An artificial intelligence program has estimated that there are hundreds of thousands of meteorites hidden on Antarctica and it has a pretty good idea of where to look for them.

Interestingly, almost two-thirds of all meteorites that have been found our planet came from Antarctica because the cold frozen ground preserves them and makes it is much easier to spot the dark-colored space rocks when surrounded by snow and ice. While many of the meteorites that fall on Antarctica end up in the ocean, a lot of them do end up concentrated on the “blue ice” areas of ice sheet surfaces. The blue ice areas are caused by wind and other factors that make the ice turn an azure color.

And if the meteorites remain on the surface, researchers can reach them during field missions. Almost all of the meteorites recovered from Antarctica have been located on blue ice areas.

The artificial intelligence program studied satellite data of the continent’s surface, as well as thermal, optical, and radar data in order to pinpoint where the undiscovered meteorites were most likely located. The program identified over 600 locations that may contain meteorites – many of which have not yet been explored.

While the program does not have 100% accuracy, it did identify almost 83% of areas in Antarctica that are already known to have meteorites, so it is pretty accurate. And since several of the more than 600 possible meteorite-rich areas are located near research stations, the experts will be able to explore many of those places.

In an interview with Space.com, Veronica Tollenaar, who is a glaciologist at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium, discussed the findings from the artificial intelligence program, “We found some unexplored areas with a great potential to find meteorites,” adding, “By visiting these locations and using new recovery techniques in the field, such as surveys with drones, we are about to enter a new era of Antarctic meteorite recovery missions.”

Furthermore, it is believed that the number of meteorites that have been found so far in Antarctica – over 45,000 of them – make up only 5% to 13% of all space rocks that have landed there as Tollenaar explained, “Our calculations suggest that more than 300,000 meteorites are still present at the surface of the ice sheet.” Their study was published in the journal Science Advances where it can be read in full.

A map showing the newly identified areas to look for meteorites on Antarctica can be seen here.

Collecting a meteorite on the Nansen blue ice area, close to the Belgian Antarctic research station Princess Elisabeth. 

(Image credit: Field team of the BELARE 2019-2020 meteorite recovery expedition on the Nansen Ice Field.)

A newly devised "treasure map" to find meteorites in Antarctica, created with the aid of an artificial intelligence program. Also indicates the Antarctic research stations (as listed by COMNAP, https://www.comnap.aq/). 

(Image credit: Veronica Tollenaar)

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It Turns out, We Have a Very Well-Behaved Star

Should we thank our well-behaved Sun for our comfy home on Earth?

Some stars behave poorly. They’re unruly and emit powerful stellar flares that can devastate life on any planets within range of those flares. New research into stellar flares on other stars makes our Sun seem downright quiescent.

NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) is a planet hunter. Its primary task is to watch stars for any regular dips in light. Those dips can signal the presence of a planet as it passes between us and the star. TESS is very successful at finding planets.

But TESS does more than identify exoplanet candidates. TESS’s keen-eyed cameras reveal a lot about the stars the planets are orbiting. One of the mission’s objectives is to study about 1,000 M-dwarf (red dwarf) stars closest to us. Red dwarfs are the most plentiful stars in our galaxy, so most exoplanets are probably orbiting red dwarfs. About 75% of the stars in the Milky Way are M-dwarfs and many of them host planets in their habitable zones.

But red dwarfs are complicated stars. On the one hand, they’re the longest-lived stars, so planets orbiting them can count on stable conditions for a long time. That long-lived stability is good for the development of life.

On the other hand, red dwarfs can emit powerful flares. Stellar flares can be hard on planets and can severely limit the possibility of life on planets around red dwarfs.

“Many of these red dwarf stars can emit flares 1,000 times larger than those from the Sun…”

Ward Howard, lead author, U of C Boulder.

This is an artist’s conception of a violent stellar flare erupting on the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, our nearest neighbour. Our Sun seems relatively calm compared to red dwarfs.

Credit: NRAO/S. Dagnello.

This puts planet-hunting in a new light. Planet hunting’s over-arching goal is finding planets in a star’s habitable zone where liquid water could exist on the surface. But our growing knowledge of flaring may make our understanding of habitable zones outdated.

A new study presents a statistical analysis of stellar flaring on hundreds of stars. The study is “No Such Thing as a Simple Flare: Substructure and QPPs Observed in a Statistical Sample of 20 Second Cadence TESS Flares.” The authors are Ward Howard, a post-doc researcher at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Meredith MacGregor, assistant professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences at CU Boulder. The Astrophysical Journal will publish the study.

The study is the first large-scale analysis of stellar flaring. It’s based on data collected at 20-second intervals, a rapid cadence for observations. The faster cadence gathers more granular data.

Our Sun emits flares, which can disrupt electronic systems on Earth and in satellites. The Sun is nothing compared to the stars in this study, even though red dwarfs are smaller than the Sun.

“The sun is very well behaved,” lead author Howard said in a press release. “Many of these red dwarf stars can emit flares 1,000 times larger than those from the Sun, and you can only imagine what that might do to a planet or to life on the surface.”

TESS is in its extended mission now. The 20-second observation intervals are more rapid than the two-minute intervals used in TESS’s primary mission. The rapid intervals give astrophysicists a better window into flares. They can watch as flares develop and measure the radiation more accurately. Howard and MacGregor discovered that flares are more complicated than thought, and some can burst multiple times.

“They have all sorts of weird structure in the light curves, which indicates that some of them are bursting multiple times,” co-author MacGregor said.

“The new 20-second cadence mode reveals significant substructure in large flares that would have been missed
at 2 min cadence,” the authors write in their paper. “Higher-cadence observations also remove degeneracy present at 2 min cadence between significantly different flare morphologies,” they say when discussing the above figure.

“We have historically had a very simple picture of stellar activity, where one loop breaks and we have one outburst of energy, and then it slowly dies away, and then we think about the frequency of that,” MacGregor continued. “That’s the model that’s been fed into everything we think about stars and their impact on planets, and it’s clearly just flat-out wrong.”

“It allows us to kind of have a statistical understanding of how often do certain things occur,” Howard said, adding that scientists have never before been able to determine how much radiation reaches planets during the peak of the superflares and how much complexity the flares have.

Astrophysicists describe stellar flares in two phases: the rise phase between the beginning of the flare and peak brightness and the decay phase. “Many large flares exhibit complex substructure during the rise phase,” the authors write, and the 20-second cadence helps reveal the complexity, while the slower cadence doesn’t. “We find 46% of the large flares in our sample exhibit complex structure in the rise phase (201 out of 440 flares), making this a common phenomenon at the 20-second cadence.”

The study also found other flare morphologies that the authors describe as unusual yet frequently-occurring. One is the peak-bump flare. This type of flare has an initial highly-impulsive peak followed by a less-impulsive second peak. About 17% of the flares exhibit this morphology.

Another unusual type is the flat-top flare. Most flares have a very powerful impulsive peak, but flat-top flares have more constant emission levels at their peak. Previous studies show that these flat-top flares can peak for almost one hour, though the longest-lasting peak in this study was 26 minutes. 24 of the flares in this study—about 5%—are flat-top flares.

Red dwarfs flare differently than our Sun. But the basics are the same. All stars have powerful magnetic fields, and sometimes those fields become entangled. The entanglement spawns powerful bursts of radiation and charged particles. The result is beautiful, looping, solar prominences. Prominences remain anchored to the Sun but extend thousands of kilometres into space.

“Our sun does this, and we can get beautiful images where you see these loops of emission protruding out of the surface of the sun, and then they break and stream out into space,” MacGregor said.

When a solar prominence breaks free from the Sun, it’s a flare. Most flares are accompanied by coronal mass ejections (CME), masses of solar plasma and magnetic fields. When the Sun emits a CME toward Earth and strikes our planet’s magnetosphere, we get beautiful light shows: the aurorae. We also get geomagnetic storms, and if they’re powerful enough, they can damage electrical grids and satellites. But that’s rare.

“So we see beautiful lovely green lights,” MacGregor said. “What we’re actually observing is the effect of our sun splitting apart molecules in our atmosphere and then the release of energy from that splitting of things like ozone and water.”

Things play out differently on red dwarfs.

Red dwarfs are smaller than stars like our Sun. But they can rotate more rapidly than larger stars, so they can have more powerful magnetic fields. This creates more powerful flares, and sometimes what astrophysicists call superflares. Superflares can be up to 30 times more powerful than our Sun’s flares—maybe even more potent than that.

That much energy can shred a planet’s atmosphere. Most planets orbiting in a red dwarf’s habitable zone are likely tidally locked. This paints an ugly picture for life. One side of a world would be regularly blasted by powerful flares, while the other remained dark. Could life survive there?

Maybe it could. Some evidence shows that red dwarfs emit their flares from higher latitudes and poles. But planets orbit their stars in the ecliptic, which might spare them from the worst effects.

There are no firm measurements of how much radiation from red dwarf flares would reach any planets around the stars. The authors discuss this in their paper but can’t reach solid conclusions. Scientists work with a survival concept called D90—the UV dose needed to kill 90% of a hardy bacterium called D. Radiodurans. The authors find that “… 1/3 of our 10³⁴ erg flares reach this limit during the 20-second peak epoch.” They also found that none of the flares were powerful enough to kill 100% of D. Radiodurans.

These numbers are preliminary, and there are assumptions behind them. The hypothetical planets subjected to the flares are unmagnetized and have no significant atmospheres. Magnetospheres of differing strengths and different types of atmospheres could strongly affect how much UV radiation from flares would reach a planet’s surface.

Our understanding of red dwarfs and their flaring is in the early stages. This study removes some guessing and conjecture and replaces it with some of our most detailed knowledge of flaring yet.

“It allows us to kind of have a statistical understanding of how often do certain things occur,” Howard said, adding that scientists have never before been able to determine how much radiation reaches planets during the peak of the superflares and how much complexity the flares have.

It doesn’t paint a pretty picture, though.

These results put our own neighbourly Sun in a pretty good light. The Sun’s flares are relatively calm and gentle compared to some powerful bursts from red dwarfs.

Complex life on Earth is only possible because of many variables that turned out just right. It looks like we can add the Sun’s relatively quiescent flaring to the list.

More:

• Press Release: CU Boulder scientists bring stellar flares into clearer focus
• Research Paper: NO SUCH THING AS A SIMPLE FLARE: SUBSTRUCTURE AND QPPS OBSERVED IN A STATISTICAL SAMPLE OF 20 SECOND CADENCE TESS FLARES
• Universe Today: A Red Dwarf Blasts off a Superflare. Any Life on its Planets Would Have a Very Bad Day

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Apollo 16 LEM Photo Is Proof Of NASA Photoshop, NASA Source, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: April 2014, but reposting today

Source LEM photo: 

• https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/AS16-118-18894HR.jpg

Details: 

• http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/ 

Guys, I made this video back in 2014, but since then I've gone through thousands of Apollo mission photos. My firm conclusion is that the moon landings were 100% faked. The surface of the moon is always smoothed and sandy, when it should be less even and less smooth, more detail on the ground, correct shadows, rather than shadows going opposite directions in the same photo, ect. SCW

 

I found this photo and was confused at why space didn't look like space, no stars, gasses or anything...nothing like what I see when I look at the live space station cam. The LEM (Lunar Excusion Module) also had perfect lighting which is odd for space. I decided to add a little light to the object to see if I could catch any UFOs in the background near it. However when I did, I found that the LEM had been photoshoped, superimposed upon the solid back background. I'm not sure what to make of this. It could be because NASA wanted that picture perfect moment and faked it, but what do you think? 

 

 Thanks, Scott C. Waring 

 

 

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Amotorist driving on a highway in Texas noticed an object in the sky on which he started to film the strange anomaly. 

It is not the first time such a cube-shaped object appears in the sky over Texas, though the question is whether the phenomenon was a UFO or just a tall building, a mirage or a reflection in the window. 

Anyway, take a look and decide for yourself what the object could have been.

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Flashing UFOs over east coast of Canada – Nova Scotia | January 2022

Flashing lights over Nova Scotia, Canada. Filmed earlier this month.

Witness report: 

Dad and I saw these lights flashing back and forth today (enjoy the live commentary). We didn’t notice the other flashing light to the right until watching this video. They continued to flash rapidly until eventually blinking at the same time and fading out to the left. When I slowed the video down I noticed a pattern from left to right – red, white, white, red,… Checked flight radar – no helicopters and only one plane around. I live in a pretty rural area with not a lot of air traffic.

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In a major scientific step forward, scientists were able to regrow the amputated leg of a frog. With a mixture of different drugs, scientists in the United States triggered the regrowth of a leg in a species of African clawed frog named Xenopus laevis. This was a very important step forward as they said that it is a “step closer to the goal of regenerative medicine.”

