Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
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België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
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After the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, Ilkley Moor became the most famous alien spot in the United Kingdom. A retired British police officer named Philip Spencer never thought that one fine morning he would encounter an alien entity and capture it in his camera.
The incident occurred on December 1, 1987. In the early morning, Spencer left his home in Ilkley, saying goodbye to his wife and children to meet his father-in-law who lived on the other side of Moor.
Ilkley Moor is an upland moorland & conservation area in Yorkshire, England with a notable bird population, walking trails & tranquil views. It has the carved boulders, dating back to the Bronze age. Besides, it is known for the legends of strange creatures that roam in the darkness and strange lights that were seen coming through the mist. The place is situated just 21 miles away from the RAF Menwith hill military base which accounts for several UFO sightings.
Alien photograph captured by British police officer Philip Spencer in 1987
It was dark when Spencer started his journey. He had a compass to navigate in dense fog and a camera, hoping to capture the beautiful sites of Moor on his way. When he was passing through the area called White wells, an 18th-century town, he was distracted by something unusual. He saw a small-sized creature with long arms, similar in shape to a “Sock Monkey.”
Surprisingly, the creature made a strange move with its right arm, like it was waving at Spencer, and that’s the moment he captured in his camera before the entity disappeared behind the slopes.
According to Spencer, the creature had big black eyes, pointed ears, and strangely long arms. He described its feet as a hoof split into two toes.
What happened next is really shocking. Spencer said that he immediately followed the creature but unfortunately lost it. Subsequently, he claimed to have seen a dome-shaped spacecraft that rose from the moor and disappeared into the sky.
Image credit: Ufocasebook
Spencer seemed to be confused as things were not adding up for him. He came to his father-in-law’s village and was shocked to see the time in the church clock. It was already 10 a.m., and he could not understand where he had missed 2 hours. He thought that he might have hallucinated everything. But his doubts were cleared after he processed the photographs he had taken. He got assured after seeing the creature in the photograph. It was blurred but still, it existed.
The negative was later examined by various UFO experts, and they did not find any sign of tamper. It means that Spencer took a real shot of the alien creature.
Wharfedale UFO expert Nigel Mortimer re-examined Spencer’s photo in 1998. He said: “I have been trying to do this analysis for years. We are also trying to get other people involved and will look at the evidence properly. It isn’t just this photo – there have been reports of other phenomena in that area for years. I was talking to some Americans last week and they told me that they regard this Ilkley case as second only to the Roswell case in the US as evidence of aliens.”
Newspaper clipping of Ilkley Moor incident
The strangeness did not end there. After the incident, Spencer started having strange dreams in which he saw a starry sky. Then he wondered what could have happened to him during the missing time. He was advised by the UFO investigators to go under hypnosis. He recalled the creature approached him before he took a photo. He said (under hypnosis):
“I’m walking along the moor. Oh! It’s quite windy. There’s a lot of clouds. Walking up towards the trees, I see this little something, can tell, but he’s green. It’s moving towards me. Oh! I can’t move, I m stuck! He’s still coming towards me. And I still can’t move… I’m stuck, and everything’s gone fuzzy. I’m… I’m floating along in the air… I want to get down! And these green things walking ahead of me, and I don’t like it.
I still can’t move. I’m going around the corner and this green thing in front of me. Oh, God, I want to get down. There’s a… there’s a big silver saucer thing, and there’s a door in it, and I don’t want to go in there! Everything’s gone black now…”
He remembered he had been examined by the creaturs inside the ship, and they showed him a movie on a disaster that would occur if people did not stop population growth and pollution. After that, he was returned back to the moor with no memory of his abduction.
Philip Spencer did not earn fame and money from his story, and he is one of few abductees who showed evidence to prove his encounter.
Even the legendary author Homer explored Greek mythology for the idea of automata and self-propelled devices more than 2,500 years ago. By the third century BC, engineers in Hellenistic Alexandria in Egypt were building true mechanical machines. And such scientific inventions and historically existing technologies were not unique and inherent only in Greco-Roman culture.
Many ancient societies invented and even designed automata. Chinese chronicles are also full of stories of emperors fooled by realistic androids and descriptions of artificial servants allegedly created in the second century by a female inventor, Huang Yueying. And the Hindu epics speak of such techno-miracles as flying war chariots and animated beings. One of the most intriguing stories from India tells how robots once guarded the relics of the Buddha. As unbelievable as it sounds to modern ears, this story has a strong connection between ancient Greece and ancient India.
A sculpture depicting the distribution of the Buddha’s relics.
The story takes place during the time of the kings Ajatashatru and Ashoka. Ajatashatru, who ruled from 492 to 460 BC, was famous for introducing new military inventions such as powerful catapults and a mechanized war chariot with rotating blades. When Buddha died, Ajatashatru was assigned to guard his precious remains. The king hid them in an underground chamber near his capital, Pataliputra (now Patna) in northeast India.
Traditionally, statues of giant warriors stood guard near the treasures. But according to the legend, Ajatashatru’s guards were unusual: they were ancient robots. In India, automata or mechanical beings that could move on their own were called “bhuta vahana yantra,” or “spirit movement machines” in Pali and Sanskrit. It was reportedly predicted that the Ajatashatru robots would remain on duty until the future king distributed the relics of Buddha throughout his kingdom.
Stupa drum panel showing the Distribution of the Relics. Credit: British Museum
Hindu and Buddhist texts describe automata warriors circling like the wind, slashing enemies with swords like Ajatashatru’s war chariots with spinning blades. In some versions, the robots are powered by a water wheel or created by Vishwakarma, the Hindu craftsman deity and the divine architect of the gods. But the most striking version came in a confusing way into the scripture of Lokapannatti from Burma. These were Pali translations of older, lost Sanskrit texts known only from Chinese translations, each drawing on earlier oral traditions.
This tale says that many “Yantakars,” the creators of robots, lived in the west of the country of “Yavans,” Greek-speaking people, in Roma Visaya – the Indian name for the Greco-Roman culture of the Mediterranean world. The secret technology of the yavana robots was carefully guarded. Robots from Roma Visaya were engaged in trade and agriculture, catching and executing criminals.
The creators of the robots were forbidden to throw them out or reveal their mechanical secrets – if they did, then the killer robots pursued and killed them. The rumors of magical robots reached India and inspired a young artisan from Pataliputra who also wanted to learn how to make such machines.
According to the leg end, a young man reached Roma Visayas and married there the daughter of a robot maker, who taught him his craft. And then one day, he stole the blueprints for creating robots and decided to bring them to India.
Confident that the killer robots will kill him before he can get there, he cut his thigh, inserted the blueprints under his skin, and stitched himself up. And he ordered his son to bring his plan to the end and get along with the body of his father to Pataliputra. And he went on his way. Naturally, he was caught, killed, and his son found his body and delivered it to Pataliputra.
Arriving in India, the son extracted the blueprints from his father’s body and, following the instructions, built automatic soldiers for King Ajatashatru to protect the relics of Buddha stored in an underground chamber. All this was so secret that soon people forgot about the existence of a secret vault.
The Bulis of Allakappa received a portion of the Buddha’s relics following the War over the Buddha’s Relics against the Sakyas. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Two centuries after Ajatashatru, the powerful Mauryan empire in Pataliputra was ruled by Ashoka, 273-232 BC. According to the legend, Ashoka heard the rumor of the hidden relics and searched until he found an underground chamber guarded by ferocious android warriors. When Ashoka tried to get inside, a fierce battle broke out between him and the robots.
According to one version, the god Vishvakarman helped Ashoka defeat them by shooting arrows into the bolts holding the rotating structures together. According to another one, the son of an old engineer explained how to disable the robots and take control over them. Be that as it may, Ashoka ended up commanding an automaton army himself.
A statue of Visvakarman, the engineer of the universe.
Is this legend just a fantasy? Or could it have arisen against the backdrop of early cultural exchanges between East and West? The story clearly connects the mechanical creatures protecting the relics of Buddha with automata from Roma Visaya, a Greek-influenced state. How old is this tale? Most scientists believe that it arose in the Middle Ages if we count according to the European calendar.
But some are sure that this story can be much older. The narrative points to a technological exchange between Mauryan and Hellenic cultures. And contacts between India and Greece began in the fifth century B.C., when the engineers of Ajatashatru created new military machines. Greco-Buddhist cultural exchange intensified after the campaigns of Alexander the Great in northern India. Greek and Aramaic inscriptions on a monument originally erected by King Ahsoka in Kandahar, in present-day Afghanistan.
In 300 B.C., two Greek ambassadors, Megasthenes and Deimachus, already resided in Pataliputra, which boasted Greek-influenced art and architecture and was the home of the same legendary artisan who stole the robot designs from Roma Visaya. And the Great Pillars erected by Ashoka are inscribed in ancient Greek and contain the names of Hellenistic kings, demonstrating Ashoka’s direct connection with the West. Historians know that Ashoka corresponded with Hellenistic rulers, including Ptolemy II Philadelphus in Alexandria, whose spectacular procession in 279 B.C. became famous for the use of elaborate animated statues and automatic devices.
Inscriptions in Greek and Aramaic on a monument originally erected by King Asoka at Kandahar, in what is today Afghanistan.
Historians report that Ashoka sent envoys to Alexandria, while Ptolemy II sent envoys to Ashoka in Pataliputra. Diplomats usually presented magnificent gifts to showcase the cultural achievements of their countries. Maybe drawings or miniature models of automata and other mechanical devices were donated to the ancient Indians?
Today, it is no longer possible to pinpoint the date of the legend’s appearance, but it is likely that the idea of robots guarding the relics of Buddha combines real and imagined engineering feats from the time of Ajatashatru and Ashoka. This astounding story is proof that the concept of automata has been around since antiquity and illustrates the universal and eternal connection between imagination and science really well.
The space industry growth is booming and Morgan Stanley’s Space Team estimates that the roughly $350 billion global space industry could surge to over $1 trillion by 2040. Such advancement has given new opportunities for scientists to sneak deep into the dark valleys of space. This led to more people supporting the existence of intelligent species other than humans in the universe. There are many occasions when the NASA workers claimed to have seen unnatural phenomena, objects, and even beings in space. Dr. Norman Bergrun, who had worked for NASA, claimed that there were massive alien spacecraft proliferating in the rings of Saturn.
Dr. Bergun is the author of the books “Ringmakers of Saturn” and “Tomorrows Technology Today,” which document the existence of extraterrestrial vehicles of immense power. A scientist who pioneered the methodology of thermal ice prevention design, he is also credited with roll-stability laws for airplanes and missiles.
Dr. Bergrun was manager of test planning and analysis for the Polaris Underwater Launch Missile System and evaluated satellite system applications. Also a director of Information Systems, he founded his own company in 1971 and is cited in “Who’s Who in the World” and other reference works. He was an alumnus of Ames Research Laboratory, NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), predecessor of Ames Research Center, NASA where he worked for 12 years as a research scientist.
Dr. Norman Bergrun. Image credit: Legacy.com
There has been a theory that NASA employees cannot talk too much. A few former NASA employees shared some details that they could not have given out because of the confidentiality agreement. Dr. Bergrun said that it is Saturn that can be the refuge of an alien civilization, and NASA just hide their evidence, using it for their own purposes.
Dr. Norman Bergrun played a key role in the Voyager missions, the probes that were sent out and tasked with photographing Saturn, its rings and moons. There is a photo shown below from that mission he was able to obtain from the agency of a large unidentified flying object hovering just outside Saturn’s rings. It is huge, approximately the size of Earth, and is published in his book, “Ringmakers of Saturn.”
A UFO The Size Of Planet Earth Seen Hovering Near Saturn. Credit: Dr. Norman Bergrun
Dr. Bergrun said: “What I found out is, these things inhabit Saturn, that’s where I first discovered them, and they’re proliferating. You can find them around Uranus and Jupiter. Wherever you see some rings, that’s where I see the aircraft, I call them a ring maker. I say that it is electromagnetic because I can identify streamline patterns with respect to it that I knew were what we called ‘potential lines’ and that says it was electrical.”
In that book, Dr. Bergrun analyzed photographs of Saturn’s rings taken by the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1980 and 1981. He detailed his theory that the rings were formed by giant Electro-Magnetic Vehicles (EVMs), which are possibly being controlled by intelligent beings. He stated that the 7000-mile-long elliptical ships are currently orbiting Saturn within the rings and emitting visible exhaust. Later, analysis by Bergrun and others suggested the same or similar ships are in orbit around the Sun, Jupiter and Uranus.
Infrared photograph of one of the gigantic cylindrical objects taken by Hubble in the Saturn's rings
A strange bend was spotted in Saturn's two outermost rings as they passed behind the planet in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini took the image on June 9, 2016, and NASA released it on July 25.
Some point to this break in Saturn's rings as signs of alien activity.
Credit: NASA
Dr. Bergun claimed that he had to go through a lot of trouble in publishing his book, according to retired U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major Bob Dean. Below is the transcription of the interview between Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot and Dr. Bergun:
Kerry Cassidy: “Have you heard that NASA alters their footage, coming from the moon, etc?
Bergrun: “I know some of the things they do with it, yeah”
Kerry: “Okay, so even their footage is not always dependable right, although I guess it’s dependable to begin with, it’s just that they start altering it later?”
Dr. Bergun: “I have been told by a very reliable source, he asked me, what camera did I get that image from on the moon, I said ‘Hasselblad,’ and he said, ‘That’s right.’ He says, ‘I thought we darkened that enough that you wouldn’t find it.’”
Kerry: “So you were finding things they thought they covered up? Incredible.”
Dr. Bergun: “Yeah, and this guy says, ‘Well I suppose you want me to go out and tell everybody about that?’ I said ‘No, I don’t want to embarrass you, that doesn’t make any difference to me, whatever you want to do is fine with me, I’m just saying I found what you saw.’ “
Hediedon July 1, 2018, at Tracy Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at the age of 96. Unfortunately, Dr. Bergun was just another name on the list of NASA whistleblowers who is forgotten and ignored due to a lack of followers and media attention.
Colossal UFO Interacted With The Sun To Avoid A Big Solar Storm Heading To Our Planet
Strange things happen daily, but as weird as everything gets we never expected things to get as weird as this. A new discovery was made by NASA themselves, one that sounds a bit too fantastical, to say the least.
A huge U̳F̳O̳ has been spotted in between Earth and the Sun, just strolling by, enjoying the view. Not only that, according to their official statements this U̳F̳O̳ was not even paying attention to us in the slightest, it was just minding its business trying to avoid a huge solar storm that was heading our way.
Immediately after these pictures were made public SOHO made sure that none of it gets out, removing all of the pictures almost instantly and shutting down all 6 of the solar observatories across the globe.
In doing so they made sure that the world would never know the truth behind it all. It is a sad day indeed, but one that quickly reminded us all why we’re so against the superiors in our society. Check out the video below, it is actually interested in telling you the truth, not just coercing you into believing whatever they want you to believe like NASA does every Tuesday.
In the middle of World War II, “an American battleship put a technology designed by Einstein himself to the test and managed to become invisible and teleport.” This is how the “Philadelphia Experiment” was born.
This is, at least, what some conspiracy theorists say. Here is the true story of the USS Elridge, the ship that “traveled back in time”:
What is popularly known as the Philadelphia Experiment, (or Philadelphia Experiment), alludes to a supposed dark program of the US Navy called Project Rainbow.
Legend has it that the military were testing an electromagnetic field generator with which they were trying to find practical applications to the unified field theory proposed by Albert Einstein.
In one sentence: they wanted to achieve invisibility.
Private technicians who would not know what they were installing would equip two powerful generators, dozens of meters of electrical cable around the hull and other complex electronic devices to the USS Elridge, a 93 meter long battleship.
On July 22, 1943, the first supposed experiment would take place.
“The generators activated an electromagnetic field that made the battleship disappear from view for a few minutes surrounded by a greenish mist.”
“Some sailors complained of severe nausea caused by the test.”
“The equipment was readjusted and the second test took place on October 28. This time, the entire ship completely disappeared and appeared at the navy base in Norfolk , 600 kilometers away and 15 minutes in the past. “
“He was sighted there during that time. After that he disappeared again in the middle of a blue lightning to return to Philadelphia ”.
Official statements from the navy
As they say, the consequences of this second experiment were so devastating for the crew that the Navy decided to cancel the project.
“Most of the sailors developed schizophrenia and some completely lost their minds.”
“Many were seriously injured when they materialized, and others, less fortunate, fused horribly with the ship’s hull.”
“Some faded days after the experiment and never reappeared.”
This is, broadly speaking, the gruesome story perpetuated by theorists, ufologists, and some science fiction movies. The navy has always denied the existence of the Philadelphia experiment.
In a statement released in November 2000, the Navy Office of Naval Research (ONR) completely denied the existence of any invisibility or teleportation programs, as well as Einstein’s involvement.
But between 1943 and 1944, Einstein worked as a part-time consultant for the navy on theoretical research on explosives and blasting.
Of course, there is no evidence that Einstein has worked on anything related to invisibility or teleportation.
How did the Philadelphia Experiment come to light then?
The answer is through a series of letters sent by Carl Meredith Allen under the pseudonym Carlos Miguel Allende.
Allegedly, Allen was a merchant marine who saw the USS Elridge disappear from his own ship, the SS Andrew Furuseth.
Allen described the alleged teleportation experiment in a correspondence with the writer and ufologist Morris Jessup.
Although the marine never provided any credible proof of what he said, Jessup was fascinated by the story and included it in a book called The Case For The UFO. Continue with more information in the following video:
Göbekli Tepe (or Göbeklitepe) is the famous Neolithic archaeological site in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey that is considered to be the first and oldest known permanent human settlement in the world. If it is truly the first place people settled down, that means there were wanderers before then. Where did these particular wanderers come from 12,000 years ago? It turns out the answer to that question has been a mystery … until now. A surprising recent discovery in this well-studied land may have identified the place of origin of the first residents of Potbelly Hill – the Lake Baikal region of Siberia.
