fragile shoreline when all others are carved into the cliff face? Answer: many years earlier the coastline was greatly extended, as proven by both the Oronteus Finaeus and Buache ancient maps (see Figure 1 map, green extension).
FIGURES 7 and 7a: The very first portrait I discovered on Antarctica; this amazing figure wearing a tricorn hat is carved into a deglaciated rock surface.
FIGURES 8 and 8a: This figure, 23 meters high x 20 meters in width is clearly of 'Native' ancestry. The head appears to have an unusual projecting jawline. A gnomon records the 170.16.26.00 longitude co-ordinate of this particular image.
Reading the back history of Antarctica, references clearly state that there was never any indigenous flora and fauna of any kind present on the continent because the land mass had been completely covered in an ice sheet for at least nine million years... before even prehistoric Man.
A Message on the Shore: Do Satellite Photographs Now Prove Existence of Humans on Antarctica…6000 Years Ago? – Part II
A Message on the Shore: Do Satellite Photographs Now Prove Existence of Humans on Antarctica…6000 Years Ago? – Part II
Reading the history of Antarctica, references clearly state that there was never any indigenous flora and fauna of any kind present on the continent because the land mass had been completely covered in an ice sheet for at least nine million years... before even prehistoric Man.
According to experts in ancient cartography and oceanography, only a very advanced maritime culture exploring Antarctica after the end of the last Ice Age, 11000 years ago, could possibly have created accurate geographical and cartographical information in maps. Yet such maps seemingly exist. So, who was this suddenly, incredibly advanced civilization?
Now this discovery by William James Veall asks the question: who carved with such finesse two massive deer heads, which by their conformation suggest they may be of the Huemul species? Sculpture size (per each) averages 18 meters length by six meters width (59 by 20 feet).
FIGURES 9 and 9a: Amongst the plethora of Antarctica imagery I have recorded each piece of imagery brought forth its own particular surprise. The two animals depicted in this exciting figure were no exception.
Were the two sculptures homeland icons or had successive waves of immigrants imported deer as a source of live food or milk provision; this poses another question: from where? The nearest habitat for the Huemul species of deer would likely be Patagonia, South America.
A Heumul, male south Andean deer (Hippocamelus bisulcus) in Cerro Castillo National Reserve, Aysén Region, Chile.
There is a possible solution. During a period of temperate climate, did a sea route open between Cape Horn (Patagonia) and the Shetland Islands? I am quite confident in putting forward this suggestion because distinct traces of rock art activity are visible on the rock faces of some of the islands in the Shetland group. (to be published later)
Also, Nelson Island directly faces Peninsula Antarctica where I have recorded more human head portraiture, one of which is MS 3815 depicted in Figure 5, located on Marambio Island. Did some peoples set foot on Antarctica before or after those who landed at Ross Sea? Also, did the same people in a great period of climatic change either circumnavigate or use a deglaciated land route across Antarctica to reach the Ross Sea community? Hence, explaining why there are different races immortalized in its human head portraiture.
The answer to such questions is a huge and separate project in itself, probably even greater than the Ross Sea investigation because it must take into account transient movement of humans and animals between the tip of South America and Peninsula Antarctica, likely intervals of glaciation and deglaciation during periods of climatic change.
If the current glacial melt-down continues there will inevitably be the discovery of more human head portraits, with, perhaps, some very important inscriptive material; all of which will make fascinating comparisons with the Ross Sea anchorage and solve the question of who really were the first to set foot on Antarctica.
FIGURE 10 and 10a What an amazing discovery! Carved entirely from white rock, an oval shaped human head with a round eyed, rather chilling stare marked with ancient symbols. Dots in a circle about a center point motif is typical late 13th century BC. Mycenaean. (Size 44 meters high x 33 meters width).
FIGURE 11 and 11a: A superbly sculptured human head in a 'Romanesque/Greco' style helmet with an open loop GIS mark on the front panel. The portrait, nearly 800 meters in height by 400 meters wide is carved into the steep face of a mountain ridge. Immediately to the right (facing) is a very distinct GIS symbol which gives a latitudinal reading of 82º 25 15 00S. Six hundred meters to the east is 'pecked' a diamond point GIS indicating the longitude of the site.
Satellite photographs show the sculpture is on a mountain side in the Holyoake Range. The very fact this colossal bust was carved in such a remote snowbound location greatly puzzled me, although I do accept the bust may have been carved if this area of Antarctica had once upon a time become ice-free and accessible. When and by whom, and for what purpose was this massive figure set in this particular location?
Satellite Navigation Reveals Ancient Records
And then, I remembered reading from an excellent book by the late Prof. Charles Hapgood, (FRGS) " Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings " that Oronteus Finaeus had plotted the position of the South Pole from ancient maps he had acquired. Hapgood cannily computed that Oronteus Finaeus' South Pole was in fact 7.5º (800 km/497 miles) from the true South Pole we recognize today.
Now came the moment of truth! My satellite navigator had, on the 9th May 2017, recorded a latitudinal reading of 82º 25' for the statue, almost the 7.5º from the true South Pole. I then checked out the longitudinal co-ordinate, 160º 32'.
Each co-ordinate confirmed almost exactly the position of the South Pole—precisely as Oronteus Finaeus had marked upon his 1531 AD map.
I firmly believe the gigantic 800-meter-high (2625 feet) sculpture was carved, not only to permanently mark what was believed to be, at the time, the true South Pole, but to honor and record in Memoriam the first peoples ever to knowingly reach the 'South Pole'.
Messages on the Seashore
The very last thing I expected to end up doing was writing an in-depth article, analyzing and creating artwork for numerous portraits, drawing maps, plus epigraphy tables, all resulting from a fun-loving hunch to circumnavigate the vast continent of Antarctica by remote sensing satellite—all out of sheer curiosity.
To find a whole host of human head portraits, seemingly of at least five differing cultures, plus animal heads, all interspersed with a mass of inscriptive material and, romantically, ' a message on the seashore', was mind-blowing to say the least.
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind, against all the known odds, that Antarctica had been visited in the ancient past with possibly some long-term habitation along, at least, the coastal regions in periods of more temperate climate; this proof completely rebuts the long-held belief that "Antarctica NEVER had any native people living there, in fact until AD 1822, NO ONE had even set eyes on Antarctica."
But surely the 'icing on the cake' was when I discovered the importance of the massive figure carved in the Holyoake mountain range to commemorate the discovery of and record the exact location of the South Pole as extrapolated from Oronteus Finaeus' ancient maps.
I have a slight reservation about this point, having recorded by remote sensing hundreds of GIS (Geodetic and Identification) markers. I have always been astonished at the incredible accuracy achieved by the ancient map makers— and I am not talking in 'degrees' but 'minutes' of accuracy—quietly suggestive of an ancient civilization possessing knowledge of astronomy, navigation and map-making with superlative scientific equipment not equaled by 'modern' man until at least the 19th century.
Dating of artifactual material is at best very much trial and error. The dress code of any ancient statue or portrait is almost always a sound clue to provenance. Here, one clue is in the rather 'Romanesque/Greco' style of helmet as seen above. In fact, along the Ross Sea section there appears to be at least four busts similarly helmeted, suggesting an expeditionary force from the Mediterranean had indeed succeeded in reaching Antarctica.
As a space archaeologist, I make no claims to having expertise in epigraphy; this does not preclude making observations about the material I have uncovered in the course of my research. Therefore, is it possible to derive a time frame simply from the inscriptive material I have charted in Tables 1 – 3)? The answer is yes. Firstly, by observing the historical extremities of the tabulated charts.
The very earliest stage of the Antarctic epigraphy chain would need to have Egyptian hieroglyphs: there are NONE. An end point to my tabulated chain would need to include the 'modernized' Greek alphabet, Hebrew, and perhaps even Roman lettering. There are NONE. Thus, we have established the limits of the charted inscriptive material.
