UFO-Hunting Mini-Satellite Gets Funded

A group of techies have turned to crowdsourcing in order to fund their idea of a UFO-hunting mini-satellite. After an unsuccessful run on the crowdsourcing website Indiegogo, their second campaign, via Kickstarter, has proven successful, and they have received the funding needed to build and launch their mini-UFO hunting device.

The campaign -- "CubeSat for Disclosure - Low-Earth Orbit Satellite" -- utilizes off-the-shelf technology to develop a relatively cheap observation platform in space.

Through Kickstarter, the group sought to raise $10,000, and says they already had $16,000 in previous funding. As of the writing of this story, their Kickstarter campaign has raised $10,770.

Even though they have the funding needed to get their enterprise off the ground, project organizer Dave Shock says they can use all the funding they can get.

CubeSat for Disclosure-Low Earth Orbit Satellite

The First satellite for UFO research. We intend to search low-Earth Orbit for any sign of a real UFO, or any space anomaly.

by David Shock and 61 backers

"We made our goal, but we still need donations to help pay for all the other stuff that we will incur as the project proceeds," said Shock via Facebook. "We still have a few more days left on our campaign, so stop by our page and donate a few dollars if you can."

Several companies offer equipment for what are called CubeSats, also referred to as nanosatellites. These are small devices that offer an affordable way for students, researchers and private companies to have their own little satellite. The cubes measure 10x10x10 centimeters.

CubeSat for Disclosure plans to add cameras, a way to communicate and download information from the satellite from the ground, and a scintillation counter. The group's Kickstarter page says the scintillation counter "enables us to measure the various radiation in our satellite's environment. This is significant as it enables us to detect high energy particles, radiation, and other phenomena."

Two cameras with parabolic lenses will be used to get a 360-degree view around the satellite. The group also wants to add radar if the technology and budget permit.

Their main goal is to hopefully capture verifiable data and images of UFOs. They feel the topic has been ridiculed, but that it is worthy of "rigorous scientific study."

"If you're watching a live feed from the International Space Station, it can suddenly cut out and they'll say, 'Oh, we lost the signal.' But we will have total control of everything. Nobody will alter or corrupt our data so that the government can't cover up what we may find. This is all ours," Shock told The Huffington Post.

If you want to support the project, there are still a couple of days left to invest and get a Kickstarter reward, such as a CubeSat for Disclosure T-shirt or your very own UFO hunting CubeSat.

For more about this project, listen to the Open Minds UFO Radio show with Dave Cote, CubeSat for Disclosure project head.

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Boffins claim mysterious UFO seen in Apollo mission could be secret US spacecraft

UFO hunters claim to have found a secret US government spacecraft in a picture taken during an Apollo mission.

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Swamp Gas UFO conference to revisit 1966 sightings

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In March 1966, hundreds of Michigan residents saw colorful, strange lights across the sky.

Others reported seeing floating discs. Some even reported the sight of an object touching down.

Fifty years later, “UFOlogists” are taking a look back at the strange sightings, as part of a Saturday conference in Ann Arbor. The event, called the “Swamp Gas UFO Conference,” invites anyone to learn about what might be the strangest UFO sightings in the state’s history.

“This wasn’t just one or two people seeing something in the middle of nowhere,” said William Konkolesky, the state director for the Michigan chapter of the Mutual UFO Network. He also noted: “When you look at the amount of info from this particular event, I can’t think of anybody who would reasonably be able to shrug it off and say that nothing’s going on.”

The forum consists of a series of talks by experts well-versed in “UFOlogy.” The talks have titles like “Michigan UFO Archives” and “Little Green Men and the New York Times: The Origins of the UFO Ridicule Factor.”

But rather than discuss aliens or conspiracy theories, or promise answers, the conference is mainly just to commemorate and revisit the bizarre historical facts behind the sightings. Konkolesky notes that when he gives talks at senior centers, a remarkable number of elderly residents recall the events and look back on them with awe and bafflement.

“There are a lot of people who really don’t have a sense of the importance of this event,” Konkolesky said. “Before the event fades away into history, we want to say, ‘This was a big deal.’ ”

Just how many people claimed to have seen something strange? For example, starting on March 14, 1966, there was a cascade of sightings from Ann Arbor to Hillsdale and the surrounding areas. There was a couple who thought they saw a UFO land in a marsh area at the edge of their backyard. Dozens of students in a dormitory reported seeing a UFO landing next to a softball field at Hillsdale College.

There was even one sighting that appeared so real that at least five police cars raced after a UFO in an attempt to stop it, Konkolesky said.

Still, an Air Force investigation later concluded that the sightings were just “marsh gas,” which was later dubbed “swamp gas.”

Future U.S. President Gerald Ford, then a U.S. Congressman from Michigan, even wrote a letter to a Congressional committee expressing his concern about all the recent local reports.

“We’re no closer to understanding it now than we were 50 years ago,” Konkolesky noted.

And while the sightings from that era were remarkable, the number of sightings has not exactly ceased, Konkolesky says. Last year, his chapter and its half-dozen investigators received 331 reports of UFO sightings, most of which turned out to be explainable as an aircraft, sky lanterns or more recently, drones. But some defy explanation.

“We either figure it out or we stop at the water’s edge and say, this is unexplainable,” he said.

The conference takes place March 19, from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Wyndham Garden in Ann Arbor, located at 2900 Jackson Ave. The cost is $30. More information is available online at: swampgasufo.com.

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Ancient Egyptian Glyphs Found in Australia Could Rewrite History

Until receiving a phone call from Nina Angelo (OAM), I knew nothing of neither the struggles involved in protecting the land around Kariong (near Gosford) nor that part of this land was now on the market. When on-site I had seen a lot of tagged trees, and a for sale sign somewhere along a main road, but being unfamiliar with the whole region, nothing registered.

The land for sale contains the Gosford Glyphs, located near Kariong, about 60 km north of Sydney. This site features little known carved ‘ancient Egyptian’ hieroglyphs that were brought to light by various researchers in past decades.

We are convinced that close to this site, and never before seen by non-Aboriginals until discovered very recently, is a rock platform covered with a set of sacred engravings of considerable significance. On this large platform we saw a fish, serpent, massive dolphin or whale, circles and a variety of shapes and symbols.

Without doubt, it is an impressive gallery of ancient Aboriginal rock art deserving of protection. There is one life-sized engraving of Durramullan (son of Creation Spirit Biamie) that is so unique, utterly unexpected, and obviously sacred, decisions had to be made as to how it can be publicly described.

There is nothing remotely like it anywhere in Australia. And that’s it.

That is all we have agreed to reveal. The photographs taken late in the afternoon on this site, and in particular those of Durramullan, should never be reproduced or published through any form of the media but...

Owing to the real possibility this land, irrespective of the credentials for or against the Gosford Glyphs, could be sold then developed, a different approach is compulsory.

It has been our agreed stance to categorise all the sites/relics we are sharing as being ‘found within 2 hours of Sydney’, but that generalised approach doesn’t apply in this location. Those engravings, and other related platforms (one is actually located within this block) are now directly under threat.

The distance between this unique site and that of the Gosford Glyphs is far too close for coincidence or comfort. As to determining the bona fides of this supposed Egyptian site, we have one advantage. According to Dr. Hans-Dieter von Senff, who has produced a draft paper on the site:

These Hieroglyphs are real and have existed for some 4,500 years in Australia. In order to prove that these Proto-Egyptian glyphs are not graffiti, as claimed by various “Experts” and “Egyptologists,” but are the written record left by pre-historic man, written in a coherent and understandable language that makes sense even 4,500 years later. This site is no hoax, but a genuine archaeological discovery; as is proven by the newly discovered second set of glyphs.

The critics who dispute the origin of these engravings numbering over 300 are not sensitive to the bigger picture, and if proven to be engraved by Egyptians, these glyphs form a pivotal and historic epitaph to an Australian history very few suspect.

The engravings were first properly translated by Ray Johnson, claimed to be proto-Egyptian and accepted “as correct by the General Director of Cairo Museum, Dr. Dia’ Abou-Ghazi.” [1]

However, despite the endorsement of the resident expert in Cairo, Australian academics with less impressive credentials are adamant this is an elaborate hoax.

The site includes an engraved Ankh (see image above courtesy of Steve Strong), an essential accompaniment to Thoth, placed alongside an Ibis footprint (Thoth’s recent animal counterpart) and what we believe to be the ‘River of Life’. Two Ibis-men engraved into rock, both in profile with the head of an ibis and body of a human, seem to resonate to the same ancient Egyptian theme.

What really surprised us was that not only are the ibis and Thoth synonymous, but originally Thoth was depicted in ape-form. And it is this more ancient representation that is found twice in Australia, extending the horizons considerably.

A statue found at Gympie, said to act as one of five sentries guarding the controversial seven-stepped pyramid at Gympie, is a depiction of Thoth in his more primal ape-like form and has been argued over and often ridiculed.

The recent discovery of an engraving of Durramullan, again in profile, is less open to debate. The pronounced long forehead and protruding lips is reminiscent of a baboon or one of the larger apes, and so out of context when carved into a continent lacking ape or monkey.

The engraving is ancient, carved by an artist aware of an African animal and Egyptian deity supposedly unknown until the British invasion. In what only adds to the quality and quantity of this cross-cultural partnership, there are two sets of Aboriginal engravings, one containing 31 separate and distinct human characters and the other five figures, of which three have human bodies and what appears to be crocodile heads.

