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Flying saucer over Toledo, Ohio?

Location: Toledo, Ohio
Date: 4/5/16
Submitted by Jordan

Witness report: It was like a black disk

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UFO sighting over Croatia

Location: between Poreč and Novigrad, Croatia
Date: end of july (not sure about the concrete day, maybe between 18th and 29th) 2011, between 9 and 11 p. m.
Submitted by Mirka

Witness report: between Poreč and Novigrad – end of july (not sure about the concrete day, maybe between 18th and 29th) 2011, between 9 and 11 p. m.

Triangular shape, 3 ligthening points (yellow), weird moves. 9 – 11 p. m. I sat on the beach and for 15 or 20 minutes stared at that “thing” over the sea. Few minutes it was just “hangin” on one place, than it started to move really weird way, but still was the triangular shape. I don´t remember how it disappeared, I was like hypnotized… There were many people on the beach, I´m sure, someone saw the same…

I´m sorry I have no photos – like I said, I was like hypnotized and wasn´t thinkin´ about taking photos (and if I would, I´m sure it wouldn´t work – my cell phone in that time had very bad camera).

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Cylinder UFO Over Alabama Caught On Video

A witness at Pell City in Alabama reported observing a large, black, cylinder-shaped UFO and videotaping it as it hovered over a highway.

According to the witness, he was driving eastbound on I-20, just west of Pell City at two minutes past twelve noon on October 21, 2015, when the UFO was observed over the interstate.

The witness then pointed his camera to the strange aerial object and tried to record the sighting. In his estimation, the object is around 80 feet long and about 300 feet off of the deck. The witness observed it approximately from two miles of the interstate before passing underneath it.

The witness could not see any windows of the object, which appeared to be stationary.

The wife of the witness was travelling less than 10 minutes behind him but wasn’t able to identify the object as it had moved away by that time.

The witness reported his sighting to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and included a video that shows the UFO briefly near the end of it. He also submitted a still image from the video that clearly shows the bizarre thing. MUFON field investigator Michael Haynes close the case as unknown after an investigation.

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UFO sighted near ISS on NASA live stream

Here’s one new interesting video of a huge unidentified flying object that was hovering near International Space Station on 5th April 2016.

Witness report: After switching to the NASA ISS live stream channel a clearly defined UFO appeared in the upper left hand corner, above the horizon. I was able to take a total of 4 screenshots before the UFO disappeared completely from sight. Gauging that it accelerated away in the same direction the ISS was travelling in, the speed had to be in the tens of thousands of miles per hour. Each screenshot shows the NASA meter on the bottom which exemplifies the speed from a standstill of the UFO to when it is just a bluish dot in the distance. Unfortunately, the screenshots, while clearly showing a UFO in two of the frames, does not compare to what I saw on the 480p resolution (highest resolution offered on the live stream) 42″ screen I was watching it live on. It was so unquestionably real and present. NASA cut the live feed after my last screenshot (the 4th frame in which the UFO had completely disappeared) and the live feed was left down for nearly an hour. The UFO appeared near the ISS at 1:21 p.m. central European time, 5 April 2016.

Author (source: MUFON)

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Daytime UFO sighting over Puebla, Mexico

Here’s a new daytime footage of an unidentified flying object that was seen and filmed over a ranch in Puebla, Mexico. This happened on 3rd April 2016.

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This day in UFO History: 1966 Westall Incident: The Unresolved Mystery

Whether UFOs have been around longer or no existence at all, the truth is always out there. Most people do not consider the facts right in front of their recorded history. When Roswell came out in 1947, the perception of people towards the mysterious object is alien visitation. In fact, they consider it as one of the most significant stories. However, when the Westall incident occurred, it immediately gained attention, making it as one of the most witnessed and greatest sightings ever recorded in the history.

The 20-minute Westall encounter took place in April 6, 1966, exactly 50 years ago, in Australia. Around 11.00 am, they were completing a sports activity when a grey saucer-shaped spacecraft object with a slight purple color was spotted. More than 200 students and teachers allegedly witnessed the mysterious flying object, about twice the size of a family car, descending in an open grass field. The paddock was adjacent to pine trees are known as the nature reserve today (The Grange back then). According to the reports, the object ascended in a northwestern direction over the suburbs of Clayton South, Australia. Where the saucer shaped craft had landed in a circle, no one knows if it completely landed. What is certain is it disappeared 20 minutes after.

The police have spoken to some adult witnesses, and an unscheduled assembly by the headmaster of the school was declared to that effect. The school reminds the students that the alleged object was not an extraterrestrial vessel, but a man-made weather balloon. They also told the students not to share the story with anyone. A science teacher Andrew Greenwood was visited by the officers who threatened him not to say anything. Otherwise, he is discredited. Despite popularity, the press was minimal, but since The Dandenong Journal interviewed many people, it ended up as a front page story.

Although witnesses reported the mysterious aircraft, investigators were unable to find any record. As for the Moorabbin Airport, no aircraft entered the airspace during that time.

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International Space Station: Facts, History & Tracking

The International Space Station, as photographed by crewmembers aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 2010.

Credit: NASA

The International Space Station (ISS) is the most complex international scientific and engineering project in history and the largest structure humans have ever put into space. This high-flying satellite is a laboratory for new technologies and an observation platform for astronomical, environmental and geological research. As a permanently occupied outpost in outer space, it serves as a stepping-stone for further space exploration. This includes Mars, which NASA is now stating is its goal for human space exploration.

The space station flies at an average altitude of 248 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth. It circles the globe every 90 minutes at a speed of about 17,500 mph (28,000 kph). In one day, the station travels about the distance it would take to go from Earth to the moon and back. The space station can rival the brilliant planet Venus in brightness and appears as a bright moving light across the night sky. It can be seen from Earth without the use of a telescope by night sky observers who know when and where to look. You can use our Satellite Tracker page powered by N2YO.com to find out when to see the space station. 

Five different space agencies representing 15 countries built the $100-billion International Space Station and continue to operate it today. NASA, Russia's Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities (Roscosmos), the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are the primary space agency partners on the project.

Structure

The International Space Station was taken into space piece-by-piece and gradually built in orbit. It consists of modules and connecting nodes that contain living quarters and laboratories, as well as exterior trusses that provide structural support, and solar panels that provide power. The first module, Russia's Zarya module, launched in 1998. The station has been continuously occupied since Nov. 2, 2000. 

[Infographic: The International Space Station: Inside and Out]

Starting in 2015, changes to the ISS were performed to prepare the complex for crewed commercial spacecraft, which will begin arriving as early as 2017. Two international docking adapters will be added to the station. Additionally, an inflatable module from Bigelow Aerospace is scheduled to arrive in 2016.

Current plans call for the space station to be operated through at least 2020. NASA has requested an extension until 2024. Discussions to extend the space station's lifetime are ongoing among all international partners; several countries, such as Canada, Russia and Japan, have expressed their support for extending the station's operations.

During the space station's major construction phase, some Russian modules and docking ports were launched directly to the orbiting lab, while other NASA and international components (including Russian hardware) were delivered on U.S. space shuttles. [Rare Photos: Space Shuttle at Space Station]

How big is the International Space Station?

The space station, including its large solar arrays, spans the area of a U.S. football field, including the end zones, and weighs 861,804 lbs. (391,000 kilograms), not including visiting vehicles. The complex now has more livable room than a conventional five-bedroom house, and has two bathrooms, gym facilities and a 360-degree bay window. Astronauts have also compared the space station's living space to the cabin of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. 

The BEST TOUR of the International Space Station (1080p, 60fps)

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Crew size

A six-person expedition crew typically stays four to six months aboard the ISS. The first space station crews were three-person teams, though after the tragic Columbia shuttle disaster the crew size temporarily dropped to two-person teams. The space station reached its full six-person crew size in 2009 as new modules, laboratories and facilities were brought online.

Also in 2009, the record for the largest gathering in space was set during NASA's STS-127 shuttle mission aboard Endeavour. When Endeavour docked with the International Space Station, the shuttle's seven-person crew went aboard the orbiting lab, joining the six spaceflyers already there. The 13-person party was the largest-ever gathering of people in space at the same time. While subsequent NASA shuttle and station crews matched the 13-person record, it has never been topped. [Related: The Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records]

With a full complement of six crewmembers, the station operates as a full research facility. In recent years, technology such as 3-D printing, autonomous Earth imaging, laser communications and mini-satellite launchers have been added to the station; some are controlled by crewmembers, and some controlled by the ground. Additionally, there are dozens of ongoing investigations looking at the health of astronauts staying on the station for several months. [Related: Weightlessness and Its Effect on Astronauts]

Crews are not only responsible for science, but also for maintaining the station. Sometimes, this requires that they venture on spacewalks to perform repairs. From time to time, these repairs can be urgent — such as when a part of the ammonia system fails, which has happened a couple of times. 

Spacewalk safety procedures were changed after a potentially deadly 2013 incident when astronaut Luca Parmitano's helmet filled with water while he was working outside the station. NASA now responds quickly to “water incursion” incidents. It also has added pads to the spacesuits to soak up the liquid, and a tube to provide an alternate breathing location should the helmet fill with water. NASA is also testing technology that could supplement or replace astronaut spacewalks. One example is Robonaut. A prototype currently on board the station is able to flip switches and do other routine tasks under supervision, and may be modified at some point to work “outside” as well. [Infographic: Meet Robonaut 2, NASA's Space Droid]

If the crew needs to evacuate the station, they can return to Earth aboard two Russian Soyuz vehicles docked to the ISS. Additional crewmembers are transported to the ISS by Soyuz. Prior to the retirement of NASA's space shuttle fleet in 2011, new space station crewmembers were also ferried to and from the station during shuttle missions. In 2017 or so, NASA expects to replace most Soyuz flights with SpaceX's crewed Dragon spacecraft and Boeing's CST-100.

Crews aboard the ISS are assisted by mission control centers in Houston and Moscow and a payload control center in Huntsville, Ala. Other international mission control centers support the space station from Japan, Canada and Europe. The ISS can also be controlled from mission control centers in Houston or Moscow. [Photos: Space Station's Expedition 32 Mission]

The ISS hosted its first one-year crew in 2015-16, with NASA's Scott Kelly and Roscosmos' Mikhail Kornienko, which drew international attention and acclaim. The agencies have expressed interest in running more one-year missions in the future, but have not made a commitment to date.

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Surprise! Gigantic Black Hole Found in Cosmic Backwater

The immense black hole at the center of the galaxy NGC 1600 appears to be 17 billion times the mass of the sun. This computer-simulated view shows a supermassive black hole at a galaxy's core.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Coe, J. Anderson, and R. van der Marel (Space Telescope Science Institute)

One of the biggest black holes ever found sits in a cosmic backwater, like a towering skyscraper in a small town.

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole containing 17 billion times the mass of the sun — only slightly smaller than the heftiest known black hole, which weighs in at a maximum of 21 billion solar masses — at the center of the galaxy NGC 1600.

That's a surprise, because NGC 1600, which lies 200 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus, belongs to an average-size galaxy group, and the monster black holes discovered to date tend to be found in dense clusters of galaxies. So researchers may have to rethink their ideas about where gigantic black holes reside, and how many of them might populate the universe, study team members said. [The Strangest Black Holes in Space]

"The black hole is much bigger than we expected for the size of the galaxy or where this galaxy lives, the environment," said study co-author Chung-Pei Ma, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley.

"That's the puzzling part — or the intriguing part — of the result," she told Space.com. "There may be more NGC 1600s out there lurking at more ordinary sites, like small towns in the U.S. rather than Manhattan."Ma is head of the MASSIVE Survey, a multitelescope effort that began in 2014 to identify and catalogue the most massive nearby galaxies and black holes. NGC 1600 first showed up in the survey with data from the McDonald Observatory in Texas.

The galaxy NGC 1600 is much larger and brighter than its peers, and harbors a black hole with a mass 17 billion times that of the sun, a new study suggests. NGC 1600 is the large elliptical galaxy at this image's center, also shown in the inset.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Digital Sky Survey 2

Although the initial observations weren't detailed enough to see the spectrum of light from the galaxy's center clearly, Ma and her colleagues could already tell that they were looking at something extraordinary: "It was a little bit like looking at a hurricane from very far away," she said. "We couldn't quite tell how big this hurricane was, this black hole was, but the hurricane was so big that we already started to feel the wind using this coarser data."

Suspecting they had spotted a very large black hole, study team members next investigated the elliptical galaxy using the northern half of the Gemini Observatory, twin telescopes situated in Hawaii and Chile. Gemini allowed them to probe the black hole's "sphere of influence," Ma said — the region where the black hole's mass held more sway than the overall galaxy's, where it was whipping the stars into action. They also scoped out the site with data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

The stars "were going so fast that the only way they could be travelling at this speed is if you had a 17-billion-solar-mass black hole at the center," she said.