Table 1 "Symbols discovered along the east coast of Australia".
(Copyright WJV 2017)
Table 1 "Symbols discovered along the east coast of Australia" . MS 3755, Col 5, depicts a Proto-Sinaitic character, (man joyously waving arms about) circa 1850 BC. Is this the first link in the hypothesis? As we examine other characters in Tables 1 and 2 we find a bias towards the Minoan script, Linear A. Now, Linear A was developed, circa 1800 BC - 1400 BC, and used essentially as an 'accounting script'. Hence ‘dots and dashes’ signifying a base 10 script. (see table 3 and the "message on the sands" )
Table 2. Chart depicting the ancient symbols uncovered along the Ross Sea coastline of Antarctica by Space Archaeologist, William James Veall in April 2017. (Copyright WJV 2017)
Table 3. “Message on the sands”
(Copyright WJV 2017)
However, one will notice within the 'mix' (Tables 1, 2 and 3) are characters from the Mycenaean script Linear B, developed circa 1500 BC – 1200 BC and mainly used for communication.
Thus, we have a start date in our timeline made up from Proto-Sinaiatic (1850 BC) paralleled with Linear A (1800 BC - 1400 BC), followed by Linear B (1500 BC – 1200 BC). Linear B was followed by the Phoenician alphabet (1100 BC) which continued down into the Iron age (1050 BC) thence to be taken over by Greek alphabetical variants (800 - 750 BC).
According to the inscriptive material, the Ross Sea region of Antarctica was subject to visitations and possible semi-permanent habitation during a period(s) of deglaciation 1850 BC through to, say at least 1050 BC, a time scale allowing for overlap—not far off 1000 years.
Also, I believe, over this 1000-year time span Antarctica was eventually circumnavigated 'en total' hence the map of Antarctica was actually bit-mapped, thus producing the historically reported series of slightly disjointed local maps.
An in-depth appraisal of glaciation and deglaciation of Antarctica even over just 10,000 years is extremely complex and outside the remit of this article. Suffice it to say, if perchance the 'message in the sands' was one of farewell, why was it 'written' in Linear A / Linear B and not the same alphabet as the mass of inscriptive material shown in Table 2? Were there successive visitations over the 1000-year period? Perhaps with the latter waves using a more 'modern' form of written communication.
Who Could have Created Such Works?
We have already discussed it was Aristotle who informed Marinus of Tyre in 400 BC of the existence of a Continent called Terra Australis (Antarctica) which he had gleaned from (local) maps hundreds of years old.
Now, if we accept the ancient maps Aristotle referred to, stretch back hundreds of years, 1450 BC is well within an acceptable time frame. A time frame that encompasses the period when the Minoans were extremely active commercial maritime traders, superb artisans at producing amazing gold and bronze human figurines and natural forms (animals (deer), birds, flowers and fish) and obviously would have included a range of iron and bronze tools for shipbuilding to fine arts.
A detail of the dolphin fresco, the Minoan palace of Knossos, Crete, (1700-1450 BCE)
The Ross Sea sculptures could only have been carved by highly skilled artists working with possibly some of the hardest rock known to man; these artisans would surely have needed 'mauls and chisels' made from durable bronze or iron. This fact is very important because the dates of the Minoan Bronze Age (1500 – 1200 BC) and subsequent slight overlap into the Early Iron Age (1050 BC) firmly keep the Minoans in our postulated timeframe.
Many Different Cultures?
One very interesting point arises when considering, in such a short stretch of shoreline, there are at least five completely differing cultures depicted by the physiognomy of the busts; I do not believe they are a generation arising from linear development because quite simply we would be looking at tens of thousands of years, not just 10,000 years of deglaciated history.
What is more, the ancient artists have carefully selected their rock face work-pieces to reflect the color tones of the faces they desired to portray, hence, presenting us with everlasting original portraits of inhabitants 'in the flesh' exactly as they were centuries ago.
Strangely, even the portraits of the most primitive peoples are marked with the same 'international' loop or diamond point GIS, clearly indicating the statues are contemporaneous alongside the copius amounts of inscriptive material; this, as we have already said, is readily dateable between the limits of 1850 BC – 800 BC.
I cannot state categorically that Minoans were the very first to see or set foot upon the shores of Antarctica; that is something we will never know for certain. The very fact that 'primitive' busts were evident amongst the sculptures suggests local native 'Fisherfolk' from say Patagonia, New Guinea or Southern Australia, for example, could equally have taken advantage of a temperate climate window and were actually in residence before the Minoans arrived.
Clearly without close forensic examination I am unable to say one way or the other whether the Minoans with their passion for recreating all living creatures in paintings or sculptural form conceived the Ross Sea shoreline as a museum masterpiece, or whether the more primitive residents had the capability and tools to fashion imagery according to their own likeness before the Minoans arrived... and used a GIS insignia. (I don't think so?)
And to finish, some HOT NEWS:
FIGURE 12 and 12a: Fig 12 is the original untouched satellite photograph. Fig. 12a has been lightly retouched by pencil only.
This latest satellite capture shows here again we have the strange juxtaposition between the primitive form and symbolic material. Just where does this 'prehistoric' specimen of humanity fit into Antarctica's exposed chain of humanity?
Note the low forehead embellished with floral headband, small eyes set under a heavy brow (cranial) ridge. See the broad, squat nose over a large mouth showing very clearly a set of protruding sharp canines. Notice the flower, lower bottom right, amongst the inscriptive material.
Bearing in mind the previous Australia/Antarctica contact mentioned above, I suspect the image represents an early Aboriginal arrival on the Continent, but associated with inscriptive material… it’s a continuing mystery!
Finally, the fascinating question everyone will ask: Do you believe, now that Antarctica has been partially exposed, this continent will turn out to be the real 'Punt' and mysterious island of 'Atlantis'?
Herbig–Haro object HH111 resembles a Star Wars weapon.
ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Nisini
Paging Luke Skywalker. A newly released Hubble Space Telescope view of a slash of glowing gas against the star-studded darkness of space has me in a very Star Wars mood.
What we're seeing in the image is a Herbig–Haro object (named for astronomers George Herbig and Guillermo Haro) called HH111. The setting is a star-forming region in the constellation of Orion. The jet of gas looks like it's cosplaying as a blue lightsaber.
Herbig-Haro objects have dramatic origin stories. "Newly formed stars are often very active, and in some cases they expel very narrow jets of rapidly moving ionized gas — gas that is so hot that its molecules and atoms have lost their electrons, making the gas highly charged," said ESA. "The streams of ionized gas then collide with the clouds of gas and dust surrounding newly formed stars at speeds of hundreds of kilometers per second."
NASA is the agency that first clued me into how Herbig–Haro objects can look like lightsabers in space. In 2015, NASA shared a Hubble view of Herbig-Haro Jet HH24 just ahead of the opening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, calling it a "double-bladed lightsaber" with a "Jedi-like cloak of dust."
The spectacular view of HH111 comes from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, which sees in both optical (close to what our human eyes see) and infrared. The ability to make observations in infrared gives Hubble the clarity to peer through the gas and dust to get a good look at objects like this one.
Hubble is a joint project from NASA and ESA. It has now spent over 31 years looking out into the universe. It has weathered many technical difficulties, including a serious computer glitch earlier this year.
Hubble won't live forever, but it could still last for years, giving us more images that tempt me to whisper "may the Force be with you" at my computer screen.
Animation showing jet and bow shock of HH 111 According to the ESA, Hubble’s WFC3 takes images at optical and infrared wavelengths, which are in a range of human observable light. Despite Herbig-Haro objects releasing a lot of human observable “optical wavelengths light”, most of it is obscured by the thick gas clouds that surround them. Hence, Hubble’s infrared cameras which take images in range of wavelengths slightly longer for humans to detect, come in handy.
