You can believe your eyes: NASA to test flying saucer

Two members of the Navy's Explosive Ordinance Disposal team perch on the test vehicle used in the first flight of NASA's Low-density Supersonic Decelerator project. The test vehicle was fished out of the waters of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range within hours of splashdown. During the June 28, 2014, engineering flight, the saucer-shaped test vehicle climbed to over 180,000 feet (about 55,000 meters) in altitude and went as fast as four times the speed of sound

A saucer-shaped test vehicle holding equipment for landing large payloads on Mars is shown in the Missile Assembly Building at the US Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kaua'i, Hawaii.  The vehicle, part of the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator project, will test an inflatable decelerator and a parachute at high altitudes and speeds over the Pacific Missile Range this June.  A balloon will lift the vehicle to high altitudes, where a rocket will take it even higher to the top of the stratosphere at several times the speed of sound. This image was taken during a "hang-angle" measurement, in which engineers set the vehicle's rocket motor to the appropriate angle for the high-altitude test. The nozzle and the lower half of the Star-48 solid rocket motor are the dark objects seen in the middle of the image below the saucer.

KAUA’I, Hawaii — Keep an eye on the skies over Hawaii on Wednesday. If all goes to plan, NASA will be testing out a saucer-shaped craft that could hold the key to a future human mission to Mars.

The test flight was originally scheduled for Tuesday but was postponed because of unfavorable ocean conditions. The craft will splash down in the sea, so operators need to be able to recover it safely.

If conditions are suitable Wednesday, an enormous balloon will lift the test vehicle carrying the disc-like Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator, or LDSD, to a height of 120,000 feet, or more than 20 miles (32 kilometers), above Earth.

Then, mission controllers will set the LDSD free to fire its rockets and try out the centerpiece of the test: a giant supersonic parachute, measuring 100 feet (30 meters) across.

For those on the ground, live video will be relayed from four cameras aboard the pioneering saucer-shaped craft.

“You get to see all the same video I do, at the same time I do,” Mark Adler, project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in an online news release.

“This year’s test is centered on how our newly designed supersonic parachute will perform. We think we have a great design ready for the challenge, but the proof is in the pudding and the pudding will be made live for everyone to see.”

Updating decades-old technology

Last year, when the LDSD was tested for the first time — also launched from the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range facility in Kauai, Hawaii — the deployment of the parachute was the only fly in the ointment, when it didn’t inflate as expected.

This time around, a new design is being tested: the Supersonic Ringsail parachute, which NASA says is the largest supersonic parachute ever tested for use on Mars.

Current technology for decelerating from high speeds during reentry into the atmosphere to the final stages of landing on Mars dates back to NASA’s Viking Program, which put two landers on the Martian surface in 1976.

The basic Viking parachute design has been used ever since. It was successfully used again in 2012 to deliver the rover Curiosity to Mars.

NASA will need new and improved landing technologies to handle the larger spaceships of tomorrow and land them on rocky surfaces, as well as at higher altitudes.

Atmospheric drag

NASA scientists hope this saucer-shaped craft could be the key.

“As NASA plans ambitious robotic science missions to Mars, laying the groundwork for even more complex human expeditions to come, the spacecraft needed to land safely on the Red Planet’s surface will become larger and heavier in order to accommodate explorers’ extended stays on the Martian surface,” the agency’s website said.

This means the supersonic parachute will have its work cut out to create sufficient atmospheric drag to slow the vehicles down so they can be landed safely. Using drag for deceleration means precious fuel can be saved for landing maneuvers.

A third test flight for the LDSD is scheduled for the summer of 2016.

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Huge Underwater Pyramid Found Near Portugal

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Huge Underwater Pyramid Found Near Portugal

Further investigations are beginning to point to the possibility of an underwater volcanic hill based on more recent scans.[3] More information should come to the surface. Some believe this new explanation may be a cover up but that position is currently based on a belief only.

Portuguese news reported the discovery of a very large under water pyramid first discovered by Diocleciano Silva between the islands of São Miguel and Terceira in the Azores of Portugal. According to claims, the structure is said to be perfectly squared and oriented by the cardinal points. Current estimates obtained using GPS digital technology put the height at 60 meters with a base of 8000 square meters. The Portuguese Hydrographic Institute of the Navy currently has the job of analyzing the data to determine whether or not the structure is man-made.

“The pyramid is perfectly shaped and apparently oriented by the cardinal points,” Silva told Diário Insular, the local newspaper.

The pyramid was found in an area of the mid-Atlantic that has been underwater for about 20,000 years. Considering this is around the time of the last ice age where glaciation was melting from its peak 2000 years prior, whatever civilization, human or not, that was around before the ice age, could be responsible for building the pyramid. While the Portuguese Navy still hasn’t determined the origins, many might question why this hasn’t been first reported on sooner than late 2012. Certainly the NOAA who studies volcanic activity in the area of the pyramid would have discovered the pyramid through sonar imaging and so forth since the area is heavily studied due to volcanic activity. Either the NOAA hasn’t yet come across it, they are hiding what they have found, or the pyramid doesn’t exist. The last theory does not seem to be likely given the authenticity of the find.

To further support the idea that this pyramid could have been built by different civilizations, archeologists from the Portuguese Association of Archaeological Research have recently discovered evidence on Pico island that suggests their belief that humans existed in the Azores region before the arrival of the Portuguese thousands of years ago. As of today, there is still no explanation for who created the rock art found on the islands. Was the pyramid built by whatever civilization existed prior to the Portuguese? Is it possibly not even man-made?

Here is the Portuguese news report with English subtitles for those who wish to look into the authenticity of the claims.

The Azores are an interesting region as they are a chain of nine volcanic islands in three main groups that are roughly 930 miles west of Lisbon. They are all situated around the fault lines between the North American, Eurasian and African tectonic plates. An interesting place to have a pyramid given the energetic qualities often associated with pyramids.

This video discusses some interesting bits of information that explore the authenticity of the story and the possible location visually using some maps. It is important to note that exact coordinates of the pyramid have not been released. He believes that there may be a discovery of 2 more pyramids in the area as images suggest there could be a design link to that of the pyramids built in Egypt.

Wat zijn die mysterieuze blauwe plekken op de rode planeet? - HLN.be

 Bron: ESA 

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MARS 'Blue lagoons' op de rode planeet? Dat lijkt zo op deze beelden van ESA van Mars. Maar de wetenschappelijke verklaring toont iets helemaal anders aan. De blauwe vlekken zouden te maken hebben met winden tot 100 km/uur die Mars teisteren en het landschap er mee vorm geven.

Mooi blauw water? Niet volgens ESA. De wetenschap houdt het bij een optische illusie. Gigantische stofstormen - die dagen of weken kunnen duren en met winden tot 100 km/uur - droppen donkere, vulkanische, basaltrijke materie over heel de planeet. Lagen van donkerdere stof van vulkanen zetten zich vast in de kraters van Mars. Na verloop van tijd is er genoeg van dat stof verzameld om een blauwige kleur te tonen. Dat is wat we zien.

Ook op onze eigen planeet bepalen winden door de tijden heen overigens mee de vorm van het landschap, van rotsen, van duinen.

Op de foto hieronder zie je de gevolgen van een veel recentere storm, die vulkanische stof en as in een krater op Mars blaast. Je kan op dit beeld bijna de kracht van de storm voelen.

Amerikaanse luchtmacht bouwt tuig dat in één uur van New York naar Londen vliegt - HLN.be

Bron: The Independent 

De X-51 WaveRider wordt uit een conventionele bommenwerper gedropt en haalt ruim vijf keer de geluidssnelheid. Impressie van het toestel. © Kos.

De Amerikaanse luchtmacht bouwt samen met Boeing een ultrasnel wapen dat vijf keer de geluidssnelheid zal halen. Daarmaa kan het vliegtuig in een uur de Atlantische Oceaan oversteken. Het toestel zal als wapen dienstdoen en werken als een raket.

"Wij zijn de Air Force. Wat we willen doen met deze technologie? Ze als wapen inzetten, natuurlijk", verklaarde Ryan Helbach van het onderzoekscentrum van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht tegenover Military.com. Het is nog onduidelijk hoe het toestel als wapen zal ingezet worden. De Amerikaanse autoriteiten verwachten dat China en andere landen aan gelijkaardige technologie werken.

De X-51, ontwikkeld door Boeing, wordt uit een traditionele bommenwerper gedropt. Er werden al succesvolle tests uitgevoerd. Het vliegtuig krijgt een kickstart van een raketbooster die het tuig naar een snelheid van Mach 4.5 stuurt, dus 4,5 maal de geluidssnelheid (die ongeveer 1.200 km/uur bedraagt; Mach 4.5 is dus 5.400 km/u). Daarna wordt de raket gedropt en gaat de X-51 op eigen kracht naar Mach 5.1.

Het toestel werd voor het eerst getest in 2013. Toen haalde het een snelheid van 6.430 km per uur op een hoogte van ruim 18 kilometer. Het viel toen zonder brandstof en stortte neer in zee.

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The difference between asteroids and meteorites

Various meteorites from 2008 TC3 asteroid that landed in the Sudan in 2008. Credit: P. Jenniskens, et. al. 

Asteroids, meteors, and meteorites … It might be fair to say these rocks from space inspire both wonder and fear among us Earthlings. But knowing a bit more about each of them and how they differ may eliminate some potential misgivings. While all these rocks originate from space, they have different names depending their location—i.e. whether they are hurtling through space or hurtling through the atmosphere and impacting Earth's surface.

In simplest terms here are the definitions:

• Asteroid: a large rocky body in space, in orbit around the Sun.
• Meteoroid: much smaller rocks or particles in orbit around the Sun.
• Meteor: If a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere and vaporizes, it becomes a meteor, which is often called a shooting star.
• Meteorite: If a small asteroid or large meteoroid survives its fiery passage through the Earth's atmosphere and lands on Earth's surface, it is then called a meteorite.

Another related term is bolide, which is a very bright meteor that often explodes in the atmosphere. This can also be called a fireball.

Let's look at each in more detail:

Asteroids

Asteroids are found mainly in the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. Sometimes their orbits get perturbed or altered and some asteroids end up coming closer to the Sun, and therefore closer to Earth. In addition to the asteroid belt, however, there have been recent discussions among astronomers about the potential existence of large number asteroids in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud.

Asteroids are sometimes referred to as minor planets or planetoids, but in general, they are rocky bodies that do not have an atmosphere. However, a few have their own moons. Our solar system contains millions of asteroids, many of which are thought to be the shattered remnants of planetesimals – bodies within the young Sun's solar nebula that never grew large enough to become planets.

The size of what classifies as an asteroid is not extremely well defined, as an asteroid can range from a few meters wide – like a boulder—to objects that are hundreds of kilometers in diameter. The largest asteroid is asteroid Ceres at about 952 km (592 miles) in diameter, and Ceres is so large that it is also categorized as a dwarf planet.

