Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
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Toerist fotografeert mysterieus zeemonster voor Griekse kust
Een Schotse toerist heeft op vakantie in Griekenland een zeemonster vastgelegd op de gevoelige plaat. Harvey Robertson probeerde tijdens een boottocht voor de kust van Parga met zijn iPhone de ongewone kleuren in het water vast te leggen.
Wat hij fotografeerde stelt internetgebruikers – inclusief zeewetenschappers – voor een raadsel. Toen Robertson de foto’s bekeek, zag hij dat hij een grijs wezen had vastgelegd dat doet denken aan een zeekoe.
(Harvey Robertson)
Op één van de foto’s komt het vreemde dier boven water, om in de volgende weer onder het wateroppervlak te verdwijnen. “Ik heb het dier zelf niet gezien op het moment dat ik de foto’s maakte,” zei Robertson. “Ik probeerde de kleur van het water (fluorescerend blauw) vast te leggen.”
“Je kunt je voorstellen hoe verbaasd ik was toen ik mijn foto’s bekeek,” ging hij verder.
Sommigen denken dat het een dolfijn van Cuvier is, terwijl anderen speculeren dat het gaat om ‘een kruising tussen een nijlpaard en een krokodil’. Zelfs wetenschappers zijn verbaasd.
“Ik heb geen idee wat het is,” zei Robertson. “Ik heb de foto’s naar zeebiologen van over de hele wereld gestuurd, maar niemand heeft enig idee.”
Deze ‘buitenaardse ruimtesonde’ passeert de aarde in de zomer van 2017
Een mysterieus ruimteobject, dat volgens complottheoretici een ‘buitenaardse sonde’ is, vliegt in 2017 langs de aarde. Het object, 1991 VG geheten, werd in november 1991 ontdekt door astronoom James Scotti van de Universiteit van Arizona.
Het object stelt astronomen vanwege zijn vreemde rotatie nog altijd voor een raadsel. Sommige experts suggereren dat het gaat om een onderdeel van het ruimteveer Apollo 12, maar dat is volgens Scotti niet waarschijnlijk.
“We hebben alle mogelijkheden onderzocht,” zei hij. “Er waren een paar ruimteschepen en raketten die in aanmerking kwamen, maar bij nader onderzoek konden we ze allemaal uitsluiten.”
Geheime Sovjetraket
Anderen beargumenteren dat het een geheime Sovjetraket is. “De Sovjets hadden raketten die even krachtig waren als Amerikaanse raketten en probeerden zelf ook de maan te bereiken,” schreef een Reddit-gebruiker. “Het is plausibel dat het object onderdeel is geweest van een vergeten Russische missie.”
Toen Scotti 1991 VG ontdekte, had het object een doorsnee van 10 meter en stond het op een kleine 500.000 kilometer van de aarde. Het object draait snel om zijn as en de helderheid varieert sterk. Er waren in die tijd nog geen asteroïden ontdekt die een soortgelijk gedrag vertoonden. Bovendien leek de omloopbaan van 1991 VG sterk op die van de aarde.
Buitenaardse sonde
De astronoom besefte al snel dat het object de aarde al eerder was gepasseerd: in maart 1975. Asteroïden overleven meestal niet lang in de ruimte en blijven niet vaak in dezelfde baan.
Astronoom Duncan Steel van de Universiteit van Adelaide suggereerde dat het een buitenaardse sonde zou kunnen zijn. Hij stelde dit naar eigen zeggen voor om zijn eigen ongelijk aan te kunnen tonen, maar toch blijven complottheoristen vasthouden aan zijn werk.
Als het object in de zomer van 2017 de aarde passeert, zal het alleen op het zuidelijk halfrond te zien zijn. Astronomen hebben intussen asteroïden ontdekt met opmerkelijk snelle rotaties. Scotti wil asteroïden daarom nog niet uitsluiten.
Brandweerlieden in Paraguay keken vreemd op toen ze het half vergane lichaam van een vreemd wezen vonden waarvan niemand hen kon vertellen wat het was.
Ook na uitgebreid medisch onderzoek blijft het, althans voorlopig, een raadsel wat voor soort wezens is ontdekt door een lokaal brandweerkorps.
Omdat het voorval plaatsvond in Zuid Amerika wordt er als snel chupacabra geroepen. Andere mensen denken dat het lijkt op een buitenaards wezen of een nieuw en nu toe volkomen onbekende cryptid.
Volgens een aantal lokale nieuwsberichten werd het lichaam op 21 oktober ontdekt langs de oever van de Parana rivier in Carmen del Paraná, Itapúa.
Het is niet precies duidelijk wie het lichaam heeft ontdekt, maar een groep leden van een vrijwillig brandweerkorps waren de eersten die het wezen aan een soort onderzoek onderwierpen.
Hun eerste gedachten gingen in de richting van half menselijk en half aap. Later werd het lichaam onderzocht door een medisch deskundige, maar deze slaagde er ook niet in om het wezen te identificeren.
Speculaties van mensen uit de buurt variëerden van chupacabra, een buitenaards wezen, een onbekende cryptid tot een niet eerder ontdekte apensoort.
Op dit moment is de uitslag van een autopsie die zou gaan plaatsvinden nog niet bekend.
Als het geen aap is, een chupacabra of een buitenaardse, wat zou het dan nog kunnen zijn? Zuid Amerika is wel het land waar een aantal cryptids voorkomen die overeenkomen met het gevonden wezen.
Zo is er de Maricoxi, een agressieve op een aap lijkend wezen dat in de jungle leeft en in grootte variëert tussen de 70 centimeter en twee meter. Er zijn echter berichten van getuigen die zeggen dat ze exemplaren hebben gezien van vier meter hoog. De onderzoeker Peter Fawcett claimde dat hij een groep van dergelijke wezens heeft gezien in 1914.
Een andere mogelijkheid is nog de Mono Grande (Spaans voor grote aap). Dit is een aapachtig wezen dat veel groter is dan de apen die wij normaal gesproken kennen. Waarnemingen van deze bijzondere aap gaan terug tot eind zestiende eeuw toen de onderzoekers Pedro Cieza de León en Sir Walter Raleigh hen beschreven.
Er is een foto uit 1920 van een Mono Grande of een ander aapachtige cryptid met de naam De Loys aap. omdat dit wezen werd ontdekt door Francois de Loys. Hieronder de enige bekende foto van de aap:
Voorlopig blijft het een raadsel wat voor soort wezen de brandweerlieden hebben ontdekt.
UFO Reveals Glitch In Its Shields When It Slows down Over New Mexico, Oct 22, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: October 22, 2015 8:51:09 UTC Location of sighting: New Mexico, USA Source:http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov
I have often talked about UFOs being partly cloaked, or about their cloak being vulnerable during sunset due to the angle of the sun. Well, here someone has found a remarkable craft over New Mexico decloaking partly, due to its fast speed reduction. Whats even more unbelievable is it was found on a NASA site, using their cameras. That means the source (NASA) is impeccable. That means, the probability of it being a real UFO is extremely high. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Nemesis Maturityof Youtube states: Cloaked Starship' Captured By NASA All-Sky Cameras in New Mexico NASA's All-Sky Cameras Caught a 'cloaked starship' Illuminates the Night Sky in New Mexico The object's luminous/shimmering appearance seemed to resemble a 'cloaked starship'. It seems to fly very smoothly gliding effortlessly through the air.
Tourist Captures Image Of Possible Aquatic Alien Off Grecian Coastline, Oct 2015, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: October 2015 Location of sighting: Sea cave, Coast of Paraga, Greece News source:http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2015/10/28/tourist-captures-mysterious-sea-monster-off-grecian-coastline/ Are aliens vacationing in our oceans? Since the Earth is 75% covered in water, the possibility exists. How do we know that intelligent aquatic species in the universe don't exist? We don't. Alien species range from the expected to the bazar. Our oceans are an invite to intelligent aquatic aliens everywhere. Here a person captured an image of a sea creature that marine biologists have not been able to identify. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: A Scottish tourist unwittingly captured an unidentifiable sea monster while vacationing in Greece. Harvey Robertson was on a boat cruise off the coast of Parga, sailing through sea caves with his family. He was initially just trying to capture the unusual color of the surrounding water with his iPhone camera. What he shot instead has baffled those across the Internet—and marine scientists. Looking back through his camera, Robertson saw that he had captured a grey creature that resembles an elongated manatee. The strange animal appears to pop out of the water in one photo, then disappears under the greenish water in the next. Related Image harveymonster3434553.jpgExpand / Contract The creature disappears back into the bright green water. (Courtesy Harvey Roberston) “I didn't actually see the animal at the time as was trying to capture the water color (fluorescent blue) at the point before becoming black,” Robertson told FoxNews.com via email. “You can only imagine my surprise when I was looking back through my photos.” (More at source).
Did extraterrestrials visit Earth 10,000 years ago, close to the time when humanity invented writing and the wheel?
Some, of course, believed aliens did and there were paintings to prove it.
In 2014, an Indian archaeologist claimed that 10,000-year-old paintings on a rock in Charama, India were a substantial evidence of an actual UFO.
According to BeforeItsNews, local archaeology department is now looking for NASA’s help.
Archaeologist JR Bhagat said the findings may suggest that prehistoric humans may have imagined or seen beings from other planets, which still create interest among researchers and ordinary people. He said that more comprehensive research is needed for further discoveries.
The bizarre rock paintings include figures holding weapon-like things. These figures don’t have specific features – no nose and mouth. In a few images, these figures are seen wearing spacesuits.
Prehistoric men may also have the imagination of aliens or beings from other planets, but humans often fancy such things.
Others believe that the fact may inspire imaginations. In this case, prehistoric men are thought to have the knowledge about or perhaps seen real ET visitors.
he universe was born with the Big Bang as an unimaginably hot, dense point. When the universe was just 10-34 of a second or so old — that is, a hundredth of a billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second in age — it experienced an incredible burst of expansion known as inflation, in which space itself expanded faster than the speed of light. During this period, the universe doubled in size at least 90 times, going from subatomic-sized to golf-ball-sized almost instantaneously.
According to NASA, after inflation the growth of the universe continued, but at a slower rate. As space expanded, the universe cooled and matter formed. One second after the Big Bang, the universe was filled with neutrons, protons, electrons, anti-electrons, photons and neutrinos.
During the first three minutes of the universe, the light elements were born during a process known as Big Bang nucleosynthesis. Temperatures cooled from 100 nonillion (1032) Kelvin to 1 billion (109) Kelvin, and protons and neutrons collided to make deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen. Most of the deuterium combined to make helium, and trace amounts of lithium were also generated.
For the first 380,000 years or so, the universe was essentially too hot for light to shine, according to France's National Center of Space Research (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales,or CNES). The heat of creation smashed atoms together with enough force to break them up into a dense plasma, an opaque soup of protons, neutrons and electrons that scattered light like fog.
Roughly 380,000 years after the Big Bang, matter cooled enough for atoms to form during the era of recombination, resulting in a transparent, electrically neutral gas, according to NASA. This set loose the initial flash of light created during the Big Bang, which is detectable today as cosmic microwave background radiation. However, after this point, the universe was plunged into darkness, since no stars or any other bright objects had formed yet.
About 400 million years after the Big Bang, the universe began to emerge from the cosmic dark ages during the epoch of reionization. During this time, which lasted more than a half-billion years, clumps of gas collapsed enough to form the first stars and galaxies, whose energetic ultraviolet light ionized and destroyed most of the neutral hydrogen.
Although the expansion of the universe gradually slowed down as the matter in the universe pulled on itself via gravity, about 5 or 6 billion years after the Big Bang, according to NASA, a mysterious force now called dark energy began speeding up the expansion of the universe again, a phenomenon that continues today.
The Big Bang did not occur as an explosion in the usual way one think about such things, despite one might gather from its name. The universe did not expand into space, as space did not exist before the universe, according to NASA Instead, it is better to think of the Big Bang as the simultaneous appearance of space everywhere in the universe. The universe has not expanded from any one spot since the Big Bang — rather, space itself has been stretching, and carrying matter with it.
Since the universe by its definition encompasses all of space and time as we know it, NASA says it is beyond the model of the Big Bang to say what the universe is expanding into or what gave rise to the Big Bang. Although there are models that speculate about these questions, none of them have made realistically testable predictions as of yet.
In 2014, scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced that they had found a faint signal in the cosmic microwave background that could be the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, themselves considered a "smoking gun" for the Big Bang. The findings werehotly debated, but the search for these mysterious ripples continues.
The globular cluster NGC 6397 contains around 400,000 stars and is located about 7,200 light years away in the southern constellation Ara. With an estimated age of 13.5 billion years, it is likely among the first objects of the Galaxy to form after the Big Bang. Credit: European Southern Observatory
The universe is currently estimated at roughly 13.8 billion years old, give or take 130 million years. In comparison, the solar system is only about 4.6 billion years old.
This estimate came from measuring the composition of matter and energy density in the universe. This allowed researchers to compute how fast the universe expanded in the past. With that knowledge, they could turn the clock back and extrapolate when the Big Bang happened. The time between then and now is the age of the universe.
Structure
Scientists think that in the earliest moments of the universe, there was no structure to it to speak of, with matter and energy distributed nearly uniformly throughout. According to NASA, the gravitational pull of small fluctuations in the density of matter back then gave rise to the vast web-like structure of stars and emptiness seen today. Dense regions pulled in more and more matter through gravity, and the more massive they became, the more matter they could pull in through gravity, forming stars, galaxiesand larger structures known as clusters, superclusters, filaments and walls, with "great walls" of thousands of galaxies reaching more than a billion light years in length. Less dense regions did not grow, evolving into area of seemingly empty space called voids.
Content
Until about 30 years ago, astronomers thought that the universe was composed almost entirely of ordinary atoms, or "baryonic matter," According to NASA. However, recently there has been ever more evidence that suggests most of the ingredients making up the universe come in forms that we cannot see.