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken pictures of the Herbig-Haro object, which looks like a lightsaber known as the HH111.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a picture of a Herbig–Haro object in the Orion constellation that looks strikingly similar to a lightsaber fromStar Wars.
Known as HH111, this 'relatively rare celestial phenomenon' was snapped by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), according to a statement from theEuropean Space Agency.
'These spectacular objects are formed under very specific circumstances,' the ESA said.
The Hubble Space Telescope snapped a picture of a Herbig–Haro object that looks like a light saber, known as HH111
This object is a 'relatively rare celestial phenomenon' and is in the Orion constellation
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Hubble's WFC3 takes images in visible and infrared light, allowing for astronomers to see objects through the gas and dust of space more clearly.
The ESA added that when stars are newly formed, they are often very active and throw off 'jets of rapidly moving ionized gas.'
This gas gets so hot that 'its molecules and atoms have lost their electrons, making the gas highly charged,' the ESA explained.
The ionized gas eventually collides with the clouds of gas and dust that surround the newly formed stars at hundreds of kilometers per second.
But since they release so much light at optical wavelengths, they are difficult to view.
'Therefore, the WFC3’s ability to observe at infrared wavelengths — where observations are not as affected by gas and dust— is crucial to observing Herbo–Haro objects successfully,' the ESA added.
According to NASA, Herbig-Haro objects are 'bright patches of nebulosity associated with newborn stars.'
They generally take the form of thin jets of partially ionized gas in deep space that are 'ejected by stars collide with nearby clouds of gas and dust,' the US space agency added.
In 2015, the Hubble took an image of another Herbig-Haro object, HH24, that also looks like a lightsaber.
NASA went so far as to mention Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens and the fact it looks like a 'cosmic, double-bladed lightsaber' in its description.
HH24 is located in the Orion B molecular cloud complex, roughly 1,350 light-years from Earth.
The picture was taken by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, which can view in visible and infrared light
Last month, Hubble's WFC3 was responsible for releasing an image of a stellar nursery, AFGL 5180, 5,000 light-years from Earth.
The Hubble, which has operated for over 30 years, is set to be replaced by the $10 billion James Webb Telescope when it launches later this year.
Scientists study the atmosphere of distant exoplanets using enormous space satellites like Hubble
Distant stars and their orbiting planets often have conditions unlike anything we see in our atmosphere.
To understand these new world's, and what they are made of, scientists need to be able to detect what their atmospheres consist of.
They often do this by using a telescope similar to Nasa's Hubble Telescope.
These enormous satellites scan the sky and lock on to exoplanets that Nasa think may be of interest.
Here, the sensors on board perform different forms of analysis.
One of the most important and useful is called absorption spectroscopy.
This form of analysis measures the light that is coming out of a planet's atmosphere.
Every gas absorbs a slightly different wavelength of light, and when this happens a black line appears on a complete spectrum.
These lines correspond to a very specific molecule, which indicates it's presence on the planet.
They are often called Fraunhofer lines after the German astronomer and physicist that first discovered them in 1814.
By combining all the different wavelengths of lights, scientists can determine all the chemicals that make up the atmosphere of a planet.
The key is that what is missing, provides the clues to find out what is present.
It is vitally important that this is done by space telescopes, as the atmosphere of Earth would then interfere.
Absorption from chemicals in our atmosphere would skew the sample, which is why it is important to study the light before it has had chance to reach Earth.
This is often used to look for helium, sodium and even oxygen in alien atmospheres.
This diagram shows how light passing from a star and through the atmosphere of an exoplanet produces Fraunhofer lines indicating the presence of key compounds such as sodium or helium
Animation showing jet and bow shock of HH 111 According to the ESA, Hubble’s WFC3 takes images at optical and infrared wavelengths, which are in a range of human observable light. Despite Herbig-Haro objects releasing a lot of human observable “optical wavelengths light”, most of it is obscured by the thick gas clouds that surround them. Hence, Hubble’s infrared cameras which take images in range of wavelengths slightly longer for humans to detect, come in handy.
Herds of animals and forests on Mars? Researchers suggest it
Herds of animals and forests on Mars? Researchers suggest it
Mars, the so-called red planet, has always been full of mysteries and present in controversy, and the last thing is that it could be “full of life”.
“Images taken and released by NASA seem to reveal a whole thriving ecosystem on its surface.”
Photographs that appear to show a group of strange objects present on the planet’s surface. While other images appear to show feeding grounds for possible “alien animals”.
Conspiracy theorist Neal Evans believes this is evidence that there is life on Mars, along with an environment capable of supporting it. As he said in a statement:
“I think this is a prosperous and habitable ecosystem on Mars. I studied the section of the map for hours and compared it to aerial views of places on earth, and it appears to be next to the north pole. ”
“The images are all low resolution, but you can see lines of clear water, lakes, either vegetation or some kind of life that seems to depend on the water source.”
Logically, users were totally surprised by the images shown, and their similarity to groups of animals that we can see on Earth.
One commentator stated: “It is difficult to begin to imagine what is out there, and what discoveries will be made in the times to come.”
Evans added: “I have been studying Mars and its history for years, we only know what they let us know.
“It’s hard to say if this could be a new life or a prosperous new life, my guess is from what I have planned, it could be a new ecosystem like prehistoric life on early Earth that naturally formed or had an inexplicable good start” .
“Mars is a treasure trove of ancient history, if Mars was erased due to a nuclear impact, it was done for some reason.”
For its part, NASA claims that life simply does not exist on Mars. This is something that some unconventional researchers have taken as a cover-up of the truth, in the face of hundreds of evidences of possible life on the red planet.
According to NASA, Mars lost its atmosphere by solar storms that occurred billions of years, and therefore lost all its oceans, and could not support life today.
However, studies carried out ensure that there are traces of surface water and groundwater, which could support simple life forms, however, the space agency has not revealed more than that.
Although there is a possibility that what we see in the images are only structures that are part of the Martian terrain; there are multiple evidences that have been previously revealed by other researchers, showing signs of possible life on Mars.
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Filer’s Files 35 2021 - More Proof of Roswell Alien Crash - PART I
Greenville, strange, shaped object on August 22, 2021
Filer’s Files 35 2021 - More Proof of Roswell Alien Crash - PART I
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Special reports on Gary McKinnon uncovered Space Fleet, Aviation Weeks Space planes, Mars Symbols Similar to Roswell Debris, UFOs in the Bible, What’s going on, Carbon 60, and Strange Craft.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Greece, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Hacker Uncovered US Off-Planet Space Navy
Gary McKinnon
Gary McKinnon, the English hacker facing 70 years in U.S. prison for searching Pentagon sites for UFO evidence, says the weirdest thing he found was a list of “Non-Terrestrial Officers” and fleet transfers between ships that don’t exist in the U.S. Navy. He found a list of non-terrestrial off-world officers of rank. He was unable to tell if they represented the Air Force, Navy, or Army. He also found multiple pictures of UFOs and lists of fleet-to-fleet transfers of materials from ship to ship.
Photo of Space Craft from ISS
Note– If Mr. McKinnon’s data is correct, it validates the assumption the US Navy may well be operating off-planet via back-engineered ET technology. His data indicates the Navy and probably the Air Force operate a fleet of space craft and officers to either man them or otherwise control them. Gary McKinnon states, “I found a list of fleet-to-fleet transfers, and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren’t U.S. Navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have spaceship, off-planet” The US Navy Clementine mission project mapped the entire Moon. In his interview with the BBC, Gary claimed, “The Disclosure Project” had some very credible people all saying there is UFO technology, there’s anti-gravity, there’s free energy, and it’s extraterrestrial in origin and they’ve captured spacecraft and reverse engineered it.” He said, he investigated a NASA photographic expert’s claim that at the Johnson Space Center’s Building 8, images were regularly cleaned of evidence of UFO craft, and confirmed this, comparing the raw originals with the processed images. “
He claimed to have viewed a detailed image of “something not man-made and cigar shaped floating above the northern hemisphere. McKinnon stated the image was approximately 256 megabytes in size, yet that the craft’s details were still distinct in 4-bit color and low resolution on his mere 56k modem connection.”