Most asteroids are made of rock, but as we explore and learn more about them we know that some are composed of metal, mostly nickel and iron. According to NASA, a small portion of the asteroid population may be burned-out comets whose ices have evaporated away and been blown off into space. Recently, astronomers have discovered some asteroids that mimic comets in that gas and dust are emanating from them, and as we mentioned earlier, there appears to be a large number of bodies with asteroid-like compositions but comet-like orbits.

How Often Do Asteroids Hit Earth?

While we know that some asteroids pass very close to Earth's orbit around the Sun, we've been lucky in the history of humanity that we haven't had a large asteroid hit Earth in the past several thousand years. It wasn't until satellite imagery of Earth became widely available that scientists were able to see evidence of past asteroid impacts.

One of the more famous impact craters on Earth is Meteor Crater in Arizona in the US, which was made by an impact about 50,000 years ago. But there are about 175 known impact around the world – a few are quite large, like Vredefort Crater in South Africa which has an estimated radius of 190 kilometers (118 miles), making it the world's largest known impact structure on Earth. Another notable impact site is off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, and is believed to be a record of the event that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

These days, asteroid impacts are less of a threat. NASA estimates that about once a year an automobile-sized asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere, creates an impressive fireball and disintegrates before ever reaching the surface. Studies of Earth's history indicate that about once every 5,000 years or so on average an object the size of a football field hits Earth and causes significant damage. Once every few million years on average an object large enough to cause regional or global disaster impacts Earth.

Meteors, Meteoroids and Bolides

Space debris smaller than an asteroid are called meteoroids. A meteoroid is a piece of interplanetary matter that is smaller than an asteroid and frequently are only millimeters in size. Most meteoroids that enter the Earth's atmosphere are so small that they vaporize completely and never reach the planet's surface. When they burn up during their descent, they create a beautiful trail of light known as a meteor, sometimes called a shooting star.

Mostly these are harmless, but larger meteors that explode in the atmosphere – sometimes called bolides—can create shockwaves, which can cause problems. In February 2013 a meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia shattered windows with its air blast. This meteoroid or bolide was estimated to be 18 meters (59 feet) in diameter. In 1908, a rocky meteoroid less than 100 meters in diameter is believed to have entered the atmosphere over the Tunguska region of Siberia in 1908 and the resulting shockwave knocked down trees for hundreds of square kilometers.

How often is Earth hit by meteroids?

Because of the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013, astronomers have acquired more information about the frequency of larger meteors that hit Earth, and there is now a growing consensus that the Earth gets hit by bigger space rocks more often than we previously thought.

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The B612 foundation says that a Hiroshima-scale asteroid explosion happens in our atmosphere on average once a year, but many are not detected because they explode high in the atmosphere, or because most of the Earth's surface is water and even a large percentage of land is fairly uninhabited by humans.

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Estimates vary of how much cosmic dust and meteors enter Earth's atmosphere each day, but range anywhere from 5 to 300 metric tons. Satellite observations suggest that 100-300 metric tons of cosmic dust enter the atmosphere each day. This figure comes from the rate of accumulation in polar ice cores and deep-sea sediments of rare elements linked to cosmic dust, such as iridium and osmium.

But other measurements – which includes meteor radar observations, laser observations and measurements by high altitude aircraft—indicate that the input could be as low as 5 metric ton per day.

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Meteorite

If any part of a meteoroid survives the fall through the atmosphere and lands on Earth, it is called a meteorite. Although the vast majority of meteorites are very small, their size can range from about a fraction of a gram (the size of a pebble) to 100 kilograms (220 lbs) or more (the size of a huge, life-destroying boulder). Meteorites smaller than 2mm are classified as micrometeorites.

Meteorites have traditionally been divided into three broad categories, depending on their structure, chemical and isotopic composition and mineralogy. Stony meteorites are rocks, mainly composed of silicate minerals; iron meteorites that are largely composed of metallic iron-nickel; and, stony-iron meteorites that contain large amounts of both metallic and rocky material.

Meteorites have also been found on the moon and Mars and conversely, scientists have traced the origination of the meteorites found here on Earth to four other bodies: the moon, Mars, the asteroid 4 Vesta, and the comet Wild 2. Meteorites are the source of a great deal of the knowledge that we have have about the composition of other celestial bodies.

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How Often Do Meteorites Hit Earth?

According to the Planetary Science Institute, it is estimated that probably 500 meteorites reach the surface of the Earth each year, but less than 10 are recovered. This is because most fall into water (oceans, seas or lakes) or land in remote areas of the Earth that are not accessible, or are just not seen to fall.

Summary

In short, the difference between asteroids and meteors all comes down to a question of location. Asteroids are always found in space. Once it enters an atmosphere, it becomes a meteor, and then a meteorite after it hits the ground. Each are made of the same basic materials – minerals and rock – and each originated in space. The main difference is where they are when they are being observed.

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Explore further:     Two years on, source of Russian Chelyabinsk meteor remains elusive   

More information: "Eight billion asteroids in the Oort cloud." arxiv.org/abs/1410.7403 

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NASA Starts Testing Its New Mars Lander

NASA has started testing its new Mars lander, which is scheduled to leave for the red planet in March of 2016. It’s big, about the size of a car, and a-roving it will not go. It will stay where it lands because it has a very specific purpose. In terms of what we know about Mars, we have, quite literally, just scratched the surface, leaving us guessing about some very fundamental questions about the red planet. What is Mars’ interior structure? What is the nature of the core? Does Mars have a crust with liquid magma beneath it? And even more fundamentally, how is Mars geologically like Earth and different? The new lander called InSight will drill into the martian surface in an attempt to fill in some of these crucial gaps in our knowledge.

If you’ve been following stories about NASA over the past few years, you may have noticed that almost every name they give to one of their missions or vehicles stands for something, so, here it is for InSight: Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. Geodesy? A bit of shoehornery there, NASA? Well, in any case, InSight will, in fact, be doing some very important science. Here’s the thing: The only planet that we’re really drilled into so far is the Earth. So when InSight begins drilling into Mars and sending back data, in addition to providing crucial information about Mars, it will also, for the first time in history, give us something to compare the Earth to.

The current round of tests will put InSight through its paces to ensure that it can withstand  the trip to Mars, the landing there, and the harsh conditions the lander will face on the martian surface, all while remaining operational. NASA engineers want to make sure that any faults with the craft are identified and fixed while it’s still here on Earth. If anything goes wrong with InSight once it’s on its way, the only possibility of a repair man coming by will be many years in the future, when the first manned missions arrive on Mars, in the the 2030’s, or if either of the two private ventures to colonize Mars about ten years earlier actually happen.

This environmental testing on InSight will take place at Lockheed Martin's Space Systems facility near Denver. There InSight will be subjected to the sorts of extreme temperatures and vacuum conditions the lander will be exposed to during its journey through  interplanetary space. Once InSight passes this set of tests, it will be subjected to several other batteries of them over the next seven months, including vibrations to simulate launch conditions, and checking for electronic interference between different parts of the spacecraft. The final set of tests will include a second thermal vacuum test to simulate the conditions the spacecraft will be exposed to on the Martian surface.

"It's great to see the spacecraft put together in its launch configuration," says Tom Hoffman, InSight Project Manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "Many teams from across the globe have worked long hours to get their elements of the system delivered for these tests. There still remains much work to do before we are ready for launch, but it is fantastic to get to this critical milestone.”


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Ultraviolet study reveals surprises in comet coma

Rosetta's continued close study of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has revealed an unexpected process at work, causing the rapid breakup of water and carbon dioxide molecules spewing from the comet’s surface.                                

ESA's Rosetta mission arrived at the comet in August last year. Since then, it has been orbiting or flying past the comet at distances from as far as several hundred kilometres down to as little as 8 km. While doing so, it has been collecting data on every aspect of the comet’s environment with its suite of 11 science instruments.

One instrument, the Alice spectrograph provided by NASA, has been examining the chemical composition of the comet's atmosphere, or coma, at far-ultraviolet wavelengths.

At these wavelengths, Alice allows scientists to detect some of the most abundant elements in the Universe such as hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen. The spectrograph splits the comet's light into its various colours – its spectrum – from which scientists can identify the chemical composition of the coma gases.

In a paper accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, scientists report the detections made by Alice from Rosetta’s first four months at the comet, when the spacecraft was between 10 km and 80 km from the centre of the comet nucleus.

For this study, the team focused on the nature of 'plumes' of water and carbon dioxide gas erupting from the comet's surface, triggered by the warmth of the Sun. To do so, they looked at the emission from hydrogen and oxygen atoms resulting from broken water molecules, and similarly carbon atoms from carbon dioxide molecules, close to the comet nucleus.

Rosetta uncovers processes at work in comet’s coma. (Further information and full credits can be found here.)

They discovered that the molecules seem to be broken up in a two-step process.

First, an ultraviolet photon from the Sun hits a water molecule in the comet’s coma and ionises it, knocking out an energetic electron. This electron then hits another water molecule in the coma, breaking it apart into two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen, and energising them in the process. These atoms then emit ultraviolet light that is detected at characteristic wavelengths by Alice.

Similarly, it is the impact of an electron with a carbon dioxide molecule that results in its break-up into atoms and the observed carbon emissions.

"Analysis of the relative intensities of observed atomic emissions allows us to determine that we are directly observing the ‘parent’ molecules that are being broken up by electrons in the immediate vicinity, about 1 km, of the comet’s nucleus where they are being produced," says Paul Feldman, professor of physics and astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and lead author of the paper discussing the results.

By comparison, from Earth or from Earth-orbiting space observatories such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the atomic constituents of comets can only be seen after their parent molecules, such as water and carbon dioxide, have been broken up by sunlight, hundreds to thousands of kilometres away from the nucleus of the comet.

"The discovery we’re reporting is quite unexpected," says Alice Principal Investigator Alan Stern, an associate vice-president in the Space Science and Engineering Division of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI).

"It shows us the value of going to comets to observe them up close, since this discovery simply could not have been made from Earth or Earth orbit with any existing or planned observatory. And, it is fundamentally transforming our knowledge of comets."

"By looking at the emission from hydrogen and oxygen atoms broken from the water molecules, we also can actually trace the location and structure of water plumes from the surface of the comet," adds co-author Joel Parker, an assistant director in SwRI’s Space Science and Engineering Division in Boulder, Colorado.

The team likens the break-up of the molecules to the process that has been proposed for the plumes on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, except that the electrons at the comet are produced by solar photons, while the electrons at Europa come from Jupiter’s magnetosphere.

The results from Alice are supported by data obtained by other Rosetta instruments, in particular MIRO, ROSINA and VIRTIS, which are able to study the abundance of different coma constituents and their variation over time, and particle detecting instruments like RPC-IES.

"These early results from Alice demonstrate how important it is to study a comet at different wavelengths and with different techniques, in order to probe various aspects of the comet environment," says ESA’s Rosetta project scientist Matt Taylor.

