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!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
Harvard Scientists Just Figured Out How to 3D Print Complex Living Human Tissue
Harvard Researchers 3D Printing Thickened Vascular Structures
Scientists from both the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard John A. Paulson School for Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have recently published their findings on bioprinting thickened vasculature structures. In ‘Three-dimensional bioprinting of thick vascularized tissues,’ the researchers outline how they are able to make tissue that is up to ten times stronger, and quite sustainable in the lab—up to six weeks, thanks to a complex bio-ink made up of human stem cells, an extracellular matrix, and circulatory channels lined with endothelial blood vessel cells. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/123181/3d-printed-vascular-tissues/
IN BRIEF
Harvard researchers have developed a method for bioprinting stronger structures in the form of thick tissue. The method also embeds vascular systems within the tissue to allow it to survive longer and integrate within the body.
SUSTAINING AN ORGAN
Bioprinting makes it possible for scientists to make organs for transplants in a lab; however, it is a process that is marred by technical difficulties. Whether inside or outside of the human body, 3D printed cells require a complex system of nutrition or they die.
Now, a team of researchers from Harvard has published a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that reveals a method for bioprinting stronger structures that solves some of these problems. Ultimately, the team has managed to fabricate tissue that lives for an extended period and is 10 times stronger.
“This latest work extends the capabilities of our multi-material bioprinting platform to thick human tissues, bringing us one step closer to creating architectures for tissue repair and regeneration,” says Jennifer A. Lewis., senior author on the study.
Notably, the tissue survived up to six weeks, a spectacular length of time in bioprinting, by using vascular systems including both living cells and extracellular materials. The team stated that their new approach can be used to print thick tissues and can utilize other biomaterials, such as fibrin and hyaluronic acid.
So far, the team has successfully bioprinted tissue that is one centimeter thick. They were able to pump bone growth factors through the tissue to cause the development of cells in a four-week duration.
BUILDING UP TISSUES
The new bioprinting process uses a customized silicone mold as a vehicle for housing and building in the vascular systems. The researchers printed the network of vascular channels, and then they added a layer of live stem cells over that. With each layer, the structure grows and, through this process, becomes strong enough to ‘live.’
Since the researchers utilized silicone molds, it also means that the method can be adapted to create tissues of varying shape, width, and composition. This would allow the method to be used to build functioning tissue that can be integrated with blood vessels in the body to allow it to survive.
The results hold promise for resolving the problems facing the need for organ donors, as organ fabrication would remove the need for long transplant waiting lists.
The Pentagon Unveils “Avatar” Fighter Jets and Micro-Drone Swarms
William Roper, director of the Defense Department’s Strategic Capabilities Office, shows the U.S. military’s new micro-unmanned aerial vehicle, which are fired from moving fighter jets through flare dispensers. (Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)
Dr. William Roper, director of the Defense Department’s Strategic Capabilities Office, holds a micro-drone at the organization’s home in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency building on Friday, March 4, 2016, in Arlington, Va. (Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)
U.S. Navy photo
IN BRIEF
The Pentagon discloses previously classified information about a secret organization developing micro-drone swarms and unmanned fighter jets.
MILITARY DRONE SWARMS
The Pentagon has declassified a video showing an F-16 fighter jet releasing micro-droneswhile flying at 692 km/h (430 mph). This footage was taken last summer in Alaska while the Pentagon was conducting secret tests on the new prototypes.
These micro-drones can be launched from a fighter jet’s flare dispensers. They come encased in canisters that parachute to the ground after launching. The canisters then break open, releasing the drones which then come together to form a swarm.
The test flight was conducted by a secretive Pentagon organization called the Strategic Capabilities Office, which launched in the summer of 2012 with a directive to develop technologies to counter strategic threats posed by other nations.
The Pentagon has yet to say what these drone swarms will be used for, but it’s suggested that they could be a cheap way to undertake surveillance missions.
You can see some of the footage below:
THE STRATEGIC CAPABILITIES OFFICE
The organization has been working in secret since its founding, its activities only recently disclosed to the American public after Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter unveiled its existence during a preview of his proposed budget for 2017, which detailed a $902 million funding plan for the SCO.
This disclosure had some at the Pentagon concerned, but SCO Director William Roper said that Secretary Carter sought clearance to reveal some of the classified information in an effort make a statement to potential adversaries.
“I have been in the classified, black world for my whole career, so all of this is new for me and I really wish I could go back,” said Roper, who had worked in missile defense. “You can’t win wars if everything is outside the doors, but you can’t deter wars if everything is behind
AVATAR
An F/A-18C Hornet fighter jet returns to the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier after a mission over Afghanistan. (U.S. Navy photo)
Another new project by SCO is called Avatar, and it involves taking fifth-generation fighter jets and pairing them with pilot-less versions of their older fighters. “There will be a lot of questions on safety, on reliability of the links between the planes,” says the Secretary.
All of these things have to be resolved. Bringing up that point is exactly what we try to infuse in the folks in our office. If there’s a question where you say, ‘Oh, we can worry about that later…’ Nope, we’re going to worry about that now.”
A Study of Ceres’ Bright Spots Shows That They Are Changing
This artist’s impression is based on a detailed map of the surface compiled from images taken from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres. It shows the very bright patches of material in the crater Occator and elsewhere. New observations using the HARPS spectrograph on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla in Chile have revealed unexpected daily changes on these spots, suggesting that they change under the influence of sunlight as Ceres rotates.
Observations have revealed unexpected changes in the bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres. Scientists assert that these changes show that Ceres is a dynamic, active world.
AN ACTIVE DWARF PLANET
Ceres is the largest body in the asteroid belt that rests between Mars and Jupiter. In fact, it’s so large that it is classed as a dwarf planet. Despite this, from Earth, Ceres appears to be just one of the (many) tiny points of light visible in the night sky, but the light it emits has an interesting story.
Observations made using the HARPS spectrograph at the European Space Agency’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have revealed unexpected changes in the bright spots on Ceres. Careful study of its light shows the changes expected as Ceres rotates, but also that the spots brighten during the day and show a number of other variations.
In short, Ceres’ spots are dynamic.
SURPRISING RESULTS
ESO/L.Calçada/NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has been in orbit around Ceres for more than a year, and it has mapped its surface in great detail, including these intriguing bright spots that reflect far more light than their much darker surroundings. The most prominent of these spots lies inside the crater Occator. Ultimately, they suggest that Ceres may be a much more active world than most of its neighbors.
A team of scientists observed Ceres with HARPS for a little over two nights in July and August 2015. “The result was a surprise,” says Antonino Lanza, at the INAF–Catania Astrophysical Observatory. “We did find the expected changes to the spectrum from the rotation of Ceres, but with considerable other variations from night to night.”
The team concluded that the observed changes could be due to the presence of volatile substances that evaporate under the action of solar radiation. When the spots inside the Occator crater are on the side illuminated by the Sun, they form plumes that reflect sunlight. These plumes evaporate quickly and lose their reflective quality. This effect changes from night to night, giving rise to additional random patterns.
Looking out of the window, my partner and I saw a glowing, moving object across the sky. It was definitely not an aeroplane. It came from one direction and was moving across the sky into another direction. Then we saw another one, and another and another. The stream of objects appeared every few minutes, and they were not side by side, instead more like they were following one another. Some were far off in the distance, others came nearer to our apartment (on the 4th floor). It was very apparent they were all coming from the same destination and heading to the same destination. The objects themselves, were like glowing balls when seen in the distance. The movement was not sproadic, instead the objects moved across the sky, some did go a bit faster at times, but overall the objects moved quite steady. Sometimes a couple of them appeared to come closer to one another. Interestingly, the same evening, it was a national fireworks night and so there were fireworks going off across the sky.
Please note, there was no way these moving objects were confused with fireworks, we have videos to demonstrate this, but it is interesting that such a lot of objects appeared the same night as when they could be partially camouflaged perhaps? As the evening progressed and the fireworks died down, so did the number of objects passing. At its most, we watched an object arrive and go every few minutes, it then slowed down to an object every 5-10 minutes (and then we went to bed). The objects did not suddenly disappear, instead they all continued to travel to a destination that we could not longer see from our apartment. One of the objects flew right above our apartment and the window and I saw it for a few seconds, it was like looking up at a bright, glowing circular object, about the size of a lorry. This close up allowed me to definitely see that this was a UFO. Also when taking photos, we could see through the lens, a circles of lights like windows, but I could not see this with the naked eye, and the photos did not show this (cheap mobile camera phone, no professional camera).
This is not the first time we have seen UFO’s in this same area, it seems there is activity in this area. I took about 80 photos in total, and about 20 videos, I compiled some of the videos together and zoomed in and slowed down some of the video.
NASA Exhibits Sun’s Invisible Magnetic Fields In Astounding Detail
As outlined by NASA scientists, the magnetic field of the Sun is volatile and constantly adjusting.
It is a multiple magnetic field (it has more than two poles) that can become very volatile and cause intense solar activity, which includes solar flares and eruptions. These events can cause disruptions to technological, navigation, and communication systems on our world.
Media captionThe video was taken by a camera in Church Crookham at 03:16 GMT
A bright meteor has been sighted over Britain in the early hours.
Witnesses have described the object as a green flash moving south to north for a few seconds, leaving a magnesium-white trail.
Sightings have been reported in locations including London, Hampshire, Stafford and on the east coast of England at 03:16 GMT.
Its colour has prompted people on Twitter to describe it as the St Patrick's Day meteor.
'Not uncommon'
Describing the meteor as "spectacular", Dr John Mason of the British Astronomical Association said it was bright enough to be categorised as a fireball.
He believes it was a piece of cosmic rock which almost certainly came from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
He said the green colour was caused by the meteor heating up the oxygen in the earth's atmosphere.
"Meteors of this kind are not uncommon," he added, saying he estimated there was at least one a week over the UK.
Image copyrightRichard BassomImage captionThe meteor over Ringwood in Hampshire
Richard Kacerek, from the UK Meteor Observation Network, told the BBC it had received reports from across the country.
He said the network's camera at Church Crookham in Hampshire had captured the meteor from the west.
"This is the biggest meteor sighting we have recorded," Mr Kacerek said.
"It lasted for a few seconds. It was seen for hundreds of miles. We have received a number of emails."
He said the network of astronomy enthusiasts recorded about 10 to 15 meteors every year.
An astronomer at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth, Dr Karen Masters, said thousands of these objects hit the Earth every day.
She said: "Most of them over the oceans or over uninhabited parts of the world. It is quite rare that one goes over such a populated place and be so bright."
She said the size of this meteor would depend on its velocity but it was probably as big as a tennis ball.
Meteors
Meteors are small rocks or particles of debris, mostly no larger than a grain of sand, which burn up as they enter Earth's atmosphere at high speed
On entering the atmosphere, these particles heat the air around them, causing the light which can be seen from the ground
To be called a fireball the meteor has to appear brighter than the planet Venus
Meteors can be travelling through the atmosphere at speeds between 8 and 40 miles per second
If a meteor survives the passage through the atmosphere and impacts with the Earth's surface, it is then called a meteorite
Under a FOIA request, a Pentagon inspector general made public a report admitting to the use of drones to spy on U.S. citizens.
Washington D.C. — Under a Freedom of Information Act request, a Pentagon inspector general made public a report last week, admitting to the use of drones to spy on U.S. citizens.
The missions were non-military in nature, meaning they were used for domestic spying purposes. Naturally, the Pentagon is claiming it broke no laws in the deployment of said drones and contends that the flights were rare.
A senior policy analyst for the ACLU, Jay Stanley, said it is good news no legal violations were found, yet the technology is so advanced that it’s possible laws may require revision, according to USA Today.
“Sometimes, new technology changes so rapidly that existing law no longer fit what people think are appropriate,” Stanley said. “It’s important to remember that the American people do find this to be a very, very sensitive topic.”
“The appetite to use them (spy drones) in the domestic environment to collect airborne imagery continues to grow, as does Congressional and media interest in their deployment,” stated the report, quoting a military law review article.
The idea of US military drones flying over the heads of US citizens and monitoring them is ominous, which explains why the Pentagon has kept it secret — despite the contention of breaking no laws.
While the report on domestic drone use was completed in March of 2015, it was only quietly released last week.
The units who have been operating the drones stated to the inspector general they want to fly more missions domestically. “Multiple units told us that as forces using the UAS capabilities continue to draw down overseas, opportunities for UAS realistic training and use have decreased,” the report said.
However, drone usage overseas has not been reduced, and, in fact, their use has skyrocketed under the current administration. Just last year, the Pentagon announced that they had plans to sharply expand the number of U.S. drone flights over the next four years, giving military commanders access to more intelligence and greater firepower to keep up with a sprouting number of global hot spots.