It turns out that atoms only make up 4.6 percent of the universe. Of the remainder, 23 percent is made up of dark matter, which is likely composed of one or more species of subatomic particles that interact very weakly with ordinary matter, and 72 percent is made of dark energy, which apparently is driving the accelerating expansion of the universe.
When it comes to the atoms we are familiar with, hydrogen makes up about 75 percent, while helium makes up about 25 percent, with heavier elements making up only a tiny fraction of the universe's atoms, according to NASA.
Shape
The shape of the universe and whether or not it is finite or infinite in extent depends on the struggle between the rate of its expansion and the pull of gravity. The strength of the pull in question depends in part on the density of the matter in the universe.
If the density of the universe exceeds a specific critical value, then the universe is "closed" and "positive curved" like the surface of a sphere. This means light beams that are initially parallel will converge slowly, eventually cross and return back to their starting point, if the universe lasts long enough. If so, according to NASA, the universe is not infinite but has no end, just as the area on the surface of a sphere is not infinite but has no beginning or end to speak of. The universe will eventually stop expanding and start collapsing in on itself, the so-called "Big Crunch."
If the density of the universe is less than this critical density, then the geometry of space is "open" and "negatively curved" like the surface of a saddle. If so, the universe has no bounds, and will expand forever.
If the density of the universe exactly equals the critical density, then the geometry of the universe is "flat" with zero curvature like a sheet of paper, according to NASA. If so, the universe has no bounds and will expand forever, but the rate of expansion will gradually approach zero after an infinite amount of time. Recent measurements suggest that the universe is flat with only a 2 percent margin of error.
It is possible that the universe has a more complicated shape overall while seeming to possess a different curvature. For instance, the universe could have the shape of a torus, or doughnut.
Expanding universe
In the 1920s, astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered the universe was not static. Rather, it was expanding, a find that revealed the universe was apparently born in a Big Bang.
After that, it was long thought the gravity of matter in the universe was certain to slow the expansion of the universe. Then, in 1998, the Hubble Space Telescope's observations of very distant supernovae revealed that a long time ago, the universe was expanding more slowly than it is today. In other words, the expansion of the universe was not slowing due to gravity, but instead inexplicably was accelerating. The name for the unknown force driving this accelerating expansion is dark energy, and it remains one of the greatest mysteries in science.
Additional reporting by Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor.
The UFO phenomena is real: shocking comments of highly ranked individuals confirm Extraterrestrials exist.
If you read a bit about the UFO phenomena you will notices that there is a shocking number of comments from highly classified people regarding alien technology and life elsewhere in the cosmos.
Today we have interesting comments from government officials, military personnel, scientists, politicians and astronauts who all seem to agree that life is not limited to Earth. Conspiracy theory or not, the truth is that many people believe that we are not alone in the universe and that the mysterious UFO sightings (which have increased over the years) are not solely the result of secret military technology.
But why are we still surprised when we hear about Alien technology and UFO’s?
“The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven’t even talked about the moons. And the number of galaxies we can see, other than our own, is about 100 billion.” – Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at California’s SETI Institute
The possibility that life exists, elsewhere in the universe is greater than ever. Can we handle the truth?
Perhaps the most shocking comments about Alien life and the UFO phenomena were made by the second director of Lockheed Skunkworks, Ben Rich, a man who oversaw the construction of some of the most advanced military aircrafts in the history of mankind: the stealth fighter and the 17A nighthawk.
According to James Godwell, an aerospace journalist who wrote for several publications like Jane’s Defense Weekly, Aviation Week and Space Technology, and Interavia, during some of his interviews with highly ranked individuals in the military and aerospace industry, some of his contacts said “we have things out there that are literally out of this world, better than Star Trek or what you see in the movies.”
Just before his death, Ben Rich talked about the UFO phenomenon and the truth behind the conspiracy.
“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do it.”
“We now have technology to take ET home. No it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars.”
“There are two types of UFOs — the ones we build and the ones ‘they’ build.”
According to statements from James Godwell, he knew Ben Rich very well and he stated that ten days before Ben Rich died, they spoke and Ben Rich opened up about UFO’s.
“About ten days before he died, I was speaking to Ben on the telephone at the USC Medical Center in LA. And he said, ‘Jim, we have things out in the desert that are fifty years beyond what you can comprehend. They have about forty-five hundred people at the Lockheed Skunk works. What have they been doing for the last eighteen or twenty years? They’re building something.’”
According to SETI Institute’s Seth Shostak, with trillions of planets out there, chances are too good to discount the idea that Alien life exists.
“If you extrapolate on the planets they discovered, there are a trillion planets in the galaxy. That’s a lot of places for life,” Shostak said, as quoted by ABC. “We know that the majority of stars have planets,” but what “fraction of stars has planets that are more like the earth? It might be one in five.”
“The chances of finding it I think are good and if that happens it will happen in the next 20 years depending on the financing,” he added in written testimony, according to BuzzFeed.”
According to John Andrews, another Lockheed engineer who had direct communication with Ben Rich, the former director of Lockheed Skunkworks firmly believed in UFO’s, and when asked if he believed in the existence of the mysterious objects Ben Rich responded:
“Yes, I’m a believer in both categories. I feel everything is possible. Many of our man-made UFOs are Un-Funded Opportunities. There are two types of UFOs, the ones we build, and the ones they build.”
“We now know how to travel to the stars. There is an error in the equations, and we have figured it out, and now know how to travel to the stars and it won’t take a lifetime to do it. It is time to end all the secrecy on this, as it no longer poses a national security threat, and make the technology available for use in the private sector. There are many in the intelligence community who would like to see this stay in the black and not see the light of day. We now have the technology to take ET home.”
Bill McDonalds, a forensic illustrator for the aerospace industry, and who was a good friend of John Andrews also talked about Ben Rich and UFO’s:
“It was Ben Rich’s opinion that the public should not be told. He believed they could not handle the truth, ever. Only in the last months of his decline did he begin to feel that the international corporate Board of Directors’ dealing with the ‘Subject’ could represent a bigger problem to citizens’ personal freedoms under the United States Constitution than the presence of off world visitors themselves.”
It seems that after all, it isn’t that hard to believe in the commentaries of astronauts, engineers, government officials and other individuals who have opened up about Alien Life and the UFO phenomena.
The only questions that we need to ask is: Is our society ready for the truth? And how much would life as we know it change, knowing that we have more than one cosmic neighbor?
A piece of space junk will fall back to Earth next month, giving researchers a chance to study how incoming objects behave when they hit the planet’s atmosphere.
The object, which is known as WT1190F, is expected to enter Earth's atmosphere on Nov. 13 above the Indian Ocean, about 62 miles (100 kilometers) south of Sri Lanka. The impending impact poses little risk to people, experts say.
"The object is quite small, at most a couple of meters in diameter, and a significant fraction if not all of it can be expected to completely burn up in the atmosphere," Tim Flohrer, of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Space Debris Office at the European Space Operations Center in Germany, said in a statement. [Space Junk: How It Got There and What To Do About It (Video)]
WT1190F's demise should be dramatic to people near the entry site nonetheless, generating a bright fireball in the daytime sky on Nov. 13, ESA officials said.
WT1190F was detected on Oct. 3 by astronomers with the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, who subsequently realized that they had imaged the object in 2013 as well. The team's observations revealed that WT1190F orbits Earth every three weeks on a highly elliptical path.
Astronomers have also learned that the object is not dense enough to be a rocky body such as an asteroid and is therefore probably a piece of space junk, researchers said.
"This density is in fact compatible with the object being a hollow shell, such as the spent upper stage of a rocket body or part of a stage," Detlef Koschny, who's responsible for near-Earth object (NEO) activities at ESA’s Space Situational Awareness program office, said in the same statement.
This graphic, created in 2013, shows the cloud of space junk surrounding Earth. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/JSC
Earth is surrounded by an ever-growing cloud of orbital debris that contains at least 20,000 objects larger than a softball, 500,000 bigger than a marble and millions of shreds and shards too small to track, NASA researchers have said.
Astronomers are keeping a close eye on WT1190F, and they'll study its re-entry avidly to get a better idea of what happens when pieces of space junk come crashing back to Earth.
"The first goal will be to better understand the re-entry of satellites and debris from highly eccentric orbits," said Marco Micheli, an astronomer working at ESA's NEO Coordination Center in Italy.
"Second, it provides an ideal opportunity to test our readiness for any possible future atmospheric entry events involving an asteroid, since the components of this scenario, from discovery to impact, are all very similar," Micheli added.
Submitted photo A recent photo of Const. James Blackwood in the woods near his property in Nova Sco
It’s late October and the streets will soon be filled with ghosts, goblins and all kinds of paranormal creatures.
But most millennials probably aren’t aware Clarenville is home to its own supernatural experience some 37 years ago.
Though, according to the movies, kindly government officials dressed in black usually wipe our memories of this sort of thing, they didn’t get to Const. Jim Blackwood and a dozen other locals who happened to bear witness to a strange cigar-shaped aircraft hovering over Random Island in October 1978.
When the 25-year-old Blackwood responded to the call from the group on Marine Drive, he assumed it was a simple case of the b’ys getting into the moonshine and letting their imaginations run wild.
But, what Blackwood ended up seeing made him a minor celebrity and the subject of ridicule on the force, so much so that after leaving Clarenville he rarely spoke of the incident.
“I went down and the craft was hovering between Clarenville and Random Island, right on the water. It was only a couple hundred feet off the water. It was there for good two hours before it left,” the now retired Blackwood told The Packet from his home in Nova Scotia.
“I activated the roof lights of my police car and it activated lights at the same time.”
Chester Lethbridge and his wife were among those gathered on the water. They asked him why he would do such a thing. Blackwood explained he was trying to make contact.
“He said he didn’t want to make contact, and he didn’t want to know what was in there and then took off,” Blackwood said.
Using a special telescope for drug surveillance, the once skeptical Blackwood had an up close view to something he can’t explain to this day.
“Chester (Lethbridge) had binoculars. But this thing was a lot better with 60 times’ magnification. I got to see it close up. It didn’t come any closer to us and as it started to leave it went up slow, taking forever to rise — then vroom — gone like a shooting star,” Blackwood said.
Clarenville became Newfoundland’s own Roswell as UFO fever gripped the town for years to come. The old timers hockey team changed their name to the Clarenville UFOs, the local Holiday Inn had a weekend for two UFO special and local auto dealers held extraterrestrial-themed car sales.
“We didn’t see the thing after that. But we did have a lot of calls prior to that. At that particular time there was a flight from Jordan heading to Toronto that happened to see it and it was picked up by radar in Gander. It was a big issue at the time,” Blackwood said.
Blackwood was driven half crazy getting blitzed with media requests. Predicting the ribbing from fellow officers and friends, he refused to talk at first, but eventually the staff sergeant informed him that the powers that be in St. John’s wanted him to grant all interviews. He ended up spending the next couple weeks talking to every major newspaper and media source across the country.
“For two solid weeks all I did was answer the phone and get paid for it. I was on CBC, NTV and BBC. You name it and I was on it,” Blackwood said.
Blackwood is an aircraft enthusiast with a working knowledge of all kinds of planes. He is confidently convinced the hovering object the size of a Boeing 737, was not something from around here.
“I’m familiar with aircrafts of all shapes and sizes. But the metal on it was not like aircraft metal. It was very dull and not shiny at all. It wasn’t even smooth. It was very coarse looking,” he said.
“The technology was way beyond what we had then and still way beyond what we have now.”
Before the incident, Blackwood was not the type to watch the skies. In the years that followed he didn’t develop any kind of interest in little green men.
“Some people would go right hog wild into them, but I never bothered. It was a once in a lifetime thing,” he said.
After leaving the Clarenville detachment, the years of ribbing, ridicule and “Mork and Mindy” jokes deterred him from mentioning the incident to anyone when returning home to Nova Scotia in the mid 1980s.
The National Research Council in Ottawa had an upper atmosphere research facility responsible for UFO reports.
An NRC agent named A.G. MacNamara responded to the reports saying the planet Jupiter is brilliant in mid-October when near the Mediterranean Sea.
“I tore a strip off him. He had this big explanation, but he didn’t talk to me or talk to any of the other 12 witnesses,” Blackwood said. “He just surmised this on his own. There was this guy doing a paper on it. I told him what I thought of him. How the hell can a planet cast a shadow on the water? How can it come down that close that it can block out Random Island?”
Though he hasn’t brought the topic up voluntarily with anyone in decades, he is still contacted by UFO researchers and enthusiasts. He recently recounted his experience with world-renowned professional ufologist Stanton Friedman, an original civilian investigator of the Roswell incident. The TV series “Close Encounters,” which re-enacts alien encounters, has an episode planned on Blackwood’s experience.
Though the experience garnered him some celebrity, on the whole it caused him more grief than it was worth.
So this Halloween season, if you happen to spy a strange looking object over the water near Random Island, maybe just chalk it up to swamp gas and carry on, or else the men in black might show up at your door.
Command Sergeant Major James Norton: I Have Proof Of Alien UFO!
Way back in September 1977, during the Joint Attack Weapons Systems Test (JAWS) at Fort Benning Georgia, the entire base witnessed what appeared to be a UFO invasion. As much as 1300 troops were involved in this incredible event. Most were left with severe psychological trauma and “missing time” gaps.
Command Sergeant Major James Norton, who is now stationed at Fort McClellan, Alabama. He was a buck sergeant (E-5) at the time when he witnessed an eerie encounter with UFOs and the military on September 14, 1977. He was sent to the range a little just before midnight along with around 1200 to 1300 troops to perform live fire with their new weapons systems called JAWS (Joint Attack Weapons System). The Secretary of the Army at the time was actually at the range too!