The team of experts, which were based at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute and Tufts University, added a mixture of five drugs to the amputated area of the frog’s leg and left it there for 24 hours. Amazingly, after 18 months, the newly regrown leg was nearly completely functional. In fact, the frog was able to swim in the water and even reacted to being touched. Additionally, several of its toes regrew, but they weren’t webbed.

(Not the frog mentioned in this article.)

Since the limb grew back in months, it may indicate that frogs and possibly other animals have regenerative capabilities that lie dormant but can be awakened with treatments. “I think the way to really achieve regenerative medicine is to exploit the collective intelligence of the body’s cells. They already know how to build all of these organs. They did it during embryonic development. All that information is still there,” explained Mike Levin who is a Vannevar Bush Professor of Biology and director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts. “For me, the goal is to identify triggers, very simple kinds of stimuli, that will kick-start the cells and convince them to build whatever it is that you want them to build.”

James Monaghan, who is an associate professor in the department of biology at Northeastern University, described the results as being “impressive” and “exciting”. “Xenopus frogs are somewhere in between a salamander that regrows a limb nearly perfectly and a mammal that generates a scar after amputation. Adult Xenopus frogs regenerate a spike after amputation, but the spike lacks any pattern like a limb,” he explained, adding, “This study is significant because it shows that patterning, albeit not perfect, can be induced in a limb that typically regenerates only a spike.” (Pictures of the frog’s regrowth process of its leg can be seen here.)

As for what this means for humans regrowing their limbs, Monaghan stated, “An immediate translation of this strategy to humans is unlikely because a regenerative spike does not occur in humans as it does in Xenopus frogs. Yet, this work is exciting because it shows that endogenous regenerative processes can be enhanced by a short application of a drug cocktail.”

(Not the frog mentioned in this article.)

It is, however, an important step forward in scientists hopefully eventually being able to regrow human limbs. “Will we one day be able to regenerate a human digit or even a limb? Probably, but how long we need to wait is impossible to predict,” noted Ashley Seifert who is an associate professor of biology at the University of Kentucky who studies animal regeneration but wasn’t involved with the study.

The research was published in the journal Science Advances.

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Black Triangle UFO Recorded Hovering for Hours over Islamabad

• (Note: UFO in picture above is not the one in this article.)

An interesting yet puzzling triangular UFO video appeared this week from Pakistan – interesting because it appeared to be triangular, puzzling because the witness claimed it remained nearly motionless for hours before it became too dark to see it. In this highly militarized country, was the witness looking at some sort of new aerial weapon, an unidentifiable drone, an extraterrestrial craft or something else?

Will we ever be able to see clear videos and photos of triangle UFOs?

“I saw this when I was landing my drone, it hovered for over 2 hours at this spot when eventually it got dark and I couldn’t see it anymore.”

The video was attributed to Arslan Warraich and first posted by The Hidden Underbelly 2.0 YouTube channel. (Watch it here.) According to the narrator, the sighting occurred on January 25, 2022. The witness stated his own drone was out of charge or he would have sent it aloft for better footage. (Had he known he was going to be there watching this UFFO for two hours, he might have had the opportunity.) Although he is allegedly an experienced drone operator, he seems amazed, impressed and frustrated by certain aspects of what he was recording.

“It did move but very slowly, never left the area, saw until the sky went completely dark. It had no lights nor was it reflecting the sunlight much.”

“This is unbelievable.”

“it’s just sitting there, not doing anything. I want it to do something, like whiz by or something.”

While the witness states (as does the headline) that this is a “black triangular shaped UFO,” it doesn’t look or behave like the typical triangular UFOs most often seen – moving in various directions and speeds, and with three visible lights. Those are most often thought to be secret tests of the alleged TR-3A Black Manta surveillance aircraft said to e a black project of the US Air Force. What Arslan Warraich said he recorded looks and acts nothing like that.

So … what is the UFO in the video?

Being stationary for two hours usually indicates a balloon, which this could be since it had no lights and was not reflecting any (although it seemed to be an overcast evening). Those same characteristics could eliminate a drone – conventional public drones generally can’t stay aloft that long and are bound by the PCAA in Pakistan to stay under 400 feet. Those rules do not apply to police or military surveillance drones – and the political situation in Pakistan would make this option highly likely … except the witness didn’t think so. Finally, it’s odd this witness watched for two hours without notifying anyone else. Also, searches don’t find any other similar reports of a triangular black UFO over Islamabad on this date.

Aliens?

Probably not. This one has the needle of the UFO Explanation Meter in the “Strange drone” quadrant near the “Strange balloon” section for now. As always, it’s great that more people are recoding UFOs and feeling comfortable in reporting them to paranormal sites. It would be greater if there were more official investigative and data collection sites available.

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NASA Released Photos of 10 km Mothership On Moon in Waterman Crater, Released By Accident, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: 2014, but want to post again for new viewers. 

Location of discovery: Earths moon, Waterman crater
Source photo:

•  https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS15-P-9589

Now I get alot of people asking me about the cover photo at the top of my website. They seem to believe it's fake, but it's an actual screenshot from a NASA photo I found many years ago. So I want to show you again for those new viewers to my site. 

When looking over the Apollo 15 panoramic images, I came across a photo that has a mothership in it. Its not a cloud. Clouds do not exist on the moon. So I enlarged the photo and saw that not only was it a ship, it looked a lot like the Star Ship Voyager from Star Trek.

Now this Ship sits inside the edge of Waterman Crater, very close to Tsiolkovskiy crater. Tsiolkovskiy crater is 185 km across long ways and about 160 across the short ways. Waterman is unknown. 15 of these ships would fit across the Tsiolkovskiy crater the short ways, therefore the mothership is just under 10.6 km in length.

 

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Alien face found in nebula 400 light years from Earth, Jan 2022, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Jan 28, 2022 

Location of discovery: Rho Ophiuchi cloud Nebula 

Source: 

• https://www.astroeder.com/rho-oph_eder_en.html

This face was found by me today when I was looking at some recent astronomy photos taken by astronomer Edar Ivan. Sometimes the most amazing discoveries are left undiscovered...right in front of our own noses. This photo unknowingly contains a giant alien face in the nebula. To see it on its website, go there, pull the photo off and onto your desktop, then rotate the photo right two times...because the face is upside. Now...can you see it? You know an alien species has hit the top of evolution when they have the power to manipulate and shape entire nebulas!

 

The face is of an extraordinarily ancient species, 8-14 billion years old, because only an ancient species has the ability to manipulate a nebula this way. Since astronomers say the universe is 14.5 billion years old...we have a max age to work with. And since Earth is 4.5 billion, we know humans are not nearly capable of such things. So we have a below minimum age...Thus my estimate of a species that started living on a planet 8-14 billion years ago 

Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

 

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UFO TO USO(A UFO SIGHTING)

UFO To USO caught accidentally during the filming of an documentary.

If you would like to send me your encounter please email me at TerrysTheories@outlook.com

Videos source YouTube channel RO FOO FIGHTER

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White UFO "Orb" Sighted During Flight From Atlanta, Georgia To New York's LaGuardia Airport.

This was filmed somewhere over Southern New Jersey on January 26, 2022.

The witness stated the following: "I filmed an orb flying outside the plane I was on. I was heading back to NY LGA from Atlanta and saw this out the window. I have to say that at the beginning of the trip I asked for something to show up. It was a sunny day, clear sky and I was in the mood. I don't know if this is why this showed up but I would say its a nice coincidence. I have to say though, that I am starting to feel that these are not coincidences. " He went on to add. " I tracked the flight info and found that at 4:04 the plane as just east of Philadelphia over southern NJ. I was looking out the east side of the plane. Also, quite interesting, At the end when the orb is moving away, I could barely see it with my eyes because it was so small. The jitter in the video is me touching the screen to focus. At the instance I touched the screen the orb shoots away. It's almost as if it was aware that I was watching it and got spooked with my focus action. So, it's not the orb that was effecting the video, it was me doing the focus thing and I might have affected the orb."
The witness used his iPhone 12 max to filmed this object...

This footage was emailed to me.. Thanks to Tom for sending this to me and allowing the use of your footage.

Black Triangular Shaped UFO Spotted Hovering Over Islamabad In Pakistan. January 25, 2022

The witness stated the following:

"I saw this when I was landing my drone, it hovered for over 2 hours at this spot when eventually it got dark and I couldn’t see it anymore." When asked if he had seen it move or leave he replied "It did move but very slowly, never left the area, saw until the sky went completely dark. It had no lights nor was it reflecting the sunlight much."

He added "This was around hours before the sunset, Saw this from my roof top."

When asked about the drone he had, this was his reply "I was landing my drone when I saw it, unfortunately had no juice in it or else I could’ve taken some epic footage!!" Indeed, that would have been some great footage...

Thanks to Arslan Warraich for allowing me the use of this footage and to view the original, unedited footage:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ6Sf...

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Alien Blood Types

15% of humans have a rare bloodtype known as Rh negative. See what experts have to say about a possible link to extraterrestrial modification of humans in this collection of scenes from “The Prototypes.”

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Everyone’s favorite spoon-bender (or least favorite or only one you know – he answers to all of them) has definitely decided it’s time to move towards becoming everyone’s favorite (or least … you get the idea) UFO and space alien whistleblower. Just one month after warning the world that ETs are already secretly here and are preparing to finally reveal themselves, he now claims a different group of “superior” beings are behind signals from a newly discovered mysterious neutron star and he’s warning NASA they’re on their way. Did someone at the space agency actually take his call?

Has he run out of spoons?

“A team mapping radio waves in the universe has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour and it’s unlike anything astronomers have seen before.”

Like any good magician (and even some bad ones), well-known psychic, illusionist, spoon-bender and TV personality Uri Geller opens with a bit of truth to lull us into a believing place. The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) just announced the discovery of a mysterious object 4,0000 light years away that is sending a periodic, low frequency but massive radio pulse every 18.18 min that astronomers worldwide are describing as “unlike anything” they have ever seen before. The researchers who found it think it could be a neutron star or a white dwarf with a highly unusual ultra-powerful magnetic field – a magnetar — but Uri called on NASA to set them straight.

“No doubt in my mind that this is connected to alien intelligence way way superior than ours. Start deciphering their messages! They are preparing us for a mass landing soon! #nasa #hoova #spectra #spectra #aliens.’’

That’s “way way superior” – Geller was obviously trying to convey in his own way-way a sense of urgency to people with PhDs in rocket science, astrophysics and subjects other than spoon-bending. How does he know these superior ETs are “preparing for a mass landing soon”? Hey, a good magician (and most bad magicians) never tell their secrets and Geller is obviously one of those. As always, he’s trying to squeeze the last drops out of his 15 minutes of fame and CIA connections which he earned participating in government parapsychology experiments in 1973 – nearly 50 years ago! Isn’t there a statute of limitations on these things?

“My dear friends …”

Uri apparently hopes that politeness counts when warning NASA of impending doom by invading extraterrestrials. It seems odd that only Uri could decipher these signals as messages when all of the scientists at NASA pegged them as radio blasts from a magnetar. Perhaps Uri misunderstood the study and thought they were looking for not a magnetar but a magna-STAR … which he obviously considers himself to be.

Then again … any story about Uri Geller brings out enough who believe what he says that he manages to maintain some modicum of relevance. If only he actually got a response from NASA …

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Mysterious object just 4,000 light years away from Earth releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour – and is unlike anything astronomers have seen before

• Mysterious object unlike anything ever seen in space discovered by astronomers

• 'Spooky' item was observed releasing a giant burst of energy three times an hour

• For one minute in every 20 the discovery is one of brightest objects in night sky

• Object may be a neutron star or a white dwarf with ultra-powerful magnetic field

By SAM TONKIN FOR MAILONLINE

A mysterious object that is just 4,000 light years away from Earth is unlike anything ever seen before in space, astronomers have said.

They think it could be a neutron star or a white dwarf – collapsed cores of stars – with an ultra-powerful magnetic field, also known as a magnetar. 

As it spins through the cosmos, the 'spooky' object sends out a beam of radiation, and for one minute in every 20 it is one of the brightest objects in the night sky.

Observations show it releasing a giant burst of energy three times an hour.  

'Spooky': A mysterious object that is just 4,000 light years away from Earth is unlike anything ever seen before in space, astronomers have said. Pictured is an artist's impression of what the object might look like if it's a magnetar, which is an incredibly magnetic neutron star

WHAT ARE NEUTRON STARS? 

Neutron stars are the collapsed, burnt-out cores of dead stars.

When large stars reach the end of their lives, their core will collapse, blowing off the outer layers of the star.

This leaves an extremely dense object known as a neutron star, which squashes more mass than is contained in the sun into the size of a city.

A neutron star typically would have a mass that's perhaps half-a-million times the mass of the Earth, but they're only about 20 kilometres (12 miles) across.

A handful of material from this star would weigh as much as Mount Everest.

They are very hot, perhaps a million degrees, highly radioactive, and have incredibly intense magnetic fields.

This makes them arguably the most hostile environments in the Universe today, according to Professor Patrick Sutton, head of Cardiff University's gravitational physics department.