Shortly before the inspector general report was completed a year ago, the Pentagon issued a new policy governing the use of spy drones. It requires the defense secretary to approve all domestic spy drone operations. It says that unless permitted by law and approved by the secretary, drones “may not conduct surveillance on U.S. persons.” It also bans the use of armed drones over the United States for anything other training and testing.
Now, all the military has to do to fly weaponized drones over US citizens is say they are training.
The use of military gear on US citizens has sharply increased over the last decade as police departments have become heavily militarized with weapons once used on the battlefield. Now, instead of giving these weapons to police departments, the military seems to be conducting their own missions against US citizens.
As the military industrial complex continues to march forward, it appears that the wars in the Middle East are merely a pretext for what’s to come for Americans at home.
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world.
Les extra-terrestres sont de retour ! Oui ce n'est pas la première fois que des terriens sont témoins de phénomènes bizarres. Les petits hommes verts n'ont pas fini de nous surprendre !
Selon un article paru dans Paris Match le 6 Mars dernier, un jeune homme a filmé une scène paranormale au Canada. La vidéo montre la présence de 3 OVNIs et ne laisse pas indifférent : on remarque que les OVNIs sont facilement identifiables ! D'ailleurs, l'apparition ou la disparition soudaine d'OVNIs, est la première spécificité rapportée par tous les témoins de ces scènes surnaturelles. Il est vrai que filmer ces apparitions est très rare du moins quand la vidéo est authentique (pas évident d'avoir son smartphone en mode vidéo au même moment qu'un OVNI passe) ! Et donc certains diront que c'est faux, d'autres que le mec qui a filmé est dingo... Pourtant d'après les ufologues (spécialistes des OVNIs) du MUFON (Mutual UFO network), la déclaration qu'il a faite par écrit est précise : son récit est chronologique, cohérent, sans extravagance. Ce qui atteste de la fiabilité de ce témoin et donc de sa sincérité ! Bref, mystère et boule de gomme !
Pour les plus courageuses soyez attentive, qui sait un jour vous serez témoin d'une arrivée de petits bonhommes verts ou du frère d'E.T !
Who's Out There ? (1975) NASA Documentary on Aliens Extraterrestrial Civilizations
Gepubliceerd op 30 dec. 2015
Narrated by Orson Wells, this 1975 NASA film explores the view of extraterrestrial life emerging from the results of probes to the planets and interstellar discoveries and findings about the nature of life itself. The film discusses the conclusion drawn by a number of distinguished scientists that other intelligent civilizations exist in the universe.
Between December 26 and 29, 1980, multiple UFO encounters occurred withinRendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England that involved military personnel from the nearby Royal Air Force stations of Bentwaters and Woodbridge. According to numerous U.S. Air Force operatives, a small, triangular-shaped object was seen maneuvering in the forest – as were, some said, near-spectral, alien-style entities. And although the incident has been the subject of a significant number of books, intense media coverage and even parliamentary questioning, it continues to provoke furious debate within the UFO research community. And that debate was reignited only very recently when it emerged that certain fileson the affair – that originated within the murky world of defense-intelligence – appear to be, ahem, “missing.”
So, what might be the reason for this intriguing loss of potentially-crucial data? Some have suggested that nothing stranger than mere bureaucratic bungling was the root-cause. Others took the view this was further evidence of high-strangeness having occurred at Rendlesham. And if conspiracy, rather than bureaucracy, is indeed at the heart of the mystery of the vanishing papers, then what might have prompted such action?
I suggest it might be worth looking at an aspect of the affair in the forest of which few have taken much, serious notice – and of which many are simply unaware. It’s an aspect that implicates staff from one of the U.K.’s most secret installations in the saga –Porton Down – and suggests the distinct possibility that, in the immediate aftermath of the incident, “something” may have been secretly retrieved from the site. And, as we shall also see, that “something” may have been distinctly hazardous in nature.
In a July 31, 1994 lecture at Leeds, England, Charles Halt (formerly Colonel Charles Halt, USAF, one of those that had witnessed the strange object in Rendlesham Forest) divulged his recollections of what had occurred fourteen-years previously. During the course of his lecture, Halt astounded the audience by revealing something that had been hitherto unknown: an unscheduled C141 transporter aircraft arrived at Woodbridge just hours after the initial encounter, and a group of “special individuals” departed from the aircraft, headed straight out of Woodbridge’s East Gate, and disappeared into the forest.
It should be noted, too, that the C141 is a huge aircraft, fully equipped to carry freight, vehicle payloads or, alternatively, up to 200 troops – ample space to also secrete a relatively small object, as the Rendlesham vehicle was described.
It may be relevant that during its life as an active military station, RAF Woodbridge was home to a squadron with an intriguing history, as Captain John E. Boyle of the U.S. Air Force revealed to me in 1988: “In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron stationed at RAF Woodbridge [provided] standby rescue coverage for the American space flights. Of course, they were never needed to provide emergency rescue actions, but at the time, the unit was trained and available to rescue astronauts with their HH-53 and HC-130 aircraft. In early 1988, the 67th ARRS was re-designated as part of the 39th Special Operations Wing, their primary mission changing from that of rescue to supporting US Special Operations forces. Their secondary mission remains that of search and rescue and they would provide any assistance necessary in future space missions.”
Although the 67th’s rescue-and-recovery skills were not needed during NASA’s space-missions, the question has to be asked: were they implicated in the recovery of something that originated with somebody else’s space-program in December 1980?
On this path: in her book on the Rendlesham affair, titled You Can’t Tell the People, the late Georgina Bruni reported on a story that shortly after the events at Rendlesham Forest took place, a number of personnel from Porton Down were reportedly dispatched to the area. Dressed in full-body protection suits, no less, they entered the woods – for reasons that remain unknown outside of officialdom. Prior to her death, Georgina confided in me the name of her source; it was a woman who was indeed a prime candidate to comment on matters relative to the work of staff at Porton Down.
Notably, on January 11, 2001, the late British Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Hill-Norton, who had a personal interest in UFOs, tabled questions at an official level with British authorities in an attempt to resolve the issue of the Porton Down allegations as they related to the Rendlesham case. Predictably, the response to Hill-Norton’s questions, that surfaced on January 25, 2001, was to the effect that staff at Porton Down had made a check of their archives, but had found “no record of any such visits.”
Of course, it should be noted that this carefully-worded statement does not state that such records did not exist; only that the specific personnel who made the search were unable to locate anything relevant. Officialdom is extremely good at providing such couched, potentially-misleading replies. As a result, the controversy surrounding the seldom-discussed Porton Down-Rendlesham issue continues to languish in near-forgotten obscurity.
A C141 aircraft; intriguingly-described “special individuals;” and Porton Down staff descending on the woods in Hazmat suits, collectively suggest there is far more to the Rendlesham case than we may have even considered possible. Perhaps, somewhere, deep within those conveniently-missing documents, there is the answer to the mysterious connection between the Rendlesham event and the covert activities of Porton Down…
What constitutes a good, solid and credible UFO incident? That’s a very good question, and one I get asked now and again. Well, my answer would be that such a case would, ideally, have the support of a number of witnesses, some form of evidence that can be analyzed, and on the record individuals whose words we can refer to and study. And, for me, this is typified by a highly notable affair that falls into this particular category, and which will be celebrating its 60th anniversary in just a few months from now…
On both July 19 and 20, 1952, there were repeated sightings of unknown aerial objects in the Washington, D.C., airspace, something that, on July 24, led USAF Major General John A. Samford to state in a Secret memorandum for the attention of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations: “We are interested in these reports in that we must always on the alert for any threat or indication of a threat to the United States. We cannot ignore these reports but the mild hysteria subsequent to publicity given this subject causes an influx of reports which since the 19th of July has almost saturated our ‘Emergency’ procedures.”
The situation really escalated after the weekend of July 26-27. A two-page USAF document, prepared only days later, related the facts: “This incident involved unidentified targets observed on the radar scopes at the Air Route Traffic Control Center and the tower, both at Washington National Airport, and the Approach Control Radar at Andrews Air Force Base. In addition, visual observations were reported to Andrews and Bolling AFB and to ARTC Center, the latter by pilots of commercial aircraft and one CAA aircraft…”
The report continues:
“Varying numbers (up to 12 simultaneously) of u/i targets on ARTC radar scope. Termed by CAA personnel as ‘generally solid returns’, similar to a/c except slower. Mr. Bill Schreve, flying a/c NC-12 reported at 2246 EDT that he had visually spotted 5 objects giving off a light glow ranging from orange to white; his altitude at time was 2,200’. Some commercial pilots reported visuals ranging from ‘cigarette glow’ to a ‘light…”
And the deep strangeness only continued, as the USAF noted:
“ARTC crew commented that, as compared with u/i returns picked up in early hours of 20 July 52, these returns appeared to be more haphazard in their actions, i.e. they did not follow a/c around nor did they cross scope consistently on same general heading. Some commented that the returns appeared to be from objects ‘capable of dropping out of the pattern at will’. Also that returns had ‘creeping appearance’. One member of crew commented that one object to which F-94 was vectored just ‘disappeared from Scope’ shortly after F-94 started pursuing. All crew members emphatic that most u/i returns have been picked up from time to time over the past few months but never before had they appeared in such quantities over such a prolonged period and with such definition as was experienced on the nights of 19/20 and 26/27 July 1952.”
Although the portions extracted from this report speak for themselves, let us now examine an official transcript of a conversation, dated July 26, between staff at Washington National Airport and personnel from Andrews Air Force Base at the time of the sightings:
Wash: “Andrews Tower, do you read? Did you have an airplane in sight west-northwest or east of your airport eastbound?”
Andr: “No, but we just got a call from the Center. We’re looking for it.”
Wash: “We’ve got a big target showing up on our scope. He’s just coming in on the west edge of your airport – the northwest edge of it eastbound. He’ll be passing right through the northern portion of your field on an east heading. He’s about a quarter of a mile from the northwest runway – right over the edge of your runway now.”
Andr: “This is Andrews. Our radar tracking says he’s got a big fat target out here northwest of Andrews. He says he’s got two more south of the field.”
Wash: “Yes, well the Center has about four or five around the Andrews Range Station. The Center is working
a National Airlines – the Center is working him and vectoring him around his target. He went around Andrews.
He saw one of them – looks like a meteor…went by him…or something. He said he’s got one about three miles off his right wing right now. There are so many targets around here it is hard to tell as they are not moving very fast.”
Within a matter of hours of hearing of the events of July 26-27, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover instructed N.W. Philcox, the FBI’s Air Force liaison representative, to determine what had taken place and to ascertain the Air Force’s opinions on the UFO subject as a whole.
On July 29, Philcox made arrangements through the office of the Director of Air Intelligence, Major General John A. Samford, to meet with Commander Randall Boyd of the Current Intelligence Branch, Estimates Division, Air Intelligence, regarding “the present status of Air Intelligence research into the numerous reports regarding flying saucers and flying discs.”
Although the Air Force was publicly playing down the possibility that UFOs were anything truly extraordinary, Philcox was advised that “at the present time the Air Force has failed to arrive at any satisfactory conclusion in its research regarding numerous reports of flying saucers and flying discs sighted throughout the United States.”
Philcox was further informed that Air Intelligence had set up at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, the Air Technical Intelligence Center, which had been established in part for the purpose of “coordinating, correlating and making research into all reports regarding flying saucers and flying discs.”
As Philcox listened very carefully to what Boyd had to say on the matter, he noted that the Air Force had placed their UFO reports into three definable categories. In the first instance there were those sightings “which are reported by citizens who claim they have seen flying saucers from the ground. These sightings vary in description, color and speeds. Very little credence is given to these sightings inasmuch as in most instances they are believed to be imaginative or some explainable object which actually crossed through the sky.”
Philcox then learned that the second category of encounters proved to be of greater significance: “Sightings reported by commercial or military pilots. These sightings are considered more credible by the Air Force inasmuch as commercial or military pilots are experienced in the air and are not expected to see objects which are entirely imaginative. In each of these instances, the individual who reports the sightings is thoroughly interviewed by a representative of Air Intelligence so that a complete description of the object can be obtained.”
The third category of encounters, Boyd advised Philcox, were those where, in addition to a visual sighting by a pilot, there was corroboration either from a ground-based source or by radar. Philcox wrote to Hoover: “Commander Boyd advised that this latter classification constitutes two or three per cent of the total number of sightings, but that they are the most credible reports received and are difficult to explain.”