Black holes are strange regions where gravity is strong enough to bend light, warp space and distort time. [See how black holes work in this SPACE.com infographic.]

Credit: Karl Tate, SPACE.com contributor

Origins

The largest supermassive black hole ever found contains up to 21 billion times the mass of the sun, and resides in a more expected location: the incredibly dense Coma Cluster, which includes more than 1,000 identified galaxies. (For comparison, the black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way totals around 4 million solar masses.)

The black hole in the Coma Cluster resides in a galaxy surrounded by bright peers, but NGC 1600 outshines its neighboring galaxies by at least a factor of three. NGC 1600's black hole takes up about 2 percent of its galaxy's mass — which is about 10 times larger than black holes at the center of their galaxies are expected to be.

Small black holes can form when massive stars collapse. The enormous ones at the centers of galaxies likely grow so large by taking in a lot of dust and debris early on in their lives and by colliding and merging with other black holes, which occurs when two galaxies combine.

"The way we understand how galaxies and black holes grow to such high masses is from how galaxies form," Ma said. "Typically, we believe they form by emerging galaxy collisions, or cannibalism — they collide together, like the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy: we are approaching each other, and we're going to collide one day. So we are going to form a bigger galaxy, and the two individual black holes of the progenitor galaxies would come together to form a bigger black hole." [Watch: Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collision Simulated]

So the biggest galaxies are often formed from several smaller galaxies that merged, whose corresponding black holes have merged as well. A more crowded cluster of galaxies creates favorable conditions for extremely large black holes to form, it seems — but NGC 1600 is in a much sparser area.

"One possibility for how to get a big mass is maybe NGC 1600 had eaten up its friends," Ma said. "It gobbled up its friends, and during the process it acquired their black holes — maybe it got to be so big at the expense of its friends."

That could explain the unusually empty neighborhood around NGC 1600.

Alternatively, the black hole could have been in a region of the universe that had a lot of gas early in its life, Ma said.

"The universe contained a lot of gas when it was younger," she said. "Maybe it got really, really big when the galaxy was very young."

If that were the case, Ma added, the black hole could have grown to its current size without ever residing in a more densely populated area.

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Possibly twins

Besides probing the mysteries of its location, the researchers are zeroing in on the condition of the black hole itself — or, potentially, the black holes themselves.

When two galaxies merge, their central black holes circle each other, getting closer and closer until they combine into one. The researchers' observations suggest that the black hole at NGC 1600's center might actually be two in the process of merging, or one that very recently merged.

The key insight there is that, while the galaxy shone brightly with starlight, the center seemed unusually empty. Such large galaxies usually have cores that are correspondingly bright, Ma said.

"The way I like to say it is, for some reason, the stars seem to be scared of the very center; they somehow don't want to get very close," she said. "Right now, the most elegant way to explain the existence of this scoured-out region is by binary black holes."

Stars that are too distant to be directly pulled into such a system can still be heavily influenced by it. The dynamics of a system with two supermassive black holes at its center are such that approaching stars whip around and are accelerated outward, fleeing the system and forcing the black holes to move a tiny bit closer to one another, Ma said. Each star has little effect, but over time, the black holes are drawn closer and closer together — and eventually coexist in a ring where most nearby stars have been flung away.

Researchers can't currently tell if the system is still two black holes or has already merged into one. But NGC 1600 could be a prime candidate for scientists who study gravitational waves to scrutinize, Ma said: Gravitational waves would be generated by black holes that are still circling and colliding, but not by ones that have already combined.

Everywhere?

Avi Loeb, chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University, called the new work an exciting discovery.

"It would be interesting to find more black holes of this mass range and check whether this is an outlier or typical case," Loeb, who was not involved in the study, told Space.com in an email.

"The fundamental question is, which environmental conditions nurture the growth of the most massive black holes?" he said. "We would love to know the answer to that question through future studies like this one."

Loeb added that the NGC 1600 black hole's size makes it a good target for the Event Horizon Telescope, a coalition of nine telescopes around the world that will work together to image black holes.

Study team members hope to further investigate NGC 1600 with the Hubble telescope to get a better look at its core and pin down the black hole's mass more precisely, and they will continue to learn about the distribution of large black holes via the MASSIVE study.

Sparsely populated parts of the galaxy are much more common than the superdense areas where the largest black holes have been found so far. So, if black holes this large are common in such areas, too, NGC 1600 might just be "the tip of the iceberg," Ma said. MASSIVE should reveal just how common the huge bodies are, and expand researchers' understanding of the beasts, she added.

"I'm confident we're going to find black holes — if we don't, that would be really, really strange — but the question is going to be … how massive can these black holes be? Is 17 billion, 20 billion [solar masses] where they stop growing? Or could there be even bigger monsters out there we haven't found?"

The new work was published online today (April 6) in the journal Nature.

Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her @SarahExplains. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.

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UFO gespot naast ISS-ruimtestation - HLN.be

Bron: Daily Mail

© NASA.

De Brit Jadon Beeson (20) was op zijn smartphone livebeelden van het ISS aan het bekijken, toen hij plots een vreemde ontdekking deed: er leek een UFO naast het ruimtestation te vliegen. De jongeman stuurde de beelden meteen door naar NASA. "Het leek een beetje op de Millennium Falcon uit Star Wars", getuigt Beeson.

© NASA.

"Ik zag dat er een metalen object boven de aarde zweefde. Het had een blauwe gloed en het bleef daar ongeveer twee minuten hangen", zegt Jodan Beeson, die toevallig naar livestream van het ISS aan het kijken was. "Het lijkt een beetje op de Millennium Falcon uit Star Wars of iets uit 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind", aldus Jodan.

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De Millennium Falcon uit Star Wars © starwars.com.

De man uit het Britse Worcestershire stuurde de beelden onmiddellijk door naar NASA, maar voorlopig heeft hij nog geen antwoord ontvangen. Uit de beelden valt voorlopig niet op te maken om welk ruimtetuig het zou kunnen gaan. Ook de grootte van het tuig valt moeilijk in te schatten.

Nu er alsmaar meer satellieten en sondes de ruimte worden in gestuurd, krijgt NASA steeds vaker UFO-meldingen binnen.

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UFO hunter spots mysterious object flanking the ISS: Glowing craft makes a brief appearance before vanishing during Nasa's live feed

• Images have emerged of an unidentified object close to the space station
• It can be seen appearing on the horizon and glows a blue-ish hue
• The object was spotted by Jadon Beeson from Worcestershire
• He describes the object as 'like something from Close Encounters of the Third Kind' or the Millennium Falcon  

By MAILONLINE REPORTER

Something strange has been spotted hovering close to the International Space Station and it's raising a few eyebrows.

Whispers of 'UFO' have begun to circulate after images appeared of the unidentified object on the horizon of the space station.

The images were captured by Jadon Beeson, 20, as he watched the live stream from the ISS on his phone.

Images have emerged of an unidentified object spotted close to the International Space Station (pictured top left above the horizon). The images were captured by a member of the public from a live stream from the ISS

'I looked and realised there was a metal object above the earth. It had a blue glow to it and it stayed there for about two minutes,' he explained.

'It was a metallic object, it looks like a Millennium Falcon from Star Wars or something from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

'I thought it was all very strange,' he added.

Beeson, from Stourport-on-Severn in Worcestershire, sent the images to the agency for its take.

The object (pictured on the horizon in the upper left part of the image) looks to be cigar-shaped, with a blueish hue on one end that matches the upper atmosphere, and looks to have a band in the middle of the object

It has been described as resembling something from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (still pictured), the Stephen Spielberg Hollywood sci-fi hit from the 1970s

'I took a picture of it and have contacted Nasa, but I've heard nothing back yet,' he explained.

From the images, the object looks to be cigar-shaped, with a blueish hue on one end. 

This hue matches the upper atmosphere, and the craft appears to have a band in the middle of the object.

It resembles similar objects that have been spotted previously, and which have also been previously captured on video. 

MailOnline contacted Nasa for comment on the images but is yet to hear back from the space agency. 

The skies above are becoming increasingly busy, with communications and research satellites collecting and relaying data for modern life.

 

Jadon Beeson, who captured the images, described the unidentified object as resembling the Millennium Falcon, the infamous smuggler's star ship from Star Wars (pictured)

The object reportedly appeared out of nowhere and disappeared (still pictured), but there is no accompanying footage from the live stream for context, its identity and its origin remain a mystery. However, it resembles similar objects which have been spotted previously, and which has been previously captured on video

This fact, added with the high-quality streaming footage from the space station means such sightings of unidentified objects are becoming increasingly common.

In addition to the ISS and fleet of satellites, one of the larger objects in permanent orbit is the Chinese Tiangong space station, which is cigar-shaped with solar panels. 

There is no indication yet what the object is, it's composition or how far away it is from the space station, making it difficult to gauge it's size.

It is also not possible to tell whether the images have been edited in any way. 

One possibility is that it could be space debris, a growing problem in the Earth's uppermost atmosphere. 

There are estimated to be more than 20,000 items of space junk currently trapped in Earth's orbit, including old engine parts, dead satellites and other floating junk generated by space missions or from collisions in space. 

Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline: 'The ISS seems to be a magnet for UFO activity. In the past couple of years alone, several UFOs have been seen during the broadcast of live feeds by Nasa from the ISS, and in at least one other instance the feed was quickly switched off. This fuels the belief of conspiracy theorists that Nasa is covering up these visitations.

'In this case it is difficult to know what this, it could be anything from space junk, a satellite or even a lens flare or reflection. We would need far better evidence to determine if it was an alien spacecraft. 

'That's the problem, any object or flick of light out there is given as proof that extraterrestrial craft are monitoring our planet, and are keeping an eye on the ISS at a distance.

'One other thing to bear in mind is this, if aliens are interested in the ISS why do they appear on Nasa's live TV feeds? Surely by now they would have developed efficient cloaking devices to make themselves invisible to human eyes and technology. But, that would take all the fun out of UFO spotting.'

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Arnaud Esquerre : «Les récits extraterrestres seraient une variation moderne des histoires de fantômes»

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Des officiers de police examinent une zone de brûlure sur une route après le décollage d'un ovni observé par des témoins, à South Hill (Virginie), le 21 avril 1967.Photo Agence Martienne

Depuis les années 70, le Centre national d’études spatiales recueille les récits d’ovnis. En décortiquant leur structure, le sociologue interroge : ces histoires fantastiques sont-elles la dernière incertitude que nos sociétés rationnelles se permettent encore ?

•  Arnaud Esquerre : «Les récits extraterrestres seraient une variation moderne des histoires de fantômes»

Arnaud Esquerre nous a habitués à s’intéresser aux sujets les plus étranges. Il a consacré sa thèse aux sectes, étudié les prédictions de fin du monde, l’astrologie ou l’incinération. Parce qu’il y a «une excitation à aller là où personne ou presque ne vous a précédé», explique-t-il. Mais aussi parce qu’il aime réfléchir aux enjeux théoriques et généraux à partir d’objets «méprisés». Avec son nouveau livre, déroutant, Théorie des événements extraterrestres (Fayard), le sociologue spécialiste du langage ne déroge pas à sa règle. La réalité de l’existence des petits hommes verts n’est pas son sujet. Ni même de savoir si les témoins qui assurent avoir vu des lumières clignotantes dans le ciel affabulent. Si Arnaud Esquerre étudie les récits extraterrestres, c’est pour mieux comprendre comment on raconte des histoires.

Pourquoi donc vous intéresser aux récits de ceux qui disent avoir vu des événements extraterrestres ?

Depuis les années 70, un petit département du Centre national d’études spatiales (Cnes) collecte les récits de ceux qui disent avoir vu des choses inexplicables dans le ciel. Une vingtaine d’enquêteurs sur tout le territoire sont chargés d’élucider ces phénomènes mystérieux, qui peuvent faire aussi l’objet d’une enquête de gendarmerie. Ces récits d’événements extraterrestres n’avaient pas été étudiés en sociologie et en anthropologie, parce qu’ils sont rendus anonymes. J’ai analysé la structure commune d’environ 1 500 témoignages [recueillis] entre 1952 et 2012 et tenté de dégager ce qui caractérisait le «genre» de ces récits extraterrestres - littéralement ce qui est extérieur au domaine terrestre. En travaillant sur ces énigmes et ces enquêtes, je me suis inspiré de ce qu’avait fait Luc Boltanski pour les romans policiers et les romans d’espionnage (1).