Command Sergeant Major James Norton remembers clearly when they started the live fire training when all of a sudden there were large orbs way up high in the night sky above them. The next thing he witnessed was what appeared to be lasers crisscrossing through the night sky. The command of ‘cease fire’ was heard shouted out towards the troops, because there was something down range. Military helicopters appeared suddenly out of nowhere. Explosions were then heard, complete madness had broken out around him! Orbs in the night sky were changing a variety of different colours, a lot like the kind of Orbs that are being seen around the world today! Then a Triangle shaped UFO showed up. The soldiers around Norton were in complete shock and awe at this spectacle that was now suddenly in front of them.
After this incredible incident many soldiers became very ill. Every soldier who witnessed this crazy event was briefed that if they were to EVER disclose any information reference the night of these bizarre events, they would be court marshalled immediately and sent to Leavenworth. When Norton eventually obtained his medical records it disclosed that his illness was of unknown origin, his temperature was 104, he was placed in a steel tub of iced water for 2 days, to help bring his temperature down.
Norton had a memory lapse or as we know it in UFO ‘Speak’ it is also called “missing time”. He could not remember how he was on the range and then later found himself alone in the woods. There was an awful lot of time disorientation. During a hypnosis session, he learned that he was actually abducted and taken aboard an unknown craft. Medical experiments were conducted and samples were taken from his body.
After the incident two jets came in that appeared to be white washed, no numbers or identification were on the jets. The jets were there purely to collect UFO crash site debris!
UFO Proof:
Norton picked up a metallic piece from the crash site that had/has strange hieroglyphics on it. This metallic piece cannot be burned. A hacksaw will not cut it either and if you bend it, it will just go back to its original shape. Norton has this metallic piece apparently BURIED AT HIS PROPERTY!?
Norton is now willing and ready to show this evidence to some credible UFologists and to the media! Norton claims he has a 100% proof of UFOs being real, with this solid piece of evidence that he held onto since the incident itself!!
Military helicopters shot down:
The military helicopters that were shot down during the incident, were never actually ever reported to the FAA. He was also burned from a mysterious red substance from this incident!?
Norton is now stationed at Fort McClellan, Alabama and describes how they experiment with biological and chemical substances on this base and that something else is going on there. There is UFO activity at this base, it seems that our military is test flying UFOs all over the base!
One side note: For 62 years, the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, has trained some of the worst human rights abusers in the hemisphere.
Other Proof:
Norton even has some incredible night vision footage of all of the UFOs in their different colours taken on the base. He also has footage of a UFO going from one horizon to another horizon in only about a mere 2 seconds. He has video footage of a triangle shaped UFO that hovers over the base, no sound being emitted from it. He has all of this video footage for any credible Ufologist to review, of which he now ready to share with the right people!
John Vasquez, Co-Author of ‘Incident at Fort Benning ’ recounts his experience as a soldier at Fort Benning in down below video
A video of a more recent light Orb seen in the sky:
FIRING ON HIGHEST LEVEL: LARGE HADRON COLLIDER 'COULD BE ABOUT TO FIND A PARALLEL UNIVERSE'
The Large Hadron Collider is now firing at its highest-ever energy level - and scientists hope we could find a parallel universe.
It won’t be a parallel universe as seen in science fiction - but it could give our understanding of physics is about to take a very big jolt indeed.
One of the many mind-scrambling ideas on the table is that the Big Bang never happened, and the universe has always existed.
Scarily, scientists are combing through results from June in the hope of finding evidence of mini black holes produced inside the collider.
‘Just as many parallel sheets of paper, which are two dimensional objects (breadth and length) can exist in a third dimension (height), parallel universes can also exist in higher dimensions’ Cern employee Mir Faizal from the University of Waterloo said.
‘We predict that gravity can leak into extra dimensions, and if it does, then miniature black holes can be produced at the LHC.’
‘Normally, when people think of the multiverse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where every possibility is actualised ( via uk.news.yahoo.com ).
‘This cannot be tested and so it is philosophy and not science. This is not what we mean by parallel universes. What we mean is real universes in extra dimensions.’
An artist's impression shows innumerable Earth-like planets to come into existence over the next trillion years in the universe. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
Our place in the universe is a conundrum — life on Earth evolved to create a technologically-savvy race that is now looking for other technologically-savvy intelligences populating our galaxy. But there's a problem; it looks like humanity is the only "intelligent" species in our little corner of the universe — what gives?
This question forms the basis of the Fermi Paradox: given the age of the universe and the apparent high probability of life evolving on other planets orbiting other stars, where are all the smart aliens?
According to a new study based on data collected by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, it might be that Earth (and all life on it) is an early bloomer. By extension, the logical progression from this new study is that we're not hearing from advanced alien civilizations because, in short, the universe hasn't had the time to spawn many more habitable worlds.
The study, which focuses purely on the likelihood of the evolution of habitable worlds (and not speculation of alien intelligence, the Fermi Paradox implication is my own), finds that when our planet was born from our young sun's protoplanetary disk some 4.6 billion years ago, it was born into an era when only "8 percent of the potentially habitable planets that will ever form in the universe existed." This means that the universe has 92 percent to go until it runs out of the necessary material to produce the stars that go on to produce planets, some of which will be small and rocky and orbit in just the right location for life (as we know it) to thrive.
"Our main motivation was understanding the Earth's place in the context of the rest of the universe," said Peter Behroozi of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., "Compared to all the planets that will ever form in the universe, the Earth is actually quite early."
Hubble has shown astronomers that young galaxies were churning out stars at a fast rate some 10 billion years ago. However, the quantity of hydrogen and helium involved in stellar production was low compared with the amount of these star-forming gases that exist today.
"There is enough remaining material (after the Big Bang) to produce even more planets in the future, in the Milky Way and beyond," said Molly Peeples, also of STScI.
By combining this knowledge from Hubble with exoplanetary data from Kepler, the researchers were able to form a picture of the habitable planet potential of our galaxy and use it as a model for the number of other habitable worlds existing throughout the cosmos.
Since Kepler started taking data in 2009, we've been introduced to a menagerie of small rocky worlds orbiting sun-like stars. Some of these thousands of worlds orbit their stars within the habitable zone — the region surrounding a star that's not too hot and not too cold to allow liquid water to persist on its surface. By extrapolating from Kepler's comparatively small dataset, astronomers have predicted that there should be around 1 billion Earth-sized worlds orbiting within their stars' habitable zones in the Milky Way. If we consider there are 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe, there's a huge number of habitable, Earth-sized worlds throughout the cosmos.
And the universe, according to this new theoretical study, has only just started in the planetary production business. The last star isn't expected to fizzle out for another 100 trillion years (when the universe will continue toward its perpetual march to "heat death"), so there's lots of time left.
With the help of these observations, the researchers predict that Earth 2.0 (i.e. rocky planets of Earth-like dimensions orbiting within their stars' habitable zones) will most likely pop up inside giant galaxy clusters or dwarf galaxies where reservoirs of star-forming (and therefore planet-forming) gases are known to reside. Alas, the Milky Way's planet-forming days are numbered, as much of these gases have already been consumed during our galaxy's heady "starburst" days.
Noted by the researchers is that the advantage of being an "early" civilization evolving at this time of universal evolution is that we have the awesome opportunity to study the early stages of cosmic evolution, using space telescopes (such as Hubble) to see the early formation of galaxies and witness observable evidence for the Big Bang. For any future civilization in a trillion years time, the universe will look very different than it does now — fewer galaxies will be visible and the earliest evidence for the Big Bang (such as the cosmic microwave background radiation) will have further ebbed away.
It's interesting to ponder how an intelligent alien civilization will interpret a more mature, perpetually expanding universe lacking the cues to its origin that we take for granted today. Would they assume, lacking contradictory evidence, that the universe has always existed? And that just because the universe is expanding, it doesn't mean there had to be a Big Bang?
Of course, this is just a fun thought experiment; predicting the existence of a future alien intelligence, let alone how they may interpret their cosmic environment, is presumptuous at best. But it does pose an existential problem beyond the Fermi Paradox. If the Earth is an early bloomer, and humanity is one of the first intelligent civilizations to pop up in a universe of infinite possibilities, how might our civilization unfold?
Who knows, but it seems the universe has the boundless potential to form new worlds and new life (and new intelligences) that will potentially form long after humanity and life on Earth has come and gone, eventually succumbing to the inevitable death of our sun in about 5 billion years time. This study serves to remind us that our time as an intelligent life form in the universe is fleeting, and it seems many more intelligences will evolve long after we are gone.
Russia Announced They Have Found a Ship in the Ice
The first class of Admiral Vladimir Prikhodko, who is currently the director of the secret organization of the Russian navy, said that powerhouses such as the U.S, China, Germany and even Russia, are investing million dollars in the outer space, to gain the ownership..
However, why we have to spend too much money and waste time to research it, if we could have a great investment in the underground to find out the true stories of our origins.
After the World War II ended, Russia has took many times to research and explore the subsistence of UFOs. Recently, they have found out some strange things like deep holes and caves which have ancient hieroglyphs and ship in the ice.
Temple Professor Claims Aliens Have Abducted Millions of Humans
David M. Jacobs, Ph.D. of Temple University.
No need to look to the stars in our search for extraterrestrial life; aliens might already be here among us on Earth...Or at least that's what retired Professor David M. Jacobs thinks.
According to Jacobs, extraterrestrial beings have been abducting and sexually molesting humans the world over for aeons, all to create a hybrid race of alien-humans who walk the earth unnoticed but will eventually take over the planet.
But Jacobs isn't your typical UFOlogist. Tenured for 36 years as a Professor of American History at Temple University, Jacobs is a 71 year old intellectual-type who, according to Philly.com makes his case with "well-reasoned, articulate explanations and applies scholarly approach to his research which he has shared in four books- printed by well-known and academic publishers."
Jacobs says he is well aware of the stigma that surrounds Ufology."I knew that it was embarrassing to the university," says Jacobs of his stance on UFOs. "I was not rewarded for my views [...] But you do not often find yourself in the middle of a phenomenon that allows you to make a contribution to something that could be of unsurpassing importance in human history," Jacob adds.
"What I'm doing will either be an interesting but nonessential footnote to popular culture or the most important thing that's ever happened to humankind. I see it as the latter," explains Jacob.
Jacobs claims his evidence is solid, collected primarily from the 150 abductees that he has interviewed over the years. He claims that these abductees independently report similar experiences, recalling common details of intense eye-contact, and neurological scanning. Based on researching this small sample, Jacobs has drawn the conclusion that the number of abductees across the world numbers in the millions.
Jacobs details some of his other conclusions to Philly.com's Dana Difilippo, stating, among other things, that the families of some abductees reported seeing their loved ones simply disappearing into thin air. Other findings included the discovery of mysterious scar tissue on the bodies of abductees and groups of people recalling the same mass-abduction events despite never having seen each other before.
Jacobs, who claims to never have actually witnessed a UFO or Alien abduction himself, began his journey into Ufology as a college student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1970s. After running into some interesting literature about Aliens and UFOs, he decided to change his dissertation from the portrayal of women in pre-1915 films to the UFO controversy in America.
But what began with what he used to think was "the most amazing, wowee, gee-whiz thing," quickly escalated into the realm of reality for him. "[T]he more I learn about it, the more I fear it, the more I don't want to have anything to do with it," Jacob now reflects.
"This is a clandestine phenomenon," Jacobs said. "There is one thing that I can say for sure: They don't want us to know what they're doing - because what they're doing benefits them and not us."
Most people ‘in the know’ realize that NASA is just part of the military industrial complex, but a recent open admission on mainstream news that “there are indications of alien life” is likely the beginning of a bid to get your undivided attention before full-forced disclosure ensues.
Most people already believe what NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan states:
“I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade . . .I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20-30 years.”
It isn’t going to take that long if we open our eyes.
Stofan goes on to say:
“We’re on the verge of things that people have wondered about for millennia. Within all of our lifetimes we’re going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system. We’re going to understand the implications of that for life here on Earth.”
What we’re going to understand is that our ‘secret’ government has been hiding this fact for ages. In an effort to transition the US and other countries through its reach to a cabal-run oligarchy, ourshadow government has been lying about off-planet corporate slavery rings, alien abductions, benevolent beings who can only do so much until our collective consciousness elevates, and much, much more.
William Cooper, among others, tried to disclose the true purpose of NASA, but he was exterminated. His death, among thousands of others, will not be in vain.
We will learn that aside from extraterrestrial beings visiting our planet and many different ET races tinkering with our DNA over millenia, there are ancient humanoid races that are more than 10 million years old.
We will also learn that chemtrails and GMOs were the LEAST of plans made for us ‘sheeple’ and ‘useless eaters’ by a Luciferian cabal, and that President Harry Truman signed a document with certain ETs that allowed the ‘elite’ to conduct highly technological experiments with intelligence gained from these ETs in exchange for looking the other way when certain humans were abducted for ET experiments.
We will learn that we are not helpless, as we have been programmed to believe. We are, in fact, a rare humanoid race that has an incredible range of emotion and creative power. We will learn that our minds and emotions can either fuel chaos on this planet, or restore it to its rightful place of peace and cooperation, of care for others at least as much as ourselves.
We will learn that our ascension into infinitely peaceful beings is indeed possible, and it has been described in countless books, many of which have been suppressed along with UFO information.
NASA is telling us now that the likelihood of alien life is a ruse. Be sure to remember those who have been executed to try to prove this information to us decades ago, and to use discernment when the truth is finally revealed.
Malgré le fait que le ministère britannique de la Défense ait officiellement mis fin à ses enquêtes sur les OVNIS en 2009, il semble que les autorités de l’aviation civile britannique ait décidé – à l’insu du grand public – de poursuivre la collecte des rapports sur les OVNIS impliqués dans d’éventuels problèmes de sécurité des vols.