Aviation Weeks Space planes
Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine has investigated myriad sightings of a two-
stage-to-orbit system that could place a small military space plane in orbit during the 1990s. After the shuttle Challenger disaster in January 1986, and a subsequent string of expendable-booster failures, the military needed a quick method to get satellites into space to keep tabs on its Cold War adversaries.
It appears the “Blackstar” system may have replaced the shelved U.S. SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft. It was composed of a large “Mothership,” closely resembling the Air Force’s historic XB-70 supersonic bomber (shown above) with the orbital component under its fuselage, accelerating to supersonic speeds at high altitude before dropping the space plane. The orbiter’s engines fire and boost the vehicle into space.
The National Aero-Space Plane was under development during the Carter Administration that could reach orbit but was allegedly cancelled but might have been updated to replace the Shuttle. Small maneuverable space craft could be launched from a Mothership and conduct key reconnaissance.
The space plane could deliver microsatellites to low Earth orbit or, perhaps, be fitted with no-warhead hypervelocity weapons–what military visionaries have called “rods from god.” Launched from the fringes of space, these high-Mach weapons could destroy deeply buried bunkers and weapons facilities.
The DynaSoar program in November 1959 was the first effort to use a manned boost-glider to fly in near-orbital space and return. The B-70 was to carry the 10,000-lb. DynaSoar glider and a 40,000-lb. liquid rocket booster to 70,000 feet and release them while traveling at Mach 3. With this lofty start, the booster could then push the glider into its final 300-mile orbit.”
On October 4, 1998, an XB-70-like carrier aircraft was spotted flying over Salt Lake City at about 2:35 PM, by James Petty, the president of JP Rocket Engine Co. He saw a small highly swept-winged vehicle nestled under the belly of the XB-70-like aircraft climbing slowly on a west-southwest heading. The sky was clear enough to see both vehicles’ leading edges, which Petty described as a dark gray or black. Thanks to Aviation Week.
Blackstar Is a Secret Military Piloted Space plane
that can fly into orbital space since the early 1990s? That’s the highly intriguing and provocative big question raised in an amazing cover feature article in the prestigious “Aviation Week & Space Technology.”
It is quite likely the U.S. Space Command operates a military space plane for orbital missions with an elite corps of astronauts. The significant, ground-breaking investigative news report, with 18 years of Aviation Week research to back it up, strongly suggests that the “black budget project” program was developed on the “fast-track” in the 1980s after the catastrophic loss of the space shuttle Challenger in January 1986 to give the military regular operational piloted reconnaissance access into suborbital and orbital space. The orbital spacecraft, shown is an artistic rendering of a likely Blackstar follow on craft.
The space plane, first known as the XOV (experimental orbital vehicle) was apparently flight tested and likely became covertly operational in the early 1990s. This two-vehicle “Blackstar” carrier/orbiter system was allegedly cancelled in 2006, and an advanced Shuttle follow on like craft is now in orbit.
Once a Blackstar orbiter reenters the atmosphere, it can land horizontally at almost any location having a sufficiently long runway. So far, observed space plane landings have been reported at Hurlburt Air Force Base, Florida; Kadena AB, Okinawa; and Holloman AFB, N.M.
These craft are often reported as UFOs. Boeing Aerospace and Lockheed were the apparent contractors in 1990-91 and helped make the space plane operational under the U.S. Space Command in Colorado. A former program manager of a major aerospace company once declared, ‘There is no question. Lockheed is flying a two-stage space vehicle.'”
Ben Rich the director of the famous Lockheed Skunkworks, claimed we are thirty years in advance of science and can fly to the stars.
This specific stealth space program has been suspected, as noted, since 1992 when MUFON witnesses noted unusual high-altitude aircraft speeding supersonically across the skies with large puffs of donut-shaped smoke over the southwestern U.S. The news media also picked up the reports and called them, “Aurora.
Mars Symbols Similar to Roswell Debris
Roswell metal debris
ROSWELL –Major Jessie Marcel the 509th Group Intelligence Officer picked up debris with rancher Bill Brazel at the Foster Ranch at the crash site near Corona, New Mexico on July 7, 1947. Later that night Marcel showed his wife and son who is now an Army Colonel and medical Doctor (Jesse Marcel Jr.) the strange writing on the debris. Later others at Roswell Air Base including Lieutenant Robert J. Shirkey saw the debris.
Major Marcel showed the debris to his Commander William Blanchard, who then ordered a news release that stated the Army Air Force had recovered a Flying Disc. Colonel Blanchard ordered the debris to be immediately flown with Major Marcel aboard a B-29, to 8th Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth, Texas. The debris package was carried in the bomb bay with three guards. Marcel was met at the flight line by the second highest ranking officer at Carswell Army Air Base Colonel Thomas DuBose. Together they drove to General Roger Ramey’s office with the debris and waiting for them was James Bond Johnson a Fort Worth Star Newspaper photographer who took these photos.
Major Marcell holding part of the Roswell Debris
Johnson who passed away told me, when the officers arrived the package was still wrapped, and they unwrapped the metallic burnt debris and spread them out on the General’s rug. He remembered the debris smelled burnt like it had been in a crash.
General Ramey holding MESSAGE
Shortly, General Ramey arrived holding a message in his hand. Six photos are taken of General Ramey, Colonel DuBose, and Major Jessie Marcel with the debris. Four of the 4 x 5 negatives are now stored in the Archives of the University of Texas.
lowup Photos courtesy of Neil Morris and RPIT
Several years ago, the Roswell Photo Interpretation Team (RPIT) was formed to enlarge and evaluate these photographs. The computer enhanced photos show that General Ramey is holding a message that appears to state, “THE VICTIMS OF THE CRASH ARE BEING TRANSPORTED TO FORT WORTH.” URGENT. POWERS ARE NEEDED AT SITE TWO NW ROSWELL, N.MEX.”
Depiction of Roswell UFO
Clearly much of the debris has strange markings or writing on it. A close up of the debris shows some strange writing taken by photographer James Bond Johnson. If you compare the Mars symbols with the debris in General Ramey’s office, there are striking similarities.
Neil Morris from the University of Manchester discovered that three symbols have now been cross matched on the debris footage beam. The details discovered in over fifty-year-old photographs indicate an object of much greater complexity than a simple radar reflector. Spaceships like our own Moon Lander are made from surprisingly flimsy materials. The cross matching of these symbols indicates the debris is from an object alien to Earth. All involved admit the debris shown was part of a disc recovered from the Foster Ranch near Corona, N M.
Blowup of Ramey Message
Photographer James Bond who I became friends with remembered General Ramey was reading and holding a message while he was taking photos of the debris. There is no question that Ramey’s message, even when greatly enhanced by computer is a very difficult read. However, there are various keywords and phrases that can be readily seen by anyone, even in lower resolution scans of the message first analyzed in 1999 by a number of people.
Far and away the most important word of the entire message is “VICTIMS” on the third line (part of phrase “THE VICTIMS OF THE WRECK”).
The first paragraph describes what had been found. Ramey starts by acknowledging “THAT A ‘DISK’ IS NEXT NEW FIND.” He then adds that “THE VICTIMS OF THE WRECK” and something else (possibly just “A WRECK”) had also been found near the recovery “OPERATION AT THE ‘RANCH’.” At the end it states that “YOU” (i.e., Gen. Vandenberg) had ordered the “victims” and/or the wreckage “FORWARDED” to “FORT WORTH, TEX.”