Première découverte : les récits d’événements extraterrestres obéissent eux aussi à la même structure narrative…

Comment, depuis le milieu du XX^e siècle, des gens qui ne se connaissent pas, ne vivent pas au même endroit et parlent parfois à plusieurs décennies de distance en arrivent-ils à raconter un récit construit de la même manière ? Il n’existe pourtant pas de version originale du récit extraterrestre, une matrice qui aurait été copiée par ses versions successives et expliquerait que leur forme soit si stable.

On pourrait penser que si les témoignages se répètent, c’est que la chose vue est la même : la soucoupe volante. Or les descriptions du phénomène observé sont extrêmement variées : une forme, une lumière ou les deux à la fois ; du rouge, du blanc ou du vert ; des formes triangulaires, des cigares, des disques ou des carrés.

Ce qui est commun à la grande majorité de ces récits, c’est leur structure : ils sont brefs et chronologiques, décrivent d’abord une situation routinière. Les témoins regardent le ciel et voient quelque chose qui, en général, ne fait pas de bruit. Soudain, la chose se soustrait à leur vision. A la fin de leur récit, ils cherchent à donner des gages de sérieux : «Je tiens à dire que je suis sain d’esprit», «je ne bois pas», «je ne crois pas aux extraterrestres». Les témoins demandent aux gendarmes et aux enquêteurs du Cnes d’apporter une explication à ce qu’ils ont vu. Alors que l’anthropologie a toujours mis l’accent sur l’apparition, comme celle de la Vierge ou des fantômes, la particularité des récits d’événements extraterrestres est que leur point culminant se trouve justement dans la disparition de l’objet. S’il restait visible, on comprendrait ce qu’il est.

Selon vous, c’est donc la forme du récit plus que la chose vue qui explique que soient regroupés dans la même catégorie «extraterrestre» des événements qui n’auraient sinon rien à voir entre eux ?

Exactement. Le terme d’ovni est «culturellement disponible» et permet de donner une appellation à une chose mystérieuse. On peut ainsi se demander pourquoi l’agence spatiale a longtemps collecté les récits d’agriculteurs rapportant la présence de traces au sol - souvent des cercles ou des disques dans un champ - qui n’ont a priori aucun lien avec le ciel.

Parmi tous les témoignages que vous avez étudiés, certains, plus rares, ne respectent pas la même trame…

L’un d’entre eux est assez connu. Il y est question de l’enlèvement d’un homme par un ovni, dans les environs de Cergy-Pontoise, en 1979.

Mais c’était un canular…

Contrairement à ceux qui ont vraiment fait l’expérience de l’événement extraterrestre, les auteurs de ces récits non vécus utilisent des procédés littéraires : des flash-back ou des effets d’anticipation. Ils contiennent des détails qui n’ont rien à voir avec l’énigme, supposés rendre le récit plus crédible, comme lorsque les romanciers usent de «l’effet de réel» et ajoutent des détails pour faire plus «vrai».

Justement, de quel genre littéraire se rapprocheraient les récits extraterrestres ?

On les associe généralement aux récits de science-fiction où apparaît un engin volant, comme ceux de Jules Verne par exemple. J’ai relu ces récits et ça ne collait pas. Je n’y retrouvais jamais l’énigme qui était au cœur des témoignages que j’étudiais. Dans la science-fiction, il y a du suspense - que veulent les extraterrestres ? - ou des enjeux de pouvoir. Mais il n’y a pas de doute sur ce qu’on a devant les yeux une fois les extraterrestres identifiés.

Les récits vécus se caractérisent au contraire par une incertitude sur la chose même qui est perçue. Cette hésitation est une caractéristique du genre fantastique, c’est même la définition qu’en fait l’historien Tzvetan Todorov : le récit fantastique ouvre sur une incertitude qu’on n’arrive pas à lever. On peut alors rapprocher les récits extraterrestres des histoires de fantômes et d’esprits, où l’on aperçoit quelque chose, sans trop savoir quoi.

Je fais une hypothèse : les récits d’événements extraterrestres seraient une variation structurelle des histoires de fantômes plus anciennes. Or celles-ci ne sont jamais étudiées, aujourd’hui, en France. Ce n’est pas un sujet pris au sérieux, il est donc renvoyé à d’autres systèmes de pensée. Les fantômes auraient bien leur place chez les animistes, pas dans notre société entrée dans l’époque des Lumières.

Notre société «rationnelle» s’autoriserait-elle davantage à croire aux ovnis, des apparitions plus technologiques et «scientifiques», qu’aux fantômes ? Cela expliquerait pourquoi des gendarmes et une agence spatiale enquêtent sur des phénomènes extraterrestres…

On peut en effet se demander pourquoi des enquêtes sont ouvertes sur ces récits étranges. Il n’y a pas de crime ni d’affaire d’argent ou de sexe. A l’origine, les investigations s’intégraient dans le contexte de la guerre froide, mais la guerre froide est terminée et les enquêtes continuent. En réalité, elles sont toujours liées à la sécurité et à la surveillance du territoire. L’agence spatiale classe les témoignages en fonction de leur étrangeté. Un point lumineux fixe est un cas de faible étrangeté. Les points lumineux qui se déplacent de manière non linéaire sont classés dans le niveau d’étrangeté le plus élevé. Un grand nombre d’affaires sont résolues : l’objet non identifié se révèle être une lanterne thaïlandaise ou un météore. Dans les années 90, les rayons lasers des discothèques ont suscité beaucoup de témoignages.

Reste de l’inexpliqué…

Ce qui ne veut pas forcément dire que le phénomène est inexplicable en soi. Mais l’incertitude est consubstantielle au récit même : il faut envisager qu’il est des expériences vécues qui ne peuvent être rapportées que de manière fantastique. Pourquoi ne pas accepter de vivre dans un monde où l’on pourrait raconter des histoires dans lesquelles on ne sait pas ce qui s’est passé ? «Certaines choses dans le voir nous paraissent énigmatiques parce que le voir dans son ensemble ne nous paraît pas assez énigmatique», écrit Wittgenstein. Nous sommes habitués à une sorte de routine visuelle, et dès que quelque chose s’en détache, cela nous trouble. L’énigme, dans nos sociétés européennes, est renvoyée à la littérature, au cinéma… à l’œuvre. Pas au récit de choses vécues. Le fantastique redonnerait pourtant de la poésie au monde.

(1) Enigmes et Complots, Gallimard, 2012.

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Silver UFO Over Neighborhood In Virginia On March 26, 2016, Photos

(Before It's News)

 

Date of sighting: March 26, 2016
Location of sighting: Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Source: MUFON #75524

This UFO was reported today on MUFON and the eyewitness states they spotted the object while on the train. Excellent capture, even though he only had a few seconds to get the photos. If you live in Alexandria and have seen this UFO, please let us know in comments below. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

Eyewitness states:
On Saturday March 26, 2016- I was exiting the Huntington Metro garage on the Huntington Ave side (lower Huntington Metro) when coming down the ramp across from Fenwick Dr. when I glanced up and saw a strange silver/grey object hovering off in the distance seemingly over the area of the highway/Eisenhower ave/ Duke st. I could not tell its exact size but it was large and stationary ( it did not lower or raised as I watched it). I noticed that the sky was partly cloudy but the top of the object was reflecting sunlight or radiated its own light. As I was watching the item, a couple came up to me and said that they had first spotted the object form the metro train as they came into Eisenhower station. The wife stated that her husband did not see any type of tether and ask me did I see one. I said I did not as we watched it hover, then spin on its axis and I saw the attachment just under its “nose”. It was slightly curve and reddish in color. I took out my cell phone and snap off a couple of pictures. I then quickly cross Huntington ave and made my way towards Huntington Park, which took me know more than 5 minutes. I lost sight of the object so I crossed the length of the park still not spotting it. I made my way to the banks of Camron Run/ Huntington Creek, looked and saw nothing. I stood there for about 10 minutes before I left and went on my way. The pictures are nice and clear but the object to far away for the phone to get a better picture. Blow-up you can see the attachment better.

 

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50 Years Ago, Michigan Congressman Gerald Ford Made UFOs a Political Issue

Gerald R. Ford didn't want to believe. He wanted to know what the hell was happening in Michigan.

• Megan Logan

Fifty years ago, soon-to-be president and then-representative Gerald R. Ford changed the conversation about UFOs in a very permanent way. In 1966, a growing number of reported sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects were coming out of Michigan. Naturally, people were concerned. Being the representative of the state’s 5th District, Ford shared their concern and called upon congress to conduct a “congressional inquiry” into the matter.

And he wasn’t shy about taking on the problem. UFOs were getting a lot of media attention and Ford didn’t shy away from a spotlight. He issued a pre-hearingpress release making the case for government transparency and calling out a prominent astronomer.

Ford is not satisfied with the Air Force explanation of the recent sightings in Michigan and describes the “swamp gas” version given by astrophysicist J. Allen Hynek as “flippant”

Ford proposed that either the Science and Astronautics Committee or the Armed Services Committee of the House schedule UFO hearings and “invite testimony from both the executive branch of the government and some of the persons who claim to have seen UFO’s.” Politically speaking, he was all in.

Now, it’s important to remember that this is 1966. We’re talking Cold War, post-Cuban Missile Crisis, hide-under-your-desks-in-the-event-of-a-nuclear-attack America. This stuff wasn’t funny. It was weird and frightening. When Ford called for a formal congressional inquiry, he lent a degree of credibility to loose rumors, but he also calmed public panic. His commitment to transparency on the parts of the Air Force and the government sent a clear message: The government won’t hide hard truths.

Amateur photo of "purported UFO" by George Stock in Passaic, New Jersey, 1952

Ford didn’t get his congressional inquiry, but he did get a major report from the University of Colorado Boulder and the Air Force’s Project Blue Book, which was responsible for investigating UFO sightings.

This Project Blue Book investigation lasted a little over three years before it was terminated in 1969. According to a fact sheet distributed by the US Air Force to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, “The decision to discontinue UFO investigations was based on an evaluation of a report prepared by the University of Colorado entitled, “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects;” a review of the University of Colorado’s report by the National Academy of Sciences; past UFO studies and Air Force experience investigating UFO reports during the 40s, ‘50s, and ‘60s.”

So what did the report find?

Between 1947 and 1969, Project Blue Book had 12,618 reports of UFOs, 701 of which were deemed “unidentified.” Many were explained away as meteorological events, classified test flights, weather balloons and things of that nature. Those that remained unidentified apparently lacked sufficiently compelling evidence to keep Project Blue Book afloat.

The distributed US Air Force document goes on to state:

“As a result of these investigations and studies and experience gained from investigating UFO reports since 1948, the conclusions of Project BLUE BOOK are:(1) no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security;(2) there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as “unidentified” represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge; and(3) there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as “unidentified” are extraterrestrial vehicles.”

Even after the Air Force hung up its tin hat, though, civilians continued investigations into UFOs. Today, organizations like MUFON exist to catalog and track UFO sightings.

As we become increasingly convinced of the probability that we’re not alone in this universe, the investigation of unexplained events and UFO sightings seems more urgent and more credible than ever before.

There’s reason to think that without Ford’s willingness to risk his reputation on an insistence that UFO sightings be investigated, there may not have been an investigation or a report at all. Ford gave the witnesses behind these sightings credibility and drew attention to need for an explanation, no matter how vague.

Though there was never a formal congressional hearing, Ford’s push for transparency from the government and the military was an important move, and had everyone from politicians to mailmen thinking about UFOs seriously.

Whether or not we have the “whole truth” is still a matter that conspiracy theorists and those who want to believe are ready and willing to debate. Any way you spin the flying disc, though, the original man who wanted to believe just might’ve been Gerald R. Ford.

Photos via George Stock and Swedish Military and George Stock, Passaic, New Jersey, 1952

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US Navy Spies Learned of Hitler Alliance with Reptilian Extraterrestrials, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of interview: April 2016
Source: 

http://exopolitics.org/us-navy-spies-learned-of-nazi-alliance-with-reptilian-extraterrestrials-during-wwii/

The fact that Hitler had assistance from an alien species is something thats been on all our minds. Obviously some of that assistance was military strategy. The worst thing about this is if Hitler was working with aliens, then he is still alive and will never die due to their technology. If he is still alive, then he can still be hunted down on this planet or another. 