« Ils étaient seulement intéressés par les observations qui certainement ont eu une incidence sur la sécurité des vols des aéronefs mais n’étaient plus intéressés par les rapports du public, qui avait vu des choses dans le ciel et les a dénoncés à l’autorité de l’aviation civile », a déclaré David Clarke, le fonctionnaire britannique du National Archives, consultant et professeur de journalisme à l’Université de Sheffield Hallam.
Clarke a déclaré au Huffington Post que l’Autorité de l’aviation civile – un ministère différent du ministère de la Défense - a tenu des registres séparés des cas d’OVNIS « , non seulement ceux rapportés par les équipages, mais aussi toutes les choses inhabituelles vues par les contrôleurs aériens des aéroports. «
Par le dépôt de demandes d’accès à l’information, Clarke a révélé que la Royal Air Force qui avait spécifiquement demandé que les signalements d’ovnis soient soumis au ministère des Transports, ne seraient plus transmis au ministère de la Défense.
La RAF stipule expressément que «les membres du public qui font ces rapports ne sont pas encouragés à croire qu’une enquête aura lieu. »
On sait maintenant que les contrôleurs aériens britanniques ont reçu des signalements d’ovnis sur une base quasi régulière.
S’exprimant sur la radio BBC « Aujourd’hui » programme , le 17 août, Richard Deakin, le chef des Services de contrôle du trafic aérien britannique, a déclaré :
« Eh bien, de temps en temps, il y a des objets qui sont identifiés qui ne sont pas conformes aux modèles de trafic normal – et pas seulement du point de vue britannique, mais partout dans le monde», «Je dois dire que ce n’est pas quelque chose qui occupe une énorme quantité de mon temps. »
Deakin a ajouté que ces observations se produisent " typiquement de l’ordre d’une par mois."
Richard Deakin, responsable du contrôle du trafic aérien britannique, interrogé par le journaliste Simon Jack à la BBC.
Si c’est vrai, alors le calcul de Clarke évaluant combien d’observations réelles d’ovnis avaient été rédigées sous forme de Rapports obligatoires d’événements, ou MORS, était considérablement sous estimé.
« En ce qui concerne les rapports MORS que j’ai reçu grâce à la Liberté de l’Information, de Décembre 2004 à Octobre 2010, leur vraie base de données énumérait 10 cas d’ovnis ou d’aéronefs non identifiés », a déclaré M. Clarke.
« Maintenant [Deakin] dit qu’ils reçoivent un rapport tous les mois ». « Si c’est le cas, je m’attends à ce que le nombre de rapports soit de 80 durant cette période de six ans, et non de 10. Alors, ma question est la suivante:.? Où sont passés tous les autres ? »
Ceci survient alors que le ministère de la Défense a pris la décision de mettre fin à toutes les enquêtes sur les OVNIS au Royaume-Uni . Selon le site Internet du ministère de la Défense :
Le ministère de la Défense n’a pas d’opinion sur l’existence ou non d’une vie extraterrestre. Cependant, en plus de cinquante ans, aucun rapport d’OVNI a mis en évidence d’une menace potentielle pour le Royaume-Uni. Le ministère de la Défense n’a pas de capacité spécifique pour identifier la nature de telles observations. Il n’y a aucun avantage de la défense dans une telle enquête. Par ailleurs, en réponse à des observations d’OVNIS rapportés détourne les ressources du MoD de tâches qui sont pertinents à la défense. »
Pourquoi les responsables de l’aviation évitent de parler des ovnis ? Au Royaume-Uni, Clarke suggère qu’il y a là la crainte d’une mauvaise publicité.
« N’oubliez pas qu’il y a là un contexte commercial et que les équipages sont très réticents à déposer un rapport parce que les compagnies aériennes ne veulent pas répondre aux questions sur des choses sans rapport avec l’image de leur entreprise. »
MAJ 10-2015 : Voici une vidéo apparue plusieurs mois après cette interview (02/2013). Il s'agit d'un objet lumineux filmé à bord d'un avion (au début surtout) et le témoin met même sa main en paravent pour désigner l'objet et prouver ainsi qu'il se s'agit en aucun cas d'un reflet dans la vitre... " The light (ufo) is not an reflection as you can see when the plane tilts the wing blocks the light looks like the real deal ". Cet incident aurait été confirmé par les controleurs aériens britanniques et leurs radars au sol.
Cette vidéo parle d'une demande d'intervention faite le 12 janvier 2007 de la part d'un contrôleur aérien d'une base de l'armée à Londres (London Military Air Traffic Control), Grande-Bretagne sur un OVNI repéré par les radars à 3000 (920m) ou 4000 pieds (1200 mètres) d'altitude. Un avion F15 de l'US Air Force décolle de la base de la RAF de Lakenheath, Suffolk, UK. L'avion, qui répond avec le signal "Gator" réussi à verrouiller son puissant radar sur l'objet. Il peut faire deux passes vers l'objet qui bouge vite, la première à une distance de 17.000 pieds (5200 mètres) et l'autre à 17.700 pieds (5400 mètres). L'objet est décrit comme de couleur entièrement noire mais qu'il ne s'agit d'aucun avion connu ou d'un grand oiseau :
Yves Herbo, Sciences, Fictions, Histoires.com, 09-2012, MAJ 28-10-2015
Monkeys paved the way for us to reach the moon and now Russian scientists are hoping the animals will be key to getting a human colony to Mars.
Experts from the Russian Academy Of Science are training four rhesus macaques to travel into space and land on the red planet - although it is unclear if they will also bring them back.
This training, which includes using a joystick and solving puzzles, should make them capable to man a mission within the next two years.
Experts from the Russian Academy Of Science are training four rhesus macaques (one pictured) to travel into space and land on Mars. This training, which includes using a joystick and solving puzzles, should make them capable to man a mission to the red planet within the next two years
The program launched in the 1980s and is being carried out at the Institute of Biomedical Problems, based at the academy.
For scientific projects such as these, monkeys are hand-reared in special farms, where only the most intelligent are selected to take part in the research.
PRIMATES IN SPACE
Ham (pictured) was launched into space as part of America's space program in January 1961
The first primate to go to space was Albert I in June 1948 on a US military V-2 rocket. He suffocated and died during the flight.
A year later a second V-2 took Albert II to an altitude of 438,250ft (83 miles), the rocket returned but Albert II died on impact.
In December that year, Albert IV was sent into space wired up to machines that monitored his health. He suffered no ill effects while in space but, like Albert II, he died on impact.
It took another two years before another monkey, this time called Yorick, made the journey to 263,000ft (50 miles) and survived. .
Ham, also known as Ham the Astrochimp, was launched into space as part of America's space program in January 1961.
His vital signs and tasks were monitored during his 16 minute and 39 second fight and he splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean.
All four of the rhesus macaques in this latest study were chosen for their cognitive abilities and their quick-learning skills, explained the scientists.
Each day a team, led by Inessa Kozlovskaya, trains the monkeys to control a joystick and hit a target highlighted by a cursor.
When they complete the task successfully they are rewarded with a sip of juice.
Once they have mastered this task the macaques will be trained to solve simple mathematical tasks and puzzles.
At the end of their training the creatures should be capable of completing a daily schedule of tasks on their own.
The scientists are hoping this will be achieved by 2017.
Dr Kozlovskaya said the main goal is to teach monkeys to perform a particular range of tasks which they will be able to remember.
'What we are trying to do is to make them as intelligent as possible so we can use them to explore space beyond our orbit,' she said.
The team is also hoping that the space monkeys will be able to train others and integrate them into the team.
Macaques typically have a lifespan of around 25 years, so it is hoped there is enough time to train them properly and for them to survive the six-month trip to Mars, added the team.
The first primate to go to space was Albert I in June 1948 on a US military V-2 rocket.
He suffocated and died during the flight.
A year later, almost to the day, a second V-2 took Albert II to an altitude of 438,250ft (83 miles), the rocket returned but Albert II died on impact.
In December that year, Albert IV was sent into space wired up to machines that monitored his health.
He suffered no ill effects while in space but, like Albert II, he died on impact.
It took another two years before another monkey, this time called Yorick, made the journey to 263,000ft (50 miles) with 11 mice. Yorick was the first primate to survive a space trip.
Ham, also known as Ham the Astrochimp, was then launched into space as part of America's space program in January 1961.
Russian mission to Mars to be conducted by space monkeys
Every day, a team trains the monkeys to control a joystick and hit a target highlighted by a cursor (pictured). Once they have mastered this task, the macaques will be trained to solve mathematical tasks and puzzles
When the monkeys complete the tasks successfully they are rewarded with a sip of juice (pictured). At the end of their training the creatures should be capable of completing a daily schedule of tasks on their own
His vital signs and tasks were monitored and he was able to pull levers during the flight, demonstrating that these tasks could be performed in space.
His total flight time was 16 minutes and 39 seconds and he splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean.
Dogs have also been sent into space.
In the early 1950s, the Soviets sent two, called Dezik and Tsygan, into orbit and they survived.
Dezik died during a second flight, alongside a dog named Lisa. Another two died on a subsequent trip.
Dr Kozlovskaya said that the main goal is to teach monkeys to perform a particular range of tasks which they will be able to remember. Macaques typically have a lifespan of around 25 years, so it is hoped there is enough time to train them properly and for them to survive the six-month trip to Mars, added the team
Elsewhere, Nasa is hoping to get to Mars by the 2030s.
In addition to its rovers, the space agency is currently investigating the long-term effects of space travel on humans as part of its twins study.
Astronaut Scott Kelly is more than half-way through a year-long stay on board the ISS, while his brother Mark has remained on Earth.
Nasa plans to study how Scott responds to life in space by comparing his body to his brother's on his return next year.
The first primate to go to space was Albert I in June 1948 on a US military V-2 rocket. He suffocated and died during the flight. In 1961, Ham (pictured) the Astrochimp was sent into space and his vital signs and tasks were monitored. He splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean 16 minutes and 39 seconds later
Nasa is hoping to get to Mars (colony illustrated) by the 2030s. In addition to its rovers, the space agency is currently investigating the long-term effects of space travel on humans as part of its twins study
According to article published in May 2010 issue of the Mufon UFO Journal - Ben Rich, the “Father of the Stealth Fighter-Bomber” and former head of Lockheed Skunk Works, had once let out information about Extraterrestrial UFO Visitors Are Real And U.S. Military Travel To Stars. What he said might be new to many people today, but he revealed the information before his death in January 1995. His statements helped to give credence to reports that the U.S. military has been flying vehicles that mimic aliencraft.
The article was written by Tom Keller, an aerospace engineer who has worked as a computer systems analyst for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
1 : “Inside the Skunk Works (Lockheed’s secret research and development entity), we were a small, intensely cohesive group consisting of about fifty veteran engineers and designers and a hundred or so expert machinists and shop workers. Our forte was building technologically advanced airplanes of small number and of high class for highly secret missions.” 2 : “We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.” 3 : “We now have the technology to take ET home. No, it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars. First, you have to understand that we will not get to the stars using chemical propulsion. Second, we have to devise a new propulsion technology. What we have to do is find out where Einstein went wrong.” 4 : When Rich was asked how UFO propulsion worked, he said, “Let me ask you. How does ESP work?” The questioner responded with, “All points in time and space are connected?” Rich then said, “That’s how it works!” Ben Rich Lockheed Former Director knew of extraterrestrial UFO visitors.
Lockheed "Skunk Works" former director knew the Roswell extraterrestrial UFO influenced designs of Testor model kits for Roswell UFO models, and U.S. top secret aircraft.
According to a CNI News report by Colorado resident Michael Lindemann, the design information was derived from forensic illustrations and numerous witness testimonies about the Roswell UFO, provided by William L. “Bill” McDonald. In an e-mail, dated July 29, 1999, apparently addressed to Lindemann, McDonald referenced an excerpt of a discussion with Harold Puthoff, founder of the highly classified U.S. “remote viewing” program. McDonald said: “Well Hal, you asked for it! Now that legendary Lockheed engineer and chief model kit designer for the Testor Corporation, John Andrews, is dead, I can announce that he personally confirmed the design connection between the Roswell Spacecraft and the Lockheed Martin Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAVs), spyplanes, Joint Strike Fighters, and Space Shuttles. Andrews was a close personal friend of "Skunk Works" director Ben Rich -- the hand-picked successor of Skunk Works founder Kelly Johnson and the man famous for the F-117 Nighthawk "Stealth" fighter, its "half-pint" prototype the "HAVE BLUE", and the top-secret F-19 Stealth Interceptor. Before Rich died of cancer, Andrews took my questions to him. Dr. Ben R. Rich former Lockheed Skunk Works director confirmed: 1. "There are 2 types of UFOs - the ones we build and the ones 'they' build. We learned from both crash retrievals and actual "hand-me-downs." The Government knew and until 1969 took an active hand in the administration of that information. After a 1969 Nixon "purge", administration was handled by an international board of directors in the private sector… 2. Nearly all "biomorphic" aerospace designs were inspired by the Roswell spacecraft - from Kelly's SR-71 Blackbird onward to today's drones, UCAVs, and aerospace craft… 3. It was Ben Rich's opinion that the public should not be told [about UFOs and extraterrestrials] . He believed they could not handle the truth - ever. Only in the last months of his decline did he begin to feel that the "international corporate board of directors" dealing with the "Subject" could represent a bigger problem to citizens' personal freedoms under the United States Constitution than the presence of off-world visitors themselves.” Lindemann added that “Bill McDonald received the above information from Andrews from 1994 until their last phone call near Christmas in 1998.” Lindemann also noted “It should also be known that Dr. Ben R. Rich attended a public aerospace designers and engineers conference in 1993 before his illness overwhelmed him in which he stated - in the presence of MUFON Orange County Section Director Jan Harzan and many others that – ‘We’ (i.e., the U.S. aerospace community/military industrial complex) had in it's possession the technology to "take us to the stars". Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer USAF, and CIA Contractor Admitted : UFOs Are Real
Don Phillips, "These UFOs were huge and they would just come to a stop and do a 60 degree, 45 degree, 10 degree turn, and then immediately reverse this action".