In the second paragraph, Ramey describes how the situation was being handled. Ramey first states that something “IN THE ‘DISC’”, probably the bodies of the “forwarded” “victims” (and possibly termed “AVIATORS”) would be flown by a B-29 Special Transport or C-47 to the “A1” (personnel director) of some “8TH ARMY****” division, most likely the head flight surgeon at Fort Worth given the context. Wright Field, Ohio, home of the AAF’s aeronautical labs, was to assess the Roswell crash object (possibly referred to as an “AIRFOIL”).
Finally, both the Air Force and General Accounting Office in 1995 reported that air crash records revealed no plane crashes in that area during that time frame that could possibly explain the Roswell incident.
Confirmation by Two U.S. Air Force Generals of RoswellCrash
Photo of General Arthur Exon
I phoned former Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Commander Brigadier General Arthur Exon before his death. He spoke freely and claimed he had many friends who informed him of the disc and bodies. General Exon has been the highest-ranking military officer to come out and say directly that Roswell was the crash of a spacecraft and that alien bodies were recovered. He had to bailout of his plane in World War 11 after 135 missions and spend the rest of the war in a Nazi Prison Camp. He seemed to feel the public should know about the disks.
In 1947 Exon was a Lt. Colonel stationed at Wright Field at the time of the Roswell crash and heard of the incident at that time. He said he also flew over the area of the crash some months later. He observed two distinct crash sites and gouges and tire tracks on the ground leading into the “pivotal areas.”
From 1964-66 he was the Commanding Officer of Wright-Patterson AFB, where crash material was taken in 1947. He said other UFO-related field operations were staged at W-P during his tenure. Teams of men would fly in from Washington on an investigation. W-P would supply them with planes and crews for their operations.
Exon did emphasize that he was told these things by men who were directly involved and whom he knew well and trusted. He mentioned knowing some of the photographers who photographed the sites.
He also confirmed the existence of the Roswell metal reports.” Exon, the Base Commander of Wright Patterson in the 1960s, related that he was privy to some of the details on the composition of the crash debris and the variety of tests that were performed on it on the base. Exon stated the debris: “It was Titanium and some other metal they knew about, and the processing was somehow different.” Of course, special “processing” of Titanium and the “other metal” that “they knew about” (Nickel) is required to create Nitinol. Exon added, “And it wouldn’t surprise me if the material wasn’t still around, certainly the reports are.” Exon was likely referring to the Battelle Progress Reports on memory metal done for Wright Patterson in the late 1940’s. Among the things that General Exon was very specific about was that everybody “from Truman on down” had known about the Roswell incident from the day it happened, and that it was known to be an alien spacecraft “almost as soon as we got on the scene.”
I phoned General Exon and explained I was researching the crash he was quite open that he was told the Roswell debris was extraterrestrial and that the issues it raised had been debated in the White House. In 1948, following completion of a two-year industrial administration course at the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, he was assigned to Air Materiel Command Headquarters, as chief of the Maintenance Data Section. He told me the crash of the Roswell UFO was openly discussed as extraterrestrial in the course at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. He arranged to fly out to the crash sights and viewed where the UFO crashed up near a hill.
Texas FBI Memo about Roswell Disc
FORT WORTH Another piece of data that proves the authenticity of the evidence is an FBI message sent on July 8, 1947, at 6:17 PM. The foremost feature of the teletype is that Major Kirton of the 8th Army Air Force Intelligence Office positively identifies as not being that of a RAWIN balloon and its radar target, though resembling them. We know from the photos and message that personnel at the 8th Army Air Force confirmed this was strange unidentified debris late on July 8, and that they had decided to fly the wreckage to Wright Field, Ohio where Air Force experts were gathered. Major Kirton was notifying the FBI of the latest developments
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According to the FBI memo the “disc” debris were being sent to Wright Field because personnel at Roswelland Fort Worth did not know its identity. We know that much of the exceedingly light debris was hand carried by Major Marcel. This rule out rockets, missiles, and most known aircraft that are made of relatively heavy metals. We can assume Major Kirton notified the FBI shortly before the message was sent at 6:17 PM. The best qualified people at two military bases were unable to identify the wreckage so it was being flown to the Wright Field aviation experts’ technical staff who were standing by to inspect the debris wreckage. It is my belief a standard mundane military balloon and radar target would not be confused with the unidentified debris even though they were both light weights.
Later that evening, radio reporter Joe Wilson in Chicago stated he had spoken shortly before the broadcast with officials at Wright Field and they were _still_ _awaiting_ the debris arrival. Actual complete FBI message can be seen at: http://foia.fbi.gov/unusual.htm
We know that the landing marks of many UFOs indicate they are very light weight. In fact, most craft that operate in space are designed to be very light weight. For example, we know our Apollo 11 Eagle (Lunar Lander) was flimsy and light weight.
We know that the landing marks of many UFOs indicate they are very light weight. In fact, most craft that operate in space are designed to be very light weight. For example, we know our Apollo 11 Eagle (Lunar Lander) was flimsy and light weight.Later that evening, radio reporter Joe Wilson in Chicago stated he had spoken shortly before the broadcast with officials at Wright Field and they were _still_ _awaiting_ the debris arrival. Actual complete FBI message can be seen at: http://foia.fbi.gov/unusual.htm
Buzz Aldrin in his book “Men From Earth” stated, “But the Eagle was a featherweight locomotive. It could accelerate from zero to 3,000 miles per hour in two minutes during the ascent. The walls of the pressure cabin were so thin I could have jabbed a screwdriver through them without a lot of effort. Everything had been stripped down to the extreme.” He also just released that a UFO accompanied Apollo 11 on the trip to the Moon.
Brigadier General Thomas DuBose
Brigadier General Thomas DuBose plainly stated the Weather Balloon story was a cover given under order of General Mc Mullen to “get the press off the military’s back.” I talked to General Mc Mullen’s son who also was a general who claimed he had no knowledge of story, but he enjoyed talking about his father. He told me his father had never discussed the incident with him.
UFOs in the Bible
Patrick Cooke has written, “The Greatest Deception” the result of extensive research into the connections between descriptions of technology in the Bible and ancient writings. He explains the UFO phenomenon in world history, and the anomalous evidence from ancient civilizations, and the complete cover-up of these realities by the governments, church, and the world in general. This research organized thousands of biblical verses into categories revealing clear descriptions of flying vehicles, their flight characteristics, the amazing beings that pilot them, and the awesome power and advanced technology they possess. The God of the Old and the New Testament is very clearly described as regularly appearing in flying, glowing, and spinning objects. There is an entire fleet of flying objects armed with high tech weapons and close encounters of every kind are found in the Bible.
The Greatest Deception
The connection of those beings to mankind is examined in scripture and the unbelievable ramifications of that relationship are unveiled. The book shows the abundance of UFO sightings and encounters throughout history as revealed in over a thousand recorded events. Scores of UFO quotations and government investigations are presented to bolster the evidence of a long-standing presence of non-human entities on Earth. The amazing structures and glaring evidence of advanced knowledge left behind by a civilization predating any known cultures capable of creating them are covered.
The Bible tells of the visitors from heaven, The Nephilim were on the Earth in those days and afterwards when the Children of the Gods saw the daughters of the Adam (humans) and took them as wives which ever they pleased.” Chapter 6 of Genesis.
God speaks to Moses and appears repeatedly right up to the Revelation of John and is pointed out as the key to recognizing the Second Coming. UFOs were there at the Exodus, and landed right in front of Ezekiel, and hovered overhead at the birth, baptism, transfiguration, and ascension of Jesus. Elijah rode in a UFO, Job was confronted by one, Jesus was brightly illuminated under one, and Paul was blinded by a UFO. It ascends, descends, hovers, spins, accelerates, flashes and glows. It can cause earthquakes, high winds, and destruction. This work declares that the “Great Deception” just might be the most obvious cover-up in history.