The dense objects, in particular their cores, are key to our understanding of the universe's heavy elements.

The mysterious object that has just been discovered could also be a magnetar, which is an incredibly magnetic neutron star.

Astrophysicist Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker, from the Curtin University, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Australia, led the team that made the discovery.

Her team was mapping radio waves in the universe when they came across the potential 'magnetar'.

She said: 'This object was appearing and disappearing over a few hours during our observations.

'That was completely unexpected. It was kind of spooky for an astronomer because there's nothing known in the sky that does that.

'And it's really quite close to us — about 4,000 light years away. It's in our galactic backyard.'

Dr Hurley-Walker added that the observations match a predicted astrophysical object called an 'ultra-long period magnetar'.

'It's a type of slowly spinning neutron star that has been predicted to exist theoretically,' she said.

'But nobody expected to directly detect one like this, because we didn't expect them to be so bright.

'Somehow it's converting magnetic energy to radio waves much more effectively than anything we've seen before.'

Curtin University Honours student Tyrone O'Doherty discovered the object using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope in outback Western Australia.

He said: 'It's exciting that the source I identified last year has turned out to be such a peculiar object.

'The MWA's wide field of view and extreme sensitivity are perfect for surveying the entire sky and detecting the unexpected.'

Objects that turn on and off in the universe are not new, and astronomers call them transients, with some appearing over the course of a few days and disappearing after a few months, and others flashing on and off within milliseconds or seconds.

However, ICRAR-Curtin astrophysicist and co-author Dr Gemma Anderson said finding something that turned on for just a minute made the new discovery unusual.

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This image shows the Milky Way as viewed from Earth. The star icon shows the position of the mysterious object astronomers have discovered

Curtin University Honours student Tyrone O'Doherty discovered the object using the Murchison Widefield Array telescope (pictured) in outback Western Australia

She explained that the mysterious object was incredibly bright and smaller than the sun, emitting the kind of radio waves that suggested it had an extremely strong magnetic field.

Dr Anderson added that 'when studying transients, you're watching the death of a massive star or the activity of the remnants it leaves behind.'

The researchers are now monitoring the object to see if it switches back on, and plan to search for ore of these unusual objects in the vast archives of the MWA.

'If it does, there are telescopes across the Southern Hemisphere and even in orbit that can point straight to it,' Dr Hurley-Walker said. 

'More detections will tell astronomers whether this was a rare one-off event or a vast new population we'd never noticed before.'

The findings are published in the journal Nature.

SKA WILL BE THE WORLD'S LARGEST RADIO TELESCOPE 

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a joint project between Australia and South Africa, will be the world’s largest radio telescope. 

More sensitive than any current radio telescope, it will enable scientists to study the universe in more detail than ever before. 

The telescope will be located in South Africa and Australia, with the international headquarters located at Jodrell Bank, in the UK. 

Nearly 200 mid-frequency dishes (including the existing MeerKAT facility which was officially launched in July 2018) will be located in the Karoo region of South Africa. 

Artist's impression of the 3-mile (5km) diameter central core of Square Kilometre Array (SKA) antennas

Around 130,000 low-frequency antennas will be located in Western Australia.

Both sites are far from sources of radio frequency interference which will allow for very sensitive measurements to be undertaken. 

The SKA will be made up of 2 instruments, SKA-mid (the dishes) and SKA-low (the antennas). 

The signals from the dishes will be transported via optical fibre to a central computer where they will be combined using a technique called interferometry. 

Similarly the signal from all of the antennas will also be combined and converted to scientific data that astronomers will use to study the universe. 

Source: UKRI 

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Those who take the view that the UFO phenomenon has no reality to it should take a look at some, hard-to-deny, cases involving military pilots. And, guess what? That’s the theme of today’s article: reports of UFOs by expertise pilots. We’ll begin with a 1973 military helicopter incident. One of the most notable UFO encounters ever recorded occurred shortly after 11:00 p.m. on October 18, 1973. That the prime witnesses were serving members of the U.S. Army Reserve only added to the credibility of the report. Having departed from Port Columbus, Ohio, their UH-1H helicopter was headed for its home base at Cleveland Hopkins Airport. Aboard were Captain Lawrence J. Coyne; Sergeant John Healey, the flight-medic; First Lieutenant Arrigo Jezzi, a chemical engineer; and a computer technician, Sergeant Robert Yanacsek. All seemed normal as the crew climbed into the air and kept the helicopter at a steady 2,500 feet altitude. But approximately ten miles from Mansfield, they noticed a “single red light” to the west that was moving slowly in a southerly direction. Initially they thought the object might be an F-100 aircraft operating out of Mansfield. Nevertheless, Coyne advised Yanacsek to “keep an eye on it.”

These were wise words, as suddenly the unidentified light changed its course and began to head directly for them. Captain Coyne immediately swung into action, putting the helicopter into an emergency descent, dropping 500 feet per minute. Equally alarming was the fact that radio contact with Mansfield Tower could no longer be established, and both UHF and VHF frequencies were utterly dead, too. When it seemed that a fatal collision was all but imminent, the red light came to a halt, hovering menacingly in front of the helicopter and its startled crew. At that close proximity to the object, Captain Coyne and his team were able to determine that this was no mere light in the sky. Coyne, Healey, and Yanacsek agreed that the object before them was a large, gray-colored, cigar-shaped vehicle, which they described as being somewhat “domed,” and with “a suggestion of windows.”

(Nick Redfern)

They could now see that the red light was coming from the bow section of the object. Then without warning, a green “pyramid shaped” shaft of light emanated from the object, passed over the nose of the helicopter, swung up through the windshield, and entered the tinted, upper window panels. Suddenly the interior of the helicopter was bathed in an eerie green light. A handful of seconds later the object shot off toward Lake Erie. But the danger was still not over. To the crew’s concern, the altimeter showed an altitude of 3,500 feet and a climbing ascent of 1,000 feet per minute, even though the stick was still geared for descent. The helicopter reached a height of 3,800 feet before Captain Coyne was able to safely and finally regain control of the helicopter. Shortly thereafter, all radio frequencies returned to normal and Coyne proceeded on to Cleveland Hopkins Airport without further problems. Moving on…

One of the more interesting UFO-themed documents – that demonstrates post-Project Blue Book, 1969 interest in the UFO puzzle – focuses on those strange Flying Triangle-type UFOs, specifically over Belgium in the 1989-1990 time-frame. The story originates with the U.S. Department of Defense and is titled “Belgium and the UFO Issue.” Circulated widely among the U.S. Intelligence community, it reveals the following: “Numerous UFO sightings have been made in Belgium since Nov 89. The credibility of some individuals making the reports is good…Investigation by BAF [Belgian Air Force] continues.” In a January 1997 interview, Nick Pope told me of this affair: “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.”

(Nick Redfern)

The late U.K. UFO researcher, Omar Fowler, with a model of one of the “Flying Triangles”

Now, let’s have a look at the U.K. and its pilots and UFOs. At around 10:20 a.m., on the morning of April 29, 1957, two British Royal Air Force Hunter aircraft took to the skies from an RAF base called Odiham, located in the English county of Hampshire. The plan was for the aircraft to take part in a mid-air military training exercise. Things didn’t quite turn out as planned, however. When the planes reached a height of roughly 45,000-feet, one of the pilots found himself confronted by what can only be described as an undeniable, unidentified flying object. The official Air Ministry report on the affair states: “…when over Hayling Island Mission 28 No. 2 saw a large white object at 10 o’clock slightly above. The object was circular with a white slightly curving tail hanging below. The time was approx. 1110. Formation leader was informed and both pairs turned east onto a northerly heading to look for the object. At first the object was thought to be a parachute but later it was realized that the object must have been larger and at a greater distance because of the slow passing speed.”

One of the most fascinating of all UFO pilot-based encounters – an incident that almost resulted in a mid-air collision between a UFO and a Meteor jet – occurred over Royal Air Force Gaydon, Warwickshire, England, on the night of October 21, 1957. Less than a week later, the UK media was chasing down the story. Describing RAF Gaydon as “one of the RAF’s top V-bomber stations,” the Sunday Express newspaper stated that the Air Ministry (today, the Ministry of Defense) had taken rapid steps to get to the heart of the mystery. Reportedly, the UFO was seen visually by the pilot and tracked by ground-radar personnel – and only a few minutes apart. Questions, unsurprisingly, were quickly being asked: could the UFO actually have been a Soviet spy-plane? It was certainly a scenario that the Air Ministry felt important enough to address. Although – as will become apparent – the description given by the pilot did not sound like that of the average Russian aircraft. Plus, six days after the event occurred, Air Ministry staff were still scratching their heads. The reports can still be found in the U.K.’s National Archive.

(Nick Redfern)

The National Archives, where the U.K. Ministry of Defense’s pilot-based UFO reports are held.

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If you see Black Hawk helicopters streaking across the night sky over your state chasing a vaguely unidentifiable flying object, what would you think? Welcome to Durham, Connecticut, where a security camera filmed just such an event recently and the debate over what exactly happened is loud and somewhat inconclusive.

“Raw Security Camera Footage of the 2 Blackhawks escorting a tic tac glowing orb UFO. Recorded 6:45pm Thursday Jan 20, 2022.”

The video (watch it here) was first uploaded on January 23, 2022, on the YouTube channel AlienScientist with the above explanation. No other details were provided, leaving the 24-second video open for speculation. A number of commenters saw this as not two but three Black Hawks in some kind of military operation. While Connecticut does have military bases, any Black Hawks helicopters would most likely be coming from Sikorsky Aircraft (owned by Lockheed) – makers of the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawks and other military helicopters.

UH-60 Black Hawk

One commenter claiming to be a “Blackhawk instructor pilot” said it was “just 3 birds doing a NVG formation flight using standard SOP lighting for a multi ship flight.” That would be a night-vision-goggle” formation using “standing operating procedure” lighting. However, it seems strange – and dangerous – for the lead craft to be flying with no lights. That made most commenters lean heavily towards the “three helicopters” diagnosis … but that didn’t stop others from seeing a UFO chase.

“2 Blackhawks chasing a UFO in Durham CT 1/20/22”

One would think that the members of Reddit’s UFO subreddit f/UFOs would give the poster the benefit of the doubt, but many commenters surprisingly went right to the “three helicopters” conclusion as well. A number of commenters there point out that one can see a searchlight on the ground under the three crafts and a tiny dot of light on the lead one, suggesting it’s a chopper.

“Black Hawk helicopters ‘filmed chasing tic-tac UFO across sky’ above Connecticut town”

Of course, that didn’t stop The Daily Star from calling the unidentified aerial phenomena a “tic-tac UFO” – thus activating Internet scanners around the globe hoping the tic-tac UFOs are back to distract everyone from the latest bad news everywhere. Using the same video and lack of any additional information as everyone else, the Star and The Sun and other media sources went down the tic-tac rabbit hole.

“According to multiple flight trackers it was two Sikorsky UH-60M Blackhawk’s Registration numbers 20-21105 and 20-21106, We were tracking them on 8kun as we always do. They took of at Long Island MacArthur Airport at 6:16pm and flew in a zig-zag pattern over to Westover Air Reserve Base(I don’t think they landed but I’m not 100%). then flew around Mt Tom State Reservation and Skinner State Park mountain’s then flew straight back to Long Island MacArthur Airport.”

That would be a drop-the-mic analysis of readily available public evidence by a YouTube commenter except for one thing – the video sure looks like THREE flying objects … especially at the end when each one goes into a cloud.

It’s so much easier to identify close-up in the daylight.

So, what did this security camera record? Without any other information, questionable tracking data and no substantiated on-the-ground witnesses, the needle is on the ‘three helicopters with one doing something weird in a military operation’ side. It’s these types of second-hand sightings — security cam footage with no human witnesses – that make UFO analysis so difficult and frustrating. It’s why the Pentagon is sticking with pilot and radar sightings that are easier to verify … although obviously still difficult to diagnose.

At least the good folks of Durham can rest easier tonight. Or can they?

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Weird Facts About Black Holes

Imagine a place where all matter is squeezed in so tight that nothing at all can escape. Planets, moons even light in fact nothing at all! The gravitational force is so large that anything coming even remotely close to it is sucked in, this, in essence, defines a black hole. But how did they come to be? Check out these 7 facts below about these amazing objects.

1. X-ray astronomy discovered the very first black hole.

The very first black hole ever discovered named Cygnus X-1 was discovered way back in the 1960s, but it wasn’t actually identified as a black hole for at least another decade. NASA state that Cygnus X-1 is around 10 times bigger than our sun,  a nearby giant star which is around 20 times bigger than our sun is bleeding due to the massive X-ray emission coming from the black hole.