This reminds me of a Star Trek episode...Storm Front, where the reptilians are helping the Nazis, I'll put a video at the bottom for you to compare it. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

News states:
In today’s episode of Exonews TV, William Tompkins reveals an astonishing secret acquired by U.S. Navy spies embedded within Nazi Germany’s advanced technology projects during the World War II – the Nazi war effort was being assisted by extraterrestrial visitors. The spies had reported to a covert Naval Intelligence operation, located at Naval Air Station San Diego, that Adolf Hitler had signed a secret agreement with representatives of a Reptilian extraterrestrial race. In today’s newly released ExoNews TV interview, Tompkins reveals how “Reptilian consultants” were helping the Nazi SS develop advanced weapons technologies In the interview, Tompkins discusses the Reptilian consultants helping the Nazis: They had, if you want to call them, “consultants”, who are Reptilian consultants assisting on all of these different things that it takes to design and build these spacecraft carriers, and propulsion systems. So this is an extremely well developed program and documented like crazy. Getting copies of the documents was hard for them, hard for our spies. This was an open program in the upper level of the SS. 

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PC Alan Godfrey UFO Witness on BBC Breakfast Time TV Show - Nov 1980, Interview, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: November 1980
Location of sighting: West Yorkshire, England

This police officer was abducted by aliens back in the 1980s and was hypnotised to help him remember the event. Its a historical case and we can learn a lot about it. Many people, some of which are readers here, have had interactions with aliens, and either don't know it, or recall it too well. These individuals need to come forward, and make a video about what happened to them. Telling their story is part of the healing process. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Eyewitness states:
The 1980 Alan Godfrey case is the main abduction case that Gary has researched in depth. He thinks this case is important because as well as Godfrey’s testimony, there are several independent witnesses that saw something strange in the sky at the same time in the local area. Timeline of Alan Godfrey’s experience. On November 28th, 1980, Alan was in his patrol car in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. He was sent to check out reports of cattle wandering around a local council estate. He saw a bright light in the road ahead and thought it was a bus. As he got closer, though, it became clear that this was not the case. He found himself looking at a rotating object, hovering over the road. He sketched the craft in his notebook. There was a burst of light and he found himself driving further along the road with no sign of the UFO. He returned to the police station and later found that he was missing about twenty-five minutes of time. The sole of one of his boots was split and he had an itchy, red mark on his foot. Later, he would undergo hypnotic regression, where it emerged that he was taken from the car and led onto the craft. Here, he saw robot-like creatures and a humanoid wearing a black skull cap. Gary has studied the video tapes of Alan’s hypnosis session and has concluded that they were well conducted. Alan was not lying. He had nothing to gain from making up his story and, indeed, his experience has had a negative effect on his life. Gary would also point to one pioneer of abduction research, the late Dr John Mack. Mack had concluded that many abductions go back to 'the victims’ childhood. Alan Godfrey had spoken of seeing a blue ‘tennis ball’ in his room as a child. Others have reported these blue orbs both in their bedrooms and other places, such as while driving. As a police officer, Gary was interested in evidence, and this case has so much of it!

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Witnesses stunned after separate 'UFOs' sighted flying over Plymouth

A low-flying aircraft, described by witnesses as similar to a "cargo plane", was spotted over Whitleigh while a second UFO was sighted flying over Stoke

SEPARATE sightings of an unidentified flying object shooting across the Plymouth skyline have left two residents speechless - and air traffic controllers baffled.

A low-flying aircraft, described as a "cargo plane" by witnesses, was first spotted shortly after 7pm on Monday night hovering above a row of houses in Whitleigh.

Less than three hours later and locals in Stoke reported seeing an "out-of-this-world" spaceship with "bright, white lights" shifting from left to right at high speed.

Air traffic controllers, meanwhile, say there were no known planes flying over the city at the specified times.

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Two UFOs were spotted by Herald reader Vicky Liu earlier this week flying over Morrisons

Ian Shepherd, who reported the Stoke sighting, said: "I thought it was a plane at first, but it was moving way too fast to be something from this world.

"It was travelling from left to right, left to right. It was so quick, it was like it was teleporting across the sky.

"It was so far away, it was hard to say what it was exactly, but it was football-shaped and had this light that changed from being constant and white to blinking and rusty-like. It was copper-coloured.

"It was such a clear sky that there was no way anyone could miss it. It was definitely not a drone, it was too quick and bright for that and it definitely wasn't a plane.

"I don't care what people might say, that was a UFO."

Earlier in the evening, witnesses described a "silent" aircraft flying just inches above a house on Taunton Avenue in Whitleigh.

A local resident, who has asked not to be named, said he was with his cousin and a friend when the 'plane' flew overhead.

"I thought it was going to hit a chimney," he said.

"It turned on its side and it was literally inches away from hitting these houses. The strange thing was, I couldn't hear any engines or jets.

"It was silent. It passed over us so quickly that I didn't manage to get a picture, but all three of us saw it.

"I was shocked. I even reported it to the police using their non-emergency number, but they didn't know what it was."

A Ministry of Defence spokesman confirmed there were no military flights scheduled in Plymouth on Monday night, though a Cornish man photographed what he claims was a NATO spy plane circling over St Austell on Tuesday morning.

Paul Beauchamp, of the National Air Traffic Services, gave some hope to conspiracy theorists, however, after failing to rule out the two sightings.

"We have had a look at our logs for Monday night and there are no reports which match this type of activity," he explained.

"However, we handle traffic in a controlled air space and, for Plymouth, that starts at around 14,000ft. Any reports of aircraft flying near housing is too low for us to monitor.

"We cannot categorically say what it was these two people saw."

Masses of people have taken to social media to find out answers, and there have been an assortment of sugegstions as to what the strange sight might have been.

From cargo planes to drones with LED lights attached, no conclusion has yet been reached.

Tish Curran said on Facebook: "It flew past my house in Wotter, was quite low as could see it out the window."

And Nina Carter commented: "I saw the low flying plane last night when I was working in Ernesettle at about 7, it flew over Tamerton creek heading towards the Tamar Bridge, I thought it was a military aircraft too."

However Aaron Barrett offered an alternative. He said: "Sorry to disappoint but it was my drone I had some new LED lights attached."

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Vanishing UFOs Spotted Over Ontario

Is this proof of UFOs coming from or going to other dimensions?

• 
  Lee SpeigelWriter, Editor

V-FOR-VICTOR / YOUTUBE

UFOs seem to blip out or instantly vanish over Ontario, Canada.

UFOs are reported across the globe on a daily basis, and it’s often the same thing — a circular object shines brilliantly in the sky, and then, instantly, it disappears.

Of course, if an advanced civilization in a far off galaxy had the technology to cross the far reaches of space, we might assume the pilots of those spacecraft could also have a cloaking device or hyperspace afterburners, like you might see in your favorite science fiction movie.

They might even have the ability to slip into and out of other dimensions or realities.

A sighting last month in Ontario, Canada, posted to YouTube, delights viewers’ eyes and lives up to every expectation of a close encounter, except in one respect: It probably isn’t real. 

We generally don’t comment on anonymous UFO reports posted on social media. However, this one seems to illustrate an important point, and you might keep this in mind the next time you think you see an ET’s spacecraft.

The eyewitness, known only from his V-For-Victor (V4V) YouTube channel, claims that he saw through his bedroom window, “three bright objects in the sky hovering beside each other in a strange formation.”

V4V decided to videotape the objects after they began to blink randomly, disappear and reappear in the same spot. The following 13-second video shows some of this activity.

The incident is under investigation by MUFON, an international UFO research organization that collects UFO reports and attempts to come up with credible explanations for those sightings. 

MUFON is not related to any academic organization, nor are their internally trained investigators required to have advanced degrees in science. 

The first problem with this submission, of course, is that we don’t know the identity of the eyewitness.

MUFON claims it withholds a submitter’s personal information to save that person the negative attention that might come from claiming to see a UFO.

That’s understandable. Nobody wants to be dismissed as a kook. Still, that means we know nothing about this person’s credibility, mental health or sobriety at the time of the incident. He or she might simply be a prankster.

In this particular case, HuffPost reached out for more information to V4V, who didn’t respond to our request.

The YouTube posting does provide some background, at least.

“I have no idea how high and how far away the UFOs were,” V4V says. “[They] looked very large. I did not hear strange noises or any aircraft engines ... The color of the UFOs was a yellow/orange, almost like car lights.”

But we don’t know exactly when the incident took place because the witness’ post contains conflicting information, and there are no corroborating witnesses.

His written report begins with: “Filmed with a iPad Air 2, on Feb. 19, 2016.”

Yet, just below that, where the incident description actually unfolds, it says: “OnFeb. 21, 2016, at around 5:50 PM, I witnessed 3 UFOs hovering outside.”

So, did this take place on Feb. 19 or Feb. 21? 

A Holland-based YouTube channel, FindingUFO, presents information, news and videos about dubious UFOs, submitted by people from around the world. The channel added some visual enhancements to the Canada video, in the following attempt to better clarify the UFOs in this story:

Some of the comments on the YouTube page of the original report support the eyewitness’ testimony of capturing something very unusual in the sky.

Others weren’t so kind, suggesting the UFOs were simply window-reflected lights.

HuffPost showed the video and written report to Marc Dantonio, a video and image specialist of FX Models, who uses advanced software tools in his photo analysis work.

“Interesting video,” Dantonio emailed HuffPost. “However, I noticed something peculiar when the objects vanish in the ‘sky.’ I say ‘sky’ that way because, in my opinion, they were very likely not in the sky at all. I could see, at one point in the video, the edge of a window. I believe we are seeing lights reflected in a window, and the ‘winking out’ is just the light becoming blocked in the room, and thus, no longer reflecting in the window.

“The right-hand light goes out top to bottom. It’s like someone slid a piece of paper or cardboard down in front of the lights one by one. In my opinion, we are looking through a window and viewing light reflections that were extinguished manually, one by one.”

We’re not saying this is what V4V did. We’re just keeping the dialogue open.

UFOs? Maybe They’re Just...

Sky Lanterns Mistaken For UFOs

Chinese or sky lanterns are often misidentified as UFOs. These three were part of a large group of lanterns that was the main event of the 2013 Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival in Taiwan on Feb. 24, 2013.

Kentucky UFO -- Oct. 16, 2012

Amateur astronomer Allen Epling captured video and images of a cylindrical object in the sky above his Virgie, Ky., home on Oct. 16, 2012. This is one of the images he took, which led many to believe the object was a high-flying solar balloon.

Manufactured UFO -- 2011

Pictured is a quad copter -- a deliberately manufactured UFO created by special effects wizard Marc Dantonio for a National Geographic special, "The Truth Behind: UFOs," which aired in December 2011. On the left is what the small device looks like resting on the ground, measuring 4 feet in circumference. At right, is how it appeared behind a tree in the night sky.

Boomerang UFO composite images -- 10-5-12

This is a composite of images shot by two eyewitnesses of a boomerang-shaped UFO they reported seeing over their Burbank, Calif., home on Oct. 5, 2012. Mutual UFO Network photo/video analyst Marc Dantonio concluded the object was likely "a balloon, floating on the wind that has collapsed in half."

Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 2013

This is a composite image of how three alleged UFOs maneuvered about in the sky over Melbourne, Australia, in early February, 2013. The final verdict isn't in yet on whether they're birds, aircraft, balloons, bugs or something truly unidentified.

Exploding Weather Balloons, Not UFOs

On Dec. 20, 2012, a bright, circular object (pictured at the top of this composite image) was videotaped exploding in the skies above Sacramento, Calif. It wasn't immediately identified, resulting in speculation that it was either an alien spacecraft, military top secret weapon, runaway planet, North Korean satellite, among others. Within a short period of time, it became apparent that this was a weather balloon. The bottom part of this image shows such a balloon as it ascended over Tampa Bay, Fla., on July 2, 2012, and exploded in an identical manner as the Sacramento object, probably much to the dismay of all true ET believers out there.

Weather Phenomenon

Some UFO sightings may be due to a natural phenomenon known as sprites, like this one shown from 2006. "Lightning from [a] thunderstorm excites the electric field above, producing a flash of light called a sprite," said geophysicist Colin Price.

Clouds

Clouds: Saucer-shaped or "lenticular" clouds that form at high altitudes have been confused with UFOs.

Meteors

Meteors: Space debris can create a spectacular light show when it burns through the Earth's atmosphere, and sometimes reported as UFOs.

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NASA Scientist speaks out: There’s someone else on the moon

12 Of The World’s Most Mysterious Photos That Cannot Be Explained… Or Can They?

Pretty much anything can be faked now days… I mean anyone with good photography skills, or a copy of Adobe Photoshop can do it. Anyways, these photos and occurrences are some of the most famous unexplained photos on the internet.

I can probably bet that you’ve come across some of these at one time or another. While some of these unexplained photos have still yet to be concluded 100% as fake, some have been completely debunked… Check them out below.

1. BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE MYSTERY

The story:

“Legend has it that in orbit around the Earth is a mysterious, dark object which dates back perhaps 13 000 years. Its origin and purpose are inscrutable, dubbed the “Black Knight” this elusive satellite has allegedly been beaming signals towards the Earth and inspected by NASA astronauts yet only a few on Earth officially know of its existence.

“The origin of the ominous name is part of the enigma; it is impossible to discover who first called it this or indeed why. Humans have only in the last 60 years had the technology to launch a man-made object into space so what is the logical explanation of tales of an alien intruder on our doorstep?

Possible explanation: some people think it’s a thermal blanket that had been lost during an EVA….. or just some space debris.

2. THE MYSTERIOUS HINTERKAIFECK MURDERS

The story:

“In Germany, 1922, the murders of six people at the Hinterkaifeck farmstead shocked the nation. This wasn’t just because of the gruesome nature of the case, but also because the case was so incredibly weird, and it remains unsolved to this day. Over 100 people were interviewed in the murder, but no one was ever arrested. No motive was ever established as to explain the murders.

“The previous maid had left 6 months earlier, saying the home was haunted. The new maid arrived only hours before the murders. It is believed that the perpetrator(s) remained at the farm for several days – someone had fed the cattle, and eaten food in the kitchen: the neighbours had also seen smoke from the chimney during the weekend. This photo depicts one of the victims as he lay in the house barn.

Possible explanation: The photo really isn’t unexplained, the events did happen and the photo taken you see above is authentic…. What’s unexplained is the events that led up to it, and how it all went down. You can read more about it here.

3. THE PHOENIX LIGHTS

The story:

“The Phoenix Lights were a series of widely sighted unidentified flying objects, seen by 1000s of people, observed in the skies over Arizona, Nevada in the United States, and Sonora, Mexico on Thursday, March 13, 1997.There were allegedly two distinct events involved in the incident: a triangular formation of lights seen to pass over the state, and a series of stationary lights seen in the Phoenix area.

“The lights were reported to have reappeared in 2007 and 2008, but these events were quickly attributed to (respectively) military flares dropped by fighter aircraft at Luke Air Force Base and flares attached to helium balloons released by a civilian.

Possible explanation: a squad of A-10 fighters that dropped flares, and was confirmed by the Phoenix News Times back in 1998…. However, many people still believe it’s UFO’s

4. SOLWAY FIRTH ASTRONAUT

The story:

“Jim Templeton was in a marsh taking photos of his young daughter and after getting them developed there appeared to have been a Spaceman in full astronaut gear standing behind her. Except there wasn’t anyone else around while they were there. Even Kodak verified that it was not tampered with.

Possible explanation: Check out the photo below

5. THE FALLING BODY

The story:

“As the Cooper’s move into their new home in Texas, they take a photograph of the family sitting together, but as the photo is taken, a body falls from the ceiling.

Possible explanation: Photos like these were common in the 1950’s since people re-used film quite a bit back then due to it being so expensive. It’s most likely a photo overlay.

6. PHANTOM THUMB

The story:

“A group of four kids posing for a picture, however, there appears to be a mysterious thumb next to the kid in black on the right, that does not seem to align with anyone’s body.

Plausible explanation: a 5th boy ducking under everyone not in sight of the picture…. or some trick photography and Photoshop.

7. BATTLE OF LA

The story:

“A photo published in the Los Angeles Times on February 26, 1942 has been cited by modern day conspiracy theorists and Ufologists as evidence of an extra-terrestrial visitation. They assert that the photo clearly shows searchlights focused on an alien spaceship; however, the photo was heavily modified by photo retouching prior to publication, a routine practice in graphic arts of the time intended to improve contrast in black and white photos.

“Los Angeles Times writer Larry Harnish noted that the retouched photo along with faked newspaper headlines were presented as true historical material in trailers for the film Battle: Los Angeles. Harnish commented, “if the publicity campaign wanted to establish UFO research as nothing but lies and fakery, it couldn’t have done a better job.”

Possible explanation: you pretty much just read it… the photo was heavily retouched and it was actually a weather balloon.

8. HESSDALEN LIGHT

The story:

“Unusual lights have been reported here since 1940s or earlier. Especially high activity of Hessdalen lights took place from December 1981 until the summer of 1984 when lights were observed 15–20 times per week. The frequency of the lights caused a gathering of numerous tourists staying there overnight to see the phenomenon.

“Since then, the activity has decreased and now the lights are observed some 10–20 times per year. The Hessdalen light most often is a bright, white or yellow light of unknown origin standing or floating above the ground level. Sometimes the light can be seen for more than one hour. There are several other types of unexplained lights observed in the Hessdalen valley.

Possible explanation: scientists have had many theories on this, but the lights still remained unexplained to this day. Some experts think some sort of plasma causes the light when a gas ionises to form a cloud of ions and electrons. You can read the entire thing here.

9. THE TIME TRAVELER

The story:

“People believe that this photograph, taken in 1941 at the re-opening of the South Forks Bridge in Gold Bridge, Canada, is depicting a man in seemingly modern dress and style, with a camera that is advanced well beyond its time. The circle on the left illustrates a man with a camera typical to the time-period.

Possible explanation: while he does look out of place, everything he was wearing during that time period is correct… even the camera. Take a look at these three examples:

GLASSES WITH PROTECTIVE SIDE SHIELDS

KODAK DID HAVE PORTABLE CAMERAS IN THE 1940’S

HE’S WEARING A MONTREAL MAROONS T-SHIRT… A HOCKEY TEAM THAT PLAYED IN THE NHL FROM 1924-1938

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10. THE SKUNK APE

The story:

“In 2000, two photographs said to be of the Skunk Ape were taken by an anonymous woman and mailed to the Sarasota County, Florida, Sheriff’s Department. The photographs were accompanied by a letter from the woman in which she claims to have photographed an ape in her backyard.

Possible explanation: Most skeptics believe it’s nothing other than a black bear.

11. THE MADONNA WITH SAINT GIOVANNINO AND A UFO

The story:

“This painting is called “The Madonna with Saint Giovannino”. It was painted in the 15th century by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494) and hangs as part of the Loeser collection in the Palazzo Vecchio. Above Mary’s right shoulder is a disk shaped object. Below is a blow up of this section and a man and his dog can clearly be seen looking up at the object.

Possible explanation: More than likely it’s just symbols added by the painters…. However, some skeptics believe it’s a cloud with sun rays beaming behind it. You can read more into it here.

12. THE FALCON LAKE INCIDENT

The story:

“The Falcon Lake Incident is a reported unidentified flying object (UFO) encounter near Falcon Lake, Manitoba, Canada claimed to have occurred on May 20, 1967 by Stefan Michalak. He had had taken a short vacation in Whiteshell Provincial Park to prospect veins of quartz near Falcon Lake when he spotted two cigar-shaped objects descending, one of which landed near him.

“Michelak says he saw a door open and heard voices from inside the object, after which he tried to make contact in English and other languages but got no response. He claims to have burned his hand while attempting to examine “colorful glass” found around the object and seen a grid-like exhaust vent that expelled gas that burned his clothing.

Possible explanation: Other than a waffle iron… this one is still up in the air unfortunately.

What do you think…. still believe in some of these?? If you have something to add to these explanations let us know below. Also, if you liked these, make sure to check out these scary pictures with horrifying backstories (Here). (h/t imgur) (Photo credits: unknown)

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This Glass Sphere Might Revolutionize Solar Power On Earth

It may look like something out of a futuristic novel, but its the newest solar energy generator that can fuel clean energy to thousands of homes much better than solar panels.

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It’s a completely round sun tracking globe – essentially a giant glass marble nuzzled into a computerized metal frame.

But this lovely clear marble captures the light of both the moon and the sun – and does it better than solar panels,… 10,000 times better; making the solar harvesting capabilities of this device 35 percent more efficient than conventional solar panel designs. 

The Science 

“For the last 40 years we have tried to capture this energy with PV panels, but the earth is moving around the sun, and the fixed panel is losing its efficiency.” 

Andre Broessel’s invention may be more than just a giant marble, the German architect increased his orb-like system by combining it with a computer program which tracks the sun. 

credit – Rawlemon

How It Works

The rotating glass orb brings in energy from the sun and concentrates it onto a small surface of tiny solar panels.

The ball lens concentrates and diffuses the light into one small focal point.

Stanford University’s associate director on energy and sustainable development Mark Thurber told the Wall Street Journal back in April, “the most intriguing renewable energy technologies are those that have the most room to improve.” In terms of solar, he said at the time, “perhaps concentrating solar power can make significant strides as we learn from the first large installations.”

The Future Of This Technology

André Broessel was a finalist in the World Technology Network Award 2013 with the globe’s design and afterward produced this latest version, called Betaray, which can concentrate diffuse light such as that from a cloudy day.

Broessel’s device is not yet available in the market. Overshooting the initial Rawlemon Solar Devices indigogo campaign of $120,000, the campaign has now exceeded $231,000.  The money is earmarked for further testing and for patent applications he’s filed in five jurisdictions.

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Une civilisation extraterrestre découverte par le télescope spatial Kepler?

Une portion de la nébuleuse Tarantule, dans le Grand Nuage de Magellan. Photo d'illustration.

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Des astronomes ont découvert une superstructure non-identifiée gravitant autour d'une étoile lointaine. Gigantesque amas de poussière, nuée de comètes ou superstructure extraterrestre? Les scientifiques mènent l'enquête.

Perdue entre les constellations du Cygne et de la Lyre, une mystérieuse étoile intrigue la communauté scientifique. KIC 8462852, de son petit nom, est devenue ces dernières années -et surtout ces derniers mois- le centre d'une attention toute particulière, rapporte, mardi, The Atlantic. Et pour cause, la variation de sa luminosité est aussi étrange que rare. Les scientifiques hésitent entre l'explication naturelle et... extraterrestre.  

Invisible à l'oeil nu, KIC 8462852 -située à 1480 années-lumière de la Terre- a été observée par le télescope spatial Kepler, entre 2009 à 2013. Pour être exact, le télescope de la Nasa a regardé une partie de l'espace comprenant plus de 150 000 étoiles, à la recherche de toute variation de luminosité pouvant signaler le passage d'exoplanètespassant devant un astre.  

Une énorme masse de matières orbitant autour de la planète

Les données issues de KIC 8462852 ont tapé dans l'oeil d'un groupe de "citoyens astronomes" de Planet Hunter [chasseur de planète, NDLR], un programme créé par l'université de Yale invitant tous les "citoyens scientifiques" à traquer les exoplanètes et à aider la Nasadans cette quête.  

Vue d'artiste illustrant Kepler-186f, la première exoplanète de la taille de la Terre trouvée dans la zone habitable d'une autre étoile.

NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech

Car si les exoplanètes obstruent partiellement la lumière d'une étoile à des intervalles réguliers -correspondant à leur orbite- ce n'est pas le cas des variations de lumière de KIC 8462852: deux faibles baisses de luminosité en 2009, une autre en 2011 et une série d'autres variations en 2013. Un schéma qui suggère qu'une mégastructureorbite autour de la planète. 

Collision d'astéroïdes, nuée de comètes...

"Nous n'avions jamais vu une étoile comme ça", s'enthousiasmeTabetha Boyajian, une astronome de l'université de Yale. "C'était vraiment étrange. Au début, on a pensé que nos données étaient fausses, ou dues un mauvais mouvement de Kepler, mais nous avons tout vérifié". 

Tabetha Boyajian a donc publié un article qui expose toutes les pistes qui pourraient expliquer ce phénomène. Ces variations brutales et irrégulières de luminosité serraient-elles causées par des éclats dus à la collision de nombreux astéroïdes, voire d'un impact comparable à celui qui a créé notre Lune? Insuffisant pour créer de telles variations, estime-t-elle. Autre hypothèse: le passage d'une autre étoile à proximité -ce qui est effectivement le cas, rappelle Ciel et Espace- qui aurait pu traîner à sa suite une nuée de comètes, alors attirées par KIC 8462852. Mais ce serait une coïncidence extraordinaire (en terme de timing d'observation).  

... Ou mégastructure extraterrestre?

Tabetha Boyajian, contactée par The Atlantic, reconnaît que son article n'explore que les causes "naturelles". Mais "d'autres scénarios sont possibles", glisse-t-elle. Jason Wright, un astronome de l'université de Penn également contacté par The Atlantic, doit publier son propre article, qui se basera sur la théorie des chercheurs du programme SETI -dont le but est de détecter les signaux d'une vie extraterrestre- selon laquelle nous pourrions détecter une civilisation "alien" grâce à de superstructures orbitant autour des planètes. Selon lui, le schéma des variations de lumière pourrait correspondre à "une nuée de mégastructures", peut être des "collecteurs de lumières" chargés de capter l'énergie de l'étoile, les fameuses hypothétiquessphère de Dyson? 