The Bible describes flying vehicles and Advanced Technology.
This section deals with the physical and flight characteristics of the flying vehicles in the Bible. It is important to understand that when the term heaven is used it generally refers to the word sky. The word “sky” or “skies” only appears a dozen times in the entire Bible, although most of the events occur outside.
(The painting the Baptism of Christ,” is by Flemish painter Aert de Gelder, circa 1710, and is on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England.)
The words “fly” and “flying” occurs 38 times that reveals examples of “godly” flight but, though these flights are described, in some instances, as being in the sky, they also flew in “heaven”. The word “heaven” or “heavens” is translated from Hebrew and Greek words that mean “the sky”, or directly related to the sky, in 99.7%, or all but two, of the 730 times it appears, in the Bible. The vehicles described in the Bible are flying in the sky. The research on this concept can be found here. Heaven Is the Sky.
The word elohiym, pronounced El-o-heel’, is the plural of elohiym gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used in the plural thus, especially with the article of the supreme God. The word is plural. And we believe that the Elohiym, the beings called God, which are led by the “individual” Elohiym called the Lord God named Yehovah, are not restricted by physical limitations, but do have a physical presence.
The Vehicles, What Are They Flying?
The Lord Jehovah of the Old Testament, and the Lord Jesus of the New Testament, is described as flying in thick clouds, swift clouds, bright clouds, dark clouds, white clouds, low clouds, great clouds, and fiery clouds. There are platforms, vessels, whirling chariots of fire, sky thrones, fiery horses, cherubims, thick darkness, great fire, whirlwinds, fiery wheels, pavilions,13 Marines Killedstorms, sky dwellings, rolls, and sanctuaries.
Whether, or not, one believes these objects are flying vehicles that the God of the Bible lives in, appears with, travels in, and is considered the seat of his power is a matter of opinion. The fact that they do not appear without him or his ambassadors, and that, in most major appearances, he and other beings are clearly described as directly associated with these flying objects, is undeniable. There are 362 verses describing natural and manmade objects as vehicles in the Bible.
Flight Characteristics
Book of Ezekiel’s UFO described in the Bible as designed by Engineer
The bible is full of passages that mention Cherubim and Wings, just like in the Book of Ezekiel. In most cases they are also associated with wheels as well as smoke & clouds. Psalm 18 reads as if it described a scene of Star Wars. Another problem with the hallucination theory is that Ezekiel essentially described a “Quadrocopter” with atmospheric entry capability which, from the perspective of its design, is perfectly adapted to trips between orbit and Earth. The fact that the objects described in the Bible are controlled, flying craft, is borne out by the flight characteristics of those objects. In Bible text the objects associated with the Elohiym are shown to exhibit rapid, prolonged flight, they ascend and descend, and they hover for extended periods. If these objects were just ethereal images created by ethereal beings, these flight descriptions would have no relevance. The fact that the authors wrote about the flight routine of these objects is evidence that they have a distinct physical presence. There are 162 verses describing the specific flight characteristics of vehicles in the Bible
Bible Verses about flying
Zechariah 5:1
Then I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying scroll.
Isaiah 60:8
“Who are these who fly like a cloud
Psalm 90:10
For soon it is gone, and we fly away.
Zechariah 5:9
Two women were coming out with the wind in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.
The Beings
Who Is Commanding These High-Tech Flying Machines?
What is going on In AfghanistanTwo main beings are directly associated with the flying vehicles, the Elohiym, the gods, and the angels). Others include Archangels, Elders, Ministers, Saints, Watchers, and Men. There is another group which, though assumed to be living entities, is described in a manner that indicates they may be devices or machines. This group includes Cherubim, Seraphim, Living Creatures, and Beasts. Also presented are the beings that are called Satan and his demons. A fleet of flying vehicles, described as the army, or Hosts of Jehovah, appears several times and the importance of this fleet to the Biblical narrative is seriously underrated. Close encounters, from face-to-face conversations and beam-ups to meetings, are well documented in Biblical text and are a major part of many of the Bible’s, more phenomenal, events.
13 Marines and !59 Afghans killed Injured in Blast Carried to hospital
What’s going on in six months disaster in Afghanistan and strengthen of terrorists with billions in weapons. It appears the State Department designed the evacuation. When military units are fighting in a foreign country the Ambassador is the overall Commander not the military. his may be why air power and our troops were sent home first on July 4, as a political gimmick. Also am old international airport was chosen rather than the well defended and much newer military BAGRAM AIR BASE. Taking away air power, close air support and intelligence from the Afghan Army is likely why they didn’t fight.
Also, the Mayors (War Lords) didn’t want fighting in their 32 cities that had never fallen to the Taliban in twenty years. Either the President or State Department personnel made the evacuation decisions that has caused a great defeat for the U.S. The Taliban does not fight in the winter. We pull out of Afghanistan despite the deaths of 2,300 Americans in 20 years. We can easily lose more in the rush to retreat if the Taliban decides to stop us. They will massacre thousands and the terrorists will be stronger with many entering or Southern Border. Some people responsible should be fired. Parents of those Marines killed are blaming the administration.
Strange Craft
The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs
U.S. Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II. These men – military professionals who flew planes, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at airfields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft.
During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing UFOs off their plane’s wings. Award-winning investigative author John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer.
From objects in the skies over Cold War Europe to a UFOs over during the Cuban Missile Crisis to lights over the DMZ in Vietnam Filer leaves nothing out about his Air Force UFO encounters,
Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base in 1978 – is fully recounted for the first time in this book. As a member of the Disclosure Project, military experts, astronauts, and scientists urge the U.S. government to release all it knows about UFOs to the public.
Filer describes his UFO encounters in this incredible book. By John L. Guerra.
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Filer’s Files 35 2021 - More Proof of Roswell Alien Crash - PART II
Greenville, strange, shaped object on August 22, 2021
Filer’s Files 35 2021 - More Proof of Roswell Alien Crash - PART II
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Special reports on Gary McKinnon uncovered Space Fleet, Aviation Weeks Space planes, Mars Symbols Similar to Roswell Debris, UFOs in the Bible, What’s going on, Carbon 60, and Strange Craft.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Greece, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
California Object
Orange – on August 10, 2021, my partner and I witnessed a glowing UFO outside of our house made a quick directional change before ascending. As I was taking photos it caused interference. Photos show what appears to be a disc shaped vessel with some sort of glass dome top. UFO also went translucent in a few photos…
Palmerton– on August 20, 2021, I was leaving for work this at 6:15 a.m. when I took this picture. in the East was extremely vibrant. I turned west and I saw a fantastic rainbow and snapped a picture. Then is a “black streak” in the picture
Note: I don’t think that the black streak is an airplane. I do believe that it is a real object and not a camera artifact. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Florida Lights
Boca Raton– on August 24, 2021, this is the 2nd time we have witnessed this event. Today this object caught my attention because it was pulsating and rotating. Slowly headed north higher and higher. The first time we witnessed this we watched the same event, but a 2nd object came and met together probably covering a distance of 10 miles within 5 seconds and both just faded.
Indiana Object
Carmel– on August 21, 2021, my pictures look like maybe it’s a human shaped object. Possibly a jetpack or something? In one picture it looks like it has flames on its back.
Massachusetts Red Light
Barre— on March 9, 2021, I shot the night sky and was editing the photos which were terrible due to the super high ISO and noticed a bright red object in the left part of the frame. I started adjusting the exposure and discovered the red ball in a few more of the frames. The quality sucks due to the high iso. I shot a total of 56 frames of about 5 slightly varied views. 12 frames have the red ball. 4 have something that looks like red lens flare. Nikon D850 ISO 16K, 14MM lens, 2.8, Exposure.