"We’re actively watching how the comet evolves as it moves closer to the Sun along its orbit towards perihelion in August, seeing how the plumes become more active due to solar heating, and studying the effects of the comet’s interaction with the solar wind."

More information

"Measurements of the near-nucleus coma of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with the Alice far-ultraviolet spectrograph on Rosetta," by P Feldman et al is accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

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Hubble observes chaotic dance of Pluto's moons

In a new study, scientists have gathered all available NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope data on the four outer moons of Pluto to analyse the system in more depth than ever before. The observations show that at least two of Pluto's moons are not neatly rotating on their axes but are in chaotic rotation while orbiting around Pluto and its companion Charon. The study also hints that one of the moons has a mysterious jet-black colouring. These surprising results appear in the 4 June issue of the journal Nature.                                

Almost every moon in the Solar System, including our Moon, rotates on its axis at the same speed as it orbits its parent body. It is for this reason that we always see the same side of the Moon facing us on Earth. On Pluto, however, astronomers have now discovered that there are no hidden sides to its moons.

The chaotic spin of Pluto's moon Nix. Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Showalter (SETI Inst.), G. Bacon (STScI)	Pluto's four small satellites in comparison to its companion, Charon. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Field (STScI)

In a surprising new study, it has been found that two of Pluto's moons, Nix and Hydra, are in a chaotic rotation. This means that an observer on Pluto would not see the same face of the moons from one night to the next. For visitors on the moons themselves, things would get even more confusing, as every day would be a different length to the one that preceded it.

The other two moons studied, Kerberos and Styx, will likely be found to be chaotic too, pending further study.

"Prior to the Hubble observations, nobody appreciated the intricate dynamics of the Pluto system," explains Mark Showalter of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in California, USA, main author of the study.

The chaotic motion of the moons is caused by the system's two central bodies, Pluto and Charon [1].

"These two bodies whirl around each other rapidly, causing the gravitational forces that they exert on the small nearby moons to change constantly," explains Doug Hamilton, co-author of the study. "Being subject to such varying gravitational forces makes the rotation of Pluto's moons very unpredictable. The chaos in their rotation is further accentuated by the fact that these moons are not neat and round, but are actually shaped like rugby balls!"

The movement of the moons in the Pluto–Charon system offers valuable insights into how planets orbiting a double star might behave. "We are learning that chaos may be a common trait of binary systems," Hamilton continues. "It might even have consequences for life on planets orbiting binary stars."

Clues to the Pluto system chaos first came when astronomers measured variations in the light reflected off of the two small moons. Looking at images taken by Hubble between 2005 and 2012, the brightness was found to change unpredictably — instead of following a regular cycle — in a way that could only be explained by chaotic movement.

These images also showed that the moon Kerberos is charcoal-black in colour, a stark contrast to the bright white of the other moons. It was predicted that pollution from dust blasted off the satellites by meteorite impacts would coat the moons, giving their surfaces a homogenous look, but why Kerberos is black is a mystery.

The chaotic rotation of the moons was not the only surprise that arose from the study; Hubble's monitoring also revealed a connection between the orbits of the three moons Nix, Styx, and Hydra.

"Their motion is tied together in a way similar to that of three of Jupiter’s large moons," noted Doug Hamilton of the University of Maryland, co-author of the study. "If you were sitting on Nix, you would see Styx go around Pluto twice every time Hydra goes around three times."

The chaotic movements found in this fascinating system do not necessarily mean that it is on the brink of flying apart. More studies are needed to determine the long-term fate of the Pluto system.

The researchers agree that a combination of monitoring data from Hubble, a close-up look from NASA's New Horizons space probe, which flies by the system in July 2015 [2], and, eventually, observations with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will help to settle some of the many mysteries of the Pluto–Charon system.

"Pluto will continue to surprise us when New Horizons flies past it in July," Showalter said. "Our work with Hubble just gives us a foretaste of what's in store."

Notes

[1] Due to Charon's large size, Pluto and Charon orbit about a common centre of gravity that is located in the space between the bodies. Our moon has one eightieth of Earth's mass, whereas Charon has one eighth of Pluto's mass.

[2] NASA's New Horizons space probe was launched in 2006 to study Pluto, its moons, and other Kuiper belt objects. It will fly past the Pluto-Charon system on 14 July 2015 and will produce detailed surface maps of Pluto and all of its moons.

Notes for editors

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.

The team of astronomers in this study consists of Mark R. Showalter (SETI Institute, USA) and Doug Hamilton (University of Maryland, USA).

Pluto's moons are hypothesised to have formed by a collision between the dwarf planet and another similar-sized body early in the history of the Solar System. The smashup flung material that coalesced into the family of satellites observed around Pluto today. Pluto's large binary companion, Charon, was discovered in 1978. The object is almost half the size of Pluto. Hubble discovered Nix and Hydra in 2005, Kerberos in 2011, and Styx in 2012. These little moons, measuring just tens of miles across, were found as part of several Hubble searches for moons and rings to characterize the system in preparation for the New Horizons spacecraft flyby.

Contacts

Mark R. Showalter
SETI Institute California, USA
Tel: +1 650 810 0234
Email: mshowalterseti.org

Doug Hamilton
Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland Maryland, USA
Tel: +1 301 405 1548
Email: dphamilastro.umd.edu

Mathias Jäger
ESA/Hubble, Public Information Officer
Garching bei München, Germany
Tel: +49 176 62397500
Email: mjaegerpartner.eso.org

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Daily UFO Headlines 6/3/2015

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• The hunt for missing pieces – Herald Tribune
• Think Finding Bigfoot Is Hard? Try Finding Love – Huffington Post
• NASA enlists help of San Antonio research institute in search for alien life on Europa – San Antonio Express
• The Non-UFO Explanation For That Plane Flying Backwards At The French Open – Pedestrian TV
• Does Planet Earth Need Its Own Flag? – Smithsonian

Source: http://www.openminds.tv/daily-ufo-headlines-632015/33795

Mysterious Unexplained Green Jellyfish-Like Lights Visible Over Holland: What Are They?

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MessageToEagle.com – Mysterious green jellyfish-like lights have been spotted in the skies over Holland. Some have suggested this is a UFO floating in the night sky.

There are also those who think this could be an interdimensional portal leading to unknown invisible worlds.

The images have sparked a debate and many are trying to explain the nature of these mysterious and unexplained lights.

See also:

Unexplained Terrifying “Trumpet” Sound Emanating From The Sky Heard World-Wide – What Is It?

Two Astonishing Cases Of Men Who Say They Traveled Through Time

Can Parallel Universes Explain The Déjà Vu Phenomenon?

Suddenly he was left stunned when he appeared to capture the UFO on camera.

An Underground City Of Giants Discovered In The Grand Canyon?

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Australische studente laat als eerste zien dat er gigantische plasmabuizen boven de aarde zweven

Astronomen hebben voor het eerst bewijs gevonden voor het bestaan van buisvormige plasmastructuren in de onderste lagen van de magnetosfeer. “Wetenschappers dachten al meer dan 60 jaar dat deze structuren bestonden en wij hebben nu het eerste bewijs dat ze echt bestaan,” zei Cleo Loi van de Universiteit van Sydney.

Het onderzoek van Loi, dat onderdeel was van haar thesis, is gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Geophysical Research Letters. “De ontdekking van de structuren is belangrijk omdat ze onze navigatiesystemen kunnen verstoren,” zei ze. “We moeten ze dus leren begrijpen.”

De plasmastructuren worden in onderstaand filmpje uitgelegd:

Het gebied rond de aarde binnen de invloedssfeer van het magnetisch veld wordt de magnetosfeer genoemd. Het magnetisch veld beschermt ons tegen de straling van de zon en tegen kosmische straling. De magnetosfeer is gevuld met plasma dat ontstaat doordat de atmosfeer wordt geïoniseerd door zonlicht.

De onderste laag van de magnetosfeer is de ionosfeer en erboven bevindt zich de plasmasfeer. Ze bevatten een aantal vreemd gevormde plasmastructuren, waaronder de plasmabuizen. “We hebben ze op 600 kilometer boven de grond waargenomen, in de bovenste laag van de ionosfeer, tot en met de plasmasfeer,” zei Loi. “Daar houdt de neutrale atmosfeer op en gaan we over naar het plasma van de ruimte.”

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Experiment bewijst dat realiteit niet bestaat zonder waarneming

Het universum bestaat niet als niemand het nog langer waarneemt. Dat stelt althans een populaire theorie binnen de kwantummechanica. Volgens de theorie verandert de staat van een deeltje zodra het wordt waargenomen.

Wetenschappers hebben een experiment gedaan om te bewijzen dat deze theorie klopt. Volgens de wetten van de kwantummechanica is er geen duidelijke grens tussen de buitenwereld en ons subjectieve bewustzijn.

Als natuurkundigen naar lichtdeeltjes of atomen kijken, zullen hun waarnemingen worden beïnvloed door hun experiment. Om dit te testen hebben natuurkundigen van de Australian National University onlangs het gedachte-experiment van John Wheeler gedaan.

Tijdens het experiment kreeg een bewegend object de keuze om zich als deeltje of als golf te gedragen. Op welk moment maakt het object de keuze? Je zou zeggen dat de staat van het object niet afhankelijk is van de meting die door de wetenschappers wordt gedaan.

De kwantummechanica voorspelt echter dat het gedrag van het object afhangt van de manier waarop het aan het einde van zijn reis wordt gemeten. “Alles draait om de meting,” zei professor Andrew Truscott. “Op kwantumniveau bestaat de realiteit niet als je er niet naar kijkt.”

Als je aanneemt dat een atoom een bepaald pad neemt moet je accepteren dat een toekomstige meting wordt beïnvloed door het verleden van het atoom, aldus Truscott.

“De atomen gingen niet van A naar B,” zei hij. “Pas zodra we aan het einde van de rit een meting deden gedroegen ze zich als golf of als deeltje.” Het onderzoek is verschenen in Nature Physics.

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Gray Hay Field’s Crop Circle: Aliens or Prank?

Skeptics would argue that extraterrestrials behind UFOs lie with the believers. They need to gather data and determine substantial evidence being presented. According to the BLT Research, there was a crop circle seen in a hay-field, near the town of Gray, north-eastern Tennessee nearby Virginia. The president of BLT, Nancy Talbott said that the design being reported consist of 2 ‘half-moon’ shapes that are facing in the opposite directions. There is a recent Crop circles are areas designed to grow cereal crops (barley, wheat, rye, oats, etc.). They also occur in grasses, corn, seeds, and vegetables.

In terms of the hayfield, what created its circular pattern is unknown. But a veteran crop circle researcher in Massachusetts was hoping to get the photos from the person who photographed with the hope that she might find out if the circle was created either by a man-made or energy force. The circle has been reportedly in the high grass that pushed down, and there are no vehicle tracks or footsteps leading up to the formation.