It is for these reasons, and many others, we are in complete agreement with Robert Lawlor, author of the highly regarded Voices of the First Day, when noting the same origin and sequence.

“The Egyptian religious practices, zoomorphic pantheon of gods, concepts of death and rebirth, sorcery, magic and medicine all have their origins in the primal culture of the First Day.” [2]

We see the presence of Egyptians in Australia beginning at around 5,000 years ago, entirely in keeping with a global history that saw, for a variety of reasons too complex to discuss now, the Australian Aboriginal mariners and explorers finally return to Australia at around the same time.

We believe the glyphs and other Egyptian remains found ‘within two hours of Sydney’ bear testimony to a spiritual sabbatical to the place where Egyptian religion and culture began.

That the Gosford Glyphs are so close to the sacred Durramullan site suggests an agreement between the first Australians and people from a distant continent. The Durramullan platform is undeniably special, and the Glyphs are an integral part of this arrangement, unique not only in Australia but the world.

The Egyptian crypt and engravings, dedicated to the memory of the son of a Pharaoh, was constructed close to the Durramullan rock platform and could only be created with the consent of the local Aboriginals.

Of course, if Australian Aboriginals did sail the globe in ancient times this journey is dependent upon ocean-going boats being constructed in Australia. Up at the Top End there are many engravings and paintings of boats which are mistakenly claimed to be inspired by Maccassan boats fishing for trepan.

No such claims can be made for the engraving of an ocean-going boat found in the northern section of the Gosford site. The boat’s design, with a steep prow and stern, has one primary function: to sail through large waves.

It would be a waste of time, effort and resources to construct a boat according to the shape and proportions engraved into the rock, if the vessel sailed in stiller waters. More importantly, this engraving goes a long way towards establishing the claims made by Ramindjeri Elders.

If indeed, as they insist, their ancestors circumnavigated the globe in a figure eight then this sophisticated design would serve that purpose.

That engraving and the Ramindjeri account provide answers to a series of unresolved questions that mainstream academia are unable to appreciate. The presence of Australian Aboriginal people in America was the focus of Issue 35 of the highly respected science magazine Cosmos.

The front cover carried the following caption:

“Did Aborigines discover America? Startling new finds suggest Australia’s first people made it all the way to South America more than 11,000 years ago.” [3]

Of course, America was merely one port-of-call when the First Australians set sail.

“Dr. Raghavendra and researchers from the Indian-government backed Anthropological Survey of India project found unique genetic mutations were shared between modern-day Indians and Aborigines.” [4]

They “identified seven people from central Dravidian and Austro-Asiatic tribes who shared genetic traits only found in Aborigines.” [5]

These facts, along with newly discovered Australian genetic links to a hominid in Siberia referred to as Denosovan, necessitate the same means of transport: a boat.

However, the plan of a boat is insufficient. Also required are both the tools needed to construct such a vessel and navigational skills before sailing to India, America, Asia, Egypt or any other destination. An axe is an essential prerequisite if building a vessel capable of sailing across oceans.

In keeping with all other firsts, it should come as no surprise that the oldest axes yet found are located within Sahul (the greater Australian continent which includes PNG, Tasmania, etc).

The oldest axe was found at Huon Terrace (PNG) and is dated at 40,000 years, followed by an axe found in Jawoyn land (N.T.) claimed to be 35,500 years old. Remaining within Australia, an axe was discovered at Sandy Creek (QLD 32,000 years) and another at Malangangerr (N.T. 23,000 years).

In what confirms the antiquity of Australian axe technology, and by association boats, Angel John Gallard has in his possession a hand-held chopper (the precursor to the axe) which he believes to be no less than 60,000 years old, with the real possibility it is over 100,000 years old. The oldest axe discovered outside Australia was found at Niah Cave (Sarawak) and is thought to be 15,500 years old.

For such an epic journey to succeed, especially if circumnavigating the world in a figure eight, Aboriginal mariners must have navigated by the stars. Once again it all begins here. As announced by a team of scientists from the CSIRO, the oldest astronomical construction was found at Wurdi Youang (Victoria). “The strange stone arrangement” has “two points set in perfect alignment with the setting sun on a midsummer’s day.” [6], [7]

CSIRO experts are of the opinion the “ancient Aboriginal sundial could be upwards of 10,000 years old.” [8]

Nor do these rocks stand in isolation – there are two sets of walls recently found in the Snowy Mountains, the first is aligned east-west, marking out the conjunction of planets and contains no less than 10,000 rocks. The second is at least four times bigger and runs down an extremely steep slope.

Within ‘two hours from Sydney’ is a perfectly aligned five-rocked compass and another construction that is far more enigmatic, which for obvious reasons, we call ‘mini-Stonehenge’. It is made up of 46 stones in the inner circle and 18 rocks forming what we feel are clusters of stars.

The four directions are marked out by arches with a horizontal stone supported by stone pillars. All four constructions, although separated by hundreds of kilometres, serve the same purpose: charting the heavens.

There is one pattern exhibited by these sites that seems to openly contradict an artistic maxim we assumed held fast throughout Australia. It was our belief that traditional Aboriginal art was region specific. Within this area we have found over 25 styles/techniques, many of which are claimed to be created in one tribal estate.

We found evidence of the following Aboriginal artistic styles: Panaramitee; X-Ray; Figurative; Mimi; Lightning Brothers; Wandjina; Papunya; Hand stencils (two types); Representational; Rock engraving; Rock Pecking; Stone Arrangements; Bands across the body; Egyptian symbols; Bird prints; Engraved shield design (found throughout Australia); Profiled spirits; and others we could not identify.

Where does that leave us? Relying on textbooks and academics ‘dazed and confused’... Or there is an alternative route. We are convinced the First Australians are completely separate to the Africans and were the first homo sapien sapiens.

It was from Australia, not Africa, the first migration originated, and it is from Australia that religion, gender equality, astronomy, burials, sailing, music, art, democracy and all the nobler pursuits began.

And it is in Australia, in particular the area ‘within 2 hours from Sydney’, that proof of this global legacy can still be found.

By Steve Strong, New Dawn Magazine; | Please visit Wayne Herschel's website for his interpretation of the Egyptian hieroglyphs of Australia;

Footnotes:

1. “The Kariong Glyphs and the Prohibited Egyptians: Research Proves the Kariong Glyphs to Be Genuine and Exposes the Critics as Hoaxters” by Hans-Dieter von Senff, 2011, 99.
2. Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime by Robert Lawlor, Inner Traditions International, Ltd., 1991, 75.
3. “Ancient Odyssey” by Jacqui Hayes, Cosmos, 2010, Front Cover.
4. “First Australians Were Indian: Research,” Sydney Morning Herald, 23 July 2009, 16.
5. Ibid.
6. “Wurdi Youang Rocks Could Prove Aborigines Were First Astronomers,” 5 February 2011,www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/ancient-aboriginal-eyes-were-on-the-skies/story-fn5fsgyc-1226000523978
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.

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ExoMars lancering geslaagd: eerste signalen NOMAD ontvangen - HLN.be

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De lancering van een sonde naar Mars, vanuit de lanceerbasis Bajkonoer in Kazachstan, is geslaagd. Twaalf uur na de start van de Europees-Russische missie ExoMars heeft het controlecentrum in Darmstadt vanavond een eerste signaal van de satelliet ontvangen.

Het signaal werd ontvangen om 22.28 uur Belgische tijd. "We zijn op weg naar Mars", jubelde de chef van het Europese ruimtevaartagentschap ESA, Jan Wörner.

Het project ExoMars, dat meerdere miljarden kost, speurt voor de ESA en zijn Russische partner Roskomos naar sporen van leven op de Rode Planeet. Hiervoor wordt ook een beroep gedaan op een Belgisch instrument: NOMAD.

Als alles volgens plan verloopt zou de lander "Schiaparelli" op 19 oktober in de atmosfeer rond Mars moeten arriveren.

Lees ook

• Belgische 'NOMAD' vertrokken naar Mars
• VS willen (pas) in 2018 weer naar Mars gaan

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Eén van de grootste mysteries van de natuur: feeëncirkels nu ook ontdekt in Australië

Geheim van mysterieuze Bermudadriehoek eindelijk ontsluierd?

White Fast UFO Moves Over Lake In Harstad, Norway, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Aug 26, 2015, reported this week. 
Location of sighting: Harstad, Norway
Source: MUFON 

This speedy UFO was seen last year over a lake in Norway, but was reported recently to MUFON. The Orb moves quickly and may have come from below the water. Strange thing is...why didn't the person move so he could see the UFO more? Odd.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

Eyewitness states:
I looked out over the sea from my balcony. First I saw this object standing still in the sky and I thought it could be a drone, but then it suddely moved very fast up into the sky in a straight line way to north. I run as fast as I could inside and looked out my kitchen-window while I at the same time told my girlfriend to come see this strange object. We have never seen anything like this before. The object suddenly moved fast back to where it came from, and we ran back to the balcony where I recorded this object on my iPhone. Then we saw this happening: The object moved very fast from high up in the sky above the mountain. Bright lights changed from red to green while it moved fast down toward the sea. Then it suddenly dissapeared behind the building. We stood there like paralyzed, not knowing what to say or feel.

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THE “SIZZLER” UFO – MOST SPECTACULAR VIDEO OF 2016

(Before It's News)

If the comeback of the X-FILES 2016 has caught your interest, then like me, Any video taken in broad daylight of some unexplained craft drifting across the sky will seem worth a look.