"Quand Boyajian m'a montré les données, j'ai été fasciné. Les extraterrestres devraient toujours être la dernière hypothèse à envisager, mais ça, ça ressemble à ce qu'une civilisation pourrait construire", explique-t-il au journal américain. Tabetha Boyajian et Jason Wright travaillent maintenant avec Andrew Siemion le directeur du programme SETI à l'université de Berkeley. Ils aimeraient pointer un radiotélescope sur l'étoile, pour voir si des ondes radios sont émises depuis ce système sur des fréquences associées à l'activité technologique.  

En attendant, les spéculations vont bon train sur les forums de passionnés et les réseaux sociaux. Les scientifiques auraient-il découvert une sphère de Dyson, ou, soyons fous, l'étoile noire de Star Wars? Il faudra attendre au moins janvier prochain -date où de nouvelles données seront peut-être disponibles- pour avoir, espérons le, une réponse.  

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Steile helling blijkt brug te ver voor Marsrover Opportunity

• Caroline Kraaijvanger

Opportunity kreeg opdracht een zeer steile helling te beklimmen, maar na drie pogingen bleek dat echt te veel gevraagd.

Het leek NASA wel een goed idee: Opportunity opdracht geven om de steilste helling die ooit door een Marsrover is bedwongen, te beklimmen. Dat het niet gemakkelijk zou worden, wist de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie ook wel. Het gevaar bestond dat de oude Marsrover weg zou slippen. Om dat te voorkomen, kreeg de rover opdracht om zijn zes wielen veel vaker te laten roteren dan normaliter voor het afleggen van een dergelijke afstand nodig is.

De rover ondernam twee pogingen, maar zonder resultaat. NASA besloot het nog één keer te proberen. Maar hoewel de wielen vaak genoeg draaiden om de rover twintig meter verder te helpen, bleek deze – door het slippen – niet veel verder te komen dan 9 centimeter. En daarmee kwam de rover net iets te kort. Na deze drie pogingen besloot NASA om het idee uit het hoofd te zetten en de rover toch maar een andere opdracht te geven.

Hoewel Opportunity er niet in geslaagd is om zijn doel te bereiken, is alle moeite niet helemaal voor niets geweest. Doordat de rover tijdens zijn poging om de helling te bedwingen vrij schuin stond, is wat stof en zand van zijn zonnepanelen gegleden (zie afbeelding hieronder).

Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech

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Milky Way Mystery: Here's What Caused the Galaxy's Youngest Supernova

The Milky Way's youngest supernova remnant, called G1.9+0.3, was likely caused by the merging of two dense cores left over from dying stars.

Credit: NASA/CXC/CfA/S. Chakraborti et al.

The Milky Way's youngest supernova — an explosion of a star that renders it extremely bright — was probably caused by the collision of two ultradense remnants of stars, new research suggests. The epic blast, shrouded in dust, also likely happened even more recently than scientists thought.

The supernova remnant was identified by radio telescope in 1984, and astronomers set out to fit X-ray and radio data to a model that could help reveal what instigated the explosion.

Researchers tracked down the explosion's cause by measuring how the supernova remnant brightened over time, and their technique could be used to better understand the type of supernova in general, called Type Ia — a cosmic blast essential to measuring the universe's expansion. Such supernovas can briefly shine brighter than the galaxies in which they reside. [Supernovas: Amazing Star Explosion Images]

"Astronomers use Type Ia supernovas as distance markers across the universe, which helped us discover that its expansion was accelerating," Sayan Chakraborti, an astrophysicist at Harvard University and lead author of the new study, said in a statement. "If there are any differences in how these supernovas explode and the amount of light they produce, that could have an impact on our understanding of this expansion." 

"Astronomers use Type Ia supernovas as distance markers across the universe, which helped us discover that its expansion was accelerating," Sayan Chakraborti, an astrophysicist at Harvard University and lead author of the new study, said in a statement. "If there are any differences in how these supernovas explode and the amount of light they produce, that could have an impact on our understanding of this expansion." 

Astronomers group stars into classes according to spectral color and brightness.See how they scientists tell stars apart in our full infographic.

Credit: by Karl Tate, Infographics Artist

The supernova remnant in question, called G1.9+0.3, is the echo of a cosmic explosion whose light would have hit Earth about 110 years ago, the new research suggests, but its dusty home in the constellation Sagittarius blocked its light from 19th century astronomers.

The new research incorporated data from the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Jansky Very Large Array, a radio telescope in New Mexico. Both observatories focus on wavelengths of light that can pierce the dense cloud of dust around the supernova remnant. The researchers examined how the supernova remnant was interacting with the gas and dust around it, and noticed an increase in radiation over time.

Researchers classify Type Ia supernovas as explosions caused by white dwarfs, the superdense cores left behind when stars run out of fuel. But they aren't sure exactly why the white dwarfs explode. Potentially, the white dwarf could have either sucked in too much material from a companion star in its orbit, or two white dwarfs could have slammed together and merged, NASA officials said in a statement.

According to the Harvard team's new model, a supernova remnant's brightening over time suggests that it was formed the second way, through a white dwarf merger. They also concluded that scientists were seeing the blast 110 years after it happened, rather than 150.

"We observed that the X-ray and radio brightness increased with time, so the data point strongly to a collision between two white dwarfs as being the trigger for the supernova explosion in G1.9+0.3," study co-author Francesca Childs, also at Harvard, said in the statement.

The researchers can use their model to figure out the triggers of other Type Ia supernovas, which are thought to let out a consistent amount of light at their peaks. That consistency lets researchers calculate the distance to the galaxies they reside in, based on their brightness. Therefore, more information about how they form, which could affect the amount of light they put out, means researchers may need to recalculate some of the distances found based on the explosions. 

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"It is important to identify the trigger mechanism for Type Ia supernovas, because if there is more than one cause, then the contribution from each may change over time," Alicia Soderberg, an astronomer at Harvard and a study co-author, said in the statement. "This means astronomers might have to recalibrate some of the ways we use them as 'standard candles' in cosmology."

The new work was detailed in The Astrophysical Journal in March.

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Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?

Why life is constrained to be about the sizes we see on Earth.

The size of things in our universe runs all the way from the tiny 10^-19 meter scale that characterizes quark interactions, to the cosmic horizon 10²⁶ meters away. In these 45 possible orders of magnitude, life, as far as we know it, is confined to a relatively tiny bracket of just over nine orders of magnitude, roughly in the middle of the universal range: Bacteria and viruses can measure less than a micron, or 10^-6 meters, and the height of the largest trees reaches roughly 100 meters. The honey fungus that lives under the Blue Mountains in Oregon, and is arguably a single living organism, is about 4 kilometers across. When it comes to known sentient life, the range in scale is even smaller, at about three orders of magnitude.

Could things be any different?

Progress in the theory of computation suggests that sentience and intelligence likely require quadrillions of primitive “circuit” elements. Given that our brains are composed of neurons, which are themselves, in essence, specialized cooperative single-cell organisms, we can conclude that biological computers need to be about the physical size of our own brains in order to exhibit the capabilities that we have.

We can imagine building neurons that are smaller than our own, in artificially intelligent systems. Electronic circuit elements, for example, are now substantially smaller than neurons. But they are also simpler in their behavior, and require a superstructure of support (energy, cooling, intercommunication) that takes up a substantial volume. It’s likely that the first true artificial intelligences will occupy volumes that are not so different from the size of our own bodies, despite being based on fundamentally different materials and architectures, again suggesting that there is something special about the meter scale.

If both our brains and our neurons were 10 times bigger, we’d have 10 times fewer thoughts during our lifetimes.

What about on the supersize end of the spectrum? William S. Burroughs, in his novel The Ticket That Exploded, imagined that beneath a planetary surface, lies “a vast mineral consciousness near absolute zero thinking in slow formations of crystal.” The astronomer Fred Hoyle wrote dramatically and convincingly of a sentient hyper-intelligent “Black Cloud,” comparable to Earth-sun distance. His idea presaged the concept of Dyson spheres, massive structures that completely surround a star and capture most of its energy. It is also supported by calculations that my colleague Fred Adams and I are performing, that indicate that the most effective information-processing structures in the current-day galaxy might be catalyzed within the sooty winds ejected by dying red giant stars. For a few tens of thousands of years, dust-shrouded red giants provide enough energy, a large enough entropy gradient, and enough raw material to potentially out-compute the biospheres of a billion Earth-like planets.

How big could life forms like these become? Interesting thoughts require not only a complex brain, but also sufficient time for formulation. The speed of neural transmissions is about 300 kilometers per hour, implying that the signal crossing time in a human brain is about 1 millisecond. A human lifetime, then, comprises 2 trillion message-crossing times (and each crossing time is effectively amplified by rich, massively parallelized computational structuring). If both our brains and our neurons were 10 times bigger, and our lifespans and neural signaling speeds were unchanged, we’d have 10 times fewer thoughts during our lifetimes.

If our brains grew enormously to say, the size of our solar system, and featured speed-of-light signaling, the same number of message crossings would require more than the entire current age of the universe, leaving no time for evolution to work its course. If a brain were as big as our galaxy, the problem would become even more severe. From the moment of its formation, there has been time for only 10,000 or so messages to travel from one side of our galaxy to the other. We can argue, then, that, it is difficult to imagine any life-like entities with complexity rivaling the human brain that occupy scales larger than the stellar size scale. Were they to exist, they wouldn’t yet have had sufficient time to actually do anything.

Remarkably, the constraints of environment on physical bodies also constrain life to be roughly the same size that intelligence requires. The height of the tallest redwoods is limited by their inability to pump water more than 100 meters into the sky, a limit set by a combination of the force of gravity on the Earth (which pulls the water down) and transpiration, water adhesion, and surface tension in the plant xylem (which pushes it up).¹ If we suppose that the force of gravity and atmospheric pressures of most habitable planets will be within a factor of 10 of Earth’s, we will be left within a couple orders of magnitude of the same maximum limit.

If we also assume that most life will be bound to a planet, moon, or asteroid, then gravity also sets a natural scale. As the planet gets bigger, and its gravity gets stronger, the force on the bones (or whatever the equivalent might be) of some hypothetical animal increases—something argued as far back as the late 1600s, by Christiaan Huygens. That animal would therefore need to increase the cross section of its bones to handle the greater force, which increases as the square of the animal size. These bodybuilding efforts however, would ultimately be self-defeating because mass rises as body size cubed. In general, the maximum mass of mobile terrestrial organisms decreases roughly linearly with the increasing strength of gravity. Conversely, a planet with 10 times lower gravity than Earth’s could potentially have animals that are 10 times bigger.

But there’s a limit to how small a planet can get—if it’s too small (smaller than about one-tenth of Earth’s mass), it won’t be able to gravitationally attract and keep its atmosphere. We’re again limited to within a factor of 10 or so of the sizes we see on Earth.

Life also needs to be cooled. Computer chip designers continually face the challenges inherent to removing the heat generated by computation. Living things have the same problem: Large animals have a high ratio of volume to surface area, or “skin.” Since the skin is what’s responsible for cooling the animal, and the volumes are where all the heat is produced, big animals are less efficient at cooling themselves off. As was first pointed out in the 1930s by Max Kleiber, the metabolic rate per kilogram of Earth’s animals decreases in proportion to the mass of the animal raised to the power of 0.25.² Indeed, if this heating rate didn’t decrease, large animals would literally cook themselves (as recently and vividly illustrated by Aatish Batia and Robert Krulwich). Assuming that the minimum observed whole-body metabolic rate of one-trillionth of a watt per nanogram is necessary for a mammal to function,³ we arrive a maximum thermally limited organism size of just over 1 million kilograms, or somewhat larger than a blue whale, Earth’s all-time record-setting animal in terms of size.

One could, in principle, imagine “creatures” that are far larger. If we draw on Landauer’s principle describing the minimum energy for computation, and if we assume that the energy resources of an ultra-massive, ultra-slothful, multi-cellular organism are devoted only to slowly reproducing its cells, we find that problems of mechanical support outstrip heat transport as the ultimate limiting factor to growth. At these scales, though, it becomes unclear what such a creature would do, or how it might have evolved.

The classic Charles and Ray Eames short film Powers of Ten was made nearly four decades ago, but its influence has been profound. It can be connected, for example, to the rise to order-of-magnitude estimation as a standard aspect of the scientific curriculum, and it is the direct inspiration for the design of software mapping applications such as Google Earth.