As reiterated, Talbott said that the interest was to find out the kind and type of energy that might have caused the crop circle. Their remedy is to organize the field teams around the world since these circles were already common to different countries. Regardless of what country they were in, they discovered fundamental changes that were found consistently in sample plants from inner circles compared to the control samples found outside the circle.

Whether or not the crop circle found in Gray hay field is a strange UFO activity or a prank, it is not a huge issue for Ms. Talbott. With deeper studies, they find out that such formation was due to the intense radiation. Furthermore, she believes that such activity is not a hostile act.

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Strange activity above Vallejo, California 2-Mar-2015

This triangle-shaped UFO was seen and recorded in the sky above Vallejo in California on 2nd March 2015.

Watch the video here:

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Unknown lights flying over Terrebonne, Canada 31-May-2015

New footage of a bright unidentified flying objects flying across the night sky above Terrebonne in Quebec, Canada. This happened on 31st May 2015.

Witness report: 1-Seen from my back yard
2-My wife called me after noticing weird lights thru the spa window
3-Ufo’s after I wondered if they were lanterns but wind was in opposite direction
4-To me they looked like a squadron of Ufo’s on parade
5-Amazed,goose bumps and excitement
6-they simply vanished out of sight due to tree foliage

Author (source: mufon)

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UFOs Are No Longer A Theory!

Leslie Kean will be on to chat about her extraordinary book, “UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record.” Leslie spent two years interviewing military officers and government insiders with access to top secret files, about what they knew (and we didn’t) about extra terrestrial encounters.

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The Mysterious Kingdom of Shambhala

Shambhala, which is a Sanskrit word meaning “place of peace” or “place of silence”, is a mythical paradise spoken of in ancient texts, including the Kalachakra Tantra and the ancient scriptures of the Zhang Zhung culture which predated Tibetan Buddhism in western Tibet. 

According to legend, it is a land where only the pure of heart can live, a place where love and wisdom reigns and where people are immune to suffering, want or old age.

Shambhala is said to be the land of a thousand names. It has been called the Forbidden Land, the Land of White Waters, Land of Radiant Spirits, Land of Living Fire, Land of the Living Gods and Land of Wonders. 

The Hindus call it Aryavartha (‘The Land of the Worthy Ones); the Chinese know it as Hsi Tien, the Western Paradise of Hsi Wang Mu; and to the Russian Old Believers, it is known as Belovoyde.

But throughout Asia, it is best known by its Sanskrit name, Shambhala, Shamballa, or Shangri-la.

The legend of Shambhala is said to date back thousands of years, and reference to the mythical land can be found in various ancient texts. The Bön scriptures speak of a closely related land called Olmolungring. 

Hindu texts such as Vishnu Purana mention Shambhala as the birth place of Kalki, the final incarnation of Vishnu who will usher in a new Golden Age. The Buddhist myth of Shambhala is an adaptation of the earlier Hindu myth. However, the text in which Shambhala is first discussed extensively is the Kalachakra.

The Kalachakra refers to a complex and advanced esoteric teaching and practice in Tibetan Buddhism. Shakyamuni Buddha is said to have taught the Kalachakra on request of King Suchandra of Shambhala.

As with many concepts in the Kalachakra, the idea of Shambhala is said to have outer, inner, and alternative meanings. The outer meaning understands Shambhala to exist as a physical place, although only individuals with the appropriate karma can reach it and experience it as such.

 

Shambhala is described as a land of paradise;

The inner and alternative meanings refer to more subtle understandings of what Shambhala represents in terms of one's own body and mind (inner), and during meditative practice (alternative). These two types of symbolic explanations are generally passed on orally from teacher to student.

As the 14th Dalai Lama noted during the 1985 Kalachakra initiation in Bodhgaya, Shambhala is not an ordinary country:

• "Although those with special affiliation may actually be able to go there through their karmic connection, nevertheless it is not a physical place that we can actually find. 
  
  "We can only say that it is a pure land, a pure land in the human realm. And unless one has the merit and the actual karmic association, one cannot actually arrive there."

A Buddhist depiction of Shambhala from 

Sera Monastery (private collection). Image ref..

The Prophecy of Shambhala

The concept of Shambhala plays an important role in Tibetan religious teachings, and has particular relevance in Tibetan mythology about the future. 

The Kalachakra prophesies the gradual deterioration of mankind as the ideology of materialism spreads over the earth. 

When the “barbarians” who follow this ideology are united under an evil king and think there is nothing left to conquer, the mists will lift to reveal the snowy mountains of Shambhala. 

The barbarians will attack Shambhala with a huge army equipped with terrible weapons. Then the king of Shambhala will emerge from Shambhala with a huge army to vanquish "dark forces" and usher in a worldwide Golden Age.

Though the Kālachakra prophesies a future war, this appears in conflict with the vows of Buddhist teachings that prohibit violence. 

This has led some theologians to interpret the war symbolically – the Kālachakra is not advocating violence against people but rather refers to the inner battle of the religious practitioner against inner demonic tendencies.

Shambhala’s hidden location

Over many centuries, numerous explorers and seekers of spiritual wisdom have embarked on expeditions and quests in search of the mythical paradise of Shambhala, and while many have claimed to have been there, no one has yet provided any evidence of its existence or been able to pinpoint its physical location on a map, however most references place Shambhala in the mountainous regions of Eurasia. 

Ancient Zhang Zhung texts identify Shambhala with the Sutlej Valley in Punjab or Himachal Pradesh, India. Mongolians identify Shambhala with certain valleys of southern Siberia. In Altai folklore, Mount Belukha is believed to be the gateway to Shambhala. 

Modern Buddhist scholars seem to conclude that Shambhala is located in the higher reaches of the Himalayas in what is now called the Dhauladhar Mountains around Mcleodganj. 

Some legends say that the entrance to Shambhala is hidden inside a remote, abandoned monastery in Tibet, and guarded by beings known as the Shambhala Guardians.

 According to Buddhist traditions, 
Shambhala is located in the Himalayan Mountains. 
Photo: Wikipedia.

For some, the fact that Shambhala has never been found has a very simple explanation – many believe that Shambhala lies on the very edge of physical reality, as a bridge connecting this world to one beyond it.

While many disregard Shambhala as the fanciful subject of myth and legend, for others, a belief in Shambhala stirs an inner yearning to one day find this utopian kingdom.

 

 

 

Sources: By April Holloway, Ancient Origins; | Mystery of Shambhala – by James Jeffrey; Shambhala – New World Encyclopaedia; Shambhala - The Magic Kingdom – International Kalachakra Movement; The Prophecies of Shambhala – Stranger Dimensions; | Cover image: Artistic depiction of Shambhala. Photo credit: Naughty Dog-Uncharted;

Alien Satellite Orbiting Earth: The 'Black Knight' [Complete]

What is the "Black Knight" satellite? It is a mysterious satellite, of unknown origin, discovered in 1960 which shadowed Sputnik. 

It is believed to have been of extraterrestrial origin, and signaled back old radio waves from the 1920s and 1930s before it disappeared. 

In short wave patterns analyzed by astronomer Duncan Lunan, it revealed its origin as Epsilon Boötes (or the star system as it was 13,000 years ago).

In "Disneyland of the Gods", by John Keel, he reports in depth on this satellite:

"In February 1960 the US detected an unknown object in polar orbit, a feat that neither they or the USSR had been able to accomplish. As if that wasn't enough, it apparently was several sizes larger than anything either country would have been able to get off the ground.

And then, the oddness began. HAM operators began to receive strange coded messages. One person in particular said he managed to decode one of the transmissions, and it corresponded to a star chart. A star chart which would have been plotted from earth 13,000 years ago, and focused on the Epsilon Bostes star system.

On September 3, 1960, seven months after the satellite was first detected by radar, a tracking camera at Grumman Aircraft Corporation's Long Island factory took a photograph of it. People on the ground had been occasionally seeing it for about two weeks at that point. 

Viewers would make it out as a red glowing object moving in an east-to-west orbit. Most satellites of the time, according to what little material I've been able to find on the black knight satellite, moved from west-to-east. It's speed was also about three times normal. A committee was formed to examine it, but nothing more was ever made public.

Three years later, Gordon Cooper was launched into space for a 22 orbit mission. On his final orbit, he reported seeing a glowing green shape ahead of his capsule, and heading in his direction. It's said that the Muchea tracking station, in Australia, which Cooper reported this too was also able to pick it up on radar traveling in an east-to-west orbit. 

This event was reported by NBC, but reporters were forbidden to ask Cooper about the event on his landing. The official explanation is that an electrical malfunction in the capsule had caused high levels of carbon dioxide, which induced hallucinations."

"Three weeks ago, headlines announced that the U.S. had detected a mysterious "dark" satellite wheeling overhead on a regular orbit. There was nervous speculation that it might be a surveillance satellite launched by the Russians, and it brought the uneasy sensation that the U.S. did not know what was going on over its own head. But last week the Department of Defense proudly announced that the satellite had been identified. 

It was a space derelict, the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray. The dark satellite was the first object to demonstrate the effectiveness of the U.S.'s new watch on space. And the three-week time lag in identification was proof that the system still lacks full coordination and that some bugs still have to be ironed out.

First Sighting. The most important component of the space watch went into operation about six months ago with the construction of "Dark Fence," a kind of radar trip wire stretching across the width of the U.S. 

Designed by the Naval Research Laboratory to keep track of satellites whose radios are silent, it is a notable improvement on other radars, which have difficulty finding a small satellite unless they know where to look. Big, 50-kw transmitters were established at Gila River, near Phoenix, Ariz, and Jordan Lake, Ala., spraying radio waves upward in the shape of open fans. 

Some 250 miles on either side, receiving stations pick up signals that bounce off any object passing through the fans. By a kind of triangulation, the operators can make rough estimates of the object's speed, distance and course.

On Jan. 31 Dark Fence detected two passes of what seemed to be an unknown space object. After detecting several passes during the following days, Captain W. E. Berg, commanding officer of Dark Fence, decided that something was circling overhead on a roughly polar orbit. 

He raced to the Pentagon and in person reported the menacing stranger to Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke. Within minutes the news was communicated to President Eisenhower and marked top secret.

In the confusion, there was a delay before anyone took the step necessary to positively identify the strange satellite: informing the Air Force's newly established surveillance center in Bedford, Mass. 

It is the surveillance center's job to take all observations on satellites from all friendly observing centers, both optical and electronic, feed them into computers to produce figures that will identify each satellite, describe its orbit and predict its behavior. Says one top official, explaining the cold facts of the space age: 

"The only way of knowing that a new satellite has appeared is by keeping track of the old ones."

It took two weeks for Dark Fence's scientists to check back through their taped observations, and to discover that the mysterious satellite had first showed up on Aug. 15. 

The Air Force surveillance center also checked its records to provide a list of everything else that was circling in the sky, and its computers worked out a detailed description of the new object's behavior. The evidence from both Air Force and Navy pointed to Discoverer V, fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif, on Aug. 13."