“Mass migrations of the peoples of Siberia to Zagros along the Central Asian mountain corridor should have reached the cultural areas of Göbekli Tepe through northern Iraq.”
Professor Semih Güneri from the Center for Archaeological Research of the Caucasus and Central Asia at Dokuz Eylul University, presented his findings at the Preliminary Turkish Congress Bringing Culture to the World held in Istanbul in mid-June 2022. Together with his research partner Professor Ekaterine Lipnina, Güneri introduced the attendees at this international conference to the idea that a mass migration began in Siberia 30,000 years ago, spreading all across Asia and eventually to Eastern and Northern Europe. As reported by Cumhuriyet,Hurriyet Daily News and other media sources covering the conference, Güneri found evidence which leads him to believe these wandering Siberians were the people who stopped and established Göbekli Tepe.
Göbekli Tepe
“Based on the results of joint research with Russian colleagues, we found out that traces of the production of stone tools made by copying by the Upper Paleolithic Siberian peoples, represented by the Early North Asian genetic group, were previously identified in Europe and Russia in the region”
While Göbekli Tepe is rich in structures, especially the circles of massive stone pillars decorated with reliefs of wild animals, the site lacks the kind of archeological data which could identify its residents, including their religion which motivated to build this temple and settle around it. Güneri knew that the Siberians of 30,000 years ago had a unique way of making stone tools. That is why he became excited when he found evidence of toolmaking at Göbekli Tepe.
“We discovered products of microblade copying technology, invented by the ancient peoples of North Asia 30,000 years ago, in the region of the Zagros Mountains.”
Güneri found evidence of a Siberian microblade copying technique in the Zagros mountains in Iran, northern Iraq, and southeastern Turkey – the pathway Siberians would have taken on their migration. Dr. Güneri refers to the technique as a “pressed microblade stone tool technology.” While other Göbekli Tepe were looking at the giant monoliths, the world’s oldest, Güneri went small … really small.
“The imprinted microblades we are working on are tiny cutters of 2-5 mm in size. These are precision tools used in the finest works by arranging them on bone material.”
The origin of this technique was confirmed in 2019 when he went to the Baikal region of south-east Siberia, home of Lake Baikal, the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m or 5577 feet) lake in the world – a lake steeped in history and mystery to this day. The people of this region would certainly have been advanced enough to transport this technology with them and even teach it to others – which Güneri confirmed in his presentation.
“After that, this technique was transferred to the Göbekli Tepe culture. The connection between the high culture of Göbekli Tepe and the carriers of the Siberian technology for manufacturing microblades has already been proven. The results of the genetic analysis of the population of the Zagros region confirmed the presence here of traces of people from Siberia who reached Zagros through the Central Asian mountain corridor and assimilated with the Göbekli-Tepe culture in northern Iraq.”
Professor Güneri used previous genetic research on the people of the Zagros region to support his theory that they were the microblade toolmakers from the Lake Baikal region. The paper he and Professor Lipnina authored has been published in the “most respected archaeological peer-reviewed journal” in Turkey, and they look forward to further research and discussions.
Other than the weather and the rumors of underwater aliens, why would anyone want to leave the beautiful Lake aikal?
OK, so that explains how Siberians got to Göbekli Tepe and made it the first permanent settlement in the world. While the location itself was permanent, the residents weren’t. History shows that many of the people who planted themselves there later uprooted and moved on. Where did the move to? For that answer, we turn to Mehmet Özdoğan, an academic from Istanbul University, who shared his idea on where “the people of Göbeklitepe migrated to” and why.
“The people of Göbeklitepe turned into farmers, and they could not stand the pressure of the overwhelming clergy and started to migrate to five ways.”
Let’s stop here for a moment. Many archeologists follow the theory that Göbekli Tepe was not the world’s first permanent settlement but the world’s first temple where nomadic hunter-gatherers from many areas came to perform their rituals and move on. Mehmet Özdoğan proposes a variation on that theme – he sees Göbekli Tepe as a settlement AND a temple. And, while the former nomads liked the idea of settling down, farming, socializing and all of the other amenities that go with living in a town, they didn’t like having to answer to the settlement’s leaders, which would have also been the temple’s clergy. So, like so many other people have done throughout history, they became the first to move seeing freedom from a religion. Where did they go? Özdoğan cites five directions.
“Migrations take place primarily in groups. One of the five routes extends to the Caucasus, another from Iran to Central Asia, the Mediterranean coast to Spain, Thrace and [the northwestern province of] Kırklareli to Europe and England, and one route is to Istanbul via [Istanbul’s neighboring province of] Sakarya and stops.”
No surprise here – these were former nomads. After trying their hands at farming and regular temple attendance, they headed out in every direction -- Özdoğan says the migration happened fast and the former Göbekli Tepe residents went small – they formed about 300 settlements in what are now northern Greece, Bulgaria and Thrace. What happened to those who didn’t think the temple leaders were so bad and decided to stay behind?
“Those who remained in Göbeklitepe pulled the trigger of Mesopotamian civilization in the following periods, and those who migrated to Mesopotamia started irrigated agriculture before the Sumerians.”
In other words, they sparked what we now call civilization. Follow that trail all the way back to the start and this means civilization’s real roots began at Lake Baikal in Siberia. Proud Siberians will certainly like that theory. What do you think?
UFOs Seen Over Scottsdale, Arizona On 3-20-2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 3-20-2021
Location of sighting: Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Email report:
Arizona is a hotspot for UFOs, both during the day and during the night. I spoke to Charles Hall twice and he said there is an alien base that the US military has given to them behind the Area S4 old nuke testing site. He worked as a VIP between the military and the aliens, because they had some bad interactions which got a few soldiers killed. These UFOs are heading to that ET base.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I was traveling east/south east on FLW Blvd in the evening after sunset, when the vehicle in front of me slowed way down and almost came to a stop. I slowed down also thinking there was an accident up ahead. Then I saw hovering in the sky in direct line with the highway four lights evenly spaced out. They reminded me of the Phoenix lights I had seen photos of. There were no other vehicles at that moment traveling east . I watched these lights remain stationary as I continued to travel east/south east on the Blvd. when I got to an intersection and stopped at a red light I recorded what I saw and the fourth light had disappeared and only three lights remained. A small plane came from the east and was traveling west, I recorded it flying close to the hovering lights. When it got over the lights two fluttering orb like lights come out of the depth of the sky , moving in close to the plane and then disappearing back into the depth of the sky. I pulled into a parking lot on the southwest corner of the intersection and took another photo. I watched it for about another fifteen minutes and then it was gone.
In 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered the partial fossilized skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis at a dig site in Ethopia. Named “Lucy” because of the Beatles’ song playing continuously on the camp’s loudspeaker system, the early australopithecine was dated to about 3.2 million years ago, making it at the time the oldest human ancestor remains ever found, and helped establish Ethiopia as the top candidate for the birthplace of humanity. That title was previously claimed by South Africa, where in 1947 a nearly complete skull of an Australopithecus africanus was found. Nicknamed Mrs. Ples, it was dated to 2.1 to 2.6 million years ago. That changed recently when new analysis of Mrs. Ples changed her date of birth by a million years – making her about 3.4 to 3.6 million years old, pushing Lucy and Ethiopia back down the list.
“Sterkfontein is the most prolific single source of Australopithecus fossils, the vast majority of which were recovered from Member 4, a cave breccia now exposed by erosion and weathering at the landscape surface.”
In a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), co-author Professor Dominic Stratford from South Africa’s University of Witwatersrand explains how Sterkfontein, a set of limestone caves about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Johannesburg, became known as the Cradle of Humankind – now a World Heritage Site. Limestone mining started there in the late 1890s and miners immediately began finding fossils which they turned over to paleontologists. In 1936, paleontology students from the University of the Witwatersrand found the first adult Australopithecine fossils – a child’s skull determined to be Australopithecus africanus was found earlier in Taung and became known as Taung Child. In 1947, British-South African doctor and palaeontologist Robert Broom uncovered a nearly complete skull of an adult female A. africanus (although there was some speculation it was an adolescent male) which Broom called Plesianthropus transvaalensis (near-man from Transvaal) – the name that was eventually shortened to Mrs. Ples.
We must never stop analyzing fossils
In 1997, a nearly complete skeleton of a second species of Australopithecus was discovered in the caves by paleontologist Ronald J. Clarke – named “Little Foot” after the first parts of the skeleton found, its age has been difficult to determine. However, Little Foot kicked off a flurry of paleo activity at Sterkfontein – to date, fossils of approximately 500 hominids have been excavated there, leading it to be called the Cradle of Humankind … despite the fact that most of the fossils have been resistant to accurate dating and those that have are younger than Ethiopia’s Lucy. Until now.
“Sterkfontein has more Australopithecus fossils than anywhere else in the world. But it’s hard to get a good date on them. People have looked at the animal fossils found near them and compared the ages of cave features like flowstones and gotten a range of different dates. What our data does is resolve these controversies. It shows that these fossils are old — much older than we originally thought.”
Co-author Darryl Granger, a professor at Purdue University, explains in Sci-News the new technique developed by the study team to get a more accurate date on Mrs. Ples and other Sterkfontein fossils. It started with the sediments surrounding the fossils in the limestone caves, particularly the cave known as Member 4 where the majority of the Australopithecus fossils have been found. They were looking for radioactive cosmogenic nuclides – which are extremely rare isotopes created by the cosmic rays which are constantly bombarding the Earth as high-energy particles. These cosmogenic nuclides cause nuclear reactions as they hit surface rocks, thus creating new radioactive isotopes within the mineral crystals. In particular, they looked for beryllium-10 and aluminum-26 – aluminum-26 is aluminum that is missing a neutron, causing it to slowly decay into magnesium over millions of years. According to the researchers, finding the two cosmogenic nuclides together was the key.
“Since aluminum-26 is formed when a rock is exposed at the surface, but not after it has been deeply buried in a cave, we can date cave sediments — and the fossils within them — by measuring levels of aluminum-26 in tandem with another cosmogenic nuclide, beryllium-10.”
The cosmogenic nuclides put the date of the sediment and the Australopithecus fossils in it at 3.4 to 3.67 million years ago. That pushed Mrs. Ples ahead of Lucy on the age chart. More importantly, it pushed the australopiths into a more prominent position as a human ancestor. Professor Stratford points out that the previous 2.4 million-year-old age made the South African Australopithecus species too young to be the ancestors of the Homo genus, which appeared starting 2.8 million years ago. By pushing its appearance back one million years, it now overlaps in age with other early hominins in Africa, including Australopithecus afarensis and Australopithecus deyiremeda at Burtele in eastern Africa, Australopithecus bahrelgazali in Chad at the crossroads of North and Central Africa, Kenyanthropus platyops at Lake Turkana in the Kenyan Rift Valley, and Australopithecus anamensis at Woranso-Mille in Ethiopia. This now solidifies South Africa’s place in early hominin evolution, and Sterkfontein’s hold on the title of the Cradle of Humankind.
We must never stop searching for fossils
But wait … there’s more.
The caves of Sterkfontein were used for millions of years by hominins and animals, resulting in a confusing mix that has made it difficult for paleontologists to paint an accurate picture of the historical evolution of the caves and their occupants. This new age determination technique using cosmogenic nuclides helped the research team draw maps of the cave deposits, which clearly showed how the animal fossils of different ages dating back millions of years were mixed with those from excavations in the 1930s and 1940s. While it helped this research team positively date Mrs. Ples and her friends, Dr. Granger hopes it will aid paleontologists around the world facing similar challenges.
“What I hope is that this convinces people that this dating method gives reliable results. Using this method, we can more accurately place ancient humans and their relatives in the correct time periods, in Africa, and elsewhere across the world.”
This could be the key to finding more Denisova hominin fossils in the piles of bones and sediment in the Denisova Cave in Siberia.
We think we know so much… and yet we know so little.
The afternoon of August 12, 1883, started like any other for Mexican astronomer José Bonilla. He arrived at the small and recently built observatory he worked at in Zacatecas, Mexico, set up his equipment, and got to work on observing sunspot activity. It was all pretty routine for him, but as he went about his observations and collected data something very strange began to come into view, which would rattle astronomy at the time and lead to what is widely believed to be one of the earliest UFO photographs ever taken, supposedly of a fleet of UFOs crossing the sun.
At first there was nothing out of the ordinary, but as Bonilla looked on he was shocked to see a group of large, dark unidentified objects crossing over the sun’s surface at a rapid pace, each of them ringed with what appeared to be some kind of mist and trailing a faint dark tail behind them. At first he thought they were perhaps artifacts of his telescope, perhaps something on the lens, but an inspection of his instruments found nothing to be wrong with them, nor anything to account for what he was seeing. As the mysterious objects passed out of view more appeared, seeming to be neverending, and it was all anomalous enough that he began taking photographs of the strange phenomena. Throughout that day and the next the objects continued to pass over the sun, until he had logged around 450 of them, a whole fleet of the things. They matched no known astronomical or sun phenomena he knew of, were not easily attributable to any Earth-based phenomena either, and Bonilla was at a complete loss as to what he had observed. All he knew was that it was something deeply strange and unprecedented.
On January 1st, 1886, the photos he had taken would be published in the French astronomy magazine L’Astronomie to mixed responses. The editor of the magazine was pretty fast to write them off as flecks of dust or bugs, and others explained it all away as migrating birds, but others held them up as something truly mysterious and beyond current knowledge. At the time they were just sort of an oddity that was soon forgotten about, but in more modern times the photos gained new life in the UFO community, where they were picked apart, studied, and hailed as some of the earliest UFO photos ever taken, but there was little to prove either way what was actually seen in those images, bringing about much discussion and debate that went nowhere.
It would not be until 2011 that a solid, plausible explanation was finally proposed by scientists at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Mexican astronomers Hector Javier Durand Manterola, Maria de la Paz Ramos Lara, and Guadalupe Cordero took a good look at the Bonilla photos and came to the conclusion that the objects were fragments of a massive comet in the process of breaking up, which to them explained the fuzziness around the edges and the dark trails they left in their wakes. They also calculated that the comet had passed within between 373 to 4,970 miles of the Earth, an extremely close flyby missing us by just a hair’s breadth. Oddly, no other astronomers at the time had witnessed the event, but the researchers have explained that this could be because of what is called the “parallax effect," meaning that if the comet fragments were so close to Earth, only certain regions of the Earth would have lined up with both the sun and the comet fragments, which would have ensured that they would not have been in line with the Sun even for observers nearby.
One of Bonilla's photos
The most sobering finding of all was that each of the fragments was estimated by the researchers as having been from 50 to 800 meters across (165 feet to 2.5 miles), coming from a parent comet that would possibly be a monstrous billion tons or more. This would have made the mother comet a size on par with Hailey’s Comet or Mars’ moon Deimos, which is generally thought to be similar in mass to the progenitor of the impact that killed the dinosaurs. In short, if it were to have hit us, it would have most likely been an extinction level event. Indeed, each one of the fragments alone was at least as big as the meteor thought to have exploded over Tunguska, Siberia on June 30, 1908 with the force of a 12 megaton bomb, about 1,000 times more powerful than an atomic bomb, to flatten an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 km2 (830 sq. miles) of forest, easily enough to annihilate a large metropolitan area. According to these scientists there were likely far more of the fragments than Bonilla had actually been able to witness, with perhaps 131 objects per hour and a total of 3275 objects in the time between observations. To put it into perspective of how close we probably came to an apocalypse if these were comet fragments, Manterola has said of it, “So if they had collided with Earth we would have had 3,275 Tunguska events in two days, probably an extinction event.”
The team is not completelty sure that their findings are accurate, but it seems to be about the best we can do to try and explain what Bonilla saw on that fateful day. What did he observe out there? Was it some mundane earthly phenomena such as dust, bugs, or birds? Was it an actual fleet of alien spacecraft? Or was it a comet that came very damn close to wiping us out? Whatever the case may be, it remains an intriguing and obscure bit of astronomy history and lore.
What looked like one craft is actually two UFOs near sun, Video, June 27, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 27, 2022 11:18:07 UTC
Location of sighting: Earths Sun Source: Helioviewer.org
Now here is a huge UFO. I knows its a UFO by how fast it moves. Its seen only on a single frame of video for heliovier. A normal human spacecraft would take days to travel the entire length of the view screen, however this is there and gone in a blink of an eye. That screams near light speed, but at short leaps. We caught it on a leap...a small split second rest before it shot off again. The entire UFO looks like an L shape and is huge, about 1.5-3.5km across.
I took a screenshot and added some shadow to bring out the detail (seen above). You can clearly make out that the object has some square sections at the joints and long round arm in between. Its the exact same shape that Buzz Aldrin said he once saw in space. When I put the screenshot into negative format, it actually looks like two different craft traveling extremely close, being held together by a tractor beam. Yes...I believe this to be 100% correct. Its two craft (look at screenshot at bottom of post as proof).
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
BELOW IS NEGATIVE FORMAT AND IT LOOKS LIKE ITS POSSIBLE THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY TWO DIFFERENT CRAFT.
UFO Fleet Over Connecticut Shows How Fearless Aliens Are Of Being Seen, June 29, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 29, 2022
Location of sighting: Durham, Connecticut, USA
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A UFO fleet was caught over Connecticut this week. Connecticut is has one side touching the ocean. This means its highly likely there UFOs were come from or heading to an underwater base along the coast line. One question many people have is why are there no military jets intercepting them? They are seen on radar right? Wrong! Alien tech is only visible on radar by accident, when damaged, or on purpose. Here there are invisible to radar.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
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Eyewitness states:
My fiance observed 3, what appeared to be cigar shaped, craft traveling at a constant speed over our treeline. She assumed they were air craft but immediately questions herself. They made no noise as they flew over. We live on a well traveled air route and are used to air liners and even military planes flying over our head.