2.  What does a black hole look like?

A black hole is ‘black’ meaning no light can escape from it, this means it is impossible to see or sense a black hole using any of our instruments. The key (according to NASA), to actually see a black hole is to study the effects it has on its environment. Passing stars are ripped to shreds by the black hole due to the massive pull on them, when this happens the matter from the star gets brighter and hotter, glowing in X-rays.

3. How big is a black hole?

NASA says that there are at least three types of black hole ranging from ‘relative squeakers’ to black holes that dominate an entire galaxy. The smallest black holes are called Primordial ranging from the size of 1 atom to the size of a mountain, the most common black holes are Stellar black holes and can be up to 20 times the size of our sun – there are dozens of them in the Milky Way. Supermassive Black Holes are the really big ones at the centres of galaxies, more than 1 million times bigger than the sun.

4. The Milky Way has a black hole!

Are we in any danger you ask right? Well no, astronomers have confirmed we are ok you will be pleased to read, although our Milky Way almost definitely has a supermassive black hole in its centre. Don’t panic we are nowhere near this although we can see its effects from where we are.

5. How does a black hole form?

When our sun eventually dies it will go quietly, as the nuclear fuel burns away the sun will slowly fade into a white star, however that is not the case for bigger stars. When the massive stars run out of fuel gravity will overwhelm the star and it will loose its stable shape, this is called a supernova. The core that remains after the supernova collapses is called a singularity, which is basically a spot of infinite density with next to no volume… a black hole!

6.  What is inside a black hole?

Imagine if a person fell into a black hole, while another person watches. From the watchers perspective, the person who fell into the black hole time goes much slower, or as Einstein put it time is affected by how fast you go. A black hole warps time and space on such a level that for anything inside it time is much slower from the outside, while from the perspective of inside time seems normal. Did you get that?

7. Science Fiction uses black holes all the time

Many, many films feature black holes. You must have seen most of them right? Interstellar features a journey through a black hole, Event Horizon explores black holes and the phenomenon that they create and of course, Star Trek features them heavily.

8. Black Holes Distort Time and Space Around Them

If you happened to fly near a black hole, its extreme gravitational pull would increasingly slow down time and warp space. You'd be tugged ever closer, gradually joining an accretion disk of orbiting space material (stars, gases, dust, planets) spiraling inward toward the event horizon or "point of no return." Once you crossed this boundary, gravity would overcome all chances of escape and you'd be super-stretched, or "spaghettified" as you plunged toward the singularity at the black hole's center — an inconceivably small point with a monstrous mass where gravity and density theoretically approach infinity and space-time curves infinitely. In other words, you'd be gobbled up and annihilated in a place that utterly defies the laws of physics as we understand them.

Take a simulated journey

9. Black Holes Come in Miniature, Middling and Mammoth Sizes

Middling-sized stellar-mass black holes are the most common type. They form when a massive dying star, or supernova, explodes and the remaining core collapses from the weight of its own gravity. Eventually, it compresses into a tiny, infinitely dense singularity that forms the center. In truth, then, black holes aren't really holes, but points of highly compacted matter with outsized gravitational footprints. Stellar-mass black holes typically weigh about 10 times more than our sun, though scientists have discovered a few that are significantly larger.

Supermassive black holes are the biggest in the universe, some with masses billions of times that of our sun. Scientists don't fully understand how they form, but these enormous celestial mind-bogglers may have appeared shortly after the Big Bang and are believed to exist at the center of every galaxy, even the tiniest ones. Our own Milky Way galaxy spirals around Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A*), which contains the mass of about 4 million suns.

Researchers have also recently discovered stealth black holes that appear to devour material and gases at a slower rate, meaning fewer X-rays are emitted so they're harder to detect. Astronomers also believe there are tiny primordial black holes formed in the seconds after the Big Bang. These mini-mysteries have yet to be observed, but the smallest may be more minuscule than an atom (but with the mass of an asteroid), and the universe may be swarming with them.

10. There Are Too Many Black Holes to Count

The Milky Way galaxy alone is thought to harbor between 10 million to one billion stellar-mass black holes, plus supermassive Sgr A* at its heart. With 100 billion galaxies out there, each with millions of stellar-mass black holes and a core supermassive monster (not to mention other types being discovered), it's like trying to count grains of sand.

11. Black Holes Devour Things — and Regularly Spit Them Out

Rest-assured, black holes don't roam the universe like hungry predators, stalking planets and other space prey for dinner. Rather, these heavenly beasts feast on material that orbits too close, like this unfortunate star that scientists have watched being swallowed for the last decade (the longest black-hole meal ever recorded). The good news is that Earth isn't on a collision course with any known black holes.

But just because we're unlikely to be slurped down, doesn't mean we shouldn't worry. That's because Sgr A* (and presumably other supermassive behemoths) occasionally fling out planet-sized "spitballs" that could someday do us in.

How do spitballs escape a black hole's clutches? They're actually made of matter that slips from the accretion disk before passing the point of no return and coalesces into chunks. In the case of Sgr A*, these hefty pieces are spewed into our galaxy at up to 20 million miles per hour. Here's hoping one never zooms too close to our solar system.

12. Supermassive Black Holes Also Give Birth to Stars and Determine How Many Stars a Galaxy Gets

In the same way that planet-sized fragments are expelled from the accretion disk, a recent discovery shows that behemoth black holes occasionally unloose enough material to form whole new stars. Even more remarkable, some even land in deep space, well beyond their galaxy of origin.

And a 2018 study in the journal Nature suggests that supermassive black holes not only create new stars, they control how many stars a galaxy gets by directly impacting how quickly the process of star formation turns off. Star formation, perhaps strangely, stops more quickly in galaxies with smaller — in a manner of speaking — black holes at the center.

Learn more about black-hole star formation

The new Event Horizon Telescope — powered by nine of the world's highest-resolution telescopes — recently took first-time photos of the event horizons surrounding two black holes. One is our own Sgr A* and the other is a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, 53 million light-years away. The image of the latter, now dubbed Powehi, astonished astronomers in April 2019, but the photo session also raised new interest in ongoing questions about what black holes look like and the mind-warping laws of physics that drive them.

14. Yet Another Black Hole Head-Scratcher

Astronomers in South Africa recently stumbled upon a region of distant space where supermassive black holes in several galaxies are aligned in the same direction. That is, their gas emissions all jet out as though they were synchronized by design. Current theories can't explain how black holes up to 300 million light-years apart appear to be acting in concert. In fact, the only way it's possible, say researchers, is if these black holes are spinning in the same direction — something that may have occurred during galaxy formation in the early universe.

Famous Black Holes

• Cygnus X-1: a stellar-mass black hole and x-ray source that lies some 6,500 light-years away. It is a binary system that contains a blue supergiant variable star and the x-ray source thought to be the black hole.
• Sagittarius A*: the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy. It lies in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. This black hole contains the mass of about 4 million suns.
• M87: this elliptical galaxy has a 3.5 billion solar-mass black hole at its heart. The black hole is surrounded by a disk of superheated material and has a jet of superheated material streaming away from the black hole that extends across 5,000 light-years from the galaxy’s core.
• Centaurus A: this galaxy, which lies in the direction of the constellation Centaurus, is a giant spiral galaxy with an incredibly active nucleus. It contains a 55 million solar-mass black hole at its heart, with two jets of material that stream away from the galaxy at about half the speed of light across a million light-years of space.

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3 UFOs over Ithaca, New York Seen Very Close Up! Video, Jan 26, 2022

Date of sighting: January 26, 2022
Location of sighting: Ithaca, New York, USA
Source: MUFON

 

Watch this amazing video as several glowing objects are seen crossing the sky over NewYork this week. The objects are following each other and moving silently. Glowing powerfully, they are easy to make out in the darkness of night. Many alien craft want to be seen. Some say its the aliens way of easing humanity into knowing that they exist, little by little in order to not create panic. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

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Ancient Alien Sphinx Found On Mars In Recent NASA Photo, UFO Sighting News. 

Date of discovery: January 2022

Location of discovery: Mars, MSL 3361 MR

Source photo: 

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Look carefully and you will see some faces hidden among the Mars hillside. One face is like that of a lion made atop a rectangle entrance to a structure. It's a sphinx similar to that found in Giza, Egypt. The other face is nearby the first, built into the hill itself. The fact that there are two ancient faces so close in the same Mars photo is proof it's more than coincidence. These structures are 100% proof that an ancient alien species once existed on Mars and they had a high enough intelligence to make likenesses of themselves caved in stone, so they would not be forgotten...even thousands of years later. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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The Most Credible UFO Case From United Kingdom: It Happened In British Channel

It’s difficult to say which UFO sighting is more credible. The world has witnessed incredible UFO footage and photographs in recent years. In 2007, one of the most under-reported yet significant sightings occurred over the British Channel Island of Alderney.

On April 23, 2007, two airline pilots witnessed a mystery mile-wide object hovering off the coast of Alderney. Captain Ray Bowyer (then 50) of British airline Aurigny was flying a robust turboprop airplane with 5 people on board. It was a short journey of 80 miles (130 kilometers) from Southampton, England to Alderney.

Captain Bowyer saw a “bright-yellow-light with a green area” 10 miles west of Alderney during a 40-minute flight at around 3 p.m. When he saw the light, he was only 30 miles away from the island and sailing at 4000 feet. He initially assumed it was a reflection of sunshine from a Guernsey glasshouse.

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On November 11, 2007, Ray Bowyer spoke to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. about his sighting.

(Photo courtesy of James Fox)

Captain Bowyer thought it odd that the plane remained immobile as it approached the brilliant light. He took out his binoculars for a closer look and was taken aback when he saw a massive, wide object. A cigar-shaped object with pointed ends was radiating bright yellow light, according to him. A dark grey band ran roughly one-third of the way down the right side, covering it.

“I assumed it was around ten miles distant, but it turned out to be about 40 miles away. “At first, I mistook it for a Boeing 737,” he explained. Captain Bowyer stated that the UFO was below the plane at a height of 2000 feet. He lowered the plane’s nose slightly to give the passengers a better view of the object.

Captain Bowyer was already in a dangerous situation. His mind split into two directions: closer to the object or away from it. He found the thing to be palpable, theeforre he opted to pass because he needed to protect the passengers. “I’m not implying that it was something out of this world. All I’m saying is that in all my years of flying, I’ve never seen anything like it,” he continued.

Meanwhile, he inquired about aviation traffic in the vicinity of the Jersey Air Traffic Control Centre. According to Paul Kelly, the on-duty air traffic controller, there were no other planes flying that route. However, something was identified around seven miles west of Alderney by radar. As a result of this information, Captain Bowyer was able to estimate the size of the object, which was estimated to be roughly a mile long.

The oddness didn’t stop there. Captain Bowyer encountered a second UFO after a few minutes, which was identical to the first but appeared to be smaller and further away. Both objects were discovered at a height of 2,000 feet. Surprisingly, while on route to Jersey, another Blue Islands airline pilot verified a similar sighting. The second pilot noticed the item while flying south of Sark Island at a height of 3,500 feet, according to Kelly.

The sighting lasted 15 minutes, according to Captain Bowyer, and he intended to explore it further, but he landed at Alderney to ensure the safety of his passengers.

On April 23, 2007, Captain Ray Bowyer flew a similar aircraft, as depicted in this illustration.

The bizarre UFO sighting was also corroborated by two visitors who stayed in a hotel at Sark during that time, according to BBC radio. They went out for an afternoon walk when they noticed weird things in the sky heading towards Alderney.

The item appeared on the radar for 55 minutes, according to reports from Captain Bowyer, the Blue Islands pilot, and Jersey Airport Radar Control, and a gradual movement was also detected. A similar UFO activity had been observed above the Alderney coast just a few weeks before the Alderney UFO event. However, the possibility of a UFO was ruled out by referring to it as an atmospheric occurrence.

The Alderney event caused quite a stir in the media. Guernsey Press initially reported this story on April 28. Meanwhile, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) started looking into the matter.

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On Oct. 16, 1957, Ray Bowyer witnessed a similar UFO near Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico, which was documented by a US government employee.

Captain Bowyer disclosed on prime time television that he had been collaborating with Sheffield Hallam University’s Dr. David Clarke to discover more about his sighting. Miss Ella Louise Fortune, a Welfare Nurse at Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation at Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico, photographed an object that looked like a UFO on October 16, 1957, according to Bowyer.

Several theories have been proposed to refute the UFO theory, including the sun dog effect and most likely military aircraft. Troy Queripel, a Flybe airline pilot, speculated that it could have been military secret testing of new equipment. Captain Bowyer, on the other hand, refuted all of these claims. He assured that the objects were not created by aircraft or natural phenomena. In his 20 years of flying, he had never seen anything like that.

The Ministry of Defense ended its investigation into the Channels sighting after a month because there was no threat to the UK’s national defense. They came to the conclusion that the incident occurred over French airspace. The case has yet to be solved.