The black knight satellite. I'm not really sure what to make of this story. I've only seen the most sporadic mention of this thing on the occasional website. But man, as a long time fan of Philip K. Dick, the first time I heard about it my eyes sure went wide. Regardless of the truth of the situation, it's one hell of a tale.

The most cited report of the satellite comes from Disneyland of the Gods, by John Keel.

He reports that in February 1960 the US detected an unknown object in polar orbit, a feat that neither they or the USSR had been able to accomplish. As if that wasn't enough, it apparently was several sizes larger than anything either country would have been able to get off the ground.

And then, the oddness began. HAM operators began to receive strange coded messages. One person in particular said he managed to decode one of the transmissions, and it corresponded to a star chart. A star chart which would have been plotted from earth 13,000 years ago, and focused on the Epsilon Boötis star system.

Epsilon Boötis Star System, inside Bootes Constellation - Google Sky

On September 3, 1960, seven months after the satellite was first detected by radar, a tracking camera at Grumman Aircraft Corporation's Long Island factory took a photograph of it. People on the ground had been occasionally seeing it for about two weeks at that point. 

Viewers would make it out as a red glowing object moving in an east-to-west orbit. Most satellites of the time, according to what little material I've been able to find on the black knight satellite, moved from west-to-east. It's speed was also about three times normal. A committee was formed to examine it, but nothing more was ever made public.

Three years later, Gordon Cooper was launched into space for a 22 orbit mission. On his final orbit, he reported seeing a glowing green shape ahead of his capsule, and heading in his direction. It's said that the Muchea tracking station, in Australia, which Cooper reported this too was also able to pick it up on radar traveling in an east-to-west orbit. 

This event was reported by NBC, but reporters were forbidden to ask Cooper about the event on his landing. The official explanation is that an electrical malfunction in the capsule had caused high levels of carbon dioxide, which induced hallucinations. 

Creepy, cool, story to be sure. There's two things in particular which are of particular note to Philip K. Dick. The most obvious is the idea of a satellite orbiting the earth and sending coded communications to it. 

One of the theories Dick had for his experiences was that they had been triggered, or enhanced, by an extremely ancient and alien satellite. The initial 2-3-74 experience also began with a very similar color to the first sighting of the black knight, a reddish pinkish light beamed directly at him.

Phil also mentioned in his exegesis that he considered ten of his novels to be of particular importance, with the novel valis as the cipher to unlock their meaning. These ten books, the "meta novel", are Eye in the Sky, Time Out of Joint, The Man in the High Castle, The Game Players of Titan, Martian Time Slip, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, UBIK, A Maze of Death and of course VALIS. 

I think it's fair to include Radio Free Albemuth in there as well, which was written after his meta novel statement, and which is in many ways a retelling of VALIS. What's interesting here is that he wrote the first, Eye in the Sky, so soon before the black knight sighting. About three or four years before it was detected by radar. Well, if in fact it was ever there to be detected.

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"The satellite," Fat said. "VALIS. Vast Active Living Intel-ligence System. It fires information down to them?" 

"It does more than that," Kevin said. "Under certain circumstances it controls them. It can override them when it wants to." 

"And they're trying to shoot it down?" I said. "With that missile?"

Kevin said, "The early Christians-the real ones-can make you do anything they want you to do. And see-or not see -anything. That's what I get out of the picture." 

"But they're dead," I said. "The picture was set in the present." 

"They're dead," Kevin said, "if you believe time is real. Didn't you see the time dysfunctions?"

Since my contact came in most strangely between 3:00 and 4:00 A.M., I realized that probably a booster satellite, of alien origin, orbited Earth, a slave communications satellite that had been sent here thousands of years ago. 

'What are you doing sitting out on the patio?' Rachel asked me. 

'Listening,' I said. 

'To what?' 

To the voices of the stars,' I said, although more accurately I meant the voices from the stars. But it was as if the stars themselves spoke, as I sat there in the chilly dark, alone except for my cat, who was out there out of custom anyhow; each night Pinky sat on the railing of the patio, communing as I was but over a longer period of time, over his entire adult life. 

Seeing him now I understood that he was picking up information in the night, from the night, from the pattern of blinks that came by starlight. He was hooked up with the universe as he sat here now, like myself, gazing upward silently.

Bootes Constellation - Google Sky

The new personality in me had not awakened from a sleep of two millennia; it had, more accurately speaking, been printed out by the alien satellite, impressed on me afresh from outside. It was an addition, not a substitution in place of me but a kind of package identity based on the total knowledge of the satellite. 

It was to raise me to the highest level possible in my ability to cope. The satellite, itself linked to higher life forms, was concerned with my capacity to live; it or they, the totality of them, had seen me faltering under the oppression, and their response was reflexive. 

It amounted to a rational attempt to give aid to whoever was in touch with them, who was capable of assimilating their printout. I had been selected for that reason alone. Their concern was universal. They would have assisted anyone they could reach. 

The tragedy lay in their inability to reach the people of our planet.

One odd point that Moyashka had noted which he could not account for was the fact that the radio signals came only when the source was above Earth's dark or night side; during the day the signals ceased. Moyashka conjectured that the so-called Heaviside layer might be involved. 

The signals, although short in duration, seemed 'highly information rich' because of their sophistication and complexity. Curiously, the frequency changed periodically, a phenomenon found in transmissions seeking to avoid jamming, Moyashka stated. 

Further, his team had discovered, entirely by accident, that animals in their Pul-kovo laboratory underwent slight but regular physical changes during the time of signal transmission. Their blood volume altered and their blood pressure readings increased. Provisionally, Moyashka conjectured that radiation accompanying the radio signals might account for it.  

[Ed. Note here the, perhaps slight, similarity in the name of the fictional scientist who discovered the satellite, Moyashka, and the Australian Muchea tracking station which picked up Cooper's sighting.]

If the Russians did photograph the ETI satellite, the invader, they would find it old and pitted. I had been there thousands of years. 

The satellite had passed from our world and, with it, the healing rays, like those of an invisible sun, felt by creatures but unseen and unacknowledged. The sun with healing in its wings.

Even if the stations in this local region or sector are all overshadowed and don't light up any longer, it is a sight to remember. With this the satellite presented us with its final insight into the nature of things: synapses in a living brain. 

And the name we give to its functioning, its awareness of itself and its many parts - ' She smiled at me. 'It's why you saw the figure of Aphrodite. That's what holds all the trillions of stations into harmony.' 

'Yes,' I said, 'it was harmonized, and over such distances. There was no coercion, only agreement.' 

And the coordination of all the transmitting and receiving stations, I thought, we call Valis: Vast Active Living Intelligence System. Our friend who cannot die, who lies on this side of the grave and on the other. His love, I thought, is greater than empires. And unending.

Cloud Like UFO Travels In Space To Investigate Apollo 7 Module, NASA Photos

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Date of discovery: June 2, 2015
Location of discovery: Earths Orbit
Photo 1: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS07-07-1832
Photo 2: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS07-07-1833

I was looking through the NASA Apollo Image Atlas and found this cool looking UFO in two of the photos. The one far away is one frame away from the one close up. This was during the Apollo 7 mission and was in Earths orbit. We can see the Earth in the background of both photos. I can see the shape of the object changes. Far away we see its looks like a curled snake, but close up it looks like an full circle. Also from the photo order, I see the white UFO was disguised as a cloud and decided to take a look at the Apollo 7 module, moving up to investigate. I wonder what the astronauts were thinking when they saw this. SCW

 

 

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Is The Vatican Preparing Disclosure Of Extraterrestrial Life In June?

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MessageToEagle.com – A strange rumor is circulating around the internet right now.

According to this new and unconfirmed information, Pope Francis is about to disclose information that the Vatican is preparing for extraterrestrial contact on the 15 June 2015.

Now, that really does sound exciting, but how true is it?

According to Daniel P. Sheehan, a Harvard College trained American Government & Foreign Policy Scholar, we are about to receive announcement about the ET presence very soon.

The Pope declared last year tha he will baptize aliens.

Sheehan, who was one of the main speakers at this weekend Ufology conference ‘Contact In The Desert’ held last weekend at Joshua Tree, California US, has made some intriguing statements.

See also:

God’s Personal Flying Vehicle Described In The Book of Ezekiel

Flying Objects Were Present In The Ancient Skies

Codex Gigas – The Devil’s Bible – Ancient Secrets Of The World’s Largest Book

Last year, Pope Francis announced that would be willing to baptize aliens if they came to the Vatican, asking “who are we to close doors” to anyone – even Martians.

Daily UFO Headlines 6/2/2015

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• ‘Warminster Thing’ marked in 50th anniversary UFO mural – BBC News
• UFO sightings in Australia: expert to shed light on the mystery – Herald Sun
• ‘Saucer-shaped’ UFO captured hovering above a temple in China – Daily Mail Online
• Weather Balloon Mistaken for UFO – CIProud
• 10 Outrageous Claims By UFO Whistleblowers – What Culture

Source: http://www.openminds.tv/daily-ufo-headlines-622015/33793

Most remarkable UFO sightings in May 2015

early May 2015; bright objects in the sky – Cordoba and Bahia Bianca, Argentina

9th May 2015; 2 UFOs – Melbourne, Australia

15th May 2015; orbs – Florida

22nd May 2015; triangle-shaped craft – Ituzaingó, Argentina

29th May 2015; UFO over volcano – Kuchinoerabu-jima, Japan

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Unidentified flying object over Hanover, Germany 31-May-2015

Here’s a new footage of an orb flying at high speed over Hanover in Germany. This was recorded on Sunday, 31st May 2015.

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Giant Black Holes May Be on a Collision Course

• Simulation of two black holes spiraling in toward one another. They are surrounded by a disk of infalling gas (in orange) and their magnetic field lines (while) become increasingly tangled.

Most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking at their centers, but a galaxy 10.5 billion light-years away looks like it might have two—and the pair may be set to crash together in just 21 years. If the observations are confirmed, the duo would be the closest known set of binary black holes, and their imminent collision would offer scientists an unprecedented chance to watch extreme physics in action. [Video: When Black Holes Collide]

The potential black holes are impossible to glimpse directly. Besides being black—which is to say, invisible—they are far too distant from Earth and too close to one another to make out with telescopes. But scientists found what they think is the telltale signature of a pair of these behemoths circling together. The apparent black holes reside in what’s known as a quasar—a galaxy that is unleashing a torrent of light as mass gets gobbled by the gigantic black hole at its center. The light from most quasars flickers randomly as slightly more or less mass falls in. But if two black holes are at the core, rather than one, their orbital motions will perturb the gas around them in an orderly way, causing the light to rise and fall periodically.