New Jersey Lights
Newfoundland– on August 15, 2021, saw this unnatural looking object moving quickly across the sky in a Northwesterly direction. There were no wings, no lights, and no sounds
Trenton – on August17 2021, they were lined up like spaceships the shapes stayed the same I think they are aliens.
New Mexico Object
Buena Vista – on August 25, 2021, driving northbound on Highway 518 I was driving 65 mph. and saw a red light moving in front of my vehicle. I thought it was awfully low for a plane. Only a red light passed it split to two red lights 100-200’ away that looked like a cross. I could see the shape. that was about 4 times the size of my car. It had 2 sets of green lights on each arm
Ohio Object
Campbell–on August 22, 2021, I was outside, taking pictures of the moon in the back yard, shot one by the house with object in it
Oregon Object
Woodburn– on August 20, 2021, I took the picture because I initially thought it was a plane with the red lights blinking but now, I realize something else happened. I zoomed in on the photo and I don’t believe this can be a plane. It’s a long cylindrical tube with a red flame around it.
Pennsylvania Object
On August 21, 2021, his was an incidental capture. My fiancé took this photo last evening. She did not notice this until a little later when looking at the picture. All of the meta data should be on the picture. Update: Hello sir. We figured out the picture. Even though it’s quite intriguing, it turns out it’s a Frisbee. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Texas Object
Greenville – on August 22, 2021, there were many different objects flying around and they were different shapes. I saw a long cylindrical craft which changed lights. This is all on video! I had to slow down frame by frame to catch most of them, but it was amazing!
Washington Object
Snoqualmie Pass– on August 26, 2021, I hiked up to Granite Mountain Fire lookout near Snoqualmie Pass and before leaving the area. I decided to walk to a viewpoint overlooking lakes Crystal Lake. I could see something darting back and forth across the surface of the lake. When I spotted this object, it was moving erratically above the surface of the lake. It is making its way towards the shoreline very slowly. From wing like features to a dome like structure it looks like a stingray gliding/hovering above the surface of the lake.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Lights
Newcastle– on August 3, 2021, between 9:45am – 10:00am I was outside in my backyard filming with my Nikon Coolpix P1000. Suddenly an unknown craft was caught in my line of site ascending pretty high and fast. The craft was silent and white and had no wings either.
Brazil Lights
Rio de Janeiro– on August 20, 2021, this looked like something coming a part in the sky. I was seeing what looked like a star in the distance. Then I noticed several blinking lights falling from it and what looked like something exploding into several pieces. Then a second string of flashing lights coming out and another explosion with no sound. Then all the lights disappeared.
Greece Object
Athens– on August 22, 2021, I tried to take a picture with night vision of the moon and below it is an object. Picture was taken with mobile Xiaomi Mi11.
Jamaica Light
Negri – on March 26, 2021, my wife and I while walking around the resort snapped a shot looking over the resort’s main pool. Later we were looking thru the pictures and realized we’d captured something in the night sky. Zoom in over the pool to see what I’m talking about.
Puerto Rico Light
San Juan – on August 18, 2021, I was returning to work and notice shiny object that seemed to reflect sunlight. An airplane flight pass was in front of the object when I took the pictures. I calculate the object had to be taller than the airplane cabin, probably from 10-15 feet tall. It seemed to have an appendage dropping down from the main cylinder shape.
UK/England Object
Ashford Kent – on July 26, 2021, was at work between Bethersden and Smarden In the southeast UK when saw a red flash in the sky so got my Nikon D3000 and started taking pictures. Couldn’t believe what I saw when I zoomed in on the pictures and an internet search showed objects like this have been sighted in other county’s as well. No apparent sound or propulsion system. I couldn’t see any control surfaces and the way it tipped onto its side at low velocity without falling out of the sky was surreal.
Nottinghamshire –on August 15, 2021, we observed this craft decent then disappear. This is one of 3 sightings in a 4-week period. The lights were so bright.
Mill Lane Hertfordshire– on July 10, 2021, at 6pm, silent objects with no wings, propellers, legs. and nothing matched. It looked like smooth, round, white and black objects that seemed to swivel and swivel 360. Moved up and down in the sky in a countryside rural area. Evidence https://m.facebook.com/groups/916473755039859/permalink/4489990531021479/
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The Dead Sea Scrolls have been shrouded in mystery since their discovery, with the biggest being the identity of their authors. Close behind is the identity of who placed them in the Qumran Caves in the Judaean Desert near Ein Feshkha on the northern shore of the Dead Sea in the West Bank. A scroll researcher reveals in a new paper that he believes a passage in a collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts discovered in Cairo in the 19th century may explain the purpose of the nearby area known as Qumran, why archeologists have not found any private dwellings there, and ultimately how the scrolls got there and why they were kept in these particular caves.
The Dead Sea Scrolls have long been associated with the Essenes, a mystic Jewish sect that lived in a number of towns from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE. Some scholars believe the Essenes inhabited the settlement at Qumran and they wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls and stored them in the local caves. In his preprint paper, “The Covenant Renewal Ceremony as the Main Function of Qumran,” Daniel Vainstub of the Department of Bible, Archaeology and Ancient Near East at Ben-Gurion University, lays out the reason why he disagrees that Qumran was an Essenes settlement.
“Unlike any other group or philosophy in ancient Judaism, the yaḥad sect obliged all members of the sect to leave their places of residence all over the country and gather in the sect’s central site to participate in a special annual ceremony of renewal of the covenant between God and each of the members.”
Vainstub says this annual celebration was called the “passing of the covenant” and modeled after one described in Deuteronomy. However, Vainstub also found a description in a collection of some 400,000 Jewish manuscript fragments found in Cairo, thus giving them the name Cairo Geniza. One in particular, the Damascus Document, includes instructions about the celebration that say: “And all [the inhabitants] of the camps shall assemble in the third month and curse anyone who deviates either to the right [or to the left from the] Torah.” That means the gathering took place in a specific time – the month of Sivan, when the festival of Shavuot falls – and that people from different places or camps were called to convene in one site. Vainstub concludes from this that Qumran was the site and may have been built for this specific purpose – which explains why there are no residences there. Those gathering either slept in caves or outside.
Qumran contains remains of a mikvaot (Jewish ritual bath), assembly hall and pantry where thousands of vessels were stored, and a southern esplanade that could handle many hundreds of people arriving annually from camps and towns. That leads to Vainstaub’s second revelation, which he explains in The Jerusalem Post.
“My theory is also consistent with the fact that the scrolls did not necessarily originate from Qumran, but rather were brought to the caves from all over the country and were left in the caves over the decades.”
Vainstaub maintains the scrolls were stored there for years specifically to be used for the annual celebration, growing in numbers as the celebration grew with people from other towns. That would explain the different styles and ages of the scrolls and fragments. Put that all together and Vainstaub concludes the location was inevitable for the Dead Sea Scrolls.
“The site of Qumran, with its facilities, caves and surfaces, accords with the evidence for the annual gathering that emerges from the scrolls. No other known site is suitable for such a purpose.”
Will this help solve the mystery of the authorship of the Dead Sea Scrolls? Only time will tell.
Impressive record of UFO activity that was sighted over the evening skies of Russia on July 23, 2021. Sighting was recorded in the Altai Republic in the Kosh-Agachsky District on the border of Russia and Kazakhstan.