UFO: What we know so far about the flying saucer phenomena
Two senior United States defense intelligence officers testified before a House of Representatives intelligence subcommittee regarding UFOs in May 2022. This was the very first public hearing on the issue in fifty years in the United States Congress. The hearing took place eleven months after a government assessment revealed more than 140 occurrences of unexplained aerial phenomenon (UAPs) reported by US military aircraft since 2004.
The Sun, a British news organization, submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) demand to the US Department of Defense, which caused the release of over 1,500 pages of records linked to UFO-related sightings from the covert Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), back in April 2022. Claims of radiation burns and nerve damage, linked to the sighting were among the records found. The publication of these papers has reignited interest in alien UFO sightings.
And to a Pew Research Center analysis from 2021, nearly half of Americans believe that UFO encounters recorded by military personnel are probable proof of life beyond Earth. About 40% believe that UFOs reported by the military are “probably” signs of alien life.
The general people do not consider UFOs to be a big danger to the nation. UFOs are neither a menace nor a slight one, according to 87 percent of respondents in the same study. Only one in ten people believe UFOs pose a danger to national security in the United States.
Officials from the military, on the other hand, hold a different viewpoint. Officials from the Defense Department have previously stated that UFOs are not fake and constitute a major threat to the country. Military authorities, on the other hand, do not believe UFOs are of alien origin. Instead, military authorities think that greater observation and research can explain virtually all inexplicable situations.
Who coined the phrase “unidentified flying object” (UFO)?
A UFO would be any kind of flying object that you observe in the skies but are unable to identify. Numerous conspiracy theorists claim that such unidentified objects are extraterrestrial spaceships from another planet that have arrived on Earth. The UFO notion gained prominence during the Cold War era, when several countries, including the United States, were creating new kinds of fighter jets and related technology to improve their air combat capabilities.
In 1947, the current age of UFO encounters began. Kenneth Arnold, an American aviator, claimed to have seen nine dazzling blue-white things flying in a “V” configuration over Washington’s Mount Rainier on June 24, that year.
He calculated their speed to be around 1700 miles per hour, and associated their motion with “skipping a saucer across the sea.” At the time, newspaper accounts misconstrued this and referred to the objects as “flying saucers”.
Many UFO sightings were recorded in the years following the “flying saucer” revelation, and the subject of UFOs got so intricate that even the US Air Force began discreetly researching sightings. Air Force Captain Edward James Ruppelt was in charge of a project code-named Blue Book that looked investigated UFO reports in the 1950s. The project’s main goals were to conduct a scientific investigation of all UFO-related evidence available at the time and to determine if UFOs could be deemed a national security concern. It was based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
Throughout the study, the team behind Ruppelt and their followers came to the conclusion that no UFO which had been evaluated or disclosed was a threat to national security. They claimed this because there was no proof that the sightings displayed technology beyond the understanding of modern science.
They also came to the conclusion that the characterization of “flying saucers” clearly doesn’t apply to all UFO experiences. Numerous reports of unidentified flying objects defined things that did not resemble a flying saucer or a flying disc. As a result, Ruppelt invented another, more appropriate name, ‘UFO,’ which stands for an unidentified flying object; nevertheless, other sources claim that the phrase was originally used by American writer and marine pilot Donald Edward Keyhoe in 1953.
The most amazing UFO sightings
The first public legislative hearing on UFOs was just held in the US Capitol in Washington, DC on May 17, 2022. During the meeting, the Pentagon revealed that between 2004 and 2022, military members reported at least 400 UFO occurrences. Surprisingly, the UAP study team confirmed just 144 UFO incidents till 2021.
At the meeting, Scott W. Bray, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, stated that they had witnessed an increase in the number of illegal and/or unidentifiable aircraft or objects, as well as military control training zones, training ranges, and other specified airspaces. He also stated that they cannot point to something that was not created by humans, but he can provide many cases that remain unanswered.
Aside from the incidents addressed at the previous hearing of Congress, there have been countless UFO encounters in the past that continue to amaze ufologists and pique the public’s interest.
Rancher W.W. “Mac” Brazel discovered debris on his land in June or July 1947, about 75 miles north of Roswell, New Mexico. Tinfoil, thick paper, and rubber strips were among the debris found in the wreckage. He gave part of the information to the Roswell sheriff, who forwarded it to Colonel William Blanchard, the commanding officer of the RAAF.
The Roswell Daily Record published an article that featured the media release, but Army officials swiftly issued a fresh statement, claiming that the discovered debris was really from a weather balloon.
Many conspiracy theorists and ufologists expressed skepticism of the government’s contradictory accounts in the years since, and have claimed, without proof, that many UFOs containing alien beings crashed at the Roswell site, and that the US government had the spacecraft and the extraterrestrials under its control.
Kevin D. Randle, an army veteran, told All About Space in an interview that everyone believes that something dropped at Roswell, but no terrestrial explanation exists. The US Air Force, on the other hand, has dismissed all extraterrestrial and UFO-related reports. In 1994, it issued a report acknowledging that the weather balloon narrative was false but alleging that the wreckage originated from top-secret espionage equipment at the time. The gadget was made up of a series of high-altitude balloons with microphones that were supposed to float silently above the Soviet Union, monitoring nuclear testing. The bogus weather balloon scenario, according to the study, was an attempt to hide the existence of the covert espionage mission.
The extraterrestrial invasion of Levelland
On November 2, 1957, farmworkers Pedro Saucedo and Joe Salaz in Levelland, Texas, reported having seen a 200-foot rocket-shaped UFO. They informed the local sheriff that a mysterious flying object with a blue headlight was likely to hit their truck, causing them to leap out. Even though the UFO did not collide with the truck, it tampered with its electronic system, causing the lights engine to quit operating.
Amazingly, that wasn’t the only UFO sighting on that particular day. Many residents, including motorist Jim Wheeler, Newell Wright a student at Texas Tech University, and Levelland Fire Commissioner Ray Jones, observed blue light flashes, weird objects, automobile electronics, and engine system problems while driving. The reports were eventually probed by the US Air Force’s Project Blue Book, which found that the sightings and electronic malfunctions in the cars were caused by powerful ball lightning and electrical storm incidents.
UFO sighting in Westall
On April 6, 1966, hundreds of pupils and instructors at Westall Secondary College in Clayton South, Australia, saw a flying saucer-shaped UFO. Although no photographs were obtained, multiple eyewitnesses claimed to have seen a UFO in various interviews.
Later, authorities from the local weather office claimed that a weather balloon was launched that same day. The balloon may have crashed in the field or the college and been mistaken for a UFO, they alleged. The Royal Australian Air Force likewise rejected accusations that there was an inexplicable aerial phenomenon in the skies on April 6th.
Yet, in 2021, one of the instructors who observed the incident, Andrew Greenwood, stated that two individuals purporting to be members of the government came to his house following the occurrence. Greenwood was informed by the guys that he was “wrong about what he observed” and that he must not say something further about it. When Greenwood objected, the guys threatened to dismiss him, according to him.
Ronald Reagan saw UFOs twice during his presidency.
One of the most widely reported UFO sightings in US history. According to certain stories, Ronald Reagan observed UFOs long before he became president of the United States. The first meeting is said to have occurred in the 1950s when Reagan was on his way to actor William Holden’s house in Hollywood for a party. In her book, Lucy in the Afternoon, American actress Lucille Ball, who was also there, claims that Reagan and his spouse Nancy claimed to see a UFO on their trip to LA.
As governor of California in 1974, Reagan witnessed another bizarre airborne phenomenon. That time, he was traveling in a Cessna with two security guards on his way to Bakersfield when Reagan’s pilot Bill Paynter saw a peculiar yellow light following their plane. Every person on board was taken aback as the UFO suddenly accelerated from a typical cruise speed to a phenomenal speed.
Reagan, predictably, stayed mute about his UFO sightings during his presidency. He did, however, employ the idea of alien contacts in a UN address about reducing Cold War tensions, where he mentioned the potential of the Earth being invaded by some extraterrestrial power, which would simply demonstrate how feeble we, as humans, are.
A UFO fleet has arrived in Belgium.
In November 1989 and March 1990, a storm of triangular-shaped UFOs was sighted in the Belgian skyline for many weeks. Over 13,000 individuals reported seeing big black triangles floating in the sky throughout the occurrences. The Belgian Air Force also identified unusual objects on their radars and dispatched two F-16 fighter jets to investigate.
During their hunt, the pilots also noticed some activity on their radar but did not see any UFOs floating about in the sky. Many researchers and specialists who analyzed the Belgian UFO wave later pointed out that SOBEPS, a ufologists’ team who stated to have investigated the incidents, had circulated disinformation and produced a mass hallucination. According to the researchers, SOBEPS manipulated individuals into thinking that anything strange in the sky may be a UFO.
An image of a triangular UFO also went viral, however, it was discovered in a TV interview in 2011, that the image was not real. The forger made a polystyrene UFO model, painted it, and took a shot that resembled what several people claimed to have seen in Belgium.
Interesting UFO and associated sightings facts
Here are some interesting and little-known UFO facts:
Even though media sources began reporting on UFOs in earnest following the Kenneth Arnold event does not indicate that sightings were not made prior to this. Ancient authors, historians, astronomers, and philosophers have occasionally written about unusual flying objects. For example, Julius Obsequens, a 4th and 5th-century Roman writer, talked of the appearance of marvelous things, including inexplicable occurrences in the sky. Tales from Germany and Switzerland, on the other hand, mention conflicts in the skies in the 16th century.
The earliest reported UFO sighting in the United States occurred in 1639. At the time, John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay area, reported about a flying object seen by a man called James Everell. The alien object was spotted above a dirty river located in Boston, according to the account retrieved from Winthrop’s diary. It could shrink in size and had flames.
UFO enthusiasts throughout the world honor World UFO Day on July 2 (in commemoration of the Roswell incident), while others observe it on June 24 (remembering the Kenneth Arnold sighting). Persons join in groups and then go skywatching in the hopes of seeing a UFO. Furthermore, the purpose of these events is to increase awareness of UFOs and to persuade the government to provide more secret material on aliens and UFOs.
NASA has just chosen to become engaged in the UAP investigations. The verdict follows a legislative hearing on UFOs, throughout which the United States House also reviewed the security threats involved with unidentified flying objects.
We don’t know for certain whether UFOs of alien origin exist. However, the increased interest in UFO studies by scientists, the government, and research organizations such as NASA is a promising indication. Their combined efforts may yield rational answers for the numerous UFO encounters that occur each year, as well as raise public awareness of this intriguing subject.
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“Mensheid komt mogelijk oorspronkelijk ook uit Zuid-Afrika”: vroege voorouders van de mens een miljoen jaar ouder dan gedacht
Nieuw onderzoek stelt dat fossielen van onze voorouders uit de Zuid-Afrikaanse grotten van Sterkfontein - die deel uitmaken van de zogenaamde ‘wieg van de mensheid’ - tussen de 3,4 en 3,6 miljoen jaar oud zijn. Dat is maar liefst een miljoen jaar ouder dan eerder gedacht. Het betekent ook dat onze voorouders uit Zuid-Afrika al op aarde rondliepen in de tijd van de vrouwelijke mensachtige met de bijnaam ‘Lucy’, van wie het skelet in 1974 in Ethiopië in het oosten van Afrika werd gevonden.
De kalksteengrotten van Sterkfontein liggen ten noordwesten van Johannesburg in Zuid-Afrika. Sinds het einde van de 19de eeuw gebeuren er opgravingen, ook vandaag nog. De fossielen van zo’n 500 hominides of mensachtigen zijn er inmiddels al blootgelegd, méér dan op eender welke andere site in de wereld. Samen met twee andere Zuid-Afrikaanse locaties, Kromdraai en Swartkrans, is Sterkfontein opgenomen op de Werelderfgoedlijst van UNESCO. Ze vormen de ‘wieg van de mensheid’.
In 1947 werd bij Sterkfontein de meest complete schedel ooit van een Australopithecus africanus, een voorloper van de moderne mens, gevonden. De vondst kreeg de naam ‘Mrs. Ples’. Wetenschappers schatten de leeftijd van het fossiel op iets tussen 2,1 en 2,6 miljoen jaar. Maar volgens de Franse wetenschapper en coauteur van de nieuwe studie, Laurent Bruxelles, “klopte dat chronologisch niet”. Zo toonde recent onderzoek aan dat het skelet van ‘Little Foot’, ook een Australopithecus, 3,67 miljoen jaar oud was. Zo’n groot leeftijdsverschil tussen Mrs. Ples en Little Foot leek onwaarschijnlijk omdat ze door zo weinig sedimentaire lagen gescheiden werden.
De onderzoekers vermoeden nu, op basis van nieuwe dateringstechnieken, dat Mrs. Ples tussen de 3,4 en 3,6 miljoen jaar oud is. Dat is zelfs wat ouder dan Lucy, van wie de leeftijd is geschat op 3,2 miljoen jaar. Zuid-Afrika is zo weer mee in de running als het gebied waar de mensheid mogelijk is ontstaan, ten koste van Oost-Afrika. Op dat vlak werd “Zuid-Afrika grotendeels genegeerd omdat het zo moeilijk was de fossielen te dateren”, legt Ronald Clarke, professor aan de Universiteit van Witwatersrand en coauteur van het artikel in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift PNAS uit. “De fossielen werden grotendeels afgedaan als niet relevant voor het verhaal van de menselijke evolutie. Het is een grote stap, want dit bevestigt dat deze primitieve voorouders zich overal in Afrika bevonden.”
De Zuid-Afrikaanse Australopithecus africanus en de Oost-Afrikaanse Australopithecus afarensis waren “tijdgenoten”, voegt Dominic Stratford, onderzoeksdirecteur van de grotten en tevens coauteur van de studie, eraan toe. Mogelijk kwam het zelfs tot voortplanting tussen beiden. “In een tijdsbestek van miljoenen jaren en met een afstand van slechts 4.000 kilometer hadden deze soorten genoeg tijd om te reizen en zich samen voort te planten... dus we kunnen ons grotendeels een gemeenschappelijke evolutie door Afrika voorstellen”, aldus nog Laurent Bruxelles.
Volgens de studie is de geschiedenis van de mensachtigen “complexer dan de lineaire evolutie”, aldus nog Bruxelles. Onze stamboom is “meer een bos, om de woorden van onze overleden vriend Yves Coppens te gebruiken”, verwijst hij naar de Franse paleontoloog die mee Lucy ontdekte en die vorige week stierf.
A galactic nova flared briefly into naked eye visibility for a day, before vanishing from sight.
Some stars burn bright but brief. These transitory novae pepper the sky, with one flaring into naked eye visibility every few years… but it was a recent brief appearance of just such a ‘new star’ that gave astronomers a chance to probe the secrets of the Universe.
Japanese amateur astronomer Seidji Ueda was the first to raise the alarm worldwide. Amateurs are always on the hunt for galactic novae, as it’s one of the key fields where they can contribute to real science. The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) has been the key clearinghouse for novae observations and light curves since 1911.
The discovery was made on the night of June 21st, 2021. The ‘star’ was a galactic nova in the northern constellation of Hercules the Hero, right along its border with Sagitta and Aquila, just off the galactic plane. Soon, the nova had a name: V1674 Herculis (V1674 Her or Nova Herculis 2021).
The location of Nova Herculis 2021 in the sky. Credit: Stellarium.
Generally, novae reach a peak brightness for several days or weeks before fading from view. Recent memorable novae include Nova Delphini 2013 and Nova Centauri 2013. Such ‘new stars’ can give familiar constellations a decidedly strange look.
This image from the New Technology Telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory shows Nova Centauri 2013 in July 2015 as the brightest star in the centre of the picture. This was more than eighteen months after the initial explosive outburst. This nova was the first in which evidence of lithium has been found. Credit: ESO
But Nova Herculis 2021 had a surprise in store. The nova topped out, flirting with naked eye brightness at magnitude +6 before fading from view in just one day. 24 hours after its eruption, the nova had faded a hundredfold. This tops the 3-day record set by Nova V838 Herculis (also in Hercules) in 1991.
The light curve for Nova Herculis 2021. Credit: AAVSO.
Novae are produced when a dense white dwarf star siphons material off a main sequence companion. The material becomes compressed on the surface of the white dwarf, which can then ignite under the pressure of nuclear fusion in a violent flash. Novae can erupt multiple times, in what’s known as a recurrent nova. Novae can also build up and evolve over time into supernovae, which can be seen across the Universe.
“The white dwarf that exploded is massive and growing in mass toward a Supernova 1A explosion,” astronomer Sumner Starrfield (University of Minnesota) told Universe Today. “It ejected far less mass than necessary to be accrete by the white dwarf and initiate an explosion.”
Nova are vital as they seed heavier elements back into the cosmos, and Type IA supernovae are used as standard candles to measure extra-galactic distances.
Stranger still, Nova Herculis 2021 exhibits a 501 second ‘wobble’. This oscillation is visible across the visible and x-ray spectrum, and is persistent from bright to faint magnitudes. This, along with variations in the energetic wind ejected by the nova into the surrounding interstellar medium seems to be driven by the orbital period of the white dwarf star versus its companion.
Nova Herculis 2021 is an estimated 4,750 parsecs (15,500 light-years) distant.
Nova Herculis 2021 flares briefly into prominence. Credit: Michael Jaeger.