Tingting Liu, a graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park, analyzed the light pouring from 316 quasars as seen by the Pan-STARRS 1 (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) Medium-Deep Survey, a scan of the sky undertaken by the Pan-STARRS1 telescope on Mount Haleakala in Hawaii. She looked for periodic patterns in the light and a quasar with the unwieldy name PSO J334.2028+01.4075 turned out to have the best evidence for a recurring signal. The black hole or holesthere have an estimated combined mass between three billion and 30 billion times the mass of the sun. “This candidate that we present is at such a compact separation that they are actually in the process of merging,” says Suvi Gezari, leader of Liu’s research group and a co-author on a paper announcing their find that has been accepted for publication in the The Astrophysical Journal Letters. In fact, the impending impact will seem to happen even sooner for the black holes themselves. In their reference frame, they are due to converge in just seven years. Because of a phenomenon called cosmological time dilation, due to the expansion of the universe, the crash will seem to take place in 21 years from our point of view on Earth. “This was a fortuitous catch,” says Stuart Shapiro, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign who was not involved in the research. “We don’t know of another candidate that’s anywhere near that close [to merging].” But, he adds, “I take it with a grain of salt, and even if it doesn’t pan out there are probably many more on the horizon.”

Astronomers expect to find more binary black holes with the rise of Pan-STARRS1 and other surveys like it that can monitor such systems over time and look for periodic light variations. Shapiro uses computer simulations to predict what happens when giant black holes fuse. To be able to observe one in space would offer him and other theorists a precious reality check of their calculations. “When two black holes get sufficiently close, we think they plunge together suddenly and they merge,” Shapiro says. “That plunge and merger will give rise to a burst of gravitational waves, and that burst will then diminish for awhile as the merged remnant rings down, like a bell.” The bell-like vibrations should send out spirals of gravitational waves, which are ripples that stretch and shrink the fabric of spacetime.

Such ripples could be detectable to so-called pulsar timing arrays, which use spinning stars called pulsars as natural clocks to look for disturbances from gravitational waves. Pulsars spin very regularly and sweep jets of light out like lighthouse beams. If a gravitational wave passed through space, their light might come off schedule. By comparing the timing of many pulsars across the cosmos, astronomers could identify when and where a gravitational wave came from. “Right now we don’t actually have the sensitivity to detect this system [PSO J334.2028+01.4075] but we’re finding more and more of these through various surveys so this is potentially the tip of the iceberg,” says Xavier Siemens of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, who leads the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) pulsar timing array project. “This system is potentially something we could detect with next-generation radio telescopes,” he adds, “with things like the Square Kilometer Array” due to start up around 2025 in South Africa and Australia.

Whether or not PSO J334.2028+01.4075 is truly a binary black hole is still an open question. George Djorgovski, an astronomer at Caltech who recently found another candidate double–back hole quasar, is not convinced. “I am skeptical about their analysis and claims,” he says. The Pan-STARRS1 survey only observed the system in question on a handful of occasions, so the apparent variation in light could turn out to be chance, he cautions. Furthermore, the likelihood of finding such a rare event in such a relatively small initial sample size (316 quasars) is low. “The chances of catching one pair at such a close separation as they claim—that would merge within several years—is probably well less than one in a million,” he adds. “Liu et al would have to be very, very lucky.”

Astronomers should not have to wait too long to find out. Liu and her collaborators calculated that the quasar’s light fluctuates over a regular period of about 542 days, meaning that forthcoming data should soon either confirm or reject the pattern. “It’s a really easy thing to test the persistence of this periodic fluctuation in the future,” Gezari says. “And if there are two black holes that are starting to in-spiral toward one another, then their period should be getting smaller and smaller. We can actually look for that change as a function of time.” If the pattern holds up, astronomers just may get a front-row seat to one of nature’s most extreme events.

{ http://www.scientificamerican.com/}

Strange lights sparks UFO mystery in Shropshire

It was a straight line of bright lights – and it has become the latest UFO mystery to strike over the skies of Shropshire.

The strange lights in the sky captured by the Edwards’ CCTV

NASA Confirms Blue Aurora in Mars Skies

Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for May 2015:

CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In May 2015 there were 900 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;

Within the United States the distribution by State was as follows;

If you are getting more sighting reports than listed here, please be sure to enter them manually into CMS. To make this happen automatically, make sure your local MUFON Website is pointing to the CMS Reporting form on www.mufon.com and direct all calls you get to the MUFON website so that witnesses can enter their own report directly into CMS.

ALL sighting reports received by CMS are already filled in by the witness, saving you and your investigators time. Each report is automatically sent to YOU, the State Director and Assistant State Director, for you to assign someone to follow-up and complete the report.

If a UFO sighting comes in over the phone, or by e-mail, and you want to enter it yourself, simply go to CMS at http://mufoncms.com (once logged in) and click on "ADD CASE" in the upper right hand corner of the screen. This gives you a blank sighting reporting form that you can fill out while the witness is on the phone. Once the report is filled out be sure to click "SAVE" and you will have easily added your NEW report to CMS.

Other interesting data points in CMS during May 2015 are the shape of the UFOs reported which were as follows;

as well as the distance from the observer;

Most impressively there were 33 Landings, Hovering, or Takeoffs reported and 2 Entities observed.

To review the CMS data yourself go to www.mufon.com and click on "UFO Case Files" to 1.) Easily look at the Last 20 Sightings, or 2.) Do a customized search of the CMS database by date and/or location, or 3.) Logon to CMS for even more detailed UFO sighting information about your State and the World.

I hope you are enjoying our new internet based Sighting and Reporting System.
For questions regarding its use please refer to the User Guide available on your CMS main menu screen. Please send your questions and/or suggestions to Jan Harzan at janharzan@hotmail.com.

Thank you!

Photographer captures strange ‘jellyfish UFO’ on stormy night

Does it really look like a jellyfish? (Picture: Mercury Press/ Harry Perton)

A photographer has taken a photo of a ‘jellyfish UFO’.

If you hadn’t heard of that type of flying saucer before you’re not alone because we had no idea it ‘existed’ either.

But it’s apparently a thing and Harry Perton has taken a photo of the unusual object in Groningen, in the Netherlands.

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The photographer only noticed the UFO, which is named after a jellyfish because of its appearance, when he got home after taking pictures in the storm.

‘I was taking photos and suddenly something flashed,’ he said.

‘I decided it must have been a strike of lightning – but back at home I saw something strange in one of the photos that I took – what looked like a UFO.’

The image, which shows an object floating in the night sky and emitting an eerie flash of green light, sparked a flurry of online debate about what it could be.

But the photographer, who posts images on his blog, admitted he thought it was probably something meteorological and not aliens.

{ http://metro.co.uk/ }

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Crop Circles and Alien Contact in the Netherlands? Firsthand accounts say Yes! (Video)

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Dutch medium and alien contactee Robbert van den Broeke rose to fame in the Netherlands in the early 2000’s with his discovery of crop circles.

The amazing paranormal events experienced by Robert have continued now for over 25 years and over the years many people have tried to debunk his abilities, especially if we talking about the amazing images of spirits, aliens and UFOs he projects onto the camera.

Rob Nanninga, board member of the Dutch Skeptical foundation Skepsis think that there is some trickery involved. So Rob Nanninga decided to perform some tests and based on the results he gave a plausible explanation (You can read Rob Nanninga’s explanation Here) that Robbert van den Broeke’s photos are just photography tricks.

But not everybody is convinced that Robbert van den Broeke is just a hoaxer.

In the next video, Nancy Talbott, a staunch believer in Van den Broeke’s capabilities gives her testimony as well as other firsthand accounts who witnessed the paranormal events that took place while visiting Robert in at his home in Holland.

Note: After watching the video, I personally have my doubts about the photos, if they are real or just trickery. His experiences are almost similar to that from alien contactee Billy Meier, thought it has been proven that the Billy Meier photos are real, so it is quite possible that van den Broeke has the same paranormal capacities as Billy Meyer and thus it is quite possible that his photos are real, but then again…

  

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Mysterious Sinkholes spreading across Russia’s Urals (Video)

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A whole host of theories from subterranean Soviet missile stations to tunnels to the center of the earth have emerged after large mysterious sinkholes appeared near Russia’s Urals Mountains.

But at first the disturbing news which confirms the CIA has ended their information sharing with scientists on climate and earth changes.

Shutting down a program that began nearly a quarter-century ago, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has decided to stop sharing classified information it collects on the ocean and atmosphere with scientists studying climate change. The CIA has ended its Measurements of Earth Data for Environmental Analysis (MEDEA) program, according to news reported by Mother Jones. Under MEDEA, about 60 civilian scientists had security clearances that allowed them to receive classified data, “such as ocean temperature and tidal readings gathered by Navy submarines and topography data collected by spy satellites,” said journalist Tim McDonnell to allgov.com.

The program provided climate experts with information about global warming and other climate-related threats that they couldn’t access from other sources. The CIA uses that data in its analyses on how weather changes will impact global conflicts.

It’s believed that the spy agency had heretofore partnered with the MEDEA scientists to perform their analyses, which then made its way into the agency’s annual Worldwide Threat Assessment report, according to McDonnell

President Obama has called climate change “an immediate risk to our national security” and urged U.S national security agencies to give the matter high priority. He also signed an executive order requiring that climate change data be developed and shared among federal agencies, and made available to the public.

The CIA didn’t state why it shuttered MEDEA, saying in a statement: “Under the Medea program to examine the implications of climate change, CIA participated in various projects. These projects have been completed and CIA will employ these research results and engage external experts as it continues to evaluate the national security implications of climate change.”

What would be the reason to end the program abruptly and stop sharing classified information with civilian scientists, just because they have completed the project or did they discover something what they want to keep hidden for the public.

It seems unlikely that only weather changes will impact global conflicts. Maybe there is a threat from outer space that will lead to an enormous impact on Earth’s climate with all its consequences for humankind, but that’s just a rough guess.

Columbia University political scientist Marc Levy, who has worked with U.S. intelligence agencies on climate change issues since the 1990s, says: “The climate problems are getting worse in a way that our data systems are not equipped to handle and closing of MEDEA is a step in the wrong direction.”

As already mentioned above, the latest strange news on weather- and climate change comes from Russia after a large mysterious sinkhole appeared near Russia’s Ural’s mountains.

An emergency situation committee has yet to say what caused it, or how they’re responding, but meanwhile mysterious sinkholes have also appeared elsewhere in the region.

It may be clear that something is going on with our planet and the CIA not wants you to know.

  

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Elongated Object flies into UFO-Shaped Cloud over Texas (Video)

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An amazing lenticular cloud appeared over Texas on May 26, 2015. Because of their unusual shape, they have been offered as an explanation for some unidentified flying objects.

While most ordinary lenticular clouds are just clouds, there are recordings which show UFOs hidden ‘cloaked’ in clouds as well as recordings of unidentified objects flying in and out of these specific clouds.

In case of the cloud over Texas, we see an unidentified elongated object, similar to a so-called Rod, apparently flying into the lenticular cloud. (0.47 mark video).