“In these instances,” Philcox was told, “there is no doubt that these individuals reporting the sightings actually did see something in the sky.” And to demonstrate that Boyd was well acquainted with the UFO issue on a worldwide scale, he confided in Philcox that “sightings have also recently been reported as far distant as Acapulco, Mexico, Korea and French Morocco… the sightings reported in the last classification have never been satisfactorily explained.”
The commander then came out with a true bombshell, as Philcox noted in his report on the meeting: “[Boyd] advised that it is not entirely impossible that the objects may possibly be ships from another planet such as Mars.”
Clearly, within both the military and the Intelligence community of the day, there was deep concern about the Washington events – something which led to the development of startling and intriguing theories, and the analysis of countless data. So, collectively, this is why – in my opinion – the July 1952 encounters over the nation’s capital were evidence of true unknowns in our very midst…
Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, a significant body of material on the famous/infamous George Adamski has surfaced – the bulk of it from the FBI. It has to be said that the Bureau’s file on the controversial Contactee makes for highly entertaining reading. But, perhaps, for reasons you might not have considered. There’s not a single scrap of paper in the “Adamski File” which suggests the FBI was concerned in the slightest about the man’s alleged alien encounters. Rather, it was his public and vocal stance on communism that had J. Edgar Hoover’s finest hot under the collar.
Adamski was heard to state that communism was the way of the future, and that the Soviet Union would ultimately dominate the planet. That Adamski had thousands of fans, devotees and impressionable people hanging on his every pro-Russia word bothered the FBI to a significant degree. And so, and almost inevitably, a file was opened on George. But, there’s far more to the file than Cold War era commies. There’s the matter of a certain document outrageously doctored by Adamski; yet another affair that got the FBI in a collective state of frustration and anger.
From March 23, 1953 onward, much of the FBI’s dealings with Adamski revolved around what was said by Adamski during a lecture he gave for the Californian Lions Club, on March 12. According to the FBI’s San Diego office, Adamski had prefaced his talk with a statement to the effect that (and I quote the FBI here) “…his material had all been cleared with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Air Force Intelligence.” Absolutely certain that no such clearance had been afforded Adamski, representatives of both the Bureau and the Air Force visited him at his Palomar Gardens Cafe, and “severely admonished him for making any statement alluding to his material having FBI and Air Force blessing.” For the record, however, Adamski denied making any such claims – which is hardly surprising!
George Adamski
Despite his denial (which did not impress the visiting G-Men at all) Adamski was ordered to sign an official document – intended for both the FBI and the Air Force – confirming that his statements and material definitely did not have official clearance of any kind whatsoever. With one copy of the statement retained by Adamski, additional copies were circulated to HQ and to the FBI offices at Dallas, Los Angeles, and Cleveland, since “…these offices have received previous communications concerning [Adamski].”
On December 10, 1953, matters took a decidedly downward turn for Adamski, when a representative of the Los Angeles-based office of the Better Business Bureau (BBB)turned up at the offices of the Los Angeles FBI. The man advised the FBI that its staff were investigating Adamski’s 1953 book, Flying Saucers Have Landed, specifically to determine if it was nothing more than an outrageous hoax. The BBB informed the FBI that to ascertain the facts surrounding Adamski, the man himself had been interviewed by one of its staff. During the course of the interview, Adamski apparently produced for the BBB a document “having a blue seal in the lower left corner, at the top of which appeared the names of three government agents” – one from the FBI and two from the Air Force. Once again, the implication was that Adamski’s material had the official backing of both the military and the Bureau. The FBI was told: “[The Better Business Bureau] is interested in whether or not this document is authentic and whether your organization is making an endorsement of [Adamski’s] book.”
You will probably not be surprised to learn that the document was not authentic. An investigation undertaken by Special Agent Willis, of the FBI office in San Diego, revealed that the document displayed by Adamski to the Better Business Bureau was, in reality, nothing less than a carefully doctored copy of the statement Adamski had been ordered to sign for both the Air Force and the FBI months earlier! Adamski was about to find himself in deep, scalding-hot water.
On December 16, 1953, the following document was prepared by Louis B. Nichols, the head of the FBI’s public relations department: “[Deleted] instructed Willis to call on Adamski at the Palomar Gardens Cafe, Valley Center, California. This is located five miles east of Rincon, California, near the Mount Palomar Observatory. Willis was told to have the San Diego Agents, accompanied by representatives of OSI if they care to go along, call on Adamski and read the riot act in no uncertain terms pointing out he has used this document in a fraudulent, improper manner, that this Bureau has not endorsed, approved, or cleared his speeches or book, that he knows it, and the Bureau will simply not tolerate any further foolishness, misinterpretation and falsity on his part. Willis was told to instruct the Agents to diplomatically retrieve, if possible, the document in issue from Adamski. Willis said he would do this and send in a report at once.”
Despite threats of prosecution, the FBI ultimately chose not to take legal action against Adamski. As for Adamski, he very wisely chose never again to discuss the matter of that doctored document in a public forum. And, of course, this particular portion of the file simply must have a bearing on Adamski’s credibility (or lack of it) when it comes to (a) his claims of alien encounters and (b) the matter of his controversial photos of alleged alien spacecraft.
And, finally, if anyone is thinking about hitting back with a claim that this was all an attempt to prevent Adamski from revealing “the truth,” don’t bother. The man was caught red-handed, engaging in forgery, and doing so by deliberately altering an official U.S. Government document. Bad George!
By: Leonard Farra - MessageToEagle.com - On 24 June 1947 something extraordinary happened which suggested that we might not be alone in the universe.
Private pilot, Kenneth Arnold, reported seeing a string of flying shiny flying objects passing Mount Rainier and he estimated their speed to be at least 1200 m.p.h. His report resulted in an interest in U.F.O's and the term 'flying saucer' was born.
Since then there have been thousands of reported sightings of disc-shaped objects passing through our skies and many of them were credible sightings from pilots and military personnel. Ufologists believe that this is evidence that we are being visited by aliens but sceptics suggest they are sightings of the planet Venus or maybe secret military projects. They also scoff at the idea that our world was visited by extra-terrestrials in the distant past.
Could it be, though, that the evidence has been around for thousands of years and that its been misinterpreted ?
Why ,we might ask, are people obsessed with the circle? We talk about our 'circle of friends' an inner political circle, a theatre's dress and upper circle etc.
In parts of the Early World, such as among European Celts, people lived in circular houses.
Some folk also lived in circular villages. Black Elk, of a branch of the North American Sioux, says that 'everything that an Indian does is in a circle' and the middle of a circle ' is called Hocoka- the centre.
Native North Americans ,in common with many other people, have circular dances. They often camped in a series of concentric circles and left thousands of circular marks in the ground .
Most of them were marks from their tepees but many were from their circular ceremonial enclosures. Some Native Americans lived in towns, such as the Peublo people, and in Chaco Canyon, and Mesa Verde, there are circular enclosures (kivas) where sacred rituals were enacted.
Kivas are still used in the secret rituals of the Hopi and other Native Americans. Many years ago, an acquaintances of mine visited the New Mexico Indian town of Taos and she told me that the Indians associated their circular kivas with the 'sky-people' whom, I believe, were the sky gods in many early religions and who appear to have visited us 5,000 years ago.
Avebury Mounds
From around 5,000 years ago, the custom of building circular earth mounds, of various sizes, began to spread across the Northern Hemisphere and, probably by contact, into North America where there were large numbers of them.
The Vikings built them over their burial ships and so did early Anglo Saxons in England the most famous one being the Sutton Hoo Burial Ship at Woodbridge in Suffolk. If we saw some of the small circular earth mounds passing through the sky we would call them ' flying saucers or u.f.o's '.
Could it be that these mounds were representations of the craft of the 'sky-gods' ?
The most famous circular earth mound in England, which is completely different to all other mounds in the country, is Silbury Hill which is part of the amazing Avebury stone complex near Marlborough in mystical Crop Circle country. The significance of this 30 m high mound has alluded scholars and, at various times, archaeologists have excavated it hoping to find a burial of an important person. The reason why they were unsuccessful ,in their projects, is that Silbury was not a burial mound as were the other mounds the reason being that this mysterious hill seems to have been a symbolic monument in the Early World 'sky-god' religion as were the Great Pyramid, in Egypt, and certain important pyramids in Babylon, Assyria, and Tiahuanaco in the Andes.
There was also a similar circular version of Silbury in Mexico.
A few isolated stone circles were built before Silbury, but from around 3,000 b.c.e. they began to appear in many countries and sometimes in unexpected places such as on Easter Island ,in Miami, Peru, and on the south coast of New Guinea, and they all appear to have been used for ceremonial purposes.
The British Isles had more stone circles than any other European country and special emphasis was placed on the centre where there was a single standing stone. Evidence from surviving Stone Age cults suggests that they were associated with the sky-god religion. The most famous English circle, Stonehenge ,which also appears to be star-god related, began its life as a circular earth enclosure bounded by a ditch and a raised bank.
Drombeg Stone Circle
Over the years more circles were created around this site so that it finished up as an amazing stone structure surrounded by a series of concentric circles reminiscent of the concentric circles found in early rock art carvings.
The huge Avebury stone complex is also surrounded by a deep circular ditch and both it, and Stonehenge, were sacred areas where people built domed earth burial mounds.
There's a trail of stone circles , dating to a later era, along Africa's Atlantic coast. The best known ones are in Gambia and Senegal but those which deserve our attention are the Ikom monoliths, at Cross River state in south east Nigeria, where there are stones of various heights ranging from two to up to five feet.
They might not be nearly as impressive as Stonehenge but what's remarkable about them is that they are carved with the face of a 'bearded' man who appears to be a god.
Around 5,000 years ago, when the world was in upheaval, as a result of the Great Flood, reputedly caused by the gods, peoples' attention turned to the heavens and the Earth Mother goddess ,who had been worshipped for thousands of years, was joined by 'a bearded, civilising, male sky-god'.
This being was alleged to have been the great teacher of mankind and in many early religions he was associated with a circle. In Assyria, the bearded god Ashur was depicted in a winged disc and so was his counterpart the Persian god Ahura Mazda.
Mesa Verde
Some people, such as the North American Natchez, were so amazed when they saw him that they thought that he came from the sun. However, he was generally associated with the Pleiades-a constellation of stars which featured in worldwide religious traditions. Legends suggest that he had several companions and stories in the Old and New Worlds imply that this group of beings arrived on Earth in 'an identical number of circular craft'.
For thousands of years, these craft have been alluded to in religious rituals, and sacred architecture, their original meaning having long since been forgotten.
Silbury Hill
Who were these star-people? Zacharia Sitchin popularised the story of the Sumerian Annunaki but it was lesser known scholars, Christian O' Brien in the 1980's,in 'The Genius of the Few' , Zenaide A Ragozin, in 1900 in ' The Story of the Nations , Chaldea' and Francois Lenormant, in 1877, in 'Chaeldean Magic, its Origin and Development, who reported several important things about the Annunaki which Sitchin completely overlooked.
What I have discovered , in my many years of research, is that the Annunaki leaders were revered as gods, or the creators, in many parts of the Early World . Numerous stories were told about them ,and about gods and heroes who were based on them, and these have influenced numerous traditions, and popular stories, for thousands of years right through to the present.
With regard to their connection with a circle, the English artist John White ( 1540-1593) made several drawings of the North American Algonquin and in one of their ceremonies, that he witnessed, he saw several Indians dancing around a circle of posts carved with the heads of a group of civilising spirits.
What he didn't realise was that the origin of these 'spirits' appears to have been the leaders of the Annunaki who were also revered as creator gods in some Central American Native cultures .
So, for those astronomers in the SETI programme, who are searching for evidence of life in other worlds, why not read, in my Pleiades Legacy books, what the Ancients said about this subject and which suggests that there was an extra-terrestrial visit to our planet 5,000 years ago.
It will save a lot of time and expense. However, I doubt if any astronomers will take my suggestion seriously because it contradicts what we have been led to believe about the early history of civilised man. But for those readers who are prepared to consider a revolutionary explanation of man's past , they will find, when they are presented with the 'key,' that this fascinating story is alluded to in star lore, astrology, early religion and creation legends, sacred architecture, early calendars, the astronomical alignments of many early sites, place names, folklore and customs etc. Readers might also find some other sources that I have missed.
Written by Leonard Farra - MessageToEagle.com Contributor
ESA PR 07-2016: EXOMARS ON ITS WAY TO SOLVE THE RED PLANET'S MYSTERIES
The first of two joint ESA–Roscosmos missions to Mars has begun a seven-month journey to the Red Planet, where it will address unsolved mysteries of the planet's atmosphere that could indicate present-day geological – or even biological – activity.