This time, the UFO2GO channel has come up with a stunner. I can’t even tell if this object changes shape, separates at points and rejoins or defies gravity and air pressure flow by deliberatly showing off how well it can cruise like an eagle with effortless turns and climbs.

It reflects light like a new chrome motorbike, has a section in the middle which is cut out or allows air to pass through it. The detail I could see was spot on in some parts of the video. Others, well maybe zoomed in a little too much. All in all, I myself reckon its authentic and very odd to watch. It is not like anything I have seen from other sources and wonder what Australia does to attract these kinds of “objects”.

As for a big silver balloon ?, Well not likely, anything full of helium just climbs and climbs. This bird puts on a show and does it in a way to show proudly its something far more graaceful.

Keep up the good work down-under guys !

Request for picture was granted by UFO2GO.

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Triangle Close Encounter Near Carswell Air Force Base

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Wild Ride to Mars: Inside ExoMars' Schiaparelli Lander Prototype

A model of ExoMars' Schiaparelli lander prepares for thermal tests in Cannes, France. The European Space Agency's Mars lander will hurtle to the planet's surface Oct. 19, and its heat shields will have to withstand about 2,732 degrees Fahrenheit (1,500 degrees Celsius).

Credit: B. Bethge/ESA

The ExoMars mission launching Monday (March 14) will pack an orbiter as well as an ambitious Mars lander prototype that will make the challenging descent to a controlled landing on Mars.

The little lander, called Schiaparelli, will demonstrate the technology necessary to land a life-hunting rover on ExoMars' next mission. It's about 1,320 pounds (600 kilograms) packed into a 7.9-foot (2.4 meter) diameter package, counting the outstretched heat shield.

Schiaparelli and the orbiter will travel for seven months after the launch to get to Mars, but they'll part ways about three days before reaching the Martian atmosphere, on Oct. 16, European Space Agency researchers said in a statement. At that point, Schiaparelli will separate and then coast toward Mars, still in hibernation to conserve power. [How Europe's ExoMars Missions to Mars Work (Infographic)]

A few hours away from the Martian atmosphere, at an altitude of 76 miles (122.5 km), the module will come to life while traveling approximately 13,050 mph (21,000 kph). Its heat shields will slow it down as it enters the atmosphere, braking to about 1,025 mph (1,650 kph), and then it will deploy the 39-foot (12 m) parachute.

As it hurtles downward, Schiaparelli's heat shields will reach temperatures of about 2,732 degrees Fahrenheit (1,500 degrees Celsius).

After slowing even further, the experimental lander will release its front and back heat shields and switch on radar sensors to figure out how far it is from the Martian surface. The parachute will be left behind on the back heat shield, so to slow down even more, the lander will switch on its thrusters until it gets down to about 6.6 feet (2m) off the ground, slowed to just 4.3 mph (7 kph).

Then it'll switch off its thrusters and drop to the ground, and the bottom of the module, like the crumple zone on the front of a car, will break its fall as it plunks down on the surface of Mars' Meridiani Planum, possibly within view of NASA's Opportunity rover.

A lot for the lander to get through in just 6 minutes since entering the atmosphere.

For as long as its leftover battery life lasts — just a few days, likely — the lander will study Mars' wind speed and direction, humidity, pressure, air temperature, atmosphere transparency, electric fields and more, sending its measurements up to the orbiter through two antennas. (It will send measurements during the 6-minute landing process, too.)

Any science measurements the lander sends from the surface is a bonus: The lander's main purpose is to pave the way for the rover launching in 2018, officials said in the statement. Using knowledge gained from Schiaparelli, that future rover will be able to land safely and begin its hunt for signs of life.

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ExoMars: The Mission to Find Life On Mars Begins

ExoMars mission, part 1

An orbiter and lander will launch from Kazakhstan on March 14, arriving at Mars in October.

IN BRIEF

Today, a European space mission set off to figure out if there is indeed life on Mars.

EXOMARS MISSION

Europe’s ExoMars orbiter launched today. It blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Its mission is focused on searching Mars for signs of life and, to this end, studying the methane that’s present in the Red Planet.

This is the first phase of a 1.2 billion Euro project between the European Space Agency and Russia that is aimed at finding the biochemical fingerprints of life on Mars.

The running theory is that, while the surface of Mars shows a harsh environment where living things couldn’t possibly thrive, it might be possible that life can thrive below its surface. The existence of methane could be the key to this theory—and that’s what the ExoMars orbiter is set to find out.

SCHIAPARELLI

Arrival on Mars timeline. Image Credit. European Space Agency

Once it arrives in Mars (it’s expected to land by October of this year), it will hopefully find where the traces of methane are coming from and map out an ideal landing site for a rover that’s being targeted for a 2018 launch.

The ExoMars is also going to release a lander called Schiaparelli, which is designed to study the Red Planet’s dust storms and test the new landing system, which will help to pave the way for a more functional Mars rover exploring the planet by 2021. Notably, this rover will be equipped with a drill and a laboratory for testing.

Ultimately, the team asserts that there are two possible sources of the Martian methane: It may be geological (such as volcanic activity) or could be proof of life on the Red Planet. Hopefully, this project will determine which it is.

The ExoMars rover

Blasting off from Earth in 2018, it will reach Mars in 2021.

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NASA wil op Mars aardappelen telen - HLN.be

Bron: The Independent

In 'The Martian' overleeft een op Mars gestrande astronaut door er aardappels te telen. © Kos.

Gaan we de klimaatverandering op aarde overleven door aardappelen te telen op Mars? Het lijkt een fantasie uit de sciencefictionfilm 'Martian'. Daarin overleeft een op Mars gestrande astronaut door piepers te telen. Maar het is ook een experiment van ruimteagentschap NASA. Dat onderzoekt samen met het Internationaal Aardappelencentrum in Peru (CIP) of het mogelijk is patatten te kweken in de extreme klimaatomstandigheden op de rode planeet. Dat moet ons dan op Aarde ten goede komen.

"Wat je in 'The Martian' ziet, is perfect mogelijk", maakt astrobioloog Julio Valdivia-Silva, de hoofdwetenschapper in het experiment in Peru, zich sterk. Valdivia-Silva en zijn team proberen de omstandigheden op Mars na te bootsen. Onder een koepel creëren ze dezelfde atmosfeer. De aarde bestaat uit zandgrond uit de Pampas de la Joya-woestijn, één van 's werelds droogste en armste ecosystemen op aarde. 

Veerkrachtig en voedzaam

Maar waarom precies de aardappel? De veerkracht van de nederige patat, met zijn grote aantal soorten, genotypes en variëteiten, zorgt ervoor dat de aardappel overal kan geteeld worden. Van op zeeniveau tot op 4.700 meter hoogte. De aardappel is bestand tegen droogte, extreme hitte en koude, zoute omgevingen en UV-straling. Het is ook één van de meest voedzame gewassen. Aardappelen zitten propvol vitamine C, zink, ijzer, eiwitten en koolhydraten.

Min 153 graden

Maar de onherbergzaamheid van Mars, dat is toch andere koek. De temperaturen op de rode planeet lopen fel uiteen, van 20 graden aan de evenaar tijdens de zomer tot min 153 graden aan de polen. De atmosfeer bestaat voor 95% uit koolstofdioxide, 3% stikstof en slechts 0,13% zuurstof. Komt daarbij dat de stoffige planeet geen grondwater heeft en er winden tot 90 per uur staan.
Lees verder onder de foto

Lees ook

• Klimaatalarm: februari breekt temperatuurrecord met schokkende marge
• Elk jaar half miljoen doden door impact klimaatverandering op voedselkwaliteit
• Belgische 'NOMAD' vertrokken naar Mars
• Echte 'Death Star' trekt spoor van vernieling in verafgelegen zonnestelsel
• VS willen (pas) in 2018 weer naar Mars gaan

Maar Jan Kreuze, hoofdviroloog aan het aardappelcentrum in Peru, gelooft dat het mogelijk moet zijn om aardappelen te telen op Mars. "Aardappelen zullen Mars kunnen koloniseren nog voor de mens dat doet", stelt hij. 

Een bijkomende uitdaging is dat de zwaartekracht op Mars slechts een derde bedraagt van die op Aarde. Daarop kan tijdens het experiment niet getest worden, maar de aardappel heeft tegenover andere gewassen het bijkomende voordeel dat hij ondergronds groeit.

4.500 soorten

In het Peruviaanse aardappelcentrum worden 4.500 soorten aardappelen getest, voornamelijk uit Peru. Er zijn zo veel variëteiten dat sommige geen naam maar slechts een code dragen. Eén van die variëteiten zou wel eens de juiste genetische opmaak kunnen hebben om op Mars te overleven. 

Andespatatten en genetisch gemodificeerde

In het NASA-experiment worden 100 variëteiten gebruikt. Daarvan zijn er 40 afkomstig uit het Andesgebergte, de geboorteplek van de aardappel. Die groeien in verschillende ecologische zones en kunnen tegen abrupte klimaatveranderingen. Ze kunnen ook in zeer droge grond groeien. De andere 60 zijn genetisch gemodificeerde variëteiten die immuun zijn voor virussen en kunnen overleven met extreem weinig water.

Indien het experiment succesvol is, zullen de geselecteerde aardappelen cryogeen bevroren worden om te verhinderen dat ze tijdens de lange reis naar Mars beginnen ontkiemen. Een enkele reis naar Mars zou immers negen maanden duren. De aardappelen zouden door robots kunnen geteeld worden in een koepel op Mars. Dit in afwachting van toekomstige bemande missies naar Mars.
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Het experiment heeft twee doelstellingen, verklaart Valdivia-Silva: "Uitvissen welke variëteit het best klimaatverandering overleeft en een groente vinden die toekomstige astronauten kan voeden".