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Top 10 Times Joe Rogan Discussed Aliens

If it involves aliens, you can bet this podcast host will discuss it. For this list, we’ll be looking at times the host of the Joe Rogan Experience and his guests talked about extraterrestrial life. Our countdown includes Former CIA Agent Mike Baker on UFOs, Neil deGrasse Tyson on Stephen Hawking’s Warning, Christopher Mellon on UFOs, and more! What are your thoughts on aliens? Let us know in the comments!

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The Real ‘Fire in the Sky’ – New Discovery+ Special Tells the True Story Behind the Movie [Trailer]

John Squires

In the wake of their documentary special Scream: The True Story, the discovery+ series “Shock Docs” is back with a brand new upcoming episode looking at the real Fire in the Sky.

Based on Travis Walton’s book, The Walton Experience, the 1993 movie Fire in the Sky follows a community shaken by the sudden disappearance of a local logger. He reappears 5 days later, seriously disturbed and with bizarre claims he’s been abducted by aliens. The “Shock Docs” special “Alien Abduction: Travis Walton” examines the real-life Fire in the Sky.

The special launches February 18, alongside “Alien Abduction: Betty and Barney Hill.”

Here’s everything you need to know about both new specials, with trailers below…

“The U.S. government has confirmed the existence of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAPs) – aka UFOs-  and is currently establishing a new commission to study these incidents in a more serious and open manner.  While the government reports do not confirm or debunk the existence of alien life, it has reignited worldwide interest in the existence of extraterrestrials and sets the perfect stage to take a look back at two of the most well-documented alleged UFO abduction cases in history. In two all-new Shock Docs, discovery+ presents the real stories, recounted by the eyewitnesses and victims themselves, and supported by exclusive audio and hypnosis tapes, of the most fascinating and frightening close encounters ever to be reported.

“With new forensic technologies not available in the 60s and 70s, and access to the remarkably preserved physical evidence from these two cases, investigators re-examine the key pieces of evidence to see if they can prove that humans have had physical contact with extraterrestrials. The Shock Docs reveal new discoveries in both of these cases. In the Walton case, which took place in Arizona in 1975, unique tree ring growth may prove where the UFO was hovering and separately, the program uncovers details behind the man who led a complex plot to debunk Travis’s story.   In the Hill case, which took place in New Hampshire in 1961, UFO expert Ben Hansen and his team run DNA testing on Betty Hill’s dress and corroborated parts of Betty’s examination story.”

“Even after decades, these are still active cases,” said Hansen.  “We’ve been following up on leads and field research in the last few years that have uncovered incredible discoveries. As the world is hearing official confirmation of the existence of UAPs that may be of extraterrestrial origin, we now have to ask the next question: how up close and personal are these visits? And, no matter the agenda of these visitors, the vivid and dramatic details of the encounters in these historic cases should make everyone pause and wonder what might be coming.”

ALIEN ABDUCTION: BETTY AND BARNEY HILL

In September 1961, Betty and Barney Hill are driving home to New Hampshire from a honeymoon trip when they make a shocking discovery and come face to face with a UFO.  When they cannot shake the feeling that something more happened, the Hills undergo regressive hypnosis. Here they recall a terrifying ordeal of being abducted and experimented on by extraterrestrial beings aboard their UFO.

When their story is leaked to the press, Betty and Barney Hill receive global attention as the world’s first widely-reported alien abductees. They become pop culture figures through a best-selling book, magazine excerpts, and numerous media appearances. Decades later, in an intimate first-person interview their niece, Kathleen Marden, walks us through her lifelong mission to expose the truth behind the Betty and Barney Hill alien abduction.  She has revisited their story by searching through documents, witness testimony and physical evidence to find the truth.

ALIEN ABDUCTION: TRAVIS WALTON

On November 5, 1975, a seven-person logging crew drives home after a long workday in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest when they suddenly encounter a UFO.  One of the men, 22-year-old Travis Walton, gets out of the truck to investigate.  His crewmates are horrified when they witness a bolt of blue light flash from the alien ship that knocks Travis to the forest floor.

Fearing Travis dead, the crewmates flee back to town and call the Sheriff.  When a search of the area turns up no sign of Travis, puzzling questions arise.  Was Travis truly abducted by aliens?  Or did his coworkers murder Travis or have something to do with his disappearance and concoct the UFO story to cover their tracks?

The six crewmen pass polygraph examinations, but rumors persist.  The Walton story becomes an international media sensation and pushes the residents of rural Snowflake, Arizona to the brink.  Years later, the film Fire in the Sky brings awareness of the story to a whole new group of UFO investigators.  They uncover physical evidence that may prove alien visitation of planet earth.

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AWESOME PHOTO SHOWS JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE IN DEEP SPACE HOME

IT'S AMAZING.

NASA

Parking Spot

Breathe easy, fellow space nerds. 

The much-anticipated James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is unfurled and parked in its final orbit, roughly one million miles away from Earth.

While we’ll likely never see it up close and personal ever again, a remotely-controlled telescope has provided us with one of the first images of the Webb in orbit — showing the JWST as a distant dot that’s virtually indistinguishable amongst the stars and galaxies in the image. 

Check out the photo for yourself below:

Credit: Virtual Telescope Project

Robot Astronomer

The stunning image itself was captured by a 17-inch telescope dubbed “Elena.” It’s managed by the Virtual Telescope Project 2.0, which provides astronomers access to two remotely-controlled robotic telescopes in Rome, Italy. 

The photo was snapped just as the Webb arrived at its final destination at the Lagrange Point 2 (L2) — and if that’s not enough for you, they were able to cobble together a short video of it moving through the inky blackness of space. 

Webb’s Future

NASA initially estimated that the Webb had enough fuel for a roughly 10 year mission. During that time, scientists hope that it’ll provide us with the most detailed — and hopefully revealing — images of deep space we’ve ever seen.  

However, some experts believe it’ll be able to work for a lot longer than that. 

“You’ve heard numbers around 20 years. We think that’s probably a good ballpark,” Keith Parrish, the JWST observatory commissioning manager at NASA, said in a press teleconference attended by SpaceNews  after the Webb reached L2 on Monday.  “This is capping off just a remarkable 30 days.”

So hopefully, we’ll have plenty more images of — and from — the Webb for a long time to come. 

More on James Webb Space Telescope: 

• Famed Physicist: Soon-to-Launch Telescope Likely to Discover Alien Life

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NASA may have discovered evidence of ancient life on Mars

By Joshua Hawkins

NASA’s Curiosity Rover continues to send back new information about the Red Planet on a frequent basis. The latest discovery brings news of an interesting carbon signature that we didn’t expect to see on Mars. Following analyzations of rock samples returned by the rover, NASA announced that several of the samples are rich in a carbon type that we see on Earth, too. The signature, NASA claims, is most often associated with biological processes, which could give more credence to the possibility of life on Mars.

NASA Curiosity Rover samples bring more intriguing news

Of course, like many previous samples recovered from the Red Planet, these new ones continue to raise new questions. It’s worth noting that the existence of the carbon type on Mars isn’t necessarily proof of ancient life. A new study says that the signature could be proof of ancient life. However, it could also just be the result of an interaction between carbon dioxide and ultraviolet light. Additionally, it could be the remnants of carbon left behind after a major cosmic event that happened millions of years ago.

With so many possibilities, the samples continue to give NASA and other scientists plenty to think about. “We’re finding things on Mars that are tantalizing interesting,” Paul Mahaffy, a former Curiosity investigator stated in an announcement on NASA’s website. “But we really need more evidence to say we’ve identified life.”

Mahaffy also noted that the team behind Curiosity is looking at other possibilities behind the carbon signatures they discovered in the Curiosity Rover samples. The scientists published their study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences earlier this year. The authors break down their hypotheses as well as more information about the findings.

Letting go of Earth bias

It’s very easy to look at the data from these samples and to say that we’ve found proof of life. However, the reality of the situation isn’t that simple.

“The hardest thing is letting go of Earth and letting go of that bias that we have and really trying to get into the fundamentals of the chemistry, physics, and environmental processes on Mars” Jennifer L. Eigenbrode, an astrobiologist with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, wrote in the announcement.

Eigenbrode says that we have to really open our minds and think outside the box. Once we do that, we can start to truly decode the data that we’re discovering on Mars. If we don’t do that we could end up misinterpreting the data that the Curiosity Rover samples have provided. This could jeopardize any missions to the Red Planet in the future.

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According to a new study that focused on numerous Martian craters, it is believed that the Red Planet has been hit steadily with asteroids for at least the last 600 million years.

A team of scientists came up with this time frame based on the analysis of crater formations around the planet. They used a crater detection algorithm system to study 521 impact craters that all had a diameter that was more than 12 miles (19.3 kilometers). Interestingly, just 49 of those craters appeared in the last 600 million years; however, they were formed at a very steady rate. This information disputes previous work that indicated asteroid impacts were not consistent and happened in “spikes” throughout the last 600 million years that were caused by massive asteroids that broke up in space and sent many smaller chunks onto the planet.

In a statement, Anthony Lagain, who is a research fellow and planetary scientist at Australia’s Curtin University, went into further details, “When big bodies smash into each other, they break into pieces or debris, which is thought to have an effect on the creation of impact craters,” adding, “Our study shows it is unlikely that debris resulted in any changes to the formation of impact craters on planetary surfaces.”

Furthermore, the “Ordovician spike” that happened approximately 470 million years ago may have been “[crater] preservation bias rather than a real increase in the asteroid impact flux,” the authors noted. Their study was published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters where it can be read in full.

A picture of one of the Martian craters can be seen here.

This new algorithm may even help scientists in studying lunar craters in greater detail as explained by Professor Gretchen Benedix, “The formation of thousands of lunar craters can now be dated automatically, and their formation frequency analysed at a higher resolution to investigate their evolution.”

It was previously reported that about 800 million years ago, the moon and Earth were hit with a gigantic meteor shower that sent between 40 and 50 trillion metric tons of meteoroids onto our planet. Researchers were able to calculate this by studying 59 lunar craters that measured at least 12 miles in width, thanks to data collected by the Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft Kaguya.

It was later revealed that between 3.5 and 2.5 billion years ago when Earth was very young, it suffered a pretty steady bombardment of enormous asteroids about the size of a city with some of them even being as massive as a province. These giant impacts occurred about every 15 million years.

I guess Mars wasn’t the only planet that suffered a consistent pounding of asteroids.

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An interesting encounter between a U.S. military pilot and a UFO over Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 2018 surface this week thanks to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by The Drive, and the cache received included FAA documents, a video of the UFO and an audio of the conversation between the Air Force pilot, who was flying a small private plane at the time, and the FAA. (See and hear them here.) An even more interesting comment on the YouTube video made a connection between the UFO and a famous group of aliens connected to New Jersey – the Biaviians. Let’s check out both – starting with the pilot’s account.

Atlantic City

The Drive does its usual excellent job of dissecting the FOIA package. The unidentified pilot was flying a Diamond DA40 light aircraft at more than 2,000 feet above Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 16th, 2018, when he saw the UFO and had a passenger in the plane who recorded it. He at first thought it was balloons, but changed his mind when the object climbed along with him, mirroring his actions. He didn’t think it was a drone – although the object had a “strange v-shaped antenna and a payload hanging off the bottom” that could have been a camera. The pilot himself used the term “unidentified flying object” and commented on how the object outmaneuvered his private plane. In response, the air traffic controller said this:

“You’re kind of rattled, aren’t you? You’re not the first, just so you know.”

The Drive notes that FAA records show several other UAS (unmanned aerial system), including one a few months before this one. That observation seems to connect the dots to a dot from the YouTube audio recording of the FAA conversation – the ‘dot’ being this comment:

“It’s the Biavians. Riley Martin has reported extensively of these sightings at the Jersey Shore over the years. He has witnessed them first hand. Unfortunately everyone thought he was a kook when he talked about them. R.I.P. Riley.”

Those who follow UFO contactees may remember Riley Lee Martin, who claimed he was abducted at the age of 7 in 1953. From Arkansas, he said he was taken by two aliens to their mothership near Saturn. He said he was abducted again at 18 and that time the aliens placed a headset on him and downloaded 144,000 different symbols, the history of humanity, alien insights, and more. Riley referred to these aliens as the Biaviians (from the planet Biaveh of the Taurus constellation — drawing here) and his primary contact and friend as O-Qua Tangin Wann or just Tan. He told his stories on both mainstream and paranormal shows like The Howard Stern Show (where Riley was part of the Wack Pack) , Coast to Coast AM, The Jerry Springer Show and his own The Riley Martin Show.

Riley and his wife Joy resided in New Jersey and he wrote a book ‘co-authored’ by Tan titled “The Coming of Tan: Past, Present and Future of Humanity, Extraterrestrial Attention, Environmental C,” which could be one of the reasons why he claimed to see UFOs in New Jersey. A true character, Riley Martin passed away on December 22, 2015, so we can’t get his comments on these latest Jersey sightings.

Can a drone outperform a private plane or was it an alien spacecraft?