“We are continuing to observe this system since it has not returned to quiescence,” says Starrfield. “We know that it has a ~500 second oscillation—presumably the white dwarf rotation period—and an about 3.6 hour rotation period that is probably the rotation period of the binary. We need more spectroscopy and photometry to better understand those periods and the implications of those periods.”
Observations of Nova Herculis 2021 were made using the Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham in Arizona, along with its multi-object double and PEPSI spectrograph.
Studying novae may also go a ways towards addressing the ‘cosmological lithium problem,’ and the source of lithium abundance in metal-rich stars like our Sun.
“Both theory and observations now imply that classical novae are the lithium producers in the galaxy,” says Starrfield. “A long standing problem has been why there is more lithium in stars like the Sun than produced by the Big Bang.”
Nova Herculis is a fascinating discovery to follow, in the strange stellar menagerie of our Universe.
Read the report on Nova Herculis out of University of Minnesota and Ohio State University in the Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society.
Watch Robot Dog Shoot A Rifle!! World Robot Dog Army Threat To Human Race? Spot The Robot Dog Is Designed To Carry Large Weapon And Hunt Humans?
Watch Robot Dog Shoot A Rifle!! World Robot Dog Army Threat To Human Race? Spot The Robot Dog Is Designed To Carry Large Weapon And Hunt Humans?
Here’s the glossy version… meaning, the harmless dog that knows a few tricks, and doesn’t do much else… meanwhile watch the other videos and you’ll know this isn’t just a giant cute toy!!
Well if you ask me, it’s reasonable to say that the back of the robot, is designed to and equipped with the ability to carry anything, weapons included! People… this is a real issue… look at what China has…
A New Map of Mars, Made From 51,000 Orbital Images
When NASA sent the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to the red planet in 2006, the spacecraft took an instrument with it called CRISM—Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars. CRISM’s job is to produce maps of Mars’ surface mineralogy. It’s been an enormous success, but unfortunately, the loss of its last cryocooler in 2017 means the spectrometer can only undertake limited observations.
But CRISM is going out with a bang, creating one final image of the surface of Mars that NASA will release in batches over the next six months.
“It’s effectively a whole new data set that will fuel a second wave of discoveries about Mars’ surface composition.”
Scott Murchie, CRISM’s principal investigator, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL).
The new map will cover 86% of Mars’ surface. It’ll be 5.6 gigapixels in size and will reveal the locations of dozens of important minerals in 72 colours. Since many minerals form in the presence of water, the locations of certain minerals reveal evidence of Mars’ watery past. The new map will also help plan future missions and choose the most promising locations for rovers to visit.
Jezero Crater on Mars was the landing site for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover. The colours in this image show surface minerals detected by CRISM, which helped identify the crater as a desirable landing site. The green colour represents carbonates, which are good at preserving fossils. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
We already have the first portions of the new map. The final version of the map will contain about 51,000 540-kilometre-long strips, contained in 1764 tiles. In mid-June, NASA released 48 of those tiles, and they cover five of Mars’ most scientifically interesting regions.
The final map is a whole new data set and the first of its kind. The data has been gathered over the mission’s years but has never been put together, though mission scientists had this project in the back of their minds. “We’ve had the map tiles as a product set on the books really from the very beginning,” said Frank Seelos, a planetary scientist at APL and lead on the CRISM mapping project. “We knew we wanted to do this, but it took us many, many years to get to the point where we had enough data and the tools needed to make it worthwhile.”
A near-global map of Mars, composed of nearly 51,000 mapping strips mosaicked into 1,764 tiles. The grid overlay shows the boundaries of the individual tiles. An additional 100 tiles in each polar region — not included here — are being processed separately. The map shows familiar large-scale surface brightness patterns, largely governed by the distribution of bright-red iron oxide-bearing dust. Darker, relatively dust-free regions consist of impact-fragmented crustal rock and wind-blown sand. The Nili Fossae region, where the Mars 2020 (Perseverance) rover is exploring Jezero Crater near the top-right quadrant, is indicated by the yellow box in the center-right part of the map. It’s also the location of the leading image. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Johns Hopkins APL
CRISM has made about 33,000 high-resolution images over the years, and they’ve helped identify landing sites for rover missions, and also inform the future Mars Sample Return mission. But while it was doing that work, it was also gathering lower-resolution mapping strips, about 83,000 of them. Now that CRISM is no longer active, the team is building their map from those strips.
This four-panel montage shows different aspects of the tile mosaic composed of data collected over the Nili Fossae region from the yellow rectangle in the larger image preceding it. Top left: An approximate natural colour rendering of Mars’ surface. Top right: Synthetic colour composite showing variation in iron mineralogy, with iron oxide appearing in red, iron-bearing minerals (e.g., olivine, high-calcium pyroxene) in blue, and low-calcium pyroxene in cyan. Bottom left: Water-altered iron- and magnesium-rich phyllosilicate clays, as well as some carbonates, with warm colours indicating a stronger feature. Bottom right: Synthetic colour composite showing the variation of unaltered igneous minerals, with olivine (red), low-calcium pyroxene (green), high-calcium pyroxene (blue), and mineral mixtures (other non-primary colours). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Johns Hopkins APL
Processing this much data into one cohesive map is a complicated task requiring powerful computing resources. It takes time to optimize the maps and account for environmental conditions and discrepancies between the different images. “For an individual tile, the optimization process might take just five hours in some exceptional cases, but sometimes it will take over a day,” said CRISM team member Katie Hancock, a software developer at APL who spearheaded the development of the optimization code. In a press release from JH/UAPL, Hancock said that it could take a computer cluster a month to build the map of the entire planet.
The map will be important for years to come and will fuel future discoveries about Mars. “It’s effectively a whole new data set that will fuel a second wave of discoveries about Mars’ surface composition,” said Scott Murchie, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and CRISM’s principal investigator. “In fact, one of the objectives of the next MRO extended mission is for its HiRISE camera to go back and image in colour the hundreds of new high-science priority spots we’re finding on the map — spots that haven’t been imaged at high resolution because their importance wasn’t known.”
CRISM is still operational in a limited way. Without a cryocooler, it can’t perform infrared observations and will be limited to visible light operations. It’s in standby mode right now and is on deck until it’s decommissioned in a few months.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is still going strong and has exceeded its planned mission length by several years. In 2018 NASA said it wants to keep the spacecraft operating through the late 2020s, at least. One of the obstacles to greater longevity is its aging gyroscopes, but NASA said they can rely on stellar navigation to maintain the spacecraft’s orientation. MRO’s HiRISE camera has captured almost 70,000 high-resolution images of the surface of Mars. It doesn’t rely on a cryocooler so as long as MRO is operating, we’ll still be seeing stunning visible light images of Mars.
The ESA’s Mars Express Orbiter is still operating at Mars, too, and it carries its own spectrometer. The Infrared Mineralogical Mapping Spectrometer, or Observatoire pour la Mineralogie, l’Eau, les Glaces et l’Activit (OMEGA) also uses near-infrared to map mineral concentrations on the Martian surface.
Frank Seelos, the lead on the CRISM mapping project, points out that the mission has been a success and the instrument doesn’t need to contribute any more than it has already to be a big part of Mars’ exploration.
“The warranty on this thing expired years ago before my kids were even born,” Seelos said. “The CRISM investigation has been very long-lived, and the fact that we were able to take data for so many years is amazing. The release of these tiles is a kind of exclamation point for the instrument’s legacy.”
CRISM has left its mark on multiple missions to Mars. This is an image of Mars’ Santa Maria Crater from Orbit. NASA’s Opportunity rover arrived at the western rim of Santa Maria Crater, some 90 meters wide, on Dec. 16, 2010, at a spot called “Palos”. Opportunity then drove in a counterclockwise direction to a spot called “Wanahani” at the southern edge. Researchers used data collected by CRISM to direct Opportunity’s route to Endeavour crater. Spectral observations recorded by CRISM indicated the presence of water-bearing sulphate minerals at the location shown by the red dot on the southeast rim crater. This image was taken by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera also on MRO. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona.
“The CRISM investigation has been one of the crown jewels of NASA’s MRO mission,” said Richard Zurek, the mission’s project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “Analyses based on these final maps will provide new insights into the history of Mars for many years to come.”
If you’d like to take a deeper look at what CRISM shows us about the minerals on Mars’ surface, visit JHUAPL’s MICA site. MICA is a downloadable set of published descriptions and type locations of unique spectral features identified on Mars by using data from CRISM. It was published in 2019.
70 Meter Dark Entrance Found On Crater On Google Moon Map, June 29, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
LOL, I just found this after finding the blue planet object on Google Sky. I just switched over and 5 min later found this on the moon. The dark black square is 70 meters by 70 meters according to google ruler. However this is also some thick framing around it which causes me to think this is an entrance and exit point for small craft to reach inside the moon. You see, the moon is hollow, an Apollo mission which measured the echo of a lander rocket recorded that the moon is hollow. So with that point made, this 70 meter dark square with the think frame does appear to be an open doorway. This is 100% proof that intelligent life exists below the surface of the moon.
Giant Blue Matter On Google Sky Map May Be Intelligently Made Planet, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: June 29, 2022
Location of discovery: far right of Horesehead Nebula
Coordinates: -2.759860° -88.686101°
I was looking over Google Sky map, which is free and comes with the Google Earth map. You only need to click on the Satern icon on the top center of the Google map to move to Sky map or moon maps.
Here I found a strange object which I believe to be fake land. I believe that aliens can create planetary matter but in any design or shape that they see as being more useful to them. Here is a scattering of matter, blue and made to act like a planet. The object has lights in front of it due to planets an stars seen between us and it. It is not transparent.
We see life and existence as a lower life form would...simple with simplistic answers, however the depth of possibilities is endless and this object is space is no Nebula its something created by intelligent beings.
San Diego, California Skies light up with lights over ocean, June 27, 2022, 2 Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:June 27, 2022 Location of sighting: San Diego, California, USA
An unusual line of lights lit up the California city of San Diego a few days ago. The lights are similar to the ones seen by thousands of people over Phoenix, Arizona back in March 13, 1997 where long lines of lights were seen in the sky over the city. Well it looks like those aliens are back and they are near San Diego, but over the ocean area. This seems to indicate there may be an alien base somewhere in the ocean near San Diego, which would explain a lot of the earth quakes that they have been having over the years. The US military has denied that any exercises took place, so that rules out flare, but then again flares only last minutes, this sighting lasted almost an hour!
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Its still happening, going on about an hour now. Multiple floating lights over the ocean. Very still, very bright. Orange reddish lights. Pattersn of 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6."
Alien civilizations from level 1 to level 7 - We are only at level 0.72
The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy it is able to use. The measure was proposed by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev in 1964.The scale is hypothetical, and regards energy consumption on a cosmic scale.
Kardashev's has given rise to numerous scenarios exploring the possibility of more evolved civilizations. These scenarios each question in their own way, defining a civilization: energy sources, technology and the transmission of interstellar messages.
The purpose of this classification is to guide the search for extraterrestrial civilizations, particularly within SETI, in which Kardashev participated, and this on the assumption that a fraction of the energy used by each type is intended to communicate with other civilizations.
To make this scale more understandable, they compare the speed of transmission across the galaxy of a volume of information equivalent to a medium-sized library.
For example:
A type 2 civilization can send this data by means of a transmission beam emitting for only 100 seconds. A similar amount of information can be sent across intergalactic distances of about ten million light years, with a transmission time of several weeks.
A type 3 civilization can transmit this same amount of data to the entire observable universe with a transmission time of 3 seconds.
Kardashev believes that it will take humanity 3,200 years to reach Type 2, and 5,800 years to reach Type 3, but physicist and futurist Michio Kaku suggested that, if humans increase their energy consumption at an average rate of 3 percent each year, they may attain Type 1 status in 100–200 years, Type 2 status in a few thousand years, and Type 3 status in 100,000 to a million years.
A Type I civilization is usually defined as one that can harness all the energy that reaches its home planet from its parent star.
A Type 2 civilization is capable of harnessing the energy radiated by its own star, or example, by means of the successful completion of a Dyson sphere or Matrioshka brain.
Note 1: A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its solar power output.
Note 2: A Matrioshka brain is a hypothetical megastructure of immense computational capacity powered by a Dyson sphere. It is an example of a class-B stellar engine, employing the entire energy output of a star to drive computer systems.
A Type 3 civilization is in possession of energy at the scale of its own galaxy. Civilizations of this type as having access to power comparable to the luminosity of the entire Milky Way galaxy.
A Type 4civilization can control or use the entire universe while
a Type 5 civilization can control collections of universes as well as there is
a Type 6 multidimensional civilization
a Type 7 creator civilization what is discussed in the video below.
At the current time, humanity has not yet reached Type 1 civilization status, we are only at level 0.72
Mysterious rocket crash on moon baffles scientists or was it a UFO?
A mystery rocket has crashed into the moon creating two large craters. NASA astronomers are baffled, they don't know where the rocket came from and why the impact was spread over two distinct areas.
The astronomers discovered a rocket body heading toward a lunar collision late last year. The impact occurred on March 4, 2022 with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter later spotting the resulting crater. Surprisingly the crater is actually two craters, an eastern crater (18-meter diameter, about 19.5 yards) superimposed on a western crater (16-meter diameter, about 17.5 yards).
The double crater was unexpected and may indicate that the rocket body had large masses at each end. Typically a spent rocket has mass concentrated at the motor end; the rest of the rocket stage mainly consists of an empty fuel tank.
No other rocket body impacts on the Moon created double craters. The four Apollo SIV-B craters were somewhat irregular in outline (Apollos 13, 14, 15, 17) and were substantially larger (greater than 35 meters, about 38 yards) than each of the double craters. The maximum width (29 meters, about 31.7 yards) of the double crater of the mystery rocket body was near that of the S-IVBs.
That means it wasn’t an average rocket, NASA reported in a June 24 news release.
The origin of the rocket body remains uncertain and so far, none of Earth’s space exploring nations have taken credit or blame for the crash.
Since they cannot identify the object means it was an Unidentified Flying Object, but NASA will never admit that it was a UFO that crashed on the moon.
During archaeological excavations in Crimea , experts discovered a necropolis of the Byzantine Empire where the tomb of a giant was .
While the reconstruction work on the Mithridates Staircase in Kerch continues, archaeological excavation work has also started in the area.
This revealed up to 100 square meters of a necropolis, which had burials of people who once visited the temple of Juan Bautista .
To date there are 27 uncovered burials , some of children and twin burials. In addition to other elements, such as bronze pendants or bracelets.
They even managed to find felt clothing in one of the burials . This was very helpful as it allowed them to date the find .
Tomb of a giant in the necropolis
The find itself was not common and it became much more strange when they found a funerary box that exceeded 2.30 meters in length . When they uncovered it, they found what appeared to be the skeleton of a giant.
If the standard physique of the inhabitants of the area in the past is taken into account, finding a skeleton of a man that exceeded two meters in height is something that does not agree with the data.
The average height of the population of the date was 1.60 meters high , so there is no way to explain how the remains of this giant were buried in the area.
The remains were examined by the team’s anthropologist, who hopes to give an estimate of the age of the person buried there.
The remains must be analyzed to discover their origin
complicated excavation
The excavation work has been slow due to the complicated terrain, which is mixed . In ancient times, garbage was simply thrown on the ground.
Then, in the Middle Ages , the necropolis was created on top of all the ancient remains. For this reason it has become difficult for archaeologists to give an exact interpretation of the origin of everything found.
At the moment, the experts are in negotiations with the diocese of Kerch-Feodosia to be able to extract the remains found and examine them better.
Experts continue to investigate the origin of the mysterious skeleton and the reason for its abnormal size. In addition to finding an explanation for its origins.
The existence of giants is common in different ancient cultures, despite the fact that traditional archeology tries to keep these types of findings hidden. But discoveries like the one in Crimea show us that they existed.
ARCHEOLOGEN ZIEN 3400 JAAR OUDE STAD VAN MYSTERIEUZE BESCHAVING UIT HET WATER OPDOEMEN
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Door aanhoudende droogte viel de stad – die zich normaliter onder water schuilhoudt – eerder dit jaar heel even droog. Wat volgde, was een race tegen de klok. Mét resultaat.
Als klimaatverandering ergens tot uiting komt, dan is het – even afgezien van de polen – wel in Irak. Met name het zuiden van het land gaat regelmatig gebukt onder extreme droogte. Zo ook in januari en februari van dit jaar. Om de gewassen op de droge akkers in ieder geval nog een kans te geven, werd een beroep gedaan op het Mosoel-reservoir; het belangrijkste waterreservoir dat Irak sinds de jaren tachtig van de vorige eeuw rijk is (zie kader). Het waterpeil in dit reservoir zakte rap. En terwijl het water zakte, dook in het reservoir een grote en daarmee vermoedelijk belangrijke stad uit de Bronstijd op.
Mosoel-reservoir In 1981 werd in het noorden van Irak aangevangen met de bouw van de Mosoeldam (in die tijd aangeduid als de Saddamdam). Door de dam ontstond een stuwmeer dat men kort na de voltooiing van de dam – in 1985 – liet vollopen. Verschillende archeologische vindplaatsen verdwenen daarbij onder water, waaronder dus ook de stad die begin dit jaar tijdelijk uit het water verrees. Wat deze stad echter bijzonder maakt, is dat deze – ook voorafgaand aan de totstandkoming van het stuwmeer – nooit door archeologen onderzocht is.