Voedselzekerheid

Op het vlak van voedselzekerheid kent de aardappel zijn gelijke niet. De pieper groeit snel en produceert meer calorieën per eenheden energie, grond en water dan eender welk gewas. Indien hij op Mars kan groeien, kan hij de zwaarste omstandigheden op Aarde ook aan, zo luidt de redenering.

Klimaat op Aarde
Het aardappelcentrum in Peru zal onderzoeken hoe aardappelen het doen in steeds extremer wordende klimaatomstandigheden. De klimaatverandering zorgt al voor meer droogtes en overstromingen en maakt oogsten almaar kwetsbaarder voor ziektes en ongedierte, in het bijzonder in regio's waar al armoede en ondervoeding heerst.

Buitenaardse landbouw voor menselijke kolonies in de ruimte mag dan nog science fiction zijn, volgens Kreuze is het experiment dat allerminst. "Onze belangrijkste doelstelling is niet aardappelen gaan kweken op Mars, maar hier op Aarde. In het bijzonder in ontwikkelende landen".

Is het mysterie van de Bermudadriehoek eindelijk opgelost? - HLN.be

Bron: Sunday Times

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Talloze schepen en vliegtuigen verdwenen op mysterieuze wijze van de aardbol in de Bermudadriehoek tussen Miami, de Bermuda-eilanden en Puerto Rico. Van de USS Cyclops, de boot met 300 passagiers die in 1918 spoorloos verdween, tot Flight 19, die na een trainingsoefening nooit meer werd teruggevonden. Er zijn zelfs geschriften waaruit blijkt dat Columbus moeilijkheden ondervond in de driehoek. Sommigen gaan uit van duistere krachten, anderen zijn ervan overtuigd dat aliens er voor iets tussen zitten. Maar er lijkt nu toch een wetenschappelijke uitleg te zijn.

Kraters

Flight 19, een vlucht van vijf oorlogsvliegtuigen, verdween spoorloos boven de Bermudadriehoek in 1945. © Wikipedia.

Dat er zoveel schepen verdwijnen in de Bermudadriehoek, zou te wijten zijn aan kraters in de zeebodem. Op de bodem van de Barentszzee, duizenden kilometers van de Bermudadriehoek, zijn kraters ontdekt die gasontploffingen veroorzaken. 

Mochten zulke kraters ook in de Bermudadriehoek aangetroffen worden, dan is het mysterie wellicht opgelost.

Lees ook

• Wetenschap wacht in spanning de geboorte van Sloveense 'baby-draken' af
• Bij en vlinder dreigen uit te sterven

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Methaangas

De kraters in de Barentszzee zijn tot 800 meter breed en 45 meter diep en zouden zijn ontstaan door methaangas in de olie- en gasrijke zeebodem bij de Noorse kust. Het methaangas hoopt zich op, lekt en ontploft uiteindelijk door de zeebodem. Bij een dergelijke ontploffing wordt een enorme hoeveelheid methaangas naar boven gestuwd, waardoor 'gaten' in het zeeoppervlak worden geblazen. Dat hebben onderzoekers van de Arctic University of Norway ontdekt.

De USS Cyclops verdween samen met 300 opvarenden van de aardbol in 1918. © Wikipedia.

Nucleaire reactie

De ontploffingen op de zeebodem zouden schepen in gevaar kunnen brengen. En mogelijk bestaat de zeebodem van de Bermudadriehoek net zoals de Barentszzee uit gasophopingen. "Zulke gasontploffingen zijn als een nucleaire reactie, ze produceren gigantische hoeveelheden gas, waardoor de oceaan opwarmt en schepen zinken.

Volgende maand, op de jaarlijkse meeting van de European Geosciences Union, zullen experten uit de doeken doen of zulke ontploffingen effectief schepen kunnen doen zinken.

Vliegtuigen

Dan rest er nog één vraag: wat met vliegtuigen? De Bermudadriehoek is ook genadeloos voor vliegtuigen, maar gasontploffingen op de zeebodem kunnen uiteraard geen vliegtuigen uit de lucht halen.

Het Bermudamysterie lijkt dus nog niet volledig opgelost, of komen ze op de meeting van de European Geosciences Union toch met een ultieme verklaring op de proppen?

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Belgische 'NOMAD' vertrokken naar Mars - HLN.be

Bron: ANP, Belga

VIDEO Europa is vandaag begonnen aan een bijzondere nieuwe missie in de ruimte. Het wetenschappelijk instrument NOMAD (Nadir and Occultation for Mars Discovery), dat is ontworpen, vervaardigd en getest door het Belgisch Instituut voor Ruimte-Aëronomie (BIRA), is om 10.31 uur vanuit Bajkonoer in Kazachstan naar Mars vertrokken aan boord van de satelliet Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). Het gaat om het eerste deel van de missie ExoMars. Eind dit jaar moet de NOMAD op Mars aankomen.

De bedoeling van de missie is om de atmosfeer en het oppervlak van de Rode Planeet in kaart te brengen. De nuttige lading bestaat uit een "orbiter" (TGO) en de lander Schiaparelli, die in oktober moeten aankomen.

Drie dagen voor aankomst in de atmosfeer van Mars, scheiden de wegen en daalt de lander naar het Marsoppervlak af. De 4,3 ton wegende orbiter moet na ongeveer een jaar een cirkelvormige baan draaien 400 km boven het oppervlak, om met vier instrumenten de atmosfeer van Mars te bestuderen. 

Eén daarvan is dus NOMAD. Het instrument doet met drie spectrometers in drie kanalen onderzoek naar de samenstelling van de atmosfeer van de Rode Planeet en zal daarbij op zoek gaan naar sporengassen, in het bijzonder methaan.

Het tweede luik van ExoMars is voor 2018 voorzien, en bestaat uit een Russisch platform en een Europese robotjeep die tot twee meter diep in de Marsbodem zal boren, veel dieper dan de Amerikaanse Oppurtinity. De orbiter zal dan in de eerste plaats als tussenstation voor de communicatie met de jeep dienen. In 2018 zal ook de NASA opnieuw een sonde naar Mars sturen.

"Doel van ExoMars is sporen van leven te zoeken op Mars, maar de missie maakt het ook mogelijk om nieuwe technologieën te tonen die ons verder en verder helpen in de zoektocht naar nieuwe horizons", aldus Elke Sleurs, staatssecretaris voor Wetenschapsbeleid.

Maandag om 22.17 uur wordt een eerste signaal van de satelliet verwacht.

Lees ook

• Astronaut Scott Kelly gaat met pensioen
• VS willen (pas) in 2018 weer naar Mars gaan
• Astronaut Scott Kelly is 5 cm groter na jaar in de ruimte

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Echte 'Death Star' trekt spoor van vernieling in verafgelegen zonnestelsel - HLN.be

Bron: Space.com

Impressie van een uiteenvallende planeet rond een witte dwerg. © NASA/CfA/Mark A. Garlick.

STERRENKUNDE Een verwoestende dode ster die astronomen recent konden gadeslaan, gaat verder met zijn spoor van vernieling. In oktoberraakte bekend dat de witte dwerg verantwoordelijk was voor de vernietiging van een dwergplaneet. Amper zeven maanden later hebben onderzoekers rond de dode ster sporen gevonden van minstens zes afbrokkelende hemellichamen.

Een witte dwerg is de supercompacte, aarde-achtige kern van een dode ster die achterblijft wanneer een ster al zijn brandstof heeft opgebruikt en zijn buitenste lagen afwerpt. De meeste sterren, waaronder ook de zon, evolueren op een dag tot een witte dwerg.

Door deze witte dwerg te bestuderen, die zich op zo'n 570 lichtjaren van de aarde bevindt, kunnen we mogelijk dus een idee krijgen van hoe het einde van ons zonnestelsel er miljarden jaren later zal uitzien.

Ster des doods

Het eerdere onderzoek, gebaseerd op beelden van NASA's ruimtetuig Kepler, wees uit hoe de witte dwerg de rol speelde van de 'Death Star' in de Star Wars-films. Een dwergplaneet die de dode ster naderde op een afstand van ongeveer 837.000 kilometer, werd uiteengereten. Rond het object bevonden zich een staart van stof en een aantal brokstukken. De onderzoekers berekenden dat het gesteente over ongeveer een miljoen jaar volledig vernield zou zijn.

Volgens Boris Gänsicke, astronoom aan de universiteit van Warwick, en zijn team is het dwergsysteem in amper zeven maanden snel geëvolueerd. De astronomen observeerden de witte dwerg met de Thai National Telescope, en vonden in de plaats van één hemellichaam bewijs van zes lichamen rond de witte dwerg. "Maar er zijn er duidelijk nog meer. Het kunnen er tien zijn, misschien vijftien", zegt Gänsicke aan Space.com.

Glimp van onze toekomst

Al deze hemellichamen draaien op ongeveer dezelfde afstand rond de dode ster, en zijn ongeveer twee tot vier keer zo groot als de witte dwerg. Volgens de onderzoekers zijn het geen grote, vaste objecten, maar gigantische wolken van gas en stof, afkomstig van kleinere rotsige hemellichamen die uit elkaar aan het vallen zijn.