Back at The Drive, they speculate this craft could have been a highly unusual drone, pointing to the fact that the FAA seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time documenting it. It’s getting harder for that organization to track airspace violations by drones that are being built in garages by private citizens.

Drones or Biaviian spaceships? If only Riley Martin were here to set us straight.

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Recent studies of ancient ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica revealed that there was a massive solar storm approximately 9,200 years ago. The study, which was conducted by a research team that was led by Lund University in Sweden, showed that the mysterious solar storm happened during a time when the sun was actually rather quiet.

One of the long ice cores examined in the new study. 

(Image credit: Raimund Muscheler)

This new information baffled experts as solar storms are thought to occur when our sun is most active during its sunspot cycle. However, the fact that a massive storm happened during a quiet solar time put that theory into question.

The discovery was made when experts studied drill cores, looking for rising amounts of radioactive isotopes beryllium-10 and chlorine-36 which are present in sediment and ice from when our planet is hit with high-energy cosmic particles. Raimund Muscheler, who is a geology researcher at Lund University, stated, “This is time consuming and expensive analytical work. Therefore, we were pleasantly surprised when we found such a peak, indicating a hitherto unknown giant solar storm in connection with low solar activity.”

To put this significant event into better perspective, if a solar storm of that magnitude were to occur in modern times, the effects on our planet today would be drastic. It would cause power outages, numerous communication systems would go down, and there would be radiation damage to our satellites.

“These enormous storms are currently not sufficiently included in risk assessments. It is of the utmost importance to analyze what these events could mean for today’s technology and how we can protect ourselves,” Muscheler noted.

The study was published in Nature Communications where it can be read in full.

While this was a massive solar storm that occurred almost 10,000 years ago, it isn’t the only large storm that has been discovered and reported. Back in 2019, it was revealed that a huge solar storm hit our planet about 2,600 years ago and was around ten times stronger than any in modern times.

There have been several documented massive solar storms that have hit Earth in the past, such as the Carrington Event that happened in 1859. If an event that like that were to happen today, power outages could last weeks, months, or even years. An even stronger storm occurred around 660 BC based on the discovery of radioactive atoms that were found in ice from Greenland. Another strong one happened sometime between 993 and 994 AD, while the strongest known solar eruption to have ever occurred was between 774 and 775 AD.

Let’s hope that massive solar storms like the ones I just mentioned don’t happen any time soon.

A massive solar flare (or coronal mass ejection) erupts out of the sun in 2017. 

(Image credit: NASA)

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Strange UFO descends over Oak Cliff, TX

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Did US President Biden Deliberately Force Crash of F-35 As Gift To China To Leave Taiwan Alone? US Military News.

Date of crash: Jan 24, 2022

Location of crash: South China Sea

Plane type: F-35

Cost of Plane: $100,000,000 US dollars

Military branch: US Navy

Photo source: Twitter

2001 spy plane lands in China: 

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The US Navy admitted to a F-35 crash while attempting to land on a US Navy aircraft carrier last week. The black box transponder has a ten day life and the Navy says that it's a race now to recover the jet before the Chinese do. It has the newest, hi tech devices in it, things highly classified and still top secret. Then...the US Navy announces it across all news media agencies around the world! Wait...they did what? Yeah...that gave it away right there. They wanted the news agencies to scream out the news so that China would go and recover the jet...thus satisfying China temporarily with the fake crash of the craft, which by the way...just happens to be 99.99% intact minus the cockpit pilot chair and canopy. Coincidence? I think not. 

 

Do you remember back in April of 2001, when a US Navy EP-3E Aries II spy plane on routine surveillance mission over South China, was intercepted by several China fighter jets and was told to land in China or be shot down? So they flew to China...with the most high tech spy plane the US had and handed them the keys saying its yours, but we want it back in a few months...China gave it back...in boxes since they took everything apart and copied, every single item before eventually returning...most, minus software, computer chips, memory storage and so on. That was strange...like it was a gift all wrapped up for China to open. Not even a protest from the pilots before landing in China. Thats not normal for a US military pilot. I'm a USAF vet and I worked on may B-1 bombers and I can tell you, pilots are cocky and ready for a fight win or lose. They want it. They don't give in that easy in the US military unless ordered to do so. 

 

So the US is making it look like its an accident to keep Taiwan safe from China since there must be a secret agreement with payment of aircraft every twenty years or so. But mostly its made to look like an accident to keep the US public out of it...keep the public in the dark so there is no protests, activist, anger over the who thing. 

 

I totally get why the US is doing this, and honestly appreciate it since I'm living in Taiwan now, but...it does concern me...and makes me wonder...how many other secrets are US presidents giving away to the communists?

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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UFO Creates Cloud Around It Over Corpus Christi, Texas, Video, January 20, 2022

Date of sighting: January 20, 2022

Location of sighting: Corpus Christi, Texas, USA

Source: MUFON 

 

Watch as this UFO appears in the sky during sunset and it realizes it has been seen and it quickly creates a puffy small white cloud around it. The cloud soon glows pinkish because of the sunset, but the UFO was seen creating it so we know it still exists within. This is 100% proof that UFOs do create UFOs to hide within. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states: 

For context I first thought this was a cloud but after watching it for several minutes it kept growing and got really bright. After this large bright spot appeared it quickly disappeared. No other clouds were in the sky and the sun was already going down. No airplane incidents were reported on the news either. Very weird and I’m hoping someone can explain! I did not see the moon behind it, the sun was setting to my right and I do not know where the moon was. Stopped recording so I could phone a friend to determine if they could see it. I had called a friend to see if they had noticed it. He said he could find it in the sky but he lives about 20~ miles in a different direction. Girlfriend saw it though so I know I’m not crazy lol. It pretty much went away quickly after this video was shot. We didn’t see any scheduled launches. This direction is towards south padre though. There is a Naval Air Base in this direction as well but I didn’t see any planes in the sky.

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UFO hovered over Islamabad, Pakistan for over 2 hours 26-Jan-2022

This daytime footage of an unidentified flying object was filmed over Islamabad, Pakistan on 26th January 2022!

Witness report: 

I saw this when I was landing my drone, it hovered for over 2 hours at this spot when eventually it got dark and I couldn’t see it anymore.

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UFO Over Mountains of Arizona! Video, January 22nd 2022

Date of sighting: January 22, 2022

Location of sighting: Arizona, USA

 

A white UFO was seen over Arizona this week. The object appears to be a white thick disk and is tilted at a 45 degree angle. Bob Lazar who once worked inside Area 51 at a top secret location called Area S4 once said, that UFOs often tilt when moving. He said the tilting allows the UFO to move along the sky like a slide and tilting creates a different angle of propulsion force allowing it to do so. This UFO is a great example of that. You can easily see its tilted as it changes locations over the mountains. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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Astronomers witnessed something incredibly strange in space that is “unlike anything” they have ever seen before. According to information provided by the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), a team of experts who were mapping the universe’s radio waves noticed an incredibly odd space object that was emitting massive bursts of energy three times every hour.

As the object was spinning in space, a radiation beam was ejected from it which scientists were able to observe. The beam could be seen for one full minute and occurred every twenty minutes. Incredibly, it was one of the brightest radio sources ever witnessed in space.

In the release, astrophysicist and team leader Natasha Hurley-Walker went into further details, “This object was appearing and disappearing over a few hours during our observations, that was completely unexpected. It was kind of spooky for an astronomer because there is nothing known in the sky that does that,” adding, “And it’s really quite close to us – about 4,000 light-years away. It’s in our galactic backyard.”

Space is a mysterious place.

Scientists have previously documented space objects that “turn on and off” (these are called “transients”). They can occur at different frequencies as slow transients can happen for a few days and disappear within a few months (supernovas do this), while fast transients are extremely quick – some lasting just seconds or even milliseconds (pulsars do this).

However, the space object that was seen turning on for one minute had never been witnessed before. Since it is exceptionally bright, smaller than our sun, and sends out blasts of high-polarized radio waves, it is believed that the object contains a strong magnetic field. As for what it is, experts think that it may possibly be either a neutron star or a white dwarf.

Hurley-Walker went on to say that it could be a previously hypothesized space object known as an “ultra-long period magnetar”. “It’s a type of slowly spinning neutron star that has been predicted to exist theoretically.” “But nobody expected to directly detect one like this because we didn’t expect them to be so bright.” “Somehow it’s converting magnetic energy to radio waves much more effectively than anything we’ve seen before.”

Is it a magnetar?

While it remains a mystery, researchers are keeping a close eye on the object in case it decides to briefly turn back on. And if it does, they will be able to see it with numerous telescopes, such as the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope in Western Australia. “If it does, there are telescopes across the Southern Hemisphere and even in orbit that can point straight to it,” said Hurley-Walker. The research has been published in the journal Nature where it can be read in full.

Images showing where the mysterious object is located in space can be viewed here.

This image shows the Milky Way as viewed from Earth. The star icon shows the position of the mysterious repeating transient. Credit: Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker

(ICRAR/Curtin).

This image shows a new view of the Milky Way from the Murchison Widefield Array, with the lowest frequencies in red, middle frequencies in green, and the highest frequencies in blue. The star icon shows the position of the mysterious repeating transient.

Credit: Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin) and the GLEAM Team.

The new radio is transient in the sky, as it would have been seen at the MWA during the night in March 2018, when it was active. The source is shown with a large white star marker, but would be invisible to the naked eye. Image source: Stellarium

The location of the source in the sky in January 2022, marked with a large white star marker. At this time of year, it is above the horizon during the day.

Image source: Stellarium

Magnetar
An artist’s impression of what the object might look like if it’s a magnetar. Magnetars are incredibly magnetic neutron stars, some of which sometimes produce radio emission. Known magnetars rotate every few seconds, but theoretically, “ultra-long period magnetars” could rotate much more slowly.

Credit: ICRAR.

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Scientists Puzzled by Weird “Strands” at the Center of Our Galaxy

There are almost 1,000 of them — and we have no idea what they are made of and where they came from.

Astronomers currently think there is a supermassive black hole at the centre of most, if not all, galaxies 

(Image: NASA Goddard)

As yet the force creating the 'wall' in space remains unknown 

(Image: Getty Images)

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The very real story of how UFOs shaped Middle East culture

From The Arabian Nights to alien ‘sightings’ over Dubai, the fantastical has a big impact.

Photo credit: SIDDHARTH SIVA

In late 2020, retired Israeli space security chief Haim Eshed became—for a brief time, at least—the most celebrated figure in the world of ufology. Already respected in aeronautics circles, Eshed shot to wider fame following an interview in Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, in which he claimed that aliens have not only visited Earth, but have joined humans in an inter-species “Galactic Federation.” As luck would have it, this headline-grabbing revelation coincided with the publication of Eshed’s as-told-to book The Universe Beyond the Horizon, which made similar claims. It’s unclear whether the disclosures made news on other planets.

At around the time Eshed was drip-feeding the world tales of interplanetary collaboration—coordinated, perhaps, from an underground base on Mars—the US Congress got in on the act, instructing the Pentagon to deliver a report on the 144 unresolved sightings of UFOs (or unidentified aerial phenomena—UAP—in the current parlance) recorded by the military since 2004. The paper, which came out in June, amounted to a series of observations which could be summed up as: dunno. Perhaps, as Eshed has suggested, the Federation is withholding full disclosure in order to avoid “mass hysteria.”

Believers, for their part, have remained unfazed by the lack of definitive answers, pointing to grainy military footage of inverted pyramids flitting across the sky, or dark blobs plunging into the sea, as evidence that the truth is not only out there, but right here. Even Dubai, not traditionally known as a destination for alien joyriders, was reportedly treated to a visitation in 2020, this time in the form of a huge saucer-shaped object hovering over the Arabian Gulf. As self-styled UFO-hunter Scott Waring put it in a subsequent blog: “looks like there is an alien base not far off the coast of Dubai.”

The 2016 sci-fi film Aerials, which depicts similar objects looming menacingly over Dubai, is said to be the first full-on alien-invasion movie shot in the UAE—possibly because the region as a whole has had more immediate conflicts on its mind. According to Dubai-based filmmaker S.A. Zaidi, however, his movie grows out of a longstanding, widespread regional interest in the subject. “I belonged to UFO clubs,” he says of his childhood. “I was a part of that geek culture.”

Zaidi is quick to add, though, that having a passion for science fiction does not make a person—or indeed a region—more inclined toward tin foil hats. He also objects to the idea that the Middle East’s supposed penchant for conspiracy theories—which he calls a “cultural stereotype”—transforms every errant weather balloon or odd-shaped cloud into a scene from Close Encounters. “After Aerials came out, my father kept asking me, ‘what do you think will happen if aliens actually land?’ I told him, ‘dad, I don’t know. It’s just a film.’”

That said, Dubai’s “UFO” was by no means the first in the region—Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Morocco are just some of the places that have reported sightings over the years (albeit mostly debunkable). The most notorious incident occurred in 1976, when glowing, fast-moving objects appeared in the skies over Tehran, and were deemed threatening enough that fighter pilots scrambled to intercept them.