During the Apollo landing, Neil Armstrong says, "They're here. They are right over there and looking at the size of those ships., it is obvious they dont like us being here”. When I was working with the Skunkworks with Kelly Johnson, we signed an agreement with the government to keep very quiet about this. Anti-gravitational research was going on. We know that there were some captured craft from 1947 in Roswell, they were real. And, yes, we really did get some technology from them. And, yes, we really did put it to work. We knew each other from what we call an unseen industry. We can term it black, deep black, or hidden. The knowledge I have of these technologies came from the craft that were captured here. I didn`t see the craft, nor did I see the bodies, but I certainly know some of the people that did. There was no question that there were beings from outside the planet. And if alien were hostile, with their weaponry they could have destroyed us a long time ago .We got these things that are handhold scanners that scan the body and determine what the condition is. We can also treat from the same scanner. I can tell you personally that we've been working on them. And we have ones that can diagnose and cure cancer. One of the purposes I had for founding my technology corporation in 1998 was to bring forth these technologies that can clean the air and can help get rid of the toxins, and help reduce the need for so much fossil fuel. Yes, it is time. I can tell you personally that it has already started. pp. 375 ,383. Download this DISCLOSURE document: http://www.scribd.com/doc/30425722/Disclosure-Military-and-Government#open_download Another Lockheed Martin senior research scientist Boyd Bushman : "Extraterrestrial UFO visitors are real". Read article here.
Jacques Vallee, Terrence McKenna, John Mack, Budd Hopkins on the Alien, UFO, Abduction phenomenon
Gepubliceerd op 15 jan. 2014
This video has been "unlisted" due to the reoccurring comments on trying to correlate demonic association of UFO phenomena to Christian liturgy, dogma and belief systems. Please save your opinions to your congregations and not that of this YouTube Channel. Thank you, Johnny Tortuga,
A star is dimming for reasons that astronomers can't explain.
Observations by NASA's Kepler space telescope revealed that the star KIC 8462852, which lies about 1,500 light-years from Earth, dimmed dramatically and strangely several times over the past few years. Researchers aren't sure what's going on, and they have posited that some sort of light-blocking "alien megastructure" is a possible — though unlikely — explanation.
"We are the most skeptical people on the planet," Robert J. Sawyer, a Canadian sci-fi writer who regularly discusses alien life in his novels, toldSpace.com. His 23rd novel, "Quantum Night," will be published in 2016. "It is hard to find a science-fiction writer who believes in UFOs or flying saucers," Sawyer said.
Sawyer added that journalists, by contrast, often pump up the news because they "smell front page." And while Sawyer supports the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) because it is so cheap to listen for radio signals, he said it's meaningful that, in five decades of searching, nothing has come up so far. Aliens, he said, may communicate by other means.
All that being said, what if KIC 8462852 does host an alien megastructure? What might it look like? Sawyer and fellow sci-fi novelist Larry Niven shared some ideas with Space.com.
Patterns in the sky
By surrounding their sta with swarms of energy-collecting satellites, advanced civilizations could create Dyson spheres. [Read the Full Dyson Sphere Infographic Here.] Credit: by Karl Tate, Infographics Artist
One possible use of a megastructure could be a sort of calling card, which was covered in Sawyer's 1994 novel "End of an Era." In that book, a paleontologist travels back to the time of the dinosaurs, some 65 million years ago, and spots a rosette pattern of stars in the sky. Upon analysis, it's clear the structure is far away; there is no parallax, or shifting in position when you view it at different times of the year (and at different points in Earth's orbit).
"You have to conclude that some now-extinct alien civilization was announcing itself to the universe by doing a mega-engineering project, moving the stars in a geodesic sphere so that from any vantage point, you would see it," Sawyer said.
Another use for a megastructure could be to harvest energy from a star, which is famously discussed in Niven's "Ringworld" series. Niven was inspired by the idea of a Dyson sphere — a shell or system of objects that would surround the star and collect its light.
In some cases, a Dyson sphere could be constructed as an artificial world with a water cycle, atmosphere and so on. Niven's twist, first articulated in the 1970 novel "Ringworld," was to have an object only around the star's equator — a ringworld — in part because spinning a Dyson sphere would force the atmosphere and oceans to the equator anyway. [Dyson Spheres: How Advanced Alien Civilizations Would Conquer the Galaxy (Infographic)]
"The Dyson sphere looked wonderful, but I decided to make a cheaper version," Niven toldSpace.com. "[The public] loved it. I was surprised, and before that, I was a little worried. I wasn't sure they'd take it seriously. Once I opened the field, there were enough new problems to make a [book]shelf all based on ring structures."
One problem with the ringworld is that it would eventually break apart due to gravity from the star — an issue that both Sawyer and Niven pointed out. In Niven's next book on that concept, "The Ringworld Engineers" (1979), he stabilized the ringworld using attitude jets on the rim, which were powered by the solar wind (a stream of particles coming from the sun). He also made the ringworld's floor — the side facing the sun — magnetic so that it would interact with the sun's magnetic field and keep the ringworld aligned with the equator.
Glowing fires
Niven said he is also skeptical that the new find is an alien megastructure, but he said it could be suggestive of a Dyson cloud — a huge collection of solar panels to harvest the sun's energy. Stars could also be moved around to gather energy more efficiently — an idea that Gregory Benford and Niven cover in their jointly authored books "The Bowl of Heaven" (2012) and "Shipstar" (2014).
Aliens probably wouldn't use such a megastructure to act as a cosmic calling card, Niven added, as doing so would be very expensive.
However, Sawyer noted that there is historical precedent for making (or at least proposing to make) big structures that do little more than say hello. In the late 1800s, when some people believed there were canals and a dying civilization on Mars, Joseph Johann von Littrow (as the story goes) suggested digging huge canals in the Sahara, filling them with kerosene and setting them on fire.
"We would be signaling [the Martians] with glowing geometric shapes," Sawyer said. "It really has been this natural desire to say, 'Hey, we're here.'"
Researchers build world's first working sonic tractor beam
A sonic tractor beam built by the universities of Sussex and Bristol is shown on Oct. 23, 2015. (Youtube / University of Sussex)
Nick Wells, CTVNews.ca
It's long been the stuff of sci-fi fantasy, but a team of researchers say they have built the world's first working sonic tractor beam.
Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex along with Ultrahaptics, a company that was started out of a project from the University of Bristol, claim to have built a sonic tractor beam that can move objects using sound waves.
The researchers published a report on their technique in the science journal "Nature Communications" on Tuesday.
Using a combination of 64 miniature loudspeakers to create a high-pitched and high-intensity sound waves, the device was able to levitate beads up to 4-millimetres in diameter.
"In our device we manipulate objects in mid-air and seemingly defy gravity. We can individually control dozens of loudspeakers to tell us an optimal solution to generate an acoustic hologram that can manipulate multiple objects in real-time without contact," University of Sussex professor of informatics Sriram Subramian said in a statement.
Unlike in previous attempts to create “tractor beams,” the object doesn't need to be completely surrounded by loudspeakers in order to manipulate it.
The group found that, by altering the sound wave output, the high-intensity sound waves create a force field that can keep a bead in place, move it around, and even combine multiple beads.
"We all know that sound waves can have a physical effect. But here we have managed to control the sound to a degree never previously achieved," said Bruce Drinkwater, a professor of ultrasonics with the University of Bristol.
Unlike the tractor beams audiences are accustomed to seeing dragging unsuspecting humans into orbiting UFOs, researchers envision this technology could one day have applications in medicine, for example, moving or manipulating everything from kidney stones to micro-surgical instruments without interfering with magnetic resonance imaging.
The next step is building a larger version that is capable of levitating a soccer ball from 10 metres away, and building a smaller version that can manipulate particles inside the human body.
Dramatic footage of a fake UFO hovering over the Nelson Mandela bridge in Johannesburg is sure to set twitter alight.
A photo of a UFO hovering over the N1 highway in Midrand has set social media alight, with people sharing the picture and commenting on what they saw. UFOs always get people excited – and afraid – and perhaps it has something to do with the excitement of not being alone in the ginormous universe.
Connect picked up the photo on facebook just before it went viral, before it launched like a flying saucer into the stratosphere overnight. The original story, which can be read here, shows a giant saucer-shaped, ominous-looking, creepy-villain dwelling space ship just above the clouds.
Austin Rossouw, a graphic artist and animator from Johannesburg, took up The Citizen’s challenge of producing a photo of a UFO above the skyline of Johannesburg. His brief was simple: check out the original photo and give us something that looks like it was taken with a cell phone inside a moving car and put it in a cool location, such as Braamfontein – and make it confusing: maybe it’s a thunder cloud and maybe it is a Zorkmobile from planet Zork (it’s always Zork). 30 minutes later, we had our very own UFO in Johannesburg.
Fake UFO in Johannesburg.
PICTURE: Austin Rossouw
The point of the exercise is to show two things – just how cool Adobe suite is, but also, how easy it is to go viral. One would have thought that in 2015 people would have moved on from believing everything they see and read, just because they see and read it – but that is not the case. Although some people took the picture as a joke, many others shared the photo believing it just might be true.
If the UFO is in fact real, and here I am making a mockery of graphic design 101 and all the believers of the great alien conspiracy, then the joke will be on me. Think about it, these super advanced, freaky (no doubt slightly prawny) beings are here to impress upon us their superiority and here is a little you-know-what called Devlin Brown posting a picture of a fake cloudy UFO in a cooler location – definitely a hipster time-traveler. What if they get cross with me?
Come to think of it – I have been hearing a low rumble behind the window since I started this experiment. My screen flashes and the cursor moves by itself. I’m feeling a bit dizzy, and… the lights are flashing. What is going on? Who’s there? I am just trying to pu ASDA ASD ASD….
No, a UFO named WTF is not threatening to destroy Earth
Let's start with the facts: Yes, there's something hurtling through space in our direction. Yes, it's going to enter the Earth's atmosphere and possibly land in the Indian Ocean next month. No, scientists don't know quite what it is. And, no, that doesn't make it a UFO.
The European Space Agency released information last week about an object spotted streaking through space and heading toward Earth. Headlines are zeroing in on the chance of impact and the unidentified object's comically apropos nickname. Officially named WT1190F, the object's catalog number has been popularly shortened to "WTF."
But ESA scientists have a pretty good idea of what it could be -- probably a remnant from a past mission, like the hollow shell of part of a spent rocket -- and they're confident that it's unlikely to be a threat.
"The expected 13 November reentry of what is likely to be a rocket body poses very little risk to anyone," they wrote on the ESA blog Thursday.
"The object is quite small, at most a couple of meters in diameter, and a significant fraction if not all of it can be expected to completely burn up in the atmosphere," said Tim Flohrer, from ESA's Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany.
Whatever remains of the space junk after the fiery reentry is expected to fall into the Indian Ocean, about 60 miles off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, on Nov. 13.
Space object WT1190F observed on 9 October 2015 with the University of Hawaii 2.2-metre telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
B. BOLIN, R. JEDICKE, M. MICHELI
"If anything makes it down to the surface...it would be very small, so the odds of anybody getting hurt are very remote," CBS News Space Correspondent Bill Harwood said. "The thing that this always brings to mind is, all satellites and rocket bodies (re)enter on a fairly regular basis so it's not at all unusual."
"The good news is that three-quarters of the world is ocean, so the odds are that it's going to land somewhere in the ocean and the ocean is a big place," he added. "Statistically I think there's no point in worrying about this one."
WT1190F was first discovered in 2013 by the Catalina Sky Survey, which identifiesnear-Earth objects in space. It has been observed several times since then by the same team.
Scientists hope to use observations to better understand how objects -- "man-made or natural" -- behave upon entry into Earth's atmosphere.
Marco Micheli, an astronomer at ESA's Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre, said, "The first goal will be to better understand the reentry of satellites and debris from highly eccentric orbits."
"Second, it provides an ideal opportunity to test our readiness for any possible future atmospheric entry events involving an asteroid, since the components of this scenario, from discovery to impact, are all very similar."
Harwood explained that watching WT1190F could help scientists understand "what exactly happens when something comes into the atmosphere at extremely high speed and breaks apart: Where in the altitude does the break up start? How much debris reaches the surface?"
He also thinks it would be particularly interesting if scientists could identify the object, which could potentially be a piece of equipment left over from the Apollo missions.
The real-life UFO story behind this season of 'Fargo'
Val Johnson sat inside a new Marshall County squad car two months after the incident.Regene Radniecki | Star Tribune 1979
"This is a true story."
Those words kick off every episode of "Fargo" — they were also at the start of the 1996 movie.
Of course the Coen brothers, and now show creator Noah Hawley, are playing fast-and-loose with "truth." But one of the most unbelievable, out-of-this-world parts of season two is, in fact, "a true story."
(Stop reading now if you're not caught up, Fargo watchers.)
We're talking about the aliens.
So far, unexplained lights and UFO-talk have been in all three episodes of "Fargo," which takes place in and around Luverne, Minn., in 1979.
For these supernatural allusions, Hawley may be pulling straight from the local history books.
Minnesota in the 1970s was something of a hotbed of UFO activity — for the people who believe in that kind of thing. "This was a big decade for UFOs in Minnesota," said Dave Kenney, co-author of "Minnesota in the 70s."
The end of the decade, 1979, brought one of the most notorious unexplained encounters in the whole UFO canon: Val Johnson's late-night crash.