ExoMars 2016: launch to Mars. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab. (Click the image for an animation of the mission's journey to Mars)
The Trace Gas Orbiter and the Schiaparelli entry, descent and landing demonstrator lifted off on a Proton-M rocket operated by Russia's Roscosmos at 09:31 UTC (10:31 CET) this morning from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Following separation of Proton's first and second stages, the payload fairing was released. The third stage separated nearly10 minutes after liftoff.
The Breeze-M upper stage, with ExoMars attached, then completed a series of four burns before the spacecraft was released at 20:13 UTC (21:13 CET).
Signals from the spacecraft, received at ESA's control centre in Darmstadt, Germany via the Malindi ground tracking station in Africa at 21:29 UTC (22:29 CET), confirmed that the launch was successful and the spacecraft is in good health.
The orbiter's solar wings have also now unfolded and the craft is on its way to Mars.
"It's been a long journey getting the first ExoMars mission to the launch pad, but thanks to the hard work and dedication of our international teams, a new era of Mars exploration is now within our reach," says Johann-Dietrich Woerner, ESA's Director General.
"I am grateful to our Russian partner, who have given this mission the best possible start today. Now we will explore Mars together."
Igor Komarov, General Director of the Roscosmos State Space Corporation, adds, "Only the process of collaboration produces the best technical solutions for great research results. Roscosmos and ESA are confident of the mission's success."
Encapsulation of the ExoMars 2016spacecraft. Credit: ESA - B. Bethge
"We're not only looking forward to the world-class science data that this mission will return, but it is also significant in paving the way for the second ExoMars mission, which will move our expertise from in-orbit observations to surface and subsurface exploration of Mars," says Alvaro Giménez, ESA's Director of Science.
The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Schiaparelli will travel to Mars together before separating on 16 October at a distance of 900 000 km from the planet.
Then, on 19 October, Schiaparelli will enter the martian atmosphere, descending to the surface in just under six minutes.
Schiaparelli will demonstrate key entry, descent and landing technologies for future missions, and will conduct a number of environmental studies during its short mission on the surface.
For example, it will obtain the first measurements of electric fields on the surface of Mars that, combined with measurements of the concentration of atmospheric dust, will provide new insights into the role of electric forces on dust lifting – the trigger for dust storms.
Meanwhile, on the same day, TGO will enter an elliptical four-day orbit around Mars, taking it from about 300 km at its nearest to around 96 000 km at its furthest point.
After a year of complex 'aerobraking', during which the spacecraft will use the planet's atmosphere to lower its orbit slowly to a circular 400 km, its scientific mission to analyse rare gases in the atmosphere will begin.
Of particular interest is methane, which on Earth, points to active geological or biological processes.
Trace Gas Orbiter at Mars. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab
One of the mission's key goals is to follow up on the methane detection made by ESA's Mars Express in 2004 to understand the processes at play in its generation and destruction, with an improved accuracy of three orders of magnitude over previous measurements.
TGO will also image features on the surface that may be related to trace-gas sources such as volcanoes. In addition, it will be able to detect buried water-ice deposits, which, along with locations identified as sources of the trace gases, could influence the choice of landing sites of future missions.
The orbiter will also act as a data relay for the second ExoMars mission, comprising a rover and stationary surface science platform, which is scheduled for launch in May 2018, arriving in early 2019.
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Astronaut Gordon Cooper: I witnessed a UFO Landing in 1957
Leroy Gordon “Gordo” Cooper, Jr., one of the seven original astronauts of ‘Project Mercury’ the first manned space program of the United States witnessed a UFO landing in 1957. He is another astronaut who has seen an actual UFO.
In 1957, when Cooper was part of a special band of test pilots at the Edwards Air Force Base in California, he witnessed first-hand an actual UFO.
Cooper states: “I had a camera crew filming the installation when they spotted a saucer. They filmed it as it flew overhead, then hovered, extended three legs as landing gear, and slowly came down to land on a dry lake bed! “These guys were all pro cameramen, so the picture quality was very good.”The camera crew managed to get within 20 or 30 yards of it, filming all the time. It was a classic saucer, shiny silver and smooth, about 30 feet across. It was pretty clear it was an alien craft. “As they approached closer it took off.”
According to Cooper, following standard procedures, when the camera crew game him the recording, he sent it to Washington and reported the UFO encounter. After that, all heck broke loose.
“After a while a high-ranking officer said when the film was developed I was to put it in a pouch and send it to Washington.”He didn’t say anything about me not looking at the film. That’s what I did when it came back from the lab and it was all there just like the camera crew reported.”
Leroy Gordon “Gordo” Cooper firmly believes that an extraterrestrial vehicle crashed at Roswell, N. Mexico in 1947, Cooper also believes the government recovered several ‘Alien beings’ from the crash.
“I had a good friend at Roswell, a fellow officer. He had to be careful about what he said. But it sure wasn’t a weather balloon, like the Air Force cover story. He made it clear to me what crashed was a craft of alien origin, and members of the crew were recovered.”
Cooper was among a list of highly ranked officials who believed that the people of this planet have the right to know about Alien life elsewhere in the cosmos.
Cooper added: “It started in World War 2, when the government didn’t want people to know about UFO reports in case they panicked,” said Cooper. “They would have been fearful it was superior enemy technology that we had no defense against.
Is op deze foto van de maanlanding van Apollo 12 een geheim Amerikaans ruimtevaartuig te zien?
Een groep UFO-jagers claimt een geheim ruimtevaartuig te hebben gespot op een foto die tijdens de maanlanding van Apollo 12 is genomen.
Tijdens het inzoomen zagen ze een drietal lichten op de foto uit 1969. Die lichten vormden een driehoekige UFO boven de maan. Volgens YouTube-kanaal Secureteam10 gaat het hier om de TR3 Black Manta.
Complottheoretici stellen dat de TR3 Black Manta een vleugelloos spionagevliegtuig is dat ontwikkeld wordt door de Amerikaanse luchtmacht. Het enige bewijs voor het bestaan van het toestel zijn waarnemingen die gedaan zijn in het zuiden van Californië.
Eén van de UFO-jagers beweert dat NASA-astronauten meerdere keren buitenaards contact hebben gehad tijdens Apollomissies. Hij claimt verder dat er een video is waarin astronauten zeggen dat ze UFO’s boven het maanoppervlak zagen vliegen.
Hij concludeert dat de waarheid verborgen wordt gehouden. Sommigen zijn het eens met de UFO-jagers, terwijl anderen denken dat de beelden nep zijn. Eén iemand vraagt zich bijvoorbeeld af waarom een stealth-vliegtuig lichten nodig heeft.
UFO'S IN MEXICO NET ZO GEWOON ALS AUTO'S ( VIDEO )
Waarschijnlijk is Mexico het enige land ter wereld waar UFO’s eigenlijk een normaal onderdeel van het leven vormen.
Ze worden niet alleen waargenomen bij de grote vulkanen zoals de Popocatépetl, maar ook wanneer je gewoon een stukje gaat rijden.
Op 6 februari 2016 is de Mexicaanse Yolande Ramirez onderweg naar de plaats Cuernavaca. Ze bevond zich in de buurt van een plaats die La Pera heet toen ze besloot wat foto’s te nemen in de richting van de stad Tepotzlan.
Tepoztlan ligt in een vallei in het noorden van Morelos aan de voet van de Tepozteco. Wegens haar ligging en klimaat is het een populaire bestemming voor inwoners van Mexico-Stad; de Azteekse heersers hadden hier al hun winterresidentie.
In de 10e eeuw was Tepotzlán een belangrijk Tolteeks centrum. Het zou de geboorteplaats geweest zijn van Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl, hoewel meer plaatsen die eer opeisen. De Tolteekse piramide in Tepoztlán was een van de belangrijkste ceremoniële centra van Meso-Amerika. Tijdens de Spaanse verovering van Mexico werd de plaats grotendeels met de grond gelijk gemaakt door Hernán Cortés.
Op de foto’s die door Ramirez zijn genomen, komen op drie daarvan vreemde vliegende objecten voor.
Alhoewel Ramirez zelf niets gezien heeft, verschijnen ze wel op de foto’s. Deze zijn later onderzocht en blijken echt te zijn.
Het gebied waar de foto’s zijn genomen staat bekend als een zogenaamde UFO hotspot en er worden daar regelmatig UFO’s waargenomen rondom de bergen daar.
Op de volgende foto zie je drie UFO’s, terwijl in de achtergrond de contouren van de bekende Popocatépetl vulkaan te zien zijn.
Analyse van de foto’s toont aan dat het hier gaat om solide objecten die een eigen energieveld genereren.
Wellicht is Mexico het enige land ter wereld waar buitenaardsen een normaal onderdeel van de maatschappij vormen.
In de loop der jaren zijn er in dit land al zo ontelbaar veel waarnemingen geweest dat het een wonder mag heten dat we tot nu toe nog steeds geen officiële disclosure hebben gehad.
UFO Over France Is Wheel Like Disk With Domed Top Over France, June 2013, Photos, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: June 21, 2013, but reported today. Location of sighting: France Source: MUFON #75233 At first, I almost dismissed this as a light reflection, but on closer inspection I found that it is a solid object. Yes light of the sun is reflecting off of the object, causing it to appear brighter for the moment. The UFO probably shot past the camera so fast that the human eye didn't see it. Lucky for us the camera did. Its easy to make out the domed top, and it has two separate sides and an inner center. So glad I saw this one today. It taught me a lesson about sometimes a reflection is not just a reflection. I would have hated missing this one. It moves like a wheel on its end. I do have a friend, who works at NASA from Taiwan. He said he once saw a craft that glowed blue when started and stood on end like a wheel with the ability to travel from the Earth to the moon in just over a minute. Hmmm...this could be NASAs secret project caught over France. They did catch the TR3B with night vision over France about 6 years back. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: It was nice and quite dark cloud attracted my attention. I took pictures and I saw appear a lumièere so I took a second photo where you can see this strange form. you can see it on second photo.
Dirk Frimout: “Overtuigd van buitenaards leven” -HET NIEUWSBLAD
Dirk Frimout vertrok bijna exact 24 jaar op ruimtereis. Als eerste Belg ooit.Foto: eda
“Als wetenschapper ben ik ervan overtuigd dat er buitenaards leven bestaat.” Dat zegt astronaut en eerste Belg in de ruimte Dirk Frimout in een interview met La Dernière Heure. “Maar of het ook om intelligent leven gaat, is nog een andere vraag.”
Het is volgende week niet alleen exact 24 jaar geleden dat Dirk Frimout aan zijn ruimtereis begon, de eerste Belg in de ruimte wordt dan ook 75. Naar aanleiding daarvan gaf hij een interview met de Franstalige krant La Dernière Heure. De astronaut op rust is duidelijk nog niets van zijn passie voor de ruimte en de wetenschap verloren.
“Magisch”
“Zelfs als kind was ik al bezeten door de ruimte”, aldus Frimout. “En dat is eigenlijk mijn hele leven zo gebleven. Dat ik mijn droom heb kunnen waarmaken, maakt me dan ook echt gelukkig. Nu probeer ik om die passie over te brengen bij jongeren. We staan nog maar aan het prille begin, maar de verovering van de ruimte is de toekomst.”
Frimout heeft naar eigen zeggen “honderden spannende verhalen” over zijn ruimtereis. “Maar als ik er eentje zou moeten vertellen, dan wel die van onze aankomst. Het moment dat we onze motoren uitschakelden, we gewichtsloos werden en we door het raam naar de aarde keken. Magisch.”
Niet dat hij er tegengekomen is tijdens zijn trip, maar toch is Frimout zeker van het bestaan van buitenaards leven. “Als wetenschapper ben ik daarvan overtuigd, ja. Maar of het ook om intelligent leven gaat, is nog een andere vraag”, zegt hij. “Al geloof ik dat ook wel. Het is niet omdat we het nog niet gevonden hebben, dat het niet bestaat. De ruimte is zo onmetelijk groot, het kan toch bijna niet dat wij de enigen zijn? We hebben nog geen manier gevonden om met anderen te communiceren, maar ik ben ervan overtuigd dat dat op een dag wel komt.”
My boyfriend and I were heading south from Morrisville, Vt., approximately 7:30-8:30 pm on Friday, March 4th, 2016. I would say that this occurrence happened about 15-20 minutes south, possibly near Wolcott, Vt., in a heavily forested area. (I’m pretty sure this was on Route 15.) The sky was very dark and clear, a picture perfect evening to see the stars in great detail. I felt compelled to look up to the sky, because of its immense clarity, knowing that Vermont has probably, one of the cleanest skylines in the world, something that I don’t particularly have, living 2 1/2 to 3 hrs east of this particular location. happened to be thinking in my mind at that moment, “Wouldn’t it be cool to see a UFO out here!”