More recently, The Washington Post ran an article on how UFOs have become a “national security worry” in the US. “The question is, what is it? What are its intentions? What are its capabilities?” said one former intelligence official in the piece, referring to the objects that have appeared on air-force pilots’ screens. Such comments may not point to mass hysteria, but they do suggest a kind of mass concern. As the late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking put it: “meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn’t turn out so well.”

The aliens in Zaidi’s film Aerials are not of the city-incinerating variety—partly because he lacked the budget for global annihilation, partly because he was more interested in building a subtle tension, and partly because he doesn’t necessarily buy into the idea that aliens would come here with the aim of stirring trouble. “I’m not sure a race that had the ability to travel all this way would do it just to say, ‘hey, I’m going to take this laser out and zap you,’” he says. “Maybe they just came because they were interested.”

Zaidi’s reluctance to venture into fire and brimstone territory was also a matter of what he describes as cultural sensitivity. “When we made Aerials, maybe the region wasn’t ready for something like Independence Day, you know, where the beam comes down on the White House,” he says. “We have local landmarks in the film, Emirates Towers and so on, but we were not going to shoot lasers down on them. We were not going to show Dubai getting destroyed.” He pauses and adds: “Then again, your imagination takes you there whether you want it or not.”

Dubai-based filmmaker S.A. Zaidi says his alien-invasion movie grew out of UFO “geek culture.”

Back to the future

The day German academic Jörg Matthias Determann landed in Doha, he felt as though he’d stepped onto a different planet. “You see all these glass towers rising out of the sand,” he says. “From the inside of these air-conditioned buildings, you look out at this hot, inhospitable environment, and you almost feel as though you are in a city on Mars, some kind of future habitat, these glass containers where the heat and dust storms are being kept out.”

Determann, a professor of history specializing in science, technology, and society at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, believes the Middle East’s reputation as a “very traditional, conservative place” does not take into account its appetite for extravagant ideas. “Look at Dubai, which is about to open a Museum of the Future,” he says. “There is a broad interest in futuristic mega-projects here, a commitment to try things that haven’t been tried before. And there is a long history of this—rulers wanting to leave gigantic legacies, going back to the Pharaohs. The Emirates Mars mission is another of these mega projects.”

In his latest book, Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World, Determann traces a line from groundbreaking astronomers in ancient Mesopotamia to the burgeoning interest in space exploration today. Along the way, he draws our attention to various cultural aspects that have made the Middle East fertile ground for stargazing, ranging from religion to commerce to the fantastical stories in One Thousand and One Nights (which became known as The Arabian Nights in English)—the latter of which, he says, could be seen as the root of it all.

It seems odd to think of The Arabian Nights as the starting point for regional futurism, given that its tales tend toward talking donkeys and vindictive demons rather than interstellar travel. Yet the collection has undoubtedly influenced generations of storytellers, who in turn have wielded an influence of their own. “No matter where you grew up, you couldn’t escape the power of these stories,” Determann says. “So you’ve always had these broadly speculative elements to culture here—you see it in the architecture, and in the science fiction I’ve had the pleasure of reading.”

Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi, the Egyptian author of the dystopian novel Malaz: City of Resurrection, is currently working on a book about extremely unpleasant aliens touching down in the desert between Egypt and Libya. “I like imagining other worlds, life on other planets,” he says. “I read the stories in The Arabian Nights as a child and was fascinated by the magic, the heroes, the kingdoms. It created another world here in the Middle East. Anyone who wants to understand how to build fantasy worlds should read The Arabian Nights.”

Medieval folk tales, however, are not the only thing fueling imaginative storytelling in the region—or, for that matter, the willingness to accept that alien life forms may actually exist. In his book, Determann argues that Islamic beliefs—which accommodate ideas of multiple worlds and the existence of sentient, invisible beings—have played an important part, too. “To believe in the Quran,” he says, “is to believe that we are not alone.”

Following close behind religion, meanwhile, is the Middle East’s age-old role as a center for global trade. “Doha and Dubai are not so much desert cities as port cities—there’s a long tradition of going to distant shores,” Determann says. “This leads to stories of adventurers sailing off to strange lands, encountering strange creatures. You can see the movement of this over time: from seaport to airport, trading center to global aviation hub. The next step could be the spaceport. The urge to explore the unknown—that is something you can see here very clearly.”

Even the multicultural makeup of Gulf cities, Determann adds, leads back to this spirit of adventure and exploration. “One of the things I love about here is the coming together of so many cultures, like the cantina in Star Wars. There is an openness to the stranger, the alien.”

Ayham Jabr, “Damascus Under Siege”

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Battlefield Earth

If the idea of aliens flitting around our planet represents a kind of superstition, then there are strains of Middle East culture that foster this, too. “Many people believe in magic, its ability to affect lives,” says Al-Mahdi. “They’ll go to a man who they think will help them marry or divorce or have a child. They’ll take a piece of paper with the name of a loved one written on it, put it in water and drink it so they will be married. People really believe this stuff. It’s not fantasy, it’s something that exists. So, yes, a lot of people believe in aliens.”

Maybe so, but there is also a broad streak of pragmatism and skepticism here, epitomized by S.A. Zaidi’s aunt, who used to berate him for wasting his time reading stories with titles like Ray of Death. “She kept telling me I fantasize too much, go back to your schoolbooks,” he recalls. “This is not practical.” Then there are people like Syrian artist and filmmaker Ayham Jabr, for whom science fiction has a very practical purpose—namely, the idea that “fantasy can help the artist or writer to deliver his point.”

“Sci-fi provides a way to bypass censorship and address taboo subjects. You can present criticisms in a story about Mars, or about alien invaders, which gives you plausible deniability.”

As with many of his peers, Jabr got hooked on science fiction as a kid. “My family are artists, actors, screenwriters, so multiple cultures were in front of my eyes,” he says, going on to recall the fantasy TV shows he watched, the books he read, the tales of Pharaohs and kings. He has no time, though, for the conspiracy theorists and myth makers who occupy the margins of ufology. “There are so many fake, cheap stories, such as the one about the pyramids being used as fuel tanks for alien ships,” he says. “For some, this isn’t seen as fantasy but as theory.”

Religion, Jabr continues, also fired up his childhood imagination, though not always in a positive way. “My interest was coming from fear,” he says. “All these stories about the afterlife, Judgment Day, angels, and demons.” Fear is the prevailing emotion in Jabr’s Damascus Under Siege, a series of surreal collages that depict sinister-looking spacecraft either looming over the Syrian capital or shooting lasers into it—a representation of the country’s civil war rather than the prospect of an alien invasion.

“Science fiction provides a way to bypass censorship and address taboo subjects,” says Determann. “You could write a realistic story set in the present that criticizes authority, but that might get you into trouble. Or you can present the same criticisms in a story about a society on Mars, or about alien invaders, or about the future, which gives you plausible deniability.”

Al-Mahdi, too, admits to cloaking political and social provocations in fantasy. “I like to write post-apocalyptic novels, to imagine the collapse of what we have now and start anew—you can chop and change things however you like, and it is the same with alien invasions,” he says. “If you look closely, you’ll see I’m criticizing current regimes.”

Not all fantasies, however, fit this mold. It’s unlikely that the makers of the hammy 1959 Egyptian flick Journey to the Moon intended much more than a bit of harmless escapism. The same could be said of Rex Chouk, the Saudi artist whose works include trippy images of flying saucers hovering over the desert. As for the alien-invasion film Aerials, Zaidi says this: “I’d like to be able to say that we had underlying messages, but the reality is I’m just obsessed with UFOs.”

Ayham Jabr’s “The Guardian of Life”

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Brave new world

In 2007, former Syrian culture minister Riad Agha stood before a science fiction symposium in Damascus and delivered an address that, in its own way, provided a direct rebuttal to Zaidi’s skeptical aunt. “Man is an imaginative being,” Agha said to the assembled geeks. “The more he excels in imagining, the more he excels in innovation and invention.”

For Determann, the truth behind this statement is apparent in everything from Abu Dhabi’s futuristic Masdar City to the emerging Saudi-UAE space race. “There are three things you need before you can explore space,” he says. “You need knowledge and technology, you need money, and you need imagination. Before you go to Mars, you have to imagine going there.”

In fact, Determann continues, potential engineers and astronauts should be encouraged to immerse themselves in sci-fi. “There’s an idea that you can use space research to build a high-tech, knowledge-based economy, which the Emiratis have really bought into,” he says. “So if the aim is to inspire young people to go into space and contribute to that economy, we have to start early, building up the fascination long before they’re ready to study physics at university.”

Jasem Mutlaq, founder of the Ikarus Observatory in Kuwait, would likely agree. “It’s rare that you’ll find astronomers who are not fans of science fiction,” he says. “I grew up in the 80s watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. But the biggest impact of all was in 1997, when Contact was released. I was literally in tears when the movie was over. I’ve been hooked ever since.”

Like Mutlaq, Al-Mahdi grew up on a diet of science fiction, though his career took a different turn. “I wanted to be an astronaut, that was one of my childhood dreams,” he says with a laugh. “In high school I was good at chemistry and physics, but I liked poetry and literature more. I went to an engineering college, but then left for the faculty of the arts. So I was torn. In the end, I put both things together.”

Here, Mutlaq offers a word of caution. For him, the intermingling of science and science fiction is a positive thing, but not to the extent that it blurs the line between fantasy and reality. “Following the footsteps of Carl Sagan, I usually do not fall prey to conspiracy theories, especially those related to aliens roaming around,” he says. “While recent videos of UAP encounters are intriguing, they are not conclusive evidence for beings who traveled thousands of light years to go zipping over coastlines for a couple of seconds.”

And while Mutlaq will continue to gaze into the stars from his observatory, to read his sci-fi books, and abide by the moral standards of Captain Picard, he has learned to keep his own fantasies in check. “Alien life has yet to be proven scientifically, so we shouldn’t fall prey to our whims and wishes,” he says. “We ought to understand the universe as it is, not as what we aspire it to be.”

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Hidden secrets? An ancient virus? Evidence for aliens? An alien's body? What secrets and mysteries are hidden in Siberia? 

Aliens filmed on camera? Would you believe it? Scary and frightening shots taken by eyewitnesses that will make you goosebumps, it is unlikely that we are alone in this vast universe. 

Did you know that in Siberia in recent years have found an ancient virus that has been frozen for the last 30,000 years and the most interesting thing is that here scientists come across scary and strange creatures, animals that are able to resurrect, even aliens.

This huge, cold area hides many mysteries, which Ayhan Infire will tell you about in the video below.

  

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How this 26 Year Old is Reverse Engineering UFOs

Meet Deep Prasad. Deep is a 26 year old self taught prodigy working on quantum computing and with a deep interest in UFO’s. In this video we discuss how he combines those interests by attempting to solve the schrodinger many body equation at scale with quantum computing; we also discuss quantum biology, quantum sensing and what, if anything, the aliens have planned for us.

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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS

Strange Light That Can Only Be Seen With Night Vision & V Shaped UFO Sighted Over A Town In Germany

Clip One : This was captured in Porter County in Indiana on January 9, 2022. This bizarre light can only be seem with the use of the night vision and when in normal mode it's invisible. The witness stated "We see them quite often with our night vision camera and have several posted on our channel. This video shows what the sky looks like when the night vision camera is switched to the dusk setting." Thanks to Contact at 110 UAP Sightings for allowing the use of his footage and to view the original:

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Clip Two: This was sighted on January 24, 2022 at around 11:00am over Göppingen near Stuttgart in Germany at the train station. In this footage this looks like a V shaped or Boomerang shaped craft but what do you guys think?

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'Invisible UFOs' Fill the Skies

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Unknown space object beaming out radio signals every 18 minutes remains a mystery

The Murchison Widefield Array captured the Milky Way in radio frequencies. The lowest frequencies are red, middle frequencies are green, and the highest are blue. The star icon shows the mysterious object.

(CNN)- While mapping radio waves across the universe, astronomers happened upon a celestial object releasing giant bursts of energy -- and it's unlike anything they've ever seen before.

The spinning space object, spotted in March 2018, beamed out radiation three times per hour. In those moments, it became the brightest source of radio waves viewable from Earth, acting like a celestial lighthouse.

Astronomers think it might be a remnant of a collapsed star, either a dense neutron star or a dead white dwarf star, with a strong magnetic field -- or it could be something else entirely.

This image shows the Milky Way as viewed from Earth, and the star icon marks the location of the unknown object.

A study on the discovery published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

"This object was appearing and disappearing over a few hours during our observations," said lead study author Natasha Hurley-Walker, an astrophysicist at the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, in a statement.

"That was completely unexpected. It was kind of spooky for an astronomer because there's nothing known in the sky that does that. And it's really quite close to us -- about 4,000 light-years away. It's in our galactic backyard."