Geen vrije tijd Koerdische archeologen haastten zich – met enkele Duitse collega’s – naar het Mosoel-reservoir. En dat was het startsein van een race tegen de klok (en het water). De archeologen hadden daarbij een duidelijk doel voor ogen: een zo’n groot mogelijk deel van deze stad – voor het water deze weer zou verzwelgen – verkennen. “De tijdsdruk had geen effect op de opgravingen en onze documentatiemethoden,” benadrukt onderzoeker Ivana Puljiz, verbonden aan de universiteit van Freiburg. “Maar het betekende wel dat we bijna geen vrije tijd hadden.”
Zes weken was de archeologen uiteindelijk gegund. En in die periode werd er continu keihard gewerkt. “De grootste uitdaging tijdens de opgravingen was het weer. Door de tijdsdruk bleven we doorgraven in kou, sneeuw, hagel, regen en zelfs stormen. Want we wisten niet wanneer het waterpeil weer zou stijgen en hoeveel tijd we zouden hebben.”
Machtig rijk Maar het harde werk heeft zijn vruchten afgeworpen. Want de archeologen zijn erin geslaagd om – in de korte tijd die hen daarvoor gegund was – een groot deel van de stad in kaart te brengen. Daarnaast zijn in de stad ook een aantal interessante vondsten gedaan die hopelijk meer inzicht kunnen geven in het nog altijd mysterieuze beschaving die tussen 1550 en 1350 voor Christus over grote delen van het noorden van Mesopotamië en Syrië heerste: de Mittani.
Over de Mittani “Het Mittani-rijk is één van de grootste staten die tijdens de late Bronstijd in het zuidwesten van Azië te vinden waren,” vertelt Puljiz. “Het bestond gelijktijdig met het Nieuwe Rijk in Egypte, de Kassieten die over Babylon heersten en het Hettitisch Koninkrijk (dat centraal Anatolië en noordwestelijke Syrië besloeg, red.). Het gebied waarin de Mittani heersten, was groot en reikte van de Mediterrane kust tot het noorden van Irak. Maar er is heel weinig bekend over de organisatie van het rijk, omdat de hoofdstad ervan tot op heden nog niet met zekerheid geïdentificeerd is en de archieven nog op ontdekking wachten.”
Waardevol Het maakt de opgravingen die nu op de tijdelijke oevers van het Mosoel-reservoir hebben plaatsgevonden heel waardevol. “De opgravingen wijzen erop dat dit een belangrijk centrum in het Mittani-rijk was,” vertelt onderzoeker Hasan Qasim. En de stad kan ons dan ook meer vertellen over deze nog altijd vrij mysterieuze beschaving.
Grote gebouwen Zo zijn de onderzoekers tijdens hun opgravingen op een paleis gestuit, maar ook op een soort fort met muren en wachttorens en een enorm, meerdere verdiepingen tellend pakhuis. “Wat het meest opwindend is, is dat we ons nu een voorstelling kunnen maken van hoe de stad eruitzag,” stelt Puljiz. “Hoe de stad functioneel en ruimtelijk georganiseerd was. Wat ons daarbij onder meer verbaasde was dat we op verschillende plaatsen in de stad op enorme gebouwen stuitten.”
In de stad zijn opmerkelijk goed bewaard gebleven muren ontdekt.
Afbeelding: Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen, KAO.
Metershoge muren Veel van die gebouwen zagen er naar omstandigheden nog redelijk goed uit. Zo werden er op verschillende plaatsen in de oude stad goedbewaard gebleven muren teruggevonden die soms wel enkele meters hoog waren. Dat de muren – gemaakt van in de zon gedroogde kleisteen – zelfs na meer dan 40 jaar onder water te hebben gestaan, nog heel zijn, is volgens de onderzoekers te herleiden naar een aardbeving die de stad rond 1350 voor Christus verwoestte. Tijdens deze beving stortten de bovenste delen van gebouwen in, waardoor de onderste delen erdoor begraven – en later ook beschermd – werden.
Tabletten Naast de muren stuitten de onderzoekers nog op een andere spectaculaire vondst; vijf keramische vazen die samen een meer dan 100 kleitabletten tellend archief herbergden. De kleitabletten dateren uit de periode kort nadat de aardbeving plaatsvond. En ook daarvoor geldt dat het bijna wonderbaarlijk te noemen is dat deze kleitabletten hun decennialange onderdompeling hebben doorstaan. De onderzoekers vermoeden dat de tabletten brieven zijn en hopen dat deze ons meer kunnen vertellen over de ondergang van de stad en misschien ook de opkomst van het Assyrische rijk in het gebied.
Hier zie je een met kleitabletten gevuld vat. Eén van de kleitabletten zit zelfs nog in zijn ‘envelop’.
Afbeelding: Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen, KAO.
Zakhiku Ten slotte denken de onderzoekers dankzij de opgravingen ook te weten hoe de Mittani deze indrukwekkende stad noemden. “Tijdens onze opgravingen hebben we een administratieve tekst gevonden die de oude stad Zakhiku noemt. We nemen aan dat dit verwijst naar de plek waar we opgravingen hebben gedaan.”
Dat de onderzoekers in amper zes weken tijd zoveel gezien en gedocumenteerd hebben, is indrukwekkend. En er viel nog veel meer te ontdekken, maar de tijd ontbrak; de archeologen waren in februari gedwongen de stad weer terug te geven aan het water. Maar niet voordat ze deze voor zover mogelijk met plastic hadden bedekt. “Het is belangrijk om ons gedeelde culturele erfgoed voor toekomstige generaties te behouden,” stelt Puljiz. “En archeologische vindplaatsen in reservoirs eroderen door het stijgende en dalende water. Uiteindelijk zal zo’n vindplaats compleet eroderen en gaan alle ruïnes verloren.” Dat probleem speelt ook in het geval van Zakhiku. “Hoewel de gebouwen uit de Mittani-periode dankzij hun omvang goedbewaard zijn gebleven, zijn de bovenliggende lagen – zonder ooit archeologisch onderzocht te zijn – al bijna vrijwel geheel geërodeerd. We hopen verdere erosie te voorkomen door de vindplaats in te pakken met plastic dat door stenen en keien op zijn plaats wordt gehouden.”
Na de opgravingen werden de ruïnes met plastic bedekt om ze tegen erosie te beschermen.
Afbeelding: Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen, KAO.
Inmiddels is de stad weer volledig door water bedekt. Wanneer deze weer uit het water verrijst, is onmogelijk te voorspellen. “Maar ik hoop dat we ons onderzoek op deze opwindende plek weer eens voort kunnen gaan zetten,” stelt Puljiz. “Er zijn nog zoveel dingen te ontdekken!” En niet alleen in deze stad. Want naast Zakhiku zijn er in de jaren tachtig met de totstandkoming van het Mosoel-reservoir nog veel meer gebieden aan het water ten prooi gevallen. “Voorafgaand daaraan heeft de Irakese overheid een soort reddingsprogramma op poten gezet waarbij talloze van deze gebieden eerst door Irakese en buitenlandse onderzoekers zijn onderzocht.” Hoewel men ook van het bestaan van Zakhiku op de hoogte was, werden de resten van deze stad echter nooit onder de loep genomen. En mogelijk zijn er nog wel meer plaatsen die archeologen toen – bewust of onbewust – niet nader hebben onderzocht. “Er kunnen zomaar tientallen andere belangrijke plaatsen zijn waar we nog helemaal nietsvan weten,” denkt Puljiz.
THE EARTH'S CORE IS COOLING WAY FASTER THAN WE THOUGHT, SCIENTISTS SAY
OUR PLANET IS TURNING INTO A ROCKY PLANET LIKE MERCURY OR MARS MUCH "FASTER THAN EXPECTED."
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Cooling Earth
According to new research, the core of the Earth is cooling much faster and sooner than originally anticipated — a new mystery that could throw a wrench in our understanding of the planet's evolution.
To get a better sense of how far along the Earth is in the process, scientists are studying the thermal conductivity of the minerals present in the layer between the planet's core and mantle. The faster that hot center passes heat to the planet's outer layers, the faster the Earth is losing the heat present in its core.
Heating Rocks
In a lab simulation, a team of researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland and the Carnegie Institution for Science applied immense amounts of pressure and heat to a mineral called bridgmanite — which is found in the transitional zone between the core and mantle — to simulate the conditions deep below the surface. They then measured its thermal conductivity to get a better sense of the cooling processes at play.
The results were surprising.
"This measurement system let us show that the thermal conductivity of bridgmanite is about 1.5 times higher than assumed," said ETH professor Motohiko Murakami, lead author of a paper about the findings published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, in a statement.
In other words, the heat from the core is being passed on at a much faster rate than previously thought, leading to the greater cooling of the Earth.
A New Perspective
The study could rewrite what we already know about the dynamic processes leading to the slowing down of convection currents.
"Our results could give us a new perspective on the evolution of the Earth’s dynamics," Murakami explained. "They suggest that Earth, like the other rocky planets Mercury and Mars, is cooling and becoming inactive much faster than expected."
The researcher did, however, note we didn't know enough to pinpoint how long it will take for convection currents to stop altogether.
De Amerikaanse sonde Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), die sinds 2009 rond de Maan wentelt, heeft na de mysterieuze inslag van een rakettrap twee nieuwe impactkraters op het hemellichaam gevonden, zo heeft nieuwszender CNN maandag gemeld.
Op 4 maart sloeg een door mensenhanden gemaakt object, voor het eerst niet met opzet, op de Maan in. Nadien stelde de LRO vast dat er twee nieuwe impactkraters zijn. Een oostelijke is achttien meter breed en een westelijke zestien meter.
Volgens CNN zijn astronomen verrast dat er twee kraters zijn. Het suggereert dat de impact het werk is van een groot object.
Wat dat object precies is, is nog steeds onduidelijk. Eerst was sprake van een trap van een Amerikaanse Falcon-draagraket. Daarop sprak China de versie tegen dat het een trap van de Lange Mars-3C draagraket was die de Chinese Chang’e-5 Maanmissie lanceerde.
Mogelijk kan de dubbele inslag astronomen meer leren over de precieze herkomst, aldus nog CNN.
A rocket body struck the moon on March 4 near the Hertzsprung crater, creating a double crater roughly 28 meters wide.
Limburger looft 1 miljoen euro uit voor wie bezoek van aliens in ufo kan bewijzen
Eén miljoen euro voor wie het bestaan van ufo’s als buitenaardse ruimtetuigen kan bewijzen. Dat mooie bedrag looft Limburger Marc Broux uit, om zijn overtuiging dat ufo’s van aliens niet bestaan kracht bij te zetten. Zijn belofte loopt tot nog tot 21 april 2025.
24 juni 1947. Piloot Kenneth Arnold ziet negen onbekende vliegende objecten nabij de Mount Rainier in de Amerikaanse staat Washington. Zijn melding ervan geldt als de allereerste van zogenaamde ufo’s: unidentified flying objects of ongeïdentificeerde vliegende voorwerpen. De ufologie, het onderzoek naar ufowaarnemingen, bestaat sinds vrijdag dus exact 75 jaar. Maar of ook ufo’s zelf écht bestaan, dat is een andere zaak.
Marc Broux, een ufoloog uit Zolder, was lange tijd een believer, maar nu niet meer. De expert gelooft wel in waarnemingen van ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten, maar niet dat die vliegende schotels zouden bemand zijn door aliens, die onze aarde al dan niet geregeld een bezoekje brengen. “Al 75 jaar beweren honderdduizenden mensen ufo’s gezien te hebben”, aldus Broux. “Tienduizenden beweren in oogcontact te zijn geweest met de bestuurders ervan. En duizenden aardse mensen beweren ontvoerd en onderzocht te zijn geweest door buitenaardsen. Wel, als dat zo is, dan moet het toch een kleine moeite zijn om één fysisch, materialistisch, tastbaar of visueel bewijs te geven. Maar... dat gebeurt niet.”
Volgens Broux zijn ufo’s dan ook geen buitenaardse ruimtetuigen, maar eerder verkeerd geïnterpreteerde astronomische, natuurkundige of psychologische gebeurtenissen.
Wie wél bewijsmateriaal heeft, die kan zijn rekening aangedikt zien met maar liefst één miljoen euro. Broux lanceerde die belofte op 21 april van dit jaar en ze loopt nog tot 21 april 2025. “Maar er zijn spelregels”, voegt hij eraan toe. Wie aanspraak maakt op de mooie geldsom, moet kunnen bewijzen dat “bepaalde intelligente wezens die van buiten ons zonnestelsel komen, met hun ruimtetuigen onze aarde een bezoek brengen”. Foto’s en filmmateriaal zijn geen bewijs voor Broux. “Het beste bewijs is uiteraard het ruimteschip zelf”, vult hij aan. Het eventuele bewijsmateriaal zal ook wetenschappelijk onderzocht worden. Geïnteresseerden kunnen het deelnameformulier aanvragen met een brief naar Begonialaan 35 in Heusden-Zolder.
We Could Discover new Kinds of Particles Around Black Holes Through Gravitational Waves
On February 11th, 2016, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the detection of gravitational waves (GW) for the first time. As predicted by Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, these waves result from massive objects merging, which causes ripples through spacetime that can be detected. Since then, astrophysicists have theorized countless ways that GWs could be used to study physics beyond the standard models of gravity and particle physics and advance our understanding of the Universe.
To date, GWs have been proposed as a means of studying Dark Matter, the interiors of neutron stars and supernovae, mergers between supermassive black holes, and more. In a recent study, a team of physicists from the University of Amsterdam and Harvard University has proposed a way where GWs could be used to search for ultralight bosons around rotating black holes. This method could not only offer a new way to discern the properties of binary black holes but could lead to the discovery of new particles beyond the Standard Model.
It’s a well-known fact that normal matter will infall toward black holes over time, which will form an accretion disk around its outer edge (aka. Event Horizon). This disk will be accelerated to incredible speeds, causing the material within to become super-heated and release tremendous amounts of radiation while slowly being accreted onto the black hole’s face. However, for the past few decades, scientists have observed that black holes will shed some of their mass through a process called “superradiance.”
This phenomenon was studied by Stephen Hawking, who described how rotating black holes would throw off radiation that would appear “real” to a nearby observer, but “virtual” to a distant one. In the process of transferring this radiation from one reference frame to another, the acceleration of the particle itself would cause it to transform from virtual to real. This exotic form of energy, known as “Hawking Radiation,” will form clouds of low-mass particles around a black hole. This leads to a “gravitational atom,” so-named because they resemble ordinary atoms (clouds of particles surrounding a core)
While scientists know that this phenomenon occurs, they also understand that it could only be explained through the existence of a new ultralight particle that exists beyond the Standard Model. This was the focus of the new paper, where lead author Daniel Baumann (GRAPPA and the University of Taipei) and his colleagues examined how superradiance causes unstable clouds of ultralight bosons to form around black holes spontaneously. In addition, they suggest that the similarities between gravitational and regular atoms go deeper than their structure.
In short, they suggest that binary black holes could cause particles in their clouds to become ionized via the photoelectric effect. As described by Einstein, this occurs when electromagnetic energy (such as light) makes contact with a material, causing it to emit excited electrons (photoelectrons). When applied to a binary black hole, Baumann and his colleagues show how clouds of ultralight bosons could absorb the “orbital energy” of a black hole companion. This would cause some of the bosons to become ejected and accelerated, evident from the black hole’s associated GW signals.
Artist’s concept of a “gravitational atom,” where a nucleus (black hole) is surrounded by clouds of particles. Credit: UvA Institute of Physics
Lastly, they demonstrated how this process could dramatically alter the evolution of binary black holes by reducing the time it takes for the objects to merge. As they state:
“The orbital energy lost in this process can overwhelm the losses due to GW emission, so that ionization drives the inspiral rather than merely perturbing it. We show that the ionization power contains sharp features that lead to distinctive “kinks” in the evolution of the emitted GW frequency.”
These “kinks,” they argue, will be discernible to next-generation GW interferometers like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). This process could be used to discover an entirely new class of ultralight particles and provide direct information about the mass and state of “gravitational atom” clouds. In short, the ongoing studies of GWs using more sensitive interferometers could reveal exotic physics that advance our understanding of black holes and lead to new breakthroughs in particle physics.
This is one of many possibilities that have been ventured thanks to the revolution taking place with GW astronomy. In the coming years, astrophysicists hope to use them to probe the most extreme environments in the Universe, like black holes and neutron stars. They also hope that primordial gravitational waves will reveal things about the early Universe, help resolve the mystery of the matter/anti-matter imbalance, and lead to a quantum theory of gravity (aka. a Theory of Everything).
Canada admits UFO activity as a member of Parliament claims they are real
Following the moves taken by the US, Russia, and China earlier this week, Canada should become the latest state to either support or boost up the investigation into UFOs.
NASA announced the establishment of a small team to “advance the scientific knowledge of unexplained aerial phenomena ahead.” NASA confirmed the establishment of a small team to further scientific knowledge of mysterious aerial occurrences, making the United States the first to ‘act.’
In recently revealed letters dated June 6, officials from Canada acknowledged their plan to help UFO studies in the United States.
John Hannaford, the Deputy Minister for Natural Resources Canada, indicated his plan to participate in the US research in a letter to Larry Maguire M.P. and Kathleen Heppell-Masys, Directorate of Security and Safeguards for the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. This is what he wrote in the letter:
“I am writing in follow-up to my May 18, 2022, appearance before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources, where you raised security-related questions regarding the Government of Canada’s position on drones and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) near North American nuclear facilities. Given the shared priority for nuclear safety and security of nuclear facilities, and the growing interest in UAPs in both Canada and the United States, the CNSC is committed to raising the issue with its United States counterpart and sharing any related information going forward.”
In a prior email, Maguire confirmed the existence of UAPs and stated that Canada needs to consider them with more seriousness.
This disclosure comes about a year after the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a study claiming that the federal government couldn’t explain all of the 144 UAPs which were discovered by military aviators, instead they could do that only for one of them. They did mention birds or balloons, as well as classified American programs and superior Russian or Chinese technology.