And then, low & behold, something occurred. I was in the passenger seat, and out to my right window, in the west, a slight degree above the faint outline of the tall mountains, I happened to observe approximately 5-10 white, orb-lights, flashing & “dancing” chaotically, in a pattern-less manner. Even though they produced these motions, the lights mainly stayed in the west for the 15-20 minutes that I observed them. They would descend & ascend a slight bit, with some variation of movement, but mainly stayed centralized, in that location.
After a few minutes, possibly 5 minutes or so, I would place my attention to something else & then look back & the lights would disappear, the pop back up again. I instinctively & intuitively knew that what I was witnessing, surely was no human-made satellite’s, as even those, as far as I’ve observed, don’t travel in more than 1-2 at a time & usually have some type of recognizable pattern in their flashing and movement. Also, they don’t “dance”, and usually stay on course in their path. After these few minutes, I brought the lights to the attention of my boyfriend, but he could not witness them right away because he was driving.
At the beginning stages, I was pretty amazed by what I saw, but at the same time, I wasn’t overly shocked, either. Sometimes, I felt, “matter of fact” and “non-challant” about all of it. I didn’t feel threatened by this experience.
At times, I was thinking scientifically, becoming skeptical & trying to conjure up possible practical explanations in my mind. However, as I did so, those thoughts dissipated, because there was no logical explanation for what I saw!
Approximately 20 minutes from the first occurrence, around the Hardwick area, my boyfriend pulled off the side of the road, in an even more densely forested area & finally saw, in the west, the “dancing” white orb-lights in the sky & was totally agreeing with me. About another 5 minutes up the road, this time, ahead of us, I could see in the southwest direction, slightly above the horizon, but very low in the sky & it appeared to be close, three consecutive, ember like flashes-…..one…..two…..three….
They each glowed intensely with reddish-orange, ember like flames for a second or so, one right after the other & then would fade, just as fast as they came. I would best describe what I saw, in comparison to the ends of a cigarette, when the smoker inhales, the ends flame up & glow, and when they stop inhaling, the ends of the cigarette fade. At first, I thought that these glowing ember lights could possibly have been meteors fading out when hitting the atmosphere, but remembering the strange white lights in the sky earlier, just confirmed my UFO theory all the more! I pointed out these ember lights to my boyfriend, and he had seen the same occurrence. At that point, my attention was taken to something else. My boyfriend kept on watching ahead, observing what was going on. He noticed, that the ember glowing lights were at each end of, what he described as a very large, long, cigar shaped object, that was dark, but he could make out some of its outline. This observation happened shortly before we approached the end of Route 15, near Route 2 in Danville, Vt. area. This location was still heavily forested. At that point, we were getting a little spooked out. What I also observed, was my psychological reaction.
In addition to what I had previously explained, I also felt that I was “meant” to see these crafts. That, even though I have never seen a UFO, I was ready & receptive to experiencing a one-in-a-kind event. I felt, that whoever & wherever these visitors were from, they came here on peaceful terms, to observe human life, but not to forthright interfere with us & that they meant no harm or threat in any manner. I also sensed that humans are going to be sighting more spectacular sights like this in the near future-those who are receptive to these events, but also those who are not receptive at all-that their thoughts would be challenged, as well! No matter what these strange lights were, I will always be proud to have seen such phenomena that millions of people may never get to experience!
NOTE: The above image is CGI.
This case is under investigation by MUFON State Director Ken Pfeifer.
Something Strange Lands In Colorado!!!? Multiple Eyewitness Captures UFO 2016 Rick Shares His HD footage To Thirdphaseofmoon Of What Looks To Be a Strange Flying Disc Shaped Object Landing In the Colorado Mountains!!
When we look at the aerospace industry today and the countries and companies leading it, some basic themes emerge. Today’s top companies are building global aerospace ecosystems to help manage the complex technology and products they provide. Many of these projects have multi-government support.
Aerospace leaders are embracing robotics in manufacturing to improve capabilities and processes and create a new generation of best practices and advancements.
It’s as if the aerospace industry is entering the Golden Age in which huge payoffs abound and we are only limited by our imaginations and determination.
A Trend Toward Privatization
Privatization and private company cooperation with state-supported aerospace are a major trend that has emerged over the past 15 years with talented and visionary tycoons including Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Jeff Besos using deep pockets to do things that were once thought impossible.
Aerospace Industry Consolidation
At the same time, what any one company can do by itself doesn’t seem enough given the huge capital expenditures and risks involved in aerospace ventures. As a result, Europe’s defense industry is on the verge of a historic consolidation, a transformation that will allow its aerospace companies to share risk and prosper.
In addition, the number of global cross-border joint ventures between major aerospace manufacturing companies (with the help of governments) is increasing. The recent agreement between Boeing of the United States and Tata of India to co-produce Apache fuselage aerostructures and integrated systems is just one of dozens of joint ventures created each year.
The Global Aerospace Industry
As the following infographic shows, the aerospace industry is global with at least a dozen major players on nearly every continent and suppliers on every continent.
The following graphic is a look at the huge budgets spent on space exploration ventures in 2015, with the United States’ NASA at $18.01 billion, Russia’s ROSCOSMOS at $8.14 billion, and the EU’s ESA at $4.94 billion. Some of NASA’s goals include sending humans to an asteroid by 2025, sending humans to Mars during the 2030s, and funding the Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion Space Crew Vehicle that will be used for deep space exploration.
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This New Plane Will Make the First Ever Carbon-Free Flight Across the Atlantic
IN BRIEF
The carbon free journey about to be undertaken by the Eraole is designed to act as a wake-up call to the environmental consequences of air travel.
A new plane powered solely by biofuels and solar energy is about to make the first zero-carbon-emission flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Seven years in the making, the ‘Eraole’ has been developed by French pilot, scientist, and entrepreneur, Raphaël Dinelli, and is set to make its maiden journey in June.
The super-lightweight aircraft is powered by solar cells built into its wings, and when the Sun goes down, an algae-based biofuel can drive the engine instead. And they won’t have to work that hard – around 20 percent of the Eraole’s power comes from simply gliding through the sky. Dinelli’s alternative energy company, Laboratoire Océan Vital, is responsible for constructing the revolutionary machine.
When it comes to actually flying the aircraft, Dinelli will have a number of challenges to deal with: a cramped cockpit (to keep the weight of the aircraft down); a non-pressurised cabin (to reduce the drain on its energy sources), which means he’ll be on 30 percent less oxygen than normal; and a 60-hour flight time with no autopilot available.
Being a veteran of solo sailing voyages should give Dinelli some useful experience to draw upon, however.
Laboratoire Océan Vital
A typical round-trip flight from New York to Europe releases 2-3 tons (1.8 to 2.7 tonnes) of carbon dioxide per person, reports The New York Times, and the journey about to be undertaken by the Eraole is designed to act as a wake-up call to the environmental consequences of air travel.
If you take several long flights a year and don’t do much driving, it’s likely that the biggest part of your carbon footprint comes from the time you spend in the air.
Small lithium-ion batteries are included in the plane to add some extra thrust during take-off, but after that, the aircraft should run on solar power for some 25 percent of the time its airborne. With gliding accounting for 20 percent of the trip’s duration, that leaves 55 percent for the biofuel – Dinelli and his team have spent two years finding the best biofuel engine for the task.
With a cruising altitude of 10,000 feet (609 metres) and a top speed of 100 km/h (about 62 mph) the Eraole won’t be winning any speed races any time soon – a commercial passenger jet could complete the journey in a tenth of the time – but it might just spark a renewable energy revolution in the field of aviation.
“People investigating non-carbon flight are no longer seen as a bunch of eccentric dreamers,” Dinelli told CNN. We can’t wait to see it fly.
If Europa were our moon, would we have a water world teeming with alien life just next door?
Europa is a frozen moon, so at first glace, it doesn’t seem like a great candidate for life. However, the thick icy crust hides a sub-glacial ocean. We know about this oceanic wonderlandbecause, among other things, we detected its magnetic field (however, of course, we won’t be 100% sure until we get there).
Ultimately, the scientific consensus is that Europa has a liquid ocean due to gravitational interactions between itself and the other bodies in its neighborhood. In short, Jupiter (and a few of its large moons, such as Io, Callisto, and Ganymede) pull and tug on Europa, causing the moon to stretch and contract. Without these gravitational interactions, and the heating that they produce, Europa would be a solid ice moon.
But what if our moon was replaced with Europa? Would we have a majestic water world just next door?
An illustration showing the calculated volume of water on Europa, compared to Earth. (Kevin Hand (JPL/Caltech), Jack Cook (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Howard Perlman (USGS))
A WATERY MOON
This should go without saying, but thought experiments require estimates and guesstimates. It is important to note that some of these processes can happen on short time scales (days to months), like the formation of a thin atmosphere, or long time scales (tens of thousands to tens of millions of years), like moon-wide glacial melting. The amount of time depends on a number of factors, and the following is a hypothesis based on our best current data.
Artist rendering of Europa’s atmosphere (Credit: Kees Veenenbos)
Now, all that said, Europa is currently located beyond the habitable zone in our solar system. As a refresher, the “habitable zone” is the region where liquid water can exist (this zone is defined according to the temperature of the planet’s star). So, if Europa were moved and placed next to Earth, the moon would suddenly find itself within the habitable zone, and it would start to melt.
Due to the lacking atmosphere around the moon (it has one, but it is tenuous and very thin), the ice transitions straight from a solid to a gas. Soon, Europa would begin to have a thicker and more substantial atmosphere, which would slowly grow thicker and thicker. Ultimately, without any protection of a magnetic field, strong ionizing radiation (what’s causing the ice to melt) would break apart the water in the atmosphere, leaving behind hydrogen and oxygen gasses.
And the ionizing photons have another impact on Europa—they create a temporary protective magnetic field!
This is what we currently see around Venus and Mars (to a lesser degree). The solar wind interacts with Venus’ atmosphere, ionizing it, stripping it away, but also creating a temporary magnetic field in the process. This temporary magnetic field deflects some of the solar wind, thus slowing down the stripping process.
For a time, a fine balance would be found between the amount of ionizing radiation and the strength of the magnetic field. So things would look promising…for a time.
GLORIOUS WATER WORLD? WELL, NOT QUITE.
At first glance, all of this sounds like a fantastic thing, it appears as if Europa will completely melt, leaving behind an oxygen rich water world. But this wouldn’t last. Without a geomagnetic field like that of the Earth or Jupiter, it is doomed. It’s atmosphere would slowly be stripped away.
So what would we have? Well, something like this…
Image Credit: NASA/LRO
Look familiar? Europa is now a small and barren rock orbiting around the Earth; it has become a smaller moon than our current one, as all of its water has been lost to space. What started off as a giant cosmic ice block has melted and gradually been stripped away by the solar wind (alas).
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?
What makes Europa such a nice target to explore is precisely its location beyond the habitable zone. When the planets were forming in our solar system, there was the frost line at about 5 AU, this is the point at which objects are far enough from the sun that ice crystals could begin forming. An icy moon the size of Europa could not form around the Earth, and it couldn’t continue being an icy moon if it was moved here. It’s too warm and the moon is too small.
This same principle applies for a moon like Titan. It is able to exist with its methane lakes because it’s in a cold region of the solar system. If it was closer, it would be too warm for the hydrocarbons to form naturally. Moreover, if it were closer to the sun, it would have had most of its atmosphere stripped away.
So to sum, it’s very unlikely that a habitable moon can form around an Earth-sized planet located in the habitable zone. The moon would have to be substantially larger, making it more like two planets as opposed to a planet/moon.
Additional commentary provided by Jolene Creighton.
Craft With Massive Thrusters Filmed While Transiting Near the Moon
This amazing catch of a secret prototype craft transiting near the Moon may change your perspective about many things. Better watch this, it’s going to be worth it.
At the time when everyone was making a big fuss about the 4k TVs, I was extremely surprise to see that the Japanese had already developed the 8k super hi-vision. In fact, the 4k technology started developing as early as 2000, and in 2002 the full concept was being publicly displayed. What I’m trying to highlight here is that technology seemingly way-ahead of our time exists, but we do not possess the proper technological means to use it worldwide. So why are companies researching such cutting-edge stuff if they won’t make any money out of it in the next ten or twenty years? You might think that this way they’ll have plenty of time to work on every detail, but the truth may wear a different coat.
To better understand my point of view, I’ll present you an amazing catch by Mr. Crrow777 of Youtube, who was closely inspecting the moon with his high-end telescope when he stumbled upon the most peculiar sighting – an artificial craft hovering at extremely high altitude.