"Op een dag zal onze zon uitzetten tot een rode reus en zo Mercurius en Venus, en misschien de aarde, wegvegen alvorens ze een witte dwerg wordt", zegt Gänsicke, die zijn bevindingen beschrijft in het wetenschappelijke bladAstrophysical Journal Letters. "Door deze witte dwerg te bestuderen, krijgen we een zicht op wat de toekomst voor ons zonnestelsel in petto heeft."

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Britse wetenschapper: “Farao’s gebruikten piramides als lanceerplatform naar hiernamaals”

BUITENAARDSE GEEFT OPDRACHT TOT BOUWEN PIRAMIDE

Regelmatig zijn er berichten over mensen die bepaalde dingen doen omdat ze stemmen in hun hoofd horen die hen bepaalde opdrachten geven. 

Ook hoor je soms verhalen van mensen die in algemenere zin zeggen dat ze in contact staan met buitenaardsen die hen vervolgens opdracht geven om dingen te doen. 

Dat is bijvoorbeeld ook het geval met een Mexicaanse boer die in de woestijn een piramide heeft gebouwd in opdracht van buitenaardsen, afkomstig van een planeet heel ver weg. 

De boer, Raymundo Corona, zegt dat hij de ongeveer zeven meter hoge tempel heeft gebouwd, nadat hij bezoek had gehad van een grote man die zichzelf Herulayka noemde. 

Herulayka zei dat hij afkomstig was uit het sterrenbeeld Orion. 

Corona bouwde de piramide vlak bij Monclova in de staat Coahila, pal aan de grens met de Verenigde Staten. Hij zegt dat de buitenaardse hem in 1984 heeft bezocht en hem opdroeg een tempel in de vorm van een piramide te maken. 

Toen Corona hem vroeg waarom deze tempel de vorm van een piramide moest hebben, kreeg hij als antwoord dat dit als zijn geloof moest zijn. Iets dat niet door wind of storm beroerd kon worden en altijd naar boven wees. 

Herulayka waarschuwde hem ook dat mensen hem belachelijk zouden maken, of voor gek verklaren of een dronkenlap of een drugsverslaafde.

De planeet waar de buitenaardse vandaan kwam heet Nefilin. Dit hemellichaam is ongeveer 20 keer groter dan de aarde, bevindt zich in het sterrenbeeld Orion en er wonen daar wezens die heel veel op ons mensen lijken. 

“De buitenaardse had ogen met een honingkleur en wit haar tot op de grond. Hij liep op blote voeten en droeg een tuniek dat met een touw om zijn middel werd vastgehouden”. 

De dag dat Corona de buitenaardse ontmoette was de dag voordat zijn vrouw hun dochter baarde. Zij zegt dat Corona deze buitenaardse al veel vaker in zijn dromen had gezien voordat hij hem in het echt ontmoette.

Volgens Herulayka maakten de buitenaardsen zich zorgen over de manier waarop wij mensen met onze planeet omgaan. Hij waarschuwde Corona dat de mensen op de planeet moeten passen zoals ze met een kind zouden doen, want de planeet geeft de mensen wat ze nodig hebben om te overleven. 

Wanneer je bedenkt dat dit buitenaards bezoek plaatsvond in 1984 en men zich toen al ernstig zorgen maakten, dan zal dit nu vele malen erger zijn. Misschien verklaart dat wel het hoge aantal UFO-meldingen van de laatste jaren. 

Dat een voorval zoals hierboven beschreven plaatsvindt in Mexico is natuurlijk ook niet zo vreemd. Het is tenslotte het land met de meeste UFO- en buitenaardse meldingen ter wereld.

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The Forbidden Land of Agartha: The secrets of the Inner Earth

Aliens Are Calling From Outer Space, Scientific Community Still in Denial

Sky Watcher Captures Space Vortex Opening Near the Moon in Full Spectrum

If aliens do exist and already walk among us, it would be reasonable to understand that their advanced technological capabilities are far greater than what we can imagine, meaning that whatever actions they take on Earth or outer space will remain invisible to our line of sight.

 

 However, thanks to the ongoing global awareness regarding this major phenomenon, there are some sky watchers who would pay the ultimate price to know the truth about what’s going on all around us, and they’ll fortunately share their amazing discoveries with the rest of world. Now, it remains only a matter of keeping your mind opened.

 

There are many types of UFOs ranging from biological lifeforms to artificial crafts or even man-made ones. It’s possible that our governments and military have a secret pact with extraterrestrials which allows them to access otherworldly technology. These claims can be interpreted when viewing different accounts from the past that speak of futuristic ways in which you can travel through space or design a spaceship. Were all these details a product of conspiracy theorist’s imagination, or is it possible that most of what had been said is coming to life this century?

 

To better understand this concept, I’ll show you a very unique phenomenon that happened close to the moon. The vigilant sky watcher and UFO analyst Mr. Crow has captured yet another amazing and partially unexplained phenomenon. With the help of two hi-end cameras, he was able to film in full spectrum what he presumes to be an invisible vortex. The appearance lasts only for a brief moment, but thanks to Crow’s detailed analysis we can see it over and over again from different postures.

 

 

According to him, the space vortex is invisible to the naked eye since we can only perceive only a small portion of the light’s spectrum. However, the phenomenon is real when seen through the full-spectrum of light that covers the electromagnetic spectrum from infrared to near ultraviolet, or better said, the portal captured by Mr. Crow could be occurring on a daily basis and everywhere around us, but since our eyes are not designed to see it, it’s like this never happens. So how do we know this is indeed a cosmic vortex and not something caused by meteors or space debris?

 

The first and most conclusive argument would be that this phenomenon is seen only in full spectrum, which means that any other event that could happen in space and is explained by science would also be perceived by our vision if we look in the right direction and at the appropriate moment. Second argument focuses on the wide spread idea of portals that’s seen in so many movies, cartoons, kid toys and media in general. So, from where did this idea come from if portals are only a science fictional element? Are these ‘subliminal messages’ a pure coincidence, or are they rather an existing fact that hasn’t been revealed to us for some unknown reasons?

 

Third but not least, there were some extremely bizarre events that strongly resembled a ‘worm hole’ or interdimensional portal. Such phenomenon were witnessed by many people from across the world, and although official information refers to them as unloaded missile tests, I would like to remind the recent case from Norway where the sighting, in my opinion, had nothing to do with a rocket or anything found on Earth. So could the vortex surprised by Mr. Crow be somehow linked to these events? Is it possible that he filmed an authentic interdimensional portal? If so, what purpose does it serve?

 

 

According to researchers, it could be a technique used by alien beings to travel between long distances by bending space itself. This way they can reach any destination in the cosmos in a matter of seconds/minutes and at the same time stay hidden from the field of view of other less-evolved species. This way, aliens may pass unnoticed and manipulate our species through the collaboration with our governments that put power above all else. Another controversial theory that might prove to be true in the future speaks of the human-alien pact that’s letting our leaders use and develop advanced technology at the price of letting ETs monitor our evolution.

 

If this proves to be a good thing we are yet to find out, but because of the tremendous level of secrecy displayed by world’s top organizations, it’s likely that a more complex plan is in place. Are we really designing our own future and destiny, or are we guided from ‘above’ by a higher will that’s pulling the strings?

 

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UFO Caught Darting From Cloud To Cloud Over Melbourne, Australia On Feb 28, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: February 28, 2016
Location of sighting: Melbourne, Australia

This cloud orb is really moving. Its is moving about 4X faster than a prop plane would. Darting from cloud to cloud to hide, it tries to go unseen in the Australian skies. Peter Slattery of Youtube caught this cloud orb. This is an excellent day time catch, but best of all watching it move allows us to rule out what its not...not a balloon, lantern, bag or other odd objects. This thing has speed! Only an intelligently made craft will move that fast. 
Scott C. Waring
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UFOs Over Mexican Volcano Popocatepetl On March 12, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 12, 2016
Location of sightings: Volcano Popocatepetl, Mexico

These UFOs were recorded by Mibit Channel of Youtube. There are several UFOs at any given time near the volcano and since the live cam only gets still shots ever 20 seconds or so, there is no video, so we cannot see the UFOs move. All in all, still a good catch. 

Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com  

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Journey to the Center of the Earth: Is It Possible?

Admittedly, "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (the 1959 version based on the Jules Verne novel), is one of my favorite movies of all time. As a kid, I could watch it every time it came on and now I own it on disk, so I can see it endlessly! 

What fascinated me so much about it was a mixture of archaeology, adventure, new frontiers, and ancient worlds. From the moment the characters plunged into the cave in Iceland to the unknown underground world, I imagined there had to be more to the earth than a hard rock with a molten center spinning around in space. There just had to be pockets of life-sustaining space.

And, as I got older and learned about Hollow Earth Theory, I was hooked on the concept that the earth has layers, other worlds, and lost civilizations perhaps, and life adapted to the darkness or perhaps with its own intense bioluminescence. In fact, we have found throughCCD cameras and EMCCD cameras that humans have bioluminescence!

What is exciting about all of this is that they have discovered a vast ocean under the earth that contains three times more water than is found on the earth and shows an obvious source of where our water might have come from on our planet. 

SOURCE:  The water is hidden inside a blue rock called ringwoodite that lies 700 kilometres underground in the mantle, the layer of hot rock between Earth’s surface and its core.

 

Journey to the Center of the Earth - Possible?