The impact of Powers of Ten is heightened by the startling symmetry between the narrative of the inward sweep (in which the viewer descends inward in scale from a picnic on the Chicago lakefront to the sub-nuclear scale) and the arc of the outward sweep (in which the view pulls increasingly rapidly away to set the Earth and its contents into the grand scale of the Cosmos).

Were we just lucky, as sentient beings, to be able to sweep out in both directions, and examine the scales of the universe both large and small? Probably not.

Gregory Laughlin is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is co-author of The Five Ages of the Universe—Inside the Physics of Eternity, and he blogs at oklo.org.

References

1. Koch, G.W., Sillett, S.C., Jennings, G.M., & Davis, S.D. The limits to tree height. Nature 428, 851-854 (2004).

2. Kleiber, M. Body size and metabolism. Hilgardia: A Journal of Agricultural Science 6, 315-353 (1932).

3. West, G.B., Woodruff, W.H., & Brown, J.H. Allometric scaling of metabolic rate from molecules and mitochondria to cells and mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99, 2473-2478 (2002).

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Are We Seeing a UFO Invasion?

Gene Wolf | T&D World Magazine

I live in New Mexico, a state famous for its landscapes, national laboratories exploring state-of-the-art technology and UFOs. That’s right, unidentified flying objects, little green space aliens and flying saucers — the whole enchilada, as we say in the land of enchantment. This affinity for extraterrestrials dates back to the late 1940s when the Roswell incident — a flying saucer crash, dead aliens, a government cover-up and more — thrust New Mexico into the national limelight. Roswell still celebrates the event with an annual UFO festival, which attracts people from around the globe.

My UFO awareness stems from my engineering consulting work. I have a couple of static VAR compensator projects under construction in southeastern New Mexico, so I travel through Roswell every couple of months on my way to check on their progress. It was natural for me to think of flying saucers when an old utility friend told me UFO history had been made in New Mexico. My imagination again jumped to flying saucers while he was talking about the commercialized unmanned flying object.

If only we had the equivalent of CliffsNotes for all the acronyms we use, life would be simpler. We would know a UFO is not a flying saucer and terms like UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), UAS (unmanned aircraft system), sUAS (small unmanned aircraft system), RPA (remotely piloted aircraft) and DRTD (drones and robotics for transmission and distribution) would be less confusing. The term “drone” covers all of them, but there is a lot of pushback from the UAS suppliers. One friend told me his company preferred UAV; after all, drone is what a politician does when talking. Good point.

Getting back to my friend’s story, he was excited about the latest developments in drone usage. Several years ago, his utility looked into the use of drones on transmission lines. However, like so many other potential users, it decided to wait until regulators, government agencies and the marketplace all got on the same page — especially when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) decreed the United States was a nationwide no-fly zone for commercial drones in 2007.

Fortunately, proponents of drone technology took the FAA to court, and it was ruled the FAA did not have the authority to make that decree. Now the FAA has to reconsider its no-fly edict and, as a result, has started issuing exceptions permitting specific commercial drone activities, but it is a slow process.

BVLOS Takes Flight

Industrywise, we have many proponents out there who saw the real advantages UAVs offered utilities. These folks kept kicking at that cactus (that is, regulatory) and the bureaucracy’s flexibility is increasing. This brings us back to the UFO story. The FAA issues special drone permits, but they only allow for line-of-sight flights. To be useful for tasks like transmission line surveying or maintenance inspections, drones must be allowed to fly beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS). There is no way an operator can walk or drive a right-of-way (ROW) and keep within visual range of a drone.

That is why the Oct. 25, 2015, New Mexico drone flight became such a historical event and excited my utility friend. It was the first FAA-sanctioned commercial UAV flight using BVLOS technology to take place inside the 48 contiguous states. Previously, the only FAA-sanctioned BVLOS UAV flight testing took place in remote Arctic regions off the coast of Alaska. The New Mexico BVLOS flight brought UAV technology a step closer to applications needed by the power industry.

The flight was part of the FAA’s Pathfinder program. BNSF Railway provided the infrastructure to inspect, while Insitu, a subsidiary of the Boeing Co., provided the drone and the FAA certification to fly it. Insitu used a small ScanEagle surveillance UAV to provide real-time video of a 64-mile survey of a 132-mile section of BNSF railroad track near Vaughn, New Mexico. The 35-pound aircraft flew about 1,000 feet above the railroad track at speeds of approximately 90 mph. It was equipped with a transponder to transmit its location to local air traffic control and a video camera streaming data back to the ground station.

A Win-Win

My friend was excited because BVLOS drone flights are exactly what electric utilities need to fly UAV flights over transmission line ROW. Drones are capable of high-resolution videos and 3-D renderings, but they need the freedom of BVLOS flight. Today’s special FAA permits for commercial drone flights require the pilot to be in visual contact with the drone, which is not easily done over remote and rugged terrain.

This test flight suggests new regulations for BVLOS commercial drone applications ultimately will be approved, which will set off a tsunami of utility UAV applications when it happens. I have rented helicopters to inspect ROW, and it is expensive. Drones will reduce those costs substantially, and they are a lot safer for the utility personnel doing the fly-over.

Let’s begin pushing harder for more flexibility. We need BVLOS-capable UAVs. It would be a win-win for regulators and utilities alike. After all, everyone’s goal is securing a more reliable power grid while improving safety and reducing costs. Flying robots offer the opportunity for that type of technology to take off.

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UFO Over Phoenix, Arizona Resembles Walking Figure April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: April 2, 2016
Location of sighting: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Source: MUFON #75606

The odd thing about this is that the UFO appears to be a standing figure. Flying aliens have been seen in past documents, but this is one of the first I've seen recorded. I really wish he had filmed a few minutes longer before shutting off his video so we could see how it moves. Its moment would be key to identify it as an entity. Also the distance is harsh on the focus, but this doesn't appear to be a deflated weather balloon. If you live in Phoenix and have seen this, please tell us what you saw. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

Eyewitness states:
I was riding my mountain bike on Javelina Trail on South Mountain in Phoenix, AZ, on April 2, 2016. At approximately 7pm, I noticed an object in the sky that was unusual enough to stop and take a picture and video. The object's size caught my attention first. It appeared to be a solid, vertical cylinder, with an angled, extended tube or pipe attached to the cylinder's bottom. It was drifting east and descending slowly towards the ground. I observed the object for 1 minute and then I continued down the trail for approximately 1 minute to find a better view. I observed the object for another minute before losing sight of it below the horizon. It was twilight and visibility was too low to observe a landing site. At the approximate distance of 2 miles, I estimated its height to be between 30-50 feet. This flight path looked to be within 2 miles of Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix and I thought it was unusual for any hot-air balloon or leisure craft to be so close to a major airport. I can't think of an explanation for this object. It looked like a deflated hot-air balloon, but it was moving too slow to be a crash-landing balloon. There was no movement from the upper portion, like a deflated balloon might have. The body of the object looked solid and well formed with definite edges. And the angled appendage from the bottom was very unusual. I took a 15 second video during the first minute observation and a single picture. No media from the 2nd viewing location. I had no emotional response to the event, but wanted to capture some evidence to show others. 

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77 Year Old Man Builds Giant Face In Yard To Signal Aliens In California, April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: April 2016
Location of sighting: Romoland, California, USA
News source: 

http://abc7.com/society/romoland-man-creates-out-of-this-world-rock-art-in-backyard/1271308/

This is the coolest old guy in California, ever since I had moved out of that area. Yeah, I was born in California. Signaling aliens by building a giant face in his yard is very integrating into the alien culture...since aliens love faces so much. This will get their attention. I guarantee that a lot of aliens working among us already heard news about it. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

News states:
ROMOLAND, Calif. (KABC) -- A large alien face made an appearance in a Romoland backyard. Larry Decker, 77, created the massive rock formation with the help of his grandson Josh and his daughter Deb. The family began working on the rock landscaping on Monday, he said, and they completed it Thursday afternoon. Decker said when he lived on a farm in southern Ohio, he was walking to a neighbor's house to get milk when he somehow wandered off the path and eventually discovered a crop circle on a wheat field. He was 10 years old at the time, and since then Decker has been fascinated by aliens, which is one of the reasons he created the otherworldly piece. 

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Hillary Clinton Says She Will Take A Closer Look At UFO Documents, Jimmy Kimmel Show, March 25, 2016, UFO Sighting News.

Date of interview: March 25, 2016
Location of interview: Hollywood, CA, USA

Jimmy Kim Kimmel told Hillary that he spoke to Bill Clinton and Bill told him that he went and checked out those UFO files and didn't find anything. Hillary says that she will take a longer look at the area, which she called Unexplained Ariel Phenomenon, which actually is an older name and 5 years ago a lot of people tried to lecture me about it. Anyways, she says she will release all documents to the public if...and here is the @#$$er you thought would come...if it didn't threaten national security. After that pizza earlier, even my ass would be labeled a threat to national security! WTH??? Everything in existence could possible be a threat to national security! Anything...literally! Anything that reveals alien tech, or the existence of a living intelligent species...how @#$%ing low security is that? So...we are screwed guys, but we all knew that already.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

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Launch. Land. Repeat. Blue Origin's Amazing Rocket Liftoff & Landing in Pictures

Blue Origin's New Shepard first landing

https://youtu.be/sij4ivRwHuQ

Space firm Blue Origin successfully launched its rocket for the second time

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A brilliant column of fire, blasting out the back of a rocket ship, lit up the cool blue sky above the west Texas desert on Saturday (April 2), when the private spaceflight company Blue Origin successfully launched and landed its New Shepard vehicle for the third time.

Blue Origin's photos and amazing video of the New Shepard launch show the rocket heading skyward, where it eventually separated from the crew capsule (although no one was inside). The crew capsule parachuted back to Earth, but the rocket booster used its thrusters to make a graceful vertical landing.

This is the third time Blue Origin has flown this particular New Shepard vehicle, which makes the test flight somewhat historic. The company (which has been using the motto of "Launch. Land. Repeat." for the flights) is aiming to dramatically lower the cost of suborbital spaceflights by reusing its boosters, rather than discarding them, which is what engineers have had to do with nearly every other rocket in history. Check out more photos from New Shepard's third launch and landing here..

Blue Origin's BE-3 engine restarted at 3,635 feet (1.1 km) above ground level and landed successfully at its West Texas launch site on April 2, 2016.

Credit: Blue Origin

For this flight, Blue Origin also had drones following the rocket as it headed skyward, giving some absolutely breathtaking images of the craft racing through the wide open sky, the capsule parachuting back to Earth, and the booster making its incredible landing.

The crew capsule reached an apogee of 339,178 feet (103,381 meters). That's 64.2 miles (103.4 kilometers), just above the 62-mile (100 km) altitude regarded as the boundary of space.

Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle ascends from its West Texas test site to reach an apogee of 339,138 feet (103 km) on April 2, 2016.

Credit: Blue Origin

"We pushed the envelope on this flight, restarting the engine for the propulsive landing only 3,600 feet [1097 meters] above the ground, requiring the BE-3 engine to start fast and ramp to high thrust fast," the company said in a blog post yesterday (April 3).

Blue Origin team members recover the crew capsule after its fifth successful flight and soft landing at its West Texas launch site on April 2, 2016.

Credit: Blue Origin

The private spaceflight company SpaceX is hot on Blue Origin's heels with its reusable rocket booster, which has also made successful vertical landings. SpaceX's rocket can send spacecraft to orbital altitudes above the Earth.

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Images of Historic US Space Facilities “Abandoned in Place”

By: David Russell Schilling 

Horizontal Gantry from Base,Gemini Titan Complex 19,C

In a new book, “Abandoned in Place” by Roland Miller, now defunct US aerospace facilities are described as “lonely launchpads” and “rusted rockets” leftover from the heyday of US space exploration and competition with the former Soviet Union.

Although many of these facilities contain environmentally hazardous pollution including toxic rocket fuel components and tainted soil and groundwater, they are a testament to an earlier age of great innovation and advancement.

According to Miller:

Abandoned In Place is a photographic exploration of the American space-launch and research facilities that played a crucial role in the early period of space exploration. The project serves not only as a documentary body of work, but also as an artistic interpretation of these historic sites. A unique combination of documentary, abstract, and hybrid images allows Abandoned In Place to be viewed from many perspectives. The exhibition records a vanishing era in both the space race and the cold war. The temporal nature of life is evident in views of decaying sites which once captured the attention of the entire world.

The facilities photographed in Abandoned In Place portray one of the most historic and technical adventures of the last century–from our first unmanned flights beyond the atmosphere to landing men on the moon. A sense of the urgency of the space race is evident in many of the images. Signs and labels in the images reflect the technology of the era. The structures depicted also recall the darker threat of nuclear war. Some of the images describe a future that could have been if the cold war had heated up. These launch complexes, engine test stands, and wind tunnels are the Bunker Hill and Gettysburg of the cold war. References to the Great Pyramids, Chichen Itza, Stonehenge, and other major archeological sites foreshadow the future of these modern ruins.