The intriguing catch was filmed right before the sunset. It reveals a strange craft with massive thrusters on it. Because of its features, which are clearly visible thanks to Mr. Crow, we can draw the conclusion that it’s an earthly design more than extraterrestrials. So what’s so bizarre about it you might ask? Well, it incorporates a technology never before seen here on Earth. Its huge thrusters, presumably three in number, are fired repeatedly, and according to Mr. Crow the craft is moving less, or slowing down when that happens. After viewing detailed analysis of this case, it is likely that what you are about to see is some kind of military prototype that’s being tested in the upper atmosphere. See the video below and prepare to be AMAZED.
This catch clearly raises a lot of question marks. Is this object of alien nature, or could it be a secret man-made prototype? Is this being used by the military, or maybe by a private space agency? What are they hiding for us?
It’s important to note that there aren’t many skeptics in this case because of the detailed analysis provided by Mr. Crow that’s diminishing almost all doubts of the craft being space debris or some other explainable phenomenon. So, could this unique and detailed catch prove once and for all that black-budget programs exist and that the military or some other earthly agency possesses technology way ahead of our time?
Another interesting theory coming from UFO hunters claims the mysterious object has in fact extraterrestrial origins. According to their point of view, another intelligent alien species is not necessarily way more advanced than we are, and their technology can be somehow related to ours. Other hypothesis claims the transiting object could be coming from a space fleet or a mothership that’s stationed behind the dark side of the moon, so that no earthly telescope could see it.
If we are to consider the advanced capabilities of our governments and military, such a scenario doesn’t seem too far off, but until relevant proof emerges, the above mentioned remain only speculations and conspiracy theories.
SCIENTISTS ARE GOING CRAZY ABOUT THIS BIZARRE CREATURE... HERE IS WHY
For decades, marine biologists and other scientists have plumbed the ocean’s depths for clues about just how humanity got here. As some of the most ancient creatures on earth, sharks and their DNA are often the targets of these studies.
One of these sharks just might be holding the key, and it also happens to be just about the goofiest looking thing in the entire ocean. Just try not to laugh when you see it.
If you’re ever swimming on the coast of Australia or New Zealand, you might get a chance to meet this guy.
Ladies and gentlemen, we give you…the ghost shark.
Also known as the elephant shark, it uses its floppy trunk-like nose to fish tiny creatures out of the sand.
The end of their snout has pores that can sense movement and electrical fields, making it easy for them to find almost anything.
Also, just like people, ghost sharks can see in color. Unlike people, however, they have a poisonous spine on their dorsal fin .
RUSSIA IS OFFICIALLY ON ITS WAY TO MARS... ARE ALIENS WAITING?
On Monday, Russia and Europe launched a spaceship in a team effort to explore our solar system. The seven-month journey will be heading to Mars. There, the two hope to examine the possibility of aliens as well as research any chances we on Earth may have of visiting the red planet.
Yes, the country known to many Americans as the homeplace of Borat is actually a vital asset to Russia’s space programme. It was from their Baikonur spaceport in Kazakstan that the Proton rocket launched. The craft is part of the ExoMars programme and will start its seven-month journey to Mars. On board the craft, an atmospheric probe will be used to study trace gases on the planet. Such gases like methane are strongly tied to life on Earth. Previous missions to Mars have brought back reports of methane and Russia hopes to research that further. Somewhere in here, there is a farting aliens joke, but that’s best left for the comments section.
Russia is certainly invested in this whole methane business. So much so, that they invested millions to launching a rocket to Mars. Do they truly expect to find aliens there? Aliens or not, this trip could give us a great deal of information about the solar system. Scientist believe that methane gas originated from micro-organisms. These “methanogens” are thought to have become extinct millions of years ago. This resulted in the frozen gas under the planet’s surface. Some think these micro-organisms are still alive. In other words, aliens.
Russia has never been accused of messing around and the ExoMars project is no exception. This isn’t just a showing of technological force, but a project that hopes to serve a greater purpose. As soon as 2018, the mission hopes to deliver a European rover to the surface of the planet. While this has been done before by NASA, this rover will be the first of its kind to have drilling capabilities. So step aside, Curiosity and Opportunity, a communist rover will be joining you on Mars soon enough
Former World Bank Senior: Aliens With Elongated Skulls Are Behind Money and Religion
Former World Bank Senior Council, Karen Hudes has been making a lot of noise lately, and she recently said something she’s never said before. She said that a second species on Earth controls money and religion.
Many people who have held positions to know things that the rest of us might not know have made some very shocking statements lately. For example, Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Minister of National Defence recently said that there are at least “4 known alien species that have been visiting Earth for thousands of years.” You can read more about that here.
I am aware that just because somebody says something does not mean that it’s true, no matter what their background. At the same time, what she says corroborates with a lot of ancient historical facts, and modern day disclosures of other strange phenomenon, like UFOs, secret societies and more.
For someone like this to gain credibility as a World Bank whistle-blower and then all of a sudden make a comment like this is quite shocking. Although, in her interview she did discredit the idea of extraterrestrials on the planet, which I definitely disagree with.
There is an enormous amount of evidence out there to suggest we are not alone, and we have indeed been visited. For more information on that click here and here.
“These countries are not monolithic, there are forces fighting the corruption and there are forces that have totally been co-opted, and the way they act is treasonous to the people in those countries. The group that’s behind the network of control are the Jesuits, and there are also some groups behind them. One of these groups are hominids, they’re not human beings.
“They are very smart, they are not creative, they are mathematical. They had a much stronger force in the earlier ice-age. They have elongated skulls, they may produce offspring in mating with female humans, but that offspring is not fertile. We live in a world of secret societies, and secrets, and the information that ought to be public is not public.”
The quote above if from the show below. She starts speaking about it approximately 21 minutes into the program.
Karen held her senior position at the World Bank for twelve years before deciding to blow the whistle on the World Bank and corruption within it. She studies law at Yale Law School and economics at the University of Amsterdam.
She worked in the US Export Import Bank of the US from 1980-1985 and in the Legal Department of the World Bank from 1986-2007. She established the Non-Governmental Organization Committee of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association and the Committee on Multilateralism and the Accountability of International Organizations of the American Branch of the International Law Association.
These are shocking statements that come shortly after gaining attention for being a credible world bank whistleblower, stating that the world is in a “currency war,” that the Federal Reserve continues to print money like crazy, and if they keep going at the pace they are on, other countries will no longer accept this currency.
She has been exposing criminal corruption that takes place at the highest levels of financial institutions. In 1999, she reported the corrupt take-over of the second largest bank in the Philippines. She’s exposed the collusion that takes place between financial institutions and various governments, and much much more.
This is a great clip of her telling us some important stuff. Before you brush off what she has to say, keep in mind that the reality of many strange phenomenon has a large amount of proof to back it up, or at least be open to the possibility.
this comment about Homo Capensis’ skulls in the Vatican’s tombs:
“It’s very true. I know this because someone at the Vatican actually found the heads and bones of [Homo Capensis'] dead buried in the basement at the Vatican, and the Vatican was built in 540 AD so the bones couldn’t have gotten in the basement until after that. Many heads were found so they have been burying their dead there for the last 1500 years and I believe they live.for about 800 to 1000 years. They want to kill us off now because there are too many of us and they are losing control because people are waking up.”
Dankzij Google Maps weten we nu zeker dat het Amerikaanse leger buitenaards leven heeft ontdekt. Dat zegt althans UFO-jager Scott Waring. Dankzij een nieuwe update is hij ervan overtuigd dat de Amerikanen een UFO hebben liggen in het gebied.
In 2010 merkte Waring voor het eerst bijzondere activiteit op rond de installatie S4 in Area 51. Hij spotte een cirkelvormige UFO met een doorsnee van ongeveer 30 meter, die door de Nevadawoestijn vloog.
Toen hij onlangs de locatie van zijn vondst op Google Maps bekeek, zag hij dat de Amerikanen slechts een paar kilometer verderop een cirkelvormige hangar hebben gebouwd. Volgens Waring is dit het bewijs dat de Amerikanen de UFO verborgen willen houden voor het volk.
Critici stellen dat het puur toeval is dat er in het gebied een cirkelvormige hangar is gebouwd. Waring beargumenteert dan weer dat de hangar een paar jaar geleden nog in aanbouw was en toen al op Google Maps was te vinden. Volgens hem is de hangar speciaal gebouwd voor de UFO.
In de loop der jaren werden ook een landingsbaan en kleinere gebouwen en hangars toegevoegd aan de basis. Waring krijgt bijval van de bekende klokkenluider Bob Lazar. Volgens hem wordt in S4 door wetenschappers gewerkt aan buitenaardse technologie.
Cloud Orb UFO Over Coachella, California On March 9, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 9, 2016 Location of sighting: Coachella, California, USA This video was posted by gohstdog23 of Youtube and shows a cloud orb in a cloudless sky. Its rare to see them unless they are darting from cloud to cloud, but this one is wandering aimlessly about. These cloud orbs are everywhere in the world. Observing life and recording it below. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Exploring Doctor Who's Blue Tardis On Google Earth, March 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: March 2016 Location of sighting: London, England Google Coordinates: 51°29'31.56"N 0°11'34.74"W Who doesn't love the show Doctor Who? I know I'm a fan, but so is someone at Google. They planted a blue Doctor Who telephone booth on Earls Court Road in downtown London. They even allow you to step inside and explore it a little bit. Very exciting if you are a Who fan. Remember most the inventions today, were just props 50 years ago on TV science fiction shows, which inspire people to work hard to make such an thing. Like the iPhone for instance...was seen in Star Trek The Original Series often in Captain Kirks hand. The Tardis may be a work of scifi, but if an alien species has existed over a million years with technology, I am confident that they or their government will have such marvels. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
This extraordinary UFO was caught on the SOHO sun images by NASA and was found by Streetcap1 of Youtube. It shows a craft with two long arms or wings hanging out. NASA seems to ignore all reported UFOs, even though I always tweet to them the posts I make about them all. As of yet, NASA has never answered me. They ignore UFO researches because they know they are losing and the day will come when the truth comes out. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Sons and Daughters of Roswell Witnesses Reveal Years of Abuse and Surveillance by U.S. Government
San Francisco, CA (February 1, 2016) –– Since 1947 when alien spacecraft crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, the historic incident has been well documented, described, researched and explained in countless books, articles and films. Two of the most reputable Roswell experts, Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, have at last exposed the turbulent and scandalous aftermath—the lifetime impact that Roswell has had on families who have lived with the truth while enduring the government’s erroneous accounts of the event.
In the newest of their bestsellers, The Children of Roswell: A Seven-Decade Legacy of Fear, Intimidation, and Cover-Ups, the authors reveal evidence of years of suppression and fear of reprisal that these descendants of the Roswell witnesses have suffered from the U.S. government.
Most of the parents who were present during or immediately after the incident may have passed on, but their children and grandchildren know what happened and have paid dearly for their knowledge. Their documented stories are described in chilling detail in The Children of Roswell, and they make for fascinating reading:
The daughter of a witness to an alien body discovered that her phone had been bugged for years.
How the U.S. Air Force tried to change the mind of the son of the Roswell intelligence officer.
What really became of the son of the principle witness, who disappeared in 1960. Why does the government go to such lengths to keep these families quiet after nearly 70 years? Frequent contributors to TV programs, documentaries, and movies on the subject, and frequent media and conference presenters, Carey and Schmitt are among the most trusted sources of answers to this question.
About the Authors:
Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt are the co-authors of Witness to Roswell and Inside the Real Area 51, one of which became the Showtime Page Two/Children of Roswell original movie “Roswell.”Both authors were consultants for the Sci-Fi Channel’s documentary,
“The Roswell Crash.” Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Captain USN [Ret.] and Apollo astronaut, said, “Witness to Roswell is a well researched, well documented, and well written account of a very important issue.”
Thomas J. Carey holds a master’s degree in anthropology and is a U.S. Air Force veteran who held Top Secret security clearance. He has investigated and written about the Roswell incident for over two decades, and consults on Roswell-related documentaries. Carey has appeared on Larry King Live, Coast to-Coast AM, and many more radio and TV shows.
Donald R. Schmitt is a cum laude graduate of Concordia University, and a former codirector and director of special investigations at the J. Allen Hyneck Center for UFO Studies in Chicago. He is also a founder and board advisor of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell. Schmitt has appeared frequently on TV programs including Oprah, CBS 48 Hours, and the Today Show, and on many radio programs.
Stories presented in this episode: – Nebraska police officer saw a triangle UFO – Hillary Clinton, John Podesta and top-secret UFO Files – UFO sighting caught on tape over Las Vegas
On February 6, 2016 Yolanda Ramirez was near La Pera on the road to Cuernavaca which is very close to Tepoztlán.