Dust Devils and Strong Winds Produce the Constant Haze on Mars
Dust is an everyday feature on Mars and wreaks havoc on various pieces of equipment humans decide to send to it, such as Insight’s continual loss of power or the losses of Opportunity and Spirit. But we’ve never really understood what causes the dust to get up into the air in the first place. That equipment that is so affected by it usually isn’t set up to monitor it, or if it is, it has been sent to a place where there isn’t much dust, to begin with. Now, that has changed with new readings from Perseverance in Jerezo crater, and the answer shouldn’t be much of a surprise – dust devils seem to cause some of the dust in the atmosphere on Mars. But strong winds contribute a significant amount too.
A new paper in Science Advances by a team of over 45 scientists reports on data collected by Perseverance’s instrumentation that is designed to study the Martian environment. The Radiation and Dust Sensor (RDS) instrumentation is part of a broader package of instrumentation known as the Mars Environment Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA).
This instrument can detect changes in the environmental conditions that would occur around the rover about once a second. The most likely cause of those changes would be the presence of dust devils.
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But it is not enough to detect those changes alone, as they could be caused by sources other than dust devils. So the RDS combines forces with another MEDA instrument, the Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS), which can provide data on the tracking radiative flux around the rover. Combining these two data sets allow scientists to comprehensively say whether or not a dust devil has overtaken the rover.
They do so often. About four times a day, the rover is subjected to “convective vortices,” the technical term for updrafts that are strong enough to sense. About one of those four carries enough dust to be thought of as what we would conventionally call a “dust devil.” And their existence seems to be the source of most of the dust that reaches the air. But they aren’t the only source.
There was some evidence for strong wind gusts that don’t actually form into a dust devil and might force a significant amount of dust into the air themselves. While these weren’t necessarily as strong as the dust devils, they covered a much larger area, with the largest being ten times larger than the largest dust devil. So even if they are much weaker, they were potentially able to lift smaller grains of dust high into the atmosphere.
Another dust devil seen by HiRISE. Credit – NASA / JPL / UArizona
The scientists think that a roughly equal amount of dust in the Martian atmosphere could be caused by both dust devils and these more concentrated wind gusts. But no matter what the dust is from, the existence of instruments on Mars that can finally collect data on the underlying cause of the dust is a breakthrough in understanding the Martian environment. It might also help us find a way to disrupt this potentially destructive process if it ever comes to that.
Deep-Sea Camera Captures What No One Was Supposed to See
Life on earth is entirely dependent on water, every single living organism requires water for survival. More than 60% of the human body is composed of water. We are dependent on water in different ways including for drinking, for taking showers, cooking food, and for swimming. Agriculture and industry both run on water. Well, 71% of the earth’s surface is covered with water and oceans constitute about 96.5% of this water. It means, we have tremendous opportunities to explore but exploring the abyss of the ocean is a difficult proposition and maybe quite scary. Scientists have been trying to reach the darkest corners of the unchartered oceans and they have come across some terrifying things.
Bright pulsating almost plasma looking UFO ramming in upon itself in Dearborn Missouri on June 7, 2022
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UFO SIGHTING! TIC TAC SHAPED UFO WITNESSED IN ALABAMA & FR. THEN IN FRANCE IT MAKES EXTREME 25°TURN?
UFO sighting! Tic-Tac or pill shaped UFO recorded by family in Detroit Alabama then what appears to be the same UFO seen in Canoux en Provence France recorded by camper during their trip. Video source mufon case number 122858 and case number 122997 Source of videos of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun and the Moon, by Terry's Theories
Spirit Orb Seen On Baby Monitor Leaves When Mother Goes To Investigate & Returns After She Leaves.
This was captured on June 23, 2022 at their home in Preston, Lancashire in England. I believe this to be a spirit orb and not dust or a bug as with dust would not hover or stay in one spot for any length of time as for this being a bug, this was seen for several nights and always in the same area that had been clean so what could this be? One explanation could be with the passing of the grandmother could this be her watching over granddaughter
Two Fighter Jets Spotted Chasing A UFO Over Mount Desert Island In Maine. June 20, 2022
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Now back to the footage. In this short clip we can see these two jets giving chase to this UFO just before the camera goes out of focus and the object and jets enter the clouds. I asked the witness if there was an air show and he replied "There was no air show. Heard the planes and looked up. My daughter saw them first. Low altitude over the water."
Thanks to Alex McCall for allowing me the use of his footage and to view the original:
COVER UP!? TIC TAC Found On Google Earth!? CRAZY UFO's Fall From SKY Village in Shock! 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Hey check out this great video of several discoverer on Google Earth map and UFO sightings reported by Thirdphaseofmoon of Youtube. Fantastic channel and great investigative thoughts and analysis.
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Third Phase Of Moon States: COVER UP!? TIC TAC Found On Google Earth!? CRAZY UFO's Fall From SKY Village in Shock! 2022
Black Circular UFO Passing The Moon Spotted By Amateur Astronomer In Colombia. May 8, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 8, 2022
Location of sighting: Moon
Hey check out this amazing dark disk that passes over the moon, the object is absolutely amazing and even has a shadow on the moon below it. Thats 100% proof that is low over the moons surface.
This object was spotted durning one of Ruben Ariza livestreams from his home in Armenia in Quindío, Colombia on May 8, 2022. In the footage we can see this UFO fly into view leaving Ruben in absolute joy at this sighting. As the craft passes the moon it seems to be casting a shadow on the moon's surface. Thanks to Ruben Ariza for his diligent work and sharing his work with the world..
Can we expect a killshot that knocks out all modern day communication and power systems?
A G1-class geomagnetic storm was underway on June 26, 2022. The reason for the storm is a crack that has opened in Earth's magnetic field, allowing solar wind to enter the magnetosphere.
Immense cracks sometimes develop in Earth's magnetosphere and remain open for hours. Solar wind can pour through the gaps to fuel bright displays of Arctic lights.
Our magnetic shield takes the brunt of space storms, but some energy slips through its cracks, sometimes enough to cause problems with satellites, radio communication, and power systems.
Now, this time the A G1-class geomagnetic storm won't do any damage to satellites, radio communication, and power systems but it is just a matter of time a "killshot" will be triggered by a super solar flare. It has happened before and soon or later it will happen again.
Remember the solar storm of 1859—known as the Carrington Event - was a powerful geomagnetic solar storm during solar cycle 10 (1855–
1867). It created strong auroral displays that were reported globally and caused damage to electric equipment worldwide, which at that time consisted mostly of telegraph stations. The geomagnetic storm was most likely the result of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun colliding with Earth's magnetosphere and induced one of the largest geomagnetic storms on record on September 1–2, 1859.
A severe geomagnetic storm struck Earth on March 13, 1989 and caused a nine-hour outage of Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system. The storm began on Earth with extremely intense auroras at the poles. The aurora could be seen as far south as Texas and Florida.
The Halloween solar storms were a series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections that occurred from mid-October to early November 2003, peaking around October 28–29. One of the solar storms was compared by some scientists in its intensity to the Carrington Event of 1859.
The solar superstorm a Carrington-class CME of July 2012 was an unusually large and strong coronal mass ejection (CME) event that occurred on July 23 that year. It missed the Earth with a margin of approximately nine days. The region that produced the outburst was thus not pointed directly towards the Earth at that time. The strength of the eruption was comparable to the 1859 Carrington event.
In 2013, Edward A. Dames, Major, U.S. Army (ret.) well known for his remote viewing capabilities, stated that he is very concerned about unprecedented events that will take place in the near future which will affect the whole world.
Edward A Dames - Quote from 2013: "I am far more concerned with a global pandemic breaking out, concomitant with a worldwide economic collapse, and leading to a devastating solar flare hitting the planet."
So far he has been right, We have experienced the global Covid 19 pandemic, a global economic collapse is unfolding right now, so will his 3rd prediction also come true and can we expect a "killshot" that knocks out all modern day communication and power systems?
And although Edward A. Dames 3rd prediction points to a devastating solar flare it is not unthinkable that, with the ongoing turmoil in the world in mind, the danger of a “killshot” will come of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generated by the detonation of a high-altitude nuclear weapon instead of devastating solar flare hitting the planet.
After their van shuts down in the middle of nowhere, this couple starts to see unexplainable bright lights from above, leaving them flabbergasted. They are convinced that they saw a UFO that night.
Engineers Investigating NASA’s Voyager 1 Telemetry Data
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, shown in this illustration, has been exploring our solar system since 1977, along with its twin, Voyager 2.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
While the spacecraft continues to return science data and otherwise operate as normal, the mission team is searching for the source of a system data issue.
The engineering team with NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is trying to solve a mystery: The interstellar explorer is operating normally, receiving and executing commands from Earth, along with gathering and returning science data. But readouts from the probe’s attitude articulation and control system (AACS) don’t reflect what’s actually happening onboard.
The AACS controls the 45-year-old spacecraft’s orientation. Among other tasks, it keeps Voyager 1’s high-gain antenna pointed precisely at Earth, enabling it to send data home. All signs suggest the AACS is still working, but the telemetry data it’s returning is invalid. For instance, the data may appear to be randomly generated, or does not reflect any possible state the AACS could be in.
The issue hasn’t triggered any onboard fault protection systems, which are designed to put the spacecraft into “safe mode” – a state where only essential operations are carried out, giving engineers time to diagnose an issue. Voyager 1’s signal hasn’t weakened, either, which suggests the high-gain antenna remains in its prescribed orientation with Earth.
The team will continue to monitor the signal closely as they continue to determine whether the invalid data is coming directly from the AACS or another system involved in producing and sending telemetry data. Until the nature of the issue is better understood, the team cannot anticipate whether this might affect how long the spacecraft can collect and transmit science data.
Voyager 1 is currently 14.5 billion miles (23.3 billion kilometers) from Earth, and it takes light 20 hours and 33 minutes to travel that difference. That means it takes roughly two days to send a message to Voyager 1 and get a response – a delay the mission team is well accustomed to.
“A mystery like this is sort of par for the course at this stage of the Voyager mission,” said Suzanne Dodd, project manager for Voyager 1 and 2 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “The spacecraft are both almost 45 years old, which is far beyond what the mission planners anticipated. We’re also in interstellar space – a high-radiation environment that no spacecraft have flown in before. So there are some big challenges for the engineering team. But I think if there’s a way to solve this issue with the AACS, our team will find it.”
It’s possible the team may not find the source of the anomaly and will instead adapt to it, Dodd said. If they do find the source, they may be able to solve the issue through software changes or potentially by using one of the spacecraft’s redundant hardware systems.
It wouldn’t be the first time the Voyager team has relied on backup hardware: In 2017, Voyager 1’s primary thrusters showed signs of degradation, so engineers switched to another set of thrusters that had originally been used during the spacecraft’s planetary encounters. Those thrusters worked, despite having been unused for 37 years.
Voyager 1’s twin, Voyager 2 (currently 12.1 billion miles, or 19.5 billion kilometers, from Earth), continues to operate normally.
Launched in 1977, both Voyagers have operated far longer than mission planners expected, and are the only spacecraft to collect data in interstellar space. The information they provide from this region has helped drive a deeper understanding of the heliosphere, the diffuse barrier the Sun creates around the planets in our solar system.
Each spacecraft produces about 4 fewer watts of electrical power a year, limiting the number of systems the craft can run. The mission engineering team has switched off various subsystems and heaters in order to reserve power for science instruments and critical systems. No science instruments have been turned off yet as a result of the diminishing power, and the Voyager team is working to keep the two spacecraft operating and returning unique science beyond 2025.
While the engineers continue to work at solving the mystery that Voyager 1 has presented them, the mission’s scientists will continue to make the most of the data coming down from the spacecraft’s unique vantage point.
More About the Mission
The Voyager spacecraft were built by JPL, which continues to operate both. JPL is a division of Caltech in Pasadena. The Voyager missions are a part of the NASA Heliophysics System Observatory, sponsored by the Heliophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
For more information about the Voyager spacecraft, visit:
Kinross UFO: An Unidentified Craft, A Hidden Transcript & A Missing Air Force Jet
In 1953, Air Defence Radar over Lake Superior, Michigan, detected a UFO travelling at rapid speeds. An F-89C interceptor jet was dispatched to investigate, the plane and its pilots were never seen again.
In 1953, over Lake Superior, a jet as well as its crew disappeared after being scrambled to track a UFO
On the evening of November 23, 1953, Air Defence Command radar detected the presence of an unidentified object moving at 500 mph over Lake Superior. An F-89C all-weather interceptor, piloted by Lieutenant Felix Moncia Jr., with radar observer Lieutenant R. R. Wilson in the rear cockpit, was dispatched from Kinross Air Force Base, near the Soo Locks in northern Michigan. Under radar guidance, the jet headed toward the target.
At 8000 feet, 70 miles off Keweenaw Point, and 160 miles northwest of the Soo Locks, the blip of the F-89 and that of the UFO merged, then faded from the screen. Nothing more was heard from the interceptor, and no trace of it was ever found, despite an extensive search.
A brief statement, prepared by the Public Information Office at Wisconson's Truax Air Force Base (which handled such duties for bases in the area), was given to the press. By the next day, however, an Air Force spokesman at the Pentagon claimed that the unidentified object was a Royal Canadian Air Force C-47 and that the F-89, far from colliding with it as the radar reading indicated, had never been any closer than miles from it. The fate of the F-89 after that was unclear, the Air Force contended: it had crashed for unknown reasons.
The Canadian government denied on several occasions that any incident involving one of its aircraft and a USAF interceptor had occurred on the date in question. In any case, the official Air Force version implied an implausible incompetence on the parts of radar operators at such a sensitive installation. The official version has it that Moncla may have suffered from vertigo and lost control of his aircraft, though records indicate he was flying on instruments. No transcript of Moncla's radio conversation with the controllers has ever been released.
The Air Force gave conflicting accounts to Moncla's widow. First, she was told that the F-89 had flown too low in its effort to identify the Canadian plane and crashed into the water. Subsequently, another officer asserted that the interceptor had exploded at a high altitude.
Disappearing Aircraft.
For years rumours have circulated that the Air Force is covering up other cases in which UFOs apparently snatched military aircraft. The most interesting of these stories comes from the testimony of Master Sergeant O. D. Hill of Project Blue Book - or so Cleveland ufologist Tom Comella would assert in a nationally published magazine article that has never been challenged.
According to his account, on February 4, 1956, Comella and three other civilian UFO investigators met with Air Technical Intelligence Centre (ATIC) representatives at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where Blue Book was headquartered. Their purpose was to discuss two cases in which low-flying objects had passed over residential areas. The ATIC personnel promised to get back to them. But they heard nothing until June 28, when Edgar Smith, a member of the civilian group, received a visit from M. Sgt. Hill, though Hill had not participated in the original meeting. After initially reciting the standard anti-UFO Blue Book line, Hill told Smith that the project existed to "prevent another Pearl Harbour." He said that "our planes have been and still are disappearing from the sky." Then asking not to be quoted, he related two cases.
The first of these sounds in every way except one like the Kinross episode. The sole discordant detail is Hill's reference to a "thorough search of the land area"; the Kinross case took place, of course, over a body of water. Perhaps Hill's recall was imperfect. Smiths notes have Hill saying this of the second case:
"A transport plane with 26 persons aboard was rapidly approaching its air base some 10 miles away from shore. Back on land at the radar station the operator was carefully tracking the transport plane and was in constant radar communication with the plane. Suddenly the radar operator spied a second blip on his radarscope. He immediately radioed the transport and advised the pilot to beware of the alien object." The UFO was travelling at a high rate of speed, about 2500 mph. It jumped about on the radarscope like a tennis ball. All of a sudden the mysterious blip headed straight for the transport plane, and before the radar operator could warn it, the two objects had united into one on the radar screen. The one remaining blip sped straight up at a terrific rate of speed. A surface search of the water in the vicinity revealed no oil slick, although a general's briefcase was found floating. The plane has completely disappeared."
Hill told Smith that such incidents had officials worried. Two hundred scientists were at work on the UFO problem for the U.S. government.
As soon as Hill left his house, Smith called Comella to summarize the sergeant's account and tell him Hill was on his way. Hill repeated the stories to Comella and added that many top officials believed UFOs to be of extraterrestrial origin. A month later Smith and Comella saw Hill at ATIC headquarters, then met separately with the new Blue Book head, Captain George T. Gregory. When asked about the disappearance cases, Gregory attributed them to "bugs or small birds that get into the radar pattern." When Comella asked if birds were responsible for the aircraft's disappearance, too, Gregory said, "Well, we just cannot talk about those cases."
Hill never disputed Comella's version of events. There seems no reason to doubt that Comella's account of their interaction is correct. To date, no independent confirmation of the second disappearance case (if we assume the first to refer to the Kinross event) has surfaced.
The world was not ready when the Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Wordensaid in a live interview that humans are the ancient aliens who came down to Earth and started civilization here. He referenced Ancient Sumerian texts for it. More interestingly, according to Dr. Joseph P. Farrell, there have been some kind of intergalactic space battle involving super-advancedextraterrestrials that took place in our solar system millions of years ago.
The author of the book “The Cosmic War,” Dr. Joseph P. Farrell says there is ample evidence across our solar system of cataclysmic and catastrophic destruction events. He suggests that two cosmic wars took place, one 65 million years ago, and another 3.2 million years ago.
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The Cosmic War: Interplanetary Warfare, Modern Physics, and Ancient Texts: A Study in Non-Catastrophist Interpretations of Ancient Legends by Joseph P. Farrell
Note:Joseph Farrell is an Oxford educated historian who specializes in alternative history, World War II, and secret technologies. After a lifelong interest in alternative history, science, and a fascination for ancient texts, Joseph started writing on these subjects in 2001.