It is believed that these Rods (also called ‘Skyfish’) are organic life forms, mostly cylinder-shaped and often related to the UFO phenomenon. Skeptics say that Rods are nothing more than optical illusions, insects or birds.

  

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Strange Unknown Square Object Shoots Out Of A Cloud Over Missouri (Photographs)

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On May 26, 2015 a strange event happened in the sky over Missouri.

While driving on the interstate highway I-72 the witness noticed some strange clouds and decided to stop and to take some pictures of the unusual clouds.

Afterwards he noticed a square object ejecting out of the clouds and what he refers to as a giant transparent eyeball, in the shape of a doughnut, behind the object and clouds.

Below the original image and the image colored in blue in order to show more details on both objects.

Maybe the ‘eyeball’ is just lens flare, but what do you think the square object could be? Mufon case 65968. 
 

 

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Wordt India de nieuwe zuidpool na na passage NIBURI?

Zaterdag werd de wereld weer opgeschrikt door een zware aardbeving voor de kust van Japan.

De vele (zware) aardbevingen en ontelbare vulkaanuitbarstingen zijn voor veel mensen tekenen van de nadering van de planeet Nibiru ook wel Planet X genoemd.


Ook in Japan werd in eerste instantie overal melding gemaakt van een 8.5 aardbeving die al weldra, zoals te doen gebruikelijk, naar beneden toe werd bijgesteld tot een met een kracht van 7.8 op de schaal van Richter.

Nog steeds fors en de reden dat er zich geen verdere schade en/of een tsunami heeft voorgedaan is omdat de beving op zeer grote diepte plaatsvond.

Zoals we schreven in een eerdere artikelen zijn volgens Nancy Lieder en de Zeta’s de aardbevingen in Nepal en ook Engeland niet normaal en hebben die alles te maken met de verschuivende en brekende tektonische platen.

Het zal allemaal nog veel heftiger worden wanneer de planeet ons daadwerkelijk gaat passeren en de Zeta’s zijn ervan overtuigd dat er dan een zogenaamde pole shift zal volgen. Een verschuiving van de aardkorst waardoor, als het ware, kenmerken zoals die van de evenaar en de polen op hele andere plekken terecht zullen komen.

Zo hebben we dan na de pole shift een andere geografische indeling van de aarde, waarbij sommige landen volkomen onder water verdwenen zullen zijn zoals bijvoorbeeld India. Dat niet alleen, maar ook de nieuwe zuidpool zal zich dan bevinden op de plek wat nu India is.

In haar laatste nieuwsbrief zegt Nancy Lieder het volgende over India en de omringende landen:

“India en de hun omringende landen zal het niet zo goed vergaan. Van de totale wereldbevolking woont 17,5 procent oftewel 1,3 miljard mensen in India en dit land zal onder de golven worden gedreven en wordt de nieuwe Zuidpool. De omringende landen zoals Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand, Birma, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cambodja, Pakistan en Afghanistan zullen eindigen met temperaturen zoals wij die nu op de polen tegenkomen of eveneens onder water verdwijnen en de verwachting is dan ook dat de bevolking in die landen dat niet zal overleven.

Dus, India en omringende landen, met in totaal ongeveer 26,5 procent van de wereldbevolking, zullen bezwijken en daarmee ook de bevolking, behalve wanneer deze net voor of net na de pole shift zullen verhuizen”.

Daar is voor dat deel van de bevolking weinig kans op, behalve de superrijken die ongetwijfeld hun ontsnappingsplannen gemaakt zullen hebben.

Een land wat wat dat betreft hun zaakjes wel heel goed op orde heeft, is China. 

Al jarenlang vraagt men zich waarom China in 's hemelsnaam die gigantisch grote spooksteden heeft gebouwd. De reden is volgens Nancy eenvoudig, omdat ook tijdens en na de pole shift de plekken waar die spooksteden zijn gebouwd veilig zullen zijn.

De spooksteden zijn ver genoeg landinwaarts en naar het noorden gebouwd. De zuidelijke provincies in China zullen na de poleshift een behoorlijk koud klimaat hebben, maar de meer noordelijk gelegen gebieden, waar de spooksteden zich bevinden, zullen een heel aangenaam klimaat kennen.

We komen nu langzamerhand in een situatie waarbij zelfs de meest onwetende mensen argwaan beginnen te krijgen over de steeds slechter wordende klimaattoestanden op aarde. 

De vraag is dan ook hoelang overheden er nog in zullen slagen om de nadering van Nibiru verborgen te houden.

Bron:

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Exclusief: Nieuwe ondergrondse tunnels ontdekt bij Bosnische piramides

Archeologen voeren al 10 jaar opgravingen uit rond de Bosnische piramides. Onder de piramides hebben ze nu nieuwe ondergrondse tunnels aangetroffen. In eerder ontdekte tunnels stuitten ze op een bepaald moment op een groot rotsblok. Ze besloten een tunnel om de rots heen te graven.

De nieuwe tunnel werd verkend door een team bestaande uit zes mensen. Onderzoeksleider dr. Sam Osmanagich merkt op dat ondergrondse tunnels in Egypte, Mexico, China of Peru vaak trekpleisters worden en overal in het nieuws verschijnen. Hij zegt inmiddels 1550 meter tunnel te hebben blootgelegd. Het gaat volgens hem om tunnels die in een ver verleden door mensen zijn gemaakt.

Het eerste deel van de tunnels is ongeveer 1,20 meter hoog en op sommige plaatsen bereikt het water een hoogte van 30 centimeter. Er waren geen vertakkingen te vinden. Op de grond werden geen gereedschappen of artefacten gevonden. Er werden ook geen brandplekken gevonden. Wel werden er langwerpige stukken steen aangetroffen die door een archeoloog worden onderzocht. De tunnel eindigde na 41 meter in een waterpoel.

Labyrint

Eenmaal teruggekomen bij de ingang besloot het team ook de tegenovergestelde richting te verkennen. In dit deel van de tunnels stond het water een stuk hoger, tot ongeveer een meter. Na 17 meter kwam het team uit bij een splitsing. Het ene gedeelte werd geblokkeerd door een muur van gesteente, het andere leidde richting het oosten. Het water was ijskoud.

Osmanagich werd er eerder van beschuldigd dat hij de tunnels zelf zou hebben gegraven. In de video zegt hij dat het prehistorische tunnels zijn. Aan het einde van de tunnels werd een stuk hout gevonden. Een archeoloog nam enkele monsters voor analyse. Het stuk tunnel dat richting het oosten liep was in totaal 60 meter lang.

Het team wil nu de tunnel die richting het zuiden loopt, in de richting van de Zonnepiramide, beter begaanbaar maken. De onderzoekers vermoeden dat de tunnel deel uitmaakt van een labyrint, bestaande uit talloze tunnels.

[Ancient Origins]

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VIDEO: Eerste graancirkel van het jaar in Dorset

In Dorset in het zuidwesten van Engeland is de eerste graancirkel van het jaar verschenen. De formatie, die een Keltisch ontwerp heeft, is ontdekt in een weiland in de buurt van Blandford.

Graancirkels zijn geometrische vormen in platgelegd graan of andere gewassen. Experts zijn van mening dat ze door mensen worden gemaakt, hoewel velen claimen dat er mysterieuze krachten achter de patronen schuilen.

Het aantal graancirkels in Groot-Brittannië is de laatste jaren afgenomen. Vorig jaar verscheen er een indrukwekkende graancirkel in een weiland in Dorset die het landelijke nieuws haalde.

De beelden zijn gemaakt door het team van MrGyro.co.uk. Het team gebruikt een quadcopter om luchtfoto’s te maken. Een woordvoerder van MrGyro zei dat veel formaties die ze fotograferen in Wiltshire verschijnen, maar dat graancirkels steeds vaker in Dorset ontstaan.

“Mensen zijn erg geïnteresseerd in graancirkels, daarom proberen we ze zo snel mogelijk te fotograferen,” aldus de zegsman. “Het is prachtig om al die verschillende ontwerpen te zien. Er verschijnen tussen de 50 en 60 graancirkels per jaar in Groot-Brittannië. Sommige zijn klein en eenvoudig, maar andere zijn enorm en hebben een zeer ingewikkeld ontwerp. Afgelopen jaar waren er twee of drie in Dorset en die hadden een buitengewoon interessant ontwerp.”

[Bournemouth Daily Echo]

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Boorkop aangetroffen in miljoenen jaren oude laag steenkool

Algemeen wordt aangenomen dat de moderne mens ongeveer 200.000 jaar geleden is ontstaan. Onze voorouders begonnen zo’n zes miljoen jaar geleden over de aarde te zwerven. De steenkoollagen vormden zich naar verluidt vele honderden miljoenen jaren geleden. Vandaar dat een door mensen gemaakt voorwerp in de vorm van een boorkop in een laag steenkool de historici die het in de 19e eeuw hebben gevonden, voor een raadsel stelde.

Het leek erop dat een stuk gereedschap, dat veel gelijkenissen vertoonde met de gereedschappen die in de 19e eeuw werden gebruikt, in de buurt van organisch materiaal was achtergelaten dat later een steenkoollaag vormde. Was er honderden miljoenen jaren geleden al een beschaving op aarde die beschikte over boorkoppen?

John Buchanan presenteerde het mysterieuze object op 13 december 1852 tijdens een bijeenkomst van de Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Buchanan zei dat de laag steenkool waarin het ijzeren instrument was aangetroffen, onder een metersdikke laag klei met stenen lag.

“Ik ben het eens met de algemeen geaccepteerde opvatting dat steenkool zich lang voor het verschijnen van de mensheid heeft gevormd, maar het is een raadsel hoe dit voorwerp in de laag steenkool en zware stenen is beland,” zei hij.

De Society of Antiquaries of Scotland oordeelde dat het ijzeren voorwerp mogelijk onderdeel was geweest van een modern stuk gereedschap dat werd gebruikt om naar steenkool te zoeken. In het gedetailleerde rapport van Buchanan zijn echter geen aanwijzingen te vinden dat de steenkool rond het instrument was aangetast door een boor. Hij schreef dat een ijzeren instrument geheel was ingekapseld door steenkool.

[Epoch Times]

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Duizenden toehoorders bij conferentie over Anunnaki, graancirkels en NASA-geheimen

Duizenden mensen zijn dit weekend neergestreken in het zuiden van Californië voor Contact in the Desert, een jaarlijkse UFO-conferentie. Het gaat om één van de grootste samenkomsten in de Verenigde Staten. Tijdens de vierdaagse conventie zullen bijna 50 sprekers hun verhaal doen.

“Dit is het Woodstock van UFO’s,” zei Marshall Klarfeld, een onderzoeker uit Californië die voor het derde jaar op rij een lezing geeft. “Mensen komen hier omdat ze met vragen zitten. Wie zijn we? En waar komen we vandaan?”