The actual physical travel to the center of the earth? That would be impossible and this site (LINK) gives a great description -  It gets very hot very quickly as you journey towards the center of the Earth. In the Earth’s crust — the outermost shell of the planet that reaches down around 30 miles (50 km) — temperatures increase by around 25 Celsius per kilometer of depth (77F every 0.6 miles). This means that, once you’re about 10 kilometers (6 miles) down, temperatures are already as high as 250C (482F). Once you’re through the crust (about 30 miles down) and into the upper mantle, which consists of partially molten rock, you’re talking about temperatures in the range of 650-1200C (1200-2200F). We don’t know exactly, but the Earth’s inner core is theorized to have a temperature of around 6000 Kelvin (5,700C, 10,300F). In case you’re wondering, a lot of this heat is believed to come from the decay of naturally radioactive elements (uranium, thorium, and potassium).

Hollow Earth

The center of the earth aside, how about the idea of a world within our world? Perhaps somewhere in the crust, but less than that dangerous 6 miles deep? How about pockets of earth that offer different geology and a better chance of having a deep pocket at a comfort level that is human being viable? 

Here's an explanation of Hollow Earth theory from this great site (LINK):

 According to the Hollow Earth Hypothesis, planet Earth is either wholly hollow or otherwise contains a substantial interior space. The hypothesis has long been contradicted by overwhelming observational evidence, as well as by the modern understanding of planet formation; the scientific community has dismissed the notion since at least the late 18th century. The concept of a hollow Earth still recurs in folklore and as the premise for a sub-genre of adventure fiction. It also features in some present-day pseudoscientific and conspiracy theories. Underground civilizations link with the 'Hollow Earth Theory'. There are supposedly races that exist in subterranean cities beneath planet Earth. Very often, these dwellers of the world beneath are more technologically advanced than we on the surface. Some believe that UFOs are not from other planets, but are manufactured by strange beings in the interior of the Earth.

Journey to the Hollow Earth?

There are numerous places around the earth believed to be the entrance to Hollow Earth.  Let's look at some of the more popularly spoken of sites - 

Mt. Shasta (California)

 

Mt. Shasta has long been associated with little people, giants, aliens, UFOs, Lemurians and Hollow Earth entrance. There is an account of a "Traveler to Inner Earth" by a supposed US Air Force Colonel who traveled by way of Mt. Shasta (LINK).

The people of the interior were very free with showing me around, very articulate in showing you what is exactly going on - they do not hold anything back. They always ask permission when working with nature, they ask the plants for permission before consuming them or cutting them down, they ask the Mother Earth before they build on it, and do so build with the lay of the land which best suits their environment, a practice similar to the American Indians; therefore seeking to preserve a harmonious state at all times; wanting to be one with nature at all times; they are more spiritually advanced than surface dwellers and greatly respect Mother Earth.

The atmosphere is crystal clear, as a rule there are times clouds, but nothing like rain clouds. The temperature is a constant 73 degrees.

The people in the interior speak directly with the animals, and the animals speak directly to the people of the interior.

There is no need for hoarding for everything is free, no need to create in abundance as everything is ample. A process of bartering is more common than trade in money.

This is basically a utopian culture with no depression leading into violence. No parties seeking to make war and gain dominance over each other. There are none richer nor poorer.

North of Josef Franz Island (Russia) 

 

This was mentioned in a writing by a Norwegian who said that he and his father had voyaged to Hollow Earth by accident. The last bit of land they recognized as they ventured forward was the never inhabited island, Josef Franz Island. Interestingly, this island has enormous stone perfectly round spheres, but no one has ever lived in this inhospitable place. The story this man, Olaf Jansen, conveyed of his voyage in the 1800s was written in the most fascinating account called "The Smoky God" (LINK).

Eden is an elevated beautiful garden through which four mighty rivers run in four directions dividing the the planet's interior. Earth's inner surface is three fourths land and one fourth water. This garden is the "navel of the earth" and the "cradle of the human race".The names of the rivers are Euphrates, the Pison, the Gihon, and the Hiddekel. They spoke to the Priest for over two hours on various issues and then had to decide whether to stay or return to the outer earth. They decided to stay a while longer visiting more cities and learning more cultures. The children go to school for thirty years starting at age twenty. The learned men have an accurate idea of the earth's outer geography, and the general people are extremely musical and well educated in the arts and sciences, especially geometry and astronomy. Marriage occurs a little before or after 100 years of age and people generally live to be 600 to 800 years old. The animals there can be huge; birds with wingspans of hirty feet, tortoises up to thirty feet in length, and elephants up to 85 feet in height. Some of the trees here grow to 1000 feet in height and are 120 feet in diameter, and the forests extend hundreds of miles. A mist rises every evening and comes down as rain every twenty-four hours.

Northwest Canada  

 

(LINK) 

An entrance is reported to have been found in the Nahanni Valley of B.C., but it is said that some of those who have dared to enter this area have been found decapitated, thus giving the region its name “The Valley of the Headless Men.” The Nahanni Valley in Canada is the ancient territory of the Ojibways, the Slave, Dogribs, Stoney, the Beavers and the Chipweyans. It covers 250 square miles in the southern end of the Mackenzie Mountains of Canada and lies almost 550 miles due west of Fort Simpson on the Mackenzie River of northwest Canada. Natural hot springs and sulfur geysers keep the valley warmer than the surrounding areas by about 30 degrees Farenheit year-round. This land of perpetual mist has always been viewed by the Indians as “taboo” and avoided.

North Pole 

 

A team was formed hoping to make an expedition to the North Pole entrance to Hollow Earth. (LINK)  It seems the expedition is on hold until funding, but it intrigues one to consider taking a schooner up to the opening of a supposed nirvana inner world. The planned expedition sounded pretty neat and included lots of scientific experiments while up there.

Antarctica 

 

There has been an ongoing discussion among researchers of the unexplained and conspiracy theorists that the Nazis found an opening to Hollow Earth in Antarctica. (LINK)

Conclusion

 

It's hard to dismiss basic geology, so far as what we believe the Earth to contain and it's a pretty good guess considering the drilling, understanding of geological plates, seismic activity, and the like. But, what remains is the very real possibility there are pockets of great space - such as the world's largest cave only recently found in Vietnam.

 

It is with certainty that inner earth would have plenty of water, but would the temperatures make it impossible to exist? Perhaps. And, perhaps conditions exist in permafrost regions of the globe, where the supporting mantle varies, perhaps allows for a filtered light through ice or other means. After all, the cave in Vietnam has a forest inside.

 

Could an entire civilization of advanced people live in a retreat within the Earth? If they do, they were smart to locate such a location that could allow for vitamin D, growing plants, fresh water, clean air and the like, without being vulnerable to what we on the surface must face, like weather conditions, oceans, and temperature changes. Still, the concept that one could live in and thrive inside the earth almost begs for a type of man that evolved differently to handle some deficits in resources and sunshine. This is not even taking into consideration what happens when there are earthquakes and volcanoes acting up!

 

I suspect at some point, we might find a cave that goes deeper than any cave, perhaps a situation in which a hole opens up like the enormous ones in Russia (LINK), that make us wonder - just what is in there?

 

 

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What Neurologist Discovered With Alien Abductions Victims

People claiming to have been abducted by aliens are considered mentally delusional. However, as stories of alien abduction become more and more mainstream, it is hard to dismiss the credibility of these alien abduction witnesses. The idea of aliens has been discussed for many years now by different persons. There are many researchers exploring the existence of ancient aliens and whether they have already visited our planet or not.

When asked about the possible delusion, Neurologist Dr. Michael B. Russo claimed he didn’t know what to say to his patients who shared their abduction stories. He said that the majority of the doctors of his current patients sent them because the latter complained of primary headaches or some neurological problems. But their physicians didn’t have any idea about their abduction stories not until Dr. Russo asked them about the duration of the problem. As part of his examination, Dr. Russo used his dense array electroencephalography, or DEEG, a machine worth $200,000. The machine maps the electrical activity in the brains of his patients. Russo wondered if there are similarities to patients complaining about being abducted with regards to brain wave activity.

According to his examination, those patients claiming to have been abducted by aliens have shown abnormalities in their parietal lobe brain wave activity. The electrical brain wave activities of abductee patients are similar to patients who experienced traumatic brain injury. He tries to look at the experiences as different based from his patients’ point of view and works with them to alleviate their problem.

When performing DEEG tests, patients often ask the possibility of interpreting or reading transmitter. Russo confirmed that he couldn’t see the wire, but he can see the brain signals. Russo has experienced success using pharmacological therapies in alleviating the headache pains. Russo will share his findings, which co-authored with Shane Endicott, Ryan Nillo, Melba C. Stetz, and Judith Profant on their upcoming meeting at the Hawaii Convention Center.

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Ring-shaped UFO over Sydney, Australia

Here’s one new footage of a ring-shaped object hovering in the daytime sky above Sydney in Australia. This video was taken on 6th March 2016.

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THIS NEW 'ALIEN MATERIAL' IS SO DARK, YOUR EYES CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT

Goths across the planet, prepare to be amazed. British scientists have developed a 'strange, alien' material so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 per cent of visual light.

If you were to wear a suit made out of it, your heads and hands might appear to float around a weird, suit-shaped hole.

It's set a new world record, and the human eye literally can't understand what it's seeing. It's made of carbon nanotubes which are each 10,000 times thinner than human hair.

According to the Independent, there's a whole host of things this material could be used for. For example, enabling astronomical cameras, telescopes and infrared scanning systems to function more effectively.

Apparently, the colour could also be used by the military in various capacities. However, the company who made it, Surrey NanoSystems, can't discuss these for obvious reasons.