Rejecting the naturalist and materialist assumptions of catastrophism forwarded by other researchers, Dr. Farrell says that it is time to take the ancient myths of a Cosmic War in the heavens seriously. Incorporating extraterrestrial artifacts, cutting-edge ideas in contemporary physics, and the texts of ancient myths into his argument, he maintains that ancient interplanetary war was fought in our own solar system with weapons of extraordinary power and sophistication.
Many ancient history scholars and authors have mentioned the so-called “Technology of the gods,” which includes not only the mystical flying machine “Vimana,” but also powerful weapons of the gods, for example, “Vajra,” an artifact of the Anunnaki gods which shoots lightning.
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Sumerian god Ninurta wielding a “thunderbolt”
In the book, Dr. Farrell mentions the ancient Sumerian god Ninurta wielding a “thunderbolt” that is a dead-solid ringer for an electrical discharge produced in a modern lab that experiments with plasma physics.
Dr. Farrell asserted that the echoes of this cosmic war are reflected in the ancient texts of the Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Biblical texts, Vedic tradition, and also New World mythology, from the Maya and Aztecs to the myths of some native North American tribes.
But think about it: the oldest texts from the ancient Mideast are perhaps 4,000 to 5,000 years old. Vedic texts may go back as far as 5,000 or 6,000 years. Besides, purely oral traditions might possibly push the information back a few thousand more years. That’s a long time, but it’s nothing compared to 3.2 million years. It is ridiculous beyond belief to consider a connection between a 6,000-year-old ancient manuscript with events that happened 65 million years ago!
It sounds unacceptable that all of the civilizations, high and low such as the Egyptians, the Mongols, the various Chinese dynasties, the Roman Empire, the Inca, and the Aztecs have come and gone in just the past few thousand years. The Soviets’ period was only 75 years.
It is true that the traces of traditions and mythology have survived thousands of years. British psychologist and author Stan Gooch, who is probably best known as the proponent of a “hybrid-origin theory” of human evolution, makes a ra ther compelling case that much of our fundamental culture today is underpinned and actually derived from the extinct Neanderthal race, that last of which died out about 20,000 to 30,000 years ago.
Gooch said the modern man is unaware of and/or has forgotten the origins of its primary, fundamental cultural attributes (such as the development of the Zodiac and various god/theological concepts) and so much more.
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Joseph P. Farrell. Image in public domain
But it does not help Dr. Farrell. As for him, even 20,000 to 30,000 years is nothing. The Neanderthals had an approximately 250,000 run as a successful species. But it’s nothing for Dr. Farrell.
According to mainstream scientists, the origin of Homo sapiens is about 200,000 years. Yet Dr. Farrell is making the case that legends were handed down by one civilization or another for 3.2 million years.
Though there are alternative archaeology proponents like Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson, who says the human species is actually billions of years old. Unfortunately, such statements are certainly on the fringe, to say the least.
But Dr. Farrell’s cosmic war scenario gets a tremendous shot in the arm from the work of physicist Dr. John Brandenburg (He is a brilliant and accomplished plasma physicist who earned his Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis in 1981).
Dr. John Brandenburg published two controversial books — “Death on Mars” and “Life and Death on Mars” — in which he makes a highly scientific and rigorously technical case that Mars was destroyed by nuclear weapons millions of years ago as part of some sort of interstellar cosmic conflict.
Brandenburg said Mars was wiped out when some advanced extraterrestrial race dropped two one-million-megaton bombs that exploded in strategic locations about 20 miles above the Martian surface.
If he is correct, that would be a benefit for Dr. Farrell’s theory about an ancient cosmic war, but there is a major problem.
According to Dr. Brandenburg, Mars was nuked 251 million years ago. That does not go along with Dr. Farrell’s timelines of 3.2 million and 65 million years ago. However, Dr. Farrell might be onto something in his book, “The Cosmic War.”
According to late Dr. Tom Van Flandern, an American Astronomer specializing in celestial mechanics for the U.S. Naval Observatory, a planet in between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was exploded around 65 million years ago or as early as 3.2 million years ago. He finds some way to frame his cosmic war scenario within a time scenario of, say, 10,000 to 15,000 years.
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Thomas Van Flandern (1940-2009).
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“I suggest that Van Flandern’s Exploded Planet Hypothesis makes sense only if one is willing to entertain a nonnatural explanation. Of course, this is heretical on several levels, as the explanation must somehow encompass the presence of potential artifacts on Mars as well as a presumed high-tech culture on Mars’ erstwhile parent. “Strangely, the revelatory climax from Eando Binder’s Puzzle of the Space Pyramids comes to mind. In Binder’s novel, the asteroid belt was formed by a focused gravity assault that harnessed the energy of the entire solar system. The pyramids of the title were essentially gravity generators used to manipulate space-time,” Dr. Farrell wrote.
It is the least to say about Dr. Farrell’s Cosmic War. But in doing so, he offers a solution to an enigma that has long mystified researchers, disclosing the cause of that ancient war, the means by which it was waged, and the real nature of the secret technology behind the ancient “Tablets of Destinies.”
A team of archaeologists who carried out work on a project in the Sahara, published the discovery of mysterious stone structures, scattered throughout the desert.
Of different sizes and shapes , these mysterious structures could have an antiquity of thousands of years. Experts have declared that this is a unique discovery.
Mysterious structures in the Sahara
Experts studying the mysterious structures have not yet been able to discover the exact dating of their construction. Much less why they were built.
The main people in charge of this research are Joanne Clarke, from the University of East Anglia, England and the Independent researcher Nick Brooks , among other archaeologists.
The experts have also been working on a book where all the work done is described in detail . In addition to all the studies done on the unknown and mysterious structures.
The scientists stated to the media the following:
“The archaeological map of Western Sahara remains literally and figuratively almost blank as far as the international archaeological research community is concerned, particularly far from the Atlantic coast”
Specialists spent almost a decade studying and investigating the mysterious structures. From 2002 to 2009 .
During said working, they classified hundreds; These ranged from rectangular platforms, giant circles, crescents, or straight lines .
Seen with the naked eye, the structures appear to be a combination of forms that goes from the smallest. These are the stone lines, platforms, and circles. Forming a total of 600 meters long in total.
Some of these mysterious structures are believed to mark the location of tombs . However, the rest, until further research is conducted, remain a mystery to archeology.
Lost knowledge?
Unfortunately, the investigations have had to be stopped for the safety of the archaeologists, so it has not been possible to deepen the studies. This is because the area is taken over by terrorist groups.
For example, Al Qaeda operates in the region, and it is widely known that this and other groups often kidnap foreigners .
Experts assure that, as soon as they can, they will continue to excavate the surface in search of other hidden mysteries under the Sahara.
It should be noted that this discovery denotes how much historical information is hidden from the world. Perhaps, lost in time under the sand.
There are many enigmas and curiosities that surround these mysterious structures, to the point of seeing many theories born around them. The most popular is the possible existence of an extinct civilization, which had very advanced knowledge that lived in the remote past.
“A classic set of impressive UFO photos was taken by Mr. and Mrs. Trent in the early part of the evening, just before sunset, on May 11, 1950, near McMinnville, Oregon. According to the Trent's account the object, as it appeared over their farm was first seen by Ms. Trent while she was feeding the farm's rabbits.
She then quickly called her husband who got the family's camera and Mr. Trent then took two shots from positions only just a few feet apart. The pictures first appeared in a local newspaper and afterwards in Life magazine. Seventeen years later the photos were subjected to a detailed analysis for the University of Colorado UFO Project.
William K. Hartmann, an astronomer from the University of Arizona, performed a meticulous photometric and photogrammetric investigation of the original negatives, and set up a scaling system to determine the approximate distance of the UFO.
Hartmann used objects in the near foreground, such as a house, tree, metal water tank, and telephone pole, whose images could be compared with that of the UFO. There were also hills, trees, and buildings in the far distance whose contrast and details had been obscured by atmospheric haze.
Hartmann used these known distances of various objects in the photo to calculate an approximate atmospheric attenuation factor. He then measured the relative brightnesses of various objects in the photos, and demonstrated that their distances could generally be calculated with an accuracy of about +/- 30%. In the most extreme case, he would be in error by a factor of four. He then wrote:
"It is concluded that by careful consideration of the parameters involved in the case of recognizable objects in the photographs, distances can be measured within a factor-four error ... If such good measure could be made for the UFO, we could distinguish between a distant extraordinary object and a hypothetical small, close model."
Hartmann then noted that his photometric measurements indicated that the UFO was intrinsically brighter than the metallic tank and the white painted surface of the house, consistent with the Trent's description that it was a shiny object. Further, the shadowed surface of the UFO was much brighter than the shadowed region of the water tank, which was best explained by a distant object being illuminated by scattered light from the environment.
"it appears significant that the simplest most direct interpretation of the photographs confirms precisely what the witnesses said they saw"
Hartmann further wrote that "to the extent that the photometric analysis is reliable, (and the measurements appear to be consistent), the photographs indicate an object with a bright shiny surface at considerable distance and on the order of tens of meters in diameter. While it would be exaggerating to say that we have positively ruled out a fabrication, it appears significant that the simplest most direct interpretation of the photographs confirms precisely what the witnesses said they saw."
In his conclusion, Hartmann reiterated this, stressing that all the factors he had investigated, both photographic and testimonial, were consistent with the claim that "an extraordinary flying object, silvery, metallic, disc-shaped, tens of metres in diameter, and evidently artificial, flew within sight of [the] two witnesses."
Controversy - The Skeptics' Case
Not satisfied with Hartmann's findings and totally devoid of any evidence that the UFO was a hoax and hanging from the wires, UFO debunker Robert Sheaffer argued qualitatively that the haze in the photos (the haze veiled the UFO and led Hartmann to conclude the UFO was about 1.3 kilometres distant) could be due to a "dirty" camera lens, and thus the object could still be close to the camera.
He further argued that shadows on the garage were strong evidence for a large time lag between the photos, and alleged that the shadow positions suggested the photos were taken at 7:30 in the morning rather than in the evening (the image on the left depicts the edge enhancement technique which, under typical conditions, can reveal the presence of a wire less than a quarter of a millimetre thick at a distance of up to 3 metres).
Dr. Bruce Maccabee, an optical physicist, analyzed the original negatives and found no support for Sheaffer's time lag claim. He also repeated Hartmann's calculations in much greater detail, including corrections for lens grease and obtained about the same results as Hartmann originally did. (One other important aspect of Sheaffer's dirty lens hypothesis is that it fails to explain why it didn't affect all objects in the photos, and not just the UFO.
All the nearby objects in the photo were all sharp with high contrast, but the objects in the distance such as a barn, a house, trees, and hills (and the UFO), were of low contrast, exactly as would be expected from absorption and scattering of light.)
Maccabee calculated the UFO to be over 1 kilometre away, and about 30 meters in diameter and 4 meters thick.
Regarding the alleged reported time the photos were taken which, according to Sheaffer, would be inconsistent with the position of the shadows on the photos, Maccabee discovered that the garage shadows could only have been caused by a diffuse light source, rebutting Sheaffer's argument.
Maccabee suggested that a bright cloud illuminated by the evening sun could possibly have caused them. Moreover, neither Sheaffer nor Klass has provided a plausible cause as to why the Trents would have lied about this, especially since it is immaterial to analysis of the UFO's distance.
Repeaters
In his book "UFOs Explained," Klass argued that the Trents were "repeaters," citing a story published in the Portland Oregonian June 10 in which Mrs. trent is quoted as saying to reporter Lou Gillette that "she had seen similar objects on the coast three different times but no one would believe me."
Klass further quotes from a newspaper article written about 17 years later, in which she is quoted as saying "We've seen quite a few since then but we didn't get any pictures, they disappeared too fast."
Klass indictment of "repeater" is based solely on Mrs. Trent's claims as reported in the paper. Assuming the account is accurate, an important detail however, is that Mr. Trent apparently did notagree with his wife. For reasons we can only guess, Klass did not include in his book Mr. Trent's response to the following question (story in the June 11, 1950 L.A. Examiner):
"why [did you wait] so long before telling anyone about [the photos]. Trent admitted he was 'kinda scared of it.' He said: 'You know, you hear so much about those things... I didn't believe all that talk about flying saucers before, but now have an idea the Army knows what they are."
This suggests that Mr. Trent had not seen any UFOs before and was skeptical about flying saucers (hence his wife's claim that "no one would believe me")... until he saw one himself.
One get's into a logical muddle here. If, as Klass believes, there are no saucers and therefore the Trents couldn't have seen one, then Mrs. Trent must have been lying when she said she saw several previously. On the other hand, Mr. Trent was telling the truth about his skepticism, although he could well have supported his wife's claim by saying that he too had seen several even if he really didn't believe they existed.
After all, if its a hoax, he could say anything to support the hoax story. One way to get out of this muddle is to assume that they both told the truth regarding previous sightings (Mrs. Trent had several, Mr. Trent had none and didn't believe in saucers).
Of course, Mrs. Trent previous sightings certainly could have been honest misidentifications... and if this were so then she wasn't really "a repeater" unless you classify a person who repeatedly and honestly misidentifies objects as "a repeater" [Maccabee op. cit., private communication].
When The New York Times exposed the Pentagon’s secret UFO program AATIP, it became known that the US government never stopped investigating UFOs since the Project Bluebook was shut down. Luis Elizondo, the man behind this program has declassified several secrets of the US defense agency that allowed many witnesses from the government itself to speak about their encounters with the phenomenon. Now, for the time on the public platform, someone dares to admit that the Pentagon hired him as a “UFO hunter.”
In an interview on June 21, 2022, with George Knapp on KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Dr. Travis Taylor announced that he served as the head of science for the U.S. government’s UAP Task Force, the entity which analyzed UFO incidents and delivered the June 2021 report to Congress which precipitated the current Congressional UFO action, including a 2021 law establishing a permanent UFO office and a 2022 UFO hearing.
Dr. Travis Taylor has been a popular face in the UFOlogy. He has appeared on popular TV shows such as “Ancient Aliens” and “The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch” and is one of the world’s best-known UFO hunters.
While serving in this capacity, Dr. Taylor appeared on CBS Sunday Morning in 2021 to analyze UFO videos and comment on the imminent UFO report without disclosing to CBS or to the audience that he was a paid government UFO researcher working on that very report.
Dr. Taylor also works for a defense contractor analyzing UFOs for the federal government. He and his former UAPTF boss both now work for the same contractor.
Mysterywire writes: “As a scientific prodigy, Dr. Taylor earned advanced degrees at a young age and has spent his entire adult life working on classified projects, first for the U.S. Army, then for defense contractors. He wrote a book about how the U.S. government should prepare for alien contact which caught the attention of Jay Stratton, a high-ranking intelligence official who has been involved with each of the Pentagon’s Secretive UFO investigations including AAWSAP, the largest UFO program of all, managed by the Defense Intelligence Agency, based at Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas, funded with $22 million secured by late U.S. Sen. Harry Reid. Stratton worked with AAWSAP, then its successor program AATIP. Later, he took charge of a third effort, the UAP Task Force, long before Congress formally created that team.”
Dr. Taylor was asked by Jay Stratton, the director of the UAP Task Force if he would like to join the task force as the chief scientist. Dr. Taylor unhesitatingly agreed with it. He was involved in writing the final report to Congress summarizing the known evidence about UFOs.
The team created a classified briefing consisting of the most intriguing military encounters, starting with the 2004 Tic Tac incident. The task force whittled down a huge database into 144 of the very best cases. “We picked sources that were, we knew had a chain of custody of the data. And out of those 144 to 143 of them, we still couldn’t figure out what they were, where they came from and what their intent was,” Dr. Taylor said.
He added: “But here’s the thing. A skeptic and a debunker, they take their results by starting from the beginning … by knowing that the result is going to be this. So they change … they take the analysis to lead them in the direction to do that.”
Astrophysicist Dr. Travis Taylor.
“The data that we had, in many cases, there was more of it than what the general public has and what was released. And so when we say that we had a thing that was from multiple sensors, and it told us multiple things, and we also had eyewitness accounts, audio information, and so on,” Dr. Taylor said.
Dr. Taylor and the task force members were stunned to know that a Navy official told a Congressional hearing last month that all of these were “drones,” as if the mystery has been solved. It was done to disregard the work of the task force.
Fortunately, Dr. Taylor said that they have a lot of sensory data which fails to provide any conclusive information on them. Dr. Taylor went into much greater detail about why the “drone” scenario falls far short of explaining the 2019 UFO encounters. And also why so many UFO videos appear to be fuzzy.
In his interview with George Knapp in May 2022, Dr. Taylor said: “You know, I had never seen a UFO until I got out there. Now, I have seen more UFOs now than you can count.”
In a surprisingly candid and wide-ranging interview, Dr. Taylor shared his opinions about the role of science in the pursuit of the unknown, his personal experiences with strange phenomena on Skinwalker Ranch, the physical effects of close encounter cases, and the mysterious “hitchhiker effect” that multiple UFO/paranormal eyewitnesses have reported.
In his opinion, this unexplained phenomenon can be different for people in regards to their brain activity. Hypothetically speaking, he said that the phenomenon can be connected with different planes in the universe. He added that he could go along with the idea of a portal but was not sure. He believes it is bizarre but there is some truth to it.
The comet responsible for the Perseids, the shooting stars that light up the sky every August, is considered the most dangerous object known to mankind
That shooting stars are not stars is one of those disappointments you have to live with. Although the explanation for why diaspores of light are lit in the August sky year after year, contains endless fascinations, among them, that the comet responsible for the Perseids is considered the most dangerous object known to humanity.