A few weeks after the incident, Johnson stood where he says he was engulfed by a flash of light, and indicated how big the beam was as it approached.Stormi Greener | Star Tribune 1979
Johnson was a Marshall County sheriff's deputy on night patrol outside Warren, Minn., near the North Dakota-Minnesota border. In the early hours of Aug. 26, 1979, he was driving a rural stretch of State Highway 20 when, he says, a ball of light appeared in the road.
"I noticed a very bright, brilliant light, 8 to 12 inches in diameter, 3 to 4 feet off the ground," Johnson said in a taped police interview. "The edges were very defined."
The next thing Johnson knew, the light was in the car with him.
It hit him, Johnson said, "like a 200-pound pillow."
Johnson's car is preserved at the county museum.Courtesy of the Marshall County Museum
He woke up in a ditch a half-hour later with burns around his eyes. The windshield and one headlight of his 1977 Ford LTD were smashed. Both radio antennas were bent sharply back. The watch on his wrist and the clock on the dash both ticked 14 minutes slow.
Police investigated and never drew any conclusions. But the UFO researchers have plenty of their own.
Jerome Clark, the author of "The UFO Encyclopedia," says the "Val Johnson Incident" remains one of the top 10 most influential UFO encounters in history.
MPR News reporter John Enger recently caught up with Johnson, 36 years after the incident. He's retired, with grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He lives in Eau Claire, Wis.
While believers tout the story as one of the strongest pieces of evidence of extraterrestrial life, Johnson won't speculate on what happened to him that night. He says he doesn't even think about it much.
Johnson's story has plenty of parallels to what "Fargo" fans are watching play out on TV: the small-town cop, the rural highways, the strange lights in the sky.
What remains to be seen is how far Hawley and "Fargo" will take their fictionalized version of the "Val Johnson incident."
When asked about the UFOs by "Vanity Fair," Hawley kept things mysterious: "Look, the Coens' universe is very much a place where you have to accept the mystery and figure out ... does it mean something? Does it not mean something?"
We'll have to watch and see.
Hear Val Johnson describe the encounter himself in the most recent episode of "Aw Jeez," a "Fargo" recap podcast.
This May Be the Best Alternative Explanation to That Extraterrestrial Dyson Sphere So Far
by Janey Tracey
Within the next week, astronomers are expected to have an answer regarding the cause of the bizarre, irregular dips in brightness of star KIC 8462852, which have led many to speculate that we've found long-sought evidence of an alien civilization. Now, space blogger Jim Galasyn has an alternative explanation: the star itself is oblate, or lopsided, leading to the asymmetrical blockages of light.
While many stars experience dips in brightness as a result of the transit of other celestial objects, the dips of this particular star were unusual for being more extreme (up to 22%), asymmetrical, and non-periodic. The best explanation that involved a natural phenomenon was a string of comets circling the star, but this explanation is considered to be inadequate to fully explain the evidence. As a result, the astronomers who discovered the star began to look into the (admittedly remote)possibility of a Dyson sphere, or a megastructure built around the star by an advanced alien civilization.
The investigation is underway, and we're expected to receive answers by the end of this week. But in the meantime, Galasyn of Desdemona Despair has an alternative explanation from a 2013 paper by Barnes et al. called "Measurement of spin-orbit misalignment and nodal precession for the planet around pre-main-sequence star PTFO 8-8695 from gravity darkening." According to this paper, some stars don't have uniformly spinning discs, which causes the radius to be larger at the equator than at the poles. Since the poles have smaller surface area, they have higher surface gravity, which causes the poles to be "gravity brightened" and the equator to be "gravity darkened."
When a star is oblate, it has a larger radius at its equator than it does at its poles. As a result, the poles have a higher surface gravity, and thus higher temperature and brightness. Thus, the poles are "gravity brightened", and the equator "gravity darkened".
The star becomes oblate (and hence gravity darkening occurs) because the centrifugal force resulting from rotation creates additional outward pressure on the star.
Since there is variable brightness in different areas of the star, the irregular curves of light could be explained by planetarybodies moving across these brighter and darker areas. As planets of different sizes passed across different parts of the star, the brightness would change in asymmetrical and irregular ways.
"Did Kepler discover evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization?" Galasyn wrote on his blog. "Before we invoke aliens, we should consider the plausible natural explanation provided by Barnes:
'An oblique transit path across a gravity-darkened, oblate star leads to the long transit duration and asymmetric lightcurve evident in the photometric data.'"
An artist's concept depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of a star that is similar to our sun.
NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle
Have you heard the big news? If not, you haven't been paying attention to your Facebook feed.
For the past week or two, the Internet has been lighting up about alien megastructures that might, or might not, be orbiting a star called KIC 8462852.
So what should we make of it? Is it just hype deserving a long, slow roll of the eyes? Or is there something in the story that deserves serious consideration?
The answer to this question is, I think, surprising — especially given the next sentence I'm about to hit you with.
It's probably not aliens. Sorry.
Now, that's what you should expect me — a sober, rational, boring scientist — to say. In fact, many of my sober, rational, boring scientist colleagues had the same reaction I did when I heard the news. It went something like this: "Aliens?" (snicker, snicker) "Yeah, right."
But beyond our quick dismissals and snickers there hides a much more interesting reality. Maybe it's time for all of us sober, rational, boring scientists to stop snickering when these kinds of possibilities pop up.
Before we go any further, though, let's quickly review a few facts.
Last week's news was about the star KIC 8462852. The focus was on changes in the star's light output (its light curve) that had never been seen before. The observations were taken by the Kepler space telescope, whose job is discovering exoplanets by looking for partial eclipses, or transits, that occur as the planet passes in front of its host star. Kepler scientists know exactly what the drop in starlight should look like when they've discovered a planet.
But the light curve of KIC 8462852 looks nothing like a planet — or any other known astronomical phenomena.
"We'd never seen anything like this," Tabetha Boyajian, one of the authors on the discovery paper, told Ross Andersen at The Atlantic (see Andersen's post for details on the whole story). "It was really weird," Boyajain continued. "We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out."
Boyajian and her co-authors considered a wide range of possibilities to explain the strange dips in the light coming from KIC 8462852. Nothing they dreamed up provided a really, really good explanation. And in the absence of that really, really good explanation, at least a few others have been thinking: "Aliens!" As Andersen reports, Jason Wright of Penn State is already working on a paper suggesting we might be seeing a signature of extraterrestrial construction, a "swarm of mega-structures," on a planetary system scale.
That's because the point today is not what KIC 8462852, in particular, might be telling us. The odds are high that a natural explanation will be found for the star's flickering that has nothing to do with aliens.
Why take that stance? Well, aliens are always the last hypothesis you should consider. Occam's razor tells scientists to always go for the simplest explanation for a new phenomenon. But even as we keep Mr. Occam's razor in mind, there is something fundamentally new happening right now that all of us, including scientists, must begin considering.
Kepler and the many exoplanet-hunting missions coming next (JWST, PLATO, etc.) represent an entirely new way of watching the sky.
Telescope time has always been expensive — and there's a lot of sky. In the past, astronomers didn't have the technical capacity to continuously watch zillions of stars for long periods of time. The suns we astronomers did come back to again and again tended to be remarkable in one way or another (they flared or blew up periodically). But the exoplanet revolution means we're developing capacities to stare deep into the light produced by hundreds of thousands of boring, ordinary stars. And these are exactly the kind of stars where life might form on orbiting planets.
In fact, the express purpose of many of these missions is to find these planets and probe their light signatures so deeply we might "see" their atmospheres. In that way, we might also search for so-called bio-signatures. These are atmospheric molecules like oxygen and methane that will be present only if a biosphere has developed on the planet.
So we are already going to be looking at a lot of stars to hunt for planets. And when we find those planets, we are going to look at them for basic signs that life has formed. But all that effort means we will also be looking in exactly the right places to stumble on evidence of not just life but intelligent, technology-deploying life. It's as if your job was to look through lost-and-found wallets all day gathering dollar bills. Since you're already looking in the wallets, there is some chance you might stumble on a winning lottery ticket in one of them, too.
Of course, the odds of finding a winning lottery ticket are low. In the same way, seeing something unusual around a star is probably not evidence of an alien civilization. But given the large-scale exoplanet observations we are doing anyway, perhaps it's time to start thinking about how to think about the whole alien thing. David Grinspoon, the Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, put it succinctly when he told me:
"Lots of astronomers have been discussing all the possibilities for the light curve pretty responsibly. But some are really up in arms at even the mention of aliens. I think that's a mistake. Clearly, some things are more probable than others. But we have to learn how to handle these things [and] how to not to handle them."
I think Grinspoon is right. If we do lots of exoplanet observations, then we are bound to see new things. For most of them, we will find "natural" explanations. But for some of them we may also need to, at least, consider the possibility of something more than natural.
And that would mean going beyond snickering.
Adam Frank is a co-founder of the 13.7 blog, an astrophysics professor at the University of Rochester, a book author and a self-described "evangelist of science." You can keep up with more of what Adam is thinking on Facebook and Twitter:@adamfrank4
Sciencefiction wordt realiteit: wetenschappers laten objecten zweven met trekstraal uit Star Trek
De trekstraal bestond lange tijd alleen in de wereld van Star Wars en Star Trek, maar binnenkort kunnen wij er ook gebruik van maken. Op Wikipedia staat nog dat een trekstraal een fictief apparaat uit de sciencefictionwereld is, maar dát is nu achterhaald.
Britse wetenschappers zijn erin geslaagd om de technologie voor ’s werelds allereerste trekstraal te ontwikkelen. Daarmee kunnen ze objecten vastpakken, in de lucht omhoog trekken en laten zweven.
Het systeem werkt op dit moment op een afstand van zo’n 30 centimeter met kleine objecten ter grootte van een erwt. Door een object te omringen met zeer intense geluidsgolven blijft het als het ware op die golven staan.
De technologie doet wellicht denken aan de technologie uit sciencefictionfilms, waarmee een mens bijvoorbeeld aan boord van een UFO wordt gestraald. De wetenschappers speelden hier tijdens een demonstratie op in. Ze plaatsten het systeem in een kartonnen UFO, zodat het object als het ware aan boord van de UFO werd gestraald.
Het systeem heeft iets minder dan 10 watt nodig, dus met redelijk beperkte middelen kun je al een trekstraal bouwen. Tot voor kort lukte het maar niet om in de praktijk een trekstraal te ontwikkelen. Het bleek erg lastig om te bepalen welke vorm de geluidsgolven moeten hebben.
Hoofdonderzoeker Bruce Drinkwater hoopt met de uitvinding een methode te ontwikkelen voor het toedienen van medicijnen, precies op de plek waar dat nodig is. In ieder geval is er nu een werkend model van de trekstraal uit Star Trek.
Het onderzoek is gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Nature.
Zeldzaam fenomeen aan de hemel te zien: Planetentrio in uitzonderlijke driehoeksverhouding
Venus, Jupiter en Mars zijn nog zo’n twee weken samen aan de hemel te zien. Wie de uitzonderlijke samenstand wil aanschouwen moet wel vroeg opstaan. Het planetentrio is namelijk het best zichtbaar rond 5 à 6 uur.
Dat de drie planeten samen te zien zijn is uitzonderlijk. De eerstvolgende keer dat we dit zeldzame fenomeen kunnen bewonderen, is pas in januari 2021. Nog zeldzamer is een conjunctie met vijf planeten. De laatste keer dateert van 2000 en de volgende is pas in 2040. Om acht planeten bij elkaar te zien moet je wachten tot het jaar 2854.
Op 26 oktober stonden de drie planeten het dichtst bij elkaar. De samenstand is ’s ochtends vroeg te zien in de zuidoostelijke hemel. Op dit moment staan Jupiter en Venus bovenaan en Mars onderaan de driehoek. Nog tot vrijdag kun je de zeldzame driehoek aanschouwen. Daarna zal Venus zakken.
Donderdag is wellicht het beste ogenblik om te kijken, dan vormen de planeten een mooi driehoekje en staan ze erg dicht bij elkaar. De samenstand van de planeten is al zichtbaar sinds de nacht van 23 oktober.
Rond 6 november komt ook de maan het planetentrio vergezellen. Om de drie planeten te kunnen zien heb je geen speciale apparatuur nodig. Je kunt gewoon de hemel afspeuren met het blote oog. Na de zon en de maan zijn Venus en Jupiter de helderste hemellichamen.
VIDEO: Vrouw uit Florida legt mysterieuze ‘planeet’ vast bij de zon
Het internet is in rep en roer: een vrouw uit Florida wist niet wat ze zag toen ze een mysterieuze ‘planeet’ aan de hemel spotte. Melissa Huffman plaatste een video op YouTube waarin tegen zonsondergang een grote lichtbol is te zien bij de zon.
Volgens Huffman gaat het duidelijk om een planeet. Ze zegt dat het waarschijnlijk niet Mercurius of Venus is. Elders in de lucht is de maan te zien. “Wil iemand me vertellen wat dit is? Alvast bedankt,” zegt Huffman in de video.
Nibiru
Onder het filmpje, dat inmiddels meer dan een half miljoen keer is bekeken, schreef ze dat het mogelijk Nibiru was, een planetair object dat werd beschreven door de Amerikaanse schrijver Zecharia Sitchin. Volgens wetenschappers is er geen bewijs voor het bestaan van Nibiru.
In zijn boek ‘De twaalfde planeet’ beschrijft Sitchin hoe Anunnaki, buitenaardse wezens afkomstig van de planeet Nibiru, de Soemerische beschaving in Mesopotamië hebben opgebouwd. Hij zei dat deze twaalfde planeet zich in een uitgerekte elliptische baan achter Neptunus bevindt.
Complotdenkers speculeerden dat deze mysterieuze planeet is teruggekeerd in ons zonnestelsel. “Het is zeker Nibiru. Onze makers komen eraan,” zei iemand in een reactie op de video.
Bijzon
Verschillende Reddit-gebruikers suggereerden echter dat het object waarschijnlijk een bijzon of parhelium is, een reflectie van de zon in de wolken.