She took some pictures facing Tepoztlán. In three of the pictures there are UFOs flying over an area, known as the scared valley of Magic and Mysticism.
Tepoztlán is the legendary birthplace more than 1200 years ago of Quetzalcoatl, the serpent god of the Aztecs.
Ominous cliffs hang over the town and on the top is the piramide de Tepozteco.
Location: Newton Abbot Devon UK Date:10th March 2016 Submitted by John
Witness report: I was sky watching when I notest an object that came down from the clouds moving at high speed in a semi circular flight path. The object went back up into the sky from where it had descended. Luckily I managed to catch this object with My Sony H300 Camera. because I had my camera in burst mode I managed to capture the movement of the object. I took six photographs in total. Photograph four clearly shows the object to be a silver saucer. This is more proof of alien craft in our skies. The photographs were taken on the 10th March 2016, at 1:08 PM GMT at Newton Abbot Devon UK.
Location:Newton Abbot, Devon, UK Date:15th March 2016 Submitted by John
Witness report: I had an Incredible sighting of a giant ebani that was near the Moon. The ebani was slowly moving away from the Moon and was rotating as it moved. I have seen and photographed many ebanis but I have never seen one of this size. It really is quite Incredible. E.B.A.N.I is a Spanish acronym for “Entidad Biological Anomalous No Identificada” in Engish unidentified anomalous biological entity. Ebanis are some type of organic matter that can vary in many different shapes and sizes even colours. Ebanis can also morph into many forms and are often observed in the form of a serpent. Ebanis are also seen ejecting spheres. Ebanis are always accompanied by a lead sphere that protects it and at times appears to be controlling the ebani itself. As to what the purpose of these strange alien ebanis are is still unk nown. I took ten photographs of this Incredible giant ebani. The photographs were taken on the 15th March 2016, 2:47 PM GMT at Newton Abbot Devon UK.
Retired Navy Petty Officer Claims to Have Seen Top Secret UFO Files
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Cigar Shaped UFO Travelling With The Space Station
Most of the time, UFO observers reported to have seen sphere-shaped objects in space, but the recent sighting may change the trend. A cylinder, semi-transparent UFO was observed in NASA live web feed earlier in March, moving alongside the International Space Station (ISS).
The video apparently shows the UFO moving at the same speed as the massive US spacecraft. UFO observers say that the cylinder space object is the same thing to what had seen on worldwide CNN in 2007.
The 1 minute and 22 seconds clip shows the outside of the space station, but on the right side of the screen, a seemingly moving object travelling at the same speed can be observed. UFO enthusiasts call this object a cylinder and semi-transparent one.
However, the screen went blue just when it was about to come into focus. UFO researchers have been alleging NASA of cover-up every time it catches a UFO on cam.
The CNN video of the external tank that fell from the Atlantis features a triangular object flying across the bottom right corner of the screen. John Schaser, who first published the clip to YouTube, said the footage was downloaded from the NASA website and posted it on the video sharing site.
The Mysterious ‘ Pyramid ’ on Dwarf Planet Ceres has a Strange ‘ Glowing ’ Side
It turns out that the mysterious ‘pyramid of Ceres’ has a strange ‘glowing’ side according to a set of new images beamed back by the Dawn Spacecraft.
Bright lights that defy explanation and mysterious ‘Pyramidal-shaped’ structures are just some of the mysterious features on dwarf planet Ceres.
New images beamed back from mysterious dwarf planet Ceres show several interesting features of the dwarf planet. The stunning new images reveal the three-mile high ‘Pyramid’ like never before, showing the mysterious ‘structure’ has a strange looking bright side, strangely resembling the mysterious bright spots located not far away.
According to astronomers, the ‘Pyramid of Ceres’ is in fact a ‘dome’ with smooth, steep walls – one of which appears to glow.
Astronomers are baffled as to how the structure came into existence in the first place.
On March 6, 2015, the Dawn Spacecraft accomplished an amazing thing by reaching the dwarf planet – located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter – in a historical achievement.
Ever since it arrived at the anomalous dwarf planet, the spacecraft has delivered countless materials to scientists on Earth which were able to explore the dwarf planet like never before, learning it has numerous ‘alien’ spots and mysterious features that are until today, unexplained.
‘Ceres has defied our expectations and surprised us in many ways, thanks to a year’s worth of data from Dawn. We are hard at work on the mysteries the spacecraft has presented to us,’ said Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator for the mission, based at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
Two of the most enigmatic features discovered on Ceres are its mysterious bright spots, and Pyramidal shaped structure.
The mysterious ‘Dome-shaped’ structure Ahuna Mons is seen in this mosaic of images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft.
The ‘Alien’ Pyramid, as it has been dubbed by some is in fact called Ahuna Mons. At a distance of 46,000 kilometers, the enigmatic feature on Ceres looked like a small pyramid on the surface of the dwarf planet. As the Dawn spacecraft circled Ceres at much lower altitudes, the exact shape of the enigmatic ‘Pyramid’ on the dwarf planet came into focus. Now, with the new images beamed back from Dawn, scientists have learned that Ahuna Mons looks like a dome with smooth, steep walls. Scientists say that on its steepest side, Ahuna Mons rises 5 kilometers in height.
However, even though Ahuna Mons isn’t a Pyramid like it was said before, the mysterious structure still remains a great mystery for researchers.
‘No one expected a mountain on Ceres, especially one like Ahuna Mons,’ said Chris Russell, Dawn’s principal investigator at the University of California, Los Angeles.
‘We still do not have a satisfactory model to explain how it formed.’
670 kilometers northwest Ahuna Mons lies the now-famous Occator Crater with it’s enigmatic and mysterious bright lights.
Andreas Nathues, lead author of one of the studies about the enigmatic bright spots on Ceres, from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, announced that the material that causes the mysterious bright lights is consistent with a type of magnesium sulfate called hexahydrite. A different type of magnesium sulfate is familiar on Earth as Epsom salt.
“The global nature of the bright spots of Ceres indicates that the planet has a layer containing brackish underground water ice,” said Nathues, which further reinforces the theory that Ceres holds beneath its surface a huge amount of frozen water.
Ufologists, however have a very different opinion.
According to them, he Occator crater is filled with ‘anomalous’ structures that are anything but natural formations. Several Ufologists who have taken a look at the newest images from dwarf planet Ceres suggest that several ‘buildings’ are seen next to the bright spots. Researchers have not been able to explain the mysterious shapes and bright spots that have caused quite a debate on social networks.
Space shouldn't be exclusive domain of big nations: astronauts
Costa Rican astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz (C) speaks next to head of shuttle Columbia mission Robert Gibson (L), NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (2-L), and Democratic senator Bill Nelson (R) during a press conference in San Jose on March 4, 2016 (AFP Photo/Ezequiel Becerra)
San José (AFP) - Space shouldn't be the privileged domain of big countries but a frontier open to all, astronauts and scientists gathered in Costa Rica said Monday.
Even the smallest nations benefit from access to space technology, for example, improving farming and providing better understanding of oceans, weather and climactic changes, they told a news conference at the beginning of a weeklong forum.
"Thirty years ago, when we were in space, we all looked out the window and saw our blue planet," said Bill Nelson, a US senator and former astronaut who participated in a 1986 voyage on the space shuttle Columbia.
"We did not see political divisions, we did not see religious divisions, we did not see racial divisions. We are in this together."
Nelson and other members of that mission were invited to San Jose by another crew member, US-Costa Rican astronaut Franklin Chang, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of that shuttle expedition.
Chang, who pioneers plasma research in Costa Rica, underlined that the space technology sector is worth $300 billion and growing at five percent annually.
"Space is our future and should be shared by all human beings," he said, urging "a future of collaboration and not confrontation, of inclusion and not exclusion."
Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis opened the forum showcasing 110 companies linked to the aerospace industry that together employ 4,000 people.
The event also drew more than 120 astronauts and scientists.
The president noted that all the Central American countries were working together to build a mini-satellite forecast to be launched in 2018 to monitor the region's forests.
"We should look after space as much as we do our planet," he said, adding that responsible and shared work in the area should be for "the benefit of humanity."
The director of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, Simonetta Di Pippo, told the news conference that the forum in Costa Rica would "increase awareness about the benefits of human space technology and its multiple applications."
Pluto has proven itself to be a diverse, dynamic and fascinating world packed with strange phenomena that planetary scientists are having problems fully explaining. And now they've found an icy oddity that highlights one of the key processes that is believed to shape this dwarf planet's surprisingly young surface.
In recent high-resolution images sent back to Earth from NASA's New Horizons mission, which buzzed Pluto on July 14, 2015, a rather obvious chunk of ice appears to have been ripped away from Pluto’s surface. The upper layers of methane ice are missing from a western plain called Piri Planitia, a feature that is enriched with water ice.
Below Piri Planitia is a very old cratered terrain called Vega Terra, which is separated from the young plain by a series of cliffs (or "scarps"). Some of these scarps appear to have broken off, creating isolated hills (or "mesas"). But what has caused this discontinuity? Why has the methane ice-rich surface layers been cut off by the cliffs, giving way to a lowland plain rich in water ice?
According to mission scientists, the answer probably lies in how various ices in extreme environments react to being heated.
Compositional data from the New Horizons spacecraft's Ralph/Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA) instrument, shown in the right inset, indicate that the plateau uplands south of Piri Rupes are rich in methane ice (shown in false color as purple). Scientists speculate that sublimation of methane may be causing the plateau material to erode along the face of the cliffs, causing them to retreat south and leave the plains of Piri Planitia in their wake.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
As we can probably guess, Pluto is a cold place. Though it's frozen, it is far from static. Chemicals that would normally be in a gas or liquid state here on Earth become solid layers of ice on Pluto. When the world receives even the tiniest amount of heating, volatiles — such as methane or ammonia ice — sublimate.
Sublimation occurs when the atmospheric pressure or temperature (or both) are very low. Water ice, for example, at sea level pressures on Earth will melt into a liquid and then boil into a vapor (or gas) when heated. On Pluto, because it's so cold and the pressures are a near vacuum, liquid water is not possible and heated water ice will sublimate directly from a solid into a gas. And it appears that's what's happening with the methane ice in Piri Planitia; it's sublimating into Pluto's thin atmosphere, likely contributing to the dwarf planet's atmospheric cycles of surface ices and exposing water ice-rich layers below.
It's almost as if Pluto is getting a rejuvenating facial scrub; over millions of years, as its surface is gently heated by our distant sun, the surface layers of ice are sublimated away, creating young-looking regions curiously free of ancient impact craters.
Vinca culture figurines have been researched numerous times and among one sphere of scientists and scholars some have come to the conclusion these mysterious ancient objects found in Serbia could depict extraterrestrial visitors! Possibly of Gods, or any similar superior life form that pushed our civilization to advance to the point where we are today. These ideas have been ridiculed by general media coverings, however still there are many idividuals that believe these old archaeological objects could give us some answers that we as human civilization seek from our existence. Just as pyramids and other ancient megalithic objects that inspire thinkers even till this day, in same manner Vinča figurines too inspire open minds around the globe! Mostly due to specific looks of figurines many think this is how aliens looked like in their encounters with our civilization.
Most ancient illustrations or figurines depict strange humanoid beings with oval-shaped heads, giant eyes and specific dark eyes. We all have seen those images in sci-fi movies and Vinča figurines might be the reason why we depict aliens as such today. Heads of figurines have a specific head shape, usually larger then their bodies while they are mostly pale in their overall looks. You will notice Vinča culture figurines depicts beings that look too much alike to what we usually enjoy in movies. Due to these facts it is safe to conclude that our speculations how Alien life forms look like might actually come from these traces that our ancestors left us. These ancient items are old over 7000 years BC and they are still regularly found by archaeologists in South-Eastern Europe, Ex-Yugoslavia area and Norther Greece.
The Vinča culture is a specific set of well examined and documented archaeological items found in “Vinca region” just 14km from Serbian capital Belgrade. These excavations brought us over 2000 alien like figurines and this is one of the largest collection of such items in Europe. These items are either a creation of some very imaginative individuals from human history, sort of a sci-fi pioneer or even more likely they are evidence of their own happenings that happened 7000 years ago on these areas. In other words their contact with beings that looked different than themselves, so they had a need to recreate them in this way.
It is interesting that the era when Vinča figurines and Vinča culture bloomed happened several thousand years earlier then ancient civilizations around Nile emerged such as old Egypt. This is one of the major proof for open mind thinkers how this in fact is an anomaly in human development. This is why these figurines are intriguing evidence of something irregular that happened thousands years before.