Before giving way to Swift-Tuttle, we must recognize that we owe it that millions of people in the world look at the exhausted summer sky and make their wishes.
Among the wonderful stories that are surely not true (although they should), they say that Claudius Ptolemy, the Greek astronomer of the year 1oo AD, was the one who triggered the custom of asking for wishes to the shooting stars.
The shooting star was the sign that the sky was opening, just for a second, and in that time the message could reach the gods of Olympus. For that, the wish had to come true before the star went out.
This is just one of the many, many legends behind the reason why the Perseids gather wishes, dreams of love, glory, and those that allow you to pay the electricity bill (more through the roof than ever).
What is not a legend is that one of the biggest night shows of the year, the Perseids, we don’t owe it to the gods, we owe it to a comet.
Swift–Tuttle
Comet Swift-Tuttle, formally 109P/Swift-Tuttle, is a huge, icy comet in a 133-year orbit around the Sun, and the reason for Earth’s spectacular annual Perseid meteor showers.
Comet Swift-Tuttle has a nucleus 26 km in diameter, two and a half times larger than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, and travels four times faster.
The comet responsible for the Perseid meteor shower could hit Earth, causing devastating damage, but in 2,400 years with an impact equivalent to 20 million hydrogen bombs.
Calculations of Comet Swift-Tuttle’s orbit show Earth is ‘100% safe’ for the next 2,000 years. But in the year 4479, its orbit will bring it ‘dangerously close’ to our planet.
The chances of it hitting Earth are extremely low, with a 99.9999% chance of missing. But, a ‘gravitational kick’ from Jupiter could send it hurtling toward Earth.
While the chance of it crashing into Earth is slim, experts say there’s a slim chance its orbit will be offset by a ‘gravitational kick’ from Jupiter, causing an impact with 30 times the energy that killed the dinosaurs. .
If it were to impact, it could trigger the worst mass extinction Earth has seen in hundreds of millions of years.
The comet moves four times faster than the asteroid that caused the extinction of more than 70% of the species in the Cretaceous, the one that hit what is now known as the Yucatan Peninsula, which is considered responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs .
The impact of the comet responsible for the Perseids would release 28 times more energy, the equivalent of the explosion of 20,000,000 hydrogen bombs.
This would mean that the Perseids would stop lighting up the wishes of future humans. Meanwhile, like every year in August, we will enjoy the greatest celestial show of our lives.
There is a long list of astronauts who claimed to have seen strange anomalies while being in outer space and strongly supported UFO phenomena. After returning from Moon, former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell experienced an epiphany that changed his thoughts about the origin of life on Earth and accused the government of hiding the truth.
n February 1971, after the successful completion of the mission, the Apollo 14 crew returned to Earth. Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell became the fifth and sixth astronauts to walk on the moon’s surface. While Shepard chose to live in the glory, Mitchell became the main troublemaker for many years.
He publicly accepted the existence of aliens after being on the Moon and stuck to it until his death. He accused the US government of hiding the truth about contact with aliens. Immediately after his return, Mitchell left NASA and immersed himself in studying UFOs, ancient history, and human consciousness.
Edgar Mitchell, 1971.
Image credit: NASA
Later, he explained that during his time in space, he experienced an incomparable mystical experience, and tried to find the answer to the question of what it was in the ancient texts. Eventually, he managed to find a term in Sanskrit to describe his experience, samadhi. Hindus consider it a special state of enlightened and clear consciousness, and Buddhists consider it the last step on the path to nirvana.
“The experience in space was so powerful that when I got back to Earth I started digging into various literatures to try to understand what had happened. I found nothing in science literature but eventually discovered it in the Sanskrit of ancient India. The descriptions of samadhi, Savikalpa samadhi, were exactly what I felt: it is described as seeing things in their separateness, but experiencing them viscerally as a unity, as oneness, accompanied by ecstasy,” Mitchell said. [Source]
Mitchell described it as a feeling of complete dissolution in the infinite universe, accompanied by ecstasy, as well as a clear understanding of the absolute unity of man and the cosmos, which seemed to him an incredibly ancient and intelligent self-regulating system.
In general, Mitchell returned from the Moon as a completely different person. He moved to California, where he co-founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences. This non-profit organization was engaged in research, which was skeptical of mainstream science. The institute conducted experiments with yoga, meditation, extrasensory perception, telepathy, telekinesis, etc.
There were rumors about the institute in the 70s and 80s that it was part of the secret Stargate Project that was funded by US military intelligence to study various parapsychological phenomena. Allegedly, Mitchell, taking advantage of the fact that the doors of the highest offices were open to him, almost personally lobbied for the inclusion of his organization in the project. However, in any case, the Stargate was closed due to the lack of any results that were of even potential interest to the army.
But Mitchell’s greatest fame was brought by his scandalous statements about the existence of aliens. He was perhaps the most famous figure who publicly shared such views, so journalists were very willing to interview him, and ufologists and supporters of various conspiracy theories around the world literally idolized the former astronaut and invariably referred to his interviews in their books.
Edgar Mitchell during an Apollo 14 training session in 1970
For example, he claimed that the 1947 Roswell crash incident was a true story. But on the official note, it was the weather balloon crash and video footage of the autopsy of humanoids, allegedly secretly made by army operators, was determined to be fake.
However, Mitchell grew up in the small town of Artesia, a few miles from the very Roswell airbase where the crash allegedly occurred. The astronaut claimed that many of his neighbors, acquaintances, and friends worked at this base, and what he heard from them is enough for him to consider the Roswell incident a real UFO crash. Mitchell did not disclose the names of his informants, referring to the fact that they all signed a non-disclosure agreement and he did not want them to have problems.
Mitchell claimed that he used all his connections to find out anything about the UFO phenomenon that had occupied him since the early 70s, and eventually, he found people at the highest rank who shared information with him.
According to Mitchell, he once had a confidential conversation with a Navy admiral, who secretly told him that in fact, the aliens had established contact with the government back in the early 1940s. They were interested in earthly weapons, primarily the atomic bomb. At the very beginning of the Cold War between the USSR and the USA, aliens often came to Earth because they feared nuclear war and tried to influence the world elites in some way.
In another interview, Mitchell claimed that his words were distorted by journalists. The admiral did tell him that the government had been aware of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence since the early 1940s and was covering up authenticated UFO sightings. However, he never spoke of any interference in political affairs. He did not give the names of his high-ranking informant from the Navy, so as not to substitute him.
According to Mitchell, there is a well-organized group in the highest US government circles whose goal is to stop any leaks about the UFO phenomenon. At the same time, he himself categorically denied that he had ever seen extraterrestrial beings.
From time to time, fake interviews of Mitchell appeared on various sites devoted to conspiracy theories, in which he allegedly said that he had personally observed flying saucers and almost dined with humanoids. In official interviews, Mitchell vehemently denied these rumors, claiming that he had never seen any humanoids or UFOs, but was sure of their existence.
In 2016, Wikileaks revealed thousands of emails that were allegedly linked to Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta. The emails unfolded secret information shared with Podesta about UFOs and ETs.
In 2015, Podesta received emails from Mitchell that expressed his concern about the weaponization of space and its impact on the ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence). Despite the fact that aliens might be violent as shown in the various sci-fi, the notable astronaut called them nonviolent in his email.
In January 2015, he sent an email to Podesta, asking him to have an urgent meeting to discuss Disclosure and Zero Point Energy (ZPE). He was concerned about the peace in space.
Terri with Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, ScD, 2011 inductee honoree in the Leonardo da Vinci Society for the Study of Thinking
Mitchell wrote: “My Catholic colleague Terri Mansfield will be there too, to bring us up to date on the Vatican’s awareness of ETI. Another colleague is working on a new Space Treaty, citing involvement with Russia and China. However, with Russia’s extreme interference in Ukraine, I believe we must pursue another route for peace in space and ZPE on Earth.”
Mitchell emailed Podesta again on September 18, 2015. He wrote: “Because the War in Space race is heating up, I felt you should be aware of several factors as you and I schedule our Skype talk. Remember, our nonviolent ETI from the contiguous universe are helping us bring zero point energy to Earth. They will not tolerate any forms of military violence on Earth or in space.”
It was confirmed by one of Mitchell’s collaborators that the meeting between Podesta and him never took place. He died in February 2016 at the age of 85, just a few days short of the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 14 return to Earth, the mission that changed his life forever.
US Military Wants Elon Musk to Drop Soldiers Into Battlefields from Space
The Pentagon is collaborating with Elon Musk’s company SpaceX to investigate the possibility of using the company’s rockets to drop troops and equipment into global flashpoints.
USTRANSCOM is one of the military’s unified combatant commands. It provides for the military’s transportation needs, and heavily relies on commercial infrastructure and technologies to carry out its mission of projecting and sustaining military power.
There is a growing trend among military projects to tap commercial-first space technologies in order to convert them to military use at a much smaller cost than if the military were to research and develop its own technologies from the ground up.
Among the hoped-for outcomes of the research agreement is a rocket-based “quick reaction force,” which would place troops or equipment anywhere in the world on short notice by leveraging SpaceX’s Starship, a fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle that is currently in development, reports zerohedge.
Fear begins to arise on the ranch as a team member must be taken to the emergency room after passing out, in this clip from Season 3, “Full Metal Mesa.”
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance snapped this photo of a balancing boulder and snake-head rock on June 12, 2022, using its Mastcam-Z camera system.
NASA
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover has been hard at work snapping pictures of oddities found on the surface of the red planet, and its finds are sending alien conspiracy theorists into a frenzy.
Since Perseverance landed on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, it has been exploring the Jezero Crater area, which was created by the impact of an ancient meteorite. This location was selected because more than 3.5 billion years ago, scientists believe that a lake once filled the crater and may have been home to microbial life.
“There is evidence of ancient river flow into Jezero, forming a delta that has long since been dry,” according to NASA, which has tasked Perseverance with finding signs of past life in the primordial lakebed.
But some internet denizens believe that life on Mars is not as ancient or microbial as scientists assert after Perseverance sent back a picture of a precariously balanced rock on top of a boulder on the uninhabited planet.
The rock is about the size of a bowling ball, according to Yahoo! News, and was found in Hogwallow Flats, an area that sounds like it was plucked straight from a Harry Potter book.
The find was posted to Perseverance’s social media pages on June 16 along with additional photos of the area. The mighty robot said its team back on Earth was “happy as pigs in mud(stone)!”
It cheekily didn’t mention the eerie balancing rock that was shared in a subsequent post, simply saying that the photos mean there are “Tons of potential targets for study.”
The lack of an explanation for the balancing rock left a vacuum for alien conspiracy theorists to purport that perhaps Martians are playing an elaborate prank on us.
“Aliens are playing tricks on us… I tell you,” one Facebook user wrote in response to the balancing rock. “They are certainly hiding in Mars.”
Another Facebook user pegged the rock as a “Martian basketball.”
One Twitter user pointed out that a formation next to the balancing rock resembled the head of a snake. Others thought it looked more like a turtle.
Geology enthusiasts, though, were quick to point out that the balancing rock formation may be a result of weathering and wind erosion. They posit that the rock isn’t “balancing” on the boulder per se, but may be attached at the bottom.
Balancing rock formations can be found in a number of parks across our planet, including Arches National Park in Utah and St. Mary’s Bay in Nova Scotia, and are usually the result of erosion or retreating glaciers.
One Facebook user wasn’t convinced by this explanation, writing, “What I find odd about the balancing rock is all the other rocks in the area (are) sharp edged and flat. How is that the only round rock?”
Gizmodo, an outlet that covers technology and science, reached out to NASA to ask about the balancing rock and the agency said it was likely a PBR (a Precariously Balanced Rock).
“Often a balancing rock is in fact connected to the larger underlying rock by a stem or pedestal,” NASA wrote. “The Martian balancing rock … was most likely formed after extensive aeolian (wind) and/or chemical erosion carved it out from the local bedrock.”
NASA says that the presence of these formations on Mars can help us glean information about the area’s seismic history, writing that PBRs “have been called “reverse seismometers” because the existence of PBRs makes it possible to measure earthquakes/marsquakes that didn’t happen.”
“If these rocks are still balanced, then the ground hasn’t moved enough to knock them over,” NASA added.
Just one day before this find was posted, Perseverance shared images of what appeared to be a piece of silver foil on the barren planet.
How did this piece of human trash appear on Mars, which is about 200 million kilometres away from Earth?
NASA was immediately ready with an explanation that time, saying the agency believes it was a piece of a thermal blanket that was used during Perseverance’s landing to protect the robot from extreme temperatures.
The balancing rock isn’t the only strange rock formation to be found on Mars.
Last month, NASA’s Curiosity Rover snapped an image of what looked like a doorway leading into a rock face. The opening is estimated to be about 30 centimetres tall and 40 centimetres wide, making it approximately the size of a dog door.
According to the legendary Montauk Project whistleblower, Al Bielek, the US first discovered time travel technology in 1936 and was given assistance from the future to win World War II. Bielek’s startling information provides an answer to a common question concerning extraterrestrial intervention in human affairs, “how did Nazi Germany lose the war if they were receiving technological assistance from Draco Reptilians”, as claimed by secret space program insiders such as William Tompkins in his Selected by Extraterrestrials book series?
On April 20, 2000, Bielek recorded video testimony of his involvement in the famous Philadelphia Experiment and US classified research into time travel. During his recording, he described how time travel technology was discovered by accident in 1936. A submerged Atlantean crystal was discovered by the US Navy drilling ship, Kearsarge (AB-1) in the Bermuda Triangle area of the Atlantic Ocean.
After disappearing for two months due to the Atlantean crystal’s activation, the Kearsarge returned with its crew intact to share the incredible news that they had traveled into the future. Future humans had given them detailed instructions for how to develop time travel technology, which would be vital for success in the coming World War.
After two years of experimentation and calibration, the time travel technology was ready for use according to Bielek’s sources. The time travel technology was subsequently used to gain advanced weapons from the future that were used in World War II. In the following extract from Bielek’s April 20, 2000, video recording, he explained what he had learned about the use of time travel technology during World War II:
The stories I ran into and the information I had which partly came out of Los Alamos Laboratory’s Black Vault, as did so much other things, was they found out how to calibrate it. They were able to use the Kearsarge and later a number of other ships similarly outfitted with the appropriate equipment for time travel into the future, and this allegedly according to my information became essential to the winning of World War Two against Nazi Germany.
We had to pull some hardware out of the future modify, a few things, and even if you look at the end of the war wherein we dropped a plutonium bomb, as well as a standard uranium gun barrel type bomb on Japan, so when Hiroshima was on the uranium gun barrel bomb and the one in Nagasaki by public statement wasn’t a plutonium bomb. One has to ask some very serious questions since in the record of the development of the atomic bomb these tests to Trinity Flats was stated in the manuals and they declassified that information to be a plutonium bomb, and that it took all of the production of plutonium out of Hanford engineering works for over a year to produce enough plutonium of bomb grade they could use to test a bomb.
They were so concerned about whether it would work or not because they implied previous failures, which was true. They put a steel, very heavy steel shell around the bomb in case it fails [so] that they wouldn’t lose the plutonium, they could salvage it. Of course, it did happen that that particular device exploded quite well, left a nice glassy plating on the desert floor and was seen for many many miles. That took all of the plutonium that we had produced up to that time. How did we within one month get enough plutonium to build a bomb and drop it on Nagasaki? That has never been answered, and I think the answer lies in the fact that we had time travel capability and took some of the plutonium production out of the future where in the 80s and 90s and 70s even, we were able to produce it in rather large amounts relatively speaking.
The Russians over 40 years from one of their secret cities that built up a stockpile of 40 tons of bomb grade plutonium they don’t know what to do with and they’re still producing it. So it’s not that difficult to produce once you have the proper facilities other than that one specific instance. I’m told there were other instances of time travel being used to produce hardware in the future that is our era let us say the 80s to be used during the period of World War Two. The bottom line was we militarily defeated Hitler and the Axis powers in Japan and the world settled back to uneasy peace.[1:24:52]
Bielek’s incredible testimony is supported by historical events. The US Kearsange (AB-1) was a drilling ship that was active up to 1940 so it’s feasible that it was involved in the discovery of ancient Atlantean technology buried in the Bermuda Triangle area of the Atlantic Ocean. Also, the entire secrecy over the development of the Manhattan Project raises many questions over how two distinct types of atomic bombs could be developed and deployed only days apart to bring the Pacific war to a quick end.
Additionally, the Philadelphia Experiment, which multiple researchers have confirmed as genuine, appears to be an off-shoot of time travel research involving Navy ships that can be traced back to the Kearsarge incident. Finally, Bielek’s involvement with the Montauk Project (1971-1983) which also conducted time travel experiments does support his claim of having had access to highly classified material at various facilities, including the alleged Black Vault at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Bielek’s testimony supports claims that World War II was not only a Temporal War between different extraterrestrial factions, as I’ve discussed previously, but also involved future humanity. In fact, Bielek claims that he was sent to the future and witnessed first-hand future humans operating in 2137 and 2749 AD., and why they wanted Bielek to help them change future timelines.
In my upcoming webinar, Time Travel, Temporal War and our Future, I will investigate Bielek’s incredible time travel claims and contrast these with information from other insiders, researchers and experiencers concerning the Philadelphia Experiment, Montauk Project, Project Pegasus, Wingmakers, and Romania’s Department Zero conducting research into the Bucegi Mountains discoveries.
Bielek’s testimony, along with the testimony and documents provided by others concerning time travel technology, supports claims that future humanity has played a critical role in influencing past events in our history such as World War II. Most importantly, time travelers from our future, along with highly evolved extraterrestrial civilizations, are here today to assist us in revealing long suppressed knowledge, and transforming our world.
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