Inwoners van Mongolië maakten in januari foto’s en filmpjes van een soortgelijk fenomeen, toen er aan beide zijden van de zon een bijzon verscheen en er even drie zonnen aan de hemel leken te staan.
Mysterieuze constructie ontdekt in Egyptische woestijn ( Video )
In een verlaten deel van de Egyptische woestijn is een bijzondere geometrische constructie ontdekt.
Volgens een dame met paranormale gaven hebben we hier te maken met een buitenaards ruimteschip en bevinden de inzittenden zich in een basis onder de grote piramides.
Soms kom je via Google de meest vreemde dingen tegen op onze planeet. Zo was er enkele dagen geleden een Italiaanse onderzoeker, Matteo Ianneo, die via Google Earth een merkwaardige constructie ontdekte zo’n 50 kilometer ten zuidoosten van Cairo.
Iedereen kan het zelf opzoeken via Google Earth of Maps door het intikken van de volgende coördinaten: 30° 1'13.25"N 31°43'14.51"E
Wat je dan te zien krijgt is het volgende:
Nog wat meer afbeeldingen vanuit verschillende invalshoeken:
Wat het ook is, het is niet iets dat afkomstig is uit de oudheid want volgens Ianneo stond er in 2009 nog helemaal niets op die plek.
Misschien is er een heel simpele verklaring voor deze bijzondere geometrische constructie en weet iemand wat het is.
Wereldwijd wordt er uiteraard volop gespeculeerd over wat dit zou kunnen zijn en sommige mensen zijn zelfs te rade gegaan bij een dame die over paranormale gaven schijnt te beschikken.
Zij zegt het volgende:
Wanneer ik mij focus dan zie ik een spiksplinternieuw ruimtevoertuig dat bezig is met de landing. Het is van buitenaardse oorsprong en heeft nog een soort nieuwe glans alsof het net gebouwd is voor een missie naar deze aarde.
Het lijkt alsof het een bewuste keuze was om hier te landen en dat alles werkt zoals het hoort. Wanneer ik mentaal op onderzoek ga om uit te vinden wat het hier doet dan krijg ik door dat er een ondergronds grottensysteem is dat naar een basis leidt. Dit schip landde precies boven op die basis.
Ook krijg ik door dat dit grottensysteem weer verbonden is met een soortgelijk systeem onder de grote piramides zoals een soort labyrint.
Ik hoor dat deze reis naar onze aarde een enkeltje was. Ze hadden geen plannen om weer te vertrekken nadat ze hier eenmaal waren aangekomen. Ze zijn hier gekomen om een zeer zeldzame basis te versterken en een huis diep onder de grond te creëren. Het was in feite de bedoeling dat dit schip zou gaan fungeren als “een deksel” op de basis.
Heeft deze helderziende het goed en vormt dat wat wij zien onderdeel van een buitenaards schip of is er een meer aardse verklaring voor dit alles. . Kijk en oordeel zelf en eventuele verklaringen zijn natuurlijk altijd welkom
UFO Drone Caught Studying Deer In Berkesville, Kentucky On Oct 15, 2015, Photos, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: October 15, 2015 Location of sighting: Berkesville, Kentucky, USA Source: MUFON #71941 Aliens like to study humans, but not as much as they like to study our wildlife and plants. Drones are sent to record animal behaviors, smells, take samples, and so on so that the info can be brought back to their scientists to study. This looks like one of those drones. These drones travel incredibly fast, which is why it looks like 11 balls of light. Really its just a single ball of light. It looks like the flash from the camera scared it and its instantaneous reactions got it caught moving away. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: 1. Was at home watching TV and getting ready to go to bed. 2. First noticed it when I went to check what I had on game camera. I usually leave camera out for 1 week before I check to see what animals I got on film. 3. When I first saw the photo, I said to myself that's a UFO! 4. Didn't see it in person. Only on film. 5. Sent picture to local MUFON investigators via email, but have received no reply email. I know them both.
Dark Disk Seen Over Phoenix At Luke AFB, Arizona On Oct 26, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 26, 2015 Location of sighting: SE Phoenix, Arizona, USA Guys, Luke AFB is in Phoenix and has had many sightings of UFOs over the base in the last decade, so either aliens are keeping an eye on the base or this is a top secret USAF project. Hard to say, but if this UFO is govt, then it would not be hovering over the city for all to see. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Driving westbound in SE Phoenix on October 26 at 2pm I noticed in the far away distance a stationary object above the mountains. I could not video at first sighting as it was to far away. As I got closer to my exit I did mange to get this video. It was nothing like anything I have ever seen in the sky before...ever. From this distance it does have the appearance of a disc.
A British witness reported seeing and recording a dark object crossing the sky above London that changed directions, slowed down, hovered at times, and seemed to change in shape. The event took place at 2:55 p.m. on July 5, 2015, in London while the witness was sitting outside in the garden enjoying a cup of tea.
The witness said that he was watching three birds and then noticed another flying one in dark shape. The fourth one was not moving in a similar manner as the other three birds.
The witness started recording the object using a mobile phone for around two minutes. Then decided to get into a room to get a DSLR camera. He put the lens on a 50-300mm telephoto lens and went back to the garden.
He took several photos at full zoom, but the first 5 or 6 were over exposed. He failed to check the first set of images, perhaps because of excitement. He adjusted the setting and snapped another two photos at full zoom.
After shooting the last picture, the object disappeared into the witness line of sight. In his MUFON report, the witness described the object as a black dot travelling at regular speed on an erratic course. He also noticed in the video that the object changed direction many times, seemed to slow down, and hovered at other occasions.
The witness reviewed the photos and zoomed in to get a better look. In one image, the object seems stereotypical flying saucer with a lighter circle marking on it. In other photos, the object appears in an entirely different shape.
The case was reported on July 9, 2015, to MUFON and field investigator Jack Turnbull closed it as unknown after investigating it.
A witness from Yuba City in California reported seeing a triangle-shaped UFO and catching it in two photos while feeling uneasy to be in that location.
The witness went to Boyd’s pump to photograph a thunderstorm and lightning. When he ran out of space on an SD card, he went back to his home and transferred the photos to a laptop. After clearing the SD card, he went back to the same location to take more photos.
But, he felt uneasy this time. He got a weird feeling like he wanted to leave. It was quite intense for him, and he felt scared, but he was not sure the reason. When he got home, he transferred the second set of photos to the computer and noticed two different photos that captured a strange and mysterious object.
He saw a yellowish colored light with an odd shape that seemed to be shooting out of a cloud. When he zoomed in on the object, he noticed a triangle shape with a circle and marking that looked like a face on the bottom of it. He found it weird so he reported to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). His testimony is filed in the witness reporting database, Case 71166.
California MUFON investigator John Fegel investigated the case and closed it as Unknown.
Star trails are seen in the sky over Naramata, British Columbia.Cultura/Zuma
A group of scientists and academics from around the world has launched a new effort called UFODATA, which stands for UFO Detection and Tracking, to apply some rigorous scientific research to the study of UFOs. This all-volunteer, nonprofit project that includes scientists from the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Chile intends to use scientific data and research methods to advance an issue that has largely been confined to the margins (at best) of the traditional scientific community.
"It's abundantly clear that we're not going to make progress in understanding whatever is causing the unknown UFO reports and sightings without getting the type of data we want to collect," says Mark Rodeghier, scientific director and president of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies in Chicago, and now a UFODATA board member. "More witness testimony, where they fill out a form and tell you what they saw, is not going to help us solve the problem," he says. The problem that Rodeghier is referring to is the frequent, inexplicable sightings of aerial phenomena.
The group of about 15 scientists, engineers, astronomers, professors, and a journalist intend to install a series of automated surveillance stations loaded with scientific research tools at various locations in known UFO hotspots such as those in the western United States and in Hessdalen, Norway. The stations will be used to photograph unidentified objects and analyze the light coming from them in order to learn more about the sources of energy powering them. People have done this sort of thing in the past, but never before in such a coordinated and scientifically rigorous way.
The sensors that the group hopes to build will include several high-resolution cameras fitted with spectrographic grating, which is a method for analyzing thetype of light the camera is seeing, and the ways that energy might be affecting the atmosphere around the light source. Here is a video explaining the process. Other equipment includes a magnetometer, used to measure electromagnetic radiation, as well as a Geiger counter and a weather station.
"In this area of science (physics, astronomy, etc.) the best way to learn about something is to get its spectra," Rodeghier says. He compares it to a rainbow, which is a "spectra" of the sun's light. "You can see the elements it's composed of, you can also tell things about its temperature and pressure. There are many, many things that you can learn from a spectra and associated data."
These sensors aren't cheap. Each one will cost between $10,000 and $20,000, the group says, which they're hoping to raise through crowdfunding and other donations.
"UFODATA will rely on crowd funding to finance the stations, allowing the millions of people who take UFOs seriously to be involved in the effort, independent of the scientific establishment," wrote Leslie Kean, an American journalist and the author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record. After covering the issue for years, she's also now a board member for UFODATA. Kean announced the project on her Huffington Post blog earlier this week.
The all-volunteer group hopes to raise enough money to build one prototype station, test it, and prove the concept. Next year they plan to raise additional funds, Rodeghier says, after the project is better known and a more robust volunteer staff is in place.
Rodeghier says more reliable and scientific data will not only advance understanding of UFOs, but might also serve to persuade the public at large that this issue merits more serious examination.Nonetheless, the organizers appreciate that "the UFO community and the UFO problem is something that is pretty much looked down upon by what I call the establishment," Rodeghier says. "That includes scientists, big media, and politicians, Washington. All those people—and I'm speaking broadly because there's always exceptions—think the UFO problem, they laugh at it, it's to be ridiculed, and certainly shouldn't be supported and funded. And so yes, this is part of an effort, is to say, 'This problem is serious. It's like any other scientific problem.'"
But even the new organization has had to grapple internally with the taboo of scientific discussion of UFOs. The initial UFODATA team includes four "silent advisors"—two full professors, an attorney, and an astronomer—who "are prepared to lend a hand, but because of the cultural stigma attached to UFOs—or because of a personal preference for anonymity—have chosen to keep their involvement private" according to the group's website.
Are we the aliens who others will discover one day?
Scientist Researchers Peter Behroozi and Molly Peeples, both of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, have suggested Earth-like planets are let to develop.
But when they do, humans will be seen as the aliens in the galaxy that a new extra-terrestrial species from another world will seek out.
The scientists looked at data from the Kepler and Hubble space telescopes to estimate Earth’s position on the timeline of habitable world evolution.
Although star formation has slowed down across the universe, and the amount of gas needed to form new stars in our galaxy the Milky Way is depleted, there is ample left out there.
The two calculated only 8% of potentially life-bearing worlds had formed at the same time or before Earth, meaning there is scope for the other 92% to develop.
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Are we alone? Scientists think it is possible at moment
Our main motivation was understanding the Earth’s place in the context of the rest of the universe. Compared to all the planets that will ever form in the universe, the Earth is actually quite early.
Scientist Researchers Peter Behroozi
The theoretical study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has concluded it is quite possible after all that "we ARE alone", at the moment.
The duo discovered that outside the Milky Way most other galaxy systems have enough star making material for new solar systems to keep forming for an extremely long time even in cosmic terms.
‘WTF': Mysterieus ruimteobject stevent af op de aarde
Een mysterieus stuk ruimtepuin zal op 13 november inslaan op aarde. Wetenschappers weten niet precies wat het is, maar vermoeden dat het door mensen is gemaakt. Het object heeft de naam WT1190F (kortweg WTF) gekregen.
Het object zal volgens NASA neerkomen in de Indische Oceaan, ongeveer 65 kilometer van het zuidelijkste puntje van Sri Lanka.
Het stuk ruimtepuin is ontdekt door de Universiteit van Tucson. Onderzoekers stonden in eerste instantie voor een raadsel. Pas toen astronomen het archief doorzochten, bleek dat het object ook in 2012 is waargenomen.
Ze berekenden vervolgens de omloopbaan van het stuk ruimtepuin en kwamen tot de conclusie dat het waarschijnlijk gaat om een door mensen gemaakt object. “Dit museumstuk komt terug om ons schrik aan te jagen,” vertelde Jonathan McDowell van het Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics aan Nature.
Astrofysici menen dat het object zelfs afkomstig zou kunnen zijn van één van de Apollomissies. Misschien gaan we er nooit achter komen wat het was, aangezien WT1190F grotendeels in de atmosfeer zal verbranden en vervolgens zal neerplonzen in zee.
Verschillende laboratoria gaan het stuk ruimteschroot de komende dagen volgen. Er draaien nog 86 andere onbekende objecten rond de aarde. Voor het grootste deel gaat het om maansondes of onderdelen van raketten. Er zwerven ook tientallen kunstmatige objecten door de ruimte, waarvan er ongeveer 20 vanaf de aarde worden gevolgd.
Steeds meer aanwijzingen buitenaardse basis Baikalmeer, Rusland ( VIDEO )
De omgeving van het Baikalmeer gelegen in het verre Russische Siberië is een plek die met recht een UFO “hotspot” genoemd kan worden.
Er zijn talloze getuigen die een bemanning in gele pakken zagen verschijnen uit een geland ruimtevaartuig en zelfs filmmaker Steven Spielberg (ET) schijnt geïnteresseerd te zijn.
Als je als buitenaardsen actief bent op aarde met diverse zaken en je wilt zo min mogelijk opvallen dan doe je dit op locaties waar je niet zo gek veel mensen tegenkomt.
Een dergelijke locatie, naast bijvoorbeeld de Zuidpool, is de omgeving van de stad Oelan-Oede, gelegen in de uitgestrekte Siberische velden.