Many still today do not have any realistic explanation for Vinča culture, mostly due to the fact that these items left behind by Vinča civilization were too well developed while cultures of the Old World were still in neolithic stage. In other words, era where humans still didn’t built one of the grand megalithic monuments such as pyramid, the Vinča population had a highly developed cultural traits and art.
Most of !the objects found in diggings of Vinča culture are decorated with incredible inscriptions. Ceramic and stone figurines that represent humans, animals and irregular humanoid beings which today we would see only as aliens are the evidence of extraterrestrial life that happened long ago to advance our civilization before first pyramid happened! It is possible that this was our ancestors way to write history and leave us a clue how we came to the point where we are today. These items are original, intact and you can examine them yourself at Vinča museum
Last week, SpaceX held another successful launch of its Falcon 9 rocket. Unfortunately, its landing was not quite as successful as the one in December (it crashed into the ocean).
SpaceX isn't alone in trying to develop reusable launch vehicles. Other private companies such as Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic are also in the race to achieve the dream of consistently landing a rocket after hurtling it into the heavens. Each success — and failure — gets us a little closer.
But how significant is the creation of reusable rockets? And where will we go from here? Are we finally close to the future once promised by the Jetson's FX-Atmos "flying car" or Han Solo's Millennium Falcon: a world of personal, space-bound transports that can leave your garage, reach orbit and beyond, and return home in time for dinner?
What else stands in the way?
The final frontier
The "democratization of space exploration," spurred by NASA encouraging private companies to develop and manage complete launch systems, is igniting a new age of space development and awakening a spirit of exploration and technology innovation that’s been absent from our culture for far too long.
This resurgence of interest is reflected in NASA's latest call for astronaut applications: 18,300 hopefuls applied for just 14 positions.
And in the private sector, venture capitalists are showing the same enthusiasm by investing US$1.8 billion in space startups in 2015, compared with an average of $193 million a year over the previous 15 years. The increased demand for space access is further spurring on private companies to develop more efficient reusable rocket launch systems.
Today's space companies aren't the first to set their sights on such a rocket. This great feat of engineering was originally achieved in 1993, when McDonald Douglass tested the Delta Clipper Experimental (DC-X), a prototype single-stage launch vehicle. NASA later canceled the project.
Now, it seems, the conditions are ripe once again to pick up where the DC-X left off. The private sector has started to take up this challenge, and the race is on to enhance all our lives with cheap space travel.
This future begins with the reusable rocket.
What does a reusable launch vehicle get us?
Imagine what life would be like if, after each trip to Grandma's, we had to throw away the car. Even with the benefits of mass production, the cost to an individual would be prohibitive, especially if there exist reasonable alternatives like horses or walking. Such automobiles could be employed only by governments, extremely wealthy enthusiasts or perhaps by a few skilled specialists who lived for the challenge.
This is pretty much the situation with current spacecraft technology. Not even the Space Shuttle program achieved the lofty goal of reliable reusability, although it tried very hard. The shuttle was such a complicated system that every time it returned to Earth, intense maintenance had to be performed and systems rebuilt or overhauled, making it three times as expensive as that of an expendable rocket. For example, a shuttle launch cost $450 million to $1.5 billion, compared with $110 million for a Russian Proton rocket with about the same lift capacity.
Truly reusable launch vehicles would significantly reduce the cost of getting material and people into orbit and enable new uses of space with far-reaching socioeconomic consequences that will ultimately reduce our impact on Earth’s environment, such as space-based energy collection, mining and manufacturing.
In order to get an idea of the savings, the retail price of a Falcon 9 rocket is around $60 million to build and launch (including fuel). Given its total lift capacity of 13,150 kilograms to low-Earth orbit, this translates into a price tag of about $400,000 to ferry a 90-kilogram (198-pound) person into space. But if you had to pay only for fuel, about $300,000 a launch, the price tag drops drastically to just $2,000 for the same person. That's not far from the cost of flying from New York to Sydney, which makes a future family vacation to a Bigelow B330 Space Habitat a viable alternative to Disney World.
At the pace things are going, we project that within 10 years the space industry will achieve the goal of a fully reusable launch vehicle. Companies and municipalities, small and big, are all starting to look into ways of taking advantage of this complete disruption in, or better yet creation of, the commercial space market.
So our next question is this: what do we need to make the Millennium Falcon — that is, a single-stage-to-orbit completely reusable spacecraft — a reality?
A little physics can help us see exactly what needs to happen and exactly how far we are from this goal.
Rocket Science 101
Space travel is all about speed. The old adage, "What goes up must come down," is true only to a point. If you throw something up fast enough, it won't come back down; it will have escaped Earth's gravity. The question is, exactly how fast is fast enough?
A simple application of Newtonian gravity theory tells us that if we achieve a speed of 11 kilometers per second — the equivalent of a plane flying 25,000 mph straight up — we are not going to fall back to Earth. Scientists and engineers refer to this speed, which depends on the physical properties of the Earth, as our planet's escape velocity.
A rocket tries to achieve that speed by taking mass and throwing it out the back as fast as possible. Thanks to Newton's third law — which states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction — this propels the rocket forward.
The ratio between the change in velocity needed to escape the Earth's pull (known as delta-v) and the speed at which the rocket sends stuff out the back (exhaust velocity) is the most important number in rocket science. It determines how much mass needs to be expelled and how much energy is necessary to get to space. The smaller we can make the ratio, the better.
In addition, the propellants and fuels are themselves massive, and the rocket needs to carry these things with itself, making it heaver and harder to accelerate.
So we need propellants and fuels with a high energy content and low mass.
Now we can begin to appreciate the enormous feat of engineering that private companies and governments have achieved by not only launching a rocket but learning to land it as well.
The maximum achievable exhaust velocities for the rockets we've been using since the dawn of space travel are much less than the Earth’s escape velocity (about 4 km/s or 9,000 mph), forcing us to come up with ingenious and costly multistage launch techniques to get even a modest payload into space.
In summary, in order to leave the surface of the Earth with the grace and apparent effortlessness of the Millennium Falcon, we need to achieve speeds in excess of the escape velocity, 11 km/s. In order to do that without carrying a fuel tank that far exceeds the size of our ship, we need to achieve exhaust speeds significantly higher than the escape velocity, something not possible with the chemical fuels we use.
So where do we go from here?
So in order to make the Millennium Falcon a reality, we need a new type of fuel, as chemical-based engines are severely limiting.
Thanks to Albert Einstein, we know that there is energy stored in mass itself. Using his famous E = mc² equation, we know that exhaust speeds up to the speed of light are achievable, and way more than necessary to escape Earth’s gravity.
A sustainable exhaust speed of 1,000 km/s, less than 1 percent of the speed of light, would pretty much enable our dream ship. Its fuel-to-mass ratio would be about the same as that of your typical car.
The next question is: how do we get access to the energy stored in the mass (fuel and propellant) sufficient to achieve those speeds? The answer lies in nuclear reactions or, better yet, matter-antimatter reactions. In short, we need to put a mass reactor, nuclear or matter-antimatter, on board our ship. Think of the Enterprise's "warp core," for all those Star Trek fans out there.
Nuclear rockets may seem farfetched, but various versions have already been proposed and prototypes have even been built. The Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA) project, a joint NASA-Atomic Energy Commission program, developed a flight-certified nuclear-based rocket engine that meets all the requirements for a manned mission to Mars.
What is interesting, and perhaps a little sad, is that this was done in 1968, over four decades ago! The NERVA engine achieved exhaust velocities pretty close to Earth’s escape velocity, around 10 km/s. The program was tied to NASA's manned Mars exploration program and, since it was unable to justify the expense of going to Mars, was scrapped in 1972.
More recently, NASA has been developing electric propulsion systems that can generate large effective exhaust velocities that are limited only through the strength of the electric field. Effective exhaust velocities of 90 km/s are already achievable. But this is just the propulsion part. The solar panels, batteries or fuel cells that are currently used as power sources for these engines limit their usefulness. Electricity generated from nuclear power could solve this problem.
The International Space Station is primarily a science laboratory in space. NASA would like to invest in ventures beyond Earth orbit, but industry leaders fear what will happen if the agency pulls out its investment in the station before a commercial options is available.
Credit: NASA
Back to the future
With the renewed interest in space exploration and innovation, we challenge inventors and entrepreneurs to consider looking at advanced nuclear/antimatter-powered rocket systems. This could enable us to achieve the dream of a space car in our garages in half a century.
The key to all the recent advances in space exploration technology has been combining older proven technologies with modern computing capabilities, materials and fabrication processes. NASA's push to get technologies into private hands will accelerate this process.
Back in 1972, we were at 1 percent of the needed exhaust speed. It's not too much of a stretch to propose that, after 40 years of advances, we need only revisit the designs with fresh and entrepreneurial eyes to make it possible for a Han Solo — or, to be more contemporary, Rey Skywalker — to jump into the Falcon and speed off to somewhere far, far away.
Virgin Galactic rolled out its new SpaceShipTwo on February 19, 2016, at the Mojave Air and Space Port.
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Are you alone? To answer this question we have to take a look what "you" are first. What are you made of and where you stand in this universe. Are you your body? Your atoms? And how are your parts connected to the big picture?
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While photographing the total solar eclipse of March 8, 2016, astrophotographer Vincent Tan caught a plane also transiting the sun's face. Tan's Instagram account gives the location of the photo as the Marina Barrage dam in Singapore.
Credit: Vincent Tan (AKA DarthCryder)
A gorgeous total solar eclipse, a Mars lander's second chance and the secrets of Mercury's crust — here are the most amazing things that happened in the universe this week!
Lucky skywatchers capture total solar eclipse
The moon completely blotted out the sun for viewers in Indonesia and the North Pacific Ocean March 8/9 during a total solar eclipse, and Space.com readers sent in epic photos of the celestial event. [Full Story: Amazing Total Solar Eclipse Photos Show 'Black Hole in the Sky']
A newly-captured image of a dying star system reveals a dusty shroud that could be fertile for new planet formation — suggesting stars could form new planets not just early in their lives but sometimes later, too. Such a star could potentially form planets multiple times over its life. [Full Story: Could New Planets Form Around Old Stars, Too? (Video, Images)]
Second chance for InSight
NASA's InSight Mars Lander missed its March launch date after a leak in a vacuum chamber surrounding a key instrument couldn't be fixed quickly enough, but the agency will give it another chance: instead of scrapping the mission, officials rescheduled it to May 2018. The lander is built to probe Mars' interior structure. [Full Story: NASA Aims to Launch Troubled Mars Lander in May 2018]
Asteroid wildcard slips safely by
An asteroid predicted to pass by Earth March 8 did so a day early, surprising scientists. The near-Earth asteroid flew by 2.54 million miles (4.09 kilometers) distant from the Earth, Minor Planet Center researchers said. [Full Story: Slippery Asteroid Surprises Scientists With Early Earth Flyby]
Primordial Mercury crust unmasked
Data from the final orbits of NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft revealed that the carbon coating Mercury's surface is nothing new: Rather than being deposited by comets, as previously thought, the carbon actually came from remnants of the planet's primordial crust, formed by a cooling global ocean of super-heated magma. [Full Story: Mercury's Carbon-Rich Crust is Surprisingly Ancient]
Opportunity rover might spy ExoMars newcomer
The European Space Agency's ExoMars 2016 mission, launching Monday, March 14, will put an orbiter around the Red Planet and drop a prototype lander down to the surface. That lander will touch down in Meridiani Planum, where NASA's Opportunity rover landed in 2004 — and Opportunity may be positioned to document the new lander's descent. [Full Story: NASA Rover on Mars May Have Ringside Seat to Europe's ExoMars Mission]
Destructive star keeps destroying
A white dwarf star, spotted shredding a planetesimal in October, is at it again (still): The core of the dead star now seems to be orbited by 10-15 huge clouds of gas and dust from disintegrating rocks. [Full Story: Real-Life 'Death Star' Continues to Destroy Alien Worlds]
One-Year Ceresversary
A year after NASA's Dawn probe made it to the dwarf planet Ceres, giving us our first close-up views, it has returned detailed maps and some answers about Ceres' mysterious bright spots. On the other hand, it's raised even more questions about the unusual mountain called Ahuna Mons. [Full Story: One Year at Ceres: NASA Probe Hits Milestone at a Dwarf Planet]
Astronaut honored with space station delivery craft
NASA's Rick Husband, an astronaut who died in the space shuttle Columbia disaster, will be honored with a namesake supply spacecraft launching to the International Space Station March 22. The Cygnus craft will deliver supplies and experiments to astronauts aboard the station. [Full Story: Orbital ATK Names Space Station Freighter for Fallen Columbia Astronaut]
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