The goals of this project are to preserve and portray these abandoned sites through photography that surpasses the official government approach to documentation, and to lend some social, historic, and artistic insight to the subject.

One of the unique aspects of Abandoned In Place is the combined utilization of documentary and abstract approaches to the subject. This blended approach helps tell a more complete story of the effort to begin exploring space. The serendipity of juxtaposed objects and text on signs conveys a subtext beyond the documentary objectives of the work.”

The following images by Roland Miller are part of his new book “Abandoned in Place.”

Launch Site with Hermes A-1 Rocket,Launch Complex 3

Launch Ring, Apollo Saturn Complex 34, Cape Canaveral

Apollo Saturn F1 Engine Cluster Diptych,NASA Johnson S

Saturn V Rocket moving to the Saturn V Center with Vehi

Control Panels/Computers, Blockhouse,Redstone Complex

Horizontal Gantry from Base,Gemini Titan Complex 19,C

Fan Motor Housing,7 X 10 Foot Wind Tunnel,NASA Langl

David Russell Schilling

David enjoys research and writing about cutting edge technologies that hold the promise of improving conditions for all life on planet earth.

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Alien spacecraft are strange. If decades of popular culture, eye-witness reports, and conspiracies are to be believed, most extraterrestrial whips are flying saucers. There is a dome on top and some landing gear below. There are pictures. The most famous may be the one above the words “I Want To Believe.”

These traditional UFOs clearly work in different ways than human aircraft. Though mankind has fiddled with saucer-shaped planes and rockets in the past, we’ve never succeeded at making them work. We don’t know how to do that within the bounds of physics. No, this doesn’t mean that flying saucers aren’t real. It simply means that they don’t make sense within a model of physics we’ve created. That said, neither does interstellar travel. So consistency, at least, is not a problem.

A lot of genuine scientific inquiry has gone into explaining the physics of flying saucers and other unidentified flying objects. Famously, William Markowitz made the case that UFO reports must be wrong in a 1967 article in Science. “Some people claim that nothing is impossible,” he wrote. “This is not so. The laws of mathematics and physics, if accepted, do provide limitations on what can be done.”

Markowitz detailed not only the difficulties of propelling a spacecraft through interstellar space, but also of gently landing and taking off again on the Earth’s surface, as UFOs are reported to do.

If an extraterrestrial spacecraft is to land nondestructively and then lift off it must be able to develop a thrust slightly less than its weight on landing, and twice its weight for an acceleration of 1g of lift-off. This requirement forms a critical test for comparing UFO reports with physical theory. The published reports generally describe objects about 5 to 100 meters in diameter, which land and lift off without the use of launching pads and gantries. No similarity to the giant undertaking of a launching from Cape Kennedy has ever been reported. If nuclear energy is used to generate thrust, then searing of the ground from temperatures of 85,000 degrees C should result, and nuclear decay products equivalent in quantity to those produced by the detonation of an atomic bomb should be detected. This has not happened.

The flying saucer is the UFO that rules our imaginations.

If you want to deny physics, fine, he concludes, just don’t pretend that’s not what you’re doing.

We can reconcile UFO reports with extraterrestrial control by assigning various magic properties to extraterrestrial beings. These include “teleportation” (the instantaneous movement of material bodies between planets and stars), the creation of “force-fields” to drive space ships, and propulsion without reaction. The last of these would permit a man to lift himself by his bootstraps. Anyone who wishes is free to accept such magic properties, but I cannot.

Despite this and many other scientific denouncements of the UFO, efforts to recreate its properties have been numerous. For decades, great scientific minds and research organizations have funnelled money and time into the holy grail of UFO technology — a round, hovering aircraft without moving parts or fuel. No major discoveries have, so far, resulted.

A little bit of research might have saved the effort. The whole concept of the flying saucer, as it turns out, was an accident — a clerical error. The flying saucer entered the public imagination thanks to a 1947 Chicago Sun article with the headline, “Supersonic Flying Saucers Sighted By Idaho Pilot.” The pilot, Kenneth Arnold, reported seeing nine shiny UFOs from his plane, traveling an estimated 1,200 miles per hour.

Kenneth Arnold points to a drawing of the UFO he saw.

Here’s the thing, though. Arnold never described them as saucer-shaped. He said they flew erratically, ”like a saucer if you skip it across the water.” Their shape was more like a boomerang or crescent. The headline-writer got it wrong, but it was too late to take it back. The news was all over the country, and all of a sudden people were spotting flying saucers all over the place.

Today most experts suspect Arnold had seen a flock of birds, and a trick of the eye made him overestimate their distance from him, and therefore their size and speed. But the idea of the flying saucer has stuck. Humankind will not rest until it builds the UFO of our fantasies.

Photos via The Glumpers / YouTube and Public Domain / LiveScience and DammitKarissa / Flickr

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Mysterious Object That Came Out of a Black Hole Has Just Been Measured

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.  

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,

“This is the first time we have been able to link the launching of the corona to a flare.  “This will help us understand how supermassive black holes power some of the brightest objects in the universe.”

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.

Via jpl.nasa.gov

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

“For several years, we’ve been tracking the X-ray emission from Sgr A*. This includes also the close passage of this dusty object.  A year or so ago, we thought it had absolutely no effect on Sgr A*, but our new data raise the possibility that that might not be the case.”

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.

Just recently a team of researchers were able to measure the mysterious object

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,

“the breakthrough of this work has been that we’ve been able to detect a structure in the inner edge of such a small disk at such a great distance, thanks to the gravitational microlensing effect. It would be the equivalent to detecting an Euro coin at a distance of more than 100000 kilometers.”

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.

“the possibility of detecting high magnification events caused by the gravitational microlensing effect could be applied to thousands of quasars.” -Vicente

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.

Sources-

www.sciencedaily.com

news.discovery.com

www.blastr.com

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GRAY ALIEN GEFILMD IN PERU  ( VIDEO )

Oregon 1999 UFO Sighting

Location: Bandon, Oregon
Date: Sept 1999
Submitted by Kim

Witness report: I thought I would share my story, I don’t have any photos or video.
What I saw was actually inside my house. ..
I was sound asleep and I was woken up very suddenly, I looked over and it was exactly 2 am on my clock, I was not sure what had woken me up but it was very quiet and dark in my room then I noticed a bluish light shining from the direction of the living room I was thinking that’s odd and started to reach for my gun in my nightstand, I was thinking there was an intruder in my house with a flashlight, my children’s bedrooms were on the opposite side of the hall and my younger sons room was closest to the living room.
I started to lean up with my gun in hand and was preparing it get out of bed as the light got brighter like it was coming down the hallway then it went dim like it went into my son’s room. .so I’m thinking oh S*#t I’m going to have to shoot someone! I was getting really scared at that point, my husband was sound asleep next me but I didn’t have time to wake him as it got brighter again like it was coming towards my room… I thought thats odd because I could not hear any footsteps??
As sitting on my bed with one foot on the floor and gun pointed at the door that was when I saw it… wow..
My brain didn’t know how to process what I was looking at, I sat there frozen with my gun pointed at it..
It was a Ball of pure energy pulsing floating up by the ceiling. It was as wide as my hallway roughly and kind of pancaked I watched as it moved into my other sons room just inside his doorway across the hall from my room …it probably was only in his room less than a min.
Then it came across into my room and I sat frozen just staring at it ..it Was beautiful, alive pulsing
It reminded me of one of those glass lightning balls but with no glass around in ..it was multicolored towards the center reds, oranges, greens with pulsing energy fingers radiating out to a brilliant blue .
It mostly blue light that it radiated.
I’m not sure how long it was actually in my house..it seemed curious and oddly enough I was not scared of it…
It was like it realized I was looking at it pulsed really bright all of a sudden left my room back into the hallway the took off like a bolt of lighting back down the hall and was gone.
So here I am sitting in the dark stunned, I got up turned on the lights checked my children who were still sound asleep. .I woke my husband and ran around like a mad woman checking all doors and windows. Everything was locked up tight..whatever it was was able to go right thru my living room wall..the wall in direction it went had two big windows.

I have spent years searching the Internet to see if anyone else had seen one up close but so far I have not heard of anyone else. The closest discription I could find was the blue lights that guided ships into port during Stormy seas.. it was probably one of the most Beautiful things I have ever seen in my life.
Whatever it was was able to navigate the halls in my house and appeared to concious of its surroundings.

I really wish I had pictures to share

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UFO video from Sweden

Location: Sweden, Partille
Date: 2016-03-31
Submitted by Tony

Witness report: --

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Bright UFO over LA

Location: Leesville,La in front yard
Date: 3/28/16 and 4/4/16
Submitted by Roland

Witness report: The first time I was exiting car after work and saw flashing colorful lights in sky went inside grabbed camera and took photos and video on the second time I wait until dark and there it was again

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Area 51 Files Will Be Disclosed After Presidential Election

Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has been expressing her commitment to open up the files on the secretive Area 51 as much as possible.

Appearing on a talk show hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the Democrat presidential candidate said anew about her dedication to go through the hidden files and expose anything that would not pose a national security risk. If there’s nothing there, Hillary will also let the people know that there’s nothing there.

According to Mr Kimmel, he had spoken to Bill Clinton about looking through the Area 51 files, but the former president said that he did not find anything in the secret facility that was interesting.

Hillary responded to Mr Kimmel and promised to do it again. She stated that she would work to disclose anything interesting be it alien or otherwise. She told Mr Kimmel that they should share anything there with the public unless it’s a threat to national security.

Hillary Clinton’s platform has targeted young American voters, and she already made the promise about making Area 51 files to become publicly available in January should she be elected.

Bill Clinton confirmed that a lot of American stealth technology is made in Area 51, but there were no aliens when he checked as president.

Do you believe her?

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BREAKING: Army scientists successfully ' teleport ' Soldiers

NATICK, Mass. (April 1, 2016) -- Army scientists have successfully "teleported" a fully equipped squad from a Massachusetts research and development facility to a training area in Germany, the Natick Soldier Systems Center (NSSC) announced today.

 

The nine human research volunteers, fresh out of Advanced Individual Training, were participating in experiments in the Doriot Climatic Chambers at NSSC when they disappeared and moments later materialized at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, completely unharmed. The chambers are capable of replicating any climate or weather in the world but have never before been used in this manner.

 

Teleportation, made famous in the "Star Trek" television series and movies, had been -- until what the Army is calling the "Natick incident" -- a hypothetical way of moving objects from place to place. American writer Charles Fort is reported to have coined the word in 1931.

 

 

Officials at Natick were elated by the event, which promises to one day revolutionize the way that American troops and equipment are transported around the globe. It also could ultimately make overseas bases obsolete as forces are instead moved from U.S. soil to remote trouble spots in the blink of an eye.

 

"No one is more impressed by this than I am," said Benjamin Storm, who manages the 61-year-old climatic chambers at Natick. "One moment, I was chatting with the young Soldiers, and the next, they all vanished into thin air."

 

The Soldiers were dressed in combat gear for the revolutionary experiment and being monitored by Storm and his colleagues when they were sent from one continent to the other. Still photographs of the event were captured in the chambers and have been released by the Army.

 

After thorough medical examinations at an Army hospital, they were flown back to the U.S. and returned to duty at Natick.

 

"It's one thing to see Captain Kirk or Mr. Spock do it at the movies, but it's another to have it happen to you in real life," said Pvt. Kelley McCoy, one of the teleported Soldiers. "I felt a little tingling and the next thing you know, I'm in Bavaria. I always wanted to visit Europe, but I figured that I'd go by plane."

 

Storm and other Natick researchers are now poring over mountains of data from the development in hopes of replicating it. Meanwhile, the Army quickly established a Teleportation Study Task Force, which will be based at Natick. Leading scientists from private industry and academia worldwide are converging on the chambers to lend whatever assistance they can.

 

According to Storm, a device not unlike the "flux capacitor" seen in the "Back to the Future" movie series was employed during the experiment. This led to immediate speculation that the Army was also working on time travel, but time travel requirements of generating 1.21 gigawatts is no trivial feat. 

 

"We're only concerned with place, not time," said Storm, a twinkle in his eye. "This development could change the entire course of human history."

 

The Task Force expects to report its initial findings by April 1, 2017.

 

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/// Peter2011 :  Ik hoop dat dit geen aprilgrap is en dat het echt zo gebeurd is! Het klinkt wel ongeloofwaardig  en scienfictionachtig ... ///