Oelan-Oede is een stad in Rusland, gelegen op 150 kilometer ten oosten van het Baikalmeer in Oost-Siberië. De stad ligt aan de rivier de Oeda, nabij de monding in de Selenga. Het is de hoofdstad van de autonome republiek Boerjatië en de op twee na grootste stad in Oost-Siberië. Oelan-Oede is een verkeersknooppunt aan de Trans-Siberische en Trans-Mongolische spoorlijn. Het huisvest een vliegtuig- en helikopterfabrikant. Tot 1934 heette de stad Verchneoedinsk.
Inwoners van deze stad zagen kortgeleden een wel heel vreemde verschijning boven hun stad zoals te zien op de volgende foto.
Als het vreemd uitziende object iets wordt uitvergroot dan wordt zichtbaar dat erboven twee kleinere UFO’s of orbs vliegen.
De schrik zit er goed in bij de inwoners van Oelan-Oede. Naast bovengenoemde waarneming gonst het op de sociale media van de berichten van mensen die ook vreemde dingen hebben gezien.
Zo was er een vrouw die met haar kind op straat liep en opeens een gloeiend object ontwaarde in de lucht boven haar. “Iets” met veel groene lichten en enkele rode en blauwe.
Ze stond samen met haar zoon en nog enkele mannen die toevallig langskwamen te kijken naar het mysterieuze object dat ineens verdween en toen weer zichtbaar werd, vlakbij. Volgens de vrouw maakte het een geluid zoals de motor van een auto.
"Eerst zeiden de mannen dat het een drone of iets dergelijks was. Toen bleef het vlak boven onze hoofden hangen en zagen wij een hele grote schotel met in het midden groene lichten. De mannen die eerst zeiden dat het een drone was waren inmiddels weggevlucht en hadden zich in een gebouw verborgen. Mijn zoon werd bang, greep mijn hand en wij renden weg. Ik had nooit gedacht dat zoiets echt kon bestaan”.
De omgeving rond het Baikalmeer is altijd al een zogenaamde UFO hotspot geweest. Een van de meest opvallende gebeurtenissen in die buurt vond plaats op 17 april 1987 in het plaatsje Kurma.
Een inwoner van het dorp Valery Rudentsov vertelt wat er gebeurde:
“We waren met 13 man. Rond ongeveer half één ’s nachts ging een van de jongens naar buiten de tuin in. Enkele seconden later roept hij ons om naar buiten te komen. Hij stond middenin de tuin en wees met zijn vinger naar de lucht”.
“Ongeveer 150 meter boven ons hing een geweldig grote vliegende schotel. Vanuit het centrum van de schotel kwam een soort paarsachtige lichtgevende straal. Aan de rand ervan kon je kleine patrijspoorten zien. De doorsnee van de schotel was ongeveer 70 meter”.
“We zagen het daar een hele tijd hangen en het leek zo dichtbij dat iemand voorstelde om het met stenen te gaan bekogelen”.
“Het weer was uitzonderlijk kalm, er kwam geen geluid van de schotel. Het was een raar soort stilte, terwijl we achter ons een hond in het dorp konden horen blaffen. We stonden als aan de grond genageld”.
“Het was volle maan en het zicht was zo goed dat niemand twijfelde aan wat wij daar zagen. Toen gleed de schotel als het ware weg van ons en verdween verderop in de heuvels. Nog nooit heb ik zoiets in mijn hele leven gezien”.
Het werd enkele jaren later op 16 mei 1990 nog vreemder in het dorp Kudara-Somon. Een inwoner van het dorp, Olga Federova, kan zich heel goed herinneren wat er gebeurde die dag.
“Op een gegeven moment werd alles geel. Mijn dochter kwam net thuis uit school en toen ik naar haar keek zag ik dat ook haar gezicht geel was”.
Volgens de dorpelingen was het mysterie vervolgens snel opgelost want klaarblijkelijk was er een UFO geland. De bewoners omschrijven het als iets dat een diameter had van ongeveer 30 meter en fel glansde alhoewel ze geen metaal als zodanig konden ontdekken.
Volgens een andere bewoner Margarita Tsybikova: “Er kwamen mensachtige figuren uit de schotel in glimmende pakken. Ze zagen eruit als mensen voor zover ik mij kan herinneren. Drie mensen in glimmende gele pakken. Ze leken echt op gewone mensen”.
Een andere dame uit het dorp Marina Zimireva is het daar grotendeels mee eens: “Voor mij was duidelijk dat we hier met mensen te maken hadden. Ze zagen er in ieder geval uit als mensen. Ze waren slank en ze hadden armen en benen. En ze liepen net zoals wij doen. Ze lieten ook voetsporen achter want die kon je later zien.”
Toen de vreemde wezens in de gaten kregen dat de mensen naar hen keken, gingen ze snel terug naar het ruimteschip en vertrokken.
Zo kun je in die regio het ene na het andere interessante verhaal horen. Iemand die dat ook heeft gehoord is Steven Spielberg. Naar verluid zou hij overwegen om een documentaire te maken over vreemde dingen die gebeuren rondom het Baikalmeer.
Een meer overigens waar op beelden gemaakt door satellieten soms vreemde cirkels vertonen in de sneeuw en het ijs van het meer.
Wanneer je daar rondrijdt, kan het dat je zomaar vreemde dingen in de lucht ziet vliegen zoals dat een aantal Russische mensen een aantal jaren geleden overkwam die onderstaande video maakten.
This unusual UFO was found by Streetcap1 of Youtube. It shows not one ship, but a large ship with a fleet of smaller ones near it. This photo comes when NASA announces that there is an unknown object near us about to hit Earth this week. They say its hollow and colder shaped and not natural. I do see a tube shaped UFO that NASA describes near it. This may be the UFO NASA is talking about. Strangely enough, NASA calls the UFO WT1190F or in other words...WTF. It hits us on Nov 14, 2015 at 2:20 PM. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Object appears to be quite close to the camera. I turned this to see what it looked like from different angles - this seemed to be the right way up, but it could be upside down for all I know.
Huge UFO Hidden In Clouds Over Tijuana, Mexico On Oct 24, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: Oct 24, 2015 Location of sighting: Tijuana, Mexico Here we have a UFO in the sky that is cloaked, but the sunset is causing it to reveal itself for a few minutes, due to the suns angle being 90 degrees to the UFO. UFOs often effect the appearance of the clouds or sky that they are in. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Strange phenomenon in the sky The all-seeing eye 10/24/2015 incident in Tijuana Mexico
UFO Over New Brunswick, Canada Has Drone Orbs Oct 26, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: October 26, 2015 Location of sighting: New Brunswick, Canada One of the hardest things to determine with a UFO recorded at night is...is it real? This UFO is real and I will tell you why. Some UFOs have tiny drone orbs that have many purposes like navigation, radar, scanning and so on. When you start and pause this video every second, you will see some orbs near it and in the same positions again and again in just a matter of seconds. The orbs are in a constant rotation around the UFO to protect the occupants. Yes, orbs means occupants in the craft. This my friends, is a 100% authentic and confirmed UFO. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Objects, alien crafts, bright orbs caught in and around the skies of Saint John New Brunswick, Canada.
First Hand Dulce, New Mexico’s UFO Testimonials Makes An Amazing Story
If you have been looking at documentaries on space aliens lately, UFO occurrence, space aliens, and film-making technology are interesting. It is an interesting topic when you are a believer or not that extraterrestrial life visited this planet. However, it will be possible these extraterrestrials are not severely hostile, but they are just overly interested in learning us human beings, and the life we know, in general, so we perceive them to be intruders, especially when you think of alien abductions and unusual implants and cattle mutilations. Dulce, New Mexico may be a place, but lately, it seems, the description is not conclusive. This was being reported by a person who is interested in knowing the realities taking place in human life. The person was fortunate to meet the Arden Tafoya family, and on the second day, he learned that New Mexico is a place where residents became a witness to different strange sightings. Arden is the son of Raleigh Tafoya, who happens to be a highly respected Police Chief of Dulce.
The persons reiterated the report from his wife’s friend whereby a silent and massive delta-shaped object that is capable of emitting bright lights is seen passing in a group of 50 to 75 people when they celebrate Jicarilla Apache. This celebration is for young boys and girls. After sundown, the massive object appeared an hour or so after their traditional meals had ended and after the shamans had finished their dances and chantings. Another event recounted was during the daytime when a saucer-shaped hat possesses a silver object was being seen at around 11 a.m. However, the biggest and most impressive sighting occur in May of 2004 when families were celebrating the feast on a Jicarilla Apache campground, situated in a place near J-33 and J-40.
With regards to the witness’s conclusion to all sightings in Dulce, they are implausible because they were from first-hand eyewitnesses to the events.
Researchers Expect A UFO To Crash On Earth In November
Researchers expect a piece of space junk to plummet towards Earth in November, but they don’t have any idea of what is that exactly.
The space object called WTF1190F, is expected to land in the Indian Ocean, approximately 40 miles off the southern tip of Sri Lanka on November 13 at 6:20 UTC.
It could measure up to 7ft long. It comes from either a recent lunar mission or an Apollo program craft that has remained in space for over 40 years.
The object is expected to provide relatively small impact throughout its course until landing. Rather than threatening life on Earth, the object will offer scientists a once in a lifetime opportunity to observe the unknown object.
The trajectory of WTF1190F was first calculated in 2012. University of Arizona-based Catalina Sky Survey astronomers rediscovered the unknown object earlier this month.
Near Earth Object astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) are carefully monitoring the space junk’s path.
According to ESA, the object poses very little risk to people, but could greatly help scientists improve their understanding of how any object, be it natural or man-made, interacts with the atmosphere of Earth.
Independent astronomy software developer, Bill Gray, said that the space junk was moving in an elliptical orbit. Based on its movement, the object is likely hollow inside. The number of space junk that orbit the Earth and moon is unknown, but WT1190F is uncommon.
Gareth Williams, a Minor Planet Centre’s astronomer in Cambridge, said that the strange object was thought to be one of only around 20 man-made objects tracked in distant orbit. And the reason the object propelled on a collision course with Earth is still a mystery.
Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell of Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics based in Cambridge, Massachusetts said that WTF1190F is likely a piece of space history. While the junk is probably coming from recent missions, it can also be a piece from an Apollo Mission more than four decades ago.
If WTF1190F is a piece of man-made rocket, it will be first man-made junk to return Earth independently.
An up close image of an Oval Shaped UFO coming from the side of the mountain. I captured several in only 2 photographs on this day and I took many pictures…I have a few others that show something but not as clear as these two.
Disc shaped UFO to the left up close shown below
Oval shaped UFO in Heat Map below
2nd Photographs shows several. I saw absolutely nothing this day. But I can say I remember hearing
what sounded like airplanes flying over and saw nothing!
5 Things That Would Happen If We Ever Found Intelligent Alien Life
The search for extraterrestrial life has been in the public consciousness for decades, but what would happen if we actually succeeded? Later this month, a NASA-funded initiative called the 100-Year Starship Project (100YSS), which is dedicated to achieving interstellar travel within the next century, will hold its annual symposium, which will specifically discuss the aim of finding "Earth 2.0," including what would happen to society if we ever actually found an Earth-like planet with an alien civilization.
"What would happen if we could identify it [as Earth 2.0]? How does that change us?" asked Mae Jemison, a former NASA astronaut and the principal for 100YSS, in a piece for The Atlantic.
Strict protocols would come into play
In 1997, SETI infamously had a false alarm that they found intelligent alien life, which was immediately picked up by the New York Times and blown completely out of proportion. After that incident, SETI created specific protocols for astronomers who believe that they have discovered alien life, in order to ensure that the information is properly verified and disseminated to the public through controlled channels.
First, the astronomers are supposed to verify to the best of their ability that the signals are not coming from any natural phenomenon, and then have it verified independently by someone outside of SETI. They should then inform astronomers in other nations, as well as the Secretary General of the UN, so the information can be dispersed through scientific and accredited public media outlets.
Someone would ruin the surprise on Twitter
But this is the 21st century, so the astronomers admit that none of these protocols would ultimately be followed. They would try, of course, but in the age of information, it would inevitably leak before it had been verified and released in a controlled manner. Blogs, Twitter, Reddit, and every other unofficial news authority would pick up on the story way earlier than intended. SETI director Seth Shostak said of the premature 1997 NYT leak, "There is no secrecy in SETI," and there is even less privacy now.
"The protocols are as much fiction, in some sense, as the movie portrayals. The story will break in a very messy way," said Shostak. "I don't think there's any way to control the media."
It would break the Internet
And once the news broke, it would spread like wildfire. We would probably all have trouble getting on social media that day, but no one would experience more technical issues than the SETI Institute. But this isn't necessarily a bad thing, as once the information is verified, SETI very much wants it to be widely known:
"You want that information to be as widespread as possible," said former SETI director Jill Tarter. "If we were to make a discovery at the SETI institute, I don't think there's any way we could keep our website up or our phones working from the onslaught of people trying to get information."
The public reaction would closely mimic the movie Contact
Would the public be open to the discovery of alien life, or would they be fearful of an alien invasion? Paul Ziolo, a professor of psychology at the University of Liverpool and a regular presenter at the 100YSS symposiums, specifically cited the film Contact, which was partially inspired by Tartar's life and career, as a realistic portrayal of the disparate public reactions to such a discovery.
"It's a massive range from paranoia to jubilation to despair," Ziolo said. "For some people, anything from outside is going to threaten power structures. For others, it's the gods they've been waiting for."
We would have a reason to believe in the longevity of human civilization
While the public reactions would vary, scientists would likely be optimistic about confirmed signals from an advanced civilizations, as it would give them more hope for the future of humanity:
"If we succeed at detecting another technological civilization, that success helps tell us that on average, technological civilizations can survive for a long time," said Tartar. "The very act of success [in hearing from another planet] tells us that we can have a long future. I think that's the most amazing impact that contact would have, even if we never figure out how to interpret whatever information we receive."
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