Ben Jensen, the firm's chief technical officer, said that the material, which has been named Vantablack, has been grown on sheets of aluminium foil. The sheets can be crumpled and they have tested it on miniature hills and valleys. Weirdly, the landscape disappears ( via theladbible.com ).

Jensen said: "You expect to see the hills and all you can see ... it's like black, like a hole, like there's nothing there. It just looks so strange." 

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WHAT IS THIS MYSTERIOUS OBJECT THAT CAME OUT OF A BLACK HOLE?

Recently a mysterious object redefined everything we thought we knew about black holes. First of all black holes are supposed to suck everything into them, even light. Secondly, the gravity is so strong that it was believed that nothing in the known universe could come out of a black hole.

That all changed when NASA announced that something very large exited a black hole.

So what exactly happened? Well as two of NASA’s space telescopes, which included the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array or (NuSTAR) for short, were observing this particular black hole, a large object very suddenly “launched” itself away from the middle or “corona” of the black hole. Right after this remarkable event a massive pulse of X-ray energy spewed forth from the corona. This event seems to have the scientists of earth completely baffled.

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To Fiona Harrison, who is the principal investigator for NuSTAR, made a strong note saying that this type of phenomenon is unheard of and completely changes what we originally thought about how black holes function. Luckily with the level of technology that we as a race have been able to achieve, we were able to record this event. The data from this should provide now, some much-needed clues to just how black holes function and how they are structured.

Saint Mary’s universities, Dan Wilkins says that,

The Milky way is immense, and in a region of our galaxy that is simply called Sagittarius A* has been generating a range of flares just about every 10 days or so. Since the passing of this past year, the activity of these flares has drastically increased, to the point of nearly every day. You may be wondering just what that means. Well, let’s look into the research from the astronomers to see just what they have been able to put together.

Utilizing the resources that the astronomers currently have at their disposal, which is 3 huge space telescopes, they have been able to piece together an extremely fascinating cosmic connection to these flares.

Gabriele Ponti, who is from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics located in Germany, made this interesting comment pertaining to the flares,

So in short, it seems that we have been able to observe a phenomenon that has completely changed how we thought black holes functioned. An object actually exited the corona of the black hole and afterwards a flare of x-ray energy followed suit, leaving us completely baffled.

With the participation of the University of Granada, a team of researchers have been able to type of structure in the vastness of our solar system, despite it being more than five billion light-years away from the little blue planet we call home.

Just to put this achievement into a different perspective, our galaxy is huge and we have been able to find an object that emits an enormous amount of energy, so much so its energy can be compared to the total energy that is emitted by the entire galaxy.

The researchers were able to achieve this feat, by using the so-called gravitational microlensing effect, which is an incident that is caused by the stars that belong to our galaxy can be utilized to magnify other tiny regions in the quasar that contains this object.

Also, through this process the researchers have been able to measure the innermost edge of the disk of matter or what they call the (accretion disk) that is orbiting around this particular quasar that is called Q2237+0305, which doesn’t necessarily roll off the tongue very well, so another name it goes by is called “Einstein Cross”.

Throughout the study of the changes in the type of brightness of the four images of the said quasar.

Researcher from the UGR department of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology, Jorge Jiménez Vicente, explains that,

In our galaxy, only 1 in every 500 quasars is generally affected at all by the gravitational microlensing effect. The information that astronomers have gained from this incident will be quite useful in helping us to understand the quasars, which may be essential to helping us understand just how our galaxy was born and even evolved.

When you think about how huge this object is it really makes us wonder what it could possibly be. Let us know in the comment below what theories you have about the object ( via themindunleashed.org ). 

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UFO Expert Dismisses Meteor Theory of a UFO Over Gladstone

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Sheryl Gottshall, president of UFO Research Queensland, said that finding the truth is to rule out possibilities. When it comes to UFOs, Gottshall said that it is a must to go through the list of possibilities and tick them off.  For example, someone says it is a meteor, then ticking it off is needed.

Gottshall is talking about the theories of the bright light and the massive boom observed above the Gladstone region recently.

Mark Sugars, the member of Bundaberg Astronomy Society, said the description could suggest a meteorite. The strange event was witnessed from Rockhampton to Gympie.

But Gladstone resident Rory Henricks believed it was a plane shooting fireworks out of its rear.

RAAF watch keeper Corporal King has disclosed that carrier KC-30A took off from the nearest air base to Gladstone on the night of the reported sighting.

Residents saw the object over Gladstone region, including Tannum Sands, Agnes Water, Calliope, and Kirkwood and heard a boom sound approximately 9:20 p.m.

Corporal King did not reveal his first name because of strict defence force privacy protocol. He said that the massive plane took off from the Amberley Air Base and it should be the only plane flying from Amberley area that time.

Amberley Air Base is on the outskirts of Ipswich, 40kms south-west of Brisbane. Corporal King can’t reveal the reason of the aircraft in the area and the path it had taken as he isn’t at liberty to disclose such information.

A KC-30A is described as a heavily modified large Airbus A330 airliner. It can carry fuel loads of up to one hundred tonnes for a range of fighter jets and RAAF surveillance aircraft. It can also carry 270 passengers and 34,000 kg of cargo.

Ms Gottshall said that meteor theory doesn’t go well because there are no meteors that rumble for 5 minutes as one witness reported hearing.

Some witnesses also claim to have seen debris flying from the object, creating a theory of a plane crash. Ms Gottshall said that this wasn’t possible as a plane crash would have emergency services arriving in the area.

As of the theory of KC-30A over Gladstone, she said that it could be, but it is hard to tell exactly. If the identity is not surely identified, then it remains unidentified, Ms Gottshall explains.

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Police Inspector’s Report Describes UFO Encounter From the 18th Century France

Although some people believe the UFO phenomenon started in the 1900s, there are a few well-preserved accounts speaking of extraterrestrial encounters ever since humanity started to evolve. There’s evidence of such an event in the archives of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris.

 

Antonio Fenoglio was a reputable professor from the University of Bologna, Italy. In 1967, he wrote an article regarding a mysterious discovery from the Archives of the French Academy of Science in Paris. In the file, he wrote about an incident from the late 1700s, when a presumed UFO had crashed near a village in France. All the town inhabitants witnessed the event, including two mayors, a doctor, and three men described as local authorities.

 

The story is related by a police inspector named Liabeuf, who in the summer of 1790 was sent from Paris to Alencon to make a thorough investigation of a hazardous incident which occurred somewhere west of the city gates, and had many respectable witnesses. Liabeuf reached the village, and the details he wrote in his report submitted to the French Academy of Sciences were completely ‘out of this world.’

 

“At 5 AM, on June 12th, several farmers caught sight of an enormous globe which seemed surrounded with flames. First they thought it was perhaps a balloon that had caught fire, but the great velocity and the whistling sound which came from that body caught their attention.

“The globe slowed down, made some oscillations and precipitated itself towards the top of a hill, unearthing plants along the slope. The heat which emanated from it was so intense that soon the grass and the small tree started burning. The peasants succeeded in controlling the fire which threatened to spread to the whole area.

“In the evening this sphere was still warm and something extraordinary happened, not to say an incredible thing. The witnesses were two mayors, a doctor and three other authorities who confirm my report, in addition to the dozens of peasants who were present.

 

 

“This sphere, which would have been large enough to contain a carriage, had not suffered from all that flight. It excited so much curiosity that people came from all parts to see it. Then all of a sudden a kind of door opened and, there is the interesting thing, a person like us came out of it, but this person was dressed in a strange way, wearing a tight-fitting suit and, seeing all that crowd, said some words which were not understood and fled into the woods. Instinctively, the peasants stepped back, in fear, and this saved them because soon after that the sphere exploded in silence, throwing pieces everywhere, and these pieces burned until they were reduced to powder.

“Researches were initiated to find the mysterious man, but he seemed to have dissolved.”

 

If the report proves to be authentic, it demonstrates that UFOs have been visiting us for hundreds of years, if not thousands or more. The highlighted report seems to depict a flying craft that overheated and was eventually forced to execute a brisk landing. In that chaos, the mob quickly gathered to see the cause, and they almost died out of curiosity. Fortunately there were no victims, and the feedback received from witnesses helped Liabeuf establish a detailed report for the French Academy of Sciences, which proves to be of tremendous use even today, as it narrates a rare event from the past involving an alien craft.

 

If Lieabeuf’s report is authentic or only a rumor spread by professor Fenoglio we are yet to find out, but one thing is certain: the report borrows numerous features from modern-day UFO encounters, and it reminds of the humanoid aliens depicted in other cases from our modern and post-modern history.

 

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Bob Lazar—The Man Who Dared Spill the Beans About Alien Technology and Area S4

This is the fascinating story of the man who worked for the most secret US governmental facility involving alien crafts and otherworldly technology and dared to spill the beans about it.

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In 1989, a man named Robert Scott Lazar contacted a local Las Vegas TV station (KLAS) asking for a chance to make his story public. Lazar claimed he had been employed as a physicist on project Galileo, the government’s most highly classified project at the time. The activity focused on reverse-engineering of alien technology so that the government could put it to good use, and studies were carried out at a top-secret base dubbed S4, located 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of the notorious Area 51, near the Papoose lake.

 

According to Lazar’s description, the S4 facility had nine aircraft hangars embedded into the mountain. The hangar doors were designed at an angle matching the mountain slope and were also cloaked using natural material.

 

Lazar claims he had seen nine different alien vehicles at the base during December 1988 and April 1989 when he worked there, and he presented technical details regarding their propulsion mechanism which functioned on amplified gravity waves generated by a reactor placed on the bottom of the craft.