UFO or Bolide
They are here !
credit : Anastasia Shpanova
Bizarre Black Object Filmed During A Flight From Texas to Florida On August 30, 2021
First clip was submitted to MUFON and in this video we see this black (what i call a sky creature) object that looks like it has tentacles and all the witness state is the following: "My boyfriend and i were on a flight back to Florida from Texas and he was recording with his phone from the window seat. low and behold, "
Here is a couple of example of this object/creature
Second Clip: Saint Peter and Paul Basilica UFO symbolism
This is the statement from the recorder: "This Basilica is near my house, a few days ago I actually looked at some of the imagery near the front gates of it, at the time I didn't have a photo to document it. I just went there today, just wanted to show you this, I've never seen it before, the UFO symbol there.
Now maybe this is common, I never really explored catholic churches / cathedrals / basilicas before much. The other symbolism there is also interesting."
Thanks to Lᛜᚹ for allowing me the use of his footage and please have and look at the full video and please let us know if you know what these symbols mean...
MUFON CASE : 117656 Kissimmee, Florida ( August 31, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : We were on a flight from Texas to Florida and saw the UFO...my boyfriend recorded it. Long Description of Sighting Report - Case 117656
My boyfriend and I were on a flight back to FL from Texas and he was recording with his phone from the window seat. Lo and behold, we see what we saw on this video attachment.
Date Submitted : 2021-08-31 Date of Event : 2021-08-30 MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : inbound8014548973529091661.mp4
UFO Follows Plane Over Florida On 8-30-2021, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Follows Plane Over Florida On 8-30-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 30, 2021
Location of sighting:Between Texas and Florida, USA
Source: MUFON #117656
A young couple was flying from Texas to Florida when the boyfriend noticed a strange dark object out the window of the plane. The object is turning slowly. Often showing a dark round window at its front. I took a screenshot and found the the objects body and tail...is similar to that of fish. But the cockpit area of the craft has a dark tinted window in it. The UFO is about the size of a car and is flying at about 75-100 meters from the plane. I am not surprised that the pilot didn't notice it since often the plane is on autopilot and todays primitive radar system is the same that was used 40 years ago. The UFO is scanning not only the plane, but also the passengers. Aliens are interested not only in our biology, but our mentality and view of the current chaos that the world is in. Or in other words, our personalities, inner courage, fears and determination steers the future of humanity.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
We were on a flight from Texas to Florida and saw the UFO...my boyfriend recorded it. My boyfriend and I were on a flight back to FL from Texas and he was recording with his phone from the window seat. Lo and behold, we see what we saw on this video attachment.
TicTac Over Island Lake, Illinois On Aug 28, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
TicTac Over Island Lake, Illinois On Aug 28, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 28, 2021 Location of sighting: Island Lake, Illinois, USA Source: MUFON #117660
This video might be only 7 seconds long, however its blows me away on every single second of it. This video caught both the detail of the craft, its color, speed, altitude and its similar to the clouds themselves in appearance. The eyewitness is heard saying, "no sound...no trail." In the background we can hear traffic, but no sound of an aircraft. The object clearly has no wings, no tail and no defining detail that would lead us to think it's a plane. The UFO is heading straight into the clouds to hide. I know this because it has already changed its color to match that of the clouds. Once in the cloud it can watch, monitor and scan the humans below without being detected. This is 100% proof that aliens exist.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Caught off guard by this. No sound, no trail. Moving to fast for a blimp.
This June, for the first time in history, the U.S. government acknowledged the existence of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), also known as UFOs. So far, nothing's been attributed to extraterrestrial activity—but nothing's been ruled out, either. One hundred forty three of the 144 UFOs reported by military planes remain unexplained. The last 75 years have been rife with similar reports from across the globe, some of which might get even the toughest cynics wondering what's really out there. Here are some of the weirdest sightings, from U.S. fighter pilots engaging with a super-speed, giant Tic Tac-shaped aircraft in 2004 to an Italian stadium full of fans viewing an oval saucer raining metallic glitter a half century earlier.
(L-R) Pilots E.J. Smith, Kenneth Arnold, and Ralph E. Stevens look at a UFO PhotoBETTMANN/GETTY
The Original 'UFO' Sighting June 24, 1947 Mount Rainier, Washington
Pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying his private plane when he saw a flash of light, then an object he described as looking "like a saucer." It was moving at incomprehensible speed along the side of the mountain. Then he saw eight more. He reported them as "unidentified flying objects" and the description stuck.
Photo taken from USS Nimitz of UFO in the Pacific OceanU.S. NAVY
The USS Nimitz Encounter November 14, 2004 Pacific Ocean
One hundred miles southwest of San Diego, fighter pilots engaged with a white aircraft, shaped like a massive Tic Tac and moving three times faster than the speed of sound. "I have no idea what I saw," Commander David Fravor said of the encounter. "It had no plumes, wings or rotors and outran our F-18s." He added that he wanted to fly one.
Lonnie Zamora at the Scene of the SightingCLOYD TETER/THE DENVER POST/GETTY
Desert Takeoff April 24, 1964 Socorro, New Mexico
Police Sergeant Lonnie Zamora was driving down a dirt road when he saw the "egg-shaped craft" peeking out from an arroyo. First, he thought it was a car in need of help; however, he then saw a blue flame and heard a loud roar. The object began to rise. Five tourists later reported seeing the craft in flight.
Manitoba, CanadaMUSTAFA NAVEED/GETTY
Charlie Redstar Sightings 1975 Southern Manitoba, Canada
Hundreds of people in the region reported seeing a glowing red-orange object soar through the sky every night for several months. Often described as "mischievous" and "playful," the UFO was affectionately nicknamed Charlie Redstar. Charlie inspired a summer of UFO watch parties in fields across Manitoba.
Triangular UFOGETTY
Not Your Parents' UFOs 1989–1990 Belgium
Over the span of five months, 13,500 people claimed to have witnessed silent, low-flying black triangles, each with three orange headlights—a type of UFO completely different from previous reports. Skeptics call the event a mass delusion, but believers point to military radar, which showed unusual activity during the sightings.
GEIPAN InvestigationPASCAL PAVANI/AFP/GETTY
Greener Pastures? January 8, 1981 Trans-en-Provence, France
Renato Nicolaï was working on his farm when he heard an odd whistling sound. Then he saw a disc-shaped object take off and disappear above the treeline, leaving burn marks on the ground where it sat. An investigation was done by France's special UFO-hunting team, GEIPAN, which claimed the ground had been heated to over 500°F.
Artemio Franchi StadiumGABRIELE MALTINTI/GETTY
Crowd Control October 27, 1954 Florence, Italy
Play was put on pause at a soccer game at the Artemio Franchi Stadium as thousands of spectators went silent midgame. Several were pointing to a large oval in the sky that was emitting a strange material—one fan described it as raining silver glitter.
Dyatlov Pass Incident February 1, 1959 Dead Mountain, Russia
Nine experienced hikers were mysteriously found dead, frozen in varying states of undress. Their tents had been slashed. Some were missing eyeballs or tongues, and one man's body registered high levels of radiation. An investigation concluded the cause was a "compelling natural force," leading some to theorize that the deaths were due to UFO activity.
Iran Air Force F-4 Phantom IIIRIAF
Midair Chase September 19, 1976 Tehran
After multiple people reported a metallic object bounding through the sky, Lieutenant Yaddi Nazeri engaged it in a high-speed air chase in what is known as the "Tehran UFO Incident." The UFO won this time. As Nazeri approached, his electronics, including communications devices, were all disabled. They only came back to life once he returned to ground.
Frederick ValentichAUSTRALIAN DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Mysterious Disappearance October 21, 1978 Bass Strait, Australia
"It is hovering and it is not an aircraft." These were the last words 20-year-old pilot Frederick Valentich said before he and his plane disappeared forever. All he left behind was a radio dispatch in which he describes the mysterious flying vessel "playing a game" with him.
If we believe aliens are here, what makes them tick? Can we discuss how their minds operate? What might be the biggest differences we have with them? Are they here to help us? Do they love us? Do they care?
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