Klarfeld is gespecialiseerd in de Anunnaki, bijna drie meter lange aliens die de primitieve mens zouden hebben geholpen een beschaving op te zetten. De conferentie wordt gedomineerd door lezingen over de geheime geschiedenis van buitenaardse inmenging op aarde.

Paul Andrews, mede-oprichter van de conferentie, zei dat hij een ‘veilige omgeving’ wil creëren waarin onderzoekers elkaar niet onderbreken en complottheoretici naar elkaar kunnen luisteren. Hij heeft het Joshua Tree Retreat Center uitgekozen als locatie omdat daar al veel UFO’s zijn gesignaleerd.

UFO-experts spraken over het bewijs voor buitenaards bezoek in de geschiedenis van de aarde, graancirkels, enorme geheime piramides en een cover-up op staatsniveau. “Ze houden dit voor je verborgen,” zei auteur Jim Marrs.

Aan het woord kwamen onder meer Giorgio Tsoukalos, bekend van het programma Ancient Aliens; Laura Eisenhower, de achterkleindochter van president Dwight Eisenhower; en Story Musgrave, een NASA-astronaut.

[USA Today]

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UFO recorded over volcano eruption In Japan

Here’s one interesting video of an unidentified flying object flying through the volcano eruption on Kuchinoerabu-jima island in Japan. On 29th May, 2015 an eruption sent an ash cloud to an estimated 30,000 feet (9,100 meters) into the sky.

What do you think about this footage? Note that there are many UFO sightings around volcanoes.

{ http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

Dead Alien Found by Former UN Worker

Do UFOs or aliens actually exist? No one knows because these aliens are from the outer space, and humans cannot go further in their exploration of the outer space. Although, some countries like the United States have already experienced success in some of their outer space explorations, they cannot manage to go further in other planets. While there are hundreds of non-believers, there are also thousands of UFO enthusiasts who believe in their existence.

In a statement released by Andre Gignac, a 58-year-old Canadian, who claimed to have found such extra-terrestrial civilisation evidence through NASA. He claimed to have identified a bare-breasted female alien, with a corpse, a four-legged robot and Mount Rushmore-style carvings of chronological Martian leaders. Since leaving in the UN, Mr Gignac has become an established alien researcher. He also claimed to have found 4 ‘sightings’ of alien civilization in Aeolis Mons, who is a central peak in the Gale Crater on Mars, unofficially identified as Mount Sharp. A month ago, based on the photographs produced, he claimed to have found a “bunker,” which is a hole suggesting Martian population was existing under the surface of the planet.

Despite his credible statements, scientists were keen to believe that such discoveries are attributed to pareidolia. Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon where the brain is more likely to interpret the pattern as a commonly-known object. The face is the first thing that the mind will recognise in a shape or pattern. Despite NASA’s Curiosity, Mr Gignac is convinced that what he saw was real.

The persuasive arguments about UFOs and aliens still continue until substantial evidence is presented to such claims. Since humans make crafts discover and explore the galaxy and beyond, there may be another part of the universe which is trying to contact us. Until then we just have to wait for the answer to the unanswered question, aliens – do they really exist?

{ http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

New crop circle report from Dorset, UK

This interesting crop circle formation was found at Fox Ground Down near Blandford Forum in Dorset, UK on Saturday, 30th May 2015.

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Fisherman Witnesses Triangle Over Erie Pennsylvania

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FISHERMAN WITNESSES TRIANGLE OVER ERIE PENNSYLVANIA
MAY 8, 2015 ………..  ERIE PENNSYLVANIA
 

I had just concluded an evening of fishing on Misery Bay at Presque Isle State Park. As I got into my truck to leave I looked at my watch; it was 8:25 pm.  I proceeded to pull out onto the road driving west toward Perry’s Monument bridge, from where I parked to the bridge was only a few hundred feet.  As I approached the bridge I looked to my left (south) toward Perry’s monument and noticed a bright light near the monument up in the air. The light was coming closer, the intensity of the brightness emanating from it increasing as it neared. 

There were other people present around the monument area and parking lot, but they seemed oblivious to the entire event. I crossed the bridge and was having a difficult time both driving my vehicle and trying to watch this thing.  I was fixated on it, driving half in one lane, half in the other. As the thing got directly over me it slowed down and changed direction almost as if it noticed that I noticed it.  I pulled my truck into the parking area near Perry’s Monument and stopped. Putting it in park, I could focus all my attention on the craft which was directly over the road I just pulled off of.  The craft was triangular in shape; not congruent, it was solid, but I could not distinguish fine detail because the entire surface area was bright glowing orange.  It was almost like steel heated in a blast furnace. The craft hovered at its original altitude over the road, I could not take my eyes off of it. 

In that brief moment I actually felt uncertainty and fear as I did not know what would happen next. The craft then began to move at first north and then west. It looked like it was moving down the northern shore of the peninsula.  I attempted to follow it in my vehicle but I ran out of road and was unable to keep up with it. The whole event lasted only 3 to 4 minutes. 

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Astronomy: Venus, Jupiter dance to summer solstice

Stanford and UC Berkeley partner on NASA's new effort to detect life on other planets

By Bjorn Carey

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A new program in the search for life beyond our solar system will involve Stanford, UC Berkeley and NASA and will call on the skills of scientists researching life on Earth, other planets in our solar system, and worlds that orbit other stars.

The study of exoplanets – planets around other stars – is a relatively new field, but planet-hunting efforts have been prolific. The discovery of the first exoplanet around a star like our sun was made in 1995, and NASA's Kepler space telescope has detected more than 1,000 exoplanets in the past six years.

Now a new NASA initiative aims to answer the big question: Is there life on these alien worlds? The NExSS (Nexus for Exoplanet System Science) initiative will bring together the "best and brightest," according to a NASA press release. NExSS will marshal the expertise of 10 universities, three NASA centers and two research institutes.

The program aims to better understand the various components of an exoplanet, as well as how the parent stars and neighboring planets might interact to support life. The program brings together planetary scientists, Earth scientists, heliophysicists and astronomers to identify and search for biosignatures, or signs of life.

"This interdisciplinary endeavor connects top research teams and provides a synthesized approach in the search for planets with the greatest potential for signs of life," said Jim Green, NASA’s director of planetary science. "The hunt for exoplanets is not only a priority for astronomers, it’s of keen interest to planetary and climate scientists as well."

One NExSS project, called "Exoplanets Unveiled," will specifically address this question: What are the properties of exoplanetary systems, particularly as they relate to their formation, evolution and potential to harbor life? The project is led by James Graham, a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and will draw upon the expertise of Bruce Macintosh, a professor of physics at Stanford and the principal investigator for the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI).

GPI, a new instrument for the Gemini Observatory, began its exoplanet survey at the Gemini South Telescope in November 2014. Most exoplanets are detected through the Doppler technique – measuring the "wobble" of the parent star as an unseen planet’s gravity tugs on it – or though detection of a transit, as the planet’s orbit brings it between the star and Earth.

As the newest generation of instruments for imaging exoplanets, GPI blocks out the bright star to directly see the faint planet next door. GPI has already imaged two previously known exoplanets and disks of planetary debris orbiting young stars where planets recently formed.

"Getting a complete picture of all the incredibly strange planetary systems out there will require every different technique," Macintosh said. "With this new collaboration, we will combine the strengths of imaging, Doppler and transits to characterize planets and their orbits."

The first image of an Earth-size exoplanet is still likely years away. GPI is currently only sensitive enough to detect infrared emission from hot, bright planets the size of Jupiter. Detecting the faint, reflected light of cooler, smaller planets will require next-generation technologies and techniques, which MacIntosh said will be developed via instruments like GPI for eventual use on future planet-finding missions such as NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).

"If you could see reflected light, you might be able to see the signature of life," said Paul Kalas, an adjunct professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley and co-primary investigator for the project. "We are just now sowing the seeds to get to that point."

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Study: ET not home … Where are the aliens?

Despite the relatively new frenzy to find extraterrestrial life in the universe after astronomers discovered water to exist on a number of celestial bodies over the years, research shows that the only place aliens can be “found” are on bone-chilling late-night documentaries of UFO sightings.      

According to exhaustive analysis performed by a team of scientists at Penn State University (PSU), absolutely no sign of highly advanced extraterrestrial lifeforms exist in the known universe — at least 100,000 galaxies of it, that is.

A lonely frontier

In their latest virtual expedition through space, scientists have used all of their high-tech gadgetry to come up empty-handed — to the dismay of many who claim that human intelligence has spawned from alien lifeforms.

“The researchers used observations from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), an unmanned satellite carrying an infrared-sensitive telescope that is exploring the entire universe by collecting infrared light that comes to Earth,” WorldMag.com reports. “The scientists believe a galaxy with intelligent life would have technologies that would produce detectable infrared wavelengths, but 100 million data entries showed nothing.”

Scientists ascribing to the problematic  old-Earth Darwinian evolutionary theory — which postulates that the universe was formed by “The Big Bang” 13.7 billion years ago — are in a quandary over Penn State’s discovery, believing that billions of years is more than enough time for aliens to spontaneously populate the universe. But “they” can’t be found.

“[It’s] interesting because these galaxies are billions of years old, which should have been plenty of time for them to have been filled with alien civilizations — if they exist,” expressed PSU Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Dr. Jason T. Wright, who initiated the research project at the university’s Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds.

Grounding the astronomical high

The zealousness of atheists to find life in space is said to be motivated by their desire to disprove the Christian worldview that God created the Earth unique in the universe.

“It provides motivation for some people to search for life on other planets,” Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards said, according to WorldMag.com.

Above and beyond the biblical account of creation, Christian scholars and leaders argue that Earth’s existence as the sole planet in the universe that sustains life is perfectly aligned with science, which requires a Creator as an intelligent designer. Otherwise, life could not exist — even after giving billions of years to make it happen by chance.

“Doesn’t assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?” Christian author and speaker Eric Metaxas posed in The Wall Street Journal, after pointing out that 200 distinct known parameters must be perfectly met to make life possible — a condition that is only found on Earth.

One of the arguments for extraterrestrial life is the existence of water discovered in the known universe, such as comets, water-eroded canals on Mars and frozen water found in craters on the dark sides of the moon and Mercury. Such discoveries, however, are contended to support the Genesis 7 Flood account of the “fountains of the great deep” bursting forth and ejecting water into and out of the Earth’s atmosphere, as the extraterrestrial water found in the Milky Way galaxy is reported to contain the same “heavy” hydrogen exclusively found in the Earth’s oceans and nowhere else in the known universe (see OneNewsNow article Does this Flood theory blow Bill Nye’s attack on creation out of the water?).

Regardless of billions of dollars spent around the globe pointing massive radar dishes towards the heavens and space probes exploring the outer boundaries of the known universe with only negative results, more taxpayer money continues to be spent in hopes of keeping the dream of the exinewsstence of extraterrestrials alive.

It was recently announced that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will soon be launching a new program designed to create innovative techniques and technologies devised to detect life on exoplanets in the outer stretches of the universe.

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