 

His activity included researching the fuel for the craft, a compound with the atomic number ‘115.’ This element had unusual properties that allowed the flying saucers to bend space around them, and it couldn’t be synthetized on earth. This alien technology allowed for point A and point B to be dragged together, thus reducing the traveling distances to a few minutes flight regardless of the distance.

 

 

 

 I am exactly sure of what I saw. I know what mainstream science is like, I know where physics stands–I know all of that–and this is an extraterrestrial craft, this technology is hundreds and hundreds of years in advance of us, and that’s the end of that story, Bob Lazar stated.

 

Lazar allegedly received briefings regarding the history of extraterrestrials on Earth for the past 100,000 years from aliens who originated from the forth planet of the binary stellar system Zeta Reticuli 2, the ones known as ‘greys’. He also claimed to have worked on a flying disk with a diameter of 9 to 12 meters. The craft had a commanding console and the seats were small, almost as befit for children.

 

After he went public, his life was put at risk as he got shot once and received countless threats from different groups of interest and shady individuals.

 

Television journalist George Knapp was intrigued by Bob Lazar’s story and so he went after more information. Unfortunately, the S4 base was out of reach since it was located on restricted ground where no one outside of the government could step in. After digging deeper into this enigmatic story, Knapp encountered even more problems that almost led him to a dead end.

 

Bob Lazar’s background has been difficult to verify. His hospital birth records, college manuscripts and employment evidence had all been erased and there is no evidence of him working at the Los Alamos National Laboratories. However, his name appeared in a telephone directory of Los Alamos scientists and a picture of him appeared in the July 1982 edition of the Los Alamos Monitor, showing a picture of Bob standing by a jet car and referring to his employment as a scientist with Los Alamos.

 

Bob Lazar offers a consistent amount of evidence supporting his assertions and he has since gained many followers. To them, Lazar is a very credible source with a strong background in physics and engineering. However, there are many skeptics who think the entire scenario is an act played out by Lazar in order to personally benefit from it.

 

 

Whatever his reasons, Lazar played a key role in propelling Area 51 to the notoriety it has today, despite being a top-secret facility. If we consider the extreme level of secrecy involving this governmental facility, it’s easy to link the disappearance of his life records to the interests of keeping Area 51 as an almost inexistent facility.

 

If Lazar is correct and also telling the truth, his testimony might be the single most descriptive account of what is going on right under our noses.

 

 

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Google Earth Locates Top Secret US Military Base (Area 6) Denied by the US Government

According to newly released image from Google Earth, there is a top secret US military base denied by the US not far away from infamous ‘Alien’ facility, Area 51

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New images have emerged from a ‘new’ top-secret US facility that only a few knew it even existed.

 

The Google Earth images were revealed days ago showing the clandestine secret facility — known as Area 6 — which is located deep in the Nevada desert on the Yucca flat, according to reports from the Las Vegas Review Journal.

 

According to reports, the top-secret facility is run by the National Nuclear Security Administration which has worked very hard in keeping the secret and working towards hiding the existence of the secret facility from prying eyes. In fact, the base was considered so important that even defense industry experts had no idea the base existed until now.

 

The airbase has a 5,000 feet runway which is mainly used for aircraft tests for federal agencies such as the Department of Defense and Homeland Security, reports the Las Vegas Review Journal.

 

These agencies use Area 6 to test unmanned aircraft with sensors and away from the public eye – and to avoid being spied on in space, National Nuclear Security Administration spokesman Darwin Morgan told the newspaper.

 

‘We have controlled airspace and that gives them opportunities to test various types of platforms’, he said.

 

‘We do a wide variety of work for others – supporting people with sensor development activities. It evolved from the nuclear testing program. We had to have very good sensors to collect data in a split second before they were obliterated.’

 

 

According to reports, Area 6 was built in the 1950s and cost $9.6 million at the time. It is believed that unmanned aircraft are tested at the top-secret site.

 

According to reports by the Las Vegas Review Journal, Area 6 is where agencies intend to develop counter-terrorism techniques, including testing equipment with capabilities to detect radioactive material. So far, Area 6 is not connected to UFOs and otherworldly phenomenon like its neighboring facility, Area 51.

 

Interestingly, Area 6, which still has no ‘official name’ is located only a dozen miles northeast of the (in)famous Area 51, whose existence was acknowledged by the government of the United States on 2013. Area 51 is said to be the place to go for secret experiments, high-tech weapons, aliens, and UFOs. There, at Area 51, the government developed the first airplanes capable of flying great distances and at extremely high altitudes during the Cold War. But today, this place is anything but abandoned, and according to the newest satellite images, the government is building more buildings and expanding the area of influence of this “secret” military base. Satellite images show a giant hanger being built. Among other weird buildings, there is also a pyramid shaped object at Area 51.

 

“The purpose of this facility is to construct, operate, and test a variety of unmanned aerial vehicles. Tests include, but are not limited to, airframe modifications, sensor operation, and onboard computer development. A small, manned chase plane is used to track the unmanned aerial vehicles,” reads the report Energy Department contractor Bechtel SAIC prepared in 2008 for the Yucca Mountain repository license application.

 

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Glowing Ezekiel's Wheel UFO Seen Over Lake Ontario, Canada On March 11, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: March 11, 2016
Location of sighting: Ontario, Canada
Source: MUFON #75149

Its actually common to see strange lights over the great lakes, but this one photo has great detail of a glowing disk on its side with a trail behind it. Yes it looks like a disk that is rotating like a wheel...an Ezekiel's Wheel. 
Great catch, 
Scott C. Waring
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Eyewitness states:
Noticed a large bright object in the sky at high altitude above the Lake Ontario , thought to try out the iPhone camera (1st time) to perhaps catch an image of it . At 1st try realized the the flash went on automatically which I didn't want & that's when right after the 1st photo shot , to my surprise in the phone's screen I've seen the speeding one below the other large one , it left a trail & it looked quiet fuzzy obviously due to its speed . I wasn't able to follow that one in the direction it flew & I had trouble getting the correct no flash button on , lol ! Then still trying , took 2 more shots in another part of the sky & still the flash was on . I was getting upset & then finally I got the flash totally off & directed the camera to pinpoint the bright object that I originally was drawn to & took the photograph & it turned out great :) Still , I attempted to take 3 more pics but , lo and behold , the flash again came on , that's when I went inside & uploaded the photo into my computer . The sky & stars looked very nice this evening . There was an airplane in the sky , in between times trying to take those pics . Of all the total time to trying to take the images I estimate it was roughly 2 1/5 min. The large object was still in the sky when I left to go indoors . Attaching file evidence ( the full sized photo & the close-up of the bright object ).

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Giant 727 Size UFO Caught On Dashcam Over Scotland, On Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: February 2016
Location of sighting: Edinburgh, Scotland
News source:

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The Daily Mail in the UK recently posted a UFO sighting caught on car dash cam in Scotland this month. The light appears over the mountain and is as big as the moon, then vanishes. Yes, these are actually seen a lot around the world.  Most often reported over Colorado, USA. 
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News states:

A shocked motorist has captured the lights from an apparent UFO on his dashcam. The video of the lights moving along the road was taken while the man was driving on the M8, close to Edinburgh. The bright lights appear to circle above the the Hermiston Gait roundabout before disappearing. Lee Frame, 32,who filmed the incident said he was certain what he saw was not a plane and told the Sun: 'The lights did not seem to be moving- they just seemed to be sat in the sky. 'I think it could have been a UFO. I just could not believe what I was seeing.' 

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Today is the 19th Anniversary of the Phoenix Lights UFO Sighting, March 13, 1997, News.

Date of sighting: March 13, 1997
Location of sighting: Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Never forget. Back in 1997 tens of thousands of people saw a giant dark craft with lights move over their cities. Silent and dark, it was not noticed except with the human eye. Something that could block out the stars, should be concern for the US government...but they only want to cover it up.
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News states:
The Phoenix Lights UFO incident is a complex series of events that took place on March 13, 1997 over the states of Nevada, Arizona, and possibly New Mexico, and which would quickly become known as the "Phoenix Lights" sightings. It involved sightings by tens, or perhaps even hundreds, of thousands of witnesses on the ground, and it gave rise to a storm of controversy over what had caused the event.

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Manitobans Have Seen Thousands of UFOs Over Two Centuries

A UFO researcher based in Winnipeg has collected data over the years and found out that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have been spotted more than 2,000 times in the skies of Manitoba in the last 200 years.

Known for his comprehensive UFO research, Chris Rutkowksi has been gathering data from UFO reports throughout Canada since the 1980s, and he has prepared the Canadian UFO Survey every year for the last 25 years.

Just this year, he also examined historical records, media reports, American and Canadian military and government documents, and private databases in his home province. The findings were published on his Ufology Research blog just recently.

Based on his findings, he concluded that many of the UFO reports are explainable as satellites, planes, and stars. He believes that Manitobans are not being invaded, but share the global phenomenon for many years.

The reports range from unusual lights moving in the skies to abduction claims. Rutkowksi said that 17.5 percent of them were under the classification of unexplained.

Rutkowksi gathered 767 reports from Winnipeg out of 2,023 in total. He also discovered that UFO reports peak across the province in July and August.

Rutkowksi, who published several books on UFOs, hopes his specific data in Manitoba will encourage other UFO researchers to do the same in other areas of Canada. He’s hoping to set the pace for this kind of research as there has not been a study comparable to it in Canada.

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