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Curtin University doctoral student Tyrone O'Doherty made the unusual discovery while using the Murchison Widefield Array telescope in the outback of Western Australia.

"It's exciting that the source I identified last year has turned out to be such a peculiar object," O'Doherty said in a statement. "The MWA's wide field of view and extreme sensitivity are perfect for surveying the entire sky and detecting the unexpected."

What remains of a massive star's death

Flaring space objects that appear to turn on and off are known as transients.

"When studying transients, you're watching the death of a massive star or the activity of the remnants it leaves behind," said study coauthor Gemma Anderson, ICRAR-Curtin astrophysicist, in a statement. "'Slow transients' -- like supernovae -- might appear over the course of a few days and disappear after a few months. 'Fast transients' -- like a type of neutron star called a pulsar -- flash on and off within milliseconds or seconds."

This new, incredibly bright object, however, only turned on for about a minute every 18 minutes. The researchers said their observations might match up with the definition of an ultra-long period magnetar. Magnetars usually flare by the second, but this object takes longer.

This is an artist's impression of what the object might look like if it's a magnetar, or an incredibly magnetic neutron star.

"It's a type of slowly spinning neutron star that has been predicted to exist theoretically," Hurley-Walker said. "But nobody expected to directly detect one like this because we didn't expect them to be so bright. Somehow it's converting magnetic energy to radio waves much more effectively than anything we've seen before."

The researchers will continue to monitor the object to see whether it turns back on, and in the meantime, they are searching for evidence of other similar objects.

"More detections will tell astronomers whether this was a rare one-off event or a vast new population we'd never noticed before," Hurley-Walker said.

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“Spookachtig” ruimteobject zendt om de 18 minuten radiosignalen uit

Een Australische astronoom is bij het in kaart brengen van radiogolven in het heelal op een hemellichaam gebotst dat drie keer per uur enorme energiegolven uitstootte. Wetenschappers hadden zoiets nog nooit gezien. Nature publiceerde gisteren een studie over de verrassende ontdekking, die voorlopig een mysterie blijft.

Joeri Vlemings 

Bron: CNN, The Guardian

Het tollende ruimteobject, dat in maart 2018 werd gespot, bleek om de 18 minuten ongeveer een minuut lang radiosignalen uit te zenden. Op die momenten was het de helderste bron van radiogolven die vanaf de aarde te zien was. “Een hemelse vuurtoren”, zo omschrijft CNN het.

Dit is een artistieke impressie van hoe het object eruit zou kunnen zien als het een magnetar is, of een ongelooflijk magnetische neutronenster.

Astrofysicus Natasha Hurley-Walker en haar team publiceerden de ontdekking in het gerenommeerde wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Nature, maar een sluitende verklaring ervoor vonden ze niet. “Dit object verscheen en verdween weer gedurende een paar uren tijdens onze waarnemingen”, zegt Hurley-Walker, die verbonden is aan de Curtin University in Australië. Flikkerende ruimteobjecten die aan en uit lijken te gaan, staan bekend als transiënten. Het geflikker kan in principe van een pulsar komen, een snel ronddraaiende neutronenster die in milliseconden of seconden aan en uit flitst. Of van een supernova, die een paar dagen te zien is en dan weer verdwijnt. Maar in dit geval flitste het hemellichaam elke 18 minuten aan en uit. “Dat was totaal onverwacht”, zegt Hurley-Walker. “Een beetje spookachtig ook voor een astronoom omdat, voor zover we weten, er niets aan de hemel is dat dit doet. En het is echt heel dicht bij ons, ongeveer 4.000 lichtjaar van ons. Dat is in onze galactische achtertuin.”

Het was Tyrone O’Doherty, doctoraatsstudent aan de Curtin University, die de ongewone ontdekking deed met de Murchison Widefield Array-telescoop (MWA), die opgesteld staat in de outback van deelstaat West-Australië. “Opwindend dat de bron die ik vorig jaar kon identificeren zo’n eigenaardig object blijkt te zijn”, zegt hij. “Het brede gezichtsveld en de extreme gevoeligheid van de MWA zijn perfect om de hele hemel in kaart te brengen en het onverwachte te detecteren.”

De Murchison Widefield Array legde de Melkweg vast in radiofrequenties. De laagste frequenties zijn rood, de middelste frequenties zijn groen en de hoogste zijn blauw. Het sterpictogram toont het mysterieuze object.

“Hij vond iets”, zegt Natasha Hurley-Walker, Doherty’s promotor van zijn doctoraatsthesis, over de ontdekking. Op beelden van de telescoop zien we in de melkweg een heldere stip die de locatie van het object markeert. “Net rechts daarvan is er een bron, en die is een superzwaar zwart gat dat stralen van radiogolven de ruimte inslingert met bijna de snelheid van het licht”, aldus Hurley-Wallker. “Toegegeven, dat is verder weg. Maar het geflikker dat we zagen is ongeveer net zo helder. Dat is dus echt extreem. En we hadden niet verwacht iets te vinden dat zo helder was. Op de een of andere manier zet het magnetische energie om in radiogolven, veel effectiever dan alles wat we eerder hebben gezien.”

Het gedrag van het object komt overeen met iets waarvan het bestaan wel is voorspeld, maar dat nooit is waargenomen: een soort langzaam draaiende neutronenster. Of het zou een overblijfsel kunnen zijn van een ingestorte ster die een dode witte dwergster met een sterk magnetisch veld werd, al is dat zeer onwaarschijnlijk. Wat het ook is, het is “echt extreme fysica”, volgens Hurley-Walker. “En het kan natuurlijk ook iets zijn waar we nog nooit aan hebben gedacht.

De onderzoekers zullen het object in de gaten blijven houden om te zien of het weer aangaat, en in de tussentijd zoeken ze naar bewijs voor andere soortgelijke objecten. “Meer detecties zullen astronomen vertellen of dit een zeldzame eenmalige gebeurtenis was of een grote nieuwe populatie die we nog nooit eerder hadden opgemerkt”, besluit Hurley-Walker.

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2 Blackhawks Escorting Glowing Orb in Durham, Connecticut! Video, Jan 21, 2022 UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: January 21, 2022

Location of sighting: Durham, Connecticut, USA

 

Here we have two military helicopters escorting an unknown craft. The craft glows powerfully and appears to be orb shaped. This is a shocking encounter of both military and alien craft. It's not a typical meeting, this one is escorting the alien craft to the US military base nearby for some important conference. Most agreements made with aliens will involve trade...since technology is the most powerful commodity to the US military. Absolutely proof that the US military is working on an alliance with aliens. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan.

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Interstellar Spaceships Might Need to Prepare for Dark Matter

It's waiting for us.

By  Brad Bergan

A galaxy with a halo of light, in deep space.

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The Milky Way is massive, but far more weighty is the volume of dark matter purported to pervade our home galaxy. And a pair of scientists have proposed that the cumulative force of dark matter in our galaxy is significant enough to affect interstellar spacecraft, according to a recent study shared on a preprint server.

While the study still requires peer review, it also says the Pioneer and New Horizons spacecraft were already affected, and so will planetary astronomy and astrophysics.

This could alter not only how we travel through deep space, but also how we study it.

Dark matter gravity on interstellar spacecraft

When an asteroid, comet, or even a spacecraft moves around the sun, our host star's gravity is the primary force in its motion. Out beyond Pluto, it's the entire solar system that serves as the main gravitational force. Even out in the Kuiper belt — the cloud of ancient primordial asteroids on the fringe of our solar system, any net-zero calculation of gravitational forces on a spacecraft is best calculated as a two-body problem: between the mass of the spacecraft, and that of the entire solar system. But all of that changes when you move too far away from the sun.

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If "an object is moving sufficiently far from the sun, then there is another gravitational force that can play an important role," wrote the authors of the study. The lead study author is Professor of Celestial Mechanics and Mathematics Edward A. Belbruno of Yeshiva University, who is also visiting research collaborator at Princeton University's department of astrophysical sciences. He worked in collaboration with NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green, co-lead author of the study who is due to retire early this year, according to a blog post from the agency. But together, Green and Belbruno analyzed a different force that comes into play for spacecraft that travel in interstellar space.

As you might guess, they found that this is the cumulative gravitational force of the Milky Way galaxy. But, surprisingly, the overwhelming majority of this force isn't generated by the disc, central bulge, and the stellar halo of our galaxy. While those are there, the primary force of gravitational attraction stems from dark matter. And, although "it is small," the collective force of all dark matter in our galaxy "can cumulatively add up and significantly affect the trajectory of motion over long periods of time."

An Interstellar Probe to analyze dark matter beyond the solar system

Ordinary, or "baryonic" matter comprises roughly 5% of the total energy of the observable universe, according to the study. Dark matter (non-baryonic matter), which we can't observe directly, comprises 25%. That's five times the energy — roughly the same difference in strength between the average human and a grizzly bear. Yikes! "The dark matter halo contains most of the mass of the Galaxy," wrote the study authors. "In the milky Way the dark matter is measured by observing the rotational circular motion of the Galaxy" around the galactic center, and measuring its velocity relative to radial distance has in the past revealed that the rotational speed of the galaxy "levels off" as you move away from the core. This is why even spacecraft as far away from the core as our solar system will be affected by the gravitational force of dark matter in our galaxy — just like everything else in the galaxy, almost independent of radial distance from the core.

"The existence of this force has many implications for planetary astronomy and astrophysics," since tracking the motion of alien worlds beyond our solar system has become a core practice of these fields. But, and perhaps most exhilarating to consider: "It may be possible to detect" this cumulative gravitational force of dark matter "on a proposed mission called Interstellar Probe", suggest the authors. There's a lot going on in space travel, especially with the James Webb Space Telescope's mounting success, not to mention SpaceX, NASA, and China. But on the macro-scale and the future awaiting us beyond the solar system, we're only just beginning.

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Sign of LIFE found on Saturn’s moon with huge salty ocean hidden beneath clouds

A Series Of Mysterious Cattle Killings Swept Through Argentina

A series of mysterious killings of cattle on a farm in Argentina have raised fears that the Chupacabra may be behind these horrific murders.

According to local media reports, a curious incident occurred on the farm of the farmer Hugo Valenzuela, located near the city of Eskina. On three separate occasions in the past two months, he found cows slaughtered in an unusual way: their tongues, udders and reproductive organs were removed with uncanny precision.

“There are no signs of bleeding,” Valenzuela wonders. Longtime researchers will no doubt recognize these aspects of the case as classic signs of a cattle murder mystery. In this regard, the farmer also noted that no other animals approached the remains of the slaughtered cows and that there were no witnesses to the chilling killings, despite a neighbor who was only 1,300 feet from the scene of the attack.

“When it happens once or twice, you perceive it as something curious or strange,” the farmer reflects. However, initial bewilderment has turned to anger as he now hopes to get answers after losing his third cow in two months and resulting in significant financial damage.

Valenzuela is considering installing cameras to catch the perpetrator, or if another attack occurs.

While seasoned livestock mutilation investigators may speculate that some government conspiracy is behind the phenomenon, the farmer and others in the area point to a completely different suspect: the notorious chupacabra.

Their reasoning is that a man would not attack a cow in the way that Valenzuela’s cattle were killed, removing only some of the organs. The notorious blood-sucking cryptid was also charged with a similar string of murders in neighboring Chile last year.

While backward villagers blame the mythical Chupacabra for what is happening, this phenomenon goes far beyond the usual “terrestrial crimes” and “Chupacabra tricks” – organs are removed using high-tech tools, incisions are made on a living but immobilized animal, organs are taken from still living animals, but there is no blood, no noise.

These are not the tricks of the Chupacabra, this is the work of creatures for whom the suffering of an animal is nothing, especially since the same cases have happened to people.

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Aliens Can Use Asteroids And Viruses In The War With Humans

Asteroids and viruses can be used as weapons by extraterrestrial civilizations that may seek to colonize the Earth in order to get all of its resources.

Such a statement, was made in an interview with The Sun Online by Professor Paul Springer from the US Air Force College in Alabama.

At the same time, he compared potential alien invaders with Europeans who came to the New World 300 years ago and actually exterminated the local inhabitants there.

So the aliens, in his opinion, can try to destroy earthlings in order to get the resources available on the planet.

Paul Springer is sure that any civilization acts solely in its own interests, which may not include good will, so you need to prepare for any scenario.

The specialist also explained that the alien invaders may have weapons that are much superior to the earth.

For example, they can use special lasers for pinpoint strikes against ground targets. Or they may have asteroid bombardment technology. Another option for the invaders is to spread viruses that act exclusively on people to cleanse the planet.

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UFO Researcher Found Huge Alien Base On Mars

According to him, NASA is hiding a mysterious building.UFO researcher Scott Waring continues to search for alien life in photographs of the surface of celestial bodies.

As stated by the Daily Star, he made a “new shocking discovery”: in his opinion, on the surface of Mars, it turns out that an alien base has been hiding for a long time, which extends for 25 kilometers.

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